+ 5% So COUNTY D Upon the Board of Educa- "iciisia'viic &5° 28 --amnual "At Home." Granted, EPUTATION YEAR 77-NO. 285 Waited tion Thursday Night About County Proposed for New Schowl-- Henceforth to be Less Home Work for the Pablic School The board of education, last even- y heard a depatation from the Frontenac comply council with regard to retaining county pupils in the Kingston Collegiate Institute; discuss ed a site propused for the new public school; adopted the inspector's recom- mendations for less homewurk; acoept- ed Miss Susie Bawden's resignation as domestic science teacher; refused * the use of the collegiate gymnasium to the Y.W.C.A., and transacted much other business. The board will have another meeting in January, as the mew board for 1911 will not take office till Febru- ary" In attendance were Dr, A. W. Richardson (chairman), Trustees Ang- la, E, Bennett, P. B. Chown, James Craig, J. R. Donaldson, J. G. Elliott, James Henderson, T. Lambert, W, H. Macnee, R. Meek, H. ¥. Metcallo, A. W. Mclean, W. J. Renton, J. B. Wal- kem, Roughton and Robert Wallace. Mr. Donaldson asked the chairman if it was regular to record in the min- utes the taking of a ballot by the board.' On page 86 of the minutes of last meeting, there was recorded the result of the ballots on the choosing of an architect for a new school. The chairman ruled thet the min utes were correct. Anything that hap- pened at a board meeting had to be recorded. Mr. Donaldson said he understood that a ballot was irregular. He asked that the secretary of the board note the chairman's ruling é . These communications were received : Mrs. Trenhaile, asking for increase of salady to $200, as caretaker of Cata- Sanu school, . 8B. Ellis, dean of Iaculty of educa- tion at Queen's, stati that to meet the requirements of t edueational , in the matter of teaching ¢ of the o Mullin, offering "0 sell plot a¢ the corner of | d a streets, for a school, for A. Wright, secretary Victorian Or: | der committee, saying that the com- mittee would like to co-operate with © the board of education regarding medi- onl inspection in the schools, so as to insure that all district or public nurs should be unified. In Ottawa and treal, the Victorian nurses assist yeicians in the inspection of. the pupils, to see that the physicians' in- Callsgiate' Toatitute: pits. applyt natitute pupils, applyin for the use of the building for Chole -- ORO tion of Messrs. Walkem and Metcalfe. CO, A. Kennedy, secretary. of Model School Association, asking for the use of Victoria school on the evening of the 16th for a social event. Grant. 8 on motion of Messrs. Lambert and acnee. Mise Susie Bawden tendered her re- Alfnation as teacher of domestic to take effect at the end of the year, Mr. Meek raised objection to the Faculty of Education taking upon itwell the tment of a music in- , without consulting the board with which it has an agreement, and to which a sum of m for this in- struction was granted. didn't like "tas Pupils Attgnding Collegiate--Site c's Ee | appearance of the premises to have what is left taken away./ That tae wire fence around the {lawn at Frontenac school Se remoy- ed, except that partion on Cowdy street. That the three outbuildings in Cen- HAD COUNTERFEIT BILLS. U.S. Secret Service Make Important Capture. : Washington, Dec. 9. The secret ser- of the treasury depart- im- portant arrests, in its opinion, that it {has made in a counterfeiting case in | many months, The man arrested was j Caesar Paotelli, He was taken as be ste from the Anchor Line steamer | Italian in New York. On Psotelli were {found 2,500 35 counterieit bills. Ac- leording to fhe secret service officials | these bills were made in Italy, and | Paotelli merely acted as an agent in bringing them over here for dispensa- tion. The secret service division in- tends to urge action upon the Italian government, probably through the state department, and hopes to catch others of the gang implicated with Protelli. . NEW BOAT ORDERED. Pupils It was not the duiy of suggestion. It wag the hoard to suggest anything, looking after the city's pupils, and had nothing to do with the county pupils, It cost 846 to educate a pu- pil, whereas only $25 is charged. The board of education was not acting arbitrarily in regard to county pupils. | Its action in deciding to exclude them next vear was necessitated by the act jon of the Ontario educational depart ment, in insisting that the Colleginte Institute must" he enlarged to accom- modate the attendance, Councillor Rankin asked the chair man of the board if $46 would be ac cepted as the fee for county pupils. The chairman said he could not an. hyjlding of the new boat has just wwer that. (been given to the Seott Shipbuilding Mr. Elliott moved, seconded by Nr.'g& Engineering company, of Green- f Bennett, that the chairman name a ck, y sub-committee of the management com- | mittee to meet within a week with} the county council deputation, to dis- cuss and report upon the terms by which the courity pupils can be here- after admitted to the Kingston Colle giate Institute. Mr. Meek said be would oppose the resolution if the matter was likely to drag for a couple of months. He wanted immediate consideration of the question. Mr. Meek declared that he was decidedly disappointed at the way the matter had been handled by the county council. He expected the council to invite a committee of the hoard to discuss the matter with -- it, wit month but the council had not done this. In fact it had done noth- jing and its deputation visited the "board to seek information. The county council, he said, should have memor- {inlize the government to the jlaw so that it could grant aid to the e ins | the and county representa: ative ot together Donaldson Line Will Have Weekly Service, i Montreal, Dec. 9.---The Donaldson Line has ordered a new boat for its Glasgow-Montreal service, to be ready for the spring of 1912. This will en- able the company to maintain * a weekly service. The contract for the the better. Let a meeting he held early next week. | Mr. Meek pointed out that the | ee re 'amcobmodation, Hf | Misieter 'uf ratiwiye and cumals, who the county pupils were to be retained | Arts Boctety Danger ™ Grant. Hail a wing, at a cost of $25,000, would this evening. (have to be built and the board | could not very well ask the city eoun- {eil to build a wing for the benefit of county pupils. Mr. Elliott's motion HON. GEORGE P. GRAHAM, MP, IT WAS A HOLIDAY, | And the House - Was Not in Ses. was cafried ston. and the chairman named the whole] 5 cciai to the Whig, management committee to meet the | Ottawa, Dec. 9.-As the Kingston de county deputation after the board's logation picked on a government holi- session. day, they were not able to see the Ibi house in session. It was also . oh anagem Repo { day in the various governmenta - . het . #2 4 ha rtments. - These recommendations of the man- | The house got down to business as agement committe Ware adopted Hing, | sual this afternoon and will adjourn nt he, rg C a - rei at six until Houday. Ror, Shies dave ¥ ite. Insti | next week they will rush business an eh he Scllegiste Jowitute EY™ | then adjourn for the Christmas vaca nasium, od. : That thé recommendations regarding | 1100. , . : home lessons 'made by the inspector| Yesterday, 8 | daputdtion Jind a in a report submitted to the board the premier, as} . a To Puy ya en Nov. 10th, be adopted. Victoria Memorial Museum : gti That the salary of Miss H. L.| tuted The National Museum of Can: {3 p Collegiate Institute | ada. SHY : afl bo tensed $100, said increase] W. H. Hoop, Winnipeg, is here to to date from January next. She now | Oppose the extradition, to Russia, of receives $800. Savva Federenke, whom the Russian That no action be taken on the re-| government is trying to extradite quest of Miss 8. Bawden, teacher of from Winnipeg on a charge of murder. domestic' science, that she be given| During the first seven months ol the $100 received from Queen's univer-| this year 3,535 Chinese arrived in aity on aecount of the faculty of edu-| Canada. Of these 2,868 paid the cation. taxation tax of each, making = That no action be takén on the re-| total contribution to the public trea- sury from {lis source no less than $1, quest of Miss A. Bates, asking the 0 : board to reconsider its decision to the [ 134,000; which is considerably i v effect that her pupils pay a fee equal to the cost of the supplies they use in the domestic science department. That the following list of text books recommended by the inspector, be adopted for use in the public schools : Junior I<FPrimer, diawing book. Senior I--Primer, drawing book: Second---Reader, drawing book. Junior ITI--Reader, ler, drawing i ca ve GOVERNMENT WINS. Lloyd George Says the Majority Will be Safe London, +» Dec. 9.--Standing to data: on, Bars Bee 226; unionists, 193; liberal and gains to date, 17; unionikts gains dite, 19. British W KINGSTON, ONTARIO, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1910, holi- i the labor LATEST NEWS Dispatches From Near And Distant Places THEWORLD'S TIDINGS GIVEN IN THE BRIEFEST POS- SIBLE PORM. Matters That Interest Everybody-- Notés From All Over--Little of Everybody Easily Read and Re. membered. this morning, of the electiops yester- day in counties of England and in the Highlands of Scotland and greem old and, with nominations in various parts of Britain do mot aflect the re sult greatly, dnd gains on cither side don't remains gaing very long before a gain on the other side wipes it out. Liberals as well as Redmonites take considerable satisfaction out of the defeat in Galway in the famous Timothy Healey, independent national ist, who has been a thorn in Red. mond's side for years. This result was announced this afternoon. Now that it seems a surety that the government will win by about the same undependable majority as at last election, radicals as well as conserva- tives are beginning to question whether Asquith' will have the grit to camry out the drastic measures he advocated on the platform. Radicals and social- ists talk of wobbly leadership and in- timate that Asquith is in collusion with Balfour. Time alone will tell just how gloriously effective the government victory will be. v 3 Hon. Adam Beck, at London, pro- POISONED BY IMPURE FOOD. mised hydro-electric power for farm- ers. Family of. Seven 'Dead--Other Por Prince Edward Island Presbyterian sons HL voted in favor of church union, 41 Berlin, Dec. 9.--A family of sevenite 7. persons have died at Graudenz, Prus-| R. Mulholland, Toronto, has offered | sia, from eating impure food. Within | 8500 in aid of a new hospital at Co- the past week there have been several | bourg. | hundred cases of similar poisoning in| The programme for the next session this city, Dusseldorf and Hamburg, {of the Ontario legislature indicates a and in the latter city several of those | busy session. made sick have died. J. D. Prentis, the well-known Toron- A Hamburg manufacturer of artifi- |to hotelman, died, yesterday, at the cial butter has issued a statement say: {general hospital, ing that a recent product of the firm | It took five hours' to separaté® two was manufactured from a consignment | nines that collided on the Wabash of French fat, which was rancid, but railway at New Sarum. fly had been chemically purified. Judge Robson said at Winni that ; dn he believed the evidence of Dr. Shear- TO QUIT CUBAN PRESIDENCY. Hay Fallen Before Avalanche of ; London, Dec. 9.-- Returns received, 'Married Man Who Mar- ried a Widow NOW UNDER ARREST NORTH BAY, AND HIS CHANCES ARE SLIM, AT He Left His First Wife Two Years Ago--She Tracked Him and Caused Him to Fly--Then She Had Him Arrested. North Bay, Dec. 9--A ty vo- mance has been punctured, and a sride's happiness turned to ashes, | while vet the honeymoon was hardly over, and all because the bridegroom | had another wife living. Two years ago Edward Morland My- ers, plumber, eame to North Bay and | socured a situation with J, E. Farrell | & Co. Being a steady man and skill- ! od mechanic, he soon rose to the posi- | tion of foreman, receiving good wages. | Less than a year ago Myers elit fon Mrs. William Gould, a good- ing | young - widow, who being iat) with | three fatheriess children, of a boarding-house, to support Herself and children. Myers was attentive to the widow | almost from the fimt, and the friend. ship soon ripened into love and an offer of marriage, Myers telling' Mrs. Gould that his wife was dead, and even | | desoriving a mwthical pathetic scene | at her deathbed. Myers also showed the: widow a fake bank book, tend- ing to show that he had $2,000 on deposit. Mrs. Gould refused to consid- or marriage until at least a year al- ter her late husbadd's death. Sept. 30th last thirteen months had elapsed and she was married to Myers by a | Methodist pastor, | Everything was running smoothly; {until Myers' empioyer received a /let- | ter from Foldén's Corners, a small settlement ten miles from Woodstock, | asking particalars about Edwin My- --ors-and-sighed- by MesAnnie Myere; who claimed to be his wife, complain- ing that he had ceased contributing | to her support and had left Ker with their six children to be taken care of by her father. This led to enguirice being made, and his North Bay wife began to bear Sager her hus- vn wi + ; v Hut A Wo, acusation Lio soory. pereiitat iat e stor} ame 80 Mrs. Gould-Myers <démanded that he at' once produce proofs of Ns former wife's demise. He then wrote a letter to his daughter, asking her to give some details of her mother's last ill- ness and death, and pretended ta post Small pox is rife in Moose Creek and Stormont county. A St. Thomas man was shot by his four-year-old child. © next session of the legislature will likely open March 9th. Hamilton Board of Education asking for $100,000 for new schools. is er in the vice enquiry. ---- The students' of the agricultural col- He Fears He Will be Forced to;lege carried off the big prizes at the winter fair in Guelph. Abdicate. " Thin 2 : . The authorities are hurrying doe Havana, Cuba, Dec. 9. President tors to Manchuria, from all points in Gen. Jose Miguel Gomez will not be a | Siberia, to fight the plague. candidate for president of Cuba at the] The Tokio Nippon ugzes Japan to general elections in 1912. President | hrepare for war with the United State Gomez is preparing an official sta®™- | Jt gays the States is making ready. ment to"that effect. He gives a: a ¥ § William Mackenzie has returned to reason his fear that Cuban Wisory 5 3 Toronto from Mexico amd says that will repeat itself and he will be forced | tales of the rebellion there were ex- to abdicate by revolutionists. Vice- aggerated, President Zayas will soon annoufice] Melbourne merchants are protesting his candidatvy for the presidency. agafust the proposed mail contract ACCUSED OF ROBBERY. with Canada, not including Melbourne st---- : as & port of sll : No , Winnipeg, w ' "taied Lo hing omni Montreal. in le there but was cut n in Special to the Whig. to save her life. Montreal, Dec. 9. --James Neville, nf Walter Hall, a defaulting bank tell- brakeman, twenty-four, and be | ®> his returned to that city from longing to leville, Ont., is wanted | Canada to admit the theft of forty- in that town. The chief of police sent | five thousand dollars. a telegram requesting his arrest. Ne-| A deputhtion from Monaghan town- ville was taken in charge, last night, | *hip waited 'dn the Peterboro council by Detective O'Donnell, and locked up| to protest against the pollution of the at Central station. An officer from | River Otonabes with sewage. : Belleville will take charge of him to-| J: J. Hill, at the Canadian Society day. The charge against Neville is gob- | dinner, in New York, said that Can- bery. ada is the arbitrator of the British . empire's destinies. FINED FOR LIQUOR SELLING. teh A Toronto d sintes that Canadian Methodists will endeavor to Raided a Drug Store at Cochrane, raise one million five hundred thou- sand dollars for missions a year dur- Toronto, Dee. 9.--The provincial po- lice were notified of a liquor raid at ing the next five years. An experiment has been successful of 3 a wireless system which can sto a the northern town of Cochrane, a8 alien of twelve coaches, goin Fm result of which the Carter Drug com: five miles an hour, without the pany there, was fined $200 and costs for selling liquor without a license, while Richard Hayes was assessed $20 sistance of an engineer. Winnipeg license committee has pass- and costs for illegally keeping liquor for selling. ed stringent regulations for moving Drowned at Tweed. picture shows, and a by-law may be introduced in council prohibiting the Tweed, Dec. 9.~On Thursday Anson Canniff, a farmer residing in Stooo, attendance of children after 9 a.m. was drowned while crossing Btogo | Rear-Admirar Bettboder, former minister of marine, has ap- pointed president' of the Argentine naval commission to supervise the Lake. Cannifi was about sixty years construction of the new battleships or of age, For years he had boasted of dered. . being the first man and the last to Johony Vaucher, fifteen years olf, drive across Stoco Lake. He left of Reading, Pa, who has travelled in Tweed for his home in a buggy, He Europe and all over the United States broke Lhrough the ice about t earning money at his trade, is claim- quarters of a mile from shore. 2 ie bs the youngest watchmaker in and buggy have not been lofa- War. ; ogo the ody was secured abbut| At Vincennes, Ind., a jury endorsed 1:30 p.m. He wore a large black fur overcoat, and apparently 'this did not permit the body to sink. The body was float- ing in. the hole, face downwards. the unwritten law, when it acquitted All for Christian Science, M. E. Moore of murdering Chas, E, Gibson, milllonaire operator. Moore Boston, Mass., Dec. 9.--The Morning Post claims to have the offi infor: it. The widow still insisted upon proofs and about this time Myers was dis- charged by his employer on account of revelations, and left town for Sudbury. Chief of Police Raynor followed Myers to Sudbury, and found he had left for | parts unknown. The wife at Folded's { Corners was communicated with and | given all particulars. | She told her father, and while they | were discussing the mattér with the | determination to prosecute the faith- less one, the telephone in the farm- hduse rang, and wponm answering the phone Mrs. Myers No. 1 found ° that her husband was talking to her from { the home of his parents, seven miles away, and asking to see his favorite child, a little boy. Mrs. Myers did not betray her knowledge of his per- {fidy to her husband, but talked freely | and promised to drive over mext dav {with the boy. Instead of doing this, { arrangements were made and Myers 'arrested. He was given a preliminary hearing, at * which he pleaded not guilty, and was remanded. | The North Bay wife has sworn out 'a warrant aghinst Myers, so his chances are slim, with the law being {invoked by both his victims. HOW MATTERS ARE Police H reau 257 was shot dead after his wife had con- fessed intrigue with Gibson. The steamer Dunelm is on the Canoe anger. " hoa, The Sicidert She say yeas uot attended an harbshi mation that the will of Mary Daker ulin. ol a was : Eddy leaves practically all her million| boat slipping off the rock- when it and a dollar fortune fo might have sunk, Yants. winter trail, "strived at Seward, ka, Thursday, from Innoko and tared districts, having made the in a days' actual travelling time. Rocks, a submerged reef, of t d The crew are leaving oF Sei i i ven persons, including ome small beg to her b man, the first to come out over reports that more than winter, bringing sev: hundred sand dollars in" bullion. § ¥ i 1d- § i : & ¢ % 2 F : i ! i it i i ihr it : Ni 3 dead i "LAST EDITION WEATHER PROBACILITIRS. Toronto, Ont, Dec. 8 10 am---Ot- tawa Valley and Upper St. Lawrence Sine and cold to-day and on Satur- To~ Morrow HALF PRICE SALE WAISTINGS Abopt 200 yards of pretty ma- terials of Wool wool and Silk, ete Fabrics that would make smart Waists, Kimonos or Dressing Sacques. We offer them In colors-- Pink, Green, Yellow, Navy, Rose, Sky and Nile. Many of them are Ia fancy stripes, and some are spot ef- fects. Regular Prices ware 40¢ to 780. Sale Price, 260, CASH SALES. NO APPROVAL. 'Special Sale Tea Cosey Covers We were fortunate enough to se- cure & Set of Samples at about half the Tegilar prices. "We offer theses pretty : pieces. made of White Linen and White Muslin, beautifully embroidered with white or colors We also show the natural lisen for & useful Xi JUST HALF THE REGULAR y PRICES, * oo STEACY'S BMITH---EMRBURY In Kingsto: on December 7th, 1910, ut Obes Nelson Street, by Rav. I. Road- house; Stanle hy Verona, 1c Miss Annie Embury, of the same place, DIED. KEYES--In Kingston, en Dee 8th 1910, Ann Johnston, relict of thé late Wm, Keyes. Funeral will take place on Saturday morning, at 10 o'clock. BURKE--In Kingston, on Wednesday Dec. Tih, 1910, Mary ide, beior- od wits ot Wiliam 7. Burke, aged ears (private), Saturde at £90 am. from her er once, $Y olberne Street. MeBRIDE-In Kingston, Dee. ih i910, Elsie Roséline MeBride, be- loved wife of Jas. McBride, aged 50 years, Funeral will take ince, Saturday afternoon, at 2.30 o'clock, from her late residence, 303 Alber: Street. Friends and acquaint ances resp otfully invited te at tend. -- [ - ROBERT J. BWID, The Undertaker, 'Phone 577. 280 Princess Street. JAMES REID \ "Phone 147 for Ambulance. "rwo MATTRESSES * ons 3 fr. --_ ons 4 BO m " few tiekt ese ass eortainty & hap. AF Toms. ALL NEW Grenoble Walnuts Fus P.8. Cadbury's New Christ msias Chocolates are hers. THIS GIRL MAY BE LB NEVE. Authorities Hold Woman Whe Leeks Like Ethel. Boston, Dec. 9.-A girl, clossly sembling Five Lonove, was detained the immigration suthorities whem sved on the Red Star Noe Zea "Penson and Hedi" tobaeen." Gib-