PAGE WIG. ~~ GROWTH AND : SERVICE The constant growth of The Bank of Toronto is a signifi- eant a Sudo of the excel- lent banking service given to fits many customers, : YOUR ACCOUNT IS INVIT. ED. = BANK OF TORONTO Assets, $50,000,000 KINGSTON BRANCH: 107 PRINCESS STREET, George B. McKay, . Manager, - HOW WOULD YOU LIKE TO GIVE | . MOTHER SOMETHING THAT WOULD KEEP YOU CONSTANTLY BEFORE HER? -- 1s a Household Companion, and can be used every day, and can't help be Appreciated. Chops everything: In Size 1. T0c; Size 2, $1.00. And lots of other things. GOODS, Beautiful Selection. Safety Razors, Hockey Skates, Snow Shoes. ; Skeis, Snow Shovels, Bob Skates and Wide Runner for 4 Children, W. A. Mitchells Hardware, BIG SALE Western Beef To-morrow-Tuesday 0 ver 3,000 Lbs. 0 1 Qualit y ei Come and see the grand display. Prices away down to clean up this lot. op - Come early and come all day and bring your friends. a Anderson Bros. 7 PHONE 158 Corner Princess and Division Sts. Bit Tongue: Bled to Death. Ottawa, Jan. 16.U. Beaudin, Hull, fell on an icy walk, biting a large pisces out of his tougue and dying m ony, on Sunday, a ow house Tater. Me bial to death. th 3 The marriage of E. . Grange, daughter Mrs. = Ww to will Janu- Miss Gladys of Mr. and Aléxander -W. Grange. Napanee, Dr. H. F. Movin, Bath, Maine, take place quietly the end of ary in Napanee. : Rembrandt's mest famous picture, "The Night Watch," was badly dam- d b¥ a discharged cook named Si- who entered the Rijks Museum, "Amsterdam, and with a knife de erately slashed the masterpiece. Langstaff, reeve of Koupt- is likely to he the new warden h whited countios of Leeds and le. Get First besten WINNIPEG'S BIG FIRE KELLY BLOCK DESTROYED WITH LOSS OF. $400,000. Blaze Broke Out at Midnight. Sat- urday--Firemen Worked With Thermometer * 353 Degrees Below Zero. Winpipez, Jau. 16. Winnipeg has had another midnight midwinter fire, which will cost the insurance compan- jes about 300,000, the building des- troved being the Kelly block on Ban- nantyne avenne east, in the very heart of the wholesale district. <The firm suffering are toe Winnipeg Fur com pany, $200,000, insared $180,000; J. ninety per cent.; Kilgour PBros., paper dealers, $25,000, insured to the full; the Wingold Stove company, $25,000, insured to $16,800. The origin of the fire is still unsolved, but it is = sup- posed to have started from an elec trie light in the fur company's of fies. It started about 11.30 Satur- diy night, and the firemen were not through until seven Sunday morving, with the mercury thirty-five degrees below zero. There were many | cases of frost bites, some of the firemen having to retire for treatment, The high pressure service was in good working order, but the depth of the building, 109 feet, rendered the stvec ms ineffectual, whether from frost or rear, on the fire in the centre of the build ing. * : VANCOUVER ENQUIRY. Young Lawyer Accuses Govern ment Detective of Perjury, Vancouver, B.C., Jan. 13.-Gordon Grant, a young Vancouver lawyer, Saturday afternoon, swore before |Jus- tice Murphy 'at thes Chinese: commis- sion, that Edward, Foster, of the Do- minivan Government Secret Service, had wilfully lied when he swore that be had nut at various times told the wit- ness that Hon. William Templeman had tried to bulk the whole investiga- tion. This statement came as a climax to a three weeks' sitting for the in ui. David Low, on one of the carly days of the inquiry, caused a sensa- tion by declaring that' Secret Service Agent Foster had told him that Hom. i Templeman and the latter William Templeman, whilg intoxicated, had come one midnight to Foster's room and demanded that the investi: gation should stop, adding that "it would hurt us too much." Foster, Inter called as an witness, denied ever having said thiE, and in this state ment he was upheld by Dr. A. 8S. Mon: rece, who declared that on the night in yuestion .he had been with Mr, ' had not gen Foster, but had, moreover, wish- ed the commission to proceed. Then on Saturday came Gordon Grant, who declared that Foster had told him sweral times of Mr. Templeman's at- tempt tof balk the inquiry. A painful silence followed, and after a short de lay Judge Murphy suggested to Fos ter, who had intended returning to Ot- tawa to-day, that he had better re main in Vancouver. Foster agreed to stay. PICTON INVESTIGATION Into the Death' of the Late John Bongard. Picton, Jan. 16. <The investigation into the death -of John Bengard, who died here on Dec. 20th, under peculiar circumstances, ix at a standstill ow ing to the fact that nothing has been heard from Prof, Ellis, the Toronto analyst, to whom the internal organs were sent for examination on the 28th of last month. The inquest. called some days ago was adjourned till the 16th iust,, and the local authoritities are hoping to have a report from To- ronto in 'time to summon witnesses. for a hearing to-morrow Hi al- together probable that another ad- journment will be taken unless, oi course, Prof. Ellis wires at the last moment that the organs lack evidence of foul play, in which case the jury will probably. be dismissed. HIGH PRICE FOR KISS, 15 Increased Cost of Living Fore- shadowed by $2,700.52 Fine. St. Louis, Ne., Jan. 16.~The high cost of living received another boost when the record ing "price fora kiss was assessed on Jacob Burden, a shoe dealer. Burden was charged with shaking hands with and kissing one of his lady customers, the mother of three children. The. lady was not a consenting party and resented Dur- den's affectionate conduct, with the re- sult that the shoo merchant was fined £2,700.52 by the judge. Burden's at- torpey declared that would rather kiss a devil than a woman. The annual concert of the Queen's University Glee Club is to be ziven in Grant Hall, nest Monday evening, January 23rd. This musical organiza- tion has attained to a marked effici- ency. LY -- 9000000004 Choice The men wo are taking advantage of our Discount Sale now are of course getting the best sclection. Everything ia -to-Wear Clothing and Per Gent. Off Everything. Nothing : All Sales for Cash. Erzinger, tobacco, 380,000, insured fof. THE DAILY. BRITISH WEG, MONDAY, JANUARY 16, 1014. -- af OCCURRENCES RECOUNTED IN: BRIEF FORM. | Notes From All Over----little of Everything Easily Read and Re membered. - . + London, Fagland, is threatened with omg'h ng approaching a milk fam- ne. At Prince Rupert, B.C., William Manson was elected mayor by a mp | jority of 162 over F. H. Mobley. i Rev. 5. KE. Marshall, of Hamilton, iormerty of Berlin, has accepted an avitation to the Methodist ehurich, Calgary. , : Two gypsy women are gwaiting trial at Toulon, France, on the charge of hyprotizing country women and ob- ramming money from them. ' The Pritish government is alarmed over the situation in Portugal. Grave' rumors of another revolutionary out-| ireak have been in circulation. Commercial Councillor Puricelli, of ! Hugen-on-the-Rhiné, who died recently, jeft a fortune of $50,000,000, mostly in vast vineyards and forests. A big rotary plow and six locomo- tives succeeded in getting the first of the delayed exDress trains through the drifts near North Bead, B.C. ' Jobn Braz aged seventy, of Lon- "on, had both his feet amputated 'as' he result of having them frozen while! hs was .wandering homeless about | he country. Miss Emma Laneelot, Montreal, aged fry, knelt before a religious statue ind holding her mouth to a gas tube, was partially asphyxiated. She niay recover. The United States battleship Ar Lansas, the largest warship ever con-| tructed in the United States, was suc- cmsfuily launched Saturday afternoon, | et Philadelphia, | More then a hundred thousand per- sons, including many Europeans, have been killed by the bubonic plague viich is ravaging Maochuria and! Northern' China. Eight Montreal hotels were refused license renewals, and two others were reserved on understanding that they; will be granted, if transferred from, the hands of present owners, | The balloon Hildebrandt, which was thought lost at sea, has been discov: ered, partially buried in a bog - near Perlin, Germany, with the corpses - of the two aeronauts, missing since No- rember, beside 'it. At Eureka Springs, 1 : Ark., Mrs. C her home. Her condition is such that she expresses ts temperance lecturer and enemy of intoxicants is ended, William O'Neil, postmaster at Waterford, Cape Breton, a new active Nw | ney, is missing and _ with him has disappeared $7,600, mailed by lank of Nova Seotia branch at {lace to the branch at Syduey registered package. HALF-YEAR IN ARCTIC. Canadian Party Returns From Ex. ploration in the Far North. | Gimli, Man. Jan. 16.--Prof. J. L. Macoun, assistant director of the Canadian Geological Survey with 'apt. Harold Bartlett and the crew of the steamer Jeannie, from Brigus, Newfoundland, arrived here, vesterday witernoon, after a trip through the varren nocthlands of the Hudson Bay country, The party has spent the past six months in' research in con- | nection with the flora, fauna and min- | crals of the districts to the north of | Hudson Bay, and also 1a erecting portable houses in the Far North to assist lone travelers whose duties call them there. On Sept. Tth the Jeannie was wreck: «d during a gale at "Wagner Inlet, « ton. a Scientifically, the trip was a great | sucopss, amd many rare specimens | pnd interesting dala are being brought down by the party, which will reach Winnipeg to-morrow after- noon. Evervone in the party is well, | though tired out abter the long trip. PARENTAL ALCOHOLISM. Effect on ° Children--Peculiar Statement in Times. London, Jan. 16.--A heated discus- sion i% on between certain high medi- cal authorities as to whether parental aleoholism has necessarily a baweful thect--on ofispring. The Times, discus- sing the matter editorially, makes a | ide issue which is causing some com- | iment. 'One of the recognized effects of total abstinence,' says the Times, "appears to be the tendency to the use of wurestrained and unsuitable lan- guage, It is probable that this cir- cumstance alope has on more than one cocasion been actvally 'injurious to the cause of temperance," Cost of Drill Halls, The following figures show the cos. | of Comadian arill halls erectdl ducing the t ten rs: De. 1008 .- ress vessel S000 Hroukville, 1902 : - Three Rivers, Que, 1007 ....... . Nt. Hyaciothe, Yas 1407 .. et 0 Hs day, and that the general balance of min- drawal ng town, twenty odd miles from Syd- would signify the complete restoration | again this year. | setback. Her point 100 miles to the north of Fuller- | the uniom. Out of twenty-five SET BACK T0 BRITAIN GERMANY HAS WON A BIG DIPLOMATIC SUCCESS In the Russo-German Rapproches ment---The Complete Restora- tion of Bismarck's Foreign Policy Said to be at Hand. London, Jan. 16.--Enough has con. spired regarding the negotiations be tween Germany and Russia over the middle east to make plain a new di plomatic situation of the first impor- tance, and the, interest of Purope has n tinated in the past several days to a long series of official and semi official announcements, 'the loudest, and most formal in Paris, all to the effect that the triple entente was never stronger or more cordial than il is to- power was not touched by the Pots- agriement. These declarations, | echoed and re-echoed in London and! a large business throughout the coun. St. Petersbirg, became so persistent | that they ~over-reached their object, | and even an unsuspicious public per { | ceived at length that they do protest | uew concern at too much. Such, indeed, is the case. | It is no longer doubted in the diplo-| matic rid that a degree of = rap- prochemeny of far-reaching significance exists to-day between Russia and Ger-| smany. This does not imply any 'trea-| Vaudreuil. chery on the part of Russia to her French ally, or her understanding with | Great Britain, It signifies only the most peaceful motives on the part of, the czar. It means that he has con-| sulted Russian interests alone in mat- ters concerning Persia and Turkey, which his new agreement most directly concerned, and he has not antagonized British or French interest in thls re- spect. She has obtained Germany's full recognition of Russia's exclusive sphere of influence in Northern Persia, and promises to link up Germany's Bag- dad railway with the Kusso-Persian | system by a branch line via Kanikin. | {Tt is even possible that Germany has Olt gone so far as to recognize the Rus- | sian sphere of iafluence in North-east ! Anatolia, Geeat Britain utters no' word of protest against German cognition of the Russian features of the recent Anglo-Russian agreement | regarding Persia, for Russia can! sweetly vite Great Britain to a! similar agreement regarding the Bri- tish status in Southern Persia. | Beyond this, however, the impres: | At C, sion daily gains ground that a greater 4 + Nation suffered a nervous collapse in result of the recent meeting of the ezar { mor power, that company being will. | and the kaiser is a general under- the, fear that her career standing that Russia willl be no party | calling for a definite to any anti-German coalition. while nominally «a peaceful would mean, in effect, Russia's from the triple entente; This, | move, | with- it! oi Bismarch's foreign policy. Tn Ger- | the many weutral Russia would mean the | favor an early introduet ion of that upsetting of the European balance of ; power. They think the Seymour com- | in a power, and a change in the diplomatic | pany is the concern most avatluble; it situption, the issue of which no mun | eruld tell. It goes' without saying | big price to gain such an end. Jt is! already apparent that "Turkey has tak- | en alarm and has demanded explana- | tions which the German ambassador at Constantinople has striven to make satisfactory. One thing at least is| clear: Germany hag won a diplomatic | success of the hrs magnitude, what- | ever may be the full scope of ber new vpderstanding with Russia. Great Britain, on the other feels that she has suffered a severe confession' of toss of prestige, as expressed in Saturday's Review, is so naive (and ingenuous | that it provokes a smile. The Review | says : | "We cannot help feeling that some- | how we do not stand as well in the international arena as three years ago. Our influence in Turkey has vanished, wo dave alienated Austria, and the triple entente has not got to be a make-weight to the triple alliance, it was foolishly represented to Lu. When tried it has not withstoud the strain of two years." | Never, it might have been added, | has England's poverty in staiesman- ship been so .costly, so disastrous as to-day. Never was death so untimely as when it swept King Edward from the throne. VOTES OF PRESBYTERIES On Church Union---Only Eight Op- posed So Far. . For some time past the prosbyteries have-been-voting--on- the question church union. Un the vote so far taken the presbyteries have favored only eizht have voted in opposition. The vote taken so far is: Presbyteries in Favor. wee VOLO For. Against, 16 i hand, i as i Ottawa Owen Sound . Yruro . Guelph .. Lanark » Sydney Loudon . Paris... | sites." The presitlent said that had the {old nun in Connecticut '| land, REMAIN IN KINGSTON J i ; ~ EVEN IF POWDER WORKS DO! GO ELSEWHERE, | Dapiel Smith, Colin and Hugh Mac-| pherson, Will Engage .in Other Profitable Undertakings Here. It is a 'matter of gratification, to} know that Daniel Smith and Colin} snd Hugh Macpherson have no inten- | ton of removing from Kingston, | owing to the recent sale of the Un-| tario Powder company works to a Montreal concern. They propose re main here and it is expected that they will engage in other profitable undertakings, the nature of which i not vet disclosed. The Ontario Powder company, of} which they were the founders, has been in existence for a number of years, the office having been in Kingston and the works at Tweed. They developed try and have had profitable returns. Having mached a successful standing they have been enabled to sell to a ' Montreal, at a good figure, along with three other con-| cerns, the Western Powder company, of British Columbia; the Montreal com: pany, with works at Beloeil, and the Standard company, with works at These will all be merged company, the name of which has not vet been designated. It will take the Ontario Powder company several months to close out its business, when the gentlemen con- cerned will be in a position to look about for other undertakings, and the success that has already attended their works is an augury of what may be expected in other lines. : Every citizen will rejoice at their re maining in Kingston and hope for en- larged asefuloéss in whatever works they participate in. NEED FOR POWER. into a strong " izens Want the Council to Make Haste, "Power is our great need" said ( ol- in Macpherson, president of the Board of Trade to a Whig man, to dav. "The fact of the matter is "we | cammot | stacks unti of cheap yw to increase our smoke- | we can offer inducements | power to parfies seoking | city iad power at fair prices Kingston mizht ere this have had additional factories, lie is an advocate of Sey. ing to come in without any contract teem of years. He hopes the committee will hastey | matters as speedily as possible. Ald Elliott has already done good work, | and his committee should be active the citizens cheap about town, Generally enn have its wires here by December | next amd, ~ with a god contract hing that Germany would willingly pay a ston manufacturersycan save money on When other concorns are in position to offer power then the city will be ready to treat with them and the best service can be se- cured. Meantime they say snap up what is available. They would like to | see expert aid secured to make terms! with the Seymour people. "Hustle is | the watchword the public give to the city authorities in charge. | power account. EIGHTEEN PORTIAS GRADUATE, | New York State's Able Women| . Lawyers. { Fighteen Portias were graduated | from: the woman's law class of the | New. York university recently, : and | some of the sisters already seasoned | in experience at the bar tpll of "the | many and curious experiences' which come to a woman lawyer. Une whic | no doubt was included in the double | was to the effect that had written | asking her to bangle his case because, as he stated, "I can't trust no man." The weight of the faith of the centur- ies. rests the shoulders of woman. | It is not 4 light loall but it may hold | down any inclinations to step off the straight and narrow path if onee! she gets in actual power. HAY FOR THE WEST. ---- i Large Shipments Being Made From | Wolfe Island. ! Large shipments of pressed has are | being made from Wolle Island, to the west, principally to Edmonton. AT] day today, there was 4 steady stream | of rigs over from the island, with hay. | The road gver the ice, is in good con dition, and the pressed hay will be rushed. To-day, fourteen rigs were iy the Kingston & Pembroke railway yards, at the one time. Seventy-five cars have been chartered from' the | company, to convey hay to its desti- nation. category an AT THE CURLING RINK, Games Saturday Night~--Landies Played Monday Morning. In the curling matches at the local rink, on Saturday, Skip Gill defeated Skip Asselstine, by 15 to 7. Skip Mc Kelver defeated Skip Corbett, 11 to 10; Skip Elliott defeated Skip McFar 8 to 7: Skip Dalton defeated Skip Power, M4 to 13. : ; The Czar's Watch. There is in possession of the czar a very rewarkpble watch. It was matle by a Polish mechanic named Jules Cwron. The czar had beard ome ul tales shout the in ventive ability of this man, and wishin; personally to test his shill,\ he hingy parcel eountniving nails, some wood chi timepsece. a ' remmikally short time the czar received them pack in the shape of a watch. The made of chima, and the |e Locke All who . inspect our January display of White Underwear are impressed with the good workman- ship, the excellence of materialsand dis- tinctiveness of styles. However low the price the standard of quality is neve sacrificed. r We planned for this sale. months ago when the" prices of cottons were much lower than they are to-day, and this will explain the reason. ableness of our prices Corset Covers, Nightgowns, White Skirts, Drawers, Chemises, Princess Slips. ~~ pecial To-Morrow 1,200 yards Fine White Nainsook Cotton A right make for Women's Undergarments and Nightgowns. 'Lhis make is 36 inches wide and worth regularly 12)c yard. Yours To-Morrow 8c Yard Notelephone orders accepted for this Cotton. i The Best Shoe Sale In Years Come and see for yourself The Bargains that we are offering All Next Week. | TT SHOE STORE]