PAGE IGE. | GROWTH AND : SERVICE its many customers, ED. > Assets, $30,000,000 George B. McKay, The constant growth of The Bank of Toronto is a signifi- cant indication of -the excel- lent -banking service given to YOUR ACCOUNT IS INVIT. L BANK OF TORONTO 107 PRINCESS STREET, IS TO INVESTIGATE ALL CHARTERED BANK INTO METHODS. - The Canadian Banking Association is Going to de its Duty to Deposit- ors and Shareholders Jan. 18.--~The Canadian Bankers' Association will investigate immediat:ly the whole problem con- nected with the inspection of charter: «d banks in such a way ag to ful fil any duty which they may indirect: ly owe to the country as Yegards the protection of depositors, creditors and shareholders from the results of such disasters as have caused Criticism and uneasiness . throughout Canada during the last/ few years. This statement was given to your correspondent this moming, on the best authority, together with the in- formaticn that the deliberations were already undér way and that statistics and suggestions are being sent to Sir Edward Clouston, president of the Canadian ' association. It is well Jnown that the Canadian ban- kers' association does not incline to- wordy government inspection. They fear "tape interference and they do not think that a competent inspector could be secured for the salaries bwhich the government could pay. BUDGET FROM ODESSA. Toronto, ---- HOW WOULD YOU LIKE TO GIVE SOMETHING THAT WOULD KEEP he Late Miss Saiter--LODYF In: stallation. Odessa, Jan 18.--~Jobhn Gardiner and Mrs. Stanley Fraser attended the funeral of their sister, Mrs. White, of YOU CONSTANTLY BEFORE HER?| Madoc, on Wednesday, Jan. 11th. The Is a Household Companion, and can be used every day, and can't help be appreciated. Chops everything. In Bize 1. 7bc; And lots of other things. BRASS GOODS, Beautiful Selection. Safety Razors, Hockey Skates, Snow Shoes, Snow Shovels. Skeis, Bob Skates and Wide Runner for| ,™ W. A Michell's Hardware, Size 2, $1.00. annual meeting of the Ernesttowy Agriculture society was held ig. the village hall, Monday, when gli the of- ficers were re-elected. Installation of 1.0.0.F. officers was held Friday evening, when they were joined lay their wives and lady friends and suppér was served by 8. J. Sproule o* the Dominion louse. A number of visiting brethren from Kingstgn were present. Division court wag held .at the vil lage hall, on Friday. Judge Price presided. Mr. and Mrs. John Graham are ver: much pleased over the arrival of twins, both boys. Everyone was shocked to learn of the death of Miss Alzina Snider, on Sunday evening. Miss Snider hadn't been feeling very well for 4 couple of "| duys. Fhe was sitting in her chair when she suddenly expired, heart fail are being the cause. She was a mem- er of the Methodist church. The fun oral was held Wednesday morning at 10.30 o'clock, at the barracks, by Rev, !. Bell, thence to Wilton vault. She was 4 daughter of the late Adam Snider, Filth concession and is sur: vived by three sisters and two broth- ers: Mrs. Lewis Hartman, of Camden Correct Market Prices Paid for all kinds of 1 Send your collections to REVILLON FRERES CEATABLISNED 1728 The Leader in the world's Fur Trade. 134 ot 136 McGill Street, Montreal, Our for the asking WR PAY EXPRESS CHARGES Quick Returns -- RAW FURS and SKINS PRICE LIST FREE East; Mrs. Thomas Sharpdand Miss Linnie Snider; both of Odessa; also Wellington, of Nanaimo, B.C., and Nial, of El Paso, Texas. Mr. and Mrs. Eddie Gordon return- ed home after spending a couple of months at Dolgeville, N.Y, The Salvation Army barracks, where the Methodist service is being held, seats 250, The Whig subseribers here were pleased to find 5 picture of the old «church in the Whig on Monday. Everyone is pleased to see Messrs. Nelson and Clement Booth, of New York #ity, who are calling on old friends. George B, Hamm has bought the Dr. Booth farm, HOME RULE PROMISED. Donald McMaster, NEP Addresses Montreal Women on Elections. Montreal, Que., Jan. 18.--Speaking on "British Elections," béfore the Woman's Canadian Club, yesterday afternoon, Donald McMaster, M.P., in ~{ the British House of Commons, said that there was apparently no reason OR Per Cent. Ml Furs h "Including all the New and Stylish Stoles, Ladies' Coats, Men's Coats, Children's Setts, Muffs, for the last elections, except that John Redmond had promised to make the government toe - the mark, and did make them do so. "Unquestion- ably, there must have been a jromive of home rule given to him," said Mr. McMaster. "The reason why the Pare liament or veto bill, was being - ed was that the House of Lords would never have passed a home rule bill without an appeal to the people, but if the power of the House of Lords was reduced then the home rule bill could be passed and after that in all probability in the sweet bye-and-bye a second chamber might be restored on an elective basis." FIX FAIR DATES. Annual Meeting of the Belleville ! Agricultural Society. ; Belleville, . Jan. 18.<The annual meeting of the Belleville Agricultural Society was hell! here, yesterday al ternoon, 'and was Jarkuly. Muended: The treasurer's report receipts for the vear were $2,219.72, and ex- penses $2,215.30, tht the A motion provided tha society afhliate with the Provincial Fair As- soviation and also join in the ' insur ane plan as provided by the - and other pieces t00 numer- mest as to giving aid in case of no ous to mention. fair owing to bad weather. THE DAILY BRITISH WEIG, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 18, 1911. a ees ee CHURCHILL'S * DENIAL THAT HE OVERRODE OR DIRECTED THE POLICE | ' { : In the London Attack on Anarchists Conclusion of the Coroner's In-| quest Into the Death of the! Desperadoes. - ! Londom, - Jan. 18.--The inquest on the death of the two desperadoes, who perished in their Sidney street home, The ver- the man! tary, was concluded to-day. dict of the jury was that died of suffoeation. The jury added » that the extraordinary try. in the witness box. Ie declared that! 7 free roud. | LOCOMOTIVE EXPLODED. # Buffalo, N.Y., Jan. 18. -- John ¥. Dwyer engineer, Buffalo; James Cook, fire. man, Buffalo; Richard Frost, brakeman, Syracuse. The above were the casualties this morning when the loco- motive of a New York Central freight train exploded with terrific force just east of this city. All were in the cab, d were killed instantly. he freight was made up of fifty cars, westbound. Low water in the boiler was the cause. PRPFREFPPRP P02 P 000 | DIED FROM A WOUND inflicted by a Woman in a Hotel in' x indianapolis. rey, the former university of Illinois | student who was shot by Mrs. Alice ! Poehler of Cuthrie, Ind., last day while they were together in a ho- ih tel in this city, died yesterday and a! charge of first degree murder has been placed against the woman. Mrs. Poehler, who after shooting Sto- rey, returned the revolver upon ° her- 'self, lie€ at the hospital in a serious condition and probably will die. fore committing the crime the woman wrote a mote stating her plans giving as her reason that Storey had WHITE SLAVE TRAFFIC. Reform Council, Berlin, Ont., Jan. 18.--At the meet- ing of the Young People's Institute of Guelph bytery in St, Andrew's church, Rev. Dr. J. Gi. Shearer, moral | and social reform secretary of the Presbyterian church in Canada, nounced that his department planned; to devote special altention in future to the white slave trafic. The first movement would be the appointment of a woman to assist in the work, not only in dealing with unfortunate girls, but by addressing audiences of women and girls throughout the country. pa. : | SENTENCED TO DEATH. Toklo, Jan. 18 --Doctor Kotal, who one time travel- led Canada, his wife and twenty-three other anarchists were sentenced this morning to death for complicity in a plot to kill the emperor. Er PEPE THETHES | | HONOR FOR MONTREAL K.C. Eugene Lafleur to Arbitrate Bound. _ ary Dispute. Ottawa, Jan. 18.--By agreement be- tween the government of Mexico and the United States Eugene Lafleur, K.C., of Montreal, has been appoint- Joeation of the boundary line between two countries in what is known the Chanizel tract near El Paso. he dispute is of long standing and arises from the shifting of the bed of the river which forms the boundary line. Last year the two governments to submit the matter to the arbitrament of , Canadian jurist, and the Canadian government was asked to nominate a man. Mr. Lafleur has been selected, A BRAVE GIRL PERISHED In the Flames While She Was Res- cuing Others. Halifax, Jan. 18.---A ing in the iis of the mighty Terie Lars oh est daughter of Gabriel, . on island siEEd in fat i§ i I i 1 ¥ that only wile resisting the police and mili- Yesterday, saved Premier Briand from ' postponed known -as "Josel" was shot to death, Prevailed. The proceedings of the the victim of justifiable homicide, and chamber had been Boing on as ususi that his companion, known as "Fritz," and there was nothing to indicate that . : k the crowd of spectators in the gallery | speaker in the immediate future. rider, declaring | included one who had 0 oceurrence 116 of the head of the y A should lead to the framing of more | (isolme first attracted the attention] at a meeting of Y.M.C.A,, Friday af: stringent measures for dealing with of those criminal aliens arriving in this conn. |g i 3 iss Home Secretary Churchill appeared forward quickly to the railing. troops were on the spot before he had Dis Pocket and before the horrified heard that a fight was in progress. He o1°s near him could make a move, he denied that he overrode or directed the "med the weapon 10 | lice, who: Bo said. ad erected the , direction of the ministerial bench, and) the Arts' Club room: then deliberately upon fired. The first bullet, it is thought, #4994904 9¢ imbedded itsolf in the woodwork near # the premier's seat. £ t TH t but the second mirth to anger as a thin wreath of +0400 0040¢ smoke was wafted up to the dome. SEPP 4 LIP b00 0 i : . , «,.. (upon and seized Indianapolis, Jan. 18.~Carl V. Sto- {was attempting to. make. hia escape. | well "cently liberated from an insane asy- jed following an unsuccessful attempt which he had made upon the life of the British consul at St. Sebastien. He was removed from Bayonne some time ago on the ground Be- that he was insane. discharge bitterly, and is thought to and have nsibl the premier was minister of justice at the time. Ti p is entering ths St. John, N.I., field. damage to the Irish Paper company plant, a: ined chairman of the printing com- mittee. chairmanship of churia, total 150 daily, and the edi- demic is spreading. "vear-old James od arbitrator in the dispute as to the od ANSHZP HALLS 'OF QUEEN'S SAVED THE LIFE OF PREMIER PROF. LEACOCK, OF McGILL, . BRIAND, OF FRANCE. MISSED HIS TRAIN. The Prisoner is a Former Court; Was Unable to Reach Here to Ad Clerk, Who Was Removed on. the! dress Arts' Society This Evening Ground That he was Insane. Question of Smoking in Arts' Clubroom. Pars, 'Jan. 15.--There is no doubt . The address. which was to have been the poor marksmanship of b , a former court clerk, who delivered in Grant ball, this evening, fired shots in the Chamber of Deputies, | by Prof. Leacock, of McGill, has been i indefinitely. ' Word came th or serious imjury. from Montreal, this morning, to the For a time the * greatest confusion | effect that Dr. Leacock had missed his train, Queen's students are much dis- appointed, but hope to have the plea- sure of hearing this distinguished ve upon the . Prof. Dyde will 'address the students ternoon, at four o'clock. Dr. Dvde's addresses are always enjoyed and un- doubtedly a large audience will listen to him on this occasion. Mis subject & revolver from | will be "World Peace." seated near him when he rose the seat which he occupied ' tfiear centre of the balcony and pushed Suddenly he whipped Some time ago a petition was cir pn first in the general [culated to obtain smoking rights in This ment ted considerably, but it is doubtful if the intended object will be realized. The majority. of stu- dents are perfectly agreed that a The report had scarcely died away [smoking room should be established, M. Briand and] has been a 4 when the second shot was fired." The but are not prepared to have the arts # shooting was dome so quickly class 1* there is + found the mark. club room, reading room and rooms on the lower flat incessantly fumigated by the stale smoke from an abominable incense, that which bullet i it was ich struck he started with . The Alma Mater Society is at pre ules Razimbaud, the radical social- sent seeking "a solution to the fore deputy, was making a [speech from | going problem. A commitiee has been tribunal on the subject of the bud- | appointed to consider the advisability t of the ministry of the interior | of erecting a college union building, doubt as to It is g r. Many of the deputies laughed, inking that the explosion was a joke, report changed their and an up-to-date dining-room. It is understood that this proposition is well under way and it is altogether likely that before many seasons slip ) away the proposed building will raise Mirman, sitting beside Premier Bri- its stately form on university pro- = and, was seen to topple over, exclaim- | perty. ing as he fell : "IT am shot." Cries of 'coward, coward," filled! Year '1l arts will enjoy a social the chamber as the spectators rushed |cvening this week. the assailant, who = -- Where is the Queen's Rooters' Club ? Such an organization would be a valued asset to the college hockey team and would help a whole lot in putting the Presbyterians in the cham- pionship running. Jt seems strange that "Varsity can altain to such a marked efficiency in this respect while the courts of { the local students do practically no- d | thing. If some student bard would be- He resented his| come inspired and frame up a few 3 z parodies the hockey matches would deld M, Briand responsible, as become both attractive and entertain- ing. Gisolme was quickly secured. He is known to the.police, being re- um, in which he had been inearcerat- The hopes of again getting a glimpse at the Allen cup will be Arf well decided at the covered rink, Saturday PITH OF THE NEWS. Over the World. : paddlers clash in exhibition hockey. he Goodyear Tire and Rybber Co. Special Efforts by Moral and sy Very Latest Culled From All night, when Queen's and the. Parkdale THE TIMES ARE YRLLOW, The Elevating of Hattie Le Blanc is bas been Disgusting. St. Alban's Messenger. ae spestticle a the elevating of Fair weather and no rocks visible in| Pattie ne, the Cape Breton girl the reciprocity negotiations at Wash- who was recently acquitted in a Mass- ingston. John Redmond was re-elected to the the Irish parliamen- At Bufialo, N.Y., fire did $150,000 Robert Bickerdike, M.P., trial for the murder of her employer, to the plane of a near-popular heroine, i" mn no small measurs disgusting. Shortly after being: prongunced free, the girl returned to the scenes of her childhood, to a foreign land, but the Power may he developed at Long modern newspaper is an annihilator of Sault ' Rapids by the Canadian and pase. and story after story has been Anion: gorecments. Tur the bumpy pubic du a s > ¥. spa Eleven French officers and men have men make the humble Cape Breton : n . be leo wold by Moors ut | Viet reves: tin orl Charles F. Johnson, (Dem.), of Wa. (is the recipient of hundreds of letters, terville, Me., has been selected United | ome bearmy offers of marriage; oth- States Yenator from Maine. ors expressing a desire to exploit her For supplying liquor to sixteen [on the stage for tha amusemmt of the y, Roy Voelker, | public at, say, $500 a week. And there is no assurance to the unknown seek- months. ers of a wife that such a home as she At Montreal J. E. Switzer, the new- | would make would be a happy one nor ly appointed $25,000 a year chief en-|is there any reason to believe that any gineer of the C.P.R., is seriously . ill with typhoid fever. Long contifiued negotiations at the Hague looking to the re-establishment of diplomatic relations between the Netherlands and Venezuela, have fail- tary party. : - Deaths from plague 'at Harbin, Man- Hamilton, was sent to jail for three Lady Tilley, of St. John, has re-|: signed as provincial vice-president of the Woman's Council, a position that she has occupied for fifteen years. Rev. A. E. Neilly, B.A., pastor of St. Andrew's church, Verschoyle, has{place. received a unanimous call to the pas- torate of Chalmers church, Hamilton. Grand Event at Battersea. - Battersea, Jan. 18.--~The active work- n the first shot, rang out from the | which will be equipped with smoking | gallery underneath the press rooms, bowling alleys, billiard tables | achusetts court, after a sensational | JOHN LAIDLAW & SON. - To-Morrow We will place on sale the balance of our - Women's "Winter Coats At Exactly HALF PRICE Every Coat is new this fall. Every Coat is sty- lish and well made, and every Coat sold means a considerable loss to us, But we never hold over Coats from one season to . the next, so you may buy with perfect confidence. Do not miss this chance. Come even if not prepared to buy. You may choose and have your Coat € put aside, To-Morrow "Special Sale 2.000 Yards Embroidery Remnants Values from 7c, 8c, 9c, 10c yard. Your Choice 5c yard All Day, : 9a.m. to 6 p.m. DOROTHY DODD, EMPRESS AND OTHER § FINE SHOES, on tables, at great reductions. MOIRE SILK PUMPS st $1.25, $3 50 EVENING SLIPPERS, in Beaded and Patent, $2.25. Rubbers at Reduced Prices. -20 per Cent. Reduction on Trunks and Bags 'Do Your Buying Now. EE ----------------------------... fp.