ie "British Tis YEAR 78 NO, 17. PION GIVE To Prisoners of Staying in Penitentiary. TILL AFTER WINTER SO SIR A. B. AYLESWORTH TOLD THE COMMONS. Pr. Edwards Again Referred to the Facet of Insufficient Clothing Given to Discharged Prisoners in Winter--Warden Obeyed Rales. Special to the Whig Ottawa, Jan. 21 Commons, late last Fdwards, of Frontenac, to the report of inhuman of a prisoner who had heen dis from the Kingvton penitentiury with out ' sufficient clothing to withstand the cold of winter or suflicient mown to purchase necessary food. Dri Ee wards also read a letter from EHiowt, of M¢ rend, secretary of Prisoners' Ald Association, in be sail That in very many cases he himsell had pur sod overggats fon discharged prisoners 35) Fawards stated further hind been ut formed that the tiary in the severest weather had to work in thin overconts, which cost th government only 220.70 each. He demned this cheese-paring polic ol the government. As a matter of fact he had learned also that supplies had also been cut down Sir Alan Aylesworth replied that far as the warden and of of ths institution were concerned, they had oheyed the rules of the department The question of therules was a large matter, but he thought the peniten tinry act had in wind the low tem perature of our winter, for prisoner had the option of remaining in the penitentiary during the winter months after their sentence had expired, until the bitterness of the winter cold had passed, The clothing which the pris oner had when he entered the peniten. tiary was returned to him, also the regulation suit. and a sum of money. W. DB. Northrup, Belleville, vester day stated that he will move for 4 special commitiee of the house to investicate the whole ease at the In the House of might, Dr, J, W, referred again tre James the which ards of the peniten COR medicinal GINGSTON, ONTARIO, SATURDAY, JANUARY 21, 1911. JAPS THREATEN STRIKE. | Will Not Work With Filipinos on ' Hawaiian Plantations. | L . ' Me Tia . we | T moll ' j.~Japanese on charg 2 been brou considerable and robbers Ne His Life in August. ' w of hold-ups snd rob} Japanese by Filipinos on | L of Kauks precipitated the | > press i= movement and to be abroad it where Filipino pubic AN FROM DROWNING. are employed, 3 BRITISH MANOBUVRES N.Y, is the Begin To-day, and 12 Admirals Will | Widow Recipient be Engaged. | British naval! re seals begar Syracuse, N.Y., Jan, 21. --Confined : bed by illness, Mrs, Edith May Usherwooid Neeley received the news of her award at the hands of the iden is to give « junior fag officers Carnegie Hero Fund Commission with experience in har we a big fleet. Al- |! She will receive $45 a twenty-three battleships and month for lie, . cruisers take part For three years Mrs, Seeley bas not They are divided under Sir Wil in the Bay of pt," under Sir from Vigo. London, Jen. 2H MANOSIVISS on 2 yesterday, f Twelve ter hes Npanish Coast < wlmirs e engaged, and the ejoicing together fourteen armoured in the manoeuvres into the "Red float," liam , With er, Mrs, Sarah Usherwood of No. Sizer street, was left penniless as well as a widow with a boy to support when her husband, Watson Miles Neeley, thirty-two years old, his life August Uth, in o desperate e fort to save Miss Mary Magdeleue Knoll of No. 103 Lawrence street, eizh- teen vears old, from drowning ia the Seneca river at Mud Lock. They per. ished together, The news of the woman's good for tune brought tears of joy to the eves of the brother. It was he who made director of the first move towards securing it. dprl For Mrs has oe cupied two rooms at the home of her sister; where sickness has confined ha to her bed for a week. The movement to secure some recog vition from the Carnegie Hero Fund SAY THEY FACE RUIN :uice comic foc i Fo dna------ by Mr. Seeley was inaugnrated g few THE MICHIGAN FISHERMEN {v0 after. his death. At the time of \ HAVE ENLISTED AID. fie double latality whew tw and: Miss \ hnoll lost their lives he was staving al a cottage on the Sensca river near Mud lock, Miss Knoll, her brother, Anthony Knoll, ynd a friend named Kieffer, had gone to gong Branch for the Churel of the Assamption picnic. They start. ed out B their fmends were in another . The first canoe had proceeded from Long Branch to Mud Lock, when the two men with Mies Knoll suggested they change places in the hoat. They 1 base Arosa, and the * i Edmund Poe, operating MILITARY COLLEGE. High Sulhtion to be Pad Staff Officers. Canadian As the follow paid the officers College To London, Jan. 21 § sociated Press ing salaries' are to be of Australian's Military the commandant, £1,200; military art, £506; £500; instruct in military L600, state tha e time Seeley director of en zineer ny, They Ask That the International Fishery Treaty Not be Put Into Effect Till January, 1912, Sault Ste. Marie, Mich., Jan. 21. On behalf of phe commercial fisher men of the Lake Superior and St Mary's river districts, Attorney G P, MeCallum, of this eity, ed the wid of Representative Young and Senator William Alden Smith has enlist printing bureau. This is becnuse the ~ public accounts committee can. deal only with the sceounts for one year, and also. beosuse Lhe committee has many other matters to look into. The idea ix that the special committee should sit day snd evening Dr. Sproule criticized the fuse and feathers at the Royal Military Col in an eflort to postpone the taking effect of the proposed igternational fishing treaty between the United States and Canada: Senator Smith has promised to do his best to pre | vert the treaty til Jan, 1912 i The sfishermen of these districts have stood up, and as they stevped to. wards the centre of the frail eraft Miss Koll stood up to allow them to 4 has | Almost instantly the canoe capsized. going into effect un- | The men did ther best to save the youny woman, They kept her above water, and with one arm over ~ Her Husband Sacrificed been well and, according to her moth. | 106 | i Fave up in "One cance while some of | head | large amounts of money invested in apparatus which would be rendered worthless under the treaty, and many of them, it is' said, would be fman cially ruined i not given more time to make the required changes in equpment., } lege. Sir Janne Whiteey, Hon. DD. R. Payne and Hon. Col. Matheson re ceived 5 deputation rhpresenting the Dominion Trades and Labor Coun, The prime minister gave the mem bers a cordial hearing and showed a desire to co-operate in the reforms de sired, especially in relation to the proper scaffolding for "protection of workmen. DAILY MEMORANDA. the MISTOOK' VICTIM'S CRIES, | ------ i Car Ran Over Legs--Reversed and iid Crushed Again. i Muskegon, Mich., JW 21.--With his | legs out off at the knses by an inter. | urban car John Howard, a rail- | road employee, had the horrifviny | experience of having his eries misun- | derstood, so that the car was reversed | and passed over him a second time. | He remainad consvious until received | at a hospital, but it is not expected that he can survive his injuries. here, Big Reductions , On all manufactured furs At Campbell Bros'. annual sale. clearing Witerworks committees, 4 p.m. Mon- Hockey, covered rink, 8 pm, dales vw : Queen's Men's meeting, 4.15 pm, Sunday Lea Singleton, plano tuning and re- pairing, 406 Rrock Street. Phone $01 Sunday, 415, YMCA. meetin for men, Orpheum Theatre Hear riga- dier Taylor. Chairman, Ald. Shaw. Park- Orpheum Theatre Death From Plague in Pekin. Pekin, Jan. 21.--~The first death in Pekin since the opthreak of the pre sent epidemic of bubonic plague, oc | curred in 4 missionary hospital to-day. | - : i | | | i Norwe sian A iii ede ETE, What Happened to St. Jacob's Oil i The other day I went into a drug store and asked for a bottle of St. i - Jacob's Oil. i (As you read this does not the name impress you us something conmect- + the [fiver he swam to them. As he Teach Ineck in such 4 manner that he could | shoulder of each they attempted | to swim ashore with her. i Attragled by the shouts of persa s | in the vicinity. Seeley hurried toffhe | rescue of the party. Plunging intg/the hor rescuers, and. strugoling in . the } water caught hold of Seeley about the not swim a stroke. They went and perished together It was ROM hours later that their bodies were re covered. dowp § '$100,000 FOR YMCA, For Exténsion of the Foreign Lands, Chicago, Jan. 21 Gifts of $100,000 for the extension of Y.M.C.A. work in foreign lands were announced at meeting of the Young Men's Christ ian Association last night. Cyrus H. MeCormick will give 230.000 for a building for any foreign land decided on by the general board. An anomy. mous gift of $25,000 for 4 building in' Manila and 5 like amount for a build: ing in ong) Kong, China, were an- nounced Work in i + Whale Fights Ship and Dies. ! New Orleans, La. Jan. 21.--With a | score of plates damaged in a fight | with a whale in the Gulf of Mexico, the steamer Mount Vernon came ingd+port: The captain ' save | the whale was seventy-five feet 1 | After the whale was wounded it etop- | ped, thrashed the sea with its tail, | and then struck the boat just below | where stootl the skipper. The foree of the blow was tremendous and the heavy steel plates buckled, With the rebound of the blow the {eviathan was : hurled back and sank out of sight. { Short Nail Hens Best Layers. Colmaryia, Mo., Jun. 21. "Chickens ony. | with short toe nails are the best lay- | ed in some indefinite way with your childhood days ¥) Lore," sii: Prof. WJ. E. Rio, ry I asked the druggist if be sold much of the remedy now. He told me I wus the first ome who had asked for it in months. And yet, twenty-five yours ago it had an enormous sale, as every adult roadér of this Talk will recall. St, Jacob's Uil is just as good to day as it ever was. Why, then, has its sale droppod off ? The reason is that it has ceased to be advertised. - And here's the story : When the man who first put the Oil on the market, died, he left an immense business, which liad been 'built lay advertising. An attorney who was conducting the affairs of the estate, the widow cf the oid doctor, notided, in poiug trough the books, what he thought, ex- travagant sums pail out for advertising, he - He thought that the remedy hard row become #6 well known that it was no lopgér necessary to spend money in advertising, and be so ad The advertising was stopped. and it was not Jong before the sales are reporied o Tate droped of Toduy, ws avy draggist will tell you, it is a preparations that took its place were introduced~AND ADVER. There's o Toston in thin story for every merchant. Failure 40 hosp your re and he of your goo Seighently bufoty he pcan. wa esi | expert for Cormall University, 'addeess- { ing students of the Agricultural Col lage of the Univegmity! of Mi il { here. "These chickens have short toe | nails," he said, "from scratching for | ifood, and 5 chicken that is constant- ly seratching is sure to be industri. 8," : ini | 'Divine Sarah Fainted in Boston. 1H Fi i : isi 4 51. id ! | % bee" : 3 A - » The district off! - {ed them Miss Knoll freed herself from | : district officer com {+ matter. NEARING A CLOSE. i | Likely an Agreement or Treaty win | be Arranged. } Washington, Jan. 21.-A further cons | ference of Cauadian-American free { trade comsmissioners was held on Fri- {day afternoon. Jt is fully expected | negotigtions will terminate to-day in | an agreement or treaty. This belief is | supported by the fact that Secretary | of State Knox, who has acted through {out for President Taft, entertained | Hon, Mr. Fielding and Hon. Mr, Pat. {erson and their ladies at dinmer at his | hous¢ last night, a custom that might | be taken as a suitable social termin- EIGHTEEN-YEAR-OLD GIRL ston to the trowilesome business de- | liberations. | The final * meeting of the United {States and Canadian envoys. on reci- [And Perished in the Attempt--Mrs. | prosity took place, this morning, at Edith May Seeley, of Syracuse, ®leven o'clock, and Fortunate Young it is understood that protocols were signed for presen- tation to the respective houses imme- diately. The representatives are still | all close-mouthed, respecting the tétms | of the agreements. CROUCHED IN ATTIC | MOTHER, CHILDREN, AND MAID BURNED TO DEATH. Their Home on Indian Road in To- ronto Was Attacked by Fire-- Firemen Sought to Make a Rescue. Toronto, Jan. 21.--Mrs. Perey C. Brooks, wife of the manager of the Fairbanks-Morse Manufacturing com- pany, Toronto, with three children and a maid servant, were burned to death in a fire which destroyed their home at two o'clock this morning. They lited on Indian Road, in the fashionable York Loan district. Mr. Brooks was away in Chicago on busi- ness. It is supposed the fire started from an over-heated furnace. Nearly all the bodies of the victims were found erouched in a corner of the attic, where they were apparently driven by the flames and smoke. : When the fire was discovered by a neighbor and an alarm turned in 'the house was a mass of flames. Fire- men entered the building so save lives but found only/fhe dead bodies An injuest will be held. | | EXAMINED THE FORTS. Ottawa, Jan. 21.---In the senate, Senator Landry has just asked "If the Dominion government had been in- formed that "during the Quebec tercentemary cele- bration, Americans 'disguis- ed as English sailors were able to visit the Beaumont forts and to a quainted with the dethils of thelr construction and their armament." Sir; Richard Cartwright {Kingston ) replied: "No special instructions were glven to guard against the + admission of strangers to # the. defence works at Que- ne ad b PERF IPREP SIGS LPP eb + manding at Quebec has been # asked to report upon this FRPP LPBP PBR P TORE PSE * | | Panama Canal Needs. Washington, D.C., Jan. 21.--The opening gun in the fight for fortifica- tion of the Panama canal was fired in the House of Representatives, yester- day, although the post office appropri- ation bill ostensibly was under con- siderntion. Gen, Kiefer, of Ohio, de- clared that the latest estimate of $12,- 000,000 for the fortification of the eca- nal would not be sufficient. He said that it would cost at least $100,000, 000 so to fortify the canal that it could be held against the attack of a first-class power, FORTY -MEN PERISH NO LESS THAN 400 WERE EN- TRAPPED IN MINE. The Survivors Hewed Their Way to Safety' Through Solid Coal--The Owners Were Arrested for Neglic gence. 5 Warsaw, Jan, 21.---Four hundred miners were entombed and forty kill ed by an explovion in the Casimir coal mine at Sesnowice, on the Rus 2o-Prussian frontier. Fire broke out following the explo- siom, cutting off the escape Fr the main shaft, but 350 men cut through the walls, then across a tunnel and came out alive. Rescue parties that were able to enter the mine after the fire had raged for several hours after, found forty men dead, their bodies i badly mutilated, Negligence of the mine-owners to apply proper safety devices was re for the disaster and the ar- rest of the 'owners was ordered { Rioting broke out among the cued miters and their relatives aken into custody. of the men who had BURN 1 (fl HELD FOR STEALING AND THEY COULD NOT BEAR THE DISGRACE, ---------- Break Down the Jail Door to Get Inside. * Chicago, Jan. 21.~Don't blame Stella for this, I am to blame for it all.- I pleaded with Stella to set fire to her clothes first and she refused. Then I ignited my own dress, and as I was burning asked Stella to end her life with me. The she lighted her dress from my burning clothes." "rieda Kempke, before her death, yes- terday, at St. Joseph's hospital, in Joliet, made this statement to physi- cians, after learning that her compan- ion, Stella Maxwell, eighteen years old, had died in an adjoining room. The girls made living torches of themselves while in a cell in the jail at Lemont, where they were being held on the charge of having 'stolen two fur coats and a set of lynx furs from the wardrobe of a dance hall. They had read an account of their arrest in a newspaper and could mot bear the disgrace, according to their story, In the confusion which followed the discovery of the fire, Margaret Ripple, sister of the juiler, mislaid the jail keys, and the firemen had to break down the jail door. FAMILY HAD CONSPIRED Aguninst Mrs. Schenk to Get Rid of Her. Wheeling, W. Va., Jan. 20.--With the view to showing that John Scheunk's family conspired against Mrs. Schenk, now charged with poisoning her hus- band, the defence counsel this after noon called a woman witness from Omaha, who swore that the brothers told her they would do anvthing to get Laura out of the family. The pre- siding judge has declined to consider the suggestion to continue the trial on Sunday to facilitate matiers. Blow at Opluiy' Trade, ~~ Pekin, Jan. 21.--The Chinese - gov. 'ernment has issued an imperial edict commanding the suppression of the opium trafic. The government, which had been expected to sign with Great Britain a rénewal of the agreement al- lowing the importation of opiam for seven (years, has vielded to the de mands of the people, and will help to terminate the traffic. A petition sign- ed by 20.000 persons had heen sent to King George of Great Britain request. ing him to assist in the suppression of the opium trade. New Hospital for Cancer. Albany, Jan. 21. --Senator ~ Loomis introduced a bill proposing that the State appropriate 365.000 for build: ing a research hospital in construe- tion with the State Cancer Labora: tory on High street, Buffalo, under the terms of the bill the state would acquire title to the present labora- tory property and to a plot of land just west of the building on Hizh street and 150 by 170 feet. It is said that five Buffalo men have guaranteed to raise $20,000 to purchase this pro- perty. The purpose of the hospital is to treat cancer patients so that the disease may --be more -- carefully' studied, 2 Cape Vincent's Postmaster. Cape Vincent, N.Y., Jan. 21.--Thom- as A. Gibson has received an ap pointment as postmaster for Cape Vincent. Mr. Gibson has been a faithful worker for "(he republican Australia and the Aatartic Expedi» son, padition to the South Polar regions, declgres that Australi, stands to gain sonsiderably from 4 thorcugh explora- tion of the Antarctic. Whales and. fur seals, with mineral wealth cap be had for ran from Federal government assist the expedition. It is to establish 4 powerful wireless .graph station in the Antarctic to sap- ply meteorological data daily to Aus. tralia. The advantage of forecasts of this nature to the farming community of the Island Contirent, can be easily seen. England announcing that he is agree shle to having Prof. Mawson lead the expedition. ~ -- Woman Lived With Legal Spouse] Laporte; Ind, Jan. 21.--The at Plymouth, Luther that for twenty-five lived under the same roof with divoreed susband and legal spouge, When the wife and first husband se- parated twenty-five vears ago it was with the understanding that he could Live under the same roof the rest of his years. The wile again married fompact ago was kept, and to-day it vealed that Mrs. Johnson made provisions in her will burial expenses of the man' she first loved. TWO WOMEN HEF OES THEY DIED TO What the Ruins of the Brooks House this morning of the ruins of the beau tiful home of Percy C. ager of the Fairbanks, pany, her Scotch purse-maid Violet, died in an heroic effort to save the three chil- dren from smoke, o'clock, ¢ausing the death of two women with the three children, ona, with hor ~ wrapped as one child. The nurse-maid had house, where the children slept, ex cept the oldest bov, whose body was found near the bathroom door. > ET -------- - EXPEDITION OF VALUE. tion. Melbourne, Jan. 21. Professor Maw. LAST EDITION WEATHER PROBABILITIES. Ont, Jan. 21, 10 am (nt nd. Upper St. Lawrence 14 north-west flurries Torontt who is to lead a scientific ex seeking, with the added ad- e ob being only five days' steam elDourne. he declares. ihe has promised to proposed tele. ~ Sir Ernest Shackletos cabled from A STRANGE DIVORCE STORY. | and Divorced Husband. death | last mignt, of Mrs. | of revealed the fact years she had her Johnson but the of a century was re had for of a quarter also the to SAVE THREE CHILDREN. Showed--The Mother Clasped One Child and the Nursemaidl An- other. Toronto, Jan. 2!.- Investigation, Brooks, man- Morse com shows that Mrs. Brooks and the fearful flames which broke out about and one these The mothe found on ARE TN was partially her. All were in the attic of the SKIRT - just been put into stock--all goods fashioned for immediate very' best grades To-morrow and Monday The Greatest SNAP You Ever Saw Smart T-gored Skirts, well made, good quality" Vieuna Cloth, in colors Navy or Black. REMEMBER, these Skirts have Dew or spring wear They are well worth $2.5 Sale Price, $1.25 This is a Skirt Bargain you can- not afford to miss--an opportunist: buy new and stylish garments at half their actual value. DID YOU KNOW We were selling all our WHITE WOOL BLANKETS, GREY BLANKETS, FLANNELETTE BLANKETS, And COMFORTERS AT COST PRICE, Which means you are getting the at exactly mill prices. SATISFY YOURSHLF--CALL AND SEE THEM, party, and as there was to be & change ia the office, occasioned by the resignation of Mrs. 3. Wiggins, it is generally admitted he was entitled to the plum. He now occupies the Beau. | fort farm, just west of this village, | but will move his family to the Cape | and occupy his house in Kennedy ! street. ' Tn Beavers Back to Old Haunts, | Renfrew, Jan. 20.--The discovery has just been made of a colony of beav- iers of a small lake in Horton town. i ship, four miles from Renfrew. valuable game animal to baunts from which it was chased fifty or sixty years ago. The land cn which the colony is located is Tes - and i The treasurer read the annual Robert port showing the association to be in + a flourishing condition. Se-- Maggie McCalgron, another servant. who escaped to sive the alarm, . 9 badly burned, and may die. It had been ascertained that the fire was caused by a gas et bumming too 3 close to the oiled panelling. The house J was very artistic, but was a fire A was Fo DIED WATSON--In Bay City, Mich, Jan. 1% Robert 8 Watson, rslarly of n the late Ben- Flint, Mich re business, when the fire broke ont Percy Brooks, aged eight. Viger rocks, aged two. | T JAMES REID "Thene 147 for Ambulance. Maggie McCalden, maid servant. { Happy Thoughts, Oxfords and other -- | Coff 'Our Record ee day, issued writs for $200,000 against Namars, local manager Pinkerte, | Coffee sold in 1909 .... 6,360 ibs enemies, to have een decinred insane All strictly our own roasting and took action, to-day % finitely, on the | than words, and we are proud of gaged on the case. Women are meg. 101 Ours? Toronto, Jan. 21.---At the ninth WANT TO ESCAPE sieht, the following officers were elec | From the of oh hemant is vi resident, T. A. Gillen: treasur- Toronts, Jan. 31.~A move A Bank to ask the Ottawa governmeni It was de | financial liabilities on the ground tha be Satarday, July h. 7: July 30 | The petitions for a t en goed" by practical and depositors on the t! Three Toronto lawyers are in New : | Nesbitt and others, with conspiracy |anxions and is still asxiows to pe Mr, Jan t -------- Hou. Nr. Graham's condi- Masquerade Ball, Wolfe Island. 24th. Return fare, 25e. trap. Mr, Brooks, himself, is on his way Burned to Death. George Brooks, aged three i The Old Firm of gla TAKE NOTICE. HAS ISSUED. WRITS Cook Stoves: Will sel) at & re- Xin Montreal, Jan. 21 -Bavid Russell, » W. A. Pinkerton, Chicago Allan Pink Y agency. herve, claiming that they were | and sent to the asylum. Russell has | STIDding. No outside brands in- advice ob Donald MacMaster, British | them. tioned in the sta t of claim. = Jas. Redden & Co. annual meeting of the Kingston Olid Double Liability--Gov- ted : President, H. Y. Claxton; first! er, W. H. Hiscock; secretary, J. J |'°Ported started among & number of | ta relieve them of the double habili, cided that the date of the annual ex. | they Were innorsut vieti a feaud on London Times on Reciprocity. | quiry aro bein expected that between the United States and Can | it Will be forwarded to Ottawa at agreement is of a wide . | York having conferences with Georss in connection with the Fattery Bank en Hines. 'to Toronto to fate the music but the unwarranted. He is saffering! vo. leave Iroquois hotel at 7.30 Money to lodn on real sstate. \ some from Chicago, where he was op | Mrs. Percy OC. Brooks. Woodie Brooks, aged two Injured. "254 and 3206 " Gas Heaters, Coal Heaters. also Claims He Was Assailed by Con. duction now at TURK'S. one 105 prominent Montreal millionaire, to} erton, New York, and John W. Mac. | Coffee sold in 1910..... 7.450 lbs in u conspiracy, formed by business | Increase 195190 «ev 1,090 Ibs threat: such a suit before, but | cluded. These figures speak louder M.P., who has arrived here anil is en Have you tried this good Coffee Old Boys' Associaion. IMPORTERS OF FING GROCERIES Boys' Association, of Toronto, last | ernment Ald. vice-president, A. Pigion; second | Donnell; chaplain, Rev. B, & |country shareholders in the Farmer Black. and to have the dominion assume th cursion to Kingstom for 1911 should She part of Travers from the inception of bank. a : {all of the st aitoriony, dun. 2.--The Times in an (Ol on and is I adn, thinks it improbuble that , the the beginning of next week. , broker, charged, with Beattie, It is known that Wishart was : inwyers have advised him mot to. « 2L--~Alarmist reports attack of grippe, but! 5.30 p.m.; Tuesday evpuing, Jan. ferme. McCann. + op di mil