YEAR 78 ~NO. 09 WAS LIVELY Debate Over the Lanctot- Blondin Case. COATLESS 60 Puie *, Funerals, "The n to vear that ho ves floucester, ERMAN EXPLAINS ~~: LANCTOT NOT GUILTY OF WRONG | DOING. The Work Was Done by Government Men and Paid for Because no Other Men Were Available--The Accusations of Mr. Monk, Bpecial to the ¥ Ottawa, April 25 cussed Lanctot-B floor of the throughout the day. The londin case much-dis held the Colltmon nouse sof ontite sitting vests Lhe debate resolved au heated legal battle and the took on t appearance of a Members used cach "learned friend" and the speak "your honor," forgetting entire ly the expression of * honourable' and "wir," or "Mr. Speaker.' William Manly Gerinan, the privileges and elections commit tee, moved the motion that the re port of the committee bb concurred in. At he explained the and made a/ vigorous plea for the defendant Mr. Lanctot, He declared the against the member for Niche! A Most serious one, and pou that beforg such charg thy, Mr. Blondin bh should have wsore®® to further in itor fo my estimation," gai Mi "there is. not the slightest ( that Mr, Lanctot of any wrong parliament." x guite plain that Mr, Lanetot i positively innocent and the plaints have - not been earciully, otherwise they have been made. It was proven I Yond contradiction, he continued, that i was utterly impossible for Mi Lanetot to get help to finish his hous in Sorel unless he received it from the government ship yards there Fhe oflicinis of the yards thi providing it was paic for by Me Lanctot, which was done, as show: in the evidence oth labor paint were paid for, and on grounds po one can accuse Mr. Lane tht of fraud in connection with 'the transaction. Mr. German sell ant house court room. ache oth or us or as chairman adopted and considerable length situation charge were Grerm idence 1 in doing as a any way guilty member From the evidence it fom weighed ver would never granted aml thes was contended that the accounts falsified »h overcharges of men's time and mate inl used, but this has been shown to! have been aceurdtels kept by My Paget, the timekeeper at the vards, which hevond "doubt disneoved th statements. of Alfred Dduare and Louis Paul engaged in the work, that they had worked paid for. Therefore, th for Mr. 'fanctot, was paid what it was worth, Mr. German said that'! Mr. Lanctot paid 2493.07 fou work and materia! and thie i what the hill was, and not nearly $900 . uy il was stated that the bill should hav been, R. L. Borden Mr. Paget to the government vards ed on Me. Lanctot's property Mr. German-- Because he was wd by Mr, Lanctot and his Mr. Papinean, that it would he for. Mr. said it were hours than work weordmg to | more don What allow paint to vo and be de ' busines had from prosat paid Monk (Jacques Cartier), too up the case for the opposition H regretted that the privileges and tion committee had artived at a unanimous conclusion this affair MH the government vlopted this Ye port, then he declared every could avail himsell of the right to have government employees build thew houses without He admitted that My Lanctot's intention wa to refund the money . but th evidence reveals that the total amount wis refunded. He thought that this man Paget had perpetrated a frand upon the government. It is a well known fact said Mr, Monk that men have started stores in Sorel from what goods they got from the ment yards for He said there was not a single books at the goverument anything that would identify action. He believed robbery had sorted to pure and simple. The material be declared was obtained by Mr. Lanetot. by hay- on Champlain and Paget, officials at the yards, pat it through by charging it ap to government jobs. Therefore there must have heen a conspithoy be tween Mr. Lanetot and these men in order 10 carry this out. AH sammer long the work proceeded and Mr. Lan ctot did not think it worth while to enpire as to how much his | secount was to be. It was only on the 12th of last March that Mr. Lanctot sent .n chook for R080 in payment for ihe work. Later on-he pad foi the ma terial amounting to $117.47 J - Flowering plants, 100 Broek street elie not over member sost, never govern nothing trace in the yards of the Lanctot trans that fraud and been re DAILY MEMORANDA, 2 dollar Waverly hat a good ja vestmen at, ree Mills & Co, sole agents 18 ne dollar three or four, st are at ( "ampbell 5, en's foremost hat store. Bidron's suit sale Saturday sale at Whidrow's, Saturday hs Man on ihe Dum, Saturday 1-3 { COMMISSION F n ¥ I 3 NN QUITS, Deter tive interference, Head of "Hur an iy York, April 25. William Flyon, former head o States sactet service hey anMnssioner, who, as sé cond deputy police directed man povessful raids mhling recently, ha houses fosion it interfer plan » Wgher in authori \ the Flynn has been piven credit being the best « ireau has had in many vears Parker on Copyright. Anent the Cana April 28 i Bie 6G. P rit daw, arker ally en a Dirt ks that "Canada cannot lee priming elas lohn Murray sav th undoubtedly contains a stringer lavse, but he i= whether the ; haspower Ove ride it in favo f Br Against sthor law manufacturing pride lear governo ouncil Picton's New Factory, ticton, April Pie tory, capitalized ton new trunk fae WM will he Bro © Company of the Hey Berlin, an « manufacturer It facton thirty in two w shurn rin, of ploy and five people o Financial Times on Canada. April 285 The la, despite nadia, thusiusti , Lowden, Financial Fines says i saul by the en the opinion of not, in shrewd trous I receiving I= omagranis except those boring classes, but | dling to wh all the surplus. capital this ahle to spare." ers, really. des try 1s Imperial Co-operation. April 25. Referbing New Zealand promier's proposal at th coming imperial nee, the dan Mail says f the conference show: ue the wom S imperial coropera (ton for defence or any other Purp { shall not hesitate to follow. London to th " gates 4 on LOVE POEMS ANNOY LAN ARBENT WOOER LANDED IN POLICE COURT. Mrs, Belmont, of New York, Had Dr, John Jackola, Sending Her Poems, April O85 Mrg, O. H ippeared in police court, ¢ De. John Jacl woman suffrage her further consented hat be d lelmont on the proinise of a worker for would not attentiog that he annoy with u welcome simmons for him Jackoln w Duluth, Min magistrate's missed. Dr. surgeon at "Hh Jackola Mahon, seerstiry to 1 "has paid persistent attention to Mrs lelmont for four months. Hi tte tions include repeated attempt Mrs. Belmont, the with ve % nel wi tlor he sent and notes. A | the ealminationt of the lelmont decided that the for her to do courts." Was I am sorely surprised mont 's when he had read the statement I whould have sintement for her out first. She rece attion," said Dr nothing 3 had not ved Jt) poetry, her with my acknowledgements safety deposit van "I have admired Mrs. Bolg ever since | saw her two years ago, when wh crossed the Atlautic on t same ship. 1 thought she was the most re markable woman [I had ever seen, anil I belioved 1 was privileged as a to make advances to her. But we dud not speak; there was no common on board to introduce us "I believe all this would not happened if the notes 1 sent Mrs. mant had not been opened first hy secrétary. The doctor explained how his admire ation had led hint to seek an intra duction to Mrs. Belmont, how he met her secretary, was invited to speak o woman sallrage, did so and soon of ter was presented (0 Mrs. Belmont Found Mangled Remains, Sarnia, April RM An incoming train, st daylight this morning. found the mangled remains of Harty Dobhe, aged twentyHotir, son of John Dobbs, baggagemaster, Parkhill, He had ovi- dently fglien off a freight train: ont man friend have Bel Once Played in Public. London, April 2M An old tutor of Queen Alexandra has given it out that 'whea Princess of Wales, her majesty frequently publicly played in the 'orchestra' on the uitar as "Countess Good for World's Peace. Toronto, Ont., Apeil eon. CA + {pStetass treqmurer of the Na- Resents United his | Against il London, | i Sammoned for KINGSTON, "AW OF AY [Regarding Marvinge Fa- i vored by Chamberlain. of roenar 6 PROHIBITS PRIEST :: | ACTING AT CEREMONY, FROM WEDDING Fines and Imprisons Those Whe Ime Disturb the Should pugn the Law or Peace--Rritain This Law. April vie v Family Adopt mar { mierizin on the ithe Church of Rome, as expressed the British Weoke tam Adam Ra i Vrincipa statesman at Cannes are detailed in ih by "A. R.)" who is ¥, M.P., Rainey sumably son the Me, C} (attidade of unberlain was discussing the church in relation to lefines and spe {the whi Italian civil code, marriage a8 a evil eontract, i . jrifise that the ce em formed by the proavest i isteipal ro public wend, tator, kas ards to irch's ben WR Oper Pi a In The oxoent the code forbids a tress of onple before marriage priest ard BAVS in coneul married ho render himself i prisanmerit mpign the d bh the pe Cham desirability { settlement ih . i pair and I takn approval of as to BE shaking But we ous action, far rowiully, from that." PITH OF ™HE NEWS, he said Over the World, n nt Leslie Burke, Colborue, , com mitted on a charge of ars here ters in this ity on Hobhie the coronation PR. will begin Montreal strike of May Ist Y i will be no carpen rts are wially barred from emonies [ eo i {Toronto fo Very Latest Culled From AN i | } work on the Inke shore lines at once. Eva Richardson, Tor vith ecarbolic in front of he husband and children Re Tames clergy uto, suicided Bell vima with I The Lex ided meendiari payment . say the i no dividends vio eles company i Bull ator int reciprocity agreement i wrge part of the the r Montren greatest died at Nie : There will be » ition mto the ud of ti killed four works earching investiga which men pow Mharsd man frou field ba list mposite team August for the Une highes Ie ney i which proes ) land in artillery petitions. R. R. Jamieson. prominent business man, ex-anayor of Calgary and erly general superintendent of the PR. at Winnipeg, has been taken to New: Westminster, | » Sanitarium in} § hopelees condition 3 It is nadentaod that the impetial tonferance delegates will hold an in formal meeting to decide whether to astept the sxpenses from the British government. A strong stand will pike Iy be taken that the proceedings } be to the press, . ™Oo PERSONS MAY DIE form | open As Result of Collision of Buffalo. Trolley Cars, i Bufialo, N.X., April 28% Arthur! Moon, aged forty-eight, conductor, | and Mrs. Kay Collins, aged fifty, a passengers, were so badly injured they | may die, andi sight other persons were | more of less hurt, when trolley cars collided head-on in the viaduct hers early this moming. Claude Hall, motonman, was running without lights ! and has been arrested. ------------ i Burned to Death in Pullman, |! Rock Mount, N.C, April 28. ~The! Florence-to-Richmand Puiliaan part of train No. 865, } . Pascnger, K. Prokisteis, wd was suffocated, while! a [w ILL Jon for a shave fof the plant were soon in flames ONTARIO. FRIDAY, APRIL NOT SURE HE'S DEAD. | Proof of peath of Man Who Lived Before 1738. ra F Ont, April 28 In 28 1911. Falls, at it will make hime 5 mil J. R. Cook, a of this city, ws cond Hanover, N.J., for pr there of Francis Glover iho we year 1758. ih Cook claims he is the des scendant of Glover, who fand in Ks make his the the fio wninent > y the I Foplests only di owned | out home. land, de lank of HOW geo oon, | aims the offic the | BY his proof of being heir to but want abs proof | death, although he ago. mat of Americas to is agents later sold His or the mobey in England. It amounts to ou Look of ¢ Sa 0 CHIEF OF POLICE. Rector Said He Was at a Montrea | Hospital With His Was Found That he Was Lying. bank the mo ' of Glover's two centuries lived TITIAN PORTRAITS BOUGHT. | ---- James Henry | rector of Satton, Ottawa, April 25 Rev, Purchase Will Cause Consternation Bell, an Anglican in Germany. arrested at Hull, vesterdas Lomdon. April 28--The and arraighed hefore Re that two Titiaw portraits of Plabip jardines, on a charge of in He of and Francis | of The charge against France, which ware formerl in the | Preacher is the result of allegations by Giustininui residefiee nt Padua, have fesidents of Kazabazua, where Rev. purchased for 300,000 by o Mr. Bell owns property. On Thursday London dealer from the widow of the | 185t Week passersby on the road near paineer Von them thirty years of Dr. Bude, the Lue, was afternoon order Ih cendiarisin Times says SS pMLn, just been Munich ftenbach, who break- extin were found and' a metal "Sutton near started ged that and managed to lissuing from the windows, age on the ing in the doors guish the fire. In . number of cual oil Fin FREE, Wal muse | atch case marked tsermany, 1 Ro here the fire appare; that at Some of the villagers ind a !ohey had seen the minister, permane ne the Kk Fried- | ordinary clothing and wearing green goggles over his eyes, boar ling the train on the nicht of the fire Wright, af that Res home at bought advice German ex pert. he constery ation m wa kon | ranted ot > nese fires would rans X had } east a also all rich museum Gifts to Children's Work, Faroute, A | 3 fhe Children's Aid of lat Investigation by Sheriff friend of ter the allega al have been greatly Mr. Bell 'had left his showed the legacy of £0. [on Wednesday and unttl the following Sat Wright with a iH) Sherif sildren's 1 irday ax by the Franc for a Chi helter, ani an ditional ¢ 3,000 piven to the s on 3 ot at at Brantiord by the net " the sheriff found his man just Chagpion BEO mg to board the train. On being in ene Hearmed of the charge, Rev. Mr. Bell leit to the ¢ hatl down nt for urival there fi home, Retur » Hull he late went dren ware ft of ely fate prepay Surfed red himself, He was arraipned and after pleading not | tv, was al jo out on personal bail of $500, was set for Mc dh ty next Rev, Mr. Bell denied fire started, ARLE The hearing NOTED ENGINEER IS! To (he sheriff, CONTESTED, tany knowledge of how the he and stated that he had at: Montreal hospital with his dauch ter, and the ensuing days with a But brother minister, alo at Montreal. | Chief McCaskill, of the incial po lice, investigated the 'glibi and it Ww be false, with the consequence George Earl Charch, the that the warrant J I'he pro neer, was revealed fn She king's beng h Jere, which, it Bell endeavor davision, vesterdny, throtigh (the ed to bury, 1,500, instituted by Mes. Annie Margaret Sal in the Chur plaintiff Birning a who were OF BEING One Woman's Claim--Says She Kee! Annuity for Years, Was Cut Off by Executors, London, April 28.-.A strange. chap ter in the love affairs of the late Col ceived prov acted was issued o is said, ' insured for suit § DOES NOT ME AN ALLIANCE Great Rritain United States. April 25. ---Prime Arthur Balfour, osition, made t h eatate. | lost verdict for | the colonel s | | | Fhe cane, septuagenary her | Between aml the the ry ¥ the def i widow and his exe Col. Church. died in January Sth, 1910, Acoonding to ned ants, Minister leader London, puith opp utors, London on | and the | the met (today in. s apport of a a band | sente io he ised tn [the ford Yay r's shand died. | noon, in the Guild however, great metropolis: to Sub- { movement for United Laders of both po such ao speecheo Mutors case the eolo lation pre citiens o y meting, Hall, support pence betwee Mre wlom, n the cont wnrry her and her invalid nent, and pron when the hu passed rried the plaintiff Chase this after pledging Nalmon away, any perpetual and t al another woman greed to a the States compensation for [Ih while annuit n part rppointment treaty, Saffhon textifiod she nuity for that not eleven your between two eo mean an -|limmnee intries for i h fied hs execut % ve : Be alfour Kea the alleged 3 agimion that treaty immediate redu Lord Aberdeen, aAnterbury and Lisa mean further asserted that el's will provided for RISO. 000 to each of three foreigner whom | rosociution s Armaments hbikhoy A spok to ol the A WO | others also niinent, but To Survey Mineral Lands. omitted fre Hh 1 April 28 Richm ed ment, Laks Se with the Sault AOD a vear has secured a position SUPTIOT corporation at Marie, at a salary of 87 owns horn Ont 7 i t f geologists ol sewn work. He Ro Englich wi Hterars Was able mineral rio, and he wil member of the wl not an dl Geographical & {he mpany wiaj Nort head a party o entire citizen anede in whoa will district, M Dros 1enber he faculty of n - -- POWDER WORKS BLOWN UP, Dominion Explosives Co. Wrecked Pin Th WOrks at Sand town explore Plant of Again of Rig Development, Montreal, April 98%.-W, Palmer, of the London anndé is on the eve of and seen of Domir Ee . Leonar a Financial News, the commercial de mtinent miles from the 3 says | irsday alternoo biggest Imancial the .zcene igestrous explosion restiting in the loss of four ive Few details ave Phe dead ars Joseph Mile, an Englishman De { ¥ , Westpon Booker. ma ried, elopment ever this « there is general desire on the British investors to transla $0 Canada. It more than millions of and part of mons availa from the that one § mated fg two billions, E . British capital here. is est Sidney United States Senate Ready, ; ; » ) 24 las plogion occurred the wi Wash April 2 At last trating room in some manner so far! United has arranged He junknown and the rest of the buildings | Mittess and it is expected that it will The | Proceed "with the discuss on, of the fshock was distinctly felt in Arnprior | Canadian reciprocity bill The sume works were blown up ew days, the debate will with the loss of several lives abou a week or more, YORT aga, i McMillan, a married man ! in (Miawa the tom- wrton, States last a The Veto Bill Londen, April 28.- making easier, progress through cormittes st pe than had been antici pated and i ie probable that it will not be neesssry for the government to, resorl to strong measures to fore its passage. Ready for Investigation. iawn, April 25 -Meombers of government deny, ond vestigation, of meinmaations of Food ling made in the Toroata Telegram "last night. The Toronto World ssve ithe ministor referred to is Hon, Frank Litiver and the accuser is "Dan." Me. sillienddy. late proprietor of the Ariitedd, Signal, and later of the Calgary News. the seek &n ii Fire Bugs in Montreal. Montreal, April 28 tror of firebugs to-day. (there were vight fire alarms of the (mysterious kind, mcluding damage of IRI50.000 to Mountain View apartment house, { At Roanoske. Va. Mrs. Nuns, across the river and return | (widow, and seven children, werd boro. fod to death in a'fire which destroyed jumped from vad. ie, Sr, of Ogilvie the Hughes laws, which have closed | He wae at Montreal, aged rent Six gears. He leaves a wile, danghter, and Kis amg, ; On Charge of Burning) ALB PROVED FALSE -: : PROVINCIAL! foe Daughter----it the the house at Kasabazua noticed smoke y | dition that dressed in Sutton | had not retarned | | lose the lower part of spent the nigh | found | Britain, | sand | within a; The veto hill is! the | This city is in! Yesterday | HEADACHE 8 hief Chemist Wil ungton, April 2 Dangers sc actord th. HW chemist lurk in the that he 110 institute an mvestiy I ure Food and Drug act. Li 1 which death lowed fin ng of these remedies, said Dr i ets Ave, | chied culture ent of ordinary head has detern ition under the Many he dep che remedy has fol have been brought to his at ate, powders, ntain large ilid, phenacetin, all of which ps or less. The powders, to Dr. Wiley, contain a lasger 1| portion » of these drugs than any | sician would think of prescribing, to-day, {eadache iy ¢ ac ta said Dr quantities ol antipynine or fleet the hea accor Ying pro phy Qs -------------- i OPIUM CONFERENCE PLANS. 1 | British Government 3 Made Conditional. { London, April 28.--The appointment of American delegates to the proposed The Hague on {opium conference at communicated to July Ist, has been the foreign office, but Great Britain has not yet made preparations foe | the conference, awaiting a reply to acceptance of the invitation, stance contained the con- the partici pat vuld predenta- jtion at that time respect {to the production, and jexport, mn their COCAInG of opium, their | which ac governments prepare for full data in consumption respective countries, and morphine | PLANTING NOSE ON FACE. i -- { Extraordinary Operation in London Hospital. London, April 2%. --An tion was by Ir i Seaborn, on Havden, a patient this had the wtune to and ned Performed i extraordinary man misfe his nose his index finger was, fast the bone of the nose so that it to-day will § grow on In a short time the finger amputated at the proper f some of the bone will point, and | be i with' the use skin of the finger the nasal organ thing of a » is expected | to resume somet wmal ap : 1p arance, A SMOOTH FACED GUY | Trimmed Farmers in Vicinity, Falls, April 28. A fine talk wring man; claiming to surveying officer, a number of well-to-do this vicinity, leav almost invariably vash if they Smith's Falls { { Smith's and appes government " a j stopped at farmers' houses in } ing in the morning | with valuable silver or i was about. The police think get him, | : USE RATS FOR WIRING APOPTED i : any will THE LATEST METHOD IN CHICAGO Fhroagh Under- Pipes--String Tid to Pur vs Rodent. Of Getting Cables ! ground Ferret, Which April 28 he demand m heago wna Lhe ar too smal ip rad shal Marsales to obtain rats t f Ebe \ rde who wit order connected to a telephone compan Rockford "Nothing if the orders doir rat ahead of acing cable the pipe throu which ot e 18 » be traced i her y string i isd to a ferret, which is allowed to p rat In I that irsue the string is put through the or the cable way pe 18 pulled alter UP-TO-DATE MIDAS, Gave up His Money, Hut Spell Didn't Work. Chicago, April 2% fd Correction Midas, power to nt sold. Henry dern ling John He will This man powers," S harhors blessed, turn alchemist, was Schultz Serve one vear he had supe told assured me human hulty feourt. "He misfortune, (means of spells, and could turn silv I gave him 820 to work That is the last 1 ha said he con property incantations, cause spi} with B." BARGE WENT DOWN, French Crew Rescued After Great Bravery. St. John's, Ned, April 2% During recent wvire storms on the Grand Banke, the French fishing barqua Guil lame, went down, and the crew wa. rescued after great bravery by other fxhing vesssls. Several smaller craft are missing, but it js thought they are Le safe in unlrequennd For Study ot Great Lakes, Chicago, April 28. -8Sir John Mar ray, the distinguished Enphsh oceano grapher, has ofieved $10.00 towards an! international commission for scientife and geological study of the great lakes Spring flowers Telephone, 36 Legislation will be introduced to re peal some of the oppressive features of the race courses of New York State, and are endangering many fall fairs. + Pansies, perennial phos. Purdy. ; "HE POWDER DANGER. | U nited States ) Order Investigation, Washingt pril 2: Wiley, ined vases the tak- Wiley . Wiley, Participation it Victoria | . 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