Cat PAGE FIGHT. | ps ul WE have met with' great success in dressing Young Men who will have nothing short of the limit in style. Thece's always an air of "smartness" about our Young Man's Garments, for we show every style feature that is new and correct. . Suits at $10, $12, $15 up to $20 The season's new patterns of browns, olives and gray mixed fabrics are swell indeed, and were es- peeially designed for Young Men. Two or three button models in Coats with smart cut Trousers, either with or withont cuffs. Garments that were tailored hy the most-ex. pert talent--tailored to fit the figure to perfection, Come, Let Us Show You Mr. Swell Dresser! LIVINGSTON"S BROCK STREET Special Sale Saturday Morning, 8.30 0'clock yn a Ladies' Raincoats Fitted with Raglan Sleeve, worth $6.50, 7.50, 0.00, for $4.98 ~ Ladies' Wrappers and House Dresses In Prints, Percales, ete, worth $1.50, 1.75, 2.00, for 98c¢. wh Degg 'White Muslin Blouses, Black Sateen Blouses, Tailor-Made Blouses, Warth $1.50, 1.75, 2.00, 2.50, for - i Splendidly made full widths. Regular $1.50, 2.00, 2.50, for asi 98eiFuch) Whit Muslin G 2 and Skirt ---- SY ak ul E BH THE RUMOR TO THE CONTRARY DPECLARED UNTRUE, -- Charles E. Phenix; One of the Cow tractors With the City, Says He. is Abgut Ready to Start Building. For ihe past few days (here has been a report in circulation that the pro- moters of the propesed new hotel have been upsaeccess.ul in earrving out their part of the contract with' the eity--~dhat ol raising ther share of the capital stock, and that they werd now lovking to citizens to, make up the deficiency. his report had tne re sult of putting a damper on the pro- jet, and fear was expressed that the hotel, which has ben talked of fon years, and the guaranteeing of whose bonds was finally endorsed by the jerple last November, was to a "fluke," Charles KE. T'henix, one of the [ro moters, arrived in the city Thursday: When assed by a Whig representative, Friday, regarding the report that wus in ewrcalation, he rephed, in Her une rtain tomes, that it was absoluie ly lalsas. Everything is going along very smoothly. John Newlands, of the firm of architects acting in the ily's interests, is in Boston at the present,' working on details regarding the plans and specifications. My. Phenix says ground will. be hroken next week and tenders called for. He has taken up residence in the city permanently. The board of trade's prospectus with regard to the local end of the hotel scheme was to be ready this afternoon. The board representa- tives report that the building of the hotel is certainly going ahead. Ald. Carson will move~in the civie finance committee this evening that thé hotel company be asked to stati why it has not begun work on ths building, as provided by the agree ment, which states that work is to he Yegun within thirty days after tha final passing of the citys by-law puaranteeing the company's honds to the extent of 100,000. It i8 now 8.x weess since the Untario legisla tue passed upon the measure, "Ald Carson says, The hotel company claim that the he I al FEIAY. MAY § ne THY. DATLY BRITISH WHIG, FRIDAY, MAY 3, 1012. NOT TAKEN SERIOUSLY. Extra Premiums Paid Grain Cargoes. Ottawa, May 3.--~The proposal by Hon. Robert Rogers, and other west- ern politicians, that navigation on the great lakes could be extended for the month by the nse of ice-breakers on Lake Superior, is not taken seri- ously by oflicials here, who kpow the climatic conditions on the great lakes) in December. The period of insurance expires on November 15th and there would, consequently, have to be ex- tra premiums paid upon all grain ear goes, THE WORLD'S EPISODES Upon Al, i i eit {GIVEN IN THE BRIEFEST pos.| SIBLE FORM. Matters That Interest Everybody---- Notes From All Over--Little of Everything Easily Read membered. David Marshall, M.P,, suffering from tonsilitis The loronto tax rate was fixed {eighteen and a half mills. "Nee Some exeavators at North Toronto struck a spring with a flow of 50,000 gallons a day. An unkpown boy > M------ » 3 a Will be Private in Montreal Next by a aan eas i crossing, Toronto. " ra Week. : . J. G. Hodgson has purchased a Montreal, May 3.--Complete ar-|geat on the Montreal Stock Fxchange rangements for the funeral of the late | for $30,000, Charles Nilay were Sisnoutfed, this | Dr. Grifith Thomas, of - Toronto, morning. ie y will reach Jon gays there ix a terrible church treal on Tuesday or Wednesday morn- | lapping in Canada. ing next, and the funeral will be on| A new company has been formed for It will be of a (he construction of a drvdock at the special re- uy Ste. Martie, A special tram | The erying of a baby early in the to bring the "yh orning was the undoing of a burgn- Har at Allentown, Pa., on Wednesday. Rev. Dr. Somerville, is issuing the call for the Preshyterian general as {sembly. Tt will meet at Edmonton on Christian Waugh, Car Inspector.' June 5th, Windsor, Met His Death. | Mrs, aig Newman, t . » uy N » ph f) 8 Windsor, Ont., May 3.--Christian of age, of Phoenixville, Ya, was ; : ) killed on Wednesday by a pet drake, Waugh, McEwen avenue, aged forty- hich attacked her. six, an employee of the M.C.R., foe | "3 x gg Ha sy hter of = the one month as ear inspector, was run | Tics . al » $ aug ata Pru aa over by a train last night and receiv-' rg ake i xan th i -- id ed injuries that resulted in his death Ty fri iy : ea nk © marry at the Hotgl Dieu, this morning. The the 1rince of Wales Aylmer, FUNERAL OF C. M. HAYS i was cul Lo pieces the Broek avenue over Thursday afternoon. private charaeter al quest of Mrs. Hays. in waiting at Halifax body to Montreal, ---- RUN OVER BY TRAIN. twenty vears SiN thirty days above referred ito have uot yet expired and that beiore ihe| #--o-is-ap-men--will be at work caval nz for the foundation. ox ---------- | STOCK MARKETS. | F. B. McCurdy Co, Clarence Chamb-| ers--H W, Nelles, Manager. Closing Prices, May 3rd. Montreal. C.P.R, Detroit ars Cement, prel ... Power ... Scotia Rich. Rio. . Raley ........ . Steel........, 0. Tram. Deb, ......... int . Richelieu the feature in Montréal, New York. Copper Atch. Smelter Erie Gy. : Ne ens NYO + nian Reading ......... Rock Island Sugar ¥oeon ...... Us WOMEN RUN FOR OFFICE. Islanders Seek Places Board of Education. Freeport, May 3.--Mrs. Blanche Tru Ixnback, real estate broker, and Mrs. Friderick Story, of Merrick Road, both of Freeport, L.1., have announce: ed they will run for members of the Freeport board of educafion, and, ves- terday, they learned that six men ave planning to run against thém. The village is in a ferment about the pro spective fight, Mrs. Story has been prominent in school work for a long time, and both women say they will. have the sup- port of many voters. The churches are expected support Mrs. Story especally, Long or to VERY SLOW WORK. ---- in Putting Out the Buoys on Mont- real Roate. Capt. Walter Collins has returned from Montreal, having acted as pilot on the steamer Wahcondah, the first vessel to go down the river from here this season. The marine department has, evidently, boen very slow in put. ting out the buoys and stakes on this route, In Lachine Lake, very few buoys were found to have been placed, although it is reported that the work of putting them out has been com- menced, The marine department should have had these in readiness before. MARRIES FATHER'S SECRETARY Granddanghter of Dr. Eliot, Edu. cator Engaged. Boston, May 3.--Announcement has just been received here from Shanghai, China, of the engagement of Roger Pierce, Milton, Mass., and Miss Ruth Eliot, granddaughter of Dr. Charles W. Eliot, president emeritus of Harvard. Mr. Pierce is Dr. Eliot's secretary. Miss Eliot and her mother are ac companying Dr. and Mrs. Eliot on their trip avound the world. MUCH MAIL FOR CANAD! - , Big } { Dr, Hurley visited her. * stated later that he believed he might thousand workmen 'on the Lena gold: 3 | diers on April 17th. * commerce stated the government would dnduct a com- | 4 {prehensive enquiry into the affair, the beginning of the liconsed 18 to at least have. prolonged the life had he not been delayed by robbers. The police shot one of the robbers. Joth exgaped, but left a trail of blood. eign GOLD MINERS QUIT WORK. A Protest Against Shooting Down of Companions St. Petersburg, May 3.--Fiity-four fields have struck as a protest against the shooting down of miners by sol The minister of | in the douma that | One hundred and seven gold miners were killed and eighty wounded in a fight with Russian soldiers at the Lena gold mining workings, April 17th. No details of the fighting or its cause have been received. ns Death to the Gypsy Moth. Several millions of gypsy moth eat- erpillars are fed on lettuce in green houses in Newton. They have been hatehed artifically and grow fast on their juicy food, being now in their third or fourth wioult. They eat themselves to death, and after they are dead they will eause others to die. Instead of being given! respectable burial they will be carted into forest lands of the state and suspended in the air, so as to poison the atmosphere where their kith and Kin live in greatest numbers. Their wilted bodies will rest in little ham- mocks near the tree top during the hot season, and the ground below them may become littered with the dead bodies of gypsies poisoned by their presence. Thousands of places have been designated already as the final resting places of these lettuce-fed caterpillars from Newton greenhouses. Such, in general terms, 1s the cycle of the wilt disease with which the state forester, Prof. F. W. Rage, has decensed leaves a widow and three! Cayuga Indians on the Brant re afternoon by Coroner Labelle. jold claim against the United States ; ' i government for their annuity. . | Fdvard 1. Jones, arrested in To THIEVES HOLD up DOCTOR ronto, on Wednesday, charged with : selling lots in Calgary, not owned by DEATH COMES 10 PATIENT him, nor did he have any interest in _, Kimber Baskin, of Shamokin, Pa, Physician's Plea For Permission to wn trackwalker. on the Pélnsylvania 3 railroad, confessed to placing obstrue Respond to Call Ignored by tions on the track, then flagging the tram to win favor. For assaulting the thirteen-year Chicago, May 3.---Highwaymen held | Sprott, hotel porter, Niagara up Dr. W. D. Hurley; who had been |p ile Ont, was sentenced to hasily summoned to relieve a patient. |p nthe in Central prison. The physician informed the robbers of | Ww. {f. P. Anderson, the wellknown his mission, but they refused to let him | superintendent of -- Clandkuri Leper go until they had searched him and! asylum, India, has been offered, and ered because they had obtained so lit- | the leper mission for India tle, they beat him over the head with H. M. Gladwell, of, Toronto, died on a revolver. Thursday, from anthrax poisoning, -a With blood streaming down his fuce, very rare disease. It thought he be. Hurley hurried on to the home of! got the disease from handling angora Mrs. Ida Potasota. wool imported from Asia. The physician Literature, has deter mined to award ' the gold medal of the society woman's | Thomas Hardy, the nov elist. The last the 1 FECipient was George Meredith, . Miss Annie Morgan, the energetio daughter of J. Pierpont Morgan, New Mi rbury afd Miss Elsie DeWolfe, have Aeailed ty have a good time in Spain Kev, James, . W. Gordon, pastor of the Precgyvterinn church, "at Maple, Ont., will probably reecive a unani- mous eall to St. Andrew's church, Allan. At Angusia, Ga., on Thursday, Pre: sident Taft and the city paid tribute to Major Archibald Butt, the presi dent's personal aide, who was lost in the wreck of the Titanic | professor of practical theology of the Presbyterian College, Montreal, has Been nominated to one of the most impottant poats on the North Ameri jean continent, the chair of homiletics in the Union Seminary, New York: represented in the state convention, in- structed it« delegation to present the name of (lovernor Simeon E. Baldwin, as a "favorite son'" to the national convention at Baltimore and to urge that he be named for the presidency. employed on the railroads cust threago and oorth of the (Mio and | Potomac rivers, sabmittd to the conference committee of the railroad | managers a schidule rates for pay which call for general increases children. The inquest will he held this Setve are pressing their hundred-yveoar them.~ ti lighwaymen. old daughter of Hamilton Green, Rob- taken all his money, and then ang | accepted, the position of secretary of Mrs. Potasota died a few hours niter | The Council of the Royal Society of York, with her frends, Miss Elizabeth Brantford, to succeed Rev, Andrew Rev. G.- A. Johnston Ross, M.A, The democracy of Connecteut, Fhe locomotive firemen and hostlers in all elassas of the service. of | of IN FAMILY 71 YEARS. Domestic Has Unusually Long Ree ord for Service. London, May 3.--An exceptional ex ample of long" ond faithiul domestic service is revealed by the granting of 'probate by the will of Miss Anna An- sell of Weybridge, Surrey, who has died at the age of 87. Miss Ansell, who left $1,000 had on Iv one "place" throughout her whole experimented for some time, and Bie-time." At the . of sixteen she which he has adopted as a means afl sprered the servim of the family of exterminating the gypsy moths. --Bos- (he late Sir. Walter Hewitt, and she ton Transcript. 'yemained in the same family, as nurse Courtship Through Mails. dl faithful friend, for seventy-onw San Moniea, Cal, May 3,--School ° : p---------- compositions were the medimmn through! ANOTHER TOWN WIPED OUT which Cupid brought together Emilio Higuera, of Palms, and Martha Kuha- wen, of Milwaukee, Wis,, who saw each other for. the first time when she [1 quisville, Ky., May 3.--Floods eon- alighted from the train in Lon! ive to devastate Alabama and Angeles, They wate married and after Ineighboring states and many hun a short honeymoon will make their | dreds of gwople are now homeless. Ba home rd Hollywood. i {ton Rouge was overcome by the Mis For six years their courtship town f Pro- | Gieaippi river, today, and the gressed through the maily from per (va ie wiped out. By the Mississippi River Floods in Alabama. = functory exchange of letters, begun six years ago to improve their style of New Hats. Sampasition. Just as well be out of the world as to appear with an old hal. See Jen kins' low crown derbies and high Jnarked | grad soft hats, and you will see your agarette i vendor in this town. The a and wet #4. ich has effected the reform was in-| pw. Miskelly, Smith's Falls. has jroduced by Councificr Catern sbowt iit closed a very suecessiul season in ebruary lst. The idea was 10 lessen 4. \uushrat business, having handled over 6,08, all eaught within a radius She sale of eg to minors. . KE Tr only ir - stores Sel of wix miles of Smith's Falls. The pre cigarettes have paid their fees 10 J. | coiling price was seventy-five cents. R, Tierney, the town treasurer. I Roosereli is now after the Mary The total number of stoves which re 1,4 dulerat se. tail cigarettes is neagly twenty. } Clarence Hays Improving. i Will Lessen Evil. Araprior, May 3.----May .1st Hamilton Time * The total losses " tanie disaster are ot $15,420,000. & roundly estimated i A sywmpatdetic man usually ain thizes with himseli 'more than with" Special Sale To-M rrow, 9 to 12. We have secured a partienlarly good Lace Cur- tain Bargain apd will offer it To Morrow Morning from 9 to 12 o'clock. 150 Pairs Lace Curtains 31 yards lang by 54 inches wide. Four very pretty patterns to choose from. Fhese are good values regularly at $2.25 and 2.50 pair. Your Choice $1 50 pair To-Morrow Curtain Nets in a great variety of new patterns. Fancy Curtain Scrims, new pattern New Cretonnes for Curtains and Drapery, for Box Covers, for , Furniture Covering. New Printed Repps and Designs Spot Muslin for Curtains, Fancy Muslin Curtains, New Patterns. TeMorrow, You May- Choose a Stylish . SPRING SUIT From a large collection of NEW. YORK SUITS. The styles are smart and becoming. Just the Suits that appeal to women . of taste and careful enough to want the very hest for the money paid. You are welcome to come and see these New Suits even if not prepared to buy. Stockings for All The Family Women's Very Fine Lisle Thread Stockings, 2oc¢ Women's Fine Lisle Thread, special make, 35¢. Women's Fine Imported Hosiery in Blacks, Tans, White, Greys and other wanted shades. Women's Fine Summer Weight Cashmere. CHILDREN'S Cashmere Stockings, in Cashmere, in Cottons, all weights and sizes. BOYS Extra Strong Stockings, all sizes, double Toes and Heels. Summer Butterick's "son "28d This contains hundreds of decidedly new and striking designs not to be found in any other Fash ion Book. Any Butterick Pattern FREE with this book. lliC nt. pan arge Better a night worker than a day others, i ' . - a ~ SATURDAY FOR BARGAINS On Saturday we will sell 3 Splendid Shoes for Ladies. Patent Pumps, no straps Patent Pumps, 2 straps Patent Blucher Oxfords All at $1.95 a pair Saturday only Ce ALSO A Splendid Boot for Men, Medium 'Fine. Suitable for Everyday wear. A Great Bargain. $1.95 a pair. HE LOCKETT SHOE STORE | er eo ee