LAGE FIGHT. ------ THEY DO SAY Men who know do-- "That we are the store for The New Things, the: right Things, and the Best Things in clothes and furnishings. Ask the Best Dressers where they buy their out- fitting and the chances are they will name this store. : We aim to have the Best and we have it. See our Handsome Suits at $12.00, $15.00 and £13.00. : See our New, Shirts at $1.00, 1 to 3.50. 25, 1.59, 1.95 See our Summer Underwear, Balbriggan and 'Meésh from 50c up. See our new Summer Neckwear, Soft Collars, ete. 30 And then match them if you can. Ask men who know what they think of this store, : LIVINGSTON'S BROCK STREET EW GOODS) ------ wins WALDRON New Sweater Coats New Steamer Coats New Rain Coats New Irish Lace Collars New Table Linens SATIN * o was given. ." THE DATLY BRITISH WHIG, LFOR LIGHT PLANT TO BE IN. wv STALLED AT ONCE. Ctilities Committee 'to Meet Next Wednesday--J, M. Campbell to For Power From Walnestiay, when expects to have the for the additional machinery added to the light, 'heat and power plant, in order to make it pable of giving additional power te quired. It is esséntial that the con® traots be awarded at the earliest pos sible moment, so that the work may} be started early in August and com-) pleted before the Winter sets in. Man-| ager Folger says there can be no fur- ther delay in the matter. The electric plant must be augmented. + i The committee may alsa consider the! question of taking -power from Kipgs-| ton Mills. J. M: Campbell made proposition to supply a maximum Xr horsepower, and a minimum of 100, horse-poWer, at three-quarters of a cent a kilowatt hour. BExpert Kelsch reported that the ofier would not be' advantageous unless tiguous supply that 100 horsepower It is. likely that Mr.! Campbell will be asked ii he can of fir the city something better dl to meet - next Manager teaders Folger to be ca- ita of a the ut l ties coimittee from the GT.) power to its granite erushing plant to! be established at Kingston Mills. It is understood that the company i not yet ready to install the plant, so that the ¢ity' may not be asked to supply power to it till next spring On Friday, the application of the olicitors for the Frontenac hotel since, for 15 unction to restrain the city from cut ting off light 'and power from the ho tel, owing to an account -of $157 in curred by W. A. Telfer, late proprie tor, being uppaid, will be héard before Tudge Price. City Rolieitor Melntyre | will argue the case for the utilities committee, ? PERSONAL MENTION. Movements of ' the People--What They Are Doing and Saying. Capt. William have left West Mrs. IFrank lowen, Napanee, spending a few days with frends kingston. - J. R. Dargavel, M.P.P., for Leeds, is visiting Dr. and Mrs. R. J. Gardi- ner, Bagot street, Mis, K. Trotter, Division strect, and daughter, Florence, left for Toronto, Tuesday night. A. Shortt, whose family is summer- ing in this city, returned to New York on Wednesday. 8. W. Doran, oi Toronto, inkpector of the Standard Life Company, Onlario, is in the city, Misses Florence and Jennie Doaprey are visiting their cousin, Miss Flossie tuinn, in Watertown, N.Y. $ Master George Maxam is spending i%s two weeks' vacation at Battersea, the guest of Mr. Anglin. : Mrs. A. Simpson. Ontario street, and daughter, Bessie, left for Ste. Anne de Beaupre, Tuesday evening. Lieut.-Cnl. Cole, of Brockville, 6s in the city attending the annual meeting of the: Oddfellows' Relief As- sociation Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Sharpe left, to-day, for their home in Toronto, af- ter spending two weeks with friends in the city. Miss Myrtle Hardy, Frontenac street, is spending a few weeks in Rloomfield, visiting her cousin, Miss Myrtle Rutter. ' Misses Jennie and "Annie Scruton, Stephen street, have retgrned to the city, after: a week's vacation with relatives in Toborito. J. F. Seruton, travelling sales man- ager of H. J. Heinz Co., Toronto, is visiting his parents on Stephen street, for a couple of weeks. J. W. Rosenthal and Hon. Leiter, of Rochester, N.Y., and John Shore, of Oil Uity, Pa. the city on Wednesday. Mrs. George Folsom, her home in Detroit, Mich.. after spending the 'past month with her mother, Mrs. Campbell, Pine street, Mr. and Mrs. James W. Young and son, William, of New York city, who are visiting, Mr. oanl™ Mrs. George Mulls, University avéiue, left for home on Tuesday via Rochester. PP. Roven, a wealthy young chant, who' has been visiting his sister, Mrs. DD. Golin, Ridean street, returned to his home in New York on Wednesday, Mr. -Koven, served in the South African war and spent a time in the colonies, America in WT. He struck with Kingston resort, wife North- Sughrue and op a trip to the is In lor Lugene Hon. were In returned t mer: we returniipg to was greatly 4 y as a Aummer ON LONG AUTOMOBILE TRIP. Walter Masters and Family Here From North Dakota. Walter Masters and his family, of be Asked to Make a Better Offer Kingston Mills! , collector for greater . con-| {entire network [tion w No further 'wold has been received by | tion which R. company with regard to supplying | clingness to | were raided, while others escaped, and (granted certain ol the continuance of the in Feathe to keop New York {than Becker in this Rosenthal murder imt 2 HIRED THE GUNMEN TO ROSENTHAL. District Attorney Whitman Thinks That if Becker ds Granted Im-| _ munity He: Will Lay Bare Net-| work of Graft and Corruption. SEAN i The utilities committee will he call-| New York, July 24.<Harry Vallon, | partner of "Bridgie'"' Webber" in nu- | merous gambling ventures, and who was arrested on a.charge of com- plicity in' the murder of Gambler Her- | man Rosenthal, yesterday made =u full | confession to Distriet-Attorney Whit- | man, according to statements' made | by an official familiar with the dis- trict-attorney"s office. Vallon is suppdsed to be a velling salman, but his wife mitted .that he had been acting as | the police, fn gathering | up the graft profits from the gamb- lers. : iis confestion is reported to have covered the entire murder trail. and ta lead to several men high up in the police department of New York, pre: cisely - sbe men whom the district-at- torney- believed were responsible for the killing. Distriet-Attorney Whitman «xpressed the belief that Lieutenant Becker, if granted immunity, would lav bare the | ot graft and corrup- | made necessary the | police "'system"" serthal, : Whether Decker grand jury or not, however, two po- lice officers have expressed their will- tell why certain places 10 who got the money for the immunity resorts. . Each of these men is at the head of a ralding squad whose business it is supposed ) free from ng dens. will protect as far as T can every man in this case," the districi- attorney was quoted as saying, if 1 ean get from. them the evidence 1 know exists. - There are i gger men gar-bh and 1 utant them. With the exdep ttor of Commissioner Doherty the police department has done nothing. I'hey are not doing anything now. Whethar the four gamesters still at large, who were in the "riurder car' tha time of the shooting. will fol- {low the lead of Vallon, and surren- {der, is causing much speculation STOCK MARKETS. F. B. McCurdy Co, Clarence Chamb- ers--II. W. Nelles, Manager Closing Prices, July 24th. Montreal. te ement, pid. Ra 9 Richelien and Ontario Rio . 'Toronto Rails . Soo, Shaw... Mex. Nor. "a Montreal Power ... W.C.P. . Tuckets San Paolo New York. Copper ......... Smelters ... CP. R LEN Reading . Union Steal .......... Erie Cotton October ...... . December ..... PITH OF THE NEWS. The Very Latest Culled From Over the World. The two-year-old baby of John McDonnell, of Frank, Alta, fell into a large pot of soup and was so ter ribly scalded that it died soon after- wards. Foul play is suspected in connection with the drowning of Mrs. Adellard Boudrias, whose body was found floating in the river near Varennes, Que., several weeks ago. At Ostend, the Princess of Thun and Taxis, the divorced wife of Gen- eral Gerald Fitzgerald, was robbed of $80,000 in jewels, the victim of a gang of ipternational jewel thieves Superintendent U. E. Giilen, of the Grand Trunk, at Montreal, said that all the dificrences between the repre- semtatives of the brotherhoods and of- ficials of the road had been amicably | settled at a joint meeting held Montreal last week. All in RUNAWAY .BOY RECAPTURED ! Was Enjoying Drive With. . Horse and Rig. A despatch from Ingersoll says; Brace Ireland, i fifteen-year-old lad, who four months ago escaptd from the Industrial School at Mimiea, for the Willow City, North Dakota, who are touring the east in an automobile, | have reached Kingston, and are visit- | Ling Mr. Masters' sister-in-law, dieorge Mills, University avenue. Mr. Masters has covered in ali about 2. 300 miles and has had only two slight ' interruptions, resulting from a pune- tare and a blow out. He has thorough- ly enjoyed the trip and says that he would not have missed it for a thou-! sand dollars. The journey has beep | last Sanday when an allday rain made the roads bad for some dis. tance. Mr. Masters says that the road from Toronto here was not as good! as those he travelled on the other! side. They were on the whole, how- | ever, fairly good. Went to Seek His Boy. i His boy having gone in a sickly condition, three weeks ago, yoveral letters had been written Him, a local merchant, his brother, took a trip to that city on Tuesday. The bov had gone to visit a relative. The father had written, asking, and sent a ticket for him to come home, bat so for he had wot sent word, or com plied with his wishes. So the fathe went himself to see "what was up" "Buy cold creams." Gibson's." Mré. lof the Industrial School. The lad, who | was sentenced at favored with splendid weather until | to Peterboro | and not being heard from since, after! third time, was captured by Constable Bearss. On Tuesday evening the lad was taken to Mimico by J. Morrison, Ringston, has evi dently caused the school authorities considerable trouble. After reaching Ingersoll he hired a horse and buggy at a livery stable, and spent an hour or more driving about the town. Soon after returning to the livery stable he | was taken into eustody. i Listens to a Magician. Tokio, July 24.--There is no im- provement, to-day, in the condition of the mikado, though the pleasure resoits are re-opening and the capi tal is again gay, 'as n magician says the emperor cannot die just now To Erect Brick Dwelling. D. Mills has taken out a permit for the erection of a golid brick dwelling house on the west side of Aberdeen 'street, between Earl and William ! streets. 2 "Buy ice cream bricks." "Gibson's." i The Montreal Tramways company is maturing plans for the erection of an utobus compmny to be run as an ac to the traction WEDNESDAY, JULY 24, 1912. THE NEW MACHINERY MEN. ABOVE BECKER aL the removal of Ro-! {estities efore the | Livery | White P. K.'s for And for Ladi For Skits. Brown Gr. Fancy Kimono Mudins, 5c, 20c, 25¢ yard White Bedford Cords This i®a Wide Cord P. K., made on purpose for the new skirt, We have the best makes, at 20¢, 25¢, 30¢ yard. White Repp for Suiting, Brown Linen Suiting, English Galatea for Children's Wear, A o DLAW'S___ - * -~ A Great Showing Co of i: "Summer Cottons Everthing that is smart and fashionable every weave that good taste and trained judgment suggests is in our present showing. An Scotch Ginghams In fine close weaves, fast colors and in all the desirable shades. 12 1-2¢, 15¢, 20c Cotton Marquisette In shade Light Blue; Mauve, Navy, Brown, Pink, Black, Tan, White, 42 inches. wide, 35¢, 49¢ yard. : Chiffon Mull, In Light Blue, Pink, Helio, Black, 20¢, '> 25¢ and 35c¢ Yard. Skirts es' and Children's Dresses, It is 36 inches wide, And the price 25c Yard: ass Linen, 15¢, 20c,"25¢ yard. 15¢, 20c, 25¢ Yard. Ww 45 Ni Many New Allover Embroideries. Interesting Things Showin Our Collection of - Embroidernies ide Dress Embroideries, 50c, 75¢, $1.00, 1.25, 1.50 up to 4.50 yard. inch Allover Embroideries for Dresses. urow Skirting Embroideries For Children's Wear. ron -- JOHN LAIDLAW & SON. ---- _- oe CANNOT GIVE MONOPOLY. Hydro-Electric Commission, Privy Council Decides, foronto, July 24.+~Publlc owper ship and Tolonto got their bumps this morning in the final decision of the privy council that the ing Power Oy ONY, one of Sir William Mackenzie's concerns, has the right to To 'erect, poles and string wires without municipal consent in North Toronto, which ia this city's mnewesi annexed euburb. North Toronio desired to rut out the ie corporation and give the monopoly to the gov- ernment-owned Hydro-Electrie sys tam, da ------------ Tons of Fruit From Niagara. Comprising red and black raspher- ries, currants, cherries, gogsepernes, tomatoes, ete. Have a look over Car. novsky's big stock, Thursday momi mg. "Bay cold ereams." Gibson's." Thomas Garland, of Ashton, while driving his milk waggon one day last week, the ha broke, the waggon ran on the horse's heels, the animal kicked, striking Garland mn the al men. He was hurried to hospital, un- skill could not save him. Buy 'rubber sponges," Giaon's." derwent am operation, but the best medical Niagara | _-- J Civic Holiday --- Monday New Shoes for the Children. Girls' White Strap Shoes or laced, 2 1-2 to 5 - $150 1. 2 - 1.00 " % 10 1-2 Girl: and Boy Bardot Sov, 11 2; 5 TI 6 toll 1 5 in 13 8 10 THE LOCKETT SHOE STO " 4 " " C"" " Boys' Teanis and Running Skoes " " ou " " " " a " RRARKRIART