YEAR 79 NO. 187 THE NAVAL CONFERENCE JUST A Declares Joseph Martin 2 HOPES THAT LAURIER WILL NOT BE LED INTO TORY : TRAD. German Scare a Bugaboo -- Naval Visit a Great Mistake--Canala Should be Left to Decide its Owir Policy. Toronto, Aug. 12 Joseph Martin M.P, for East St. Pancras, London England, an ex-member of the Mani toba legislature and formerly a leading British Columbia member ini the Do minion house at Ottawa, is in. town on his way through to Vancouver on~*hi annual visit to his old home : "Fighting Joe" expressed «him very. forcibly upon the falk of a nay visit to Canada by Winston Chuorchi brst lord of the Admiralty "The visit of Mr. Churchill, in m opinion, a very great mistake," Mr. Martin. , "He 18 coming to urge the people' of Canada to a Me. Borden's naval policy. It has ways heen the policy of the liberals the old country to leave the alone, antl. Tet them "work out salvation. - This seems to question where that culiarly' apply al n colonies their owl he a policy Churchill Presumptuous. "Mr. Chairchill suggests-that Sir Wil | frid Laurier should meet himself and Mr. Borden for the purpose of agree me on a policy. As an imperial poli teian and a Canadian, | think thes i most 'presumptuous on the part 6f Mr Churchill. 1 have not always seen eve | to eye with. Sir Wilfrid, but he is a! great tactician, and 1 have. no idea that he will allow either Mr. Churchill oF Mr, Borden to lead him mto any trap but that he will keep himself and his party quite free to perform the func | tions of an apposition and to take their wii stand when the policy fs announced Fhere is no more reason now for mak- ing the naval policy of the government non-partizan than theré wa when Sir Wilfrid introduced his bill k create a Canadian navy. Of course, Mr. Bor den at first supported the naval bill, but afterwards, mpon' pressure from his arty, denounced it very vigorously, and ater ong of the first things his new! government did Was go declare its in tention of wiping it off the slat Borden's Old Position. "Mr.--Borden's stand upon this matter was that the question should be refer red to the people by way of a referer dum, 'and this of course will bind him in regard to his own proposals. "The ' | KILLED | - | should pe-t Tee i CLARENCE WARDS --------y : IN "SPELL, Chase Miter Cow, Which Made Him Mad. Watertown, N.Y Aug. 12. Gordon Prieet. of Evans Mills, aceused of kill i wife. with a hatchet while Following 2 ing his iehe lay in bed on the morning of Aug th, was arraigned in police and his Aug. 26th has crime, court ere Saturday, sel for Pricat the claiming in a pell,"' . which he PEERED Re bP examination confessed to commiting he did it while Howing a chase of a co ays made him mad, Fold ddd bdipd y SOLVE NEGRO PROBLEM. i 12 no ad- Oyster Bay, N.Y. Col Roosevelt hesitancy on Saturday in mitting: that many of the planks adopted by the pro gressive party in its platfarm were of democratic. origin. and he also insisted that ten years from now it would be found that the new party has solved the negro problem in the only way that will really bevefit the black race. Said he. "The whité man in the south must aid the negro by pushing ahead the deserving J colored man and driving the venal pegro out of polities." Aug & had DEBBI » o ' FEPEEIE PEELE OEE Phe 'BOYCOTT IRISH PRIEST Question therefore is one clearly for the decision of the Canadian people, and it 1s the first occasion when the British! government has undertaken to actually intervene, with a View to persuadwmg the | Canadian people to adopt a policy dic tated from London "In my opinioh, the real meanin the whole incident arises from the sistent manner in which the tory R Than Shilling on the Collection Plate. Dublin, Aug. 12. The unusunl mea of the old éhuntry has repre meneral election in Canada as having been the defeat « to the United States. The ; in the old country has been very badly | informed, and has failed eutivels tnt make it clgar to the people thére that 'ho such situation ever arose in ( anad4, ! I have no doubt. therefore that Mr | Churchill has come to the conclusion [that it is his duty as a member of the jerat o sure of boycotiing a parish priest has Mayo. them and to the eliorts of agitators who going round the district, telling people not to pay, and to join in x tand He also denounced the lo cal branch of the Ancient Order of Hibernians, * The "Order then round that on a certain disregard werd war. went The Dai TORY SCHEME SPEAR RDI CTE LSB FIA et ad ~ WHO OPPOSED THEM| Persecute Those -Who Put More Some time | Sn VIED IN ELECTRIC PHAR. Most Successful Executions Ever ©. Performed Since Invention. Ossining, N.Y, Aug. 12 joners, convicted of murder, pai the | penalty of their crimes im lhe electric : chair h one hour and five minutes this i morning. They were nearly all Ita {hans and five of the seven protested {their innocence, 'with terribly exerueia Livy erymg as the current was turned on and they were ushered into eter fics. The attending physiciang ' pro- nounged it the most successtul execu [tion day sihce the mvention of the j electric chair, The bodies of most i the dead men will be devoted to scien tilic examination. Several others Lo be electrocuted this week. Seven pris are FEARS THE GRAND TRUNK 4 wee As a'Possible Ferry Rival at Pres. coll. Ogd nsburg, N.Y; Aug. 12. Since the announcement that (he Grand Trunk railway is soon to establgsh a biz terminal at Prescott, jt " be- come known that the fervy "vompany now business between the two towns is willing to take out a license from the common council of this city, Whether the company sees in the | Grad Trunk a possible rival for this traflic is not known, but it is signifi- cial wm view of the position that the ferry company "kh maintained for that is; that it got its license to d) business from the Dominion gov- ernment and that the city council had no jurf dietion, CARDINAL GIBBONS ATTACKS RACE SUICIDE He Declares It is Like a Slaughter of Innocents by Herod. Southampton, L.I, Aug. 12 (ar dina] Gibbons regards race suicide ns romparable with the staughter of th mmnocents by King Herod. "Race suicide jis a most practice," said' the vencrable prince of the Roman Catholic church, "and ons which wantonly sacrifices the hu wan race. It is a violation of the laws of nature and of nature's God, and defeats the ends and aims of Di vine Peovidence "The church's attitude on this ques {tion is to proclaim the necessary=luwg and censures for the legitimate jro- pagation of the human family and every nation that hag any sense of loyalty and patriotism whatever is desirous of seeing its children in vreuse in numbers. ; It is bad vnough to see a nation's sons depleted by the of war, but it is much (mora melancholy to contemplate a na tion voluntarily destroying its progeny," Cardinal. Gibbons" is spending his {vacation here: He pleaded not!) to {be asked political questions and all lhe wonild say on thig subject was: "1 hope the Lord will send us a president alter Hie own heart' ' doing ar inhuman own i ------ A Valuable Silk Cargo. Ogdebsburg, N.Y., Aug. 13.--Six f hundred thousand dollars worth of Chinese ilk was ferriede.gyer to this Loity from Prescot, Friday, and aiter being inspected 'by 'the customs men, left for New York as a special train with fast ""Punning rights. The silk | reached Vancouver on the Empress of {Japan, August 3rd, and left there for | the the next morning. This east was j Leen adopted in the neighborhood of |[25t work from ship to final destina | Wistport, county L830 the rriost advised Hr prople--tor-- Puy "the rents due from fron. Shot Wife's Brother. Ogdensburg, N.Y., Aug." 12, Mashaw, Jr., was shot through hip by Raymond O"Marah | quarrel in the home of the latter's father on South Water street. O'Ma rah, who is a well-known baseball I player, married Mies Sylma John the in a family J KINGSTON, y ONTARIO, MONDAY, AUGU | Distant THE WORLD'S EPISODES GIVEN IN THE BRIEFEST POS SIBLE FORM. Matters That Interest Everybody -- Notes From AR Over--Little of Everything Easily Read and Re membered, Mulai Halid, suitan of Mococeo, Bas abdicated bis throne, Copper, zane, dluminum nesivin compose a new Along ithe anadian way harvesting August 25th: A Mrs. Mabel Lacey, of Winnipeg, is about to apply for a divoree from her husband, Gilbert Laeey, Since the" commencement of the fis eal year the public debt has heen de creased by $20,000,000, The pope contirms the abandbnment of Monuoir Coilege at St. John's, Que.; and piinishes the priests: Miss Ada Dalby "died at. Hamilton. in agony;- after eating candy given her by James Bruce, who is arrested The Villa San Marina, on the v [2 land of Elba, "inhabited hy Napoleon, in 1814, is to be sold by public gue Lion, Though President Taft: does wholly approve of the Panama 1 bill, he stated that he wil) fit. | Another reported key, in were cut The the motor boats Dream and Kathemma was won by the Dream, after a stormy passage from Philadelphia to Bermpda. and bronze, Northern wil be general | rag | rail hy not canal sign has of Christians is fram Uskup, European 1'ui which over, 14D Pulgarians to pieces, mi re return: race between HONOR HELD LIGHTLY, + Vancouver, The B.C. Aun. 12. concensus of opinion in regard to the Panama i that the sitmation here is America », United © States of holds the honor ofits coun- try very lightly. The effect has been to unify the people on ques.' "ns affecting the empire and to arouse a new enthusiasm for Dominion partfeipation in the naval programme. . | 1 & + * ~ 4 . SUBD EB TENT PP PEPPER EE PRICED L IRIS PID H PL The Ontario government has decid ed to open to prospectors, during the present month, 4,000 sores of land in the Gillie limit, in North Ontario. The Continental Vending company, tochester, N.Y., has heen prosecu {ted for selling. gum, in which there | WAS. no pepsin, as "pepsin gum.' | | A man and a woman were arrested in Toronto, charged with the quarter of a million dollar bank robbery at New Westihinster, B.C. two Years ago. Louis Bertoni, editor of the Reveil, and leader of the anarchisis in Swit rerland, sen arrested on account {of 'a-speech in which he Justified | giewde, . | Bernard Murray, of Greenfield. !Mass,, has that he set thir- Vv fires in hotels and public buildings [im Conneclicit and Western Massa chusetts, {of re coniessed The workingmen of Montreal have {decided to honor the memory of J. A. | Rodicr, the founder of the Montreal Trades and Labor Council, hy erecting {4 monument | Thomas Harrison, of Eldon, has a LATEST TIDINGS] Despatches From Near and PP > -~ ST 12, 1912, A FIRE AT BELLEVILLE. destroyed Sash' Factory of Peck & Willis. Belleville, © Aug, 12. day afternoon did and ¥25,000 damage' sash and door faetory,. and other buildings. 'Ihe factory was a large fram# structure in the centre of the city. Mr, Wills, one of. the proprietors, had his hair and moustache badly singed in rescuing books trom vault, : . Adjacent was a brick office building which was protected by the firemen, and little damage was done to it ex- cept through water, which invaded the premises. lhe néw government arm- ouries, built seven years ago, had a narrow escape. I'he fireproof glass in the windows and the constant. playing of water Trom the inside and on the cornice on the outside, prevented much damage from fire, though the factory was just a few feet. away. The roofs of the armouries @nd of the Grifhin theatre caught fire, but the blaze was extinguished before much of a start was obtained, The damage to the arm- ouries will be onsiderable, as the floor and walls were injured by water and heat. 'The stores for the new battery stationed heré were injured. Fire on Satur between $20,000 to Peck & Wills' i Boy Kills His Baby Brother. NY. Aug. 12. <lea- A four year-old son of My. Mrs. Merton J, Avery, shot and kill- ed his eighteen-months-old brother, Floyd Avery. while af play at his Rome, on Saturday. ISEEKS FIVE MARKSMEN 10 KILL MURDERER Auburn, very, { Hanging as the Mode of His Death. q Reno. Nev, Aug. 14.--Warden Gi. W. Cowing, of the Nevada state peni | tentiary, faces a startling. situation. He must secute five min between now and Aug. 28rd who will agree to shoot down a man in cold blood. Andrija Mirjovitch murdered a man fn Southern. Nevada. He was duly convicted and sentenced to death. der the new law he has his choice of hanging or shooting. He chose {he latter, . . > Warden Cowing has attempted to spcure five men who will fire the fa tal shots, and every man ha has ap proached has refused He making efforts to bring the matter again to the attention of the coubls {and prevail upon the condemned man to accept hayging as his punish ment. I= now SCHEPPS WILL TELL Murder. Hot Springs, Ark., Aug. "12, Samuel Schepps, arrested here in' con nection with the Rosenthal murder in New York, goes to New York, this af ternoon, he will be prepared to tell District Attorney Whitman all he knows about the affair, and according to his own statement, this morning, that will be a good deal and give the law a long reach. In faet Schepps now admits that the reason he not give himsell up was because was afraid of the New York police n tht meantime, investigations are continuing in New York." Beckar, in tthe Tombs, this morning, did not ap ! pear to be worried at the news that | Schepps was captured. Whitman said {he hoped the business would all be cltearcd up this week: a he A Wound nthe Back. Detroit, Mich., Aug. 12.--Just as Ty Cobb, Detroit baseball star, was about {0 board a train for Syracuse, last night, he was attacked by three men, one of whom managed to -inflict a wound about an inch long on his the and {Who Chose Shooting Instead of When | did | fh i v BRIG. -GEN Commanding Columbia MARION PP. MAUR the epartment of DARED WIFE TO SHOOT, Six Ballets Husband. Cincinnati, Aug, 12.---Frank Licher, aged thirty-five, of Aurora, Ind. shot times in the abdomen {wile at the home of Ir Ralph | of Petersburg, hy. yesterday, So She Put Into Her wa by his I'illey the six as dare, and have tor some time and, according to Licher, he went toe the of Ih Filley, to beg his wife to return to him. She tobd the physician that the man was annoying her and he handed her a revaolsier 1 dare me; canid-hey husband, and Lacher sent to a Cincinnati hospital, result Lacher parated of his wife been we home to shoot she you shot was FERRE EP ERLE PEPER EPP E PS E444 EDUCATION CAMPAIGN, Aug. 32 The Arouse greftor in elementary edun-: cation among English-gpeak- ing sectio: of the province will start this week... Series of meetings to be addressed by Hon. Sydney Flgher, Rev. Principal Rexford, Dr. Par- malee and. others have been arranged for séve points throughdut the eas town ships ' > ed Montreal campaign interest to <« « cp Dd P PESOS ul IF AGL LIRR EERE gat | | BONAR LAW'S SPEECH AROUSES CHURCHILL Who Compares the opposition Lead: er's Doctrines to Those of Ben Tillett. 1 London, Aug. 12 Hill first lord of the a {long fetter ix { | i #4 i t Winston (} inston rch Imiralt in a ! last might for pub | ication in today's papers, make \ passlonate attack upon A 1 Law, denouncing in the | language the opposition | ftement Ulster to | cule, | ar. Churchill compares Bonar Law's doctrines to those of Tillett on Tower Hill. when strike leader prayed with Anke of sued Jonny strongest leader' re¢ist in of home Jen the thou | i F BRITISH als, LAST EDITION. THE POWERS MAY UNITE TO FIGHT PANAMA BILL The Paris Temps Foresees a Tariff War. FRANCE 'TO SUPPORT PROTEST CANAL BILL, " AGAINST Which Wrongs the Rest of the World=--The London Times Says Great Britain Will Protest if Bill Remains in its Present Shape. Paris, ingly © American Aug. 12. Quoting approv- protests against the acton of the American senate in passing the Panama canal Ill, which, among other thihgs, provides for the remission of tolls to. Ameri- can vessols engaged in coastal and foreign teadg,-the Perla Temps, kn an article published yesterday, forsges a tarifi war of ll the powers against the United States unless the prosi- dent" vetoes a course "which wrongs the interests of the rest of the world snd belies the solemn affirmation of the "cabinet at Washington that the wnole purpose of the work: at Pan ama in the interest of mankind in general" : The Temps also says that it does not wish mtervene ina contfover- ey until the American government has deffaitely decided the course it will take, concluded : "Perhaps the Am erwcans would serve © their commer @al interests better by more scru- ouously ting the legal engage ments Filelity to a pledged word _ often sagacious The : French newspapers anticipata that Francs will 'back up the British protest At the foreign office, how- it 'was said to-day that ne finite decision had yet been taken, wi "w ever, te- London Times' View, London, Aug. 12. Arguing that well-informed opinion in Canadw, sod ¥rance, and even in the United Stmtes, is whable to reconcile the dil farcatial treatment of American ship- finer in the matter of the Panama canal with tha letter and spirit of tha lay-Pauncefots treaty. The Times deprecates the smiployment of stenne language upon the subjeot, he cause it would be caloulated to im pede a quiet and friendly discussion of the matter with the United "tates, which it will ba the British wovernment's duty to undertake Whether joined by other powers or not, the newspaper adds, Great Nei tin nssuredly wil protest if the bill «mains in its present shape GLORIOUS NEWS. Living 'to be Cheaper--But it's Next Winter, Foronto, Aug. 12. That meat will he cheaper and the cost of living gen erally next winter, is "he opinion, here, of experts, who have gone into the cause of prices ascend ing for vears. It is pointed out that the grass and root crops in On tario, and and oal erops in Western Canada promise greater than Thie will make forage for cat tle chenp and surely bring down the Moreover, bumper crops of all kinds of grains, which are already in sight, should affect the price of cere and bring the cost of flour and breadstulls considerably lower Fruita promise well, both in Ontario and British Columbia OH! decreased some wheat ever price other British Whig Mashaw, | snow,white barn swallow, a rare and interesting freak. There were several in j the nest, including a pt black one as [imperial government to come over tos {Canada to teach the liberal party of Can lada that they must he loval to British | dock strikers, that strike Lord an rear : 5 ARDIVErsaty Davesport dead Mr. Churcliill de elares that such doctrines disqualify "Liod a sister of the wounded man, at Pres Patricia Lost Race. cott, on July 24th. to contribute so much as | sy. h back. 'Though painful, it is not seri ous and fobh went on to Syracuse He doesn't know who his assailants at whith many of the people had been wocustomed connection, and wholly abandon thei policy of annexation. At the Pi for | moment this intended interference is for the benefit of the government party here, | wit my objection to it does not depend | Hpon that fact, If tolerated now the fext time the impetial government sees | fit to interfere it may be in behalf of! the liberal party and Against the con Whose offs servative. The real point which appeals to me as a Canadian is-that it is a new departure and' ought not to he tolerated for a moment by either the great poli tical parties here. German Scare a Bugaboo. : M1 am firmly convinced that the ter.d rific fright into which soe conserva tives have got with regard to the Ger-] mn situation is entirely without foun dation. Just at present the Jingo ele ment in the United Kingdom are very active, hut itis the opinion of a great many 'students of political events in the old country that the scare has heen sot up by the jingp party in order to fires immense expenditures in armaments. There's ns doubt that the non-con® formist_churches and the workinkmen of the United Kingdom view the great increase of expenditure, nominally for defence. hut really jor aggression, with the greatest alarm, and I am satisfied that ane bi the reasons why the present governmant is losing so badly at, the bye-clections is frond this cause. When the German scare dies awav some other country will supply one. The next time it will probally' be the United States. and after' that, | probably n. The conservative party is entirely on the jingo side} x France may unite to fight the United - % atari shoe ucts raise their price twenty<five cents a pair. Premier Bordon may go to Germany to talk trade agreement. DATLY ANDA. pr adeuille, Lake Omtario Park. $30 1 : i : ive 2, : . Bee soaalifiten. right haad Snuer. with Creat Britain States Panama oa sr Was to A sovereign to the collection, no one give more than a shilling, The worshippers were watched en tered the church, and ' SON to the phate have. since wel thrown int the bog, thei try killed, us they poul- and their catile driven off. failing to the priest round to the tators, getting bring the extreme stop was taken of Lo a petition pray remove him from Fhe priest bas been de local adherents of the government spy." signatures ing the bishop te the district, nounced hy th I ague as a Matthew Devine has bosn appointed to the positions of police magistrate of Renfrew, apd division court vietk for the thinl division court district of the county of Renfrew, both of which. posMions were vacated by the death of George Eady, F. A. Field, ai Montreal, sustained a panied accident a Bulternat Bay, rockviile. While descending to - a cottage the railing collapsed and he fell a distance of fifteen feel, sustain: ing a compound fracture of the arm aml other bruiges Wood pulp, print paper and paper board, manufactured from woods of British Columbia, will in future = be admitted into the United States free of duty, under the one operative clause of the Canadian neiprocity act. Sir Alfred. Willis, formerly a justice of the king's bench; is dead. Tn the course of his professional duties he rass«l sentence on the, Inte: Osear Wilde, and also on Arthur 1yneh, for hich tredson, : "We. violet taleum, 206." Gibson's, ore was stored 'in Canadian ters withal and eastorn elevators gn Aug. ust Ind, nearly 2,000,000 bushels more wheat than on the correspond. ing date last year! v A Be. liver Pill ab two for Ghenn's, © y Str Wilivid Taurier is at Restlon Woods. NH... and will spend soveral davs in the White Mountains. "Tee cveam bricks," Gibson's. Bex, - FM those who wen | Walker, i e : . put more than a shilling in | maker, Lucknow, dropped dead at his [thugs and robbed of exhibition ¢ had their turi! Doarding-house, to-day, EE OTTAWA GITY | "SUSPENDED BY MAYOR He "Dropped Dead. Ont, ,- Aug 13.% aged twenty-three, London, Ernest cheese while plaving {with the baby while breakfast was he. | {ine got } ready, Docensed . was cied and a native of Listowel unmar ENGINEER : ' Cause of the Waterwork's Pipe Break Otlawn, Aug. 12-City FE Newton J. Kerr and Assisting Fagineer Parsons wers, Saturday, suspended by Mayor Hopewell from all connection with the civic water works department. Engineer William Storrie, of New York, who hus been bore in 'convection with the plans fo the city's filtration system, was tem paearih? placed in charge The mavor's action was takin in view of the coming enquiry to fix te spon illlity for the break in the ney works intake, which resulted in the recent outbreak of typhoid fever. miake was constructed winter under the supervision of vity "engineer and hs Hiner tty on Fast ihe Axast . Rosas ant gave way, letting in the contaminated water. The enquiry is & he cone duct before a county judge under oath, and pending the outcome of this the mayor gomsidersd Lt-advisable to peliove both oflicials of any son. nection with the water works de partment. They are both retained on other cuties G. A. Phillips Das been - appointed chief constable of Smith's Falls at lary of $750 per annum. ¥Bay sponges," at Gilwon's. Pending an Investioztion Into the Through faulty work one of the piers ' (well as. the white "Sandy" Cameron, night foreman at William Maher's livery stables, of | Hamilton, w roughly attacked hy ickets {which he held for sale. Auguét Dudiek, of Nanticoke, i'n, leit his wife, and now appeals to the authorities for protection, because she insstson-his doing aH the housework and cooking the meals John EF. O'Meara, barrister, of Ot- tan d® died suddenly in Montreal, of { neufe indigestion. Though suceessful as a lawyer, he. was more widely known as a speculator. The flagship Niagara, that led the American thet under ommodore Perry to victc®y in the battle of Lake Erie, in INES, and wad sunk in Erie harbor, wll be raised and rebut Mrs. Louise Fisher, aged eighty two rears, of Kalamazoo, Mich. dropped dead, on the railroad track, in exaet- Iv the same spot her husband was hit and killed tw& months azo. : Peter © Hing, a Chinaman. graduate of MeGill besn made judge of the high court of istics of Kwanz-Tune and Kwang- S40 provinces in his native country, Th women have made their cape rem the Mercer reformatory, To remo, with the help of files rnd a serew-driver, which they are he ficved ta have oldiined from some wo- mon friends whe visited them. tL The absence of funnels and ventiln ting devices, on a "moter liner." re cently built in Scotland, gives twenty {ner pont. more room for passengers. The exhaust fram the "sngine is dis charged through the masts Henry Richardson. a Georgian ne gro, on beng ooavieled of chicken stealing. confresnd he often stole as many a8 a thousand =n month, and for three mimths his infome from that 1sonree 'evepeded X100 a month. I. Five pricon rs have escaped from Es sex county jail, N.J. Hv raising the crv that one of the prisoners had com- {mitted suicide, they ered the guard {io another part of the building, and {in their absence made good their os 'cape. and a I niversity, has ron ad were or wigy they did it. A Triple Tragedy. Pittsburgh, Pa., Aug 12. «ATer shooting and ktoing his wife and fa tally injuring his eighteen-months-old girl, Frank henyon,. a wealthy lum berman here, 'sent a bullet into his own heart. No motive is known - for this tripld tragedy. BANK ROBBERY SUSPECT "Stolen From New Westminister Recovered. Turogto, Aug. 12.-The dramatic arrest of Walter Davis, alias Walsh, at thé clerk's desk in the Palmer House, on Saturday night, and the arrest a short time later of Alice Davis, alias Walsh, who claims to be the former's wile, has come as the climax to one of the clevorest and mogp. painstaking pieces of detective work carried out in Toronto for many vears, and has led the detectives to believe they have one of the men who was impleated in a most dar. ing robbers committed on the British Américan coast. No less that 82.020 m notes stolen from a branch of the Bank of Montreal in New Westminster on. the night of = Sept. 15th: 1911. when £150,000 disappeared, were found ina grip belonging to Davis. , and of the other amount of $7.205.50, | which™the man had in his possession, the officers alleged much was obtained by changing groups of the stole notes. vit is maintsinisgy a de termined silence as to the manner in which he got the notes. Tt is stated that Hon. Adam Beck is to leate London and reside in or near Toronto, probably 'in Oakville, where he will have a big stock farm. x ARRESTED AT TORONTO More Than $2,000 of $350,000 {the conservatkve leader and those whe support him from the discharge of offrial responsibilities, and are dogs trines by which' every Juwless « a reputive movement in any part empire can be justified, and which every street bully with a bat and erazy fanatic ling with a pistol may spiraton, 34 of the from brick fumb in- every derive SLIGHT DROP IN PRICES Shown by Department of Labor In. dex Number. | Ottawa, Aug. 12. For the first Lime many months, the department of Habor index number, which is the scien tific barometer of Canadian prices, showed a drop this morning. I'he wholesale index number has dropped from 137 to about 135, decrease which might be calenlated to cates | aratifieation in these days when the {high cost of living is a SECOUS POOnO {mic" problem. "The index dimber in question is still, however, points above its standard a year ago The drop reflects the general decrease, which has taken place in grain, fruits vegetables, and particularly in hay The department record of retail prices ishows a general dechine in potatoes and sugar, but eggs and coal have boen higher, and meats very firm, not withstanding the fact that the whale sale prices of "the latter commodity showed a slight weakening tendency. {in ning Found Dead in Forest. Abbott's Uorpors, | Ang 12 The body of Hanson Clark, seventy five years odd: a farmer, was found in the wopd, this morning Mr. Clark had been missing for an week, and it i= supposed that he lost his way the forest and died from starvation ue A sudden degth occurred on Monday morning, when Edward KR. Tryon, the six-months-old son of Mr and Mrs Edward Tryon, Kim street, was taken off hy a severe attack of cholers. in- fantum. The funeral will Tuesday. LS | J ' ' i I | | Chicago, Aug. 12.-'The Canadian yacht 'Patricia, got well off ahead of the United States yacht Michioago, in the second 'round of the great lakes in ternational to-day, but drop 'ned behind on the second tack, when 3 im a guarter of race, Michicago clambered a mile ahead Died in Winnipeg. Aug, 12-William J. merchant, born Bitty two in. Smuth"s Falls, Oot, brother of N. Bawl, head of the Northern, blavator company; died suddenly on Saturday Winnipeg, Hawli, VOATS ago grain Mulai Youchef, years old, has been designated to sucoeed Mulai Hafid, who adbicated his Morroecan throne and has gone to Paris = ~ " ROBERT J. REID, The Leading Undertaker. ~~ ne 577. 280 Princess Rtreed The 01d Firm of Usdertakers, : 254 and 356 PRINCESS STRERT, Thone 147 for Ambulanes. thirty -- rv TAKE NOTICE. A 122 Open Buffet, in oak, 3 va for $12; also a 330 for 320, mt Turk's. 'Phone 108 reaction. rass "POLAND, In Quart and 1.2 Gdl. Bottles, . TALLY-HO, In 1-2 Gal. and Gal. Bottles, RADNOR. 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