LAST EDITION, LAW'S FOOD TAX POLICY ~ IS BEING ABNDONED By the Bulk of te Unions HE HELD A CONCLAVE , WITH REBELLIOUS UNIONISTS FROM LANCASHIRE. » He Promises to Prepare a Statement London, Jan. 4.~In the meantime the war between the two unionist camps continues. The free fooders are saying that not a score of tari conservative benches. The tariff reformers declare that Eaw and Mr. Chamber- lain will stand fiom, still hopeful of obtaining the import tax on grain. The Times is now advocating pre- and 0O~ mar- ference on colonial manufactures on luxuries, and on Josial enterprises in' the money et. As a contrast to all this strife in the ranks of the opposition, tha gov- ernment is proceeding calmly on its course. It is making satisfactory progress with the Home Rule bill, which will as surely win through as has the Insurance act. Ten thousand doctors have signi fied their willingness to work under the latter act, mad panels have al- ready arranged for three. quarters of the population of the wuntry, A' Private Conference. New York, Jan. 4.--A cable to the Tribune from says: In his room in the House of Commons, yes terday, Bonar Law, leader of ition," had an informal ence with the unionist members, re . presentative of Lancashire constitu encies. The ptoceedings an wag firm in tone, alladed to the desirability in the party, without and el- When how- possible, outside, ' Ningtan: to kev dear we to keep clearly inate strength of I it wi in She fon, this particular aspect ori. Before the Christmas was timated that seventy ot the party in the House Was Of , to food "Times savs that in fact vent. would be a gen- eo: of the unionist $0 on down to $10,0.0 for y i 4 oh hi JOHN FLEET, OF HAMILTON, ONT, o may be elected president of the By aaonal Srtuetural Ironworkers in succession to Fravk M Ryan, re. 'ently imprisoned for seven years with thirty others, for comphleity ir bridge wrecking. ORDER THE RELEASE OF THE PRISONERS Heavy Bail Pending Appeal by Their Lawyer For New Chicago, Jan. 4.---A writ of super sedeas staying execution of the sen- tences 'imposed upon the dynamite conspirators recently convicted at Indianapolis, was issued by the United States cireuit court of ap- peals here yesterday. Bail was based on the number of years which the prisoners had been sentenced to serve--§10,000 for each year. Thus Ryan's bail was fixe. at $70,000. Those given sen- tences of six years must furnish $60,000; four years, $40,000, pnd the one ~~ According ti 3 rourt, Judges Seaman : resented. Defense lawyers stated \t snough to admit all to bail be forthcoming. . THREE ACTS TO END LIFE. Workman Finally Succeeded Finishing Suicide. Epernay, France, Jan. 4.--A New Year's suicide of an extraordinary haracter was committed here late last right by Gaetan Valencin, a work- nan, aged twenty-six, who had been disappointed in love. . Valencin first placed a dynamite cartridge on his breast and caused it to explode. He was frightiully burn- ed, hut not mortally hurt. He then stabbed himself twice over the heart. le was still able to walk, and streaming with blood went to the farmyard pump and washed himself. He then went back to the house and (that money would in changed his clothing, afterwards say- ing .to some neighbors who had rush- "led in: "I have started to kill my- plent, Sh I Teor of fun of tha lively recrim- Du on oy subject of the union ist press. ; ; Abandon Law's Policy. New York, Jan, 4. -- A Canadian Press cable Irom London seys: "he Drolet ot impasing_in; of the leaders ol Isles ; self, and now I am going to finish." He thereupon placed another big dyna: mite cartridge 'in his mouth, lighted the fuse, and waited for the explo sion, which tore his head into frag ments. % COURTED SIX YEARS BY WIRE, SAYS "YES" {Girl Operator of Chicago, Telegraphs Her Answer to. Patient Chicago, Jan. Friends learned that Miss Rose Hackett a te ator at - the Union stock yards, six years of courtship, had wired Yes" to John R. Fleming, a stock: man residing near Mimico, Okla, On AWAIT CANADA'S PROTEST. Marked Interest 'Shown at Washe . ington in Arguments. Washington, Jan. 4.--In the midst of the deliberate consideration which State Department officials are giving the note of Sir Edward Grey of November 14th, protesting against the exemption of Amenican coastwise shipping in the Panama canal, attention has been attracted to a report emanating from Ottawa that the Canadian government is preparing new matter to add to that protest Without offical know- ledge on the subject, the 'conglusion has been reached that this Canadian presentment will be devoted to an elaboration of statements made in the Grey note regarding the effect of the Panama canai act upon Cah- adiax railways own'ng and operat- ing vessels, as wel as to the paral- lel to be drawn between the Wel- land canal and the Panama canal. So 'far as thé Welland cansl ar- gument is concerned, the American contention is simple and direct. In substance, it amounts to a sweeping denial that there is anything like a parallel between the Panama canal, an independent waterway, forming in what some quarters has been regarded as part of the coast line, and the Canadian waterway, which fs a mere incident in the boundary Waters of the two countries, use of which is specifically guaranteed to both 'nations on even terms. -------------- \ LATEST MIANCEE FOR MANUEL. Princess Augustine of Hohenzollern is Suggested. Munich, Jan. 4.--The latest an nouncement - in regard to the bride which the dowagers are to provide for Manuel of Portugal was made to- day. It is said he is to marry his tousin, Princess Augustine Vietoria, dajghter of Prince William of Hohen- zollern. Manuel has been paging repeated visita to all the relatives of the yo tices: She is a member of the only man Catholic family am Hohenzollerns. She is but twenty two years of age, and is said to be a great beauty. Postal Service to Turkey. Ottawa, Jan. £--Canada has. been advised by. the Turkish Post Office de partment that until further notice re- istration of articles is suspended as regards post offices in Turkey in Fu- rope, except Constantinople and Ha- dim Keuy. Broke a Record Made in 1878, Montreal, Jan. 4.--Breaking a record established in 1878, the harbor com- missionet's tug cruised . about s. or ting, seemed most impressed by the | extradition feature of the arguments | Y London, Jan. 4.--Thé financial condition of the new Chinese repub- lic sees to be one of the leading topics that is worrying the men of Allairs at the opening of the new year. The economic shuation seenfs 10 be very serious in consequence of the opium difficulty. The leading \nanks of Hong Kong, fearing a pan- », have decided not to demand from merchants who deal in the poppy Any further margins to cover the great depreciation in hypothecated opium, One correspondent, cabling = from Wekin, says: "We are actually wit- nessing the dramatic collapse and the end of the opium trade which has enriched India for the past fen- tury by $40,000,000. This will be practically responsible for the break- ing up of the Chinese economic sys- tem on the coast and Yangtse prov- inces beginning yesterday. It will virtually close the doors of China 'against a drug trade in which ali except England stigmatize the action of Great Britain as a blot on her fair name in Asia. The banks of 'Great Britain, which are involved ta the extent of $25,000,000, tremble naw for their money. How can the ? It would tax Solomon. diplomacy has again proved its in- capacity." : Girl's Heroism Rewarded. Brockville, Jan. firma Turkington jumped into the river at the risk of her own life and . from drowning her friend, British |i 3.--Last. July] etm THE LATEST PRESENTED IN THE POSSIBLE FORM. The Whig's Daily Condensation of the News of the World From Tele graph Service and Newspaper Ex. changes. : The late J. -L. Blaikie, T elt an sptate of $214,601, Sroal0, New York death rate has from .6 in 1909 to .14 in oir eed Sir James Whitney declined to dis- Cuss proposed legislation" for the com- Sir Heury Pollatt has donated a fi trophy for competition am 3 jie foto militia. Sion the To ® hishop of Toronto has appoint- Rev, Dr. J. G. Lewis, of Nephi: as Bin secretary. : + 8. Senator Jeff Davis died . denly at Little Rock, Ark., on oh ay, of apoplexy. %. W. Tobin, M. P., for Richmona and Wolfe, js seriously jill of pneu: monia, at Levis, Que, The western rates inqui i quiry will be r, sumed by the Board of Railway Cony. missioners on Monday next. In New York there are seventy- eight thousand bad pairs of eyes amongst the school children. An unfailing barometer of strained foreign relations, if not of imminent war, is the circulation of gold in France, A syndicate of wealthy Dutch far- ung [mers from South Africa js planning to ; acquire large areas of land in Alberta the | next spring. Stenographers on Friday observed the centenary 4 the birth * of Sir saac man, the invent aus Fitn Inventor of modérn Charles T. Phillips, Toronto, was Sentenced at Detroit to nine months in prison, after being convicted of white slavery, Lewis McMurray of Gladstone, Ont., postmaster for forty-six con- secutive years, is dead of paralysis, aged seventy-five, The Dominion Board of Railway Commissioners will conduct its first session of the new year, commence: ing.-on Monday next. Cuaba must the United winds wrecked a three-store; building in Philadelphia, Pa., ------ Ng purposes. - Sey- y . A seventy-seven-year-old man, who alleged that his two sons had refus- ed to support him, has received re- go Belore the Montreal courts. rs, John Pattersbn, wife'of tl mdnager of the Brussels electric I; ge plant, was caught in shaiting and Seriously injured. No one witnessed Owing to the uncertainty when the repairs to the legislative cham- ber will be completed, the Ontario cabinet was unsble to decide upon a @ for calling the house together on/ Friday. ¥ William Rockefeller has agreed Brough is counsel to accept service 4 subpoena to appear on January 13th before the Pujo committee of the House' of Representatives at Washington, investigating ° the oHoney Trust." He is ill at pres ent. : 2 ---------------------- UNIONISTS NOT EXCITED. More Amused Than Alarmed at the Food Tax Controversy. : London, Jan. 4.--Thers is 8 state ment to hand from Ottawa affirming once more that Premier {is as st. ly convinced as LaWrier that Ci i ministers should not inter- fere iy. domestic politics here. with Last night Bonar Law conferred Lancashire memberv. The only infor Fin PITH OF NEWS Despatches From Near And F f MORE MONTREAL GRAPT. School Board Bled by Men Who 5 Worked Regular System. ~ Montreal, Jan: 4~--The inquir that Judge Mercier will make in accusations against a member of the Catholic school commission of having profited to the extent of $8,000 by the sale of some property to the board may take in charges that have been made that for years the com- mission has been bled and has paid out hundred; of thousands of dollars fo third parties Who got control of the property wanted. Judge Lafontaine, a member of the board, has openly claimed that fre- Guently:on the eve of a sale to the board, land had been transferred to some third party, and within twenty- four hours or so, retransferred to the board, at a handsome profit to the intermediary, : Under the existing system, it is the committee of works, co; posed of Canon O'Meara, Ald. L. X. Lapointe, Ald. Giroux and Dr. J. P, rie, which looks after the. selection of sfiool sites. CONAN DOYLE ON JURY. Disappointed in Love, Dies from Nat. ural Causes. London, Jan. 4.--A jury at Crow- borough, Sussex, of which Sir Ar- thur Conan Doyle was the foreman, Yesterday found that Captain Gordon Blair of the Royal Welsh fusiliers, who expired at his country home, Crowborough, on Boxing day from exhaustion due to cerebral excite- ment, had died from natural causes. The captain, who was unbalanced by disappointment in love. had to be tied in bed on Christmas day. He startled Piccadilly one day last Oec- tober after his return from Somali- land by jumping from his bed in the Junior Naval and Military club and running through the Circus in his pajamas. STEPS FROM ENGINE _. DROPS NTO LAKE Receives Blow on Head and lpvest- igates Not Knowing Engine Was on Bridge. Moose Jaw, Sask., Jan. 4.--~George Hall, engineer on the Moose Jaw- Saskatoon train, had occasion to look out of his cab window thirty miles out of Regina, and received a blow on the forehead. He stopped his engine and stepped down to get assistance, not realizing that the engine had come to a atop on a trestle bridge. Hall slipped' | tween tiie. ttmbers wna mto- twelve feet below. He over the embankment still and received first aid. On arrival at Moose Jaw it Was found that 'his cuts, reaching from the eyebrow to the top of his head, necessitated fifteen stitches. He 12 now lying in a critical condition, and it is feared his skull may be fyac- tured. RESPEOT FOR UNION JACK. Medsure to Punish Defarantion of Ensign Approved, Ottawa, Jan. 4.--The Flag bill of George H. Bradbury, for Selkirk, which makes it an offence to use the Union Jack for advertising purposes or to defame in any way the ensign, is meeting with general ap- proval throughout the country. Nir. Bradbury is in receipt of many resolutions from many organizations of various kinds commending the hill. Many Sons of England societies have written thanking him for bringing in the measure. The bill got its first reading be fore Christmas, and it is Mr. Brad- burv's intention to press it after the bolidays. There is every reason to believe that the bill will be passed this sea- Jan. 4.--A cable' from Lord Edward Cecil, financial adviser to the Egyptian gov- erament, has p his Adie ah the budget of 1913. Respecting the cotton crop he remarks that the crop of 1912 is probably larger than in any previ- ous year, and that if present prices are maintained it should be worth about $12,500,000 more than that.of 91. i 1ive o'clock at St. Vimcent de Paul INTO from Canada Free of Duty Hereafter. : ---- MODIFIES REGULATIONS RE. STRICTING EXPORTATION, So That Quebec Papermakers Ap Pear to Have Secured Free Entry ~--Reciprocity Was Not Entirely Killed, it Would Seem. Ottawa, Jan. 4.--It looks as though a number of the large pulp and paper companies of Canada have put themselves in a position to obtain for their produet free en- try to the United States. Inder the reciprotity agreement, which. Was supposed to have been killed in the election of September 21. 1911, the Gouin government apparently has induced to remove from certain PULPWOOD MAY GO UNITED STATES SENATOR AUGUSTUS O. BACON, Of Georgia, who will probably be pres areas of crown timber lands the probibition which forbade the ex- portation of pulpwood from all the crown lands of Quebec. If this is ®0, the Laurentide' Co., of which Sir William Van Horne is president; the Wanagamack Co., of which Sir Rodolphe Forget and J. N."Green~ shie'ds are the heads; the Booth' company, of Ottawa, of which J. R. | Booth is president; rice ' Bros., | Ltd, of Quebec, of which William ! Price, ex-M.P., is president: the the Belgo-Canadaian Co. and others will obtain fre admission for their Paper to the American markets. Enough of the general reciprocity { agreement has apparently survived the blow of the last election to en- able the big paper-makers to suc- ceed in attaining what the farmer and stockman have been deprived of. In 1910 the Gouin governm nt made an order prohibiting the ex- bortation of pulpwood cut on Que- bec crown lands. Into the reciproc- ity agreement the United States in- serted a provision for the free ad- mission to American markets of pulp and paper manufactured from areas on 'which there was no re- striction against the exportation of pulpwood, but prohibiting free ad- mission of paper made from timber eut aresis on which there 'was ! restriction. This provision became operative, and is to-day the only provision of the . reciprocity agreement which is effective. Un- der it the holders of private pulpy fareas are able to obtain fred ad- mission of paper to the American market, while companies' which ob- tain their raw material from 'Que- be¢ crown lands have to pay duty on all paper they send to the United States. |The result has been that manufacturers holding private areas have been able to undersell in the United States their competitors manufacturing from Nvebee crown lands, and, have succeeded in tak- ing away from them a number of desirable contracts with American newspaper publishers for print paper. ef ' Recently crown land manufact: ers have brought pressure to bear upon the Quebec government to modify its anti-export regulations. Apparently they have succeeded, for it is understood that the Gouin government has made the necessary order. : CARRY OFF $90,000, KILL NINE COWBOYS denly on Wealthy Cattle- Raiser. Valenca de Minho, Portugal, Jan. 4.---A daring band of smugglers on the Portuguese-Spanish frontier ear- ried off $90,000 in cash after a fle battle with a cattle ra'ser and forty of his herdsmen, in the course of which, nine of the cowboys weve killed and fourteen severely woundpd. : Early this' morning Jose Munil- , & wealthy breeder, was sui- (denly attacked by a large band of armed smugglers, who fired on his jarty from behind rocks and thic- The herdsmen returned the fire with vigor, but were finayjs forced to flee. They carried off Jose Murilbaes, who had been seriously wound.g, with them, but left the whole of the money and twenty-three of thé;r comrades on the fleld. Woman Senator Takes Seat. Denver, Jan. 4.--Sisterly love was 0 trated in the Colorado legisla- Spanish Smugglers Descend Sud.| sident pro tempore of the U.S, Senata THE WEEK OF PRAYER, The Meeting Will Week. The annmal week of prayer in King- ston begins January 6th, and con- tinues till the 10th, with exchange of pulpits on Sunday, January 13th. The week of prayer is to be conducted une der the auspices of the local branch of the Evangelical Alliance. The pro: gramme will be carried out as fol lows : Monday evening, in St. James' Sun- day school room; subject of address, "The Holy Spivit and the Individual Life'; speaker, Rev. M. Macgillivray, D.D. x On Tuesday evening, in the First Baptist church; Rev. S. T. Butler will speak on "The Holy Spirit and the Church of God." On Wednesday evening, the subject of address will be "The Holy Spirit and the National Life," by Rev. T. W. Savary, in Princess Street Meth- odist church; Rev. W. F. FitzGerald in St. Andrew's and Rev. G. I. Camp bell in Calvary Congregational. On Thursday, Rev. S. J. M. Comp- ton will speak at Sydenham Street Methodist church, on "The Holy Spir it in Wonk," i On Friday Rev. W. K., Shortt will speak in Rethel / tional church, on "The Holy Spirit in Home and School life." be Held Next WHERE CREPIT IS DUE. Some Faots About Question of Per. manent Road Paving. Ex-Ald. Rigney has been given cred- it in some quarters for being respon sible for the down town permanent pavements, but Ald. Bailey had just as much to do with the passing of the by-laws by the City Couneil. The fact of the matter is that the Board ot Works of the past two years reaped where ex-Ald. G. Y. Chown and KR. H. Toye sowed. It will be ' remembered that some years ago a by-law was submitted to the council for permanent road paving, but the council got "cold feet" and did not pass it. Had the by-law been carvied them, the work would have- been done a good deal cheaper than at present. A farewell dance was given of Thursday evening, by Miss Ilda Baker, in honor of Gordon Cannem, who is leaving for Winnipeg, after visiting his paren MARRIED, SUMMERS --On Jan. 2nd, 1913, Methodist Parsonage, Par- t. by Rev, N. B. Topping, Joseph Card. of Olden, to Winnifred Summers, of Mountain Grove, Ont DIED, GRATTON--In Kingston, an Jan, 3rd 1913, Sarah Gratton, sister of Jos. Gratton, Queen St. Funeral (private) will leave her late residence, Quéen Street, on Suns t an, Lat twee o'clock, to Cathedral, where a will be sung for the repose of her poul, » ROBERT J. REID, The Undertaker, "Phone 577. : 280 Princess Street. JAMES REID Th® Old Firm of Undertakers, 34 and 256 PRINCES: STREET, 'Phone 47 for ' lance. Friday, STOVES AND RANGES, ,The best lot we have or had; Dressers, .. Stdnds and Reasunable prices. At . one 706 < publicly kissed . Senator Helen Ri Robinson, democratic member of Frid per house, and wished her a happy ew Year. Senator. Robinson gh in wo- to sit in upper 'house of any wile legislature in the union. ------------ Michael J. Costello, Brockville, a well known and popular G:. T. R. employe, passed away on Friday at hospital. Fle had been in ill-health for two months. George Ieeler, a prominent resi- deat, and 3. member of the Prescott Excise staff, passed away Thurs Hannah Richardson was given one OLIVES In all sized bottles at all prices from. 10¢ to $1.00, Plain Olfves. Ripe Olives. Olives Stuffed with Pimentos. Olives Stuffed with Nuts. Olives Stuffed with Celery. Olives Stuffed with Capers. year in the Mercer reformatory for Stealing articles in Deseronto, =