% - G YEAR 80-NO. 5 'ONTARIO, i ---- TUESDAY, JANUARY 7, 1013. LAST EDITION, | RIGNEY ELECTED MAYOR © BY MAJORITY OF 126 'His: Opponent "Lacked Good "ENDED WITH "TIM" AT mAb © OF THE POLL. Ald. Bailey Failed to Secure a 'large Enough Majority in the Big Wards to Offset His Oppon- en's Lead In Lower Part of Oty. ; Kingston's mayor-elect is Ex.Ald. thy J. Rigney, who, on Monday, was chosen the vote of the peo. ple over Ald. 8, R Bailey in a very tose contest. . The figures wore : Rig- ney, 1,678; Bailey, 1,552; majority for ny, 126, Mr. Rigney was elected by his own home ward--Sydenhan--which gave a majority of 159. Ahere was a certain amount of ligious feeling Shidughow the cam: , and it was declared that the clever, Jong Roman: Catholic lawyer nnd. exXa/ M could not be, eleat- ed in. the gh called Derry of Canada third Kom : om emerged as the atholic mayor of th Limestone. Ci : "tion as a fown' ity since its inegrpora- in 1838. Kingston chosen 'a man one of the very who will prove trates who have worn its chain office, res ablest chiéf magis- of Those who knew best predicted. a close election, gnd their figuring pro- ved to" be "correct. Me. nc iguey 's chief workers thought that would Pg A Re on | Was ly good. While they counted 100 majority. in section hana i i and St. Lawrence did as expected; Cataraqui fell a little behind, while Frontenac did a a og Rideau oria. figured in the former and 100 in the ter. Thus the election was lost him Mr. for one thing: ean thank "his ization for his elec- tion. AM. | ie was Whally un. supported hy wo ers at a number of sub-di , and "he figures that probabl one hundred people favor able to kim were not brought to the and wn at- to Tt was an election that puszled the oldest campaigners, who did not care to give an opinion upon the result. All they 'would say was that it would either be close, or a walk: ovet lor "Ald. Bailey. Al. Rigney Spoke. AW: Rigney, the mayor-elect, eard the returns, at the Standard office, where a large number of his Cire Also sathored to ascertain the result o e polling . Subdivision. No. 16 was the last ve- turn' 10 be posted and about seven o'clock when the fipal result was known, Ald, Rigney addressed the gathering. wnside and. afterwards e a few words from one of --the windows, to his supporters, who gathered on the street to get the returns. Ald. 'Riggey returtied thanks jor the honor given him, to represent 'mayor, and took occas 'the masy who had him and worked hard to had been a kien cons test, and now that the battle wos all over, he that p kama he wuts 3 ae Mose on act nail" of 0. matters, !ters but that at Chihuahua, hej I -------- ------------ S-------------- EX-ALD, T. J. RIGNREY, Elected Mayor of Kingston on Monday y 128 majority. Frontenac, No. 12 Frontenac, No. 1: Frontenae, No. Fromtenae, No. | Rideau, No. 16. Rideau, No. 17. Rideau, No. 18. Rideau, No. 19 Rideau, No, 20. Rideau, No. 21 Victoria, No. Victoria, No, Victoria, No. : Victoria, No. 3H 1,602 1,678 gm 53 99 270 Mayoralty by Wards. Ward Bailey Sydenham... .., . ~07 Ontario. Cataraqui... ... Frontenac... Ridesu.... Victoria ¥ One Bailey. was able gE En is, 7--~A big gang of ghouls. desecrated the cemetery of Clichy-Levallois, just outside the gates of Paris, in the course of last night. They sacked over a hundred of the tombs and stole a large number of sacred objects from the littla chapels erected over the graves, for relatives of the dedd to come and gay their silent prayers. The news became known in the capi tal only this afternoon and ---- deep sensation among Parisians, None of the bodies in the cemetery were disturbed bythe robbers, of whom no trace has since been found; although a large force of police has been sent out to hunt them down. Many of the objects stolen were in gold and silver, and it is assumed that these will be melted down ang sold by the 'robbers. Aa AMERICAN® WOMEN - T0 FLEE:FROM An Order From Washington to Rush the Women and Children El Paso, Texas, Jan. 7.--"Rush a American women and children ouf of Mexico at once," is the message telegraphed here from the Washing: ton representatives of two of the largest Mexican Mining companies yesterday. . : i Although the 'esact cause of ap. prehension in Washington is un known here, orders were issued at once by the mine manager, and the flight north will begin this morn- is reported abso that all spel wil close down within week. This will throw thousands of men out of work ud ~The Monterey Steel Plant, control Ted wmelter have both shut down, oh and it is believed will bring on a | NUPTIAL NIGHT. Bride and Groom Bunk in an Jeo Box. : Reading, Pa., Jan. 7.--A youhg couple, claiming to be from Shamo- kin, who were married in Wilming- ton, Del., by the Rev. G. L. Wolfe, and exhibited their marriage certifi- cate to officials of the Reading Rail- Way company here, were pulled out f the ice box of a refrigerator car in the local yards late last night. According to the story of the bridegroom, he lost his purse and the pair became stranded in Phila- delphia. Pride, he said, prevented them from disclosing their predica- ment. Becoming desperate in their eagerness to get home, they boarded a fast freight at Kast Kalls, expect- ing to reach their destination ove: night. After climbing to the roof of the refrigerator car, the young man raised the trap of the ice box ang asgisted his bride into the receptacie, Which still contained a lot of ice. When Reading was reached one of the train inspectors thought heard voices in the car and, upon investigating, found the couple. They were handed over to the authorities, and their explanation aroused the sympathy of several passengers, who took up a collegtion and raised enough money to send them home on the midnight express. They refused to give their names. . is MINISTER GRANTS WIFE'S DY. . ING WISH, ON Aged Kansas Man Needs Helpmeet and Weds Comparatively Young Widow 'of Philadelphia. Philadelphia, Jan. 7.--Rev. William Codville, aged seventy-oné, of Kansas Uity, Mo., kept a deathbed promise made to his first wife when he mar- ried Mrs. Mary C. Dancy, a widow of this city, who is eighteen years his junior. Four years ago, when Dr. Codville's wife wansdying, she made him promise that he would remarry certain conditions. "if you become lonesome after I am gone,' she said, "1 want you to promise me that you will marry some estimable woman who will be a com- fort to you in your old age." When Dr. Codville met Mrs. Dancy he recalled the promise made to his dying wife. - I'he ceremony was performed by the Rev. i. C. Walker. . The couple will leave for Kansas City-on Feb, I. oy was : 'pastor. to when "he had a charge 'at Warren, OU. years ago. Her husband died ast year. STATE GRAFT INQUIRY. Cummission to Uearch for Thievery, Waste and Extravagance. Albany, N. Y., Jan. 7.--~Raymond T. Fosdick, formerly of Buffalo, now of New York, will be one of three 'nvestigators charged by Governor Sulzer with the task of prying into every state department in search of thievery, graft, waste and extrava- 8auce, if the governor can induce him 10 accept. The other two members have been selected and their names will be announced shortly. Such was the information that came from the executive chamber to- day. As a result of their investiga tions, the Public service gommissions probably will be shaken up, if not telebeoped into one body with ¢ grédtly reduced membership. + Would 'Sell Light Plant. th's Falls, Jan. 7.--W. H. Frost, manager of the Smith's Falls ledtric Light and Power company offered to sell the . The sum reyuired robase it has not been named states that the price will be reasonable that the town cannot ford to turn it down. Whether new council will take the scheme or not is a matter of conjecture. &. To be White House Guests. Washington, Jan. 7.--Mrs. Grover Cleveland and her affianced husband, Professor on of Princeton are to be gu f the President and Mrs, Taft at the White House next Saturday evening and will be guests of honor at a dinner. It will be Mrs. Cleveland's first visit to the White House since she left there nearly sixteen vears ago as the wife of for- mer President Cleveland. by Mexicars,' and the Torreon | he |B PITH OF NEWS Despatches From Near od Distant Places. the News graph ie World From Tele i%9 and Newspaper Ex. changes. 1 - J. Pierpont organ- will sail for Egypt on the &. Adriatic, President. Taft will spend his sum- mer vacation this year at Murray ay, Que. : At Georgetown, Ont., a8 Grand Killed. Various plates carried hydro by- laws representing an expenditure ot $350,000. . Flowers are biouming in England al the present time and roses are plen- tiful in Wales. j The latest effimate of the popula- tion of contientsl United States placed the figlires at 96,496,000. George Ade, ghthor and play-writer, was injured boa fall at Lafayette, Indiana. He my have concussion of the brain." i A contract for the Prince Edward Island car ferry is Kkely to be award: ed to a British firm. The amount is upwards of $500,000, Percy W. Collins, 'a-former asylum inmate, throaténed to shoot King George upless he received $4,000. He was arrested. The peace conference has suspend- ed indefinitely, and the great pow- ers will take a hand in the Balkan settlement, At Winnipeg, Man., George 'Syn- der, traveler in west for Goldie Me- Cullough company, Gait, Ont., died and was buried Sunday. Nelson Kilgour, formerly of Peter- boro, Ont., was killed ina lumber Trenk 'brakeman, was PRESIDENT SAM GOMPERS. Of the American Pederation of Labor, Who delivered a bitter attack on the United States government and Judge Anderson dor convieting and sentence ing the dynamiters of the Structural Ironworkers' Unions, Gompers says that the conscienceless tyranny of organized capital made the Joen dyna. milters. . \ amp near Big River, north of Prince , Sask. : At Portland, Ore., James Laidlaw, British consul for Oregon, Washing- ton, idaho, Montana and Alaska, died after a long illness. é John. McNamara must go from New 'York to New Westminster, B. C., to answer to & charge of the lar- ceny of an automobile, ! Bigelow, 4 {McCormick's funeral and died Roy Veitch, i 18ign until it became certain that f HUSBAND DRANK POISON ---- As He Stood Beside the Casket of Dead Wife. Rome, N.Y., Jan. 7 Standing at the side of a casket containing the body of his wife, Patrick McCormick drank two ounces of carbolic acid five min- utes before the hour set for Mrs. shortly afterwards at the Rome Hospital. . Apparently unable to control his grief, Mr. McCormick repeatedly ex: aimed "let me go with my wife." ONE BACK TO LIQUOR. Fifty-eight Bars Cut Off Through Local 'Option, Toronto, Jan. 7.--~Twenty-four municipalities - carried local option yesterday and all repeal contests Were defeated except at Acton, which goes back to liguor. There will be fifty-eight bars less in Ontario as a result of the votes. reduce the bars from 57 to 30 was defeated. : Last Lake Steamer in Port. Bufialo, N.Y,, Jan. 7.--The steamer Saxona, of the Zenith line, of Duluth, which lost her propeller Saturday night, and was in a perilous position near the Waverly Shoals for several hours, was brought safely into port on Sunday. The Saxona was bound for Ashtabula to, lay up for the winter, and was the last vessel of the season to clear for a Great Lakes port, OF SERVIA TO 'KING PETER THE REGICIDE MONARCH. Who Was Making Preparations to Resign--Some Were Going to Offer the Throne to the Duke of i Connanght. Belgrade, Jan. 4.--While all the Bal- kan royal houses have strengthened their hold upon their respective - ples by reason of the Turko-Balkes, war, it has been the very salvhtion of the royal house of arageorgevitch. It. is an open secret here that King Peter was making preparations to Ter wat wag inevitable. The partisans of the murdered King Alexander and of Queen Draga were Plotting iainet ives him. They found i * the royal out eoans "extinct Aint King lit- le succeed: ite Lhey could get him out. True, there is a left-handed heir of King Milan, whe oscillates between Paris and Con. stantinople, but he is not taken se- riously. ~ Certain distinguished Servians do not approve of King Peter went so far as to hold counsel with some Englishmen . for the purpose of offer: ing the crown of Servia' to the Duke of Connaught, uncle of King George v plotters who who King Peter had heightened the dis- like against him because of his strain ed reldtions with his father-in-law, Ithe valiant old King Nicholas of 1 Montenegro. Princess Zorka of Mon- [tenegro, eldest daughter of King Nich- |olas, was the wife of King Peter. She died in 1890, and was buried in Cet. tinge, the capital of Montenegro. A couple of years ago King Peter had the remains of his wife transferred | from her native Montenegro to the royal vault at Belgrade, King Nidho- las disliked the request, but could not refuse. He showed his strone dis. pleasure by ordering. those who at. tendgd the funeral procession to re turn when they reached the frontier apa without entering u Servign soil. Indeed, a large section of the Ser vian puople look upon King Peter as a regicide king. for they know = well that on the picht of the murder, of King Alexander. and Queen ive. Peter was over the border awaiting the signal to enter. His eldest son, Prince George, increased the growing dislike against the house of _Kara- georgevitch, for those who live in Belgrade know that this liar youth 'is scarcely hali-civiliged. They recall how he killed a servant who wy not wnfliciently prompt to the the chief of police of Belgrade from a'royal ball at the palace; how, when sent on a political mission to St. Pe. tersburg, in company with the o sent prime minister, M. Paschish, he slashed with | his: sabre costly tapes tries and pictures which adorned 1 suite igged him at the Winter 'Palace. It is also recalled that a veriain French "officer was appointed tutor to young Ki itch and tthe youth attacked his military tr with his sword. ar The offi- " e Pp 3 gw and £1 Hamilton, Jan. 7.--The by-law to : WAR . SAVES THRONE wishes of the prince;-how be drew | Turkey Insists on Retaining Besieged Fortress. CONFIDENT - FEELING THAT WAR WILL NOT BE RE. SUMED, HOWEVER. The Balkan Delegates Will Present Their Case Formally to Ambassa. dorial Conference and Ask for Immediate Mediation. : London, Jan. 7.---The first stage of the peace negotiations, which' is re- garded. by diplomats largely as one of pretence on Turkey's part to avoid the appearance of yielding to the demands without pressure from the powers, is over mow. It js expected that the second stage will "soon he- giny with the powers acting behind the scenes and pulling the strings which will compel Turkey to con- cede the bulk of the allies' demands Without money, her army inade- quate' and demoralized, her statesmen realize that Turkey is in no condition © Tesume hostilities with the slightest chance of success. At yesterday's sitting of the ference Tyrkey renounced in favor the allies her right in the island Crete and promised further rectifica- tion of the Thracean frontier, but insisted upon the retention Ad- rianople. ~The allies declared that this was not satisfactory and suspen- ded the conference. This does not mean a rupture the negotiations. The be resumed either by notifications that she has fresh pro- posals to submit, or by the allies, on the ground that they have oom- munication ta make to the Turks. It is generally expected that the work of the conference will be taken up again "at the end of the week, when the festivities in connection with the Oxthodox Christmas are The allies held a hast meeting be- official sitting and discussad "reference © to the statement which 'Rechad Pasha had been asked to make respecting the Balkan ultimatum, and agreed on the reply of the allies. Fist, if Rechad Pasha's slatement was arrp- gant and provoGative, then, not- withstanding the advice of the powers in favor of moderation, they would break off the negotiations: second, if Rechad were courteous, but the new concessions unimportant, they would suspend the conference; third, if Re chad made important concessions. without absolutely conceding the al lies' demands, they would adjourn the sitting until Friday in order to allow time to consult their respectiive pov ernments; © Although sessions of the peace con con- of of of of conference may Turkey giving learned that intend to pre to the am and ask for ing to inability, it is the Balkan delerates sent their caee formally bassadorial confersnce immediate mediation. There a confident feeling here that in any event war will not be remewed Divorced From Dead Man. Denver," Col., Jan. 7.--Not know- ing her husband, whom she had net seen for five years, was one of the victims of the Titanic disaster, Mrs. Mary Ripley, of Denver, was granted a divorce last Friday. Yesterday she learned his fate through a New York attorney, 'W. H. Simpson, friend of her husband, who wrote that Ripley had gone to London, had later salled for New York under the name oi Charles Tait, and had not been ported among those rescued when the Titanic went down. TRAFFIC ON LAKES BEATS ALL BOUNDS Nearly 72,500,000 Tons of Freigh Through the Soo gama Washington, Jan. 7.-- Trafic an the great lakes during the last yeir Was greater than ev before, ac- cording to reports received by Capt. Bertholf, commandant of the U. S. revenue cutter Service, : Nearly 72,600,000 tons of freight passed through the Soo canal from ference are indefinitely. susvended. ow: | ADRIANOPLE THE PRICE OF PEACE IN BALKANS COUNT VON BHRNSTORFF w be made the Garman secretary for foreign affairs, "EDUCATION A B May USINESS » Students Must Get Down and Grub, Says Superintendent. Syracuse, Jan. 7.--~"We have got to say to parents that matinees and football games are not competitors of thé school system," declared School Superintendent F. D Boynton of Ithaca to-day, before the convens tion of the Associated Academic Principals of New York state. : "Our American * boys," he said, "dre coming to school on motorey« cles, boys of fifteen are driving au- tomobiles, and they don't want to get down and grub, but they have got to do it. Education is a business for students." KILLED BY EXPLOSION ON FRENCH BATTLESHIP Tragedy, Caused by Bursting of Stean Pigs, Shock-to Naval Toulon, France, Jan. 7.-- Eight men were icilted by. plosion In tHe stolbhe French Yatioahiy Waseem an ! passing, the to Bizdrta. ' She was Hayeres islands when the steam cole lector. pipe - of one of the boilers burst, . The warship was immediately stopped and the engine room staff rushed to the stokehold, where they found a petty officer, six stokers and an artificer lying on the steel floor dead. The ship put back and land. ed the bodieseat the St. Mandrier Naval hospital s The cause of the accident has not been ascertained, but it 'has ocea- sioned great surprise among naval authorities, as the steam piping on the Massena had been completely ré newed two years ago and was thors" "oughly feasted last year cough * Gibson's "Ba SN TH n "ORN. BOURKE Ports Mr 4 on: Jan. William mouth and Mrs DIED, 4 [Den Hospital, on Muriel Baird, aged sr father's resid treet, Wednesday 6 pn Island, on Elizabeth, y, aged 70 Oates, james in morning i's ( & Folemun re Friends and respect full Railton, + mass will acqugints invited to the y the widow fof Philips, of/ St, mother of Mes, of th city, in of her age. Toronto, on Philips fate Raiph mas. and the GM Masdonnell ninety «fifth year ROBERT J. REID, The Leading Undertaker. "Phone B77. Fro Princess Street, Mrs The Old Firm of Undertukers, 4 awd 2568 PRINCESS STREET, 'Phone 147 for Ambuisnce. STOVES AND RANGES. The best lot we have ever had: & Dressers, Stasds and Deda 2 ' the uppet to the lower lakes from 7 : April 34th to December 19th, the : perigd of navigation. This com. merce, consisting principally of ore and grdin, was carried in 20,000 ships, the greatest number of ves- sels through the canal in one day being 124. A year ago only 53, 500,000 tons passed through the canal. Despite the enormous -busipes: there were only seventy-niné :vio- lations of a strict interpretation of the rules of the Department of Com- merce and Labor governing trafic through the canal. Most were tech- n line. Reasonable prices. At Phone 708. P LR HO I NTMI I I ITT OLIVES In all sized boftles at all prices from 10¢ to $1.00. Plain Oli¥es. Ripe Olives. . £ i gis tri { i £ F § is 4] Ff if oh the 53 ' ¥E