PER fhere's nothing like a delicious cup of Tea as a delightfully refreshing stimulant and brain seother. ----m YEAR 81--NO, 99 uel TIGHT" POLICY state department a day afternoon. S---------- They were left on "the ground 3 : there, despite thefr appeal to be al- OF UNITED STATES GOVERN- MENT IS UNCHANGED fore leaving, the federal troops an- ounced that they intended to burn every town between Neuvo Laredo. and Monterey, rather than see them fall into the hands of the United. States A detachment of constitu- tionalist troops are said to be on the | way to occupy the towel Regulars | Dividing of the Province dvices Satur- FIGHT AS WELL AS PREACH A Royal Chaplain Had Many Bouts With His Boys. "London, April 2%. -- Canon MeCor- mick, rector of St. James, Piccadilly, is' dead, aged eighty. He was born in Liverpool, the son of an M.P. for TORY LOCAL REFERENCES IN RLY lowed to continue to Vera Cruz. isn gt ; They were not arrested or detain- | CONSTIRUTION ed it was stated. Most of the re- : of Upper Refugees Continue to Arrive From Mexico--Bryan Is Angry at Some False Press Reports Washington, April 27.---After a long conference of the department oficials on Saturday, Secretary Gar rison declared that the troops en route to Vera Cruz to reinforce the naval forces there were being sent there "for duty." What form this duty would take or how extensive or aggressive the operation of the troops would be, the secretary would not say. It was declared, however, that there had been no change in the policy of the government to "sit tight" at Vera Cruz, unless retalia- tory tactics should be resorted to by General Huerta or some overt act on the part of the should demand a forward movement into Mexico. Neutrality on the part of the constitutionalists, officials be- lieved, would be observed Should war be forced upon the United States government, it was pointed out, the base of operations would be at Vera Cruz, and the plan would be to confine the advance, if possible, to the territory controiled by Huerta, with Mexico City as the objective point of the American forces, : The movement, believed, would one. : Although it still is the determined generally extensive it be was an war, the army and nav y are prepared for any emergency; and, should word come to advance to the interior in order to protect life and pro- perty, it Is said, the war department | is ready to send in an army of 20,000 to 30,000 and to increase the forces | to a greal degree along the Mexican border. ------ For More Troops Chere were appeals for troops from border states, and the officials, while considering plans for co-operating the militia in these states, also were working out plan for calling into the service the militia of various states, under the terms of the Volunteer army bill just passed The war department through Satur day was humming with excitement, #lthough the new orders were issu- ed. Reports that General Wood al- ready had been ordered to Vera Cruz were emphatically denied Reports of dissension in the cabi net over the policy being pursued in| the Mexican crisis also were denied, and Secretary 'of State Bryan brand- ed as false the rumors being circul- ated thet he would resign his post in the event that war is declared Announcement by the Spanish -am- bassador, Mr. Riano, that Mexico had , turned its affairs in the United States over to his government, came as a surprise to officials here, the general | expectation having been that France | Mexico's | Walked Floor at Night To Quiet Irritated Nerves, would be dsked to action behalf. Following reports from Ma- drid yesterday that King Allonso was willing to act as mediator in the dif ferences between the United States and Mexico, the selection of Spain to look after the affairs of Mexico was regarded with significance Although there has been sinformal suggestions of diplomatic intervention from various quarters it is regarded at the state department several that no formal offers had been made | or were expected. Refugees for Galveston Washington, 27 April 37 On a dozen ships in the gulr with prows turned toward Galvaston were 3,057 foreign refugees from Mexico, many of them destitute About 1,300 will leave Mexican ports for Galveston within a week Resources of the navy, the army and red cross, were massed prepar ing for the fugitives The question is most difficult now, Ad miral Badger cabled from Vera Cruz From Tampico alone 1,954 refuges have been sent to Galveston -- Taken From Train Washigton, April One dred and twenty-five American women and children, were taken from a train between Yripata and San Juan Del Rie, according to offi hun constitutionalists | the | more | | yesterday | refugee | men, |g The stale department's original announcement said merely that some train |e were residents of Guan Juato refugees were taken from the Ju Yripata. } Disorderly in Mexico City Mexico City, April 27.- all business tlouses in the capital were Gll- ja were closed and the streets ed with disorderly crowds | Refugees reported that prier to April 22nd, the Huerta government had~been conscripting soldiers, secur: ing 2,000, by forcible conscription in and Monday 22nd it wa to volunteer Mexico City on Sunday On April began and Tuesday Mexican service. stated, for ryan Blames the Press | Washington, April 27 Secretary of State Bryan expressed greal in |dignation at newspaper story that | another ultimatum had heen sent Dictator Huerta, giving him seventy- two hours more | "Such unfounded reports i serve to incre the president's dif- | ficulties in handling a serious situa- | tion," he said, angrily. "There is no basis whatever in point of fact for only | them." i Huerta's Information London, April 27 {from Mexico City, published in } Despatches the Ito the sort of "information" that is | being sent out by Huerta in his capi- tal. The despatches say that several Texas cities, including taken by Mexican troops; {that the rebel Villa has joined Gener- al Velasco, of the federal army, and | that the two at the head of 50.000 to march to the bor ave been men are ready der Constitutionalists Neutral Los Angeles, April 27.9 tele {gram received here froin Senor Fab- {elo, minister of foreign | the consitutionalist cabinet of Gen- eral Carranza, stated that Carranza {1s negotiating with the United States | 8overnment, and has offered to guar- |antee the neutrality of the constitu- { tionalists during the American trou- | ble with Huerta | dressed to Rudolfo Carrillo, constitu- | tionalist consul here. ------ | Modern' Method of Guarding | Laredo, Tex., April Using | moving picture projecting mac hine, ja locomotive with an electric head- | | light, and many bon-fires for illumi- j pation, _ the United States troops | guarded the approaches to the rail- road and 'international bridges here all Friday night, fearing a renewal of 'an attempt to dynamite them by | Mexican federal soldiers The fire loss in Neuvo Laredo will {amount lars. The Be- city is devastated | Sleep Was Impossible. Suffered From Faintness and Dizzy Spells-Great Change Effected by Dr. Chase's Nerve Food. Monaotony as well a ver-excite ment often an unbears strain And in the say that Who 'can home Do day, nerves work {on voman's | deadly monotonous? ing same thing after year {and year out, gets on the nerves |after a while the strain is more than the is aay anil re stand You feel faint jeannot rest and sleep things worry and anno: te and cannot digest what you system can dizzy at time night, litt] you have no and it { appet eat If you are a Ms of Dr. Chase's | means of this tion to you It stranger to the mer Nerve Food feeble, be a revela- message of om diseases 0 as un storing wasted will re 1erves letter brings a | hope to all who suffer fr {of the nerves . Last Tues Yaily Telegraph are enlightenine. ct | policy of the president to prevent | Daily Telegraph are enlightening us Brownsville, | relations in| The message is ad- | al have established a camp on an island near the Mexican side . Missionaries Safe | New York, April 27. Fears | the safety of its nissionar | Mexico were relived by a cableg from Vera Cruz, received at the headquarters of the Methodist Epis- copal board pf foreign tor | niissions Seven of the thirty missionaries have Vera Cruz, and all others arrived in Mexico City, Puebla and are safe in Guanajuato { Acroplanes Used Vera Cruz, April from the battleship Mississippi went aloft yesterday and reconnoitered, [lone the position and defenses of under command of Gen- 27 Aeroplanes the eral troops Maas STRIKE oN THE ORE CHIMNEY, East. | | Good Find Reported on Old ern Ontario Mine, A gold strike was made last Satur dhy af thé Ore chimney mines, in| Notihern Frontenac. W. G. Anderson, | mine superintendent, reports that it | Baw #37 to the ton. The find has ere- | | ated much interest among the owners | of the surrounding a nun- | | ber of which are being opened up | I'he Golden Fleece will ggsume work in a few weeks I'hese things make it { look as though the "'blasting district" | might come back to its old standing in properties, the mining world -- | TO SCATTER HIS ASHES, | . - { On the Lexington Driving Track -- | Driver's Last Request. "Ka Clair, who April 27.--Friends of | Lexington | has driven to | | | | George W. St | world's the horses, victory in races many of famou have dying re- | | and | the | the harness with most agreed to comply qiest that his body ashes be his be cremated scattered track | over Lexington driving | Madden, S&chael Bowerman, | and | to | John | owners the bods Saturdg horse shipped crematory, and John Splan life-long the Cincinnati : | and, after receiving the ashes will ear to the let friends Clair's wishes out St ry ter. Break Into Pesthouse Brantford; Ont April The old pesthouse, which to be replacdd with a new Luilding as soon as a { can be determined on, into Ihe doors were pulled off thei hinges, the boards pulled off the win dows, and goods were taken. The { thieves apparently * did not wind the | danger oi getting smallpox a7 <i 18 was broken | { A Washington despatch states that, { Dr. Mary E. Walker, of Oswego, | IN.Y., has volunteered her services | to fully half a million dol-|and intends to go to waf with the { Loughborough, first troops sent to Mexico | constitute | Mrs. J. E. Berrymar { north, Ham very nervous | hot sleep at all, and wo jeasy that 1 « {but wouid have was so | I could un- in bed, up during the nerves I from faint- though I ld be =o mld not nain to get juight in order to guniet m: {also suffered considerably { ness and dizzy spells, and I had doctored for vears, | never seemed that did ba real good until [ began the use | y Food. 1t worked condition after a ome to get anything me Chase's Nerve ai regu- believe | A great change in my most immediately, an j lar use of this preparation 1 | that l permanent cure Dr box, manson onto I Dr u it has . effected a Chase's Nerve for $2.50 & Food, 50 cents a | alers, or Ed- | Jmited, Tor- Yat Jales | | | | | [docu ients relating to the constitu- | counties be hereafter called by {and form the | Simcoe i officio, | pointed {in of the country | petitions be | work |age or Canada into Counties--Howg Is- land, Wolfe Island and Amherst Island Mentioned Some interesting references to the Kingston district are found in the Aional history of Canada, published by the Archives. The following appears in the pro- clamation dividing the province of Upper Canada into counties: . "That the sixth of the said coun- ties be hereafter called by the name of the county of Frontenac, which county is to be bounded on the east by . , the westernniost line of the county of Leeds, on the south by Lake Ontario, on the west by the ternmost line of the lots township of 'Ernesttown; running north twen- ty-four degrees, west until it inter- Sects the Ottawa or Grand river, and thence descending the said river un- til it meets 'the north westernmost boundary of the county of Leeds "That the seventh the of the sa ial name of the county of Ontario, which County is to consist of the following | { islands, and island at present known | by the name of Isle Touti (to be called Amherst Island), and known | by the name of Isle au Foret (to be! called Gage island, an island by the | name of Grande Isle (to be called | Wolfe Island), and an island know n | by the name of Isle Couchois (to be called Howé¢ Island) and fio con | prehend all the islands between the mouth of the Ganandque to the Sia} | | ernmost extremity 'of the lake town- ship of Marysburg called Point Pleas- ant An Canada following "And be it further enacted by the | authority aforesaid that the counties] the division of | counties contains Upper the | for into act | constitute and form the district of | Johnstown "And be it further enacted by authority aforesaid, that Howe land, and so mueh of the present | county of Ontario as is wholly or in Breater part, opposite to the town-| ship of Pittsburgh, be part of the said township of Pittsburgh "And be it further enacted by the the | {authority aforesaid that Wolfe Island and Gage Island, and s0 much of th said county of Ontario as is wholly, or in a greater part, opposite to 'the township of Kingston, do constitute | township of Wolfe | Island § "And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, that the residue of the said county of Ouitario do con- stitute and form the township of | Amherst Island | "And bg it further enacted, by the | authority" aforesaid, that the town-| ships of Pittsburgh, Kingston, Portland, Hinchin- broke, Bedford and Wolfe Island do, and form the county of Frontenac." Another interesting the incorporation of the city of King ton, recommended by Governor 1e¢ latter stated that the towns of Kingston and that on the | river Niagara, from their situation, be places of great resort He | to submit that it | document is | must therefore begged | would be for the public interest and | the king's benefit, and these places | { should be 'incorporated and named | the cities of Kingston and Niagara, | nd further, that the corporation | hould consist of a mayor and six| aldermen, justices of the peace ex- and competent number of common council to be originally ap-| by the crown and that the vacant seats be made such manner as to render the elections little popular pos- | sible; meaning such corporations tend to the support of the aristocracy | a succession to a as as to Under date of October 24th, 1818, petition Anthony | is. recorded a of McGuire, J.P., and 119 others to the | legislative council asking that the! right of holding conventions to frame | not restricted { Twenty-one Presbyterian ministers | Canada are retiring ffom their | this year owing to either old | infirmity in { | of Grenville, Leeds and Carleton, do | '2% | naught min | stock were | Kankakee | ceived Londonderry At Cambridg he gained a double "blue" in the me year, 1856, being captain of" Cam- bridge cricket eleven against Ox- ford and rowing in the Cambridge boat He was also a great boxer He started his career in London as curate of St. Peter's, Regent square His great work was done as vicar of Holy Trinity, Hull, where his ad- dresses to men became famous. He had an extraordinary influence over the dockers and sailors in Hull One of Canon McCormick's favorite stories was of .a friend of his who heard (wo men talking in a Brad- ford street "What are you going to do to-night?" said ene "1 am going to church," was the reply "What, Bill," was the rejoinder, 'you going to church? Why the heavens will drop." His friend an- swered, "I am going to hear a man of the name of McCormick preach. They tell me*he can fight," Canon McCormick returned to London after twenty years, as vicar of St. Agustine's, Highbury He 8 chaplain-in-ordinary to Queen toria and honorary chaplain. to King Edward and King George DUKE LAUDS BOXING Teaches You Not to Lose Your Tem. per. He Tells Boy Scouts Montreal, April 27. An eulogy of the disciplinary effects of boxing was pro- nounced by the Duke of Counaught af- ter an exhibition of sparring by the Griflintown Boys" Club rere " duke told to lose vour A rood sma in the face hurts, and it 1s well fo learn to take one with a grin It mall thing, but in this world it i a very im that anything.' I 'an exhibition the temper "Boxin the boys, "teaches you not 1 k eenis Lovery portant thing vou should not offence at Iso I'he jor duke Ihe hirat of Con appear Duchess made her public Princess the ice-regal party re ance her ness Patricia since seriou ilso accompanied Fhe gov ernor-general Naturda turned to Otfaw TORNADO IN ILLINOIS. Two Killed and Heavy Local Dame Kankakee. April 27 one man was fatally hundreds of head of farm killed, and three villages 1 tornado that tore through and Iroquois counties, Sat age Done at Kankakee, 1il., killed One wo injured razed b urday When the twister struck Clifton, de- stroving three business blocks and cight houses, Mrs. Hortense Collins re fatal At: Otto, Ray an operator, 'was fatally in demolishe Momenio juries Madriy, when She railroad watch tower Jured tornado ustained heavy Lhe path of the vide property tornado hundred feet FIERCE FIRE AT GODERICH Uniforms, Stables and Buildings Were Burned. Goderich, April 27.--Five horses were burned to death, $3,500 worth of pro wrty was destroyed, and the hall and the whole business section of the town 'was threatened hy Saturday mérning in A. ¥ stable ned spread to General Delivery Walkin's s rifles Various town fire which broke out Gardiner' Knowbury company shop of the from a de stable, and carriage : and a few and \" company 350 uniforms were saved town storehouse which was also stroved Three Years for Mail Robbery \pril In the police Saturday, it. took Magistrate long Toronto 7 court, sentence m pen mails as gt I'he wholes Ed Denison about to ! as ohn Edwards to three vears tentiary robbing the takes him to fine a drunk in eight secogids ! up, pleaded guilty bag full registered the minimum tepm of this offence was trial was over wards stood stealing .. letters, three vena: mail and for ot orious imposed Vou will never regret White sing Rose flour f We Rec- CEYLON TEA Leads the World. Sealed Lead Packetp Only. 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