12 PAGES | Brana ated T - aily sm YEAR 83-NO. 209 FATALLY HURT; "orien ove WALKED HOME Hand Ralls on ides | Ottawa, Sept. 8.---Another step tforward in the matter of safety for rallway employees in Canada is em- | bodied fn an order just issued by the | Railway Commission regarding {handrails on locomotives. . | | It is ordered by the board that all| | railways subject to 'the jurisdiction] | of the board shall equip all locomo- | | tives of 100,000 pounds or over with | | handrails on the side of the cab| BUT HE PICKED HIMSELF UP | above the windows, running the whole length of the cab; that the| APPARENTILY UNINJURED tender of all such locomotives shall He Died a Couple of Hours Later, | be. quipped with railings on both De. | 8ides on the top of the coping. Death Being Due to Shocke=De« | "\*he' ratle on the tendoia. ove to ceased Was Employed With Roddy | run the full length of the fuel stor-| and Monk--Inquest This After-| age. Foot-rests in the cabs are also] noon, f ordered. Waggon Driven By D. -W. McMarter Struck By Street Car. DRIVER HURLED T0 GROUND This applies to all locomo-; > | tives 'of the class described except! Fi Ww | , ! atally injured, David Wellington | traffic | McMurter, walked two blocks to his| those used in international home, where he passed away two{20d merely pass through Canada, hours after he had met with the ac. | Which will be subject to the , ula] cident. Mr. MeMurter, who was em- tions the Interstate Commerce | ployed by Roddy and Monk, who op-| "Om mission. " erate the city quarry on Montreal | SEY | street, was driving his team into<the HE | 91 + quarry about 2.30 o'clock Thursday 2 GR ¢ AD hn | afternoon, when a street car coming + THE GERMAN MISSION. + to the city struck the front wheel | . ni .0f the waggon. He was hurled to? (Special to the Whig.) the ground from his seat, but, appar-|* Berlin, Sept. 8.--The ,Ger- ently, was not seriously injured, as|% Mans have Jost trench sections he picked himself up, brushed off|¥* to the French in the fighting his clothes and, unaided, walked to|% South. of the Somme, west of his home at 69 Stephen street, about|* Berny, Bnd also north-east of two blocks from the scene of the ac-|¥ Souville on the Verdun front, 3 cident. After arriving home, he com- | | plained of a severe pain in his back, | FEEEEPE RELIED SEP EP $000 | and medical aid was summoned. The a injured man was put to bed and A LOBBY CHARGED \ | made as comfortable as possible un- AGAINST CANADIANS | til the doctor arrived. AIl that | medical science could do to save his And Senator Curtiss, Kansas | y 9! is Asking for an in- *| * a! Must Equip.Locomotives With (Bt on rm ety tre ALLES WEARING THE GERMANS OUT Pounding the Teuton Lines on the" Samme CANAD DEBT NEARLY DOUBLED Since the War Commenced--It is Now 658 Millions. EXPENDITURE ON THE WAR FOR FIVE MONTHS REACHED TOTAL OF 76 MILLIONS. + PIRAEUS AND ATHENS UNDER GUNS OF SIXTEEN BRITISH WARSHIPS. SAW GRAVE OF SON x AT LOCRE, BELGIUM Col. James L. Hughes, Toronto, Accompanied by Brig.- Gen. W-: 8. Hughes. Toronto, Sept. 8.--Hon. Col. Jas. L. Hughes, brother of the Minister of Militia, has just returned to To- ronto from the battle front in Bel- gium and France. It was-to visit the grave of his son, Lieut. Chester Hughes, who numbers among Canada's brave sons who have made the supreme sacrifice in the couse of righteousness, that Col. Hughes went to Europe. His brother, General Sir Sam Hughes, was going over at the time.and he went along. Col. Hughes saw his son's last resting place. The commanding of- STILL GREATER ONSLAUGHTS BY BRITISH AND FRENCH ARE Germans Holding csi to Demoralize the Enemy. SOON TO OCCUR. on to Several «3 vitish Whig KINGSTON, ONTARIO, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 8. 1916 v 1 FOR USE OF "SHADOW LAWN." | Wilson Gives Rent Money to Sour X Jersey Hospital. i Long Branch, N. J.,, Sept. 8.-- Congressman Thomas J. Scully of the third New Jersey district an- nounced to-day the receipt of a check for $2,600 from President Wilson. The money is to be divided among Monmouth County Hospitals in ac-| cordance with the President's agree- | ment in accepting Shadow Lawn as] his summer home. : When a committee of Monmouth county citizens, headed by Congress- man Scully arranged for the en-| gagement of Shadow Lawn, Colonel | { Greenhut, the owner, refused to ac-| cept rental. The President, how-| ever, insisted on contributing the sum required to charity.and refused the tender of the place under any other conditions. | RETRIEVES COMMAND British Colonel In Disgrace Reinstat- | ed For Gallant Conduct. i London, Sept. 8.--An interpsting | story of a retrieval of lost character | the reinstatement of Lieut.-Col. ington- to the command of the War- wickshires. | This officer had a South African | war record, and was codrtmartialed | and cashiered in September, 1914. | His offence was not stated. He then! joined the ranks of the French For- | eign Legion, and now has been rein-| stated for 'gallant conduct." | | WAR WILL END IN MARCH. + -- + Paris, Sept. 8.--"The G@er- *| mans will have begun to squeal + | by November, and the war will + end by March." This, was made here by H. G. Wells, + the famous British writer, who | has just returned from the +# French and Italian fronts, + Hik- | par statement 4 | PAGES 138 LAST EDITION Hl WALL Pe "SI With Puverizing Gunfire Like That Con celaed on (hc Somme. TRENCHES OF THE GERMANS ON THE SOMME ARE STEADILY GETTING WEAKER As the British and French Go For- ward--Hindenburg's Hands Are Tied by Lack of Reserves. By Charles F. Bertelll, Paris, Sept. 8.--I learn that at a uumber of points on the Somme the Germans are now holding their line with trenches hastily built during the is contained in the announcement of |Past few weeks, and that the triple arrter of alleged impregnable tren- ches, with their blockhouses and un- derground forts, 'thas passed into French hands as a result of the grad- ual two months' push, and General Foch's guns are now playing on._im- provised defences of 'a much less fo midable character. Sufficient proof has been afforde! that the "steel wall" with which the {Germans have protected their west ern front can be completely smashed |with a pulveriing gunfire such as % |General Joffre | the Somme. has concentrated on Hindenberg's Hands Tied. As regards Germany's reserves, 'in- formation reaches Paris that since his appointment as chief of staff von Hindenberg has been unable to remove a single division from the 120 : that are manning the western front The battle is making a tremendons CAN BE SWISH) 5 ~ Peer beer rete life was done, but without avail, and he passed away at 4.30 o'clock, rnsn'rfz@nd.moe «death being due to shock. ) Ww § yi g du hock vestigation. Customs Revenue Showed an Increase -- | But Post Office Receipts Showed a (Special to the Whig.) | Decrease of Over Half a Million. ficer of the unit to which the late lieutenant belonged, whose name by the way was also Hughes, although {drain on the reserves posted in._the {zone immediately behind the line land many regiments have had to be ar. D. BE. Mundell, coroner, was PEPEPIIPIIE EES SPEEIS $04 "Points Very Precariously, and summoned, and decided to hold an May Have to Surrender Them in Tinquest at 4 o'clock Friday after- noon. The deceased, who was born in Trenton, was thirty-six years of age. He was a married man, but had no children. A Presbyterian in religion, he attended Zion church. He fol- lowed the occupation of a sailor diur-| ing the summer, and was on the schooner Julia B. Merrill part of " this summer. When not sailing he worked at various jobs, and was a sober and industrious workman. Off and on he had worked for Roddy and Monk for the past two or three years, and they speak in the highest terms of him as an employee and as a man. " The horses that the unfortui man was driving ran away after the i waggon was struck by the car, but they were captured a short distance away on Montreal stfeet, without having dope any damage fo them- . Selves or to the waggon. | It is understood that the Street Railway Company will present evi- dence at the inquest, showing that the 'motorman rang his bell before the accident and that the deceased had his back to the car watching a passing funeral. Add Teel Sa v TTTTTTTTTTReY AN IMPORTANT POINT. | x -- { London, Sept. 8.--Halicz has | played an important part in Teuton communications, lying as it does, sixty miles south- east of Lemberg on the trunk line tq Stanislua and Kolomea, both of which are now in Rus- sian hands. It is also at the Junction of the Dneister and Gnita Lipa rivers. PEPE r Per bere PIPE ee edb SAAS EEE LL SEAL bdLd BOTH ARMS FRACTURED; FELL ON SIDEWALK Mrs. 8, Camic, Frontenac Street, Viotim of Accident on Thursday. Mrs. 8. Camic, of Frontenac street, was seriously injured in an -inusual accident on Thursday, © While walk- ing on Princess street another woman pushed against her, accident- + ally, as they were passing, Mrs. Camic fell to the sidewalk, and in the fall she had both her arms frac- tured, She was attended at her hotile by 'Dr. Sparks, but will go into the General Hospital for treatrgent. | wi Are Mustered Out. Washington, Sept. 8.--The fifteen thousand guardsmen about to re- turn from. the border by the recent order of the War Department were ordered mustered out of the Federal service. - The guardsmen remaining Sn te border stay there tdr the pres- ent, v > Roots and bean crops in Ontario are reported to be likely a poor yield, due to dry weather. : - THE WHIG'S CONTENTS ---- Page 1--Canada's Debt Nearly Deou- bled: Hit b an then Died; Wearing « oe; Can ¥ ilies Wearing Fon 2--LCon v 20 Theft; She Support; Busy rkers: Ss. Random Reels. MP. To Be Mined: 5 Alert, "the District. tS, Announcements Chlorine Gas: | Matters: Theatrical the ' Barriefield R 3 3 Focal News. ne Countryside: The in le: The 1d of Sport - ° Washington, Sept. 6.-- Demand an | investigation of charges that a lobby | vas conducted by officials of the Can- adian Government against a rev- enue bill amendment which would have prohibited the admission of! halibut or salmon from the North! Pacific into the United States, ex-| cept in bond from an American port, | was made in a Senate resolution, to-day, by Senator Curtiss, Kansas. The senate lobby committee decid- ed to-day to investigate the charges | that Sir Joseph Pope and other Cana- | dian officials lobbied against the adoption of the Chamberlain amend- ment to the revenue bill. This would have practically prevented the admis- slon into the alt tates of halibut or salmon from the North Pacific. SEVERE LOSSES ON TRENCH DWELLERS The British Raided German Trenches in Neighbor- hood of Lille. (Special To The Whig) London, Sept. 8. --British troops southwest of Lille, last night, raided German - trenches southeast of Guinchy and near Richebourg L'Avoue, inflicting severe losses on their occupants, says a British of- ficial statement issued this afternoon. A LEARY'S OFFERS. Democrats Not Eager to Bet Wilson Will Win. New York, Sept. 8.--Democrats are hesitant about betting on the result of the presidential election, ac- cording to declarations made by Re- publicans. At Republican national headquar- ters Charles Sherrill said: "Down town business cannot find | ® cent of Wilson money on this state or the general result. They are also hunting Democratic currency that says Wilson wil carry~Indiana." William Leary, former' superin- tendent of elections, said he could not lay a bet that Hughes would car- ry New York by 100,000, even from a member of the National Commit- ee. | "1 had to give two to one," hel * added, "that Hughes will beat Wil- son in the nation. If you hear of any Indiana Democratic money just call me." : Dropped at Secretary's Request. Washington, Sept. 8. Under pres- sure from the State Department; the conference committee on the emer- gency revenue bill to-day struck out two amendments by which retalia- tion against the™ British blacklist policy could have been made effec tive. i . Secretary of State Lansing - sent word to the conferees that if the Phelan amendment was retained it might Pead to serious international complications. British Vessels Sunk. (Special To The Whig) London, Sept. 8.+-The British steamer Hagelwood was sunk off Yarmouth. Later despatches report- ed that all the crew of the steamer Strathy have been saved. The Tagus displaced 5,568 tons; the Hazelwood displaced 3,102 tons. SRRABPNR AER RERE ERR pa a < : Loan + TO PREVENT AIR RAIDS. ¢ * . To * + Bucharest. Sept. 8.-- The Ru- +| men * manian government is intern. $| # ing German, Austiian and Turk- $ # ish subjects in hotels and houses '® in the centres where they would #/ 3 ba Jiaced 13 jeopardy by bombs | was m aeroplan, (Special To The Whig) Ottawa, Sept. 8.--Canada's net debt now stands at 658 millions. This is an increase of 186 millions since this time last year. The net debt has nearly doubled since the war commenced. The total revenue for the month of August amounted to 161% mil- lions, an increase of about 214 mil- lions over that for August, 1915. Custom receipts accounted for an increase of a million and a half; ex- cise for an increase of $300,000, and public works, including railways, for an increase of over half a million. Post office receipts, despite the 34. ditiqpal tax of one cent, show a de- ¢réase Of nearly half a million dol- lars. Total ordinary expenditure for August was ten million dollars. War expenditure for the month-reached the substantial total of 24 millions. For the first five months of the fiscal year ended with August 31st the total revenue amounted to 84 millions, an increase of 24 millions over the corresponding period of last year. ; The total ordinary expenditure for the five months amounted to 38 mil- lions, which .is an increase over last year. .For five months ' expenditure on the war reached the formidable total of 76 millions. Harvesting Nearly Finished. Cobourg, Sept. 8.--Farmers in this district have just about' com- pleted their harvest, and the whistle of the threshing machine is now heard. Wheat in general throughout the district is turning out well, but oats are not so good. Very little barley is grown in this locality. There is not much improvement in the root crop and potatoes still sell {for $2.25 a bushel. The weather. for getting in the harvest has been ideal. "We spent. two' months harvesting the crop in my farm," said a farmer who finish- ed yesterday, "and never had to lay off for a_wet day," a record hitherto unprecedented, he affirmed. net * a 4+ TAKEN RUMANIAN TOWNS. # -- * Sofia, Sept. 8.--The Bul- % * +> # garian and German forces have # occupied the Rumanian towns # of Debsie, Balchik, . Cavarna % and Kaliakpa. Teutonic gun- #. ners are shelling the railway + station at Turnu-Severin. + + + + + To Strike to the End. New York, Sept. .8.--Subway and elevated transportation lines on Man- hattan Island were being operated last .night on what officials of the Interborough Rapid Transif Com- pany sald were virtually normal schedules, although it was admitted that service on the surface lines of the New York Railways Company was seriously affected. by the traction strike called las: night. Ofticials of i # action is taken to * raids, Zim '| hour attempt to convince the On- » i ¢ [Within the last year." they weré of no relation, took him to it. cemetery at Locre in Belgium, about half 4 mile from .the French border. It, like the graves of the other Cana- dians who have fallen, was marked by a Greek cross. This is a some- what different cross from the ordin- ary one, and pany of the units have adopted it for marking the graves of their fallen comrades. Brig.-Gen. Sir William St. Pierre Hughes accompanied gis brother, the the Next 'Smash. (Special To The Whig) . London, Sept. 8.--Renewed in- fantry onslaughts by the: Anglo- French troops of even greater mag- nitude than the successful strikes early this week om the Somme are certain to follow the incessant night and day bombardment of the Ger- man lines, The Allies intend to give the Ger- mans no rest. Plentifully supplied with fresh troops, the programme is to pound steadily at the German lines with a view to wearing out and de- moralizing the Teuton soldiers and preventing troop movements to the east. ai The evening newspapers to-day re- ported that the Germans are now holding on to several points on the Somme front most precariously, -and may be compelled to surreader seve- ral places under the next great smash. colonel, as did also rd Brothe mere of the London DaNy Mirror. 3 g 3 g 5 : Casselman, Ont., Sept. 8.-- Yesterday morning Alphonse Barre, a well-to-do farmer, shot and killed his wife in her bed, then -walkéd to church, tolled the bell, returned and submit- ted to arrest, and then asked to have "one last look" at his vie- tim. His request was granted. # FRPP PE + 4PeW Taking More Prisoners. (Special to' the Whig.) Paris, Sept. 8.--Four atttacks in dense formations were launched by the Germans south of the Somme last night between Vermandovillers and Chaulnes. None of the attacks suc- ceeded in reaching any French posi- tions, and the French took two hun- dred more prisoners. The Germans attacked heavily against the new French positions between Berny and a point south of Chaulnes, suffering heavy losses. North of the Somme there was great artillery activity, but no infantry fighting. The French made further progress on the Verdun front last night by grenade aftacks. A German attack at Vaux Chapitre, where the French made a most successful drive, Wed- nesday night, was repulsed. PEEP err rete | TORIES TO BOMBARD Premier Hearst With Booze 'Tele- grams--Order From Toronto. Windsor, Sept. 8.--In an eleventh- tario Government that prohibition in its present form will not be ac- ceptable to the majority of electors, thousands of telegrams will be dis- patched from all parts of the prov- ince to Premier Hearst within the next few days. This was ascertained here from an influential Windsor Conservative, who admitted he had just received his "instructions" from Toronto. The telegram plan, it was explained, will be adopted by members of the party who are opposed to mandatory legislation in the matter of prohibi- tion, believing the question 'should frst be submitted to the electorate. The scheme as arranged is to liter- ally swamp the Government with telegraph messages of protest. It is not an idea emanating from dis- gruntled hotelmen, but a carefully thought-out .plan conceived by friends of the Government to avert, what is considered, a disaster to the Conservative party, as foreshadowed by the recent Toronto bye-election. Telegrams will be so worded as to indicate that the senders favor permitting beer and wine licenses to hotelmen who have not been con- victed under the liquor license act War Tidings. The Berlin War Office admits that the Germans in Eastern Galicia have fallen back before the Russian at- tacks and also near Zlota Lipa river. Italians in Albania are advancing at all points. Strong Russian forces are now in Rumania. New armies have been thrown into the field to stem the Bulgar-German advance along the Danube. There is heavy fighting on many parts of the western front. Germans were driven from several advanéed posts near the Somme river. Hollweg now admits that the U- boats are a failure. He is forced to this confession by the demands for a return to frightfulness. ik Vienna admits the retreat of forces twenty miles from the Ru- manian border. The British are preparing to launch a drive upon Lens and Lille. Two important East African ports have surrendered to the British: The Russians have seized ap im- portant Translyvania pass and lpther heights. : Xinesn Allied aeroplanes shelled russels. The British steamer Strathay has been sunk. Thirty-four of the crew NEW ARMY COUNCIL Will Be Established in London For 2 Overseas Troops. London, Sept. 8.--An Army Coun- cil for the administration of the Can- adian forces on this side will soon be es! . General Carson will be president, and the other members B will be Generals Steele, Macdougall and Meighen, with Colonel Murphy as Quartermaster-General, and. €ol- | wore rescued. onel Frank Reid as Adjutant-Gener- A Bucharest despatch fo the Lon- al. : : don Times to-day reported that the aN Rumanians have occupied Orsova at the "Iron Gate" to Hungary. Viénna admitted this some'days ago. > The Ellerman liner Tagus has been - Sse sssrstettentee He found it in a little parish ; ONE GUN, ONE VOTE. Express Praises Canadian Minister | for Showing the Way. London, Sept. 8.--The Daily Ex- pFess congratulates the - Canadian | Minister of Militia on showing the! way in regard to the enfranchise- ment of the men in the trenches in| connection with the British Colum- | bia elections and expresses the hope | that Canada's lead will be followed | by the British Government. One | gun, one vote, is the Canadian War | Minister's motto. In urging the | Cabinet to see that the British fight- | ing men are not deprived of their votes, the Express asserts the coun- try will never submit to & system that gives preference to the peace | crank, the slacker and the con-| scleutious objectors. * MONTREAL MAYOR CONFESSES | Minute Books Were Altered to Make | "Rotten Deal" Look Better. . Montreal, Sept. 8.--Alterations In the minute book which made ft ap- pear that the Drolet Street deal, whereby the city paid $184,000 for | property now valued at $40,000, was | passed*by a full board of Controllers | instead of by a meeting at which .its | two opponents were absent, were | discovered by the Royal Commission | probing this purchase. It was Mayor | Martin who announced on the wit- | ness stand that the minute book had | been altered. The Mayor confessed | that he knew the "deal" .was "rotten" | but did not know why. | WOULD BAR SOLDIERS | Hull Hotelmen Ask That City Be | Placed Out of Bowl ot a, Sept. 8.--An unusual re- quest es. tothe Militia Depart- ment from the hotelkeepers. of Hull, | the Quebec City opposite Ottawa. | They do not invite the patronage of | soldiers, and ask that the city be placed ¢ut of bounds for men in uni-| form. isorders have repeatedly oc- | curred, he Hull hotelmen figure | | | | + | will have more 'business than 'they | can take care of, and so the soldier | patronage can be eliminated. The] department has not yet actéd on the| request. { Call His Money Tainted. | Washington, Sept. 8--""If there is4 any tainted money in this world any-| where, it is found in the worldly ssessions - of Postmaster-General Burléso®™ =~ ~~ re This was the concluding statement | yesterday of Senator Sherman, i Illinois. Mr. Sherman was speaking! on the corrupt practices bill. He said that Samuel Gompers and Postmast- | er-General! Bruleson were "political bedfellows." , Island Purchase Treaty Ratified. Washington, Sept. 8.--The treaty providing for the purchase of the Danish West Indies from Denmark for $25,000,000 was ratified by the te. | 5 § 3 essed} codes that when Ottawa closes its bars they | CORNETT--<At the Kingston | CRISP-REYNOLDS--At ft Chur sent to the rear for rest and reorgani- zation after receiving a bloody maul ing in counter attacks. Both north and south of the Somme the Allies are dangerously threatening to debouch from the great Paris-Lille high road. The Germans have three bases on which their Somme line reposes--Bapaume, Peronne and Roye--all connected with the Paris-Lille high road. Between Peronne and Bapaume the French are two thousand yards from the road, while south of the Somme, near Chaulnes, they are two and a half miles away. Once Foch's men are astride the highway the whole German- line in the Roye re- - gion must fall back. Me; hile the French guns are tor dlr the Germans to use the road for supplies. PPL ReP Perera GERMAN SOCIALISTS h FIGHTING THE WAR London, Sept. 8.--German Socialists are circulating an anti-war leaflet asserting that the Germans are slowly starv- #4 ing, blaming the Government for starting the war, accusing speculators of cornering food and urging the masses to refuse % to support the war. + ' FEPEP EEE 2440040004404 4 4 Get $1,500,000 Each. Providence, Sept. 8. -- The Public Library of this city and the Rhode Island School of Design will feceive approximately $1,600,000 each by the will of Miss Lyra Brown Nicker- son, which was filed for probate. The death of Miss Nickerson occurred a week ago at Narragansett Pier. DAILY MEMORANDUM e 3. right hand corne os. . * + + +* + * + + + Bee f for Drobabiiit 1 BORN. General hospital on Wednesday, Sept. 6th, to the wife of the Rev. A, D. Cornett, Chaplain to the Forces, a daugh- ter, stillborn. st. ch, Portsmouth, Ont, th, 1916, by the Lord Ontario, aswisted b: deacon Dobbs, Frances Ka n, ouly daughter of Rev. and Mrs. J. O. Crisp, to Lieut. H. Munro Reynolds, Royal Canadian Ariillery, son of of Halifax, N.S. 4 " on Aug. (Bva) Sands, daughter of Mrs. R. Barnett, 17 Johnson rk, ., (formerly of Kingston), A. Simpson, Vancouver, 4 * Eng. on As DIED. Esplanade, Plymouth, ug. 24th, , George Michael James Giles, Lieut -Col, I M. 8 (ret) and CAMS, (ret) M. B. (London) F.ROS, aged 61 years. GILES--At i : Pe g i. hf giz i ! § : i i S900 0000000000000 i SPE EIIIIIIIITIISTS : i : SHEEP 2220000000 i : FAMILIAR QUOTATIONS WORDS OF WISDOM FOV