Men make their | necks Wear purchase invariably at "Men's Wear Storen" the oolors, shapes, ete, men Ladies freguently say, "My husbund never wears the Xmas. Tie I buy for "There's a Jen. Select the next at Collier's Toggery YEAR 86; POLICE. MAKE BIC LIQUOR SEIZURE Capt 257 Batls| skey. No. 206. Airest Four Mca And : of Wil THE ROWERS SURPRISED AS THEY WERE LOADING SUIT- CASES INTO TAXIS ---- A Notable Event at Kingston Junc- tion--Samuel Wilson Fined $700 and Claude Wicks $400, : There was certainly something do- ing near the subway at Kingston Junction shortly after the arrival of the 3.17 train from Montreal, on Monday morning. Police Sergeant James Bateson sent Constables Nay- lon, Timmerman and Lemslie Clark out to watch for whiskey runners, 2nd as a result of clever work on the part of these constables, they nabbed | connected with this traffic." In his evidence, Bird said that he bad been asked by Wilson to do a job. He drove afound to the subway near the outér station and Wilson put a suit case in his car, As the suit i he heard | case was being handled, bottles r. suit ¢ he noticed quite a number of suit- cases piled up alongside the road. It was at this juncture the police con- stables appedred. LaRose said he had béen told by Bird that the latter had a job and that he had followed Bird around to the subway to see what was doing. Freeman Hunt was on the carpet for bringing in liguor from Montreal. His case was enlarged for a day. He was arrested Saturday night, and it is stated that his stock consisted of eighteen bottles. It 1% understood that fines imposed will be paid. both the BELGIUM TO BUY LOCOMOTIVES HERE It May Aiso Place an Order For Railway Cars in Canada. London, Dec. 22.---Canada - has been negotiating with Belgium for the relief of radlway congestion in tling, and ¥e pushed the | out again, At the same time | | LIVING ROON g'¢ WITCHEN . li IN 0E | Serene 13 Y ---- BEOROOM gy ay '| Casey, 'and when she handed him a MILITIA CHECK IS ] SAID TO BE FORGERY | | Woman Cashed a $2,485 Cheok { In Edmonton Bank--Has ! Not Been Located. Edmonton, Dec. 22. Yesterday a smartly dressed woman went into the depot ticket office and bought a G.T.P. ticket to Winnipeg. She made her purchase from Ticket Agent $100 Bank of Montreal note, Casey's suspicions were aroused, as the wo- map had secured several hundred dellar bills from the Bank of Mont- real when she cashed a militia de- partment check for $2,485. - The city police were at once noti- fied, but did not arrive on tha scene until alter the train pulled out. According to the police, the woman in question, entered the Bank of Montreal, on Monday afternoon, pre- sented a genuine militia department check for $2,485, and was given the money without question, $500 being rplained on deposit as an evidence of good faith. On' Tuesday, advices from Calgary showed that the name { J. M. Allen on the check must have been forged, and the police were at once notified. It is also reported that the same woman ; passed a forged check for $200 on the Hudson Bay Company. ° LAST EDITION. WARTIBE ACIS MRE RESCINDED All Prosecutions Under fhe M.S.A. Are Now Stopped. BN OF LOUOR ASE SHIPMENTS WILL BE ALLOWED AFTER JANUARY 18ST The Dominion Government Thinks That the Sooner the.People Decide About Liquor the Better, Ottawa, Dec. 22. -- An order-in- Council granting amnesty to military affenders has been passed by the Fe- déral Cabinet. It stops all prosecu- tions and pending prosecutions and releases prisoners under the Military Service Act. With regard to liquors it is under stood that an order-in-Council is be- ing passed rescinding all the wartime restrictions with a few exceptions as' le ENGLAND'S NEW WOODEN HOUSES, APPROVED BY MINISTER OF HEALTH. new standard. wooden | the latter country by the building of | locomotives in Canada for Belgian railwaya. It is understood a contract | will be placed with the Montreal Log comiotive Works. So badly does Bel- | four men, and at the same time cor- ralled 'eighteen suit cases and grips, or & total of 266 bottles of whiskey. \ This marked the largest catch the 78 "ONE OF THE WO 'S GREATEST FOOLS" Vorwaerts Labels Wilhelm For from January 1st. Montreal Hears It, Too. Montreal, Dec, 22.--The Domin- jocal police have ever made in this ine. : Samuel Wilson, of Kingston, and | Claude Wicks, of Watertown, N.Y, were arrested, charged with having' liquor for sale. Wilson pleaded "guilty" in police court on Monday morning and was fined" $700 and costs. Wicks pleaded 'not guilty," but on the evidence the magistrate found him guilty and imposed a fine of $400 and costs. The option in each case is three months in jail. Langley Bird and Vincent LaRose, two local tax! drivers, were taken in- to custody, on a charge of having li- quor in a place other than their own private dwelling, namely in their taxf, but the charge against each was dismissed. i «. Wilson and Wicks got off the train (from Montreal with their cargo and ware about to get it into the two taxis to bring it into the city, when theconstables appeared on the scene. In passing / sentence on Wilson, Magistrate Farrell told the accused that his name, had béen connected with the trafficking in Hquor for some time, He had been suspected of bringing liquor into the city, and His Worship remarked that Wilson had evidr tly started into the business. J dismissing the case against B' 4, the magistrate said: 'Your past record is the only rAhing that saves you, I am giving yon the benefit 2 the doubt. Your name as never been. copne ted withthis ffiess, and 1 hope it will not be in the future." . LaRose, the magistrate said that he did not feel Justified in find- ing him guilty of trafficking in 1i- quor, but it cathe near to that." But Your name has been more or less EA A---------------------------- THE WHIG'S CHRISTMAS NUMBER. On Saturday the Whig issned its annual Christmas number, despite the fact that fhe report had been maliciously tirculated that no such number would ap- pear. The merchants who be- lieved thé story know better now, . Saturday's edition was the biggest paper ever turned out In Kingston. .It consisted of 64 pages of attractive advertising and up-to-the-minute news. The entire work was done on 'Whig presses, and is an evi- dence of the capucity of the new équipment and the loyalty and of Whig employees. Rather than indulge in self- praise, it is preferable to let the edition speak for itself. "Let another man praise thee; and hot thine own mouth; a strang- er and not thine own lips." 'To those who made this big edition possiblo---the staff who worked With untiring energy, the ad- vertisers who so génerously go- operated and the public which 80 eagerly purchased the entire output-~the = management of the Whig extends its sincere gium need the rolling stocks than an order for one hundred locomotives was recently given to Armstrong, Whitworth Company, of Britain. The Canada 'Car a Foundry Company has also been "megotiating for the supply of oars to Belgium, but it is not known whether the overtures have been successful, Canadian busi- ness men, who have visited Belgium, complain that Belgian firms will not do business direct with them, but only through the medium of agents in London. British Freighter in Distress, cCnnading Press Despatch Halitax, N.8., Dec. 22. --The Bri- tish freighter Kamarika, bound from Cardiff to Halifax, is in distress off the Newfoundland. coast, according to a message received Race. The message sys the vessel's circulating pump is out of commis- sion, and the ship is rolling danger ously, : Child Ate Cough Tablets and Died. New Liskeard, Ont., Dec. 22. Sitting in his high chair the ten- months-old son of James Alstrop, of the White River district, was given a bottle to play with. The bottle con- tained cough tablets. The child broke the bottle, ate some of 'the tablets and died SLATE J. 8. FULLERTON Promiv.fit adian 00] lawyer, dead at lis home in A despatch from Basie says that the former German Emperor has fin- ally agreed to accept trial by the al- lies, but wants to choose place and time and to be defended by German experts and lawyers, The Bolsheviki offensive on the Narva and Pskor is being urged to force Esthonia to agree tosthe boun- daries demanded at the Dorpat'Con- ference. John Connon, who on Monday murdered J. T. Craig, & French-Can- adian waiter in a B. C. co uction camp shanty, was shot and killed while resisting arrest. Each official of Elgin county brought with him to the office on Saturd token as. = ration nto. and hearty thanks. These ovi- dences of appreciation will be an incentive $0 still greater ac- day a contribu tion to a "shower" for the sanitar- jum, Set _. Disturban in Alexandria, Egypt, after the nel ol; the Milner Mis- sglon were s up by native stu- dents, smi a] rr ------ from # Cape ! "the Canad Photograph shows front and side elevation of one of the ilt rapidly in England to help solve the house shortage. The diagram shows the floor plan. nr ] houses which are being bu THE LATEST NEWS OF THE WORLD Despatehes That Come From Neat and Distant Places. TIDINGS FOR OUR READERS POSSIBLE FORM. \ graphic Service and Exchange. tion in the Alberta Cabinet. The Pri g Club on Jan. 12 Charles E. Wing, "Hamilton, died of Sleaping sickness, the first vietim city, Canada's overseas army will have dwindled by the end of the present month to 1,030 men. by the City Couneil, will require all school children to'be vaccinated. The divorce decree granted to the Duchess of Westminster in June has been made absolute by the court. Seats in the Proposed Indoor Curb Market dn, New York have been bought by 98 brokers for $5,000 each, Kitchener teachers were pleasingly surprised to receive with their De- cember pay cheques the $100 bonus not expected till next year, People from the east in the near future will not be allowed to enter Manitoba without producing a certi- ficate of vaccination against small pox. Bir Robert Borden will spend the vholiday season in Ottawa and leave tor the South shortly after the be- ginning of January. King George and the Royal family Sandringham, for Christmas, where gathering. eleven months. He had been in ill- health for some time. Wray, public school teacher in Lindsay for over forty-three years, Was this afternoon presented with a gold by former pupils. Since becoming missioner of Hamfilto patrick has induced companies with an aggregate 670,000 to locate there. Victor L. Ber been re-elected ! PRESENTED IN THE BRIEFEST The Whig's Daily Condensation of the News of the World From Tele- _ Newspaper There is said to be talk of a coali- 108 of Wales. dines = with Windsor: Board of Health, backed 80 to thelr place, Appleton Hall, near they will have an exclusive family Senator Auguste Charles Phillippe | R Landry died 'in Quebec on Friday at the age of seventy-three years and $500 Victory bond and a purse of industria] com- n, C. W. Kirk- capitalization of $15, NINE COMPANIES = DECLINE TO PAY Claim Hamilton Merchant's Death Not Accidental, But Natural. i---- Hamilton, Dec. 22.--Nine com- panies with which the late John Len- tox, wholesale shoe merchant, who estate have commenced action against was drowned from & rowboat in the bay, carried $118,000 accident insur- ance, have declined to pay their poli- cles, maintaining that he died a na- tural death, and the executors of the them. All other insurance, amount- ing to $230,000 in straight lite poli- cies carried by Mr. Lennox, has been paid. Twenty-two families are homeless through fire which destroyed four buildings at Chicoutimi, Que. A PLAIN PUBLIC DUTY. Mayor Newman, in a letter to the Whig, states that he will not be a candidate forthe OI ; mission in opposition to G.'Y. Chown, but that if Mr. Chown decides to re- tire he will offer himself as a candi- date. Thus the mayor fittingly sc- knowledges the setvice which Mr. Chown has given to the city, and proclaims his intention of not stand- ing in the way of Mr. Chown's re- election. * For this stand the mayor is to be congratulated. The: Whig believes that the best interests of the city and the eommis- sion would be served by the reten- tion of Mr, Chown on the commission, He is one of the ablest men who has ever served the city. His work on the commission has been most valu- able, and now that Eastern Ontario's interests in Hydro-Electric affairs have been forted to the fromt it is imperative, it the best results are to be secured, that his experience and ability should be at the disposal o the public. 1 As alderman for a short time and as Utilities Commissioner for some years, he has worked hard for the citizens of Kingston. It was mainly owing to his foresight and business acumen ' that up-to-date electrical machinery was installed at the pump-. ing spation. The heavy expenditure involved provoked cdnsiderable criti- elsm in soma quarters at the 'time, and the Whig felt called upon to de- fond the transaction as a capital ex- peunditure that would ultimately justify itself. That justification came much sooner. than expected, Only 4 few days ago Chairman Elliott SENATOR KNOX MOVES FOR PEACE A Redrated Resolution Approved By U.S. Senate Comite. ACTION BY THE SEWATE WILL BE SOUGHT AFTER THE HOLIDAY RECESS The 'Knox Resolution Avoids the Ac- ceptance of the League of Nations Covenant In Any Way. : , Washington, Dec. 22.--A redraft- ed resolution by Senator Knox, Re- 'publican, Pennsylvania, to declare a state of peace with Germany and to retain to the United States all mater- petits that would ine under thy unratified treaty of Ver- sallles; was approved Saturday by the senate foreign relations committee by a vote of seven to three. Senate actifn on the measure will be sought. after the holiday recess, The measure is in the form-of a Joint resolution which leaders plan- ned to submit.for the concurrent re- solution, declaring a state of peace introduced weeks ago by Senato: Lodge, the committee ¢hairman. A Joint resolution requires the signa- ture of the president, while republi- can leaders have held that a concur- rent resolution does not. Both re- quire a majority vote only of both senate and house. ; While it. avoids accepting in any way the league of nations' covenant as embodied in the treaty, the reso- lution sets forth the nation's policy in that regard by quoting from an act passed by congress in 1916 call. ing on the president to approach the other powers with a view to estab- lishing an international concert for preservation of peace. The resolution also omits any pro- vision to ratify formally the treaty, but it seeks to establish peace be- tween the United States and Ger- many by declaring a state of war re- pealed and peace restored as soon as the powers and Germany have ratifi- €d the treaty. +» The clause designed fo retain the treaty's material benefits is in gen- eral terms, but its effect would be, it was sald to confirm the title of the United States to\the German ships and other property takea from the enemy, Grids 'Toronto, Dee. 32 --Commissioner urdock, 'of the board of commerce, ne THaleacopet by the freight Benefit of the Mon- archists. Berlin, Dec. 22 --The German Na- tiongl Congress in the Potsdam dis- trict developed into a "monarchist orgy," according to Vorwaerts, Tele- grants of greetings were despatched to "their majesties" at Amerongen. The chairman. of phe Congress, during the course of his speech, said: "Our royal house towers so high { above all the princely houses of the { world that it would be difficult fur- | ther to spread knowledge of the Ho- benzollern .character by word of mouth." N 3 Commenting on this statement, Vorwaerts characterizes the .fornter German Emperor as one of the great- est political fools in the 'world's his- tory," and refers to the former | Crown Prince as "a superficial youth j of coarse mind, a sporting dandy, and in other respects totally incap- able. : "He invented the cuff-link," add Vorwaerts' and-¥ums up by saying; "This ig, briefly, the {Baracter of the towering princely house. ALLIES TO MAKE TREATY EFFECTIVE London, Dec. 23.---Regardless of | whether or not the United States Se- nate may in the meantime take fav- ion Government Saturday by procla- mation abrogated the wartime res- trictions act and ordered all men in Canada convicted of military offen- ces released. The wartime restric- tions act placed a federal dan on li~ quor and horséracing. The restrictions principally affect. ; ed are those regarding the importa- tion and manufacture of and inter- Provincial traffic in liquor for be- verage purposes. The Government decided that the sooner the people themselves. were left to decide the matter for themselves the better. Last session the Government placed on the statute books legislation which will enable any Province to hold a bone dry plebiscite. With the repéal of the present Federdl restric- tions the road will be left clear for the invoking of the legislation in question. TURKS AND ARABS MAKING TROUBLE Column. Reported Moving Down Euphrates to Bagd & London, Dec. 22.--A "Turco-Arab- ian movement of considerable pro portions has developed in Mesopota- mia, and there is danger of a flare- id the-trou should spread, go War Phleslo-gax a the Government bullding at hese: zar, and appears to be still in po ston of it, the reports state. Numer- ous Bedouins were encamped in the neighborhood, and it is presumed orable action on the peace treaty, it quarters, that the Allied: Govern- énts have come to an' understand- ~& 10° make the peace treaty effec- tive without the adhesion of the of Nations on its feet as soon as pos: sible, No definite date for taking this step was decided on at a recent meet- ing of the Supreme Oounell, in view of the fact that the Japanese and Italian representatives had to consult their respective Governments, Presi- dent Wilson, it is known, has been informed of this action by the Al- les, through Ambassador 'Davis, who attended some of the comferen- ces. y TWENTY-THREE DEAD, THIRTY-FIVE INJURED In the C.P.R. Collision Near Onawa, Maine, on Satur- day Morning. { Montreal, Dec. 22.--"At 7.15 Sat- urday morning, a freight train col- lided near Onawa, Maine, with a spe- cial from St. John, N'B., witlr steer- age passengers for the west, ex-Em- press of France. The collision ap- United States, and to' put the League they were brought in to help deal' was asserted to The Mail and Em-| with the movement and got out of { pire correspondent in authoritative hand. A Turco-Arab column is re- ported moving down the Euphrates in the direction of Bagdad. The British authorities; it is an- nounced, are, taking measures to japadle the situation. ; COBDEN MAN TH ot GASOLINE IN STOVE Claude Scott Is Brought to Ottawa Hospital Suffering From Sgvere Burns. Ottaws, Dec. 23. Claude Scott, Cobden, was brought to the Gener Hospital, suffering from severe b which he received Thureday morning. It seems that Scott, while lighting a '| fire, threw gasoline. into the stove by mistake instead of coal oil and caue- ed an explosion. Scott's olothing took fire and before the Sames were extin- guished he received severe burns. His injuries though severe, are not' consif@ered critical. a ti i. <x. NEWS IN BULLETIN. " With war restrictions by, milit- pears to have been die to 'men on the freight train overlooking their orders in conn®ftion with the BEm- press' steerage padsenger special There were twenty-three killed and thirty-four injured. , 'The engines and the first two cars containing Imm. grants were train. Some passengers met death or were ser- lously buried by the fire. which en- sued. - "Passengers in the other coaches es- caped: before the flames spread to their cars and aided the trainmen in getting out the dead and injured. removed order-in-OCouncil Saturday, all ary offenders will be released today and an influx to Canada of young men who went to the United States to escepe the Military Service Act is expected. . a : = big export bu- gun to prepare for a 3 siness to Ontario as the result of the removal of the war restrictions, A ship leaves New York for Ris sia with 249 anarchists gathered yp in the States. i ve Liberal leader Mackenzie King will ¥ 19 Some of the bodies were burned be. he yond recognition. : : start on a tour of Canada at once.