OUR NEW FALL HATS Have Arrived. " Collier's Toggery ° n British Whig Collier's Toggery The Only Store Where You oan buy DR. HAWKINS INVISIBLE BELTS YEAR 87 : NO. 227. LS Che Bail | A NEW SCHEME FOR IRELAND | Discussed By Moderates And Republicans--McSwiney's Death Might Hamper It. London, Sept. 14. --Negotiations for a settlement of the Irish question, which are described as the most pro- mising yet initiated, will be nullified it Terence McSwiney dies, says the Dublin correspendent of the Times. Secret negotiations on a basis of full self-government within the empire have been going en during the last three weeks between most prominent leaders of moderate opinion and In- fluential republicans. The moderates have at last been told, he adds, that nothing further can be done while McSwine; 1s near death, and if the Lord Mayor dies the last hope of settlement on the proposed basis will disappear. additional under secre land has been decided government. It wills deal with all problems which may arise in the six coun vince of Ulster, the u hold in Ireland. nionists strong- | Sovietism Advocated Windsor, Sept. the proper form of government for | Canada was suggested at the trades | and labor congress of Canada at Windsor to-day, during the debate on the report of the executive com- mittee regarding political action, Delegate Peter Macallum declared | himself definitely in favor of "a | workers' republic" with a "board or soviet form of government." This brought forth an expression of ap- proval from a spectator in the gal- lery, a reprimand from President Tom Moore, and various interrup- tions from delegates. Discussion on the direct action report was unfin- ished when the congress adjourned for the day. 'Wilson's Policies Rejected in Maine Portland, Me., Sopt. 14,--Returns from election precints in various | parts of Maine point strongly to a great Republican triumph---rejection By the people of the foreign and do- mestic policies of Prasident Wilson and Governor Cox in the first popular test of sentiment of the presidential election year., Parkhurst, Republi- can, was elected governor. |, Women flockéd to the polls by { . thousands and on all sides it was con- geded this new voting element held the balance of power. Bird is Blamed for Telephone Interruption Brockville, Sept. 14.--To a sand- ill crane is laid an interruption to telephone near Morrisburg, and in- identally the death of the bird, Which measured 5 feet 2 inches in fength. Discovering a short ecircuft on the system, T. D. O'Connell, line pervisc. of the Bell Co. at Iroquois, focuica the trouble one mile from orrisburg, where the bird was found dead oh the wires. It was found at it'had swallowed'a portion of a sh line, and a postmortem examina- on revealed that th e hook had lodg- 8d in 'its stomach. 'Women Masons Are Urged In France Paris, Sept. 14.--French Free asons have just had a vigorous ght in a convention here over the uestion of admitting women to Membership in Masonic lodges. The principle was adopted finally by a meagre majority subject to odification when delegates of the rand Lodge attend the Masonic world ¢onference this winter. DEATH OF RBY. Belleville, 00 . Sept. 14. -- Charles Corby died at Los Angeles on Satur- T y. Deceased was a son of the late enry Corby of this city and brother of the late Hon. Harry Corby, who Was a member of the senate. He Was the last surviving som of the family, Last Week of Season. - The steamers Kingston and Tor- duto, of the Canada Steamships Lines Ltd, are now op the last week of the 1920 esason which Hus been re- arkable for the heavy trafic carried the Copular craft practically every day of the season. The boats will run "Baily all this week for Toronto and * Montreal. The season will be closed With the trip on Sunday next. a SERIOUS RIOTING ; IN PETROGRAD London, Sept, 14.--Serious anti-Bolshevik rioting is taking * place in Petrograd, it is de- clared in reports from that city Feceived in Berlin, says a de-, Spatch to the Exchange tele- raph company from the German capital, filed yesterday. Six of the Bolshevik commis- sloners, it is asserted in the advices, have been drowned 'in the river Neva, while others have been compelled to . seek ciple of protection wa. defended .in forceful {sented this morning session here of the tar The Canadian council took the position that policy, protection was wrong," and advocat- ed "a low customs tariff' and "direct {methods of taxation.' The appointment of an Of agriculture viewed t tary for Ire- tariff" as 'the ,most wasteful upon by the Costly method ever designed for rais- be his duty to |ing national revenue." ----ee ties of the ner s4e Tres * THANKSGIVING DAY * * | % giving Day will At Labor Congress REEL a % Formal order to this effect will 14.--8ovietism as * probably be approved to-mor- + (FPP b ed edd dotted | TELEPH LAST EDITION HOLLAND mAY EXPEL EX-KAISER Berlin, Sept. 14--Owing to "the former Kaiser's active pro- the German govern. ment may request Holland to expel him. He is seeking to organize a strong royalist move- ment, and aiming at the restora- tion of the Hohenzollerns and ultimately the reconstruction of the Bismarck-made Empire, | ATTACK PROTECTION; | PRINCIPLE WRONG | This is the View of the Cana=- dian Council Agriculture. Winnipeg, of Sept. 14.--The prin- 8 attacked and statements pre- at the opening {ff commission, of agriculture the "national based upon the principle of a The council he "protective and hb FIXED FOR OCT: 18TH Ottawa, Sept. 14.--Thanks- this year be on October 18th, row. Boho opob ddd bb ONE HEARING OPENS SEPT 21ST The Bell Company to Open Its Books to Rates Oppo- nents. | into the books, Places of refuge Winnipeg, Man., September 14. -- Following is a summary of the state- ment submitted by the C.M.A. to the Committee of Cabinet Ministers. at the inquiry into the Canadian Cus- toms Tariff. The statement first points out that, according to the Dominion census, 700,000 people are employed in Ca- radian factories; that, including fa- milies and dependents, the factories support 2,000,000 80 per cent, of the t duce of Canadian fa in Canada; that busi otal annual pro- rms is consumed consequently; there is scarcely a ra- mily in Canada, directly or indirect- ly, which is not affe trial conditions. lows: "As the Canadian Customs "Tariff | has nottheen revised since 1907, re- vision is now overdue. After careful | investigation, it may be found that | ty on some articles are | sequently be | | the rates of du { too high, and will con { lowered; or, that the rate and will consequently be raise In other cases, | will be consid in certain other cases, that the rates of duty ered fair, and remain unchanged. But all tariff revisions | | are governed by a guiding principle, | and this guiding principle must be either the policy of protection or the policy of free trade. for revenue' is misleading, because a tariff of even ten per cent, on an | article produced in Canada yields re- | venue, and also affords a smal] deg- ree of incidental protection, { "In presenting this statement, | therefore, the Canadian Manufactur- ers Association respectfully begs -to reaffirm its advocacy and support of the policy of adequate protection for | ee ------ nein Gttawa, Sept. 14. --Opponents « SOVIETS MARCH the Bell Telephone Company in its application for increased rates will | be given the right to all the infor- matien they require, including the privilege of examining the company's | books, it was intimated at the rall- | Way commission to-day. The hearing | begins here on Sept. 21st, when the company will present in full its case | and the reasons why it seeks an in- | crease, | It is assumed that the municipal | and other bodies opposing the appli- | cation will call for the fullest details | and the right of having auditors go | To enable this to he done, an ad- journment for a week or so is .pro- bable, and afterwards the company's | officers will be cross-examined. In| the further hearing of the case thers will be sittings at Toronto and pro- bably at Montreal. LIQUOR ISSUE DEAD AS SLAVERY Portland, Ore., Sept. 14.--A statement that the liquor ques- tion "is as dead _as slavery," and that the present question is one of law enforcement was made here by Governor Cox, Democratic presidential candi. date, to a large audience at the auditorium yesterday, BOY'S SKULL FRACTURED; WILLIE McKANE MAY DIE Willie McKane, aged ten years, son of James McKane, 57 Durham street, met with a serious accident on Mon- day evening, and is now in the Gen- eral Hospital in an unconscious con- dition from a fracture at the base of the skill. He had been in the habit of going for the cows every evening to Polk's farm, and on Monday even- ing he saddled the horse and went off as usual. Some time later the Lorse returned alone and A search was at once made for the boy. He was found lying in the ground un- conscious, and. it is thought that he got jolted off the horse and must have caught his foot in the stirrup and was dragged some distance, Some hopes are entertained for his recovery. A a si 0 vi tr m m m K BISHOP BIDWELL REACHES KINGSTON Bishop Bidwell arrived by the G. . R. International Limited at 2 o'- clock Tuesday afternoon. He was met at Kingston Junction by the city clergy. The programme, as origin- ally anonunced, had to be deferred owing to the delay following the ac- cident to the S. 8. Metagama which grounded in the St. Lawrence river, twenty miles below Montreal, The bishop was driven by motor to his residence on King street, On Thurs- day morning at eight o'clock, the holy communion service will be held in St. George's cathedral which will be attended by the city clergy and to which all church members are invit- ed. Aftr the service a breakfast will be given to His Lordship by the clergy in the Frontenac club. There will be no formal addresses, but Archdeacon Dobbs will extend the greetings of the clergy to which Bishop Bidwell will reply. ------------ Cholera in Korea. Tokio, Sept. 14.--Fifteen thousand cholera cases have been reported of- ficially from Korea with 6,000 deaths in the present epidemic, -------------- After being firmly embedded in the clay bank of the St. Lawrence River channel near Contrecoeur, twenty- five miles below Mostreal, for nearly forty hours, the Canadian Pacific Ocean Services liner Metagama was released Monday nizht. Castle Lambert house in county Galway, where Sir Edward Carson was born, was burned Monday, pre- sumably by Sinn Feiners. A A B B Cc Ci Cc G P! U C. C N | forces, it is reported from Moscow, | have taken the offensive on (sides of the Brody, near the old Gali- | Lemberg, | from Berlin. | troops, it is declared, have been driv- | len back by Russian cavalry. troops are advancing toward Mail, and Simla. Afghan troops, it is said, | have been hastily despatched to as- | Wrangel Captures Whole commanded by General Baron Wran- gel on the Taurada front, northwest of the Sea of Azov, have surprised and captured near Pologni in this city. ff on the defensive and appear to be ex- 'hausted as the result of their recent offensive in Poland, against Wrangel's army than the Poles, although the former has seems to be a failure, both from a military and political standpoint. Quotations Furnished by Bongard, American Car Fndry,.1347% American Locomotive 94 Bethlehem Steel "B". 751% Mexican Petroleum ..174% New Haven Nofthern Pacific .... Republic Iron & Steel. Reading ..... Royal Dutch (N.Y.).. Southern Pacific .... Studebaker . Texas Pacific ......... 37 U. 8. Steel ......... 88% Brazilian Brompton Canada Cement ..... 63% Canada Steamships .. 65 Canada Steam. Pfd. Canadian Locomotive . Canadian Loco. Pid... . Dominion Stee] .. Dominion Fndy. & Steel. . General Electric ; National Breweries . tect Frontier Against a Bolshevik Advance. London, Sept. 14.--Russian Soviet both on according to a despatch Polish and Ukranian an border, and are marching { Bolsheviki Advance on Afgan: London, Sept. 14~--Bolsheviki the fghan, frontier from Bokhara, says Calcutta dispatch to the Daily quoting reports from Kabul st in the protecting frontier. Brigade. Sebastopol, Sept. 14. -- Troops the | riekhov region, the 124th Bolshe- | k brigade, including its staff and alns, according to reports reaching ! well Soviet forces on this front are now Canadians; that | ness and profes- | sional men receive part of the bene- | fits of industrial production, and that | cted by indus- | The position taken | by the Association is defined as fol- | 8s of duty are too low, | d; or,| The term 'taritt | KINGSTON, ONTARIO, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1920 Canadian {ndustr has been mainta Canada by all po | bave held power). y (the policy which litical parties that Lt | Will hasten the adoption throughout | the British Empire of substantial | customs preferences fo ducts, corresponding to the preferen- ces now provided in the Customs Ta- | riff of Canada." Definition of Protection, The objects of the protective sys- {tem in Canada are outlined as fol- lows: 1. To diminish, as far as possible, the importation of goods from for- | eign countries which can be produc- j €d at home, 2. To facilitate the importation of raw materials for manufacturing pro- cesses, which caunot be produced a: home. 3. To encourage the exportation | of Canadian goods as finished pro- ducts. 4. To make Canada self-contained by developing and encouraging with- in her bound vities that will give occupation to Canadan citizens. 'Support of the protective prinei- | ple should not be confused with ad- | vocacy of a_high tariff," says the statement. "The Canadian Manufac- turers' Association has neve. advo- cated a high tariff; and doas not ad- vocate a high tariff now; but it is a conservative statement of fact to say that the Canadian customs tariff as it stands today is not a high tariff, and that in comparison with tariffs of other countries it is very moder- ate. . "During the year ending March 31st, 1920, the average rate of duty on all dutiable importations, less the customs war tariff collections, was 2% per cent. 9 --~-- UPON LEMBERG Afghan Troops Sent to Pro- | | MISS ELSIE MeKIM | Newly-appointeg Director of Haouse- | hold Apts in the Technical schools of | Ontario. SUMMER RESIDENT LOST IN THE WOODS | A Search Party "Found Him | Very Exhausted and at Sea. Charleston, Sept. 13.--Mr. Barnes, who spends his summers at the Green | cottage had an experience on Wednes- day he will not soon forget. After breakfast he went to, the woods back of the cranberry marsh to hunt all by himself. He was expected back to the cottage for dinner, but failed to appear. Suppér time came and still Ofticers find it | ore difficult to arouse a sentiment | against | ade heavy captures in men and | aterials. | This expedition sent into | uban, south-east of the Sea of Azov, STOCK MARKETS. Ryerson & Co., 237 Bagot Street. New York Stocks. Opening, Closing 1361 94% 111 71 merican Sugar ....110% m, Internat. Corp. .. 76% aldwin Locomotive.10814 altimore & Ohio 415 PS Re Leia 118% entral Leather ...., 511 rucible Steel ......1231 eneral Motors ..,., 21% cavsene 3334 ferce Arrow ....... 3 . 8. Rubber Canadian Stocks, sssressasnavesnens 37 Did Ty anada Bread ...... 24 teen ««. 79 bid 91 offered 87% offered 25% 5614 ons, Smelters .. no sighs of Mr. Barnes. The family became uneasy and gave the alarm and soon a posse was out in search of him. They took with them some guns and fired shots in the air and were answered by a report from Mr. Barne's gun. The posse went in the. direction whence the shot came acd found Mr. Barnes completely lost, tired and hungry, but al] preparad to spend the night in the woods. ---- BELLEVILLE BOY INJURED. Belleville, Sept. 14.--John Me- Donnell, aged eight years, son of Mr. Fred McDonnell, Thurlow townsaip, was severely injured when he was struck by an auto driven by Dr. Faulkner. The lad was returning from school and 'ran across the road as the auto approached. He was knocked down, suffering a fracture of the right arm near the elbow. Some teeth were knocked out, and le was otherwise injured. -- ----em-- pa FORTY DAYS IN WILDERNESS. Constantinople, Sept. 14.--Fifteen hundred refugees have arrived in Is- mid, Asia Minor, from the village of Kirazli, after having wandered for forty days in the wilderness and the uncharted valleys of the mountains at the mercy of bandits; They report having lost 1,000 persons by starva- tion and other privations. Military search was made at Bel- fast for arms in Unionist homes. McSwiney may die to-day, but may live weeks. He is not in pain. Looks As If Milk Will Be Cheaper Toronto, Sept. 14.--All Canadian milk condensory factories are to close down indefinitely at the end of the month, because the market is over- stocked with their products and there is no demand. Local represen- tatives say they fear heavy losses. The shutting down means that a . Y. Exchange .. 11% Spanish River creas 117% large quantity of farmers milk will be ined since 1878 in | "Moreover, the Association pledges | S support to any measures which | r Empire pro- | The Tariff Enquiry Has Opened At Winnipeg; ? ~The Manufacturers Fully Present Their ( ase | "The average rate of duty on all importations, free and dutiable, af- ter deducting the customs war tariff | collections, was 14.66 per cent. Tariff protection has been increas- ed or maintained at previous rates in the following countries sincethe war: France, Italy, Switzerland, Austria, Spain, Balkan countries, Japan, Ar- gentina, Brazil, Bolivia, Chili, Ecua- dor, Paraquay, Peru, Uruguay, Ven- €zuela, United States and Australia. [ It is'argued that the fiscal policy {of Canada must be guided by the present world tendency towards in- creased tariffs and that if the Can- édian customs tariff were removed | while other countries maintain and flrengthen their tariffs, Canadian markets would be filled with the ov- erflow goods ftom protected foreign countries, while Canadian -gooas would be largely shut out of foreign markets: The result would be that | tie home market of Canadian fac- tories would be so reduced that Ca- nadian productive costs would be raised above a competitive basis, and that, consequently, many Canadian factories would have to close. aries all legitimate acti- | Growth Under Protection, The following instances of growth in various basic industries are given Lo prove that Canada has made great | progress since the protective system 'as inaugurated in 1878: Tota] trade $149,000,000 in 1879, to $2.3 0,000, 1000 in 1920; agricultural production from $365,000,000 in 1900, to $1, national out- | £75,000,000 in 1919; but of wheat from 16,000,000 bush- (els in 1870, to 193,000,000 bushels in 1919; value of manufactured pro- ducts from $309,000,000 jn 188" to [$3,000,000,000 in 1917, forest nro- Cuction from $39,000,000 in 1881 to $140,000,000 in 1919; mineral pro- Cuction from $14,000,000 in 1889 to | $173,000,000 in 1919: fishery pro- (Continued on Page Nine.) A st lm BRITISH COAL STRIKE COMING ininister of Labor Declares It Inevitable----Fublic Feeling" Against Miners, Sept. 14.--The British | | . j-sovernmeint has been forced to as- | | sume tiie offensive in the coal mining j #ltuation. It has issued its challenge | lo the miners. They must tack down on their demands or they will be tought with every resource at the government's command; becision to force the issue was ar- lived at, touow.ng tue sensavonal ais closure of Kobert smilies attempt tu LING about 4 simultaneous strike Of American and' British coal miners. While the government teeis that | Smilie's proposal tor an international Lnderstanding to ve foriowed Ly joint action would not get rar with Aluer- Call workmen, it was Just this discios- ure of Smillie's program that brought the tight out into the open and per- suaded the cabinet to offer no more conciliatory suggestions. "The strike aeclared Sir Robert Horne, Minister of Labor, "is inevit- able." The Government Ready. The government is ready for the strike when it comes. It has been preparing for montis. Arrangements lor dealing with transportation prob- lems sure to arise, and the movement of household supplies and necessities, have been made in advance, A natural restriction on the use of food such as sugar, meat, bacon, flour and milk, will go into effect immed- iately the strike is declared. It is pointed out that Smillie's tactics have reached an international Scope and that all Europe will be af- fected by the miners' action, Conse- quently, the government feels it can temporize no longer, The committee of twelve, from the Triple Alliance, is to meet tomorrow to make a last endeavor to bring 'about peace. Feeling against the miners 18 ap- parently growing, One example of this found at Burnley, where the storekeepers are threatening to boy- cott all strikers, refusing to sell them any supplies whatsoever, if a food shortaage results from their action. Lord Rirkenhead, appealing to the public to decide the issue, makes the point that a reduction in the price of coal amounting approximately to $3.55 a ton, demanded by the miners, is absolutely impossible. The British consumer is now getting his coal at cost, the only profit accruing to the operators being that from the export trade. . America Must Turn To Mexico for Oil Washington, Sept. 14.--Mexico pro mises to become the oil reservoir of the western hemisphere, the depart- ment of commerce declared in a re- view of the petroleum industry in the southern republic. With increased consumption in the United States likely to exhaust producing fields in this country within 20 or 25 years, Mexico, the statement said, "offers the most encouragement to the Ame. rican oll industry, both for present production and geographical situa- tion." : Exhaustion of 40 per cent of the producing fields of the United States, the department's review stated, has caused Mexico to take second place In oil production, although only about 12 per cent. of the potential on the market this winter. capaoity of Mexican wells is being ac- tually produced. ; 'APPEALS AGAINST : : FREIGHT RATES Ottawa, Sept. 14. -- The freight rates judgment of the railway commission has brought forth five appeals to the govern- ment. They are from the Board of Control and Wholesale Gro- cers' association of Toronto, and the Boards of Trade of Hali- fax, Edmonton and Winnipeg. The provincial government have not yet, been heard from, but appeals are expected from Mani. toba and Saskatchewan, While all of the appeals ask 'for a stay in the operation of the new rates, the government, for the reasons set out in its memorandum, has declined to interfere, EXCHANGE GAME FAILED TO WORK {Plan to Pick Up Profit on Silver Coins in Syra=- cuse Foiled. Syracuse, Sept. 14--A plot te flood Syracuse with thousands' of dollars of Canadian silver coins, pas- | sing here at full face value, was | 'rustrated on Friday by the action of | the Syracuse Clearing House Assoc- | ation in making effective on Satur- day current rates of exchanges be- | tween Canada and the United States. { It is declared that fully $50,000 | In Canadian half and quarter dollars and dimes have been brought into | this city in the last few weeks By | persons out to make substantial pro- fits in one of the last of the cities in | the State to make the exchange rate Under the ruling of the learing House Association at its meeting in the First Trust & Deposit Co. on Friday, half-dollars of Cana- dian mintage will be acceptad Lere | at the value of forty-four cents, quar- | ters at twenty-two cents, and dimes pat eight cents. 4 Those who have accumulated large | Sums of the silver coinage in expec- | tation' of cashing in at local banks for face value, while not accepting a loss, will be foiled in their attempt to make profits, possible hereto'ore | by failure of the city banking insti- | tutions to place the exchange rate in force. The rate has been effectiy fo: everal months on bills and che MARRIAGE LICENSES ARE JUST PEDDLED effective, le Hung Over Bed by Fort, Wil= | liam Couples Who Think They're Wedded. | i ------t-- | Port Arthur, Sept. 14, --""With wo- {men in politics you have as much | chance of civil marriages as a mar- | riage in Heaven," declared Chairman | W. G, Gregory, of the Ontario Publie | Service Commission, during a dis- cussion introduced / by 'Magistrate hearing here on Saturday. The magistrate, during examination, in- treduced the subject of marriage by magistrates of Ontario, and followed with a statement that "the peddling of marriage licenses in 'the city of Fort William was a joke." "You can buy a marriage license in any place from a grocery store to a junk shop," said the magistrate, who alsp declared many couples in the city procured a license, hung it up at the head of the bed, and con- sidered that sufficient ceremony, BIG TIMBER LIMIT SOLD IN QUEBEC Hammermill Paper Company, of Erie, Pa., Purchases Matane Lands. Quebec, Sept. 14.--The Matane Lumbef and Development Company, owned by O'Brien and Doheny, has sold all its assets, real and personal, to the Hammermill Paper Company of Erie, Pennsylvania. The deal, which involves a pric of several millions of dollars, was completed last week, in Montreal. The timber lands acquired with the mill site, river improvements, etc, lie on the rivers. Matane and Cap Chat, on the south shore of the St Lawrence, comprising an area of 133,000 acres. To Superintend Education in Prince Edward Island Charlottetown, P.E.L, Sept. 14.-- R, Robert Roberts, of Alberton, son of ex-Governor Rogers, has been ap- pointed chief superintendent of edu- cation for this province, vice B. H, Campbell, who resigned to 80 to Wilkie, Sask., to teach school. Mr. Rogers was formerly chairman of in Vernon, B.C. Britain to Send More Troops to Mesopotamia Simla, India, Sept. 14,--1t is an- Lounced that three European and se- ven Indian regiments will embark in a few days for Mesopotamia to rein- force the British troops now there. The reinforcement is to be made ow- ing to the disturbed s try. Munition Ships Not To Pass Kiel Canal Berlin, Sept. 14.--Instruction have been given authorities in charge Af the Kiel Canal not to allow ships carrying munftions to pass through the canal from the North Sea to the Baltic, according to a telegram from Kiel. It is stated the orders were is- sued by the German government. ------, SEVEN KILLED IN CRASH. Tarrytown, N.Y., Sept. 14.--Seven persons were killed and one seriously injured, when an automobile in which they were riding, crashed through a railing during a thunderstorm and fell twenty feet to the New York Central railroad tracks at Dobbs Ferry, ues. | Pallinger, of Fort William, at the the board of school commissioners | tate of the coun | PAID A WOMAN VOTER MONEY | According to Evidence in the Election Protest Trial At Prescott. Prescott, Sept. 14.--Almon Cook, Spencerville hotelkeeper, paid Mrs. Kathleen Bellinger two dollars after she had told she voted for G. Arthur Payne, U.F.O. defeated candidate in | South Grenville, though he was a [supporter of Hon. G. Howard Fergu- son, who was elected. John Boyd, { Merrickville, paid five dollars to one, | Levine Matte, on election day in [1919, but claimed that this was to |liquidate a debt incurred three or | four years before, and he also paid {seven dollars to a young man named Roche to drive home thirty miles and ask a number of Liberal voters to vote for Ferguson, since there was no Liberal candidate in the field. These facts were brought out im the hearing here yesterday of the afternoon election appeal against Hon. G. Howard Ferguson. Judges Sutherland and Magee, of the Su- |preme Court of Ontario, are hearing the appeal and counter-charges. Counsel taking part include W. N. Tilley, K.C.; W. H. Price, M.P.P.; and H. A. Stewart, for the respond- ent; and Gordon Waldron, Toronto, for the defeated candidate, G. Arthur Payne. The charges are very nu- merous and the counter-charges plen= tiful. Something like two hundred witnesses including many omen voters have been subpoenaed, and the witnesses in themselves provide quite a large audience to follow the pro- ceedings. The case seems likely to last all week. Good progress in the matter of dis- posing of witnesses was made this morning by Gordon Waldron, coun- sel for the defeated UiF:0. candids ate. The charge regarding the grant- {ing of a bus license was disposed of, ere being no evidence to suppo [it Albert Roche, a lad sent by Joh | Boyd into Welford township, tol | three farmers "theré was money in it | to vote for Ferguson." He told one man he would be remembered by | John Boyd. The farmer replied he | "would vote Payne and be forgotten." Alex Lee gwoire-herwas "approached" In"a poolroom by Thottas~Kyle of Merrickville, to see if witness would vote for Payne. ' Olive Thomas Victim of Accidental Poisoning i th Paris, :. 14~--The autopsy om the body of Olive Thomas, American moving picture actress, who died in the American hospital at Neuilly last Friday, was performed yesterday by Dr. Paul, official physician of the city of Paris in the presence of five Am- erican doctors. 4 The doctors concluded that death was due to "poisoning through im toxication with a sublimate," takem accidentally. Judge Pamart granted a permit for the removal of the body of Miss Thomas, which will be shipped to America on the first boat sailing for that country. TIME NEARLY UP Bray, Strike Leader, Will be Given Freedom. Winnipég, Sept, 14.--R. E. Bray, one of the imprisoned strike leaders, will be given his freedom next Fri- day, it was authoritatively stated to- night. Bray was convicted on the ;common nuisance count of the sedi- ! tious conspiracy indictment which was the sequel of the general strike of last summer, and was sentenced to six months, The jail term would not expire till the end of the month, but a fortnight is being lopped off. it for good conduct. WORK GOING ON Ex-Kaiser Builds Fence to Shut Out Neighbors. Doorn, Holland, Sept. 14.--For- mer Emperor. William has decided to fence himself off.completely from his neighbors. At a few places about his house, where persons wa 1] on the grunds could be seen from the road, the former emperor ordered the erection of high fences. The work is now being carried out. MR. SIMPSON'S FAREWELL. . Brooklin, Sept. 14.--Whitby pres- byery having at a special session sus- | tained the call from Stirling, in the | Kingsten presbytery, to Rev. Robt, Simpson, pastor of Brooklin apd Columbus Presbyterian congrega~ tions. Mr. Simpson delivered his farewell message to his people here (Sunday. He has been pastor here since December, 1917, and his work is very highly regarded. The pulpits of ~Brooklin and Columbus will be declared vacant on Sept, 19th. Rev, | W. M. Haig, Brooklin, hag been ap- | pointed interim moderator, » ---------- MONTREAL LACKS POLICE. : Montreal, Sept. 14.--This city's rolice force is gradually disappearing because the wages paid are too pu. to attract men. Since last year nearly = 300 policemen have resigned and | have not been replaced. The city at | present time is finding the greatest difficulty in properly policing its streets, and a crime wave is reported in progress, os RE et------ To Go To Britain, Chatham, Sept. 14.--Capt. James Mowbray, of this city, has been pointed by the British government | to take charge of the sugar-beet fm- dustry in the British Isles, and will leave for England this month. With J. R. L. Starr as n, an executive committee for Toront of the National Liberal-Co: party will shortly be completed,