SS <a SIR JAMES W HITNEY DEAD Premier of Ontario is Called Suddenly by Death at . His Residence in Toronto * ' A despatch from Toronto says: Sir James Whitney, Premier of On- tario, died at his residence, 113 St. George Street, Toronto, shortly af- ter* noon on Friday. His sudden demise was quite unexpected, al- though his health had been very poor for the past month. Early in the day he complained that he was not feeling so well, and at about 10.45 o'clock his condition was such that an emergency tele- phone call was sent to his physician, Dr. H. J. Hamilton, 220 Bloor Street west. Dr, Hamilton was on his rounds, but was located in the course of half an hour, and hurried to his distinguished patient, who was rapidly sinking. It was already apparent that the end was near. With the Premier, when death came, were Lady Whitney and Miss Whitney. Dr. Hamilton, who has been in constant attendance upon Sir Jamos since the Premier returned from, his long convalescence in New York, stated that the fatal termi- of a victorious party, and returned by an overwhelming vote as Pre- mier of the Province. a cepting the control of the destinies of Ontario Sir James demonstrated In 1886, at the bye-election, Mr. Whitney achieved his first political success. Since then he grew in the esteem of his constituents. so that he was returned at every succeec- ing election. After Nine Years. After he had been nine years in the Legislature, Mr. Whitney was acknowledged to be in the front rank of Conservatives. A vacancy having occurred in the leadership, he was in 1896 unanimously select- ed to lead the Opposition. -On that occasion the people of Dundas "ten- dered their representative a pub- lic demonstration of a non-partisan character, in which Conservatives and Liberals vied with each other in their efforts to honor the rising statesman. Becomes Premier. February, 1905, saw him as head Since ac- -- THE LATE SIR JA MES PLINY WHITNEY. nation of the Premier's illness had been entirely unexpected. A Canadian by Descent. A Canadian by descent and by birth, as well as in sympathy and sentiment, was Sir James. He came of that sturdy English stock that gave to this continent its hardy pioneers, and planted civilization in the New World. One might trace his ancestors back to 1650, when one of the early Whitneys crossed the Atlantic in a sailing ship and established the family in the Ameri- ean colonies. Mr. Whitney's father chose Eastern Ontario for his home. At Williamsburg, in Dundas Coun- ty, the coming Premier was born on an October day in 1843. In his early years he had the advantage of that active work on the farm that devel- ops brain and muscle and gives one intensely practical ideas of life, Yet while he was still plowing the straight furrow of boyhood -- his mind was fixed upon greater achievements, and he knew that the golden key of knowledge alone could open the gate that admits to the higher walks of life. Studies Law. Quick and practical, young Whit- ney soon outgrew the educational facilities of his neighborhood, One . morning he drove from the home- "tstead to Cornwall to study at one of the most famous of Canadian schools--the Cornwall Grammar School. In this institution, where so many distinguished men, includ- ing Sir John Robinson, Hon. Philip Van Koughnet, Chief Justice Mac- lean, and other eminent sons of Ontario, received their training, the husky lad from the farm developed a keen relish for intelleatual pur- suits and formed the determination to master the intricacies of law. Accordingly, in the law office of Macdonald & Maclennan at Corn- wall, the county town of the United Counties of Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry, young Whitney prepar- ed to qualify for the Bar. In the general election of 1886 Mr. Whitney was first tendered: the Conservative nomination for Dun- das. The result of the count show- ed that he had come within 25 votes of defeating the Governmnt candi- his remakable insight into public affairs in many instances and | throughout maintained the same steadfast honesty and tenacity of purpose that characterized his fight as leader of the Opposition. At the Quebec Tercentenary cele- bration in 1908 he was knighted by King George in appreciation of his untiring zeal in working for @ greater dominion as a part of a world-wide Empire Federation. His patriotism was not of the lukewarm or timid variety. In the Fenian Raid of 1866, Sir James was among the first to volunteer, and contin- ued on active service for five months. He served in the militia for many years afterwards becom- ing in his retirement Lieutenant- Colonel of the Reserve Militia for the County of Dundas. Chea OFFICER'S BRAVE DEATH. All But Thirty Under His Command Had Fallen. A despatch from Angouleme, France, says: The family of Major C. Dupont, of the artillery, has re- ceived news of his heroic death in a recent action. With a regiment of 700 men strong he received orders to take a position in a meadow near a town. There was a dense fog at the time, through which ominous rumblings were heard, but Major Dupont's instructions were urgent. All his men stood at their posts waiting. Suddenly the fog lifted and revealed a company of German quick-firers within 1,500 yards of the French position, In a few seconds all except two officers and thirty men had fallen before the storm of shot. Major Dupont was among those unscathed. The German captain approached him and asked for his surrender. Major Dupont declined to give it and sprang to a gun be- side which his gunners lay dead and trained it upon the enemy. But be- fore he could fire a bullet stretched him across the gun, mortally wounded, , whe in private houses in England in 1180, the letters in the year 1822 before date and carrying the constituency. Christ. A despatch from New York says: The number of wounded in the bat- tles of Europe is already in the hundreds of thousands; the hospi- 'tals of Paris and Berlin, cottages on the battlefields and churches are filled, while many wounded lie ex- posed in trenches, according to Er- nest P. Bickell, national director of the American Red Cross, who arrived on the ss. Olympic: from Liverpool. Mr. Bickell spent sev- eral weeks observing conditions in the countries at war. "Official _ reports give little defi- the number of wounded is already in the hundreds of thousands," Mr. Pickell said. "The truth is that over the thousands of square miles already battleswept there have been left almost countlese thousands, of Thousands of Wounded in Hospitals nite information of the losses, but men helpless from ghastly wounds. Some have been gathered into trains by the Red Cross surgeons and nurses and taken to hospitals in the larger cities. Into Paris and Ber- lin thousands have already been brought, and one by one the hospi- tals have been filled, private and public buildings have been utilized for the wounded, but still the num- bers increase. "Some of the wounded were taken into cottages on the battle- fields and the churches, but still there are thousands who lie in the | thirst and exposure. "Tet no man imagine that the American Red Cross can do too much or enough. Nurses and sur- geons are needed more and more, and also medical and hospital su pliew."' NEWS FROM SUNSET COAST pletely destroyed by fire, $30,000 damage being done. killed in North Viancouver, beneath the wheels of his father's wagon | the corporation that all weeds grow- Glass windows began to be used | Memnon, the Egyptian, invented | trenches in the fields suffering from Defending the Roads to Paris Before the German Retreat Began WHAT THE WESTERN ARE DOING. PEOPLE Progress of the Great West Told in a Few Pointed Paragraphs. The mill of the New Ladysmith Company at Nanaimo was com- The G.T.P. bridge over the Fra- ser River at Prince George has been completed and trains are now running over it daily. William Cartiledge, aged 10, was near his home. Many camps have been robbed an the vicinity of North Vancouver. The police believe that an organ- ized gang of hoboes is at work, The laying of the new cable be- tween Banfield and Port Alberni by the cable steamer Iris will be commenced before the end of the month. Notice has been given to the own- ers of vacant lots in Kamloops by ing thereon must be cut down forth- with. Tracklaying is no proceeding on the Pacific Great Eastern Railway beyond the Cheakamus Canyon where a number of bridges have re- cently been completed. Mrs. Peter J. Rinds of Vancouver was killed and her husband and three others injured when their au- tomobile overturned near Eburne. Mrs. Rinds leaves two lads. Mike Donovan, of Rossland, has fallen heir to $50,000 by the death of an uncle in Ireland. He quit running the livery stable at once and is now in Ireland getting the money. A parcel of stationery, the first direct shipment from Montreal to Vancouver over the new G.T.P. rail and steamship lines, was re- ceived at the Vancouver offices of the company. Nearly 350 men are employed in the mines in the vicinity of Sandon, and forces are being increased each week, Before winter it is expected Sandon will have as large a payroll as in the boom days. Ten-year-old Edward Summers lost his life in a fire which burned His father, Nathaniel Summers, who attempted to rescue the lad, died some days later. A widow and three small children survive. Cracksmen have disturbed the tranquility of Walhachin. An in- jured man was found with a quan- tity of missing jewels and removed in a serious condition to the hospi- tal. Four man have been detained by the provincial police. The Prince Rupert Board of Trade is petitioning for a mail sub- sidy amounting to $30,000 for the Queen Charlotte Islands service. The present subsidy amounts to $10,000 and the G.T,P. Company considers this sum insufficient. A party of Skeena River and Ri- vers Inlet hunters shot about six hundred sea lions, which for some time have been destroying the hordes of fish seeking the water in wally down the family home at Victoria. ' ONSLAUGHIS THRUST BACK Gaps in Allied Troops Had Been Filled by Fresh Reinforcements and Much Ground Was Gained Battle Front.--The German of- fensive has been extremely vigor- ous at the western end of the long line stretching along the Rivers Oise, Aisne and Woeuvre. The allied troops, whcse gaps had been filled with freshly-arrived re- inforcements not only repeatedly thrust back the masses of Germans thrown against them, but eventu- carried out a successful counter-attack, which resulted in the gaining of considerable ground and the definite capture of Pe- ronne, north-east of St. Quentin, about which town the fiercest en- gagement occurred. French troops are now to the south, to the west, to the north and to the north-west of the German right wing army commanded by General Alexander von Kluk. With only a few more miles of progress to the south of Peronne the French will have commletely surrounded the western end of the German line and will be able to cut this force off from its base of suvplies over the railways into Belgium. Efforts of the Germans to begin a new in- yasion of France near Nancy, through the Vosges Mountains, have resulted in defeat. the placer strike which took place thirty-five miles south of Big Eddy, on the Fraser River. There were fifteen claims staked a few days ago, when the news leaked out. A local company hag seven men work- ing, now getting a hydraulic outfit to the place. It was worked before, as tailings and wheelbarrows still remain outside a shack. Reports say there is gold in every pan. VICTIMS AT RHEIMS. Cathedral Wilfully Chosen Target by the Germans. as a from Paris says: Maurice Barres, in the Echo de Paris, gives the story of Baron Durrieu, an ex-officer who arrived at Rheims recently. Baron Dur- rieu confirms the previous reports that a large Red Cross flag flew from each tower of the cathedral, and the Germans knew their own wounded were in the edifice, be- cause they placed their wounded there when they occupied the town. The Baron says the Germans had undoubtedly wilfully chosen the cathedral as a target. During their first passage through Rheims the Germans demanded a war levy of 30,000,000 francs ($6,000,000). This should have been paid last Sunday but the arrival of the French troops saved the city from the levy. Among the victims of the German bombardment of Rheims were two graduate women nurses and 25 nuns, who held diplomas as nurses. A despatch oi INDIAN STATES READY TO AID Troops Already Have Been Accept- ed From Fifteen. A despatch from London says: Offers of assistance from the many states of India continue to pour in. The Viceroy reports that contin- gents of the Imperial service troops have already been acceptet from: fif- teen states and that similar offers Lfrom ten other states will be ac- cepted if the need arises. The joint offer of four other states, the Vice- roy adds, is under consideration. The tribesmen of -Kurram and Swat Valley are anxious to partici- pate in' behalf of the Empire, and various Maharajahs and the Arab chiefs in the Aden hinterland have the vicinity. The cannery men ap- animals. By the completion of the aew tele- ernment ferest. branch between Her- lumber camps with 2,000 men, and also 200 settlers and their famalies in the northern wilds -- 'have the city of Vancouver. Through mistaking toadst mushrooms, . three . persons 'nearly lost their lives at Burquitlam. - Mr. were mushrooms cooked to serve to guesis. visitor saved their lives. pealed for aid in exterminating the | phone line forthe Provincial Goy-) iat Bay and Green Point Rapids, 40 been. brought - inte -commuicaition with odls flor | George Han and his'son: had. gath-' ered a pan full of what they thought and" had them Imme- diately after the meal they were all taken ill, but first aid rendered by a There has been quite a rush for expressed their loyalty: and desire |to be of seryice. The Maharajah-of Gwalior has donated $110,000 for lmotor cars and, transport and $25,- 000 for the relief of the Belgian suf- ferers; f ee ee ey i : : r War Cesting $38,000,000 a Day. A? despatch from' Paris says: Fourteen thousand ig the yearly cost of the war $38,356,154 per - day) he and England. according to t man statistical expert, Max Heinke. Of> this Franée and Germany, he mates, each with 3,000,000 men each; while Russia's $3,800,000. Oil millien dollars | (or 1 to Germany, | Austria, Belgium, France, Russia Ger- | Captain expense} esti- in the field, must stand $2,800,000,000 share, with her 4,000,000 fighting men, will be CRUISER BOMBARDS MADRAS. Tanks Were Set on Fire and Three People Killed. London |The Official Press Bureau ithe following statement: | "The German cruiser Emden i fired nine shells at Madras, British India. One of the shells hit the oil tanks, firing two. The telegraph | office, the Seamen's Club and some itrucks were also hit. The forts at the harbor front replied to the Em- den, which then withdrew. The af- fair was all over in 15 minutes. There was no panic and there was ino material damage, the oil loss i being possibly a million and a half gallons. Two Indians and one boy were killed."' Madras is a seaport of British In- dia, the seat of the Government, and headquarters of the Madras army. It is the third seaport of India, ranking after Bombay and Calcutta. It is situated on the open shore in the Bay of Bengal. Says: | A despatch from issued rn: SUBMARINE ESCAPED. Crew Which Destroyed -- British Ships Received Iron Crosses. A despatch from Berlin says: It is officially announced that the unterseeboot -- (submarine) U-9, commanded by Lieut-Commander Weddigen, which successfully tor- pedoed and sank three British ar- mored cruisers in the North Sea on Tuesday. escaped unhurt from the guns of the cruisers and their accompanying destroyers. mander Weddigen and the entire crew of the submarine have been their excellent work. pom WIRELESS STATION CLOSED. Marconi Company Fails to Satisfactory Assurance. A despatch iels ordered the company to give assurance that it regulations, , Da Com- decorated with the Iron Cross for Give from Washington says: Secretary of the Navy Dan- Marconi wireless station at Siasconset, Mass., closed in consequence of the failure of the would comply with naval censorship TO CHECK RUSSIAN Germans and Austrians W on Wide Fro nt ill Offer Desperate Battle -- A despatch from London says: The news of the war in the east in- dicates, after all reasonable allow- ances for exaggeration are made, that the immense forces of Russia are rapidly nearing the German' frontiér on a line of advance 150 miles wide. London expects soon to hear of a pitched battle, as vast as that of the Aisne, between one mil- lion Germans and Austrians, who are concentrating on. this line to save the Kaiser's territory, and 1,500,000 Russians. Belief that the direct Russian ad- vance against Germany is rapidly progressing is partially confirmed by an announcement of the Breslau Gazette that the military authori- ties there have cut all telegraph communication between Breslau, Posen and Liebnitz. This would in- dicate the approach of the Russian armies. There were rumors two days ago that Cossacks have been seen a few miles east of Breslau. Despatch from Rome, St. Peters- burg and. Amsterdam confirm pre- vious intimations that all attempts Russian territory are combining -- to hold the Russians within Galicia and Poland until the combats in the west are decided have failed, and -- that the Germans withdrawing from with such Austrian forees as have escaped capture or disintegration in -- a final effort to block the Russians from Prussia and Silesia. A Two-fold Invasion. It is now certain that the Russian advance isa double movement. A great army is moving westward from Warsaw and the south for the -- purpose of striking at Posen, while _ another army, released from Gali- cia by the collapse of Austrian re- sistance, is co-operating by an ad- -- yance against Cracow. It is con- servatively estimated that the Rus- _ sian strength in the two armies is not less than 1,500,000 men, this exclusive of the reserves held to guard Galicia and Russian Poland and to complete siege operations, -- There are reliable reports also that Russia, having now at the front troops ample for the invasion of Germany, is assembling: a second line of 2,000,000. = | DIPLOMATS TALK TOO MUCH. Latest Assertion Is Japan Is Ex- specting War With U.S. A despatch from Washington says: There is trouble again in the Washington diplomatic camp. This time Baron Wilhelm von Schoen, an attache of the German Embassy, has irritated the Administration by giving out an interview in which he says that the Japanese consider war with the United States inevitable. Secretary Bryan discussed the in- terview with President Wilson, and the State Department called the matter to the attention of the Ger- man Ambassador and asked for an explanation. Several statements by foreign dip- lomats here since the beginning of the war have greatly displeased the Administration, but in some res- pects the interview with Baron von Schoen is regarded as the most of- fensive of all. The statements con- tained therein are such as to lead inevitably to the conclusion that if any effect were expected it must be that of inciting the hostility of the American public to Japan, presum- ably in the hope that opinion creat- ed against the Far Eastern nation would be correspondingly favorable to Germany. Baron Schoen was attached to the German Embassy in Tokio when war was declared by Japan, and was handed his passports by the Tokio Government on that occasion. He recently arrived in the United States, and is now attached to the Embassy here. On his way from Tokio to the United States he was reported as speaking in a vein quite like that of his interview, but little attention was paid to it, as he was not then serving under the Wash- ington Embassy. eee eee | 60,000 HELPLESS IN VIENNA. In Addition to Unemployed and Fugitives From Galicia. A despatch from Venice says: A graphic picture of conditions of life in Vienna is revealed in.an of- ficial statement of the Mayor of Vienna that his city is supporting the families of 82,000 reservists at a daily cost of $50,000, and in addi- tion is endeavoring to provide for 100,000 unemployed and another 100,000 fugitives from Galicia and the Crownland of Bukowina. For the fugitives the city already has expended $1,000,000, According to the Mayor's statement 40,000 un- employed have been given positions on the public works, but the re- maining 60,000 are in a_ helpless condition. GERMAN GENERALS KILLED. Throtha Perished. Berlin, A despatch from London, says: and Major-General von Throtha. aggregate 10,086 dead, wounded, and 13,621 missing. A despatch from London says With a view to avoiding a politica contest, Sir Edward Carson Sir John Simon have and withdrawa their candidatures to the lord rec- ee ae Kitchener Appointed a Lord Rector torship of the University of Edin burgh, and Field Marshal Ear l accepted. , ¥ | Kitchener has 'been invited to as- sume the lord rectorship and has 22nd, nel, 17 officers, and 195 men dead Von Wroohem, Von Arbou, and Von via The latest casualty list shows the death of two German generals in the western camp, Gen- erals von Wroohem and von Arbou, The total losses so far published 37,769 The list shows the heaviest losses were sustained by the 174th Infan- try in the battles of St. Die on Au- gust 20th and Luneville on August This regiment lost its colo- twenty-one officers and 1,092 wound- TOMMIES LOVE GEN. FRENCH. Cheer Him to the Echo Whenever General Visits Them. "Sir John French is in great health and spirits, and looks twenty years younger than when he went off to war," says a letter from an officer of the British headquarters staff, which has reached London. "His army idolizes him and the 'Tommies are crazy about him,' "' After one day's work he insisted on visiting the trenches. This was during the British retreat, and his staff was '"'hard put to it to prevent the old boy running needless risks."' Whenever the word went through the ranks that Sir John was around the men cheered him to the echo. After the magnificent tribute which the Field Marshal paid to his men, this testimony.on their side shows the inspiration of his personality. This instance of Sir John's per- sonal kindness is told. When the Field Marshal left London for Paris he undertook with what those who know him well say is character- istic courtesy and simplicity, to convey some small parcels to her little children from a lady, who is a friend of Lady French. These children were stuck in Paris with their governess, and were about to be taken to the south of France with two or three families, similar- ly situated. Lady French lives near London and devotes her time to good works in the interests of the troops under her husband's command. ; Hee SUCCESS OF BELGIANS. Break Their Own Record Taking of Prisoners. Se, in the A despatch from London says: Heavy fighting is proceeding at dif- ferent points to the south of Ant- werp. At one place, the name of which was deleted by the Belgian censor, a German force of 2,000 men was routed, many being killed, wounded or taken prisoners. Never have the Belgians taken so many prisoners in a single battle. ms Servian Assassin Killed. A despatch from Rome says: Major Tankosne, the Servian of- ficer who is said to have instigated the assassination of Archduke Francis Ferdinand and his wife, the Duchess of Hohenberg, at Sara- jevo on June 28, was killed in battle at Kroupagne, on the Drina. Ma- jor Tankosne is the man who was assured by Austria of supplying the bombs which were thrown, ee Socialist Decorated, A despatch from Copenhagen says; The Kaiser has for the first time decorated a Socialist. He has conferred the Iron Cross on Herr Schwartz, president of the Social- ist Unions of Bavaria, for bravery on the battlefield. Son of Von Moltke Killed. A despatch from Paris says: <A son of Field Marshal Count von Moltke has been killed in the fight- ing at Hsternay. "You see, had the lamb been obedient and stayed in ithe fold it would not have been eaten bv the, wolf, would it?' 'No, ma'am," i|yreplied the best scholar in the class, "it would have been eaten bby ed, and 59 men missing. re) us. enna A despatch from Ottawa says 'to telegraphs and telephones been passed. The property of any _over by the Government. Power 0 censorship is assumed over all tele | grams, as well as authority to di rect that all telegraph and_ tele phdne messages passing out of Can _named offices only. | for employes of telegraph and telé iP der Ww. ] _ COL. V. A. S. WILLIAMS In 'command of the. Canadian cond J tingent at Valcartier, outside Canada. $ Strict Censorship on All Messages An order-in-Council extending the Government's power of censorship has telephone | or telegraph company may be taken ada be transmitted through certain A form of oath hone companies is provided, un- hich they swear not to allow {any message of a character to con- vey information to the enemy to go A maximum pen- | alty of $5,000 or five years' impris- yerereenrensnennarenessssesrecesesmscsees >) oument,'or both, is provided. Another order-in-Council passed prohibits the publication of mili- tary or naval information of a kind likely to be useful to the enemy; the sketching or photographing of naval or military defences; giving or selling soldiers antoxicating liquor with intent.so obtain inform- ation from the®enemy; spreading | reports inethe neighborhood of a defended harbor likely to create disaffection or alarm. It is pro- vided that all visible lights in the neighborhood of a defended harbor may be ordered kept extinguished between specified hours, and that inhabitants may be required to keep within their houses. A penal- ty of $5,000 fine or five years' im- prisonment is fixed, f see A