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Stephen"..SV;r-)-r;'y-(i:_:'1,- r.Wi ()i, Was at-I rested, charged `With the murder of ,1`-Icizksa Louttck 1n 3, bush near Erin- unsw- 'Severa1 employment agents in Montreal have been arrested `on a charge of defrauding applicants for work. - . C` -`on p/Q`, i I Dr. James A. R. Dickson of Galt was elected Moderator of the:Pres-` byterian Synod of Toronto and Kingston. T o . . i -Mayor Oliver, after his tt_'ip Ato the States, says that a ltratxon plant can be estabhshed in Toronto for $750,000. _~With a thousgmd d6l1ar worth of l sxlver ore in h1s_ posse_ss1on, Joseph E g and?` InLc%ub"\toi's and Brooders. Mrs. R. Jak';n1Li5}1}; :}E$yF, aiave, are spending a few days in Toronto. `Mr. Thos. Longhurst 'of Palmer- ston has; removed to-the 6th Ward. Mr. T. Leeming of Hamilton visit- ed at Mr. C. -Catcher : on Tuesday- -Mr. {Tompkins has been removed 1o__(tLhe R._ V, H. suffering from `typ- ox, _ AA-- . - Every late novelty, _ plain colors and l V lowest prices _for `V opportunity `to buy New I `mes but once a season and it is your g and Waist Goods-an opportunity all the welqme because it is just the time you need the goods. `It will be a sweepin ...1ll L- f\:f\y .-v-l,__. ., , - 2 This Dress Goods mes golden opportunity buy and more wel me because just titrie sweeping sale with reserva. ions; lasting` bug` 8 days. A redqeed price ticket will be pinned on `every t Sperling was drowned! I Poultry Food- .pa for thfaking. % _ IT'S FRIDAY, 15th MAY. to SATURDAY, THE 23rd MAY. SALES FOR SPOT CASH ONLY. `Icon `V -lrlie S.O.E. 'have formed a cricket dug` and will play 2; game on May 2st . ~ - W 1`! T , .%. ~m~:4~:~-:~% AT Cattle Food. :A'wR0US4ING...l E An 8-horsepower Boiler and 3-` |horsepow;r Engine, made by the Polson Co. Toronto. Having installed gas in our oice, iwe have the above for immediate! E_Iam'es' Hgll was arrested by the To-l [ronto pohce. I `Y ` . FIN` , Boi|er&Engine For Sale. A :Advance Office y In RRIE. E The Norwegian which collided with damaged and had Gaspe Basin; , Ed. Luck has taken the house %n_dld ay St., vacated -by Mr.-- W. E. 0 _ . | Sir Wilfrid Laurier olfered a com- promise in the `House of `Commons on the election act amendment, to allow the County Judges to revise the lists in Manitoba, and delimit the riding boundaries where neces- sary. After eleven years occupation, Britain, Russia, France and Italy have decided to withdraw their troops from the Island `of Crete. The case of Win." Robinson of V Flos, charged with `the theft of cer- tain articles on Feb. 29th from H. Johnston of Minesing, (previously reported in The Advance), came up on Tuesday in Judge Ardagh s crim- inal court. The goods having been restored, and His -Honor being of opinion that there was no felonious lintent, Robinson was acquitted. VICKERS V FRIDAY. MXY 15;}, Address Vagci of steamer Thord, the Ottawa, was to put back tol ;I.I-IURSDAY, MAY May'............ .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..$6_t:1p~=r`;: June....... . . . . . . . . . . . . . M .. .- July.......... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. v. x3per:r.. August............ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. v-.:}3per<=: Septemben... .. _ . . . . . . . . .. . .. ._.ugperfo: 0ct0ber...... . . . . . . . . . . . . .. ..1._apvr*.:: Novembex-............ .-.`~;~ertoz , Where the cash _system on rm: has rec: a.dopted.as it is in Lmdsay P:ijr`?va)ro and ma}! other p1a.ces.it is said to have 21'-"`H L'T`-`3` 53%` faction to the consumers as we-ll as H10 dew? (Van-..-an... nan: rlnn 4-nmhf evefpnl MUN BooooooooooooooooooooooooI BEGINNINC} .\I.\`x' '.~I, 1:` Greatly Reduced Prices we will sell our CF.LF.BRA'I`I-II S('I ..\.\'T3) COAL and Wood for SI U'l' tf.\.~`I{ U.\'LY.1 the following prices . Coal Down] IHCLIGH ID ENC CUHSULHCYS us H Vin an Ink -4- Consumers under the vrcdxt fox themselves struggling to pay mtnlisafter fuel had been consumed who now find it mj easier to provide that whivh is an abs): necessity 111 this cold clinmtc. The Iiecessity should have tho the weekly wage. Best Quality. Prompt Delivery. I orrnces : I Dunlop Street, Phone No. Victoria " " ' CABMAN Baggage delivered at all houfn from any part of the town. Lab i trsina at all hours of day or night. ,. 5 5 SOPHIA will be sold on and after May 14 prices." Prices for CASH UN L Y as 1:-.. , Novembex-........ ................ .. Prices of wood on appiicntioxx. The CASH SYSTEM has boa`?! mane Vnnnn 1:230]: Mn-unf tn thn V1111 Miss V. Dobson gave 3. pink tea to a nu_mber of her friends on Monday gvenmg. ` ' _ . 1:-,, 1r,,, n V V co .` AIIU DADII Dl.Bl'l'.alVl. Inna UH -' ` many places with benet to Ilw c-_n-- we hogs amt our many patrons u 1.11 11` c it in and assist us in gi"` h-Inl u. "I I 121181. FRANK BESH Wilxbe ldutrit `r c hO1)'- F must boxggde begiox-Leg 02-r wofxsen cr>`rd`1' M for delivery. . . mV|'I$ nil Inn rnnn anhinvf, 10 In` E C 101' IIBIIYOIT. _ action _Dellver1es will be made subJ0t `"5? bere- nN'1'1V%lo and lino . satisfactory. H1931 A ._tm-nedvwhen money `will be D1``p cheer! refunded. , K erred MGREA LY REDUCED PRICES ta 6 "l': y:7`;`fan;'8t;)n. saw v<>r`"" I `It. runs nun-r-for tnn. .1n\ 1T1`M8$66bper ton. $3-1 _ 91.76 per quarter ton.` Ifor Jnne. 5 per ton, $3.45 .8171. nnr mmrtpr ton. For .1u1y;e.' rfnm 33.56 ~ . . ., _ - . rt on- _l;'m August nope"??3`.} .` $3.65 SLR: nor nnm-tar ton. v . _-----5. _ ' Mr. Vernon Cannon gave a bi}t`h- day party on Saturday to a. number of little friends. - ' I Bacmmn. MAY 19.7, 1908- Coal and Wood LIMITED. Fuel and Builders` Supplics. Barrie and Orillia. PHONE 321 . 14th, `no.-- er ton. 33.45 II` tnn. per half W ; _ -1 mn. "Mrs. L. E. i..ne of To:-on.tcY)V has been visiting her mother, Mrs. M. Campbell, Essa St. flt,,_' fl! , `IN (I. Ll'fx-'3m ehea Jl'flJ Dfbk. .u. 11 mic: absola : 211 Nd Q .~' f0H0'93 ,.. mn Iln w -5 b meeul -----r-v.., awn. have `Mrs; Thee, Moore, Essa St., `and ...her mother. Mrs. "L McConkey, are both very ill at present. , `f____ A .1 Raymen r 18 gi A` V . Mrs. " A. Cannot;--a-.t'1:1.J_ and Mrs. D. J =McDougall we're. in fl`.-oronto for a few days ~laAst'_Vw,egk. V `1; fes`s;'-:=: 6?.-J.` I:;=.;l-ivem and Artigur Little attended the Conservatxve _convention in Beeton last Friday. \ l __,1 `--`_A. A 1 11 Ecl\oes From :South` Ward. `Mrs. Daley, who ha; sbent ` _s'e'i}eral months _ with her brother-in-1ayv, `Mr. % -A.;- ;Smith,` rem:fned* to`-"her homg-.' ip L I ooouoooooouoooouooouq `Mr. Homer Heard is on the sick .~.--,.._.c.v.m,=u)_n- 2". ,`\`e1f '3tgif'c.t1p11_ M ~_-:;.;.=. A . .. -1 .__-:Roel_l;. ;I{__n_cV1tt in; '.B(;1;rie _s -de11ig`mL `*9! 4' * :A!.i9+5i`f?-t!1:Fi:,9 '5 5 XEREVIARY or THINGS TRANSPIRINGMIYVWA nARRm's RAILWAY QUARTER. Over 100 pairs g d ( ton pillow slips, 4` Q inches. well ma. e. Pillow Sli . 25. lice+5it-la-the:Fif.7 Mil ,=%\,t`=`. th:"`1.. and` ' ' " ii-:~cv::!l1hanu niImi+` ?Mr.' D. `C. Cameron, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Graves,_ Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Lawrence are attending the Conven- tion of Railroad Engineers _in C01- umbus, Oh.io, tliis week. .`Kl ,__,,, 'l'\ 11- `D01: `Messrs. Duncan McMillan and James Gilch_r_ist, two old and re- spected `employees "of the `G. T. R. here, having reached the age limit, were superanuated _,last week. If 1'\ A 1' Mr. R. A. Larin, the genial mana- ger of the station restaurant ati Gra- venhurst, has been transferred to Cornwall,` and will remo_ve to the factory town about the 18th. of the month. * +The Brotherhood of Railroad Ti-am ' ' re ular 1 ect- ings in Trainmen s a , on the 2nd .Wednesday, at 8 p. and the 4th Sunday, at 2.30 p. m., every month. -Visiting brethren wel- co t_n`e.a r ` V` 1 J"1""" _" ` 7' N se-rvatives. . -Four. girls-were_swept over a dam in the Neosho -River, at Hartford, K'an,, and drowned. = Major S. Logan, formerly of the teaching staff of the 1?. M. C., Kingston. is dead in. Egypt. - ' .`Mr. Winston Churchill, President of the Board of Trade, was elected in Dundee" by a plurality` `Qf 2.709 votes. ~ ' " Jeanne Weber, `who?-`is blamed for the murder of a score of children inr P It 119 up >. ooooooodooooououoouoog N91119: The-"contents bf Mrs. D. W. Mtur-V ray_ s store were almost entirely de- stroyed by re on Saturday last, the result, it is upposed, of a lighted re-cracker. o damage, however, was done to the building. V IIY_..j ,_.. ,__ 1 -- -v --.-v Iwvu-.\pIuIv Word was received here during -the week of the death of _Dr. `J. Howard ;Code, who was married last February to Miss Minnie -Whitely of Depot Harbor, formerlyof,-the 6th Ward. The remains rwereg taken from the West to Depot Harbor for interment. ; The =Grand.`Trunk management at Montreal has announced that` there is no truth in a report to the effect that a general decrease of IO per cent. had been `decided upon in the wages of employes under the rank of superintendent and the` Fhigher OFFL- cers, to come into effect on June 1st. rxz -___-24 ,,':c - i;RPr(;r;?re ..ST6i-j o;; to , Bap_a.' W, 1, 1 _ '_b1's_,1'9n'*- gcfetar ` 1' Dfih 1 o `O n oooooooo oooooooooooooooco L i sacaety and%J%reopue. A. slig11t_jmpx-<)xvrTemLx1`1: is reported in the cp.nd1t_ion of `Dean Egan. ` _.- 11.__.--k..J'A..... :. ...:c:+_ 111 but -byuutuuu vs av-.- ...._._- .Mr'sL. S1.1.ie`1',of Bracebridge is fvisi1;- %ing,: Mrs. Wm: Taylor, Dunlop `St. V {Miss `-Annie. -Cheesman left this week" to spend some time `in Toronto. ~ -Dr. J. V. Brown _was down from` O1:i!lia'.this week.for a `short time. P 17C'_LA._:_ 1) f` _ K11 IIIJG -I-I113 VV\-bus - ;vn up Mr. G. `R `Ford of Vit~<;1';z-1,'~.l?'o("(*?_-'.A;- is inf Town renewing qld acquaint- `ances; . _..u. . n ,-I-\ 1 P T\.,_____L,`__ _T Mis.s;Mi1dfed 'Peaker 1s visiting her cousin,` Neelands. -- 4. .- LV CUIGIIUDI "Rev. Fr. Mulhem of St. Patrick s, Toronto, asstsged in the `services at StVMa_ry s' Church on Sunday. ` -- ....A.._ `A. `Jan LJI-V `LVLQAJ L7 \JlnvIn ynn v.- .--.--__._, . Mrs." Jack Dyment is away for the summer. She will visit in To_ronto and Buffalo before returning. Major and Mrs. Peuchen were up from Toronto this week`. They will return shortly for their summer resi- dence, Woodlands. ;OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOQOOOOOOOOQOOOOOOOOOOOOOO : . ` The marriage took place last week in. Allegheny, Pa.`; of Mr. Frederick W. Wiliamson, formerly of Town, and 'Miss Alice Margaret Land. Mrs. D. D, ._McLeod, Mrs. Wm. Black, Mrs. Rainford and Mrs. Chestnut were among those who at- tended the annual meeting of the W. F. M.. S., held in Westminster Church, Toronto, last week . .-Mrs. Frank Kent, of Meaford, and Miss Ockley will recei've with their mother, Mrs. Ockley, at the Parson- age, Collier Street, on the afternoon and evening _of Friday, .May Isth. Mrs. Ockley will not receive again this season. . Mr, and -Mrs. W. A. Sneath, Elm- vale; Miss M. White, Whitby; Mr. J. A. White, Parry Sound; Mr. T. M. White, Toronto; Dr. J. McLean and Miss McLean, Orillia, and Dr. P. D. McLean, Woodbridge, were in _Town yesterday attending the fun- eral of the late Earl McLean. [EVENTS or THE WEEK [- Gord<.)'r`1vE_.I-.;;;ci1a:w- \;ras_ ;:1}62vnedl in lake Ontlario by-the capsizmg of a |dinghy. ' `__L ;I_-2_. 12--.... k-. clan \JlIl5IIJ v Four men lost their lives by the bursting ofva defective pipe in the boiler of the steamer Brockville. George \/Vhite, a market gardener, near "Toronto, kept his daughter, Hilda. White, imprisoned because he Relieved _she was `trying to poison 1m. ' - -.- rs an -.1 ` To` A A I I I by Mr. J. M. Godfrey will be the Lib- eral candidate in Peel, and his bro- ther, Dr. Forbes Godfrey, the Con- servative candiaate in West York. Mr. A. Tremb1_:;)r,'QI.'i`l)-e1`_;3.1 116m- inee in North Essex, has retlred. 1, M r. list. nnnvv -an A1\/Ava: .-u_.v.-, --...- -v-._-_ At attempt was made to wreck a train near Peterboro by placing ties ;on the track. ' \JQn -..' --.~'... I Fred. Robinson, a_ horse-trainer, [was crushed to death In a box-car at St- Thomas. ` ` IJU -an. gnu------. ; T,en settlrs lost their_, houses and `farm. buildings by praine res in Leofeld district, Sask. ` I ' 1 I .A.a\-vn\.u\n \g - u v c -`av ~-..--. Frontenac Li bera1s_hzive decided to support Dr. Spank1e, Independent, against Mr. J, S. Gallagher. -_.. .1` `Nil . sway--....- ---. The twelixre-:1-"3{;a.'r-<;1w(iwc~ :.;$n[ of Mr .Henry Hannah 0? Ha'fni1ton fell into the water during a t and was drqwned. f\T\I\ r 0|. I I I `-1 bringing in laborers. \.Il \o_V IV ll\y\-lo I C;P.R. freight business is tied up at Owen `Sound by the frcight-hand- lers strike, but the company is still I I`. 11,, `I _-. it C:rid-lada.-tues nominated for the Leg-| islature on Saturday included Mr. M. -A. Allison, Liberal, for Prince Ed- ward; essrs. C. A. Brower, East Elgin; . E. Butler, North Oxford; and Dr. Jaques, for Haldimand, Con- servatives. . ` I V \Jl-vu- `whO, Lis the _murder s_core chil'd_ren bPar1s,'nar rowly escaped lynchxng a_t Nancy. ~ ' 1 .,., >1`, -*_,!._-_ `AA AA__1__ ____ av`.-Quad - A resolution favoring an early un- ion of -. the South African colonies was passed at. t_he conference on customs and railway matters at Pre- toria. * ~- A ' av. nu- The Ameer of Afghanistan has re -' called his subjects who have crossed the Indian frontier, and has issued orders to his officials to prevent any further. incursions 1.-nu. IMF. B. Beare is visiting in George- town. -`Mrs. C. -Cameron is visiting Sarma fr1ends., Mr. E. J. Benn was in Toronto T during the` week. Mrs. Greer of Toronto isthe guest of Mrs. T, C. Royce. - ' Mr. `Moftt of Toronto has been staymg at Mr. G. Cowie- s. Canon Murphy was in Toronto for a short txme on Saturday. `If Y'\ TT'II ' ' ; I Chippewa. elec_torsf passed a Vby-1`aVw to purchase a. sxte for {be new. smel- ter, ` - up --u 0 9 "Mrs. Me_1\{in Jones and her daugh_- tex; were Injured in a runaway acct- dent. ` ` -7-NI ?V1-s. N. `B. Johnston is` still `very ill _at the home of her parents in Toronto. T ' J. Foy nd Mr. Geo. Gooderham will be the candidates in South Tprol1to._ . " V-Lake tra-Fc.`from Toronto to Nia. gara. and`Lew1ston was opened by the steamer Corona. ' ~ '-Dr.- .F. Bryns wa-s _nominated by _the East. Toronto Lxberalso at their convgntnon. I r" V James Kennedy, `a colored citizen ..of~-Moritgomery, Ala.,T but-n`ed _ve` of his children toideath, ' . rt ' ' `' 'I'`I_...;. LL-..--.__I f"1.2.._-_. ._-1._-`l-' 9,, V ;I`hree t_1-91-ousand Ellines rell)e_.-1s `in two columns are `matching. on the treaty ` port_ of 'Mengt_s_ze. . 6;"-.- is`: a. 4" __ _..-' r--- v- ----.-$g`--v- Seyen towns in 1 - Oklahoma , .w ere sw'ept`.by` a series_ of j tgimgdbes, and fovur,-of them wreckgd, ' " ' - .'.'.>..- . x \ `1..' ?.`|`n|';-: spin -.2 4- . 1.: _`',`r . = ~ A, . '7.` 'r"_`'`'_`' `'`'!'`'`-7 , _" ` ``'`"`.`_'V`" I, . " . t _. -*Arthur'~ t.1.ey`,;,was7.nomm-: by . ., ~1E{s'.'vir'f"_1'a;.'i%1i{atang at be old home in Depot Harbor. V Rev. W. A. Amos {attended the Synod in Toronto this week. Mr. Jas. _McMillan s `condition is very much 1mproved th1soweek.. t `THE Nommakn ADVANCE MONDAY, VMAY nth. ITUESDAY, MAY nth. Continued from Page 6. of_ Bramptqn -Mass Bessxe l The proposal to hold a convention; looking to_ the uni_catio_n of _the South Af;-lean c01on_1esA 15 meeting Awlth a mixed receptuon. !`,,I.4 L..A.-...Ln.. \r\1;nn WILII. it luuxcg. nuywy ---- -. After a severe ght between police` and_ strikers at Owen `Sound, in which a number of men were wound- ed, the C.P.R. and the freight-hand- I I lers patched up an agreement. WEDNESDAY, MAY 13th. % '~i\_'/ir.m_I:._ "(.`z_.mi _<)'u'c`l1_ermr_I;a busi- ness trap to Toronto on Monday. V `II , I" , P 1* II` I } Herbert S1 }_in_Larder Lake. yyvl ka. `GI.-Ion. F. R..I:a.tchfo`rd, K.C., was; sworn in as a Judge of the High Court of Justice. -,._1"n_`_-._ .r--.._......_... ` All Launuwn A-lI.Qn\\rI Twelve persons'and possibly more! ;were killed by a tornado in Nebras-i ` 1\u Se_ver'1 _miners were killed in an _ex- plosxon m a collicry at Wyommg, Pa. ,/ ` l L-- -- .- -.cp-1 1'rt"* \ I \ILllIp \Il. K Q 5 A V \i. The International A Paper -Company imported 170,000 tons of wood pulp; from Canada last year. i 1 1| \JIlL \/I.oIn\A\aI. -ac..- J .v... 3 Mr. John `Shaw was nominated as` }a. running mate to -Mr. W. K, Mc- Naught in North Toronto. * T An ! A--on`-uursr 11: inf:-nr`11t~pr` Q J.Va.llgllL ll! LVUILH .I.u1uuLu. Lord Avebury -has mtroduced a bill into the Hous_c of Lords `to pro- hibit the xmporgatxon of plumage. Mii{cd".E`{1Bifx{ `v;as-__cr'L1Vshedwby a pile of lumber, on a. Grand Trunk car |and died in the hospital at Toronto.| | aaxe. l\D4 1ix&.r." Eo${;e{ 13% "Eo1i{{1gF}8}S&." `has taken a house on `Cumberland St,