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THE DAILY WHIG, TUESDAY, MARCH 25. Recent Books : "MRS. WICGS, OF THE PATCH," by A. © Hogsa, 750 "THE HOUSE WITH THE GREEN SHUT TERS," by Douglss. 75¢. "SOME EXPERIENCES OF AN IRISH RM", doth, 81. "THE SURPRISES OF AN EMPTY HO TEL," by A. C. Guoter, 50c "THE WAR IN SOUTH CAUSE AND CONDUCT" Doyle, only 10e, Ses our list of 5c. booke selling at 25 CABBAGE AFRICA; ITS by A. Coven ssi R. UGLOW & Co, Booksellers, 141 Princess Street. RAINY WEATHER WILL SOUN BE HERE. Pat it will have mo effect on yoar house it you use the paint we. recommend, and that is RAMSAY'S. All the newest shades. Ask for color card, Ooly $1.60 per gallon. MITCHLLL'S HARDWARE. ORDER BY NAME, 0000000000000 0000000 ANGLIN Yard and See. § OF 'WELLINGION & : STREET. . STOP BURNING DOLLARS RAR: THAT'S WHAT YOU BO IF . NOU USE THE TTD = e Suputior 0.48 others. a rn of your gaa Prices BRECK & ¢ HALLIDAY, - SOLE AGENTS. eesoeseRRica occ 0essssned Ti lngia 1 & Go. TE 5 PL EMT EDITION ON PAGE ¥IVE, COMMERCIAL MATTERS, What is Going on in the Busines World---The Market News, The puolpwood exports since 1587 have buen : 1897, $711,152; 1598, $912,041; I899, HI2.086; 1900, $902,772; 1901, $1.397.019 In 1900 28,597,118 pousds. of refived su kur, valued st $848,222, were imported into Canadag and in 1901, 51,998,514 pounds, valued at $1,426,683. H persistent reports ars verified, Charles 8. Mellen will soon resign the presidency of the Nortiern Pacific railway in favor of J. D Farrell, of Seattle, presidest of the Pacific cont steawship company The C. P. KR bus purchased the Eastern sbuttolr, ar Manirenl, for $200.000, pay able in forty years. The cattle market, in Cution, is now the most iwrotiaot ip the city, avd is located om the CPI. lise the sorthesst of the city The bitwoinous eonl operators of the fk in helms, north of the Rational Mowd, wd bovis an output of ooethicd the bite minous con! produced in the state have per fected a pouvling arrangement for the sake of the produce, about 2,000,000 tons anne ally. The Avstralawign wheat erop is estimated by the Ausuralasdan at 112,000,000 bushels, aud by the Melbourne Leader st 147,000,000 bushels. Seed requirements are 16,000,000 bushels, and food consumption 48,000 000 bushels Last venr's wheat crop was estimated ol ut 142,000,000 bushels, It reported in Halifux that steps are being taken for the alhorption of the New Eoulaud lass amd coke compmiy, of Everett, Mass by the Dominion cout \prople and, as acon soguence, the cancelline of the contract us der wich the Dominion coal company is supplying stock to the Everott works, SHOT THROUGH THE HEAD. A Citizen Of Truro Used a Snider Rifle. Truro, N.8., March 25.---Another sudden death has shocked this com munity, the unfortfnate being John Hamilton, residing on Waddell street Deceased was sixty-four years of age, and leaves a wife and four sons snd three daughters. Last night he galled on the wife of a neighbor and raw ing a ring from his finger said : "Give this to your husband and hid i good-bye for me." The lady regarded the offer as the act of one whose nerves were unstrung by indulgence and asked him to come again when her husband was at home. Mr. Hamilton, shortly afterwards, went home and to bed. No danger was thought of by the family and about eight o'clock this morning he was ar- oused, Hall an hour later a report was heard and the deceased was found half sitting on the bedside supporting a Snider rifle between his knees and with a wound behind his chin, with a corresponding wound at the back of his head, where the 'ball passed out. Mr. Hamilton's youngest son, John, was killed last fall while employed on the Sidney and Louisburg railway. An inquest held this morning brought a verdict in accordance with the facts. A STORY FROM BARABOO. Stienmann Said He Worked With Czolgoss. Bara"on, Wis, March = 25.--Jacob Steinmann, taken to Waupun, last Saturday, under arrest on a charge of burglary, told sherifi Stackhouse that he was an anarchist, was present at the lodge meeting when Crolgosz was selected to assassinate president Me Kinley, and tied the handkerchief over the hand of Crolgosz just before the murder. He further said that a well known woman was one of the instiga- tors of the crime. TO HANG ON MAY 27TH. The Galician Will End Days On The Scaffold. Winnipeg, March 25.--The Galician, Saloman, found guilty of murdering his wife, at Stuartburn, was sentenced this morning to he hanged on May 27th. He admitted the justice of the sentence, but pleaded hard for his life. The jury recommended him to mercy. Ten Years And Big Fines. Havana, March 25. The trials be fore the Andencia court of the vases arising from the ewbeszlement of Cu- ban postal funds have roiled in the following sente noes © C.F. W. Neeley, ten years' imprisonment --- to pay a fine of 856.701; W. H. Reeves, ten vears' imprisonment and pay g fine of £15, 516; Estes GG. Rathbone, ten years' imprisonment and to pay a fine of $35,324, -------------- Mallory Hats. Guaranteed to hold their color or we give vou a new hat il they fade, Derbys or fedoras. Jenkins. When times are bad the watchmaker ng and altogether. up-to-date. overflowi of this would do for us of course. Per- puzzled a bit in making a choice LE or : cutter, 8. D. Aball, is t fine work. He isa ~ The smallpox IF OPERATIONS ARE SUCCESS. FULLY CONTINUED. And This It Likely to Ee The Case--Smallpox_ Situation is Well in Hand-The Chosen Friends in Session. Toronto, March 25.---No getion ean or will be taken by to prevent the ling interest in mines to Mr. Schwab, oi the stee trust, and his associates. The matter is simply a transfer from one Ameri can company to another, and so long | a# the mines are continued in opera tion there will be no interference. The | probability is, in fact, that the out put of nickel will be greatly increased. situation is well in The lumbermen coming transfer of a control: and | now. various points and thoroughly in sproted, and their effects disinfected These precautions will, it is" believed, prevent any further serious outbreaks in Ottawa and Hull. In western On tario there is great improvement. Til bury. East, in Kent, had forty cases: which have all been "cleaned up now. The grand covnsil of the Chosen Friends began its deliberations this morning at Association hall, the 321 delegates ip attendance representing over 22,000 members. Grand council tor McCammon and the other officers presented their reports, showing an increase of 3,772 in the during the year and urging the neces sity of increasing the dues of the old or members to the standard paid by the newer members, ze favored by in spector of insurance Hunter, rater nal greetings were presented by re presentutives of the AO.UW. and other associations. The death was announced from Ash ville, N.C, this morning, of John turns, of this city, for many years one of the most prominent of Cana- dian earriage manufacturers, Mr Burns went south ago for the benefit of his health. He was a director of the Standard bank and president of the Vietoria rolling stock company. DYING IN POVERTY. Mother Them Twins. Denver,. March 25.-Mrs. Mary Ei virg Gillespie, aged eighty-four years, the mother of thirty-seven children, thirty of whom were twins, has been taken to the hospital to be under bet- ter care than she could receive at the country farm, though her only dis case is old age. Mrs, Gillespie was married but within twenty years preceding the Gill e, Virginia. Fourteen pairs of twins and the before the civil war, and then Wil linm Gillespie enlisted with the con federate army. but a year before ihe death of her husband in the battle of Viekshurg, the fifteenth pair of twins was born How the widow brought up her enor mous family she does not explain. "All but a few lived," she says. "and as soon ax they were old enough te care for themselves, I had to let them go and seek a living, | don't know where they are, 1 did as it once was, They do not where their mother is, and he does not come. Perhaps they will Took for her some day. 1 do not know." know TOOK AMERICAN MONEY To Maintain Chureh in England Named After Penn. London, March 25.- arisen between the church, in parishoners. 00 in viear of Penn Buckinghamshire, and his ker, many of buried therein. The parishioners say they are surprised and humbled that | the money should be raised in Ameri on. The vicar refused to produce his ac counts, but promised to restore the money to the donors. Col. Hodgins' Appointment. Ottawa, March © 25. --Lieut.-Col. W. FE. Hodgins, formerly in command of | the governor-general's Foot Guards, has been appointed district officer commanaing the Ottawa brigade, The vacancy occurred through the ap pointme nt of Col. Cotton to the posi tion of gnartermaster general. Scout Killed By' Buffalo. Butte, Mont., March 25. News has been received here of the death of Ri- chard Rock, an old-time and widely known scout and frontiersman, at his ranch near Henry's Lake, on Satur- day. Rock was gored to death by a baffalo, which he had raised, Will Build Independent Lines. Victoria, B.C.. March 25--McKenzie & Mann will build an independent | road between Victoria and Nanaimo. | Arrangements could not be made to take over the E. & E. railway, owing to the conditions imposed by some of the shareholders. Musician Drowned, Detroit, March 25. Word is received that J. H. Hahn, director of the De TWILL NOT INTERFERE! the government | the Sudbury nickel ! out of the woods are being held at | membership | only a few weeks | of 37 Children, 30 of | seven other children besides were born | During the war, and | know, hut my memory is not a8 good | except one, | ~A dispute has | The former collected 84,- | Pennsylvania to keep up the | church named after the famous Quak- | whose descendants are | PITH OF THE NEWS, ---- { The Very Latest News Culled From All Over The World. Cardinal Gincomo Missin, archbishop { of Goers, Australia, is dead. The rembpant of the force in Lagu | na. provimce of Luzon, under the in surgent leader Caballos, has surren dered. | : It i= reported that a fierce fire is raging at Drazil, Ind, and that sever- al business blocks are a'veady in ashes, The house of congress at Washington passed the river and harbor appropria- { tion bill on Saturday which amounts | to $60,658,267. { Mrs. Alice M. Weaver, who is being | tried in Rochester for forgery, says | she committed the crime in order to pay her husband's debs Thomas Gillespie, a director of the Canadian bank of Commerce, and a well-known figure in Anglo-Canadian circles, lis dead at London, Engiand. The present 'intention of Hon. Mes ers. Fielding. Mulock, and Paterson is to leave Montreal for England, on June 14th, on the swamer Tunisian The chamber of deputies, Paris, ad | opted a hill providing » eredit of | 500.000 francs to defray the expenses { of president Loubet's visit to Russia. | The outbreak of cholera at Manila does not create alarm. No white per sons have been stricken. Up to noon vesterdav there have been twenty-six enses and twenty-one aeaths. Roland Agassiz, of the 2nd Cana dian mounted. rifles, is revorted to i 1 } have been dangerously ill of dysentery | at Charlestown, on March 20th. The | next of kin is Mrs. Agassiz, London, Eng. Dovid Pest, formerly reeve of the township of North Cavuga, was al tacked bv four young men as he was crossing the river. bridge on Monday night, thrown dewn and robbed of 37 { Rev. BR. C. Horner has > word of the safe arrival at Assionte, | Egypt, of Rev. Wesley Trotter, and | Miss Emma Cannon, the two mission | aries of the Holiness Movement sent | out from Ottawa. 3 Mrs. Frank Adams Acre, formerly of Medira, N.Y., went to Buffalo on Fri day last and stole her two children, | \ staying with their | | grandmother. She is now residing in | Her hushand has brought a | | who had been | Toronto | suit against her for divorce. The Bufialo brewers have decided 'to raise the price of beer and they have | notified the saloon keepers to that ef { feet. The war tax caused the brewers | ! much trouble as also did the Raines' law. The increase has nqt yet been decided upon. There is over $100,000, {000 of vested rights | and the brewers have decided that the state or people shall pay every dollar { of their loss. The raise will come in | to effect on April Ist, once, and all her children were born' LIGHT ON TWEEFONTEIN. death of her husband, Col. William | | Telegraph Clerk Sentenced To Two | Years. London, March 24.---Gen. Sir Leslie | Rundle is on his way home from | South Africa. ; The troops who came to grief at | Tweelontein, were part of his force The Central News correspondent at Pretoria says that the Boers, after the cump was rushéd, would not have | got off with their booty but for a | lapse of duty on the part of a tele graph operator. 'Gen. Rendle, directly he learned of the affair, wrote a mes sage for Eland's River camp, ordering | up the Imperial light horse. The oper- | ator, however, stating that | out with extra duty. Two valuable | hours were thus wasted, the message | being sent by mounted men. | message, he was worn The operator was subsequently tried | by court-martial. He «aid he had been | { thirty hours on duty, but that did not save him from a sentence of two yedrs' lmprisonment It is now generally posting a strobg picquet on the cliff, and still more to the withdrawing of | the Kaffir piequets, night scouts outside the (It will be remembered | Kitchener stated in his monthly des patch that an investigation was being made into the affair, but so far the result has not been published.) A VERY SUDDEN DEATH. en Away. Stratford, Ont., | Thoraton, firm of Thornton & Doug- lax, died here very suddenly | early hour this morning. {business as usual yesterday and ex- for same time. yeas attackea with acute uremia and frases away within a Mr. Douglas, came here from St. Ca: tharvines in 1888. Mr. Thornton was forty-six and unmarried. A VOTE OF CENSURE. -- Proposed By The Irish National- ists in Parliament. London, March 25.-John Redmond, | leader of the Irish nationalists, gave | notice, in the house of commons, to- | day, of a motion, equivalent to a vote of censure on speaker Gully, for not having made the colonial secretary withdraw his remarks, "the honorable gentleman is a good judge of trait- #0 John Dillon in the house, on March 20th, which Jed to Nr. Dillon retorting that Mr. Cham- berlain was a "Har." Nice Polite Warfare. received | in the question | declinca taking the | conceded that | the disaster was due to neglect in not | that lord | A Business Man in Stratford Tak- | March 25-W. 8. | at an | He was at pressed himself me feeling hotter than | About midnight he | couple of | ours. Mr. Thornton and his partner, | SHE COT SHORT SENTENCE FOR ABDUCTION AND STEAL- ING SOME CLOTHING. Good Ladies Interceded in Her Behali--A Leading Resident is Seeking Divorce. Montreal, March 25. --Ethel Young, alias Audley Erle, the girl who crea ted a sensation, some weeks ago, by stealing a baby, because she like the child, and at the same time taking some clothing and money from the house of her employer, was sentenced to four months, to-day, on the charge {of abduction, and on the charge of { theft, got off on suspended sen tence. A number of influential ladies { interested themselves in the girl's case {| and petitioned the court for leniency in view of the circumstances. | Thomas Henry Radiord is petition- ling for a divorce from his lawful wife, {| Elizabeth Margaret Wells. As grounds for the divorce he alleges adultery and desertion. A Canadian Pacific train, exactly a i mile long, is being hauled over the | Thunder Bay section to test the ton | nage that can be handled om the | various grades between the lake and | the smoother sections of the prairie {| The test may résult in certain im | provements which will give this see tion a portion of the £2.000.000 which { have been appropriated for genera' | improvements of the whole division: An action for 810.000 camages, tak fen by F. D. Monk, M.P., agamnst La { Patrie, newspaper, was inscribed to- | dav. The suit arises out of a report of a meeting, at St. Etienne, in con nection with the Beanharnois bve-ele tion. Mr. Monk claims that th speech and actions attributed on that { occasion are false. INCIDENTS OF THE DAY Newsy Paragraphs Picked Up ®» Reporters on Their Rounds. Letter carriers Kearns and Gilmour have been superannuated and will re { tire on April Ist. The remains of the late ex-alderman Beott, Toronto, will be buried to morrow in the queen city. Mrs. Thomas . Draper, Brock street | taken dangerously ill on Sunday last, {is improving satisfactorily. Joseph Haycock, the political sage of Cataraqui, was doing planting on Monday, the earliest date since 1860 Byron Lott, liberal candidate for North Hastings, and J. Weese, of Stirling, were visitors to Kingston to day. Alderman J. J. Bbhan resumed his duties to-day as inspector of weights | and measures, after an illness of four weeks, The police to-day confiscated half a dozen eatapaults which boys were making use of to throw missles about the streets. Henry Wade, confined to his room for some days on account of illness, {| is making satisfactory progress to wards recovery, Thames Connors, of the hinder | twi department, Kingston peniten tiary, left to-day for Montreal on a | business outing. Lieut. -Col. Hudon, commanding A" field battery, has been granted x months' leave of absence on ae | count of illness, George Mackie, manager of the Brit | ish:American hotel, was very low to day and sinking perceptibly He is unconscious most of the time. A large fire occurred to-day on | Wolfe Island, some where in the viei nity of Long Island park. The dense | smoke could be seen very plainly from the ty. There is keen rivalry between 'the football teams of "A" and "'B" field | batteries. Several matches have been played, the results serving to show | evenly balanced aggregations. Charles Hosmer got his first experi | ences as a miller in thle city, where for many a day he ground limestone, while he worked at telegraphy. His | grist has been growing larger ever | since those days The Late Mr. Browett. Burial service for the late Mr | Browett was said in St. George's ca thedral at hali-past eleven o'clock this { morning by the dean of Ontario and Rev. 6G. L. Starr. Mr. Jacobs pre | wided at the organ. After the service, the remains were taken to the G. T. R. station, and placed aboard the ex press going west. Interment takes place on Wednesday at Ingersoll. Judgment For Capt. Davis. Justice Falconbridge, to-day, gave judgment in the case of the Kingston dry-dock company," represented by J { H. Davis, against the Rideau Lake | navigation company, and D. A. Noon | an, for $1,217 for repairs to the Ri dean Queen and James Swift, vessels of the latter company. A Birdless World. A French naturalist asserts that if the world should become birdiess man could not inhabit it after nine years' time, in spite of all the sprays and poisons that could be manufactured for the destruction of insects. The in sects and slugs wonla simply eat all the orchards and crops in that time. Punish Gorki For Offences. St. Petersburg, March 25. It has been officially announced here that the been summoned to appear before a tri bunal to answer for political offences. stylish hats as we are showing for Faster, 81, 81.50, 82, $2.50. Jenkins. At Sidaoy, NS.W., a compulsory in- dustrial arbitration court has been es- tablished here. Yards of 376 a SY weeds FOR MEN'S AND BOYS' WEAR. These we secured from the agents of a mill and represent 6 or 7 d fferent values, ranging from 4oc. regularly and from 2 yards up to 2% yards in length, To-morrow You Can Have Your Choice at 25c¢. yard. to soc. per yard Yards N 163 Arge 'Blue Serge FOR MEN'S AND BOYS' SUITS. This quality is all wool of good weight ble-fold and never sold less than $1 per yard. and fine finish, is Sale Price To-morrow for the Lot, 63c. yard. J. Sale at 9 o'clock. LAIDLAW & SON. "DID YOU EVER HAVE THE Razzle Dazzle ? We are dressing our windows this week with the BEST AND FINEST SHOES we carry. promise a dazzling display of FOOTWEAR from the best makers and we shall ticket them with prices in plaia figures. For shoes from the very cheapest to the very best there will be no place like THE LOCKETT SHOE STORE D. & A. Straight Front No. 297. The picture shows you the effect. Our reputation assures you that the " hip, and durabili . be excelled. D.&A. Genuine Straight Front From $1.00 to 3200 + pair, Domisjon Corset Mig. Co. Montreal Toronte Dou-