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Special Sale of Silks y-Morrow Inesday Morning t 10 O'clock. rtunate in securing one ARGAINS or many a day. The ¢' Manufacturer's offer 1at may be on hand at 1 April. We missed ne we secured oné lot e it ready for you to- 10t large and should - ; ; ards e Silk le silk as it does not specially woven for Dresses and Slip hes. Colors : Navy, and White, and con- oc. a yard.. -Morrow Yard. telephone or- accepted be- e. ie time a small ds of > Taffeta Silks yard. Morrow Yard. nw I ------ Oe ri rm i] " --_ fn rm ow N LADIES. f the most stylish of all r Dress Shoes is the It is very new, very 1d very comfortable. have Patent Colt But- s Shoes at $3.00, $3.50, 4.50 and $5.00 in Empress, Dorothy and Other Ameri 1 Canadian Makes. f Low Button Shoes. CJC JC JOE JC S00 JOC JC SL Seg anges las] onieeiend ATi iii iii? ee teetealeetotontotuntan tuto? Tutt. Pei Ti hoe Store st in Saturday. i Tint , apd Chitdreep under five ree. DAILY MEMORANDA. h: « Hats That for quality and value @® Are unexcelled at Campbell Bros'. from frapper loWearer Yacht Club Dance, 8.30 p.m. MCKAY This day in 'history :--John Stuart . @ | Mill died, 1873; Poet Schiller died, Furs @® | 1805. mv a Resolve at once not only to vote for 4 > | the smelter by-law, but to get others SEALS : out to vote also. WHIG TELEPHONES 243--DBusiness Office. 229--Editorial Rooms. 202--Jobhing Department. Everything that's printable. Our Sealskins are the best . procurable, being the genu- 4 "ALASKA | (London Dyed) $ And in richness of lustre and durability, they are superior to any other grade. JOHN McKAY, § 149-155 Brock St., > CHEAP DINNER SETS We have just finished stock- taking, and find we have a few set short of a small num- ber of pieces. These we will clear out at a great sacri- fice. 3 Come and get a snap, $12, $10, $9 Sets, for $7.50, $6 and as low as $4.50. All best quality. Robertson Bros. ; Kingston. X Electric Darpet Cleaning Feather Renovating Bicycle Repairing R ta Cleaning, Sewing and Laying of [ou Carpets Our Specialty. me Harvey Milne} un. Godin, Vienna, o reported from Bucharest as being Live Agents in every city and town in Can- WANTE ada to handle our meritorious and high wde Cobalt and Larder ake fl S. TERRIBLE REPRISALS. Peasants By Troops. May®~ 8 Terrible oumanian Butchered reprisals Fen by the military against the riot $ peasantry. At Viashu, whence all the peasantry fled 10 the forests on the arrival of the military, leaving only thé old n and children behind, twenty-five the oldest men, including the ma- aged vighty- two, wire exeeuted after 4 short trial Phone, 542, R72 Bagot St. |M. Constantineseu's nephew, a lad of " A fourteen, was forced, it is said, to be "Phone orders & will Teceive | vosent at the execution. A day later prompt attention, twelve peasants who were caught, were likewise executed. At Corcova an officer personally shot a priest and a mayor, though they denied participating in the riots, At Cimpalmire the Archpriest Mary- eno, his séerelary and fifty peasants were executed. The peasants are said to be every- where hiding in the forests till the court-martials are over. Municipal Lighting Plant. Guelph, May 8. ~The report _of the city's light and heat commission shows the net gain on operating ge- count for the three months past to Foe a have Leen £0659.5%2, and a gain for : © 8 ° yerion g 006 D.- CAMPBELL'S VARNISH th ane period over 1906 of $2. STAINS FOR FLOORS or the nine months the net gain is a tough quick drying, durable WR.10, and after deducting a finish, for new and old floors. fixed liability for interest and sinking Comes in twelve colors, and can fund on debentures a balance to the be uscd for more purposes than $0800 480008008¢ POSEN EEO Eee 4 VIVPIIIININIIINIIIIIY | TREATY the any other Varnish made. Ask good is left of $15,148. The gain for for color samples, and see ' Work the nine months over 1906 is $4,- done with it, SOLD ONLY BY 976.85, y MITCHELL'S HARDWARE, Portune For Shephord. 85 PRINCESS ST. it : Edinburgh, May 8,--A fortune = has ist fallen to an Argylshire shepherd on the death of his employer, James Mackech By the terms of the will he shepherd receives the life rent of 100,000 which at his death goes to United Free Church of Scotland (Will)! MIL while the residue is given to the shep- GRANITE MARBLE LH MONUMENTAL WO A SPECIALTY 372 PRINCES ETE ¥ For évery variety of Real Estate Bargains and Insurance, go to SWIFT'S REAL ESTATE AND INSURANCE AGENCY. "WONDERLAND" Change of Progrgfinme, Monday, nosday and Friday. Thursday and Friddy Matinee. Ludies' Orchestra. Saturday night. Admission, de. Joseph H. Gorrie. Gen. Manager EE -------- AFTER HOUSE-CLEANING If you huve decont Fuloiture or Stoves, of, You want to dispose I will give you a decent price for them. TURK, the Leading Second Hund Dealer of King ston. KINGSTON HUMANE SOCIETY REQUIRED BY THE ABOVE Society a ~ompetent Inspector. Address anplications to Edw, J. Pense, President. Insane Man Shoots Six, , NM y a 4 Wed-{ 1 herd in life rent and his family in fee, Piles Cured In 6 To 14 Days. Pazo Ointment is guaranteed to cure any case of itching, blind, bleedi®¢ or protruding days or money refunded. 50c, piles in six to fourtecn Ribby's for Semi-Ready clothing. s~ (00D, PLAIN ENGLISH Is the best kind to use in advertising. I believe if-it were possible to write an advertisement composed wholly of words of one syll- able that that advertise- ment would be the strong- est possible to write. Do not go beyond your depth in writing, Do -not try to give the public the benefit of your superior wisdom and education, but rather appeal to them in good, plain English. This kind of advertising in The Whig invariably brings the advertiser the "most gratifying result in dollars and cents--net pro-' at ; : For The Granting Of Home Rule. IRISH COUNCIL BILL INTRODUCED IN BRITISH HOUSE OF COMMONS Not Highly Regarded--Provides For Creation of Eight Depart- ments--Safeguarded By Power Given to Lord-Lieutenant to Veto Measures. London, May 8.--As is natural, and to be expected, the government's half- way home rule measure, which was brought down in the House of Com- mons, yesterday, is wholly ple ig to no political party. The unionists re- gard it as a step toward home rule. they object to giving to Ireland the management of many -departments of local affairs, while the Irish members, of the House of Commons, retain the right to legislate in similar affairs for England and Scotland. They criticize also the plan of government by a council, through eight committees, as complicated and cumbersome. The radicals are disappointed that the measure falls short of actual home rule and the Irish members are oven more disappointed. The Irish leaders, study the provisions of the bill and however; are maintaining a diploma tic attitude until they have time to learn the sentiments of the people. A nationalist convention will be held in Dublin to decide upon the policy of the Irish party. The la- borites will support the measure, cause they are all home rulers To prevent the first reading of the bill being deferred until while Walter speaking, Mr. Jirrell closure. This, amid a great uproar and protests and shounis of "gang," was carried by 317 votes to 121, and the bill passed its fiest reading by 416 votes to 121. The house then ad- Journed. » ine bill provides "for the estahlish- ment and functions of an administra- © tive council" for Ireland, with head quarters at Dublin. The Irish secre- be- and was still moved the to-day, Hune Long tary and those in his confidence kept their secret well, with the result that the political curiosity was keen to learn the precise details of the scheme which is likely to create a prolonged controversy. Prior to the appearance of the mea- sure it was popularly termed a 'de volution bill," but to-day its advo cates refer to it as the "Irish council bill," owing to its creation of a coun cil to take over a number of the ad ministrative features of Irish rule But to Jreland and the general public the bill is the "Irish bill," with home rule presented in such new and modi- fied form as to enlist the support of clements hitherto hostile, The main features of this latest of fort to bestow some measure of home rule upon Ireland, and which the pro moters are hopeful, if adopted, will also bring better government to the country are as follows : At the o t, Mr. Birrell explained that the object of the bill was to as- sociate the sentiment of the Irish peo- ple as a whole with the administration the statutes and the regulations which directed the conduct of purely Irish affairs. It did not contain any trace of new legislative power! It would not wauthorize the laving of a single tax or rate. : > The departments coming under the control of the proposal Irish council would be the local government board, the department of agriculture, the congested districts board, the com- missioners for public works and na- tional education and inspectors of 'the reformatory and industrial schools, and the registrar-general. The supreme court judicature, the Royal Irish constabulary, the Dub lin metropolitan police, the land com- mission, and the prisons' board would remain under the éoutrol of the im- perial authorities, A reprdentative administrative coun- cil, consisting of eighty-4wo elected and twenty-two nommated members, would be established. The latter would be nominated for the first year by the king and thereafter by the lord lieutenant of Ireland. : The elected members would be elect- el on a local government board. fran- chise, The under-secretary for the lord lieutenant of Ireland would be an ex- officio member of the council, , which would have complete control of the powers vested in the departments to be handed over to its care. The exercise of the powers vested in the departments will be controlled by resolutions of the council and the su- premacy of the imperial parliament will be safeguarded by the power gi en to the lord licutenant of Ireland to reserve his ognsent to any resolu: tion of the. council, A new education department for primary and secondary education is to be established and will be placed under the control of the Irish coun- oi. § The council would be elected for three years. For financial purposes eight. depart- ments would be created. A certain-annual sum, to be fixed by i it every five vears, "would be th, consolidated . fund and f = be lieutenant of leddand. The council Would have the power \ : to appoint' and remove officers from iy The religious disability feature would removed from the office of lord the eight departments above men- tioned. BU Cap In conclusion, the Irish sceretary said that if the new council proved a success it might pave the way for home rule. HE IS SLATED As the Succasser of Lord Cromer : in India. SIR BE, BAI London, May B.--Sir Edmund Bar ton, the noted British writer and statesman, is Said to be slated to succeed Lord Cromer, who, for the past twenty years, has been the prac tical "ruler of Egypt and resigns to enter private life and devote ais time to writing. SPOILED THE GAME ABSCONDER POSES AS A 'RUSSIAN PRINCE. Welcomed By Aristocracy of Rome, He Cuts Big Figure i hy City, Rome, May 8.-An uhsconding Bo- hemian bank clerk, whe stole $200,000 from a bank at Mikowite, some months ago, was discovered, today, poseng as Prince Vladimir Klohoein- sky, who, with the "princess," a beau tiful woman, been a prominent figure, in Rome since the beginning of the year. The "prince" arrived in Rome in January, pnt up at one of the best hotels and frequently the highest so ci The ' 7 gplendid jew els, and the "prince's" brilliant man ners evoked general admiration, Most of the best houses were open to the pair, when at the end of March they suddenly disappeared. This morning a #legram from i's cati announced the arrest of the "prince" --who in Bohemia was plain Karl Wenzel--at the best hotel. With his wife he had been making a sores of motar ear excursions in the lovely country surrounding the town. He and the "princess" were quictly lunching when the captain of the Cara binieri stationed at. Frascati into the room, tapped him shoulder and" showed him a warrant for his arrest, The "prince" was furious, and threatened the intervention of the Rus gian embassy. The "princess" went into hysterics and was borne shrick ing from the room, while a doctor was summoned. Her husband agreed to submit, but insisted on se wife before he loft the buildir The womari® recovered miraculously when -the "prince" lly in German, which the Italian officials did not understand. It is believed that he gave her instructions for the disposal of what remains of his booty. The detective who traced Wenzel and identified him as the "prince" will re ceive the reward of 81,000 offered' for his detiction by the Bank of Mike- witz. Sh has "prince strode on the ng his spoke hurri . emeeeprei A Case Of Sour Grapes. Geneva, May 8.---Six hundred elder- lv women of Appenzell have organizea a crusade' against exeessive dancing and a superabundance of fetes in the canton. They have forwarded a petition to the cantonal officials pointing out that numberless balls, dahees, and other demoralizing entertainments were given last year, and that the young people devoted too much time to pleasuee, : Death Oi Tobacco King. New York, May 8.~Charles E. Hal- liwell, vice-president of the American Tobacco company, and one of the heaviest stockholders in the corpora tion, died suddenly of apoplexy. in the Holland House, last night. Mr. Halli- well was stricken when at dinner with his wife of a fow months and _g niece. Mr. Halliwell was fifty yeaps/ of age and reputed to be worth $20,000,000. Lives Saved By Monks. Geneva, Mag 8.--~TFhe monks at the Grand St. Bernard hospice state that this winter has been the most severe experiented for many 'vears. During the five months just ended more than 1.200 snowbound travéllers--chiefly Tt alian workmen, and including three British tourists--~have been given shel- ter at the hospice, 4 ------------ MAY __ | petite for strong Ra the fourth 8, 1907. MUCH (RINE Is Evidenced In Greater New York. ; TEN THOUSAND «CRIMINALS ARE SAID TO BE VERY BUSY, It is Declared That the Police Are Unable to Cope With the Con- ditions--The Prisons Are Crowded--Pool Room Crusade Has Increased Crime. New York, May 8.--Aeccording to police estimates there are more than 10,000 professional criminals at large in Greater New York, not including petty thieves and persons of eriminal tendencies, There are 2,000 policemen in the greater city. The Tombs, Blackwell's Island and the city court detection, repression and correction increase in crime, The increase in the number of burg- laries and hold-ups testify to alarm- ing conditions, with which the police and the courts are apparently unable to contend. The crusade against the poo rooms, it is said, has driven things outside to prey. Highwaymen are in- festing: the Bronx, and infamous "rel light" conditions are reported established in the tenderloin, PITH OF THE NEWS. The Very Latest Culled From All Over The World. v settled and the boats are g loaded, ing to present arrangements, has be ent on the 18th. New York spends $1,000,000 daily or $365,000,000 year to gratify the ap- drink, timo in three years the North Coast cast-bound train in Montana has been held up, Gi. W. Woods has escaped proseocu- tion in Winnipeg for keeping a bucket shop by leaving the country. A collection will be taken up by the school children of Oregon to aid the Peary North Polar expedition. Sir Wilfrid Laurier will receive an influential deputation re the Black- shod Bay scheme on Thursday. James E. Hickey, arrested in Fred- 'ton for drunkenpess, was - found in his cell. He drank prussic acid, Neil Edwards, an illiterate farmer, living near Wardgville, has admitted forging bogus discounted sale notes at the bank, Six G. T. R. laborers who went on strike at Portage la Prairie have ben sentenced to one month in jail under the labor disputes act. The following members of the im- perial conference, Lpurier, Barden, Brodeur, Wand, Bond and Botha, were present at the Irish party's dinner, The beautiful summer home of John Gerrish, New York, was burned at New Canaan, Conn., the loss being es- between timated at $75,000 and £100,000 Daniel Chisholme is the lone stud ent in the school of bricklaying which was intended to be one of the largest dinprtments of the Carnegie technical schools, Pittshurg. It is stated that 'the British govern- ment has decided to make a grant of £750,000 gratis to Jamaica, and to island a loan of 85, in its rehabilitation. ruarantee the 000 000 to assist The G.T.P, company has' not the lightest intention of abandoning Princ tupert as its Pacific terminus, This site was sclected only after the most eareful surveys and considera- tion, and it suits the company admir- ahly The New Brunswick Evangelical Alli- ance denounces Mr. Pugsley, the pre- mivr, and his government for their re- fusul to introduce a prohibitory law. The seventy-five saloons in St. John, they sav, have more influence with him than the church of God. Electric Line Without Rails. Geneva, May 5.--A Swiss company has been formed to construst a tram service without rails between Basle and Huningue, a town on the Swiss- German frontier, The motive force will be electricity supplied by aerial wires. An ingenious device allows the cars to he guided eleven feet six inches on each side of the aerial wires without cutting off the current, so that two cars travel ling in opposite directions may pass at full speed. The cost of the scheme is stated to be fifty per cent. less than if an or- dinary®tramway line with rails were constructed, Frederick Pierce, proprietor of the Gamble house, Athens, ied, suddenly, on Sunday, from pneumonia. He was aged fifty-six, born in Seeley's Bay and a carpenter by trade... He built the hotel he owned. - A widow and three children survive. He was an Anglican, a conservative and an Or- angeman. * "Kentucky" lawn grass seed is sold only at Sibacns Red Cross | Store. "hone 230, White china silk waists, $1.49, at Ei RY court of Newfoundland, yesterday, gave colonial government in its contentions respecting the so-called Bay of Islands right of Newfoundland fishermen to be employed by the United States vessel I X involved. prisons were never so crowded with |; prisoners, - Yet statistics prove that t are not keeping pace with the steady would appeal to the privy council of alloged candidature of the Connaught -------------- ---- prince for the Serviam erown. IS WELL SUPPLIED The elevator strike at Fort William | WITH WATER-POWER TO - district, Honor and Satisfaction of Work Sufficient. Light to moderate north to wi fair, about same peral I showers Th iy gi A i Toronto, May 8.--T, W, Crothers, the well-known barrister, St. Thomas, who noted as chairman of the Ontario Text Book commmission, has declined the monetary consideration of $2,000 offer- ed by the government, on the ground that the honor of the appointment, the assurance that the commission accomplished something, and the plegs- ure be took in ihe enquiry, was am compensation for his work and time. He would only accept the amount of his actual disbursement, $192, The latter amount has, accordingly been sent him and the original cheque withdrawn, TO APPEAL THE CASE, Supreme Court Upholds Colonial. Government. St. John, Nfld, May 8.~The supreme decision the a majority upholding herring fisheries the case, in which owners within three mile limit was Sir James Winter, counsel or the colonial fishermen oomcerned in he case, notified the court that he ireat Britain. ---------------- Want British Prince. Vienna, May 8.--It is reported from Belgrade that' thousands of postcards bearing Princg Arthur of Connaught's photograph have been put in cireula- tion all over the country. Some of them bear the British and Servian arms. This is evidently an anti-dynas- tic agitation in connection withythe GENERATE ELECTRICITY ---- Premier Laurier leaves for the contin-| The Report of the Hydro-Electric i Commigsion Dealing With Cofi-| ditions in the Eastern Part of || Ontario. the original trio commis- sion, dealing Ottawa Valley and St, Lawrence River districts, was issued this morning. Hydraulic power is in an advanced state of develop- ment, 13,000 horse-power being used direct in milly, ete., and 14,000 being devoted to the production of glectriei- ty. Thete are also a number of power plants, of somewhat greater capacity, ready for the installation of addition- al machinery. In some localities there is nlready full development of adjae- ent water powers, but further develop ment is temporarily checked by the necessity of development and trans- mission* from more distant powers. The Ottawa river and its tributaries are declared to be a magnificent source of water power; the Ottawa river it- sell abounds in opportunities, al- though the attendant first investments will be heavy. The report adds: * "With the excep tion of a small area, lying between the St. Lawrence and Oshawa rivers, and east of Smith's Falls, the whole covered by the report, is bountifully supplied with water powers capable of being developed for reason- able cost per hotse power." ' FOUND HIS BODY, Wife's Discovery That Husband Fell Into Gully. Morrishurg, Ont., May B.--~At East Williamsburg, Sunday afternoon, the body of George C. McPherson, Louisville, N.Y. was found in a gully near the rivor. On April 28th, e left liome for the purpose of aiding in the descent of a raft down the Long Sault Rapids. However, he did not go, and instead got liquor sqme- where, He peturned eo. on Monday, but again left, and said he would go on a raft. The latter part of the weok his wife, becoming alarmed, crossed the river to- East. Williamsburg, and instigated a search, with the result that his remains were discovered. The decensed was about thirty-eight years of age. Cannot Give Increase. Hamilton, Ont., May 8.--The strike of the civie laborers was declared off, at noon, to-day, it being to the stfikers that under the existing wages by-law, it was grant the increase demfanded, the by- law providing that all applications for wage increases shall be dealt with during the month of March, The men struck for an increase from twenty to twenty-five cents an hour, No More Curfew Bell. Brookville, Ont., May B8.--The due fow bell by-law in force here since June, \ b B + y a 2 ) BR be good news then to those who + of N : ¥ S X § E impossible to' SPRING | | LACES ARE IN BLOSSOM. i In the matter of Laces good taste comes first, and tastefulness rules throughout the entire assemblage, in our Lace Departinent. It will look to us for their laces to hear EB that all the beautiful things in stock. Importations embrac- ing the productions of Fugland, Ireland, Belgium and Switzerland are ready and waiting, are ST. GALL LACES In Point de Ganre, Venetian, Guipure and - Fillet ects, ex- quisitely 'beautiful, in design, Fly ingw, Tosertions, Appliques and Medall , Spriggs: and signs, with In ings to match, ALL-OVER LACES In Guipure; Point' do Goure. §§ M , Oviental,. and Behy | Irish, I colors, Turis, Feru and White. Kvery pleco beautiful, EXQUISITE LACE GOWNS Of Nets with handsome Tonit only limited avantities of beautiful Gowns, we advise an early call, Prices gun (rom $9 o . s POTTER ~At Portsmouth, May on Monday, 6th, 1907, Joseph Potter, aged sixty years. Funeral wilt take place on Th 4 at © 2 pau. from his late residence, St. John's church, thence to Cata« raqui o 8 wnd .we- abiaintances are, respectiully invited to attend. CONNOR.--Eutered into rest, Tuesday, Muy 7th, 1907, Matilda Maclear, widow of 4 . or, ingston, aged sixty-five years, Funeral from her late inldoneds 354 Brock Sti, Friday morning, at 10 o'clock. SA! AY, MAY 11th. > , 2.30. Fa Nl x1 Paths. TS en. 17th Yegr of CORB UNCLE JOSH SPRUCEBY Carload Special Scenery, phe Great Sawmill me, Superb Mechanical Effects, 20 © People, Farmer Band. Orchestra, Specialties, All: New This Y Watch for the Street Parade gt Noon Matinee, 35c. and 28c. IVening, 15e. 25¢., 35¢. and 80c. y Plan opens Thursday. "While House-Cleaning Nothing is more appreciated 1905, has been repealed by the town council. - The measure proved a dis mal failure, no effort being made to enforce it. - A Young Thomas Jones, who escaped from the burning but, near Palermo, 3; where 4 3 , "Black Fannie," lps Clark, her wiite com- on Saturday shack in some way. rT New life for a quarfer, Miller's pound Iron Pills. For sale by than a cup of GOOD TEA, Our Is just what's wanted. -It goes to the right spat. Put up by ' our- selves; in pound packages only.