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EMI-READY ORING. S---------------- dy-to-try on, and finished to your i-Ready Overcoats, Blacks and Full Dress Suits, Suits, Ete. : Full Dress Suits. . BIBBY GO. DY TAILORING. Suits, in single or double-breasted lack Cheviots, at $18 and $20. ge Suits. le stmas Gifts ) choose. Christmas will 'ou can get service and pods by shopping now. mall list of most accept- " Warm Slippers, Evening Shoes, Street Shoes, Over- gaiters, Leggins or Spats, Skating Boots, Overshoes. Warm Slippers, Fancy or Plain Leather Slippers, Hockey Boots, Overshoes, a pair of Invictus Shoes or Suit Cases. Rubber Boots, Moccasins, Hockey Boots, Slippers, Overshoes and Rubbers. Skating Boots, Slippers, Leggins, Overshoes and Party Shoes. hethy's YBOOTS| JE Boys' Hockey Boots, or $1.75, 2.00 and 2.50. Men's Hockey Boots, $1.50, 2.00 and 2.50. Invictus Mule Hide Hockey Boots, $3.50. er ShoeStore 19. Fo Td 4 i) 1d for Women is a Juyury, as well as a winter necessity. It holds its shape with unwrinkled ce -- and always fits perfectly, because it is absolutely unshrinkable. Stanfield's Underwear comes in 3 winter weights --and all sizes from 22 to 70 inch bust measure. At all dealer's. 146 Beaver Flour is the best or Pastry-- just as it is best for Bread. Beaver Flour is both a "Spring Wheat" and a "Winter Wheat" Flour. Itisa itoba Spri : blend of Y4niiels $HEIRE ME in just the exact proportions of each to make the whitest, most nutritious Bread--and the light- est, most inviting, most teoth- some Cake, Pies and Pastry Economical, to say the least. AY YOUR GROCER'S Dealers, write for prices om all kinds of Feeds, Coarse Grains snd . T. HI. Taylor Co., Limited, Chatham, Oui. IT IS TO THE ADVANTAGE OF EVERY HOUSEKEEPER IN CANADA TO USE HEM + 4 ves vs wv ew Magic Baking Powder. Gillett's Perfumed Lye. lmperial Bakirg Powder. Gillett's Cream Tartar. Royal Yeast Cakes, Qitistt's Nammoth Blue. Nagic Baking Soda. Qilett's Washing Crystal. WADE FOR OVER 50 vEanrs. (ssTasusnco esa) EW.GILLETT faire TORONTO,.ONT. pp cak Women To weak and ailing women, there is at least one way to belp. But with that way, two treatments, be combined. One is one js constitu. but both are Jmportant, essential. h 's Night Cure is the 1 PR Te: Mion Curer--is a topteal 4 p's suppository remedy, while Dr. 5 8hoop' ment. The Rastorative reaches So the repair of all nerve, and all lat Cre" aa 11a name implies, docs 18 work while yousieep, It soothes sore and inflam. mucous surfaces. heals local weaknesses and the nervous Dr. Shoop's Night Cure "ALL DEALERS" RIERA (el CuRrReS ALL COUGHS ALWAYS, AND COSTS BUT Ch Get acquainted with Black Walch the big black plug chewing tobacco. tremendous favorite everywhere, because its richness and pleasing flavor. dub SCALDED TO DEATH AS HE WAITS FOR FATHER. Brother Frightfully Burned Blowing ' Out of Boiler Flue Causes Steam to Escape. Binghamton, N.Y., Dec. 6.--Edgar Wells, eight years old, was scaltled to death and his brother, Walter, nine years old, was frightfully purned last evening, when a boiler flue blew out at the Endicott-Johnson company tannery at Endicott. Irving J. Wells, the boys' father, is employed at the tannery as The boys went to the tannery to go home with their father, who was just preparing to quit work for the day, when the flue blew out, letting the water down' into the firebox. The steam generated blew the furfiace doors open. The boys who were standing twen- ty feet away, were covered by the es- caping steam and water, and so bad- ly scalded that the younger one died two hours later. It is thought that Walter will recover. No one else was injured. SHE WAS CONVICTED. « A Cancer Doctor in the Toronto Police Court. Toronto, Dec. 6.--Miss C. C. Dover, an aged woman, was, this morning, convicted in the police court of prac- ticing medicine without being a quali- fied physician. Mrs. Thomas H. Ferris testified that Miss Dover had treated her husband for cancer. The agree ment was that Miss Dover waé to re- ceive $75 if Ferris was cured, hut he died and she, therefore, was paid onlw $35. Miss Dover had treated Ferris with medicihe and a vaporizer and she said, in defence, that Ferris came to her aiter physicians had given him wp. GEORGE LOUNT PEARSON. Discoverer of Sir William Mulock, Dead. Ont., Dec. 6.--George who for many years agriculturist in North York, where he was born, eighty-five vears ago, is dead here. He was a nephew of the late Samuel Lount, M.P., and a brother of the late regis- trar of North York. Mr. Pearson is said to have been instrumental in bringing Sir William Mulock into pub- lic life, nominating Sir William for the commons over twenty-five vears ago. Mr. Pearson is survived by two sons and two daughters. Clarksburg, Lount Pearson, was a leading A Case Without Precedent. Detroit, Mich., Dec. 6.--A Washing- ton special says: "Hon: Harry A. Conant, United States consul at Windsor, Ont., is in Washington on a pecnliar errand. Conant's purpose in coming to the capital is to do what he can-to prevent the administration from promoting him to a place of greater honor and increased emolu- ments, Rather than leave Windsor he would willingly agree to serve the rest: of his natural life at the 32.500 rate. The state department is pleased with Conant, but it does, not know what to make of his attitude. It is a situation without precedent.' Luminous Shells. Paris, Dec. 6.--Secret experiments of great interest are being conducted in Lorient Bay with a new 2.6-inch lumi- nous shell, which is likely to prove a valuable asset in time of war. The new shell. which is the inven- tion of a French naval officer, throws out a ray of white light when it strikes. During a night attack it will indi- cate the range of the enemy without exposing the firing warships to view by means of their searchlights. A Touncil Of Trade. Washington, Dec. 6.-- "The National Council of Commerce," with a member- ship starting with thirty odd organi- zations of business men in the large cities, and expected to ultimately em- brace all the leading commercial bod- {ies in the country, was formally launched at a conference in the office of Secretary of Commerce and Labor Straus. J. S. Robertson's Engagement. New York, Dec. 6.--Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Hendrick, anpounce the en- gagement of their daughter, Miss Jane Carlyle Hendrick, to John Sin- clair Robertson, son of J. Ross Rob: ertson. of Toronto, Mr. Hendrick was formerly attorney-general of the state of Kentucky, but moved here some years ago. United States And Japan. Tokio, Dec. 6.--The foreign office de- clines absolutely to confirm the selec tion of Baron Takahira, present am- bassador to Italy, and former minis- ter to the United States, to succeed Aoki, but the information sent on December 4th was undoubtedly correct, and has been unchanged since. An Old Citizen Dead. Amherstburg, Ont., Dec. 6 --~William Bowman, one of the oldest and weal- thiest citizens of Amherstburg, is dead, | aged seventy years. He was for many years engaged in business with the Jate Richard Park, in lumbering and undertaking, retiring in 1900. Baby Burned. Brantford, Ont., Dec 6.--While Al- bert Blasdell, Linden, was away at | work and his wife out of the house } assisting her son to look for some { money which had been lost on the | road, the building caught fire and a two-year-old boy was cremated cama Plot Disclosed. Budapest, Dec. 6.--A newspaper of this city publishes a sensational story ito the effect that an anarchist plot on | lives of Emperor Joseph and [0 ane Francis Ferdinand, the heir to the throne, has been discovered. a ---- Bank Closed Doors. Dec. 6.--The Fort Pittsburg, Pa, Pitt National Bank closed its doors, {this Morning. The bank has deposits of about. $2,000,000. THE FLUE BLEW OUT] INCIDENTS OF THE DAY, Have you bought 'em yet? A few more in of snow will make sleighing. : Curlers and skaters are preparing for the ice sports. . Shop windows are gradually putting on the holiday appearance. H. Cunningham, piano tuner, 21 King street. and McAuley's bookstore. J. J. Harpell, of the Canadian Min: ing Journal, was in the city . "Cloudy ammonia for the bath. Sold at Gibson's Red Cross drug store. Perhaps your wife will give you a handsome new snowshovel for Christ- THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1907. MENS OF THE WORLD OCCURRENCES RECOUNTED IN BRIEF FORM. JUDGE'S REMARKS. Ratters That Interest Everybody |poor --Notes From all Over--Little |. of Everything Easily Read and Remembered. Donald Miller Robertson died at his residence, Chateau Grange, Toronto. Ottawa and Queen's will contest for championship of intercollegiate de bates. The laymen of the Toronte Baptist churches agreed to raise $30,000 for missions. Lord Strathcona says that the im- LL mas. Last year Queen's won the int 1 téiate debute championship. Will it be repeated ? Nice lot of burnt leather goods for Christmas. Cushions, several i New York Dress Reform. Jobn Dempsey, Belleville, in hos pital in Kingston for treatment, was successfully operated on. : "Beauti mirrors," folding and triplicate, for Christmas, at Gib- son's Red Cross drug store. Looks as if Hon. Dr. Pyne will not come down. The board of ed ion must climb to his perch. The government steamer Scout was in port, to-day, on ber way up the lake to pick >» the gas buoys. All kinds underwear. See fleeco-lined vests, 25c.; drawers to match, 235c. New York Dress Reform, Miss Jennie Rogers and brother, of Portland, Ont., are the guests of their sister, Mrs, T. Pelow, Wellington street. Frederick Paynter, of Syracuse, N. Y., is visiting his home in Kingston He will remain over the Christmas holidays. Red Cross drug store. ls the board of education "acting sympathetically," as the agreement reads, in meeting the pedagogical Ia- culty in the request for class I men at Queen's ? "Good perfumes in fancy boxes" for Christmas, at Gibson's Red Cross drug store. Chandeliers of every description at reduced prices. Our gas mantles can- not be beaten for durability and light. Newman-Spriggs Electric Co., 79 Princess street. Gas toasters reduced from 30c. to 30c., toast four pieces at once, handy and economical. Newman-Spriggs Electric Co., 79 Princess street. The steamer Picton, badly damaged by fire on September 21st last, was offered for sale by Lloyde, but the highest tender received was $3,000, and it was rejected. "Chocolate covered caramels" at Gibson's Red Cross drug store. Fresh on Friday, : The skating rink received its first flood on Wednesday night, and now there is enough ice made to cover the sawdust put on over the pitch to protect the roller skating floor. this weathér keeps up there will be skating in a very few days, and the | patrons of the rink will be very pleas- ed to hear this. buy it at Gibson's Red Cross drug store. There were not enough present at the Frontenac Hockey Club meetine~, last evening, 16 clect officers, but the boys decided to go on with a team this vear. Most of last year's team will be out and a lot of new ones will try for a place. Word was forwarded to Toronto, to-day, telling the O.H.A. that the Frontenacs would again en- ter the junior series, and enclosing the entrance fee. Came From Italy. An Italian lad, about eighteen years) of age, who could not speak a word of English, arrived in the city this afternoon, via. the Cape Vincent boat. He landed in New work from Italy » few days ago, and came on direct to Kingston. When he arrived here he had a check on his coat with these words : '"'Cannot speak English; on his way to Chapleau." Capt. Geoghegan | took him in charge and will see that] he gets on the train to-morrow to con-| tinue his journey. The lad had enough money to pay for his railway ticket to Chapleau, which is near Port Ar- thur, Sportsman's Cry Fatal. | Paris, Dec. 6.--The body of a man named Liotard, who disappeared from his home at Laudun, on November lst was found, to-day, in a field, with a bullet wound in the head. M. Liotard went partridge shooting on November lst. He was extremely proud of the accuracy with which he could imitate thecry of the par- tridge, and made frequent use of this accomplishment when he was out shooting. It is believed that he met his death owing to his gift and that another sportsman, hearing the ery, took him for a partridge and shot him from behind a hedge. Five Years For Wile-Beating. New York, Dec. 6.--Five years in prison and a fine of $1,000 is the pean- alty John Nabhan must pay for wife- beating. The sentence, the maximum | | provided by the law, was imposed | | Supreme Court i appears from the testimony that Na-| han assaulted his wife with a shovel | after she had refused to give him, | twenty-five cents to purchase liquor. | {She was seriously injured and was| obliged to remain in an hospital near- | ly a month. i 1 i | { Value Of The Sheep. The sexton of a "'swell colored | church" in Richmond was closing the {windows one blustery Sunday morn- | ting during service when he was beek- | {oned to the side of a young negress, | {ihe widow of a certain Thomas. | | "Why is yo' shettin' dose winders, | iMr. Jones ?®" {Roarse whisper. "De air in do church | lis suffocatin' now !" i replied | | "It's de minister's orders," ed | ithe sexton, obstinately. "It's a coid | designs. | President Powers. "Fountain pens" for Christmas," the land firemen of the Temiskaming rail- student's pen, only ¥1.50, at Gibson's way is twenty winding up of the Boenir Rib com- pany, of Berlin. H. L. Maitland is | appointed liquidator. what causes it. plication of the public school board of Rockland for a mandamus to com- pel the high school board of place to admit, as a member, a no- "A good violet perfume," you canithe mine; another says 500. The ex- Daunt's Rock at 5:49 p.m., on Thurs day, establishing a tic record. from Sandy Hook--four days, twen- ty-two hours and twenty-nine minutes --beats the best ship, the minutes. by Justice Dowling. [t [Por {judges did not perial go d to the « I-Red lina . Montreal baseball franchise likely to be transferred to Trenton, N.J., says Holders of the mortgage jor $50,000 on St. Alban's cathedral, Toronto, are asking for payment. Travel over the Atlantic route is slowly but surely taking itself from he Canadian . by 3 ports. Mayor Burchell, of Glace Bay, has heen, ted at the inst of the Dominion Coal company, in his accounts. William T. Wallace was found not guilty on a charge of receiving furs stolen from the T. Eaton company, Toronto. i The doctors who examined into the death of the late F. B. Polson, To- ronto, reported that death was due to | natural causes. King Oscar passed a somewhat quieter night, having enjoyed several hours sleep. His strength has some- what increased. : The increase in wages to cngineers and to teiegraphers fourteen per cent. An order was made, to-day, for the For the loss of race-horses in the wreck at Trenton, Norman R. Suther- land, St. Catharines, is suing the| G.T.R. for $16,000. i The delegates to the Dominion | Grange adopted a report in favor of a | or four days. tariff for revenue only and opposing | had no relatives in the vicini i idi y vicinity, all railway subsidies. dcinity. "Mosquito fever" is the new official | name of our old friend, "malaria." By | this means doctors are hoping to] abolish the disease by teaching people Dr. Charles Dorman, New Haven, Conn., who was in attendance upon Jefferson Davis, while the president of the confederacy was imprisoned and sick, in Fortress Munro, is dead of apoplexy. Justico Riddell has refused the ap- that minee of the public school board. An explosion occurred in the mines] No. 6 and No. 8, of the Fairmount Coal Co., at Monoghlea, about six miles from Fairmount, West Virginia. One despatch says 100 men were in plosion wrecked the tipple. It is said | to have been a dust explosion. 1 The Cunard liner Mauretania passed new trans-Atlan- Her time for the voyage time of her sister Lusitania, .by twenty-one Loughboro Township Council. Sydenham, Dec. 2~Members all present. Minutes approved. Accounts) paid : J. Peters, breaking fifty-three | rods of stone in Div. 14, $26.50; J. Docteur, work re stone crusher, $10; William Guthrie, surveying Eel Lake Road and seven days re stone crusher, $17.25, and money advanced by him to J. Wehmen, $69; H. Martin, bal ance on cement walk, $77.95, less $10 contributed for some by J. W. Troues- dale; John Alon, $26, on order of J Webmen; A. Switzer, job near his ace, $4; William Johnston, repairing bridge, $10, and $8.25: A. Vaphooser, drawing rubble, | £22.75. P. Botting, job on cheese fac-| tory hill, 847; John Wehmen, on ac-| count, $130, on account, $0, and | balance due on account in full for} crushing stone, $12.65; J. Whaley, re-| Lake bridge, $2; B.| attending crusher, | pairing Otter | Page, culvert and bridge, near his | place, $25; W. Freeman, attending | crusher, £5; W. McRory, culvert near Ribbey's, 3; M. Spafiord, error in as- sessment, 36.06; B. Simkins, attending crusher, $5.25; M. Ruttan, culvert on | the Sydenham Road, $2.50; H. Ken- | nedy, covering bridge near his place, 83. H. Macnamara, building side- walks, $47.70. Wilson Brawley, road | allowance, $35; Ira Randall, breaking | four toise stone, 814; William Cooper, | drawing stone near W. Johnston's, $19.25; H. Martin, salary, 812, jobs on | road near high school and cemetery, | $20.88. By-law, establishing Eel Lake | Road, passed. Local option by-law | received second reading. ~Adjourned to | meet at 2 p.m., December 16th Had A Good Time. | On Thursday evening a costume | ty was held at Sydenham in aid] of the library. The afiair was more like a carnival, all the ladies coming in costume to represent some book, | and two prizes were awarded for the best costumes. The prizes were won| by Miss Lulu Boyce, as "Our Little] Indian Cousins," and Van Blakesley, | as "Mohawk Chief." The competition | for first honors was very keen and the! have an casy. time in picking the winners. | A fine musical programme was ren-| dered in which Harold Boyee, Miss Lulu Boyce, Rev. Mr. Fenton, Mr. Reid and George Gillespie took part. About| $75 were realized and the ladies de serve credit for its success. Mrs. J. | she demanded, in & |P. Lacey was the main mover in the party. Our Sanitary Shipped. Blue Point oysters are coming daily day Mis' Thomas, an' 'we ain't goin' | ? : to take no chance on losin' any o' de |in enamelled cans, packed in ioe; Full! {lombs of dis fold while dere's a big | flavor retained. Carnovsky, "on the !debt overbangin' dis church." ycorner." 50 expensively were made to realize that they could not defraud trades with contempt, and that by ing false statements in order to obtain what they required they could be sent to prison. fully realized it would put a stop to a lot of false credit. Great advantages were taken by swell ladies of poor Hadenfeopls They went to various shops ordered grand and expenm- sive costumes for which they never intended to pay; consequently many pooe tradespeople were a or ro . COMMISSIONS PAID To Sellers of York Loan Company Estates. states to Europe George Kappel, has an estate agents who sell estate of York County Loan Co. All of National Trust liquidators were thorized to appropriate $8,035 to pay commission to agents who have al- ready made sales. On the basis of two and a half per cent. commission this would mean that $321,496 of £ 3 3 gs o] tppdlf {the York County Loan has been sold since liquidation. Tragic Fate of Aged Recluse in Village. Guelph, Ont., Dec, G---Word is re- ceived that an old man named Hamil ton, who lived alone in a little cabin on the outskirts of Erin village, was found lying dead on the oy ly a few foot from the door of the | wretched little but in which he lived. He looked as though he had died from exposure, and beside him on the ground ay a flask of whiskey, a little less than half full. It was thought he had been ying. there dead for three le was a bachelor and DRAWN INTO MACHINE. London Girl Has Narrow Escape From Death. London, Ont., Dec. 6.--Miss Eudena Clark, employed on the mailing staff of the Farmers Advocate, had a nat row escape from being dashed to heath when her skirts caught in the v-wheel of a powerful paper-cutti machine. - She was drawn EY machine and her clothes torn to shreds before it was reversed, but for tunately escaped with a few slight bruises. Revolution Ends In Fraud. _ Warsaw, Dec. 6.--Apart from the indifference of the Lodz workers, the revolutionary Polish Socialists, ane nouncing the end of their campaign in Lodz, explain that this is due to embezzlement and other crimes. Half the money collected for party purposes was lost by fraud, weapons were used for personal ends and pri- vate terrorism, even a band of rob- bers was secretly supported by the pury's lusds, and leaders of the sec- tion with party weapons eo 1 in a robbery of $10,000 from a cashier. Just received from Austria, oon- signoient of beautiful shades for eleo- tric portable hanging lamps. Come in and look at them; also jewelled elec- tric hall globes. Newman-Spriggs Electric Co., 79 Princess street, Mrs. Clara Shandraw, Deseronto. Following the New York, Bufialo and Rochester lead, Syracuse police officials to-day notified 'managers of local theatres that hereafter no Sun- day performances will be allowed. charged with abducting a fifteen-year- old girl named Addie Louis, was com- mitted for trial. "Real leather" travelling sets at Gibson's Red Cross drug store. Sale of toques, white, cardinal, navy or black, 25¢c. New York Dress Re- form. Pictures framed neatly at Weese's A WATCH FOR THE LADY A watch would Trove a very acceptable Christmas Gift for a lady, and at this time we are having a Special Sale of Ladies 14k. Solid Gold Watches, high class movement and fully guaranteed for $25. Really the grandest opportunity ever offered. We have a handsome selec- tion of these watches, and feal sure in saying that we can more than please vou. Our stock of more reason- able priced watches is large, and you are assured of an endless choice. > A small deposit down and will lay away your selection for you until "Xmas See Our Special 14k. Gold- Filled Watch. AT $10.00. KINNEAR & d'ESTERRE, Jewelers, Princess & Wellington Sts. Open Evenings. ~BANKING BY MAIL ~~ % Business may be transacted by mail with any branch of Bank. Accounts be opened and ' to out-of-town accounts. ; KINGSTON BRANCH, CORNER OF KING AND PRINCESS STS. P. C. STEVENSON, Manager. ABOUT YOUR SHOES? You know how important it is to have good Boots. Ours are the best, not because we say but rather because hockey players and skaters have any other. That's convincing, isn't it? prices complete our story for big business. Buy from us. We asked you first. dis Boys' Hockey Boots at $1.25, 1.50, 1.75 and 2. Men's Hockey Boots at $1.50, 2.00, or 3 Women's Skating Boots, $1.50, 2.00, ; 3 ni 100, THE COWAN CO. Limited, TORONTO We Don't Care | Anything about profit during our great sale, Every dollar's worth of our large stock must go, and our sacrifice prices will make it move on the double quick. Everyday hundreds of pleased customers leave our store, satisfied that they have saved at least 35 to 40 per cent. on their purchase. We want the money, you need the goods. Come in and investigate, it pay you. A Few of Our Big Sale Leaders: Men's and Young Men's Stylish Tweed, Beaver and Melton Overcoats, all this season's make, at $3.95, 5.45, 6.95, 8.45, 9.65, 10.45, 11.45. con Men's and Young Men's Suits, in Tweeds, Wor- steds, Serges (Blues and Blacks), Vicunas, Cheviots, &c., &c. Fine hand-tailored garments. Guaranteed to be equal to your high class custom work, for style, 'fit, workmanship and keeping their shape, at $8.45, 9-45, 11.45, 13.45. , d Other lines at $4.45, 5.45, 6.45, 7.45. . ; Boys' Suits (2 piece) sizes 23 to 27, at $1.49 1.95 2.45, 3.95. : Boys' 3-Piece Suits, sizes 28 to 34, at $2.95, 3.45 3.95 to 7.45. = New and Exclusive Designs in Men's Fancy Vests. The la t and finest assortment ever shown in the city. ALL AT SALE PRICES. ¢ B New Gloves, New Neckwear, New Mufflers, New Suspenders, Tie Pins, Cuff Links, &c., &e. All Go at Sale Prices. Buy your Xmas Presents here, and save at least 35 : "RONEY & CO., 127 Princess St. The Store that Sets the Pace. EE ea tod