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YEAR 76-NO. 285, A (EAR (ASE For Ci? on Tech-| nical Education. GUTHRIE'S SPEECH WOMAN'S METHOD, HAD BEEN | TAKEN AWAY that he | any body of labor men should oppose anything which would be bene ficial to education: Labor men should | stand up for any contribution which {would help along the education of the | masses of the country. Money ex- {pended by the country in enhancing {the intelligence of its craftsmen was well inyested, A large number of the {mining accidents on this continent e attributed to lack of traiming on {the part of some of the workmen [ Ho EH the question of technical education was one for the federal au- | thorities rather than for provincial le {gislaon for if left to the provinces | the work could not be properly dis- {tributed over the country. Mr. Sinclair (Nova Scotia) support- «d Mr. Guthrie's motion. He ex- | pressed a hope that a scheme would Le devised whereby the rovinces And The i iolenec I They Were Driven to Violence ne contribute something towards a ~This Was the Defence Set Up | syst. 'am of technical education, whilst By Miss Christabel Pankhurst [the dominion government contributed in Her Repl the Distin.|® fixed sum annually. ghished =r le nisum- 1" A. C. Nnedonald (South {declared that if a practical Ottawa, Dec. 7.--Tha House of Com- |of technical training mons, yesterday, was treated to {fewer men would be forced interesting and educative debnte | ranks of the unemployed. the subject of techmical education. It | Mr. Verville (Quebec) also supported arosa upon a motion of Hugh Guth- | the resolution. He declared that or- rie, the liberal member for Welling- (ganized labor was not opposed 10 ton, asking for the appointment of a | technical education or manual train- commission ty investigate the needs oi [ing; it did, however, disapprove of Canada in reghrd to technjeal educa-| the schools which to turn tion. In a clear, concise, and out skilled me three speech, in which be et forth months' study, strides which other countries, Hon. W. 1. Germany, were making in Canada should with this subject, Mr out gu clear case for the his motion, and when he was fin received g well-deserved ovation irom members on both sides of the house Tha discussion which followed was of A npon-partizan character, My Guthrie was complimented all round for the excellent way in which he had presented his facts and figures Mr. Guthrie said he brougit tion forward at the reguest Trades and Labor Congress the Canadian Manufacturers' tion. The latter organization consulted the premiers' of the various ay to Toronto) system provided the were an nto on claamed able hanics after the notably Mackensie King spare neither equipping our industrial not to compete hold no danger said connection time nor Guthrie ma money in adoption of j community only Poauch | Re wn markets vellow in we countries but 1 find peril concerned, to our own the is be come m so far as immigration added, that dealt with diplomatically. {it will in the | petition. and | | gre problem faced minister of lahor said that had permitted upbuilding of great industries in China, which [long been thought asleep. Mr. King . provinces on the question of the jus | said the debate showed that there diction of the felleral government in re- | Was a demand for skilled workmen to gard to technical education.. None of |develop the water powers, minerals and these gantlemen had objected to the | other resources of Canada. Labor proposition made in the resolution ognized the need Mr. Guthrie knew it might he ation, which would make tended that the 'provinces were given the workman the. part exclusive jurisdiction over education had to perform. "We must He contended that the term * 'educa said Mr. King, 'that tion," used in the British North something to the work Americqg Act, referred only to the I'he great need the scholastic and academic teaching in [day is educational facilities the vogue at the time of the passage of | children of the the act, not to industrial training, which was a glestion of economics At the Royal Military Collewe, at Kingston, the federal government was actually engaged in teaching general subjects. They taught mathematics, languages, English literature, and bther general subjects ; in fact, they gave a good all round general educa tion, apart from military subjeg He reviewed the extent to which (#h rical education was carried of in| Germany, and said that the system |3 there had resulted in producing, in + the Gérman empire, the most skilled artizans which were $0 be found in the | world to-day. Cousegently trade, which other countries previously joved almost Tre had been transferred to Germany. Mr. Guthrie suggested that the government maka fingncial grants which were carrying technical education tablish experimental stations museums throughout Cantda, work might be carried on in conn tion with new and improved machin ery. They might carry on a sories of successful experiments in regard to | Was pulp. wood, in order to see how that | could ba made a greatey national asset than at present. They could carry their investigntion further regard peat, and particularly § might they do something in regard to naval cemstruction and architécture Mr. Haggort (Winnipeg) in support ing the motion said the present the right time for the take the matter in hand make one acre produce mer,"' he saad, 'what an half formerly produced, or if make two pairs of hands do generally the work of three hands, it adds to the wealth country. A trained industrial is one of the best try. Ralph Smith (liberal, speaking in favor of the motion, put himself on record as opposed to the policy of any labor organization which objected to any system of training. He would go further he can But industrial will be dutinent and torm of think the com the has it atest {over I he nical his me the and of | Associa had oriental tech- the such had of education nations as or- ganizations re of | technical edn | inteHigible he lorget, con to | which | not ~O- ciety owes of tor wage-earners,'" classes HHS ARIAS E GUILTY OF BIGAMY. EH YH EE Ga., Dec. 7 A. D. Oliver, formerly President of the Bank of Climax, Climax, Ga., was found guilty of bigamy and santenced to , serve four years in the penitentiary. Oliver maintains that he has a twin brother and that wife number 1, who testified against him is the wif8 of sis brother. Bainbridge, FHF > ¥ ¥ + en Bak EAE ARERR & be * *; FAC HCIEOROOK KILLED IN RUNAWAY could to stitution on the work o They could es and where |"GUS" BELLEVILLE MET AN UNTIMELY DEATH. Thrown Out of a Rig While Into City From Seeley's Bay--Taken to Hotel Dieu, Where He Died Gu Belleville, a was employed porter at the ty, died early' on Tuesday ult of received night Driving m voung man, from time to different hotels in the Hotel morning, Aas late on accident to who time as tanround Dien tha = Monday Deceasd and al of wa government t *H for 1 oO mnjuries mn a about wet runaway thirty-seven years in we lu was Acre age Just not at Munde'l making is Dr to-day the we ¢ happened Coroner how the acvident present known notified and mvestigation i what i i= mto pairs of Was of the peoples Oly an ireamstances be learned at the appears that early Belleville went to Bay with James Nolan, a well-known = carter, who was taking | load of boxes to the Bay. The eturn trip was made in the evening, de the mishap occurred when the | Kingstonians were within a few miles of the «city, on the Montreal Road. I'he horses became frightened and ran Just what frightened them although one report the railway bolt. From what present time on Monday Sceley's nny can it morning assets ol Nanaimo), out a manual and DAILY MEMORANDA, | "The Smart Set," wrand Opera House, | #15 pm Lecture on Rooms, 8 p.m Everything in Silks dron's at 20 per cent Bijou--"Drama of "The Open Door awav, not known, saves that fog trac caused is signals on them to make a Nolan doing the driving. Belle- ville, who had only one arm, was {thrown off the Mg when the horses were travelling at a Kvely clip, and struck lon the hard ground with terrific force, inthoting a severe wound on his forehead Nolan, it is reported, was also thrown out of the rig after AST TURKEY a brave attempt to quiet the horses, but was not severely injured. sent in a hurried call for R. ambularce, and the injured removed to the Hotel Dieu, given the best of atten- terrible wnjuries he re- his death. Fashion says the Turkey on | Cheistmas and other holi- days shall be served on special dishes--on a regular Turnkey Set-- Forestry, Board of Trade ks Wa adv, Sale at Nee on discount the Pacific ( a Biograph Drama was oast 0 Nolan Read's iman was he was but the ved caused ater urred near reports state that the accident Tuttle's Hill, bevond the Nolan was dazed fall he rived, After he re he secured aid and his uncon- sous companion was brought tothe Hotel Dieu 'about 10:30 p.m. Dr. Me- Carthy was summoned and on éxam- the injured man found that the base of his skull, was fractured. An was peration was performed but it Robertson Bros. |: : Kingston Junction by the overed re We have some very pretty sets, that are uncommon and ining reasonable in price und that Belleville had received fa- tal I'he doctor remained wit of the night. Death 'arly 'in the morning. Canon k charge of the funeral ar- and notified a sister of Mrs. Lalonde, 42 Patrick miures him occurred most ------------ S------------ Starr t wicker Red "4,71 Sold - at stor Cologne Gibsons mn baske rang the. deceased roet toro exients, Cro x ! was perfectly astonished | this RINGSTON, FARL LYTI0 Withdrew Foe Assoclation With Women. POLICY OF VIOLENGE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT HAS POWERS IN MATTER. Labor Men Would Not Oppose a Lot of Business With De- Beneficial to Labor--There Were Many Supporters of the Motion. Special to the Whig Londen, Dec. 7.--Presiding, vester- day, at a meeting which had been ar ranged by the Women's Social and Po- litical Union, at Winchester house, the Earl Lytton said he could not longer associate himself with the pursued by the society. was a policy of violence ad injury of others Miss Christabel of Mrs. Emmeline Pankhurst, replied to Lord Lytton and said women's meth- ods having been taken from them, the sulitagettes had been take methods and to violence, which they deplored She claimed, however, that not one act of unnecessary violence or wanton cruelty by the union, Referring to the chastising of Winston Churchill, with a dog whip on the stage at Bristol, Miss Pankhurst was a lesson to all they could deny their rights, Rothschild, at I'ring, night, declared tanfi reform, policy being Fhis, he said, which involv Pankhurst, daughter forced to stronger driven were had been done platiorm that who fellow said tyrants thought their creatures Lord speaking last liberal unionist, in Hertfordshire, himself a convert WILL LOOK INTO MATTER. A Remarkakle Letter Sent to Hon. Mr. Foy. Toronto, Dec. 7.--Hon. ceived a remarkable letter Ontario mining man. The that one recently his friend was about to murder him He woke up to find that friend ap proaching his shack with his rifle at the ready, and, as he afterwards is al leged to have confessed, with murder in his heart. The writer of the letter says there ix a gang of alleged hypno tists, including three women, in the north who have been, lately, the cause of wild tricks by a number of pros: pectors and others. He urges that an officer be sent to the scene. Hon. Mr Foy is in doubt, as yet, whether the letter that of man on the verge of insanity or one in terrible earnest An officer will, however, probably In to look into the matter Mr. Foy re from a New writer says night he dreamed is a sent BROKEN NECK REUNITING. Octogenarian Makes a Most Re- markable Recovery. Norwalk, Ohio, Dec. 7.--Considering his age, the recovery Mo réy, aged eighty-one years, from a broken neck, is regarded by physicians remarkable. Morey ol of George as most A month against the pushing a structure, thrown barn while waggon into the was broken at the second and third vertebrae He has since been kept in a reclining position with his head held rigid and his, physician has just anounced that the vertebrae are practically mended, and that Morey will be able go around as usual. ago was side his heavy and his neck soon to FROZE TO DEATH. of Wreck Steamers. Germany, Survivors of = German Dec. 7.--News resulting from the storm to reach here. The fishing steamer Berlin has picked up the life boat of the small steamer Vegesack at the mouth of the Elbe. The Vegesack, it is believed, has foundered, proRQably with the all on board. Four men, a voung woman and child, who were in the lifeboat, were frozen to death. The steamer Hans, bound for England, and loaded with iron ore, stranded nedr Berkum. I'he en tire crew, with the captain and a boy, was lost Cuxhaven, of fatalities continue loss of a DISSOLUTION JANUARY 8. Dates Fo» Election in Britain De- finitely® Fixed. London, Dec. 7.--The dates chief political events of the months are now definitely known. Dissolution will take place on Janu- ary Sth. The _ first borough election will be held January 13th and the first county elections on January 19th The elections will end on January 31st, and the first meeting of the new parliament. will take place February 14th, of the next two on Senator Killed In Duel. ONTARIO, TU ESDAY, on, A PREHISTORIC ANTMAZ Has Been Unearthed in Waghing- ton State. Spokane, Wash, Dec. 7.-Tusks and bones of what appear to be the skull of a prehistoric animal were Gnearth- ed by laborers on Joseph Geiger's ranch on Dutch flat in the Palouse wheat belt in South-western Washing- ton, two and a hali miles south- west of Pomeroy. One of the tusks is seventy inches in length and mea- sures eighteen inches at the base and weighs fotyv-five pounds. The other ix broken. The tiisks were about twenty inches apart on the skull and spread thirty-six inchgs between the tips, Ff- forts will be made to exhume the rest of the skeleton. It is believed this is the remains of an animal of the mastodon type, but of an age preced- ing by centuries that to which the bones of mammoths found heretofore in other parts of the inland empire be Jonged. A portion of the broken tusk was found on Geiger's farm about six years ago, but little attention was paid to it until the discovery of the skull and the long ivories a few days ago. li the skeleton can be recovered it will be sent to one of the institutes to be mounted for exhibition purposes, dean Jawures. mude speech hefore French Who budget Dey EEE TO HAVE BIG STORM. a strong the the of on Chamber #* Toronto, Dec. 7.--The storm now approaching Ontario is likely to be un-, usaially severe and will be followed by decidedly cold- er weather. The cold will not reach the maritime pro- vinces for some days. CE May Withdraw tavkistiin: Philadelphine Dec. 7.--Tne Contem- porary Club is likely to withdraw its invitation + {o William Watson, the poet, 'to a dinner on January 10th, on account of his attack - on Mrs, Asquith and her stepdaughter, BE WiLL LINE ALONE NO MORE WEDDING BELLS FOR SPOKANE MAN. Matrimonial Advertisement Has Brought So Many Replies That He Went Almost Mad--Sick and Tired bf It All. Spokane, Wash., Dec no fool like an old one," and I am the victim of my own folly. I'm sick and tired of it all, and 1 want to quit, but they won't let me. | never want to se¢ another woman as long as 1 live; they're pestering the life out of me. What 1 want now is peace, not a wile William widower, at who ago, "There's Ti B. Nicdermeyer, fifty-nine years of 52% Rookery building, Spo- publicly announced, ten that he would share his for- $250,000 with a woman ungler thirty-five vears of age, if she came up to his ideal as 'a life partner, made this confession before fleeing" the city, to escape a throng of women respond: ing to his proposal. "Before 1 placed that little adver tisement in a California paper, saying that if the right party answered--well, the wedding bells might ring, 1 could not find a woman to take the place at my lonely fireside,"" Niedermeyer said, 'but now they're trooping in from all sides. 1 never realized there were so many women in the world. Most of them right down to brass tacks, a wealthy age, with othices kane, days tune of got too. "I have received letters from every state, territory and province on this continent, except Texas, and every moment of my time has been taken up in answering letters and telephone calls and receiving applicants, mostly voung women, who seemed to be under the impression this a free-for-all. Such is not the case, however, and 1 am going to be gone until quiet is re- stored.' With this, Niedermeyer pulled down the roll top of his big desk, hiding <everal hundred unopened letters from = I aPas, Bolivia, Dec. 7.--Senator Fernandez Molinao was shot in a duel with Senator Adolfo Trigo Acha. I'he men quarrelled during dis- of the promotion of of Bolivia, Col. Ismael] Montes, to general Thev fought at an early honr with revolvers, and Acha's bullet struck his adversary in the bead. Molinao died instantly. a cussion the president ex Appointed Inspector St Thomas, Ont., Dec. 7.--J Tavlior, B.A., of Wingham, has appointed public school inspector the joint inspectorate of and St. Thomas. Mr. Ta many years head master of the Dut ton hiph school, in the district A yeen for Yin county or was for in which the inspectorate. is ated new situ curious drew the blinds, discon- nected the telephone instruments, and, jafter slipping 'a generous "tip"' into | the hall boy's hand, he hiked {for the tall timber along the St. Joe { river in Northern Idaho, where he {hopes to get thé kinks out of his tangled nerves, eves; colored | To Recommend Changes. | Ottawa, Dec. 7 Wilirid Laurier lhas given notice to move for the ap- pointment of 'a special committee con- | si¥ sting of himseli, Mr. Brodeur, Mr. iPugsley, Mr McKenve, Mr. Borden, { Mr. Haggart and Mr. Tavior (Leeds), lto "carefully examine the rules of the house and report: what changes might in their opinion. be adopted with {the simplify, accelerate and expedite its business \ ~Nir to View DECEMBER 5 1900, = GIVEN IN THE BRIEFEST POS SIBLE FORM. Matters That Interest Everybody ~--Notes From All Over--Little of Everything Easily Read and Remembered. was elected presi- of the Ontario John Hargres ves deat of the council College of Pharmacy. In Toronto fifteen men pleaded guilty to gambling charges and paid fines and costs aggregating $400, The Red Cross liner Rosalind, ported overdue, is safe though bound near St. John's, Nid, The New York traffic officers are ac cepting all freight to the northwest without any restrictions whatever. There will he no reduction in the wages of the operatives in Fall Riv- er cotton mills during the next three months The czarina is seriously dia, and has tacks from difficult. The Norfolk & Southern railway, which passed into the hands of re ceivers here on July Ist, 1909, will be sold at auction, The steamer Winnipeg has heen leased by the tug General from shore near Point Aux Pins, stranded, Sunday. The body of Miss Margaret Doherty, the Vassar student who disappeared, was found in the cistern of her fath- er's home at Hughson, NY, The Ontario provincial winter fair is on at Guelph, Ont., being opened by the minister of agriculture. Every- thing points to a Success. Fllasoph & Shaer wee fined $800 each at Montreal for defrauding their creditors, and the first named was sent to jail for three months in adds- tion. William J. Calhoun, accepted the post of U. S, minister to China, and the Chinese government has indicated its satisfaction with the appointment. Another deputation from the west is in Ottawa to interview the govern- ment on behalf of a $2,500,000 con- tribution to the Selkirk Centennial Exhibition, 'The Japanese government js. a revenue of $59,000,000 from taxes on land. The land tax has, jn fact, al- ways been the chief item ol state in- re- fog- ill at Liva- had several grave at- which recovery has been re- the where she Chicago, has come in Japan. Duncan Cameron MacDonell, spected citizen, died at Whitby, aged eighty-five vears. He was in the city of Kingston. His was Col. MacDonell. '*One great federation of the seamen of the whole world" was urged by Samuel Gompers tn a speech delivered to L500 sailors and "longshoremen, gathered at Cooper Union, New York. An old man, killed by a street ear, in front of the 'Toronto city hall, has been identified as James Harris, a.pensioner and a watchman. Harris was over eighty-seven vears of age. Morley' Shurtlifi, junior teacher at the Lindsay Collegiate Institute, has resigned and has accepted a position, | it is understood, on the teaching staff of the high school at Vankleek Hill. Six of the men charged with ' rob- bing the Robert Simpson company store, Toronto, pleaded duilly, and were remanded. Samuel Cochrane, the alleged ring leader, comes up to-mor- row. { Separate school debentures of tawa to the amount of $160,000, be sold to Wilson and Smith, of Mon- treal, at 98. The debentures ave for thirty years and bear interést at four per cent. A Buda Pest syndicate of creditors is swing Prince Miguel of Braganza, who married Miss Arita Stewart, New York, at Tullock Castle, Dingwall, Scotland, September 15th last, for £1,000,000. R. A. Croskery, classical master of the Lindsay Collegiate Institute, has resigned to accept thg position of as- sistant registrar in the department of education, Toronto, at a salary of $1,700 per annum. The proposed a re Ont., born' father Ot- will order to have all street railway lines, operating under fedgral charter, equip their cars with air as well as hand brakes, will he heard by the railway commission on February 4th next. For a new monthly steamship ser vice between St, John and Cuba, the contract was signed between the gov- ernment and the Thompson line. The annual subsidy is to be #25000. It is a freight and passeng. rt line. The Toronto presbytery confirmed the call of Rev. J. Little, Brampton, to St. Paul's, Ottawa; of Rev, Hugh Ross, Corbetton, to Queensville, and Mount Forest, and of Rev, A. H. Me- Gillivray, Toronto, to Weston, "Not a mean shall remain in service who accepts a tp from a senger,"' said Upllector Loeb, of New York, and in the nexi sentence dis- missed Charles Nimmo, a customs in- spector, who: has beeo in the service since 1886, Some of the steel mill sirikers and s'rike sympathizers, at Bridgeport, Ohio, have planned to congregate on Upper Wheeling Island, on the West virginia side of the Ohio river, and opened fire on the Ohio mvlita, now stationed at Bridgeport. George D'Arcy Boulion, vice-presi- dent of the First National Bank, Chi- cago, and one of its patriarchs, died, Saturday, at Hendersonville, N.C, where \he had been for some time. for this pas- his health. Boulton was horn in Co- bourg, Ont., in 1544, | Wite Seeks Divorce Misied As to al gli SUES mevALID. HUSBAND, WEATHER Torento, Out. . Ba 7 --ouaws Valiny and U Lawrence : (Iv am. th Ra OF Pave. A SLrong west- His Health. 3 New York, Dec. 7.--Because, as she Rieger, her hushand assured her be love they were married, on January ith, that 'he was 'not suffering from rt disease and was not subject to fits, although she had received anonymous letters to that effect, and it was lafer shown that he J told the truth in this respect, Mrs. Lena K, Schultz is suing Morris Schaiy olor oa in Newark. ult, separated irom her ite ob'S St, pas 8 day, said yesterday, that a short time before her marriage she received an anonymous letter saying that her Hance suffered from organic heart trouble and was subject to spells of unconsciousness as a result of this. He replied, she said, that it was untrue, and that he had never paid a doctor's. bill in his life. She further alleged that she found that he breathed with difficulty, and on in- vestigating learned that he had been under the care of a physician for the last five years. She did not make these inquiries until after she had been married for a time, The matter came Chancellor Stevens, Schulta asked Big Variety of: Useful Presents up before Vice- when counsel for that the bill filed by Nr. Schultz dismissed. The request was denied, but the defendant was granted the right to present the re A . quest in a different form. Let your gifts possess 3 added charm of careful | TEST TUBE EXPLODED. choosing. This cannot be done if you §# defer Christmas buying until S the crowded last week Values Are Better . Now Let your offering be GOOD even if inexpensive. You are sure of receiving only swperi- or qualities at this store. We are showing an unusual- ly fine range of Christmas novelties, Great Values I Wem Two Girls in Brockville School Are Burned. Ont., Dec. 7.--A chemis- try class at the Collegiate Institute was thrown into a state of excite ment, yesterday, when a test glass, containing chemicals, burst, scattering pieces of broken glass in all directions. Sulphur flames communicated to the clothing of Mildred Mansell and Ger- aldine Chapman, burning large holes before the flames were extinguished. Miss Chapman was burned across the face and a luxuriant growth of hair destroyed. Two male pupils were also slightly hurt, Edward Easton having his hand scorched. ------ Brockwille, i CHORKED BY GUM, New York, Dec. 7.--Lottie Menninger, found dead on the. rpof at No. 605- Eleventh avenue, choked to (death on a picce of chewing gram. The coroner's autopsy revealed the piece of gum caught fast in the child's larynx. The police, working on the theory that the little girl had been mal- treated before she died and that death might have been the immediate resalt of trutal treatment, accepted the coroner's verdiet and dropped further proceedings in the matter. Linen Handkerchiefs, Ladies' Neckwear, Men's Neckwear, Kid Gloves, AXEHF¥ THT * *r Handbags and Purses, bo Irish Lace Collars, FFF EEF REFF 22H ¥ Silk Waist Patterns, ' Enibroidered - Waist terns, ¥ Pat- | Jewel and Toilet Cases, wa Ba HERE Neakscarfs, ete, i ---------- pp. FOREIGN BRIDES IN FASHIONABLE WEST END OF MONTREAL. W. R. Baker, Secretary of the Canadian Pacific R.R. Has Made a Third Venture--Mar- ried in New York. Montreal, Dec. 7.--The colony of for eign brides in the fashiondble west end district of Montreal is growing, Walter Baker, secretary of the Canadian Pacific Railway company, being re spousible for the latest addition. Tt is not long since that George Washing- ton Stephens, chairman of the harbor commissioners, installed a bride irom Sunny lwaly in a Sherbrooke street mansion. Mr. Baker's bride, which by the way, is hi: third venture in the matrimonial line, is Else Dicke, Vienna, Austria, They were married at the Church of the Communion, New York, on Monday, by Rev. Powell Hill. A disagreement fn comnection with w | the flotation of the Labrador Pulp' and Paper company has resulted in the arrest of Daniel Ford, a well known contractor, at the instance of C. E. W, Smith, vice-president of the company. The technical charge is ut® tering forged | paper. Ford gave bail to the extent of $6,000, and was re leased pending trial. John Dillon, the mur 'orer, who es- © the gallows, will leave the Montreal jail late this evening, bound for Kingston, where he goes in the invane ward, and there he will prob- gly spend the Halance of his life, His heplth is poor, and it is douit- ful if he will live many years. We advise morning shop- ping. The afterncons are crowded. COCHRANE--SANDS --On by the Rev. J. D, church, Kingston, to Gertrude Sands, Ont Dec Boyd, B.A, Edward Cochra both of Latimer DIED. O'DONOGHUE. In 6th 1904 aged seventy Funeral will take place from the dence of her brother-in-law, Fives, 876 Bagot street, at th-morrow, to St, Mary's where a solemn Libera will Friends and acquaintances lv invited to attend. Kingston Margaret years. on Dee O'Donoghue resi- James 2.30 p.m Cathedral be sung respect ful ROBERT J. REID, The Leading Undertaker, \ "Phone, 577. 227 Princess street. The Children Love Them This year we have imported 'more than ever of Tom Smith's Christmas Stockings STOCKINGS, STOCKINGS 10 CENTS. STOCKING 20 Cri STOCKINGS, AT 25 CENTS. STOCKINGS 40 CENTS STOCKJN P75 CENTS, STOCKINGS, $1.00, STOCKINGS $1.23. Jas. Redden & Co. Importers Of Fine Groceries. TO GET RID OF. Our big stock of Heaters, Cookstoves, 5 CENTS. BLACKHAND SYSTEM. Society's Strength in America Be- ing Recruited. Geneva, Dec. 7.--The arrest here of' an Italian 'Blackhand leader and seve! ral subordinates, reveals a plan for recruiting the strength of that society Be in America. = Although the ringleaders Box and Pug Stoves, 1 will sell at a have been in Switeerlond only thiee oa saerifife price. TURR'S, Phous, weeks forty Italiane have been sent from here to America in small bands] from various FEurgpean ports. These members, according to documents dis- covered by the Swiss police, have «ign- ed agreements to carry out any or- der of *""iife or death" given by the | leaders. = Woman May Assist. New York, Dee. 7.--~That a woman will be onc of the assistant district attorneys named by Charles 8S. Whit man, when he succeeds Mr. Jerome, on January lst, is 'a strong probabil iy. Lawyers have | agreed that a er woman assistant would be a decided Looking For Runaway Wile. acquisition to the prosecvidr, Belleville, Dec. 7.8. D. Morris, * Hiliier, Prince Edward county, is in the city joking for: Ris. wile, aged thirty, who, bas deserted him and lelt him ey five children. It is the second time within « year the woman has left her home. of ' Canadian Reserve Of London, Dee, 7.--The militar) spondent of the Pall Mall Gazetd» sug gests that there be established a Cang- dian reserve of 50,000 horses, includ. | ing 5,000 trained remounts for caval rT ---- ry, at a cost of $500,000 a year, A, M. Eaton, Athens, took over the ! Brockville-Athens mail and stage | "Backache plasters." Buy them at routd, Gibson's Red Cross drug store, ®