ERA FRIDAYS r FINE DISPLAY 01- MARCH AT CHINA MAR 1899 Finest Goods liver Shown in Newmarket GROCERIES Uptodate BOOTS SHOES for the Spring Trade Just Arriving A SMITH The Leading Grocer Cor Main Timothy Sts REMOVED Lundys Tailor Shop Is removed to premises of DAVISONS GROCERY Leave youp for of our Nobby Spring Suits WC WHAT IB IK ft ABOUT TOWN Good looking up On day Mr bought faoros bore at running from to Mr Amor span for Mr Marlon back Tennyson Club The Club met at the residence of Princi pal Dickson Tuesday and en joyed a very profitable of and About 20 wore and it was of the boat of the At the Mrs Dickson priced Club by providing and some time was spent In social conver sation The Club then adjourned for season At A tjmu was spout at tlio of Mr on Wed nesday evening under of League Purler were pro vided ho by Miss JioSBtin and Mien During evening A ligbt view of be the young rf to developed Pro- two for missionary than The new Dry Kiln at Canes Factory is being shoved as fast the men can got at it On Monday and were nearly men working at building It being on same site as former one only while the Kiln recently destroyed by fifteen apart- moots the new one has tbe size If the keeps Goo the roof will be on in a couple days Messrs John builders of slate Depot The shipmenle the past follows IK WARD 8 cars Lumber 10 cars Bolts oars Coal I car Bait cars car 7 cart Merchandise week are cars Wooden ware Grain Stock car Specialty Goods cars Merchandise Another Barber Mr William who recently re turned from Chicago Illinois where be took a full course of training at College and graduated with a creditable percentage has at tho solicitation of no- decided to open a in has leased the comer shop op posite House and after a thor ough renovation is made he will place bis fixtures in the shop They comprise two fine and to match Ue expects to open Tocun Council j AN ABSOLUTE NOVELTY TSlN6SlT TALKS IT PLAYS CAN BE HEARD A CM I CAN OPERATE IT Mill ipXJRO J IN AND VILLAGE ADDRESS CO LONDON Sag wishes to Inf rm the hat he baa moved to on that he still baa Celebrated Iowa Co with all nwoirica Match in Members pre sent Messrs Robertson Hughes Smith and Road- house- Following accounts passed snow cleaning o part to lots y Proctor market fire hall hose after fire opening gutters o 1 snow cleaning to lots Jno snow cleaning charge to opening water pipes not to be a precedent P J Anderson fare for tramp to Toronto Hospital 1 J A Allan 2 OHollerin Lockup ao Packard coal 123 Grand duty on coal to be charged to Packard David Millard unloading coal do breaking stone F Manning wood days The as Morrison Brass Co John Gill snow cleaning to be charged to lots Bell Telephone Co messages John Son repairs to engine W Blue Gore Mutual Insurance on Market Building Dr medical exam re B Dr Campbell do John Savage constable re The last three accounts were refer red to the Finance Committee Mr presented Report of the Finance Committee in it recommended that no reduction be made in for Shop and that no action bo taken by Counoil respecting legislation as to control of Street Railways Carried The Mayor and Councillors Robert son and Smith were appointed a Com mittee to prepare a Statement of facts in with the Steam Chest of the Engine at and submit thoBame to to beginning of the end baa com and there is now about Ontario Legislature tbe usual winding up ap pearance The committees still working overtime and business of the House is befog- con ducted in a business like manner that is with and but little discussion The House will close during the week Much of a valuable has boon transacted during the session and much valuable legislation is now awaiting tho consent of the Lieutenant Governor to become law Public Accounts closed day last week and it may really be said that thorc was less busi ness transacted there than has transacted ever before It the farce of the session This investigates of the province makes an effort to hunt out scandal examines on oath and is stumping of and a half a dozen of bis Last vear at this stage of pi Accounts Com- miller- was redounding with the of a piggery investigation This year the Public Accounts Com mittee did nothing Only five were called Three were called to tell indirectly about the other two only serious effort whioh was made was in the examination of Frank a wood ranker of Parry Sound Tbe is an example of how foolish reports do arise Frank years gone by was a Li beral candidate on two occasions in Addington County In addition to being a very clever man he was an ex port and some time after be was appointed as a ranger in the district where he is engaged and there he has been ever since But at the last election the story was abroad had seen in and at tho he had been seen in North Hastings Mr James the Conservative member came up to Parliament with fire in his eye He looked up the accounts and found that Frank Halliday had been in Parry Sound alLthe while so if he was away ho must have gone surrepti tiously Mr Aubrey White Deputy Commissioner of Crown Lands was summoned to be Public Accounts Committee and stated that if had been in or at time he should not have been The scheme was deepening thickening and Frank was summoned from tho wilds brought out of the woods and hauled down to the Public Accounts Committee took a minute to explain In the Conservatives had learned of their er ror before he bad arrived Frank had not been in Addington nor in North Hastings during election or byeelection hut James his brother had James is a wood ranger too and his district em braces Hastings and This is the way that storieB James had been seen doing his duty in his own district The suspicious mind said meant Frank liday and that something must bo very wrong In the investigations at the Committee not an in connection with the Provincial Secretarys department was question ed not a witness was called not a word of criticism made The Conservatives admit that depart ment properly run and even they cannot cavil at it This is a very sat isfactory state of affaire especially when it is remembered that the Pro vincial Secretarys Department is the largest spending departments The County of Ontario carried their little trouble about the Rouge River Bridge from the committee to the House and Messrs and brought in a motion asking that the County of York should pay the County of Ontario 2000 instead of for the maintenance of the Hon Mr Davis took up the fight on behalf of the County of York and aid ed by Mr Hill had the agree ment ratified When Mr Davis had finished speaking the vote was taken Only two members Messrs and Hoyle voted for amendment that is for the County of Ontarios claims The proceeding for the week have been decidedly interesting The Sen ate resolution of course was carried for no real opposition was offered to it The objections were not in a single instance directed at the resolution- but invariably aimed at the introduction of the bill The Revenue BUI has passed the common stage arid to this bill too the Conservatives have They say that no such bill is neces sary but the address by Mr which appeared in Era last week sufficient to that Col that- if re venue had to be raised that the pre sent method was most advisable In committee opposition actually made but one objection and thaV was inspired by Toronto members regard ing the assessment Toronto is not in arc having- justice to them government is most Industries of province latest has been for the en couragement of charcoal smelters which manufacture from Canadian ore The sohemo is a good bound to dollar is given for every ton n pig Canadian and fifty cents on pig iron smelted from foreign on- condition that per cent Canadian during first two years por cent after two years CO per cent after four years per coot after six years and per cent after years MOUNT ALBERT Mm Wanon and Mrs Miller of Toronto arc at Mrs A Moore has IKfited here He conies from Michigan The Upper Canada Bible Society Meeting in the Methodist Church on Wednesday evening wiwwell attended Splendid addresses veil and The choir suitable inuik Jimmy has just about finish ed King Council t Met March Members all present Following bills were passed A grant con H Luody balance of account for printing in Fred Leonard shovelling snow 0th lino Proctor Jarvis ditch con Thos gravel Hart copying paper 00 J OBrien bill HO A- Davis gravel Eli hardware stone J Hutt stone J J Pearson Reg lease I GO Municipal copies for members service as auditor auditor A collecting taxes 00 John grant con 20 sheep claim fiG T Watson sheep claim On motion Billings was engag ed to take charge of for one year at a salary of On motion Stephenson and J were engaged for the THE and south divisions of the Tp syndicating the Ma ion to operate the Road Machine this se- Own here Messrs and to be paid therefor per day of Hill left last for the hours each actual service I The clerk was instructed to notify Mr and bride have McAllister of Lot con moved to Samuel farm on j to haw his west line fence removed the town line lately occupied I from the roadway on or May I Frank Miss Minnie has from her illness and will shortly re sume her active duties at Holt The Junior Department of the P closed week because of measles Mr John Leek of was visiting relatives here on Saturday and Mrs A returned to Toronto on Monday after a months visit with relatives in this vicinity Mr Robt is moving to place he bought from Jos on Center Road Mr and are moving to Mr pre sent farm on townline Mrs Hugh Burns returned this week to Bathgate Our band is dead Will some one suggest an epitaph Our town is al so dead it has allowed the advantages of a telephone connection to slip by for the saving of a few dollars Will some petition the Government to do away with the mail Mr intends hav ing the A Barracks purchased by him recently renovated and enlarged to a suitable Town Hall by May 1st Mr Sam Lost is flow better of the Scarlet fever and wo sec his smiling face again Miss of Bradford is now head milliner for Mrs Wallace Mr Jos and family old and lifelong residents of this place left on Tuesday for Gretna where they have taken up land A very sad accident occurred about a mile and a half from here shortly after one oclock on Wednesday after noon which resulted in the death of Mr Richard second son of Mr of this place Dick as he was familiarly called left for Zephyr with a load of bread and he was found dead on TownLine near Johnsons gate by Mr John Sloan a cattle buyer The horses were standing still and the rig upset he being underneath with one rubber kicked off There was a high snow drift at this point on the road ana it is supposed that he got out to keep the wagon from falling over hut evi dently he was crushed under its weight Dick was a steady young man very attentive to business and popular union hie associates The sympathy of the community goes out to the be reaved in their sad affliction was years of age and the funeral will take place on Friday next The Reeve was empowered to sell the timber on roadway between lots and HI in the con if he con sidered it wisdom to so The Reeve and Clerk were authoriz ed to sign and attach the corporate seal to a petition to the Senate and Ses sions of Canada re Lowering water Lake Simcoe A bylaw to appoint commissioners in the Village of received its first reading and was then laid over until next meeting at Doyles Hotel Lloydtown April This is the Age of Progress and we are keeping pace with it NEW GOODS ARRIVING For the Spring Trade and JUST AS REPRESENTED Shelf Hardware of Every Description Tools for Farmers and Mechanics Stoves and Tinware THOROUGHLY UPTODATE You will be Satisfied if you Deal with J A ALLAN CO Newmarket WS858t2 ft V Drought In Australia Aus tralia is prostrated another heat wave One correspondent in the Syd ney Moil says that a million sheep and hundreds of thousands of horses and cattle are dead from the draught Settlers are on verge of bankruptcy The correspondent Already the grass has vanished and tanks creeks and rivers are dry I witnessed noma heartbreaking scenes in tho struggle of lessees to save their stock I men who had been working for years to get their homes in paying shape left without a sheep or blade of grass and their homes de by The black visitation is a national calamity and the drought has brought all the plague with it Thousands are living- without meat and stated cattle and sheep being all gone or reduced to skin and bono only Members of Parliament are tra velling through the affected districts arid each will cancel tho rent for lands altogether or reduce it to a nominal sura Another Big Fight In The Filipinos AMERICANS KILLED AND Manila March As the result of two days terrific fighting from a m until dusk on Saturday and all day the Filipinos have been se verely punished The movement was planned with great skill and so far as it was effected was carried out with intrepid courage bat the loss on both sides was enormous The killed and wounded Total killed Total wounded Filipinos killed estimated Wounded The Americans drove the rebels from their trenches capturing village after village Owing to the roughness of the country the advance of the United States forces was not as rapid as had been anticipated and was burned by rebels before the oppos ing forces could reach it There is no denying the fact that the movement has not been the success that was an ticipated and the army of is not by any means crushed as yet Manila March The gunboat Bay attacked the insurgents at Three Americans were wounded division has crossed the river and is ad vancing northward The insurgents attacked the Americans last evening at Mariloa but were repulsed with se vere loss Our loss was five killed and 14 wounded On left the insur gents in a east of the river of fered a stubborn resistance Lieut with two guns of the Utah battery and Davis with a navy colt gun forced thirty insurgents in a long trench on the opposite side of the river to surrender at close quarters of one hundred yarda The rest of the insurgents got oat with severe loss Ninety dead insur gents were counted Manila Match The main in surgents army of men under the personal command of Agoinaldo the rebel commander has been rooted after three hours bard fighting by General division The fight occurred at which the Filipinos burned before deserting the town Our Sales In Black Dress Goods have doubled any former seasdn Everything New iW8 IN Prints Ginghams Art Muslins and Cretonnes TORONTO JOBBING HOUSE HOME BAKERY SO EMB ME WMARKET We are not old enough say We Use the Best Flour In this section but are in a position- to say Without Fear of Contradiction That we fear no comparison Everyone knows that the proof of the pudding is in the eating thereof hence we leave the prodnctof BOGARTS Home Bakery to speak for itself Give us a satisfy you of theabove Also CHOICE CAKES AND PASTRY will OUR GROCERIES ARE At Lowest Prices James Spring and John Watts convicted of chicken stealing in Scar- werp sbnt to Kingston for five ioi as J One of the most brilliant and costliest achievements of the campaign was the charge of Major Howards battalion across the river Advancing at the double they found tbe river beneath them and splashed with a yell swimming and wading with bullets spattering in the water and rushed upon the rebel trenches Ten men were killed and 11 were wounded in the The Russian famine is reported to be very serious four largo the Volga being involved- while west of almost to Moscow- At London Out on Wednesday Marion Drown tramp who shot and killed Constable while making an arrest for robbery sentenced to the Great OF Prices on Photos at GRAHAMS STUDIO prom till after 800 Cabinets Mantilloes 5125 o Good Friday T GRAHAM JONES OLD STAND I r Tired Eyes Sensations exist for our guidance They are Natures warnings Over-worked- eyes demand rest that lire easily call for help Properly adjusted glasses afford the possible We make a specialty tired eyes and tion t Atkinson GRADUATE A vivoKU s