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ilember of the R.C.D.s, of Ontario and
Honer Graduate of Toronto University..
Office—Oyer •Dlokson & Cariing's lave
°trice. Closed Wednesday afternoons.
oo.' RHEUMATISM4
DI. A. R. IcINSSYIAN,--.L,D.S,,, D,D.S.,
Honor Graduate of Toronto Unioere1 y
DENTIST
Teeth extracted withowt pain, • or , ,any
bad. effects. Office over Gladman &
Stanbury's Office, Marta Street, Exeter.
LEGAL
DICKSON & CARING, BARRISTERS,
Solicitor$, Notaries, Conveyancers, Cont-
nessioners. Soliiciti0rs for the Molsonb
Bank, etc,
Money to Loan at lowest rates of interest
Offices—Main-St., Exeter
I. R, Carling, B.A. L. H. Dickson
MONEY TO LOAN
We ` havea largo amount of private
funds to loan on Lanni and village prop-
erties at 'low rates of interest.
GLADMAN & STANBURY
Barristers, Solicitors, Exeter.
.1. SENIOR
Agent Confederation Ufa Aseurancej
Company, also Fire :Insurance in lead-'
tng`'Canadian and British.'Cbnipanies.
• Mater -St., Exeter.
College At
Home
Thousands of ambitious young pec•'
pie are fast preparing in their own homes to
occupy lucrative positions as stenographers,
bookkeepers, telegraphers, civil eervants,in
fact every sphere of Business Activities
You may finish at college if you so wish
Positions guaranteed. Enter college any
day. Individual instruction. Expert tea.
theca Thirty yeare, esperence. Largest
trainers in. Canada. Seyen colleges, Spec-
ial course for teachers.
Affiliated with Commercial
Educators' Association of Can-
ada. - Summer School at fatuous
Spotton Business College, Lon-
don,
GEO. SPOTTON B. F. WARD
Plresident Pr ficlpat:
SYNOPSIS OF CANADIAN NORTH,.
WEST LAND :REGULATIONS
THE sole head` of a fasiily, or way
e mals over 18 years- old, may homestead
a quarter -section of available Oomia
ion land in Manitoba, Saskatchewan or
Alberta The applicant must appear
in, persoi at the Dominion Lands Ag-
ency for the District. Entry by proxy
may be made at the -office of any Lo-
cal Agent of Dominion Lands (not
sub -agent) on :certain conditions.
Duties -Six months' ies"idence upon
and cultivation of the land in each of
three years. A homesteader may live
within eine miles of his homestead cn
a farm of 'at least 80 acres, On certain
cotiditioans. -A habitable ..house is re-
auired in every case, except when, to
sidence is performed in the vicinity.
In certain districts a homesteader in
good standing inay pre-empt a quarter
section alongside his homestead. Price
$3 per acre. Duties -Six months resi-
dence in each' of six, years from date.
of homestead entry (including the time
required to earn homestead patent)
A homesteader who has exhausted
his homestead right and cannot ob-
tain a pre-emption may take a pur-
chased hoinestead in certain districts.
Price $3 per acre, Duties -Must se -
side 6 months in each; of 3 years, cu,-
ltivatc 50 acres, and erect a !rouse
worth $300.
The' area of cultivation is subject
to reduction in case bf rough,'scrub-
by or stony land.
We W. CORY
Deputy of the Minister of the Interior
N.B.1-1Instotrh'os•ized 'publication of
this advertisement 4.'tU not be paid for.
•
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D. A. McLachlan, Principal
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Write 'for catalogue,
EVERY WOMAN
is interested and should know
about the wonderful
Marvell W�r Iriing Sp ray
*IetiCde
Ask year druggist tor,
it. If he cannot supply'
the MARVEL, accept no
other, but send stamp for Illus-
{rated book—sealed,. It gives full
"; pattienlard and directions invaluable
to ladies,. WINDSORSUPI'LY CO.,Wfn
General ANnts fou Clouds.'.
SCIATICA AND LUMBAGO
QUICKLY CURED BY
"KEPHALDOL"
A . druggist in Toronto saidthat he
was asking an, Old Country customer
of his knowledge about KEPHALDOL
TABLETS, This customer told hila
"I suffered from severe Rheumatism
and 'Sciatica for twenty years, hardly.
ever being free from these troubles.
I read about KEPHALDOL in the
Glasgow papers and sent home for
some Three hours after taking taro
tablets the pann was almost gone, and.
after taking six or seven, I hadn't a
bit of pain."
This druggist went im, to see his
doctor about his wife and asked him.
if he had ever heard. of KEPHALDOL
The doctor said "Yes, I understand
KEPHALDOL is a reliable sedative
and anodyne, relieving pain without
aSfecting the heart or vital organs,
Since KEPHALDOL has been ntro-
du,cec into Canada I have • prescribed
it .ii cases of severe Headache and
Neuralgia ,and just recently succeed-
ed iin helping a.most severe 'case of
La Grippe with it.
Since then., this druggist has order-
ed KEPHALDOL, and recommended
it to those of his customers who,
wanted something to relieve =in. If
you are unable to get KEPHALDOL
Tablets at your druggist's, send 7,0c.
to Kephaldol Limited, 31 Latour St.,
Montreal.
LUCAN
Mr, George E. Dobbs of Crediton
ha...hired for a year with Mr. Ab.
Si,ings'on.-Mrs. George E. Dobbs, we
regret to learn, fell recently and
sprained her back. No bones were
broken but she will be laid Up for a
weel: of so.—Mr. John Coursey is un-
der the doctor's care,
Ontario 'Liquor License Act
License District of South Hitron
Noti•eis hereby given that the Board of License
Commis i niers for the License District of South
Huron a ill meet at
Oa i1 NIEROIAL HOTEL, IN THE
VILLAGE OF HENSALL
—ON—
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 22nd, 1914
AT 10 A. m.,
for the purpose of considering applications for Liquor
Licenses for the License Year 1914-5. !l?
All persons interested will govern themselves ac.
cordingly
JOHN TORRANCE,
Licence Inspeotor.
Dated at Clinton on March 23th, 1914.
There are no new applications for licenses
For the current yearthere were twelve' tavern
and no shop licenses issued.
The total number of applications for 1iceaaes for
the ensuing year is twelve tavern and no shop
incases
Any pe i ,inn• a;sinst g*rant+ng License' to ant
applicant or: prd.uises must be lodged with the
undersigned at .leaf four days before the meeting of
the License Board!
JOHN TORRANCE,
License Inspector for South Huron
Dated at Clinton this 29th day of March, 1914
DR. DeVAN'S FRENCH PILLS
A relia-
ble Be-
gulating Pill for Women. $5-a box or threefor
g10. Sold at all Drug Stores, or mailed to any
address on receipt of price. TEE SCOBELL Dane
Co., St. Catharines, Ontario.
PHOSPHONOL FOR MEN• gem aaa
Vitality;for Nerro and Brain; increases ',grey
matter" ; a Tonic—will build you up. $3 a boli, or
two for $5, at drug stores, or by mail on receipt
of price, Txn Sco>;ELL Data Co., St. Catharines.
Ontario.
T B. CARLING, Agent, Exeter
RAND TRUNK SYST M
Easter Faros
Single Fare -Good going and re-
turning April 10 only.
Fars and One Third -April 9-10-11
12. Iteturt• Limit April 14, 1914.
M'ini;mum farce 25c,'
Between all stations in Canada east cls
Port Arthur. 'also to Detroit 'lad Pt
Huron 14lich„ Buffalo, Black It,o Vit,
Niagara Falls, and Suspension i3ridge,
Homi;seekers Excursions
Round Tickets to points in, Manitoba
Alberta and Saskatchewan via ; Chic-
ago St. Paul or Duluth, on. sale each
Tuesday until October 27, inclusive,
at low rates, Through Pullman, Tour-
ist Sleepers to Winnipeg . on above
elates leaving Toronto 11 p. tn. No
change of cars,
RETURN LIMIT TWO MONTHS
lull particulars at Grand Trunk'i'ic-
ket Offices, or write C. E. Horning,
1.),P.A,, Toronto, Ont.
N. 3. DORE, Exeter.
TOPICS F WEEK Wedttesday morning, in his $Til;,
NEWS " �" C year.
C, G
Important Events Which Have
Occurred During theWeek.
The Busy World's Happenings Care-
fully. Compiled and Put Into
Randy and Attractive Shape for
the Readers Of Our Paper --A
Solid Hour's Enjoyment.
WEDNESDAY.
The Duke of Connaught has'sub-
Scribed fifty pounds to the fund for
preserving the battlodeld of Water-
loo, -
Brant County Coulicil has. declin-
ed,the invitation nt L:xior'l and
counties to join in the' jc' rrison
farm scheme.
An Italian army aviator, Lieut.
Griffa, was killed yesterday at Turin,
Italy, while attempting a somersault
with an aeroplane.
Renfrew is now formally commit-
ted to a, peace celebration in 1915,'
and has decided to be one of the 100
centres to participate.
A despach from Belfast to Ti' e
Daily Mail says Maxi'. .,uns in twen-
ty tea chests have `been landec, in
that city under the noses of the cus-
toms officers.
A report "hat the Postoflice•Depart-
ment 1n:ends to abolish the preferen-
tial rate for some time accorded to
British magazines was denied yester-
day at Ottawa.
The women's institutes of Forest
and Thedford hays r.rauged for a
course of medical inspection of school
children 'in- those to•.r.xs and neigh-
boring schools. r
Unable to get names the Queen's
University executive decided to fine
the science and arts faculty each the'
sum of 850 to pay for damage in the
recent "scrap."
For assaulting Constable Thomas
Forbes: on the • orning of February
24, Penta Tataka, was sentenced to
tc o years in the Penitentiary at To-
ronto y.sterday.
THURSDAY.
Police Commissioner Douglas - I.
McKay, of New York,' has sent his.
resignation to Mayor Mitchell, to take
effect not later than April 15.
Four grand jurors were fined $50
each for non-attendance when the
court opened at Perth yesterday. The
fine of one juror was remitted.
Customs receipts for Winnipe;
during the past fiscal year, which
closed Tuesday were about $2,000,-
000 behind those received during the
year preceding.
Fourteen women and thirty-one
men were arrested in a "clean-up" of
the Montreal red light district. The
police have set out to crush an or-
ganized union of vice.
Not until the Panama_,tolls ques-
tion is settled will the,- question of
approval by the American authorities
of the internatirnal fisheries,treaty
come up at Washington.
A St Eugene, Ont., despatch says
that Gustave Evanturel has decided
to again be a candidate for the Legis-
lature, but that his reception at meet-
ings held was not over -enthusiastic.
The death occurred in Montreal
yesterday of J. B. Tressider, past
grand master of the Quebec Grand
Lodge A. F. and A. M., and Past.
Grand Regent of the Royal Arcanum.
The Canadian branch of the Inter -
Parliamentary Union has selected
Hon. G. H. Perley and Hon, Dr. De-
land as delegates to the annual meet-
ing to be held in. Stockholm, Sweden,
next summer.
Benjamin Wickham, 14 years old,
in a Cranford, N.J., court yesterday,
told of his experiences of three days
locked in a refrigerator car filled with.
fruit that he could see through a
grating, but could not reach.
FRIDAY.
The Dominion House of Commons
will take a week's holidays over Eas-
ter, adjourning from Wednesday the
8th inst. to Wednesday the 15th inst.
Paul . Johann Ludwig von Heyse,
the German poet and novelist, died at
Munich yesterday in his 85th year.
He was awarded the Nobel prize for
literature in 1910.
Thomas Poore of Leamington, em-
ployed as driller with the Leaming-
ton 011 Co. in the Romney field, shot
and killed a bald eagle, which had a
spread of over seven feet.
The Ottawa Public School Board
has issued an order that the Union
Jack must be raised on all schools
between the hours of 8.45 a.m. and 4
p.m. on days when classes are held.
The Austrian Zoological and Bo-
tanical Society has awarded the
Archduke Painer.gold medals to Pro-
fessors Ross, Granville, Harrison a>nd.
George Reber Wieland of Yale. Uni- -
versity
Two years in the penitentiary was
the sentence 'impose' upon Robert
Metcalf, a Winnipeg bartender, for
administering knock -out drops by
means' of liquor for the purpose of
robbery. ,
Mrs. J. Barrette died in Montreal
yesterday, aged 107. She was born
in St. Jospeh de Maskinonge, Que. Al-
most to the last Mrs. Barrette was
able to walk around and could. read
without glasses.
Out of several hundred names sug-
gested for a synonym for Sarnia, 1 e
committee of the Board of Trade yes-
terday announced the choice of the
words, "The Beacon City" to replace ,
the former nickname, "The Tunnel
'Town."
- SATURDAY.
Five men are now dead as a result
of the boiler explosion at the Drum-
mond Colliery, ` Tea;v'• le, N.S., Thurs-
day,
John Coulson, governor of Welland
County jail for thirty years, died yes-
terday morning from pneumonia,
aged 73 years.
Welland Towi. Council has decided
to accept the offer of a Carnegie Lib-
rary and has purchased a site at Muir
and Young t'tr=,ets fo. $9,000.
Rev, William Millar, who has been
pastor of the U. 13. Congregati6n
Cllttroh at Listowel, has decided "to
go to Central Africa as a missionary.
Sohn Sutherland, of irirkten, for
over sixty years a resident of Dlan-
chard r lownf '1t1r,, passed a fav early
Culhitm, w' o for the past
nine months has been connected with
the Petrelea branch of the Depart
men of Agricutute, Will Join the nt,.ft
of O, A. C,
The White Star line yet.terday or -
dere i another leviat'^an for the pas-
senger service between Liverpool and.
New York. The new vessel is to dis
place 33,000 tens,
"Le Devoir" of Montreal announces.
that Henri Bour .ssa will leave about
the end of the mouth 'or a five weeks'
trip in England, Ireland and Scot-
land, to write for the paper.
Prince Henry of Prussia, accom-
panted by Ramon Burros, President
of Chile, inspectedtwelve corps of
the Chilean army in the presence of
50,000 spectators at Santiago yester-
day.
Elizabeth Fry, a suffragette, at-
tempted to board the train on which
Premier Asquith was en route to East
Fife yesterday, and after a terrific
struggle with twce policemen, was
borne away uncan cicup.
MONDAY.
Mrs, Squirrel, an Indian woman,
' ith her husband and little child,
walked 96 miles to New Liskeard ' •
undergo an oper tion.
Matthew Wayman, cf Toronto, will
contst the seat for South Timiskam
ing in the Provincial Legislature in
the interests of the Social -Democratic
party.
Sheriff H. Endicott, of Orangeville,
bas received from an unknown per-
son
erson in Toronto $ 21, the amount of a
debt owing to Endicotk Bros., 20
years ago,
Miss Ruth Ward, of Rochester,
N.Y., was knocked down and robb,d
it broad daylight at Niagara Falls,
Ont., of her purse, containiag nearly
$40,' by a well-dressed young man.
The) Chas. W. Grant Morden, the
largest and longest freight ;steamer
on: the great lakes, having a capacity
of twenty trains of thirty cars each,
was `launched at Port Arthur Satur-
day.
Mrs. Victor Garnish, who was for
twenty years a licensed engineer in
Minnesota, yesterday applied to take
out a license in Regina to 'run' r
husband's traction engine, but was
refused.
Allan Turner, of the Brockville
customs staff, died suddenly in the
same chair in which his father passed
away suddenly nearly forty years
ago and in the same roam in which
he was born.
Wm. A. G. Hake, of Brighton,
Eng_, who is the oldest barrister in
Great Britain, and the only barrister,
it is said, who ever attained such a
great age as 103, celebrated his birth-
day yesterday.
An explosion in St. Martin's
Church, Trafalgar Square, London,
last night, which did considerable
damage to the pews and a stained
window in the south aisle, is blamed.
on suffragettes.
TUESDAY.
The action of Father Gnam, for-
merly parish priest at Wyoming, Ont.,
against Archbishop McNeill, has been
dismissed.
The painters ':and decorators of
Brantford threaten to strike unless
they receive higher wages. They now
get 25 to 30 cents an hour.
The girls working in the flax mills
at. Blackpool, Ireland, mauled a
crowd of suffragettes who were at-
tempting to do some proselytizing.
Maxim Gorky, in a letter to the
Russkoe Siovo, maintains that `1e
was completely cured of tuberculosis
by the application of the Rentgen
Ray.
The Cairns Building in Saskatoon,
Sask., occupied by several retail mer-
chants, was destroyed by fire last
night. The loss is estimated at
$250,000.
Nine men were killed when they
were caught by a gas explosion in
caisson No. 5 of the new Harahan
bridge under construction across the
Mississippi river.
Mrs. Margaret Elliott, one of the
royal matrons of the Six Nation.In-
dians, and a daughter of the famous
Chief John Smoke Johnson, 'lied on
the reserve yesterday; aged 90.
The members o`. the Public School
Board who resig led in a body recent-
ly at Strathroy, when a vote of the
people on the bylaw submitted by
council did not meet with their ap-
proval, met yesterday and accepted
their own'resignations.
TEMPERANCE WORKER DEAD.
Mrs. 'Stevens, President of National
W. C. T. U. Passes Away.
PORTLAND, Me., April 7. — Mrs.
William. M. N. Stevens, president of
the National Woman's Christian Tem-
perance Union, died yesterday. She
bad been ill for several weeks with
kidney trouble.
Mrs. Stevens, who was born in
Dover, Maine, 70 years go, continu-
e3 to the last the temperance work to
which she had devoted most of her
life. Her mind remained clear, and
late last week she was able to dic-
tate correspondence in .connection
with the duties of her office. With
her when the, end came were her hus-
band,,Michael Stever.s; her daugh-
ter, Mrs, Gertrude S. Leavitt of this
city, and Miss Anna Gordon of Evan -
ton, I11., vice-president of the Notion-
al Women's Christian • Temperance.
Union..
At conventions of"..the World's
Christian Temperance Union. at Gene-
va, ,New York and Boston, Mrs. Ste-
vens, as, vice-presidert at large, pre-
sided in the absence of the president..
Her' ability as f, speaker and worker
for temperance first became recogniz-
ed in the campaign of 1884, which
placed the prohibitory amendment in
the-..MMIalne constitution,
• Honr J'. R. Stratton I3etter..
TETERBORO, April 7,—In regard
to the report of Hon. J. R. Stratton's
illness, it was announced here yester-
day tha he is much improved, that he
is now going about, and that he ex-
pects to visit Toronto within the next
fortnight,
On Saturday the report was cur-
rent that Hon.. Mr, Stratton was ser
iotidly ill and that his .friends were
gravely concerned over his condition.
.. en IUJ� _ ' i tr
'o - . Napoleon so said, ..Ulan
an
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almost impossible-- or anyone" man or Woman,
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Dr. Pierce'
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This vegetable remedy, to a great extent, puts
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KIRKTON
Death removed one of Blansh ards
oldest pioneers on March, 31st. in the
person of Mx. John Sutherland was a
nnaa of remarkable physique. . Until
nearly his eightieth year he was ac-
customed to do the heavy work on
the farm • and up to his death he en-
joyed. •good physical strength,, Mr,
Sutherland was a mann of quiet dis-
position though of startling qualities,
and was well known and respectedin
Kirkham district,
Besides his wife he leaves a family
three sons and four daughters.They
are:; Alfred John, Andrew, ` and Miss
Mary of Hamiota, Man Mrs. Thgnas
Verner of Oshawa, Mrs. McGuire, of
of Seamans Sask., Mrs. Clark Swietzer
on the homestead Andrew Sutherland
of Port Elgin, aged 81 years, is a
brother
BETTPIR THAN SPANKING
Spanking does not cure children of bed
wetting, There is a constitutional cause
for tilts trouble, Mrs. M. Summers, Box
W. 840. Windsoa•, Ont., will send, free to
any mother' her successful home treat-
ment, with. full instructions. Send no
money but write her to -day is your
children trouble you in this way. Don't
blame the child, the chances are tt
can't help it. This treatment also cures
adults and aged people troubled with
urine difficulties by day or tight
LABATT'S STOUT
Th,verybest for use hi ill -health and convalescence
Awarded Medal and Highest Points. in America
at World's Fair, 1893
PURE-SOtTh D—WHOLESOME
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The Ford— the Lightest,
Surest,_ Most Economical--
the very essence of auto
mobiling-and all Canadian.
Model T $
Runabout 600
f. o. b. Ford
O n a r i o
Get particulars from Wes. Snell, agent,
e � neDisar
That Agrees With
he Aged
icA'�A1�.��.1►N
Q! G -I F I a_.
HOMESEEKERS'
EX CUR SIONS
MANITOBA, ALBERTA
SASKATCHEWAN
Each Tuesday March 3 to October 27,inclusive.
Winnipeg and Return - $35.00
and
EdmontonReturn - 43.00
From Toronto, and Stations West and
North of Toronto. Proportionate fares
from Stations East of Toron to.
Return Limit -two months.
REDUCED SETTLERS' FARES
(ONE-WAY SECOND CLASS)
EACH TUESDAY, MARCH AND APRIL
Settlers travelling with live stock and
effects should take SETTLERS' SPECIAL
TRAIN which leaves West Toronto each
Tuesday during MARCH and APRIL
after arrival regular .10.20 p.m. train from
Toronto Union Station. ,
Settlers -and families" without live stock
should use itEG'TLAR TRAINS, leaving
Toronto 10,20 p.m. DAILY. Through
Colonist and Tourist Sleepers.
Through trains 'Toronto to Winnipeg and
West. COLONIST CARS ON ALL TRAINS.
No charge for Berths.
Particularsfrom Canadian Pacific Agents or
write M. G. Murphy, D.P.A., Toronto.
T B. CARLING, Agent, Exeter
RAND TRUNK SYST M
Easter Faros
Single Fare -Good going and re-
turning April 10 only.
Fars and One Third -April 9-10-11
12. Iteturt• Limit April 14, 1914.
M'ini;mum farce 25c,'
Between all stations in Canada east cls
Port Arthur. 'also to Detroit 'lad Pt
Huron 14lich„ Buffalo, Black It,o Vit,
Niagara Falls, and Suspension i3ridge,
Homi;seekers Excursions
Round Tickets to points in, Manitoba
Alberta and Saskatchewan via ; Chic-
ago St. Paul or Duluth, on. sale each
Tuesday until October 27, inclusive,
at low rates, Through Pullman, Tour-
ist Sleepers to Winnipeg . on above
elates leaving Toronto 11 p. tn. No
change of cars,
RETURN LIMIT TWO MONTHS
lull particulars at Grand Trunk'i'ic-
ket Offices, or write C. E. Horning,
1.),P.A,, Toronto, Ont.
N. 3. DORE, Exeter.
TOPICS F WEEK Wedttesday morning, in his $Til;,
NEWS " �" C year.
C, G
Important Events Which Have
Occurred During theWeek.
The Busy World's Happenings Care-
fully. Compiled and Put Into
Randy and Attractive Shape for
the Readers Of Our Paper --A
Solid Hour's Enjoyment.
WEDNESDAY.
The Duke of Connaught has'sub-
Scribed fifty pounds to the fund for
preserving the battlodeld of Water-
loo, -
Brant County Coulicil has. declin-
ed,the invitation nt L:xior'l and
counties to join in the' jc' rrison
farm scheme.
An Italian army aviator, Lieut.
Griffa, was killed yesterday at Turin,
Italy, while attempting a somersault
with an aeroplane.
Renfrew is now formally commit-
ted to a, peace celebration in 1915,'
and has decided to be one of the 100
centres to participate.
A despach from Belfast to Ti' e
Daily Mail says Maxi'. .,uns in twen-
ty tea chests have `been landec, in
that city under the noses of the cus-
toms officers.
A report "hat the Postoflice•Depart-
ment 1n:ends to abolish the preferen-
tial rate for some time accorded to
British magazines was denied yester-
day at Ottawa.
The women's institutes of Forest
and Thedford hays r.rauged for a
course of medical inspection of school
children 'in- those to•.r.xs and neigh-
boring schools. r
Unable to get names the Queen's
University executive decided to fine
the science and arts faculty each the'
sum of 850 to pay for damage in the
recent "scrap."
For assaulting Constable Thomas
Forbes: on the • orning of February
24, Penta Tataka, was sentenced to
tc o years in the Penitentiary at To-
ronto y.sterday.
THURSDAY.
Police Commissioner Douglas - I.
McKay, of New York,' has sent his.
resignation to Mayor Mitchell, to take
effect not later than April 15.
Four grand jurors were fined $50
each for non-attendance when the
court opened at Perth yesterday. The
fine of one juror was remitted.
Customs receipts for Winnipe;
during the past fiscal year, which
closed Tuesday were about $2,000,-
000 behind those received during the
year preceding.
Fourteen women and thirty-one
men were arrested in a "clean-up" of
the Montreal red light district. The
police have set out to crush an or-
ganized union of vice.
Not until the Panama_,tolls ques-
tion is settled will the,- question of
approval by the American authorities
of the internatirnal fisheries,treaty
come up at Washington.
A St Eugene, Ont., despatch says
that Gustave Evanturel has decided
to again be a candidate for the Legis-
lature, but that his reception at meet-
ings held was not over -enthusiastic.
The death occurred in Montreal
yesterday of J. B. Tressider, past
grand master of the Quebec Grand
Lodge A. F. and A. M., and Past.
Grand Regent of the Royal Arcanum.
The Canadian branch of the Inter -
Parliamentary Union has selected
Hon. G. H. Perley and Hon, Dr. De-
land as delegates to the annual meet-
ing to be held in. Stockholm, Sweden,
next summer.
Benjamin Wickham, 14 years old,
in a Cranford, N.J., court yesterday,
told of his experiences of three days
locked in a refrigerator car filled with.
fruit that he could see through a
grating, but could not reach.
FRIDAY.
The Dominion House of Commons
will take a week's holidays over Eas-
ter, adjourning from Wednesday the
8th inst. to Wednesday the 15th inst.
Paul . Johann Ludwig von Heyse,
the German poet and novelist, died at
Munich yesterday in his 85th year.
He was awarded the Nobel prize for
literature in 1910.
Thomas Poore of Leamington, em-
ployed as driller with the Leaming-
ton 011 Co. in the Romney field, shot
and killed a bald eagle, which had a
spread of over seven feet.
The Ottawa Public School Board
has issued an order that the Union
Jack must be raised on all schools
between the hours of 8.45 a.m. and 4
p.m. on days when classes are held.
The Austrian Zoological and Bo-
tanical Society has awarded the
Archduke Painer.gold medals to Pro-
fessors Ross, Granville, Harrison a>nd.
George Reber Wieland of Yale. Uni- -
versity
Two years in the penitentiary was
the sentence 'impose' upon Robert
Metcalf, a Winnipeg bartender, for
administering knock -out drops by
means' of liquor for the purpose of
robbery. ,
Mrs. J. Barrette died in Montreal
yesterday, aged 107. She was born
in St. Jospeh de Maskinonge, Que. Al-
most to the last Mrs. Barrette was
able to walk around and could. read
without glasses.
Out of several hundred names sug-
gested for a synonym for Sarnia, 1 e
committee of the Board of Trade yes-
terday announced the choice of the
words, "The Beacon City" to replace ,
the former nickname, "The Tunnel
'Town."
- SATURDAY.
Five men are now dead as a result
of the boiler explosion at the Drum-
mond Colliery, ` Tea;v'• le, N.S., Thurs-
day,
John Coulson, governor of Welland
County jail for thirty years, died yes-
terday morning from pneumonia,
aged 73 years.
Welland Towi. Council has decided
to accept the offer of a Carnegie Lib-
rary and has purchased a site at Muir
and Young t'tr=,ets fo. $9,000.
Rev, William Millar, who has been
pastor of the U. 13. Congregati6n
Cllttroh at Listowel, has decided "to
go to Central Africa as a missionary.
Sohn Sutherland, of irirkten, for
over sixty years a resident of Dlan-
chard r lownf '1t1r,, passed a fav early
Culhitm, w' o for the past
nine months has been connected with
the Petrelea branch of the Depart
men of Agricutute, Will Join the nt,.ft
of O, A. C,
The White Star line yet.terday or -
dere i another leviat'^an for the pas-
senger service between Liverpool and.
New York. The new vessel is to dis
place 33,000 tens,
"Le Devoir" of Montreal announces.
that Henri Bour .ssa will leave about
the end of the mouth 'or a five weeks'
trip in England, Ireland and Scot-
land, to write for the paper.
Prince Henry of Prussia, accom-
panted by Ramon Burros, President
of Chile, inspectedtwelve corps of
the Chilean army in the presence of
50,000 spectators at Santiago yester-
day.
Elizabeth Fry, a suffragette, at-
tempted to board the train on which
Premier Asquith was en route to East
Fife yesterday, and after a terrific
struggle with twce policemen, was
borne away uncan cicup.
MONDAY.
Mrs, Squirrel, an Indian woman,
' ith her husband and little child,
walked 96 miles to New Liskeard ' •
undergo an oper tion.
Matthew Wayman, cf Toronto, will
contst the seat for South Timiskam
ing in the Provincial Legislature in
the interests of the Social -Democratic
party.
Sheriff H. Endicott, of Orangeville,
bas received from an unknown per-
son
erson in Toronto $ 21, the amount of a
debt owing to Endicotk Bros., 20
years ago,
Miss Ruth Ward, of Rochester,
N.Y., was knocked down and robb,d
it broad daylight at Niagara Falls,
Ont., of her purse, containiag nearly
$40,' by a well-dressed young man.
The) Chas. W. Grant Morden, the
largest and longest freight ;steamer
on: the great lakes, having a capacity
of twenty trains of thirty cars each,
was `launched at Port Arthur Satur-
day.
Mrs. Victor Garnish, who was for
twenty years a licensed engineer in
Minnesota, yesterday applied to take
out a license in Regina to 'run' r
husband's traction engine, but was
refused.
Allan Turner, of the Brockville
customs staff, died suddenly in the
same chair in which his father passed
away suddenly nearly forty years
ago and in the same roam in which
he was born.
Wm. A. G. Hake, of Brighton,
Eng_, who is the oldest barrister in
Great Britain, and the only barrister,
it is said, who ever attained such a
great age as 103, celebrated his birth-
day yesterday.
An explosion in St. Martin's
Church, Trafalgar Square, London,
last night, which did considerable
damage to the pews and a stained
window in the south aisle, is blamed.
on suffragettes.
TUESDAY.
The action of Father Gnam, for-
merly parish priest at Wyoming, Ont.,
against Archbishop McNeill, has been
dismissed.
The painters ':and decorators of
Brantford threaten to strike unless
they receive higher wages. They now
get 25 to 30 cents an hour.
The girls working in the flax mills
at. Blackpool, Ireland, mauled a
crowd of suffragettes who were at-
tempting to do some proselytizing.
Maxim Gorky, in a letter to the
Russkoe Siovo, maintains that `1e
was completely cured of tuberculosis
by the application of the Rentgen
Ray.
The Cairns Building in Saskatoon,
Sask., occupied by several retail mer-
chants, was destroyed by fire last
night. The loss is estimated at
$250,000.
Nine men were killed when they
were caught by a gas explosion in
caisson No. 5 of the new Harahan
bridge under construction across the
Mississippi river.
Mrs. Margaret Elliott, one of the
royal matrons of the Six Nation.In-
dians, and a daughter of the famous
Chief John Smoke Johnson, 'lied on
the reserve yesterday; aged 90.
The members o`. the Public School
Board who resig led in a body recent-
ly at Strathroy, when a vote of the
people on the bylaw submitted by
council did not meet with their ap-
proval, met yesterday and accepted
their own'resignations.
TEMPERANCE WORKER DEAD.
Mrs. 'Stevens, President of National
W. C. T. U. Passes Away.
PORTLAND, Me., April 7. — Mrs.
William. M. N. Stevens, president of
the National Woman's Christian Tem-
perance Union, died yesterday. She
bad been ill for several weeks with
kidney trouble.
Mrs. Stevens, who was born in
Dover, Maine, 70 years go, continu-
e3 to the last the temperance work to
which she had devoted most of her
life. Her mind remained clear, and
late last week she was able to dic-
tate correspondence in .connection
with the duties of her office. With
her when the, end came were her hus-
band,,Michael Stever.s; her daugh-
ter, Mrs, Gertrude S. Leavitt of this
city, and Miss Anna Gordon of Evan -
ton, I11., vice-president of the Notion-
al Women's Christian • Temperance.
Union..
At conventions of"..the World's
Christian Temperance Union. at Gene-
va, ,New York and Boston, Mrs. Ste-
vens, as, vice-presidert at large, pre-
sided in the absence of the president..
Her' ability as f, speaker and worker
for temperance first became recogniz-
ed in the campaign of 1884, which
placed the prohibitory amendment in
the-..MMIalne constitution,
• Honr J'. R. Stratton I3etter..
TETERBORO, April 7,—In regard
to the report of Hon. J. R. Stratton's
illness, it was announced here yester-
day tha he is much improved, that he
is now going about, and that he ex-
pects to visit Toronto within the next
fortnight,
On Saturday the report was cur-
rent that Hon.. Mr, Stratton was ser
iotidly ill and that his .friends were
gravely concerned over his condition.
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Death removed one of Blansh ards
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person of Mx. John Sutherland was a
nnaa of remarkable physique. . Until
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