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WEDNESDAY,,
A. leader of Czechs is being tried
9n Vienna; on, a charge of treason.
E. A, Lancaster, MP. for Lincoln,
died at his home iu St. Catbarizzes.
Sir George Robertson. M. P. for
Bradford. and a rioted military au-
itbor, is dead,
Wm, G. Lang of Miznieo, a Grand
Trunk brakeman:, was killed while
.shunting cars at Welland.
Brigadier -General Loge and Col-
onel Mewbrsret are to lead Cauadiaxt
divisions shortly going to the front.
Great Br#tare has given Canada
525,000 for building and equipping
recreation rooms in the Canadian
hospitals. in England.
Thomas Curry, a G.T.R- section
foreman at Belleville, was instantly
kilted, being run down by an engine
while cleaning out a switch.
Premier Hearst is taking a short
holiday before tbe session opens, and
during his absence his place will be
taken by Hong W, J. Hanna,
Airs.. Thomas Kenny of Sarnia died
yesterday morning of .pneumonia, her
husband having passed away on Sun-
day night of the same disease.
Manitoba Agricultural ` Buildings
are valued by Montreal apo'raisers at
three nitllion dollars; they are said
to have cost the Province nearly four
millions.
Further loose option reports show
wed more victories, two additional
ldefeats, and four more places where
the three-fifths . clause prevented the
by low from carrying.
Tbe• Prince of Wales has been
,named Chairman of the Committee
ran Naval and Military War Pensions.
'This announcement was made in the
'House of Commons yesterday.
Serious trouble arose at the Gui-
gues bilingual school `ler Ottawa, per-
ianth placing some 'ninety boys there
du charge of teachers of their own
ehoosing, and excluding two appoint-
ed by the commission.
THURSDAY." '
Petroleum nares have been intro-
duced in the German. capital.
Two attempts were made yesterday
to burn down the City Hall at Owen
Sound.'
Clark W. Wright, License inspec-
tor and former Mayor and Alderman
of Kingston, is dead.
A bill facilitating the manufacture
of munitions in Great Britain was
passed be the Houno of C'otmonet
it was announced izx the -House of
Coxruuons that the total Bi'ttislx cas-
ualties in the battle of Leos Were 59,-
666,
6 6
defeated
d f a
McLean,(:o3tsk.r'�"'ative, 4'�
Macdonald, Liberal, by 216 in a bye -
election, 3a the ;l #rst District, Char-
lottetown, P,E.L
A Milan despatch to The Bello de
Parte says that Austria bas sited up
har last line of reserves, many of
whore are unlit for field service.
Fred. Shaw, zi young Speedsido
.tanner,wasdiscovered dead ou
the
roof of his barn, having been caught
and teeth e around "tet shaft. of e.
power mill,
1. S. itleAllum , defeated by' four
votes as a candidate foe Wind-
sor t>alie Scho f`riuPee d't dppusi 1g.;
compulsory vaccination, is appealing
for a. recount.
Tuesday night brought the coldest
weather of the winter in 'Winnipeg,
and at most points in the Prairie Pro-
vinces'. Tweuty-one below is official-
ly reported at Calgary.
AIithonse Lequin was burned to
death and damage of about $10,000
was done yesterday ie a firs whfeh
earried away a number of frame
houses in Prince George.
One thousand skilled workmen
who have gone across among the
Canadian troops; have been released
for work in munitions factories, at
the request of Lloyd George-.
The Minister of Militia is begin-
ning
beginning to. 'receive recruits for the pro-
posed "fighting' parsons" .battalion..
General Hughes says there are scores
of clergymen in Canada: who want to,
go as fighters if they are not needed
as chaplains.
/FRIDAY,
All British officers in state nave
been recalled:
Germany has offered Italy some
Austrian territory for a separate
peace.
Richard Cri;g„ Canadian Commis-
stonerof Coramerce, dropped deed. in.
Ottawa.
Sadie Rudy .of Cookstown,. employ-
ed as a domestic in the New Northern
Hotel, Toronto, committed suicide.
The New Brunswick Government,
it is said, wild at the approaching ses-
sion of the Legislature present pro-
bibitory legislation.
Dairy experts at the Eastern On-
tari, Dairymen's Asaocintiou conven-
tion in R;.ufrew urged On12rio farm-
ers to grade Bream:
Andrew Denholm, Fres deet of tbe
Canadian Indepsirdeut ,'EeIephone
Association,and a prominent pub-
lis'rer in former- years, died at Blen-
heim, aged sixty years..
The Militia Department is inform-
ed that the Lee -Enfield rifle, with
which the British army is equipped,
is being ie -bored to the samesize as
the Ross rifle,. viz., 4;64.
lie C•sen
a 'vthe Trades
and
r t
tres of:
P
Leber Congress asked the Govern-
ment for a wages board on war con-
tracts, also making
other
requests, sts, re-
speeting
labor conditions. as affected
by the war.
THE EXETER
A war credit of $100,000,000 was
enthusiastically approved by the :Elul
gateau Parliament, says a despnteh to
The
London Tzxes
from
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All
seetions ofOppositionthe vokedvith
the Government
Over 90,000 leresbyerians voted
against Cbureh union, and it is con-
sidered unlikely that tho• General
Assembly will attempt to .three union
on such a large iuinority. Less than
1.5f,000 voted in favor of union,
Hostility teethe Government's par-
tial coitheription is uncompromising
and has necessitated the resignation
fror t the coalition Ministry of all
three Labor members Arthur Hen-
derson, William Brace, and Geo. IL
Roberts.
SATURDA..li,
The operation of the Insurance "Act
in Great Britain has been hampered
by the war,
Wyomingcarried the Hydro -radial
by-law by 101 to 11, completing the
chain from Chatham to Sarnia via
P etrolea-
Hydro rates are reduced by 10 per
cent. in the Niagara district of the
system, which incudes Toronto' and
Western Ontario,
Mr. H; K. Caskey, General Secre-
tary of the Laymen's Missionary
Movement, resigned yesterday , in
order to join art international com-
mittee.
Ontario women, at a conference in
the. Parliament Buildings, Toronto,
formed the Women's 'Emergency
Corps for tbe purpose of aiding. re-
cruiting.
Quebec Anti -Liquor League is ask-
ing the Provincial Gevernnunt to
enact a no -treating law, to sborten
the hours of sale, and otherwise to
restrict the liquor traffic.
k reach -Canadian . parents of chit
dren attending eluigss school, Ot-
tawa,'won an exciting battle with the
Outarfe Government's Ottawa Separ-
ate School Contraission and a squad
of police.
The Germans have already begun
to replace their s''hortage of men with
and increased number of -weapons,
says La Liberte. According to this re-
port a few of the xaen are armed with
deadly non -recoiling automatic riles,
capable of firing fen shots before they
are recharged.
Miss Efee Fite, sixteen years old, of
Blytheswood, while in Leamington on
a New Year's visit to her grandlno-
ther, disappeared rrysteriouely, and
sent word from Windsor alleging that
she ' U'S taken there ty a woman at
the lz point of a revolver and would
d
soon sail for Engla d.
15' C1ND?iY..
Time
ere .urewned evelle al".;!•lural on he—
Moe Bat, Satardlty afternoon.
John Nettleton, ex -Mayor of Col-
lingwood, passed away et the General
awl Marine os itai y
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was born in I,ofthouse, Yo itsler
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Sing., in 1832, and carne to Colliug-
wood in 1853.
A
plant/ter thawing out frozen we-
er pipes at the rosidenee at A. C.
Boyce, 11i.P., at Sault Ste. Marie Sat-
urday, started -a fire in the woodwork
of a Partition which gutted the resi-
dence and practically destroyed it..
Burns received by little Phyllis.
Turton, the ave -year-old daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Samuel l?urtoa of In-
gersoll, on Thursday, resulted: fatally
on Saturday. Her dress was ignited
tepee, sire endeavored to put a cloth
in the stove.
Rev. Dr, John O'Gorman, parish
priest of the Blessed Sacrantent
Church of Ottawa, ilr a sermon yes-
terday called on the Knights of Co-
lumbus of Canada to give their quota
of men to the Canadian Expedition-
ary forces or to erase the word
"knights" from their title. -
The C. P.. 1L has placed an embar-
go Torr a week oesinst the loading of
grain for Fort William and Port Ar-',
them'
W 71z'a;m Smit
b,
l Taylor street,
a
negro;attacked is
wife and a aeigh-
boe with a, razor, and then committed
suicide. • '
Edgar Rosebrugh, aged 16; Earl
Robins.. 16. and Jesaeh Smiley .18_
TUESDAY,
Fire damaged . the Toronto Union
Station to the extent' of $10,000,
The Teutonic Consuls arrested at
SaIoniea have been .interned at Tou-
lon.
IPerbeet Samuel, .Postmaster -Gen_
eral, has. been appointed Home Secre-
tary, succeeding Sir John A. Simon,
resigned.
Economy and patriotism were tee
keynotes of the Mayors' addresses at
several; inaugural meetings of .muni-
cipal Councils in Ontario.
The 5th Brigade of the 2nd Cana-
dian Division is being reorganized to.
forma a brigade wholly of battalions
from Montreal and district.'
William Huff of Bothwell died in
a Chatham hospital of .injuries re-
ceived when struck by a train at
Prairie Siding on. Thursday:
About $2,000,00.0 monthly is paid
out by the Militia 'Department in as-
signed pay or separation allowances
to dependents or relatives of men at
the front. '
Two hundred Montenegrin.s drown-
ed on Friday off the Italia, sunk by a
mine in the Adriatic, were gathered
in Canada and the United States and
trained at Three Rivers and Levis.
J. R. Steadman, Councillor -elect of
Petrolea, disclaims his seat, not hav-
ing resigned as school trustee the re-
quired ten days, before nomination,
and there will be a new nomination
Mrs. Ann Brown, con. 10, Syden-
ham, near Owen Sound, •' celebrated
her 1OOth birthday in. full possession
'of her faculties and in good vigor.
She is deeply interested in the. war
and occupies herself with knitting
socks for soldiers.
, :, 'Woman Gets Iron Cross.
BERLIN,
Jan. 11.
_D
mp
erorWil-
liam has conferred theiron cross on
'z
,Frau Skolik, of Gleiwitz,
fordisclos-
ing a
isclos-ing..a bomb plot, the work of asine
This is the firsttime that a woman
bas received the iron cross. -
Tr 11SD'A.' JA IZTARY 1.3111,
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Auction Se
01 Valuable two storey' brick block
• and choice businessnttcLe t
ho
,Villageoflxe
Exeter, , Ontario.
The Executor of the Est ate of the
late George Satnwell will offer for
sale on the premises ote Tuereday, Jau
nary .18th, 1016, at 2 o'clock ,p;m• 'thb
property ou the tomer ' of Maio. lend
John Streets, Exeter, two stores of
which are now occupied` by Jones' sle
;May, General 'Merobants, and , the
third by lin&li Spackman, hardware
Merchant The 'peoperte is a most
desirable one, the eldest'and,best buil:-
nese
us►nese alto in a towrG' whichhas no..
superior in Western Ontario, Tho
block is well built, well equipped ;and
in god Ireroie with adequate storage
buildings at sear
The property civil' 'be offered in two
parcels, according to occupancy,
Terms. -10 per cent cash, balance on
March •lst, 191.(, whenpossea3sion giv-
en. Taxes 'and insurance propor-
tioned on Marsh lst. Per further
particulars and conditions of sale rapt
ply to.
GLA'IYMAN & STANBURY
13arristera, Exeter, Ont.
Solicitors for Executor.
l{OR SALE—One good cow, extra
beef ,quality,eight years old, due to
freshen Dee. 10th; 1 heifer 3 years old
due Jan, 3rd; 1 purebred Shorthorn
bull 10 months old; 1 filly rising 4,.
years; 1 filly and 1 gelding Tieing t3
years add, JOHN LEARY, Cromarty
PO., Lob 13, Con. 13, Ribbert; phone
544 Bibbert Line 12 9 -dip
Scientists have: pleudged their nj•d to
the 'King by !devoting all their ener-
gies to
ner-gies'to the task of bringing the war
to a victorious conclusion. • In the
meantime, the . health and . nerves of
our brave soldiers :and their friends
at hone is suffering, and TAI is
the 'one perfect t remedy For nerves.
Fifty cents at your druggist's, or by..
mail from the Georgian Mfg. Co.,
Collingwood, .Ontario,,
fir. YOUR CHILD IS CROSS,
FEVERISH, CONSTIPATED;
Look Mother! If tongue is coated
cleanse tittle bowels with "Call+
fornla Syrup of Figs."
Mothers can rest;, easy after givili
"California Syrup ,Of Figs," because in
a few hours all the clogged=up Waste,
sour bile and fermenting food gently
moves out of the bowels, and yo'u have
a well, playful child again.
Sick children needn't be coaxed to
take this harmless . "frurt lax true."'
Millions of mothers keep rtJ handy be -
.cause n n the
itsa t o a
know•
.cause
they
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stomach,- liver and bowels is `ruin t i? p
d sure.
'Ask your druggist' for 'a.
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nttvil
bot;
Ile or"CaliforniaCiifarn#a Sy�pOf
corta•rfaditectigns.for babi'chidreha
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at all ages and for. grown=ups.,
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FARMERS'BUSINESS
The Collodion Bank of Commerce extends to Far;�fne � s �,eve
Canadian �'
of their banking business including
facility for the transaction� ,
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the discount and collection of -sales . notes. Blank sales notei‘
are • supplied free of charge on application. sem`
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RREDECON BRANCH -- A. E. gUHN, Manager.
Load Burnham Dead. • i 'Cm
LONDON, Jan. 11.—Lord Burn-
ham,
aresham, proprietor of The Daily Tele-
' graph diedhere yesterday. He cele-
breted;his 82nd birthday on Dec, 28
last, and had been critically i11 sev
'eras• weeks. He retire from active
ago,
work several years abO
,
and had lived quietly . at his country
seat with his family.. Lord Burn -
ham's eldest son, the • Hon. Harry
Lawson, is the active manager of
The 'Da"i1y"Telegraph, and has repre-
sented London district in Parliament
since 1
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battle, and he third is et
the front
with his, regiment.
J. A. MASON
ARCHITECT
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