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THIRTY-THIRD YEAR
WHOLE NUMBER, 1,738.
SEAFO 'TH, FRIDAY, APRIL 6, 1901.
McLEAN BROS.„ Publishers:
$1 a Year in Advance.
• A Dollar's Worth
For. a Dollar.
Many firms advertise more 'than this, but we do not.
We find the best way of advertising is to give doctd honest
value, allowing a small living margin of profit.
The business of any flim of the future will de end upon
transactions of the past, and all the advertising that can be
done will not overcome bad judgrcient in dealing with cus-
tomers, or bad faith in the matter of fulfilling promises. We
always fulfil our promises. A few words on prices :
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We will again draw y
of ready-to-wear clothing
durability. These are extr
finish, and fit perfectly. T
$10,
0
We repeat our faith in
suits in brown, grey and f
lead the trade at $4.50 per
grey t and mixtures at $5,
1n boys' clothing, we
luau lines. A -special li
suits, sizes 22 to 29, at $1
sizes 27 to 33, we are show
greys at $3 and $3.50.
la
ur attention to "our own make,"
noted for their -exCellency and
well lined, and have a spperior
e popular prices are $8, $9 and
a line of all -wool Halifax tweed
n. For knockabout suits, they
uit. Also many lines of browns,
6 and $7.
ill only mention a few of the
e of grey mixtures, in two-piece
5 and $2. In •three-piece -suits,
ng a very nice line of browns and -
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In our ordered clothin departnaent, notwithstanding the
immense assortment of fi e suitings now in stock, we have
just received a few additi nal lines of very fine suitings,
which were so teropting we could not resist buying.
• We,will make mentio
and tweeds in browns, grey
See our assortment of
• and new shapes of stiff hat
bats and caps.
of a
and
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special line of fancy worsteds
mixtures,at $16 and
new colored 'shirts, new neckwear
. We have the new " America.n "
. Do you require pair of overalls? Blue and black
deny, with or without apr n anI braces, special at 50c. A
heavy cottonade, assorted attems, will give extra good wear
at 85c. 1.
The "old reliable," th budliskin, in " our own mak
•are good looking pants at 1 per pair. •
We also have a compl te stock of all kinds of working
shirts, sox, threshers' wide rim ed hats, etc. • -
Still a large quantity
sold everywhere at 30c ;
18c.- These goods are sell
the best patterns are sold
charge.
; ew store is Johnson
grncery.
f bueilkskin for men's pants, at 20c,
so lighter weights at ,120, 150 and
"ng v!ery fast. 'Come early before
nt. We cut these goods free of
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Clothiers nd Furnishers
Formerly on the Wro
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g 'de SEAFORTH
Settlers' On Way Excursions
`ft, Manitoba and. Canadian North est, will leave Toronto' every TUESI)AY
(1rin- March and April, 1901.
l'as,engers' travailing without live stock, should take the train leaving
Toro:Ito at 1:45 p. m.
Pas,engers travelling with liv stock, sholliti take tho train leaving Toronto
Colonist sleeper -will be attached to each tiain.
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l'ify full particulars and copy of " Settlei,-; Guide," apply to any Oana.dian
Paritn Agent, or to A. H. NOT fAN, Assistant 'General Passenger Agent,
1 Kitv,..; Street East, Toronto.
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R J. MACDONAL
•C. P. R.
GENT, Seaforth.
THE T
• QUE
DEAR Exrosi
letter got ba
grain crop bein
of four million, and o
hundred and 4ixy m
hundred bushel, and
prediction was 640 in
as stated. 11
tition in the
markets, enhan
cents per bus
120 millions int
can farmers fro
it will put as
-of live stook an
total gain of
basis, if our r
us 6 cents •pe
millions out of -
and about as
branches of our
week from Chic
cents per 100
follows
Tort,—
ly ohm
g four
he fig
ged,
illion
r On
Ilion.
ir Ch
teed
Canadian r
Chioag
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the po
In grain
uch m
an
value
palte
kets
alone
re fro
provis'ons,
40 mil
ilways
• bushel
'ions.
disori
this
ur pockets i
inuoh ore
trade. The e
go to t e sea
ounds, hich
•Flo r 0
Wabash 6,010
Big Four • 2610
•Michigan Centr 1 9,3 8
Lake Shore • 29,3 8
Fort Wayne 23,111
Panhandle • 17,P3
Baltimore & Oh o 26,2 0
Grand Trunk • 7,510 4,
Nickle Plate • 36,2. 3 3
14,3'S 2
_These figures allow th t the
is doing the cuqing in ates,
show what ra es the and
fferin
in
•y p
t be
( lbs
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vigati
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g gra
ts h
r the
ve to
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14 aud 17
A TION
AIN.
res in my last
the American
'whole instead
ario orop / one
instead of1one
rles Tupper's
f 460 millions,
ilway isotope-
Mtnneatiolis
of the crop 3
advance Outs
f the Antoci -
and doubtless
the carriage
hioh makes a
On the !time
inate agr10
s,
ekes nearl
• grain alone
in the other
port rate last
oard was 10
wascarriod as
ain Provis-
ions
3'9,000 2,719
7,000 787
1.5,000 1,334
3 6,000 1,495
25,000 • 973
2$2,000 2,667
1 3,000 1 708
2,000 3,519
0,000 1,533
7,000 2,764
Grand Trunk
ut it does not
the Canada
in an under -
easels to our
rts. On the
iving a rate of
Com all these
rder to keep
er routes, and
n opene these
a cent or two.
n from either
ve to give a
amount at its
be unloaded
rival, or de-
g to its size,
ed within the
any loss that
rk the other
gh Mr. Hays
•ce the rates
f navigation,
he road was
an they ever
ants from Lis-
• nd. Ontario
amount, the
for the de -
ears ; as all
to seaboard
nd thousands
ortages. We
son that fell
one hundred
e had to pay
much as six
Atlantic railway are
hand way to brig grai
lake and Geozjgiau B
present basis they mu
6 cents or 7 cen e per 1
points to the 4eaboar
grain from goijig by t
the chances are when n
rates may have o be re
Our railways i carryi
Chicage or the eke po
receipt that is good f
destination. V ssels h
in 48 hours fter th
murrage is cb rged a
the grain has al o to be
time specified •r is lia
may be sustai ed-. N
side of the p oture ;
was good enoug not t
Ur •and ,21 cent at the
as has been don, ever
opened, rates ar a now 1
were, being onls
towel to Montr al and ,Portl
shippers get no eceipt or th
roads being on y resp nsibl
livery of the &urnber f th
grain is now sold s bjeot
weights, there a e thou ands
of dollars bein paid or a
have had thre oars t is se
short thirty-th ee, fift and
bushels. Besid s, shipp rs ha
interest and in urance for a
weeke for want f empt cars.
• There is alw ys da ger i delay, it is
•much more so i the gr in bu mess. Local
rates being 10 ents hi her t an the export
rate to the lowe _prow, eerie i is perfectly
plain that Onta io farm rs ar being robbed
10 million dollar: yearl out of the grain
crop alone, an about as much more on
other branches of tra e. he •two rail-
ways have enter d into regu ar conspiracy
to make all the, oney t ey ea out of this
Province. In t le south, wh re they come
into _opposition ith th Mich gan Central,
they have to act differe tly. Last summer
oats were carr ed fro Lon on to New
York for 11 ce ts, whe they were shipped
from Stratford at 17I cents These two
roads, according to thel chart r, are not al-
lowed to discri Mete n rat:s either be-
tween individua s or Inc Mime. Such being
the case, why d'cln't P einier Ross notify
the Dominion Glivernment tha he will hold
them responsiblo for ti e loss this Province(
sustains in allowing these roads to dis-
criminate in r tes; in fav.r of either
Manitoba or Am rican rain f om the lake
parts? It is st ange if a law hat prevents
any discriminat on amo get ourselves will
legalize it in fi vor of ur conipetitors, to
enable them to ndersel us b th at home
and abroad. I was greatly serprised when
Archie Campbe 1, politician a d promoter,
began advocatin (with he ass Armee of the
Globe) the buil ing of a road ram Toronto
to CollingwoOd at . the exp nse of the
country, which I eked # ore 11 e a dodge to
catch votes th:n anyt ing el e. I confess
it surprises me . hat A chi° 'ampbell, the
miller who has ben co plaini g so bitterly
agai.nst the w y he was 1 iscriminated
against in freig t rates shoul father such
an abaurd eche e, whic woul only tend
to make bad ore. f Toro to and Col-
lingwood thin there is oney in it,
they should pu their .hands in their own
pockets and buili it wit out a king outside
assistance. Alt lough t e rout is 300 miles
shorter . than bs Bui alo, if two large
vessels were to pi rt comeany a the Straits,
the chances ar the o e caro would be
delivered in th eleva or in 1 uffalo long
before the othe was delivere• in Toronto,
besides one con per b Owl i a common
rate on grain fr m Chi ago to Buffalo, and
as it will cost fu1y ono eat to ransfer the
other cargo, w ere is there any profit ?
The Buffalo yen 1 has nly to move from
one wharf to another Oak() n a, cargo of
coal. Last fall he rate for coa was as high
as one dollar per to', whib I was more
profitable than grain i.argo.
Supposing t is ab urd oronto and
Collingwood sol erne al put through, it
would re4uire t em to handle 3() millions
interest and th •cost f IP'
every season at 1 cent er b sbel, to pay hand ing. It is a
• great mistake to Rupp° e the A edema are
going to allow t e trite]to be taken from
them without a espera e fight. The state
of New York is iving 5 ,millie s to deepen,
the Erie' canal and te erten the looks,
when this is done and new &Nes- with
• improved elect io mo o po er are got,
Canadian route, both b Ian and water,
will get all the dppositi n the ant. The
faot that New York e an n port the
year round,i'wh re business is 'ready con-
centrated, gives them fearf I advantage.
This sleet fall a d win e , oil a rates have
ruled'from 11 oe t to A cen per bushel
lower than frorour pre i o nding Port-
landThe Oiob refus d op b ish my last
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re
a
letter that appeared in vo r v I able paper.
Judging from the late d torial, the reason
is plain why it was e used. The editor
• appears to be far more n eremite in build.
ing up the city of Toro to than e is careful
for the interests of the 0 untry and shows
his ignorance o the g ai trad in predict-
ine that one hu deed tl ion ba bele can, be
brought to Col ingwo d and c rried over
the road to T ronto. : esides the editor
is greatly -mist ken, i e thi ks the Lib -
orals of this rovino re go ng to give
either the Globe or the Li eral 4 overnment
a blind supper either if they all in doing
their duty or in entering nto wi d schemes,
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beyond the requirements of the eountry.
Liberals must be allowed the privilege of
thinkin for themselves. It is a fact, that
all our overnments use far too much wind
in tryi g to sustain themselves in power.
Israel T rte has almost become as great a
etretohe as Sir Charles Tupper. Since
being a ory he has become far too liberal
for the good of the country. Instead of
being ea nified in bringing 42 million bushels
of grain into our lake ports, he expects 42
million one brought into the Georgian Bay
ports in few years, and strongly advises
all the i utes, both by land and -water, not
to get ealous of each other, as there is
going to e trade enough and to spare for all
routes 1 ading to Rome, and for fear the
trade beoomes congested, he is having 'a
camel s rveyed • from Montreal to the
Georgia Bay, which he intends to make at
a cost o 50 millions, more or leas'as soon
as he o n get permiesien from his col-
leagues.
It is nly two years since -Mr. Tarte was
in Bran ford, when he told his audience
whet gre t things the harbor wise doing for
Goderich ; that the elevator had contracted
to hand e 6 million bushels of American
rain, but alas! his expectations have not
been rea ized. The company has not been
able to pay a cent of interest on the
investme • t, and this last year it hats fallen
short $7 11 in paying working expenses,
which e owe that the best laid schemes of
mice and men go badly wrong. It appears
to me t is is a good time to rest and be
thankful It is not to be expected that the
present «ave of prosperity that has been
caused b nearly all great nations spending
so much oney in building costly war ships
and oth r itnplements of destruction, ean
last, as t e money has all to be taken out of
the peo le in taxes, which must have a
depressing effecton trade. There is
nothing o warrant Mr. Tarte in losing his
head. T e fact that less than 5 million
bushels o Manitoba grain arrived at all the
lake port; last season .and the further fact
that the Manitoba • Premiers have been
fighting or the last 15 years to secure a 10
cent rat on wheat to Fort William, and
now, wh n Mr. Roblin has got the rate, it
seems et ange that a Province that was
supposed to be capable of growing 640
million ushels of wheat, worth 15 cents
per bush 1 more than ours and which can be
shipped o the seaboard on a 17 cent rate,
the same as from Listowel, it would appear
that the eople must have very little faith
in the f tura, for after getting the rate
almost c t in two, they refuse to ratify the
agreeme • t. Such being tl-e caee, M.
Tarte bail better defer his canal scheme,
besides it will take a long time before this
country •eootnee wealthy in carrying Amer-
ican gra n or anything else below cost..
The Am /deans being famed for forming
truets a d combine e for .the purpose of
robbing he consumers, why should our two
roads be used as a lever te prevent J. P.
Morgan dividing up the whole railway
system bbween himself and a few more rich
men, and allowieg them to have a decent
yearly i come out •of their investmentr,
which iz quite reasonable, and if they
choee to ob the producers in the same way
our roads are robbing us it would be all
the bett r, as we would then be in a
position o compete with them both at home
and abro d.
I contend as long as our local rates are so
high as ti prevent the internal trade of the
country, orn ought not to be admitted free,
when it an be delivered at lower rates than
the prod ice of the country. To do this is
to give ti em a monoply of • the trade and is
a slur os the etountry, that it is so poor it,
cannot g ow enough to feed our hoge and
cattle. t is also a slur on native born
Canadian, who ought to be so well ed-
ucated, t at we need not import an Amer-
icanized oglishman from California and a
Canadian zed American from Milwaukee, at
salaries o $50,000 each, besides bringing in
a great any others to fill the best posi-
tions, to give them a chance to rob the
country, ankee fashion.
I notic Mr. Shaugnessy etatee that if he
could get a proper wharfage in Quebec to
fill large steamers, he could bring in 370,-
000 tons of freight, or could load 70
steamers. There is no doubt he could do so
by cutting the flour ratafrom Minneapolis,
and carrying it double the distance at one-
half the rate he could carry it from On-
tario.
Itmust trouble Mr. Tarte greatly to find
where the future Rome is, when G. B.
Reeves is willing to carry American grain
400 miles to the west of us, and 300 miles
to -the east of us into a foreign land and
still find t more profitable to do so. "Sb.
Lawrence" • must be right, the turther
freight is hauled the cheaper it can be
carried.
• Yours &c.,
JAMES PRINGLE, SR.
Stratford March 29, 1901.
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Our Trade With England.
wHA. D, D, WILSON TRINKS,
The To onto Globe of Friday last says :
Mr. D. P. Wilson, of Seaforth, the well
known exporter of eggs, who has just re-
turned f om a five months' business trip in
the old c untry, talked very interestingly
yeaterda with a reporter of the Globe on
Canadian trade prospects in Great Britain.
eSeel 0 foanr the egg trade was concerned, the
e not an extra good one, but the
export o Canadian • eggs continues to
increase at a remarkable rate, and was
probably 50 per cent. more last year than
two year ago. A market is found chiefly
in Liver ool, Glasgow and the great in-
dustrial entree adjacent to those ports.
London nd the south get most of their
supplies f om European continental sources.
Mr. Wil on's business brings him int')
contact «ith men engaged in all sorts of
commerci 1 undertakings and with the
working classes of the districts that he
visits. verywhere he finds a great growth
of feeling in favor of Imperial federation on
the lines free trade within the empire,
and a t riff against imports from foreign
countries. There is a great admiration of
Canadian , and especially of Sir Wilfrid
Laurier. The English papers have got_ into
the habit of talking of him, and he is be-
coming v ry well knownindeed aka public
man. FsepeopIe with whom Mr. Wilson
spoke, bs ecially the trading element of the
communi y, in discussing Iniperied feder-
ation ins sted very strongly on free trade
within th empire as the firet consideration
of any referential treatment. They will
simply d • nothing without that as a con-
sideratio . These men belong to both
parties a d to all conditions of life, but
without espect to parties the ory is free
trade wit in the empire. This view is inore
strongly eld perhaps among the Unionists
than am ng the members of any other
political roup.
" Wou d it pay Canada," Mr. Wilson
W&8 aske , "to steadily reduce her tariff to
a' free t ade basis with Great Britain in
considera ion of duties being placed upon
foreign io'd imports into that country ?"
"Pay !' replied Mr. Wilson. "Pay
twice ov r. Some folks say there is no
sentimen 1 in business; my experience has
been tha at the present time, prices being
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Wall Papers
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Curtaiii Poles
Picture Frani
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At pelmet just a 1
the lowest. Hangi
ing paper by experi
at the lowest price.
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and
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need workmen
equal, Canadia products, •uch as bacon,
eggs, butter nd cheese, re bought in
preference to similar products from any
foreign count y. ' If the people knew
always that oods were anadian they
would buy th m more read'ly. The diffi-
culty is that they are eel ern sold to the
actual consu er in the or gine! package,
which shows hat they ar Canadian pro.
duets, . Anoth r thing is tha the- producer
does not alwa a put the w rde, 'Canadian
product,' in a sufficiently co spiouous place
upoa the °rig' al package. I have some-
times seen goo a displayed tis way, and I
think it woul pay our pe ple to put the
words, 'Caned an product,' n their goods
in such a wa , wherever p seible, that it
would catch t e eye of the coinsumer. In
certain lines of Irish bacon -I have noticed
lately that th y are_ burnin in the brand,
and this, I thi k, would be aj good' idea to
imitate. Ther would be a4i enormous in-
crease in the i ports of Can dian products
into Great B itain under a 'preferential
tariff. At pr eent we do better than the
United States because we produoo better
goods, but t some lines, particularly
butter, Denmark leads us very heavily.
With a preference on eggs, butter, bacon
and cheese, we should be idle to displace
Danish, Belgian, Russian and French
imports. In the rnatter (4 eggs alone,
Russia sends Pout eight times as many as
Canada, and o r export to Great Britain in
1900 was value at $1,447,000.
"There may be a few line, of- manufac-
tures in whioh Canadian industry mig t
suffer•from free trade within the empire, b t
I hold the benefie would enor °ugly cnttwa
the dieadvantages. Take tlhe matter qf
woollen manufactures, in whi h there is di
satisfaction at present. f ur peop e
are suffering' not from British co
petition so mu4h as from the kompetition of
goods made in Germany and sent over to
England to be Fiished. Under a zollvereiin
such an arrao ment as this 'could not be
carried out. Ii my opinion the next gene.
al election in reat Britain will be largelt
. fought on the ueation of free trade withi
the empire, anil an Imperial customs unio
corresponding to the German zollverei
against the pr ducts of other countries.'?
Ontario Fruit at the Pan-
American. •,
The allotine nt of apace at the Pan-Ameri-
can has finally taken place, and the Ontar o
Department o Agriculture has been fo
tunate in sem ing 1,000 Equare feet. Wben
it is stated th t Ontario's exhibit will be
placed betwe n those of California and
Florida, it wil be seen at once how import.
ant it is to ha e an attractive exhibit af
Outario fruits. It is much to be desir
that every par of Ontario shall be repr
oersted, so Lila we can show to the crow •
of visitors tha our fruit area is not limit: el
to one or two small sections. Canadia•s
will be as muc interested as American
and will be loo mg fora first-class dimple
A comprehens ve series of awards is no
being arrange'and it is hoped that 0
tario will do f lly as well at Buffalo in 1911
as at Chicago in 1893. The department h s
• tendent, and preparatio a
[trines, euperi
appointed Mr. W. H. Bunting, of St. Cat
. are now going forward. Fruit growe
who have, or pect to have, fruit suitab o
to exhibit sho Id at once place' themselv s
in communicat on with him. The ored t
of our provino is at stake, and everyoia
who can help o advertise the fine clime e
and produotiv soil of Ontario should lend
a willing hand The exhibit must be 'n
place by May et, when apples from col
storage, fruits and vegetables in glase, an
evaporated fr its will be placed on t e
tables. After that fresh fruit will be se • t
forward every week.
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An 1.1 portant Decision.
What has b•coine known as the "Delp t
Marriage Cas " has created is great deal af
interest thronghout the Dominion. T e
particulars ar, in brief, as follows : De
pit, who waf private secretary to t e
lieutenant -governor of Quebec Provinc ,
was married to Miss Cote in 1893, by t e
Rev. W. 8, B rnes, a Unitarian minister f
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Montreal. TI ey had lived together as meat
and wife fo several years, and three
children were [born to them. About a year
ago Delpit twilight to have the marriage de-
clared null and void by the ecclesiastical
authorities at Quebec, because the ceremony
was performed by a Protestant minieter,
whom the Ro an Catholic authorities- did
not recognize as a proper authority to
perform such marriage, when the contract-
ing parties ere both Roman Catholics.
The Quebec uthorities declared the mar-
riage null ad void, and referred the
matter to R me, where their decision was
upheld.
given at Ro #1 e upheld by the civil courts,
- Delpit then sought to have the decision
and took eat, • in the superior court. The
defendant ple ded that she was a Protestant
• at the time of the marriage, and that, even
If she had bee a Roman Catholic, the law
of Quebec r cognized any duly qualified
minister as a • roper person to perform mar-
riage ceremon es and specifies nothing as to
what religion the contracting parties pro-
fessed, and, berefore, the marriage was
binding, and hat the ecclesiastical author-
ities had no ri ht to declare the same null
and ju vs ot ii ed.
e
Ar hibald, of the superior court,
has just giv n 'judgment, dismissing the
action of the plaintiff with coats and de-
claring that t e ecclesiastical 'court of Rome
has no juried ction in marriages performed
in Canada b tween two Roman Catholics,
when perform d by a duly authorized min-
ister.
•
—Andrew W. Aikens, a well-known
cattleman, died at his home in Cookeville,
on Saturday
injuries reoei
While driving
month ago, M
tween Toront
rig was overt
out. Mr. Ai
ronto and oar
pital. He le
lived a few d
Mr. Aikens 4s a justice of the peace, and
was highly re pected by all who knew him.
Since the dea h of Mr. Flannigan, his part-
orning. Death resulted from ,
ed in a runaway accident).
home korn Toronto, about a
. Aikens' team ran away be -
Junction and Lambton. The
rned and the driver thrown
ens was brought hack to To-
d for at St. Michael's hos. ,
t there recently, but only
ye after returning to his home.
ner in the • tat) busineae, decease had de-
voted his a tention to a large vi eyard at
Cookeville. He was recognized as one of
the foreiro t men in the wine -malting busi-
ness in he rovince. He was 60 years old.
• Canada.
i
—Mr.1 alter M. Deck, of Kincardine,
ex -M. Pt I' for South Bruce anti editor of
the Kincar • file Reporter has been appoint-
ed registrar of Bruce oeunty.
• ' —Thlla Ignatius Cookshub, of Brant-
ford, lef a estate valued at $400,900 over
all liabilitie With the, exception of chari-
table berine ts Of $5,000, the aatat will be
divided am ng the family of the de seed.
• —Anothe vacancy halt ocourre4 in the
Dominion enete. •Senator Paq et, pro-
prietor of t e most extensive dep rtmental
store in the city of Quebec, died on Satur-
dayanionthonoieittfmfiagrlp
, alter aehpoe.rtillness. •He
isth
—TheidaM just above the Manchester
mills, in Ingersoll, broke Saturday morning
between and 3 o'clock causing 1eonsider.
i
able damage. Some 14 years ago t is same
dam bro e, which resulted in a ut.mber of
lives beia4g lost, but the water wa not so
high thi spring.
—Wol es are reported to be fi rce and
plentiful in ardley township, in he Gat-
ineau die riot. , A farmer named D.1 Renaud
lost 13 st4ee in, two weeks. The wolves
have beeii a most starved in the hilbi during
the long i i ter, and they now make regu-
lar desce ts on the farmyards.
—Johi Li dsay, a prominent fernier of
Southwo d, lain county, whose son Chest-
er, died 1 c nsumption a few deers ago,
committed s icicle Friday morning by hang-
ing hims If in his bun. Deceased was one
of the we It hest and best known residents
of the di tri t. • He had been suff ring for
some tim with la grippe.
—A fa al acctdent is reported froSouris,
Manitob • Mrs. Cummings was d iving to
a neighb r's with her young sons, o make
a visit. h horses started quickly, throw-
ing the t o oye from their seat on a load-
ed shotg n. The gun' went off and the
shot ente ed the mothe,'s side, pe etrating
the bowe s a d resulting fatally. •
— Dr. Bry e, of the provincial loard of
health, as received information that a
number of ew cases; of smallp x have
cropped up n the unisettled districts of
Renfrew. i ht cases have been eported
up to dat1e a Wortbingt n, and th re is a
suspecte4 ea e at Whitney. A dea h from
smallpox has occurred at Alice, -ne r Pem-
broke. •
—A deput tion of brewers waited upon
the provinci 1 secretary at Toronto; a few
days ago 1 as ing for a reduction; in the
taxes the h ve to pay the provin e. • At
present ac brewer contributes revenue
ranging iietiween $250 and $2,000, t e latter
being th maimum. The brewers ask a
reductio t $1,000 maximum a d $100
minimu - •'
--Mrs. Made Stokes, of Hamilt n, died
very aud en y ! Saturday afternoon. She
boarded stileet oar, but before the oar had
gone ver far the conductor notie d that
the woman, he was 78 years of , go, ap-
peared iiCeve I. , He hastened to her ide and
found her un onscious, though still ebmreoavteh-
ing. Ship di d before she tould be d
from the Icier '
— Some bo s playing on the cree1 which
crones Vans Wart avenue, Woodet ck, on
Saturday, fo nd the body of a well evelop-
ed child.; It had been wrapped in news-
paper, atcl d posited in the culvert, under
.the sidewalk The size of the chi d, and
the fact, that a bruise was found on its
temple, lead the authorities to believe that
it was mnrd red.
A. A. L ngdon, a Toronto traveller,
was found in his room at the Hotel {Oxford,
in Woodeitoc , on Sunday morning; nearly
asphyxiated. • Langdon had left the gas
burning low 11 night., Early in the morn-
ing he is4 u to turn it out, and in po doing
turned ition again. When found, he was
in a semi -u censcious condition, .but re-
covered nnd the care of a doctor.
—The fol owing have been a pointed
veterinary s rgeonit for the Depart4nent of
Agriculture n connection with th tuber-
culosis teat f r cattle going to the United
States : ,Me ere. Stubbs, Toronto ;, Charles
Little, Win ipeg. ; J. B. Tract, 1.British
Columbia, ; . C. Hargrave, Mediciho Hat.
fell dead, 1 emorrhage of the brain was
tAh_ecetwrrtoimufibc.aemt.e nfroorm, either, of the ab ve will
Brantfor ,
Wawa. Th mes is 82 years old, and near -
all the way, following the sea coast, and
bent with th :weight a years, la much
be accepted y the Anierioan aut orities,
has walked f on Woodatock, Virginia, to
hie sister in orth. Michigan. He 1.J -ramped
pa,seed throu 11 all the eastern states. He
is hale, hea tY, and strong, and although
more active ban many a younger m n.
doctor, who ad been called in to ttend a
sick sister. he had a slight pain in her
it was neural ia, at the eame time 1 raising
her hand to ndicate the spot. As she did
so she ut ere, a sudden exclamation and
the same ilf• ne from their own ine ector.
head, and to d the medical man she thought
—An aged negro named John homes,
near-
ly a year ag etarted from his home to visit
—On I' id y evening Mies Du ban, of
as chatting , with th
who lives two mileis north
family
of Sputa ii ar St. Thomas, was iferiouely
injured Sed esday night. He came to St.
Thomas t g t medicine for a sick child,
and in dr vi g home the horse ran away,
11
Mr. Minor b ing thrown out abou White
Station and aught between the eh fts and
seat and 4ra ged for over a mile, ntil the
horse was' s pped at Union. He freceived
1.
severe injuri s about the head, a la ge por-
tion of th .8 alp being torn off. Though
badly inj re his condition is not onsider-
ed seriou u 1 less blood poisoning sets in.
— A few d ye ago D. Curtis, about 40
years of :go who lived in Mediae tewnship,
near Bellevi le, went to the village, and,
after prosier ng a bottle of strychnine, settl-
ing his affai a and having his will drawn up,
drank heavi y and became partly intoxicat•
ed. Befdre leaving the village he showed
the poison b ttle to a friend, Baying, " That
will end ' Il.' He then went hone, and
the folio in morning wee found dead, with
the erieRt b ttle near him. He [was de-
spohdentov r the death of his wifill, which
occurred s ()it time ago. I
—The s op of Moomonee, who, arrived
in Ottaw last week, mada a tranapiof near-
ly 900 mi es on snowshoes. His Lordship
left Moos actory, one of the Hudson Bay
Company s ost northern poets, and travel-
led southwa d, reaching civilization at the
village of M tawa. There he was met by
Col. Rankin the well known factor of the
company, a d an old friend of his, who ac-
companie1 him, to Ottawa. The Bishop
will visit ntreal and other points before
returning to hia distant diacese.
—A raile nd of coal oil was obtained at
Redickville, ifufferin county, Ontario, on
March 26th last, on a • property recently
purchased b Dr. McGibbon, Honeywood,
Thomas Mo re, who is the tenant' on the
plates, noti d that the water was milky and
of unusually strong smell. On futther ex-
amination i was found that each pail of
water, whe allowed to eettle, was covered
with a layer of coal oil, in an almost per-
fectly refined state. The pumping has con-
tinued for thee days, and the percentage of
oil is growing stronger. Farmers and
others for a great distance around the place
are carrying the oil home in bottles and
pails. Great excitement is caused through- 1
out the cominunity.
—A coup1e of score of women and half a
dozen men called on Premier Ross on Friday
and urged him to introduce woman's suffer -
age in Ontario. Those who spoke were :
Mrs. McKee, provincial president Woman's
Christian Temperance Union; Mrs. Stev-
ens, Toronto district president Woman's '
Christian Temperanee Union; Miss Lottie
Wiggins, Mr. Alex. Mills and Rev. Dr.
Courtice. They argued that the women
paid taxes, were subject to the law, were
interested in moral reform and in the (le-
velopment o the province as well as the
men, and wee also equally strongly endow-
ed • with intellechtality. The Premier's
,
reply is not given.
— The members of the Womens' Christ-
ian Temperance union of Woodstock are
circulating aipetition to the government to
pass a law pephibiting the manufacture and
sale of cigarettes. One of the 'members
said at a meeting that there were more
cigarette smcikere in Woodstock than in
any place of its alio in Canada, and that
she knew of One young men In the town
who was dying from the effects of cigarette.
smoking, and of a mere boy who had lost
his mind threugh it. e
— Mr. FirMan McClure, ex -M. P., died
on Friday night at Halifax, Mr. McClure
sat in the 10t parliament of Canada as
representative for Colchester. He was
elected in a byeelectionin April, 1897,
after being d feated inthegeneral election
of 1896. He was elected to the Nova Sco-
tia Assembly in 18.96 and there introduced
a bill to proh bit the retail traffic in intoxi-
cating 1iquor4 within the province. He
was a leadin temperance man in his prov-
ince. He was appointed a census commis-
sioner and w s in Ottawa for several days
in connectio1:,, with his duties only about
two weeks before his death. He was only
39 years of age.
—Mrs. W01, Cowan, a woman 65 years of
age, was foutid dead in her house in Galt,
one day last week. She was sitting in her
chair when fclund, and there were sever-
al large wounds on her head which had
evidently cauCed death. She was a, woman
of dissolute habits and was overly fond of
whiaky. A doroner's inquest has been held
and the jury rought in a verdict to the
effect that de eased came to her death by
the hands of ipome person or persons un-
known, and recommended that the Ontario
Government take the necessary steps for a
further investigation of the matter. Evi-
dence given showed that the wounds might
have been seilf-inflicted or have resulted
from acoideni.
-1---s,
• forth Notes,
—The Stratford spring show will be held
on April 16th.
e—Mrs. John Lowe, of Downie fell, one
day recently,,and broke one of her arms.
,—According to the sesesso_r's returns, the
population of St. Marys is 3,412.
e—Mr. John Hamilton has disposed of his
250 acre farm4 in North Easthope, to Mr.
Adam Barlett, of the 5th concession of Wel-
lesley, for $16,000.
—Mr. Robert Hyde's farm,in North East -
hope, about three miles from Shakespeare,
has been bought by Mr.Samuel Wiederhold,
for $7,500. It centains 150 acres.
— Mr. Lewiston°, one of the old residents
of Fullerton, died on Saturday, 23rd ult.
Deceased, who was 52 years of age, had
been unwell fer some time,
— Mr. James MeKenzie, of the 16th con-
cession of Elti. a, accidentally fell and broke
his leg above 4be ankle, the other day, while
away from hone visiting a friend in Morn-
ington.
—Judge Barron, of Stratford, has pro-
cured leave ei absence to go to Winnipegito
visit his wife, who is ill there. Daring his
absence his werk will be looked after by
Judge Fink1e,1 of Woodatock.
—Mouses. as. and Sam. Adair, of Monk -
ton, were ticketed last week over the C. P.
R. to Grand Forks, North Dakota, and Ox-
bow, Assinib ia, respectively. They went
by way of Atwood.
—A little son of Mr, David Bartja, of the
17th concessien of Elma, while playing on
Sunday, 24th ult., with a hand -sled at his
grand-father'4, Mr. Joseph Near, of the
boundary, fell and broke hie left arm be-
tween the wrist a-nd elbow. •
—At 3 p. ni., on Wednesday afternoon,
March 20th, a, very interesting event took
place at the Memorial church, London,
when Rev. 0. 0, Owen united in marriage
Mr. Thomas Roney and Miss Louisa Etty,
both of Mitchell,
—There is trouble in the Carlingford
aehool. A shtert time ago, one of the girl
pupils struck the principal with a pointer,
He suspended her for a month, and demand-
ed an apologya When the month was up the
trustee's allowed the girl to return without
an apology, and now the principal has re-
signed. I
• —Mr. George Sawyer has mold his resi-
dence in Mitonell to Mr. J. C. Fuller, of
Logan, for the sum of $850. He gives pos-
session November ist, when Mr. Fuller
will retire from- farming and remove to
Mitchell. • Sone few years ago MrsSawyer
bought the property for $800, but made
some improvements on it afterwards.
—A pleasant evening was spent at the
residence of Mr. D. H, Farrow, in Strat-
ford, the other evening, when the members
of Waterloo sitreet Methodist church &seem -
bled for regular weekly practice. The
members of t e board and church took Lad -
vantage of th event and presented their
choirmaster, r, W. J. Roberts, and Mrs.
Roberts with two handsome upholstered
chairs and an address in recognition of valu-
able services kendered as choir leader.
— A evict but pretty wedding took place
at the home of Mr. Bryan Barker, of Logan,
on the 20th u1k, when his' daughter, Miss
Carrie, was united in marriage to Mr. W.G.
Garbutt, son of Mr. Charles Garbutt, of
Carlingford. The ceremony was performed
by Rev. Mr. Henderson, after whioh the
happy. youn couple, with a nuniber of
guests, sat doFvn to a numptatous wedding
dinner. Lat r they left for their home in
Fullerton, ani1 are now comfortably settled
on the beauti ul farm lately purchased from
Mr. Joseph Michele.
—Harry Bellamy, the ten.year-old eon of
Mrs. Bellamy of St. Marys, escaped death
by a narrow margin on Tuesday of last
week. The boy was pushing a chunk of lee
into the river /below the Park street bridge,
when he slipped and fell into the water. A
girl on the bridge saw the accident and gave
the alarm, Mr. W. A, Birtch was up the
bank a few yerds, and, hearing a call for
help, hurried to the scene, He •had •a long
pole with hook at the end, but could not
reach the drowning boy from the bank with
it MrJkWh plunged bravely into the
raging flo d, end after being swept off hie
feet and ii danger of being drowned himself,
succeeded in getting young Bellamy to the
bank. The beY was unconscious when taken
out, but soon revived.
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