The Huron Expositor, 1901-04-26, Page 11901
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THIRTY-THIRD YEAR,
WHOLE NUMBER, 1.741.
SPRING CLOTHING!
Many men, many fancies, many winds and kinds o
weathers, means many kinds and changes of clothing. Th
rain and mud coat that we sell at $3,: is, selling aiite readil
these rainy days. We even sold a fur coat last Monday, s
that some one must have thought that the weather was cold
It seems funny to be talking of fur coats in the straw hat sea
son. We had no idea of talking fur when we started out., I
you have a little money that is lying idle, and you have evei
thought of buying a fur coat even for the next season, w'
will say that we have three that will prove an investment
Cheaper than caps, a line of boys fedora hats selling at 10c
you say that they cannot be much at the money, well see fo
yourself before you say.
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Dressy people will be ready tol acknowledge that our
stock is most complete, from the purchase of a collar button,.
to the purchase of a suit, there is no line in which we can-
not show new and up-to-date stuff; At the present time we
are in receipt of four very stylish lines of furnishings, in a
colored striped shirt at $1.00 ; a fine ashmere sock at 25c;
a King Edward shape of tie at 50o; and a new 'high band
collar at 15e and 20c.
Among the hundreds, we may say, of stylish and
fashionable hats we have in stock at the present time, no line
hag equalled for popularity the black stiff- hat, known as the
Fifth Avenue.shape of Christy, 1
The following specials are being constantly asked for
these days: A boy's school cap at 106, boys.' school pants at
25, boys' braces at 10c, boys' flannelette shirts at 25c, boys'
long stocking, 4 ply worsted, at 15c -this line is all cotton ;
men's pants at $1, $1,25 and $1.50; Men's blue derry over-
alls, with and without the apron, at 50o, the smock at the
same money_; a new line of glazed peaked caps in navy blue
and Mixed colors of tweeds, selling at 25o;, blacksateen
shirts for everyday wear at 50c, 65c and Tho, a line of the
heaviest weight Moleskrn we sell at 20c per yard, and cut the
goods free for you ; school umbrellas at 50c and 65c, _better
quality at $1 and $,1 25 -our $1.25: umbrella- is really as
dressy an article as we have ever been able to .obtain; a
special in linen handkerchiefs, three for a quarter, hemstitch-
ed; an extra heavy brace for working, three inch width of
web, leather ends, at .,25c a pair; we are making a special run
of aline of white shirts, laundried, in all sizes, at 50c -this
is to clear,
"Our own make of men's suits ae$8 and.$10, have
never failed to be attractive. Besides, the cloth of which
these suits are made being all -wool, the work we put on these
suits is high class, the trimmings, the fit and finish are all of
a nature that makes the suits value out of the, ordinary at
this money.
In our tailoring department, oar tailors are busy from
morning to night, turning out the work. The special features
of our ordered department this year, are the West of England
worsted in blue, grey, brown and fawn, at $16,50 a suit; the
Irish serge -or the old-fashioned name for the same serge -
the policeman, in black and blue'we find a great seller at
$16.50, madeto order. The G-alashieles, the Bannockburns,
the Harris, the Howick, makes of Scotch -tweeds, all find a
place in our store, and there are men 4ho, knowing the value
of these goods, to whom we cannot sell anything else ; the
price, range from $16.50 to $22,
At the present we are displaying some seven different
colors and patterns of boys' school pants, our own make, at
50c, 65c and 75c, any of which will be found money's worth.
If you are thinkingl of buying a fedora hat, positively
the best wearing hat made to -day is Christy's English hat, in
all colors and sizes, selling: at $1,50.
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Greig Macdollal
Clothiers and furnishers
Formerly on the Wrong Side
Street, SEAFORTH
of the
It's handy, just call up 'phone No. 32, and the money
orders will be lying on your desk ready for mailing in five
minutes' time, and. besidesit is cheap. Up to 3, ;3c; up to
K.), 5c; up to' $10, 6c, and so on. Rates for express, C. P,R.
and ocean tickets given on application. Folders, guides etc,,
on application to
RJ.
MACDONAL
C. P. R. AGENT, Seaforth.
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SEAFORTII, FRI
HMIS 00 BANK
AMALGAMATION.
The Canadian Bank Of
Commence completes
the purchase of the
Assets of the Bank
of British Col-
umbia.
THE BANK'S CAPITALNOW
EIGHT MILLION DOLLARS
AND ASSETS OVER SIXTY-
FOUR MILLIONS.
The negotations for the purchase of the
assets of the Bank of British Columbia by
the Canadian Bank of Commerce, an an-
nouncement respecting which was Made
some months ago, have been carried rto a
successful conclusion. A thorough examin-
ation of the affairs of the Bank of British
Columbia was made by the officials of the
Canadian Bank of Commerce, and this proVe
ing entirely satisfactory, the amalgamation
was finally completed on the 2ed of January.
A statement of affaire of the Canadian Bank
�f Commerce after the amalgamation has
now been issued, and diecloses a very strong
position. In point of Capital and Reserve
the Bank now ranks fourth among banking
institutions on the Continent of America. It
has 62 branches throughout Canada; five
branches in the United States, namely at
New York, San Fransoisco, Seattle, Pore -
land (Oregon), Skaguay (Alaska), and one in
London, England; 68 establishments in all:
The acquisition of the London office is an im-
portant step in the progress of the bank.
The Bank's tranactions in sterling exThange
in the United 'States and Canada each year
amount to many millions of pounds, and tbe
ability to handle this business through the
Bank's own London office will result in an
important addition to the earning.power of
the bank: In many other directions also the
interests of the two banke will be immen-
sely benefitted by the ainalgamation.
The following is a condensation of the
statement issued by the Bank at the close of
businese on the 31st of March:-
. Assets.
Cash, Gold Bullion Bankers'
Balances and Balance Due
by London Office
Government, Municipal, }pel-
t way and other Bonds and
books' $10,308,780.64
$7,345,421.04
$17 A54,201, 68
Loans and Discounts • , .845,530,388.63
All Other Assets - $ 1,509,074.61
Capital
Reserve
$64,693,664.99
Liabilities.
..$8,000,00000
$2,000,000.00
$10,000,000.00
Circulation $ 5,588,438,00
Deposits $46,423,528.64
All Ocher $ 2,681,698.28
864,693,664 92
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West Huron Liberals.
los. J. T..OARROw THE UNANIMOUS CHOICE
OF THE CONVENTION.
One of the best conventions ever held by
the Liberals of,West Huron in points of at-
tendance, enthusiasm aud unanimity, met
at Dungannon en Tuesday afternoon and
nominated Hon. J. T. Garrow, K.- C., for
the seat made vacant by the recent decision
of the court of appeal. Mr. Garrow's name
was the only one ,mentioned in connection
with the Liberal nomination. Speeches
were given by the candidate, Meagre. Rob-
ert Holmes, M. P., Philip Holt, K. C., of
Goderich, James L. Grant, Morgan . Dalton,
(Reeve of Ashfield), and Hugh M,cPhee, all
expressing the feeling that with 'hard and
thorough work the constituency would re-
turn the nominee of the convention with a
handsome majority.
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Queen City Notes. .
• TORONTO, April 22nd, 1901. -The week
has afforded cause for increased public con-
fidence in the industrial future of Ontario.
The dream of the province becoming a beet
root sugar manufacturing portion of the
empire has been strenethened by the official
announcement that the necessary plant will
be installed immediately at Wallaceburg.
The paper making industry, or that adjunct
of it, the pulp manufacturing, is to be ex-
tended by a company of Buffalo capitalistos
who have secured water power rights in
, Renfrew county for a pulp mill. They ,are
prepared to guarantee an expenditure of
$150,000 within three years in consider-
ation of concessions of spruce lands suffe
toient for the capacity ot their mill. The
Commissioner of Crown Lends is confident
that this cau be readily accomplished.
THE HORSE RE -MOUNT.
The presence of theImperial War Office
remount officers on a purchasing and in-
vestigating tour is considered auspicious for
the Canadian horse breeding busineee.
Lieutenant.Oolonel Dent, the chief remount
offieer, has conferred upon the matter with
the Ontario Government, and the Minister
of Agriculture believes that a remount sta.
tion will be established in Canada, prob-
bly, he thinks, in Ontario, and possibly at
oronto. In any event, whether in Ontario
or elsewhere; suoh an institution in the
ominion is, it is estimated, certain to put
undrede of thousands of dollars into the
ookets of the horse raisers of Canada,
mit of it being likely to reach the farmers.
THE PAN-AMERICAN.
While the public is more or less inter-
sted in the showing which the province
ill make at the Pan-American Exhibition,
e agriculturalist and those interested in
ining are chiefly so. In both departments
,eat activity has been manifested in the
ipment of exhibits to Buffalo within the
East feW days. The Ontario Bureau of
Mines will have a very comprehensive ex-
hibit of ores. Large maps showing both
the mining districts and the various timber
eegions will be displayed in the Ontario de-
partment. The provincial Department of
Agriculture is leaving it to the Dominion
autheritiee to exhibit Canadian live stook,
but is sending a fruit exhibit, chiefly pre-
erved, which will probably astonish those
visitors to the exhibition who regard the
pomiaion as a bleak region, enow-clad and
ice -girt. '
TEMPERANCE, CANDIDATES.
Judging by the exPressions of those in a
' edition to speak with-auehority, those ele-
ents of the community with whom moral
regress is of more than equal importance
ith material, a strong effort will be made
o give such imams due attention at the
ominating conventions for the party
eandidates for the Ontario general elections.
This was the feeling at this
of the executive of the Do
for the total suppression of
fio. It is expected that ad
further this will be adopted
oial convention to be held
seoond week of July.
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week's meeting
inion Alliance
che liquor traf-
,quite plane to
, at the provin-
'ere during the
A "Cheeky" hie
The crook who robbed two banks in
Toronto last week by the marked cheque
fake, and of which mentio was made in
our last issue, has sent the following letter
to one of the Toronto pa ere. Although
the postmarks are not diet nguishab e, the
letter is supposed to hav come fro the
States, and is believed to be genuine. It is
as follows :
DEAR EDITOR, -Your etrprising paper
has made several valuable euggestio a for
the benefit of institutions thee are n the
habit of issuing, carelessly isPough, o tified
cheques that can be raiee4 without A.
oulty. If these iuetitutioie follow our
suggestions our art will bec me a th' g of
the past, but, having mad ' a pretty good
haul, I am nob particular It wa
worked, was it not?
The other banks have nc cause to oast,
as time was the only thing !that pro ected
them and prevented me a ' d my pal from
profiting by our little acid e heme. H neat-
ou think that ie public esire
aptured ? The banks ha e all
get in their ork, wit their
eir proteete, t eir accep ances
per, whioh the know m se be
gross over is uee and false
the Governme t, besides their
r petty and • st eche es of
orphan, the idow an the
ally, while I, hat is, m • and
but one day in which to epee:
nks, bec uee I
ak) banks from
ly, now,, do
to see me
the year t
discounts, ti
of forged p
met, their
returns to
variousoth
skinning th
people gene
my pal, had
ate three (I say three
ought to ka w whereof I op
trifling sums
But that is not my rea
this letter. I understend
ie in the hab
for the bane
to take ad
be.
During in
fair city, I
ranging fro
institutions
factory rate
five there sti
sir, I- desire
for these
refuse to ho
impeach the
recovery?
sums in th
years, or fo
the same wi
tereet, by pr
You twill
deposited b
commi t,ted,
held as an
any of the in
on for w
hat your
t of providing fee legal
fit of your read ra, and I
antage of This fact, if f
iting
apor
dvioe
(mere
et it
temporary is jaunt in your
deposited in el ht banks sums
$20 to $50. hree of these
have paid mcI a most atie,
of interest, buti in the ather
I remain small Lialanoee. ow,
to know if I cn give oh ques
all mime, and it case the anks
or said cheques, can the h 'der
credit of the b nits and a a for
r, can I leav the afor said
banks and at the end o ten
such term as I desire, re over
h interest and oompoun in -
coos of law.
perceive that these sums ere
fore any crime [May have •een
o that the said inme cum t be
part of the bo .ty looted rom
titutions intere ted.
G. Aim IN WINTO.'.
As It Us Ci to Be Wjth Us 11.
(itv Jaen for VIE EXPO ITOR).
On any n oe, bright, joy es mornin in
April or Ma , any where nea a school, ne
may oleo new trousered little oys and ole
pinied little irls start for th "academy of
learning," to get their &at taste of the r al
world. Dea little smile! hov big and i •
portant and expectant thep feel. Th ir
social pesitio a is one of eminence, the vs+ le
school seekin them for seat mates. 0 ce
there, they are allowed, for t1he first day or
two, to do lmost as they please, and an
scribble awa to their hearts' content at
letters or s ms that are slways hedg:d
about, on th ir slates, by que' r little pen il-
made fences, and, on their ay home, t e
neighbors ar ready to smile ,s.nd to pat the
"new &Thole. ." Oh ! they have a high Id
time. But a on, too soon, t e teacher, .1c1
spider, after luring the poo fly by ma. y
gracious prai es, to " walk ir4to his parlo
demands ob dience and re 1 effort. The
little, tender pupil no longer nds the school
a lovely red Mace, but a dull workshop. Ho
or she does i4ob .now sit on a green knoll to
receive the v luntary homag of the "big
scholars," but instead are he trembling
tools of thosel "bosses," and going home at
night the ol woman, who before had taken
such an inte est in them, as if the boy or
irl wore her very own, no longer troubles to
ask them "h w they got along to -day," or if
they _got a 'itvhippire." The new broom
swept clean for just a little while; the
novelty soon wore eff • and the downy little
chicken, ha ing often to defend itself,
grows into a aepish hen or an impertinent,
bold little ro ster, unleas it went- under and
turns out a- " softy " or a' back -boneless
bird. Their mothers often say that before
4ohnnie and Mary started to school they
were anch go.d children, hue now poor lit-
tle plants, t ken from their warm flower
bed, where i was so easy WI be good toad
pretty, and et out in this , rough, windy,
weed field. 'Just wait till we are through
with the ugl , misunderstanding old sohoo,, '
say they, ea ' git growed up, then:we'll have
a good time. No lessons to learn, or school
to go to, or t aoher to heed, or work to do,
unless we've mind to; fine houses, lowly
clothes, mon y and everyehing we wife) to
eat." Iow vice to be grown up and to own
all you have bout you and beetble to bake
a °eke and t en eat the whole thing hot, all
bisyTt yhhoeeuy, havewelof.ri ;
"tyet learned that the school
in minature," sind duty meet
always 1be o eyed, Each one must draw
aside the •eautiful illusion. May there
always be en ugh of it left to comfort the
little travel era the journey through.-
P.D.
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Canada.
-The post ffice department has purchased
two locomobi es from the National Cyole &
Automobile 'ompany, of Toronto, and will
use them for collecting the mails in Ottawa.
-Mr. Lac Ian McPherson, 'probably the
oldest reside t of the Niagara district, died
last week, eying lived to the advanced
age of 100 ye re and 10 month.
-A party if American touriets, twelve in
number, arrived in Winnipeg+ a few days
ago, as the a vance guard of 501families who
will follow, •rovided satisfactory arrange-
ments can be made. ,
-The an nal meeting of the Dominion
Cotton Mill Company, Montreal, showed
gross profits or the past year to be $692,-
000, the larg st in the history of the cone -
pane;
-Navigati n to Montreal hem the sea is
now open. he steamships Tiverton and
Jacona reach d that port on Monday, the
hne from En landeand the other from the
Mediterranea . ,
-The old nd well known 'firm of Copp
has gone int liquidation, at the instance
.ii.
Brothers, sto e manufacturers f Hamilton,
of the Merchants' Bank, and it is feared
there is little hope of saving the business.
-It is rep rted that final errangements
have been m de for the build* of a steel
and iron plan at Sault Ste. Maria, Cana-
dian side, Moll will employ 10,000 men
and be capita ized at $50,000,00. It will
all
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Picture
, 1901.
Vers
Shades
Poles and
Frames
At pr ces juse a little lower than
the lo est. Hanging wall or ceil-
ing p per by experienced workmen
at the lowese price.
ALEX. WINTEi'l 9
SEAFORTIL
be one of the m at extensive in America and
second only to the Carnegie plant in Penn-
sylvailia. only
company is composed of
English, Caned an and American capitalists.
They intend n ing Ontario ore and expect
to be in operate n by midsummer.
-The Ontario Department of A rioulture
haseeecteived in the lait two or three days
enquiries from the Maritime Provinces for
Ayrshire cattle, and letters from the west
asking for a shiement of Pereheron horses.
-At midnight one night this week fire
was discovereI in the stables of Peter
Milne's wood y rd, on Mill street, Ottawa.
The stables aid their contents, including
six horses, wagons, harness and a host of hay
and poultry, were destroyed. -
-The Caned an Pacific Railway Com-
pany is buildi g a train of luxurihusly
equipped oars fclr the purpose of conveying
the Duke and Duoheae of York'and party to
the coast, on tihle occasion of their visit to
Canada.
-Mr. Harry, 1 Lye, of Woodbine avenue,
Toronto, has a en of twelve white Wyan-
dottes that ha'e done exceptional work
during the past nonth. In 31 days the 12
hens laid no fe er than 324 eggs, or an ate+
erage of 27 eggs a hen,
-A succeed 1 operation has been per-
formed on the l'ttle son of Mr. and Mrs.
Norman T. Lee at the Winnipeg General
Hospital. The hild was born three years
ago blind, and he result of an operation
gives him his ei ht.
-Fire starte in a bedroom of the resi-
dence of Mr. C 8. Hyman M. P. London
at 2 o'clock Sunday morning. The fire
brigade extingui hed the blaze before much
damage was do e. Hon. Dr. Borden, Min-
ister of Militia, ho was on a visit to Lon-
don, was Mr. H man's guest at the time.
-Toronto is going to be short ' on ite
supply of maple yrup. The season was back-
ward and the ees flowed poorly. Leeds
county, whioh s the biggest producer of
the sweet stuff i Ontario, reports only half
the amount a ailable at this time last
year.
-W. R. Mc ao, wholesale grocer, of
Kingston, and proprietor of the Golden
Lion block, died last Friday, aged 76 years.
He was born i Rose -shire. Deceased was
a leading Libe al and Presbyterian. He
had been a resid nt of Kingston for over 50
years. He is a rvived by two daughters
and ?lfi5voisoo.sons. e leaves an estate valued
t
-A staff of a out 160:or 200 employees
will be engaged at Ottawa in counting and
tabulating the c nous returns. A number of
arithmemeters si11 also be purchased. The
returns have be un to come in, and count-
ing was startedlthie week. The idea of
_
putting on a lar e staff is to have the work
finished as speedily as possible.
-Mrs, Alex. Campbell, of Lek° Mani-
toba, who died 1 et week at the age of 85,
had no fewer hans 314 descendants, nine
children, 79 rand -children, 212 great
grand -children, and , fourteen great -
great grand -chi' ren. leorty-three are dead.
One hundeed an eighty are Protestants and
134 Roulet) Cath lies.
-J. Li Buck orough, proprietor of the
Mere house, at AylmereElgin county, has
on several occas one missed money from his
cash regielter, w ich has not ben working
well for some onths. He took it apart
the other day nd found a wad of bills,
amounting in al to $8e0.55, peeked under
the money dra «er, which had evidently
been accumulati g for a year or more.
-A private tter recently . received in
Toronto, from th Rev. G. L. Mackay, D. D.,
the well know missionary of Formosa,
China, states th t he has returned to the is-
land from Hong ong, where he had been
for some months in the hospital. Hie throat
is still giving hi eerione trouble, and he in
resting with his amily ab a health resort on
one of the rivers of Formosa. ,
-Faith Fento -Brown, the repreaenta,tive
at Dawson of t se Toronto Globe, wires that
journal: " Me era. Reid and Dwyer, the
first men to ar ive here on the lee from
Nome, reached Dawson on April 11, carry-
ing advices for aehington. They report a
terrific winter. Two hundred men were
frozen to death 1» a stampede, being caught
in the blizzard bat swept Nome district.
The trail up fro Nome is bad.
-The Caned an Manufacturers' Associa-
tion is in reoeip of a letter from Moffat,
Hutchins & Company, of Cape Town, South
Africa, in which they ete.te that, as a result
of the associatio 's effort e in sending several
price lists of d ors, thie firm has already
sent orders to e rtain Canadian houses for
2,000 doom, ith proepects of sending
further orders f r several thousand in the
near future. , Te letter further stated that
it has only been on account of backwardness
on the part of manufacturera that many
lines have not b en extensively exported.
-Last Sand y night or early Monday
morning thieves effected an entrance by the
window into the boot and shoe store of N.
Hookin & Corn sany, Lindsay, and carried
off a large quant ty of men's laced boots and
several leather alises. About 60 pairs of
the very best b ote were selected by num-
bers and take . The dash register was
taken into the o liar and broken open with
a pick, but onl 50 cents in coppers was
found in it.
-Andrew Br don, who claims to have
been working f r the Lake of the Woods
Milling Oornpanjy at Keewatin, was picked
up by the train near Reaburn, Manitoba, a
few days ago, ir a very serious condition.
Brydon is deme ted and attempted to com-
mit suicide. B. slashed himself about the
groin with a kni e and when taken charge
of was about to hrow himself in front of the
train. It is do btful whether the unfortun-
ate man will recover, as the loss of blood
and swim, wou de may prove fatal.
-Herman Ma thiee, a tinsmith, employed
by Lewis Grill, ardware Merchant, of Hes-
peler, met with n exper enee on Wednes-
day of last week which h is in no hurry to
repeat. He was engaged in piping a well
75 feet in depth, and was ,being hauled up in
a bucket by mea se of a windlass above and
had nearly rase ed the eurface when the
pin that held th rope drum 011 the shaft
broke. Down w nt Matthies in the bucket
as fast as his eight reeled off the rope
from the relea ed chute above. Luckily
there was about ve feet ief water and mud
at the bottom, which tie a great extent
broke his terrifi fall. edatthies retained
conciousness eno gh to wind a rope that
was lowered abo t his waist and was pulled
xposlin
aloft. A piece of his scalp was torn loose,
which required a dozenetitches'and almost
every portion of his body was bruised and
the skin abrased.
-There is a movement on foot to form a
combine of all the farmers in the Province
of Quebec, for the purpose of exporting
products at a better price and cheaper ex-
pense than is done at preaent. 'This new
trust, it is proposed, would have agencies
in all the country towns, the members of
which would he required to subscribe $3.50
per year for general expenses and mainten.
&nos. Each agency would deposit in a
bank $5 per member. It is proposed to
establish abattoirs and refrigerators, and
to have a central office.
-The Ontario Department of .Agriculture
has about concluded its plans for experi-
menting in beet sugar, and tests will be
made in 12 localities'the localities to be
grouped in paire, as follows : Waterford
and Siroccos, Whitby and Lindsay, London
and Alvinston, Mount Forest and Walker-
ton, Peterboro and Passe Edward, Dun -
vine and Cayuga. About 40 or 50 farmers
will participate in each teat. Professor
Shuttleworth will direct the work, which is
under the supervision of the Department of
Agriculture, It is estimated that the seed
will be planted in a week or ten days.
-Sir Charles Tupper,- who has been
spending a few months aroad, expects to
return to Canada about the end of April, so
the venerable statesman writes to friends in
Toronto. Sir Charles left Wieebaden, Ger-
many, lately, and is now in London arrang-
ing some business matters before returning
to Canada. Sir Charles has been elected
president of the Crown Life Insurance Com-
pany, a new company recently established,
and, in connection with the duties of that
office, will spend the major portion of his
time in Toronto. It is not known, however,
whether he will take a house in that city or
not.
-Newspapers are a somewhat expensive
luxury in the Klondike. The rates for tho
Dawson City Daily News are 25 cents a
copy or $4 a month. The subscription rate
for the town is $48 a year. It is an eight -
page daily for five months of the year and
four pages for the remainder. The circula-
tion is a little -under 900 per dale A 16 -
page weekly paper is publuffied at 25 cents
a copy for the town. It is distributed up
the creeks by dogs and carriers, and outside
the town the price of the single paper is 50
cents to $1.50, according to the distance the
carrier has to travel to the eubeoriber.
-Mr E. 0. Conklin, a one time promin-
ent resident of Winnipeg, died in that eity
on Saturday last. Death was caused by the
burating of an artery injured several years
ago. Mr. Conklin was aged 55. He was a
native of Paris, Ontario, was formerly reeve
of Foreet, principal- of the Hamilton, On-
tario, Business College, and on coming to
Winnipeg entered the real estate business,
conducting enormous transactions during
the boom years. He was ex -mayor of Win-
nipeg and ex -member of the Manitoba Leg-
islature for North Winnipeg. Deceased
was a life long Liberal, and was clerk of the
Assembly until about a year ago, when he
was removed by the in -coming Conservative
Government. ' --
- Wm. Patterson, of Peterboro, a medical
student at Queen's University, Kingston,
who was arrested in February last at Belle-
ville, on his way to Kingston with the dead
body of Mrs. Dennis Sheehan in a trunk,
came up for trial before Judge Weller at
the oourt in Peterboro last week. The
judge found the prisoner guilty of having
committed an offenoe against the criminal
law, and sentenced him to pay a fine of $200.
The young man was home at Peterboro for
his holidays, and while there exhumed the
body from the_ cemetery and packing it in
bis trunk, he checked it as ordinary baig
gage for Kingeton. Its gruesome conteets.
were dieeovered by the way, and hence his
arrest and punishment.
-The New Zealand Government has sent
to Canada for the fourth time to secure a
dairy expert. Mr. J. B. McE wan was the first
man to go An 1894, but -he ehortly left the
service to engage in 'buisiness for himself.
In 1898 Mr. J. A. Ruddick was offered the
position .of dairy commissioner, which he
accepted o and shortly afterwards secured
the services of J. A. Kinsella, another Can-
adian, to assist him. Wheu Mr. Ruddick
was offered the important position he now
holds with the Dominion Government as
chief of the dairy divieiop, Mr. Kinsella was
made his successor. It is complimentary to
those wile have already been in the employ
of the New Zealand Government that they
now wane another Canadian to assist Mr.
Kinsella,. This time the man selected is W.
M. Singleton, eon of the well known cheese
manufacturer, ot Newboro, Ontario. Mr.
Singleton leaves for the Antipodes early in
May. '
-The epplication of Lilies Munroe Mid-
dleton, of Toronto' for divorce from her
husband, ReginaldLancelot Middleton,
came before the divorce committee of the
Senate a few days ago. The applicant was
the firse of the young women married by the
bigamist Who is now serving a seven years'
term in the Kingston penitentiary, and who
gained a great deal of notoriety on account
of his franldulent sobetne to construct a rail-
way from Woodstock to Brantford. The
committee heard evidence and decided to
report to the Senate in favor of granting
the divor e. Mrs. Middleton No. 2, who
resided in Hamilton during the exposure of
Middleton a scheme, is said to be conducting
a boarding house in Kingston.
Perth Notes
- John Whyte, jr., of the Whyte Pack-
ing Company, Stratford, has gone on a
business trip to the old country.
-Mr. Benjamin Roadhouee, of Ellice,
has purchased Mr. F. Richardson's farm,
lot 8, coneession 1, Ellice, for the sum of
$5,700. I
-George Madden, of Newton, died on
Saturday, 113th inst., from the effects of
eliphtberiai. Deceased was 21 years of age,
and had ben sick less than two days.
-James Wills has purchased the grocery
business o Mrs. Wm. Bushfield, of , Mit-
chell, and ets poem:lesion on May 1st. Mr,
Bushfield Ikas purchased a business in Lake
let.
-An ol1 frame dwelling in Listowel,
owned by t4r. John Gebel, was burned on
Tuesday of lase week. The fire is thought
to be of ineendiary origin. There was no
insurance eon the property.
- While Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Tyler, of
Ellice, wee driving home after being in
Stratford, eoently, their little boy ran out
to meet them, and in attempting to climb
into the buggy his foot became entangled in
the wheel, breaking it below the knee.
-The family of Mr. John Whyte, jr.,
Stratford, ame very near being asphyxi-
ated Mon ay night of last week, through
gee eseapi g from the furnace. On awak-
ening in the morning one of the children
fainted an all the otheree were taken sick.
-Mr. Wm. Aiken, of S. Marys, reeeived
a cablegraen, on Wednesday of lase week,
from Mr. James Hutnphries, at Greytown,
near Durban, South Africa, which contained
the sad information that his son, Joseph
Aiken, hal. died there onTuesday, April 16,
MeLnAN BROS.. blishers.
Si a Year in Adv nee.
of typhoid f ver. Mr. Joee h Aiken had
spent several years in South Africa., doing
business for the Fuek Wagna I's Publishing
Company, of New York.
--Thomais 1Maughan.,
hart nder at the
Albion hotel, Stratford, dro ed dead at
415 Saturda afternoon, te had just
served some c tiers at the bar ad was talk-
ing to a coupl� of friends wbenl be suddenly
sank to the ftior. Death i1215 ed almost in-
stantly. He Was 35 years of ae..
-William, the aecond son of Mr. Conrad
Heinbeeker, of Listowel, clied Wednesday
afternoon of last week, after an illness of
about three menthe. He was in the 16th
year of his age, and became ffeoted first
with rheumatism whioh w afterwards
complicated ith tummies and other
troubles.
-On Wedn sday afternoon 4:>f last week
the residence f Rev. Dr, Rycktnan, Brock-
ville, was the ecene of a very quiet but
interesting ceremony, the occasion being the
Wm Dale, jr., of St. Marys,
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marriage of h daughter, Mims Florence
Frederika, to
professor of constitutional history in Mc-
Master University, Toronto. ,
- James Bartley, of the Wallace bound-
ary, east of Listowel, has a curiosity in the
form of a calf with five lege. It is between
twe and three Weeks old and is a healthy
and sprightly animal. The eXtra append-
age, which fonts a third bind leg, does not
appear to be an inconvenience. It is two
or three inches shorter than the other legs,
but otherwise is regularly formed.
- A large number of the members and
adherents of Roy's church,- Russeldale,
drove over to Cromarty on Tuesday evening
to spend a social time with Rev. P. Scott
and family, prior to their departure to
Paisley next week. A short and interest-
ing programme was rendered. The most
important and pleasing feature of it was
an o a at eas,d dress and presentation to the host and
h
e
-In March last Adam Moore, a fifteen -
year -old boy who had his arm cut off in the
factory of J. D. Moore, St. Marys, was
awarded damages against the firm. Mr.
Justice Street charged in favor of defend-
ants, but the jury returned a verdict for
the plaintiff. Judgment was never entered
and on Monday last the judge overruled the
jury's decisiore, holding that the boy bad no
business with the machine, and ' consequent- .:
ly was not entitled to oompensation.
, ,
-At 3 &clank Sunday morning a blaze
was discovered at Hodd & Cullen's flour
mill and elevathr in Strstford. The -flames
had already made great headway when the
firemen arrived. As the water pressure
was very weak, efforts to check the fire
were ineffective. The buildings were com-
pletely gutted* only the walls being left
standing. The total loss is 840,000; in-
surance, $25,000. About 11,000 buahels of
wheat, oats, peas and barley, iu the eleva-
tor, were destroyed, and the whole milling
plane wrecked.
- After an illness of two months John
Schaefer, of Sebastapol road, South East
-
hope, passed away on Friday, 12th inst.
The deceased was unable to attend the
funeral of his father, John Jost Schaefer, in
February. Mr. Schaefer was born in South
Easthope, on the old homestead, where his
brother Leonard now lives, almost sixty-
two years ago and he has lived in the town-
ship all hie life. He possessed 200 acres of
fine land. He married Mies' Margaret
Wilker, who aurvivea him. They had 2
sons, John, Leonard and Henry, and 8
• daughters, 6 of whom survive.
-Between Saturday night and Monday
morning of last week, the hardware store of
Mr. J. C. Gilpin, St. Marys, was entered by
Nome one whose purpose waii evidently to
steal. An auger hole had been bored along-
side the lock in the desk in the office, in
whioh some $10 or $12 in change is kept.
But the drawer had not been opened, at
!inset the Malley was not taken. It is prob-
able that the patty was dispirbed and made
a hasty exit, as nothing was missed from
the store. Entrance was effected by climb-
ing over the roof of the •tinehop-a door
over which had been left unlocked. The in
-
trader had slid down the elevator ropes and
pried open the doors at the ground floor.
He went out by an easier route by unlocking
the back door of the storeroom in the rear.
-Mrs. Robert Wood, a former resident of
St. Marys, died at her home, at Stratford,
on Sunday evening, April 14. The deceased
lady, whose maiden name was Maria Chow -
en was 65 years of age, and had been ill for
a long time previous to her death. She was
born in Devonshire, England, and came to
Canada with her parents when only 12 years
of age, the family settling on ooneession 7,
Downie'on the farm now occupied by Mr.
George Wood. Here she resided until De-
cember 18, 1854, when she was married to
Mr. Wood, and after spending a short time
in Downie'went to live in Fullarton. From
there the family removed to Hibbert and
afterwards to St. Marys, where they resided
for about ten years, going to Stratford about
two years ago.
-The following won the prizes at the
Mitchell spring show, held on Thursday,
April lith i ' Horses, -Imported heavy
draught, 4 years and over, 1st, "Prince
of Craigwood, ' J. E. Brooks ; 2nd, 44 Prince
of Oraigend," Thomas Colquhoun. Heavy
draught, 3 yearand under, " Red Duke," .
Wm. Colquboun. Coach and carriage, 1st,
"-St, George," Thomas Skinner ; 2nd, " Cal-
edonia Chief," Joseph Richardson. Stand-
ard bred roailsterst1st, " Elk white,"
• Henry James; 2ad, " Pilatoga," 1 Dr.
Hutchings. Thoroughbred, ' Tyrone,"
Thomas Skinner. Bulls,-Durham'3 years
and over, " Mysie's," Wm, Lawrenee.
Durham, 2 years and under, lat, " Blue
Ribbon's Heir,' Wm. Roy, 2nd, 4 ' Junior
Member," F. ,R. Hamilton. Judges, -
Heavy'
hrses E. W. Charleton Dtmorief.
Light horses,S.1 P. Thompson; *midst -oak,
Bulls, George Green, Downie.
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-The stable f Mr. Charles Qaerengesser,
conceseion 16, rey, was destroyed by fire
recently. A epiantity of hay and oats were
destroyed, but no stock. The fire is sup-
posed to have started from a spark from the
saw mill.
-On Sunday 14th inst., one of the bese
known reaidente of Goderioh, departed this
life, in the pershn of Mr. W. T. Kiely, who
had reached the age of 76 years. Death
came after an illness of long duration. The
late Mr Kiely was born in the city of Mont-
real. He moved with the family to Port
Stanley, but in the fifties the brothers
Kiely were living in London, and were
known throughout Western Ontario by their
stages, which ran from the city to all parte
of this end of the Province, including Gode-
rich. Kiely Brothers afterwards moved to
the Queen Citst, where deceased and his
brother George !started the street railway
service, a business venture that proved a
success and led to wealth, for Meer its su.c-
modal inautteretion they sold it to the late
8ir Frank Smith for a handsome sum. Mr.
W. T. Kiely, after settling in Toronto, en-
gaged in mercantile and other ventures, was
on the directorate -of several institutions,
and, until illnese prevented, took an Wive
interest in them all, and his weekly visits
to the Metropelis only ceased when his
health failed. I
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