yon NRC orate peer ne

ROSSLAND EVENING RECORD, SEPTEMBER 28 1900

WAR IS IMMINENT

Germany Actively Preparing
to Fight China.

CONCLUSIVE

Hundreds of Applications Are Be
ing Recelved for Immediate
Insurance.

(By Associated Preis.)

New York, Sept. 28.—That the
officers and men in the German
army are firmin their belief that
war is imminent between Germany
and China is reflected ‘in the un-
usual number of applications made
in this city for life insurance _poli-
cies, Hundreds of applications have
been received through a_ Berlin
agency.

Information which came from

INDICATIONS

GEORGE RYANS DEATIL.

He Had Long Been a Sufforer From
Heart Disease.

George B. Ryan, whose death
occured yexterday at the hospital,
had been a sufferer from chronic
heart desease, and this was the
cause of his death. He was a line-
man onthe C, P. R. His physi-
cian had advised him to cease
work, warning him. that any ex-
ertion might prove fatal; but he
did not feel at liberty to heed the
th: advice.
‘The deceased had relatives in and
near Montreal, They have been
notified of his death, If no in-
structions are received from them
by tomorrow, the body will be en-
tered in the cemetery here.

THE BON TON.

To Lease and Rent

; Finest Soil and Ground for ¢
3. Market Gardens, Fruit .
2 Farms * Chicken Ranches

PLENTY OF WATER.

Erauire of

JAS. LAWLER, Agent,

Blg Four Mining Co.’s Office,
E. Columbia Ave.

a3
TIMBER MEN WANTED3TO
.'. CUT WOOD...

R High-Grade of Tobacco in the:

Most Everyone
Would Smoke,

Ifeveryone new the excellent quaity
and satistaction there is found in our

El Padre Needles Gigars.

- ‘The skill in the making of them, the

WII Occupy ts. New @ Next

Monday.
M. M. Macdonald & Co., of the
Bon Ton will occupy the Dean
building on Monday. The Bon
Ton in its new quarters will be most.
in The walls

Berlin was of such a ch that
the declaration of war was believed
ts be close at hand. With each ap-
Plication there is a request that it
should be issued at once and the
risk be made binding.

NOTES ABOUT PEOPLE.

Mrs, W. Denis of Montreal is
visiting in the city.

‘w. S, Stout of Toronto arrived

in the city yesterday.
B, F. Heisterman of Victoria is
in the city.
E. A. Hawley of Vancouver ar-
rived in the city last evening.
Miss Margaret V. Johns of Nel-
son is in the city,
W.-F. Borland of Montreal is
@moug Eastern Canada people now
+ in thé'city.
R. B. Nixon of Minneapolis ar-
rived in the city this morning.
R. C. Lyons of Ottawa is in the
city. 7
Frank Watson, a well known
mining man of. Spokane, arrived in
the city yesterday.
Mrs. H. P. Brown of Port Hill is
in the city, accompanied by her son.
Mr. and Mrs. William N. Dunn
have been visiting in Greenwood
this week.
The president’s party of directors
and officials of the C. P. R., now

on their way west, will probably ar-
rive this afternoon.

-| the Bon Ton,

and, ceilings 2 are bemg handsomely
frescoed and between the decora-
tions on the walls will be a series of
plate mirrors, There will be boxes
for families and parties, and no
more cozy and cheerful place fur
oysters, hot coffee, and evening tea
will be afforded in Rossland than at

Tennis Club sal).
The tennis club will give a ball
this evening in the rooms of the
Rossland Athletic club,
and hallways of the building have
been beautifully décorated for the
occasion with flags bunting and ev-
ergreens, and artistic canopies have
been arranged in’ cozy corners.
Good music.u Il be provided.

LONDON QUOTATIONS,

By Dally Cable to Ernest Kennedy &
Com

aO¥s
‘Le Roi and B. A. C. both took a
jump in the London market today,
Le Rai gaining five shillings and
the B. A. C. one shilling. Today’s
closing“figures were: ‘
Le Roi, £8 12s 6d.
B.A.C., 148 134d.

CLASSIFIED.

Advertisements under this head useried at the
fe of One Cent a Word. Nothing t jaken for
Tes Han 5 eentes 2.00.

Six insertions,
TAILORING.

Q. SAVARD, Fashionable Merchant Tailor,
carries the best assortment of imported and do-
mestic goods in Rossland. None but first-class
labor employed. Prices moderate, © Columbia
avenue, Rossland.

C. A. Molson was in G d
this week.

At the Kootenay—A. A. Brown,
Spokane.

is
At Haleyon,

Dr. Charles Graef, who was for-
merly house surgeon in the Toronto
general hospital and who has re-
cently returned from a year's post
graduate course in Europe, is now
in charge of the sanitarium at Hal-
cyon hot as resid .medi-

FOR SALE.

FOR SALE—$r200 will buy house and lot, very
central—the house is furni shed throughout.
0.

FOR SALE.—58 feet frontage, Nickel plate
Hat, $275. ‘I’ Prest & Co.

The rooms |"

Le Roi Livery, Feed
& Sale Stables.

JOHN P, LINDBURG .. ..PROPRIETOR

Heavy Transferring.
First-class Saddle & Pack Horses.
STABLES:

CommeroialzAlley,.’Phone No. 30.
Postoftice Box 16,

the price, 3 for 25, makes the
the popular cigar of the day.

L. LEVY &6O

wholesale and Refall
Tobacconists.
Opposite Bank of Montreal,

Rolt & Grogan

A. G, CREELMAN,

CONTRACTOR

AND. |. BUILDER

bing promptly attended to.

Office and shop! Commercial sour Niet Alham
Fa. hate}, = Pe 0. Box

HALF-PRICE
SLAUGHTER

Going Outof Business
Everything at One-
Half Regular Price.

Goods are marked in plain
figures, audyou'pay just one-
half. Stock consists of...

Stationery, Books
Blank Books, Pic-

Estimates furnished ¢ on all kinds OF work, Job

FOR RENT.

Office on first Hoor irs Block,

Office and rooms o2 secon floor Burne
Block.

Large Warehouse 1n center of town.

FORK SALE.

Seven-roomed Dwelling house, plastered
furnished throughout, ond lon locality.
Hotel and Saloon on nd avenue.—A

splendid business ‘opportunity.

Benn’s
Bargains—

ROSSLAND

REAL ESTATE

We sold the Le Roi avenue house
for $1200. Our'next snap is one at
$1500. ‘It is more. desirably locat-
ed, almost opposite the residénce
of Gov. Mackintosh,

TWO LOTS AND FIVE ROOM
house; good basement for wood

tures,FancyGoods
Bric-a-brac, Toys
China, Dolls, No-
tions, Etc., Etc.

FOR SALE—Laige lot, May addition. head of
Spokane street, $125. T. Prest, 26 Columbia ave.

FOR SALE.—House and two lots. House Is
new and contains four rooms. Cheap and on very
easyterms. T. Prest & Co.

FOR RENT.

FOR RENT—Nicely furnished house, four rooms

cal officer, Dr. Graef was medal-
ist of the class of 1896 at Toronto
university.

The following visitors from Ross-
land are registered as guests at
Halcyon Hot Springs sanitarium:
J. Fred Ritchie, R. E. Young, D.
W. Morgan, J. A. McKeller, J. C.
Campbell, James Hennessy, Henry
Cameron, Harry Mclntosh and
Master Reg. McIntosh, of the Hoff-
man house, s

—_

COMPETE AT SPOKANE.

Boesland Hose ‘Team wWiit Try to
‘Win Medais There.

The Rossland hose team is Prac-
ticing twice a day with a view to
competing in the drill at Spokane
next week. “They will enter in three
contests, viz: wet test, dry test and
hub and hub race, in each of which
the first prize is $150. The team
now holds the championship of the
Pacific Northwest and will endeavor
to retain it They will leave here
‘Thursday, the contest taking place
aS

$17.00. T. Pres: & Co, 26, Columbia ave
ave beon placed upon th upon the

screen, rohan been els of aolete alt
ore Weluter! "a Dletionary ‘hey are be ion
Offered under various tacsce atu low price

ry goods dealers, grocdrs, agon
FHA fom Instanoes 8.8 premium 1: Sibson
Announcements of these comparatively

Worthless

ita
IRE ape a Sag US mas
aufestent ofa haberpriced d Belfeve, they
areall-trom A to 2 a lad

Reprint Dictionaries,
pncroey be co) meh in| in its day wanicid orabout

Sake eat iret fue
Long Since Obsolete.

su ment of i
Which somoot thems Books ao adver.
teed a) ees was complied bya gentle:
published betes bie azatEe lier m
Eaditions are tee! Of more or leas moe

‘The Webster's -

lahed by” out fouss' ig tt ein tas onl beg

oneof that namo to th

a “containg 0 Ofer S00 mages fe lustre:
very page, and bears our

‘Ie is protected 1 by

Get the ‘Best.

ALLGOINGAT
| |HALF- PRICE

1t will pay you to buy your Christe
$s gifts now and put them away
Until'the holluay tine,

{¢ will pay you to Jay in your win-
ter’s reading.

It will pay you to buy pictures
and other things to decorate your
home with,

It will pay you to buy enough writ-
ing paper to Jast you a year or more.

In short. if you want anything in
any of the different li a oods in

ines of
this stock, the prices are so low yous
cannot utford to pass them by. 7

. AN Opportunit:
OF this Kind may “never eee th
Rossland again,

B
oF 3

EVERYTHING
CASH ONLY

cellar; city water and
electric light; price. - $1800
THREE LOTS, near ‘Hon, Thos,
Mayne Daly’s, cheap for cash.
RESIDENCE AND TWO LOTS,
Le Roi avenue east, one of the
best pieces of residence Property
in the city. Call and enquire. *
CORNER STORES & OFFICE
ou First avenue. ” Lease or Sale.
Terms on application.

LOT, 180 feet deep, facing St. Paul
street near Columbia ave. Has
nice dwelling facing new court
house, renting at $20 per month,
Another dwelling could be erected
on St. Paul street and the invest-
ment will net 30 per cent,
Price - - -

HOTEL AND BUSINESS LOT,
on Columbia avenue, good busi-
~ ness property, =

$2300 |

6:30.P. M, “9.ZH!S, STORE

Rysaccee Pen

~ 6:80 Ph

take.

tL: ROSSLAND’SiBIG ST0RE,

«=Gole’s Hot,,
Blast Heater
eC

Before placing
contemplate buying we'll be
and explain all the adva

HUNTER BRos,

You should ¢ Xie

bur order for the new heater g
i sed tos i you

HARDWARE DEPARTMENT,

only inant

Ferguson,. and Vancouver.
————

William Donald, Mgr., Rossland Branch,

P. BURNS & Co,

WHOLESALE MARKET

Rossland, Nelson, Sandon, Revelstoke, G 1
* “Grand Forks: and Vancouver,
as
‘ aaa ‘RETAIL MARKETS
Rossland, rail Nelson Ymir, — Kaslo, Sand.
Denver, Silverton, "Cascade City, Grand Fork, Nex
Greenwood, Phomnix, Midway, Camp McKinney, Revelstoke

The Arlington,» ee os

- . The Leading Hotel at Trail. .
Headquarters for Gommercial Men
- » Splendid Sampte Rooms. .

Unexcelled Table.

JOHN HAVERTY, Pre

i
|
{

aspecialty. Nort! inps kept

zB. Cone Mills,
‘Third Avenue Rossland.

CUNLIFFE & McMILLAN,
ENGINEERS AND MACHINISTS!

All Classes of Repairs attd Construction Work Undertaken,

Ore Cars, Wheels and Axles, Buckets, Fans, Sha(ting, Hangers and Pullers, Pie vot
the:

in stock, Agents for Wim. Hamilton
Concentrators, Etc,

P. O. Box 106.

7

They reduce insurance; give your
home or business place a brighter
ming wa. and save you money in.

Electric Power supp

Bi
Its expensive and dan
Oj | [2 nothing ngot the trouble cer
ing fat

Don’t Burn
Ose Electric Ugh

_———{{__aa=_EL”™_"=a=a_—S_——
Estimates furnished for Wiring and Lighting, Etectric Fixtures carried in stock.

it far

108, bet

ining and ing plrfpose
Itis much cheaper than steam.
br In case of trouble with lights, telephone No. 67, between B am. and 6,p.m.

Motors for sale or rent.

nO p

Ftossland Water and Light Go.

ee

CANADIAN
PACIFIC

AND SOO LINE.

RENOWNED

“IMPERIAL!
LIMITED”

BUSINESS. BLOCK AND LOT
on Columbia avenue; net income,
about 18 percent per annum.
Price - - - $12000
TWO SPLENDID LOTS. on Le
Roi ave at - $500 each
HOTEL PROPERTY, including
real estate and good will of busi-
ness. Splendid trade. _ Cheap.
UPRIGHT PIANO, in- splendid
condition.

SEWING MACHINE; slightly us-
.ed. A bargain,

CHAS. E.BENN
LINCOLN STREET,

List your Properties . with set we
ave. buyers, ~

H. S. WALLACE

Wallace Building,
Columbia Avenue,

on the foll ig day.

free, Address

3 Subscribe for
the:

50 Cents per

G.& C. MERRIAM CO. Springfield, Mase

= month.

Birst-Class Sleepers on All Trains from

ARROWHEAD & KOOTENAY
LANDING,

Tourist Cars pass Medicine Hat daily for

ton; ‘Mondays and Thursdays for Toronto.
Same cara pass Revestoke one day earlier.
CONNECTIONS:

.»ROSSLAND.
-ROSSLAN)).

-ar 19:10

Morning train daily for and from Nelzon,
from Crows Nest Line, and for Revelstoke,
Main“Line and Pacitic Coast. Daily (ex-
cept Sunday) tor Kaslo and (except Mon-
Monday) from Sandon and Slocan -Points,

Afternoon train daily for and from Nelson,
for Crows Nest Linc and from Revelstoke,
Main Line, and Pacific Coast. Daily (except
Sunday) for and from Boundary Points
rom ‘Kaslo, and (except Saturday) for
Sandon and slocan Pints.

4 his-Nelson to Rosstand-hrs 4

For rates,tickets and fall Information ap-
: ply to Depot ur City Agt. Rossland, or

BE. 4 SOYLE,

Vaneau B.C.

Ww. FP. ANDERSON,
Nason Bie.

8t. Paul; Saturdays for Montreal and Bos- | *Loca!

-8r 11:05 | -

h CoastLimited | 7.23 a
hCoast Ltmalted’ rd im
jour 140

Pak ouse & Lewiston b br ch
opera Wael a. brat ng
eight, wes
Local EREghe

PRally ex cept Sunday, H others dally.
los. east boun

CITY TICKET OFFICE,

ZEIGLER BLOCK,

Try Our ElectriciLighted

. LIMITED”

TIME CARD OF TRAIMS.

Double Daily Trait Service.

Carner,Howard and Riverside.

2

“NORTH COAST

: ”
With New “Observation Cars

na

OSSLAN D RECOR ae

VOL, 6. NO. (19:

ROSSLAND, BRITISH COLUMBIA, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1900

PRICK 5 CENTS

WEDGEWOOD CHINA

In this Favorite Eugtisn BISCUIT JARS, TEA aresome of thelarger ones
Ware we are showing a SETS, VASES AND and tor the dressing tabio
great many Pretty Pleces WATER PITCHERS, we tave many dainty bits

J. W. SPRING OPTICIAN

JEWELER

WAS ACCEPTED

a

‘| Vanderbilt Gives His Daugh-
‘- tera Half Million.

s1AS A THANK OFFERING

For the Duke's Safe Return After

His War. Service in South

A PURE SOA

F HEALTHY SKIN
A CLEAR COMPLEXION

A Soap to be Pure nee! not necessarily be high-priced. We guaran-
tee the Parity of our CASTILE SOAP, -Our Ole Oi! and Cucumber
at six cakes for twenty-five cents, is a good all-round Soap. We
recommend our Large Tar, fifteen cents nr two for twenty-five cents,

for removing dirt or healing Cracks,

Our French Imported Soaps

are Delightfully Perfamed, and leaves that soft, velvet skin.
SEE OUR SOAP WINDOW.

Dasa GOODEVE BROS.

“IT PAYS TO DEAL WITH GOODEYE’S.”

TheVery §
«Besta:

Stationers

Africa.

(By Associated Press.) bare

New York, Sept. 29.—Wm. K.
Vanderbilt has given his cheque for
half a million dollars to his daugh-
ter, the Duchess of Marlborough.
The gift is in the nature of a thank
4 | offering for the duke's safe return
from the war in South Africa, after

| about seven months ‘service.

duch is now in Pacis investing

the money in antique furniture and

«++ ToSelect the ..,

TlE THAT SUITS YOUR

AND YOUR FINANCES.

The New Styles, Colors
and Patters for Fall are
coming in: will You come
tn, too?

It’s Easy Pickin’

COMPLEXION, YOUR TASTE

When you “drop in’ at this store.

decorative articls for the house in
Mayfair, Another half million dol-
lars was a Christmas gift to the
duchess from her father.

THE ORE
SHIPMENTS

Ore. Output of This Week
Practically as Great
as That of Last.

This weeks shipments of ore are

pra ly.as heavy as those for
last week, though the exact figures

by way of the Canadian Pacific were

MORN NG,

NOON NIGHT

e+ WE ARE AT IT...

not obtainable up to the time of go-
ing to press, fd
The figures for previous weeks
have been corrected to show actual
weights and those for this week ex-

We are

ing for your Di d Mount-
ing Order. We do the Finest Class of
this Work in the Kootenays. Probably

you don't want anything in this line
just now;

remember us when yot do.’

EWERT BROS

JEWELERS AND ENGRAVERS.

ding up to noon today.

MINE. THIS WEEK'S ee oe

Le Roi.... +4263 112,350 |
War Eagle 10,603
Centre Star. — 11,877
Iron Mask. — 15434
Evening Star. 3 391
Monte Christo. ..—— 273
° 384
Spitzee.. 20
Le Roi No 2. 1994
Iron Colt. 7o
Giant. ........ 158

Total........+-4785 | 139,554
LONDON QUOTATIONS,

By Daily Cable to Ernest Kennedy &

ANOTHER OF BENN’S BARGAINS |

In Desirable Locality, within fifteen minutes of Pos

Two Acres cn.

The.whole Business for = + = - =

Residence Lot

CHARLES E. .BENI

Will make Sixteen Good Residence . Lots.
$350.00

A Well-Located Residence Lot, Corner, Most
Beautiful and Healthy Location in the City.
$250.00 on Time. A Lower Price for Cash.

Lincoln Street,
Opposite Rossland Club.

Company.
Le Rois again took a jump, clos-
ing firm at £8 15c. B. A. C, closed
steady at 18s,
*

The Turf Exchange,
Al Davis and James Fay have
taken charge of the Turf Exchange
and open for business today. The
place has been renovated and neatly
fitted, and the popularity of the
new firm will insure a successful
business venture.

Handsome Farpiture,
In Lockhart & Jordan’s window

is a completely furnished bedroom,
ig the hand: and richest
iture yet ht to Rossland

The fittings are complete and repre-

(PLENTY OF
SPONGES..

sent a value of about $400.

‘The Labor Campaign.

The Sponge is useful in all depart-
ments of home, indispensable for the
bath. desirable for Kichen work, on

Ata last night the Car-
penters’ union elected P. R. McDon-
ald and Robert Inches delegates to

sell for twenty-tive an
You'll be glad to own one.

*Phone 185.

ful for sqyuubin bee Sp ges for ev very
ve
purpose, bat ours ponges fr Fine

ee, bul
jathi Sponge we
Bon Gleunsine t ng any ee re

ROSSLAND DRUG CO.

123 E. Columbia Ave,

the app i with
R. Coward and Thomas Beamish
alternates. The delegates were in-
structed unequivocally in favor ofa
labor candidate. It was voted to
assess each member of/ the union
> 3.50 for campaign purposes.
i

panes

Great Britain,

* (By Amociated Press.)
Washington, D. C., Sept. 29.—
The allignment of the powers on
the German proposition to make
the punishment fof the Chinese
leaders a condition precedent to ne-
gotiations may now be stated as

follows:

Great Britain, Russia and France
stand with the United States in
regarding this proposition as ipex-
pedient.

Japan occupies a middle attitude.
She is willing to follow the German
lead if all the powers are agre a

ALIGNMENT
ON CHINESE
SITUATION
How Other Powers Ss Regard

the Proposition Made
by Germany.

IMPORTANT GROUPING

Russia, France

and United States Stand
Together.

tiations are undertaken, will defeat
all efforts to obtain peaceubla set-
tlement.
Lt Hung Chang's Position,

Tien Tsin, Sept. 25, vig _Shang-
hai, Sept. 28.—-Li Hung Chang told
General Chaffee that his chief de-
sire was to offect a cessation of hos-
tiljties and promised that the Chi-
nese would not again take the initi-
ative in fighting. He is in constant
cable communication with Wu Ting

Fang at’ Washington. A majority
of ytiie powers will recognize his
bl jals. At the ion ‘cf

but onty for. the. sake ‘of. ‘pres
harmony among. the: powers,. aiid
not form a belief in the. wisdom. of
the German proposition,

Austria aud Italy stand shoulder

General Chaffee he'is’ hastening his
preparations'to Tettve ftir Pekin:

A British ¢avalry’ reconnaisance
forty miles tothe south of Tien
Tsin occupied several towns without

to Ider with G » making
the dreibund a solid front.

Nothing is known here officially of
the alternative proposition which
is reported to be ‘prepariug in Eu-
rope.. It contains the same teatures

A messenger brings news of .a
massacre of thirteen Swedish mis-
sionaries in the northern , part of the
province of Shansi.

The Imperial Court.

as to prior-punishment as the origi- Shanghai, Sept. 28.—Emperor Ome
nal proposition, and is not likely to] Kwang Su has issued an edict 8 Unionists, 5
1 here. S hanking Emperor Nicholas for his

WORTHY HONORS

Queen's List of Heroes. of
South Africa.

WOLSELEY TO BE EARL

Lord Kitchener Is to Be Given Ragk
of Full General and Next Ia
Command to Buller,

(By Associated Pree) 6:99
London, Sept. 29.—The Queen
now has a long list of names ‘sub-
mitted to her as those of persons
worthy of horiors for service in
South Africa, The identity of those

causing keen speculation in certain
circles. The shower of Bath (C.
M. G.’s) Companion of St. Michaels
and St. George, etc., will be unpre-
cedented. It is rumored that Lord
Wolseley will be made an earl anit:
be appointed viceroy of Ireland to
succeed Earl Cadogan.

"What Lord Roberts will: get re-
mains a secret. Lord -Kitchener, it
if he remains in South Afri-
ca, will be given the local rank of
full general, so that he can be sec-
ond in command only to Gen, Bul-
ler, after Lord Roverts leaves.

DECIDEDLY .
IN THE LEAD

ConservativesElect For=
ty Members to Five
berals.

(By Amociated Press.) ”
London, Sept. 29.—One hundred
and sixty-seven constituencies re-
turning one fourth of the member-
ship of the house of commons ,
made their nominations today.
Up to one o'clock this afternoon 58
members had been elected unoppos-
ed, comprising 43- Conservatives,
Liberals and 2
S.

receive app
Hay has been in the closest tach
with all that has been done respect-
ing China during his absence and
the stories printed in Germany to
the effect that it is coming back to
reverse those policies is pronounced
at the state department to be ab-
surd. The officials are impressed
that any..attempt made to punish
Prince Tuan and others before nego-

decision to withdraw the Russian
troops from Pekin and announcing
his own willingness to perform a
memorial ceremony over the grave
of Baron Von Ketteler.

The imperial court has ordered
that the palace at Si Ngan Fu cap-
ital of the Province of Shensi, be
immediately prepared for its recep-
tion,

WILL DRINK
WEAK TEA

Shortage in the Crops
This Season Will
Be Great.

(By Associated Press.) *
New York, Sept. 29.—It is esti-
mated: that the: shortage of the
Japan tea at the end of the season
will be four million pounds. The

Boxers may: the

FORTY-FIVE
WENT DOWN

Two Steamers Collided
Off the Japanese
Coast.

(By Associated Press.)
Nagasaki, Sept 29.—The Norwe-
gian steamer Calanda and Japanese
steamer Ise. Maru collided. The
Calanda’ was sunk: and forty-five
and crew were drowned.

supply of Oolong tea by one million
five hundred pounds. About twenty
million pounds of Oolong and forty
million pounds of Japan‘tea are ex-
ported from China and Japan.

Panerai of G. HR. Byan.

took place this afternoon from Beat-
ties’ undertaking 1ooms, the Rev.
w. C. Hedley. rector of . St.

George’s church officiating. The
parents of the deceased, who re-
side near Montreal, directed that
the funeral take place in this city.

The Funeral of George R. Ryan}.

King’s Birthday.
 Pretoria,g Sept. 28.—Today be-
ing the birthday of the king of Por-
tugal, Lord Roberts sent a telegram
from the army in South Africa con-
gratulating his. majesty.

Masonic Grand Officers.

- The M. W. Grand Master, A. F.

couver and Deputy, Grand Master
Young, will make an official visit. to
Corinthian lodge. No. . 24, . next

,| Thursday.

& A. M., Harry Watson, of Van-|~

Among the interesting personali-
ties on the government side return-
ed today. without opposition were
Jos. Chamberlain, the secretary of
state for the colonies, West Birm-
ingham; George Wynham, partia-
mentary’ secretary for the war
office, ‘ Dover; Chas. T. Ritchie,
the president of the Board of Trade,
Croydon, Sir John C. O. Colomb,
‘Yarmouth, Jesse Collings, under
secretary for the home department,
Bordesey division of Birmingham,
Sir Francis Sharp-Powell, Wigan,
Jos. P. Williams, financial secretary
of the war ‘office;; South Birming-
harm, Col. Sir Chas. E. H. Vincent,
founder of the United Empire Trade
league, Central Sheffield, John Hen-
niker Haten, Canterbury,
Bailby Stuart-Wortley, formerly
secretary of state for the home de-
partment, Hallam division of Shef-
field,and Sir Edward Albert Sasson,
Hythe. The five Liberals returned
unopposed include Wm.Court Gully,
speaker of the house of commons,
Carlisle, and Sir Henry Hartly Fow-
ler, former under secretary of state
for home department and secretary
for Indir, East Wolverhrmpton.
Nomintes im Cauada,
Ottawa, Sept. 29.—The following
nominations have been made: for
South’ Middlesex, M. McGugan, M.
P., Liberal; Pontiac, G. H. Braba-
zon, Conservative; Argenteuil, Dr.
Thomas Christie, Liberal; Comp-
ton, A: Gale, Liberal.
*, The Bon Ton.

On and after October 1, the Bor
Ton Confectionery parlors will oc-
cupy their new premises, opposite
:the Crescent dry goods store, Old

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