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“GREAT RITAN

AND FRANCE,

Brought Face to Face in China,

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| is sure to depend on

OVER A RAILWAY CONCESSION ASKED BY FRANCE. England has Protested—China’s De-

cision Will Depend Upon Eng- land.

a \SpeciaL ro THe EXAMINER. }

29 .-—-No

regarding

Pekin, Dec. settlement has

b2en reached the demand for

an extension of the French concession at Shanghai. ‘The protest against the grant- ing of the coucession, mace by Sir Claude McDonald, British

brought Great Britain

the _tminister, has

and France face to face in China. the Chinese

Great

The action of how supports them.

Indemnity for merican Citizens.

[Special To THE ExaMINER ]

WASHINGTON, Dec.

fication of the treaty of peace the President

| will recommend to Congress to take steps

United

States citizens who sustained damage in

to indemnify the claims of the

Spanish possessions formeily the seat of

war, Twenty-six millions is the amount

| estimated for the purpose.

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Fourteen Persons V/ounded.

Dec General mornlog

American aod

HAVANNA, 27.—Captain Castellanos issued an order this permitting the disylay of

Cuban flags inside the line of Spanish! jurisdiction. An order wi!! be issued to

pi, ht to close all cafes at lO pm. Four- teen people were wounded yesierday by p2ople with different-kinds of weapons in the streets.

Why All This Secrecy ? Lonpon, Dec. 28.--The Berlin cor» respondent ofthe Standard says: “De

| spite the official announcement that Em- 'peror William started for Potsdam at 5

ommmenss (clock yesterday afternoon, it is asserted

that he appeared suddenly at that hour ata meeting of the Prussian cabinet which was being held atthe residence of Dr. Von Miquel, Prussian Mi ister of finance, and remained unt.] after 7 o’clock.

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A Miracvutovs Escarpe.—A correspon-~ dent of the Guardian writes that a dreadful ' accident, and of such a nature that it might have proved fatal, occurred to Mr. Allan McLean, an elderly gentleman residing in Alberton, Lot 14, on Monday, 26th inet. It appeare that threshing was going on, dod Mr. McLean was sta ioned on th? upper loft of the barn receiving the straw that was being passed above. The machine was stopped for a few minutes and the old gentleman was endeavoring to get down, whenin reaching for a beam he missed his hold and instantly fell with considerahle force on the barn floor be- low, his head and shoulders first striking. For some minutes he lay motionless but shortly regained consciousness and was

removedto his residence near by. His sufferings was intense, the injuries being

largely internal. It is bones were broken. The parties working in the bui'ding at the moment thoughta stone or a piece of timber had dropped, the fall sounded so heavy. How the man escaped instant death is almost awiracle considering the distance and latitude in which he fell. It is hoped that he mav soon recover from the effects of the terrible shock. AceryLene Burns a Cavurcn —The members of the Blackwood Methodist church pow mourns the loss of their edifice. Some few weeks ago they put in an avetyleae generator, which, for some unknown reason exploded and the church was burneddown. When they get a new bnilding they will be quite satisfied with ordinary methods of illumination, oi] in their case.—Ex.

thought that no

ee Ladies collars in grey lamb, astracan, opposum, Persian lamb, and_ other

leadicg furs,aboat sixty muffs. We want ihe money and you want the moufis; the muffs for this weather. Jas Paton & Co.

29 .— After ati- | “ys : : .— After the rati- | have not been a few families in which a

authorities , Britain }

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| rilla is the best blood purifier, nerve

This is True Liberty, when Free Born Men, having to advise the Public, may speak free.” -—Evripipes

Reading I P-Gommane ETO W N P. .B.. ISLAND, THURSDAY, DECEMBER’ 22:

RECIPROCITY PROSPECTS DIM. |

The News Gently Broken to the

Cabinet.

[Specian to Tae Examiner }

Orrawa, Dec 29.—There was a good at- tendance at the Cabinet meeting yesterday when the three knights broke gently to their colleagues the fact that there was small prospect of reciprocity with the States,

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Major H. Mac Davison.

[Seeciac tro Tak Examiner]

Orrawa, Dec 29—The following ap- pointment is gazetted: Fourth Prince Ed ward Island Regiment, Capt H Mac Davi- son, granted brevet rank of Major.

— wreliprenn —

TEN SONS IN THE ARMY.

Queen Victoria's Gift Brings to Light Some Curious Facts.

The gift hy Queen. Victoria, says the New York Herald,of $50 and her por. trait, which Her Majesty sent toa Mrs. Keveih. of St. Breward, Cornwall, in sppréciation of the service of Mra, Keveth’s seven sons in the army, has had the effect light several other who have upheld

of bringing to cates of large families the flag “of old England. Whether these cases have been discovered with a view of sharing the Queenly rewar! or merely to show thatthere ‘were others” does not ceem to be clear, but the factis that there

large number of sons have fought in the same regiment.

The Battye brothers are believed to have been the most numerous of any one family of fighters. There were ten of these men, and they were all in the army at one time. Battles took off four, but the others went ou fighting, and made good records with- out meeting disaster. One of ther achieso’ signal distinction, being appoint- ed Military Knight at Windsor. This was Colonel Montague Battye, and his iostal- lation took place not loug ago.

Eight sons were given by Mrs, Margaret Clark, who died in Plywouth io 18i7. Seven of these sons entered the naval ser- vice of John Ball, the remaining son dons nivg the uniform ofa sollier. The navy boys had harder “ going” than the one who fought on land, for in an engagement commanded on one side by Admiral Kep- pel fiveof the sons were killed in one day.

A German tried at Samoa.

L npox, Dee. 26.—The Washington government, according to a despatch from Auckland, has instructed the United States consul at Samo te act with greater viglil- ance, and pot to intrust his duties to his British aod German colleagues. It appears that the German agent bas taken advantage of his colleagues’ confidence to land guns and munitions of war without their know ledge, and also to obtain important advac~ tages for German firms.

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THeatTricaL.—Price Webber’s Boston Comedy Co., gave two performances at the Opera House, St. Jotn, on Monday last, (Christmas Day). They had large audi- ences.

PEI Hospitat—Mr Chappel’s plans of the new P E I Hospital in course of erection are published in this week’s isane of the Canadian Architect and Builder.

Lapies —See the Jackets at Stanley Broe.; over a hundred of them. All new fashionable garments. $5 for $2, $450 for $3, $6 for $4—and all felt bats at half price. Starley Bros. 303, 2i. ‘TAKE ONLY the best when you

need a medicine. Hood’s Sarsapa-

and stomach tonic. Get HOOD’S.

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“The Low Birthrate,” “Christianity and Agnosticism,’ sermons, by Rev. James Simp- son, price 5c and 10° respectively, for sale at THE KXAMINER office and at Carters’ and Hasezard & Moore’s Bookstores.

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TO LET.--The store at the corner of Gt. George and Grafton Street (known es May’s corner). Also three rooms above store, The stole and rooms are fitted upin first class style and will be rented either together or seperately Apply to Catherine May, corner Prince and King Sts.

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A DEADLY JOKE.

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They Turned Steam on to Frighten a Fellow Workman.

Ansonia, Conn., Dee. 27,—A boler i the Farrel foundry needed repsiring yester dav,and Andrew Boyd, a machinist, wae directed todothe work. The workman has toenter the boiler through a manhole just large enough to permit his body to pass. He mnat work in air that epeed ily becomes foul by tLe light of a tellow candle.

Itoceured to some of Boyd's heedlese and ignorant fellow workmen that there ; was Offered a fine opportunity to play a practical! joke. Thev decided to open a valve in a pipe which connected the boil-~ er to be repaired with one in use, and send

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a little steam in to frighten the machinist. | ‘They opened the valve, and «team under a pressure of fifty pounds tothe square | inch rushed intothe boiler where Boyd | was. In his confined quarters enough steam could enter in threeor four seconds to burn the man horribly. When Boyd heard the first hiss he | raised an outcry which warned the jokers of the danger. They tried to shut the valve, but they could not do 80 quickly enough. There is no bura so terrible and deadly

as that caused by steam. It entails the most horritle sufferings It attacks the }

lungs as we}] asthe outer part ot the body. Boyd lived only a very little time after he was taken from the boiler.

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BOER ROAD TO RUIN.

Increasing Burdens for the Uitland-

ers--Mr. Kruger Angry.

Carevown, Dee 27—Parties have just returned from a visit tc Johannesburg and Pretoria, where in well-informed cir- cles the opinion prevails that the governs ment has just contemplated imporitions upon Uitlander capita] and capitalists ; Mesars Kruger and Reitz’s programme is said to include greatly increased taxation upon every company, excepting those en- gaged in the exyloitation of concessions granted by Mr Kruger. It aleo contemplates a graduated income tax, beginning with 24 per cent, upon yearly incomes of £1,000. Mvch uncertainty prevails regarding the financial and political outlook.

Mr. Kruger is adopting vigorous mea- sures to discredit the damaging reports of the conduct of the M’Pefu campaiga con-

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tained in my suppressed Johannesbarg message, which was called from Capetown. A war correspondent who telegraphed a corroborative account is now being compelled to retract. There is, however, no question ae to tLe accuracy of the first

accounts of the war which were transmit-

ted from the front tothe newspapers. They egree so"unanimously in their stric- tures of the campaign that a stringent press censorship has vow been established to prevent the publication of the truth. Mr. Kruger is wild at my exposure of Boer incapacity and brutality.

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Reign of Terror in Havana,

Havana, Dec. 27.—The Spanish troops to-day still further contracted their lines and withdrew to the extremity of the peninsula on which the city of Havana is

built. They now occupy ‘carcely two} equare miles. The Uai ed troops | bave moved from the suburbs into ihe | city proper and to-otght are pair ling | Central Park and the Prado. The whole } population is in a atate of unre+t—the Spanish residents fearful, the Cubans eager todo somethingtosbow they have gained their freedom. Major Generel Crooke has this evening formally taken command of the United States forces in Cuba and hao issued the necessary orders.

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