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VOL. 25.—NO. 134
'ARLOTTETOWN, P. E. ISLAND. THURSDAY, MAY 15, 1890.
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Ww iE E. K - . feo ny | summer fi | cae See on the broad of his back—dead. I hailed
“a, ae Sam | Hi (| T D 1990 ~— é ead. I haile £ . |My companions and we carried him out t en wd oD Recs: c y ' {Bermuda Bottled. | «v::sce raxex ar rie ixquesr ox me Join Henry's coach-house. His hat was
“You must go to Bermuda. if BODY OF CAPTAIN PETER MURCHISON—THE 4 his feet, and a razor §was alongside of mSi« it.
. ft u do not I will not be res VERDICT. There was blood on both of his hands;
"PEN QPRERP’ ‘ nwo _— ae le for the consequences.” * Ba . nds; aot EEN STREET, CHARLOT TrETOWN, P. E. I a | doctor, I can afford neither tne —— : |also blood on the razor. There were no es ee. ee \ time nor the money.” ‘“ On Tuesday morning, Captain Peter/signs of a struggle. So ferasI can learn
that is impossibie, try
SCOTT'S | EMULSION
OF PURE NORWECIAN COD LIVER OIL.
Isometimes call it Bermuda Bot- tled, and many cases of
CONSUMPTION, Bronchitis, Cough
or Severe Cold
I have CURED with it; and the \ advantage is that the most sen-i- tive stomach can take it. Another
Murchison, of the steamship William, left! the razor belonged to himself.
the residence of his father-in-law, Mr. Cuas. Cameron, City Marshal, (sworn) James Pickard, on the Malpeque Road, ajI have heard the evidence of Edward short distance outside city limits, saying he | Toombs, and corroborate it in every par- was coming to town to do some work about ticular as t» the fiading of the body of the
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Importers of British aad German Dry Goods,
MILLINERY To Se — the steame d Captain McMilian.|deceased. i believe tl ound ws ; , SMALLWARES, &e. mes Ce Risks inthe ‘aan cag lara: yr inflicted. (Roz w pected The. bleed
stains are there yet as I saw them when the razor was picke! up.
JaMes Pickaxy, (sworn)—I am father-in- law of the deceased. He was first missing on Sunday evening. He was brought back by my brother on Monday evening. He appeared to be tired when brought home. Ilasked him where he had been, and he said he had just been taking a cruise. He left again on Tuesday morning, and [ did not see him alive since. (Razor produced.) { believe this is his razor. Yesterday I went
he had not gone to the William, and his friends became anxious about him. En- quiry among the neighbors that evening elicited the information that, instead of coming to town Captain Murchison had turned up Lawson’s Lane, some distance this side of Mr. Pickard’s residence. Yes- terday this locality was searched, and his lifeless body was found in a swamp near the western end of the lane, with the throat cut, and the razor with which the deed was ‘done lying on the grass near by.
as R_EYBE PARKENTINE ‘ EREMA,” now es loading, will sail for Liverpool, G. B., on SATURDAY, the 10th inst Returning, will sail from Liverpool for Charlottetown jabout the 15th June next.
| For Freight apply in Liverpool to William | Bullen, 51 South John Street ; in London, to ‘John Pitcairn & Sons, 7 Union Court, Old Broad Street, or here to the owners,
PEAKE BROS. «& CO.
Also, Full Lines of Teas, Groceries and Warehouse Goods
WHOLESALE ONLY.
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(oe Addition: to our e
Generai Stock are being. daily
‘ved fr iif : . | Ch'town, May 7, 1890—eod tf ceived from the different sources of produc ’ Es ee oe ee thing which commends it is the ' I C rr duction, and will be stimulating properties of the Hy-} |The {body was removed to John Henry’s | to his valise, and fvund that his phoxphites which it contaits. ( | eoach-house, where a post mortem examina-|Tez0r Was gone, 1 never heard
offered Wholesale only at a small advance on cost. ou will find it for sale at yaur) © ; ’ Druggist’s, in Saimon wrapper. Be ) tou was made by Dr. Conroy. In the/him say he would do away with him-
REAL ESTATE,
Part of the Esker Property.
AM instructed by Brenton F. Longworth, Esq., to sell by Auction,
* ON THURSDAY. 22nd DAY OF MAY,
| At 11 o'clock, on the Premises, |
' Be
B.S. DAVIES & GO
Merchant Tailors.
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'A number of valuable BUILDING LOTS {between Fitzroy and Euston Streets, as per | plan (on handbills). Terms at sale. R. BEAIRSTO,
Auctioneer.
HAVE A LARGE STOCK OF WOOLENS, in Suit-)_™97
; i eta W ings, Overcoatings and Trouserings, suitable for Spring | and Summer i es tawrent possible prices for Cash. 19 ACRES VALUABLE LAND, BY AUCTION.
MR. McDONALD, jor the past six years (previous to com- } —_——_ -- — |
1 a thorough know-| ledge of his business, has charge of our Tailoring Department. |
ing with us) of Boston, where he acquired AM instructed by Robert Crabb, Esq., to
As a Cuiter of correct styles of Garments, Mr. McDonald has no | sell by Auction, on the premises, corner
} superior in the Lower Provinces. He has given our customers |° Lower Malpeaue andi Cross Road,
the very best satisfaction. Men who care to dress well can p Wednes day Ith day of May, make no mistake in giving us a call. ae iii O'CLOCK Three Cases CHRISTY’S BEST LONDON HATS just opened. | : MEN’S FINE NECKWEAR, DRESS SHIRTS and UNDER- WEAR;; Lot of BOYS’ SUITS low to clear.
B. S. DAVIES & CO.,
CAMERON BLOCK.
| J HAVE THIS DAY admitted Mr. Donald
er a | f Nicholson a Partner m the Tobacco Manu- wr rr TN —e ‘ facturing Firm of HICKEY & STEWART,
JUST OPEN ED—New Hats, in English the business of which wiil hereafter be con- ‘ eric: akes j Steiff « Sof: 1] ‘ducted under the naine and style of HICKEY and American makes, In Stiff and Soft, will NICHOLSON, and take chis opportunity be sold very low for cash. of sincerely thanking the business public for i their liberal patronage in the past, and respect+ ifully solicit a continuance thereof for the | future.
Nineteen Acres of superior Land, at present laid down to grass, and all available for Hay and Pasture. Fine stream of water running through the centre.
Atso—33 Acree adjoining can be had at a reasonable price on easy terms.
R. BEAIRSTO, Auctioneer.
SHIP NOTICE.
Ch’town, March 25, 1890. may5
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M. HICKEY. Charlottetown, May 1, 1890.
Referring to the above, the undersigned beg
We have TWEED and WORSTED SUITS, ‘the Tobacco Manufacturing Business in the made by us during the dull season, that will
‘old establishment, Lower Queen eet and 7 : hope by strict attention thereto to be able to be found better value than any of the im= | oor ported Clothing.
satisfy the requirements of the trade in their line. See our ALL-WOOL TWEED SUITS for $12 00.
HICKEY & NICHOLSON. may6—1m (lw dy then eod)
eae FINE NHCKWEAR a Specialty. te 4, ct aah
- STEAMSHIP CO.
{(LIMIT"D.)
i RINCESS BEATRICE,” A TEAPOT GIVEN AWAY FREE Wifi EVERY CAPT, A. H. KELLY.
FIVE PO UX DS Or TEA. ILL sail from Charlottetown every
Thursday afternoon, at 4 o'clock, for (7 —_—
Halifax, calling at Port Hastings, Mulgrave, t> introduce our TEA into every
. and Hawkesbury, Arichat, Canso, Isaac household in|: Harbor and Sheet Harbor. we will, during the month of May, ofie CASH BUYERS.
| Returning will sail from Halifax every ray ——
onday night, at 10 o'clock, making same ‘calls, and Souris. To every person buying 5 pounds of 7 : . 7 » gt or 32¢., per pound, we will present FREE OF CHARGE
| The above steamer will make the round trip ‘every week, making same calls until the close good medium-sized Teapot. —ibininin 2)
of navigation, having a large stock of Teapots on |
—— ; . © | Freight and passengers solicited at lowest
“al, “af either R4ie., we ’ rates, a through Bills of Lading grented to We do this on account of ! a ' ‘ :
hand. and also wishing to have our TEA introduced, knowing
our trade afterwards.
@ any port on the continent or United Kingdom that if it is once tried we will have y
Apply to You will find that you will save money by buying your TEA from
BEER & GOFF,
\ TISHING the country,
special inducement t9
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Ww. W. CLARKE, Agent. | (Ch’town, May 3, 1890.
- TO LET 1OR a term of one or more years, a Black- smith Shop situate at Suffolk, near Thompson's Mills. ie Also, for sale, a complete set Blacksmith’s
Tools, nearly new, Apply on the premises to G. A, Seaman,
or to : i J. ade SEAMAN, Charlottetown,
{by P
BEST ROUTE to BOSTO
CANADA ATLANTIC LINE. ONLY ONE NIGHT AT SEA.
Quickest and Most Birect Route. Low Fares.
The Magnificient Clyde-built Stcel
S. S. “HALIFAX,”
Is the largest. safest, fastest and best furnished and most comfortable passenger steamshin ever placed on the reute between Canada and , United Sates. Sails from Nobie’s Wharf, Halifax, every \Ved- nesday, at 10 o’clock, and Lewis Wharf, Boston, every Saturday at !2 o’clock. Passengers by ‘uestay evening trains can_ go on board on arrival without extra charge. Bag- gage checked through. Through Tickets on sale . KH. 1. Nav. Co, and F. T. NEWBERY, Agent, Ch’town.
BARTLETT, LYMAN & Gi., Commission Werchants.
SPECIAL ATTENTICN GIVEN TO P. & ISLAND EGGS.
15 North Market and 15 Glinton Sts., BosToWN.
Reference—Fourth National Bank. apl0—dy Ilmeod wy 3m
Boston steamers. S.S. “CARROLL”
PWRHE sailings are arranged for the month of May, as follows :-—
From Charlottetown, Thursday. May Sth and Thursday, May 22a. Passengers will find Saloons, Staterooms and Sleeping Cabins fitted in best possible style for comfort and convenience, and an obliging and attentive staff of officers.
Freight carried at lowest rates, and Eggs handled with greatest care.
CARVELL BROS., Agenis.
_ap30—eod wky. pat
R. B. GARDNER, Manager, Lewis Wharf, Boston. may2—dly&wky
“TIIGOO M.
P. E. ISLAND RAILWAY.
NO i ITC #B.-
OMMENCING FRIDAY, 25th inst., and con"
tinuing until Summer Time Table akes elfect. a Special Passenger Trainx will leave Char- lottetown at 500 a. im. daily (Sundays ex¢ epted)
or Point du Chene; returniag, will leave >um- merside on arrival of Steamer from Point du Chene. Commencing Tuesday, 29th _inst., this train will run eee to fignish, and retuin on Tuesdays and Fricays.
_—" , J. UNSWORTH Superintendent.
Railway Office, Ch'town, ApH) 24, 1899.
Queen and King Square Stores, | apll—dy lew why
Ch'town, May 1, 1890-~dy wy
opld~m w ttl May wky pre ti
Charlottetown, April 19, 1890 —dy lm , ‘ . yarlotte 1, April dy lm sure you get the genuine.” ‘evening at eight o'clock, Dr. McLeod, Cor-|self. When he left my house he told my = =o - er ATCTION soyee «& Saw ea, Betawie: } joner, held an inquest in the Stipendiary|wife that he was going down to the
: Magistrates Cuurt-room. The jury was! William to see Captain McMillan. My
/made up as follows : George Charles Hoop-
brother’s boy told me he had been down to
for Suminerside, connecting there with Steimer |
the steamer to see if Captain Murchison was on board, and one of the hands told him he had been there but had gone up town. I weat to the Court House to see
. : if he was in the Court, and saw that he was Carrain Ronatpy McMitian (sworn)—' 10 there. Lasked Captain McMillan if
‘Captain Peter Murchison (the deceased)’ : Pes in my employ as ee ee the ae Captain Peter had been dowa to the boat William. I did not observe anything pe- that oe and he said he did not think culiar about his conduct lately. He joined Se } ” wanna the Engineer, Mr. Clark, the steamer on Tuesday week, and remain- — i ee vad not been there. 1 went ed until Saturday. He attended to his down to the boat the second time and saw buziness as usual. I was told that* his ee I asked him if he knew George friends came to look for him yesterday. I . ee and he said he did. _ i then did not see the parties, or know the reason o ed him if he did not tell Williams that of their inquiries about him. He was in no — Murchison was at the boat that financial trouble that I am aware of. His ee te and | he said he did, accounts were settled up satisfactorily to - 1¢ was mistaken, and was sorry that ao. 1e told him what was wrong. My brother Dr. Perer Conroy, (sworn)—I made a weut down to the country, at my sugges- post-n:ortem examination of the deceased, tion, and brought up Captain Murchison’s Peter Murchison. I found a wound ex- sear: | 5 assed some persone if they had tending from the angle of the jaw on one — are ag could get no trace of him. I side across the anterior aspect of the on told last night that the deceased had throat to the same point on the opposite’! aa seen going up Lawson's lane yester- side of the eck. ‘the Wound wes abowe| ee rae Mr. Caasford told me he the wind-pipe, between the larynx and the poe es he saw the Captain go up the lane hyoid bone, and severed all the soft parts that morning, I also made enquiries of other in the front of the neck. There were no! POmsOM*s whom [I met, lalso made en- large vessels wounded. I found a blood | Wuiries vf other persons whom I met, and
‘er, foreman; Augustus Down, Andrew 'Doyle, John Henry, John Mitchell, John 'Gallant, and James Redmond. The’ evidence taken appears below :—
clot in the larynx, which clot caused his en fae ar — ene I finally death by suffocation. He may have lived}; nig h: ee me he had jfound him in the woods. The
quite a while after the infliction of the wound. The wound appeared to me to have been self-inflicted. Jasper Pickarp (sworn)—I have been long and well acquainted with the deceas- ed, Peter Murchison. His habits were regular andtemperate. Ithought he ap-| yeared a little duller than usual since last Veduesday. He did not speak of any! p trouble to me. On Monday last I was!) ; h | ial . driving in Brighton Road and caught up to ‘Ith. F ain dle ee ae (Razor shown) Captain Murchison this side of the bridge. |_*“ i sPoentis wg he a one, and was He was walking on the sidewalk, I spoke ae se of as ig thisens. This. is to him. ILasked, ‘* Which way are you | "This e tine Am arms exactly. going?” He said, ‘*I am going to see nal secied litt vedo sneype and the jury Captain McMillan.” I then asked him to er ae eration, returned the fol- get into the bugey v= me eae y* ss Chat the deceased, Peter Murchison drive. He os with wand f knew that he came to his death from a wound inflicted by er a the ng gt ; ik 3 I himself, while laboring under shaiepieeey was out in,search o . asked him | jnsanity.” where he had been, and he said he had : ‘*not been anywhere.” He then asked me what I was duing out that road. I said, ‘*Well, Captain, to be honest with you, I was out in search of you.” He said, *» Why were you looking for me.” I told him it was because he left my brother's without saying where he was going and did not return at night, a thing which he had! sional men of world-wide repute, show the never done before. He made no answer | very great and grave responsibilities resiing to this. [ would not be able to upon parents and citizens, touching th tell that anything was wrong with him| planting io . he a ate . we from his appearance. Hespoke tome several | f),y Society will, we hope, have a al ta times previously about the trial now going! ag: ms me on between McMillan and Farquharson, but! ‘te ; did not speak of it on that day. IJ-then| .. “A public meeting of the New York State drove him to my brother's, and from there | Forestry Association was held in New York back to town to see Captain McMillan. | lately, +e several champions of arbor: Captain McMillan was not in his office when | piermpikrsie pes oes aes waste. pet only we arrived, and 1 left Captain Marchigon' am v= a eee = over tae —— a there while 1 went out to see if I could find! j,.;,¢ cousiviered. “Professor Das i LF. nanan ; Captain McMillan. I found the Captain, | chiof of the National Department of Forestry and he and IJ started for the office. On the) at Washingtoo,said that the destruction of the way we met Captain Murchison, who had | forest trees was the cause of the great floods left the ottice and was on his way to the | and droughts that for years have been sv de- court to see Captain McMillan. After) structive in the United States. He showed Captain MeMillan had spoken to him, | how the forest, with its floor of litter acting Captain Murchison got into the ouggy with {like a sponge in holding water, and with its ime and I drove him beck to my brother’s| i4ge retarding evaporation, prevented sud- house, where I left him. I have not seen | 2° ee end farnished moisture by such : . . | Slow Segrees as to render droughts impossible him alive since that time. I was misin- under ordinary crcumstances The restor formed as to the Captain’s being down to the) ation of the li wou!d be of ihe wana steamer William yesterday morning. 1) advantage, climatic and iacheaielnalial and understood since that he was not there at|/to that end Arbor Day should be wade 6 all yesterday. national institution. Influence the ch lirer Epwaxp Toomss (sworn).—The first [| | through their teachers and the fature would knew about this affair was on Monday | see the forests restored. Dr. Stephen Smith morning, when I was called upon at ay spoke of the relation of trees to the temper- store by Donald McLeod, who asked me) *™Ure, and consequently to the health of a to go with him to search for Captain Mur- | °'Y- He said thet trees with » rormal tem- chisun, who, he said, was missing, and perature of 54 degrecs at all seasons would, if it was not known what had become of | thickly planted in a city, so decrease the tem- ie ea | perature in summer as to greatiy decrease the him. I searched the woods and barns infant and senile mortalit which is always around James Pickard’s, but found no} »-earest in periods of seaahenn heat, and the trace of him. Then, iu the afternoon, | jofivence in winter would be nearly ‘as great. further search was made forhim. When he} He advocated the entorcing by law the plant. was missing, we began to think that he had! jag of trees ia cities. Other addresses were not been in his usual spirits for a few days; made in the same strain, and at their conclu- before. Wheu coming home from search- | ¢ion resolutions were »dopted adyocat the ing that evening, I heard that Jasper |‘ tablishment of Arbor day as @ nationa In- Pickard had picked him up at the tanaery, |&!74n, aud urging legislation t» compe! the I heard of his being missing again yestor- | £°? oral planting of trecs a nd vines = i terday, but did not search for bim until | and demanding that Ai bor Day receive especie
. ; : i attention in the schools.” to-day. About three o'clock this afternvon, | © 7 .
jdeceased was happy in his domestic re- 'lations, and | know of no cause that would ‘induce him to commit the rash act, unless it |}wasthat he worried over the trial now | going on between McMillan and Farquhar- son. Hetold me that he was troubled a little over that trial.
Dr. H. D. Jounson (sworn)—Captain eter Murchison bought « razor last fall
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1, in company with Marshal Cameron, | ee ee ee
Robert Toombs, aud Donald Murchison, | If the Suffere~s from Consunption, made search for him. We started up Law-} ..-o¢013 and General Dability will try Scett's son's lane and weat into a swamp bebind) fmycion of Cod Liver Oi', with BH ypoy hos-
the house. Four of us went through the! phites, they will find immediate altel ‘an “i woods, but could not find anything. We) periament benetit. Dr. H V. Mott, Brnt- next weat througha grove of soft wood.|vood, Cal, writes: “I have used Sectts We divided up and went to the jower end | Em ‘lsion with great advantage in caves ‘of of the swamp. We heard that he had gone Pat .usis, Scrofula and W asting Diseases It up that lane in the moraing. When we got is ¥ \y ae Sold by Drugyists, at ngar the end of the swamp, I saw him lying 50 c, and $1.00,
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