Senate h ead Room

| OTTAWA D i —— ee ae — TEFHOHHEEEOEOEOe ———— —_———_ —-—— I N E R. * Terme Four ole Bh eas This is True Liberty,—when Free Porn Men havin 3 to Advise the Public may speak free —~Evuripipes Sicsie Celtel Pac eet i —————— Sane pike —— : VOL 36. CHARLOTTETOWN, P. E. ISLAND, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 14 i900 NO 218 ‘

OME CHEAP RUFFS

We quote eight or nite sample prices of pretty ruffs today. = They're RIGHT and NEW, and cely made They're priced honestly, no fan®y figures, just what you ought to pay for each. BEAR RUFF, for a_low ‘priced ie this gives more looks for the

ey than most.

= $1.25

THIBET RUFFS, to grades, both pretty, both neat, and good looking.

rhe inain difference is size. $1.35 and $2.25 SABLE RUFF, two heads, eight

tails, nicely made.

$3.85

Large Black Opposum Ruff, two heads, six tails, warm and service-

adie $4.20

Ruff, to

$6.85

Ruff, both

Marten fur, tails

ry handsome tifully marked

h the markings.

beat mat

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rge rich looking Sable ied with 8 tails, there’s ort and beauty in this at

last, only

$10.75

‘re’'s a beauty, very rich and

iother similar to the

ro. 2s

handseme Sahle the style ou can stand Ss in every articular, gra at

$12.25

MOORE & McLEOD.

THE BUSIEST STORE ON

CHARLOTTETOWN’S

(Ee. eS) CA Sh aN ()T }

ES OF THE CAPITAL.

Sir Richard Goes to England.

(SPECIAL TO THE EXAMINER.

OTTAWA. Nov. 14.---The official re- |

turns of the Russell County election gives Mr. Edwards (Liberal) a ma- jority iof 517; four years ago Ed wards had a majority of 1603.

It generally believed that

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|Senator Power will be Speaker of | the Senate.

| sioner.

The Free Press (Government or-

gan) practically confirms the rnport |

that Sir Richard Cartwright is going to England as High Commis- The paper says that Hon. Mr. Sutherland will be Minister of Trades and Commerce.

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HALIFAX ITEMS.

John Donovan Drowned —Soldier

Suicides.

(SPECIAL TO THE EXAMINER.)

HALIFAX, Nov. 14,---John Dono- van, cook of the schooner Carl Rarine, which put in here on her way to Summerside, fell into the dock last night and was drowned.

Battery, Sergeant Major of the

Royal Artillery, committed suicide |

by shooting himself with a rifle. He was to have married a Halifax girl,-- and it has been ascertained that he has a wife living in

Bermuda.

HEAVIER TAXATION

For the People of Great Britain.

[SPECIAL TO THE EXAMINER. |

Lonpon, Novy. chequer, speaking in Bristol, that it would not be his privilge next year to relieve the taxpayers.

He wished he could say that he was, not about to increase the budget, |

but the government expenditure

had been enormous, especially in| de- |

South Africa and China. He clared emphatically, however, that the wealth of the Transvaal would have to beara part of the South African expenses.

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NEXT YEAR’S CENSUS.

Archibald Blue Hard at Work.

[SPECIAL TO THE EXAMINER. ]

Orrawa, Noy. 14.---Arrangements will soon be under wav for the tak- ing of the census of 190] Archi- bald Blue, who has been engaged to take charge of the undertakine. has | been giving the matter close atten- tion for some months.

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HOW THE MONTICELLO’ WENT DOWN.

Dramatic Story of the Stewardess. A

. Halifax despatch of the! 12th inst., reports: Kate Smith. | the stewardess, was the | |only woman saved and one of

| the four only who escaped. She has| had several rescues fromshipwreck. Miss Smith gave your correspondent a story, of which the following is a | summary :

We left St. John on Friday! morning. It was very rough. At| noon | saw First Officer Newell and | lasked him how we were getting along.”’ i :

“We are getting along all right now. I do not know what we will meet before we get to Yarmouth. but I think we will come out all | right.’’

In the evening the boat shippeda

_sea which broke in the forward bulk

_head of the forward saloon. I was|

|in my room, but came out when I

|heard the crash. It flooded the whole forward saloon.

'the convenor for the district be |

THE TUPPER CLUB.

Unanimous Opinion of the Meet-. ing Last Night.

A iarge meeting of the Tupper

Club was held last evening, the Vice

President, Councillor Brown in the | chair. !

After a full discussion of the sitn-| ation, the following resolution pass- | ed unanimously:

Resolved, as the opinion of this Club that opposition should be of-| fered the Farquharson Government in every-district of this Island.”’

Afterwards it was resolved that |

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requested to call a couvention for! the purpose of selecting candidates to contest Charlottetown and Roy- alty. :

THE MODERN WONDER.

Our citizens are just beginning to realize what a wonderfn] machine the Biograph is, as last uight it was greeted with a much larger audi- ence, and everyone was loud in their praises of the modern wonder, including several of the clergy who were present. The Queen, the Pope, | Lord Roberts, the Gordon Hiehland- ers, the Canadian Mounted Rifles, the North West Mounted Police, the Household Cavalry cf the| Queen, the Royal Leinsters and Gen. White are seen with all life and movement. The humorous views are excruciatingly funny, and

last night drew forth roars of laughter. The entertainment is

really the best thing of the kind

‘that we have ever seen, and every i'man, woman and child in our city ‘ r ) - , ~ Ly - . i . “> | would have to take to the boats on| should me . it There will

ee morning. All through | be an exhibition this afternoon at 4 the night the boat pitched and) 9¢jock for the school children and

Tolled heavy. ‘adults; admission ten and twenty- |

I told Elsie McDonald that we

14.---Sir Michael} Hicks-Beach, Chancellor of the Ex-| said |

| She was listed considerably to) port, and at times it was difficult to make one’s way about. ! Saturday forenoon Mr. Eldridge | came in. He seemed agitated and) aske! me if I was frightened. [| toid him I w2s not the least afraid, | and for him not to get so, as it was. the worst thing he could do. . He said: ‘‘Ail I can say is God will take | care of us. My people do not know I am on the boat.”’ | | He went away, but returned and | asked if I thought he had better) put ona life preserver. 1 told him) ‘if he thought he ought to he had) | better do so,

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BUSIEST STREET.

| single membered districts will com- |

been stopped. I was told quite early | | plete the list. i

in tae morning that distress signals were flying. The last thing i saw

Here You’ll Find Furniture Bargains

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; But we don’ itand don’t mean it.

it---a gainful transaction for our customers.

We would like you t Say is true.

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like to use the vord. So many advertisersuse

Webster says, ‘‘a gainful frarsaction’’---that’s how we mean

} call and satisfy yourself that what we

OHN NEWSON.

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Colonel Otter’s Office.

' when I left the ship was the ensign 'union down on the foremast. Sev- _ . ; eral officers and sailors told me to | Toronto, Nov. 13.---It is freely! cet ready to take the boats as they | |stated among military men here! were going to get ready. There | that Col. Otter on his return from] was no excitement. We then went| / South Africa will be appointed com-| out to the aft deck. All the four |mandant of the Royal Military Col-| men —Murphy, Cook, Flemming and| | lege, Kingston, in succession to Col. | Captain Smith—were in a_ boat! | Kitson, recently retired. | which was hanging from the davits. ae ‘One of the sailors, William 7 wa, 'secured us on the rail, and we ' | watched our chance to jump as the | At St. Peter's Bay, Novemtcr steamer rolled upward. The boat. | 13th, after along and painful ill- | was pushed away from the side in a | ness, Helen, relict of the late John sea such asI never saw in all my | P. Sullivan, Esq., and daughter of |jife. When we left the other boat | the late Hon. John Small Macdonald, | was in the water and seemed to be | Charlottetown. May she rest in| full of men. The third boat was i | hanging in the davits. Five minutes At North River, from pneumonia, | after we left the ship she went over on Tuesday, Nov. 13th, Bertha/ on her side, and It heard somebody Alice, daughter of Mr. W. W. Rodd, | say ‘“‘She broken in tw .

and beloved wife of Mr. William H.| I suppose she took the other Ball, aged twenty-three years and| boats with her when she sank, be ‘eleven months. — ‘ cause I saw nothing more of them. | (Funeral will leave her late resi-; Captain Harding was getting ready

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dence, North River, at 2 p. m. on| to get into his boat when we left.

Ladies’ Watches... Geutlemen’s Watches

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Thursday, Nov. 15th, for North River cemetery. ]

In this city, at the Charlottetown Hespital, at 2.30a. m., this morning,

| As the ship went down I saw Beecher |Hopkins, Levi Nickerson, Walton |Cunrigham, Austin Wickins, Fred |

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i'and Wynne Vanembnrg standing on

We show one of the finest WA I GHES Every WATCH WE SELL IS ANTEFD.

Our PRICES WILL ERATE,

WATCHES to be seen in the city.

BE FOUN

Ww. W. WELLNER,

JEWELER AND ENGRAVER

| the rail. Judith, beloved wife cf Capt. Fred. | . Captain Harding was standing on Cormier, in her 38th year, __ ‘the deck. As the ship broke in two [Fun eral to-morrow ae at | I heard an agonized scream that I o'clock, from her late residence, | shal] never forget as long as I live. |

displays of FULLY Guar-

D VERY Mcp-

Chestnut Street, to St. Dunstan’s| [he rest is a blank to me until I Cathedral, thence to Rustico. ] ‘felt myself in the water. I was. |washed up on the beach twice. |

|'While Iwas in the water I sawa

G YY ‘rock toward which I was being.

TT OU CS carried, and I put out my arm ane,

This signature is on every box of the genuim warded it off. | Laxative iN€ Tablets — There were on board forty all) the remedy that cures a cold im ome day = told, including eight passengers.

five cents, Exhibition tonight as) usual. Don’t miss this rare treat. |

Rovat|

Baking Powder)

Made from pure cream of tartar.

sina lanes . | Mr. Poole, the second engineer, NEWFOUNDLAND came up to where Purser Hilton and} } ai ELECTIONS. Iwas sitting after this. I heard the Safeguards the food i |pump going and asked if tne engines | 7 : | pin ae j were all right, Lasked him if she}, against alum. ; _Morine and Reid Badly Defeated, ! was aay. be ~ Be ae j a | ** She is leaking a little, but don Petree 9 5 : be afraid.’’ : Aksm paki poets ose the preated 5 [SPECIAL TO THE EXAMINER. ] | Then Chief Engineer Grelg came! « ==“1#t ealth of the orezent day. ¢ Sr. Joun’s, Nfld., Nov. 14--.Three| along and toid me to put on my! : 4 | Bond supporters have been returned | thick clothing. He said rie are pereems 7 | from Placentia,making now 30 Bond-|the water was putting out ‘ites and 4 Morinites. Two more, the fires. The engines had)

We idave Placed - «

Twenty (20) dozen dyes of re- liable make and shades on our to clear at 6c This should be appreciatea by those h gods.

Also in stock, Maypole Dyes,

counter, per

packet. is a snap, it

requiring :

Diamond Dyes, Hat Enamels,

etc., etc.

A. W. Reddin, PhmB. The Square Druggist,

SUNNYSISIDE. X iN

NOTICE!

Notice is hereby given that in virtue of the Act of the Dominion Parliament, 63 and 64 Victoria, Chapter 103 and Chapter 104, the name of the Merchants’ Bank of Halifax will be changed te

“The Royal Bank of Canada,”

‘from and after the second day of

January, 1901. E. L. PEASE, General Manager. Halifax, lst November, 1900.

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On wash day

and every other day is

SURPRISE SOAP It will give the best service; is always uniform in quality, always a satisfactory, You cannot do better thaa have Surprise Soap always in your house.

SURPRISE is a pure hard Soap. f

The Brightest Gardens in the Spring

ARE OBTAINED BY PLANTING

CARTERS’ BEDDING

HYAGINTHS Now

D0c; por 100, $3.75 5Ve; 3.75 0c: 3.75 SOc; 3.75 bVc: 3.55 ddc; 8.79

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Desirable Residence for Sale.

That property on the Malpeque Road, 100x50 feet, near the school- house, ten minutes walk from the post office, consisting of a new dwe'l- ing containing seven rooms, togeth- er with outbuilliags. This property is pleasantly situated and male 2 desiratle private residence, Apply O

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JOSEPH CLARK™

| Malpeque Read. JONT BUY ANY

Rubbers

But the

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Fame.

Sold at the Same Price as*Other Makes

GOFF BROS.

CHARLOTTETOWN