—_ wee wand Senate Read Room OTTAWA RAS BA I eee _ DAILY EXAMI "d ' Y j NER. am, Tae . mn BUY ~' oe RINK @ @ TICKET AT ONCE. iheres more enjoyment for your money than in any other w ay lt you cant skate get a season ' promenade ticket and hear go concerts by Vinni- combe 5 splet ndi d ore hestra for $1. OO. PROWSE & McMILLAN, MANAGERS, WISE MEN Are Instructed by Reason Men of Less Understanding by Experience, and Beasts by Nature. 'S OUTFITTER si ius A DISCLAIMER. GRAND t pan . Ever Holiaodere do Not Arprove | ; Military : Conce t ge: 2% es THE Hacur, Dec. 28.---On the re i BY assembling of the senate yesterday | ’ |Seaator Rengers disclaimed, in be-| Members of P. E. i. Cone salf of the house, all responsibility | : a or the letter of the president of | tingent to South Africa. he senate to Mr. racer Decem- Under the distinguished patronage f we J im wd ee the ae | of f Riis eis T diak le waeieael po nted out that the senate merely | Mec I t-Co|. Moore wished the president to express) metre, Liew tei sympathy with Mr. Kruger. D. O. C., and Mayor m Waele i the The presidents of both eee) ; a m December 7 sent letters to Mr. | OPERA HOUSE | Xruger weicoming him to Holland | in the name of the states general. | ; While the president of the lower —ON- nouse merley expressed sympathy. the president of the senate expres Friday Jan Ath 190) sed approval of the ‘noble purpose’ | , : ’ *}of Mr. Krugerin “attempting te | PROGRAMME put a stop to the u just war forced | | mn him in such a barbarous manner a ind expressing the hope that “it | will result inthe independence of | Overture.... ...... eth Regt. Band | the republics being assured for | a Mr. Craas. Eari “ver.” OS ots sites Master Arthur Warburtor : Seene—Trenches b ar a. 2 ee See .. Conting A Little Boy Murdenee. Vocal Selo .....Miss Cott Reading . . ev. Leo. William Te. e nal Sct lo Prof, Vinnic »mbe New York, Dec. 28.---Kight-year- See ne ee a6 : 7 ant id Jos. Bunsby is a prisoner at | ; ites. 5 olice headquarters. (Jersey City, LERMISSION > cee s -jJer r five-vear- iccused of murder of five-year-ol ay PAR Maggie Faleria. The specific char; e . . Ett esee se o ee against the child is mae —- . ne Rta a and thi police say that the ttle Aditess.... a i bul Fut _. | boy deliberately committed the Vocal Solo -eeeeeeMr. Brent McInnis | “UTder 4 ; Clationet S Prof. Wa The tiny prisoner lived with his ye Night Al .. Gontir parents at No. 520 Henderson ay - teees cee Mrs. \\ street, Jersey City. Maggie Faleria Vocal Sai, he ey * ‘Le: ived next door. tittle Bunsby was Stene—In, Bivouac fe ene | the leader of a crowd of children, GOD-SAVE THE OUFEN_ who built a big bonfire ojsposite his Positively n “ncores whet home on Saturday night. Little Promptly at eigh Maggie seemed particularly delight- kets 25c 35: 5 ed with the play that went on there. \ccording to the police young Buns- a DY seized ‘the girl by the waist and | pus hed her into the blaze by a ( us shove. The little girl fell GEO, CARRL THERS nm top ot a blazing barrel and | 4 screamed in agony. Her dress im- M.D.C.M..L. R. ¢. P.. mediate ely took fire and her clothing London, Eng Was quickly burning off. She was PHYS taken to a hospital where she died ICIAN WAND SURGEON during the night without recovering CONSC iousness. ‘ Office and reside nce ent Street As soon as the death w; is report- *pposite Mark Wr nt’s factory ed to the police the y arrested little Office hours Sto 10 2 a Bunsby and took him. sc reaming | m., 12toZ andecrying from fear, headquarters, where he w na cell, p. m., 7 to 8 p. m. Telephone communic; to police | : as locked clon, SOUTH AFRICA.’ / BOERS ACTION- | and Chinese patteries |tween Ladybrand and QWinburg. | ; | | | ports are in circulation in * | and on the continent that General DeWet has been captured. | the Afrikanders was certain. | monument fund. isc shaaisl $5. THE BIG STORM GREAT DAMAGE ON oo COAST ‘DeWET AT- TEMPT FRUSTRATED. Statement That He is a — Prisoner, ‘TWO MEN OF WAR BADLY |; cad ) DAMAGED [SPECIAL TO TE EXA MINER | | eect | JOHANNESBURG, Dec 2).—The ) Boers damaged the new Kie: ifontein yesterday. C APETOWN, Dec. 29, at Genera! DeWet's attempt to break through | to the south has been frustrated 'and he is now reported to be with his commando in the country be- ties, ee eh [SPECIAL T9 THE RXAMINER. | Lonpon, Dec. 29.---There has been. | 4 succession of storms and violent! gales on the channel. The damage | * Will “reach many thousands of pounds. H. M.S. Black Prince, at Queens Fastern parties of the British con- tinue to harrass and drive teem | back to the river. The company |who were captured have been re- ove. ee town.and H. M.S. Teaser, at Ports-| 4ONDON, Dec. 29.--- The report! mouth were both badly damaged. that,DeWet had been captured was | There are incessant reports of | |received by the South African innumerable shipping casualties | Chartered Company from usually showing that the gale was one of. reliable source. But the War the worst in many S yelirs. ; _ Office has nothing about the report. imental Lonpon, Dec. "29 .---Persistent re- London LORD ROBERTS Calls at Gibraltar On the Way Home. ee ANOTHER BOTHA Says the War will Last For Years (SPECIAL TO THE EXAMINER. ) GIBRALTAR, Dec. —The S. S. Canada with Lord R wale on board We appeal to your reason. By the hang of our make of suits you! [SPECIAL TO THE EXAMINER. | has arrived here. The Field Mar- ae ks ll \ haaete ot lanai , . ; Shal landed at noon and receiv a a can ‘tei: There is grace ind Deaaty a out them. R ry 90 Mai Grower Th ] ‘ 1 ° ME é Gg. — Mc : - rer } 7 Even if you can't see double value in the goods our prices must cap-| , “0 iB, Uee. a ee vreat ovation. e C anada will 1 4: is nial aes tarantee will do the rest. Botha has arrived at Rome on his} sume her voyage to-night. v2 te you and our gg «< < Pac. Ve eee > . - . —.. : |'way tothe Hague. He carries de- 4 . ‘dicpatcsinnetibnenaiiih hima ‘Ahiningghen. |}spatches for Mr. Kruger. In the 2: course of an interview yesterday h RETURNING TROOPS. EORDON & Mek a i AWN |Said that the war in South Africa ‘thlatacc : would last for years, that Mr. D Halifax J Sth. 19 e- Sa ee eres ; ue at Halifax Jan. 5th, 1901. aa S | Steyn haa plauned the invasion of ne - Cape Colony, and that a revolt of [SPECIAL TO THE EXAMINER. | ST. VINCENT, Dec. -The 8S. S. Roslyn Castle, with the returning | Canadian troops on board, has ar- rived here. She wil! proceed to- night for Halifax, and will be due there Jan. a rm —Prince Street sc ‘hool has con- | tributed $17.71 towards the soldiers’ The students of fa rince of Wales Collewe have handed $18.73, and the Fullerton’s Marsh Ze. es, | United Kingdom, to day there 121.000.0000 No other aid so great to the housewife, no other agent so useful and certain in making delicious, pure and wholesome foods, has ever been devised. gsOLUTELY PURE There are imitation baking powders, sold cheap, by many grocers. They are made from alum, a poison- ous drug, which renders the food injurious to health, ROYAL BAKING POWDER CO., 100 WILLIAM 5ST., NEW YORK. | of search’’ | vegotiations with the hostile powers Innumerable Shipping Casual-, tade 2.4 north and longitude 135.31 ‘known. and those of steam 2 much. —— se ARR Pr te pag! Terms Doliars Per Ye Thi j Pane 2a eater open aay Pee Yen is is True Liberty,—when Free Born Men having to Advise the Public may dei tess Atciiene Wik ihe de eek ; ——— isla . ; ples ) Jents | 86 - Poe a ee VOL : CHARLOTT ETOWN, P. E. ISLAND, SATU RDAY, DECEMBER 29,1900. NO om 2 =e =a i ipaceeadalendici-uve laser ONE E HUNDRED YEARSAGO, Through the ‘athe of Napole Denmark, Sweden, Russia. and on. Prussia were induced Dec 15th, 1800, | to enter intoa league against the | maritime power of England. The| Kmperor Paul, of Russia, the bitter | enemy of England, was the head| and soul of the league. Paul had al-| ready laid an embargo on Pritish ‘essels in Russian ports, while the| Danish government |had jordered| its vessels to sotak “the right | claimed by the English. | After unsuccessful attempts at which formed the league, the Eag- \lish government sent a powerful ‘naval expedition yuder Lord Nelson ,and Sir Hyde Parker to the Baltic. On April 2 the British fleet appear | ed betore Copenhagen, when it was | furiously attacked by the Danish fleet. A bloody naval battle of four hours ensued, resulting the defeat of the Danes, with a loss of 6,000 men, while the iE nglish lost only 400. Nelson called ‘it the most terrible of his 101 battles. Of the twenty-three ships of the Danish line eighteen were | excen or destroyed. Eighteen hun- 'dred Danes were killed. Nelson was now preparing to attack the Rus-| _telligence of the dissolution of the | Maritime League. Emperor Paul | | hz id been assassinated on March| '4, and Nicholas 1., upon ascend- ing the throne, had declared him- self a friend of Great Britain and | abandoned the hostile league. Prus- | sia, Denmark and Sweden followed | the example of Russia, and then the| league fell to pieces, after less than four months of life. ’ The inventions of Arkwright, Har- | graves and Crompton, benefitir: as | "| they did almost exclusivelv the art | of cotton spinning, and the unparall- | leled development of that branch of | textile manufactures,largely due to | the ingenuit: of these oe gave the linen fradeas it th-n ex isted a fatal blow. Down to the ke of the eighteenth century the im plements used in the preparation | of linen yarn—the spindle and | distaff--were of the most primi | | tive and inex xpens! ve description: | At the beginning of the century | the colonies of Britain were six time: | the size of the Motherland. At the | end of the century the colonies are | ninety-six times the size of Britain. In 1800 there were 100,000,000 of British subjects outside of the | are | English was spoken by | im 1800: the language is | the language of 130,000,000. Capt. Saxeguard, a Norwegian, | recently discovered and namedaftei | himself a hitherto unknown islan | 'n the ae itic ocean, lying in lati- 549 O00, 000. zast, between the Philippine an Caroline groups. Itis stated that} an American gin>oat ‘subsequentl: ' annexed the isiand, which seems tic | be richly wooded and very fertile. Sa pepeeie | The uses of electricity was un- | lighting | was not mace for purposes. TTI a WEATHER BULLETIN. - Probabilities for Next 24 Horus. rm Toronto, Dec. 29.---Fresh north: | west to west winds: fair and cold to lay. Sunday: stormy breezes and inoderate gales, generally south to| south-west, fair and milder. i ; | | ee © ee $1,000,000 Assured. — Toronto, Dec. 28.---Rev. Dr. Potts | reports that fthe Methodist ‘Twen- tieth Century fund has now reach- led $940,000, |and contributions are | ‘oming in daily, se that the million dollars aimed atis practically a: sured. The books will be kept open a couple of months into the new century. } i ; ! — $< The :ast descendant of John Bun- | van has just died at Lincoln, Ene- iand, in the person of Mrs. T. M. Keyworth. The last male descend ant died many years ago and a menument is erected to his memory in Lincoln cemetery. Now the hon- ored line is extinct. Mrs. Keyworth was nearly ninety-nine years of age. | Assurance Co, Carters’ FANCY GOODS AND Toy Bazaar SOME SPECIAL BARGAINS _Xmas Numbers of the News, Black and W hite, Graphic and Toronto Globe. at 40 each, or three for $1. regular price d0 cents each. Special P. E. Review at 25 39 cents. Calendars, Cards 25 per cent discoun Open evenings ti] New Year’s London Pears, I. edition of Trade “JC eac h: regular price a2d Booklets at zi until 9 o'clock un- Eve. Geo, Carter & Co, | sian fleet, when he received the in-| ‘Thanks To our friends and who have made this Season the busiest we have yet had, atrons oliday and best GIFT GIVERS will still find in our stock ple: ising suggestions for New Year's Gifts. G. F. HUTCHESON, Jewsler and Optician. “unnyside er or rey me cane Standard Life ESTABLISHED 1825. Assets $46,000,000 One of the oldest and strongest of life offices. Absolute Security Best for investment HYNDMAN & Cu. GENERAL AGENTS. 33/Queen St., Ch’town. During This Holiday Week x sell anything we may ‘1ve left at may wish to return iy «ond some Xmas Gift, member us. A. W. Reddin, Phm The Square Drugvis Sunnyside. cost figures. if ade . . We have placed on our court ; | job lot of i. Ladies’ Fine Slipp . at tremendous discount These slippers were woith from $2.50 to $4.50 per pair. They are now selling at # pair. GOFF BROS. CHARLOTTETOWN 7 a Pies wecmges eget,