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D a y to n H e r a ld . latarM os n « Stac« at Partea, < e t th e DAYTON O R IG O N . EVENTS OF THE DAY h a « a t e i e e t ta g C ta lls e tle * e f II t h e T w o H e m is p h e r e s Fl la a < fe e 4 s* s e 4 F era s. The Boere are rushing men to the front. y-.1. Latest advices report of plague a t Honolulu. Five men were killed by an explo sion in a paper m ill at Erie, Pa. Preeident M cKinley has again re fused to interfere in the Kentucky squabble. ' _ - Relations between Russia and Tur key are badly strained and war prepar ations are in progress. LAT KR NKW8. are surrounding Methuen. ARMY ON THE MOVE Republicans elected th e ir en tire ticke t a t C in cinn ati. Democrats made several striking gains in Michigan. Plumbers of Cleveland are onastrlke for higher wages. W ilia m J. Bryan spoke to a crowd of 19,000 people a t Seattle. Roberts' Advance Forces Are Clearing the Way. BOERS DRIVEN FROM KOPJES F ire at Newport, A rk ., destroyed B r it is h C a s u a lt ie s la t h e 1 W e r e O v e r O aa H u n d r e d M e* — property to the amount of $600,000. Wha T r a a s a a r l B e r r le e . Roberts* communication w ith K im berley has bean out off by the Boers No Puerto Rican franchises w ill be granted u n til government is estab lished. Two small boys of Astoria, O r., were drowned in the Columbia while out in a sm all boat. Boers oaptured seven guns and 860 men in an engagement 17 miles from Bloemfontein. Painters and carpenters of St. Louis are on a strike, pending adjustment of their demand for higher wages. Beri-beri, small-pox and bubonic plague are prevalent a t Manila, e sta b Several men ware seirously h art at Laramie, W y., by an explosion at the lishing a death rate of over 40 per 1,000 Webster Davis, assistant secretary of Union Pacific o il bouse. the Interior, has resigned to go on the W . H . Colton, charged w ith com lecture platform in the interest of the p licity in the murder of Goebel, is said Boers. to have turned state’s evidence. Governor Roosevelt, of New York , Boers are blowing up the coal mines in N atal. The Dundee oolliery, with has signed the b ill re|«aling the Horton boxing law. I t w ill go into effect its machinery, has been destroyed. .— September 1. Harvey L- Goodall, for 80 years the There is a general desire among all publisher and proprietor of the Drover’< Journal, died in Chicago of heart fail classes in the Philippines for a speedy establishment of some form of perman ure. ent government. The navy department w ill investi Joe Pete, an Indian, under sentence gate the value of Crab island, south east of Puerto Rioo, as a coaling sta of death for murder a t Carson, Nev. has escaped from custody. He was to tion. have been hanged May 4. General Joubert, the intrepid leader Diamonds, jewelry and money to the of the Transvaal forces, is dead. He had been suffering from stomaoh com value of 918,000 was stolen from a Philadelphia residence, end enepicion plaint. rente on the ooachmata, who is missing. The coasting steamer Glenelge found A British steam launch waa captured ered during a gale off the Gippsiand coast. Australia. Out of a ship’s oom by pirates near the Check Heung Sban district, the pilot of the boat murder«' pany of 88, only three were saved. and the lannoh and lighter, which Rear-Admiral Benjamin F. Day bas had in tow, looted. been retired. Captain Terry, com In a severe engagement near Bolivar, «landing the Washington navy yard Venesuela, General Hernandes was de w ill be promoted to the vacancy. feated by General Penalosa, command Prof. Man, the profound student of ing the government troops. The revo Pompeiian antiquities, proves oonolu lutionists lost 228 killed. sively that Pompeii was a well-paved Because he was sns|>ected of being a city 44 years before the birth of Christ. spy of a rival company, Choy Fook, a In Chicago, Albert Stedge, 17 years Chinese fisherman at Point Fan Pedro, old, avenged the insults cast upon his C a l., waa tied by five members of the mother by W illia m Hobson, a boarder, various companies to a beacon stake by dealing Hobson a fatal blow on a barren rock in Richardson’s bay. the head w ith a barrel stave. and there left for two days without W h en d iscovered he The commecrial treaties committee food or w a te r. of the Italian chamber of deputies has was almost In a dying oondition. Hie discussed and, approved in principle the would be murderers have not yet been reciprocity arrangement, under tí captured. third section of the Dingley act, recent Lord Roberta is advancing on ly signed in Washington by Baron Pretoria...... ~ ' - ' . . ' . Fava, Ita lia n ambaasader to the United An nndarground railroad ie to States, andJMr. Kasson, special pleni c o n str u c ted in Barlin, a t a cost of 926,- potentiary tor the United States. OMMriiO. ~ ~ r— -. A story of suffering and death from The government is taking vigorous starvation comes from San Nicholas Island, off the California coast. A measures to suppress outlawry ill the party of three Chinamen had been pn Pli tlfppiuea. v— '— — v-——— — - the island for Six months gathering U n til the ta riff question is settled and curing abalones. Three months business in Puerto Rico w ill remaiff* ago an unknown sloop from Safi Pedro, a t a standstill. (Jal., called at the island. During the The double turrets of the new battle absence of the Chinamen, the visitors ship Kearsarge have been tehted and stole everything eatable from the camp proven a success. and put to sea. One of the Chinese Ex-United States Senator Glbeon, of died about a month ago, and the other two, when rescued, were too weak, to Maryland, died of heart disease at Washington, D . C. move. General Louia Botha has been ap The Danish Antilles have been sold pointed to succeed General Joubert in to the United States. . . ■ command of the Boer army. D r. Edward E. F a ll, an old pioneer The 67th annnal b oat race between of W alla W alla, is dead, aged 98. Cambridge and Oxford resulted in an General Botha denies that Transvaal easy victory for Cambridge. women were wounded in the Tugela Senator McBride introduced a b ill trenches. * creating a Crater Lake National park, The transport Sheridan arrived at a t Crater lake, Southern Oregon. , San Francisco, from Manila, w ith 8 * Seattle printers have raised the prioe sick soldiers and 11 insane. of job work 80 to 60 per cent, caused A t a cabinet council i t was decided by the increased cost of stock and high to officially inaugurate the Paris expo rentals. sition on Saturday, A p ril 14. Russia is active. M ilita ry prepara Seattle, Wash., is overflowing w ith tion * in several directions are being criminals. Twenty additional police pushed with vigor. War w ith Japan is men were called for within a week. not probable. Cape Colony Dutch deolare that Eng John Hayslip, of Kansas City, has land w ill make a mistake if she de been found guilty of murder in the sec prives the South African republics of ond degree and sentenced to 90 years in their independence. the penitentiary. A large number of miners and pros Robert-Bradley, alias Barclay, has pectors from Utah and Colorado have been arretted in San Francisco, for arrived at Baker C ity, O r., ready to go counterfeiting silver dollars. An en out into the hills adjacent. tire outfit was captured. The Russian squadron is at Che Several persons perished by being mulpo, in the Yellow sea. I t is believed burned by the igniting of petroleum this presages a demand for a conces tanks, caused by a collision between sion of land in Korea. Japan is un two train«, at Vladivkokos, Caucasus. easy. A ll the ooal mines in Indiana have The war department has recognised suspended operations, due. to the failure Honolulu as an open port. The trans of the operators to sign a wage contract port Hancock, which sails w ith the for the year. Abont 9,000 men are Idle Philippine commission on April 10, as a result. A ll the ooal miners In the Pittsburg, w ill stop there. Pa., district, celebrated the establish A severe fight has taken place be ment of an eight-hour working day, tween “ Boxers” and Imperial troops at causing complete idleness in the dis - Yen Chin, Chi L i. Each force num tr ic t for one day. bered 1,800 men and there were casual The Hamburg-American line steam ties on both sides. sh ip Phoenicia, which arrived a t New Representatives Wilson, of Idaho, York bom Hamburg and Boulogne, and Cushman and Jones, of Washing brought 8,088 steerage passengers, the ton, are urging a governmental appro largest number of Immigrants arriving priation of 9464,000 to build a portage by any steamer in many years. railroad at The Dalles, Or. Banta Clara county’s (Cuba) tobacco The United States government w ill crop w ill be the largest on record. establish postal service to Nome C ity. Gen. Winslow says Cuba’s future de Chicago sends 40,000 quarters of pends upon agricultural prosperity. dressed “ English beef” to England In the Klondike egga are now selling every week. t o r J l i O a case aad beef gft 91 <60 a The sugar trust profits are a b o u tflY ,• pound. 000,000 a year in spite of fluctuation* Capt. Silas W . Terry, late In com in the value of its stock. mand of the Iowa, has been assigned A New York grand jury w ill Investi to eucoeed Adm iral McCormick aa gate gambling bouses, said to'pay Tam Commandant of the Washington navy many 98,000,000 a year for police pro yard. tection. In New York city 160 retail drug A propositioin^ias been made to equip gists have formed aa association to 87 cities w ith a pneumatic tube mat- compete with department stores. service for 98,622,000. The Panama Canal Company hopes A ll . the 90,000 employes of the to sail its rights to the United States National Tube trust w ill receive an or to an American syndicate. increase of 10 per cent in wages, be Mayor Van W yck, of New York, has ginning A p ril 1 next. leaned a dictum to reporters in which The Illin ois River V alley Association ha positively refuses to he Interviewed w ill petition congress to name a federal for publication hereafter. commission to supervise the deep i 18 Yale men in the present , waterway project. - Five of these are senators, Massachusetts has 118 street railway Wolcott, W . M . Stewart, T . C. companies, controlm g 1,492 m ile*. P U t t , C . M . Depew aad G . P. W et- Last year the increase in mileage in th e state was 86. London, A p r il. 8.— The head of the army of Lord Roberts is now about 21 miles north of Bloemfontein. I t occu pies a duster of hills won from the Boers after a stiff fight, in which the British lost seven officers and 100 men. The Boers have been nsing these kopjes aa a baas for marauding bands that hare been beating np the oountry adjacent to Bloemfontein for supples, driving off cattle and forcing non-resi dent Free Staters into their ranks again. The Boers must have been in considerable force, as Lord Roberta sent 8,000 infantry and 8,000 oavalry against them. Lord Roberts’ progress to Pretoria w ill probably consist of snob forward movements, in which Boer positions w ill be attacked by a portion of the army advancing rapidly w ith wheel transport, the main army coming up as the railway la repaired. Lord Roberta la stripping the foroea in the minor spheres of operations of their wagons and transport animals in order to hasten the advance. This is understood to be the reason why be re called Lord Methuen from Barkly West to Kimberley. Lord Roberta has to have Methuen’s transport. General French lost 8,000 horses in the relief of Kimberley and the pursuit of General Cronje. Lord Roberts lost 8,000 transport cattle a t Waterveal D rift, and i t ia estimated that be has lost 4,000 other animals since the for ward movement began February 18. The advance beyond Bloemfontein ir through a bare oouutry, and the supply offioers fortes an increasing difficulty in proivding for a great army moving along a single line of railw ay, even when the U tte r is working smoothly and w ith ample rolling stock. The Canadian mounted rifles were part of the force that oooupied Ken hardt yesterday. The rebellion through out the northwest districts of Cape Col ony is a lm o st su p p ressed . S tr ik e A v e r t e d . C h icago, A pril 2.— A se ttle m e n t 01 STORIES FROM KIMBERLEY. AMBUSH OF BRITISH OAUSK OF FHILIPFINK REVOLT. A p ril 8.— The Standard’s oorrespeodeat a t Kim barley, writing of Walked into Boer Trap and the hardships of the eiege, eays: “ For many days the novelty of eat Lost Guns and Men. ing horseflesh formed an agreeable break in the war ta lk . Starving peo ple, however, taka kindly to any a rti 20 MILE8 FROM BLOEMFONTEIN cle of food. Personally, although I have always found a pieea of socoulent horseflesh excellent eating, I am not F o r c e T h a t B s e e p e d D id Be h r a a A ll- taking any of it in Kimberley. Not M lCht M a rsh a a d W a s S m a r tly only are the wretched animals reduced P urs u sd h r th e B e r u h e n . to skin aad bone, but there ie a prevail ing epidemic of influenaa and cough Bushman Kop, A p ril 3.— The British among them, which force« me.to aband on its use. I t ie, however, daily served force commanded by Colonel Broad* out to the aoldieia as w ell as the peo wood, consisting of the Tenth Hussars, ple, though there are cases of antbrag Household cavalry, two horse batteries in the hospitals and an outbreak of and a toffee of mounted infantry under eenrvy in many of the redoubts. There Colonel Pilcher, which has been garri stadias broken out a peculiar form o( soning Thabenchu, waa obliged, in throat trouble, -which may owe its consequence of the near approach ef a origin to this article of food. A t 9:80 lagre force of Baers, to leave last night. Colonel Broad wood marched to the P. M. e ll conversation ceases, and ruin- ore stop, for, by proclamation, all Bloemfontein water works, south of lights except electric or acetylene gat the Modder, where he encamped at 4 this morning. A t early dawn the must be extinguished. "There are many cases of extreme oamp was hhelled by the enemy from suffering, whioh, although due to the a near point. Colonel Broadwood sent _ siege, __ ________ __________ have' reached a climax from cqn off a qpnvoy w ith the. batteries, while stltutional oiroumstanoes. There are H h e rest of the force remained to act as ladies In Kimberley tonight strapped a rear guard. The oonvoy arrived at a to their beds and wearing straightjack- deep aprut, where the Boers weie con eta, mad from sheer nervousness and cealed, and the entire body walked into ambush and was oaptuied, together fright. “ I t ia the red tape which makes the w ith six guns. The lose of life was not great, since strain heavier than it otherwise would be. After we had been for weeks shut most of the British had walked into up in Kimberley— not at the best the the tiap before a shot was fired, j most cheerful place.in’ the universe— A D R I F T O N T H E P A C IF IC . oar hearts became specifically fixed on onr portion of the British army— the S te a m e r C le v e la n d , W ith B r o k e n « b a f t relief ooluinn. By accident, we learned and a S u gar C argo. that it had reached Modder river, after San Francisco, A pril 8.— Advices a sharp engagement at Belmont. from Honolulu, under date of March Eagerly we awaited news from Lord 23, state that the well-known steamer Methuen. Men and women scanned Cleveland, bound for San Franciaoo, the horiaon nights to seek the first flash w ith a 9100,000 cargo of sugar from from hl« searchlight. A ll night long Kahului, ia a d rift w ith a broken shalt our three eearohlights sent their long and practioally helpless . in thè open streams of fiery light pest the rugged sea. When last heard from she was fastness of Soholtses’ Nek, and the several hundred miles from M«ui. rooky kopjes of 8pyfontein to the two Three of its crew left the steamer^isr a rivers, on whose banks onr preservers small boat to go to M aui for assistance. were encamped. *Md, Md, M d ,’ they They were spoken by the steamer Eric, called o u t bat no answer came. Only March 20, 40 r a tta from M aui. * the big stars oould be seen, and the The men in the boat stated that the Southern Cross seemed to whisper, Cleveland, when they left her, was ‘Patiepce.’, A t last, one night, fax 330 miles north-northwest of the island from the south, came the weloome of Mani. The little boat had traveled flash, 'Kb, K b, K b ,’ it said. High up 280 milea of the journey to Mani, a trip in the conning tower sat Lieutenant that must have required six days, so Colonel Kekewich and hia staff officers that the Cleveland must have moved a w ith ploked men from the signal oorps. good deal since she was l«st located. Anxiously they« deciphered the first She has tw o yards and can nut up a meeeage from their honored ohief. I t little sail, but not enough to control waa thia: ‘Ascertain number on fore- her movements. A steamer has gone foot of mule omitted in Gape Town to search for her. return.* ” , • About two years ago the Cleveland New York, A pril 4.— Rev. Joseph M Alqne, director of the observatory at M anila, who is now in Washington has leaned a statement in reply ta Bish op Henry C. Potter and his secretary, Rev. Percy S. Grant, regarding affaire in the Phllippinea. “ The bishop’s main point,” the statement says, “ is to prove that the religious orders have robbed the people. But If the people pay the necessary charges for these certificates w illin g ly, how can if be called robbery?” “ That thousands of people live in practical concabinage, ” aa charged by the bishop, is denied, although the w riter admits that some do live that Way, and asserts that “ there, at every where. are found a few Instances of that kin d .” : • - That it was the church taxes which caused the people to revolt ie emphatic a lly denied. The w riter says the censes of the revolt against the United States are like the causes of that against Spain, complicated, and “ Bishop Pot ter has no right to state that the cause of the outbreak among the native against Spain was the taxation of the religious orders and friars in the ad ministration of the sacrament.” In proof of thia i t is stated that moat of the important parishea in (he archi pelago are administered by the Datives themselves a t priests, and at all the parishes * ’the same ecclesiastical laws aa to taxes was enforced by these secu lar priests, and it ia a matter of history that nobody objected to it. Therefore nobody can honestly state that the cause of the rebellion of the natives against Spain was the requiring of the taxes in the administration o f the sao- la m e n t." e f lite H a rd s h ip s e f th e Siege e f th e Dtauseed T e w * . the strike in the machine ehope of Chi cago wa» readied today ^ l t - i s a settle ment which is to be national in its scope, and under its terms the general met w ith a sim ilar aocident between strike, timed to involve 160,000 ma T R E A T M E N T O F A G O V E R N O R . San Francisco and Puget Sound. After chinists of the country abont April 1, D is t in g u is h e d N ic a r a g u a C lt is e n R o b b e d being abandoned by her crew ahe went w ill be averted. Work is to be re ashore on Vancouver Island. a n d B i l l e d In C o tta M e n . sumed here Monday, and at Cleveland, During the civil'w ar the Cleveland New Orleans, April 2.— Carlos Lo- was a blockade runner and was captured Paterson, N . J ., and Philadelphia. A t Columbus, .the fifth city where a cayo, former governor of Bluefields, on one of her trips to Charleston. She w aa in foace, a settlement was arrived here last night after an sxclt- was built in 1861, and has seen service reached Thursday afternoon. In a i l i n g experinece in-Costa Rica, He le ftj^ f these five cities the men agree to return Nicaiagua a few weeks ago, w ith Miner name has been changed many times. to work pending arbitration of the is C. K eith, being deputised by President Lately she was used as a transport for Zelaya to place some railroad bonds the Phllippinea, sues I d the controversy. ' ; w ith New York capitalists. ' I n view C o a l-M in e M e t . C h ic a g o P la y h o u s e B u r n e d . of the strained relations between the Dubois, Pa., A pril 2.-¿Tbe striking two oountries, he was arrested, hia Chicago, A p ril 3.— The Columbia miners at the Horatio mines of the Ber- money taken from him, and finally ex theater, one of the oldest and moat pop wthd-W hite Coal Mining Company at iled and placed aboard the ship for ular playhouses In the west, was de tacked the few men who have re New Orleans. He w ill return to Nica stroyed by fire this afternoon, entailing mained at work when they came out of ragua. The incident ia likely to create a total loss of 9120.000. The fire was the mine« tonight. Over 100 shots further complications. discovered In the laundry of the Iro were fired, resulting In the serious Locayo was arrested in San Jose, he quois Club, which occupies apartments wounding of three persons. The sheriff olaim i. by the order of the president of on the sixth floor of the building. was called upon and arrested 40 men Costa Rica. About 98,000 was taken The flames spread w ith great rapidity, and women who participated in ths from bis person. He was escorted to and w ith in 10 minutes after the discov fight. The sheriff ia now guarding the Port Lim a and placed aboard the Hie- ery of the fire the theater was beyond property of the company. pana, to which his money was also saving. Occupants of the building and turned over. I t la presumed that Costa employes of the theater and the olub B u r s t C o n fe ss e d . Glendive, Mont., A p ril 2.— Joseph Rica feared that he came there to tor were driven to the street in such haste that in the excitement three women C. Hurst was executed in the ja il yard ment trouble. Weldon Roberta, M elville Moxley were overcome and carried down the here today for the murder of Sheriff _________________ Dominick Cavanaugh, December 28, and Joseph String ham, members of the stairs. 1898. H is wife and two children and Nicaragua survey party, were also P ic k e d U p B r it is h C a n n o n . near relatives took their last leave of aboard the ship. They were forced to Savannah, Ga., A p ill 8.— The dredge the condemned man yesterday after abandon their survey 176 miles south Babcock, at work in the river here to noon. People had petroled the street* of Colon by the attacks of the 8a- day, picked up two old type English since early last evening and for a time sardi Indians. cannon, in a man-of-war wreck. One i t was feared Hurst would be lynched. gun ipelghe about 1,000 pounds aad the BOUGHT W R E C K . other 860 pounds. The vessel is sup Hurst coniessed to committing the mur A M E R IC A N S der. posed to have been sunk at the tim e o( 1 1 » S p a n is h * W a r s h ip W ill B a Brokaw Op the British occupation of thia cit P r ic e o n a R eform er*« R o a d . to r th a M a ta i l a I t . when the French allies aeiled np tl San Franciaoo, A pril 2.— Should A number of New York, A p ril 2.— Gaston Drake, river to attack them. Leung Chi Tso come to San Franciaoo he may have the highbinder societies of Nassau, Bahama islands, w ith other cannon balls and several silver coins of at his heels. The value placed upon Americans, now owns the wreck of the a date more than 100 years ago have Leung’s head ia 966,000, and posters Spanish warship Infanta M aria Teresa, also been taken out. placed conspicuously in Chinatown to lying in two fathoms of water near M is sio n B o a r d F lr a L o s s. day announce that the reformer ia Bird Point, Cat Island. Drake and his Pittsburg, A pril 8.— Fire tonight in badly wanted, dead or alivo, by the associates purpose to break up the the McClintock building oaused a loss Chinese government. Leung is now at wreck for the metal in it. M r. Drake and his associates want of 976,000. Among the losers- is the Honolulu. He has declared ia inten board of missions for freedmqn, of the tion of coming to thl« city at a near to bring the metal Into thia country Presbyterian church. Rosenbaum & date, and w ill ask for police protection duty free. M r. Drake’s lawyers asked Co.’s retail m illinery establishment, the treasury department if thia oould here. He left China the first of the on the ground floor, was lite ra lly year, and after having shaved off his be done. In reply, counsel for the drenohed w ith water, causing, a loss of treasury department wrote: queue, he started for Amerioa. “ The Spanish War vessel was not the 960,000. A San F ra n e te a o F ir e . 8an Franciaoo, A p ril 2.— Fire to night destroyed the Yosemite flout m ills, a four-story brick building; the factory of the California Paste Com pany, a three-story frame stiucture, part of whioh waa occupied by the Cus tom Grain A Fuel Company, and eral small honses, burning out four families. The buildings were all owned by C. R. Splivato, and the total lota ia estimated at 9200,000. Ont fireman waa burned by an electric J H fit wire, and two spectators w e ta ^ Q m M "Au' by falling over obstructions. W a r T a lk a t S a b a sto p o l. London, A pril 8.— The Sebastopol correspondent of the D aily Graphic says: “ W a r alarms fill the navy bead- quarters here. The whole Buxine squadron is fully equipped for instant service. Troops w ith fu ll war kits are d aily arriving from the inlet lor. The garrison w ill soon be a powerful army corps. There ia muoh ' excitement ajnong the staffs of both services, and all the talk la of bringing Turkey to her senses by forcible measures.” T e n H e m e ' s Caban Iu re stm e n te . New York, March 81.— Sir W illiam Van Horne, chairman of the executive board of the Canadian Paolfio, has just returned from Cuba, where he intends to make extensive investments in ra il road and other properties. He said to day that the reports of hia acquisition of a ll the Cuban railroads was very much exaggerated, though admitting that he had already invested in several enterprises on the island. The Canadian Paper Makers* elation hae adopted a soak lose of paper from 10 9o 16 par property of the United States at the time ahi» was originally wrecked, but was the property of the Spanish gov- SfBment, and aa the United States gov ernment has abandoned the vessel on Cat Island, its ownership changed form the United States to private oiti- sens. Therefore the wrecked mater ial, upon its importation into the U n i ted States, would be dutiable.” M r. Drake and hia partners belleve- there would be profit In the importa tion of the old metal from the wreck, if admitted free of duty, but not other wise. r i | k t l a B la N o rth A frle a . T o o k M o r p h in e a n d D ie d . Butte, Mont., April 8.— Anont eight months ago, Gustav Henry Geyer, an old timer, sold his interest in a mine for several thousand dollars. Thia money he hee been spending as rapidly aa possible. Yesterday the last oent went. Today he took morphine end died. ________________ A M a n ila B a v s r a a A B a y s B ls b a p F a t- t a r ’s S ta ta m a a t I s U a tr u a . • - S ta r v in g P u e r to R ic a n s . New York, A pril 4.— The auxiliary cruiser Buffalo, which haa been lying in the Brooklyn navy yard since she returned from Manila last summer, is to be commissioned again tomorrow as a training ship for the second batch of landsmen, of whom the United States ia trying to make able seamen. She w ill sail later in the week for Norfolk, where the w ill take on part of her crew, and then start for a Mediterranean cruise. The Buffalo w ill have 200 young men on board when she leaves the Brooklyn navy yard, and w ill pick up 360 a t Norfolk. She w ill follow the route of the D ixie, which took out the first lot of “ rookies,” aa the bluejackets call them, some months ago. The young men have a ll been enlisted inland. Most ofthem come from the farms, and many have never seen a ship before. They are a healthy lot, however, and the government has found that they pick up seaman’s lore pretty quickly. S o lu tio n fo r t h e I .s b o r P r o b le m . New York, April 4.— ” W e must or ganise the girls. When this ie done it w ill be easy to get the boys into tbe labor anions.” T hia was the advice glven- by Ttase of the Amalgamated Society of Engravers, in an address to the Central Federated Unicin last night. “ When the girls te ll m e,” he said, “ that they don’t expect to remain long at work, I reply *Yon have only one chance in IS to get married, and if yon are the lucky fifteenth one, the chances are even that you w ill have to support your husband, instead of yonr husband supporting you.* ** The Rev. Leighton W illiam s took the same line in an address before the Social Progress League. “ The weakness of the labor move m ent,” be said, “ ia in its lack of wo men, just as the strength of the ohnroh is In its women.” B o ld B o b b e r y o f a B r a w o r y . St. Louie, A pril 4.— Three masked men looted the Star Brewery office, at Belleville, 111.« today, after first cap turing and confining the watchman and night fireman of the plant in an empty refrigerator car. As the robbers were preparing to blow open the big safe in the office, H ubert Hartm an, aec- retary of the brewery, accompanied by his brother Hans, entered the room. They were promptly covered w ith three revolvers, and before either of them realised the situation, were marched to the same car in whioh the fireman and watchman were confined. Then, after d rillin g the safe, they applied chargés, and the outer and inner doors were blown completely open. I t is not known just bow much they secured, bnt the amount la thought not to be over 8100, besides some jewelry and valuable papers, F a t a l S s b e e l b o n s e F lr a . Owosso, M ich., A pril 8.— Two fire men were killed by falling walls today in a fire whioh .destroyed the Central High school. Three other firemen were seriously injured, and two pupils of the school were badly hurt. The fire spread to a ll parts of the large build ing. The schoolhouse was on a large h ill, and tbe engines were unable to furnish sufficient force to render the fire department of much nee. Lots, 9126,- 000; insurance, 948,000. . I n h a le d O a s a d d D ie d . D a m a g e b y F r o s t In M is s is s ip p i. New York, A p ril 4.— Mrs. Kare Jor Jackson, Misa., A p ril 8.— Heavy dan, who lived With her son M ilton E. frosts have done considerable damage Rocket, secretary of James J. Corbett, to the fruit and vegetable crop in cen in handsome apartments in Forty-sec tral and Southern Mississippi, in some ond street, committed suicide today by instances amounting to 86 per cent. inhaling illum inating gas. Several days ago Mrs. Jordan wrote a number T o r p e d o - B o a t B o lt e r B a p lo d o d . of letters indicating that she intended Cherbourg, France, April 8 .— The to take her life. • boiler of a Frenoh torpedo boat exploded L n a d a v o f C a t t ls T b la v e s C o n f e ssa s. yestenlay during forced draught -trials, Denver, A pril 4.— A special to the and five of the crow were terribly burned. One died, and another, unable News from Alamogorda, N. M ., aays: R. Ruia,. the noted bandit and leader to bear the agony, jumped into the sea of a gang of oattle thievea that have and Waa drowned. been operating for years in Southern M ora C n .e e In S y d n e y . New Mexico, and one of hia followers 8ydney, N . 8. W ., A pril 8.— Eleven have been captured by the sheriff of fresh oases of bubonio plague were offi-, thia county. Rata haa made a confes d a lly reported today. Two additional sion implicating a number of settlers deaths have occurred. along tbe Rio Grande.” Paris, A p r il 2.— An official account hae been issued of the victory of the French troops over an Arab army at Inrahr, whioh recently occupied the oasis of lusalah, southwest of Algeria. The French learned of the scheme and derided to storm the enemy’s position, which waa aucoeesfnlly carried on March 19 by a oolamn led by Lieuten ant-Colonel Eu. The town waa first bombarded, and then stormed, the Arab warriors making their last stand In the moequee. They left 800 killed and a hundred wounded on the field. F o e a lln r A e e ld e a t . An additional 46 prisoners were taken. B o eo lvsr to r a R a ilro a d . The Trench losses were nine native sol A very peculiar aocident happened at St. Louis, A p ril 4 .— Judge Amos diers killed, 88 wounded and two offl- Lebanon, O r., a fewdaya ago. Blonde Thayer, of the United States circuit Carlton waa sitting on a horse rai court, has appointed Charles H . Chop- smoking a pipe, when he slipped an ■'* A e t o f n a I n s n e W o o d e b a p p e r . fell forward upon hie face. The pipe- pell, of Chicago, and James Hopkine, Calala, Me., March 81.— Fred Rey atom was driven' np through hie nose, of St. Loafs, receivers for the v — T il nold», a woodchopper at Rad Beach, 10 making a hole that oauaed the nee of C ity A Northern Connecting Railroad. He also issued orders authorising Chop- miles from here, became insane today eight or nine stitches in dressing it. pell aad Hopkins to borrow the sum of and killed bta wife and one son w ith F ir s t B l . o t r l . C ar l a t a a U a g a . 9626.000, at hot exceeding « per oent an ax, injured another eon seriously, Santiago de Chile, via Galveston, aad burned the house to the ground. A pril 8 .— The first electric tram car interest, aad 9800,000, on the same Reynolds then ran up the street, floui- ever operated in this rity went over the terms, to he expended on the Omaha A St. Louie Railroad Company end the iahiag the ax. bat waa arrested and lines today successfully. Popular in- Omaha, Kanaas C ity A Eastern R ail- to this c ity fo r sale keeping. rest ia the event was keen w epectlvely. TRESTLE GAVE WAY; Freight Train Wrecked on Spokane and Northern. CARS AND CONTENTS BURNED A B o t t o a B r id g e C a u se d t b e A c c i d e n t —T b e B e a d B r a k e m a n W a s S e v e r e ly I n j u r e d . Springdale, Wash., A pril 4.— A t an early hour this morning, the north bound freight train on the Spokane A Northern, consisting of an engine and 61 cars, loaded w ith general freight, went through the trestle at Sheep creek, half a m ile north of Springdale. Charles Dunlap, bead brakeman, was severely injured, two tiba being broken. The rest of the train crew escaped w ith a few bruises. Four tramps were steal ing a ride, bnt none was severely hurt. The rotten oondition of the trestle is said to have been the cause of the acci dent. Tbe trestle ia 860 feet long and 40 feet high. Tbe engine and one oar had reached the northern approach, when, without warning, tbe big trestle gave way, car rying 30 cars to the gulch below. The caboose and eight cars remained on the southern approach. Not a tim ber of the trestle was left in place. Brake- man Duplap jumped on the lower side, and rolled down the bank. The rest of the train crew jumped on the upper aide, and were not hurt. The four tramps went down w ith the cars, but miracnlonsly escaped With a general shaking up. A a soon as the cars reach ed tbe bottom they caught fire. A ll tbe c a n were burned with th e ir con tents. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ D IS A S T E R T O C O N V O Y . B r it is h G uns a n d P r lso n o r a H e ta k e n . N ot T el London, A p ril 4.— The latest news from the front adds little to the public knowledge of tbe convoy disaster. No credence is given to reports that th e B oers numbered between 8,000 and 10,- 000 men. T he general b e lie f ia that there oould not have been more than half that number, but the mere fact that e v en so m an y as h a lf could have been collected so near headquarters without the knowledge of tbe British commanders provokes mnoh uneasy criticism .. The disaster is regarded as a direct result of the in ab ility of General French to ont off the oommaildoM of General O livier and the other oommandoes when escaping from the Orange river. Lord Roberts’ own dispatch, dated two hours later than the D aily Chroni cle's, says nothing about the guns being recaptured. The story, therefore, looks doubtful. ' • - L ittle news has arrived from other points. Kenhardt was formally reoc cupied S a tu rd a y .T lie report that the Boeq^are massing in the vicinity of Tsongr and Ktipdam ie Lord Methuen’s difficulties are appar ently increasing. H a has Boer laagers or guerrilla bands on three sides of him, and be w ill he obliged to watch aarefnlly hia communication w ith Orange river. PUERTO N o m R IC A N b y! 76] th a t J and i th is i H: F R A N C H IS E S . naia I W i l l B e G r a n te d V n t ll O e v e r a - ■neat l e B e t a b lle h e d . oago, S a lt / New York, A pril 4.— A special to the Herald from Washington says: Secretary Root has issued an order revoking the license granted to Ramon Valdes for the nse of the water of the river La Plata, of Puerto Rioo, to create electric power for a railroad. He has also announced tbe department will grant no franchisee or licenses in the Island u n til the establishment of civil government there. Traoey, Hoard man A P la tt, of New York, represented by A . L . Arpin and W illiam D . .Nobis who applied for the revocation of the' concession and who, it is said, are en deavoring to acqiure it for persons for whom they are acting as agents. Tbe Drexefai and other business interepta of Philadelphia have vigrously fought the attempts of the New York firms. Secretary Root’s decision, however, not only deprives M r. Valdes of his license, bnt prevents Tracey, Boardman A P la tt’s clients or any other person from obtaining its issuance in their lavor. I t la learned that this action was taken in accordance w ith a recommen dation of Brigadier-General Davis, gov ernor-general of the island, who has mad« an exteneive investigation. The Issuance of the license to Valdes last summer was made when Secretary Boot received an opinion from Charles K. Magoon, aolicitor of the division of cnatoma and insular affairs,1 whose Wonderful reversal of ideas on the statntes of the new American dependen cies has surprised congress. The files of the insular division con tain numerous applications for conoet- aions or licensee, some from prominent • people in the United States and others from natives of Puerto Rico. Threel in f field, H e in t Lake ed ee< writes I e fru it w h en jesús very i great por Hall try t — Br An C h le a g o M a e b ln le t« e l Work. Chioag, A p ril 4 .— About half of the 6,600 striking machinists resumea work thia morning. Manufacturers said the differences had lieen settled or put on a basis to ba arbitrated, and that the remainder of. the strikers would undoubtedly return to work in the next day dr two. The men have been grant ed a nine-hour day, w ith 10 hours’ pay. The strike has cost the men 9600,000 in salary. ’ P r o m o t e r M ille r o n T rio l. New York. A pril .4.— William F. M ille r, of 690 per cent Franklin Syndi cate fame, waa placed on trial in Brook lyn today. Of tbe 21 indictments pending against him he was tried on the one charging him w ith ’ grand Isr- oeny in the first and second d e g r e e . It alleged that he committed theft in taking money from investors ih the Franklin Syndicate. M a tr -M llllo n D o l l a r F i r e . L ittle Rock, A rk., Xfcril 4.— A half- m illio n dollar fire occurred at Newport this morning. The plant of the Union Compress Company, veined at 9100,000 and containing^,000 bales of cotton, owned by the Lesser Cotton Company and the Wolf-Goldman Mercantile Company, valued at 9360,000, was de stroyed. 8m aller losses bring the total np to 9600,000._______ W atertown. N . Y ., A pril «.— A strike was inaugurated at the works of tbe New York A ir Brake Company thl» morning. Four hundred men ere out, tlve
