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CHARD,
BOERS ARE CLOSE
TO BL0E11F0NTEIN
Roberts Obliged to Increase His
Force at Glen.
AN ATTACK IS THREATENED
Tbc Country Is Bclof Severely Kaldcd,
Firmer Art llaraittd and Their Cattle
Arc Drlvea Oil ay I he Johannei
bvrf Moaattd Police.
LONDON. March 3d, 4 a. m.-TIm
liner are concentrating In force about
IS in 1 1 in north of Illocinfonieln In the
rear of Glenn, and Lord Robert la
sending forward troop to enKiige tlicin,
The Seventh Infantry division and
part of Ct-ni-rul French' tavutry have
been sent up to join the Fourteenth
brigade and two cavutry regiments
that nr.- holding Glenn mid It en-
Vlroos.
It doe not seem probable that the
IJiM-r will give serloua battle In the
fairly ij-ii country north of Glen
Still their evident strength Indicate
nu r.' than a c-oip of observation. In
small atYalj tile Hoer are ilurliixly
aggressive In ull part of the ft'ld of
war.
Tin- Johannesburg mounted poller
esteemed by the Boer to be their beat
miiunied commando, are raiding the
country near Itloemfonleln, harassing
farmer who have given up their arma
to the ItrltlNh and carrying off cattle.
Doer have rwtccujiled Campbell and
ur In utrrtiKth near Taungs and Hark-
ley Wrnt.
Urd Methuen and the force that
had liwn oeratlna In the IJurkley dla
trl l have be--n ret-ullinl to KlmberUy
by lrd Itobt-rt. No explanation hua
Uen given for Ihla, but the mounted
troop are dUiiatloned at having ben
orderil back.
Accorllng to Pretoria, advices, Mafek
ItiK waa bombarded for aeven hnura on
Tueaday.
It la rwpurtrd In LcimIor In a well-In-fornieil
iunrter, that Lord Kltchenon
will be offered the pout conimunder In
chief In India, aucceedlng; the late
Hlr Willlun IHklmrt, ao anon a
declnlve auoccpa haa been obtained In
hf Tranavaul, nnd that Sir Cenerul
Archibald Hunter will auccet-d Mm aa
Lord Itobvrta' chief of ataff.
KKl tlKltS LATEST DOAST.
Ik' Says Itloemfonteln Will lie Ite-
taken In a Week.
LOXIN. March Z9.-A Uloemfontcln
rorrvHpomlent of the Morning Post, tel
egraphlng Wedneaday, aaya:
Prenldent KruKcr boaata hla Inten
uon 10 n iuKo tuoemtoniein within a
week and It npiH-ura probable that the
Hoera are advancing In force south
ward."
KKl'OKK ON THE WAlt.
Interview With a World Correapond
ent on Ilia Prediction us to
Mow Its Leases Would
KiTect Humanity.
NKW YOltK. March 2'J.-Tlie World
luibllMlua u Ioiir Interview with Pful
tlcnt Ki4ug;r, under date of Pretoria,
February 7. President Krugir said:
"I aeiit a message to the World suy.
Inu that the Iowa In a war would
atuggvr Immunity. The Brltlah
laughed at me nnd said they would
only take u month to conquer us. Did
thosd six hundred ur.d fifty dead at
Hplongop nnd thosj fiundreds who
were killed In other battlea please the
Prltlsh? Are they laughing now?
When you came through London did
you see much laughing?"
The correspondent told, him of the
scene In front of the London war bul
letin board, the weeping relatives and
the sorrowing friends. Mr. Kruger
went on:
"Yes, that la only one side of the
picture. Here we have the came
scencii, only our casualties are not
so grout.
h'vtry home in South Africa has
been desolated and the war has only
begun. Wait until the war la ended
and those who will suffer on account
of It will be numbered by the hundreds
of thousands.
'Did Chamberlain and Mllner and the
capitalists who were back of them
think of those things before they drove
us to the wall? Are the tears of the
widows and orphans to pay for the
goldllelds? . Tell the Americans that
I appreciate their expressions of gym-
athyand that I will Inform my burgh
ers of It. I am greatly pleased to hear
that committees have beem formed to
raise funds for our Red Cross. ,
'We need medicines and supplies for
the wounded not so much for our
own wounded, but for tho many poor
British soldiers who conio into our
hands
"It makes my heart bleed to see that
they suffer, we cannot help them as
much as we would like to do because
the llrltlsh authorltle will not let ua
bring medicine or supplies for our
lociil Itl Cross through Delugoa bay."
President Kruger said that the !)th
Inokeil for no asslstane from any na
tion. He declared thut the Moera would
not destroy th mine a any event.
it: said before the war closed he be.
Ileved that the 1'nlted States would
offer to act as nrbllraUir f the differ
ences between the two countries and
that he was perfectly content to accept
the decision that would h.ive been
in:id but Oreat Itrltuln p-fus-d to ar
bltruto. I.OHKItTH' PLANii UNKNOWN'.
Yailous t'MiJi ttip-M a to the I ng'h
itnd t'bjett of His Halt at
Hloemfontiin.
LONDON, March 29. -Conjecture as
to Lord Uoberts' advance from Hloem
foiitein Is the topic of the day and la
likely to continue ao If the Ilrltlsli
coiiiiiiander-lii-chlef In South Africa
com eals his movements as carefully
as he has done In tha past. April 2d
Is set by arluus- critic t tin prob
itlli date of the lepnrture of the main
a nny from HI-icMfonteln. It Is pointed
out that there will then be over a
week's hard searching before Kroon
slu'lt Is reaehed, '.hough there seem
no certainty that Kroonstadt will en
tirely occupy liobcrts' attention. The
advance, when It do-s occur, will prob
ably be nude by par.iliel columns
ulonf; a broad front.
Ti- m iveiiii-nt of the cavalry furce
and 'art of the infantry toward Glen
can varcely be construed as an actual
advance, although they undoubtedly
point to Imminence of such a step.
Put only a small part of General Gata
cre's forces have yet ai rived at Kloem
fonteln and until that movement la
completed, it la not likely Huberts will
start for Pretoria.
The luteal news from Lloemfonteln,
(ontnlned In a dispatch published In
the second edition of th- Times and
dated Wednesday, again dwell upon
the necessity for not making a pre
mature udvance.
CLK.MENT8 IN FAl KESM1TH.
Several Guns and a Large Quantity
of Amunltlon Captured.
LONDON.- MnrcU A.The war tf
flc has received the following dis
patch from Lord Robert, dated Hloein
fonttln. March 2S:
"Gem rul Clements occupid Faure
smlth without opposition. One nine
pounder and one Martini-Maxim were
discovered In a prosiectlng shaft of a
mine, where a large quantity of amu
nltlon was burled.
"Arms are being surrendered gradu
ally and the inhabitants are settling
dow it.
folonel Pitcher visited Ladybrand
on March JC On leaving the town he
was attacked by a party of the tfnemy.
and cne of his force was wounded and
fiw are missing.
'During the skirmish north of Mod-
der river on March 28, five men were
wounded. Three are reported to be
missing. Captain Sloan Stanley, of the
Sixteenth Lancers and five men of that
regiment were taken prisoners."
DROUGHT IN INDIA.
Enormous Loss Due to Shortage In
Wheat, Cotton and Other Crops.
CALCUTTA. March 29. In the course
of his remarks, in addressing the coun
cil budget yesterday, the viceroy, Lord
Curzon, said the loss to the wheat
crop caused by the drought during the
present year was S.OOO.OOO to 10,000,000
pounds sterling, the loss to the cotton
crop was seven million pounds, while
the oil seed crop, usually covering 1S,-
000,000 acres, was non-existent outside
of Dengal and the northwest provinces.
The loss to Culthators In Rombay
alone In the food crops was i:,000,000
and in cotton 1,000,000.
FATAL DYNAMITE EXPLOSION.
Several Workmen Killed and Maimed
at Spokane Yesterday.
SPOKANE, March 29 -By a. prema
ture explosion if sixty sticks of dyna
mite five workmen were buried under
a mass of rock today.
Salvatore Ururilno Is dead, Michael
Herman v.iil die, "and Andrew Had-
berg will Imj Mind for life. Ferdlnando
Grego and Ole Oleson will recover.
About two hundred men were working
on the Great Northern light of way
through this city.
Hudberg waa tamping In ihe dyna
mite- when it exploded.
BRYAN AT PENDLETON.
Sp
eaks In nn Octopus Warehouse and
Accepts the Courtesy of the
Monster's Special Train.
PENLLETON, March 29.-Wllllam J.
Bryan spoke in this place this morn
ing to an audience of thirty-five hun
dred people In the large double ware
house of tho O. R. St X. tracks.
Immediately upon the close of his
speech he was taken on o, spe-.ial
train to Walla, for a tour through
Washington.
VIOLATING THE
RULES OF WAR
Severe Arraignment of tbe Meth
ods of the Boers.
AN AMERICAN S OBSERVATION
Julia Ralph Says i Every Battle Ike
White Flax a ad Oeseva Cross Are
Abased sad Ambulances Fre
quently Fired L'po.
LONDON. March 23.-The most aer
lous Indictment' of the lloer methods
of warfare which has yet appeared In
England conies from Julian Ralph, the
Amerli-an war correspondent, in a let
ter from Klmberley, published In this
morning's Dally Mall. Ralph says:
' There has hardly been a battle In
which the Boer have not abused the
white flag or Geneva Cross or both.
At Klmberley the Boers shelled the
funeral cortege of George T. Abram,
an American. At many places they
fired on our ambulances
MARINES AS GUNNERS.
Decision of the department to Retain
Them a a Part of Gun
Batteries.
NEW YORK. March 29.-A special to
the Herald from Washington says:
Marines will continue to serve the
butteries of American men of war.
This decision has been made by Assist
ant rJecretary Allen as a result of con
sideration given to a provision inserted
In the naval regulations by the board
which haa revised them, practically
prohibiting the further employment of
marines aa gun crews.
The board's action Is a renewal of the
effort made several years ago by line
officers, notably. Captain R. D. Evans,
to Induce Mr. Herbert, then secretary
of the navy, to have the gun crews
made up of bluejackets. .
It is understood, however, that the
n?w regulations will contaiu a provi
sion requiring the marine guard on
board ship to be thoroughly drilled
and instructed at the guns of the main
and secondary batteries and permitting
their station, under their own officers,
at either or both batteries, as the com
manding officers may direct.
DUAL HONDURAS SYNDICATES.
Quarreling Over the Question of Which
Is the True One.
TRENTON. N. J.. March 29. There
was filed here Wednesday In the Uni
ted States court, third district, a bill
of complaint by the Honduras Com
pany, a corporation of the state of
Georgia, complainant, as against the
Honduras Syndicate, a corporation of
the state of New Jersey.
The bill sets up that the Honduras
Company was Incorporated In Georgia
on December 4, 1S95, and that the Hon
duras Syndicate was incorporated In
New Jersey on December 30, 1WS. The
bill altllrms that, warranted by assur
ance from ultimate officials In Hondu
ras, the Honduras Company was In
corporated as stated, to acquire estate,
real and personal, In Honduras, to pos
sess and enjoy all the rights, power,
franchises and provisions necessary to
enable the company to manufacture
or construct public or private depart
ments for the developments of Its prop
erties and in fulfillment of its obliga
tions with' the Honduras government.
The bill atllrms that as a part of the
plan of the Honduras Company, It
was designed to organize a bank to
finance the projects referred to, fund
the large public lndebtness of Hondu
ras, and that, pursuant to the design,
the Commercial bank of Honduras
was organized In August, 1S36.
The bill further sets forth that pur
suing Its plans and in a line with an
understanding set up with the officials
of Honduras there were organized un
der the laws of the state of Georgia
eight subsidiary companies for the
promotion of homestead and land
rights for the development of lumber,
for the prosecution of metal mining
for the extension of railways, for the
establishment of a sinking fund and
for the Improvement of harbors.
Under these subsidiary companies
the bill sets forth that the public debt
of Honduras, amounting to more than
eighty millions of dollars was designed
to be refunded; that the Interocean
railway of Honduras, from the Gulf of
Mexico to the Bay of Fonseca, was to
be completed over a distance of more
than 200 miles at an estimated cost of
eight million dollars; that, co-operating
with the government of Honduras, the
Honduras Company would have part In
thj collection of the customs revenues
and that several hundred thousand Im
migrants were to be brought Into Hon
duras. The gravamen of the bill rests In
allegations made therein In effect that
persons to whom, in the prosecution of
Its purposes the Honduras Company
has confided lis plans and possibilities
had, it Is aitlrriied, in the bill, hve
taken advantage of this knowledge
and Information and had sent persons
of their own selection to Honduras to
procure a contract from Its govern
ment in' their own interests and in the
Interest of (he Honduras Syndicate,
which Is made defendant by this bill.
Allegation is nnU In the bill that
these i sons so sent to Hondurus did,
In April, 1HS7, procure and enter Into a
contract for 'the Honduras -Syndicate
with the government of Honduras to
perfect plans and accomplish purposes
Inaugurated and aimed at by the Hon
duras Company and that the Honduras
Syndicate, Incorporated with a capital
of Mffl substituted Itself for the
Honduras Company to achieve and se
cure the advantages and emoluments
designed by the Honduras Company to
be enjoyed by Itself.
The bill sets up a claim by the Hon
duns Compuny that the contract made
by the Honduras Syndicate belongs of
right to the Honduras Conpany ani
that the syndicate has no right there
t' or therein except as an equitable
trustee for the Honduras Company,
The Honduras Company, therefore.
In this bill, asks that the Honduras
Syndicate may be directed by the court
to hold said contract between Itself
and the government of Honduras for
the benefit of, and as trustee for the
Honduras Company and the bill asks
thut the syndicate may likewise be
decreed to account to the Honduras
Company for any profits or advantages
that It may have received under and
by virtue thereof, and that it may
be directed to transfer to the Honduras
Company every beneficial interest of
the Honduras Syndicate In such con
tract: the bill affirming tbe readiness
of the Honduras Company to take over
and perform everything on Its part
in the promises that equity requires.
THE ARM If BILL PASSED.
Will Become a Law Practically in the
Form Recommended by the
Committee.
WASHINGTON, March 29. After
four days' stormy debate, the house
passed the army appropriation bill to
day. As passed the bill is only slight
ly modified from the form in whiclj it
came from the committee.
One of the laat amendments adopt
ed opens the sodliers' homes to officers
and men of both volunteer, and regular
armies incapaciated by service during
or since the Spanish war.
Without opposition the house con
Armed Roreing's title to his seat. His
seat was contested by White, an
other republican, and the report of the
committee that investigated the case
was unanimously In favor of the sit
ting member.
THE PHILIPPINE COMMISSION
Conferring With Secretary Root on the
Scope of Its Future Work.
WASHINGTON. March 29.-The Phil
ippine commission this afternoon spent
three hours In conference with Sec
retary Root.
The secretary said the discussion had
covered the probable scope of the work
of the commission for the next two
years. The secretary also said that
the new commission would have much
broader powers in dealing with the
problems arising in the Philippines
than had Its predecessor.
The primary purpose was the estab
lishment of local civil governmont
throughout the island. In the selec
tlon of civil officers, the commission
would have a free hand.
MORE TIME ALLOWED.
Spaniards In Philippines Will Have
Six Months Longer to Become
American Citizens.
WASHINGTON. March 29.-Secre-tary
Hay and the Duke of D'Arcos,
the Spanish minister, today signed a
protocol extending for six mouths from
April 4, the period allowed Spanish
residents In the Philippine islands to
elect whether they shall remain Span
Ish subjects or surrender their alle
giance and adopt the nationality of
the territory in which they resied.
LILY WON'T APPEAJt.
Mrs. Langtry Will Not Be Permitted
to Corrupt the Morals of
Pittsburg.
PITTSBURG. March 29.-Mrs. Lily
Langtry, who is booked to appear in
this city next Monday week, will not
be permitted to produce her play "The
Degenerates."
This was decided today by Mayor
Wm. J. Diehl, who has received pro
tests from the Presbyterian ministers
association and numerous citizens
against the production of the play, on
the ground that it is immoral.
PROF. PRICHETT RESIGNED.
NEW YORK, March 29. A special
to the Tribuns from Washington says:
Prof. Henry W. Pricuett, superintend
ent of the coast and geodetic survey,
has resigned his place to accept the
presidency of the Massachusetts Insti
tute of Technology at Boston.
FIRST VOTE TAKEN
ON PUERTO RICO
Senate Rejects Ameodment Strik
injr Oat the Tariff Provision.
SIMON FOLLOWS 0REC0NIAN
Deserts HI Party AsMclatet ad Pairs I
Oppoiltlo la Hi Colltaiue and the
Palicy f the Majority it Agreed
! by the Admlaiitralloa.
WASHINGTON, March 29.-A direct
vote taken by the senate today on tha
proposition to strike from the Puerto
Rico measure the provision laying 15
Pr cent of the Dingley law duties on
Puerto Rican products. The proposl.
tion was defeated by a vote of 13 to 23.
While the vote Is regarded as presag
ing the passage of the pending meas
ure, It Is not regarded as indicating
the final vote on the bill.
The feature of the debate waa th
speech of Beveridge, of Indiana. While
he advocated reciprocity between ths
United States and Puerto Rico, he an
nounced that If all efforts to secure
free trade should fail, he would sup.
port the pending bill. The bill was un
der discussion throughout the session,
several important amendments being
agreed to.
The motion cf Pettus was defeated,
as follows:
Yeas Bacom, Bate, Berry, Clark,
Clay, Cot krell, Culberson, Harris, Jones
(Ark.), Lindsay, Kenny, Morgan, Pet
tus, Sullivan, Turley, Wellington 1.
Noes Allison, Baker, Bard, Carter,!
Chandler, Clark (Wyo.). Cullom, Deboe,
Fairbanks. Foraker, Foster, Frye, Gal
linger. Gear, Hale, Hanna, Hans
brough, Hawley, Kean, Kyle, Lodge,
McBride, McComas, McMillan, Perkins,
Quarto, Ross, Scott, Sewell, Shoup,
Ppooner, Warren, Wetmore 33.
The following pairs were announced,
the last named being opposed to tha
amendment: , Martin-Jones, of Neva
da; Daniel-Penrose; McLaurln-Prltch-ard;
Hoar-Teller: Csffery-Burrows;
Pettlgrew-Platt, of Connecticut; Sl-mon-Depew;
Chllton-EIkins; Heltfeldt
Platt, of New York; Butler-Beve ridge.
No annonucement of pairs was made
of the following senators, who were
absent from the chamber when their
names were called:
Allen, Davis, McCumber, Mallory,
N'isnn. proctor, Stewart, Thurston,
Tillman and Vest.
Morgan offered an amendment to the
section of the bill which proposes to
redeem Puerto Rican silver coins In '
United States money, giving 60 cents
of Amreican money for the Puerto
Rican peso. The amendment proposed
to pay HK cents for the peso. Morgan
held that in the proposed exchange of
coins the United States was taklnar
advantage of the Puerto Ricans because
the peso contained the same amount
of silver as the American dollar.
There was no intention to deprive the
Puerto Ricans of any value, as th:
American dollar now was worth In
debt-paying power practically two
pesos in Puerto Rica. The amendment
wjnt over.
TRANSPORT SERVICE COST.
Detailed Statement of Moneys Ex
pended In Buying, Chartering
and Fitting Out Ships.
WASHINGTON, March 29. Acting
Secretary Meiklejohn has sent to the
senate a list of all the transport ships
and other vessels purchased or char
tered by the war department since
March 4, 1S9T, together with the cost of
purchase or charter and the. cost of
fitting up ot repair. .
Forty-nine vessels of all classes were
purchased for the army transport ser
vice during and since the Spanish war,
tbe total purchase price of these ves
sels was $8,074,455, and the total cost
of refitting and repairing was J5,
1S9.093. There were 14 vessels chartered at
a total cost of $10,637,519 for service
rendered and a total cost of M,894,343,
in restoring them to their original con
dition on the cancellation of their char
ters. DEMOCRATIC GUNS SPIKED.
Populist Governor of Idaho Denies
CorresDondence With Republican
National Committee on the
Wardner Strike.
WASHINGTON, March 29,-Gover-
nor Stuenenburg of Idaho took occa
sion during the Coeur d'Alene inves
tigation today to deny the statement
published during the Idaho disorder
last fall to the effect that in Octo
ber last he wrote to a representative of
the republican national executive com-
mlttee assuming complete responsibil
ity for the conditions in Idaho and re
lieving the federal autiioiuien hum
ail connection with the affair.
Governor Steunenburg also denied he
had had any correspondence with Sen
ator Hanna.