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ROBERTS MAKES
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His Well-Spread Net Again Elud
ed by the Boers.
FRENCH IN HOT PURSUIT
Hit Bta.H Are Badly litd Up and Robert
Will Probiblj Have to Bcgia till Tnk
All Over Aiila-Weptncr
It, However, Sale.
LONDON, Arll 25. Jt In officially
Miiin'Uiut'd that Wepem-r hue been re
lieved. The relief of Colonel Dalgvty
wax iwToiii(illHhed by General lirahnnt.
LONDON, April 26, 5 a. ni. It In now
uwnr.nl t hat the chance of Lord
Robert ditching the retreating Boer
In hi net are very slender.
The Boer have everywhere retired
at the flml pressure of the British
advance and the hope that General
Hundlu would he able to Induce them
to rernnln at Dewctsdorp until they
hud been forced to fight or surren-il.-r
has b.-f t disappointed. ' No at
tempt wn made to pursue the com
mando retiring from Wepener.
Everything now depend uhiii the
progress of General French'e caval
ry brigade, but they are entering a
very dllllctilt anil practically unknown
country. Tint cavalry have already
hud a long march over heavy and
aandy road and nothing in known re
garding the condition of the horse.
In any cane It I now a race between
the federal and the force of General
Krench and General Hamilton.
The lowncH of the recent move
ment of the British Infantry and the
previous experience of the ability of
the Hoc re to move rapidly, with gun
and baggage, over tlu-lr own country
lead to the belief that Lord Hubert'
enveloping operation will fall and will
have to be repealed further north. At
the most he will perhnp capture Borne
Itoer gun and baggage and hurry the
rvtrvutlng Burgher.
Considerable results have been at
tained In the relit f of Wcpener and
In cl-arlng the southeastern corner of
the Fn- Stute of Boers, but the Boer
army, whatever It strength, ha still
to b dealt with.
Beside thu casualties union the
men. the Boer tombnr Jment of Colonel
Dalgety position wrought great hav
oc uniong the cattle and horse. The
iT'irrlKoii could have held out for an
other fortnight, but were In no condi
tion to render much assltance In pur
suing tho liners.
The Inhabitant of Mufektng arc now
on a dally ration of two pound of soup
and two quart of "skilly."
DALGETY'S CASUALTITS.
MAFEKING. April 25.-Colonel Dal
gety' casualties are 3$ killed and 132
wounded.
LEADING UP TO WKPENER.
Koberta' Account of the Operations
Which Probably Forced the
Boer Retreat.
LONDON, April 25.-The war office
ha received the following dispatch
from Lord Roberts:
"Bloemfonteln. April 25. Pole-Car-
ew' division occupied Roodekop yes
terday evening without casualties. The
advance was covered by cavalry and
horso artillery, which drove the ene
my back with heavy losses, their dead
being left on the ground. The mount
ed troop halted for the night at Grot-
fonteln, and at 7:30 this morning were
crossing the Modder river at Vol
bank In accordance with my InstruC'
tlon to French to endeavor to place
himself astride the enemy's lines of re
treat.
"French's arrival near the Modder
evidently, however, alarmed the Boers,
who evacuated their strong position
near Dewef Dorp during the night
and It was occupied by Cheremslde's
division this morning. The mounted
Infantry under Ian Hamilton drove the
enemy off the kopjes In the neighbor
hood of the water works without tas
ualtles on our side.
"The Highland brigade marched 24
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mll yesterday to support General
Hamilton, and halted for the night at
Ktlp Kraal, four mile short of Ban
na' Post. Urabatit and Hart are Mill
a few miles short of Wpeener anl the
number of the enemy upp-ar a have
mien hut Increased during the last few
day, but It I not likely there ill
be much trouble In the nelghb.ii hood
of Wcpener, onc Dewet Dorp I oc
cupied by our troops.
I Inspected the city Imperial volun
teer battalion yesterday on their arriv
al at Bloemfonteln. They are In fine
form and look very workmanlike.
"I also Inspected the first company
of Imperial yeomanry, which ha ar
rived here. The tin n turn out innart
and their hor.- are In an admirable
condition."
WHILK THU MtlTIBI! SLEPT.
The Itoer Advance to a Strong Posl
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HUM .lrtr n c(c-:ivi .
MASERU, Itushtrdand, Tuesday,
April 24. On the breaking up of the
blvotiack this morning, General Bra
bunt and Hart discovered that the
Boer who fell back toward Wer ner
ystcrday hud advanced during the
nijht several mile nearer to Straws
farm, which I a favorable position for
resistance.
Colonel Palgety 'U severely at
tack with six guns this morning,
probably with a view of preventing him
assisting the relief column. It seemed
yesterday that Dalgety had practically
boen relieved, but the offensive attitude
aiwumed by the Boer thla morning
show thl Idea to have been erron
eoux. Gtneral Hart I now a tew mile
behind General Brabant'a division
which I waiting for the former to come
up.
Thirteen British wounded were re
moved to Maf'tng at midnight and
placed In the English church.
BOSIIOF RECAPTURED.
LONDON, April N A dispatch from
Pretoria, dated Tuesday, says the
Boer have reoccupled Boshof, the
British retiring.
ESCAPED TO THE NORTH.
The Retreat From Wepener Was Con
ducted ns Roberts Had An
ticipated. LONDON, April 25. The war offlc
ha Issued the following from Lord
Roberts, dated Bloemfonteln, April 25
'The enemy retired from In front
of Wepener last night and this morn
Ing (led northeastward, along the La-
dybrand road. Their number was be
Uveen H.toO and 5,000."
BRABANT'S MARCH UP THE HILL.
Finding the Boers Opposed He Marched
Down Again and Bivouacked.
MASEPU, Basutoland, Tuesday,
April 24, evening. Generals Hart and
Brabant covered only a short distance
today and finding a strong force op
posJ to them bivouacked on the
ground they had occupied.
RUSSIA WILL INTERFERE.
The Porte Has Assurance That She
Will Not Let the United State
Collect It Claim.
LONDON, April 26. A Constantino
ple correspondent of the Dally Tele
graph says:
The Porte considers that Its offer to
rebuild the American Btructrue burn
ed at Kharput will close the question.
It bases this belief on the news that
Russia has intimated an Intention to
oppose any attempt on the part of the
United States to enforce payment."
THE CAKE ALL DOUGH.
Flan to Bring Dewey and Bryan To
gether Has Failed.
CHICAGO. April 2 .Admiral Dewey
will not break bread In Chicago with
W. J. Bryan. The Seven O'clock club,
which had arranged for the pleasant
ceremonial to take place next Tuesday
evening at the Lakeside club, has
chanced the date of the dinner to
May 5.
Admiral Dewey will leave town on
the evening of the fourth and Colonel
Bryan can reign supreme at the ban
quet. The offloer8 of the Seven O'clock
club have little to say concerning the
sudd-n change of plans except that
Mr. Bryan, the guest of honor, could
net arrange to be In town May 1.
AGENTS FOR
PNEUMATIC MAIL
SERVICE DOWNED
House Refuses to Make Further
Appropriation for Its Support.
PUBLIC SCANDAL BREWING
Charged Tbil Company latlilllai Ibe PUali
Ha Bees Brlbfnj Support by Stadlnj
Bloclii of Slock to lafluealLal
Menbcn of Coafret.
WASHINGTON, April 25. -The houiw
tooay put It heel upon the pneumatic
mull tube ervke In operation In New
York, Bonton anJ Philadelphia, and
If It action tan'i, the whole service
will lie crushed out.
The postofl'n e committee had recom
mended an Increase of appropriation
for this service from $225,000 to $725.-
000. The proposed Increase wa at
tacked by the appropriation commit
tee, under the leadership of Moody, of
Massachusetts, with such vigor and
u?cet?s that in the end the house voted.
87 to 50, to strike out the entire appro
prlatlon from the bill.
Moody created a sensation In the
way in which he assailed the methods
of the pneumatic company and made
the direct charge that a former mem
ber of the house who was a member
of the appropriation committee had
be-n a holder of the stock and bonds
of the company. He declined to dis
close the gentleman's name.
He added to the scandal by charg
ing. that a block of the stock had
been sent a a New Year's gift to a
near relative of another member of
congress, but to the credit of the mem
brr. he said, the dishonoring gift had
been returned to the sender by the
next mail.
Although the tube service was highly
coinn-.ended by other members, these
revelations transferred the sentiment
of the house, which has several times
voted for the tube service. Into a de
cisive majority against Its continua
tlon in any form
THE CLARK CASE AGAIN.
Minority Report Filed, Which No Man
Living Can See the Necessity
for or Understand.
WASHINGTON, Aprlnl 25. The min
ority of the members of the senate com
mittee on privileges and elections, con
sisting of Senator Pettus and Harris,
who do not accept all the views of the
majority of the committee In the case
of Senator Clark of Montana, today
presented their dissenting opinion in
the case. The report begins with the
following statement:
'We agreed and still agree to the
resolution adopted by the committee
itself. But tUa report is merely the
writing of the chairman, with the aid
of one other member and never was
submitted to any meeting of the com
mittee and therefore cannot be con
sidered as the words of the committee.
They assert that in the main report
"statements are made as to facts which
are based entirely on the testimony
of a witness of doubtful credit and that
the testimony is plainly contradicted."
Closing they say: "The only propost
tlon for which we contend is that this
Is a Judicial case and that a com'
miitee of the senate ought to consid
er and report It as Judges."
DEWEY IS WATCHED.
Not by Politicians but by a Delegation
of Children In This Case.
WASHINGTON. April 25. Admiral
Dewey today received a delegation,
representing 50,00a children In the
Northwest, who presented to him a
beautiful gold watch and fob.
The money was raised entirely by
one cent subscriptions.
CLEANING OUT INSURGENTS.
The American Troops Making Some
Examples Which Are Calculated
to Impress the Natives.
MANILA April 25, 6:30 p. m.-Offl
cers who have arrived here from Nue
va Caceres, province of South Camar
Ines. brings details of a fight on April
16 In which 80 Filipinos were killed.
The American outposts reported 300
natives assembled three miles from the
town and General Bell sent three de
tachments of the Forty-fifth regiment,
with two Maxims, who nearly sur
rounded the Filipinos, a majority of
whom were armed with bolos. They
wore caraboa hide helmets, coats-and
shields.
The Filipinos were quickly put to
flight, leaving the field strewn with
armor. Their riflemen were unable to
shot straight and the bolomen never
got near enough to the Americans to
do any execution. Therefore none of
the Americans were wounded.
Lieutenant Batch, with 20 cavalry
mcn'from the Thirty-seventh regiment,
cornered 60 Bolo men in the river and
shot every one, their bodies floating
away. One soldier had hi head struck
with a bolo.
General Bell's two regiment are
hard at work In clearing country. They
meet with many small so,uad of bolo
mn and last week killed a total of 125.
A squadron of the Eleventh cavalry I
about leaving Manila on board the
transport Lennox to reinforce them.
fhe Insurgent keep the province In a
state of terror and are wreaking ven
g"'an' on natives who trade with the
Americans, burning many villages. In
cluding the populous town of San Fer
nando.
General Bell ha Issued a proclama
tion 1eclar1ng that he will retaliate re-U-ritlr-HHly
until thla guerilla warfare
reuse and that he will burn all the
towns which harbor the guerilla.
In a fight at Sorsogon, Albay prov-
Ino-, April 15, three companies of the
Forty-seventh Infantry. Captain Gor
don commanding, routed a large force
of Insurgents, mostly bolomen, killing
53 of them.
OTIS' CA3UALTY LIST.
WASHINGTON, April 25.-The fol
lowing list of deaths which have re
cently occurred In the Philippines has
been rt'-elved at the war department
from General Oil at Manila.
Malarial fever. April 16, Charles V.
Sill.-. Forty-Fourth infantry; April
15, Jam-s A. Littleton, Fourth cavalry;
April 10, Harry F. Nash, Nineteenth
infantry.
Accidental, April 17, Harry H.
Si hult, Forty-Fourth Infantry, dived
on ro-'k; Mirch 23, John S. Dlblin,
Nineteenth infan'ry, killed by comrade.
. Enter!, April 8. Tho ma Gillespie,
Eighteenth Infantry.
Typhoid fever, April 15, Frank J. Val
de, p:ighteenth infantry; April 14,
Dock R. Eisenbarger, Thirty-Fifth in
fantry. Colitis. April 11, Charles J. Magore,
Eighteenth Infantry.
Septicaemia, April 7, Charles Light-
ell, Nineteenth Infantry.
Dysentery, April 7,L. H. Converse,
Sixth Infantry; March 10, James P.
OSm-a, Six Infantry; April 14, John P.
Brouner, Fourth infantry; April 15,
Henry Weibner, Forty-Second Infantry;
April 16, Charles Brown, Twenty-Sixth
Infantry: April 2, G. B. Southerland,
Sixth Infantry.
Variola, April 15, Arthur Gwynn,
Richard B. Harber, Thirty-Second in
fantry. Pneumonia, April 10, James J. Cur
ran, Fourth cavalry.
Died from wounds received In action,
April 9. BenJ. F. Welch, Fourth Infan
try. COEUR D'ALENE INQUIRY.
Sutzer Provoked No Knockdown in
Yesterday's Committee Sitting.
WASHINGTON, April 25. When the
Coeur d'Alene investigation was re
sumed today there was no outward
evidence of yesterday's exciting affray
between witness, Bartlett Sinclair and
Attorney Robertson. The members of
the committee gave a good natured
turn to the affairs by an exchange of
raillery on Sulzer's vice-presidential
aspirations. Sinclair's testimony dealt
with the permit system.
When Attorney Robertson began the
cross-examination cf Sinclair he made
no allusion to their personal conflict,
The cross examination was made for
the purpose of showing that Sinclair's
exercise of authority was inconsistent
with the state of martial law.
CUBAN OFFICERS' ALLOWANCE.
Secretary Root Mak?s a Statement
m the Senate of What Each Has
Received.
to
WASHINGTON. April 25. Secretary
Root today sent to the senate his re
ply to the resolution asking if the
officers of the United States army In
Puerto Rico have received any com
pensation in addition to what they
were entitled to receive by law as sal
ary and allowances. The reply says
that allowances have been paid as fol
lows:
Military governor of Cuba, $7,500 per
year; military governor of Havana,
$5,000 per year; collator of customs
for the Island of Cuba, $1,800 per year
treasurer of the Island of Cuba, $1,800
per year.
THE PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED.
Colorado Populists Have a Scheme to
Provide Bryan With a Run
ning Mate.
FLORENCE, Col., April 25. The pop
ultst state convention today elected
delegates to the national convention
and endorsed W. J. Bryan for presi
dent.
A resolution adopted recommends
that the populists make no nomination
for vice-president, but in lieu there
of that an executive committee be ap
pointed with authority to confer with
similar committees from the democratic
and silver republican conventions at
Kansas City' and to agree with them
If possible upon a vlee-presldentlal
nominee In honest syspathy with Mr.
Bryan .
PUBLIC LIBRARY GIFT.
NEW YORK, April 23.-Congressman
Fowler will give to the city of Eliza
beth, N. J. , a public library building
fully equipped, the whole to cost $100,-000,
BRITISH AVENGE
CHINESE MURDERS
Their Towns Destroyed and Many
of the Natives Slain.
DETAILS OF THE OUTRAGE
Doctors Kiddle and Suthtrlaad Sloaaed to
Death From Anbusk by a Tribe of
the -Wild wf""Rcdre(s Proai-
ised by the Oornmtat.
VANCOUVER, B. C. April 25. De
tails of the Kiddle-Sutherland mur
der were received from Burmah today
by tha steamer Empress of China, 13
days from Yokohama.
The aggressors In this outrage were
tha Wa, or "Wild" Was, as they ar
commonly called, living in Mengkaus.
The party, including Dr. Kiddle and
Sutherland and J. H. Little, with an
eaoort lu charge of Chinese non-com-misslnoned
officers, were suddenly at
tacked from ambush by the Was. Dr.
Kiddle and Dr. Sutherland were stoned
to death and Litton was rendered tem
porarily Insensible. Four of the Chi
nese escorts were killed.
Three days after this outrage tho
United British and Chinese forces at
tacked the Was. A group of the Was'
villages Implicated In the original at
tack were "then made objects of at
tack by the BrtliBh and Chinese force
and 2,000 houses were burned and 60
Was were killed.
Tsung LI Yamen has received a tele.
gram from the Chinese officials in Yun
nan to the effect that the British troops
destroyed and burned the Chinese for-
trosse at Te Sso and Pa Nlh on tho
Burmah Yunnan frontier, killing eight
Chinese soldiers. This was in reprisal
for the attack upon the British com
mission. Yamen was terrified and Immediate
ly sent a humble message to the Brit
ish minister. Sir Charles MacDonald,
begging him to prevent any further
drastic measures by the British troop
on the frontier and promising to niako
every effort to give full redress by
China for the outrage.
THE INDIANA CONVENTION.
Its Session Carried Out With Perfect
Harmony Senator Fairbanks
Elected Chairman.
INDIANAPOLIS, April 25. The pro
gram arranged for the opening ses
sion of the republican state conven
tion was carried out to the letter this
afternoon without a no'e of discord.
Chairman J. Frank Hanly was in
disposed and United States Senator
Fairbanks became chairman pro tern.
Senator Fairbanks spoke in defense of
the vote of the Indiana delegation on
the- Puerto Rican measure. He prom
ised in behalf of the administration
generous treatment toward Puerto
Rlcans In respect to their domestic af
fairs, i -
He disclaimed any protective fea
ture to. the new law and pronounced
It purely one of expediency, prompt
ed by humanity. The convention ad
journed until tomorrow.
ANOTHER PARTY HEARD FROM.
The Ripley Canal Commission Reported
at Darien.
CHICAGO. April 25. A dispatch to
to the Herald from Panama says:
H. C. Ripley and party, acting under
the direction of the United States canal
commission, have left for Darien to ex
plore the region between the Darien
harbor and Caledonia bay on the At
lantic side of the Isthmus, embracing
also the rivers Sabane Tuyra and Chu
cumque. The local government has supplied
them with letters for the authoriltes
in Chepigaua -and Plnogia.
Accompanying Mr. Ripley are Messrs.
Haney and Pe La Motter, assistant en
gineers, and Dr. Mandel, surgeon.
NOT THE ENGLISH WAY.
Restrictions Upon Labor Because
Nationality Don't Go In
British Columbia.
OTTAWA, April 25. The Dominion
government has disallowed the recent
acts of the British Columbia legisla
ture, which jirevented, the employment
of Japanese.
The Atlln placer mining act, which
prevented aliens holding mining claims
has also been disallowed.
THE OREGONIAN RELIEVED.
CaDtaln Carter Sept to Prison Yester
day In Obedience" to It Demand.
NEW YORK. April 25.-Captain Gi.
erlin M. Carter tonight was taken to
Fort Leavenworth to serve out what
remains of his sentence of five years'
Imprisonment for embezzlement.
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