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C. J. TRENCHARD,
BATTLE BETWEEN
BOXERS AND BRITISH
Forty Chinese Killed. by a Body
of Marines.
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Other Powcn la Cblaa.
LONDON, June U.-Hlxleen British
marine. rwonnoltcilng In advance of
th International column marching to
I't-kln. fought and chased t.MO Boxer
on Monday, killing twenty or thirty
A correspondent incompanylng the
column, In a dispatch dated at Tien
Tsln, June 11, &:
"WliJIw working inrtl-H. accompan
ied by a patrol of lxt-en British ma
rine, commanded by Major Johnson,
were repairing tho line Monday af
ternoon, three nilh b-yond Lofa, they
encountrrej .mull parties of Boxers who
were destroying the line. The Box
er moved away from . the ad
vancing marine and apparently dis
persed Into the country, leaving the
rdila moveJ and the sbeper burning.
The marln, whi n two mil a In ad
vance of ih flmt train near lJng
Fung, auddiiily perceived, the lioxera
streaming from the village on the left.
It wan einlnut.-d that they numbered
2.000, gom of them being mounted, and
they were trying to get between the
marine and tho train. The marine-
retreated, keeping up a running light
for over a mile, killing between twenty
and thirty of th Boxer. The Box
era pursued the IlrllUh for aome ll-.
tance. Then, aeilng more marine
from the train corning to their
assistance. Major Johnson a alxteen
halted and ,xured A heavy and con
tlnuoua flrv Into the cro.vd, driving
Hum aCrohi tho front of tho nlnfonlng
bluejackets, who punished the. Boxera
aeverely with their Maxima, The Cox-
era fled and, the Europeans following
up their aui-iVHS, ch-ared out two vil
lus.
Th totill o of the Do x erg In eg-
llmnted at forty killed and wounded.
The Biitlsn loss waa nothing. Unless
tlu'lr loss cause the Boxcra to lote
heart, the int -rn-Ulon tl column will
huvj much troublu beforo It rcuchea
Pekln.
'Evidence of General Nleh'a 0era-
tlona were found In headb-ss bodle.
The whole country oreenta a uVaolate
oupect, entire vlllagoa having bwn de-aerted.
"The expedition numbera t.Mt. as
follow.: ItrltUh, V1j; Uermau, 250;
HiiDMlan, 300; French. Americans,
104; Japoneae, 52; Itulluns, 40, and
AuMtrlun, 2i."
The Time j. In nit extra edition, pub
lished the following dlxpntch from l'e
kin, dated June 12:
"The chancellor of tho Japanese le
gation, Sufryiun.i Aklra, while proceed
ing alone and unprotected on an oftl
cltl duty, was brutally murdered by
the toldlera of Tung Fun Slang, the
favorite bodyguard of the empress, at
Munlitntj railroad station yesterduy."
WASHINGTON. June 12.-The fol
lowing diepateh was received at the
state department today:
Chin Klang, June 12. Secretary of
State: A large number of natives,
membera of the organlxed secret socie
ty, are halted here. The people are
very apprehensive, having no protec
tion. They want a cruiser lent.
"MARTIN."
Martin Is United Plates consul at
Chin Kldng.
The cabinet meeting waa attended by
Secretaries Ihiy. Hitchcock, Long and
Gage, and Postmnster-General Smith.
It waa devoted largely to the discus
sion of the Chinese situation. Secre
tary Hay laid before the cabinet the
dispatches from Minister Conger, which
indicates that the situation Is very
critical. The steps that have been
taken to reinforce Admiral Kempft were
gone over.
It was decided to stand by the pol
icy which has been entered upon of
pushing measures for the protection of
Uvea and property of American cltl-
-na and w ting independently an far
as possible. It may be that In the
hccotnpllNlitnent of this result, the
forces of the powers will have to act
In unison for the protection of alt for
ilxn residents In tn disturbed districts,
but this Is to be the extent of the
Ann i Iran activity. The Chinese gov
ernment will b looked to under the
general laws of the country of uutlons
to restore order and to make su'-h
reparation as ia proper. From any
political schemes In which any of the
powers muy become Involved, the
I'nlted lul s T to hold aloof. This is
the general policy heretofore outlined,
and It will be adhered to. '
The navy department has cabled dis
creetly to Hear-Admiral Kernpff at Ta
ku, to Inform him that marine rein
forcements have been ordered to him
from Manila.
TIEN TSIN, June 12. One hundred
and sixty-three Hritl.h marine were
landed last evening. An additional
twenty Drltlsh hnv bvin sent to Pong
Shan.
Telegraphic communication with IV
k In Is still Interrupted.
The Russian warships IVtropuulov
skl and Komlloff are at the Tuku bar
and the Russian torpedo boats "13"
and "107" are In the riwr at Tuku. j
The want of transports prevents the
Russians from landing troopn. The
RudkIuiis are very active today. It Is
reported that General Fung Fah Slang,
with many thousand troops. Is at Feng
Tal.
The latest news from Van Tung Fu
Is that the Iloxcra, ,j0 strong, are at
tacking the Catholic convent there.
The situation Is critical und olllciola
are evidently Inactive.
The United State warships Nash
ville and Monocacy are recited at
Taku.
NEW YORK. June 12.-Nothlng U
known a yet of the reasons which
Impelled Captain McCalla to go ashore
at Tien Tsln personally, instead of
placing the little force of Americans
under the command of a subordinate
oHcer, says the Washington corre
spondent of the Time.
A high official of the navy depart
ment took the view that the situation
was so serious that Admiral Keinpff
considered It advisable to have the best
officer on his ship ashore, instead of
keeping him on the Newark.
"Caplaln McCalla Is a cool-headed
and able officer,' aid the oflklul who
advanced this opinim, "and Admiral
Kempt very likely thought that the
situation called for all the brains, abil
ity and experience that could be se
cured. In my opinion we shall have
some very stirring news from China be
fore the week la out."
One report from Tien Tsln seems to
Indicate that Captain McCulla's de
tuchment forms part of the force under
command of Vlce-Admlral Seymour. It
Is not known whether this is a fact or
w hether McCalla merely went out with
the vice-admiral and baa taken up a
position along the line where he Is
himself In sole command.
NEW YORK. June 12. London has
b:i severed temporarily from com
munication with two centres of the
most Interesting news, Teking and Pre
toria, says a London correspondent of
the Tribune. v
The Boxers, like the Boers, have cut
the wires, and Tien Tsln and Taku have
not known with precision what was
happening at Peking, where the Im
perial government Is censuring the reg
ular troops for offering reslsltance to
the rebels, and complimenting the fa
natical mobs for their patriotism and
public spirit in killing foreigners and
burning their property.
The force of over 2,000 marines which
li ft Tien Tsln on Sunday and yesterday
la bcjleved to have reached the capltol
In safety. The presence of this force
wus urgently needed, for the dowager
empress has dropped all pretences and
la In open sympathy with the enemies
of the missionaries and foreigners, and
all the mission property at Peking is
menaced with the fate of the Ameri
can station at Tung Chan where the
buildings have been destroyed and the
native Christians murdered by the sol
diers commissioned to protect them.
It Is the story of Armenia repeated
In Peking. All Christian converts and
foreigners at the capital are at the
mercy of the mobs, as well as the regu
lar soldiers, unless marines from 31
ships of war can protect them. A re
assuring fenture of the situation Is ap
parent In the hear'.lncss with which
the great powers are co-operating In
a determined effort to protect foreign
GOVERNING THE
SOUTH AFRICANS
England Has Decided Upon Plan
of Civil Settlement.
RUM0&S OF DOER SUCCESS
Slilemest Tail Sleya li Artla ia Bkxsi
loatela Discredits ia Uadea - Im
port a I Strattxk Move by
British Troop.
(Continued on Fourth Page.)
Screens and Screen frames,
fire and Draught Screens....
A NEK CONSIGNMENT JUST RECEIVED
FOLDING J3EDS
MAiNTEL BEDS
CHINA CLOSETS ond
LIBRARY CASES
CHARLES HEILB0RN' & SOU
LONDON, June li-It 1 learned by
the Associated Pre. that the rovern
ment his at last decided upon a plan
for the civil setll-ment of South Afrl
ca. The details are kept most secret
but It can he safely tald that the
Oiange River colony and the Transvaa
will become crown colonies. Sir Alfred
Mllner. It is declared. Is to be ldsh
commissioner of South Africa, in spite
of the opposition he has Incurred.
The crovn polony form of govern
ment can be best understood with ref
erenc? to the system In vogue in the
West Indies, Sierra Leon and Ceylon
Endeavors will be made to put this In
force as soon as possible In '.be Trans
vital and Orange River colony, though
It Is scarcely expeceted that the details
will be announced or some parts of the
work be begun for a few months.
hlle the civil settlement will be
drawn up so as to be eventually Inde
pendent of military enforcement," It is
realized that the initial work must be
effected with the co-operation of the
troops.
The colonial office is said to be of
the opinion that the maintenance of
good-sixed garrisons at such centers
as Rloemfontln, Kroonstad, Johannes
burg and Pretoria jrill be necessary
for a long tlm-i after the crown colony
system gets In working order. - For this
reason, and others put forward by
Sir Alfred Mllner, the Idea of granting
an autonomous form of government has
been abandoned.
LONDON, June 12 The war offli-e
posts the following dispatch from Gen
eral Buller:
"Headquarters in Natal, June 1L We
huve forced Almond's Nek. It Is not
marked on the map, but is the last
d-file to Charlestown Flats. The ene
my were In considerable force, with
several guns in position. . The bru it
of the fighting fell upon the Second
Dorsets, who carried the position at
the point of the bayonet, and the Third
Cavalry Brigade, who were heavily at
tacked on our right from the very
broken country around Ikellnl moun
tain. I hope our casualties are less
than 100, which, considering the ex
tieme length of the position, is muoh
Ivss than expected.
"The whole attack was directed by
Klldyard, w hose 'dispositions were ex
tremely good. The artillery, Tenth
Brigade and Third Cavalry did most
of the work."
The war oWce has received the fol
lowing dispatch from General Kelly-
Kenny:
Bloemfontein, June 12. Our troops
from the north are at Honing '5prult
(south of Roodeval, where the Boers
cut the British lines of communication)
huvtng defeated the enemy. They will
be at America siding tomorrow at 8
a. m. General Knox moves out from
Kroonstad to interc?pt the enemy,
Fuller particulars later."
LONDON, June 12, 9:12 p. m. The
war office has Issued the following
from Buller to the secretary of war:
''Joubert's Farm, June 12, 5:12 p. m.
We are encamped four miles north of
Volksrust. Lalng's Nek and Majula
were completely evacuated by the
Boers last night. General Cleary, from
Ingogo, is now coming over the Nek.
I have had to camp here for want of
water. A correct list of yesterday's
casual lea will be sent as soon as re
ceived." '
A plentiful crop of reports has been
filtering through Lourenco Marques.
According to these, General Dewit, with
13,000 burghers, is marching on Johan
nesburg, the Boers have retaken Bloem
fonteln, where President Steyn again
occupies the presidency, the British
having sustained a severe defeat at
Elandsfonteln, lost "50 killed and
wounded and 150 prisoners in a fight
at Vredefort. '
Nothing from any other sources lends
color to these stories, with the ex
ception of the last, which is probably
the Boer version of the disaster to
the battalion of the Derbyshire regi
ment at Roodeval. In regard to Pres
ident St?yn being at Bloenrfor.teln, a
dispatch from Maseru, Basotuland, dat
ed June 11, says Steyn was then at
Vredevct, 200 miles from Bloemfontein.
General Buller appears to be making
substantial progress, and ought soon to
be occupying the railroad at Charls
town, whence presumably he will ad
vance with Roberts.
A dispatch from Lichtenburg, dated
June 11, says 60 Johannesburg mounted
policemen with a Maxim gun have
surrendered to General Hunter.
A probable explanation of the reports
that tht British force is moving
through Swaziland com In a dispatch
from port Elizabeth, dut.'d June 11,
announcing the return there of the
Biltish cruiser Doris from Koos Bay,
whither she had takn a number of
whaleboats with the object of 'andlng
an armed for:-e, presumably part of a
plan to penetrate Into Swaziland. The
Boers, however, got wind of the expedi
tion, and the force -vas not landed.
According to a Cape Town dispatch,
the cabin :i crisis continues. It Is add
ed that should Premier Schrelrur se
cede from the bund, as he threatens,
his action would place the mlnirlty in
the assembly.
Among the member of the Yeomanry
killed at Lindlejr was W. T. Power,
proprietor of the Canyon ranch In
North Texas, and a son of Sir W. T.
Prwer.
LONDON, June 13. Two pieces of
news encouraging to the British in the
ofiicial dispatches are that ;he broken
communications of Lord Roberts are
In a fair way to be mended by the
forces moving northward and south
ward and driving off th. roving com
mandos, and that Sir Redvers Buller
Is at last master of Laing's Nek. Tele,
graphic communication with Lord Rob.
erts is expected to be restored today,
as a dispatch from Bloemfontein, dat
ed yesterday, says the railway Is in
British possession again and that the
work of repairing the line is going
on rapidly with abundant material
warehoused at Bloemfontein.
From the subjoined tele-gram it would
appear that General Hunter was in
command of the troo;s referred to by
General Kelly-Ksnny in his dispatch
from Bloemfontein, June 12:
"General Hunter is coming up rap
Idly from the northw.jst, having se
verely defeated a large commando of
Boers who had destroyed two miles of
the railway north of Kroonstad."
The war office casualty returns up to
June 3 aggregate 23,664, besides 752 of
ficers and 12,355 men sent home as in
valids, but not Including the sick in the
South African hospitals.
LONDON. June 12. It Is officially an
nounced that General Buller reports
Almonds Nek has been forced.
NEW YORK, June 12. A dispatch to
the Tribune from London eay3:
Bad news from the Free State oozes
out slowly from me war otllce. The
line of communication was cut on
Wednesday, the day after Lord Rob
erts entered Pretoria, but the fact was
not admitted until Saturday, nor the
truth revealed until yesterday that
there had been severe fighting at Rood
eval. and that the militia battalion of
the Derbyshire regiment and other de
tails had been taken prisoners. These
details were guarding the railway
where the Boer raiders struck the line
of communications, end their casual--ties
were sever?, about a hundred being
killed and wounded. So far as report
ed, the defense of the militia was
clearly vigorous, but the force was out
numbered, and the Boers were enabled
to destroy the railway for over 20
miles.
Lord Methuen, after reaching Lindley
by a forced march from the railway,
left a garrison there and headed for
Hellbro to Join General Cohille, but
was fighting with a Boer force on
Thursday within 10 miles of his desti
nation. Whether this force was re
turning from Roodeval with its pris
oners or was an auxiliary column
hovering about Heiltron, is uncertain.
Apparently the raiding column re
mained on the railway for several days,
for a 'casualty list reached General
Knox at Kroonstn-1 under a flag of
ruce. General Kelly-Kenny has or
dered General Knox to go north, but
the direction taken by the raiding
forces is not known. General Paget's
garrison sit Lis.dU-y would appear to
be in imminent danger.
This unfavorable news has caused
keen disappointment ln'military circles
here, but, th.w i3 no disposition on tht
part of well-informed men to censure
Lord Robe res.
The Free St-ie forcPb have delivered
an effective counter strone and have
taken over a thousand prisoners at
Lindley jtni Roodeval. They have
thrown the British campaign into dis
order by their brilliant (-tmtegy, snd
have learned by experience how much
nii.sehlef :h;y can cauoe by harassing
tW British line of communications.
The British forces will be massed
against the Free State commandoes as
Boon- as Lord Roberts gets control of
the wires.
ANTIS TO FIRE -THEIR
FIRST GUN
Ohio Democrats Will Hold Stats
Convention Today.
CHICAGO PLATFORM GHOST
Resolution Indorsing lallmlled Colntge
Bos McLeaa Ma Evtrytolat His
Ow. Way -Dewey for
VkePrttldeat.
COLUMBUS, O., June 12.-The Mc-
Lean men controlled the preliminary
meetings today, but they are evidently
playing for harmony more than for
places, a.nd may not carry out the same
program In the democratic state con
version tomorrow. John R. McLeun s
friends are In the majority on I he new
state central committee that was se
lected this evening and will tielecl the
campaign chairman and the members of
the state executive . committee at a
later date. It Is claimed that the Mc
Lean men who are securing control of
the party organization tonight for an
other' year have ail they wanted, and,
although they could carry everything
tomorrow a they also have a majority
on the convention committees, that
here will be a fres for all contest for
the Mate ticket and delegates and al
ternates at large to the Kansas City
convention.
The opposition to McLean comes from
the silver extremists. The ulttra sll-.
ver delegates also appear, to be dis
satisfied with the proposition to endorse
Dewey for the vlca-preldential nomination.-
The platform, which will be submit
ter! to the committee on resolutions to-morrow.-was
in the main prepared by
General A. J. Warner. It reaffirms the
Chicago platform.
General Warner is president of the
American Bimetallic League and a plo.
neer advocate of unlimited coinage,
but, in explaining his platform, be said
there had been more Important Itsues
raised since 1SS than the restoration of
silver to its constitutional place in coin
age. He spoke of "the- mission of the
constltu'lon under the administration
of imperialism, militarism, conquest,
eggression -and corruption" as the
I greatest danger that ever threatened
the country. He also held that the
trusts outranked silver now as an Issue.
CLARK HONORED.
Montana Democratic Convention En
dorses the Wily Senator.
. BUTTE, Mont., June 12. Democrats
who left the Silver Bow county con
vention yesterday and organised a
convention of their own, today named
a full delegation to' represent this
county in the state convention- Sena
tor Wm. A. Clark heads the delega
tion. Their resolutions set forth that
the organization of a separate conven
tion was necessitated by the actions of
the faction in control of the party ma
chinery, and the refusal of the con
vention of yesterday to accord to the
other side any voice in the proceed
ings. The actions of Hon. Wm. A. Clark,
in his endeavors to prevent the de
basement of the ballot In this state are
endorsed, and Congressman Campbell's
course. In congress and In the sena
torial investigation is denounced, and
the resolutions call him "a moral
and political leper" whose proper place
is before the bar of Justice instead of
in the house of representatives.
RUSSIAN BANKER HERE.
M. Rothstein, Arrives in New York,
Causing Considerable Comment.
NEW YORK, June 12.-There Is some
comment- In banking circles over the
presence of M. Rothstein, of St. Peters
burg, in this city. His visit to this
country Is said to be In the Interest of
a largs Russian Government Railway
loan.
Mr. Rothstein called on President
Stillmin, of the National City Bank.
Mr. Still man said later that it was ab
surd to talk about the floating of Rus
sian bonds when even the United States
bonds are not In active demand, and
the presidential election Is coming on.
VICTIMS OF EDMONTON TRAIL.
Arrive" at Wrangel After an Absence of
Two Years.
WRANGLE, Alaska, June 8, via Se
attle, June 12 James McLaggan of
North Dakota., J. L. Hewn, of Ed
monton, B. C, and II. Calbert, of
Amesburg, Mass., victims of the ghast
ly Edmonton-Dawson trail, came down
the Stlckeen river from Glenora. B. C,
today, on the steamer Strathcona.
They are of a party of five that left
Edmonton two years ago and reached
the Upper Llard post.
They found considerable fine gold on
the river bars, but not in sufficient
quantities to pay. They spent the win
ter at Glenora, B. C, and are to start
for Nome, via Skagway, by the first
boat going north. ,
WILL GO TO EUROPE.
Rabbi Wise of Portland Chosen Dele
gate to International Congress.
' PORTLAND, June 12. A special to
the Evening Telegram from New-
York says:
The third annual convention of tho
Federation of American Zionists was
brought to a conclusion last evening.
President G. Gotthell, Stephen S. Wi
of Portland, Or., Rev. D. Schaefter, of
Ealtlmore, and Rev. B. Felzenthal, of
Chicago, were elected delegates of the
central committee to the International
congress in London on August 12,