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ATER NEW S.
D E M O C R A TS
C O M P L A IN .
/ b j r e t to ih e A c tio n « o f K a n a a « C it y
General Bailer occupied Dundee,
H o te l M e n ,
P C B 1 .I A H I D B T B K T IA T C R D A T . j Senator Clark, of Montana, has re-
New York, May 17.—Senator Jones,
! ngued.
rhairmau of the Democratic national
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President St evil’s brother captured Is at Last Decided by the committee, has been overwhelmed with Boers Retreat Before the Na­
by General Buller.
letters fiom prominent members of the
tal Column.
Senate.
party complaining about what they
Great rush is on from Dawson to gold
characterize mm extortion ou the i>art of
diggings of the Kovokuk.
the hotel-keeper* of Kansas City, says
| There is no hope of action bv the sen- F R E E
E V A C U A T IO N O F H E LP M A A K E R
HOMES
B IL L
PASSED
a Washington correspondent of the
I ite on the Nicaragua canal bill this
Times.
session.
< '« M p r th e n » t T « R e v ie w o f t h e I m p o r t *
It appears that the hotel men of the llu r g l i a r s A r e M a k in g f u r I h e M o u n t a in
T o n g u e H e ru re « a I l o a n i to In v e s t ig a t e
a n t H a p p e n in g « o f t h e P a s t W e e k I Germany is seising Congo Free State
Passas A r d u o u s M a r c h o f t h e B r i t ­
C o lu m b ia K lv e r l> ry « lo c k Q u e a tlo u ** couveutiou city are daiiiaudiug that the
delegates and the other visitors mast
C u lle d F r o m t h e T e le g r a p h C o lu m n a . territory, and now occupies about 3,000
F iv e H u h m a r in a T o r p e d o * H o a ta
is h F o rç a s O v e r W a t e r le s s C o u n t r y .
j square miles.
submit to lieiug placed In rooms con­
taining five beds; that they shall pay
General Alger is now blamed for the
A cheese trust has been formed in Cuban postal frauds, inasmuch as he
Washington, May 16.—After a dis­ $5 a day for that accommodation, aud
Loudon, May 17.—The war office ha«
Chicago.
cussion lasting five full days, the sen­ agree to pay for four days. Meniliers received the following dispatch iron,
appointed Rathboue.
ate today passed the naval appropria­
Arbitration with regard to the St.
Senator Jones, of Nevada, introduced tion bill. Practically four daya were of the national committee, leaders of General Buller:
Louis street car strike has failed.
“ Duudee, May 17.— We have occu­
* bill making it a crime for railroads demoted to the consideration of the state delegations and Democrata who
contemplate going to Kansas City for pied Dundee.
About 2.500 of tin*
Lord Roberts entered Kroonstaad, to blacklist employes.
amor plate proposition, which waa the purpose of seeing the oonveutiou enemy left yesterday fol Glencoe, when»
which had lieen evacuated by the
The United States court of uppeals agreed to dually as reported from the have written letters of protest to Senator they are entrenched. Their wagom*
Transvaal forces.
holds that a liovcott is malicious inter­ committee, with the exception that the Jones, and today the cjiairmau of the also left yesterday by Dejager’s Drifq
Honolulu has been officially declared ference with business.
secretary of the navy is authorised to national committee wrote a loug letter and the Daunuhauser rouil.
Their
a clean port, the plague being efficient*
London papers want to ostracise make contracta only for such armor us to Vice-Chairman Stone, of Missouri, Kaffirs aaid they were going to laiing’s
ly stamped out.
Richard Croker in revenge for the posi­ may l>e needed from time to time. The requesting him to take the matter up Nek. Almost every house iu Duudee is
The senate, by a close vote, rejected tion Tammany has taken in the Boer secretary of the navy is authorized to with the local committees of Kansas completely looted.
The navigation
procure armor of the best quality at City, and secure a readjustment of con­ colliery is all right. The machinery of
the proposition for an armor-plate plant war.
$445 per ton; but if he be unable to ditions.
operated by the government.
the Duudee colliers is destroyed. The
Democrats complain of Kansas City obtain it at that price, he is then
Senator Joues does not hesitate to houses of the town are damaged, hut
The towns of Hilongos and Maasin, hotel men. They object to paving five
in Leyte, have been captured by the dollars per day for a bed in a room with authorized to pay $545 per ton for the declare that the hotel men are violating are structurally intact.”
armor for the battleship Muine, Ohio the pledge that was made to the Demo­
A special dispatch from L o u re n c o
Americans with few casualties.
four others.
aud Missouri and proceed to erect au cratic national committee before and Marques says it is re|sirted that a large
The American pavilion at Paris was
President J. J. Hill paid $140,00(1 armor factory, the exist not to exceed after Kansas City ohtaiue I the con­ force of Boers have been captured by
turned over to the exposition authorities for a S|xikane flour mill in order to get j $4,000,000, one-half of which amount vention, last February.
the British at Mafeking.
Pretoria, it
with impressive ceremonies.
an entrance to the city for the Great is made immediately available.
The
is added, re|airts on the other hand that
T O O S T R A C IS E C R O K E R .
I committee’s pro|xisitiou carried by a
A woman and 8-year-old child were Northern.
Mafeking has fallen.
vote
of
32
to
19.
The
secretary
of
the
burned to death at South Omaha, Neb.,
The war office today furnished con­
Porto Rico aud Hawaii will send
L o n d o n P a p e r P la n a Ite v e n g e f o r P o s i­
by starting a tire with gasoline.
firmation of the story telling of General
delegates to the Democratic national uavy is directed to puichase five Hol­
t io n T a m m a n y lia s T a k e n .
Buller’s moves on the Biggarsla-rg. iu
Germany is said to be supplying the convention. Each island will be ac­ land torpedo Ixiats, at a price not ex­
Loudon, May 17. — The express of to­
ceeding $170,000 each.
a dispatch from Geueral Buller, as fol­
Filipinos with arms to enable them to corded six delegates.
day
advocates
the
ostracism
of
Richard
Just before adjournment, Nelson
continue their fight against the United
The grandstand, famous glass betting (Rep. Minn.) called up the “ free Croker in England in revenge for Tam­ lows:
“ Kemp’s Farm, May 17.—The fol­
States.
ring and all the buildings of the race­ homes’’ hill, and it was passed with- ,n“u.v 's attitude ou the Boer war.
It
lowing
telegrams sent to Kolicrta, are
sa vs:
Charles Panstein, a murderous ath­ track at Clifton, N. J., were entirely out a word of debate.
now re|H*ated to you.
They begin
destroyed
hv
fire,
with
a
loss
of
$100,-
"It has not escaped notice in this
lete of Butte, Mont., shot and killed
A hill for the establishment of a
under
date
of
May
13:
a butcher, his wife and then committed 000. The fire was the 4'ork of incen­ lighthouse and fog signal at Ship Point, country that an American welcome to
“ In accordance with instructions to
diaries.
suicide.
Wash., at a cost of $12,000 was passed. | the Boer delegates has beau inspired keep the enemy occupied at Biggars-
sun
encouraged
by
lainmany
flail,
Assistant Attorney-General Boyd has
A concurrent resolution was adopted
The Populist national convention at
berg ou May 11, 1 concentrated the
Sioux Falls nominated W. J. Bryan for rendered a decision in the case of ex­ for a survey of the outlet of Flathead which is controlled by the notorious Third cavalry brigade of the Second
Ixiss,
Dick
Croker.
The
records
of
Tam-
president, Charles A Towne for vice- press companies, in which he holds lake, Mont., with a view to keeping
many are already black euough with­ division, and some corps of artillery at
they are not liable to taxes as brokers, the lake full.
president.
out
the addition of this new infamy. Sunday’s river drift, on the llelpinaaker
A hill providing for the appointment
road, aud directed Colonel Bethuene to
Before leaving Kroonstaad, President by reason of their issuing money orders
of a collector of customs for the cus­ But what makes the action of Tam­ advance on Greytown with the Bcthuem«
Steyn issued a proclamation making and travelers’ checks.
many peculiarly infamous is the fact
An explosion of a tank in the gaso­ toms district of Hawaii, at a salary of that Croker claims the hospitality of mounted infantry, Umvoti mouuteil
Lindley the seat of government of
$4,000
per
year,
and
for
such
deputies
line storehouse of A. G. Wykoff, nt
Orange Free State.
an English domicile, pises as an Eng­ rifles and Imperial light infantry. On
us may he necessary, was passed.
May 12 we moved to Wiischhauk and
Middle-of-the-Road Populist conven- ' Raritan, N. Y., called out the fire
Hale (Rep. Me.) then called up the lish country gentleman aud runs race Beth oom, to 1’ouieioy, while General
engines.
While
the
firemen
were
at
tion at Cincinnati, nominated Wharton
naval appropriation bill, the pending horses on the English turf, yet is aid­
P. Barker for president and Ignatius work, a second tank exploded and its question being on the amendment of ing aud encouraging the worst of Eng­ llildyard, from Eland’s Laagte, occu­
pied ludoda mountain on May 13.
flaming contents enveloped and fatally
Donnelly for vice-president.
(’handler (Rep. N. H. ) substituting in land’s enemies.
burned two men.
“ 1 sent Geueral Hamilton with throe
“
Croker’s
position
is
practically
on
Tillman’s amendment $445 for $300 as
The work of the Chicago city di- |
battalions
up tho slope of Withek hill.
Mrs. Leland Stanford, on the anni­ the price of armor. The amendment all fours with that of the Duke of
rectory enumerators for 1900, almost
The
Third
cavalry lirigade crowned the
versary
of
her
deceased
son’s
birth,
has
Orleans. The duke has already paid
was rejected, 25 to 27.
completed, shows that the population
hill
on
each
side of the main road and
delivered over to Bishop Grace the
Hoar (Rep. Mass.) offered the follow­ the jienalty of having fallen under the Bethuene attacked by the I'omeroy road
of Chicago is not less than 2,001,000.
deed to the old Stanford manson, which ing amendment to the committee prop­ tian of social ostracism.
if Croker
Seven men were killed and 20 or shall henceforward lie known as the
from three sides. The enemy hurried­
more firemen hurt by a collision in a Stanford Lathrop Children’s Home. osition with respect to the construction finds that the bracing air of the United ly abandoned the position, which they
States does not invariably suit his con­
tunnel in Philadelphia.
The wreck At the same time the $75,000 transfer of an armor plate factory:
stitution, he should secure the calm had strongly intrenched and retired to
“
That
if,
under
the
operation
of
the
caught fire, and the total loss is $140,- was made which is to serve as an en­
the Nek ill front of llelpinaaker, where
above provision, no government armor seclusion of au Italian villa within we hope to dislodge them tomorrow, as
000.
dowment fund for the institution.
reach
of
the
Duke
of
Orleans,
whose
plate manufactory is began or built,
many of them have retired. We have
Owing to the alarm being taken in j
Congress
will
adjourn
about
June
20.
the
secretary of the navy shall submit company he will probably find con­ gained the summit of the Berg with
America over the influx of Japanese ;
genial.”
the loss of only a few men wounded.
Burglar rifled the postoflice and store to congress at the beginning of its next
and the probability of anti-Japanese
session
a
detailed
report,
in
which
he
legislation, the Japanese government is at Jefferson, Or.
C H IC A G O H O T E L F IR E .
“ May 14.—The enemy evacuated
making efforts to turn the tide of its j Buller has taken Boers’ stronghold shall estimate the entire cost of a fully
llelpinaaker
during the night, leaving
equipped government armor plate man­ G u p r I i »1 uni|>e<l F r o m th e W in d o w « —
surplus population to Formosa.
! on the Biggarsherg.
a
rear
guard
of ala,lit a thousand men
R
u
m
o
r
o
f
L
o
a
i
o
f
L
if
e
.
ufactory,including site and the probable
in front of us. These we have forced
Ira Williams, a logger, was drowned
The British were received at Kroon- time at which the best modern armor
Chicago, May 17.—The Hotel Helena,
in the Necanicum river, near Astoria. stail with open arms.
plate could be produced at said factory lit) Fifty-third street, was destroyed hack throughout the day under consid­
erable difficulty, as they fired all the
The government of the Orange Free
by fire early this morning. The confla­ grass on top of the Berg as they retreat­
The minority report on the ship sub­ and ready for delivery.”
State has been moved from Kronstadt sidy hill is strongly against a subsidy.
The amendment was accepted by the gration was very fierce ami many of the
to Heilbron.
committee and as amended the com­ occupants were forced to jump from ed, and the wind being unfavorable to
The governor of Missouri has offered
us, we were scarcely able to see at all.
Republicans of Illinois in convention aid to the police in the St. Louis strike. m ittee’s proposition was adopted, 32 the windows to escape the flames. I halted the infantry, who marched
to 19.
Several persons weio severely injured
assembled, indorsed the McKinley ad­
Nationalists won two-thirds of the
The next proposition of the committee and four are thought to have been very well through the hot smoke, a t
ministration.
vacant seats in the Paris muuicipnl gov­ provided for the pmchase of five Hol­ killed. The building is a three-story Teith. The cavalry has not yet re|x»rt-
We
Two men and two boys were killed ernment.
land submarine torpedo boats, at a structure, containing 100 rooms, all of ed, but Are some miles ahead.
have
taken
a
few
prisoners.
Our
by the wrecking of a finit train, near
The Chicago & Rock Island railway price of $170,000 each, and it was them being occupied. The place was casualties aie small.
Rawlins, Wyo.
| will probably build to Portland, Or. adopted Hfter some debate with an closed for the night, and the guests had
“ Dundonald reported late last night
amendment making the purchase to he aroused by the police.
Excessive customs duties imposed by Surveyors are now in the field
The fire
that
he had driven the rear guard onto
mandatory.
the military government are fast k ill­
was close to the Hyde Park police sta­
Dreyfus is in Paris and France is
Chandler offered an amendment re­ tion, and every one in the station was the main l»ody of the enemy near Bur-
ing American trade in the Philippines. worried. Officials w ill try to hurry
slinden, where they occupied in force a
ducing the number of armored cruisers
The First and Second Irish Fusiliers him away, owiug to fear of demonstra­ provded for in the hill from three to sent to aid in rescuing the panic- strong position with three powerful
stricken guests.
Several policemen
sailed from Cape Town for Athlone, tions.
two and the number of protected cruis­ were more or less burned in rescuing guns. Major Gough, with a composite
Ireland, to recuperate from their try­
Landing privileges at Manila are ers from three to two.
His purpose the inmates. The fire burned so rapid­ regiment, maneuvered to get around
ing experiences in the field.
held by an unscrupulous monopoly that in offering it, he said, was to direct ly that most of the occupants were their right flank and thev retired.
He was 25
President Powell, of the Order of is aecumula.ing a fortune and throt­ attention to the fact that we are ex- forced to climb onton the window sills, Dundonald then halted.
pendng too much money for our navy as the stairways were cut off liy the miles as a crow flies from his previoua
Railway Telegraphers, issued an order tling trade.
formally discontinuing the strike of
Many of the victims were night’s bivouac, aud had covered water­
The number of cases of bubonic and too little for the development of flames.
our
merchant
marine.
the Southern railway telegraphers.
forced to jump before the firemen could less country, most of the time riding
I plague at Sydnev, N. S. W., officially
through smoke.
McBride
(Rep.
Or.)
secured
an
put
up their ladders.
reported
to
this
date
is
216,
of
which
During a riot between strikers and
amendment
providing
for
the
appoint­
Four chambermaids are missing, and
workmen at the Buttonwood mine o f , 76 proved fatal.
J A P A N ’S N A V Y .
the Parish Coal Company at Wilkes- I Chicago and other Mississippi valley ment of a board of officers to determine it is supposed they perished in the
the
desirability
of
constructing
a
dry
flames.
barre, Pa., about 20 men were badly cities are expecting the hottest May
M a n e u v e r s a n d K e v le w n t t h e F le e t liy
dock on the Colombia river. Or.
injured, the strikers dispersing the weather in years.
C l a r k S tep » D o w n ,
There were four
t h e K in p e r o r ,
Pettigrew (Sil. S. D. ) declared that it
workmen.
J prostrations in Chicago.
Washington, May 17.—Clark, of
was the purpose of the dominant party
Yokohama, May 6, (via Victoria, B.
The British iron ship Sierra Nevada,
Joe Barker, found guilty of man­ in congress to make these great con­ Montana, fairly swept the senate with CL, May 17).—One of the great events
surprise
today
by
a
formal
announce­
Captain Scott, from Liverpool, Janu­ slaughter for the killing of Charles tracts for war vessels and armor in
ary 16, for Melbourne, Aus., was total­ Johuson, in Seattle, three months ago, order that it might be then in position ment that he had sent his resignation of the present year iu Japan has passed
ly wrecked outside the harbor of the was sentenced to 16 years’ imprison­ to obtain vast contributions to its cam­ as senator to the governor of Montana. into history. The impressive review of
The announcement came without pre­ the Japanese fleet by the emperor,
latter place. Five of her crew were ment.
paign fund.
while not so imposing as the great Eng­
saved, but 22 others, including the cap­
The bill then passed without division. vious notice, and probably not a half- lish display on the queen’s jubilee,
After writing a note of farewell to
dozen
persons
in
\Aishington
knew
that
tain, perished;
Nelson (Rep. Minn.) secured the
1 his former sweetheart, Harry N. Bar­
was in some respects of greater tiguifi
One hundred and fifty-seven Japanese rett, of Chicago, prosperous in business passage of an act providing for free it was to be made. Clark struck just cance, besides being in itself a con­
at
the
instant
the
iron
was
hottest.
immigrants have landed in San Fran­ and heir to an estate worth $75,000, homesteads on the pahlic lands for
spicuous success as a picturesque spec­
cisco, of which number 75 were admit­ took carbolic acid and died.
actual and bona fide settlers and reserv­ Chandler, chairman of the committee tacle. The review was preceded by
on
privileges
and
elections,
fiad
given
ted by certificates of landing signed by
Fifteen
thousand
Mohammedan ing the public lands for that purpose. notice that at 1 o’clock he would call extensive maneuvers of the fleet iu the
the United States immigration com­ weavers met in Benares and indorsed a
I n C e n t r a l A f r ic a .
up for consideration the restitution inland sea, that scene being substituted
missioner at Vancouver, B. O., and 82 memorial to the Indian government
unanimously reported from the com­ for the Corean straits iu order to avoid
London,
May
16.—Lionel
Decla,
who
on certificates from the commissioner against the plague rules, declaring that
is conudcting a Cape-to Cairo expedi­ mittee declaring Clark nut to be en­ any semblance of a design to wound
at Seattle.
they were contrary to the laws of Mo­ tion, fitted up by the London Daily titled to his seat in the senate.
As newspaper
A Russian sensibilities.
Franklin W. Fisk, D. D., whose res­ hammed.
Telegraph, sends by wire and steamer spirited contest over the resolution was correspondents were strictly excluded,
ignation after 41 years incumbency of
In the United States supreme court from Uvila, north ot Lake Tanganyika, expected. Every senator in the city scarcely any particulars were obtained
the office of president of the Chicago at Boston, Charles H. Cole, former the following: “ The situation here is was at his desk.
concerning the various movements o<
Thoelogical seminary, takes effect at president of the now detanct Globe critical. The Germans have forcibly
the fleet, except that their general de­
F a r m e r M u r d e r e d H is F a m i l y .
the close of the current year, has been National Bank, who recently pleaded seized all the Congo Free State territory
sign was to represent an attack upon
Peoria, 111., May 17.—A special to and a defense of that vast body o, water
elected professor emeritus of the chair guilty on an indictment charging him up to Ruzizi river, occupying 8,000
of sacred rhetoric of the institution. with misappropriation of funds of the square miles of Congo territory with the Journal from Tremont, 111., says: which in the event of war would furn­
The election is for life.
institution, was sentenced to serve eight 1,000 soldiers, 15 officers and cannon. Tom Moser, a farmer, living three miles ish to the empire’s fleet not only an
north of this city, murdered his wife
The secretary of the treasury has di­ years in Greenfield.
The Belgian officer withdrew from his and four children Sunday evening. impregnable haven of refuge, hut also
rected Collector Jackson, at San Fran­
Alec Whitney, aged 25, a society station under threat of instant attack. The last seen of the family was at 8 P. a point of attack from which on threo
different sides it could issue to assail
cisco, to detail an inspector from the leader, was shot and killed on a street The Germans burned the station. Their M. Sunday.
Farmers living iu the
Chinese bureau to attend to the making car at Augusta, Ga., by a negro in a officers acted on instructions from neighborhood, not seeing any one about an enemy. The maneuvers over, some
50 of the warships, Including the finest
out of papers for Chinese merchants quarrel over a seat.
The negro, Gus Merlin.”
the house yesterday or this morning, of Ihe battleships and cruisers, assem­
doimciled in this country who are on Wilson, was taken off a Georgia rail­
investigated. They found tne house bled in Kobe hay, where, with the hills
T w o O lr ls D r o w n e d .
the eve of departing for China with the road passenger train at Harlem, 25
locked and apparently deserted.
On and shores black with spectators, tho
Joplin,
Mo.,
May
15.—
May
McNal­
intention of returning. They will have 'miles from Augusta, by a mob and
going
into
the
cellar
they
found
the
ly,
aged
16
years,
and
Edna
Worden,
emperor reviewed the fleet, which tho
He was being taken to
these papers on their return to this ’lynched.
i aged 20, were drowned today in Neosha laxly of Mis. Moser covered ud with Japanese now regard with well nigh
'Atlanta for safekeeping.
country to facilitate their landing.
old carnets.
' river, their boat capsizing.
idolatrous pride.
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