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VOL.
X II.
LATER NEW S.
The senate passed the diplomats and
consular bill.
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Queen Liliuokalani will receive nc
pension from the government.
General Joe Wheeler’s resignation
w ill lie accepted on his arrival iu
Washington.
Boers Outwitted by Roberts’
Movement.
En I n t e r e s t i n g C o l l e c t i o n o f I t e m s F r o m
General Kobbe, with 2,500 men, has
occupied the town of Sorsogon, in the
southern end of Luzon.
Thousands of organized insurgents
The plnguo iu Honolulu is ituiler con are resisting the Americans in the
Antique province in l ’auay.
trol.
The annual reports of Indian agents
General Gutacrc ltus occupied Storm-
show that the entire Indian population
berg.
Cape Colony Iioers aro retreating tc of tlio United States is 297,905.
The legislature of Illinois appropriat
Orange l-'ree State.
ed $100,000 for the reconstruction ol
General Joe Wheeler has arrived at
the Lincoln moument at Springfield.
San Francisco from Manila.
The mutual Lifo Insurance Company
A resolution was introduced in con
of Now York, has subscribed for £2,-
gress asking for repeal of the tariff on
000,000 of the new English war loans.
paper.
The legislative trouble at Frankfort,
The British government has decided
Ky., is at the boiling point. M ilitia is
to retain Lord Pauucefote as ambas
in complete control of the state execu
sador at Washington indefinitely.
tive building.
The latest sugar trust’ s dividend w.fl
The threatened strike of the em
smaller than usual, supposed to be tin
ployes of the St. Louis Transit Com
result of the fight with Arbucklc.
pany is off. An agreement satisfactory
Yaqui Indians dispersed 300 M exi to both sides was reached.
can soldiers who were Acting ns escort
Indications are that the Boer war is
to the mail, near l ’otain, Mexico.
drawing to an end. President Kruger
Geraldine, the famous racing mare, has appealed to Lord Salisbury for a
holder of the world’s record for half a cessation of hostilities.
mile, is dead at Napa Faun, ueai
Taxation of corporations in Paris has
Napa, Cal.
led to the transfer of many main offices
Lieutenant Edgar Koehler, of tht to Brussels, French societies being in
Ninth infantry, was led into an am corporated there under the laws of Bel
bush of Filipino rebels north of Tarlat gium to avoid the French income tax.
and killed.
Admiral Kautz, commander-in-chie!
The Howe Lumber Company of of the Pacific squadron, has been
Lowell, Mass., has assigned as a result ordered to proceed with the Philadel
of the failure of the Globe National phia to the coast of Central America
bank, in Boston, to which the company for the purpose of protecting American
owed a large amount of money.
interests there.
A revolutionary movemeut near Sai.
The piesident has commuted to im
Salvador was recently nipped in th. prisonment for life the sentence ol
bud, and a confiscation by the govern death imposed by court-martial iu tht
nient of $50,000 belonging Dr. Jose caBe of Private George Murphy, com
Alfarado, took place, who, it is re{iort- pany C, Twenty-fourth infantry, con
ed, was to have led the revolt.
victed of the murder of another soldini
Sir Charles Tupper, ex-premier of of the same company in the Philippines.
Canada, believes that the Alaska boun
Dr. H. D. Morgan, of the United
dary and other disputed questions l-g- States navy*speaking of the war in tht
tween the United States and Canada, Philippines, says: “ I do not believt
w ill soon be settled and that Canada that the revolution is at an end.
Tht
w ill get the wo.st of it.
Filipinos aro scattered aliout the
At a meeting of the Baptist Social islands, mainly in Luzon, in small
Union of Boston, it was announced on bands, but it is generally understood
behalf of the Union Theological Insti that they are under orders to concen
tution that John D. Rockefeller has trate at any given point when the word
undertaken to contribute one-half of is passed. 1 do not believe that Agui
the $400,000 needed to complete the naldo is in China. It is my impression
equipment of that institution.
he is still iu Luzon.’ ’
Chief Officer Cooskey, of the tram-
General Joubert is now in supreme
port Grant, recently arrived at San command of the Boers.
Francisco, said that on February 3, the
The total cost of the war in the P h il
ship sailed over the spot where Morrell
ippines so far is $50,000,000.
island has generally been sup|«ised to
British casualties in the final reliel
be located. It is on all sailing charts,
but at 11:30 A. M. on the date men of Ladysmith were almost 2,000.
tioned, the Grant sailed over the posi
The island of Tntuila, of the Samoan
tion in latitude 29 deg. 57 min. north, group, is to be used as a naval station.
longitude 174 deg. 81 min. east, and
Fire in the retail dry goods district
not a trace of the island could be
of I’hiladcphia, caused a loss of $700,-
found. At noon any land 400 feet
000 .
above the level of the sea could be seen
Boers say that the retreat from Lady
lor a distance of 25 miles.
smith was due to a commander’s mis
Cecil Rhodes is on his way to Eng
take.
land .
Senator Hoar now wants to give
Princeton college wants a million
Queen Liliuokalani $250,000 from the
dollars for a law library.
treasury.
Cronje’s men are now prisoners on
The Puerto Rican tariff bill was de
board British warships.
nounced from the pulpit by a Washing
Germany w ill admit American meat ton minister.
for fear ot_a tariff war.
Steps are being taken to organize a
The machinists of Philadelphia de bank with $25,000 capital at lone,
mand a nine-hour day.
Morrow county, Or.
Six people were burned to death in a
Strikes and labor troubles of various
New York tenement-house tire.
kinds have thrown 50,000 men out of
The increase in American imports employment in Chicago.
has been nearly doubled in three years.
Civil war is imminent in China.
San Francisco highbinders murdered One province is already in revolt over
two men, both leading merchants of the dethronement of the emperor.
the city.
The senate has confirmed the appoint
General Woods asserts that tronble ment of H. B. Miller, of Josephine
in Cuba is now absolutely out of the count}’, Oregon, to lie consul at Chung
Kiang, China.
question.
The transport Grant has arrived at
San Francisco from Manila with 201
sick soldiers alioard.
The British second-class cruiser
Hemes is reported off Cat island, ii
the Bahamas, in distress.
Lady White, w ife of General Sir
George White, has been invested by
Queen Victoria with the Order of the
Crown of India.
Congressman Alfred C. Harmer, of
Pennsylvania, father of the house of
representatives, is dead at Philadel
phia, aged 75 years.
President David Starr Jordan, of
Stanford University, in a speech at
The United States government has
Chicago, said that England would soon
ordered that the California "Mammoth
topple.
Tree Grove, ” in Calaveras county, be
Tronble has arisen lietween the cigar
bonded for park purposes.
and box manufacturers of Tampa, Fla.
Advance in the price of boxes is the
The Pure Food and Drug congress,
cause.
in convention at Washington, adopted
Tom Sharkey and Bob Fitzsimmnnr resolutions seeking congressional action
signed articles of agreement for a 25- to provide penalties for adulteration.
round Imat la-fore the club offering the
largest purse.
Isaac Gordon, of Birmingham, Eng-
land, the notorious money lendtr, is
The United States government w ill dead. He was known all over the
begin the manufacture of smokeless kingdom, under various aliases, and is
powder and compete with private man said to have been worth £1,000,000.
ufacturers in point of quality.
Dr. Nansen, the explorer, questioned
in regard to the possible fate of Andre,
saiil: " I believe as long as possible,
in his retnrn, making the most liberal
allowance of time for his reappearance,
Near Olympia, Wash., three chil but I no longer have any hope. I don’t
dren. aged 5, 7 and 9 years, wert believe that he is living; otherwise we
burned to death while their parents should certainly have heard of him.
were absent from borne attending a A ll that can lie looked for now is the
recovery of his body.”
dance.
The American Clay Manufacturing
Company, the $10,000,000 consolida-
tion of sewer-pipe manufacturers, w ill
control 85 per cent of the industry.
In the United States there are 5,427,-
767 batchelora mud 3,224,494 spinsters.
The first woman's clno of Puerto
Rico has been organised by some Amer
ican women living in Ponce.
The longest span of telegraph wire in
the world is that over the river Kistna
in India. It is over 6,000 feet long.
The ususl output from 100 gold
mines in the immediate vicinity of
Johannesburg is 15 tons of gold a
month.
Y A M IIIL L
TAKEN BY SURPRISE
Rear-Admiral McCormick has been MADE
placed on the retired list on his own
application.
in a C o n d e n s e d F o r m .
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TERSE TICKS FROM THE WIRES
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NO DETERMINED
Retreated
E astw ard,
R ein s
STAND
F ollow ed
b y F r e n c h ’* C a v a l v /—T h e D u t c h
M a k in g for B loem fo ntein .
London, March 10.— The Boers ap
pear to have made no stand whatever,
jxcept that while iu retreat they twice
repulsed General French’s cavlary with
rifie tire. As no report has been made
of the capture of prisoners, the enemy
probably got away with their entire
force. General French is still follow
ing them and keeping between them
and Bloemfontein.
The evacuation of the northern dis
tricts of Cape Colony is now nearly
completo. The British are in posses
sion of the rialroad crossings.
The military critics comment on the
discouraging news from Mafeking.
Colonel Baden-Powell seems to lie in
grave need of outside help. Otherwise
he would not allow correspondents to
H«lid out information respecting the
distress of the garrison.
A re-adjustment of some of the higher
commands is taking place.
General
White is to go to Storm berg to take
supreme command of General Gatucre’s
division and the Tenth division, now
in process of formation, which w ill lie
under the immediate command of Gen
eral Hunter, Sir George W hite’s cliief-
of-staff.
The Daily News makes the following
announcement:
" I t was rumored in London yester
day— and we have no reason lor be
lieving the rumor to be correct— that
the two republics made informal and
unofficial overtures of peace on the
preceding day.
Unfortunately, the
conditions suggested were of such
character as to preclude the possibility
of leading to any result. Terms which
might have been gladly accepted be
fore the war, in order to avert it, are
impossible after the war, with all the
sacrifices it has entailed.’ ’
G e n e r a l R o b e r t.*’ R e p o r t.
London, March 10.— Following is
the text of Lord Roberts’ dispatch, re
ceived by the war office today:
“ Poplar Grove, March
10.— Two
brigades of cavalry, with horse artillery
and Kelly-Kenny’s division, marched
today 10 miles eastward.
The Boers
were taken by surprise yesterday.
They moved off so hurriedly that they
left cooked diuners behind them. We
captured a Krupp gun and several tents
and wagons.
The total casualties
were:
Killed, Lieutenants Keswick
and Frieslick; wounded, Lieutenants
Bailey, of the Twelfth Lancers, and
Decrispigne, of the Second LifeGunrds,
both severely, and Lieutenant Smith, of
the Shropshires, who is believed to
have been picked up by Boer ambu
lance. Two men were killed, 40 wound
ed, and one man is missing.
"Gatacre reports he intends occupy
ing Burgersdorp today. Repairs to the
railroads toward both Stonnberg and
Leynsberg ure being pushed.
Clem
ents now occupies Norval's Point, on
the south bank ot the Grange river.
The bridge was blown up March 0, and
the enemy is holding the north bank of
the river, but not, it is believed, in
any great strength.”
M a n y H a v e S m allpox.
Jackson, Miss., March 10.— An offi
cial report made to the Hinds county
board of supervisors reveals an apiiall-
ing stats of affairs in the Jonexville
neighborhood, in the southern part of
the county. The community is literal
ly honeycombed with smallpox of the
most virulent foim, and during the past
six weeks nearly 100 deaths have oc
curred. On some days the death rate
lias been so large that it was im|iossi-
ble to secure coffins, and rude caskets
were made from rails. Whole families
were wiped out of existence and of sev
eral large families only one or two chil
dren are left.
Many of the patients who are now in
a critical condition are without medi
cal attention, and are dying at the rate
of from three to five a day. The death
rate exceeds 75 |ier cecnt, and the en
tire lower portion of the county is de
moralized. The board of supervisors
Will make au effort to check further
spread.
COUNTY,
S IT U A T IO N
O liEU O N ,
AT
F R ID A Y ,
M A F E K IN G .
f e r r l t i l e P l i g h t o f t h e tf*..li*gt-<l, b u t N o
T u lk o f Surrender.
Mafeking, Feb. 21.— What may tie
typhoid fever has broken out in the
womens’ laager, and dysentery, due to
the absence of vegetables, is rife among
the garrison.
W e are thrown upon
jur own resources. Such luxuries as
we hud are exhausted, or have been
commandeered for the hospitals, which
ire filled to overflowing.
The chil
dren’s graveyard, close to the women’s
laager, grows weekly as the young lives
ire cut short prematurely by shells and
fever. We look with hope deferred for
relief.
The ctieerfulnesB which was charact
eristic of the early day s of the siege has
almost deserted us, the men preferring
to remain at their posts, rather than
move about and work up au ap|ietite,
which cannot be satisfied. The natives
are iu the worst plight.
Those who
are unable to obtain work are allowed a
small handful of meat daily.
Many,
braving the danger, wander about the
town with gauut and bungiy faces iu
search of work which entitles them to
an extra ration of meat. I f they find
work they ure generally too weak to
lierform it.
From their advance posts the Boers
rake the streets and the market square.
It is impossible to dodge their bullets.
We have taken remarkable precaution,
however, and the casualties, though
heavy, are not what they might have
been with less able men at the head of
affairs.
Even the headquarters’ mess fares
scantily. Like saints under the altar,
we cry, “ How long, O Lord, how
long?”
Two hundred and ninety-two per
sons have been killed, wounded, or
dead of disease.
The garrison is so
small that it would he criminal to
make its weakness publie, but there is
never so much as a whisper or sugges
tion of the possibility of surrender, be
cause we do not mean to get beaten,
and we are cheerfully enduring the
hardships of today rather than to make
a surrender in any degree possible to-
GUAKDED
BY
P O L IC E .
Nonun ion W o r k m e n E m p l o y e d
cago B u ild in gs .
on
Chi
Chicago, March 10.— Under police
guard, over 300 nonunion workmen
were today given work by contractors
engaged in erecting various dowu-town
buildings. This was the first serious
attempt on the part of the contractors
to resume the work interrupted by the
strike of the unions affiliated with the
Building Trades Council.
Nearly all
the unfinished buildings were heavily
picketed by the unions, but beyond one
or two attempts to persuade the non
union men not to go to work, no at
tempt was made to interfere.
Labor troubles culminated in a riot
at Thirty-sixth and Wallace streets this
evening. W illiam Schindler was shot
and probably fatally wounded, and six
others were injured.
Joseph Walsh,
foreman for the Link Belt Machinery
Company, and II. K. McLain, super
intendent of the same company, were
attacked by strikers. For some time
the strikers have followed Walsh and
McLain every night when they left the
shops, and have threatened to kill
them. Tonight some one threw a club
at Walsh, striking him in the back of
the head. He accused Schindler, and
when the latter denied it a fight fol
lowed. A crowd of strikers gathered
around and Walsh, believing his life
was in danger, Hhot Schindler in the
breast. A general fight followed the
shooting of Schindler, and strikers to
the number of 40 made an attack upon
Walsh and McLain, and four others
who were with them. Although badly
fiounded up, they managed to hold
their own, and beat off their assailants
until the arrival of the police.
Walsh
was placed under arrest.
Reflate T a k e « It ITp.
Washington, March 10.— Formal dis
cussion of the I’nerto Rican tariff end
civil government bill began in the sen
ate today, and continued uninterrupted
ly for 4 % hoars. The principal speak
ers were Foraker, in charge of the
measure, and l ’ettus, but at various
times during the debate lively col
loquies occurred, in which other sen
ators were {iarticipHuts. After Mason
had entered his motion tor discharge
the committee on foreign relations from
further consideration of a resolution
expressing sympathy for the Boers and
it had gone over until tomorrow under
the rules, I’ettns delivered a carefully
prepared speech in opposition to the
A n t i - B r i t i s h R i o t In B o r d e a u x .
pending bill.
Foraker occupied the
Bordeaux, March 10.— Late yester floor during the remainder of the ses
day evening students and others issuing sion, speaking in defense of the bill.
from a pro-Boer meeting marched to
B a d F ir e in P h i l a d e l p h i a .
the British consulate, battered down
Philadelphia, March 9.— Fire entail
the doors, shattered the windows with
•tones, and then proceeded to the con ing an estimated loss of over $700,000
sul’s private residence, where they in occurred early today in the retail dry
dulged in similar demonstrations. Th« goods district. The conflagration origi
police dis|«rsed the mob and arrested nated in the engine room ol Bhoneman
several leaders.
The prefect of the Blethers’ dry goods and millinery
Gironde, the mayor of Bordeaux and store, at Eighth and Arch streets. The
the commissary of police called on the princi[*l losers are: Khoneman Bros.,
consul today and expressed regret at dry goods store, four-story building, to
tal loss, $300.000; Marks Bros., dry
the occurrence
goods store, a five-story Imilding, com
l U r r n i t B i l to F u l l S t r e n g t h .
pletely gutted, estimated loss, $300,-
Ottawa, March 10.— Minister Borden 000; Myerhuff Bros., manufacturers of
received tonight from the war office a women’s and children’s clothing, and
cable accepting 100 men to recruit the the Philadelphia F'ectric Equipment
First Canadian contingent to itoi full Company, estimated loss. $200,000.
strength. They w ill leave with the Several smaller buildings adjoining
Strathcona Horse.
were more or less seriously damaged.
E i g h t - f lu h Circuit.
New York, March 10.— The National
Leading Paris hotels have raised the
Baseball League for the season of 1900
rates from $3 to $9 a day.
w ill have an eight-cluh circuit.
This
Thomas A. Edison, Jr., says he has announcement was made at the Fifth
constructed a safety electric miner's Avenue hotel at 11:30 o ’clock tonight«
lamp.
when the league meeting adjourned.
Prof. W. G. Sumner told his class at A verbal agreement was reached to
Yale that 90 per cent of all marriages night, and tomorrow the agreement
will lie formally executed. The retiring
are unhappy.
Washington, Baltimoie,
The largest real estate owner of all clubs are
Each club
American institutions is the University Louisville and Cleveland.
of Texas, which bolds over 2,000,000 w ill receive a money consideration for
ita franchise.
scree of land.
C h icago C h u rch D e .tro y ed .
Chicago, March 10.— The Hecond
Presbyterian church, at Twentieth
street and Michigan avenue, was de
stroyed by fire tonight. The building
was the home of one of the most aristo
cratic congregations in the city. A re
ception was lieing given in the church
parlors by the Young People’s Christian
Endeavor Society of the church, and
the assemblage was in the midst of the
festivities when the blsae was discov
ered in the oruan on the main floor.
MARCH
1G, 1900.
ATTACK UPON APARRE
Filipinos Assaulted the Town,
but Were Driven Back.
MORE TROOPS NEEDED UP NORTH
R e b e l * in t h e S o u t h e r n P e n i n s u l a
S o it *
t e r e d I n t o S m a l l B a n d * —M a s
sacre at C a l a b a n g a .
Manila, March 12.— Generals Young
and Hood aro asking for reinforcements,
and n battalion of the Forty-eighth has
been scut to Aparri. Other troops w ill
follow.
The rebels recently persistently at
tacked Aparri for several hours, but
were finally driven away. Details of
the affair are lacking.
The reliels are holding reunions in
the proivnee of North Ilooos and the
red Katapuuan cross, symbolic of re
sistance, is again appearing among
the natives.
It is believed that the insurgent gen
erals, Tinto and Florlies, have been
driven by Young into Hood’ s territory.
The fact that Young is unable, owing
to lack of troops, to maintain garrison«
in all the towns occupied has had a
bud effect on the natives.
General Bates haB returned here af
ter leaving garrisons in the provinces of
North and South Camariues. The ex
pedition lost seven men killed and 10
wounded. On enteriug New Caceres,
province of South Camariues, General
Bates learned that 2,000 insurgents
had departod the same day. The Ameri
cans immediately sent out three pursu
ing columns, encountering the enemy
in three small engagements and killing
a total of 40 men.
The Spanish prisoners report that the
enemy was divided into small bands in
the mountains, under the leadership of
General Legaspi. The towu of Iriga
has been burned by the enemy. Both
provinces were thoroughly scouted.
The inhabitants of the district of
Lihmanun, including Aliella, the pro
vincial governor anil other officials, are
returning to their homes. Ahella has
issned a proclamation calling iqion the
natives to submit to the Americans.
The liberated priests from New Ca
ceres report that the insurgents killed
68 Chinamen and 40 Spaniards at the
town of Calabanga.
It is estimated that there are 100,-
000 bales of hemp in the Caiuuriuei
provinces.
Twelve hundred well armed insur
gents, formerly of Cavite proivnee,
with a Chinese colonel in command,
surround the towns of Albay und Le
gaspi. They have effected three night
attacks and continually harass the
Forty-seventh regiment, whioh has lost
eight men killed and 20 wounded in
defending these towns.
CONTROL
OF
P H IL IP P IN E S .
G e n e r a l W h e e l e r HuggeMt* a
G overnm ent.
T erritorial
San Francisco, March 12.— General
Joseph Wheeler favors giving the Ph il
ippines a territorial form of govern
ment. Said he:
“ I believe the people are leady for a
certain kind of self-government. They
could be given the power to make laws,
under such a sytem of government as
has been adopted for our territories.
The municipal governments are all in
the hands of the natives, and they get
along without trouble or friction.
Under a territorial form, the islands
could be best controlled.”
He reviews his impressions of trade
possibilities in the Orient as follows:
“ England, Russia, Germany and
France have braved war and pestilence
in efforts to secure a share of the
wealth which w ill come to them by
commercial relations with these peo
ple. The treaty of peace cast upon us
the responsibility of sovereignty over
from 9,000,000 to 11,000,000 |ieople,
together with the islands which they
inhabit, containing an urea three times
that of our great and prosperous Empire
state.
“ Very naturally, there may lie honest
differences of opinion as to whether
everything has been conducted during
the two years in accordance with the
highest wisdom and best possible judg
ment, hut there should tie no question
among the American people as to the
duty and wisdom of now uniting in a
determined effort to take the situation
as it stands, and so conduct the affaire
of our cuuntry as to add the most to its
glory, honor, welfare and pros|ienty.
It is a friendly struggle for commercial
supremacy in which our rival nation«
are using their liest efforts, ami I say,
let us, in a friendly but determined
spirit, use our liest efforts also.”
NO. 17.
THEATER
Destruction
FR A N Ç A IS
of a
Famous
house.
BURNS.
1 'a rl *
P lay
Paris, March 12.— The famous The
ater Fraucais has been destroyed by lire.
The tire broke out about noon, ’« t
was not discovered immediately, and
the theater was burning furiously lie-
fore the fire brigade got to work. F’ ven
then the appliances were quite inade
quate to cope with the conflagration,
and by 1:30 P. M. the entire building
was a roaring furnace. The dense col
umn of smoke arisiug from the fire at
tracted crowds from all parts of Paris,
the Theater t^aucais being regarded as
a national institution.
Thu theater,
which is the home of the Comedie Frau
cais, was only reopened a fortnight ago,
1 after having Jiecu renovated for the ex
position throngs expected to visit Paris
during the year.
A rehearsal of a comedy which was
billed for the matinee hail just con
cluded when the tiro broke out.
in
deed, two actresses, Madame Dudlay
and Mademoiselle Ifenryot, «e re still
on the stage when an electric wire
fused, and, a spark catching the scen
ery, the whole stage was soon iu flames.
Madame Dudlay had to be resoued iu
costume and let down from a window.
M. Sardon, the playwright, arrived on
the scene about 1 o’clock, and burst
into tears when he saw the building
was doomed. A part of the dome col
lapsed at 2:30 P. M.
The Theater Fraucais, or Comedie
Francais, was situated on the Place du
Theater-Francais, near the Palais
Royal, and occupied the highest rank
among the theaters of France.
The magnlicieut ceiling, bearing the
allegorical painting by Mazerolle, th“
ceiling painting by De Reuff, the
younger, of “ Truth Enlightening the
W orld,” whioh adorned the foyer, and
a number of other mural tableaux and
works of art, together with a («¡riion of
the invaluable library of manuscript,
perished in the flames. Practically all
the sculpture, however, was saved and
removed to the ministry of finance,
which faces the site of the theater oa
the Rue de Rivoli.
The priceless
statute of Voltaire, by Ilouden, one of
the chief beauties of the foyer, escaped
by being enveloped in a pile of mat
tresses.
W IL L
F IG H T
TO
THE
END.
S ecretary R e lts Says the B u r g h e r s A r e
N o t D isco uraged.
Pretoria, March 12.— Secretary of
State Reitz has issued war bulletins,
iu which, after saying the government
has no official tidings of the surrender
of General Uronje, he must accept it as
a fact, however paiuful, he adds:
“ Tho government remains assured
that the surrender w ill not discourage
the burghers in tho defense of their in
dependence und standing as a nation.
The struggle thus fur lias shown that
the republics have vindicated them
selves as an independent people.
This
reverse w ill not stagger us.
In the
struggle for our cherished rights, our
belief remains that, whatever happens,
the Lord still reigns.
Owing to the
invasion of the Free State by a large
number of the enemy, and other cir
cumstances, it became necessary to
take up other positions, hence the
burghers in Natal have retried to Big-
gersberg.
A ll the commandos huve
reached there in safety, except a few
who retired in the direction Van Roeu-
eu’s Pass. Thus Ludysmith and Kim
berley are no more besieged. In retir
ing, the enemy was time after time
driven back, so tliat our laagers were
not cat off. In these fights a few men
were killed or wounded, und the enemy
lost heavily.
“ In spite of all reports, the spirit of
the fighting men as to the outcome re
mains unchanged.
Among the com
mandos in Natal the burghers are full
of courage. General Dewet now com
mands all the commandos at the Mod-
der river. The president started yes
terday evening for Bloemfontein, to
visit the laagers of the Free State.”
D l s l i u r . l n g Cleric A r r e s t e d .
Washington, March 12.— Chief W il
kie, of the tieasury secret service, was
notified today of tho arrest in Philadel
phia, of Edward E. Grimmell, formerly
a civilian clerk in the disbursing office
of the medical department under Major
D. H. Hall, in San Francisco. Chief
W ilkie states that on Decemlier 23
Grimmell decam|ied with a clerk lionk
containing 400 cheeks uf the regulation
engraved kind used by the disbursing
clerks, directed to) the assistant treas
urers of the United States. He oame
east and south and in January drew
checks made payable to him to an
amount approximating $10,000.
K u . e F a c t o r y H l e w t:.|i.
In variably
Address, O b a p h i c , New barg, Oregon.
I
■BOERS STILL FIGHT
British Came Upon Them Un
expectedly.
WERE
Th a
LOSSES ON BOTH SIDES
Dutch
Troop*
W ithd rew
In
the
N ig h t, L e a v i n g the I m p e r ia l
' A
F o r c e * In P o s s e s s i o n .
Driefontein.
March
12.— Broad-
wood’s cavalry brigade, advancing on
itloemfontein, unexpectedly found the
Boers in a strong position in the Drie-
lontein kopjes yesterday.
General
Kelly-Kenny’s division arriving, severe
lighting ensued.
The lloers resisted
itubboruly, but were driven from their
center position, leaving a number of
lead and 40 prisoners.
The British
force is moving forward today.
During the fighting, in which five
regiments took part, with artillery, the
iioers, though forced from their center
position, clung tenaciously to the other
kopjes, shelling the British freely with
ihree guns and two Vickers Maxims.
The British cavalry began to turn the
Boer position, lint night fell before the
xiovement was completed. The Boers
•etiled during the night.
A large number of Australians were
mgaged yesterday. The First Austral*
■mi horse brigade, with the Scots Greys,
idvanced within 800 yards of the Boers
indcr heavy fire.
The New South
Wales mounted infantry joined in the
pursuit of the Boers northward.
B o e r * ’ S tu b b o rn R e a r G u a r d A ction.
All of yesterday was occupied in
lighting.
The Iioers maintained a
ituhborn rear guard action along a run-
ling front of 12 miles on very difficult
{round. Tho British were advancing
in the three columns. General Tucker,
to the southward, occupied Petersburg,
•nopposed.
General Kelly-Kenny,
tfter following the river bank, moved
in the direction of Abraham’s Kiaal.
At Driefontein, aliout eight miles
lonth of Abraham’s Kraal, the Boers
were found iiosted in considerable
strength on the ridges connecting sev-
sral kopjes, where they had mounted
juns. The action began at 8 in the
morning, with an artillery duel. Gen-
iral Porter’s brigade supported the
British guns. The Boer artillery was
accurately handled, and the British
cavalry found a task liardor than they
had expected.
General Rroadwood
moved six miles southward trying to
find a means to get around, but the
Boers followed, behind rising ground,
slid even attempted to outflank him.
Meanwhile, ttie Sixth division of in
fantry, advancing on tho Boer left,
slowly forced the enemy to retire. Had
tho infantry been able to move faster,
the Boers would have been enveloped.
Tho last shot was tired at 7:80 P. M.
This morning not a Boer was seen. The
prisoners belonged to P{osideut Kruger’s
j w u commando.
BOTH
F igh tin g
S ID E S
ARMED.
Force* Confront
In K e n t u c k y .
Each
Othei
Frankfort,
Ky., March 12.— The
Democrats and Republicans are today,
for the first time since the present
polititcal complications assumed acute
form, divided into two armed anil
irganized factious.
Surrounding the
capitol and the state executive build
ing, and encamped iu the grounds
trounil Governor Taylor’B home, are
nearly 200 state militia, well provided
with ammunition, while In the corri
dors of the Capitol hotel, in whioh the
Democratic state executive offices are
located, and in the street adjacent to
that building, are 60 special officers
snd the men and boys of a m ilitia com
pany that was organized in Frankfort
today as the nucleus of Governor Beck*
barn’s state gurad, besides scores more
cf heavily armed citizens, partisans of
the Democratic claimant.
It was
stated today that an attempt was to be
made by the state m ilitia to take Gov
ernor Beckham into custody, end inside
of an hour after the report was circu
lated, a petition had lieen circulate.!
snd signed by the requisite number of
men necessary to form a m ilitia com
pany. The men will guard the Capitol
hotel day and night against any possi
ble attempt to arrest Governor Beck
ham.
Convlct-Nftdfl B in d in g T w in e .
Kansas City, Mo., March 12.— Im
plement men say trouble is about to re
sult because of the action of the board
of control of the Kansas state peniten
tiary making binding twine.
Kansas
City makes about 7,000,000 pounds of
twine a year, and the new factory at
the state penitentiary is equip|ied to
turn out aliout one-tenth of this amount.
This is enough to disturb the market.
While regular dealers are asking re
tail merchants to pay them 11 Q cents
per pound ( ot their offerings, the Kan
sas penitentiary managers announce
they w ill sell theirs direct to the farmer
at 10 cents per pound, \ } 4 cents less
than the retail dealers can buy it for.
Pompton, N. J., March 12.— The
Smith fuae manufactory, at this place,
blew up today and four persons were
killed and a number more or less in
jured. The victims were at work in
L a b o r D isorder* la C hicago.
the factory with about 80 other men
Chicago, March 12.— Efforts of con* end girls. The bodies of the four per
tractors today to place nonunion men son* killed were badly mangled, and
at work on buildings in various partf some of them blown to pieces.
of the city, work on which has been in
D f lu p e r s il o K i l l e d .
terrupted by the strike, resulted in sev
Denver, March 12.— A special to the
eral encounters between union and non
union men. At the new Ogdensburg Republican from Albuquerque, N. M.,
dock, Ohio and Kingsbury streets, the •ays: Samuel Sandoval, • young des
contractors succeeded iu getting eight perado, was killed and several citizens
R e f u s e d to O r d e r G e n e r a l S t r ik e .
men through the picket lines of the wounded at the battle at Atarique,
Chicago. March 12.— The Building
union workmen and put them to work. which followed an attempt to arrest
A few bricks were thrown, hut no one Sandoval and Juan Mestas, who had Trades Council at its meeting today re
was hurt, and the police quickly sup been shooting up the town. Mestas fused to order a general sympathetic
strike, at the request of the officers ot
was captured.
pressed the disorder.________
the machinists’ nnion.
D el»* an d Ifarrlinan.
R i g F i r e at L e a d .
Lead, H. D., March 10.— Fire thil
morning destroyed 40 buildings.
Th*
Dead wood fire department was called
on for assistance, and rescinded.
In
addition to the combined fire depart
ments. it was found necessary to blow
np buildings in the path of the fire with
dynamite in order to stop ita spread.
Owing to the high wind blowing, the
scarcity of water and the inflammable
nature of the bnildngs, the firemen
were unable to do anything to) stay the
flames in any other way.
Indianapolis, March 12.— Fur presi
dent, Eugene Y. Deha, of Indiana; for
vice-president. Job Harriman, of Cali
fornia. Thia is the national ticket of
the Social Democratic party, which
will absorb the Hilquit-Harriman fac
tion of the Hocialii t Labor party by
agreement. The Social De nocrate were
happy today. They aay the candidacy
of Debs w ill attract hundreds of thou
sands of voters to their party. They
profess to) see the («ginning of a great
national victory.
F a t a l B o sto n F ir e .
Boston, March 12.— Fire early thia
morning in the four-story bnilding of
the Massachusetts Macaroni Company,
on North street, caused the death of
one fireman, the prob%ble fatal injury
of another sd .I the serious injury of two
others, tieeidea entailing a financial
lo a estimated at $75,000 to $150,000.
T h r e e F r e s h C a s e * In S y d n e y .
Sydney, N. 8. W ., March 12.— Three
fresh cases of bulionir pinnae in Sydney
ere officially reported today.