LA TER NEW S.
AURORA f e ALIS
Ju lia
Arthur has retired from the
stage.
' .
The insurgents in M anila and Hong I
K on g are active.
S t. .P a trick ’ s day was enthustically
celebrated throughout Cape Town.
Autora, MarioJCounty^Oregon^
(I T
O KH « I l f
Manufacturers and Machin­
ists
H e tty Green’ s daughter is said to be |
engaged to a poor Spanish nobleman. a
The Kansas C ity, Pittsburg & <5nlf
railw ay system has been sold a t auc­
S o m p r e h e m iv « R evie w o f t i n Im p o rt­
ant H a p p e n in g s o f t u » P a » t W a e k
C u lle d F r o m t b « T e le e r a p h C o lm » » » *
Methuen occupied Boshof,
w a y to Mafeking.
on
the
tion.
Andrew Bolter, one
-
, -j,,.
of
the noted
fa dead in
g en er a l
Are
at |/ar.
s t r ik e
I
o rd ered
W i l l A f f e c t ' loè.OOO W o l l e n and E x ­
p en d T lirö u | h o w # t h J P n ite d State»
'and M a *
O th e lio u n trie s .
B a ile r W it h 86,000 M en to A tte m p t to
F o rc e B l g g a r s b e r g R a n g e .
London,
March
21.—'Kroonstad,
where the Boers are concentrating, is
30 m ile« from Bloemfontein. I t is.sur­
rounded by a country of h ills and jun­
gles.
General Gatacre is now resting at
Spungfontein, prelim inary to joining
Lord Roberts.
General B uller’ s b ill work before
Ladysm ith has given him an experience
which is about to be used in forcing
the Biggarsberg range. I t is believed
that 25,000 of his 40,000 men are about
to engage General Botha’ s force, and
the next news of fighting w ill probably
come from Natal.
The leaders o f the Afrikanderbnnd
are circulating a petition in Cape C ol­
ony asking the im perial government
not tq take away the Independence qf
the Boers.
Thirty-tw o
thousand
additional
troops for South A frica are now at sea.
The House Refused to Concur
on R elief Bill.
d em o cr a ts
v o t e d
dow n
»
Senate P a ssed a B i l l P ro v id in g fo r t h »
A p p oin tm en t o f a Com m ittee to Set­
tle Spanish W a r C laim s.
Washington, March 21.— The house-
Chicago, MarckpO.— liter the con­
today refused to concur ill the senate
ference between Æreseï patives of thé
amendments to the Puerto Rioan r e lie f
The Illin o is river is flooded, owing,
International Assolsiatic io f Machinists
hill. The Democrats supported a m o­
i t is said to the Chicago drainage canal ;
and the Administrative pouncilof the
British industries are badly in need
tion to concur, on the ground that i t
The house adopted the conference o f cash. The money market is head N ation al Metal ¡Tradì i Association,
would further delay in extending re­
ended at 10:30 this mo: ling, President
report on the currency b iíl by a vote over ears in debt.
lie f to the inhabitants of the island,,
James O ’Çonnél), of th< anion, declared
©f 166 to 120.’
N ine persons were injured in New that strikes woul<^bi%c«led immediate­
but the Republicans stood firm ly be­
General Cronje and the remainder of Y o rk by the dropping of a coal chute ly in all parts of me Iraited States and
hind Chairman Cannon in his demand
the Paardeburg prisoners w ill be taken* upon an elevated train.
that the house should insist upon its
Canada.
Such tetri]*s w ill involve
C anadians at C arnarvon .
to St. Helena.
original provision to appropriatè not
General Hernandez, leader of the 100,000 men and cause to be shut down
Carnarvon, Cape Colony, March 21. only the money collected on Puerto-
Bather than have it captured by the Venezuela revolution, is making pro­ for an indefinite raeriod plants having
an aggregate earacitV of ' millions of — The Canadian mounted rifles, under R ican goods up to January 1, but a ll
British, the Boers w ill raze Johannes­ gress against the government.
Colonel Her chiner, and the Canadian subsequent moneys collected or which
burg to the ground.
T w o thousand Boer women in P re ­ dollars. Chicagfi labor troubles are re­ Ar-tillery, commanded
by
Colonel -are to be collected. The remainder o f
sponsible
for
th®
disagreement,
which
The 56th anniversary of the birth of toria' have been armed to aid m the de­
Drury, have arrived here w ith a con­ the day was devoted tp D istrict of Co­
is
expected
to
iprecipate
the
general
K in g Hum ber I, was appropriately cel­ fense of the Transvaal capital.
tingent of yeomanry. The- presence of lumbia business.
machinists’ strike.
W ere it not foi
ebrated throughout Italy.
United States suprême court 'rendered the fact that leaders of the Machinists' this force here has had an excellent
Two measures of national im portance
General Kobbe has been appointed a decision upholding the Texas courts Union refused tp call off .strikes that éffeet in the district. I t is said that a •and many of sligh tly less interest were-
large force of insurgents is in the v i­ passed by the senate today, The leg­
governor of Albay province, Luzon. m their war against the trusts.
now exist in Cnicago, Columbus** O.,
cinity of Yan W y e k ’ s V lei.
H em p ports have been opened.
islative,, executive and. ju d icial appro-
During a row in a saloon at Coeur and Paterson, N. J..,-the manufacturers
priaticn b ill, carrying more than $25,-
Lord Roberts’ forcés have . occupied d ’ Alehe, Idaho, two negroes w ere shot, and leaders, it L believed,, would have'
Settlem ent o f Sulu D isputes.. ; '
come to an amicable agreement and
Bloem fontein, and Kioonstadt w ill 'be one fatally and the other seriously.
N ew York, J^arch 21.— A special to 000,00(1, was passed, yñthout debate.
arbitration would have been perman­ the Herald from W àshington says: To ;Tbe measure providing for the appoint-
th e Free State’ s seat of government; .^
. Adm iral W atson’ s purpose in send­
;ment of a commission : to* adjudicate
James G. Smith, president of the ing a naval vessel to Tokio, China, ently establishes between the National prevent friction w ith the sultan of the
and settle claims of the, people of the
'Telegraphers’ ¿Union and' an inventor was for protection of Am erican inter­ M etal Trades Association and the inter* Sulu archipelago, measures have been
national Association of Machinists.
taken by the Am erican authorities in United States growing cktt.pf the war
o f telegraphic devices, died at his ests.;,^
The rnembersfof the exécutive hoard the Philippines for the adjudication of with Spain was also páSáeu .Without op­
home in N ew York, aged 69.
B ritish are per sisentl y prosecuting of the Machinists’ Union, however, re­
any questions that may arise which position. .
The Armstrong Steel Works, at Flint, the w ar in Borneo. .In a recent en­ fused to call, off the Chicago strike, as cannot be disposed of by the provisions
For a brief time the ¡Puerto R ican
M ich ., burned with a lossHjestimated gagement several scores of rebels were they declaied that if they did* the
of the treaty which he and General government and ta riff nrettture was. un­
k
illed.
at $130,000.
Goldens’ . brewery and
Chicago, local union would secede from Bâtés entered into several months, ago. der consideration. Foraker, in charge
cooper shop,1 adjacent to the steel works,
Puerto R ic o ’s distress is growing the International Association. W hen ■> Colonel P ettit, who succeeded Gen­ of the b ill, submitted some com m ittee
w ere also destroyed.
w o rs e .. Governor General Davis cabled the refusal of the machinists to end the eral Bates as commanding general of amendments. A few of them w ere
P atrick Egan, ex-m inister to- Chili, that 500 tons of provisions w ill be strike was presented to the maufactur- the department of Mindanao and the agreed to, but the important ones are
ers, they issued an ultimatum to the Sulu archipelago, has issued this order, still pending. A free trade amend­
and ex-president o f the Irish, National needed w eekly.
labor leaders, and on Iheir refusal tc a copy of which has just reached the ment to the bill was offered hy Bev,e-
Federation, has w ritten a letter .in
The French line freighter Pauillac
ridge,
I
which he says that 85 per cent of the is missing; She carried a cargo valued agree to its provisions, a ll negotiations w ar department:
were broken off.
Irish people dislike Queen Victoria. 'M
“ I t is directed that all cases in dis­
at $3,000,000 and has not been heard
B IG O R D E R F R O M M A N IL A .
Before leaving the roorns in which pute between the sultan and his sub­
A t Price, Utah, Indian A gent Myton, ‘ from for. over a month.
the join t Conference was being held, jects and the United States which come M illio n D o lla rs ’ W o rth o f Clothing: for
leased 700,000 acres o f government land ; Governor Geer received a check for
President James O ’ Connell, o f the In ­ in conflict w ith the provisions of the
the So ld ie rs.
on the Uintah reservation to Eastern $27,806.85 from the war department in
ternational Union, declared that thé treaty, be referred by the commanding
Washington,
March
21.-— Colonet
Utah flockmasters. The leasesÉtun five settlement of the state of Oregon’s
union would begin immediately to call officers at S’Assi and Bonago #
the Fatten, (|f; the quartermaster-general’®
years, and the amount involved is $18,- claim for clothing furnished the volun-.
strikes in all parts of the country. The m ilitary commander at Sulu, w h o w ill office, today completed arrangement® |
000, which goes to the Uintah In dian^. teers.
first of these strikes w ill be calieri in take*such action as he may deem best, for the shipment. - of about $1,000,OOQM&|
R ev. Dr. Isaac Meyer W ise celebrá&ft
To prevent friction w ith the sultan Cleveland. After all the large cities making a full report to the district worth of clothing and equipagp;to Ma­
ed his 81st birthday at Cincinnati. H e of the Sulu archipelago, measures have shall have been tied up, strikes w ill be commander.”
nila for the usé of troops in the P h ilip ­
is the oldest rabbi in active service 'in : .been taken by the Am erican authori­ called in the machine shops of a ll the
pines during the next six months*.
M e d a ls to Spanish W a r V eterans.
the United States. Dr. Wise was bom ties in the Philippines for the adjudi­ railroads in the country, . *
Washington, Maroh 20;— The Na­ These shipments w ill be made by w ay
A fter meeting in seperate confer­
in Steingrnb, Bohemia, M arch 11, cation o f any questions that may arise
tional Society,. Sons, of the American o f New Yorlç and San Francisco by t h »
1819. A lter more than half a Oenturv which cannot be disposed of by provis­ ences, a ll the afternoon, the manufact­
Revolution, on Wednesday, evening w iji first available transports, and are in
spent in Am erica he stands today at ions of the treaty .which .he and Gen­ urers and thm labcw leaders began a present medals to such members of the responseldo ' cabled requisitions from,
the head of the Reform JeWb o f tjjbe eral Bates entered into several .months join t m eeting at 8 P, . KB),at which the District .pl-Ostlumbia Society as se^ÿ^i tlxo danot
o_t M an ila.
m ana factufêrS st'i bitiïttîea
riïâ*
Amofig’ the principal articles'Cabi«,*
ago.
.
•ountry.
in the war w itn & p a in . ‘‘Siênator LddSQ
chinists a proposal fo r arbitration.
f
o
y
are
'
130,000.
khaki
coats, 122,000
This action
Puerto Ricans call for a settlement of They asked that a ll strikes and lock w ill deliver the address.
President W h eeler has announced ,to.
is taken in accordance with a resolu­ pairs of khaki trousers, f 00*500 pairs o f
the
tariff
dispute.
v
th e regents of the U niversity of C ali­
oats be called off pénding the arbitra­
tion adopted at the last congrès8 of thé russet shoes, 50,000 pairs of black c a lf- v
fornia that experts of acknowledged
A school of forestry w ill be establish­ tion of the difficulties by a committee
society at D etroit, authorizing a com­ sikn shoes, 220,000 pairs of cotton
repute have been engaged to make e x­ ed ax Y a le university,
consisting of the presidents of the two
m ittee to procure from the govern­ stockings, 75,000 nankeen shirts, 65,-
cavations and explorations in parts of|
organizations
and
twóF
members
from
Governor Leary bas issued a procla­
ment an old Spanish gun or plate from 000 cotton undefshirts, 70,000 pair®
the w orld rich' With relics of ancient m ation freeing the peons of the island each association, whose decision. shall
one of the captured ships,- to strike leggings, 50,000 chambray shirts, 65,-
learning. The entire expense of the of Guam.
be accepted as final.
medals from the same and distribute $00 dark blue flannel shirts, 58,000*
w ork w ill he borne by; Mrs. Phoebe A . ■;
On the second proposition fhe tw o
them to members* of the society who campaign hats, 75,000 pairs nankeen
The,
transport
Meade
sailed
for
M
a­
H earst. In Egypt, Dr. George Reisner
associations were united.
The labor
drawers, 61,000 pairs pf jean drawers^
served in the late war.
w i l l have charge of the explorations. nila, via Honolulu, w ith 25 doctors. leaders refused to agree to the first
10.000 linen collars, 10,000 waist belts,
The m aterials collected by these scien­ 69 hospital corps men and 26 recruits. proposition, and submitted a demand
F a st M a il W re c k e d .
75.000 hat cords, 1,500 tents (includ­
tists w ill be placed in the Archaeologi­ , The Port Gibson press, P ort Gibson, for immediate and separate arbitration
Montgomery, A la., March 21.~*The ing 200 hospital tents), 2,000 blankets^
c a l museum to be established at Berke­ M iss., inNvhich was stored 2,000 bales o f the Chicago difficulties.
This the fast m ail on the Plant system, which 12.000 * brooms,
8,000
scrubbing
ley.
of cotton, was burned. Loss $100,000. manufacturers refused to ratify, and le ft here last night, was wrecked about brushes, 5,000 barracks chairs and 10,-
F ilip in o insurgents are fighting hard
A ll records are being broken by the the conference broke up, both sides a m ile and a half from Ozark. W i l ­ •000 light woolen stockings.
to keep the Americans out Of southern weather in the East and South.
The making what amounted to a formal liam K ellar, a com mercial traveler P ^ W ith the exception of the lig h t
The declaration from Savannah, G a., and Conductor •woolen stockings, all articles are in
Luzon.
thermometer at Chicago registered H declaration of war.
of machinists took the fòrm of threats Reed,, were fatally injured.,. Others stock at the various m ilitary depots, '
below
zero.
P lagu e in Honolulu is stamped|,/out,i
of an international strike ’made by Pres­ injured are: R . L . Todd,|qivision pas­ and w ill be forwarded w ith no more-
a fte r a total of 62 cases, 53 of which • The feature of the St. P atrick ’ s day
ident O’ Connell and Organizer Reed. senger agent of the Plant system, Mont­ delay than' necessary.
parade in Chicago was .the carrying of a
w ere fatal.
The manufacturers then presented gomery; Jack Com alzer, Southeastern
‘ Woolen stockings have not hereto fore-
b
ig
Transvaal
flag
at
the
head
of
the
A brother of President Steyn, of the
th éir side of the/question in a set of passenger agent of the .Mobile & M ont­ been considered as an essential part o f
Ancien
t
Order
of
Hibernans.
Orange Free State, has been captured
resolutions in which they declared that gomery, and C. L . Mitchell, a m er­ 1 the outfit of a soldier in the tropics! ..H
by the British.
A t M arietta., Ga., a mob of 175 men “ the form of join t agreement this day chant of Zark. The train was slowing* and consequently were not kept in
General George W h ite has arrvied at battered down thé door of the ja il and unanimously adopted by the adminis­ up for a bridge when the rear truck of sotek. These articles w ill be pur- '||i
Durban and embarked upon the trans­ entered the cell of a negro and fired trative council o f the National M etal the tender jumped the track and the chased in the open market in Saa.$if
about 100 shots at him . - H e w ill die.: Trades Association and presented to entire train, except the ljist sleeper, Francisco and forwarded with the restillÉ
port fpr East London.
The Academy of Music, the leading the exécutive officers fif the Interna­ left the rails. Two passenger coaches In add it ion ÿ-to the articles already
England p olitely declined the proffer
tional Association of Machinists is the and tw o ¡sleepers turned over and rolled ’enumerated, 500 field ranges are called
o f the U nited States to intercede in | theater of Quebec, was burned w ith a
best and . only proposition which the down an embankment.
loss
of
$80,p00.
The
St.
Louis
hptél,
for. -Even these were in stock, and
the w ar in South Africa.
adjoining was damaged to the extent N ational M etal Trades ¡Association has
w ill be sent forward. Undèr thé pol­
V ic to ry fo r A m e ric a n S h ip o w n ers.
N ear Baker C ity, Or., an O. R. & N. of $30,000.
to make, and that the committee again
Vancouverj B. C., March 21.— An ic y adpoted by the quartermaster de­
freigh t train ran down four Japanese
presents the agreement df the executive
Mrs. L id a Greyeroff, the largest
important
ruling was received today partment arrangements w ill be made-
section hands, two being killed.
com mittee to the Internlfcional Associa­
woman in Indiana, died suddenly at
from the secretary o f tho treasury, at im m ediately to replenish the stock in
Labor troubles are rife in Martinique, her home in Kokom o, falling from a tion ot «Machinists, and ¡requests them Washington, by the collector of cus­ all depots up( to'the m aximum amount
R iots and incendiary fires spread terror chair w h ile playing dominoes.
She to accept the same [byigaffixing their toms in Vancouver. This was to the at the tim e of the receipt of the mam­
èhrough the island,
and ignorant Weighed 550 pounds and was 32 years official signaturés and notify them that effect that in future no Am erican goods moth order from the Philippines.
this associatici! lsv?iceaclm to sign the
negroes threatened to behead
the old.
w ill be allowed to go north in Cana­
E m press Snubs th e P o w e rs .
agreement join tly w it ljp e m .’ ’
whites.
dian vessels to Skagway for local con­ . Peking, March 21,-— The ascendency
■ ‘ F ive dead and one fatally and one
The unio'SiÆf the» Ijjj|i|n'ational Asso­
The United States government has seriously injured is the result of an at­ ciation o f Maë^nistsLm Htodav and in­ sumption there without payment of the of the anti-foreign party is becoming
regular duties. This is a viotory for pronounced. The dowager empress
purchased the steamer Columbia from tempt to start a fire w ith gasoline at
dorsed the action of w i; offi cera.
American shipowners.
the Northern Pacific Steamship Com­ Columbus, O. George W hite used the
appears unable sufficiently to reward
In v iew of the ia ih jlr of all effort!
pany. She w ill go on the regular fluid at James W eaver’ s residence, and
the officials who e xh ib it marked hos­
B o x in g B o a t E n d e d F a t a lly .
for fa settlefiie^ K ,'^ fvh l machinists1
an explosion follow ed.
Th e building
M anila run.
Santa Cruz, Cal., March 20.— Frank t ility to everything not Chinese. Hen
strike, National Presidenti âmes O ’ Còn*
was set on fire, and the inmates were
The steamship Armenia, loading at
nell announced tonight »bat the last Cass, 18 years old, was k illed at L evin Tung, probably thç most bitterly anti-
covered w ith the burning fluid. ,,
detals of plans ( for calli® a national lakes today in a friendly boxing bofit foreign official of the empire, has been
N ew Y ork, w ill carry supplies tp M a­
A t Chicago, George L . M agill, form ­ strike ttóshyeek of 7c|pOWnion machin­ with Bert W hidden.
In the eighth decorated with the three-eyed peacock
n ila for the Am erican troops in the
Philippines, and .2,200 tons of rails and erly president of the Avenue Savings ists wère. being p erfeete!» M r. O ’ Con­ round W hidden struck Cass w ith a six- feather, which has never been con ferred
a large amount of steel bridge and Bank, which collapsed. in August, nell had put|bimself in cjlmnmnication ounce glove on the left side1 of the neck. for 86 years. The notorious L i Peng
Cass H in g, who was dismissed front the
structural work for the Siberian r a il­ 1896, was convicted of receiving depos­ during-thé day witlfcthefpcal unions in Death resulted in half an hour.
w ay, to be delivered at Vladivostock. its, knowing his institution to be in ­ several of the big cities qast and W est. weighed 170 pounds, being 20 pounds governorship of Shantung on Germany’s
solvent, and sentenced to the peniten­ H e d e c id e s that all is »read in ess for heavier than Whidden.
demand, has been advanced to the first
Senator Sewell has introduced a b ill tiary for an indefinite term.
H e was a generaLwalk out b e fo »A p r il 1.
rank, and the ex-governor of Shantung,
A
p
p
lic
atio
n
s
fo
r
the
W
a
r
D
oan.
changing the name of the Paris, o f the also fined double the amount of the de­
Y uh Sen, has been appointed governor
Terrorized by. Rwilatorg,
London, March 21.— In the house of
Am erican line, to the Philadelphia, posit received* the fine amounting to
A tla n ta ,^ a .., March w . — A special oonimons today the chancellor of the of the Shang Si district, a snub to tba
Three o f the ships of the International $2,396.
to the Constitution fromColumbia, S. exchequer announced that the total powers interested, and lik ely to preju­
N avigation Company constituting the
dice B ritish interests in the proivnee,
Maud S., the famous trotter, died at C., says*. The station stint and other
number of applications for the w ar
Am erican Trans-Atlantic m ail service, Schultz’ farm, P ort Chester, N. Y .
c itize n » o f Neeces, Orarraburg county, loan was 39,800, and that the subscrip­ as the powers believe his maladminis-
already bear names of Am erican cities She was brought to the farm from N ew
telegraphed the g overn era i m idnight tions were £3.35,500,000. The largest trat^pn is the cause of the present state
-—the St; Paul, the St. Louis and the Y ork a week ago, and i t was intended
begging for troops to prewpt them from application, he added, was for £10,- of affairs in Shantung.
N e w York.
to use her fpr breeding purposes*
She w h ite regulators, who hi<*twice visited
P la g u e S p re ad in g In A u stralia .
ooo.ooo.
T. K . Sndborough, form erly clerk in was sick when she arrived here, and the town, bea’t the pep?», w h ite and
Adelaide, South Australia, March -
V ic to ria W h e a t C rop Short
the auditor’ s office of the Pacific E x ­ had been under the care of a veterinary black, and promised to » t u r n tomor
|21.— F ive deaths have | recently oo-/
Melbourne, March 21.— The official 1 jcurred here from what is suspected to
press Company, at Omaha, has sued surgeon. She gradually became V orse, I row and k ill thém. W*4k on the sur­
the express company and
Erastus however, a n d a ll efforts to save the life rounding farms has b e »s to p p e d and statistics of the wheat crop in V ictoria jibe the buboiiic plague.
Young, its auditor, for $30,000 dam­ o f the valuable mare w ere fruitless. people driven from their V 8*11688* Th® show only 15,000,000 bushels, instead
ages, alleging that by reason of his ar­ Maud S- was owned by the Bonner governor telegraphed th e * e r iff to ride j o f 21,000f,000 bushels, which w as the ^ p ;S vdney, N . 8 . W ., M arch 21.— An-r
H er across the country w it!
rest on M ay 26, 1898, on the charge of estate, and was 26 years old.
posse and estimate before the harvest. The ex-J jother death from bubonio plague ba®
embezzlement, he has been brought trotting record of 2:08% was made in ■ g ive protection until trJ%>s could be ■ p osab le surplus w i l l be 6,650,000 ioccurr id here, and tw o fresh cases are
1885.
I bushels, instead of 12,000,000.
[officially reported.
In to public scandal and disgraoe.
sent tomorrow i f , n eed ed !
T w o boys, aged 9 and 3 years, were
burned to death in their own house
near A lfred , N . Y .