Klamath republican., February 22, 1900, Image 1

KLAMATH
REPUBLICAN.
KLAMATH COUNTY', OREGON, FEBRUARY
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I Alt« NtWS.
The Boers uuw claim tu have 120,000
fight Illg IIK II
Epitome of the Telegraphic
News of the World.
The army appropriation bill carries
fill,700.8114
Treaty between the Uuitml Stales
and Trilli-lad has lieeu siguml.
Charles lu-wla, of la-wlaville, Or ,
TIBHK TICKS FK«»M TIIK WIHKN killed himself accidentally while l*uu
ting.
Astoria, Or , Is taking special pro
An
(’»»IImrlIon of I!•«•«• Frum cautions agaluat
Ihn liitrixluclluu ul
lUe Tw« llwmlAliliwrw« ri»teNle4
plague
I m a CuMilMMBMd Form.
The anti trust ronferoure has de
olarwd In favor of I thn guva runieal own
ershlp ol railroads
.<« »•
is ,uu
much
Al»«» proUm*
" harassed
A pr*-«« agent of the defunct Franklii.
hr th* Fllip»»’ r»'*1*
AwrHtortal !”»■•> ”» IT’»«'“'“”“ »• syndicate bailetes that Miller mad« a
million dollars out ol the swindle.
„«„meu.l.d l-r Hawaii.
Manufacturing, railway amt ioe bar
DsF-.u mwehauts are cloaiug «P
vesting Interests have l>eeii gr<atly
damegol by severs atoima in New Fug
Cagrr-msn Snlaer, of New York.
u Ul“e.l of f-r Bry«1. runi.ing ma«- lan-l
Thro« well-known citizens of th-
..._ ._ the UnHiklvn navy yard de- town of Nanaimo, li. «' . were drown**-
while --n « huuting tri|- --n \ anvoutr-i
ls)an-l
*%r men wr* '•‘•’I
The t'tilted States government ha*
61 new Itaval vessels under construe
tloil, which will roquín* in »Ulcers
bom*
.
alone, 3,(MH) men
The Strike of the '
h.. l-eeu willed lb. effort was UBsue
Willis I* Sullivan, Mayor Phelan's
teas lei.
secretary, was c I mmcu try the lioard ol
Hubbert ms I"
•’ jadíe« rvmmlealonera of ball Francisco
to Im chief of |a>lloe
ten-pt t« b»M “I* “ Sa“U M
Oklahoma.
Sam Beaw I-k, m, old and well
llllali Cone. <>na of the olde«t »owe- known character on the Chicago Board
pgpsr men of Wlsrolistn. was (rosen W ol Trade, died as a charity ¡stlieul iu
the Baptist hospital of that city
death iu F»nd do
Anierl-sn miners are n»t allowed to
Mexican |>«¡>era aro giving much at­
tarry arm» or ainmunilloB into tho tention to th* poqs'sed construction ol
•uts of hon-ira. Mexico.
the Nicaragua -anal. They ladiete it
Chaplain Wells, just returned »rota will l-enrm Mexlcau trade.
the Philippine«, says there Is 1**0 much
I ng lend is suffering from a seven
whiskey eold and used there.
Idiassrd
Trains are snowed up tn al.
Tbo transport Klam, which l<»rt 311 directions an-l street-car line« ldocke-i
molesoolot 88'» «0 her trip to Manila, xu-i telegraph an-l telephone wires ero
down
is bark in San Franciero harbor.
The Salvation Army celei rated the
The city of Skagway protests
the appointment <>l • delegate to eon- 30th annlver-arv of Its establishment
III the Cnllrst Males with the Imptisillg
pee* without the rote ot the people.
of lire,th Tuck. r'» l-aby. The ceremony
Id. Armstrong. * Medlord. Or.,
took place in New York.
bricklayer, was shot and fatally in­
The Vladimir V»Stock, one of the
jured by A. J. Hamlett, during a saloon
supply ship* chartered by the govern­
row.
ment for the transportation »1 quarter­
Fire st the National Biscuit Com-
master's an-l commissary store«, ar­
pany's W'-rks, at U -rcester, Mass . de­
stroyed property to th" value of lOO.- rived at San I ran- Isco from Manila
Patriotic women »f Vancouver, B
OOO.
C . have deviee-l a means to aid the
Tho Kansas supreme court holds that
British soldiers in South Afri-a Throe
railways canm-t bo compelled to fur­
thousand
pslra of so- ks are ready for
nish free trsn»|--rtatl'’n to livestock
shipment, ta-ides sweaters, cape ami
shipper».
handkerchiefs.
Buller's attack Is »"» known to
The revolution in Veneenela, under
hsrs been no feint, lie was really dc-
fMte-l in a third attempt to roach the leadership ot Hernandes, is said to
l«> gaining headway.
Ladysmith.
The treasurer <d Nett Perce county,
Thomas G. Merrill, of Salt latke
City, widely known throughout the Idaho, was arrested for diqsMlting pub­
West as an energello worker tn the Sli­ lic fiimls IU natloual t-anks.
Two hundred sharoliolders of the
ter cause, la dead.
The Corbett-Jeffrie« fight will take Panama Canal Company met in Paris
place at <<>ney Islaud al«>ul the middle and chose a new l«>ard of director«.
ol May.
A lull appropriating >150,000 for the
T. Daniel Frawley has madearraug«- enlargement of the poetofflee building
meat* bi take a copmatiy of actois to •t Portland, Or., »»» peered in the
senate.
Cape Nome.
After an overhauling at Mare Island
An allianre, offensive and defensive,
hit been consummated between Ln<- uavv yard, the Philadelphia will pro
1-eed to the island of Tutuila, one ol
land and Portugal.
the Samoans
The English nation has settled down
A branch of the miners' union has
to the realluthm that the war with
l>eeu formed at Cornucopia. This is
the Boers will last a long time.
Governor Taylor, of Kentucky, haa noteworthy tn that It la the first branch
declined to elgn the je-m-e agreemout to Im formed in Oregon.
During the last three months nearly
*nl the raee will go to th« courts.
A deetrurtive fire vieltorl tho city ot 350 demente*! soldiers have arrived in
Ban Salvador, Central America. The San Frau-isco from the Philippine«,
and it it «aid 200 more arc on the way.
total loss is estimated at fl.OOO.OOU.
The Corliss proposition for tho gov­
The I nltr-il States trane|x>rt Colom­
bia arrived at San Francisco from ernment ownership of a Pacific caldo
Manila, she made the trip lu 30 day«. was defeated by the house coinmittee
on interstate and foreign commerce, by
rhree l«llot-liox stuffi-rs of Philadel­
phia were sentenced to imprisonment a vote of 6 to 5.
for two years and to pay a fine ot $500
F. O Tait, amatucr golf chapmion of
each.
Groat Britain in 1886 and 189H. was
A remlntioii exjrea-ing sympathy killed during General MacDoiiald’a re­
with tin, Boers whs adopted by the sen- connaissance at Kouderalmrg, Irning shot
Ms
it Wo ofleroi| |,y Allen, of through th« liody. 11« had previously
been wounded at Magorafontein.
Nebraska.
Lord Huberts has addressed a letter
to I'resi,lente Kruger and Hteyne, com­
plaining of tlm wanton destruction of
property in Natal.
Three children ot P. D’Arcy, living
®«r South Union, Wash., were poison­
’d by drinking tho wator from an
•bandom-d well.
Si« men wete injured by an explosion
>» the Columbia tin« ranker works at
rortoriu, Ohio. A |argB Jmrt o( tho
■«dory was wrecked
nt'ik1*" l*'11
by the secretary
« navy to appoint Commander
"»ton Schnult-r to 1« tho first naval
Tatiiii1*
t'*"
i*l*u<l
lllH house committee on military
ini»?' Wl" ,nv,‘,,tlgat« into th« Idaho
IM. "f r'111* 1,1 " “rdner, which the
lTn”P*' »nder General Merriatn,
•"Ppressed.
Mdtailiry l" th"
of Boland B.
Ad»>ll,IIU,l‘ ro,,v'<’t*d of poisoning Mrs.
mn-x"' r,tllri1'''' * verdict of guilty of
thetrUi kth" flrRt
** *• "•ia
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h»* ' "Hi >'.’00,000.
Z„h\"
’•‘1‘cn Inkandla, A
the ni'i'i n”,,I*",ri,oy- Tlie magistrate
tine X i *'r’‘v‘01,M exploded tho maga*
*vaen?'." : *Uh hl* staff and police,
Fahowe ' * '*
*UI' proceeded to
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T-evtee.ns«s sod Terror will n-lgn «1
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Ithar-a, N. Y. i eli. I.|*re»ldent
<>h<> --hurmaii, of <'ornali uni ver-
• ■tv, In ali addri-.s liefore thè Business British Forced to Retire From
Irli'« Associatimi, ot Ithaca, »|«>ke ut
the Colesberg District.
Mjine li-ngth on thè issile« arislug out
ot tb<- l’IillIppliiK question. Itegarding
thè coni meri lai benefit« which thè
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l'iiitmi States 1« to derive as a r* sull ot BOEKS WERE IN GREAT FORCE
thè H|«niah-American war. he said:
‘"IL» market« <j| thè worid are ojmii
to us ami riseiving our prodiu-t» The A
Hpanlsli war vav« «• • solution to that
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Lindon, Feb. 15.—The new« of the
I lay is the enforced retirement of the
British from the Coleaberg diitrict un-
ler heavy Boor pressure, and probably
• fter brisk fighting Thu« at a time
whi n Jxird Roberta is apparently able
to push an army into the Free State,
’he li'iers make a counter stroke in un-
b <nown, but seemingly great force, not
lar from the vital line of railway con-
oe-ting De Aar and Orange river.
Military observer« do not regard thi» a«
more than a menace. Nevertheless,
the news produce« in unpleasant Im­
pression here.
General French had maneuvered the
Boer« out of Renslierg in December.
January 1, it was reported that he
■jould take Coleaberg in two day« with
ro-enforrements. These were «ent, but
the Boers were also re-euforced. Sine«
then the British line« have been ex­
tended east and west, SO |^>.<t at the
>|M-ning of thia week they constituted
* great horseshoe »1
In len—th a
Roberts Preparing to Ad
vanee on Magcrafontein.
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i*eta:is ot luu *«•.<.., ,-r death rate
show that in a ¡■»pulatlon of 14,000
whites and 19.000 blacks, the mortality
was 40 whites slid 86 blacks per 1,000.
The Infantile death rate was 671 per
1,000 among the whites ami 912 per
1,000 among the blacks.
Enteric
fever was prevalent
Ibis frightful
state of things In December cannot
have Improved much. If at all, since,
and the fighting power of the garrison
inu.t hair t»-eii greatly diminished.
Meanwhile the bombardment by the
B>M-rw has increased, ami there is im­
minent danger of the town falling
under tlm very eyes of lsird Bola-rts.
It Is ladieved in circles close to the
war office that he will move at once.
Scouts have approached within 1,000
var ls <>f the Boer entrenchments at
Mager ■fontrin They hair found thus*
strong and ascertained that they are
used as dwelling places. Naial gunner*
are constantly ««t hing the ettemy’a
lines with strong glasses, and they <ie-
dare that there is appreciable diminu­
tion in the liner force«.
In Natal the Boer commando« south
of the Tulgela occupy Bog’« farm and
several miles west of Uheveley.
Two
thou sand Boers, with three guns, nre
advancing through Zululund toward
N»I * 1
The war office is making prepara­
tions to continue the stream of troop»
for South Africa. Four large steamer»
have I xm - u chartered.
LAST
WEEK
OF
their pride and ours, emiuein of the
Orient in its highest and noblest form."
BET1EH
CONDITIONS.
Oil« Rrp>»rtft a (*rn«ral Impr<>»rmenl In
the l*li 11 ipplrira.
Washington, Feb. 17.—The adjutant-
general received the following cable
message from General Otis:
"Manila, Feb. 17. — Bates left today
with two regiment« ami hattery of
artillery on tran>-|>>rts for San Mignel
bay, province of Camannes Snr, to
move on Nueia Caceres and towns in
that section.
The road east from
Autlmonan through the province of
Tayaba» is not practicable for troop«.
The insurgents in Camartnea show
considerable activity ami make attacks
on our tnei» alo«" ♦*>« wintheastern
DEBATE
Three ^prrrlira on lltr Menai» Finanelal
Mill.
Nurvry llrltluli North America.
Irsnch railroads have ordered 80 lo-
Captain Charles Loeffler has been
’»motives from Philadelphia.
dinrkeejier at the entrance ot the exec­
A Leipsic newspaper warns German utive chamber in Washington for over
manufaoturers may crowd then, out of 80 years.
H«*ia.
The oldest consul of the United
A Fieneh court sent a man to prison I States in continuous service is Horatio
or three months for insulting tjuecn J. Sprague, who became consul at
'otoria in a pamphlot.
Gibraltar in 1H4H.
P»« queen <>( luly has
The persons engaged in raising funds
ehk»l ralual - * , _ j a handker- to buy a home in Washington for Rear-
at|»0,000.
It
took
eev-
’ral women
Admiral Hchley have made another ap­
uiure than 30 years to peal for money.
•Ake it.
Winni'peg, Man., Feb. 14.—Th*
Canadian government is equipping a
largo survey party for an examination
of the immediate territory lying be
tween the Great Slave-lake ami Hud­
son’s bay.
Ibis stretches front ths
Rockies to the Atlantia. It is 2.000
miles wide, and h supposed to contain
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The War In Yucatan.
J. Cornett lias nwn tixed at May 14,
George F. Cousidine and W. A. Brady,
manager« of the men, uiet Tom
O’Rourke, manager of the Seaside
Athletic Club, today, and formally
accepted the offer of the Coney Inland
Club for the tight.
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Chicago, Feb. 15. — After a heated
debate, the resolutions committee of
the anti-trust conference decided to re­
port in favor of government ownership
of rniroads and for their seizure on pay­
ment of actual value and without pay­
ment for ’’watered stock ot other ficti­
tious values.”
t.e Herald from I’aris says:
A gen-
eral meeting of theCompaguie Neuvelle
di, (’anil de Panama was held in the
Rnc d’Aihenee. Among those present
were M. Samper, who represented the
interests of the republic of Colombia,
and also Mtn. Gauton end Kiegges and
Ferrett, shareholders appointed to act
The manager of the Belleville Woolen as scrutineers should a formal ballot
A seven-year-old girl, of Butte,
Mont., was killed by the accidental mills, at North Kingston, Rhode Island, be necessary. In the hall were about
discharge of her father’s revolver, if g ran ted the demand of the operatives 200 shareholders, representing upwards
for a 10 ]ier cent advance in waves.
her own bauds.
of 400,000 share«.
Austin, Tu«., Feb. 14.—A dispatch
from (JBxacai Mexico, says that Presi­
dent Dais has ordered two more rogi-
monte of troops to proceed immediately
to Yucatan, where they will join Gen­
eral Bravo’s forces in the campaign be­
ing waged against the Maya Indians.
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Can® Mums This Ssmtnsr.
Then will I.e lawlessness and a reign
of t- rror iu the new gold fields at Ca|>s
Nome, Alaska, next summer, in ths Retirement of Cronje and the
opinion of John G. Brady, governor ol
Boer Army.
the territory, and <>e**rge N. Wright,
postmaster at < Jape Nome, unless con­
gress takes steps to establish civil gov- BRITISH EVACUATE RF.XSBF.RG
i eminent on a firm foundation ami
makes laws defining the proprietorship
I of claims. Governor Brady and Mr.
Wright are in the East endeavoring tc
<¡1 tain the appointment of United State*
judges at f-itka. Circle City ami Caps
Nome. An extraordinary rush of gold-
Ixindon, Feb. 17.—The war office
seekers to the last namel place is ex-
I*- tel next May when communication i announces that General French reached
with the outside world is reopened. Ki mla-rley Thursday evening.
Following ia Lor-1 Roberts’ message to
Mr. Wright believes that before the end I
of the summer, there will be 60,090 j the war office:
"Jacolst-lal, Feb. 17. — French, with
persons in Cape Nome.
”We want the general land laws ex­ . s force of artillery, cavalry and mount-
tended to Alaska, so that we have , ed infantry, reached Kimberley this
homestead rights,” said Mr. Wngbi I evening (Thursday)."
I la-t night, "otherwise we cannot helj
Crnnje'g Retirement.
having a great deal ot trouble.
M’s 1
Ixindon, Feb. 17. — As Gen. Cronje’s
are without the legal form ot govern­
communications with Bloemfontein
ment. We have organize-1 one of out ' have been cut, England would like to
own. electing a mayor, a council, » hear that he electa to give battle among
chief of police and other officers, but
the low hills and ridges east of Kim­
it has no standing in law. There were
berley. Should he determine not to do
2,000 men there last year, and they
this, he must retreat to a joint where
agreed among themselves to observe be would prefer to fight. This retire­
each other’s rights, but it will be dif­
ment could be a long detour around the
ferent when we have 60,000.
head of the British advance to Bloem­
"In law, nobody has any right to th« fontein, or. as seems to military stu­
beach, between the high and low water
dents more practicable, he could with­
marks, where there are rich deposits ol draw to the north, using the railroad
gold. It ought to lie laid off in small for his guns and heavy baggage, mov­
plots for the sale of the mineral rights.
ing to Fourteen Streams station, and
Though gold was discovered in Cap«
thence into the Transvaal territory.
Nome a year ago last f-epteml>er, w«
The Boers have made no prejiarations
did not get the news in Seattle until
to defend Bloemfontein, and there is
last May. We su«[«cted at first that no particular reawn why General
it was a scheme of the steamship com­
Cronje ahoud risk a battle to protect the
panies to get passengers, as the Yukon
capital of the Free State.
businesa was getting slack.
I tele­
Ojierations elsewhere are apjiarently
graphed to Washington tn be appointed suspended.
poetmastar and was appointed ovei
A correspondent, writing from Cheve-
night by wire. I got to Nome July 4,
ley. February 15, says:
"We are
wheu there was not a sluice box in th« still hojieful of relieving Ladysmith.”
district.
Colonel Baden-Powell, in a disjiatch
"Lumber came in later, and about from Mafeking, dated January 29, after
f3.500.000 of gold was taken out Iasi mentioning matters already sent out
summer. One claim in ¿uvil creek by correspondents, gives his total cas­
paid 1175,000 in five weeks.
I know ualties up to January- 25 as follows:
because I handled the money.
Thre« Killed, five officers and 60 men;
claims in Snow gub h paid f500,000 wounded, eight officers and 123 men;
missing, 34 men.
No won! has been received regarding
Test of Newspaper Advertising.
General Gatacre’s 12,000 men at Storm-
Between the acts recently
berg. The impression is that these
at Wallack’a New York
forces are on the way to Lord Roberts.
theater, ushers distributed
Mr. Chamlterlain’s announcement in
among the audience slips
the bouse of commons of the intention
with a brief printed state­
of the government to encourage the
ment politely asking the
Zulus to defend themselves from the
recipieut to indicate by a
Boers is a contingency the Boers seem
check mark in the list of
to have anticipated, as they have been
various advertising forms
doing everything in their |*>wer to win
employed which one had
the good will of the Ba-utos, who have
attracted him to the per-
thousands ot good rifies.
The Boers
forniance—newspapers, bill
gave 3,000 Basutos safe conduct.
If
boards, window lithographs
the British let loose one tribe the Boers
or something else. Eleven
will probably let loose another.
hundred slips were handed
The war office has issued orders for
to the ushers, and of that
the formation of 21 new batteries and
number 991 had been at­
three battalions of infantry.
tracted by the newspapers
The cabinet council was in session
solely.
yesterday for two hours. It will meet
again today. This is quite unusual.
On the Yukon the gold is well below
the surface, but at Nome it lies neai
the top of the ground. Many claimi
have been staked out. but there is i
vast region still to be explored. Th»
formation is very peculiar. Back ot
the f-each, which i« white sand, and
rising 10 feet above it, is a flat strij
called tundras. which extend« from
two to four miles back to the moun-
tains. This has a layer of mows or peal
on top, then comes a layer of blue clay
from rt to 15 inches thick, and then th«
white sand to liedrock 25 feet below.
The gold in the white sand run« from
50 cents to > 1.50 a pan, and the pay
streak of ruby sand on the bedrock runi
>.-> to the pan. besides coarse gold.
"One of the steamers took 850 tom
of sand shoveled at random from th«
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beach to San Francisco last year,
was put into a smelter and yielded
♦ .■.OOP tn gold. The beach has been
prospected for 15 miles.
Nobody
knows where the gold came from,
some think it was from hills brought
down by glaciers, and some think it
was thrown up by a volcano.
'‘Governor Brady wants Alaska to
come in as a state when the population
has been increased by the rush next
summer. He is the one man that al)
he people there have absolute confi-
ern e in. If we are admitted to the
■i:. i! we can take care of ourselves.
’ n- rs le.-an coming down from the
Zukon last fall, an ! more will come.
If we do not get authority to protect
o.ii-ad
we shall have trouble.”
In Delaware last week the National
Cape Nome Mining <fc Transportation
up.ini was organized with a capita)
f ’■>,000.000, to establish a steamship
■ sii-1 work with machinery claims
oeriug 920 acres of beach and tund-
l rr.ui- i« B. Thurber, F. L. Lor­
and George Crawford are the in-
- >r|s>rators.
Washingt-'U. Feb. 14.—The final
Week’s discussion of the |>endiilg fiuau-
cial bill wax begun in the senate today.
The speakers were two Republicans—
Elkins, of West Virginia, and Wolcott,
of Colorado— and one Populist—Butler, '
of North Carolina.
Elkins advocated i
the jMa-age of th« |>ending senate 1
measure in a brief, but forceful argu­
ment, Wolcott, chairman of the Inter­
national Bimetallic Commission of
1697, spoke for many Republicans who
adhere to bimetalism, and his «|>eech,
earnest and eloquent, was accorded un­
usual attention. Butler closed the de­
bat« for th« day, advocating the adop­
tion of his amendment providing for
an issue of
currency by the gov­
The anniversary of tho birth of ernment.
Abraham Lim-oln was observed as a
legal holiday for the first limo in Phil
An important bill was passed by th»
edelphla. All the federal departments,
house
today, which makes universally
the courts, the banka, brokers' offices,
exchanges aud schools were closed all applicable the law that now (termita
the transit in bond of goods through
day.
the Unitisi States. Goods in Isind can
The British ship County of Edin­ l>e shlp|N-d through any js>rtion of the
burgh went ashore near Manasuan life­ territory of tlie United States to foreign
saving station, on the Jersey coast, porta. It is principally designed to
near Point Pleasant. She is hard and give the trans|H>rtation conijsinies of
fast aground, ami It is expected to the United States a portion of the
l.roak up. The crow were taken off in trans-continental trade to the Orient.
tlie breeches buoy by tho life savers.
Tim bill also n'jieals the law of March
I, 1695, prohibiting the shipment of
igllaias and Eduardo Conde, Puerto
goods in bond to the Mexican free
Rican lalavr leaders, have issued an
sone. The latter provision w sa fought
appeal to this government on behalf of by Stephens, of Texas. The remainder
the workingmen of Puerto Rico. They of the day was occupied in jsisaing
de< lar« that the working class of their private pension bills tavorably acted
island have been reduced by reason of iijsin at last Friday night’s cession,
th« war, the hurricane and the action
and in District of Columbia legislation.
of thia government since the storm, to
a condition of extreme destitution.
By an exe< utive order, a certain por­
tion of th« peninsula in the district
of Alaska, immediately north of the
I southern boundary, ami embracing
Camp Point Hpcncer, has been ri<a«rve.l
for public purposes.
The tract is
located on the west shore of Port Clar­
ence bay, comprising tlie peninsula on
which ia Point Spencer, and Includes
| ulsiut font square miles.
NO. 45
British Evacuate Keu«berg.
London, Feb. 17.—The Cape Town
correspondent of the Daily Chronicle,
telegraphing, says:
"It is reported here that the Britiah
have evacuated Rensberg and retired to
Arundel.”
Arundel, Feb. 17.—General Clem­
ents withdrew from Rensberg during
the night, his rear guard arriving at
Arundel early this morning.
The
Boers promptly followed, reoccupying
their old jxvsition on the Taaisbosch
hills, when they have been shelling the
British cavalry i*atrols. but ineffectual­
ly. The British guns re
tire, making fairly ac urate
PASSED
Dedal»«
BY
THE
Majority for
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Washington, Feb. 17.—The senate
substitute for the house currency bill
was passed by the senate today by the
decisive majority of 46 to 39.
Prior to the final passage of the bill,
amendments were considered under the
10-minute rule.
Only two of these
amendments were adopted, vis:
One
offered by the financial committee,
keeping the door open to interneftMAL
bimetalism, and one by Nelson, ot
uesota, providing for national
with f35,000 capital in towns ol tw
more than 4,000 inhabitants.
The house today completed 26 of 124
pages of the legislative, executive and
judicial appropriation bill, without
amendment. During the general de­
bate, which closed at 4 o’clock, a
variety of topics were touched upon.
Boutell, of Illinois, Miers, of Indiana,
and Showalter, of Pennsylvania, dis­
cussed the Philippine question; Gros­
venor, of Ohio, and Gillett, of Massa­
chusetts, civil service reform; Briggs,
of New York, pensions, and Under­
wood, of Alabama, his resolution to
The entire season’s output of grain- repeal the 15th amendment to the con­
s from the Walla Walla peniten- stitution. The* legislative bill proba­
. ha* already been applied for, and bly will be passed tomorrow.
iy «('plications have been refused
Lima, Peru, via Galveston,
ai.se (>■ lack of capacity to supply —A severe earthquake shoe
in. The price has not yet been caused great alarm, was felt
-I. It ia estimated that 10,000,000 section. In the course of the
s will lie needed for the season's River Rimao flooded its bank
-i ii, only one-eighth of which can be outskirts of Lima, endangering life and
i auuiaevured at the state prison.
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Fighting In Albay Proxlnr«.
Mlwlsg Convanllon Delegates.
Manila, Feb. 17.—Insurgent forces,
Govern»« »'ogm-s. of 8
estimated at 5.000 soldiers, mostly
♦”
men, attacked the American garri-
tvrniitio'i.il M
n in the convent at Daraga province
meets in MHwmiitw,
f Albay, the night of February 5.
It is desirable that the
They were repulsed, however, after
i represented nt the convention,
they had burned much of the town.
governor will appoint nny reputable One lieutenant wounded was the only
citizen who may wish to attend. Three loss sustained by the Americans.
delegates will go from the «tate univer­
Steel ornaments should always be
sity school of mining, and three from
the agricultural oullega sohool of kept in powdered starch to prevent
j mining.
their rusting.