EVADE PURSUERS. Burgher Capture Dublin Fusilier and Train Load ol Supplies Much Fight ing Going on Now. ' Late dispatches confirm the capture nf the Dtililin fusiliers, Capo police and a trainload nf supplies liy the Boer lit Fourteen Streams, not many miles Hiirlli ' i Kimberloy. The loss is seri ous. 1 lie dispatches also say the Boors tire becoming mure aggressive in K.nt rrn (.'ape Colony, and their serins have leeti seen in the vicinity of Somerset Eat. The p'ans of the British to rut i'lT t.nd capture the invaders have utterly failed. Ilie Boors moving with a celeri ty that the British are mi.ilile to match, and they are making their appearance lit unixpcclcd points, when they were Mippoi to have been closed in upon in other directions. In this they are much aided ly the Dutch people i ( the eonntry. who are irritated l the proelaination of mar tial law in certain districts, while Hie English inhabitants are equally angry at the inability of the British to sup press the Iloers and give protection to the lojal inhabitants. Never since Lord Kitchener took command have conilitions been so un promising for the llritish. The Boor operations now extend over nearly all of British South Africa. Lord Kitchener is hanging without mercy Itoer prisoners convicted by Fugl'isli court martini of having vio lated their oath not to tight again against Kngland. but bis severity has no effect in briiiKiK the Boers to terms. The war is a greater problem for England than when Jotihort and llnHer were forcing each other in Natal, and it seems to be no nearer an end thin at that time. STOLE $31,976 IH STAMPS. Internal Revenue Office at Peoria. I I.. Looted by Ihievet. The t xact loss sustained by the l'e oria. Hi., internal rcvemte office from the robbery is $31,070. The pbmd r ci n-i-; of revenue stamps carried nil by the robbers in the original pack age. The weight was nearly .ton pounds. No clrc has been discovcreil that throws the sliulitc-t liht on the matti r. .1. W. Mctiinnis. revenue aufil of thai district, is in l'eoiia. as well ;ss several i.f the secret service men frc.n W.t Kl' n ami Chicago, who arc ;t work on the case, but apparently with little hope of success. The sale in the office was not up to ttie regulation- and was entered with less resistance than ininht have been expected. The government building is used as the postutticc on the tirst Moor, while the offices of the internal revenue de partment, which handles the largest col lection in the world, are on the second tloor. FAMINE IN SHAN-SI. Chrit'iant. at Well at Heathen, Will Receive the Rolicl. Telegrams from Peking say: There lias been great distress in the province of Shan-Si owing to the famine and thousands have died. The court has ordered rice relief to be issued in lar.se: quantities. A report reached the for eign envoys that native Christians, suf fering from the famine, were to be dis criminated aKainst and to be punished if they even bended for food. Mr Conger. Sir Krncst M. Satovv and M. 1'iehon, the United States, British nnd Krone-It ministers. protested to l'rince Ching and I.i Hung Chang aKainst such discrimination, and the court issued an edict, ordering all relief officials and Chinese soldiers to treat Christians ex actly the same as others throughout tiic empire under penalty of dccapitatioi. The foreign envoys consider this a most important decree if it is carried out. ' Molten Metal Eip'odot. At the Baltimore (Md.) Copper Smelting Company six men were se riously, if not fatally injured by a mould containing 135 pounds of molten coo per accidentally overturning and dump ing its contents into a tank ol wat.-r. The explosion that followed was ter rific. ASK FEDERAL AID. Unruly Creek Indian Are Cautlng Trouble I IndUn Torrltory. Tclcg.ams from Muskogee, I. T., say: Washington authorities have been re quested to send federal troops into the Creek country to quell the uprising of full-bloods known as the Snake bands, who are creating depredations west of K.ufala and threatening the lives of both the whites and the neutral Indians. The Indians threaten to finally enter the towns and burn and kill, and Chief Mek ko has sent a message ot defiance to President McKiuley. The whites are arming and serious bloodshed is feared. United States Marshal Bennett sent 20 deputies and 10 Indian police to thi scene, but they were met by so fierce a fusillade that they were compelled u retire. One of the posse, named Mo Nac. was captured by the Indians and it is feared that they will take his life. ' Two tkators Drowned. Sixty skaters, including many wo men 'and children, broke through the Ice on a large pond back of Evergreen cemetery, Brooklyn. Saturday, and i-t uic wim struggles ilt lite two boys were drowned. Race Co-Education Problem. The Tennessee legislature is wrestling with the educational phase of the negro problem and a bill lias passed the sen ate to prohibit the co-education of the races. A bill also has been introduced in the upper house to prohibit the em ployment of white t.achrr in negro schools, collegei and universities. A large majority of the negro institutions of learning are controlled and directed by white officer and teachers, and the passage of this bill will compel a reor . sanitation of the faculty of nearly every negro school in the state. LATEST NEWS NOTES. F.x-Chicf Justice James P. Slerrett, of Philadelphia, l'n., is dead. Mrs. Nation's hatchet crusade niny re sult in closing many Kansas saloons. Two lloer leaders, l'iet nn Jan Steon kamp. nre in Berlin on a secret mission. Montreal (Can.) business section suf fers a loss of f j.500,000 to $,).ooo,ooo by fire. A rail has been issued for n National prohibition conference at Buffalo in August. tien. MarArlhur has ordered 12 more natives to be taken on the Solace for de portation. Wichita. Kas., .saloonkeepers closed up business until Mrs. Nation had left the town. The funeral of O'.iooti Victoria will be the most tremendous pageant of the generation. By the will of Albert K. Kent, of Chi cago, Vale college is the beneficiary to the extent of $50,000. In a battle with bank robbers Ken tucky officers, killed one and captured two, after a bloody fight. At New Albany. Iud.. Morton Finl'.v, eoloied was killed anil five workmen in jured in a boiler explosion. Tile liabilities of the Order of Chosen Friends are over $800,000 nnd the re ceiver has $.2,000 in the treasury. The wheat crop in the river Plata provinces of both Argentina and Uru guay is in a very bad condition. (inventor McMillin was for the sec ond time inducted into the office of ex ecutive at Nashville, Tenn., Tuesday. William L. Warner, a prominent pol itician in Jamestown, N. V., committe I suicide by shooting himself through the bead, A hurricane caused destruction nnd loss of life in New Britain and bush tires devastated Albury district in Aus tralia. A wholesale conspiracy to smuggle Chinamen into United Stales has been exposed by arrests made by government officers. While packed with nil nudenec the Grand opera li"tt-e of Cincinnati caught fire and burned down. Lveryonc got out salciy. Two firemen were Killed and tw boys fatally injured by an explosion of chlorate of potash during a tire near De troit, .l:i.li. Julian T. B. Arnold, son of Sir Edwin Arnold, was sentenced in London to to veais imprisonment for embezzling ti't-t f'.-nds. The lieutenant general to succeed General Miles is to be appointed under the reorganization act. Brooke and O'.is are mentioned. M. Orban de X ivory, a governor of the Beliginn province of Luxembourg, was killed by a madman, who then comitted suicide. President McKinlev will be urged to visit Alaska when he goes to San Fran cisco in May to witness the launch of the battleship Ohio. Dispatches from the northern coast of France show that there was a heavy gale over the channel Sunday and sev eral boats wore lost. Over 24.000 acres of coal land in (ireenc county. Pa., has been sold for $50:1.000 through a Pittsburg agency tj capitalists of Pittsburg, It has been decided to bury at the Presidio at San Francisco, Cal., the bodies of t6.t soldiers who died of small pox in the Philippncs. Two embezzlements have been re ported at Berlin, the Mitti-ldeutsclie Kredit bank losing 200.000 mark and llerr Clikretschnier 30,000 marks. Aguinaldo in an interview declared that be would never accept amnesty or stop the Philippine war until his peo ple arc given their independence. It is reliably asserted that Chile hni has made new and peaceful proposals to Bolivia on a very favorable basis, and that Bolivia is disposed to accept liiein. If Miss Clara Nichols, of Philadelphia, should live, she will be the only per son in the world who has had a broken spinal cord sewn together by the sur geons. By the death of Benjamin D. Silli man, of Brooklyn, Yale will obtain from the estate of his brother, Augustus E. Silliman. an endowment of $80,000 for a lectureship. Governor General Wood lias in formed the Cuban tobacco exporters that the Washington government has allowed his petition for a 50 per ce.it reduction in the. exportation tax. Richard Leake, a New York cab driv er, has sued ex-Secretary John G. Car lisle for $2,000 damages for causing his arrest on a false charge, Thomas F. Hart, vice president of the American Window Glass Company, denies that the factories throughout die country will close down April I. The President has sent to the Senate the nomination of Francis J. Wing, of Ohio, to be United States district judge for the Northern district of Ohio. Because her husband sold her chick ens and bought whiskey wittl the money Mrs, William Towns, of Hartford City, Ind., horsewhipped Towns and tried to wreck a saloon. J. M. Carpenter and John A. Stone, said to be backed by a Pennsylvania' syndicate, have purchased 40.000 acres oj timber, iron nnd copper lands in Monroe county, Tenn., for $300,000, The Chinese peace commissioners wished to employ the Belgian attorney, wlio was legal adviser ot tile tsuug-'i yatiien, but the foreign ministers ob jcc'.cd. The Bavarian police have abandoned their efforts to capture Kneissal, the highwayman who has been terrorizing the population in the most thickly set tled parts of Bavaria for more than a month. The none issued his encyclical on so. cialism, explaining carefully the (lis liiiioi'ii ijciwccii bui itmniii 111 poiiiics and Christian democracy, exhorting Catholics to continue their work in aiJ of the luboring classes. Fire In the Eagle horseshoe workt nt South Milwaukee, Wis., destroyed the nine-inch mill, 16-inch mill, office and cooper shop. The lost it estimated at $150,000, partially Insured. Denver, Col., threaten to hold a rival G. A. R. encampment, .Cleveland, Q., having been chosen by G, A. R. execu tive committee. j ENGLAND'S LATE QUEEN IN II ICR EIGHTIETH YEAR. The queen has nearly 50 grandchildren and great-grandchildren living. She may be truly said to have been not only a great queen mid empress, but a great mother of kings, querns nnd emperors. No other royal family of modern times lias ever held within the circle of its membership so many crowns and scepters. QUEEN VICTORIA DEAD. Tho End Came on the Anniversary of Hor Falhor Doath Pcacotut siumuer Closo an Illustrious Caroor. Queen Victoria is dead and Edward VI 1. reigns. The greatest event in the memory of this generation, the most stupendous change in existing condi tions that could possibly be imagined, has taken place quietly, almost gently, upon the anniversary of the doath of Queen Victoria's father, the Duke "f Kent. , , , . Surrounded by her children, grand children and dignitaries of the chttrJi and state, Victoria's long and glorious reign ended in peaceful slumber at Os borne bouse, Isle of Wight, Tuesday evening at 0:jo o'clock. For several weeks the queen had been ailing, nnd on Wednesday she suffered a paralytic stroke, accompanied by in tense physical weakness. It was her first illness in all her 81 years and she would not admit it. Then her condi tion grew so serious that, against her wishes, the family were summoned. When they arrived br reason bad prac tically succumbed to paralysis and weak ness. Before the end came the aged sover eign regained consciousness and recog nized those about her bedside and bade them all a whispered good-bye. Victoria Alexandria (late queen :f Great Britain and Ireland, and empress of India), only child of the late Duke of Kent, and of the Princess Louisia Victoria of Saxc-Coburg, was born at Kensington Palace, May 24. The Duke of Kent died January 2.1, 1820, and the general education of the young princess was directed, under her moth er's care, by the Duchess of Northum berland, wife of the third duke. Queen Victoria succeeded her uncle, William IV., June 20, 1837, as Victoria I., and her coronation was celebrated in Westminster Abbey, June 28, 1838. She was married February 10, 1840, to his late Royal Highness Prince Al bert of Saxe-Coburg Gotha, by whom her majesty had issue: First, H. R. H, Victoria Adelaide Mary Louisa, Prin cess Royal, born November 21, 1840, married January 25. 185$. to H. R. II. the Crown Prince Frederick William of Prussia (he died June is, 1888); seconj, H. R. II. Albert Edward, Prince of Wales, born November o, 1841, married March 10, 1863. the Princess Alexandria of Denmark; third, H. R. H. Princess Alice Maud Mary, born April IS. 184.1. married July I, 1862. to Prince Louis Hesse-Darmstadt (H. R. H. died De cember 14. 1878); fourth, H. R. H. Trince Alfred Ernest Albert, born Au gust 6, 1844. created Duke of Edin burgh. May 24. 1866, married January 23. 1874, the Grand Duchess Marie Alexanilrovna, sister of the former em peror if Russia; fifth, II. R. H. Princess Helena Augusta Victoria, born May 20, 1846, married July 5, 1866, to Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein; sixth, H. R. H. Princess Louise Caroline Al berta, born March 18, 1848, married to the Marquis of Lome, March 21, 1871; seventh, H. R. H. Prince Arthur Will iam Patrick Albert, Duke of Con naught, born May 1, 1850, married March 17, 1879, the Princess Louise Margaret Alexandra Victoria Agnes, third daughter of Prince Frederick Charles of Prussia; eighth, H. R. H. Prince Leopold George Duncan Albert, Duke of Albany, born April 7, 185?, married April a, 1883 the Princess Helen Frederica Augusta, daughter of the Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont (H R H. died March 28, 1884), and ninth, H. R. H. Princess Beatrice Mary Victoria Feodore, born April 14, 1857. England' Nw Field Marshal. Emperor William of Germany was 41 years od Saturday. Perhaps the mo.it highly-prized birthday gift he received was from the hand of the duke of Con naught. It was the dress sword de noting hit appointment as a field mar shal of the British army. The pre sentation took place in the presence of the households of King Edward and the dead Queen, at well a a number of British and German naval officers. His majesty has expressed great delight It the anuoiiitnient. The incidents of Queen Victoria's reign ami of her private life present nil edifying contrast to the most conspicu ous trails in the characters of the sov ereigns who reigned before her. The image of Victoria will long be held up for imitation as that of a model wife and mother. No former monarch has so thoroughly comprehended the great truth that ihe powers of the British crown arc held in trust for the people and arc the means, not the end of government. This enlightened policy has entitled her to the distinction (if having been .lie most constitutional and most democratic sovereign any nation has ever had. Not less important and beneficial was the example set by her majesty and the prince consort in the practice of every domestic virtue. Their stainless lives, their tmobstrusivr piety nnd their care ful education of the royal children con tributed 111 lull to the stability of the throne and obtained for England's rul er the respect and esteem of the civiliz ed world. During the 04 years of Victoria's rule the people of England have advanced more toward democracy than in nil the years before. Yet there has been no notable upheaval of social or political disorder, no historic concession of popu lar rights such as in King John's day, or transfer of power, as embodied in the net of settlement by which William -'f Orange became king of England. In stead, there has been the gradual, re sistless change of time, scarcely no ticeable to those most interested, yet having the most far-reaching results and the most stuprndtioiis consequences. A comparison of the condition of the peo ple of England, politically, when the queen ascended the throne with that of to-day is the only measure of what lias been accomplished. During Victoria's reign she has had a remarkable list of statesmen to assist her in the government of the empire statesmen of nn unusually high order and in that time has seen many changes of party government. Whigs nnd Tories have been followed by liberals nnd con servatives, each with about equal share in the honors of office. Beginning un der Melbourne's tutelage the queen was inclined to the liberal and wdiig policy. Of late years Gladstone's democratic program alarmed her and drove her ov er to the reactionary or conservative party, but so skillfully did she bold the balance between the two great parties of the state that none could say she had given the other any undue advantage. On June 20 next the queen, had she lived, would have completed a reign of sixty-four years, the longest and in many senses the most glorious reign in English history, five years longer than that of her grandfather, George III., who previously held the record as the longest reigning English sovereign. After George, the next longest reigns were those of Henry III., who ruled fifty-six years, and Edward HI., who occupied the throne for fifty years. Victoria has outlived all the sover eigns who were her contemporaries when she ascended the throne, and all who began to reign between that year and 1848. Of sovereigns whose reigns brgan later she has outlived seventen. She has been contemporary with five sovereigns of Prussia, four each of Rus sia. Denmark. Spain and Portugal, throe, each of, Sweden and Holland, and tw i each of'Austria. Belgium and Italy. Martin Van Buren was President of the United States when Victoria be came queen. She has outlived Van Buren some thirty-nine years, and has maintained relations with sixteen of his successors. Scarcely in ancient or modern history will any monarch be found who Has pre sided with the full intelligence of the adult mind over such a course of ad vancing national prosperity; and cer tainly the world never before experienc ed sixty-four years of such progress, or ot tucll growin ana cxtcnsiun, as wen The President to the King. His Majesty, the King, Osborne House, tslo of Wiirht: I have received with profound sorrow the lamentable tidings of the death of her majesty, the queen. Allow me, sir, to offer my sincere sympathy and that of the American neoole in your personal bereavement and in the loss of Great Britain has suffered in the death of its venerable and illustrious sovereign, whose noble life and beneficent influ ence have promoted the peace and won the affection 01 the world. WILLIAM M KINLEY. In territorial domain, In population and In wealth, of different communities of civilized mankind. It is difficult for the mind to conceive the wonderful advancement in political nnd social conditions, in industrial and commercial resources, in means of edu cation nnd diffusion of knowledge, and in the facilities of conveyance over Ian I mul sen, which has taken plnce during these sixty-four years. Surely no monarch has ever sat upon n throne who has beheld such wonderful things as has the venerable quern of England. And though the personal power of the crown has lessened, the empire that it represents has increased In nn extraordinary ninnner. For "the individual withers, but the world grows more mid more." KING EDWARD VII. Takes Ihe Oath of King and Emporor In the Privy Council Pledged lo Rule by Coiu'.l'uilon. Hit Speech. In the presence of the privy council Wednesday at St. James palace Edward VII. took the oath as king of Great Britain and Ireland and emperor of In dia. He made the following nddrcss: "Your royal highnesses, my lords and gentlemen: This is the most painful oc casion on which I shall ever be called upon to nddrcss you. My first and mel ancholy duty is to announce to you the death of my beloved mother, the queen, and I know how deeply you and the whole nation and, I think I may say, the whole world, sympathize with me in the irreparable loss we have all sustained. I need hardly say that my constant en deavor will be always to walk in her footsteps. "In undertaking the heavy load which now devolves upon me, I am fully de termined to be a constitutional sover eign in the strictest sense of the word, nnd, so long ns there is breath in my body, to work for the good and amelior ation of my people. I have resolved to be known bv the name of Edward. which has been borne by six of my an cestors. In doing so I do not ttnd-r- valuc tile name of Albert, winch I in herit from my ever to be lamented great and wise father, who bv universal consent is, 1 think deservedly, known 'y the name of Albert the Good, and I de sire that his name should stand alone. In conclusion. I trust to nnrlinment an I the nation to support 111c in the nrduoiis duties which now devolve noon me b.- inheritance, to which I am determine 1 to devote my whole strength during the remainder of my life." Edward VII.. king of Grcnt Britain and Ireland and emperor of Jndia, as cended the throne with n rare experi ence. The claims of royalty have rest ed upon him many years without de manding that responsibility which is in vested in a ruler, but which at the same time made him vastly more than a fig urehead in the eyes of the English peo ple. He w!ts born on November o, 1841, tit Buckingham palace, the eldest son of the queen and Prince Albert. He be came Duke of Cornwall at the moment of his birth, a title held by the eldest son ot the sovereign for many centuries, which entitles the holder to the reve nues of the Delectable Dtitchy amount ing to over $300,000 a vcar. Before he was 4 weeks old h'e was created Prinee of Wales and Karl of Chester by royal patent, as the former of these titles nev er passes by merely hereditary right, but is subject to fresh creation for each holder ol the title. The Prince of Wales also is Duke of Rothesay and Duke of Saxc-Coburg-Gotha, Prince of Saxony, Earl of Car rick, Karl of Dublin, and Baron Ren frew. He also enjoys the picturesque title of Lord of the Isles. Edward VII., the new king, is tha most prominent living Prcemason, not only by reason of the fact that he may foon become king of England, but be cause he is grand master of the grand lodges of England, Ireland, Scotland nnd Wales, and is also grand prior jf the order of KnU'hts Templars in Eng land and grand patron of the Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry in the United Kingdom, having receiv ed the 33d and last degree in that branch ot freemasonry. Kor more than 32 years he has been identified with the Masonic order. MUST RETURN THE MONEY. New Jortcy State Official to Roturn $32,000 In Fee Illegally Retained. The New Jersey court of errors and appeals has affirmed the decision of the supreme court, which held that former Secretary of State Henry C. Kelsy should return to the State about $20.- 000 which he had collected in tees, and which he retained on the ground that the law gave him the fees in addition to his salary. The fees were collected for Mr. Kelsev s services as clerk of t'n! prerogative court, a duty which the State constitution imposes on the sec retary of state. Ihe supreme court tn another cae decided that the estate of George S. Duryea should return to the State $?,- 000 which Mr. Duryea, while bank anl insurance commissioner, collected in fees from insurance companies and tained on the ground that the law gave him the fees in addition to his salary. The law in both cases provided for the collection of the fees by the officials named and the nuestion was purely a legal one as to whether the fees belong ed to the officials or to the State. The matter was first brought to public at tention during the Senate investigation Of 1K0S- Discovered Ancient Babylon. Th German Babylon expedition un der Prof. Kaldewey, the noted Assyri ologist. reports two important discov eries. It has unearthed a street pro cession of Bel-Merodach. the tutelary divinity of Babylon and the gr.-at Merodach temple of Esagita. contain ing a large number of antiquities. NEW QUARREL IN CHINA. Russian and British Admiral Differ on Question ol Territory. Admiral Alexieff, the Russian com mander at Port Arthur, protested to ihe British admiral, Seymour, agai.ist t'm act of British gunboats in clearing pi rates from Elliott and Blonde Islands. Admiral Seymour replied that he did not recognize 'the islands as Russian territory and the British gunbaaft would continue their operations. A GREAT RECORD. Th Vast Incre ol Forolgn Trade Eipor Forty Fold Larger Record of (ho Year Just Closed. The fiscal year lyoo brought to a ch a century of marvelous development) United States commerce. In 1800, total value of the merchandise impi nnd exported in our trade with countries was considerably lrs quarter ol a billion dollars. T, of the goods exchanged dtirinf tiscal year reached nearly. quarter billions. Our donii during nio. with a valuei i.7o.V si, were over 40 timeriige as m 1800. The total impcrrTs for lono, amounting in v.iImc to 5W40.04 1,184, wrre les than to limes as large as in 1800, Compared with the value of our im ports for Hjoo, that of our domrstic ex ports showed nn excess of $-;jo,8j,3f7. Of the merchandise imported from for eign coiiittricsAttiriug the fiscal year 1000, about 4T per cent., consisted of agricultural products. Products of United States agriculture were marketed abroad to the value of $844,010,530, form ing about 62 per rent, of the total do mestic exports. The value came within $15,000,000 of the phenomenal figures for 1808, and surpassed those for irVig by more than $50,000,000. Our principal agricultural exports in igoo were breadstuff's, cotton and meat products; these with live animals, to bacco, oil cake, vegetable oils, fruits and nuts, dairy products and seeds compris ing over 95 per cent, of our total farm produce. Exports of breadstuff's amount ed to $331,807,119. a decrease of $11,255, Cji, as compared with 1809. WEALTH OF VICTORIA. Her Income Wat Nearly Three Million Dollar. Investment! In Many Quarlen. The queen's private wealth yielded an income of about .200,000 yearly. This is exclusive of .385.000 annually from parliament. Her private income, as gathered from easily available sources, wa: From the Duchy of Lan caster, upward of .50.000: from 37,37-1 acres in the queen's other estates, .25.-. 000: from London realty, supposedly, . lo.ooo. tn consols and other securi ties she bad invested between .3,000, 000 and . 4.0:10.000. She inherited near ly all the Prince Consort's estate ef 600.000 40 years ago. and 500.000 in 1852 from John Camden Naild, the son of 1. rich icweler. The queen was a clear-headed business woman, and. of c nrse. had the best financial advice. In 1881, by the ad vice of Lord Cross. Lord Sydney and Sir Arnold White, she bought property for 78.000, the market value of which is now reckoned to be 170,000. She bad estates in several German principali ties and inherited a beautiful villa at Baden from Princess Hohcnlohe. The queen's laces are worth an enor mous sum. These and her private jew els, gold plate, pictures, etc., are esti mated to value more than a million pound sterling. KILLED BY MOONSHINERS. United States Marshal Shot In a Battle in Koniucky. In a bloody battle with moonshiners on Elkhorn creek, on the Letcher and Pike county line, Ky.. United States Marshal Thomas Hollifeld and Posse man Simon Combs were killed and Blaine Combs was captured by the moonshiners. Rufus Wootan and Am brose Amburgy, other members of th posse, were shot and wounded. Holli feld had long been a terror to moon shiners and was one of the bravest men in the service. In a battle with moon shiners several years ago three of his posse were killed, he being the only one to escape. Another Famine Imminent The secretary of state for India ha received the following dispatch from the viceroy. Baron Curzon of Kedleston: "A grave condition of affairs exists in Guzerat, the Deccan and the Garnatic districts of Bombay owing to the early cessation of the monsoon in September and the absence of rain. Heavy relief expenditures is entailed for the coming fiscal year. The affected area also in cludes Baroda and part of Hyderabad." CABLE FLASHES. Herr Zclle, former mayor of Berlin, is dead. The Bulgarian cabinet has resigned on account of internal differences. Baron Wilhclm von Rothschild, of the famous European banking house, is dead. Eleven pirates recently captured by Italian naval authorities have been exe cuted. The Prussian minister of agriculture. Baron von Hammcrstein-Lozten, is ill with the influenza. Another death from bubonic plague lias occurred among the crew of the English ship Friary, from Alexandria. China's beverage is not confined en tirely to tea. During 1899 she import ed from Germany beer to the amount cf $288,000. The smallest mail ever dispatched was one recently made tip for Buenos Ayres, the official entry of which was: Letters, 1 ; newspapers, nil. A mysterious murder has Just occuij at Gumbinnen, Uermany. Cavalry tain Von Krosigik, while drilling men in a riding school, was killed I shot through a window. A great fire has occurred at Bali Russia, and has spread to 25 nap springs and destroyed three stores. damage done is considerable. Germany's pig iron output for was H.423.K4J tons, an increase ot . tons for the preceding year. Th cember output was 720,790 tons.. The trouble among the stude University of Kieff, Russia,, settled bv sentencing two three years' military service, vears and .185 to one year. 1 ter, aog were let off with a rc
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