SS
THE NEWS,
President McKinley and his party reached
home, having traveled a distance of 5,000
miles,
Major General Guy V, Henry was assigned
£0 the Department of tue Missouri.
A Macon, Ga,, delegation invited Admiral
Dewey to visit their section,
Senator Hoar was re-elected president of
the Unitarian Council,
The anpusl meeting of the stockholders
of the Pullman Palace Car Company Was
held in Obleago. Robert T. Lineoin Was
vlected president. The total revenues of the
company for the year was $41,478,929.
The movument erected in Woodstock, Va,
to the Confederate soldiers buried there
was unveiled, Senator Danicl delivering the
oration,
Senator Pritchard, speaking in States
vilie, N. C., denounced the proposed consti-
tutional amendment to disfranchise the col-
ered voter,
Willlamm H. Carman, of Stewaristown,
Pa.. was arrested on the charge of securing
a marriage license under false pretenses,
The offleia’s of Hollywood Cemetery, in
Vehmond, will erect a monument over the
grave of Yresident Tyler,
Lewis Moody was convicted ln Norfolk,
Va., of passing worthiess checks, acd sent
to the penitentiary.
The business sessions of the Jubilee Mis-
sionary Convention of the Christian Chureh
closed in Cincinnat!,
Henry G. Hilton began a contest of his
father's (Judge Hilton) will in New York.
Wm. H. Appleton, of the New York pul-
fishing house, died at Riverdsle, N. Y.
The Internal Revenue Bureau has decid d
that receipts for baggage transfer must Lave
a revenue stamp affixed, as they are Lills of
lading,
An order bas been issued probibiting the
vollection of political assessments from post-
masters,
The Chinese Minister made an address be-
fore the Commercial Congress, in Phiiadel-
phia, in which he fuvored unrestricted
Chinese immigration into the FPhillppice
fslands., He deprecated the Chinese exciu-
sion aot,
At the conference of anti-annexationists,
an Chicago, 8 woman srose ino the audience
and asked them to remove the flag, so that
ihey eould no longer disgrace it.
Mr. W. J. Bryan addressed a crowd of 20,-
00 persons at the race track in Loulsvilie,
Hie advocated the election of Goebel, the
Demoeratie eapdidate lor governor,
Dr. F. M. Morgan, of Berkley, under in-
dictment lor causing the death of a Norfolk
woman aud ber child In May last, Was ac-
quitted there,
N. T. Pittman was shot and killed by bis
brother, A. J. Pittman, in a botel in Charles-
ton, 8, C,
Three persons lost their lives by the falling
of a bursiog buliding in Knightstown, Ind
General John M. Schofield was elected
commander-in-chief of the Loyal Legion.
President Hadley was formally inaugu-
rated as president of Yale
Internal revenue collectiors for September
show an Increases of $2,809,508 as compared
with corresponding mouth of inst year,
The eompletion of the modu: vivendi in
the Alaskan boundary case bas .s2n Legun
by the State Department,
Several army promotions wers ansounced
as the consequences of retirement of
Brigadier General Shalter.
The Executive Council of the American
Federation of Labor considered questions of
Interest,
The oyster shuckers of Norfolk are rapidly
golog out on strike, some 500 now Lelong
idle, in consequence of the decision of the
packers not to employ any union men alter
pext Monday.
President McKinley and party left Chleago
for Kalamazoo, Mich., and the East, They
were accorded hearty receptions in several
lilinols towns.
Fire in a colliery near Pottsville was ex-
tinguished with dynamite, and twenty-two
imprisoned men thereby released,
Joseph Wood, the oidest locomotive en
giveer in the Uglied States, died at his home
in New Jersey, aged eighty-nine,
At a con'erence of sntl-expansionists in
Chicago, President McKinley's Philippine
policy was barshiy criticised.
Australia and its resources ceeupied the
attection of tbe Commercial Cougress lo
Phils dalphia.
David Z=igler, one of the best-known citi-
zens of York, Pa., died suddenly, aged
seventy-iwo,
Mre, M. 8. Letcher,
war governor, is dead,
years,
Miss Julia Lee and Murray
Stewart were marries] at Wilmington, Deal,
The ancuzl meeting of the Street Railway
Association was held in Chicago,
Miss Katie 8. Ganse was drowned ih a
mill-pond near Wilmington, N, C,
The new Board of Trade Lulldiog at Har-
risburg, Pa., was dedicated,
Another anti-trust conference will be held
In January in Chicago.
Hor. W. J. Bryan continued his campaign-
ing tour in Kentucky.
Tom Myers, the confidence man and forg”
or, dled in the woods pear Waukegan, Ii,
from exposur~, and was buried thers by the
three other prisoners who had escaped from
prison with him,
Osear T. Hices, accused of shooting
Georg» Vaughan in Ricbmocd, Va, was re-
leased on babeas corpus proceedings,
The Forty-sixth Regiment left South Farm.
Ingham, Mass. for San Francisco, for trans-
portation to the Philipploes.
In a quarrel over division of property Jack
and Ficyd Allen, brothers, shot each other
in Carroll ecunty, Va,
Iu a collision upon the Union Pacific Rall.
road near Urauite Cansob, two men were
killed and three injured,
The Wm, R, Trigg Sbipbullding Company,
in Riebmond, Va, re-elected the old offiesrs,
J. L. Bmith, the leader of a eattirstenling
gang, was lyoehed near Wihson, La,
Mrs. Leslie Palmer Leigh died at her
bome, in Richmond,
Mr. Howard Steep, of Frederick county,
Md., bad an exeltiog brosh with two colored
bighwaymen, Luth of whom he soattered
with a few well-pinced drives from the
shoulder,
The Beott building, a large business stroe-
ture in Hagerstown, Md,, was destroyed by
fire, with a loss of about $18,000,
Dr, George H, Jones, a prominent physi-
elan and political leader of Calvert connty,
was stricken with apoplexy at Prince Frid
wricktown, Md. while in the act of ealling a
Demorratio mass-meetiog to order, and died
a few hours Inter,
Articles have ts ap filed with the Secretary
of Bute of New Jorsry, Inorensing the enji-
tal stock of the Pittsturg Coal Company
from §2.000 15 £04, 0,000.
Alfred G, Yauderbhit, who has been hur
rylog homewnrd from the Far East sines ho
Iearned of the death of bis father, Cornelius
Vander! lit, has sreived,
An attempt was made in Havaos to lynch
a Culuaman who Led seived as guerrilla
the
widow of Virginia's
aged sevenly-seven
Mellvaine
WHINLEY'S MESSAGE
The President to Begin Work
on it at Once.
POINTS TO BE COVERED.
Philippines to Hemain in the FVossession
of this Government—The Fresldent's
Recommendations Will Anticipate the
Fight of 1900 to un Great Extent—About
Six Weeks 10 Complete His Messnge.
Washiogton, (8pecial',)—All the informa-
tion pow obtainable indieates that the next
messages of President McKinley 10 Congress
will be the most important that any Execu-
tive has written since the days of the Civil
War, la stutesmansbip, polities aud fuance
It will touch the country In its most vital
places, luasmuch as the message will be a
long and important one, the President will
begio work upon it immediately. Heo will
Lave about six weeks to eomplete this work,
and io the meantime he will have to deal
with the routine matters which come up and
with sll other questions which may arise,
He will not have any 100 much time to get
the document iu shape for Congress,
No doult is now left as to the President's
intentions as the Philippioes. His
speeches In the West have clearly demon-
strated that be will recommend to Congress
that the falands become the property of the
United States for all time 10 come, He will
recommend the islands may Le
treated, as that question will be left to Oc fie
press but he will go 20 Inr as to ask Con-
Kress to take some defluite action as early as
possibile 10 indicate the intentions of tt ¢
United States. He will do this lor one hm.
portant reasop-—ihat the Filipinos may know
that there is no longer hope for them to con.
tinue the lusurrection., The President has
ascertained that the Fillpinos are dally
growiog more hopeful that the next einction
mery bring about a change in the
the United States, They do not Lelieve that
Congress will take any action at the com
session, and think that the whole question
of their future will be left uotil sfier
vational wiection of next year,
The President sees that if Congress sb
take prompt action
bope woud be elimionted., With that
taken, the insurrection would weaken,
it there should be discontent a year fron
pow it would Le suppressed by the returns
of the Presidential election. The President
wili commit bimesl! to expansion acd to the
r-tention of the Phllippioes, He will
Congress that the sooner the Filipinos are
made aware of the intentions of this country
the quicker they will relinquish their belli
gerent ideas,
to
pot how
policy of
log
ithe
uld
one sources of Fllipine
sing
and
advise
FRENCH OUTLAWS SHOT,
Fate of Captains Chanoine and Veonlet,
Who Massacred the Kiabb Expedition
Parle, iy Tue Minlster of the
Colonies, M. Decrais, has received an offi.
einl dispatch asnounciog that Captain You.
et and Captain Chasoloe, of the outiawed
Freneh expedition fa the Boudas, whose
members recently massacred most of the
members of the expedition, under Lieuten.
snt-Colonel Klobb, sent to arrest those offi
errs oti charges of erueity and losubordina.
tion, have been shot by thelr own men,
The Colonial OfMes
owing dispateh
ine of the officers
expedition, now
Cable,
bas rresived the Ie
from Lisotegant Pal
of the Voulet.Chas
is command ofl ¥V
let's
men
‘Captain Voulet who
Tiraillenrs, on July 14 marched
Lisutepant-Colonel K obb, was responsibie
for the massacre. He told his comrades on
bis return what be had doae, and
that he intended to aod to
ind=pendent Siate,
“Oaly Captains Chanoloe decided to ac
rompany bim, with some aatives, On Joly
16 the Tiralileurs muoticied aud shot Cag taln
Caanoine, Captain Voulet fled, but on July
17 tried to rejoin the expedition, bul be was
shot ¥ sentry,
I'he Tirallleurs then rejoined the exped -
tion in good order, and the expedition, my.
seif commanding, continued the mission and
punished the murderers of Captain Cas: -
we;0ux, whose body was recovered.”
slone, with 100
agninst
deciared
revoit form an
Washington,
be Internal
suiied to
(Bpeecial, }— The attention of
levenue Bureau baviog been
the method adopted by transfer
sompeniesin the various elites of giving at
a residencs or botel a receipt for a trank,
which entls for the delivery of such truak at
some hotel or house In another city, it is
beid that such receipts or Lis of ladiog are
eieariy liable to the stamp tax, under Sched.
ule A, of the act of June 13, 1808, [oternal
revenue cfMoers, therefore, are directed to
investigate transfer companies in their re.
spective districts, with a view of determining
whether they are lssuing such receipts, and,
if so, whether they are fully complying with
the law regardicg the stamplag of such
recelpte.
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DESPERATE
A A
MUONSHINER TAKEN
Gives Revenne OfMears Tough Tussle and
Is Himself Wounded,
Norfolk, Va, (Bpeecial, }-A desperate bat.
tle betwen revenues officers and a noted
moonshine desperado, Wililam Honeyeutt,
took pines near Statesville, Deputy Marshal
Greer shot and mortally wounded the des-
perado when he resisted arrest, The mar.
shal himself received a painful wound in the
thigh. Special Deputy Phillips, who accom
panied Greer, was made a prisoner by Hon.
eycutt while spylog upon the latter's eabls,
Thomas to Take Troops te Manin.
Washington, (Special) The transport
Thomas will sull from Philadelphia for New
York, to take on the Forty-seventh Regiment
for Manila, The Thomas will sali about
November 1, and will oarry 86 officers and
1,000 wen, including 60 bospital eorps men,
ABOUT NOTED PROPLE,
Census Director Merriam is fond of last
borsee,
sir. Ohamberinin, British Colonial Becre.
tary, in the ‘00s was» Susday-sehool toncher
in Birxiogham,
Thomas A, Edison will treat by his new
elestrion] process the ore from the Orie
gold mines of New Mexico, which he has
Just bought for §8,000,0.0,
Four years ago Governor Morlil, of Kan
sar, found bimesit getting too tat, and be
waiked off a lot of flesh by taking long dally
CARNAGE AMID BOERS.
Fifteen Hundred Alleged fo Have Been
Siain---Lured Over Mines.
London, Eog., (By Cable.) The most sen.
sntional report of the war comes from the
Daily Nows' correspondent, who states that
when the Doers attacked Mufoking they were
decoyed over a chain of mines, which were
exploded, and 1,000 Lurglers killed. The
report is discredited,
Veyburg is io the hands of the enemy,
having surrendered on iSauday, There was
a panic among the inhabitants, who fled in
all directions, The Eugilsh are very iudig-
nant,
Dispatehes Irom mnaoy polots along the
frontier confirm the reports of severe fight.
ing at Dester's Station, pear Ladysmith,
Bome of the British troops were in the sad-
die three day,
Boers are borsting that they will be hold-
fog masked Unlle in British uniforms at
Cape Town and Darban befors the end of
October,
Basutos who reached Cape Town eom-
plain of outrages upon natives by the Doers,
Thesn further inflame them and the Zulus,
President Krueger, ln an account given to
President Steyn (Orange Free State) of the
attack on an armored train, says Nesbittavd
his seven men were not kilied, although
seriously wounded and taken prisoners
South Afrfean reinforcements are tote
Iapded at Port Elizabeth Port Alfred and
East London, lostead of Cape Town or
Durban, and to advance through the
Free State to Pretoria,
Bre
session of Parliament was a
Mr. Chamberlain attacked the
Opposition, and was frequently interrupted,
Part of his remarks were withdrawn, John
Morley closed the debate with a short sperch
4 ¥
AG 3
Thursday's
stormy one,
ing winoriiy,
s address and adj
the iris voted
urned.
TO SOUTHERN DEAD,
stock, Virginia,
Woodstock, Va, Special, ) The monu
ment erected In Messsanutten Cemetery 10
the memory of the Confederate soldiers bur-
fed In Woodstoek, Va., was unvelied there,
At an sariy hour the peoples from every
section of the ¢ and from other
counties gathered to witness the impressive
ceremony, formed at 10.30
of the Nlotewail
Chapter,
Daughters of
ousty many
The procession
A. M. and was composed
Brigade Band; Mary (
Children of the Conlederacy
the Cor federaey, indies’
tions; orator, president of Shenand
ter, U. D. C Marshal J.
Miss Addie Gale Miley, carriages; Shep
andoah Camp, visiting pe, Conlederate
veterans, Mount Calvary Band, Sons of Ve!-
erate, Massanuller Academy, W
Graded Cedar Creek Baud,
ringes and citizens on horseback,
The exercises at the cemetery consisted of
iy Calvary Band, hymn by cboir,
“Dixie by Stonewall Brigade Bas d, suvell
ing of monument Ly Miss Addie Gale Miley
sud music by Stonewall Brigade and, This
was followed by an elc quent address by Bene
stor John W. Dasilel,
The monument is of Italian marble and
bears inscriptions to the memory of tbe gs -
laut soldiers who now sleep around lis base,
MEDALS FOM HEROES,
gatis Lee
teinotial associs
mb Chap ~
iH. Willams and
in
xin
odstock
Raehool, onl
Mow Burfman Rasmas & Midgett Saved
Ten Lives
Washington, (Special,
{
lives during
cent great storms at ses, he medals Are
1574, and given 10 those who display
heroism ln the rescue of Lu nan beings.
Only one gold medal was awarded, Go d
for
are
“extremes and hero
sats this cape Was OLe
The modal is sow belag made
1 of the Shoal L
coast of North Carolina,
The heroism was duriog the great West
Iudian storm which swept up
this country on August 17 asd 18, and the
oceasion was the rescue of 10 lives from the
wreck of the barkentine Priscilla, Buperi
tendent Kimball, a veteran of the Life
ing Servicer, says thal ihe man bas Bo pear
for darlag snd Lravery,
Gail fe-Saving Station,
the const of
ar
GENERAL WADE'S REFORT
Indians Still Sellen ard Discontented in
the Dakotas,
Washington, Fhe annusi pve
port of Brig.-Gen, James FF. Wade, con
mandisg the Department of Dasots, was
made publie, General Wade says that of
the three posts aod one eamp occupied, all
are in very fair condition, with the exception
of Port Meade, which Is unsanitary, and has
reached a point where it Is a question of re
construction or abandonment,
General Wade refers briefly to the Indian
troubles at Leceh Lake last September and
Ootober, and says that in spite of the fact
that the detachment engaged in this fight
was made up of raw reeruils, they behaved
with commendable gallantry. He says that
the Indiaus are still sulien and discontented,
but no active trouble Is apprehended,
{ Ypweinl.)
MURDERER'S WISH GRATIFIED,
Allowed to Hang Half an Honr, as He
Pid Not Want 10 Come Hack,
Newton, N. C., (Special )—Avery Kale,
white, was hanged here for the murder of
George Travis, also white, near Catawba,
last year. Kale was discharged from Alley's
distillery aud Travis given the piace, Kaleo
went home, got his shotgun and returned to
the distillery, where he shot Travis In the
head, while the Iatter was at work,
Knie immediately iaft for Marion, enlisted
in Company A, the Hornet's Nest Rifiomen,
of Charlotte, and was arrested soon after
reaching oamp at Jacksonville, brought back
to Newton, tried and convieted,
Land for Military Purposes,
Han Fraoclson, Cala, (Special) «United
States Attorney Coombs bas flied a Will for
the condemnation of a trant of land west of
Laks Merced and faving the ooean, for the
military purposes of the United States.
Suicidal Leap From a Bridge,
Minnespolls, Mino, (Special )-W. D.
Manto, who had been driuking for some
days, leaped from one of the Misislppl
river bridges nnd wae drowned, The plunge
was ope hundred foot Into bolling rapide,
which have not yet given up the body,
Mauro bas a sister in this city, Mes, J I,
Cooke, and cinlmed to be from Aulurs,
New York,
Mother nnd Uhlidrean Harned,
Canton, Miss, (Special )At Ht. Ann,
twenty miles sant of here, Mrs, J, H. Gam-
TRAIN ROBBERS HAUL.
Masked Men Succed in Getting
$25,000,
NOT FAR FROM CHICAGO.
Bound and Gagged nn Operator and
Stopped the Trauscontinentnl Mall-8hot
nt the Engineer, Han Away with the Fo
gine—~HBlew CUpen the Express Car und
Dynumited the Snfe.
Chleago, 1il,, (Special) —Masked robbers
held up tenin No, 9 of the Northwestern
Latiroad shortly before midnight between
Maple Park und Dv Kaib; shot st Dan White,
euglucer; ran away with the eogice, and
blew open the ex; ress car and the snfe,
When the robbers Liad rifled the car they
disappeared, [i i= estimated that the rot-
bors secured $25,000 10 vash alone,
Tralu No. 9 forms the part of the Trans.
continental Mall which was recently estab.
Jshed Lotwoen New York and Bans Francisco,
The run is made to
Bluffs on a » exceeding a
minute, It hes vou custom to
CRITY ODIY LWO Cars, One « outeluing express
matter and the other mall
The train jeft the
10 v'elook with Dan ite, a
ploye of the road,
were scheduled
Irom Chiosgo Counsell
mils a
3 5
ruin
the general
Noribwestern Depot st
yolvrran ome
No stops
DD Kalb, at which
shortly before 11
At Maple Park, 00 miles from Chi-
CRO, 11 was that Tower W,
Elburn, was cither out of order or was not
giviog the right sigual, W eiosed the
throttle quickly and brought the tralu toa
standstill,
The train
as engineer,
telore
piace the train was due
o'clock,
discovered nt
White
Eiburn
White bed hardly brought
masked
was midway between
aud Maple Park,
hls engine to a standstill when wo
men jum«d on the steps and pointed guns at
him aud the fireman,
up
The raiirond
detached the
“Turow your hands!” they shouted,
men did se. Two robbers
engine from the rest cf the
train, and White was toid to take Lis sagine
two miles up the track, There be attempiad
to make a fight and recapture bis engine,
He stroggied wanfully, tut floally
the roblers shot ut Lut fslied to bit him,
Ia the meantime four other men had a!
tacked the conductor and the brakeman,
Numerous shots were to intimidate
them, The conductor was unable make
any resistance, as he was wid be would
kilied,
one of
fired
io
be
One of the brakemen managed
io the darkness and raced to Elburn, where
be massaged to send the alariu 10 ibe irale
dispatchers in Chicago.
The robbers, after overpowering the con
thn
10 escape
duetor, ordered
Frank Hobson,
“You open
express messenger,
admit the car.
up that ear” of the rob.
“or we'll Llow It up,” Dark
shout: “You try to
the [fst man
them lo
one
bers sliouted,
from the car
fores it open and 1I'H
who shows his head.’
A volley of shots was the reply, and
several bad whizgzed past his bead the fx.
press messenger « pried the Th 'y
put revolvers to his bead and compe lied bim
p the keys to the Joeal freight,
They then blew open the door of the through
the explosion wrecking
The robbers then grabbed all
money and express packages they could find
fled.
oRmes B
abhool
after
door,
to give U
the car, the
Although it Is im possibie to give with ac.
euraey the amount, It Is estimated by ibe
officers of the American Etpress Company
.
Tue amount of jeweiry, &e., Mr.
manager of the Amer
empany, sald he couid not
Antisdel, the general
joan Express (
The cews of the bold.-up was recelvad in
clock, Word was sent
train was ordered made up.
Detective
of ibe
Messengers
Relily, chief
Northwestern
were disp atehed for
of the spoeial
syatem,
When the trails dispatcher was notified he
1i8, bound
{ores
Tobe trainmen of No, 118 noticed No, 9
standing on the track with aA
gine as they went by, but bad thought poth-
fog of it, When the freight screw reached
Tower W they found the operator bound,
gageed and tied to a chair. When reisased
hie gave the first real information 10 the
oft TIRE,
He said that at 10.30 o'clock four men had
tower and asked him the
number of the next train going west, They
wanted to know if it was not N # but the
operator says he told them it was No. 115
The robbers then toid the operator be was a
fool: that they knew better. To show the
operator they had laid their plans thor
oughly and knew what they wers talkiog
about they pointed guns at bis bead and
told bim if be made a move they would kill
bin,
They tied bim up with ropes, stuffed a
towel into his moutb, and told bim if be
was a "good fellow” be would escape with.
out being burt, They then sel the signals
whieh enused No, 0 to slow up,
detached en-
come into the
FARQUEHAR's BIG FLEET,
Largest Number of Hattleahips Kver Un-
der One American Commander,
Washington, (Special) — Rear Admiral
Parqubar, who has been assigned to the
command of the North Atlantic Squadron,
will have under bis orders the largest num.
ter of battleships ever assembled In one
command under an officer of the United
Hiates Navy,
The Admiral will pot only have the New
York, the Massaobueetts, the Indiana and
the Texas, but the new ships the Kearsarge,
the Kentucky and the Alabama will also be-
come a part of his squadron, When tbe re
pairs to the Olympia bave been completed,
it may also join the fleet,
Sawmill Harned; Loss, $10,000,
Bayard W. Va, (Special, )The saw mill
ot Isane MeDanieie, at Beechwood Station,
near Bayard, W, Va, on the West Virginia
Central Naliroad, was destroyed by fire, of
supposed incendiary origi. Loss, $10,000,
A abt
FREACHER sLEW ASSAILANT,
Nonagenarian Clergyman in Tennessean
Kills Opponent After » Qonrrel
Knoxville, Tenn, (Bpecial)-Rev, H, C
Daugherty, aged 87 yours, and William Ross,
74 yours, met and resumed an oid quarrel ln
geott County.
Falllag to settle the matter with words,
floss made an attempt to strike Daugherty
with n hammer. The latter ran to a nearby
house, & shotgun and killed his
asaallant, ; fla
i
DOWN THE BOERS,
Guns Deadly Fire
Armored Train,
London, (By Cable, j~There bas been eon
siderable fighting the last three days at
Mafeking, Spytlontein and several otber
points, Lut the censorship permits only mea
ger Information to come through the news
channels, Beverslstartliug despaiches were
published here, One from Cape Town stated
that three busdred Doors and eighteen
Beitish had been killed io a battle at Male.
king, Communiestion was temporarily
opened with Kimberley, A despatch Irom
that pines stated that an armored train, con.
taining British troops, came upon a foree of
Boers near Bpytfootein, A sharp fght re-
sulted, in which five Boers were killed and
seven wounded, The British, according to
the censored despateb, sustalued no losses,
A despatch from Cape Town gives the lol
lowing version of the fight
“The armored train, with a detachment of
the Lancsshires, approached unmolested
until within range, when the Boers opened
fire,
“The Maxims were instantie 224
and did great execution among the
The
effvctively,
Maxim From Ba
10 work,
borgk-
ured artillery, but jo.
The armored Lula returped to
Kimberly unharmed,
“The crew of the armored train say Lhe
Boers fired thirteen shells, but thelr aim was
wretched, and not a single shot struck Lhe
train, which then made bold spproach
nearer and opened fire with the Maxims,
“The burghers replied with
again shooting wildly,
Luliets struek the train,
ore, jatier also
to
beavy rifles,
Oaly thres or four
reveral
Not
Boers and
a member of
LOTEes Were
the British force w
much us touched.”
Delayed despatches from Prete
biy carried by coutiers i«
censorship is pot #0
fight at Mafeking nine British wors w
a burghber killed and two wounded,
ish train losded with dynamiie
up by the Boers nine
King.
rin, proba.
points wheres Lhe
§
rigid, state that in =»
yunded
A Brit.
was blown
miles north of Male
PLOT TOMURDER JIMINEZ,
Bome Arrests Made
Sulng the Heirs of Gen, Heurenux..
Ban Domingo, (By THe ROVErs-
ment bas Issued a decrees declariog the late
President, Hen
for the mismanagement of the publ
through wixing public with private affairs,
and Introducing unlawful currency, and has
ordered the public sitorpey
against his bhelrs and sil whom
corp, commencing by attaching
The dreres ames 8 commission
leading lawyers, whom It empe
operate with ihe puliic allorpey
vestigation,
in ¥an Domiage
Cable,
General reatnx, respousilie
ie funds
Great indignation Is expressed
covery of a rebeilic plot,
Attempt to assassinate General Jig
at the Gis
us nyo
General Vasquez, the provisional
Many persons bave been placed und
rest, charged with complicity In the plot,
aud it is expected that further arresis wil
be made,
Several measures are being iaken to in.
sure pubiie order, and the country is appar.
Business is slowiy Improving.
There was a public sais ol paper money al
the ratio of eighleen 10 Ouw,
EXTINGUISHED WITH DYNAMITE,
Twenty-two Men, Imprisoned in a Burn
ing Colliery, Rescued from Death
«Afi eXplowic
Shenandoah C
Colliery, at Shenandoab, and fire jmn
diately broke out in the mine, hemming lu
iweniy-two men Who were ai work alihe
time. Those atiracted 10 the ggriace of the
mine by the explosion at oie Sega vigor-
ous efforts to rescue the imprisoned on
std lo this they were success, all
being 1aken out alive In comparatively short
ime. Tires of the number, Adam
ski, William Skav and Jo b
age, were seriously bLursed, and
juries may prove fatal, Beveras «
tained severe injuries,
The Shenandoah fire depart pont was ut.
successful in the «forts to suldae the firs
with water, apd the
eided on a tore bero'e pian, Several founds
Pottsville, Pa, (Special)
at the
ty
mel
Lae men
pekl,
thers so -
inle tl
thine ofl en 4+»
in the use of
The dynamite was «Xp ded in the mine, aod
the concussion exiioguished the
stantiy. The eolilery was thus saved,
men skilled the explosiy
fire 5
OLDEST ENGINEER DEAD,
Was Firetvan on the First Lorameotive
Operated in This Country.
New York, (Special, ) Wood, the
oldest Jocomotive euginesr In the Uuite d
States, died at bis home at Bed Bask, N. J,
aged wighty-uine. He was fireman ou the
“John Bull” the first locomotive ever Omi
ated In this country. The engine was sent
from England in 1830, and given its first
trial near Bordentown, Mr. Wood's native
tows, Mr. Wood was employed as an engl.
peer during the war, and was also engaged
in the sume capacity on a number of rail
roads in this section, He was the Inventor
of Wouds' lmproved frog, A steam whistle
and steam pipe and other railroad sppli-
succes,
-d oneph
FILIPINOS MEKT MORE LOSSES,
Driven Out of FPorac-Une American
Kilted and One Wounded,
Manila, (By Oable,)— Bell's regiment, mov-
ing from a position northwest of Dacolor,
drove the enemy out of Porar, One Amer.
joan was killed and one wounded. The
Filipinos lost a nomber of killed and
wounded, The Americans capiured lwo
bullock earts of ammunition,
a
The newspaper Patria bas been suppress.
od, und it= editor, Senor Utor, a Spaniard,
pinced under arrest on a charge of printing
and publishing seditious documents, For
some time the Patria las been hostile to the
Americans. Recently pamphiets attacking
the Americans and the (rlendly Filipinos
have been circulated, and the police believe
that Utor wrote asd pricted them,
KILLED HUSBAND'S SLAYER,
Tialian on Wis Deathbed, Told Wife Name
of Man Who Stabbed Him,
Niles, Ohio, (Special )~Frauk Augusta
was shot and killed in the Italian quarter
Ly Ms, Taare, who wat arrested and lodg d
in fall at Warrep, ;
HIGHT PERISHED,
Early Morning Fire on a Pas-
senger Steamer.
LIFEBOATS CAPSIZED.
Enggangemustier Jayne Arounsed the Biesp.
#r8 on the Nutmeg Sinte and Then
Lenped 10 His Deuth ~The Slesmer Left
Bridgeport Two Hours Late Fire Dis
covered About smokestack.
Now York,
Bteambonst
{ Special, )—The Dridgepont
Company's steamer bhulmeg
State, which left Bridgeport at § o'clock Sats
urday morning, caught ours
later off Execution Tiabt, and wns totally
destroyed. Eight persons perished
Clty of
sight soon after the fire
flood Ly 1¢
fire threw
The steamer Lawrences came In
was discovered and
y rescue the passengers and crew,
The Nutmeg State's lifeboats were Inunehed
ax soon an the City of Lawrend
halling distaver, iut sev
eiz-d, und it that some passe le
gore of Lawrence
brought tf
those reseyed to this elt
got within
a
«ral of them enpr
was feared
4
were drowned, The Clty
Ou bis arrival Capt. Ci
i syivs Brooks
Br
i .
Lours late, Le p80
re-
that the Nutmeg Bilate efi age
Ort al 8 o'clock, 190
hat the first he knew of the
he paw ut
filie was when
sz around the smokestack,
ng rather Lrisk'y then,
i
n 0 work
The steamboat was then five mice cast ol
hit he was ef dir-cliy
11, and all steam that could
Pe
good
“ most JuileDse &X-
fal fi her, fat
i® 8 eifls of LI
reigned aboard the vessel,
ming near Band's Polat the Captain
irected the bow of the boat dead sbead fou
the Learh, and
¢ Point, Captain Brooks said that
the vessel went into 125 feet of water before
the grounded and setlied,
Tere were between 30
on tilmeg
Hoe was afraid
he ran ashore about a mile
enst of ti}
and 40 passengers
Captain
some of
the N Flats, Brooks paid
IoRL
the pas
then
were
Everytting possible wasdone for
The Cuy of
slramer, whic Y
city
BenReTH, Lawrenees, & Bound
coming down to the
ire and steamed over loward
Boats were
Ly bervie
Was
, BAW
& bursi
from her, and
x
the
tt :
g vessel, ut ©
ut
Work ihe ja-sen
gers of the Nutmeg State were taken sbonrd
tie
members of the crew,
Brooks rejorted
and Irelght were & total i
Captain Brooks that Bamuel Jayne,
the baggage-master, got out of X
which the fire
the
bad salied ss close to
she dared,
vepsel, together with the rewainiog
Captian that the vessel
...
AL
the bold, ir
was, and jumped overbourd
to escape flames, The Livme
iA i, which
Loal as
the
to swim, spd
be was iaid
the burning
steamed up to the man, as
yacht owner saw bim
Ta oY fk 4
Jayne was pleked op.
trying
When
oul ou the deck be was dead,
Patrick Coffer, the mate of the vessel, was
in the lower part of the Bold when the fire
started. He rould not get out and was
bursed to death. Ao oller, whose name the
captain could tot remember, was also & vic-
tim, He was io the hold, not get cut
aud died from Inbaling Same,
0. J. Horivurt, of Bridgeport, &
ger, was asleep when was direov.
ered. He sald the fire wos first seen by
Baggagemasier Jayne, who, after arousing
ail the passengers be could, jomped over.
board and died from Injuries which be
ceived from striking a portion of the vessel,
Jayne is described as the bero of the fire.
couid
passe.
the fire
Tye
DEWEY AT THE HUB.
%
The Admiral Tendered a Grand Reception
He is Glven a Watch.
Boston, Mass, (Special. })~The re.dents
of Boston sud viciuily, sugmented by thou--
suds of visitors from ithe
Commonwesith and adjacent Blalve,
Salurdsy did honor to Ad
Disappolating weather coidilivee pre
valled early in the day. A thick log, thet
frequently became wit, prevalied, Later,
bowever, the heavy siy began 10 Lhishien,
apd then the sun broke through the bape,
The first jart of the day's programine wes
devoted to & musieal recital by the school
shildren of the cily, to the Sumber of aboul
LBo0, ommon st 10 o'clock,
Ad uiral and party were escorted wits 4.5.
rulty from bis beadquatiers st ihe Hole
Toursine through Lhe Immense crowds,
From the Common the Admiral and party
were conducted to a large reviewing stand
in front of the City Halli bulidiug, where,
just before 11 o'ciock, Mayor Quisey, In tee
presence of city officials aud guess snd
thousands of speciators, presented him, on
behalf of the City of Boston, with a msguif-
cent jewel-siudded watch,
olher seciious ol
from
mira Downey,
on the ( The
TROLLEY AND TRAIN,
Three Persons Fatally and Three Ber
jously Injured,
Dallas, Tex., (Bpeoisl.)-Near the State
Fair Grounds, in the sastern suburle, a
trolley ear on the Rapid Transit Street Rail
way, filed with passengers, collided with an
excursion treln on the Guif, Colorsdo and
Banta Fe road,
Of the 40 passengers on board the street
car, nearly hall of then were hurl, Bix of
them were seriously injured and threo of
thease cannot live,
The other passengers who were burt were
abies to get away without assistance or ibe
need of surgioal help. Ths sceldent wae
enused by the trolley oar attempting to make
the crossing, where there was no fagman
Amearionn Equal Wage Union,
Enunsas City, Me, (Special, )The Amerk
enn Equal Wage Usion, receatly incorpor
ated, bas adopted a constitution, and will
immediately commence active missionary
work. The organization departs Irom the
methods of older unions in that it omits the
word “strike” from its constitutions, pro.
Strength of the Heitiah in Natal
Durbau, (By COable Following is the