THE SCAN DALS IN | A BIG FIGHT FOR FORTUNE. | Estate of the Late Senator McPherson Involved THE BRITISH RUSH SUMMARY OF THE NEWS, LIVE NATIONAL AFFAIRS, | THE POWERS ASK A BOER LAAGER. Six Killed, Ten Wounded and Many Others Captured. ONLY THREE BRITISHERS WOUNDED. A Little Sensation Cuused in London by a Rumor That General French, With Five Hundred British Troops, Had Been Cap- tured While His Force Was Enveloped in a Mist on the Hills. London (By Cable). —The War Office following dispatch has received the Kitchener, dated Pretoria, from Lord April 15: “Colonel Sir Rawlinson's amn rushed the Laager west of Klerksdorp, at daylight Boers were killed, 10 wounded taken He captured pounder, one pompom complete, wo ammunition wagons with Henry South prisoners am 10n. “Our casualties “Colonel Plumer ca net a and eighted n rifl “During Col % nd seven met MRS. NATION HEAVILY FINED. The Semtence Suspended While She Stays Out of Kansas City. ¢ to leave The Judge she was found in she won i told She utes sas Student Has Bubonic Plague. Chicago (Special A d Record-Herald from says “Dr. Victor of the medical department the country, appear of Health knowledged that the Charles B. Hare is plague. He assured the would be no sp precautic had it, and the student most not Dacter: 1 d before yesterday read of t 18 } 1 wer." Man Killed by Knock-Out Drops. John will req { Special) ng in Smith was Hotel to St day in taken Ir Planters Mary's Infi on une he never regained consciousness. His daughter PFworence and James Young. arrived from Texas on Sunday The body has been shipped Fort Worth Sin an MECIONS ion, and SON. 43 10 Prof. Rowland Dead. Baltimore, Md (Special). — Prof Henry A. Rowland, the world-famous professor of physics at the Johns Hap- kins University, died unexpectedly at his home, 915 Cathedral street. Dr. Rowland had been in poor health all the winter and within the past few days his gymptoms had become somewhat alarming. but this was not publicly to his friends, will shock not only this community, but the great world of sci- ence everywhere, Professor Rowland left a widow and two children, King's Gift to McKinley. Washington (Special) — Mr. Grip Minister of Sweden and Norway, had an Count Wachtmeister, the head of the celebrated Swedish family of that name. Count Wachtmeister was commissioned iotograph of His Majesty to President McKinley. made by ount Wachtmeister, high opinion of the Chief Executive of the United States, Domestic, occurred at Del. from the Sussex Nine of the pt were awaiting trial, madi sawing the bar of their out of their A general jail delivery K } town, prison 1 whom eo 1SOners oh t cape by windows and making ropes bed clothing Hall of the employees wees Wood plant of bine, at McKee port It may be the beginning of a f Amalgamated As United St Steel | Lie went tween the and ton ates Court of Penn Ames thie ‘he transport Thoma isco with officers id be recognized McClurg s¢ of A i Gras Fran e rince Frederick William of arrived in Vienna and was by Emperor Francis Joseph Austrian archdukes British sotirces « President Steyn has broken down and that he has advised the Boers to sur. render and the From fies a report i thas nat Prince Ching declares that the mis statements regarding a rebellion in Mongolia are not supported by the facts Emilia Kempin, a leader of the wo- man’s movement in Germany, died in an immsane asylum, There have been 392 cases of bubonic IONAryY proved fatal Sir Edward William Watkins, a noted English railroad man, is dead Chief of Staff Surgeon Schimmel was convicted of freeing, for a financial consideration, the sons of wealthy fam. ilies from service in the German army, Other parties will be prosecuted on similar charges. I inancial, A scat on the New York Stock Ex- change sold for $50.000. total last week of $2,776,000,000, The English Government was a bor. Local indebtedness in England has increased £77,000000 or 39 per cent. recently, In the first week of April forty-three railroads increased gross earnings 5.18 per cent, THE COMMISSARY. Made Trial of Sergeant Disclosures the Memson. al TREACHERY OF A NATIVE GUIDE, Testimony that Quantities of Flour Were Taken From a Government Storehouse in Manila and Sold by Three Commissary Ser. geants and Others, Who Divided the Pro- ceeds -Business Men Involved. Cable) I'he trial John Mi the COMMIS Sergeant r with co City in ary irauds, is wounced certan ated Capt COmMMIssar AMERICAN BOER PRISUNER Randolph Martinsen Among the Boer Cap tives at Lisbon. BANK SWINDLER'S RUSE He Made a Rich Maul in Toronto by Raising Checks, vzed Tax Unconstitutional, (Specia In the Unite L ours iN } n Ww the nited States : WV States ha 3% Fa rhanks fhe case inv itutionality i Case 31 oly ed th ons the t fevenue law imposing a tax up bills of lading i Court decided against th wernment, holding Provisios i the unconstitutional The Jus Caray 1 €©X ire +} = $ nat aw ’ seats % send i : # OpMon was handed gown ce Brewer, and tice White re : Justicex Harlan, and McKenna dissented Boy Killed Whil: at Play. Martinsburg, Va. (Special). The 10. year-old son of William H. Myers, living near Van Clevesville, five miles from this place, was shot and instantly killed by his cousin, Harry Henry, aged about 15 years, with a shot gun with which the boys were playing ‘his was the only | Myers had, two others having died with diphtheria in one day : Steel Trust to Build Big Plant. Conneaut, Ohio ( Special.) The attor- | land adjoining the State line and lying | in Pennsylvania. Overdose o! Morphine Causes Death. Huntington, W. Va. (Special).—Dr. taken, it is believed, with suicidal intent, He was prominently known throughout Northern West Virginia, «$5,000,000 Contest. City, N | (Special) A begun for the $5.000.000 ¢ John R. M 4 % Mc Ph fight ven Ch $10,000 to th al, Washington LO Yale Uni and support daughter, Mrs Europe on Thursday husband, she at and in from of el tructed hin appeal The the probate filed will stimony appeal as na ot te FOUR PEOPLE STRUCK BY EXPRESS. Three Hurt, Distance. Killed znd One Slightly Women Hurl:d (rea Boy Saves Many George (. Cannon Dead terey, £ Court of Arbitration. 1 5! {By Cable the Pow on tended talla gned y or Tur OW { ye: Deen 1 Colonel Musick Dead. Neh { Special f heart fa this City Injuries wing the injured after a ov Kirksville, Mo causes to his death Colonel Musick a great part of his life to writ ng historical stories for young people Industrial Depression Abroad. Berlin (By Cable) It stated that Krupps are about to*discharge 2000 ids from their Essen, Buckow and works. They have already dis. missed 4000 since October. The indus trial depression continues According to a recent estimate one-fourth of the workers in Berlin are very insufficiently employed or totally idle. Victim of Kentucky Feud. Sneedsville, Tenn. (Special). Even Bledsaw. a feudist, was found dead. sit- ting upright against a tree, grasping his rifle tightly. It is believed he had been decoyed to the desolate spot in hope of capturing the man who killed his “egg Were is 1 nicl Plot to Kidoap Three Boys, Cleveland, Ohio (Special).—-It devel. foot to kidnap the sons of two wealthy East End residents. Letters of a threatening nature have been received made to wo of the is bein guard them boys, Cyrus ark B. F. Whitman. Mr. Whitman is treas- urer of the East End Banking and Trust Company. Both families are wealthy, Russia Demands Right to Deal Inde- pendently Regarding Manchuria, JAPAN'S CLAIM VERY MODERATE. Germany Wants Less Than Russia, Whose Cla'm is $90,000,000 -- The Total Will Be Far In Excess of the Amount Which China is Able to Pay--Russia Has Stated that She Had No Idea of Annexing Manchuria, {sve the Uni agreed SOVITOSY appt KILLED FOR WINTER'S WAGES. Young Woodman Waylaid and Murdered After a Struggle. 5 Ae OUTLAWS USE THEIR GUNS, They Kill 8 Man Whose House They Were Robbing and Kill a Detective, fn the lowed “1 Pittsburg's oldest and | ctives, was al mstant other officers wounded Mos Slain in a Friend's Room. Columbia S G {Special John J. Griffin. commercial Norfolk and Western R was shot to death 1 Major Bernard B ex-Lsn John Gary Major Evans was arrested on of having ritted the crime. The two men were alone at dinner Major Evans summoned Dr. R. W. Gibbes who found Captain Griffin dying and speechless on Major Evans’ bed. A 44 caliber Colt's revolver bullet had en tered just above the left nipple To Build Mocument to Harrison. Indianapolis, Ind. (Special) Follow ing the death and burial of ex- President Harrison, the Commercial Club of this city and other civic organizations re- solved upon building a monument to Harrison. The proposition found favor in the East, and Senator Fairbanks sub- scribed $1000 and reported he had re- | ceived letters from Col. John W. Fos. ter authorizing a subscription of $1000 each by himself and Stephen W. Elkins, making a nucleus of $3000. Girl Arrested for Marder. Elkton, Md. (Special ).—~Another chap. | ter was added to the Simpers tragedy at Strahorn Mills when State's Attorney | vans had Sarah Simpers, aged 12 years, sister of the murdered boy, arrested and | lodged in the Elkton jail, charged with | committing the crime. Thomas Simpers, | aged 10, is already in prison under the | i 1 pany Suspicion ry same charge. The two youthful pris. oners accuse each other of killing their yoyear-old brother Howard, but on ac- count of their the District Attorney will endeavor to have t committed to the Reform School until they become of age. Stop Postal Abases, t i res EEE Fe President's Tour to the Pacific. A Sulcessor to Baron Fava or tary Academy The Treasury Department was vised by the big meat-packing concerns in Chicago of a rumor that the British Government mtended to make war on American mzat he Congress of the Loyal Legion adopted an amendment to the constitu. tion admitting veterans of the Spanish American War, ad Our New Possessions Major Willam Monaghan, a volun teer paymaster, died while serving in the Philippines. The Cuban Constitutional Convention declines to pass upon the Platt amen). ment, and the question has been lef: to Archbishop Chapelle, the papal dele wonied to Rome, The immigration at the port of Ha- vana, Coba, during the last half of the S78 The American Philippine Commission received a cordial greeting at Antique Province, on the Island of Panay. At a mecting of European members reported that General MacArthur was the members of the Junta evidently not being posted on the doings of Aguin.
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