THE BRITISH AN SOUTH Over Fifteen Thousand Lives Have Been Sacrificed in Boer War, 2,493 HAVE LEFT THE SERVICE. The Boers Burn Another Supply Train on the Veld--Gen. French Will Seek to Recuperate ~Twenty-Six Americans Among the Prison- ers Captured in South Africa, Besides Thir- teen Others Claiming to Be Burghers War Of tal num London (By Cable).—The fice officially announced the te ber of British deaths in the South Afri can War 714 officers and 14,204 men, a total of 14,078. Besides these 4 officers and 314 men, a total of 318, have been inv died. Two thousand four hundred and ninety-three non-c isstoned officers and men have leit rvice unfit for duty. does not include the tens of thousands of wounded Replying to a question in the William St. John Broderick. ti Secretary, said tl m ers captured in Americans, | claiming to be witention of oners until Joseph ( Secretary, ir House that in the Transvaal since that 50 stamp n 100 more Mond: A dispatch to the Capetown states that will take a sea » Cuperate n It} the Boers Anoth “Comn Britis Sheepe r's does, whi midlands months, ar A dispat Transvaal a8 \ y ilided home and subsequently T tics This list fouse, bur of relea been produce Januar bt started May 10,000 pe fred Mil TO THROW MANCHURIA OPEN. China Said to Have Made This Offer to the Powers. London "abl Tt correspon been informed that China re pow ers, ing of Manchur count Replies Japan Japan tion sent, approvesth Russia will Kaiser Completes Ministry. { RB. akle istry General P culture. Baron President terior. Merr merce, Herr Kraetk Crusade Against Christians. Constantinonl By $1 Sultar preaching ity are ana the founda They ar vocate 3 Mohamn ares schools their a e Giou Improved X-Ray Tubes. y Cabl An 3 electric named } tubes for wl tages over the that they are non actually in wounds flesh visible on the plate or ten en and not burns One ones and tograph plate while 3 3 otner mak neithe Montreal tel, a small eastern suburb of (Special).—~Brunelle's hostelry +h Maissoneuve. an the city, was burned. and three Mrs. Brunelle, wife of the proprietor; Octave Leussier. a farmer, and Miss Leussier. perished in the flames. The factory Alaska Feather and Down Company was also burned. Loss, $65.000: insurance, $40.000 inmates, of the Boy With Pistol Killed Brother, Huntington, W. Va. (Special). — Johnny Snoddy, a ten-year-old boy. was playing with an old which he supposed was not loaded. He snapped it several times at his four-year-old brother, when suddenly it exploded. The bullet struck the little fellow in the neck, making a wound from which he died. ' pistol, McKinley Will Not Receive Kruger, London (By Cable).—The Geneva correspondent of the Daily Mail asserts that President McKinley has informed Mr. Kruger that he cannot receive him either officially or unofficially, Von Waldersee to Leave Pekin, Pekin says that Field Marshal Coun: von Waldersee is about to leave Pekin, and that he will make his headquarters on board the hospital ship Gera until he starts on his return to Europe, which will be in the middie of June if things go smoothly. Another Comet Sighted, Cape Town (By Cable).—Another comet was observed here. It was travel. ing in a northwesterly direction, SUMMARY OF THE NEV/S, Domestic. The Cuyahoga Savings and Banking Company, of Cuyahoga, Ohio, closed i pending examination ot loors an baoks of the treasurer, who has n Barrack WwW \ikens near rsity at Chicago Dr. f Dickinson College. ~ppes, who claims to be a Phil 1 delphia commercial l in (scorge I traveler, wi ksburg, Va, irse-stealing f Levy county, his Frederi mn Ge Johnston, Va, two Wad stroyed by fire and children were burned to death Leonard S. Outram, of of Sothern’ London, member ompany sudden] failure ACRES OF ASHES oc Purse Opens and the Hungry Are Being Fed. CITY NOW UNDER MARTIAL Sterics of Losses of Life on River Front First Estimates of the Property Losses Exaggerated by Five or Six Million Dollars «Nearly All the Miiitia in Fiorida Doing Guard Duty, THOUSANDS MUST PERISH. Famine is Terrible in Shan SL Minister Conger Says The Constitutiod 3 | Nigh i I Be R werial) —With 1 hull gaily de ated with flags and her mil gaily decorated with Hags and b | deck well filled with sailors, the vacht | Constitution was christened bs Duncan, who broke f wine on hes , been rigged and thi the for the her on husband, t but ' . of the boat, aon ivs tood when gong Vas ounded feside was her new boat of the party stood a little distance off sound of the gong Mrs. Dun bottle champagne bow, and as the kling r acquired m r descent into of the be VOICE said, platform ; : of the the rest lashed a of against tne gushed in can yacht's Nine spar foam on the sleek race slowly be i With the break Duncan in a clear thee Constitution,” brill SIOWI1Y the otion the ttle gan he SCENne Was a Constitution was ter, the cheering CUBAN COMMISSION HOME Announce an Understandlog Reached, But Want Time to Prepare Report. BLEEDING PICTURE OF CHRIST. lavestigation of a Peculiar Phenomenon in a Wisconsin Town. Microscopic Two Children Buraed to Death. 4 Ne ‘ yr : wwkmen, lawvers and ot} arrested in St. Petersburg and hundreds of houses to jerlin Miquel. who resigned as be clevated to a Moeller has been 5 COMmMerc {to appointe succeed The old story is again reviv he Pope has made a will designating his successor, Cardinal Rawmapolla, accord ing to this report, is planning to succeed Leo XIII Missionary Owen, of the London Mis provinces show the to be deplorable condition, Richard Redhead, who music for “Rock of Ages,” home in London, German soldiers guarding a bridge across the Peiho River fired on a Brit ish tug and wounded two of the crew country in a wrote the died at his Barcelona many people were shot and Financial, The exports of gold since January 1 have been $15,401.76. It 1s again said that the Atchison Company will acquire the Choctaw, It 1s said Mr. E. P that Paul Morton will succeed him as The London “Speaker” says: There is no doubt that a great outcry has been raised in South Wales, Northumberland and Durham in consequence of the im- position of an export duty of a shilling per ton on coal, forcing he firemen who were responds to the alarm were vain. ly waiting freight train, which blocked the way of the fire engines, to move on and let them pass to the fire Marshal Driscoll, in charge of the fire men, called to the conductor and brake men to move the train, but they refused to comply with his request. The police were sent for and the crew was arrested, Then, under orders of the fire marshal, the train was backed from the crossing, burning building it had been destroyed. He Shot His Wife, Jacksonville, Fla. (Special). —F, R. Armstrong, a well-known grocery mer. chant, shot and fatally wounded his wife in front of the residence of the victim's mother. When Armstrong fired the first shot his wife fell on her face. He then fired three shots into her body. Arm- strong’'s wife went to the home of her mother three weeks ago. He visited her in the afternoon and again at night, when she had gone to church, He waited for her and shot her before she got inside the cate. Armstrong was arrested. embers of burned the were among charred remains the vic dics were beyond were identified van fran who live at be crew, Elkhart, ‘.2 : are ing held without bail await Ling the verdict of a coroner's inquest The origin of the fire is unknown The g was an old one, built of wood. and burned so rapidly that all avenues of eccupe by stairways were cut off be fore the of the fire Officials of the Lake Shore and Mi. | chigan Southern Railway declare that | the blocking lasted but a few minutes {and that the members of the train crew {did everything in their power to make way for the fire engines Conductor | Brown, who was arrested, claims one of { the firemen uncoupled the air brakes and {the engineer was unable to move the trein, occupants were aware Boy Kills Mis Roommate, Louisville, Ky. (Special). ~Charles Washington, a nineteen-year-old boy, killed Irwin Malayan, aged sixteen years, by hitting him on the head with a baseball bat Both were inmates of the Louisville School of Re- form, Wasington being a government prisoner, sent here for robbing the postoffice at Altamount, Knox county, he boys were gettin ready to go to Sunday School when Nain quar- reled with Melayan. Washington step- ped up behind him and —— his slenld C—O Sa st A ———— Ws. A WS —————— ME GERMANS FIRE Now Its An International Ruffle at Tien Tsin. TWO OF BOAT'S CREW WOUNDED. The Germans Guarding a Bridge Across the Pei Ho River--The Bridge impedes River Traffic, the British Tug Touches it, and the Germans Instantly Blaze Away--Country in Bad Condition, " ientsin soldiers wl bridge ACTON south end here, fired on wounding two of impedes ched DOUBLE TRAGEDY IN NEW YORK Farmer Kills His Hired Man, Who Had Just Murdered the Farmer's Wife. NATION OF COFFEE DRINKERS. United States Consumes More Per Capita Than Any Other Country. Hurse sand 8 wing high grades stated the 1 i nLymer greatest o« Sold Pulpit for Salary. T« { Spex al) alas jue him the Rex Samuels, pastor of the Church of this place, sold the pulpit. Ms Samuels says he was to receive a salary of $40 a month. Members of the con gregation say he receive only what was collected weekly in $0. Recently Mr. Samuels call and accepted. When what was due him--about told “there was nothing secured a constable’s writ and pulpit for $24.25 Carnegy salary « hol was fe CXOeEs received a he asked for $25--he was don He the sold Money for Southern Schools. Cambridge, Mass { Special ) The will of Mary Shannon, of Newton, filed in the Middlesex Probate Court, con- tributes more than $125,000 to charitable and public institutions. The Hampton {Va.) Normal and Agricultural Institute gets $10,000; the Tuskegee (Ala) In stitution, Kittrell (N. C.) Normal and Industrial School for Negroes, Atlanta Vhites, Kinsey, Henry The other nary for Poor county, Ala, receive $090 each. Newton (Mass) Hospital and all, and various other Massachusetts in- stitutions receive $32,000. Temple in lagersoll's Memory. the teachings of the orator and agnostic shall be perpetuated, is the purpose of the Ingersoll Memorial Asociation, in- corporated at Springfield. Hundreds of Arrests in Russia, St. Petersburg (By Cable) There have been several hundred arrests and seizures in comnection with the alleged revolutionary movement. It is reported that persons of high positions and repu- tation are avoive gl LIVE NATION) New Nicaragua Canal Treaty. f irnea It is from i SOUTCe fore ¢ ¢ wy pon b re Root Loses His Secretary. 5. Coursey, who has been “IMs were hic Try AI1NC exp ’ a1 Minister Loomis Department to give n would spend his leave Europe The Mexican nity for who Texas The Woman's Missionary So Lutheran Church Pittsburg in 1903 Admiral Farquhar was elecied man the United States Board. Col. Charles I. Wilson, assistant pay master general, was placed on the re. tired list on account of age. Colonel Wilson was born in the District of Co- paid $2000 ae Florentino La Salle county State Department Ambassador the heirs of was lynched in Home ety : and Foreign of the Evangelical adjourned to meet in hairs Light house of from New York. Secretary Root issued an order abol- one at Fort Monroe. Our New Possessions Civil government in Manila was es tablished as a preliminary to the maugu- ration of a general civil government. The Philippine Commission is wnwill- ing at present to Jennie the experiment of elections in Manila, although they have been authorized in all the other municipalities. Judge Taft says a mo. nicipal government for Manila will soon be created. The officers will probably be appointive. The transport Sedgwick sailed from San Juan with 19 Porte Rican youths, who are coming to the United States to be educated.
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