VERY LITTLE HOPE FOR MAFEKING COL. PLUMER CHECKED. Efforts to Raise the Siege do Not Look Like Early Success—Gen. French Fighling East of Bloemfontein, The hope of early relief of Mafeking, or that Col. Baden-Powell will not be compelled to surrender before help reaches him from either the north or south, grows dimmer. Gen. Roberts’ main army continues resting at Bloem- fontein, while Gen. Methuen is skir- mishing with the Boers at Warrent 167 miles away. Methuen has not ac vanced in five days in the direction of Mafeking, although his force is appar- sntly strong enough to do pretty muc! as he likes. It is hoped that he has a pleasant surprise in store by raising the siege of Maieking with a large column of cavalry and artillery detouring t Mafeking while Commandant Snyman is drawn off to engage Col. Plumer Bur it is evident that Col. Plumer has been temporarily at least checked on his way down from the north. Gen. French's cavalry and mounted infantry, according to a rumor, are fighting somewhere east of Bloemfon- tein. This suggests Boer bad news, as Commandant Oliver's commando, with 2,000 wagons, is reported on the Basuto- land frontier, toiling northward toward Kroonstad, via Ladybrand. This enor- mous wagon train is supposed to be moving 25 miles a day. Gen. French's cavalry posts stretch from Bloemfon- tein eastward to the mountains. A dispatch from the Boer camp at Kroostad, dated Thursday, says: Af- {airs are being put in proper shape ind the Free Staters who had to leave are returning in crowds. The presi- dent’s proclamation has shown the burghers that the government is stand- ing firm. The commands are mobiliz ing in great numbers and the men are more determined than ever. President Steyn has issued a proclamation in «which he warns the burghers who lay down their arms and help the English that they are liable to the utmost pun- ishment as traitors. A letter from Mr. Poulteney, an in- terpreter in the Free State courts, has been received by his wife at Bloemfon- tein, in which he declares that Gen Joubert is commanding the combined forces at Kroonstad, where there is plenty of men, guns and food stuffs for a determined resistance. A Cape Town correspondent graphing, Tuesday, says have just arrived from Bloemfon- tein, where I learned that no further movement is probable for three weeks, as negotiations are proceeding. I fail- ed to ascertain the nature of the ne gotiations, or whether Sir Alfred Mil- ner’s departure from Cape Town is con- nected with them, but I should not be surprised if the war collapsed qui Several telegrams have passed tween President Kruger and the Bri government, in addition to the bury-Kruger correspondence, published. The a dispatch from Pretoria Monday. The contents of these communications cannot yet be obtained. tele- Salis- alr eady foreign office received o far as the milit s 1 is concerned, there is practically no change. Lord Roberts is quietly mak ing preparations for the next move. As necessary to a beginning, Gens. Gatacre and Brabant are swiftly moving from point to point in the southern districts of the Free State, dispersing or ac cepting the surrender of any remaining Boers, thus insuring the safety of Lord Roberts’ communications before start- ing toward Pretoria: “Gen, Gatacre is the country like a cyclone, with fl columns in all directions. His swift- ness and strategy have proved of ines- timable value to Lord Roberts.” sweeping through A Bold Train Robber. ‘A lone robber wearing a false face with a black mustache painted on the mask held up the southbound Kansas City, St. Joseph & Council Bluffs train four miles south of H: imburg, Ia., at 1:30 o'clock Friday morning. The train was in charge of Conductor Billy McGee. Flagman Moore was first ac- costed by the robber at the rear end of the train. Using Moore as a shield the robber went through the sleeper and chair car, getting $200 in cash and a gold watch. He pulled the bell cord and when the train slowed down jump- off and escaped in the darkness. The robbery was reported to the Bur- lington general officers from Langdon, the first station south of Hamburg, Chicago Wife Beater Killed. At Chicago Bertie Finch, 15 years old, shot his father, George Finch, through the heart Tuesday night to save his mother from being cut to pieces. When taken into custody the boy wept bitterly and said he expected to be hanged at once, but that he would do | the deed again if necessary to protect his mother. Finch was a laborer, used cocaine, drank heavily and had bern fined numberless times for-beating his wife. At the supper-table he worked himself up renzy over nothing, knocked fe down and was about ~~mee—eX her throat when his son fired the contents of a shotgun chest. Yaquis Caught ina tron. Gen. Torres’ force of Mexican troops as a large body of Yaqui Indians sur- ounded a short distance north of Tor- n, and the early surrender nnihilation of the rebels ertain to take place. The Indians were neatly caught in i trap and have no means of escaping xcepting to cut their way through the anks of the government troops. This ody of Yaquis is said to number fully 00 braves. is considered CABLE FLASHES. Two fresh ses of bubonic plague | have been officially reported at Sydney, Australia. There were 4,725 deaths from bubonic | plague in the province of 3engal, In- Hy last week, and the disease is spread- | ng f: Sydney, capital of New Sc and Adelaide, capital of South tralia, have been declared infected the bubonic plague. The Argentine Sarmiento is Aus- vith ruiser Presidente ding ports o ored by the Castilians. The Duke of Orleans was by a bear during a hunt in southern | Spain, but killed the animal after re- celving a slight wonnd. | Eight ladies and gentlemen belonging | to the best Paris society were found in! an opium joint, raided by the police, in a state of intoxication. The French government fied the agreement d fication of the reciproci the United States to The French Chamber of Deputies passed the finance bill after the Right- ists had refused to vote on the ground that the government is wrong in all is policies. rati- | rati- with 1001. has ying the ty treaty March 24, Swiss watch makers are combining to protect themselves from Americar competition. Prizes are being offered to develop improvements in the Swiss watch which will tend to maintain its reputation. In the palace of justice, Paris, Bar- din, a disappointed litigant, fired three shots at the judge, whose head the bul- lets grazed. While the police were re- moving Bardin, the judge coolly told thy pet lawyer (0 continug his cas led by s into his | or complete | ith Wales, | Spain | and her officers are being signally hon- | i attacked | James Dunlap, a noted safe blower and bank robber, was captured at Chi- cago. Admiral and Mrs. Dewey were greet- ed by crowds of admirers in Macon, Ga., Friday. Thirty ied American colonists Cuba. arrived in New The United and training Naples States auxiliary cruiser ship Dixie has left Al- giers for More than 4,500 red in Cleveland in order vr of schools The S State bank of Hardy, Neb., was robbed of $6,000, the safe being blown with dynamite. ‘ee mines at Boonville, Ind., oper- n-union men, have been clos- women have regis- to vote for open TI fated 1 by fugitive, Quartermaster-General White, of Niels in, has been heard o 1 from in South / a. 2 At Scranton, ig the grand jury is investigating allegations of corruption against city officials. | | Old bonds were Wednesday present- | 1 ed to the treasury department for ex- change amounting to $18,830. Lon- Society women are going from don to Cape Town in great numbers, believing the war as good as over. A flock of sheep on W. C. Burch- field's farm, near Steubenville, O., went mad from a dog's bite and had to be shot. Paul Reno, a farmer near Detroit, was burned to death when alone in his home and murder and robbery are sus- pected, The war department has given orders to have the transport Hancock prepared for the use of the Philippine commis- sion, C “anonsburg, Pa., mechanics are talk- ing of organizing a general building trades union to enforce a demand for a nine-hour day. The charter granted the new $1306,- 000,000 Carnegie Company empowers it to do almost any kind of business in any part of the world. Leaders of the recent riots on the Isle of Martinique have been sentenced to imprisonmnt for terms varying from six to twelve months each. Mrs. Charles Smith, wife of a Chi- cago saloonkeeper, Tuesday shot and <illed Miss Annie Strother, a restaurant cashier, because of jealousy. Hotel Company, of New York City, has been incorporated with a capital of $400,000, to operate a hotel exclusively for women. Thomas E. Watson, of Georgia, de- clines in advance the middle-of-the-road Populi sts nomination for President, de- laring himself out of politics i State deserters at Iadysmith assert that their tr ops have done most f the fighting so far, the Transvaalers Boling h reserve, I'he Woman's themselves * The board of trade and other or- ganizations of San Francisco will issue widely a circular denying the ex istence of the bubonic plague that ¢ The directors of the Hartford Life Insurance Company voted a dividend of 100 per cent. to the stockholders, in : cipation of an increase of the capital New York insurgents say Colombian defe ated agents of the that they have the government forces in bx: Rib i ache, Cerro Libre and \ cencia, Robert W. Gilchrist, a Chicago bar- was shot dead in his shop as he shaving a customer by a man who opened the door and fired at him with a rifle. Jaron De Christiani, who assaulted President Loubet, of France, at the races last June, has been released from prison, having been pardoned by the president. The Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company has announced that work at their collieries near Shenandoah will be increased to five and three-quar- ter days. Thirty workmen were injured Wednesday by the fall of an elevator in the building of the Blak Company, Chicago. No fi expected. Printing alities arc New York, on first earth on the Gotham's $36, rapid transit rail Van Wyck, oi ay removed the fi of constructing 000.000 underground way system. A trustee was appointed in Chicago for the bankrupt Combination Invest- ment Company, a “get-rich-quick” con- cern that has debts of $300,000 and sets of $23,000. Representatives of the starving Puerto Ricans will attend the proposed mass meeting in New York and protest further against placing a tariff upon the imports from that country. U. 5S. Judge Hunger, in the U. S, j court at Omaha, sustained the right of the Nebraska State board of trans- portation to enforce the reduced rates { it has made on railroads in the State. While washing down the walls of a | noilding in which a fire had been ex- [ tinguis hed two hours before three New | York firemen were killed and two in- i jured by the collapse of the first floor. C. R. Ellicott, of Philadelphia, Pa., I has bought the Mont Alto furnace, near j3 A | Chamber burg, and 23,000 acres of coal land, the plant to be operated within 00 days. It has been idle for ten vears. | The committee of the Bri considering a form of gover sh cabinet nment for | South Africa has decided on a scheme similar to that of Canada. Lord Reay 1s spoken of as the probable governor | gene Mayor Van Wyck, of New York, with a silver spade dug the first earth in the beginning of the great under- ground rapid transit system which is to be constructed in that city at $36,000,000. | Massillon, O., { have voluntarily cost of district coal operators increased the wages | all outside laboring men in accord- | ¢ with the miners’ advance The se amounts to 20 per cent. and 1,000 men of Fe | affects about Four suits have been brought against the bondsmen of John Devs the mur- { dered city treasurer Castle, P: and who was also treasurer of the ¢ “hool fund: The audit of the | school a deficit of of New school something like | books shows 533,000, Chief Joseph, head of the Nez Per- ces, is on his way from Idaho to Wash- n to ask President McKinl ley to the tribesmen to hold land in and also to provide for re- g the tribe to the old stamping- ground at Foot Blue mountains, near | Uniatilla, Ore. At Kobe, Japan, and at Honolulu, where warfare is being waged against which are believed to spread the ’ | plague, the animals are being destroy- ed by means of a bacillus of mouse typhoid, the disease spreading rapidly among them and killing them off as effectually as a mineral poison, William T Stead, editor of the “Re- view of Reviews,” in an interview at Paris declared that the coming presi- dential campaign in the United States will be fought on the question of friend- liness to E ngland and that England has lost the good feeling of America. He said the peace movement is worse than corpse. Coffeeyville, Kas., is having an ex- citing fight over the contest for city clerk between two young women. Miss Zlliott is the Republican nominee, and Miss Rose Bell, a school teacher, is the nominee on the citizens’ ticket. Miss Elliott's father, the late Captain D. C, Elliott, of the Twentieth Kansas, killed in action in the Philippines, formerly held the office. ee | GOEBEL'S MURDER PART OF A PLOT. NEGRO ASSASSIN. Sergeant Golden, a Mountaineer Militiaman Who Has Turned State’s Evidence, Tells the Awful Story. had two They “John Powers told me they negroes here to kill Goebel. were Hocker Smith and Dick Coombs. This statement was made Saturday by IF. Wharton Golden, a frail, consump- tive-looking Kentucky mountaineer, while on the witness stand in the pre- liminary examination of Secretary of State Caleb Powers, charged with con- spiracy to kill Goebel. Golden told a story oi leading up to the murder that, if sub- ill, in the minds of those the prosecution at go far toward proving the events Yeast, probably the contentions of the Commonwealth result of a men that the murder was the plan in which sever al prominent Ww involved. olden, who claims to have been a friend to Secretary Powers and his brother, John T. Powers, for years, gave testimony that was particularly damaging to John Powers, but he also brought in the names of on others, including Charles Finley, H. Culton and Governor Taylor, in i story of the bringing of the mountaineers to Frankfort previous to the assassination. Governor Taylor, however, was not di- rectly implicated, and the attorneys for the Commonwealth intimated that they do not expect to have his name brought forth prominently in the story of the alleged conspiracy. Golden's testimony tended to show that a plan was made to bring several hundred “regular mountain feudists” to Frankfort, who would, if necessary, as Golden expressed it, “go into the legis- lative hall and kill off enough Democrats to make it our way. When asked if he hac Caleb or John Powe about Dick Coombs, he replied: o, but they had the negroes there to kill Goebel. John Powers told me so. They were Hock- er Smith and Dick Coombs. I saw ick Coombs at the drug store near the depot every morning for a week or so previous to the shooting. “Coombs, talking to a man named Wallace, in my presence, said with an oath: ‘I know him as far as I can see him, and I can kill him as far as I can see him." He was talking of Goebel. This conversation was in the adjutant general's office. He also said: ‘I know his every movement, and I can hit him with thi far as 1 can see him. “He carried a Colt’s 32, that shoots a Winchester cartridge. Coombs was in the assists 11t adjutant gener ral’ S office on the morning of the shooting, with ocker Smith and Jim Wallace.” The testimony did not show that the alleged plot to kill Goebel was part of the original plan, nor did it contain the names of those who conceived that idea. But the Commonyyealth sought to show by Golden's conversations with various people that not only Tohn and Caleb Powers, but others as well, had full knowledge of the alleged plan of assas- sination 1 any talk with “THE AMERICAN GIRL” IS CAST. Maud Adams’ Figure in n Gold Ready for the Paris Exposition. The gold statue of “The American Girl, which is to be exhibited at the aris exposition, was successfully. cast Wednesday in New York. Miss Maude Adams, the actress, was the model, and A Jessie Potter Vonnah the sculp- tor. The statue, mounted on its base, will be six feet in height. It weighs 712 pound’, and the bullion used is valued $187,000. Miss Adams’ gown is of the sit mples sort. It is a summer dress of fon. Tace ruifles extend its length and gathered at the waist they give a kind of blouse effect at the bosom. The sleeves are tight from shoulder to wrist. The arms drop to full length on both sides. The hair waves k from the forehead and is parted slightly to the left. The pose 1s that of taking a step forward, denot- ing ‘progre FOOD FOR ! PUERTO “Rico. The Disheartened Toupts Mus! Have 500 Tons Weekly—Covernment to Send Supplies. The war department received a cable Monday from Gen. Davis, in Puerto Rico, saying that the ndition of the inhabitants is distress and the suffering so general over the island that he will require at least 500 tons of {ood supplies weekly until further notice in proportions of 4-7 rice, 2-7 beans and 1-14 each of ba- con and codfish. Arrangements are be- ing made in the subsistence and quarter- master general's departments to meet this requisition as promptly and regu- larly as possible. The trans sport Burn- side. ypiueh is scheduled to leave New York for San Juan on March 21, prob- ably will tak e the first consignment of relief supplies and similar shipments will be-made each week by other transports. message comman HUSBANDS APPLY THE TORCH. Endeavor to Burn to Death Wives With Whom They Have Differences. Mr. and Mrs. Paul Flemrey, an aged couple of Cheyenne, Wyo., quarreled Saturday night and when the officers arrived Mrs. Flemrey’s clothing was in flames and her husband was standing over her with a lighted candle. The woman had been horribly burned, and is not expected to live. Flemrey was arr te Michael set fire to which his wv Fleming, of Chicago, Ill, bed Sunday night upon was lying with the in- tention of causing her death. She was irightit ly burned and will die. The co tuple had quarreled early in the even- 1 Fleming had vainly tried to a shotgun with which to kill his wife. When arrested he said it was nobody's business what he did in his own home. Boy Bank Clerk Absconds. Thomas Stewart. a clerk in the First National bank of on, Pa., the bank officials s absconded. According to the 1 story, he took $1,700 of the bank’s money. On Sati - art was sent to the Nort] I tional bank in that city to make tile: ment of the previous day’ s business be- tween the two banks. The balance due the First National, $1,700, was paid He reported First National bar but did not the money there. He said he was and was permitted to go home, Stewart and he departed fo the Candidate for Lynching. Annie McIlvaine, aged 53, who lives alone in Belaire, Md., was called to her door Saturday night by a man who ask- ed for medicine for a toothache. When she opened the door she was assaulted by a negro, who fled, leaving his hat. Lewis Harris, 35 years of age, was soon afterward arrested and identified by Miss Mcllvaine, and the hat is said to belong to him. He is in jail and there is a possibility that he may be lynched, as this is the second occurrence of this kind in this vicinity within a month. Imports for February. The detailed statement dor February shows the total imports of $68,777,150, against $60,258,452 in February, 189g; domestic exports of $117,336,444, against $92,183,372 in February, 1899. For eight months total imports of mer- chandise were $919,497,244, against $427,201,833 last year, and total exports of merchandise were $014.497,244, against §843,433,200 last year, INDEPENDENCE ASSUKED. Secretary Root Talks Freely on His Cbserva= tions During His Recent Tour of the Islands. Secretary Root has given to Presi- dent McKinley the results of his ob- servations of affairs in Cuba during his recent trip to the island. Mr. Root visited the provinces of Ha- vana, Matanzas and Pinar del Rio, and made it a point to note carefully the condition of the people and their indus- tries, and to discuss with individuals as well as officials questions affecting their interests. The secretary feels that he is well repaid for the time required to make the trip. He expresses himself as satisfied with what he saw; the people appear to be getting along well, and peace prevails throughout the coun- try. Naturally the question of the ulti- mate independence of the island came up for discussion during the secretary's visit to Cuba, but he was not prepared to say just when the United States gov- ernment would be willing that this should be a reality. The holding of the municipal ele ctions at an early date was a sub i Mr. Root looked very ¢ elections,” said the secretary, “will be the Cubans’ first effort toward popular government. Unaccustomed as they are to these things, they have ty to learn. The whole plan for making effective the scheme of municipal sui- rage has to be very carefully worked out and the people instructed in all the etails. I hardly believe that the au- thorities will be quite ready for hold- ing the elections by the first of May.” Mr. Root made it a feature of his visit to talk with the leaders of what has been known as the revolutionary element of the population and those who age opposed to annexation to the United States, and he says they are not impatient over what are regarded 2 necessary and reasonable delays in the formation of a well-established gov- ernment. When a stable and settled policy of rule has been established, the secretary believes the island will have a season of prosperity, and that outside capital, as well as much now there remaining unin- vested because of the uncertainty that s, will find its way into the chan- els of trade and agriculture. PUERTO RICAN RIOTS FEARED. Poor are Starving—Food Priczs Advance and Congress Blamed for Delay. The situation in Puerto Rico is now more serious than it has been at any time since the terrible hurricane. In many places the poor are starving. The price of rice, beans and codfish has increased from 50 to 100 per cent. Demonstrations against the delay of the United States government in settling open questions have recently been held at Mayaguez, Yauco,Arecibo, Aguadil- la, Fajardo, Juana Diaz, Guayama and many other towns. The people are un- able to understand the delay, and they condemn 8 Americans indiscrimina ie- ly. Bad feeling is arising which it wi! take years to overcome. are threatened. Trouble is evitable unless the tension is Even wealthy land owners c: annot com- mand ready cash, and many Americans are penniless, being glad to work for their board. : Roche, editor of the Boston Pilot, who has spent some time in Puerto Rico, says the United States is in the ungracious position of having de- prived Puerto Rico of its foreign trade The and give n it nothn 3 in return. great trouble with the island, he de- clares, is tha at it is over- pop ulated. RELIEF FOR FOATO RICO. McKinley Signs Biil Refunding $2,000,000 of Revenue—Will be Used in Improvement. President McKinl Saturday signed the bill returning to Puerto Rico more than $2,000,000 of revenue collected ana guaranteeing the return of all customs tariff and revenues collected in the fu- ture. retary Root has already declared his intention to put 23,000 men to work on the roads as soon as jis bill be- came a law, and thereby e the con- dition of starvation on Te islands. These men will be kept at work for at least go days, and will receive, in the ) aggregate, ,000. a month. This it is thought, will tide over the present situation and will relieve the immedi- ate wants of the natives. Besides the roadwork, a large num- ber will be put to work on the public buildings and wharves and piers. In the meantime, the depart- ment will continue ations by every available transport to relieve the distress of the suffering. IRELAND 8 OPPORTUNITY. John Redmond Thinks She Can Obtain Any- thing Desired. At a Nationalist banquet at the Hotel Cecil, London, Tuesday evening, John Redmond, leader of the Nationalist party in the House of Commons, said he regarded the last nine years of pub- lic life in Ireland as hideous night- mare, “Our reunion is sincere,” he contin- ued, “and there is nothing, humanly speaking, which the 86 Irish members of Parliament cannot cbtain from the exigencies of the British parties. It is incredible that English statesmen can be so blind to the teaching of history as to imagine that serious practica grievances can be mitigated by a royal visit to Ireland or by a British celebra- tion of St. Patrick's day.” Edward Blake, member of ment, who proposed the toast, a nation,” was greeted with hostile cries. A disturbance ensued and the police were called in to restore or- der. parlia- “Ireland, ENGLISH BUY ALABAMA COAL. Purchase of Two Million Tons at $1.25 per Ton at New Orleans. An English syndicate of coal dealers is said to have closed a deal by which 2,000,000 tons of Alabama coal are to be delivered at the port of N leans for e: 2post: ion within two years’ time. The purchase price agreed upon in the contract is said to be 75 cen ton at the mouth of the coal pits. 4 cents a ton is to be allowed for trans- portation to New Orleans. The entire 2,000,000 tons are to be reloaded and shipped by steamer at this port. The English syndicate will run its own line of steamers direct to New Orleans and the ordinary brokerage in handling the ships is to be cut off. On an aver- age one steamer is expected to load and ail each month during the 24 months’ time limit. This is one of the most im- portant financial transactions in the south in recent years. LT THE NATIONAL CAPITAL. A bill to exclude the book “Sapho” from the mails has been introduced in the House by Representative Fitzger- ald, of Massachusetts. A National Civil Service Retirement Association, to provide annuities for retired employes of the government has been organized at Washington. assistant Seventeen have been ordered to Manila to surgeons of the army relieve the same number now there. The list includes Conn R. Ohlinger, of Can- ton, O.; John N. Merrick, of Columbus, and Luther P. Howell, of W as shington Court House, Oo Four men were instantly killed, one fatally injured, and two seriously in- jured by the explosion of a sawmill heiler near Anthony, Ind, n rots | 1 | Zachary Taylor. | official mail addressed to Macrum w AN OIL CITY MAN KILLS HIS Wit, A FIENDISH ACT. Amos Elder Fires Four Shots With Deadly Ef- fect—Had Oiten Threatened Vio- lence—Murderer Escapes. Amos Elder, of Oil City, Pa., an oil operator, shot and killed his wife Sun- day evening after a desperate struggle tried to save her murderer escaped, 1 force and are search- in which a daughter mother’s life. The although the entire police hundreds of armed citizens ing for him. About two weeks ago the murdered woman swore out a warrant against her husband for assault and battery, and since that time Elder had not appeared | at home until nday night. He enter- ed the house with a revolver in ris) hand and at once began to make sneer-! ing remarks to his wife. who w just preparing to go to the Baptist rch to be baptized. The woman answered him and Elder started toward her, when a daughter interfered. The frenzied man flung the daughter aside and drag his wife into an adjoining room. daughter again tried to assist her mother and the two women prevented Elder from shooting for some time, but at last he overcame them and, placing the revolver in his wife’s face, fired a fatal shot. The woman fell to the floor and the man stood looking at her for several moments and then deliberately fired three more shots into her prostrate body. He then walked out of the house and disappeared, the daughter fearing to venture out to give an alarm until she was satisfied that her father was not about the premises. Elder was not drunk at the time and until a few months ago had been an industrious man, being in the employ of the Standard Oil Company. Of late, however, he has not been working steadily and treated his family brutally. A BATTLEFIELD PARK. A Bill fo Set Apart 6,000 Acres of Historic Ground in Virginia. Representative May, of Virginia, Tuesday filed the report of the House committee on military affairs on the bill establishing a national battlefield memorial park of 6,000 zcres on the sites of the battles of Frew: ‘icksburg, Chancellorsville, the Wilder. ess and Spottsylvania Court House. The re- port states that more men were here engaged than in any battle in the world’s history, aggregating at least 500,000, with losses in killed and wounded on both sides amounting to 120,338. The entrenchments over the entire field are said to be in a remarka- ble state of preservation. At Fredericksburg, also, is the home of the mother of Washington still in- tact and a monument erected by the Daughters of the American Revolu- tion. Here, too, Capt. John Smith an- chored his little bark and fought the Indians in 1608, and within sight of the were born Washington, Monroe, erson, Madison, the Lees of both he revolutionary and civil wars, and The report adds that in Virginia the great war began and — ended and not an acre of this soil, where more men fell than on all the other battlefields of the war, has yet park. SHERIFF PERMITTED LYCHINC, been dedicated as a national Two Men Were Hanged After He Had Seat the Troops Heme. Cotton, the negro who confessed to killing Saunders and Welton, at poria, Va, and O’'Gra the white man who v as wi ith him wl ren the mur- ders occurred, were lynched Saturday. Cotton was hanged first and the men who swung up were largely negroes. The 1 i Greenville county had ordered the military under command of Maj. who been sent to E mpo withdraw 1 the Hevernor ae the rs would be lynched if they were left unpro ed, but the governor replied that the responsibility was on oe sheriff. Har ly had the troops left the town be the mob brok e into the jail. Gov. ler said last night that he could not keep the soldiers at Emporia without declaring martial law and he did fo feel that the conditions warranted tha Cutchins, English Army Frauds. A London dispatch 's disclosures of fraudulent contracts in the victual- ling of troops at the front promises to make a big sensation before terms of peace are settled. Mr. Lowther, one of the strongest tories in the house of and chairman of the commons com- mittee of the whole house, has taken the matter in hand and seems deter- mined to ca it through. Another phase of the question shows army officers deep in the mud as contractor Mail says if it be- comes knowt The that the names of every member of a firm detected in fraud will tices will be publicly posted such quickly become rarer. do not forget that the names of the firms who | supplied the troops of the Soudan with | rotten boots as described by the G. W. Stevens, have never public. Mr. Balfour has wage wa against the fraudulent con- tractors, and it is to be trusted that he will strongly advocate wide and instant publicity.” late been made promised to An Ally for Macrum. E. G. Woodford, of New York. a mining engineer in South Africa for 25 years, has come home to stand by ex-Consul Macrum in his charge against the Sritish government. In an interview he saic “Macrum is a ‘gentleman and a man of brains. His coming home from Pr toria was a necessity of the faithi performance of his duty. T know that opened by the British censors, because 1 saw the letters in the nsulate at Pretoria with the censor’s sticker an Boyne that they had been examin- SY unadiont thinks the Boers will hol dj, out a year longer at leas t declaring that | when the British finally close around Pretoria there will be an ai ‘my of prot ably 35,000 defending the Boer capita Mountain Has Slipped d. Great excitement preva in Jacinto, Cal., as it has been discove that p of San Jacinto mountain has slipped into a subterranean cavern. Territory covering 600 acres at an elevation of 4,000 feet was dislodged by the Chrisi- mas earthquz 1ke and slipped 150 feet lower than it had stood for centuries. The face of the new valley is thickly traversed with ey a cracks, v ing in width from an inch to six feet and it is not possible to see the bottom nor to sound the depths by throwing stones into then. Rioting in Bulgaria. Rioting is going on at Varna, Bul- garia, chief port on the Black sea, the occasion for the disturbance being the rigorous enforcement of the tithe laws. Troops fired on the rioters to-day, kill- ing and wounding a number of persons. Turkish officials at Sofia are much alarnied at the demonstration, {fearing that it presages a revolution against Turkey, talk of which . is prevalent this spring. Brazilian Eleclion Frauds. sessions of the new April, but unusually The preliminary will begin in congress ready enough is known to demonstra fact that never before in the of Brazil were such fraud and corru; tion practiced as in the recent electio ns It is expected that no fewer than 150 seats will be cortestd. OUR LOSSES IN PHILIPPINES. About Fifteen Hundred Deaths in the Army Since Occupation; Less Than Hall in Batilx War department of’cials deny recent ly published statements that Gen. Otis’ campaign is costing upward of 1,000 men every mont According to the official records, American oc- cupation of the i June 1, 1898, up to Fe 17. 1900, the date of the last offic ot inant ition. the actual mortality in the army in the Philippines was 03 officers and 1.460 men, a total of 1,525, or at the rate oi 74 deaths a montly. More details are contained in the re- port of Cel. Woodhull, chief surgeon of the Philippine army. His report, however, does not extend beyond the end of the last calendar year. It shows that from the time American troops landed in Manila up to December I, 1890, the total number of deaths were 58 officers and 1,263 men. Of this number 42 officers and 570 men died by violence, and 16 officers and 693 men died of disease. Most of the deaths by violence occurred in battle. There were, however, 137 deaths from violence outside of actual hostilities. It singular fact that more than one- half of the latter class of deaths were caused by drowning. The total num- ber of wounded without fatal results during the period covered by the re- port was 1,767. is a MUST HOLD THE ISLANDS. Bishop Potter Gives His Impressions of the Philippines. Bishop Potter, who has just returned rom a five months’ tour in the Philip- pines, Japan and India, says, referring to, the Philippine situation: ‘hatever we might have done a year or more back, there is but one thing for us to do now, and that is to hold on to the islands and assume the responsibility for their future. The military wii dintion of the islands is beyond praise. Gen. Otis has not re- ved half the recognition to which he is entitled. His position has been one of extreme delicac New situations are arising daily, and he has handled them all with discretion. One thing is evident and that is that the Filipinos are im no condition for seli- -govern- ment. If a civil government were im- posed it would need a large military torce to maintain it. “Several friends of Aguinaldo,” con- tinued the bishop, “called upon me in Hong Kong, and they told me that they were Jofisted that there could be undertaking. The of Fi ipinos are satisfied that American occupation means in- creased prosperity and are not raising any objections. 2 POWERS ARE SNUBSED. Chinesa Anti-Foreign Parly is Becoming Stronger Daily—Officials Rewarded. The ascendancy of the anti-foreign party is becoming more pronounced daily. The dowager empress appears unable to sufficiently reward the offi- cials who exhibit marked hosti lity to everything- not Chinese. Hen-Tung, probably the most bitter anti-foreign official of the empire, has been decor- ated with the three-eyed peacock feath- er, which had not been conferred for 80 years. The notorious Li Peng Hing, wha was dismissed from the gov ernorship of Shantung, on German demand, hag been advanced to the first rank, and the former governor, You Sen, of Shan- tung, has been appointed governor of the Shan-Si district, a snub to the pow. ers interested and likely to prejudice Dritish interests in the province, as the powers believe his maladministration the cause of the present state of affairs in Shantung. Ohio Gold Mine, Schott has opened a gold mine one-half miles west of Mal and after witnessing seven as cached the conclusion that the s gold at. Malvern are not fairy tal hott, who is an expert a er, came irom Colorado Springs, Cl to Malvern and quietly secured le on the farm of Urban Ebner, where the mine is located. He has been working uietly for months and says he has made several hundred assay 1. H, two and A Lynching Prebzble. The negro Cotton, who, with 2a white man. killed Justice of the Peace Saunders and Mr, Welton, at Skippers, 7a., Friday, was, after an all-night chase, captured at Stoney Creek. He contorsed to the shooting of Saunders and Welton, and to several robberies Although well guarded, it is feared Cot- ton will be lynched. Mcrmons in Mexico. The several Mormon colonies In Mexico have been increased in popula tion by the arrival of over 5.000 Mor- mon i igrants from Utah, during the two months. The colonies were lished under concessions granted by the Mexican gover rnment. 1g PROMINENT PEOPLE, Cecil Rhodes is suffering from catarrh of the stomach and is unable to sail for England. Thomas Dunn English says that he heartily regrets that he ever wrote Ben Bolt. General Leonard Wood is mentioned es a vice-presidential possibility on the Republican ticket. The name of Colonel Kckewich, the hero of Kimberley, is much mispro- nounced XZ should be pronounced “oe - Ww . Brigadier General Wheeler has brought home with him a collection of ih ippine curios valued at a considera- ble sum Bis shop Potter has returned from the Philippine s. He has been away for five hs. He went on an ecclesiastical on. sovernor Smith, of Vermont, is one of the few men who owns a private lo- comotive. It is fitted to a handsome Admiral Dewey has the ing more postoffices ask- named after him than any 1 the country that if he lost all 5 other man Russell ge says lis money to-day he would go to work ith the same ex rey and ambition that re had at the start. Count Tolstoi is an enthusiastic cy- clist. He declares that he has to thank his bi le and vegetar ian diet for the ro- ! i o long enjoyed. his first mar- who died young, By his second wife he had sixteen chile dren. His grandchildren number one ndred 2nd four. Two officers of high rank in our army have well-known reputations of seing particularly good boxers. They are Major General Miles and Brigadier General Weston, commissary general of subsistence. At a recent meeting of the board of regents of the Ann Arbor University Professor Dean C. Worcester, of the new Philippine commission, tendered resignation as a member of the uni- culty, and it was accepted. v. Dr. Parkhurst, of New York City, "has announced his retire- ment from the reform business, and says I hereafter devote his energies to the people of his church. The con- ition of the Madison Square Pres- n Church 1 requested him to ie benefit of his entire time and Menroe, Mich, was Someryed Fri , owing to the damming of the Rai- sin river by an ice gorge. A movement is on foot to do away short time. class as ever before tunity you cannot afford to pass. its manufacturers. we can offer most liberal terms. Howe S. Nac: Coo Cereal Takes the Place of Coffee sees Is Pure sam Being made from Malted Grains. Contains nothing injurious to either old or young. 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Dotnet ecmatmadine lbs ctbssibumation nadie FIRE and BURGLAR =SAFE Vault Fronts and Safes for Walls. Let us know what you want and get our prices. THE NAEHER MFG. co., CINCINNAT1, OHIO. dintiincatbbustmstn diodes ARXGCH, OHIO, SL INDUSTRIAL NOTES. Germany Imports Many Tons of Logs—A Novel Order for Porczlain Faclory. Our consular agent at Eibenstock, Germany, Mr. Harris, states that in 1800 2,000,000 tons of logs were im- ported into Germany. In 1808 3,000,000 fons were imported, or an increase of 33 1-3 per cent. During this same period sawed lumber increased from 1,200,000 tons to 2,200,000 tons, or an increase of about 100 per cent. Sawmill owners of the German empire are be- ginning to agitate in favor of a_higher tariff on sawed lumber. A porcelain factory in Graefenthal Germany, has received an order from England for 5.000 dozen figures repre- senting a wounded British soldier, with bandaged head, standing up erect, gun in hand, ready_to face the approaching enemy despite his wounds. A second order is for a number of British sol- diers standing by their guns pointed at the enemy. Referring to the shell factory of the Boers recently destroyed at Johannes- burg, the Electrician, of London, states that all the machinery in the plant was driven by clectric power, and that orig- inally it was the largest engineering works of the kind in South Africa, the machinery alone having cost $400,000. A branch of the American Handle Factory of Knoxville, Tenn., located at West Point, Miss., has completed a new plant, with a capacity of 200 dozen han- dles a day. Among the first orders is one from a Liverpool firm for 2.000 dozen handles to be used by the Brit ish government in South Africa. While the British army colors, stand- ards and guidons are religiously made by hand, Jack's flags are made by sew- ng machines, 16 enormous machines being driven throughout the course of 1 long day by gas engines, and tended by nearly 40 women. Six hundred of the men engaged in building the military road from San Juan to Arcibo, Puerto Rico, have gone out on strike. They demand a living wage. They have been getting forty cents a day for ten hours’ work and want fifty. The sash, door and blind manufac- turers of Chicago and its vicinity have voted to close their mills until the labor troubles are adjusted. By this action 4,000 men are added to the 50,000 idle. The shipments of crossties from the port of Brunswick. Ga., for the months of January and February, 1900, were the largest in the history of the indus- try at that port, aggregating 506,883. Two hundred thousand natives of China, Japan, Russia and Siberia are now employed in suoplying material for the bridges required on the East- ern Railway in China, Another latwe mill will be near Aiken, 000 plant. ill located "This will be a $600,- i it is annanunced by Messrs. Charles Warren Davis & Co. of Augusta, Ga. The new uniform potters’ scale of wages has been adopted by sixty manu- facturers employing about 12,000 men. Both workmen and employers hw] it with satisfaction. . Fifty carpenters employed at the Union Drydock in Buffalo have quit worl in sympathy with the iron workers and machinists who have been out for several weeks, The strike of cigarmakers in New York City is complicated by a decision of some of the largest concerns to oper- ate their factories on half time only, The union label of the United Gar- ment Workers is now issued to thirty- cight clothing manufacturers in tl United States and Canada. e The organized light-weight ao New York City have demand for a nine- fins go into effect on Mav 1g, Stove moulders Ty bee fifteen per cent. wage advance by the Stove Founders’ National Association meeting at Atlanta, Ga, : The hardest- worked persons varia are the waiter- girls. busy fourteen to and never get a day The National Tube Company has in. creased by ten per cent. the wages of the 20,000 men in its fifteen factories, Twenty-five girls employed in the Wyoming Hi Lace Mills, at Wilkes. arre, Penn, are on a strike. " he strike of the coal miners j - hemia and Silesia, Austria, en ie owing to the lack of funds. E The 500 employes of the Warrenville] Coopers made a general work day, to n given 3 in Ba- They are xteen hours a day, off. with public executions in France. S. C. cotton mill are on a strike for higher wages. ’ Is Pure, Strong, Healthful and Cheap, Why pay double the price for half the qual- ity and quantity? Guaranteed to give satisfaction, or money refunded, ‘Try it and you will always buy it, FOR SALE BY GROLERS. Don’t buy any other, JERSEY BELLE BAKING POWDER CO. JERSEY CITY, N. J, FIFTY-SIXTH CONGRESS Senate. FIFTY-NINTH DAY. The Senate spent the entire day in debating Puerto Rican relief, and al- though all the speakers favored the bill to return the revenues to the island, no vote was reached. Representative Ray introduced a constitutional amendment for National regulation of trusts. The District of Columbia appropriation bill, carrying $0,603,378, was passed. T he House commerce committee submitted four reports on the bill for the constriic- tion of a Pacific cable. Government or private ownership the question now be- ing considered. The Se wate passed the bill for the re- funding of revenue received on impor- tations Ly the United States, amount- ing to §z 005, Sy McMillan, in the Senate, and Representative Lentz, in the House, have introduced bills providing for post check no in small amounts. SIXTY-FIRST The House refused to concur in the Senate amendments to the Puerto Rican relief bill. The Democrats supported a motion to concur on the ground that it would avoid further delay in extend- ing relicf to the inhabitants of the is- land, but the > Republicans stood firmly behind Chairman C annon in his demand that the House insist upon its original provision to appropriate not only the money collected on Puerto Rican goods up to January 1, but all subsequent monies collected or are to be Plleeet: SIXTY-SECOND DA The conferees on the on Rican appropriation bill have agreed up- on a compron measure. The Sen- ate conferees receded from the Senate amendment limiting the appropriation to the revenues collected on Puerto Rican importations up to Jan, 1, 1900, and restored the clause in the House bill Anlying fo future revenues. OHIO Sx TY-THIRD. DAY. The Senate passed the conference re- port on the Puerto Rican appropriation bill, which returns to the island the $2,- 000,000 co :d on customs duties up to Jan. I, 1000, and also all future reve- nue raised in the island. The vote, 35 to 15, was on party lines, except that Mr. Stewart, Silverite, Nevada, voted with the Republican majority. ; The element in the Republican ranks in the Senate woring {ree trade with Puerto Rico decided at a conference to Obpose any action looking to an early vote and to ask for further time in case the Question should come up The lord mayor of onion wears a badge of office which contains diamonds valued at £100 000. The plum known as the * ‘Abundance’ a cross between a Japanese plum and is the American wild plum. 2 skull. and Crossbones is the some- y 1at grim emblem adopted by Captain Montmorency’s scouts in South Africa 1 se a Hoc eure and that ing tha kep ‘did ask Iplie for tion We voi ‘the the onl AO POR eC
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