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,
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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in Ba-
They are
xteen hours a day,
off.
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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
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