V 1 J BRITRIN FORGED TO MAKE K CHANGE. NEW CHIEF SELECTED. Roberlt 8uceecdi Butler In Soulh Afrlca Numtrout Defeats Spur England on to Vigorous Campaign. The English Government disappoint ed with the results of her men and of ficers in Smith Africa has leciilel upon some radical changes in the conduct of the war in South Africa. These chanties have caused the English to again look forward to n favorable termination of the war. As a result of the British Cabinet meeting on Saturday, when the successive reverses of Gatacre, Melhucn and Bullcr were carefully consiilercd, the following important measures were , decided upon: t Field Marshal' Lord Huberts. V. C, has been appointed Commander-in-Chief of South Africa, with l.ord Kitch ener, of Khartoum, to be Chief of Staff. The whole of the reserve, not as yet in corporated, will be called upon. The Seventh division is now mobilizing, and will proceed at once to South Africa. Reinforcements of artillery. including three Howitzer batteries, will be sent 'out. Ituller is authorized to raise a local mounted corps in South Africa. A con siderable mounted force from England will lie sent out. and nine battalions of militia, in addition to the three which have already volunteered, will be asked to volunteer for foreign service. A spe cial force of volunteer regiments will be formed for South African service. Offers of mounted men from the colo nies will be accepted. . These measures should give the Brit ish forces in South Africa 50,000 more ' men. On the way there or in process of embarking arc the Fifth and Sixth divisions, about 20.000 strong, while the total of men under arms in South Af rica, including Cape Natal local forces, may be placed at 75.000, deducting losses. Thus the British strength in the field is to be almost doubled. The greatest satisfaction will be caus ed by the announcement that the Gov ernment lias decided to send Roberts as Commander-in-Chief in South Africa, with Kitchener, thus calling upon two of the most brilliant officers in the Brit ish army to meet the grave situation which has now arisen. The London war1 office lias received the following dispatch from General Methucn, dated Tuesday, December 12: "Our artillery shelled a strong posi tion held by the enemy in a long, high kopje from 4 until dusk Sunday. The Highland brigade attacked at daybreak on Monday the south end of the kopje. The attack was properly timed, but fail ed. The guards were ordered to pro tect the Highlands' right and rear. The cavalry and mounted infantry, with a howitzer artillery battery, attacked the enemy on the left and the guards on the right, supported by field artillery and howitzer artillery. "They shelled the position from day break, and at 1:15 I sent the Gordons to support the Highland brigade. The troops held their own in front of the enemy's intrenchmcnts until dusk, the position extending, including the kopje, for a distance of six miles toward the Modder river. To-day I vim holding my position and intrenching myself. I had to face at least 1.1,000 men. Our loss was great. "As the Boers occupied their trench es strongly this morning I retired in perfect order here, where I am in se curity. "I have gathered from some of the prisoners and from our men with the ambulances, who t.-rlkcd with the Boers, that the enemy's losses were terrible, soma corps being completely wiped out. The Boers have been most kind to my wounded." The War Office Saturday received a dispatch announcing that General But ler lias met with a serious reverse, los ing 11 guns. General Bullcr was attempting to cross the Tugcla river, landing it im possible to effect his object, he ordered a retirement in order to avoid greater losses. Since the days of the' Indian mutiny England has not been confronted with so painful and anxious a situation. Plainly General Butler's advance is par alyzed for the moment as completely as Lord Mcthucn's and .General Gatacrc's. The depression over the defeat of Great Britain's trusted and idolized commander is all the greater, as, dur ing the last 48 hours, there had been re ports of the relief of Ladysmith. Fri day the War Office allowed it to be un derstood that the position of affairs in Natal was entirely satisfactory. The re action is all the more pronounced on this account. The war office has received the fol lowing from General Foreslier-Watker: "Cape Town, Dec. 11. Gatacre re ' ports as follows: The idea to attack Stormbcrg seemed to promise certain success, but the distance was underesti mated by myself and the local guides. A policeman took us round some miles, and consequently we were marching from 9:30 p. m. till 4 a. m., and were landed in an impossible position. I do not consider the error intentional. Cape Colony is in a ferment and Boer reports say that j.ooo British colonial troops have joined the Boers. Gen. Bullcr's losses at Catenso are 82 killed, 667 wounded, and 348 missing. REPRESENTS A HUNDRED MILLION. Indepjndent Sugar Companies Effect a Com blnalion. When the Anglo-American Rapid Vehicle Company was incorporated at Dover, Del.j with a capital stock . of $75,000,000, it was thought to be the largest industrial concern that would . ever come under the general laws of Delaware; but Wednesday preparations were begun for the incorporation of a $100,000,000 concern. It is to be known : as the Colonial Sugar Refining Com pany. - Large sugar making companies now outside the American Sugar Refining Company, which oneratet under the New Jersey laws, are concerned in this new Delaware corporation, the specific object of which is said to be to extend the sugar industry of Hawaii, Cuba and Porto Kico. Killed in a Beer Vat Deadly carbonic acid gas in a beer vat at the Wainwright department of the Pittsburg Brewing Company, brought speedy death to Hermit Baur. an employee of the plant few davn MO. tATEST NEWS NOTES. The number of prisoners in the penal institutions of New York is on the de crease. Ciovernor Davis will not allow the Spanish flag on public buildings in Por to Rico. Twenty-five Irish-Amrricnn young men have left Cleveland, O., to fight with the Rocrs. . The F.dgewood Institute for the deaf and dumb, near Pittsburg, Pa., was de stroyed by fire last Thursday. A counterfeiter who disposed of spurious nickels to tiewmys. was cap tured in Pittsburg last Thursday. The Whalcback barge, Hundred Nineteen, is reported lost on Lake Su perior with her crew of nine men. Dwight L. Moody is slowdy passing away at his home in Northampton, Mass. His physicians give no hope. . Bctthor Lanish and Klin Mcngel, of Tarentum, near Pittsburg, Pa., were run down and killed by an express train last Thursday. Five ears of bottled beer left Cincin nati Thursday for a saloonkeeper at Manila who says his demand is eight cars a week. Governor Poyiitcr, of Nebraska, has appointed ex-Senator Allen to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Senator-elect Hayward. President Faiince, of Brown Univer sity, announces n $.'5,000 gift to (lie in stitution from ex-Mayor Chester Ward Kinsley, of Cambridge, Mass. Irishmen in St. Louis propose to raise a fund of $i.oio.ooo for the purpose of equipping and transporting troops to South Africa to aid the Boers. Irving Shaw, 14 years of nge, was convicted nt Saratoga, N. V'., of mur dering his playmate, Jesse Blanche, and sentenced to life imprisonment. Booker T. Washington has received a letter from John D. Rockefeller, who offers $10,000 to the Tuskegce Normal Industrial institute at Tuskegce, Ala. The Parochial School for Girls con nected with St. Michael's Orphan Asy lum, at Pittsburg, was totally destroyed by fire Sunday night at a loss of $0.1,000. Louis A. Gourdain, of New York, was sentenced to one year in the peni tentiary for engaging in banking with out permission of the superintendent of banks. There arc unconfirmed rumors cur rent in Vienna that the government has resigned or is about to resign, on ac count of the persistent Czech obstruc tion. William S. Taylor was inaugurated as governor of Kentucky nt noon Tues day. The crowd was much smaller than in past years, due to the December blizzard. John O. Doiincr, superintendent of the American Sugar Refining Company and the great expert in his business, died Wednesday on the eve of his de parture for Europe. Large orders in connection with the construction of the Shan-Tung railroad have reached Germany, among them or ders for 65,0(10 tons of rails, 24 locomo tives and 700 cars. At a Republican jollification at Ir vine, Ky., Kdward Parks, the town mar shal, was killed by Fred Ashcroft and Charles Wallace, negro, and the latter was fatally injured. A committee of Philadelphia Friends have begun the shipment of ,15,000 pounds of supplies for the Doukhobors, or Russian Quakers in Canada, who arc reported in distress. A rise in the waters of the Ohio river made it possible to move 32,000.000 bushels of coal which was awaiting shipment at Fittsburg for Cincinnati and Mississippi river points. Fear is expressed in London that the German navy may be used in conjunc tion with those of Russia and France to exert pressure to prevent reinforce ments reaching South Africa. While four men undertook to force an entrance to the Deep River Savings Bank at Deep River, Conn., Harry D. Tyler, the watchman, fired a shotgun and instantly killed one of them. In a freight wreck on the Pennsylva nia railroad Wednesday between Plains boro and Princeton, N. J., Engineer Spieglcr, Fireman Henickcr and Brakcman Zogbaum were killed. Veterans of Meagher's Irish Brigade held a banquet in New York a few days ago. Congratulations were sent to Krugcr and Gen. Joubert and they were made honorary members of the organi zation. John Rcymcrhoffer, Austrian consul at Galveston, Tex., died suddenly on Broadway, New York, Wednesday. He was on a visit with his wife to the city to visit his two daughters, who reside there. London is indignant at the report that Great Britain has been compelled to ask France for a gold loan. Joseph R. McFee, social superintend ent of the Salvation army, is about to es tablish in Baltimore a poor man's hotel similar to those operated by the Salva tionists in New York, Chicago and San Francisco. Tunis G. Bergen, Treasurer of the American Committee of the Nether lands Red Cross Society at New York, sent $2,000 to Amsterdam bankers last week for the use of the English and Boer wounded within the Boer lines. This committee has raised $8,000. W. H. Wcldemcr, of Rockwood, Pa., rushed into the police station at Pitts burg a few days ago and announced that he had swallowed a big dose of rough on rats. He was sent to the hospital, where it is expected his life will be sev ed. He had spent $50 of his employers money and couldn't stand the disgrace. The Executive Committee of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers decided to look no further than Cleve land for a site for the big building which the brotherhood intends to erect for its permanent home. The committee had intended visiting a number of cities be fore coming to a decision, but conclu ded that Cleveland offers sufficient ad vantage. The land and building will cost $300,000. Restoring a Cas'la. Mrs. Jack Gardner is about to build near Boston an old Italian palace which she purchased during a recent trip abroad. The building is to be taken down, brought to this country and' re erected, stone for stone. When com pleted the first floor will become the re pository for the works of art which Sirs. Gardner has collected, and it is un derstood that she intends to open it to the public. The upper story will con tain her personal apartments. HUNDRED MILLION A YEAR, Supplies Formerly Furnished lo Cuba and Porto Rico by 8paln Now Come from the United States. A hundred million dollars a year Ap pears to be the present market offered to the people of the United States by Cuba, Puerto Rico, Hawaii and the Philippines, provided we are able to supply the normnl demand in those Is lands for foreign products. This esti mate Is based upon their actual con sumption in years of normnl conditions. How rapidly this Will increase remains to be seen( but if the experience of the past year in Hawaii is an indication of what will happen elsewhere the increase must be very rapid. The exports from the United Stntes to Hawaii in the ten months of 1899 whose record is now complete are more than double those of the corresponding months of 1897, and nearly double these of the corresponding months of 1808, while to Cuba they promise to exceed in 1800 those of any preceding year, even surpassing that of the great reci procity year, 1803, when the exports to that island were double the average of earlier years. More than one-half of the supplies which Cuba, Puerto Rico and the Phil ippines have received from other parts of the world in former years have been furnished them by Spain, and this fact has led to the preparation by the Treas ury Bureau of Statistics of a series of tables showing the exportation of prin cipal nrticles from Spain to each of these islands in 1896, the latest year in which Commercial conditions in those islands were at nil normal. From these tables it is shown that the total exports from Spain to Cuba. Puer to Rico and the Philippines in 1896 were $40,622,648. BIQ FAILURE IN BOSTON. Tin Broadway National Bank Closes Its Doors Pork Packers Assign. The Brondway National Bank of Bos ton closed its doors Saturday morning. It is in the hands of the comptroller of the currency. Its condition stands thus: paid up capital $200,000; surplus and profits, $220,240; $1,829,180; bonds, stocks, etc., $50,000: due from banks, $542,329: each and exchanges, $600,000. John P. Squire & Co., pork packers, assigned Saturday to Herman W. Chap lin; liabilities, $3,000,000, assets, $5, 000,000. The principal creditor is the Globe National Bank of Boston, which was tided over the shaols by the clear ing house this week. It is now an open secret that the Squire corporation has been in the toils for months, and it was on account of its tremendous overdrafts that President Cole was forced to re sign from the Globe bank, an action that has been followed by all kinds of trou ble The Squire Company did a business of $20,000,000 a year. It was incorpo rated in 1896 with a paid-up capital of $3,000,000, the stock being largely held in the Squire family. The plant in East Cambridge is appraised at $2,000,000. LIEUT. BRUMLEY DEAD. A Close Friend of Admiral Dewey Expires In Washington. Lieutenant Brumby, Admiral Dewey's flag lieutenant during the Spanish American war, died at Washington Sunday. The death, while not unexpected, was a great shock to the Admiral. The re lations between the two men for sev eral years past have been intimate and a strong friendship has grown up be tween tliin. Brumby went out to the Asiatic station with the Admiral, and had been there with him until they both returned to the United States several months ago. Lieutenant Brumby was 44 years old, and unmarried. The body was taken to Georgia for interment. Lieutenant Brumby was appointed a naval cadet from Georgia, entering the service on the 29th of September, 1873. Will Be Held In Philadelphia. The Republican National Convention will be held in Philadelphia on June 12. The ticket nominated will be: For President William McKinley, of Ohio. For Vice President Elihu Root, of NcV York. The President will probably be re nominated by acclamation. That is practically settled. An effort is being made by Senator Hanna and Represen tative Dick to bring about a similar un derstanding with regard to Mr. Root. Bursting Money Vaults. There is not room enough in New York sub-treasury for the gold that is being poured into the vaults in the pay ment of customs and in exchange for gold certificates. Secretary Gage has sent to the house of representatives a letter from the sup ervising architect of the treasury urg ing an urgent deficiency appropriation of $100,000 for the construction of new vaults for storage of gold. Representative Kitchen has introduc ed a bill to amend the war revenue act reducing the tax on tobacco and snuff from 12 to 2 cents, and requiring the telegraph companies, not the sender, to pay the stamp tax of one cent on each message. Strengthening the French Navy, M. Lockroy, president of the budget committee of the chamber of deputies of France, and formerly minister of marine, has introduced a bill providing for the purpose of placing 1' ranee on a secure footing against forcing naval aggression. The money is to be used in strengthening the French navy and the home defences and in fortifying coaling stations. The belief was ex pressed in the lobbies that the govern ment would support the measure. CABLE FLASHES. Demands of England for gold have caused a stringency of the money mar ket in Germany. The Bank of England, which is sup plying the government with gold for war purposes while its one source of bullion supply the Transvaal, is cut off, expects to secure thirty-five millions from Australip . SYMPATHY FOR THE BOERS. Senator Mason Says thai (he British Govern men! Never Loved Amerloa. An appeal by Mr. Mason (III.) for an expression of sympathy for the Trans vaal Republic in its war with Great Britain was the feature of the Senate proceedings Monday. The resolution upon which Mr. Mason based his speech was referred, at the conclusion of the address, to the Foreign Relations Com mittee, Mr. Lodge (Mass.) considered it too delicate a question in view of the position of this Government to pass up on without serious" consideration. Mr. Mason said: The war between monarchy and Republicanism began in earnest July 4, 1770. and no treaty of peace has ever been concluded, nor ever will be, until the question is settled right. "The monarchical trust company, though often quarreling among them selves, have always agreed on one thing, that a republic is a mistake." After quoting extensively from Dan iel Webster's speeches in support of his position, Mr. Mason continued: "But we arc told that England was our friend in the war with Spain. How? Her people were our friends because her people nrc a Christian people; her Government has never been our friend, except for purposes of its own. I have no desire to twist the lion's tail, but truth compels the statement, so far as our interests arc concerned, that for the last half century the Government of England and the people of England have bren divided. You remember 1861? The Government did all it could to divide the Union, but the brave, starving weavers refused to resolve against us, saying they would starve be fore they would say a word for slav ery. But even suppose she were to-day our best friend, are we to be silent and uphold a wrong in consideration of that friendship? We Republicans are charg ed with a secret alliance with England. It cannot be true, and the vote which this or a similar resolution receives will answer the charge." Mr. Mason maintained that, under the Monroe Doctrine and on precedents, previously well established, the United States bad the same right lo extend its sympathy and hopes for success to the Boers in their struggle for liberty as it had to interfere with Siain in its con duct of affairs in Cuba. He urged that the interest of this country and aroused by the fact that the South African war was a struggle be tween democracy and royalty between the divine right of Kings and the di vine rif-lit of man. "If we should speak," he declared, "and speak quickly, it would sting the politicians who brought on the war for greed of gold, and cheer the poor, brave Dutch defender of his home." Mr. Mason contended that the ques tion involved in the controversy be tween Great Britain and the Transvaal, prior to hostilities, was simply one of supremacy in South Africa, "and I ask," he said, "in common justice, what right has Great Britain to be supreme in South Africa?" "It is a fight to coutrol South Africa, and the only way England could do it was to threaten, bulldoze, browbeat, and interfere with the Dutchman, until, out of sheer humiliation and desperation, he was driven to fight." LAND SEEKERS ANXIOUS. Awaiting the Fate of a Senate Bill lo Open New Territory. The introduction by Senator Chilton, of Texas, of a bill to open the Kiowa, Comanche and Apache Indian reserva tions has caused excitement among the land boomers. For the last year home seekers and others have been camping near the lands, waiting for the opening hour to roll around. The announcement that this new country may be opened soon has in creased the number of landseekcrs. An other reason for the unusual activity is the fact that the Wichita Mountains, which pass through these Indian reser vations, are reported to be rich with gold. The country is well adapted to the growing of wheat, oats, corn, cot ton and stock raising. It is understood that the cattlemen, who have a considerable portion of these lands leased for grazing cattle, will fight Senator Chilton's bill. Penitentiary C'osid lo Prisoners. Warden J. D. Starks, of the Missouri Penitentiary, at .Jefferson City, Mo., Closed the doors of the prison against prisoners from all sections of the State. This action was taken after consultation with Gov. Stephens. There is smallpox in a number of towns in Missouri, and it was deemed best to quarantine the prison, to prevent an epidemic of the dread disease within the walls. How long the quarantine will last it is im possible to say, but most likely until spring, or until the pest is stamped out completely. FORCED TO THIS COUNTRY. High Dulles Compil an Optical Company lo Build Here. The Le Maire Optical Company, of Paris, with a capital of $1,000,000, will file articles of incorporation at Albany in a few days, and will establish two factories in the United States, which it is expected, will give employment to 5,000 men. One establishment will be at Frank lin Park, III., where a tract of land has been leased, and the second at a point in Connecticut. Machinery valued at $500, 000 will be imported for the plants. The Le Maire Company, which has factories in England and France, is en tering the United State, as a manufac turer because of the heavy duties on its goods, ranging from 60 to 65 per cent The glass for the lenses will be import ed and ground and mounted here. War News Killed Him. Edmund Morris, general inspector of the Ontario Bank, of Toronto, and widely known in banking circles, died suddenly from heart failure Monday. His son is an officer in General But ter's army in South Africa, and Mr. Morris was attacked shortly after rend ing the latest war bulletins posted at the newspaper offices. AT THE NATIONAL CAPITAL John R. Dorpassas, of New York, au thor of works on international law, told the industrial commission at Washing ton that this country would be better off if all the laws passed since 1848 were repealed. He asserted that there are no monopolies except thoe created by patent rights. PROMINENT REBEL LEKDE8 YM. BACKE) THE INSURGENTS. Mablnl Was Ihe Brain of the Filipino Move ment, Aguinaldo Being Considered a Figurehead Cagayan Captured. The news Thursday from General Otis tells of the rapture of Mahini, the Filipino leader, who, it is believed, was trying to make his way across country from Bangued, where he had been obliged to part company with Aguinal do a fortnight ago, to the cast coast of Luzon. The members of the Philippine com mission now in Washington declare Mnbini was the head and front of the insurrection, and that Aguinaldo was only a figurehead. Mnbini was the brain and directing power behind him. He is a paralytic, an old man. but of extraordinary nbility, and his counsels are always conclusive with the Filipinos. He was concerned in the first uprising against the Span iards. For a short time be wavered up on Aguinnldo's breach with the Ameri cans, but finally cast his fortunes with the insurrection, nnd was president of the council, lie was also the financial strength of the movement, as without his backing Aguinaldo would have had no credit. Next in importance to the capture ol Mahini was the bold stroke of Captain McCalla. of the Newark, in captain the whole province of Cagavan. With MacArthur holding the province of Isa bella, adjoining, and Young's holdings on the opposite or western shore of the upper peninsula, the American forces are now in technical occupation of the whole northern end of Luzon from a point just north of the Gitif of Lingayen. Renter's Telegram Company, of Lon don, has received the following dispatch from Hong Kong, which evidently conies from the Filipino junta there: "The insurgent government (so-called) of 'the Philippines will be changed to a dictatorship to continue hostilities against the Americans exclusively by the methods of guerrilla warfare. The Filipino army is being split up into small bands, the troops taking an oath before separation that they will fight un til their country's rights are recognized. "A force of United States marines who landed at Vigan. South Ilocos province, from the battleship Oregon, was defeated by the Filipinos under Gen. Finio (Tino?) on December 4. The Manila newspapers, despite the cen sorship, admit that Gen. Lawton is miss ing." Col. Smith, with a detachment of the Seventeenth infantry, surrounded ami captured in a village near Malasqui a party of guerrillas who had made their headquarters there. The pnrty included the band which assassinated seven of ficials at Malasqui for friendliness to the Americans. All arc insurgents who became ban dits wdicn the disintegration of the Fili pino armv becan. Thev kent the coun try around Malasqui. in a state of terror for several weeks, and committed twenty-five murders in less than that number of days. When they were caught tlicy were nromotlv sent to Gen. MacAr- thur's headquarters at Bayombong by train. It is exnectcd that they will be speed ily tried and either shot or hung as an example, if convicted Isolated bands of bushwhacking in surgents who arc caught by our forces in the Philippines are likely to be sum marily dealt with. At the Cabinet meet ing Saturday the matter was discussed, and it was the general sentiment that the situation demanded vigorous treat ment. So long as the insurgents keep up a show of an army, under a semblance of discipline, they wjll be treated as pris oners of war when captured, but when they degenerate into isolated bands of maraudcars, harassing our forces by cold-blooded assassinations, it is the judgment of the officers in command in the Philippines and of the President and the members of the Cabinet that the sit uation demands summary action. DEMANDS RECOGNITION. Germany Wishes to Impress Ihe United States With Her Importance. At a meeting of the Cologne manu facturers association at Berlin Sunday Manager Steller reported upon the re cent Philadelphia congress, greatly be littling its importance. He advised against the appointment of an internat ional committee to investigate the tariff disagreement between Germany and the United States, and said: "Such tender consideration for the Americans is misplaced. Only a self esscrtive attitude on the part of the German nation can impress American public opinion. We must make the Americans realize that we can dispense with the 111 if necessary, and we must demand that Germany be treated upon a footing of decent, reasonable reciproc ity." Meteor Was a Warning. Bert Foster's Maple Grove saloon and beer garden, with gymnasium at tached for prize fights, at Muncic, Ind., was burned Monday morning. The fire followed a terrible explosion, indicating that a threat to blow up the place had been carried out. Foster and his little son, with a woman, were asleep in their apartments at the time, but escaped in their night clothes. Recently a meteor ite fell just in the rear of the place. This was looked upon by the supersti tious as a warning. YoulMul Sufolde. Mrs. Maud Boles, aged 18 years, com mitted suicide yesterday at the residence of her sister, Mrs. Chas. Turner, in Sharpsville, by taking arsenic. She had been married about one year but had not lived with her husband. No inquest was held. Killed In a Foreign Land. Two Americans of prominence were shot and killed last Monday in San Pe dro, Spanish Honduras, the same in land city where Frank Pears was mur dered. The killing, as reported, was of a particularly aggravated type, and this fact, together with the prominence of the victims, will doubtless lead to an other official inquiry. United 8 ties May Intervene; The State Department is considering the advisability, of intervening in the Boer war. The wires are being kept busy convas,ng the situation. THOUSANDS PERISH. Tidal Wave Sweeps Over Ceram Bodies Bun led Many Yardi Beneath Iho Ground Island Slrewn With Corpses. The disaster that overlook the island of Ceram on the 2d of last month cost the people of that district immense loss in life and property. The steamship America Marti, which arrived at San Francisco Wednesday from the orient, brought advices from Ceram and re ports that 5,000 people were destroyed on that island nlnne when the dreadful e.irthnuakp of Nnvftiilipr Allocked the Japanese coast and agitated the island aclinrrnt tn 111 emtiiriv S I On the niRht of the ad Mic people of Ceram were awakened by a terrific shock of earthquake thnt seemed; to work from north to south. Everyone fled from his house into the public square. A few hours later it was Re ported thnt the water was rising in the bay of Ambonia. The sea camo forward in the shape of a huge tidal wave and forced the water into the Day entrance. It came up 50 feet over the lowlands. At Pauholy and Samasoeroa, on the bay, the waves swept over the tops of trees 30 feet high. Out of nearly 1,800 in habitants in these localities 40 escaped. The whole coast for miles was trans formed into a huge mudpuddle. Corp ses were everywhere. Broken trees and portions of houses were buried in the ooze. Every few rods there were ,great mounds of stnnrs nnd lionlilcra tlml find been washed up from the sea, changing the entire topography of the country. J The exact number killed along y coast will never be known, as the c ses are in many cases yards under 1 new ground. At Ilatocsia, out of I people, 100 were killed and 40 wouV en. i lie remainder escaped to the hills, where the shock of earthquake was first felt. A SAD CHRISTMAS. English Newspapers Spiah Sadly of IheEffeots Of tne War. , The London Mail says: "General Bullcr, according to the war officials, was to be in Pretoria by Christmas. His army corps was described as a steam roller that would advance in triumph over the Orange Free State and the Transvaal. Since the red tape officials ignored the suggestion to enlist South Africa Englishmen and volunteers, both from home' and from the colonics, at present England is very denuded of troops by reason of the ignorance, tar diness and miscalculations of some of ficials." The Chronicle says: "We wanted a victory sorely, nnd we have not got it. Three reverses in a few days makes this the gloomiest week since the war be gan.' The Telegraph says: "The moral fibre of the British empire is now being tes ted as it has not been since the Crimea and the Mutiny. It is necessary to con vince now not only the Boers, but the disloyal Cape Dutch and continentals of the strength of our military resources." The Standard says: "The sacrifices already made in the lives, health and liberty of our countrymen arc painful. It will be a sad Christmas in many Eng lish homes. A striking success some where was wanted, alike for direct and indirect consequences." y LOOKING UP A FORTUNE. A Cuban Senora Returns To Her Native Land From Wh'ch She Escapjd In Disguise. Senora Carmina Lopez, who was the wife of a Cuban general and who in 1897 escaped from Cabanas fortress, Havana, in the p -isc of a nun and who took ref uge on an Argentine warship, which conveyed her to Buenos Ayrcs, was held with her four children at the barge of fice at New York Wednesday, having arrived from Rio Janeiro on the steamer Wordsworth en route for Cuba. The- family is returning to its old home after long exile. Gen. Juan Lopez was five years ago a wealthy planter, worth $2,000,000. He was arrested and sent as a political pris oner to the Cabanas fortress, where, three years ago, with 137 other prison ers, he was shot. Shortly after this his widow was apprehended and cast into a prison set apart for women. Her four children were taken in charge by the Sisters of Charity. After Senora Lopez had been in prison two months she ef fected her escape by the aid of two American Sisters of Charity. Senora Lopez is returning to Cuba to try to regain her estate. PROFESSOR ROBS A GRAVE. Says He Had Permission From ths Dead Girl's Mother. Dr. Oliver T. Osborne, ptofessor of materia medica and therapeutics in Yale medical school, Vnd also a practicing physician connected with Yale dispen sary, was arrested Thursday morning on a charge alleging unlawful disinter ment of a body. The warrant was is sued at the request of the coroner. The body of Bessie Van Lew, a 13-year-old colored girl who was buried in the Westville cemetery, was removed from the grave and taken to an under taker's morgue. Dr. Osborne claims that he had permission from the mother of the girl to perform an autopsy pro viding the other members of the family would not know of it The doctor was released on bail. New Governor of Cuba. By direction of the President, Major General Leonard Wood, United States volunteers, was Thursday assigned to the command of the division of Cuba, relieving Major General John R. Brooke. General Wood will, in addi tion to his duties as division comman der, exercise the authority of military governor of the island. On completion of the transfer of the command General Brooks is ordered to report to the adjutant seneral of the army here and await further orders. He will be accompanied by his authorized aides. Paslor for a Wealthy Church. The pulpit supply committee of the Fifth avenue Presbyterian churcb,, of New York, has at last found a succes sor for the late' Dr. John Hall. He it Rev. Dr. George T. Purves. formerly of Pittsburg, now pastor of the First Presdiyterian chufrch. Princeton, N. J. Dr. Purves has avreuted the invitation.'- r
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