Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 January 1900 — Page 6

JO COCNTY DEMOCRAT. " F E. BABCOCK. Publisher? RENSSELAER, INDIANA.

WEEK’S NEWS RECORD

• Couaty Jailer Alfred Henry, while feeding the prisoners in the Howell County jail at West Plains. Mo., was overpowered and killed by two prisoners, Ben Richardson and Ed Grady. The prisonrtw escaped and locked the door after them. The body of Andrew Gauze, a negro, was found dangling from the limb of a tree near Henning. Tenn. Gauze was captured by a mob and lynched because he aided thie Gingerly brothers, assassins of Officers Turner and Dunn, in making theirescape. The Sheriff of Robinson County. Tennessee. was compelled to hur£y to Nashville with Will Morrison, a young white naan, to save him from being lynched. Morrison two weeks ago murdered W. D. Coffman, a young telegraph operator, and has jnst been arrested. Herr Hild. formerly concert master for Theodore Thomas, is now a prisoner in New York, charged with attempting to take his own life. The police found Hild lying on the floor. bis left wrist bleeding from a wound made by a penknife. A surgeon found the wound only slight. A riot between the boys in the grammar room of the Cortland, Neb., public school and the teacher, J. G. Ludlain, •ss'urred the other day. For weeks there had been bad feeling between the teacher and the pupils. The pedagogue held his own with the aid of a rawhide. - The Ontario superintendent of immigration has rvcriv<*d reports from most •of his agents in the I'nited States, a«d estimates that nearly 14,000 settlers from the republic have Iwcome residents of Canada during the last year. Kansas and Arkansas supplied the greater part. William A. English, a son of the former Itemocratic vice-presidential candidate from Indiana and a captain of volunteers in the war with Spain, has returned to the treasury a check for sl,’'172 sent him for pay for his army tervices, with the statement that he would not accept pay for service to his country in time of danger. A St. Johns, X- F., magistrate has received the damaged life buoy picked up in St. Mary’s Bay. On the life buoy are the letters “elgoland," and underneath is the latter part of another word. What is legible is “mnnd.” No doubt these letters are part of the word “Geestermnnde." the Helgoland’s port of registry. At Chippewa Falls. Wis., John SeeMger, 15 years old. found a large amount of money which had lieen hidden by Cooper Snyde. an old furrier who had lived the |ife of a hermit up to the time of his death a month ago. The boy, in pulling over some old boxes- of fur clippings ami rags, ran across currency in denominations of from $1 up to SIOO. There was also a box of gold and silver pieces, about S4OO in all. Albert L. Hodge, a colored burglar, had a desperate tight with Sheriff Snowand two deputies at the residence of .Mrs. Nathan Colematl. in Texas township, Mich. The thief was discovered by a neighbor, and the hottse was soon surrounded. The negro made a dash out. bring at Deputy Clark as he tied. Clark's face was burned ami his scalp grazed. In the fight w hich followed fourteen shots were fin'd Indore Hodge was captured. Hodge was hit twice and seriously, though not fatally, wou'uded. Deputy Clark saved himself by dodging behind a tree, in which five bullets from Hodge’s weapon were imbedded. Hodge is 67 years of age and a civil war veteran. He has served time for burglary. A hundred persons in the lobby of the Capitol Hotel at Frankfort, Ky., saw a duel to the death between Col. David G. Colson and Lieut. Ethel tier t Scott. The duelists dodged about among the panic-stricken throng trying to get range of each other, firing at every opportunity. Scott was'' kilted. Colson was badly wounded, two bystanders were slain by ■tray bullets, two other non-combatants were wonnded. and a seventh man suffered a fractured leg as the result of a rdlision with Lieut. Scott when the latter fell lifeless down the street stairway •f the hotel. The dnel was the result of • fend between Colson and Scott, which grew up between them while they were la the volunteer army during the war ■with Spain.

BREVITIES.

The Philippi. W. Va.. Bank was robbed the other night of *IOO.OOO. Captain J. W. Mnrphy. cashier of the Third National Bank of Columbus. Ga., shot and killed the teller. P. T. Shutze and then killed himself. Fritz Plank, the . famous Baireuth Wagnerian ringer. who recently fell thirty feet in the Royal Theater at Carlsruhe. died as the result of bis injuries. The tenth annual convention of the Northwestern I.nnitx'riiien’s Association was held at Minneapolis. Minn., with representatives present from Minnesota. lowa, Wisconsin and the Itokotas. A tube in the boiler of the Government yacht Caperon. lyir*: in the canal locks at Delaware City, exploded. scalding nine asen. three of them so seriously that they will die. At Bt. Louis Charles Dougherty, a lineman, was killed and Edward Elma and William Kaiser were seriously injured while removing a wire which had crimed an electric light wire. A section gang of nine men was run oown on the Delaware, and Western tunnel near Oxford. N. J. Two of the party were instantly killed and a third died shortly after being struck. The other six were seriously injured. The Caban cabinet held a meeting in Havana and made definite arrangements for the establishment of a high school in each province. vnaries Hauptman was fatally stabbed by G. W. Chaffee, a brother of Gen. Chaffee. I’. B. A., after he bad fractured Chaffee's skull with a hammer in a fight at Houston. Texas. ■ An explosion occurred in a dynamite factory at Avigiiana. sixteen miles from Turin. Italy* Ten bodies have been recovered from the mins, and it is feared that other* employed in the factory were kilted. A fire followed the explosion. •

EASTERN.

Charles A. Siegfried, medical Inspector of the United States navy, died at Newport, R. L, aged 50. Gen. George H. Sharpe, aged 72, of Kingston, N. Y„ died nt New York City, of the shock following an operation. The Meriden Bronze Company, one of the leading industries of Meriden, Conn,, has suspended business. The liabilities are $311,578.63, the assets $263,974. An involuntary petition in bankruptcy has been tiled against Benjamin F. Larrabee, head of the firm of B. F. Larrabee, operating a department store in Boston. The rolling mill of the Danville and Bessemer Steel Company at Danville, Pa., was damaged by tire to the extent' of $50,000. During the fire six men were injured. Felix Morris, the character actor, died at his home in New York, aged 53 years. He leaves a widow, formerly Florence Wood of San Francisco, any tvfo young daughters. Alexander Williams, bookseller and publisher, died at his home in Boston, aged 81 years. Mr. 'Williams was for many years proprietor of the “Old Corner Bookstore.” Three hundred men employed in the coal mines of the Pennsylvania Salt Manufacturing Company’s plant at' Natrona struck for higher wages. They demand from 10 to 20 per cent increase. Col. A. D. Hope died at his home in Roselle, N. J., after a lingering illness. Col. Hope, who was 83 years old, had charge of the first train to carry troops during the civil war to Washington. A recently organized company will put into public service in the streets of New York at once 200 automobile carriages and 100 automobile omnibuses, ('barge for cabs will be 25 cents a mile and 75 cents an hour. Lieut. Samuel Howard, I’. S. N., the pilot and last of the officers and crew of Ericsson’s Monitor during her.memorable engagement with the ■ Confederate ironclad Merrimac, died at Washington from concussion of the brain. Because his 16-months-old baby refused to mind him was the excuse given by J. G. Wagner of Allegheny. I’a.. before. Police Magistrate Henry Hunneshagen for beating the infant. Magistrate Hunneshagen lined him $lO and costs. A. Blanchard, aged 65 years, his wife, aged 43, and a boarder named William Money, aged 58, were burned to death in their home in Merrimac, N. H. The Blanchards were in the habit of using kerosene to light their fires, and it is thought that an explosion took place.

WESTERN.

Dr. J. C. Mulhall committed suicide at St. Louis while despondent over financial losses. The Kansas Supreme Court has declared unconstitutional the State law of 1897 taxing judgments. Mrs, H. G. Fuller, wife of the presiding judge of the South Dakota Supreme Court, is dead at Yimktou. Alonzo Jones of Deerfield township, 0., died, aged 87 years. He was a greatgrandson of Benedict Arnold of revolutionary fame. Three hundred negro laborers at Cleveland struck because they were compelled to ride in the same cars with Italians in going to wtfHf. Jonathan Thompson was killed and Thomas Wilson was fatally injured by a Pittsburg and Painesville train near Warren, Ohio. President. Harper reports that John D. Rockefeller has duplicated recent cash gifts to the University of Chicago, a sum exceeding $500,000. Citizens of Dickinson County. Kansas, have organized a relief association for the purpose of sending corn to India for free distribution in the famine stricken districts. The floods in the Patlatch and Clearwater rivers are receding. The weather in eastern Washington is' cooler and all danger from further floods is believed to be past. Officials of the National Association of Rod Mill Workers claim that the rodmen are out at all of the several mills- controlled by the American Steel and Wire Company in Cleveland. By the unanimous decision of three judges Michigan was "declared winner in the intercollegiate debate held at Ann Arbor with the representatives from the University of Chicago. Henry Carraher of Chicago committed suicide by shooting himself while in his coal office. He lived with his mother and brother in an adjoining house. He had been despondent over business troubles. J. S. Harrison, a real estate man of Kansas City, a brother of former President Harrison, was kicked on the head by a vicious horse at Beaumont, Texas. He was knocked senseless and his skull was fractured. The purchase of the McCassy Brothers’ washboard factory in Cincinnati by the Saginaw Manufacturing Company of Saginaw, Mich., is said to be the beginning of a consolidation of the washboard manufacturing business. Guilty of murder in the first degree was the verdict returned at Anthony, Kan., in the case of John Kornstett, the 16-year-old boy who has been on trial for the murder of his cousin, Nora Korn■tett, a 10-year-old girl. A mob of indignant citizens that rioted in the corridors of the City Hall at St. Louis and threatened violence to the delegates unless measures for lighting were passed, awed the house of delegates into compliance with its wishes. Fanny Hall, a pretty vaudeville actress, was shot three times at her room in a San Francisco hotel by Thomas Carbrey. Carbrey had followed the girl from Denver to Dawson City and back, but she ignored him. , He was arrested. Judge Thayer, in the United States Circuit Court at St. Louis, granted an application for a writ of habeas corpus and ordered the release of John P. Reese, lowa member of the executive board of the United Mine Workers of America. A cablegram has been received by Bamnei Snyder of Massillon, Ohio, from the United States minister at Holland, telling him that his claim as one of the heirs of a large estate is well established. The estate is said to be worth over $45,000,000. Frederick G. Bonfils and H. H. Tammen, proprietors of the Evening Post, were shot in their office at Denver, Colo., by W. W. Anderson, a prominent local attorney. The shooting was the result of a quarrel over the conduct of a murder case. The Hercules Torpedo Company’s

| nitroglycerin magazine, three mites from I Lima, Ohio, exploded, demolishing the ' building and severely shaking the city. ! The explosion was caused by au oil stove I used in the building to keep the glycerin from freezing. James House of Blue Mound, Hi., a patient at a St. Louis private sanitarium, jumped franr a second-story window and died of his injuries a few hours later. Before making the leap the frenzied man assaulted and seriously injured his nurse, Albert Debrin. Lewis H. Severance of New York has given $60,000 to Oberlin, Ohio, College for the new chemical laboratory. He has purchased the land on which the laboratory is now being built. Mr. Severance’s gifts to the college the last year were over $63,000. M. Jacoby shot and instantly killed Milton Nelson at the home of the latter at Spencer, Neb., and then killed himself. There is no known cause for the crime. The two men were friends and were preparing to go to town together when the tragedy occurred. The entire business portion of Colorado Springs was threatened by fire which broke out in the May Clothing store. Aided by a high wind the flames spread rapidly, but they were controlled after three buildings were destroyed. The total loss is estimated at $150,000. One of the children kidnaped from their mother in St. Louis last May aud taken to Buffalo, N. Y., has been returned to her by Superintendent of the Poor Lafayette Long. The mother is Mrs. August Stephany, who said that her husband stole their children for spite. After robbing John Parsons’ drug store in Chicago, and beating the proprietor into insensibility, two well-dressed thugs went behind the counter and waited on several customers. Parsons, who is 70 years old, was thrown into the basement. The robbers obtained SSO from the safe. The McGinnis Bank in Owensville, Ind., was entered on a recent night and the safe blown open, the explosion completely wrecking the building. It is rumored that about $15,000 was taken, but the bank officials refuse to give any information. The burglars escaped on a hand car. The big refining house of the Indiana Oil Tank Line Company at Lafayette, Ind., was destroyed by fire, together with fifty barrels of lubricating oil. The immense steel reservoirs near the structure were heated to an alarming degree. The estimated loss is $12,000, insurance $3,000. ' , - Austin K. Wheeler, treasurer of Lemon & Wheeler, the wholesale grocery company of Grand Rapids, Mich., committed suicide by shooting himself through the brain with a 32-caliber revolver. The act was committed in the basement of the company’s store. Death was instantaneous. Tom Coudon, a cowboy, and Miss Lillie Wilson, daughter of a prominent ranchman in the Sioux range, were married at Pierre, S. D. The match was in opposition to the wishes of the parents of the young woman, so the young couple took a sixty-mile ride on horseback to escape an irate father. A desperate attempt was made to assassinate Judge William Lochren, formerly pension commissioner, in the chambers of the judge in the United States court room at St. Paul. Minn. James Welch, the would-be murderer, had lost a damage suit before Judge Lochren and became insane over it. Memories of the murder at Sioux City of the Rev. George C. Haddock on Aug. 3, 1886, were revived by news from Oklahoma that Henry Peters, one of the men indicted for the crime, was not burned in the furnace of a Sioux City brewery, as had been supposed all these years, but is living in that territory. William Gladish, druggist at Omaha, mounted a pile of boxes in his store to watch telephone linemen at work, and when he lowered himself a brass hook projecting from the ceiling caught in one of his ears, suspending him, his feet just touching the floor. A telephone man had to cut the hook to liberate Mr. Gladish.

SOUTHERN.

Philip C. Swab, president of the Reliance Coal aud Coke Company and one of the largest coal operators in Kentucky, died suddenly of heart disease at Middlesboro. Mrs. Mary Theobold, aged 58, was burned to death and her daughter, Lucinda, aged 28, was so badly burned she cannot live, at Louisville, Ky., by the explosion of a lamp. Jacob Shudin murdered his wife and then killed himself at their home, six miles from Knoxville, Tenn. The tragedy is supposed to be the culmination of domestic troubles. A general fight broke out in Renfrow’s store at Owensboro, Ky., in which many pistol shots were fired, and when it ended Felix Pool was found dead and Caleb Wright, Sr., had a wound on his body. At Hindman, Ky., Rev. Wesley Hall shot and killed Mrs. Lucinda Isaacs because she refused to marry him. Hall then turned the pistol on himself and was seriously wounded. Mrs. Isaacs was a sister of Rev. Mr. Hall’s first wife, who had been dead only a short time. In a “blind tiger” at Pound Gap, Ky„ John and Taze Hall and Arch and Henry Leap got into a fight with Henry Sutherland, Berry Long and Henry Campbell. Two hundred shots were exchanged. Taze Hall and Henry Leap were killed and Sutherland and Campbell mortally wounded.

FOREIGN.

Prof. James Martineau, the famous Unitarian preacher, died at his home in London. He was in his ninety-fifth year. Consul Skinner at Marseilles reports to the State Department that the olive crop in Italy, France and Spain is practically a failure. In a collision at Cometo, Italy, Mrs. Alexander Herininger, an American, who was a passenger on the Calais express train, was injured. Gen. Methuen is reported to have been thrown from his horse after being wounded at Modder river and to have sustained severe spinal injuries. The British casualties in the recent battle at Ladysmith are estimated at over 800 killed and wounded, while the Boer loss is reported at 2,000. The new United States cruiser Albany completed her endurance trial at Newcastle, England, with the following result: Average speed per hour, 10.54 knots; revolutions, 149; horse power, 5,624; coal consumed, 144 tons per twenty-four hours. • According to a cablegram from London,

Sir Benjamin West’s famous ptetore, “The Raising of Lazarus,” which for over a century has hung in Winchester Cathedral, has been sold for $7,500, for the new Protestant Episcopal cathedral in New York. Advices by the steamship Empress of Japan tell of a fierce storm on the Japanese coast by which thirty-five junks were lost while being towed from Osaka to Kobe, and 171 persons perished. A tidal wave accompanied the storm and 411 lives in all were lost. The Brussels Boir. says a detachment of Congo Free State troops, under Baron Dhanis, the Belgian commander, had two battles with the rebellious Batatolas in the neighborhood of Baraka early in October last, in which ninety of the Batatolas were killed, while the Congo Free State troops suffered no casualties. A story of shipwreck is received from Hong Kong by steamer China. The lost vessel is the British steamer St. Helena. On the voyage from Hong Kong to Singapore during heavy weather the St. Helena struck Bombay rock about 420 miles from Cape St. James. The crew remained on board eight days, when the captain, seeing the vessel was about to sink, put' all the water and provisions he could collect into boats and the crew left the wreck. Fifteen days of terrible suffering from hunger, thirst and heat were experienced and then the boats arrived at Cape St. James. Before the completion of the Siberian Railroad it has become necessary to reconstruct the work already done, and this will cost not less than $25,000,000. The information is supplied to the State Department at Washiugton by Commercial Agent Greener, at Vladivostock. His reportii compiled from Russian sources, shows a curious condition of affairs on the road. In the haste of construction and the anxiety to get everything cheap the road was laid with a 12-pound rail instead of a 24-pound rail. The bridges were built of wood and crossings were made far apart. Consequently more than twenty miles an hour cannot be made on the level with safety. Only one passenger and two freight trains a day are run.

IN GENERAL.

A dispatch from Toronto says the order in council prohibiting the export of spruce wood cut from crown lands has been adopted by the Ontario Government. Consequently all wood cut after April 30 must be manufactured into pulp in Canada. The recent demand of the engineers employed by the Lake Shore road that the salary classification be abolished and a uniform scale of $3.80 be paid for a day’s work has been granted by the company. The advance granted will benefit 200 engineers and amounts to about S2O a month for each man. A criminal is to be executed in the jail at Juarez, Mexico, within the next few days. The man will be shot inside the walls of the prison. An admittance fee of. 25 cents will be charged all persons desiring to witness the execution and the money thus derived will go to the widow of the condemned man. Acting Secretary Meiklejohn of the War Department has denied the application of the Manila Railway Company, limited, for payment by the United States of interest on the capital invested in the railway owned and operated by said company, pursuant to a guarantee of said interest by the Spanish Government. Corporal Lindsay of the Northwest mounted police force went to Regina to join the second Canadian contingent now being enlisted for service in South Africa. His father and brother were both killed in the first Boer war, and he was anxious to avenge their deaths. Unfortunately he could not pass the doctor. Despondency came over him and he placed a pistol in his mouth and shot and killed himself. Bradstreet’s takes this view of the trade situation: “Quietness as to demand but marked steadiness as to prices is still the leading feature in trade lines, a condition, it might be remarked, not uncommon at this stage of the year, which is a sort of middle ground between stocktaking and inventory time and the actual opening of the spring season. Aggressive strength in prices is confined to a fewstaples, such as pork products. Tallow, cottonseed oil and similar products are sympathetically strong. Raw and refined sugars have both been advanced this week.. Quite a flurry in coffee occurred as a result of reports of an outbreak of the plague at Rio. Raw wool is dull but firm, aud speculation is naturally light. Wheat, including flour, shipments for the week aggregate 4,248,926 bushels, against 2,509,682 bushels last week. Corn exports for the week aggregate 6,314,576 bushels, against 4,019,036 bushels last week.”

MARKET REPORTS.

Chicago—Cattle, common to prime, $3.00 to $6.75; hogs, shipping grades, $3.00 to $5.00; sheep, fair to choice, $3.00 to $4.75; wheat, No. 2’ red, 68c to 64c; corn, No. 2,30 cto 31c; oats, No. 2,23 c to 25c; rye, No. 2,53 cto 55c; butter, choice creamery, 24c to 26c; eggs, fresh, 16c to 18c; potatoes, choice, 40c to 50c per bushel. Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $6.75; hogs, choice light, $3.00 to $4.75; sheep, common to prime, $3.00 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2,67 cto 68c; corn, No. 2 white, 31c to 32c; oats. No. 2 white, 26c to 27c. St. Louis—Cattle. $3.25 to $6.75; hogs, $3.00 to $5.00; sheep, $3.00 to $5.00; wheat, No. 2,70 cto 71c; corn, -No. 2 yellow, 30c to 32c; oats, No. 2,24 cto 25c; rye, No. 2,52 cto 53c. Cincinnati—Cattle, $2.50 to $6.75; hogs, $3.00 to $4.75; sheep, $2.50 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2,71 cto 72c; corn. No. 2 mixed, 32c to 34c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 25c to 27c; rye, No. 2,59 cto 61c. Detroit—Cattle, $2.50 to $6.75; hogs, $3.00 to $4.75; sheep, $3.00 to $4 50; wheat, No. 2,69 cto 70c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 32c to 33c; oats, No. 2 white, 26c to 28c; rye, 58c to 60c. Toledo—Wheat, No. 2 mixed, 68c to 69c; corn. No. 2 mixed, 31c to 33c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 23c to 25c; rye, No. 2,56 c to 57c; clover seed, $4.80 to $4.90. Milwaukee—Wheat, No. 2 northern, 63c to 64c; corn. No. 2,31 cto 32c; oats. No. 2 white, 25c to 26c; rye, No. L 55c to 56c; barley, No. 2,45 cto 46c; pork, mess, $10.50 to $ll.OO. Buffalo—Cattle, good shipping steers, $3.00 to $7.00; bogs, common to choice, $3.25 to $4.75; sheep, fair to choice, $3.00 to $5.25; lambs, common to extra, $4.50 to $6.50. New York—Cattle, $3.25 to $7.00; hogs. $3.00 to $5.00; sheep, $3.00 to $5.25; wheat, No. 2 red, 74c to 76c; corn, No. 2, 41c to 42c; oats, No. 2 white, 31c to 33c; butter, creamery, 20c to 25c; eggs, western, 14c to 19c.

WAR IN SOUTH AFRICA

CRITICAL SITUATION REPORTED AT LADYSMITH. Report* Say the Boer off Seturday Reaolted in Killies or Wording Nearly One Thonaaad British and About Two Tbouaand Bargbera. The defeat of the Been Saturday in their desperate assault upon Gen. White in Ladysmith has not greatly relieved the South African situation from the British standpoint. Terrible losses on both sides are reported as the result of the fierce battle. While nothing official has been given out as to the British casualties, a summary of them has been received in London, in which it is stated that they amount to twelve officers killed and thirty wounded, and 800 men of the rank and file killed and wounded. That is a heavy percentage in a force which probably cannot muster more than 8,500 fit for duty. The Boer losses were placed by the same report at between 2,000 and 3,000." Manifestly there must be a good deal of conjecture about the latter figures, yet it must be remembered that the fighting lasted for seventeen hours and that the Boers were attacking intrenched positions. If these figures are correct they show very dearly the determined nature of the fighting. At this writing no movement is reported from any direction in South AfricaAll the columns are inactive and apparently waiting directions from the new commander-in-chief. I-adysmith is still besieged by the Boers and Baller, with his immense army of 35,000 men, is unable to relieve it- Kimberley still remains hard pressed by the enemy, and Gen. Methuen cautiously remains in his fortified camp to the south of the Modder river, evidently afraid to resume operations agaiwt the Dutch- Ma lek mg. in British Bechuanaland, is surrounded by Boer forces and the latest sortie of the British ended in a repulse, which cost the besieged dearly. In northern Cape Colony Gens. French and Gatacre are unable to obtain any important advantage over the Boers. The reported capture of Colesberg by Gen. French has turned out to be untrue and one of has later reports is an admission of a defeat in which 157 men were killed or captured. Gatacre, after his disastrous experience at Stormbetg, warily keeps out of Boer traps by remaining practically inactive. Thus while the British are justly proud | of Gen. White's heroic defense of Ladysmith. there is nothing in' the general j situation that is encouraging. Everywhere the British are held at bay and although in the campaign thus far they have lost nearly 9.06 H men they have accomplished practically nothing. In no place have the Boers been pressed hack from British territory. The pl>n of campaign of Buller has proved so far a complete failure. a. It would be unwise to conclude, however, that this condition will long remain so. Humanly speaking, the Boers cannot long withstand the tremendous armies that Gens. Roberts and Kitchener will soon be sending against them and the result will be that they will be beaten back into their own territories, where the fighting will be of even a more desperate character than any hitherto in this campaign. A Desperate Fisht. The desperate fighting at Ladysmitb j Saturday disabused the British aud the ■ world generally of a highly erroneous | opinion. It was held 'that while the i Boers fought well from cover they were not trained enough to attack an entrench- : ed enemy. But they conclusively proved on Saturday that they are equally brave and adroit in attack as in defense. For nearly seventeen hours they hurled themselves against the British positions, chiefly at Caesar’s Camp and Wagon Hill, and though repulsed they returned again and again to the attack with indomitable bravery. Three times the Boers captured the British entrenchments at Wagon Hill and as often they were driven ont at the point of the' bayonet. One position they occupied all day until late in the afternoon, when amid a heavy storm they were driven out by the bayonet. Whether Buller can relieve Ladysmith may well be doubted. Since his defeat at Colenso, or the Tugela river, a few weeks ago he has not so far as known taken a single step to retrieve his disaster. Even when Gen. White signalled him Saturday that he was hard pressed, the most Buller could do to help him was to order a demonstration at Colenso, which a London paper remarked had as much effect as ordering “a display of fireworks.” It is expected, however, that Buller will attack the Boers soon and is merely waiting to have every available gun and man ready. That he will need all of his 35.000 troops is certain. If he makes a frontal attack he will have to cross the Tugela river, the fords of which are under Boer guns and the approaches to which are defended by barbed wire entanglements. Even the river bed contains barbed wire. Then before him lie a series of entrenchments, some sixteen miles long, nearly as strong as the works of Plevna, where the Turks so gallantly held at bay the Russians. Defending these entrenchments are men as brave and able as any in the world, for under the training of European officers the Boers are now a disciplined army. It is easily apparent that the task before Buller is not an easy one •- In other parts of South Africa the war situation has undergone no material change. The nature of the fighting in northern Cape Colony, where Gen. French is operating, is of a skirmishing nature and no serious engagement ■my be expected there for the present at least. Later, when Gens. Roberts and Kitchener formulate their plans, it is probable that a strong force will be sent np the railroad from Port Elizabeth, with the object of invading the Orange Free State. A strong British force in that region would call many of the Free Staters from Natal to defend their own soil.

Municipal Matters.

Minneapolis citizens are taking steps for a new city charter., Philadelphia is to have a labor temple to cost not less than $100,600. Flushing and Newton, L. L, are to have forty miles of new gas mains. Hartwell, Ga., was the scene of a “horse swapping convention” recently. Indianapolis and Logansport will soon be connected by a new electric railway. At Kansas City the construction of a new theater to cost $75,000 will soon barn-

CONGRESS

The Senate on Thursday listened to a debate on the Philippines between Mr. Lodge and Mr. Pettigrew, the former urging full publicity on all matters connected with the issue and the latter bitterly attacking the administration. Heard Mr. Stewart in opposition to the currency reform bill. Passed the bill conferring additional authority upon the director of the census. Passed the bill increasing to $2500,000 the limit of cost of the new Indianapolis public building. Adjourned to Monday. The House was not in session. The Senate held no session on Friday. In the House Mr. Snlzer (Dem., N. Y.) presented for immediate consideration a naointion for the appointment of a special committee of nine members to investigate the relations of the Secretary of the Treasury with certain New York national banks and the transactions relative to the sale of the New York custom house. Mr. Dalzell (Rep.. Pa.) objected on the ground that the resolution should go through the box in the regular way. He then asked unanimous consent, but Mr. Hopkins (Rep.. Ill.) objected. Adjourned until Monday. The Senate spent most of the day Monday in debate on various Philippine resolutions. Opening speech made by Mr. Bacon. Mr. Pettigrew concluded his speech begun last week, vigorously attacking the administration. Mr. Wolcott replied, scoring Dakota Senator. Consideration of financial trill then resumed. Mr. Rawlins spoke in opposition to measure. In the House Mr. Cannon (111.), from committee on appropriations, reported urgent deficiency appropriation bili and gave notice he would call it up for consideration Tuesday. Resolution adopted calling upon Secretary of State for information relative to status of the agreebetween Great Britain and United States which prevented United States from building, arming or maintaining more than one war vessel upon great, lakes. Rest of day devoted to consideration of District of Columbia business. The Senate on Tuesday received a petition from Mr. Cullom, by 3,200 colored persons in Illinois, asking Congressional action to protect negroes from lynching. By a vote of 41 to 20 laid "on the table Mr. Pettigrew’s amendment tc Mr. Hoar's Philippine resolution calling for the instnirtions to the peace commission. Heard Mr. McLaurin in opposition to the financial bill and in advocacy of conferring authority upon State banks to issne circulating notes. The House devoted the day to debate on the item appropriating $150,000 for rural free mail delivery contained in the urgent deficiency bill, and listened to an attack on Secretary Gage by Mr. Richardson of Tennessee and his defense by Mr. Hopkins of Illinois. The Senate agreed un Wednesday to take final rote un gold standard bill Feb. 15. Passed Mr. Hoar’s resolution of inquiry regarding conduct of Philippine war a* substitute for similar pending resolutions. Adopted resolution offered by Mr. Hale as to seizure of flour by British authorities. but only after siririted debate aud after resolution had been materially amended. The House decided by vote of 174 to KIS that census bill reported by Mr. Hopkins tlH.t was privileged. Mr. Barney iWis.>, from the committee on appropriations, reported pension appropriation bill. Passed nrgenev deficiency bill.

Odds and Ends.

Salem Mason. 108. colored, is dead, Nashville. Tenn. Several stores. Cleveland, Tenn., burned. Loss $35,000. Thomas Peak was killed in a row at Sweetwater, Tenn. Zinc trust is said to be forming with $100,000,000 capital. Thieves got $1,500 at Pollard Bros.’ store. Newhurne. Ala. James Crocker’s store, Huntsville, Ala., burned. Loss $7,000. Engineer Calloway was killed in a wreck. Clarendon, Texas. Thread manufacturers have advanced prices 10 cents a dozen spools. Society of ethical culture in New York has begun a crusade against vice. Chas. Yocum, Harrodsburg. Ky, accidentally shot and killed his wife. Sousa's band will attend the Paris exposition as the official American band. Cunningham A Co.’s sugar estate burned at Sngarland, Texas. Loss SBO,OOO. Indian leaders are said to want to send troops to the Cape to fight against the Boers. Henry Oppenheimer, 19, New York, leaped from a burning building and was killed. Geo. M. Settle, dry goods merchants, Paris. Texas, has failed. Liabilities $90,000. Smooth thief relieved Sam Johnson, a Cincinnati truck farmer, of $4,000 in Spanish war bonds. Paterson. N. J, will erect a $15,000 bronze statue, life size, of the late VicePresident Hobart. Wm. Baldwin. 23, drowned kt Newport. Ky. He was the champion bag puncher of Kentucky. New municipal buildings at Norwich, England, are proposed by the corporation at a cost of £IOO,OOO. Britain gains a year from the little tax which falls on patent medicines, Pills. liver cures and ointments. In Santiago in the better class of houses, the bedsteads are surrounded with a dose kind of netting, beginning at the floor and gathered at the top. This is intended as a protection against tarantulas. Mexico and China hare completed at Washington a general treaty of trade, navigation and immigration. Negro woman and her two children were found dead from smallpox in Chatham County, North Carolina. 7 Abraham K. Lefever, a prominent Lancaster County. Pa, farmer, died after terrible suffering, with hydrophobia. The Council of Jewish Women will hold its second triennial meeting in Cleveland. Ohio, from March 4 to 11. 1900. Bubonic plague is said to have made its appearance in Noumea, capital of the French penal colony of New Caledonu