Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 January 1900 — Page 6

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SUMMARY OF NEWS.

Anton Wood, Thomas Reynolds, “Kid” Wallace and oqe Wagner, four convicts in the penitentiary at Canon City, Colo., . stabbed William C. Roney, captain of the night watch, to death, captured and bound two other guards and made their escape. Rot. Mother Sujieribr Anastasia is dead at St. Joseph's Convent, Lockport, N. Y., aged 75 years. She was mother superior of the Sisters of St. Mary of the United States and Canada. Last September she .celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of her coronation. Leroy W. Secor, who emliezzled $17,000 from the Goodrich Transi»ortatiou Company at Milwaukee, has confessed to the officers in New York City, where he was arrested. He will help the Goodrich people straighten out his books and then take his punishment. The Glasgow steamer Ardandhu, from New London. Conn., for Halifax, N. S., was sunk in collision with tin* Metropolitan liner Herman Winter, from Boston for New Y’ork, off Robinson’s Hole, Vineyard sound. Mass., and two of the Ardandhu’s crew were lost. At Mitchell. S. 1).. Judge Smith has appointed O. P. Auld of Plankinton receiver for the defunct Plankinton Bank. The appointment of a receiver was contested by the attaching creditors. The non-attaching creditors will attempt to have the attachment dissolved. After maintaining for over six weeks that he wns suffering for the crime of others, Levi Steward, the colored ixan who is lying in the Sandwich. Ont., jail under sentence of death, confessed that he was the murderer of "Old Jim" Ross in Windsor. The murder wns committed July 18. Robbery was the A large part of the town of Ward, a mining camp in the mountains, fifteen miles from Boulder, Colo., was destroyed by a fire which started in the McClancy Hotel. A high wind was blowing and the fire spread rapidly among the frame buildings, but did not reach the mills and mines, which are just outside the town. The loss will probably amount to $50,01)0. John Smith, a former resident of Detroit. was devoured by wolves a short distance from a logging camp where he was employed near Presque Isle, Mich. He strayed from the camp in the early evening, as he was in the habit of doing, nnd the next morning his partially devoured body was found in the snow. Smith was a veteran of the SpanishAmerican war. Advices from the north substantiate file report of a big tire at Dawson. It destroyed buildings and merchandise to the value of S4OO,(MM». The news comes by telegraph from Dawson to Skaguay. The fire is supiwised to have originated trom a defective Hue. The flames burned about 400 feet along the principal street, laying in ashes many of the costliest aud most substantial structures in the Klondike metropolis. Samuel Peter Mayers, convicted of the murder of Michael Karney nnd John Lenhart, was hanged in the county jnil yard at Somerset. Pa. The crime for which he was banged was the outcome •if a dispute with his father over the possession of some property. The father claimed a life interest in the property and with the assistance of Karney and a man named Baker attemphnl to take possession. Young Mayers shot Karney dead, and later, when Lenhart, who was a constable, tried to arrest him. he killed him also. The United States Circuit Court of Ap|»eals at New York affirmed, with costs, the decision of Judge Lacombe dismissing the habeas corpus proceedings in the case of former Captain Oberlin M. Carter of the United States Engineers, convicted by court martial of frauds in connection with the Savannah River and Cumberland Sound improvements. The decision was signed by Judges Wallace and Shipman. Carter is a prisoner at Fort William, but has been sentenced to six years at Fort Leavenworth, Kan. He was also ordered to pay a tine, which he has already done

NEWS NUGGETS.

Brig. Gen. Charles W. Squires died at St. Ixmis, aged 60. Premier Pelloux wants Italy to spend C2.(MX),(KX) for seventy-live new batteries. Secretary of the Navy John D. Long has been elected president of the Massachusetts Total Abstinence Society, Willinin F. Miller, who conducted the "gct-rich-quick’' Franklin syndicate in Brooklyn, has been located in Canada. The author of a pamphlet insulting Qneen Victoria has Ih*cii sent to prison lor three months by a French court. Brig. Gen. Thaddeus 11. Stanton, former paymaster general of the United States army, known as the "lighting paymuter,” died at Omaha. Ruskin's friends have declined a grave in Westminster Abbey for the poet's remains. He will bi* buried in Couiston churchyard, as he requested. The indictment against John Whalleu of Louisville, charging him with attempting to brilaySenator S. Ji. ILtrroll. has been quashed in rhe Franklin Circuit Court at Frankfort. Ky. Gov. Nash of Ohio has received a letter from his stepsou. Davj|l W. Deshler, in Corea, announcing that he lias been married in Japan to a Japanese woman of rank. The news is a complete surprise. Albert G. Spalding has resigned from the presidency of the American Bicycle Company. At a special meeting of the board of directors R. L. Coleman, formerly preaident of the Western wheel was elected as his successor. Gotham’s latest proposed combine is a consolidation of all gas. electric light and traction systems under Rockefeller control. Guy Dennett, aged 21 years, a nephew of President Dole of Hawaii, attempted suicide at Denver by cutting his wrist with a knife in a rooming house. He was out of money and despondent. ♦ Jefferson Davis Storts, a well known attorney and due of the picturesque characters of St. Ixiuis, died of injuries received by falling from a street car. He was a member of the Missouri Legisla ’sure in 1883. ■■■

EASTERN.

Three Italians were shot to death in an rnterfatnily row in tui Italian tenement house in New York. William L. Sontag. the artist, died at bis borne in Now York, aged 78 years. Me was born near Pittsburg. Fire did damage to the extent of SBO,000 in the building occupied by Burrows & Co., manufacturers, and others at Baltimore, Md. Dr. Abram H. Witmer, first assistant physician at the Government hospital for the insane, died of heart failure at Washington. D. C.. aged 55 years. The rod mill workers of the American Steel and Wire Company at Beaver Fails, Pa., have decided to return to work at the company's terms. By the falling of a freight elevator in a storage warehouse at 125th street and St. Nicholas avenue. New York. Michael McLean and Patrick were killed. At Erie, Pa„ fire in the Erie pail factpry started in the dry kiln and destroyed the kilns, turning and sawing departments, and caused a loss of about $25,000. Robert Kopp, a New York manufacturer, has appealed to the courts to reinstate him in the order of Free Masons, from which he was expelled by the State grand lodge. . The new $3,000,000 combine has secured options on many of the largest brick* plants of Allegheny County, Pa., and it Is expected to take over the plants by the Ist of April. * William J. Thomas, a leader among the miners on strike near Wellsboro. Pa., shot and fatally wounded a member of Sheriff Johnson's posse which was guarding one of the mines. All the street cars in Troy, N. Y.. were tied up as a result of the strike of 365 motormeu and conductors of the United Traction Company. The men demand 20 cents an hour and a ten-hour day. * Henry A. Hazen, professor of meteorology and one of-the chief forecasters of weather conditions at the weather bureau in Washington, D. U., was probably fatally injured by being thrown from his bicycle. Mrs. Annie Ellsworth Smith, widow of Roswell Smith, founder of the Century Company, died at New York, aged 73. She sent the famous first telegraphic message, “What God hath wrought,” from Washington to Baltimore. Fire at the Barntim & Bailey winter quarters at Bridgeport, Conn., destroyed one of the large cat barns, containing eleven cars, and the quarters of the Italian laborers on the railroad improvements near by, causing a loss of SIOO,OOO. At North Btookfield, Mass., Martin Bergen, the Boston baseball player, killed bis wife and two children and then committed suicide. It is supposed he was insane when he committed the deed. The crime was discovered by Bergen's father. At Nashua, N. 11., Charles 11. Sagar, for many years a cripple, now walks erect, a well man, cured by Christian science, he asserts. Sagar was unable to walk without the aid of crutches, and was bent almost double by an attack of muscular rheumatism.

WESTERN.

Dr. C. L. Diven, I). D„ pastor of Unity Church in St. Paul. Minn., is dead. The Chinese Six Companies has agreed to help the San Francisco police suppress highbinder murders. Secretary Gage has asked Congress to appropriate $17,500 to equip a new marine hospital in Chicago. In Kansas City John J. Kelley, a former policeman, was shot and killed by Worth Bailey, a bartender. John Findley Wallace of Chicago has been elected president of the American Society of Civil Engineers. Charles T. Yerkes is said to be backing the Missouri Electric road, which is trying to secure a franchise at Kansas City. Clifford R. England, who admits that he embezzled SIO,OOO from the Warren Scharf Asphalt Paving Company of Detroit, Mich., in 1897, was arrested in Chicago. At Leadville, Colo., two masked men held up Golob's saloon. Jerry Ryan, the bartender, refused to throw up his bands and was shot twice by one of the robbers. dying instantly. The robbers fled. At Fort Worth, Texas, Edwin E. Chase killed himself with a pistol, the ball passing through his head. He was formerly a wealthy resident of that city, aud at one time he was worth more than $250,000.

Three safe robbers entered the picture frame factory of E. B. Clark & Co., 156 to 170 Mather street. Chicago, bound and gagged the watchman, Michael Smith, blew open the safe and escaped with small booty. Ten persons were injured in a train collision on the Great Northern road at Hillyard. Wash. A passenger train and a freight train crashed together during a, dense fog. None of the injured persons is seriously hurt. The Bank of Elletsville, Ind., was robbed between 1 and 2 o’clock on a recent morning. It is repotted that $1,500 was taken. The robbers pried open the windows with crowbars and used nitroglycerin on the safe. Mrs. Susan G. Tevis received nearly all of the estate of her late husband, Lloyd Tevis, by a decree of distribution from Judge Coffey at San Francisco. The property distributed to her is valued at about $7,000,000. Spittoons will be placed at distances of 200 feet along the streets of Cleveland if an ordinance introduced in the Council is given approval. The novel plan to aid in keeping the city clean was suggested in all seriousness. Thomas Hennesy. manager of the St. Louis Radiator Manufacturing Company, jumped through a third-story window at Mercy hospital iu Chicago. His injuries resulted in death. Mr. Hennesy was delirious at the time. Rev. J. M. Atwater died at Cleveland, Ohio, aged 62 years. He was at one time president of Hiram College, then a professor in Eureka College. Illinois, and later president of Central Christian College at Albany. Mo. Orders issued by the Great Northern Express Company will do much to prevent evasion of tile North Dakota prohibition law. Agents have been instructed to refuse to accept in future all C. O. D. shipments of liquor. The Zanesville and Ohio River Railroad, extending from Zanesville to Marietta along the right bank of the Muskingum, has been sold after several years of receivership to the Ohio and Little

Kanawha Company, organized by J. Hope Sutor, tl>e receiver. A small boat containing two Italian fishermen was run down on San Francisco bay by the ferryboat San Rafael. Gerolame Olivieri was drowned and his companion, Andrew Castagnola. saved himself by clutching the steamer's paddle whedl as she slowed down. Jack Morrissey of Oklahoma was quarantined in a Wichita. Kan., hotel upon the day he was to have married Ella Andersen, and before the quarantine was lifted the fickle Ellu had run away to Arkansas City and married Henry Adams, a railroad brakeman. 8. A. Gibbs of Tacoma, Wash., a prominent shingle dealer, has brdught suit, in the United States Court against the Washington Red Cedar Shingle Manufacturers' Association for damages in the sum of $51,600 tor a violation of the act of Congress itt relation to trpsts. Ex-Congressmon J. Fraifk Hanly and George P. Haywood, opposing attorneys in the Hinesley case on trial in the Circuit Court at Lafayette. Ind., came to blows, and it required the combined efforts of bailiffs, jurymen, witnesses and attorneys to separate the angry men. As a Grand Trunk passenger train was passing through the tunnel from Port Huron to Sarnia it run into a light engine, almost completely demolishing the engine. William Riggs, the engineer, and a freight hand named John A. Burke, were instantly killed. The passengers were uninjured. A wreck occurred on the Erie Railroad near Milton Tower, Ohio. A freight train broke in two and then came together. The concussion exploded a tank of naphtha and burned two freight cars. Au unknown man, apparently about 25 years of age, was run over by the entire train and ground to pieces. Fire did SOO,OOO damage to the fivestory brick building at 30, 38 and 40 Woodward avenue, Detroit, occupied by the Mutual Storage Company, Valentine Schroeder, confectioner; Gebhard Paper Company, Schneider & Sieder, awniug manufacturers, and the Diamond Printing Ink Company. Rev. Charles M. Sheldon, author of “In His Steps," is to be given an opportunity to edit a daily newspaper as he thiuks a Christian daily should be edited. For the week beginuiug March 13 he will have absolute control of every department of the Topeka, Kan., Capital, news, editorial and advertising. A report has reached Redwood Falls, Minn., from relatives of the deceased that old man Slover recently died in California aud that he made a deathbed confession that he had killed Moses Lufkins in Gales township some twelve years ago, instead of William Rose, who was afterward executed for the crime. In the craw of a turkey Alexander Bjorkiund of Denver, Colo., recently purchased for $1.15 his wife found a gold nugget valued at sl.lß. Now Bjorkiund has the mining fever aud is making every effort to find where the fowl came from, judging that if the place can be located it must be rich placer ground. Two pine land deals involving 230,000,000 feet and $765,000 have just been closed at Duluth. W. H. Cook. Henry Tourrist and a Wisconsin man have bought 200,000,000 feet of pine for $700,000 from W. A. Avery of Detroit, Mich. Wright & Davis of Saginaw have sold 30,000,000 feet to Rupp & Kerr. The Commercial Bank of the town of Silver Lake, Ind., was wrecked by masked men, who blew up the vault and safe with nitroglycerin. The cracksmen carried away about $4,000 in paper money. They were compelled to leave several sacks of silver,, owing to a battle begun by- citizens. These sacks contained sls,At Fort Worth, Texas, the convention of the National Live Stock Association considered a resolution that all public lands adapted to grazing purposes be made subject to lease by stockmen who are citizens of the States wherein the lands lie. The resolution was adopted by a vote of 322 to 227 despite strong opposition. The Parquet Milling Company’s mill at Lima, Ind., was totally destroyed by a mysterious explosion. George Lunphier, the fireman, was terribly scalded by escaping steam from the boiler. The onlycause that can be assigned for the accident is an explosion of dust. Parts of the boiler and machinery were blown 500 feet. The loss is estimated at $5,000. At Muncie, Ind., fire, probably of incendiary origin, destroyed the entire plant of the Union Traction Company, together with the Snyder cooperage works and a dwelling house. The estimated loss on the traction company’s plant is between $90,000 and SIOO,OOO, fully covered by insurance. Every motor car save one used in the city street car service was consumed. In the breach of promise suit of R. Kirk against Mrs. Mary Eggleston, tried in the District Court at Larned, Kan., the jury returned a verdict in favor of Kirk for sl,(jsoT Kirk boarded with Mrs. Eggleston and claimed that she borrowed money from him by leading him to believe she loved and would marry him. After getting the money Mrs. Eggleston refused to marry him. The effort to protect the standing pine in the environs bf Walker. Minn., resulted in the display of firearms by citizens who objected to its iteing cut off by the contractors to whom it was sold. There arc about 10,000,000 feet involved, worth $50,000. The owner, T. B. Walker of Minneapolis, has for three years offered to sell it, without result. His agents now have granted more time and it is expected the town will buy the pine. At Fort Scott, Kan., a mob of 400 men lynched George and Ed Meeks, alias Smith, twb Kansas City criminals, who were convicted of the murder of Leopold Edlinger, a young farmer of Bates Courty, Missouri. The same mob was prevented from hanging Ainos Phillips, an old Bates County farmer, who is convicted of the same crime, by a determined stand taken by the Sheriff and his deputies, assisted by conservative citizens. The Supreme Court at Des Moines, lowa?"handed down au opinion sustain? ing the constitutionality of the collateral inheritance law, passed three years ago. It imposes a tax of 5 per cent on all inheritances go to collateral heirs. The heirs of the estate of Frank C. Stewart of Council Bluffs objected to paying and in the lower court Judge Thornel held the law unconstitutional, but that as amended a- year later it is constitutional. Jean Marcoux, a grocer at 5024 Center avenue, Chicago, owes the return of $302 to the courage and daring of his daughter Delia. He had been swindled out of the money by clever confidence

mew two hours before. In order to recover the money, Mias Murcoux had pursued the swindlers in a buggy, then I warded the electric car upon which they were riding, and fearlessly attacked the man who had the money. She seized him by the throat and choked him so hard that he gave up the money.

FOREIGN.

Russia is reported to have agreed to Loan Corea $12,000,000. News was received that Osman Digna, principal general of the late Khalifa Abdullah. has been captured. Richard D. Blackmore, the novelist, died at Teddington, England. He was born at Longworth. Berkshire, in 1825. His Highness Francis Paul Charles Louis Alexander, Duke of Teck, died at White Lodge, Richmond Park, London, in his sixty-third year. The American Line steamer Paris was successfully floated out of the dock at Milfordhaven, England, where she had been undergoing temporary repairs. The death of John Ruskin at BrantEngland, from influenza and old age occurred the other day. He had tyeeu extremely feeble for many months. The Methodist church is about to begin active missionary work in the Philippines under the supervision of Bishop J. H. Thoburn. ■ The first missionaries to be~sent to Manila are Miss J. E. Wismer, Miss Mary A. Cody and Dr. Norton, of Ohio, and Miss Mostes, of Michigan. They have sailed from San Francisco, accompanied by Miss E. Anderson, who is going to do missionary work in Malasia.

IN GENERAL.

Seven persons were killed at Colima, Mexico, by an earthquake. The destruction of property was considerable. Mary Emma Woolley, M. A., professor of Biblical history and literature in Wellesley College, has been unanimously chosen president of Mount Holyoke College. Dr. I. M. Cline, chief of the weather bureau of Texas, will' establish observatories in all the Mexican gulf ports, beginning at Tampico and finishing his work at Progresso. The plan of consolidating the thirtytwo leading bridge building companies under the name of the American Bridge Company is to be carried out. The capital will be about $32,000,000. A special from Nogales, Mexico, says a battle has been fought by the Mexicans and Yaquis, in which the Yaquis were defeated with heavy loss. Thetr killed numbered 200. Five hundred were taken prisoners. Former United States Consul Macrum is reported to be the bearer of a letter from President Kruger of the Transvaal republic asking President McKinley to mediate between the Transvaal and Great Britain. United States Minister Leishman at Berne, Switzerland, has cabled the State Department that the Swiss Government has revoked a former decision and gives general authorization for the importation of American dried fruits. The fruit growers and farm product shippers have formed a permanent organization, to be known as the Growers and Shippers’ National Protective Union. 'The capital stock is placed at $50,000 in shares of $1 each. Headquarters are to be in Kansas City, with branch offices in other cities. Passengers arriving from Dawson on the City of Topeka confirm the report of the murder of Fred H. Clayson, the Skaguay merchant; a Northwest police telegraph lineman named Olsen, and two Klondikers, whose names arc unknown, near Minto. The men were murdered for their money. Q R. G. Dun's weekly review of trade says: “Whether the new year will surpass or keep pace with the old is the question which gives especial interest to every week’s returns./ Comparing now with business by far the largest and mostprosperous ever known, a year ago, more than 40 per cent larger than in January, 1898, which in its turn had shown heavier business than in any year preceding, it cannot be expected thatsucha gain will be repeated. But the decrease of 9.6 per cent in payments through clearing bouses is wholly due so great speculative activity at New York last year. Perhaps the most important industrial event is the marketing of woolen goods, at prices averaging 18.4 per cent higher than last year. Sales in three weeks, 14,920,800 pounds, have been smaller than in the corresponding weeks of the three previous years. Failures for the week have been 242 in the United States, against 249 last year, and 40 In Canada, against 32 last year.”

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 $5.00; wheat, No. 2 red, 63c to 65c; corn, No. 2,30 cto 32c; oats. No. 2,22 c to 23c; rye, No 2,53 cto 55c; butter, choice creamery, 2-ic to 25c: eggs, fresh, 16c to 18c; iHitatoes, choice, 40c to 50c per bushel. Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $6.50; hogs, choice light, $3.00 to $4.75; sheep, common to prime, $3.00 to $4.25; wheat. No. 2,67 cto 69c; corn. No. 2 white, 31c to 33c; oats, No. 2'white, 26c to 27c. St. Louis —Cattle. $3.25 to $6.50; hogs, $3.00 to $5.00; sheep. $3.00 to $5245; Wheat, No. 2. 70c to 71c; corn, No. 2 yellow. 31c to 33c; oats. No. 2,23 eto 25c; rye. No. 21, 51c to 53c. Cincinnati—Cattle, $2.50 to $6.50; hogs, $3.00 to $4.75; sheep, $2.50 to $4.50; wheat. No. 2,71 cto 72c; corn. No. 2 mixed, 34c to 35c; oats. No. 2 mixed, 26c to 26c; rye, No. 2,59 cto 61c. . Detroit—Cattle, $2.50 to $6.75; hogs, SB.OO to $5.00: sheep, $3.00 to $4.76; wheat, No. 2,67 cto 69c; corn, Na. 2 yellow, 32e"to 34c; oats. No. 2 white, 27c to 28c; rye, 57c to 59e. Toledo —Wheat, No. 2 mixed, 67c to 60e; corn, No. 2 mixed, 31c to 33c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 23c to 25c; rye. No. 2,56 c to 57c; clover seed, $4.90 to $5.00. Milwaukee-AVheat. No. 2 northern, 63c to 65c; corn. No. 2,31 cto 32c; oats, No. 2 white, 25c to 27c; rye, No. L 55c to 57c; barley. No. *2, 45c to 47c; pork, mess, $10.50 to $ll.OO. Buffalo—Cattle, good shipping steers, $3.00 to $7.00; hogs, common to choice, $3.25 to $5.00; sheep, fair to choice, $3.00 to $5.25; lambs, common to extra, $4.50 to $6.75. New York-Gattie. $3.25 to $7.00; hogs, $3.00 to $5.25; sheep, $3.00 to $5245; wheat. No. 2 red. 73c to 75c; corn. No. 2, 40c to 42c; oats. No. 2 white, 31c to 83c; butter, creamery, 21c to 26c; eggs, western, 14c to 20c.

ADVANCE OF BULLER.

BOERS HAVE STUBBORNLY CONTESTED THE GROUND. British Lose Heavily in a Sixty-Honrs* Battle with the Strongly Intrenched Burghera-Anxiety in England Has Been at an Extreihe Tension. Keen anxiety prerailed throughout England on Wednesday for news of Gen. Warren’s night attack qn Spion kop, which Gen. Buller 'n a dispatch late Tuesday night said was meditated. AU night long the war office in London was brilliantly lit np nnd many officials were on hand awaiting news of the daring step that Buller had ordered? Early morning brought groups of people to the war office, and as the day advanced they came in crowds. Not a line, however, came from Buller. Noon went by and still nothing came, aud anxiety on all sides increased. Gen. Buller's dispatch announcing that Warren was to make a night attack with the bayonet, one of the most hazardous moves of modern warfare, was taken to indicate that his flanking movement which Warren undertook, had signally failed. Buller apparently' had been forced to return to the tactics which have thus far proved unsuccessful—that is a frontal attack on a fortified enemy. The only change was that the attack was to be made at night. Methuen tried this at Magersfontein, but the Boers were awake and it resulted in fearful losses in the Highland brigade, which had been sent to do the work. Remembering this, it can easily be seen with what feur and anxiety the English people awaited the result of Buller’s movements. According to official dispatches received from the Boer laager near Colenso 30.000 British made a simultaneous atta<fe Saturday on several positions on the Tugela river, with the object of forcing the relief of Ladysmith. A terrific battle ensued. and fighting continued for sixty hours. A frightful bombardment by forty British cannon opened the engage-

GENERAL BULLER.

ment. Then came grand infantry attacks by the force under Gens. Buller and Warren, who were three times repulsed. with great losses. The Boers admit that the casualties resulting from the bombardment were heavy and the terrible effects of the lyddite are several times mentioned. Commandant' Viljoen and two burgh,ers being knocked senseless by the effects of one shell. Gen. Botha receives the credit of having checked Warren’s advance, and President Steyn is said to have been under fire in the foremost ranks of the Free Staters. Gen. White’s headquarters at Ladysmith, according to the statement telegraphed from the Boer camp, were demolished by shell fire. Most of the way to- La'dysinith is up hill, and every kopje and ridge on the extended line of attack has been occupied by the burghers. Driven from one position. they have fallen back on another already fortified with breastworks and trenches. The campaign has hitherto been chiefly a contest of spade and .pick against bayonet, with the odds in favor of the former. Since Gen. Buller ordered a simultaneous advance of his entire forces the various divisions have been moving along a front of twenty-six miles. To the extreme left, Lord Dtindonald's cavalry has been working its way slowly round Spion kop with the evident intention of turning tbe Boers* position. The ground occupied by the burghers has lent itself naturally to defense, and this advantage has been greatly increased by numerous trenches and covered ways, with formidable stretches of barbed wire in front. The British had no other way of taking these works but by frontal attack. The first sign of discord among the English people as to the carrying on of the war was announced Wednesday. John Bryn-Roberts, leader of the Welsh liberals in the House of Commons, gave notice that he would speak in Parliament in favor of a cessation of hostilities in South Africa at the first session of Parliament. A dispatch*from Pretoria announces heavy fighting at Colesberg on Sunday, but brings no details. A severe artillery duel, it is reported, was fought on the Modder river on Monday. No figures of the losses on either side are given. CoL Plumer, who continues his advance to the relief of Mafeking from the north, has had no recent adventures-worth noting. The British have formed a new camp at Potfontein, twenty miles east of Rensburg. It is held by the First cavalry brigade, which has an outpost five miles to the north. This gives the British a front of thirty miles in extent from Potfontein east to Medersfarm west.

Sparks from the Wires.

Influenza caused 193 deaths in a week in London. The natives of Panay have sentenced one raider to crucifixion. Premier Greenway and cabinet, Winnipeg. Manitoba, have resigned. Director Rathbone is gradually appointing Cubans as postmasters all over the island. Gen. Wood. Havana, has released seven prisoners who served several years for trivial offenses. , William Bochard, Adelphi, Ohio, found James Hedges with his wife. A fight ensued and Bochard was killed. Taylor t*onds, who killed his father-in-law, 23 years ago, at Paris, Ky., nud , escaped from jail, has surrendered. Guiseppie Eacello. New York, killed Mrs. Carmena Peolla because she objected to him marrying her daughter.

CONGRESS

The Senate on Thursday llztened to a speech by Mr. Wellington against permanent retention of the Philippines; also to a continuation by Mr. Teller of his attack on the tinanc’al bill,. Received a resolution from Mr. Ross declaring in favor of creating a separate government department to take charge of all outlying dependencies. The House passed Senate bill extendiug power of director of the census after rejecting amendment opposed by labor unions authorizing director to contract for extra printing with private contractors. On Friday the Senate listened to an impassioned speech by Mr. Hale, in which he said he lielieved nine-tenths of the American people were in sympathy with the Boers in their war with Great Britain. Passed Sir. Allen’s resolution inquiring of the President whether any representative of the Transvaal Government had applied for recognition, and whether it had been granted or denied. Listened to a speech by Mr. Morgan in opposition to the financial bill. The pension appropriation bill, carrying $145,245,250, was passed by the House. It was made the vehicle of an attack upon the commissioner of pensions by Mr. Curtis (Rep.. Kan.), who was seconded by Mr. Lentz and Mr. Norton of Ohio nnd Mr. Robinson of Indiana and other Northern Democrats. The commissioner was defended by a score of members from both aides of the house. A rider was put upon, the bill by unanimous consent empowering the commissioner in his discretion to withhold the fees of attorneys of record in pension cases where he was satisfied that the attorneys bad not prepared the cases under their personal supervision. A bill was passed to extend the time for the completion of a bridge across the Missouri river at St. Charles, Mo. The Senate held no session on Saturday. The House spent an hour in disposing of bills favorably reported, among those passed being the measures to build the league Island! and Mare Island dry docks of stone instead of timber. Reports on the Roberts case were also received. An hour was given to pronouncing eulogies on the late Representative Danford of Ohio. A resolution was adopted calling for information in the possession of the War Department relative to the power canal around St. Mary’s Rapids, Lake Superior. In the Senate on Monday little business beyond routine was transacted. Mr. Pritchard (N. C.) delivered a long anti carefully prepared address upon the race question in the South, his remarks being addressed particularly against the proposed amendment to the constitution of North Carolina, which, if enacted, he said, would disfranchise a large class of voters, both white and black. He was folowed by Mr. Turner (Wash.) in a speech on the Philippine question, in which he arraigned the administration’s ■ policy as set out in the President's message and in the speech of Mr. Beveridge (Ind.). Received a resolution by Mr. Pratt of New York authorizing the President to invite Great Britain to join in an international commission to examine into the diversion of boundary waters between the I’nited States and Canada. Adopted amended Rawlins resolution for an investigation into polygamy in the United States or any of its possessions. Received a resolution from Mr. Allen calling upon Secretary Gage for a statement regarding his verbal or written communication with officials of the National City Bank of New York abont the sale of the New Y’ork custom house. The House was in session only forty minutes, and nothing of public importance was done except to refer to the Speaker for settlement a dispute between the appropriations and military affairs committees over jurisdiction of the estimates for the appropriations for the manufacture of small arms at the Rock Island and Springfield arsenals. On Tuesday the Senate adopted Mr. Kyle’s resolution directing commissioner of labor to investigate the effect upon labor, production and wages of international copyright act. Mr. Pettigrew offered resolution call’ng upon President to send to Senate report of Geu. J. C. Bate relating to treaty with Sultan of Sulu. Objection was made and resolution went over. Mr. Cnffery presented three resolutions calling upon President for correspondence with Great BritaiiKConeerning the Clayton-Bulwer treaty; correspondence with Colombian Government as to Panama canal, and correspondence with New Panama Canal Company of France. Adopted. Resolution offered by Mr. Allen calliug upon Secretary of Treasury for correspondence and substance of all verbal communications which he has had with officials of National City Bank of New York concerning transfer of old custom house to the National City Bank was adopted. Mr. Turner concluded his speech on Philippine question, and then Mr. Rose addressed Senate on same On Wednesday‘the Senate passed Pettigrew resolution calling for information from the President regarding the treaty with the Sultan of Sulu, after Mr. Pettigrew had attacked the administration for entering into an agreement rf’hich, he said, authorized slavery. Received from the appropriations committee the urgent deficiency bill. 'Received from Mr. Pettigrew a resolution declaring United States could not recognize right of any nation to seize food products as contraband of war and that such seizure would be regarded by this nation as unfriendly. Sent hack to conference the census administrative bill. The House listened to speeches on the Roberta case by Messrs. Landis. Cnimpacker and Miers of Indiana, Lacey of lowa. Wilson of Idaho. Powers of Vermont ami Snodgrass of Tennessee.

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C. L. Lacey of Indiana was found deficient in the examination at West Point and discharged. Lucheni, the assassin of the Empress of Austria, is now permitted to work in the prison shops, instead of suffering solitary confinement. That venerable part of the Tower of London, known as the Bloody Tower, is undergoing considerable repairs. The upper part of it, which faces Traitor’s Gate, has been refaced in parts, pointed, and colored to resemble age. The building is to be restored all round.