Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 February 1900 — Page 3

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BRITAIN IS DAZED.

Retreat of Buller Regarded as a Second Yorktown. SUFFER GREAT LOSS. Fifteen Hundred British Said to Have Been Slain by Burghers. Imperial Forces Recross Tugela River After Serious Defeat at Spion Kop— Ladysmith Relief Column Flees from Terrific Fire of Men Under JoubertBoer* Had Prepared a Trap Resultins in the Slaughter of Warren’s Soldiers —Dismal News Casts Gloom Over Entire England. The English people are dazed by the stunning blow Gen. Buller has received at the hands of the Boers in Natal. The sacrifice of England’s best blood has been in vain, for the British are back where they were a month ago, and the relief of Ladysmith seems an impossibility. Buller’s report of the disaster contains uot one cheering note. He frankly admits that he found the Boer left flank impervious, and t nsidered it discreet to retire to the south side of the Tugela. He says nothing of his losses, but from Boer sources conies the statement that the English lost 1,500 killed and 150 prisoners. Their list of wounded consequently must be enormous. Gen. Buller has now had two chances to try and relieve the beleaguered troops under Gen. White at Ladysmith, and has dismally failed each time. British arms are face to face with the worst disaster since the surrender at Yorktown. Naturally there is jubilation at the capitals of nil the powers in Europe, and the rumors of intervention are growing more persistent. When, about a month after Gen. Buller’s defeat at the Tugela river, the movement for the relief of Ladysmith was again begun, word was given out that there would be no turning back and that whatever orders the troops might hear they should remember chiefly the one to “Advance!” It was supposed, or at least hoped, in London that Gen. Buller had employed, the interval after his first defeat in studying the situation and obtaining definite information about the enemy and the best way to relieve the sorely pressed and gallant garrison at Ladysmith. The crossing of the Tugela without serious opposition and the capture of

GENERAL JOUBERT.

Bpion kop added to the confidence of the British people that at last the tide had turned. The garrison at Ladysmith also welcomed the sound of Buller’s cannon and the sight of the bursting shells he threw into the Boers’ lines. Then followed an interval of suspense, and, considering tho tremendous issues involved in this conflict, it is not surprising that the world waited for news from South Africa with almost as much interest as the British themselves. Now that Buller's story of disaster itnd retreat has been made known London is dazed at a catastrophe which even the Times admits is “almost without precedent in our military history, and, indeed, without parallel except in the surrender of Yorktown.” The mention of Yorktown in this connection is significant of England’s appreciation of the situation. After a long dream of empire in Africa from Cairo to the Cape London’s most influential journal suggests a parallel that hints at the loss of South Africa ns America was lost more than a century ago. It is useless to minimize the gravity of the situation now confronting the British empire. Ladysmith is not only unrelieved, but beween it and the relieving column lie the victorious Boers in apparently impregnable positions. A sortie by the garrison to cut its way through tho Boers is so desperate that it would be a useless waste of life to attempt it, while Buller, twice beaten back, can scarcely hope to place the relief of the beleaguered town alongside that of Lucknow in the war story of the British empire. As to the wider complications that may ensue from the British reverses in South Africa, Ixindon is now beginning to fear the worst. Russia is already knocking at the gates of Herat ami rumors of intervention by the continental powers now have a much better basis than they have had before. The Loudon Morning Post dwells upon the danger of further rebellion at the Cape and of possible European complications. It urges that* the navy be prepared for “any emergency.” The Standard and other papers reflect the anxiety of the public to lea hi how much truth there is in the Boer accounts of the fighting at Splon kop. There are trying days ahead and every civilized country is interested in the result. That Great Britain’s defeat in South Africa would moan consequences of gravest import to the empire is recognized by England herself. Patronize those who advertise.

—St. Paul Dispatch.

BULLER’S STORY OF RETREAT.

The war news for which the people of Englund had been waiting in agonizing suspense came Sunday in the shape of a dispatch from' Gen. Buller and told of the retreat of the British army across the Tugela river and the story of Spion kop. The dispatch is dated at Spearman’s Camp and reads as follows: “On. Jan. 20 Warren drove back the enemy and obtained possession of the southern crests of the high table land extending from the line of Acton Homes and Hunger's I’oort to the western Ladysmith hills. From then to Jan. 25 he remained in close contact with the enemy. "The Enemy held a strong position on a range of small kopjes stretching from northwest t,o southeast across tile plateau from Acton Homes, through Spioii Kop, to the left bank of the Tugela. The actual position held was perfectly tenable, but did not lend itself to an advance, as the southern slope's were so steep that Warren could not get an effective artillery position, and water supply was a difficulty. “Ou Jan. 23 I assented to his attacking Spion Kop, a large hili, indeed a mountain, winch was evidently the key of the imsitiou, but was far more accessible from the north than from the south. Ou the night of Jan. 23 he attacked Spion Kop, but found it very difficult to hold, as its perimeter was too large, and water. which he had been led to believe existed, in this extraordinarily dry season was found very deficient. "The crests were held all that day against severe attacks and a heavy shell fire. Our men fought with great gallantry. I would especially mention the conduct of the {Second Cameroniaus and the Third King’s Rifles, who supported the attack on the mountain from the steeliest side and ill each case fought their way to the top, and the Second Lancashire Fusiliers and Second Middlesex, who magnificently maintained the best traditions of the British army throughout the trying day of Jan. 24, and Thornycroft’a mounted infantry, who fought throughout the day equally well alongside of them. “Gen. Woodgate, who was in command at the siimtv.it, having been wounded, the officer who succeeded him decided on the night of Jan. 24 to abandon tho position, and did so before dawn Jan. 25. "I reached Warren's camp at 5 a. m. on Jan. 25 and.decided that a second attack upon Spion Kop was useless and that the enemy’s right was too strong to allow me to force it. Accordingly 1 decided to withdraw the force to the south of the Tugela. A few hours afterward we commenced withdrawing the train; and in thirty-eight hours Warren's force was concentrated south of the Tugela without the loss of a man or a pound of stores. "The fact that the force could withdraw from actual touch —in some cases the lines were less than a thousand yards apart—with the enemy, in the'manner it did. is, I think, sufficient evidence of the morale of the troops, and that we were permitted to withdraw our cumbrous ox and mule transports across the river, eighty-five yards broad, with- twenty-foot banks and a very swift current, unmolested, is, I think,, proof that the enemy has been taught to respect our soldiers’ fighting powers.”

Personal Paragraphs.

Jerome K. Jerome usually spends his vacations on a farm, where he enjoys daily labor in the fields. Judge Gottfried Krueger of Newark, N. J., has had a mausoleum built for himself at a cost of SIOO,OOO. Col. William L. Prather, the new president of the University of Texas, says that lynching is the greatest curse of the South. The Rev. L. C. Hulberg, a missionary, is said to be the original discoverer of Cape Nome gold deposits. Gov. Stone of Pennsylvania expresses the opinion that every husband should deed to his wife the homestead. Joseph G. Darlington has been elected president of the Philadelphia Union League for th? twenty-ninth time. The Cape Times says Cecil Rhodes will present bronze medals to all the soldiers engaged in the relief of Kimberley. Lieut. Henry Conell, who was Gomez’s aid during the Cuban war, is now a student in Boston University law school.

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ANTI-TRUST LAW VOID.

Illinois Statute Declared Unconstitutional by a Chicago Judge. The Illinois anti-trust law of 1893 was declared unconstitutional by Judge Kohlsaat in the United States Circuit Court at Chicago. Because of the section which exempts from its provisions the agriculturist and stock raiser, the court held that the statute is tainted with class aud special legislation, and is in contravention of both the Federal and State constitutions. In the decision Judge Kohlsaat refused to confine his finding to the clause in question, but put the ban on the entire act. The anti-trust statute which is thus declared void by tiie Federal court is the law which was enacted in .1893. The Supreme Court’of the State has never passed upon its constitutionality. Decisions upholding the-validity of the act of 1891, of which the law of 1593 is an amplification. have been rendered by the State’s chief tribunal in the “milk shippers’ ’’ and “glucose” cases, but that statute did not contain the clause which Judge Kohlsaat finds is class legislation. The objectionable part of the law is section 9, which contains the words: "The provisions of this act shall not apply to agricultural products or live stock while in the hands of the producer or raiser.” The ruling was made in the ease of the Union Sewer Pipe Company against Thomas Connelly, but applied as well to the case of the same plaintiff against William Dee. The action by which the constitutionality of the law was attacked was brought by the Union Sewer Pipe Company to recover about .s<>,9oo from Connelly and from Dee on contracts made several years ago. The defendants resisted payment of their notes on the ground that under the Illinois law a trust has no right to sue or recover on any contract made in the State. Other defenses were that the Union Sewer Pipe Company of Ohio was a trust or combination organized for the express purpose of restricting trade contrary to the common -aw in Ohio and of Illinois to the Federal statute known as the “Sherman act.”

MAY BE PEACEMAKER.

United States Likely to Act as Mediator in South Africa. In view of the reports of tho British defeats in South Africa, and the probability that Ladysmith will soon be compelled to surrender to the Boers, diplomats in our own national capita] would not be surprised to see Washington become the center of interest in the South African controversy. It is predicted that such a success for the Boers as the taking of Ladysmith will encourage the idea of intervention on the part' of neutral powers, in the name of humanity, to end the war. The Hague agreement has Iteen suggested as justifying just such a course, and the feeling in continental Europe is saitl to have reached an acute stage, not only because of the general sympathy for the Boers, but also because of the arbitrary seizures of neutral vessels and the general interference with neutral commerce by Great Britain. It is believed that Great Britain will not be allowed to continue to ignore the rights of neutral powers in her effort to subdue the Boers, and that the English Government is aware of the danger of intervention or compulsory mediation of her differences with the South African republic. The influences of Russia at-Pekin and the suspicious movement of Russian troops toward the Afghanistan border are also regarded as warnings. It would not be a great surprise to Washington diplomats if, after another crushing defeat, such as now seems imminent. Great Britain would turn to this Government as the most acceptable mediator.

PHONOGRAPH ON BATTLEFIELD.

It is suggested in London that phonographs be sent to South Africa to take messages to their relatives from dying soldiers and to register wills on the field of battle. The idea is that each chaplain should carry around a phonograph.

THINK BULLER WAS TRAPPED.

Dispatches from Durban Indicate the Boers Knew of the Advance. Dispatches from Durban show what has been thought likely, that the Boers weil knew of Gen. Buller’s crossing the Tugela and did not interfere with him in order to get him entangled as they did. The fact that Spion kop’s first ridge was abandoned by the Boers after one volley makes it most likely that the abandonment was a mere ruse t,o hire the British to the next position, which was cov« ered by the Boor guns.

RECORD OF THE WEEK

■ - - ■ .01 I*-I- -- - - _ - INDIANA INCIDENTS TERSELY • TOLD. Elaborate Plan tn Burn Two Store* in Terre Haute Children Run A why to Wed—Minister’s Prophecy of His Own Death Comes True. An -attempt was made at Terre Haute to burn ami blow up three storerooms over which thirty-two persons were steeping. A fire in its ineipiency was discovered in the office of Dr. Casto’s drug store, and when it was extinguished it was found that iu each cellar and store there were improvised gutters and troughs filled with oil and fuses made of saturated toweling running through the stocks of clothing, dry goods and groceries in Casto’s general store adjoining the drug store. Holes were cut in the floors to make stronger draughts, and dynamite aud gun powder placed where they can.* the greatest destruction. The tire had not reached the troughs and fuses when tile firemen put it out. Enough dynamite was found to have destroyed ail the buildings on the block. Casto and some of his clerks were arrested for arson. He says his enemies did the work because he has prospered in business. He carried a large Sny* Farewell to His Flock and Dies. Rev. Charles Harvey has been pastor of the Methodist Church at Eaton for many years. Ou a recent' Sunday he preached his last sermon. He explained that his congregation would never hear his voice from the pulpit again, as he bad a premonition that lie would die before another Sunday dawned. He had never felt in better' health, he explained, but nevertheless he felt sure that death was nigh. His prtsliction was fulfilled. He is dead. Shortly after leaving church he was seized with an illness. He grew rapidly worse and died before the night was past. Ho was 58 years old and had been a minister thirty-Aeveu years.

Four Voting People Elope. Roy Teagardner* and Ethel, the 15-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Marion (’reek, ami Guy Whetzel and Miss Pearl Landon eloped from Trenton. All are the children of well-to-do farmers, and tho only objection to the marriages was the age of the parties, young Whetzel being only 18. The two couples have been devoted lovers, ami feeling that they could not gain parental consent disappeared together, young Whetzel leaving with his father's horse and buggy. Baby Suffocated, Woman Hurt. Th.' home of William Miller, four miles west of Muncie, was destroyed by fire. Frank Stephens and wife discovered the blaze while driving past the house. Mr. Stephens jumped from the buggy to notify the Miller family and his team of horses ran off. Mrs. Stephens was thrown from the buggy and will die from her injuries. A 2-ycar-old grandchild of Miller's was suffocated. Within Our Border* In Salem, smallpox has been dubbed ‘•Cuban itch.” Andrew J. Carmichael, TO, near Hartford City, is missing. Sugar water camps are being opened in Montgomery County. A general vaccination order has been launched at Martinsville. Postmasters .of congressional district l> have formed an organization. Ghouls were frightened from the Dunlapville cemetery by a pedestrian. Charles Blovings. 25, Mitchell, B. & O. brnkein.-iii, was killed near Huron. Oil well drilled just across the Indiana line in Ohio will open up a new field in eastern Indiana. Anderson capitalists have secured a large tract of land on the isthmus of Tehuantepec. Mexico. Dante Comstock. IT. Marion high school student, has invented a system of wireless telegraphy. Marcus C. Smith died at his home in Muncie of general debility. He had hold ut.l'.'.y important political positions. A human freak was born at Mooresvs”n the other day. It had neither eyes, ears w iiise. It lived but a few minutes. , V . ‘ ’ Tax levy in Grant County will be upon $22,853,7(10 worth of property, amounting to $3!)1.<155.31. and represents a poll of 8.35 T.

One of the trustees of the Methodist Church at Montpelier has rented his business room for a saloon, and there is a ruction in the church. A free-for-all fight occurred in the basement of a Lafayette school among the smaller pupils, the other day, and it was all two teachers could do to quiet' them. Mark Hillis, soldier in the Philippines, and son of John Hillis, Kokomo, committed suicide by shooting himself in the head. An open hole was found near the body. A successful test has lieen made of crude oil for fuel in the Anderson Steel mill. Ou account of shortage of gas the company intended to move, but will now stay. . Nearly all the fruit growers in the fruit licit report a total destruction of buds. The warm weather brought the trees out in bloom and the first frost destroyed them. Mrs. Olive <L Hall. Kokomo, has purchased the William Henry Harrison homestead, at North Betid. Ohio. It consists of the old mansion and seven acres of land and cost $55,000. It is the birth plain* of ex-President Harrison. Albion has an economical genius in the person of James Hyde, lie makes hi* own teeth out of hickory wood and holds them in place with a wooden handle. He is able to eat the toughest meat and is quite ah interesting sight while engaged in eating. Carpenters and contractors of Anderson have signed a scute of ,’!0 cents an hour and eight hours a day for the coming building season. The G-ycar-old child of Charles Stooiker, near Dublin, died suddenly from a' blood clot of the heart. Physicians say it’s remarkable oh account of the child’s* tender age. Lulu Brown, 17. Elkhart, was fatally burned by falliug in a. faint and turning a lamp over. Site is the daughter fit Rev. Charles L. Brown, pastor of Trinity Methodist Church, Elkhart, yeli known among Indiimii Methodists.