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MR. MACRUM’S STATEMENT
Former Consul to Pretoria Hakes Sensational
Charges In Address to the Public.
HINTS AT AN ALLIANCE
Says English Censor at Durban
Opened and Inspected His
Ofticial Documents.
A signed statement was given out
at Washington Wednesday night by
Charles E. Macrnm, former United
States consul to Pretoria. In part it
was as follows:
“The situation in Pretoria was such
that, first, as an official I could not
remain there while my government at
home was apparently in the dark as to
the exact condition in South Africa.
* ...
“Second, as a man and citizen of
the United States, I could not remain
in Pretoria, sacrificing my own self
respect and thut of the people of Pre
toria while the government at home
continued to leave me in the position
of a British consul and not au Ameri
can consul.
“I want to say right here that there
was not one single request made of me
through the department of state look
ing to the care of British interests in
Pretoria, which I did not fulfill and
report upon according to my orders.
On the other hand, American interests
in South Africa were in that condition
which demanded that the department
of state should be cognizant of them.
“I issued the statement received
from the state department that Ameri
cans must remain neutral. In the
face of this, Americans were contin
ually going to the front and taking up
arms in the cause of the Boers. I
could not help but know that many of
these were citizens of the United
States. I also know that mauy of
them, in their utter despair at the ap
parent attitude of our own govern
ment, were taking the oath of allegi
unce to the Transvaal republic.
“When affairs had reached that
state my vice consul, Mr. Van Amer
iagen, closed up his business, took the
oath of allegiauoe to the republic and
went to the front as a burgher, I
thought the time had come when I
should make a report of those condi
tions.
“It was over four weeks from the
time the war opened before I received
a single dispatch from my government
or a personal letter.
“The mail for the Transvaal had all
been stopped at Cape Town by order
of the high commissioner. When this
mail was finally forwarded to me after
Golouel Stowe, the consul general at
Cape Town, had secured its release,
1 had the humiliation as the repre
sentative of the Americau government
of sitting in my office in Pretoria and
looking upon enve'opes bearing the
official seal of the American govern
ment opened and officially sealed with
a sticker, notifying me that the con
tents had been read by the censor at
Durban.
“I looked up the law, but failed to
find anywhere that one military power
cau use its own discretion as to for
warding the official dispatches of a
neutral government to its representa
tive in a beseiged country.
“The misrepresentation which had
been going on before the war and af
ter-it opened, were of such a serious
nature and would require such de
tailed explanation, that ou the 6th of
Novomber 1 filed a cable to the de
partment in code,stating that I wished
a leave of absence in order to visit the
states.
“I set forth in this cable that my
vice cousul had enlisted in the Boer
army; that Mr. Atterbury, au Ameri
can, whom I had known very favora
bly for more than a year, could take
charge of the office until my return.
“On the 4th of December I received
a reply from the department to a ca
blegram of the 14th, which I had been
informed two days previously had just
been forwarded. It read as follows:
“ ‘You may come homo. Put Atter
bury temporarily in charge. Depart
ment will send man from here.’ This
was signed by ‘Hay. ’ Thereupon I ca
bled the department as follows:
“ ‘Sail 18th by Naples.’
TAYLOR ALSO M LS.
Failing In Federal Appeal lie Goon to
Kentucky Stain Court*.
Suit was filed in the circuit court
at Louisville Wednesday afternoon by
counsel for Governor Taylor seeking
to restrain J. C. W. Beckham from
acting as governor and General John
B. Castleman from attempting to dis
charge the duties of adjutant general.
The suit will be allotted to one of
the circuit judges by a drawing. This
drawing may not bo held for several
When it is held an application
Hkr a restraining order will be made.
Bribe suit is brought by Governor
for himself individually aud as
envarnor of Keutuckv
“I come home to find an attempt has
been made to tear down my personal
reputation. I wish to state right hero
that when I accepted my post as con
sul, I knew nothing of any secret alli
ance between America and Great Bri
tain, and that I had seen nothing in
the regulations which made the cousul
of the American republic subject to
the whims and caprice of an English
military censor at Durban. I came to
America with a motive of which I am
not ashamed.
“I appreciate the seriousness of the
conditions in South Africa to the ex
tent that on my way to Washington,
believing that I was still the consul in
Pretoria, I refused to make any state
ment that would in any way involve
the department or embarrass it. My
one object was to lay the information
before the department as to the true
state of affairs in South Africa. If the
department thought these facts were
of a value sufficient to warrant the
expense of the trip I had taken. I
expected to be remunerated and to re
turn to Pretoria, leaving the depart
ment to act as it saw fit upon the facta
which I laid before it.
BECUF.T ALLIANCE HINTED.
“Instead of this, I find that Secre
retary Hay, whethor acting upon the
reports in the newspapers, or upon
advico from the British government,
or some other motive, I do not know,
has seen fit to wait until I could pre
sent my reasons in person, aud has
been a silent or conniving partner to
discrediting reports of my official
acts.”
ACROSS BOER FRONTIER.
Britons Succeed In Entering Or
ange Free State Under
General French.
Advices from London state that the
British army, for the first time since
the war began, is inside the Boer fron
tier.
Lord Roberts, with at least 40,000
infantry, 7,000 cavalry and 150 guns,
has Turned the Magerfontein lines be
fore which the British forces have
been encamped for ten weeks, aud
with half of his corps, he is already
operating on Free State territory.
Large tactical advantages have been
gained. The relief of Kimberly is
within measurable reach, aud the w r ay
to Bloomfonteiu is appreciably easier.
The dispatches of Lord Roberts
sketch three days’ work. The forward
movement began on Sunday, Feb. 11th,
when Colonel Hanuay set out with a
brigade of mounted infantry for Ha
mah, on the ltiet, eight miles from
Jacobsdal, one „of the Boer supply
bases.
Ou Monday, February 12, General
French, with the cavalry division,
seized the crossing of the Riet river,
at Dekil’s drift, south of Jacobsdal
and eighteen miles east of Honey Nest
kloof. He skirmished with the Boers
aud cleared the way for twenty thous
and infantry, who followed across.
On Tuesday, with his three cavalry
brigades and horse artillery, General
French rode to the Modder river, a
distance of tweuty five miles and took
three fords, w ith high ground beyond
the river aud five Boer camps.
He had a few casualties in brushes
with the Boer horse. General French
has now fixed himself on General
Cronje’s maiu line of communication
with Bloemfontein, and 20,000 in
fantry with seventy-two guns are be
ing pushed up to support him there.
TEST VOTE TAKEN.
Semite Debates on Financial Measure
Were Spirited.
Throughout its session Wednesday
the senate had the financial bill under
discussion.
At times tho debate became spirited
and interesting. Late in the after
noon a test vote, indicating approxi
mately the majority ou the passage of
the bill, was taken.
Mr. Chandler, of New Hampshire,
offered an amendment to authorize the
president to appoint commissioners to
any international bimetallic confer
ence that might be called and it was
defeated by a vote of 45 to 25.
CHATTAHOOCHEE RIVER RECEDES
Damage By High Water at Columbus,
Us., Beaches Into the Thousands.
Tho Chattahoochee river at Colum
bus, Ga., reached a standstill Tuesday
night, and at noon Wednesday had
fallen three feet, aud gradually re
ceeded.
It is impossible to estimate the
damage done to the new' dam at
North Highlands, the extension of the
Eagle aud Phenix mills and the new
wharf until after the river has reached
its normal condition, but enough is
known to state with positiveuess that
losses w ill foot way up into the thou
sands.
♦
A Mere Formality.
“Yes, sir, I have come to ask you
for the hand of your daughter.”
“For Isabel’s Land?”
“Yes, sir. It is a mere formality, I
know, but we thought it would be more
pleasing to you to have me go through
with it.”
“What’s that? A mere formality?”
• “That is what I said—a mere for
mality.”
“And may I inquire who suggested
that asking my consent to my daugh
ter’s marriage was only a mere for
mality?”
“It was Isabel’s mother, sir.”
“Oh! Then I have nothing more to
say.”—Collier’s Weekly.
One Woman’s Aim.
“The evidence,” said the judge,
“shows that you threw a stone at this
man.”
“Sure,” replied Mrs. O’Hoolihan,
“an’ the looks av the man shows more
than thot, yer honor. It shows thot
Oi hit him.
The Mystery of I)u*t at Sea.
It 1* a puzzling fact that the decks of sailing
vessels show dust at night, even If they be
washed in the morning, aud no work Is done
during the day. This is like Indigestion,
which creeps on oue unawares. However It
comes, the only way to cure It Is by the use of
llostetter’s Stomach Bitters, a remedy which
never tails to < are dyspepsia In all its forms,
as well as prevents malaria, fever snd ague.
Fools Nut All Extinct.
In spite of the prevalence of newspapers and
coroner’s Inquest* people are still turning On
the gas and trying to blow out electric lights.
44 A Thread Every Day
Makes a Skein in a Yed)\"
One small disease germ carried by the
blood through the system xoAl convert a
healthy human body to a condition of m~
validrsm. Do not •matt until you are bed
ridden. Keep your blood pore and life-giv
ing all the time. Hood's Sarsaparilla
accomplishes this as nothing else can.
His Great Work.
A Chicago man, who has written a
book, was telling about it the other
day to a friend who had once done him
a service.
“By the way,’ said the author, “I
would be delighted to give you a copy
of my work, if you care for it.”
“I should be more than pleased to
have it,” was the reply, “especially if
you will write your name in it.”
“All right. There’s a book store
around tho corner. If you will
accompany me we will go there and
get it. I don’t happen to have a copy
in my office just now.”
After they had stopped to glance at
some of the new things in the book
store the author hailed a clerk, and,
pushing his chest out very far, asked
for the novel that he had written.
“Yes, sir,” the clerk said. “We have
It around here somewhere, I believe,
but you are the first one who has ever
asked for a copy, and It may take me
some time to find it. Wouldn’t some
thing else do just as well? We have a
great many better books at the same
price.”—Chicago Times-Herald.
A
Million
Women
have boon relieved of
female troubles by Mrs,
Plnkham's advice and
modlclnom
The letters ef a few are
printed regularly In this
paper.
If any one doubts the
efficiency and saeredly
confidential character ef
Mrs. Pfmkham's methods,
write fer a beak she has
recently published which
contains letters from the
mayer ef Lynn, the pest
master, and ethers ef her
city who have made care
ful Investigation, and who
verify all of Mrs. Pink
ham's statements and
olaims.
The Pinkham claims are
sweeping. Investigate
them.
THIRTY YEARS OF CURES
CARTE R'S I N K
Has the largest sale of any ink
in the world.
|||irrnj|RIIKVMATIBM TABLETS. Port-
U It LLU H itive rebel, never fells- Semple box, Ik>.
Ad drees Hector Street Boek Store, >. ¥. Cl W
HAS NO JURISDICTION
Judge Taft’s Decision Turns Tay
lor Down,
SAYS SUPREME COURT IS OPEN
“Office a Trust, Not Property*’—Decision
Doe* Not Discomfort Taylor
In the Least.
if.
In the circuit court of the United
States, at Cincinnati, Wednesday,
Judge \V. H. Taft denied the motion
for a preliminary injunction in both of
the cases from Kentucky.
While the court held that no injunc
tions would issue under these bills,
yet it held that after the cases had
been heard in the state courts they
could get in on error for review in the
United States supreme court.
After the decision was announced
former Governor Bradley and his as
sociate counsel announced that they
were unable to state what would be
the next step of the Republican state
officers of Kentucky. They said they
had no doubt either of the ultimate
possibility of a heariag of these oases
in the United States court as indicated
by Judg e Taft or of the final result,
but at present counsel could not say
what would be the next procedure.
The following is the decision of
Judge Taft in part:
“The injunctive process of the court
is sought to prevent a removal from
office. It is unnecessary to discuss
the question whether a federal ques
tion is presented upon the face of this
bill or to consider the correctness of
the claims of complainant, that the
rights and immunities secured to him
as a citizen of the United States by
the fourteenth amendment to the fed
eral constitution are infringed or are
likely to he infringed by the acts of
the defendants done or to be done.
“It is sufficient to hold, as I do,
that a court of equity cannot by pro
cess of injunction prevent the removal
of an officer from his office. His rem
edy must be at law by quo warranto or
other like proceedings.
“It is conceded that the lawsof Ken
tucky afford to the complainant a rem
edy by quo warranto, also a remedy at
law to prevent usurpation in office. If
in such proceeding any federal ques
tion can be raised complainant may
carry it, if decided against him by the
state courts, by writ of error, to the
supreme court of the United States.
The judge held that public office in
Kentucky is not property, but a trusts
where compensation is only for servi
ces rendered. It is not even a con
tract.
The action of Judge Taft did not
discourage Governor Taylor in the
least. He contends that the matter
has nothing whatever to do with his
own case and when informed of Judge
Taft’s decision he said:
“I never really believed that the
matter could be made to stick in the
court before Judge Taft, but we felt
obliged to try it. This is a case where
all the legal remedies must be tried
aud exhausted if necessary. We will
try everything that the courts afford
us.”
TROOPSMUST REMAIN.
Taylor Changes His Mind But Promises
Protection to Legislature.
A Frankfort dispatch says: The
committee of the Democratic members
of the legislature which came to Louis
ville for the purpose of investigating
conditions here and determining
whether it is safe for the Democrats to
venture within the precints of Frank
fort, tetuined to Louisville Wednes
day night.
The members of the committee de
clined to hold any conversation with
Adjutant General Collier or Governor
Taylor and made Custodian Thomp
son, of the executive building, the go
between.
They first sent word to Governor
Taylor that before the Democratic
members could think of returning to
Frankfort the soldiers must be sent
away. No objection, they said, would
be raised to a small number for a
body guard for Governor Taylor per
sonally. As for the legislature, it
needed no protection.
Governor Taylor replied through
the medium of Custodian Thompson
that the request of the committee
could not be complied with, but
promised that the legislature should
not be molested in any way.
RIOTS AT MARTINIQUE.
White Residents of Fort De France Ap.
peal to Island Governor.
Advices from Fort de France, Island
of Martinique, state that the white in
habitants of La Francois, being threat
ened with death by rioting strikers,
have sought refuge in Fort de France,
the governor having declared it impos
sible to guarantee their lives.
The managers of the plantations are
requesting permission to organize
forces of military for the purpose of
protecting the persons who are kept
at work, but the governor will not ac
cept the responsibility of authorizing
such a step.
Folly of Extravagance.
‘‘Before I agree to undertake
defence,” said the eminent y ° nr
lawyer who had been called Cnmina l
have to be perfectly frank with WUI
tell me the whole truth Dm ?an 4
bezzle the $20,000 you are aeon?J m '
having taken?” L used of
“Yes, sir,” replied the accused
•Til attempt c „ ncM tbe
from you. I stole every
“How much of it have you still?'*
It s all gone but about $lO ”
“Young man.” said the eminent W
yer, buttoning his overcoat about hZ
and putting ou his gloves. -you’A
plead guilty and throw yourself 0n 111
mercy of the court.” e
“I’ll do It if you say so, Bir. Wh a t
are you going to charge me for the J
vice?” e “■
“Ten dollars.”—Chicago Tribune.
li. 11. B. CURES BLOOD POISON
Bottle Free to Sufferers.
Blood Poison, producing Falling Hair
Itching Skin, Swollen Glands, Eating Soros
Ulcers, Eruptions, Pimples, Sore Throat
and Mouth, Bone Pains, cured to stay cured
by B. B. B. (Botanic Blood Balm)", made
especially for all terrible Blood Troubles,
bold at drug stores $1 per large bottle. Trial
bottle sent free to sufferers- Write for it to
Blood Balm Cos., 6 Mitchell St., Atlanta, Ga.
Advauced Oue Number.
“Does your wife let you sit in the
easy chair she gave you Christmas?”
“No; she sits iu that; but now I get
to sit io the one she gave me last year,”
—Chicago Record.
Putham Fadicliss Dyes do not stain
the hands or spot ihs kettle. Bold by all
druggists,
Slate Pencil Industry.
Pencils from slate dust molded by hydraulic
pressure are m>w made In largo quantities.
They are much more popular than tho solid
cut pencils. One factory last year made 25,-
000.000 molded pencils.
Fdnrate Tour Bowels With Cascarets.
Candy Cathartic, cure constipation forever,
He, ifsc. If C.C. C. fail, drugglaterefundmoney.
Marshall Centenary.
February 4th, next, will be celebrated by
lawyers and Judges lu various parts of the
couutry as the centenarv or John Marsh-.ll's
appointment to the chief Justiceship of the
United states.
Head This. The Peerless Tobacco Works
Cos., of Bedford City. Va., wants traveling sales
men In each state. Write them for particulars.
Experience not absolutely necessary.
Whales’ Teeth as Money.
Whales’ teeth form the coinage of the FIJI
Islands. They are painted white aud red, the
red teeth being worth about twenty times as
much as the white.
Mrs. Winslow’s Foothlng Syrup for clilldron
teething, softens the gums, reduces lnflamma
tion, allays pain, cures wind colic. 25c. a bottle.
Vitality low, debilitated or exhausted cured
by Dr. Kline's Invigorating Tonic. Free $1
trial bottle for 2 weeks’ treatment. Dr. Kllue,
Ld., 9iil Arch St., Philadelpha. Founded 187 L
One Example.
Johnson—Did yo’ evah heah ob any
body takin’ silver for de liquor habit?
Jackson—Wa-al, yais! Old man
Randolph swipes his wife’s spoons
occasionally.—Judge.
I Had
a Bad
Cough
“I had a bad cough for six
weeks and could not find any
relief whatever. I read what a
wonderful remedy Ayer s Cherry
Pectoral was for coughs and I
bought a bottle. Before I had
taken a quarter of it my cough
had entirely left me.’ —L. Hawn,
Newington, Ont., May 3,1899.
Quickly
Cures Colds
Neglected colds always lead
to something serious. They
run into chronic bronchitis which
pulls down your general health
and deprives you of sleep: or
they end in genuine consump
tion with all its uncertain results.
Don't wait, but take Ayer’s
Cherry Pectoral just as soon a*
you begin to cough. A f eW
doses will cure you then. But
it cures fsa colds, too, K
ttkeHj little more time.
refer to such diseases as • a
chttis, %sthma, whooptng-coug
consumption, and hard ’ Bict
Coughs. '
If you’re ;jwrt Wton
tie is all yoijl’ll For ctro ll *?
60 cent hand, the
troubles, a'Jtd to keep on
bottle is economical.