Newspaper Page Text
BOERS BEGIN THE RETREAT
General French Enters the Beleaguered Town
of Kimberley With Slight Opposition.
A FINE STRATEGIC MOVE
Good News Stirs England and
Praise For French Is Heard
On All Sides.
A London special under date of
February 17, says: General Cronje,
with a start of a day or two, is in full
retreat from Lord Roberts, moving
northward.
General French, with the cavalry,
simply staid over night at Kimberley
and then pushed on to get in touch
with the retiring enemy. A long Boer
wagon train is moving toward Bloem
fontein, followed presumably by a
large force of British infantry. In
their hasty departure the Boers lost
quanties of supplies and amuuition.
Military opinion iu Loudon is that
Lord Roberts will not push far after
tho Boers immediately because of the
present problems and tho need of rest
for tho troops. He has to feed 70,-
000 persons in his army and the whole
Kimberley population. He must re
build the railway from Modder river
to Kimberley and revictual tho lutter.
General French lost a few men on
ly in action, but tho forced marches
and heat have probably made many
ill. Numbers of remounts must be
provided.
Lord Roberts has wrought a genuine
preliminary success aud tho impres
sion is that he has done enough for
the present. He will need to prepare
for another striko. All over England
there have been evideuc3B of public
joy.
In every theater and public meet
ing, around tho railway stations and
in the streets there have beeu expres
sions of gladness and jubilation over
the news. The uewspapjrs are edito
rially rejoicing.
Those who read the news closely see
only one disturbing factor in the Cape
situation, and that is the pressure of
tho Boers toward Lord Roberts’ line
of supply through De Aar, which was
never more important than now.
The Boers, under Commandants De
laney aud Gobler, are making a per
sistent effort to penetrate to the rail
way. They have pushed General
Clements back to Arundel aud have
outflanked him. All are within sixty
miles, or two days’ hard march of the
central railway.
Doubtless Lord Roberts has left
considerable forces along the line aud
can send back more if necessary.
A special dispatch dated two days
back and just transmitted from CLiieve
ley, says that an important move was
then pending there, although contrary
indications are fouud in the fact that
750 ambulance bearers have been tem
porarily disbanded and the further fact
that traction eugines are arriving at
Durban from the front to be seut to
Lord Roberts. More artillery is be
ing seut to Lord Roberts from Cape
Town.
orn. french's movements.
The following from Riot River,
Orange Free State, tells how General
French reached Kimberley:
“General French, in command of
the cavaliy division aud with a strong
force of horse artillery, left Modder
river Sunday morning for Ramban,
twelve miles east of Enslit, where the
whole division concentrated. The next
day he made a rapid march to Riet
river, where a party of Boers contest
ed his passage at Dekiel and Water
Fall drifts. After some hours’ shell
ing General French drove the Boers
away and crossed the river.
“Yesterday (Tuesday) the column
continued its march to Klip and Rom
daval drifts on the Modder river,
where agaiu a short engagement en
sued, General French shelling the
Boers vigorously and forcing a pas
sage.
“The Boers precipitately retreated,
leaving livo laagers iu the hands of
the British, besides a great quantity
of cattle aud 2 000 sheep.
“The rapidity of General French’s
march, and the overwhelming nature
PLUMBERS ON STRIKE.
They Demand Scale anti a Shorter
Work Day.
The plumbers and gas Fitters of Sa
vaunab, Ga., are on a strike. They
want both shorter hours and increased
wages. They have demanded a nino
liour day every day but Saturday,
which they want fixed at eight hours
for a day’s work. They want the scale
of wages fixed at $1.50, $2 and $3 a
day, Oecordiug to experience.
The <3rriffloying plumbers assert that
the strike will uot materially affect
them and declare, if necessary, they
can get out their tools and go to work
themselves.
of his force, enabled him, in spite of
the difficulties of water transportation,
to thoroughly outwit and surprise the
Boers. The British casualties were
slight.”
MOLINEUX SENTENCED TO DIE
Condemned Man Vehemently De
nounces District Attorney and
the “Jellow” Journals.
At New York, Fridny, Roland B.
Moliueux was sentenced to die in Sing
Sing prison during the week of March
26 for the murder of Mrs. Katherine
J. Adams. He made a statement as
serting that he had not been fairly
convicted, and that “yellow joural
ism” had put a price on his head.
After denouncing the newspapers
and making quite an extended argu
ment in his own behalf, the defendant
paused, either to regain his composure
or to control his temper, aud went on
speaking with remarkable clearness
and angry vehemence.
“I denounce and despise,” he said,
“the act of the district attorney in at
tempting to villify the reputation of
the pure and lovely woman who bears
my name. It was the act of a black
guard and a villainous lie.
“Now, your honor (to the recorder),
lam prepared for sentence. lam not
afraid.”
Recorder Goff, in pronouncing sent
ence, reminded the defendant that his
counsel had already presented all the
facts to tho jury and that tho court had
but the one duty to perform.
General Moliueux was asked about
the fund which it was proposed for
him to defray expenses he had been
under by the trial, aud he said, when
inquiry was made regarding his ac
ceptance:
“Absolutely and under no circum
stances would I accept such a thing.”
The attorneys for Moliueux have
filed an appeal, and the appeal will
stay the execution of the senteuce in
definitely. Molinex will, however, be
taken to Sing Sing prison.
WON'T PAY CLAIMS.
Government Takes No Responsibility For
Depredations of Soldiers.
A Washington dispatch says: The
house committee on war claims has
reported adversely the bill for the
relief of Eugene A. Stone, of Green
ville, S. C. This bill asked for an
appropriation of $6,992.50 for damages
to property by United States troops
during the war with Spain. The report
is of wide importance to the south as
it defines the position of the committee
with regard to tho claim bills, hun
dreds of which have been introduced
this session from all states where troops
were mobilized aud encamped.
Several of them have been offered
from Georgia, the larger number
coming from around Chickamauga,
Athens, Americus, Albany and Savan
nah. The report says:
“The idea that the Federal govern
ment is liable or ought in any view to
pay for tho depredations committed by
soldiers is not entitled to serious con
sideration. The whole claim is for
depredations committed by soldiers
during the war with Spain. The com
mittee reports adversely aud recom
mends the bill to lie upon the table.”
TRUCE IN KENTUCKY.
Kffort Will B Made To Consolidate Casas
of Contest.
A Frankfort special says: The agree
ment to postpone the Taylor-Beckbam
suit operates as a temporary truce in
the legal battle over the state offices,
aud it is not probable that there will
be any decisive changes in the situa
tion till then, unless the return of the
Democratic legislature to Fraukfort
adds some unexpected feature.
A part of the attorneys on both
sides held a meeting Friday afternoon
aud discussed several plans for consol
idating the various injunction cases in
order to avoid a clash between the
different state courts in which they are
pending, but a final understanding
was not reached.
BOER ARMY SCATTERED.
Robert* Capture* Knemy’s Lnager and
Some Supplies.
The Loudon office makes public the
following dispatch from Field Marshall
Lord Roberts:
“Jacoesdal, February 16 —The fol
lowing from General French was re
ceived this morning:
“ ‘I have completely dispersed the
enemy from the southern side of Kim
berly, from Alexandersfontein to Oli
phautsfoutein, aud am now going to
occupy their ground. Have captured
the ernerny laager’s aud supplies of
ammunition. Casualities about twenty
of all ranks wounded.’ ”
“ ‘Kimberly cheerful and well.’’’
DUAL LEGISLATURES
Aro Trying to Do Business in
Kentucky’s State House.
THE DEMOCRATS STEAL A MARCH
Marnliall and Carter Occupy Chair To-
BetUer—Democrats Again Declare
Goebel Governor.
A Frankfort special says: The
Democrats had a session of the senate
at 9 o’clock Monday morning. Presi
dent Pro Tem. Carter presiding, aud
adjourned to meet again at 10:30
o’clock.
The Republican* adjourned Satur
day to meet at 11 o’clock and the
Democrats adopted this move to get
possession of the chamber first. The
senate convened at 10 o’clock, both
Carter and Marshall presiding.
The Republicans, recognizing Mar
shall, adjourned after prayer, and led
by Lieutenant Governor Marshall, the
Republican senators left the hall.
Tho Democratic senators, recogniz
ing President Pro Tem. Carter, paid
no attention to the Republican pro
ceedings and continued in session.
The Democratic senate then adopted
a motion by Senator Allen, of Lexing
ton, to ratify and re affirm the former
action of the senate by which Goebel
was declared governor. This prevailed
on a viva voce vote, nobody making a
demand for the yeas and noes.
Senator Triplett, anti-Goebel Dem
ocrat, voted with the Democrats for
the purpose of making a quorum. The
Democratic senators adjourned after
adopting the Allen resolution.
The house convened at noon. Speak
er Trimble presiding. Mr. Hickman,
Democrat, demauded a roll call to as
certain the presence of a quorum. The
Republicans did not answer to their
names and only fifty-three of the sixty
Democrats were present. Ths contest
matter was not taken up.
SETTLEMENT NOT IN SIGHT.
The impression that the contest
over the governorship will not be end
ed till it is fought to a finish in the
courts is not lessened by the action
taken by the Democratic senators iu
their session Monday ratifying their
former action by which Senator Goebel
was declared governor.
The Republicans who spoke for
Governor Taylor said that he would
not recognize as legal the proceedings
taken and which, it is anticipated, will
be duplicated in the house, but has
told them that he looks upon these
proceedings as illegal and will not
quit the fight uutil the whole matter
is passed upon in the courts of last re
sort.
His position is that the former pro
ceedings being void, the ratification
gives them no legal vitality; that
the legal presiding officer, Lieu
tenant Governor Marshall, had de
clared the session adjourned when
the vote in question was taken, aud
that the vote should have been taken
by yeas aud nays, as in the case of a
bill or joint resolution.
Negotiations to settle the conflict
between Lieutenant Governor Mar
shall and Senator Carter over the
chair in the senate went on again Mon
day afternoon, but no agreement has
beeu reached so far. There was talk
among the Democratic senators Mon
day night of voting on the ratification
resolutions Tuesday in the senate by
yeas and nays. Those resolutions
Monday received the support of
twenty-one senators, two more than a
quorum.
MISSING CASHIER RETURNS.
Wurnell Declare* His Mind Was la a
Dank Condition.
Walter L. Warnell, cashier of the
Bank of Adel, Ga , who mysteriously
disappeared from that place January
11th under circumstances which led
to the belief that he had wandered off
in a spell of temporary mental aberra
tion, arrived iu Atlanta Sunday morn
ing.
The story he tells is altogether a re
markable one. He says that from the
time he stepped on board the train
which carried him from Adel on the
morning of January 11th until two
weeks ago, when he woke up sick in a
boarding house iu Louisville, his
mind was a blank, and he remembers
absolutely nothing of what he did dur
ing that interval of time.
BLIZZARD IN NEW YORK.
The First Real Snowstorm of the Wlntef
Strikes the City.
With all the fury of a blizzard, the
first real snowstorm of the winter de
cended upon New York Saturday, ao
companied by high winds. Eleves
inches of snow fell and the air was
fearfully cold.
Harbor shipping was almost at a
standstill. On land trains were delay
ed, and in many instances stalled by
the storm, the high wind causing the
snow to drift.
Asa result of the storm, the poor of
the city suffered greatly, and the de
partment of charities had to extend its
utmost energies to relieve sufferers.
PORTO RICAN
TARIFF BILL
Before the House and Great
Debate Is Inaugurated.
GREAT QUESTIONS INVOLVED.
Democrats Are Solidly Arrayed
Against Measure and Discus
sion Will Invoke Interest.
A Washington special says: The
debate on the Porto Rican tariff bill
opened in the house Monday.
On all hands it is agreed that this
bill, although it applies only to Porto
Rico, involving as it does the question
of the power to govern our new pos
sessions outside the limitations of the
constitution, is the most important
measure which will come before this
congress.
Interest in the bill is intense among
the members on both sides and there
is urgent demand for time. The Dem
ocrats are solidly arrayed against the
measure aud they will have powerful
support from the Republican side in
Mr. McCall, of Massachusetts, and
Mr. Littlefield, of Maine, both able
and forceful debaters. How far the
Republican disaffection will extend,
or whether it will endanger the bill,
it is impossible to say at this time.
Mr. Payne, the floor leader of the
majority, refused to agree that- a vote
should be taken upon a substitute to
be offered by the minority. This sub
stitute, which has not yet been framed,
will be in substance the bill originally
introduced by Mr. Payne providing for
free trade with Porto Rico by the ex
tention of the customs and revenue
laws of the United States over the
island.
The debate Monday was in the na
ture of a long range bombardment be
fore the clash of the contending forces
in battle. Mr. Payne opened with a
general argument in support of the
bill, going largely into the material
side of the situation which the bill is
designed to relieve.
The house then went into committee
of the whole with all questions relat
ing to the close of the debate open.
Mr. Payne, in charge of the bill, in
opening the debate, received marked
attention.
“This bill by its terms,” he ex
plained, “relates only to the island of
Porto Rico. It cannot be taken as a
precedent of any legislative action in
reference to the Philippine islands
when the present insurrection shall
have boen overcome except in so far
as we assert in it our view of our pow
er under the American constitution.
“But our constitutional power is
questioned. I find no case where the
question was directly involved or
which is decisive.
“It is now universally conceded
that we have the power to acquire ter
ritory by conquest or by treaty. I
find uo limit in the constitution to
this power. In respect to Porto Rico
we are not hampered by treaty stipu
lations by act of congress. Wo have
absolute power.”
RICHARDSON LEADS OPPOSITION.
Mr. Richardson, of Tennessee, the
leader of the minority, made the open
ing argument iu opposition to the
measure.
“I am not an alarmist,” said he,
“but in my judgment the pending bill
is more dangerous to the liberties of
the people of tbis republic than any
measure before seriously presented to
the American congress. It will prove
more far reaching in its provisions
aud disastrous in the results that must
of necessity follow if it should be en
acted into law than any act ever pass
ed by congress.
“The bill is framed upon the idea
and assumption that congress enter*
upon the government of Porto Rico
unrestrained by tho provisions of the
constitution. This we deny. Those
of us who oppose this measure, I be
lieve, without exception, maintain
that the bill cannot be enacted into
law without a total disregard aud vio
lation of not simply the spirit, but
the express letter, of the constitu
tion.”
“BRITISH AIDED SPAIN."
Snell Is the Du'lsration Made By Pre
mier Silfi'l* at Madrid.
A special dispatch received in Lon
don from Madrid says that Premier
Silvela has declared in the senate that
previous to the war with the United
States the British government con
sented to let Spain have 8,500 shells
which were being manufactured for
her at the Maxims factory at
cent a.
The statement has created the
greatest surprise and is the talk of
official circles. Such a statement com
ing from the premier of Spain is cal
culated to produce unfriendly feelings
were it not denied on every hand.
Tho Real Tost for a— ~" -
Wrangler You sav
n C6 i m Ver "' as eat
Quibbler—l do. m ® k
put the lighted end of hi ’
mouth just as he wanted
argument most impressive kis
Barnacle* on Ocean r„i,
The recent lnyeatieatlr.T, r * b,ei -
P f ae ‘ flc O cean have ?ev e °aie C f!h I*
ing fact, that If not upon m t late re.,
gradually become encrußted'’s? l^ >n ’ they
And Boaw6.6<is, heavy enomb toßrnapu*
Ills Is like dyspej>sla, which Uit j re&l£ tbe a
ed. grows until it breaks 18 not check
Uomotter's Stomach Hitters wm * hß
well as cure Indigestion dvsnii , pi ' eTei >t at
ness Ivor and kidney 'troffi BU ',, b ' 11
weak stomachs strong AU druggisj^e,
Ever Meet Jimsnno
•lack—“Hh! hsl That’s *
n rn a m co ™v s J j mson : tell It to him 0 ’?' 1 Bto^
"A Stitch in fime'
Saves Nine.”
A broken stitch , like the
"little rift within the lute,”
is the beginning of trouble,
44 lam tired, not ill " “ft
•wilt soon pass away." " 1 don’t believe
m medicine." These' are the broken
stitches that lead to serious illness. Nature
is wise and in Hood’s Sarsaparilla she
has furnished the means to take up
broken stitches. Why? because il
starts at the root and cleanses the bloci
Bad Blood "For years I was
troubled with my blood, my face -was
pale, I never felt well. Three bottles of
Hood ’s Sarsaparilla made me feel better
and gave me a healthy color.” Mae Cross,
24 Cedar Av., South, Minneapolis, Minn.
Hood'* nil* cure liter 111*; the non irritating anl
only cathartic, to take with Hood’ Sarsapariill
Acquiring Great Fortunes In China.
“The ‘squeeze,’ ” says a correspond
ent of the Boston Transcript, writing
from China, “Is a national institution
from which every one suffers or de
rives advantages, from the Dowager
Empress to the humblest gatekeeper.
This is already well known every
where. There is not a ‘privilege’ of
any kind, and privileges or concessions
are as numerous here as at home, from
which the Dowager Empress does not
benefit financially. Every servant in
the palace, from the highest to the
lowest, wrings fees out of those who
must enter the Forbidden City, what
ever their errand may be. A high offi
cial said recently that it cost him as
much as one thousand ounces of silver
to get access to the palace, even when
he had been summoned on official busi
ness by the Dowager Empress herself.
Chinese officials receive only nominal
salaries; the gteat Li Hung Chang,
when Viceroy of China —the highest
office In the Empire next to that of the
imperial ruler himself—received out of
the public treasury a sum equal to SBO
in American currency per annum. He
has achieved a fortune of something
like ss,ooo,ooo—not $500,000,000, as has
been stated —and how he scraped this
together can better be imagined than
described.”
FOR MIDDLE-AGED WOMEN.
Two Letters from Women Helped Through
the “Change of Life” by Lydia E.-Fink
ham'a Vegetable Compound.
“ Dear Mr*. Pinkiiam : —When I first
wrote to you I was in a very bad con
dition. I was passing through the
change of life, and the doctors saul
had bladder and liver trouble. I had
suffered fornine years. Doctors faik
to do me any good. Since I have taken
Lydia E. I’inkham’s Vegetable Com
pound, my health lias improved verv
much. I will gladly recommend i° ur
medicine to others and am sure that
will prove as great a blessing to them
as it has to me.”—Mrs. Geo. H. June,
901 DeKalb Ave., Brooklyn, N. Y.
Relief Came Promptly
“Dear Mrs. Pinkham:—l had been
under treatment with the doctors °r
four years, and seemed to get no beer,
I thought I would try your medicine.
My trouble was change of life, n®
must say that I never had 8n * b !‘,
help me so much as Lydia E. 1P ‘
ham’s Vegetable Compound.
came almost immediately. 1
better health now than I ever a •
feel like anew woman, P er [ e :
strong. I give Ljdia E. Tin Jd
Compound all tho credit, am
not do without her medicine or
thing. I have recommended
several of my friends. Iheic 1
need of women suffering so !nuC r 0
Mrs. Pinkham's remedies are
cure.” —Mauala Butlkb,
water, IU. ,
Another Woman Helpe
“ Dear Mrs. Pinkham :—I ; in d
E. Pinkham's Vegetable C°®P
during change of life and dcri > > y
benefit from its use.”— Mar vL.
135 Coydon St., Bradford,
Barters ink
la THE BEST Ink-
— L*
Mention this Piper /n W^c n iswj eu&w