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THE ASIIBURN ADVANCE.
VOL. VIII.
BOER BULLETS BRING BLOOD
Kruger’s Forces Are Credited With the First
Victory of the War.
ARMORED TRAIN BLOWN
Report Has It That Fifteen En*
glishmen Fell In the
First Onslaught.
The London Evening Nows of Eri-
day , published the , following ,, dispatch
from Cape Town:
“An armored train has been de-
stroyed south of Mafeking. Fifteen
British troops were killed. The Boers
Shelled the wreckage after the train
"was derailed,”
An official dispatch received at the
colonial offioe says:
“The armored train was destroyed
near Kraipan station while on its way
to Mafeking with guns. ”
This disposes of the fear that many
women and children were involved in
iu the disaster.
It was reported in Cape Town,
though as yet rumor was not
cd, that a collision had taken place
between trains bearing refugees, near
Victoria West, Cape Colony, nine pel-
sons being killed and many others in-
1 lie t> Boer forces, , with ... artillery, ,, ac-
cording to a dispatch just received
from Standerton, broke camp at
spruit yesterday morning, moving in
the direction of Natal. The war office
lias received the following dispatch
from the general commanding
Cape forces:
An armored train from Aanfekmg,
escorting two seveu-guus rent from
here ,o Mafeking, was attacked last
night at Kraipan. Apparently a
bail been removed. Tho train left the
track, and the Boers fired into into it
with artillery for a half hour, and cap-
! Ured ■! : .A e! e,?ra P hl0 communica-
tiou with Mafeking , is interrupted at
Kraipan. The women and children
have been sent to Cape Town. Tho
guns referred to belonged to the col¬
ony. They are light and of old pat¬
tern. We have no details as to casu¬
alties.”
First Gun Fired.
The first act of the war was the
swarming of the Boers across tbe bor-
dei of Natal and the occupation of
Laings Nek. An advance in the direc-
tion of New Castle is also reported,
but is not fully confirmed. The Brit-
jsh field force in Natal under Generals
Wliite and Symons remains on the de-
tensive.
Ihe main body of troops in Cape
Colony is also stationary, but a strong
force has moved out from Mafeking in
Dechuanaland toward the Transvaal
border, taking guns and ambulance
equipment, This force consists chief-
ly of lough riders and crack marks-
men from Buluwayo, and is stiffened
with the Northumberland Fusileers,
or the “Fighting Fifth,” regarded by
Kitchener as his best regiment. The
cavalry is commanded by Colonel
Bailen-I’owell and tho infantry by
Colonel Plummer. These two officers
were tho best on the British side dur-
ing the Matabele rebellion.
joubert Caution* in* Troop*.
Advices from Pretoria state that
Commaudant General Joubert’s com-
mand is now at A’olksrust. Several
Cape Colonists have been sworn iu as
Burghers. The town is quiet. Postal
communication with tho surrounding
colonies has been suspended, but that
between the Transvaal and the Orange
Free State is maintained.
Commandant General Joubert has
issued a circular from the chief laager
in consequence of tho report that some
of the Burghers had misbehaved them-
selves on their journey to the borders,
plundering offenses,the a number of store*. Such
commandant general ga y g ,
will be severely punished.
“When wo are un williugly com-
pelled country,” to cross tho General boundary line of
our says Joubert,
“let it not bev thought that we are a
hand of robbers, and with that in
view, remain as far as possible from
privnto dwelling* and from places
whore no enemy is stationed. When
food or forage for the cattle is needed,
let certain officers acquire such goods
ENGLAND IS DENOUNCED.
Russian* ami Herman* Condemn South
African Policy.
*
and inspired by the bitter hostility to
Eng^sni 1 up aye y e continenta.
The Russian official organs incitement are fore-
most in their threat, and
to join the action against Great Bri-
tain though official Germany pro-
claim? •‘“ itself neutral, the German pre^s
econd only to the Ruwtan in its
denunciation of England’s South \fri-
Official Organ of Worth County. Orders for Job Printing Given Prompt Attention.
fr omtbe owncr -. nn ‘ 1 Iet * ""‘p 4 * e
. with 1 of , by
given promise recompense
the government."
uwnorum >rotr British Aa«ni.
A special from Washington »ays:
The state department was notified
Friday wf the withdrawal from Pro-
toria of Mr. Conrnsham Greene, the
®j‘! hh diplomatic agent to the South
African republic, and the existence of
n H , atB of wnr between Great Britain
and that republic. Mr. Maerum, the
American consul at Pretoria, has ao-
cordingly been instructed to under-
take the care of the British interests
in that section duriug the war.
The notification eanle to the state
department in the shape of a note
from Mr. Tower, the charge of the
British embassy in Washington. The
details of the transfer of the inter-
es tg case of war has been previously
arranged, so all that was necessary
1 was the dispatch of a brief cablegram
j ’ 0 This Mr. Maerum officer is at the Pretoria. superior in rank
| to the other consular representatives of
j]j e TJnitecl States, not only in the
Transvaal, but in the Orange Free
; gj a t ei aH d has been entrusted to give
, ibese officials the necessary directions.
, Tbe on!y consllIar official beside Mr.
j Maerum in the South African succeeded republic Mr.
is a Mr. Gordon, who
TMauicm as consular agent at Joliauncs-
| burg, Mr. Manion having resigned a
f ew mo nths a{ r 0
In tlje Orange Free State tho United
states is represented by Alfred Elliott,
consular agent at Bloemfontein. He
an Englislimati, and therefore it is
questionable whether or not he will
r(ima { n a t h.i« post in his capacity ns
American agent. If he retires, Mr.
Maerum will probably seleot some
American to take up the duties of con-
su | ar ft g en t,
There j g no present intention at the
B t a t e department to issue a proclama-
tion of neutrality,
DEWEY LAYS CORNER-STONE.
Admiral Returns Again to His
Alma Hater at Northfield,
Vermont.
The little village of Northfield, Ver-
raont > in t!l « very heart of the Green
Mountain State, and tho home of Nor-
ivicli university, at which Admiral
Dewey as a cadet xvas grounded in the
principles of military training, greeted
the famous naval officer Friday movn-
i n g,
The occasion was the laying of the
j j corner stone of Dewey hall, a eontribu- building
made possible by voluntary
: tions from prominent alumni of the
university.
Tim exercises began with an intro-
ductory address by Commander Brown,
president of the university, who intro-
duced Colonel Henry O. Kent, of Lun-
caster, N. H., senior member of the
board of trustees of the university,and
a classmate of the admiral. Colonel
Kept delivered an address of welcome.
Commander Brown also welcomed
Admiral Dewey, The admiral then
stepped forward and laid the oorner-
stone. As he spread the mortar and
the stone was lowered, he said:
“I now declare this stone duly and
,r uiy Iai(i an( * according to my wish.”
After fll e admiral had completed the
la y>ng of the oornerstone. Commander
Brown introduced Channoey M. Do-
pew, United States senator-elect of
New York, the orator of the day.
At the conclusion of Mr. Depew’s
address Admiral Dewey held a brief
reception, after which he was escorted
Back to his train aud left for Boston,
where a public reception was given
kim
ENLISTED MEN SUMMONED.
They were Called to Testify H*for« Board
of Inquiry.
An Atlanta, Ga., dispatch says: Tbe
second session of tho military court of
inquiry was held at the capltol Friday
night. Atlanta
Twenty-five members of the
battalion had been summoned to ap-
pear before the court to tell what they
knew oi tho looting of the stores in
North Carolina by the men of that
command.
MILL OPERATIVES STRIKE.
Csirts in Knitting Factory Hofueo to Work
With .\e*ro«*.
oS"w,?”-i 5 r jaVj'.s:
a UCeTO ftt
■ ‘, rh ^ ^ . g con8i(3erable
feeling over the matter, and the con-
«»«• of public ojtinion is that the
factory operatives are in the right.
Several prominent citizens have been
heard to express themselves as wholly
in sympathy with the girl strikers and
have signified their intention to see
ASHBUKN. GA-., SATURDAY. OCTOBER 21. IX!>9.
BRYAN FOR GOEBEL
Nebraskan Making Speeches To
■ Kentuoky Voters
ADVISES ELECTION OF GOEBEL TICKET
Kntliu»lri»tic Crowd* Greet tlie Campaign*
era Kver.y whero-Ovations
Given Bvyun.
The first day's trip of the Bvywi-
Goebel party through Kentucky com¬
menced at Cairo, Ill., the first speech
of tho day being made at Bardwel),
Ky., iti the presence of a good-natured
and good-nixed orowd. The special
train reached the Kentucky town at
8:30 o’clock Monday morning.
In his opening nddtess Mr. Bryan
demonstrated his purpose to support
tho .Democratic ticket headed by Wil¬
liam Goobel for governor. He held
that the question of whether tbs next
president of the United States was a
Democrat depended largely upon
whether Kentncky was Democratic
(his fall. He held that any Demo¬
crat who stands for the Chicago plat¬
form is better than a Republican.
In the presence of tho enemy it was
not a time to air personal grievances.
Tho real question was ono as to prin¬
ciples between the parties.
In national matters ho assailed the
attitude of President McKinley as re¬
lated to the Philippine islands, assort¬
ing that tho president’s declaration
that congress would caro for the
islands was a subversion of the decla¬
ration of independence and the first
to be openly made by a president of
the United States.
The declaration of the president
suggested the use of tho word parlia-
ment instead of oongress and recalled
the colouial days and policy of King
George. The islands did not and
could not belong to us siuiplv because
wo liad paid a decaying monarchy for
them.
Tho'silver question and the Chicago vital
platform as a whole form the
questions to ho solved in the coming
political contest of 1900.
At Pulton there was a good crowd.
Air. Bryan said:
“You can do some pretty good yell¬
ing here, but I want to tell you if you
elect Air. Goebel governor and Joe
Blackburn senator, there will be more
yelling iu Nebraska, than there is
here. They say a man does not want
another to do better than himself, hut
I am not selfish when I say I want y on . -
to give Mr. Goebel a larger majority
than you did me is 1896. While I
appreciate the splendid voto of 1896,
I believe onr party is stronger than it
was then and there arc always sixteen
reasons to one why "l it should bo so.
Ihe , largest , crowd , of . tho day was
met ut Mayfield, and tho greeting to
the visiting party was the warmest,
Mr. Bryan and Mr. Goebel were the
speakers, the former delivering the
most elaborate speech of the day.
EXUW’EJI'KXT IN' BARAK8VILLK.
N.-Bron« itesent Hrinjc Ordered out of
Oxford Knitllng Mill*.
At 10 o’clock Monday night tho
Barnesville, On., police reported to
Alayor Kennedy that forty to fifty ne¬
groes were assembled near the square,
with rifles and clubs, evidently prepar¬
ing for a midnight attack. The mayor
at once ordered out the Barnesville
Blues and in less than an hour tho
city was under military disappeared. rule and every
vestige of a mob had
Iho cause of the mobilization of
negroes is supposed to he tho outcomo
of tho strike which occurred at the
Oxford knitting mills last week. Ine
white operatives refused to work with
negroes. The matter was adjusted,
but not until every negro had le.ft tho
mill. Numerous notices have been
posted by unknown parties warning
negroes not to return to their oceupa-
tions. This is supposed to have
ttl ' uUae, '‘ ! hu IJC ‘8‘ oeH -
N’etrell * Will Sign Protocol *
A special from , i he Hague
says:
Stanford Newell, United States mints-
ter to Netherlands will sign the
protocol embodying the agreements
reached by the representatives of the
powers participating iu the recent
peace conference.
FRENCH MURDER BRITON.
A Traged* In Part* Hay Cauae Interna-
•* u..
name^^riek t b; French deprives
at Diejipo. Derrick was so shocking-
V injured that an unusnul surgical
the vll^that f MU,t he Hed '
T ’ le British consul is attempting
io bnu 8 *£e murderers of Derrick to
3« a '««• English feeling >« intensely
?* cl te ‘J a ont f ho which is
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DATE FIXED
FOR DEWEY
Admira! and Brumby Will Make
Visit to Atianta October 24.
LATEST OFFICIAL INFORMATION
flatter In Brumby's Hands--Lieu¬
tenant Caldwell Will Accom¬
pany Them South.
A Washington special :-iiya: Admiral
Dewey will visit Atlanta, Ga., the
24th iustaut. Such is his present in¬
tention, unless some unforeseen de-
mand upon his presence here should
bo made in tho meantime.
The admiral arrived in Washington
Monday evening, accompanied by
Lieutenant Brumby. The hour of,his
arrival was not generally known,
hence there was but little demonstra
tion over him as ho walked briskly out
of the Pennsylvania railroad depot
and proceeded to his apartments in
the Everett flat, on II street, between
Seventeenth and Eighteenth streets.
His apartments are modest, but
comfortably furnished, but there is
no attempt at display or extravagance
iu tho interior decorations. The Av-
erott is n small apartment house, near
the Metropolitan club, of which tie is
a member. Admiral Schley also has
apartments in the same house.
The admiral declined to receive
visitors Monday night, hilt made an
exception for two or three persona!
friends. Soon after the admiral he
vas informed that a delegation repre-
seu ting the city of Atlanta desired to
con fer with him relative io fixing n
( j fl to fol . bis visit to that city. He
, nm j c at> appointment to meet tho del-
P g a tjon Tuesday at 11 o’clock,
'Jho delegation was composed of
Thomas Egleston, Joseph T. Oi me and
Harvey Johnson. Messrs. Egleston
and Ormo were schoolmates with
Lieutenant Brumby,consequently they
encountered but little difficulty in ar¬
ranging the interview with the admiral
through his trusted flag lieutenant.
Wednesday evening the delegation
entertained Lieutenants Brumby and
Caldwell at dinner in tho Shorcliam
hotel.
PRESIDENT'S DECLARATIONS.
|-[ e | s Unequivocally For the Gold
Standard and Retention of
G je Philippines.
President McKinley made the first
of , of , addresses ,. . Iowa . In . the ..
ft senes in
town of Iowa l ulls. In that speech
ho snid:
><gi nC e I was last in (ho state we
) ia ve added some new territory.
“It is no longer a question of ex-
pension with us; we have expanded,
jf tperg j B a uy question at all, it is a
question of contraction; and who is
going to contract?
“Ibelieve, ray fellow citizens, that
this territory that came to us is the
providence of God. We did not seek
it.. It is ours with all the rosponsibil-
ities that belong to it, and an a great,
strong, brave nation we mean to carry
our education and our civilization
there. I am not ono of those who
would take a luurel from the brow of
tho American soldier or a jewel from
tho crown of American achievement.”
At Ackley, the next slop, the prosi-
dent spoke as follows:
•«j recall in this presence my former
jjjj g p e or>le, now, I heliove,
j; v(1 y (;ara [ congratulate yon
„ the improve d condition of tho
ooUntry> When I was hero last wo
wcre j n a condition of business do-
pregsion> Times were hard, fear had
overcome courage. Now all is ehauged.
y^ e j lflvo (r e beial prosjmrity, good
CI . (ip4 an< i f a j r prices, steady employ-
ruent and good wages, and we aro a
happy and contented people,
“Weare importing few products from
abroad than we have done iu many
y ear s,and we are sending more of Amer-
j can products abroad than wo ever
oon t before.
“We are on a gold basis and we.
raeau to stay there." (General cry of
good.)
COLUMBIA SCORED EIKHT.
Jlreuie at I.aat Favor* Yarhl* anil Ini¬
tial Run In Mailti.
A New York dispatch says: ’The cup
which tho old schooner America won
so commandingly uguinst all comers
over the course around tho Islo of
Wight in 1851 and brought hack across
the seas will probably remain hete an¬
other year, a defiance to the world.
In a glorious breeze, over a wind¬
ward and leeward course of thirty
miles, the Columbia scored against
the Hhamrock Monday in the first race
of the 1899 series for the trophy. Hhe
bounded across tbe finish line fully a
mile and a half ahead of the chal¬
lenger.
BOERSWEREWAiTiNG
Further Particulars of Destruc¬
tion of Armored Train.
TOWN ON ENGLISH SOIL BESIEGED
The TraniTiinl FU* h Over New
Klmheviy Mines
Are Threatened.
The Loudon Daily Mail’s Cape
Town correspondent, telegraphing
Sunday evening, says:
“Kimberly is besieged and the
Boors aro massing in force. No de¬
tails, however, are obtainable.
“Tho Boers have cut the railway at
Belmont, have seized tho Spyfoutoiu
railway station and constructed forti¬
fied eurth works. There ore strong
defending forces at Modder bridge
and tho Orange river bridge.
“The object of these onevgotio oper¬
ations is believed to bo the capture of
Cecil Rhodes. Kimberly is now iso¬
lated, both railway and telegraphic
communication being out.”
Tho Daily Mail’s Glencoe Camp
cerrespoudeut under date of Sunday
says:
“A force under Commandant Vfljoen
from Spitzkop, occupied Now Castle
Saturday afternoon, and it is reported
planted their ling over the town ball.
“It is rumored that the Boors have
captured a police patrol of six men nt
Dcjagers, on the Buffalo river.”
Ho far as actual news is concerned,
very little change in the situation is
noticed. The state affairs at Mafeking
can only ho conjectured. Tho occupa¬
tion of New Castle by tho Boers vas
prepared for aud expected, the place
having been abandoned by the British.
Tho Boers are reported by press dis¬
patches to bo menacing Kimberly.
IWioi’H Were On the Wnt«h.
Further details are at hand regard¬
ing the destruction of tho armored
train nt Nesbitt, Kranipan. These show that
Captain who was in command
of tlic train, was warned at Maribago
that tlio Boers bold the line. lie re¬
plied that he was bound to proceed.
Nearing Kranipan, the train dashed
into a culvert that had heon blown up
by the Boers, who were lying in wait
for (ho (rain. Tho Boer artillery im¬
mediately opened tiro and n desperate
£ l r,:r r
against , the 41 ,, Hritisb. ... , m, I no precise . tie-
1
. *1 TTl . .
a, “-
n ’ ' 'Y Y * «, ' n 1 a .< 11
’
, , , n « -
,reached within about two thousand
ditched yards of with Kraaipan, saw tho train
tho Boer artillery still
pounding at it, but noticed no ro-
:!=; , . « J/1S"; rpi_ r> m i c * i a
plete; , , and , the police feared, , , as there ,,
waB j, 0 H jg n () f Jjf 0 near the train, that
the entire force had perished in a des-
porato attempt to get tho train hack to
Mafeking, whero they know it was
anxiously awaited with itsjoad of guns
and ammunition.
It is reported that the Boers lost
heavily, but there Is no moans of vor-
ifying this. Two miles of rails were
torn up.
There is no authoritative confirma-
tion of tho report that a battle 1ms
boon fought n Natal between Kir
General George Stewart White and
the Orange Free State troojis, although
thero is no question that the Boers
have crossed the frontier at several
points,
JIA>(Y EARTHQUAKE VICTIMS.
Daatn i.Lt on ilia iMamt or con,,, HlIu t„
Iluve ilflon Four Tliou h;um!.
Official dispatches from Batavia, cap-
ital of The Netherlands Indies, con-
firm tho reports regarding the recent
earthquake on the island of Coran.
Not only the town of Amhoi, on tho
south side of the Island, was destroy-
ed, but Bevernl other villages were
wrecked. The official advices declare
that no fewer than 4,000 people were
killed and hundreds of others serious¬
ly injured.
Marchand Wanted Revenge.
Advices from Paris state that Major
Marchand, who commanded the French
expedftion in the Soudan, wished to
go and fight for the Boers for revenge
for being compelled to withdraw 'from
J'Vishoda, but tho government refused
him permission.
MOB WAS OUTWITTED.
Two rrisoncrH In ValrtouLn, Ga , .Jail Worn
Huninvmi I>» Tlmo,
Ktinday night the county jail at Val-
dota was for tho second time the scene
of a mol) who were after the two jiris-
onois who murdered Henry Vickers,
some three weeks ago. The citizens
of Valdosta, wero in some Way notified
of the corning of the mob, aud the two
prisoners—Jim Goddin und Wash
Powell—were put on the train and
sent to WnycroBs.
The moli was about four hundred
strong. The jailer assured them that
the two prisoners had been taken away
to woycross, but a thorough search
was made before the men went away.
NO. II.
BOAT BURNED;
TEN LIVES LOST
Alleged Negligence of Captain
Added to Fatalities.
THE ALARM GIVEN TOO LATE
Ve.ssel (turned to Water’s Fdge
and Only Those Who Jumped
Overboard Were Saved. ’
A New York special says: Tho
Bridgeport steamer Nutmeg State was
burned in Long Island sound off
Sands Point, L. .1., at sunrise Satur¬
day morning and ten persons were
burned to death or drowned.
Most of tile passengers who escaped
suffered nothing more than shock from
immersion in chilly water, and only
four persons were sent to the hospital.
The steamer was run to the beach nt
the outbreak of the (lames and burned
to tho water’s edge.
Tho bodies of two victims of
the disaster drifted ashore about noon
on tho beach, a mile east of tho blazing
wreck.
One was tho body of a woman
about twenty-eight years old, aud the
other a girl of four years.
The Nutmeg State, with ovor a hun¬
dred persons on hoard, hound from
Gonnetticntt towns to New York, was
discovered on fire about half-past five,
when she was within a few miles of
Sands Point, L. J.
Tho flames were in the how of tho
boat between tho forward cabin
aud the donkey engine room. Tho
fire was on the main deck, and
seemed to bo a small affair; bo
Captain 0. M. Brooks, not. wishing to
needlessly alarm the passengers, or¬
dered the crew to work as quietly as
possible with buckets and boss. For
about twenty minutes the flames did
not seem to he dangerous, and the men
appeared to have flimn in control.
Suddenly they burst into it furious
blaze amidship.
Baggageman Samuel Jaynes was de¬
to ;-i't amrm tlio A paNSonffem and - all j the
members \ of e the crow who , wore in the *.
forward part of the boat. Ho ran
through the passageways on the sov-
‘’'‘^’^vera! cr “!, ,lw,kK ’ decks *“ shout.ng the passengers to tho
al “ »*• “looping crew. Ho
! ' amuleHipH cr yrn g ont warn-
lu until i he was forced by the flames
..... . ^*...................
FATHER AMI SON ARRESTED
t:,n <.r• N.. B r« itur-
ic I It *• < i II > 1 r In Denied.
At Atlanta, Ga., Saturday, Vincent
F. Pickert, son of A. F. Piokert, was
arrested on n warrant charging him
with burglary. This was a sensational
development of the sensational arrest
of A. F. Piokert, which occurred three
days before, and who was released un¬
der a 82,000 bond. Immediately af¬
ter his arrost young Pickert was also
released on a 82,000 bond.
Those two arrests of father and son,
two men who liavo hitherto stood well
iri the community, and who are well-
to-do financially, is the result, the city
detectives olaim, of the discovery of
one of the most notorious uud gigan-
(i 0 ‘'j onces ’> that has over been known
Atlanta
The elder Pickert was a prominent
j ()W ,.| or in Atlanta for many years,
]jj h mjn j g a lawyer by profession and
0 pawnbroker by trade.
Upon the statement of a confessed
nogro burglar, Will Etheridge, oon-
fl ne ,i j„ the Tower, backed up by evt-
,i on( , u w I>loh the officers olaim is
itvongly corroborative, it is expected
to convict tho two men, one of bur¬
glary (and other of receiving stolen
goods.
The Pickerts deny their guilt. Their
friends claim for tlom that the evi-
douce against them is nothing more
than a lie made up by a self-confessed
thief and that there is absolutely noth¬
ing to back it and that thero will
never he.
ItOAST FROM 0UTZ 9
Carolina DlNpoittmvy ftcasirtal Given a
Frenh Impetus.
A Columbia special says: D. A.
Ouzts, until recently bookeeper of tbe
commissioner of the state dispensary,
lias issued a signed statement, pre¬
facing ius promised book of revela¬
tions, second series, which is to tell
of dotuils of die dispensary scandal.
In the signed statement repeated
reference is made to tho alleged irreg¬
ularities, and Mr. Onzts declares he
knows a great deal about the dispen¬
sary situation which he will mako pub¬
lic. Ho declares the board is controll¬
ed by a gang, and not in the interest
of the people.