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AMERICAN TROOPS C/2 C*3 oc;
Lawton, Wheaton and Ovenshine’s Men Swoop Down
Upon Insurgent Trenches.
RESISTANCE STRONG, BUT THE ONSLAUGHT WAS SUCCESSFUL
Country Was Cleared From Manila To Bay Lake On the South—Two
American Officers Killed.
A special from Manila says: At day¬
break Saturday a force of 4,500 men
under Generals Lawton, Wheaton and
Ovenshine advanced from San Pedro
Macati, sweeping the country between
the bay of Manila and Bay lake, south
of Manila. By noon the country had
been cleared almost to Paranque.
The Americans lost two officers killed
and twenty-one soldiers w r ounded.
The rebels resisted desperately at
the stronger of their positions and left
fifty dead in the trenches. Many
more wounded were left behind by the
rebels in their retreat. The heat dur¬
ing the day was overpowering and
there were many prostrations of Amer¬
ican soldiers from that cause.
General Lawton’s force consisted of
battalions each of the Twenty first
and Ninth infantry, six companies of
the Colorado volunteers and a detach¬
ment of artillery. The Nevada cavalry
was under General Wheaton and the
Thirteenth and Fourteenth infantry,
the Fourth cavalry and a detachment
of light artillery wfere under General
Ovenshine.
It was scarcely dawn when the
troops, in a long, silent procession,
wound up the hillside behind the
American trenches and formed a skir¬
mish line. Concealed in the jungle,
the advance rebel outposts fired a few'
shots before being seen.
The opposing forces occupied two
ranges of crescent shaped hills.
The artillery, the Colorado infantry
and the Nevada calvary swung around
the hiil top qn the left and opened the
battle at 6:30 o’clock. The rebels
made no response from the hills, and
the Colorado men cautiously advanced
through the thick grass until they were
confronted by a trench, from which
a few weak volleys were fired. A spir¬
ited response followed, and a charge
into the trench found it to be deserted.
In the meantime part of the Thirteenth
and Fourteenth regiments formed in
skirmish line, extending a mile to the
right, and supported by the rest of the
regiments, swept down the valley and
up the hillside toward another trench.
Approaching through the morass se¬
riously hampered the Fourteenth, and
the rebels taking advantage of this,
poured a galling fire upon them for
thirty minutes. The Fourteenth was
twice compelled to withdraw for the
purpose of finding a safe crossing in
the swamp. Finally the trench was*
enfiladed on both flanks. The rebels
fled to the woods and sustained se¬
vere loss.
General Lawton then pushed his
entire command south, through the
center of the isthmus, until a few
miles south of Paranaq.ue, when he
swung around and halted on account
of the heat. •
During the march Americans were
prostrated on all %ides, owing to lack
of water and exposure to the sun. It
is estimated that 40 per cent of the
troops were exhausted.
The double turreted monitor Mo-
nadnock and three other vessels shell¬
ed Paranaque, and the rebelu promptly
evacuated the place.
A dispatch received Sunday says:
The Filipino occupation of the pro¬
vince of Cavite has been broken, and
as the result of the present movement
the Americans now control the import¬
ant coast towns of Paranaque and Las
Dreyfus Goes Aboard.
A dispatch from Cheyenne, French
Guiana, says: The French Sfax left
the islands at 6:20 Saturday morning
with Dreyfus on board. The latter
embarked on the warship at 7 o’clock
Friday morning.
General Wood Comes Home.
General Leonard Wood, military
governor of Santiago, has been grant¬
ed leave of absence in order that he
may bring his family back to the
United States.
MINERS GETTING TOGETHER.
In East Tennessee They Are Rapidly
Joining the Big Association.
A Chattanooga dispatch says: The
miners of East Tennessee are rapidly
joining the United Mine Workers’ as-
sociation and putting themselves in
position to resist aggressions from the
operators and also to secure good
/ prices for their work.
It is said that they will fully backup
the miners at Soddy, who are locked
out because they are refused recogni¬
tion as members of the association.
The movement has been progressing
quietly for several mouths until
now the plans are perfected.
FAVORS OPEN SESSIONS.
Germany Is Opposed To Plan of Se¬
crecy In Peace Conference.
The chief delegates to the peace con¬
ference at The Hague met Saturday to
discuss Germany’s complaint against
the secrecy imposed upon the dele¬
gates and the consequences of mislead¬
ing reports published and it is under¬
stood that Count Munster, of the Ger-
man delegation, was instructed to pro¬
pose that the protocols for the plenary
js
Pinas, while a long line of insurgent
trenelies facing our south line has
been cleared.
The insurgents have again proved
their facility as dodgers, betw r een 3,000
and 4,000 warriors who seemed des¬
tined to be captured having disappear¬
ed, the majority sliding away under
cover of night, after fighting the
Americans all day. Some others came
to meet our troops with protestations
of friendship.
The Thirteenth infantry lost one
man killed and six wounded; the
Ninth infantry, one man killed and
five wounded, the Fourteenth infantry,
three wounded, and the First Color¬
ado volunteer agiment, eleven wound¬
ed. Saturday’s work was the heavi¬
est and hardest our army has seen.
Tho battlefield stretched across the
entire isthmus from Laguna de Bay to
the harbor. While the troops were
advancing the army gunboat Rapidan,
in the river near Taguig, shelled the
enemy, killing several of them. The
monitor Manadnock and the gunboat
Helena shelled Paranaque and Las
Pinas all day with the full power of
their batteries.
The rebel sharpshooters kept in hid¬
ing until the American lines had pass¬
ed, and then attempted to pot strag¬
glers from the trees. Thanks to their
poor marksmanship, this was without
result.
The whole country proved to be a
succession of small hills, with boggy
ground between the high, thick grass
and rushes in the hollows, whioh
greatly added to the difficulty of the
advance, but gave shelter that saved
many from the enemy’s bullets.
Our men threw away their blanket*
coats and even haversacks, stripping
to the waist and trusting to luck for
food. Water could not be obtained
and there was much discomfort after
the canteens were emptied.
At the outset the Colorados, the
Ninth infantry and the Twenty-first
infantry forced the line of insurgent
trenches, wheeled to the left and drove
the enemy tow ard the lake. During
this maneuver, the Filipinos in con¬
cealed trenches on the right opened
an enfilading fire, but the brigade,
partly owing to the high grass, had
few hit.
The Ninth infantry crept around to
the right, flanking the trenches, driv¬
ing out the Filipinos and killing many
of them.
The Americans camped for the night
south of the town, and in the midst
of a heavy rain.
At 6 o’clock Sunday morning Gen¬
eral Wheaton advanced upon Las
Pinas with a troop of cavalry, the
Twenty-first infantry, the Colorado
regiment, part of the Ninth infantry
and two mountain guns, crossing
tw r o streams and entering the town
without firing a shot. He then ad¬
vanced upon Paranaque.
The women and children, and, for
that matter, many men remained in
the towp. No houses were destroyed,
though many were torn by the shells
from the warships. Everywhere the
Americans found white flags flying.
So far as can yet be ascertained, the
Filippinos’ loss is about fifty killed,
about 350 wounded and twenty taken
prisoners. is net-worked
The whole country
with trenches, and the enemy scurried
from shelter to shelter.
DEPOSITORIES NAMED
For West ladies and Phi ippines By
the War Department.
The following institutions haye been
designated as depositories of the war
department: Ford & Co.,
For Porto Rico—De
and the American Colonial bank, bond
$500,000 each.
For Cuba—The North American
Trust Company, bond $1,500,000.
For the Philippine Islands—The In¬
corporated Bank of India, China and
Australia, bond $500,000.
JAPAN ASSITS CHINA.
Vessels Captured In the War Will Be
Returned By the Japanese.
A Seattle, Wash., special says: A
wefll authenticated story comes from
Japan to the effect that all the men-of-
war captured from the Chinese in the
late war between the two countries are
to be returned to the Chinese govern¬
ment.
This is part of the policy decided on
by the Japanese to protect her neigh¬
bor from the inroads of the powers.
It is said that the only requirement to
be made is that China invests so many
millions in new war vessels to be built
under Japanese directions.
Forts Named For Officers.
By direction of the president two
forts in Alaska have been named in
honor of General John Gibbon and
Colonel Henry C. Egbert. The- latter
was killed while leading his regiment
in battle in the Philippines, March
26th.
To Take Place of Paris.
The American line has decided to
build in this country a $2,000,000
ship equal to the St. Louis and St.
Paul to replace the steamer Paris,
ARBITRATORS MEET.
They Will Endeavor To Settle the
Dispute Over Boundaries
In Venezuela.
The Venezuelan arbitration commit-
tee held its first formal meeting in
Paris Thursday. There was a large
and distinguished assemblage. Baron
de Maartens is the umpire, and on
one bench wero the arbitrators, Chief
Justice Fuller and Justice Brewer, of
the United States supremo court;
Baron Bussell, of Kilowen, lord chief
justice of England, and Sir Kichard
Henn Collins, lord justice Of appeals.
The commission decided to meet
only four days next week, omitting
Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays.
By arrangement of counsel, Sir
Kichard Webster opened the British
case, the procedure providing for
speaking by him first, then two Vene-
with possibly 6 two counS^then^Vene-
zuela, and next Great Britain, Vene-
zuela making the final speech.
Sir Richard Webster made a geogra-
phical and historical review of the 1
boundary subject, entering exhaustive- j
lv into a discussion of the general !
question presented. i
MORE MEN FOR OTIS.
Three Additional Regiments Will Be
Formed In the Philippines.
Pursuing a policy determined upon
some months ago, General Otis is |
organizing three regiments in the
Philippines composed of officers and | |
men of the state volunteers who de-
sire to remain in the service. The
army bill authorized this kind of en-
listment in the Philippines. If the
full complement be made '
cannot up
from those discharged volunteers in I
the Philippines, the regiments will be j
organized and officered in skeleton
form until recruits can be sent from
the United States to fill them.
General Otis and volunteer officers
in the Philippines have been consult-
ing to see how many men will enlist.
The number has not been very large,
as there seems to be a desire of the
volunteers to return to the United
States with their organizations. j
These three proposed regiments of
regulars will sail from San Francisco
on the 22d and 24th and those under !
orders for Manila will give General
Otis 33,000 fighting men.
The field and staff officers and cap¬
tains of these three regiments will be
selected from the volunteer and regu¬
lar officers who have demonstrated
their special fitness to command and
w'ho have distinguished themselves in
action.
SENATOR COCKe ARRESTED.
He Is Charged With Embezzling the
Funds of a Bank.
A decided sensation was created at
Charlotte, N. C., Thursday morning
by the announcement that the grand
jury of the federal court had found a
true bill against William J. Cocke, of
Asheville, for embezzlement, abstrac-
tion and misappropriation of the funds
of the National Bank of Asheville.
Cocke was at one time cashier of
this bank and it is alleged that these
irregularities occurred during this
period.
There are ninety-tw-o counts in the
indictment and the bill is the largest
ever drawn in the state, covering
twenty-five pages. !
Cocke was arrested in _ Asheville
while in bed Thursday morning. He
gave bond in the sum of $15,000.
Oocke is one of the most prominent j
young politicians in western North |
Carolina He is state senator from
Buncombe county, and was the young- :
est state senator m tbe last legislature, j
He was mayor of Asheville at the age
of 21.
His wife died under unusual cir-
cumstances some time ago and there
were rumors of foul play, but Cocke was
acquitted of all blame regarding his;
wife’s death. There was $30,000 in- ;
surance ou her life. All these things j
are been being placed revived under now indictment. that Cocke has j
OLYflPlA LEAVES SINGAPORE.
Next Stop By Dewey Will Be At
Colombo, Ceylon.
A cable , , dispatch ,. , . , from Singapore
states that the Umted States cruiser
Olympia, with Admiral Dewey on
board, safied from that port at day-
hght Thursday morning
The next stop made by the cruiser .
will D6 at Colombo* Island of Coylon.
FILIPINOS DISAPPEARED.
Lawton Could Not Find Insurgents
After the Big Battle.
A Manila special says: The Filipinos
retreated several miles southward af¬
ter Tuesday’s engagement to the
strongly fortified town Imus.
The shelling of the American war¬
ships drovo the rebels from Bacoor, so
that the Americans control several
miles of coast. General Lawton with
his staff and a troop of the Fourth
cavalry, started to ascertain the nature
of the insurgents’ position. He rode
five miles along the coast to Bacoor
without discovering the enemy.
He found the town full of white
flags. But there were no soldiers.
HERMAN DEATH LIST.
Storm In Nebraska Town Killed Ten
and Injured Twenty-Five.
A special dispatch from Herman,
Neb!, says: Ten persons dead, twenty-
five in i ured ’ five ot "‘b 0111 wiU die > and
half the remainder suffering from very
serious wounds, sums up the list of
casualties resulting from the cyclone
that wrecked the town on last Monday
night.
HAVEMEYER TALKS.
Head of Sugar Trust Gives
Much Information.
HOW THE BIG TRUST WORKS
--
Sugar King Declares the Customs Tariff
the True “Communism !
of Pelf.’
Mr. Henry O. Havemeyer, president
of the Ameriean Sugar Refining com . (
P^. — examined Wednesday by !
the industrial commission in session
a t Washington, in connection with in- I
vestigation of trU8ts , His testimony
related . . . almoat . wholl y to the 8n f? ar l “-
dustry and he opened with a vigorous
attack upon the customs tariff which
he declared was the “mother of all ,
trusts, . ,, , becoming such , , by providing
turriartide. "
Tie declared that the sugar company j
undoubtedly tried to do its utmost to i
enlarge its business, bnt did it in a
wa 7 which they consider the only
proper one, i. e., by making the price ;
so low as to defy competition. He ;
said:
It is my opinion that corporations ;
are under no obligations whatever to
an 7 of the states for their existence,
Quite the reverse; the states are under
obligations to them. If the plant of
these industries consolidated was ca-
Fable of being put on wheels and
moved from state to state, you would
And very active bidding for them. It ,
' s no * an unusual thing for certain ;
localities to guarantee free taxation!
{or twenty years, free water and in j
some instances give the land to oor- ;
porations to have them organize under :
their statutes and locate in their states. ;
There is no such thing as monopoly
in these days except that which re-
salts The from true patents “communism and copyrights. of pelf” is j
the customs tariff bill. It says to the
people: “Here is the law we have en-
acted foi; robbery. Do not ’
your com-
plain Oi it, but do your utmost to
attack and injure the machinery en-
gaged legislate in shall extracting from you what we j
be taken from you.”
Tariff Is Attacked. i
Continuing hie statement, lie assert- ;
ed that a tariff of 10 per cent was as
high as any tariff should be. He con-
tended that sugar is discriminated
against in the tariff in the interest of
the Louisiana cane growers, the beet
sugar makers and sugar growers of
the Hawaiian islands. To these inter-
e sts he contended the United States
contributed $24,000,000, which was
taken annually out of the pockets of
the people. The protection on sugar
amounted to only one-eighth of a cent
a pound, or about 3A per cent adval- '
0 rem. I ought to be twice as much.
“What the sugar refining business ;
has paid, or is paving represents noth-
f ng more than an" adequate return on
the capital invested,” he said.
“What congress should^ have done :
wag to have put an internal revenue ;
tax on the American production of su-
gnr . The representations made in
congress concerning the trust, he de-
clared, were untrue and if it was a
f ac t that the people suffered from
trusts they must blame the protective
tariff system of which the trusts were
merely the machinery. No advantage
had ever been taken by his company!
of the protective system beyond the I
one-eighth of a cent given. He ad-
mitted freely that the company did all i
possible to advance its own business
interests. He did not think the cor-
porations were under obligations to the
different states, bnt that the reverse
was true.
He referred to the anti-trust laws of
some of the states as a problem on dis-
honesty, specifying the Missouri law.
There were always two classes of peo-
pie in a community—the industrious
and those who want to live off them,
<<But for the olamol . aga insttrusts,”
he gaid „ it could be go ld for three
timeg its cap i talization ...
Y et he thought the refineries could
be duplioated for $35,000,000 or $40,-
qqq 000
LOUBET CABINET QUITS.
Usual Break-Up Occurs With the
French Ministry.
A Paris special says: The cabinei
has resigned and President Loubet
has accepted the resignations of the
ministers, but has requested them to
maintain their offices until their suc¬
cessors are named.
It is presumed that M. Loubet will
summon the presidents of the chambers
at one - in order to consult with them
on the formation of a new cabinet. On
leaving the chamber M. Dupuy ob¬
served to a group of deputies in the
lobby:
“We hand over the business to
luckier, but not more courageous men. ”
PROTECTION FOR LOUBET.
His Second Trip To the Races Was ;
Reverse of th* First.
had^fs^-evenge'for^the^ecent 1 to outrage Long j
at Auteuil. When he drove
Champ Sunday, to attend the Grand
Prix, he was the hero of a great popu-
lar demonstration, expressed in one
form or another, along the whole route
from the Elvsee palace to the race
course.
DEMOCRATS CONVENE
In Harrisburg, Pa., To Nominate
Judges—Platform Is Fa-
vorable To Bryan.
Four huudred and thirty-five repre-
aentfttives of the democracy of Penn¬
met at Hariislmrg Wednes¬
for the purpose of nominating
candidates for the supreme court
|^ g e ’ "' iperior court jlKlge and 8tatc
8 n r
Shortly after midnight the conven-
tion adjourned until Thursday morn-
mg without having accomplished the
first and most important piece of work
laid out for them, namely: the selec-
tion of a candidate for supreme judge.
When adjournment was had there
c ere eleven candidates in the field
with votes ranging from 13 to 72, the
highest being a long way off from the
^ necessary o eee . he de er-
mined battle arose from the fact that
the nominee is sure to be elected
to serve ®. twenty * years
The prepared the ..
p rm „ y aT ex
ecutive committee was adopted by the
resolutions committee. Mr. Siebert,
Potter, moved to amend the plat-
. . . . , . . . . . ,
TM<defeated b, a viv.yoc. «,l».
The report of the resolutions com-
mittee was unanimously adopted. A
synopsis of the platform follows:
“The democracy of Pennsylvania in
convention assembled, again renewing
our pledges of fidelity and devotion to
the sacred rights of the people; true to
the faith and principles of our party
as declared in the platforms of our
several national conventions, and
proud of our matchless leader, William
Jennings Bryan, realize that the issues
involved in the coming campaign in
Pennsylvania are honest government,
clean politics and the redemption of
our state from republican misrule and
corruption.
“The increase of public officials and
clerks, and in salaries is denounced
and charged with being payment for
political obligations and causing a de-
ficit of over $3,500,000 in the treasury
and crippling charities, schools and
adding to the burden of the taxpayer.”
Continuing it reads:
“We denounce the indecent haste
displayed and the disrespect shown
the people by the governor of the state
m the.appointment to the vacancy in
the United States senate of M. S.
Quay, who to prevent a full investiga-
tion before a jury of his country,
pleaded the statute of limitation against
tbe most ?« rions charges of crime. In
this appointment, in tlie unwarranted
ieduction of the appropriation to pub-
He schools and his imathorized veto of
the constitutional amendment resolu-
tion he has violated the constitution,
usurped authority nowhere granted
him and perpetuated wrongs against
the people and the state that demand
his condemnation.”
The platform closes with reference
the war in these words:
“We glory and rejoice in the patrio-
tic devotion to the cause of our coun-
try in the late war with Spain of the
brave and noble men w ho periled
their lives ami shed their blood in or-
Her that a conflict waged for hnmani-
ty’s sake might be brought to a speedy
an< I triumphant close.”
TRIAL OF KIDNAPERS.
The Barrows Arraigned—Nurss, Carrie
Jones, Pleads Guilty.
The trial of George Beauregard
B B ^ rrowg rov>B j or kidnapine ^’ g Marion Clarke ’
' vho ' vas fouT ul ,. in New Cffy, w !Rockland ..
county, . begun at New York’Wed-
was
nesday .before Justice Furtmnn At.
the request of Mi. Howe, Barrow s at-
torney, Mrs. Barrow was permitted to
sit beside the husband during the
Before ^ Barrow B case was call ed _
Abraham Levy asked that his client,
Carrie Jones, be called to the bar.
She at once entered a plea of guilty by
the advice of her counsel. Mr. Levy
said that his client w'as repentant and
would throw herself on the mercy of
the court. He asked that she be re-
mauded for sentence, and this was
done. The girl will be called as a
witness against the Barrows.
The work of impaneling a jury for j
the trial of Barrow and his wife occu-
pied the hearing'testimony court until it w'as too late to
begin and adjourn¬
ment was taken until Thursday.
ENQLAND IS ALERT.
She Is Preparing For a Possible War
In South Africa.
A London dispatch says: Comman- 1
der-in-Chief Lord Wolseley has been
busy for several days at the war office
preparing for possible eventualities in
South Africa.
The effective lists of the first class
reserve have been prepared and trans- !
portation been provisionally for the First arranged. urmy corps has j
!
The officers on furlough have been
warned to hold themselves in read!
ness to return to their regiments.
The general trend of news, however,
is more pacific.
ADOPTED SON OF HAVANA.
Genera! Gomez Receiv s Unique Honor
At Hands of Municipality. pre-j !
The municipality of Havana has
-tficate j
of the T “ a ® bort tbe
old general thanks the for ;
givers
the honor conferred and says that
nothing could touch him more than
tb is illustration of the friendship of
the people of Cuba, who can always j
depend upon his loyalty. I
A DESPERATE BATTLE
Heaviest Fight of the War
Occurs Near Manila.
SIXTY AMERICANS KILLED
_
insurgents and Lawton’s Men Have
| ^7 „ ^llkrj . . Duel-’AmenOUJS ....
Were Almost Surrounded.
Advices from Manila state that Gen-
eral Lawton unexpectedly stirred up
one of the liveliest engagements of the
war south of Las Pinas Tuesday
morning, upon whioh occasion Ameri¬
can field guns were engaged in the
first artillery duel against a Filipino
battery conoealed in the jungle.
Companies F and I, of the Twenty-
first infantry, were nearly surrounded
t" by a large body of insurgents, but the
u c: M *“ h
“to! ifnitedStat..tarretahip Moaad-
noo k aDC j the gunboats Helena and
Zaflro traiuei j their batteries on re¬
koor ftnd the rebe , trencbeg near Han
pj naB a p morning. Bakoor was once
Qn flre and the native8 stopped the
; ad of the fl ames
.
The fighting at Las Pinas continued
hot aU d ] ong . General Lawton
calle(1 out tbe wbo le force of 3,000
men an( j 5 0 ' c i oc k was only able
t<) h tbe i nsurg ents back 500 yards
to the Zapote river, w here they are in¬
drenched ly'and The insurgents resisted des-
perate aggressively They at-
tempted to turB tbe ] e ft (lank of the
American troops. The Amerioan loss
is conservatively estimated at sixty.
At day ij gb t Tuesday the rebels at
Cavite droppe d two shells from a big,
8Uloot b-bore gnu mounted in front of
th@ churc b into the navy yard. The
on j y damage done was splintering the
'
t of the b ,i<r e shears on the mole,
The boatB Callao, Mila and Mos-
quito then proceeded to dismount the
8 flre
A f ter breakfast the rebels opened
al the beach to Bakoor. After
gilenoing the big gun at Cavite the
gun boats ran close along the shore,
bombarding the rebel position. The
rebelg rep lied with rifle fire and with
the fire of some small pieces of artil-
ler So yigorou8 wa8 tbe enemy’s
g re t k a t at 9.09 a . m . the gunboat Hel-
g q a jqjqed the small gunboats already
named nnd the p r i nce ton, Monterey
and Monadnock from their anchorage*
dropped occasional big stells among
tbe rebels,
This apparently only served to in¬
cite the re b e l Sj a s they kept up an in-
cessant fire of musketry and artillery
near the mouth of the Zapote river two
mi i es nort h of Bakoor
The fi re 0 f a ll geV en warships wa*
concel)t rated on this point shortly af-
tgr noon wh en the upper bay pre¬
gented tbe appearance of being th*
gcene 0 f a grea t naval battle. The
rebe i B we re eventually forced to aban-
dou thejr g after bolding out about
four hours, only to be confronted by
General Lawton’s force on land and in
the rear, where there was heavy fight¬
ing.
During the morning General Law-
ton took a battalion of the Fourteenth
regiment and two companies of the
Twenty-first regiment to locate the
rebel battery, and then two guns of
the sixtb artillery and fonr mountain
* were planted against it at 000
distant.
•
,j, be rebels had a large gun from
which they were firing home-made
canister loaded with nails, and two
smaller guns. Their shooting w*»
most accurate.
EXONERATES PICQUART.
Charge of Forgery Against French
Official Falls Through.
A Paris dispatch says: The chamber
0 f indiotments Tuesday decided that
there is no case against Colonel
Piequart, charged with forgery in the
Dreyfus case, or against Maitre Le-
b lois, his counsel, against whom
charges were also made in connection
vvith the case,
The judgment of the court thus
finallv exonerates Piequart.
EVANS DOESN’T ANSWER.
Charges Are Made Against Ex-Gov¬
ernor of South Carolina.
A Columbia, S. C., special says:
The committee appointed by the legis-
lature to investigate the conduct of
tbe penitentiary by Colonel Neal,
while superintendent, and general
irregularities, resumed its work Tues-
day.
So far tho chief interest lies in the
letters of explanation from Senator
Tillman, and the absence of any letter
from ex-Governor Evans,against whom
there iR charged $175 for groceries on
the penitentiary books, besides other
matters, such as working a farm with
convicts.
BRITISH SUBJECTS REHANDED.
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riai AI e rod Officers At Pretori*
The tnaToTtL^lte^trmer Brit-
>-h officers who were arrested at Jo-
hannesburg May 15th last on the
charge of high treason, in having
attempted to enroll men with a view
of a rebellions outbreak which began
at Pretoria June 9th, terminated'Wed-
nesday. The prisoners were remanded.