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THE MORGAN MONITOR.
VOL. IV. N.O. 4-1.
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Boer Bullets, However, Did Fearful Execu¬
tion Among- the Red Coats.
WAS A DESPERATE FIGHT
Heavy Losses Were Inflicted On
Both Sides—British Com¬
mander Wounded.
A special dispatch from the Trans-
vaal received at London Friday stated
that after eight hours of continuous
heavy fighting, Talana Hill was carried ;
by the Dublin Fnsileers and tho !
King’s Biflas, under- cover of a well j
served artillery fire by the Thirteenth |
and Sixty-ninth batteries. The Boers !
who threatened the British rear re -!
tired.
The fight was almost an exact coun¬
terpart of that of Majnba Hill, except
that the positions of the Boer aud
British forces were reversed.
General Symonds was severely, but'
not dangerously, wounded.
The Boars got a reverse which may
possibly check all aggressive action.
The British artillery practice in the
early part of the day decided the bat¬
tle. The seizure of Dundee Hill by
thd Boers was a surprise, for although
fhe pickets had been exchanging shots
b‘L boomed A over ’ V tho ? town mto ■T'iy the “ camp 8h9l ‘
Thcn then ih' the r„,u shells nCa T fast dls ^ The el ; hill ed ; !
came
? Lo ,’ stl11 Z tho I British r u 0 artillery S ™ rm -i j
got _ to , work with magnificent energy j
35:’r\‘ i nm mi ’t 1
firing, silenced tho Bo'er the !
hills. gnna on |
mi Tne „ correspondent , , could ,, see shells , ,,
dropping among the Boer pieces with
“w menaous execution, r for ,i the 0lng enemy tre -
were present in very large numbers,
a,1 Lv U t w°H.»°n«de«bly j n .?, ® enoniy exposed held tho
wl-ole , of f the ,, hill behind . Smith’s farm j
and the Dundee Ivopje, right-away to j
the south m which direction the !
British mfautry and cavalry moved
®
lie igh.ing • raged . , particularly .. , , , hot j
at tT outside the town. Di- j
rec y the Loer guns ceased firing,
General Symonds ordered tho infantry j
to the position. '
movo on ^
The infantry charge was magnifi-
cent. The way the King s Loyal K<-
fles and the Dublin Fusileers stormed
the position was one #f the most spied-
did sights ever seen. The firing of
the Boers was not so deadly as might
have >een expected from the troops
occupying such an excellent position,
but the infantry lost heavily going up ;
the hill and only the consummately’
bri hant way in which General Sym- j
onds had trained them to fighting of j
the kind saved them from being swept
away.
Indeed, the hill was almost inacces¬
sible ter the storming party and any
hesitation would have lost the day.
The enemy’s guns, so far as the cor¬
respondent could see, were abandoned,
fer the Boers had no time to remove
nem. stream of fugitives poured i
down the hillside into the valley,
where the battle went on with no
abatement.
British Commander "VVoujideU.
General Symonds was wounded early
in the action and the command then
devolved on Maj or Yule.
The efiemy as they fled were follow¬
ed by the cavalry, mounted infantry
and artillery. The direction taken
was to the eastward.
Some that four and ( !
say some say j
five guns were captured. The Boer
artillery plugged shells firing was weak. A lot of j
were used. I
Although the enemy's position was )
carried soon after 4 o’clock, scattered \
firing went ou almost all afternoon,
The those British of the Boers losses are very severe,but j
are much heavier. j ;
The final rush was made with a tri-
umpbant yell and as the British troops !
charged to close quarters the enemy
turned and fled, leaving all their im- '
DOCUMENT Is SATISFACTORY.
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Over tlie Vanderbilt xvm
Senator Chauncev M. Depew is re-
ported will as saying: “The Vanderbilt
derbiit is satisfactory and to Cornelius Van- i
the talk about a contest is
nonsense. The delay in probating!
the will is not due to dissatisfaction
on Cornelius Vanderbilt’s part, but
for business reasons.”
i
tamp Postoffioe Discontinued.
dered The the postoffiee hospital department has or-!
Fort Monroe station postoffice at
31st, discontinued October troops!
on account of the few
remaining at thc post.
PROCLAMATION BY STEYN.
president of Orange Free State Say* Hi* J
Troon* Can’t lie Defeated. j
Advices from tbe Orange Free State !
announce that President Stvne has is-1
sued another proclamation calling
upon arms, the and Burghers to a man to' ’lake '
. to fight against the unscruo-
if our enemv. ‘
y “We are fighting a «t war ” says
«>e proclamation, God’s “and canuot'be
*>a on our side,”
pediments and guns behind tllem in
their precipitated flight.
V/MU this was going on, one bat¬
tery of artillery, the fiighteentb Hus¬
sars and the mounted infantry, with a
part of the the Leicester regiment, got
on the enemy’s flank, and as tho Boers
streamed down the hills, making for
the main roads, they found their re¬
treat had been cutoff, but they rallied
for awhile and there was severe fight*
w '^h considerable loss to each
^ " Mftn ? of tbe eilem >' surrender-
A correspondent states that through
his glasses during the fighting he no-
I^fld how much the Boers seemed to
bs n05! P uls ed by the tactics of the im-
p<?r:al troops, especially of tlie well
drilled, swift moving horsemen. The
enemy are still, as of old, a mob.
WON THREE STRAIGHTS.
Yacht Columbia Again Defeats
English Boat and Cinches
the Cup.
A New York dispatch saysi Through
wild and hoary sens, in a breeze that
approached the dignity of a gala, the
gallant sloop Columbia, Friday, van-
qnighad tl)e British challenger Sham-
*ock ^ six minutes and eighteen 8CC- .
onda ttct „ al time „ nd 8il minutes and
thirty-four seconds corrected time, ^
thus completing , be 8erieg foT
America's cup with a magnificent
rcmgb weather duel and glorious Yan-
I victory. ’
lee
sat
has failed. The trophy won by the
old schooner America forty-eight years
ago is still ours, a monument to the
superi ority of American seamanship
and American naval architecture and
a standing challenge to the yachtsmen
of llU nations. Unbeaten America
agai „ tastes the glo o{ vict
T ,io intrinsic value of the reward,
w hi e h hundreds of thousands of dol-
!ars were emended to secure is small
_ riimp ly au'antiqnated piece of silver-
ware which Queen Victoria offered to
tho bost 6ailiug ship in the world in
early days of her reign, but around
jt cluster the precious memories of
unbroken American triumph and the
h onor 0 f mastery in the nobles of
sportg
To Sir Thomas Lipton, wh ose name
is now added to the list of defcatad as¬
ph-ants for the honor of carrying the
cup back across the Atlantic, failure
was a crushing blow. His hopes had
been high. But like the true .porta-
raan that he is, the sting of defeat has
left no bitternefs and with undaunted
ocmr age lie intimates that lie maybe
baok with a better boat to try again,
During his stay on this side of the
water Sir Thomas has made himself
more popular than any previous chal¬
lenger, and the yachtsmen of this coun¬
try will be glad to welcome him back.
Except for the repeated flukes and the
unfortunate accident to the challenger
on Tuesday this series of races has
been unmarred by a Bingle untoward
iucident. The boats have had two
f ftb . aa d square races, one in light airs
fl u ( j jhe other in a heavy blow and Sit-
Thomas is perfectly satisfied that ho
was beaten by tlie better boat.
MODUS VIVENDI EFFECTIVE.
A Temporary Adjustment of Alaskan
Boundary Has Been Secured.
Mr. Tower, the British charge at
Washington called at the state de¬
partment Friday and handed to Seorc-
tary Hay a note formally accepting for
his government the proposition for
the temporary adjustment of the by
Alaskan boundary line proposed
Secretary Hay.
With that act the long expected mo-'
dug vivondi relative to the vexed bonn-
darv question went into effect, after
several failures iu the past through
commissioners and ambassadors. The
state department is confident, that' it
has conserved every American interest
in the arrangement without unjustly
treating Canada.
The CJueen Thanked.
In the British house of commons
Friday the first lord of tho treasury,
Al ' tbur Balfour, moved an address of
»’ anks ‘,?. her for r °- vn! ra f
oaUl ut the lnllUla . 1 l T Tobn
sa S e "8 °. - '
Billon, nationalist . moved an amend-
meat, declaring the embodiment of
‘ b « rhlS WaB re ’
i ecte “> 299 to
Two Battalions Start For Manila.
Two battalions of the Thirty-eighth
United States volunteer infantry left
Jefferson barracks, St. Louis, Friday,
for Manila by way of San Francisco.
The Third battalion started Saturday
morning.
ROADS GIVEN MORE TIME.
Atltttna'* New Uepot Matter I* Farther
From Solution.
The union depot problem in Atlanta,
Ga., is no nearer solution than when
m<» e time was last given the railroads
to get together on a proposition,
May waa the dfl T set a T art b y ,be
- *
commission upon which they fondly
hoped that a definite proposition would
be made. None was made, and the
matter goes over until the 1 st
i November.
Morgan, ga.. Thursday, October 26, ism.
FUNNASANJIAKES BREAK,
nuIti-Murderer Attempts to Es¬
cape From the Jail at Deca.
tur, Georgia.
An Atlanta dispatch says: The a’*
mast forgotten Edward 0. Flannagan,
the double mttrderer and the man
around whom iias clustered sensation
after sensation, created a thrilling
scene in the DeKalb county jail at De¬
catur, Ga., ’Saturday morning by at¬
tempting to escape with the jailer’s lit¬
tle child in his arms.
Since the murderer’s last trial,when
the judge remanded him to prison in¬
definitely upon the testimony of phy-
sioiaus that he was a mental wreck,
Flanagan has remained quietly in jail,
one of the most abject 50 pocimens of
X’-hysical decay, and of lat © he has been
almost entirely forgotten.
In his little oell at the DeKalb
county prison he has lived for months,
an imbecile, and it has been a conjec¬
ture hew long it would be before be
would die in prison.
He has been quiet and inoffensive
and the jtylers have ceased to regard
him as dangerous. His attempt Sat¬
urday to escape was wholly unlooked
for, aud was a surprise to those whose
duty it has been to guard him.
Early in the morning Sheriff Talley
sent Dillard, a negro guard, to Flana¬
gan’s oell with the prisoner’s break¬
fast-. The sheriff’s little child accom-
coinpanied the negro guard.
Dillard opened the door of Flana¬
gan’s coll and handed him the plate
oontaiuing the breakfast. The pris¬
oner seemed to be in his usual apa¬
thetic condition, although he eyed the
little child closely. Mechanically FI an-
agau picked up the knife lying in tho
plate, and started to eat his breakfast.
With a sudden bound the murderer
spran{Lforward, seized the child in his
arms, and still holding the knife he
had taken from his plate, he leaped
through the cell door and darted sheriff’s down
the stairway leading to the
office.
The door opening from the prison
to the jail yard was locked, and the
only way for Flanagan to get out was
through the private apartments of the
sheriff, where the latter resides with
his family.
The sheriff and his Wife heard the
noise as Flanagau ran ifown the stair¬
way and they were ready to intercept
him when he made his appearance in
the jail office.
Sheriff Talley grappled with the
murderer and threw him to the floor.
Mrs. Talley caught up her child and
took the little one from the arms of
the prisoner. The child was unhurt.
The negro guard had quickly follow¬
ed Flanagan down the stairway and
was just in time to assist the sheriff
in holding the prisoner to the floor
while the knife was wrenched from
his hand. Flanagan was then ordered
back to bis cell at the point of a
pistol.
There was much method in Flana¬
gan’s madness. He evidently took
the child up in his arms when he at¬
tempted to escape in order to keep: the
sheriff from shooting at him, well
knowing that the sheriff would rather
see him get away than run the risk of
killing his own child. Tho knife was
also probably taken from the plate for
the jmrpose of intimidating any one
who should try to intercept him in his
flight.
FUNKTON RETURNS TO MANILA.
Is Given a 15iiga<iier’» Command in the
Philippines.
General Frederick Funston, who is
at present in Sau Francisco, received
a telegram Saturday from the war de¬
partment offering him a brigadier’s
command if he would return to the
Philippines Twentieth after his former regiment,
the Kansas, is mustered
out. General Funston accepted the
offer.
General Funston will return to Kan¬
sas with the Kansas volunteers, who
will be mustered out October 28tb.
He then will report at Washington for
duty in the Philippines.
PERISHED IN BLIZZARD.
Sheep Kat, Away a Dead Mnn'i Beard,
Goof* and Clothing; In Montana.
Advices from Great Falls, Mont.,
state that nine men perished in the
recent blizzard. Five bodies have
been recovered and it is probable that
this is not half the list. The last body
found was that of H. Harold, a sheep
herder. The sheep had eaten off his
beard, clothing nnd part of his boots.
HUNTSVILLE ON A BOOM.
Alabama City I» S.ciiHde Many Bl g
Manufacturing Plant*.
A deal was closed at Huntsville,
Ala., Thursday for the location of a
big cigar manufacturing plant kt a cost
of $30,000. A capitalist of Carthage,
Mo., will establish tho new industry
and will later on be joined by a prom¬
inent Georgia manufacturer. It will
be the largest in Alabama, will employ
a big force of operatives, and work .,n
the new enterprise will commence at
once.
New Case in New Or'eans.
The New Orleans board of health
reported one new case Thursday but
no deaths.
IN INTEREST OE GtjEBEL.
Chicago Democratic Marching' C’iul* in¬
vading Kentucky Town*.
The Chicago Democratic marching
eiub, 300 strong, reached Lexington,
Ky., Thursday afternoon, headed by
a band and paraded tbe principal
streets. They visited the city in the
interest of Mr. Goebel. They ■n i ••
entertained, by the Goebel men with
speeches Thursday night. The club
next went to Paris, Ky,
gUf |§ff ^g]|Y
§ AUGMENTED
(|nser< Victoria Makes a Call For
35,000 Reserves.
IS DETERMINED TO END WAR
Incidentally England Will Thus
Demonstrate to World
Her Resources.
In the English house of Commons at
London, Wednesday,the first lord of the
treasury and government leader, Ar¬
thur J. Balfour, brought in the fol¬
lowing message from the queen:
“The state of affairs in south Africa
having constituted, in the opinion of
her majesty, a case of great emergency
within tho meaning of the act of par-
liament, her majesty deems it proper
to provide additional means for mili¬
tary service. She has, therefore,
thought it right to communicate to the
hoUBC that her majesty is, by procla¬
mation, about to order the embodi¬
ment of the militia, and to call out the
militia reserve force, or such part
thereof as her majesty may think nec¬
essary for permanent service.”
The calling out of the militia an I
the militia reserves has occasioned
widespread wonderment. Olcj storiea
of preparations against continental
combinations are revived. It is freely
rumored that the government is de¬
termined to demonstrate to Europe
that the British army is not a negative
quantity.
The call will be for 35,000 reserves
and for an added appropriation for
war purposes of £10,000,000 sterling.
The house agreed to consider the
royal message on Thursday.
A motion by Mi - . Balfour appropri¬
ating the entire special session for
government business was carried by
279 votes against 48.
The debate on the address in reply
to the speech from the throne was
then resumed. Philip James Stan¬
hope, liberal member for Burnley,
moved an amendment strongly dis¬
approving the conduct of the negotia¬
tions with the Transvaal. Ho attacked
the policy of the secretary of state for
the colonies, Mr. Chamberlain, and
demanded that the latter should clear
himself of the charge of complicity in
the Jameson raid.
The amendment was seconded by
Samuel Thomas Evans, liberal mem¬
ber for the middle division of Giamor-
gnnshire.
Sir William Yernon Haroourt, lib¬
eral member for West Monmonthshire,
and former official loader of the liber¬
al party, following several minor
speeches for and against the govern¬
ment, said it was the duty of the party
to support the government in main¬
taining the integrity of the dominions
of the queen, but, that they had a
right to speak of the policy of the
government in an altogether different
tone. He criticised Mr. Chamber¬
lain’s policy. At the conclusion of
his speech the house adjourned.
EDITORS VISIT FAIR.
Member* of tlie Two (ieorala Press A*so-
clatlons Knjoy Themselves.
A feature of the opening exercises of
the Georgia State Fair at Atlanta was
the presence of a hundred or more
Georgia editors in the auditorium,
members of the Georgia Press associa¬
tion and the Weekly Press association.
The two organizations held a joint
meeting Wednesday morning in room
104 of the Kimball. Presidents H. H.
Cabaniss and Walter Coleman were
present at the meeting and explained
that there was no business to be tran¬
sacted, but that the meeting had been
called for the purpose of visiting the
fair.
The members of both organizations
went out to the grounds at noon and
dined with Sheriff Calloway on Geor¬
gia barbecue. After a hearty indub
gence of this luscious product the edi¬
tors took in the Midway. They wont
through every show in the enclosure
and, enjoyed the exhibitions im¬
mensely.
At 3 o’clock they went in a body to
the auditorium and participated iu the
opening exercises.
BARBECUE AND ORATORY.
Deinocrntfi of BouIhvIHo Kntertnlns the
Goebel Campaign Party.
A Louisville, Ky., dispatch says:
Twenty thousand people greeted W.
J. Bryan and the candidates on the
state Democratic ticket at Churchill
Downs Wednesday afternoon, the oe-
casion being the first demonstration
by local Democrats iu the state cam¬
paign now in progress.
The eflrowd was filled with enthusi¬
asm and satiated with barbecued meat
and burgoo. It fed upon oratory by
the state leaders, notably ex-Senator
J. 0. S. Blackburn and William Goe¬
bel and tbe champion of its cause in
national politics, William J. Bryan.
LAWTON ENGAGES REBELS.
One American Killed; A Spaniard and Fif¬
teen IiinurrectoK Captured,
A special received Thursday from
Manila stated that, General Young’s
advance guard of General Lawton’s
column left Cabiao Wednesday morn¬
ing and entered San Isidro at half past
1 o’clock. The American loss wasione
killed mid three wounded. One Span¬
iard and fifteen insurfectos were cap¬
tured,
BOERS AVENGED
AX GEENCOE
I
British less In the Engagement
Was Nearly Two Hundred.
MANY OFFICERS WERE KILLED
List Includes Two Colonels, Three
Captains and Five
Lieutenants.
Tho war office at London has issued
a list of casualties in the battle be¬
tween Glencoe and Dundee received
from the general commanding in Na¬
tal, Sir George Stew’art White, dated
Ladysmith, October 21 at, 4:20 a. m.
In addition to Sir William Penn
Symonds, who is mortally wounded,
two colonels, three captains and five
lieutenants were killed, and a colonel,
three majors, six captains and ten lieu¬
tenants were wounded.
This heavy loss among the officers
was due, as the latest dispatches from
tho front show, to their valiant but in¬
sensate conduct in sticking to the tra¬
ditions of the British army and refns-
ing to use tho cover of which the men
availed themselves in storming the
Boer position on the summit of tho
Kopje.
Among the rank and file the Hus¬
sars had seven wounded; the artillery
one killed and three wounded; the
Leicestershire regiment, one wounded;
the King’s rifles, eleven killed and
sixty-eight wounded; the Irish Fusi-
leers, fourteen killed nnd thirty
wounded; the Dublin fusileers, four
killed and forty-one wounded, aud the
Natal police two wounded.
Anxiety In London.
Despite the fog Sunday morning, the
London newsboys found a ready sale
for newspaper extras announcing the
news of continued victories in south
Africa. The losses in killed and
wounded were subject of pulpit refer¬
ences in all the churches, owiftg to
the disasters that befell the Irish Fu¬
sileers.
The vicinity of the war office was
crowded all day by anxious inquiries
for the latest information. The great¬
est anxiety and suspense exists regard¬
ing the losses at Elandslaagie and as
to the fate of the Hussars who ' pur¬
sued the Boers from Glencoe.
THIS ONE HANGED.
Another of the Gainbrell Mimlertm Vay*
Fonalty of Crime.
A dispatch from Carthage, Miss.,
says: For the fiendish murder of the
members of the Gambrel! family at
St. A unes, in this (Leake) county, two
men have paid the death penalty—one
by burning at the stake, the other by
hanging. Two negroes are under
arrest beyond the confines of this
county, and a posse is said to be in
pursuit of two white men. This last
statement, however, is contradicted
from another point and developments
must be awaited.
Saturday John Oliver Gray, a ne¬
gro, was captured after being chased
for miles in the swamps. He finally
confessed that he was one of the party
that did such murderous work nnd the
posse made short work of him. He
was hanged and his swaying body was
riddled with bullets. Gray in his con¬
fession implicated two white men.
“DRIVE OUT THE FRIARS.”
Gonernl Pension Say* They Arc rsualng
aii 11 ,„ Trnniii.. "
A special from Stanford University, .
Cal., says: General Frederick Fun-
ston, of Kansas, leoiured to student
body of the university on the Philip-
pines. Ho blames the friars as being
at the bottom of the insurrection.
The general unmercifully attacked the
church, not as he insisted, because it
was the Catholic denomination, but
for the influence it maintained upon
that class of people. :
“If congress would drive out the ;
friars,” he said, “and confiscate evory
inch of church property, the bottom
would drop out of tlie insurrection
within a week,”
DEWEY HOME PURCHASED.
Tho Fitch Place on Kliorio Inland Ave¬
nue, Washington, Selected By Admiral
A Washington dispatch says: The
Dewey house committee which has in
charge the purchase of a home for the
admiral from tho moneys received by
popular subscriptions, has selected
house No. 1747 Rhode Island avenue,
N. W., known as the Fitch house.
The house is one door rornoved from
the corner of Connecticut avenue in
what is regarded as the most desirable
section of the city. It is understood
the amount of popular subscription
was sufficient to cover tlie cost of tlie
bouse, its furniture and all incidental
expenses.
BRYAN’S OHIO TOUR.
Nebraftkan Made More fipeetdicn Than
Wore Scheduled for tho Week.
Saturday night Colonel W. J. Bryan
closed one of the most remarkable
weeks in his eventful career of cam-
paigning at Sandusky, O. He was
scheduled for six speeches daily, the
first three days of the week, in Ken¬
tucky, and for the same number the
last three days in Ohio, He made
many more than the thirty-six speech¬
es ou tbe schedule.
Georgia fair opens
tjs!i*re>'l In Witt, Eig Parade and
Eloquent Addresses.
THE FIRST DAY WAS A BIG SUCCESS
State Fair of 1890 liJjrg-esfc and Best Iii
the History of Georgia ami Agri¬
cultural Association.
The Goorgia State Fair was opened
in Atlanta Wednesday with all the
splendor of procession, eloquence of
speech and animation of interested
spectators that could have been wished
for, and tho events of the day were
such as will long be remembered by
thousands who witnessed the parade,
listened to the speeches and viewed
the . countless interesting exhibits
which make the Georgia State Fair of
1899 the biggest and tho best, in the
history of tho state.
Tho advance guard of the visiting
contingent began to pour into the Icily
Monday and kept coming all day Tues¬
day, and on Wednesday—-hours before
the parade—the business streets.were
crowded with strangers, attracted to
Atlanta by the fair, and Exposition
park was ttnonged with a heteroge¬
neous mass of moving humanity that
swarmed through the buildings, in¬
vaded tho Midway and otherwise put
in the time before tho exercises as
their inclinations prompted.
Everywhere the crowd-went,whether
it was to inspect, the interesting ex¬
hibits in the manufacturers’ building
or to gaze on the queer sights on the
Midway, the unanimous verdict was
that Atlanta in providing Georgia with
the state fair had accomplished a task
the completed results of which would
bo felt in the south for years to come.
Tho day at, the grounds was brought
to a fitting close by the formal cere¬
monies at the auditorium, where a
large crowd gathered to listen to the
brilliant speeches of Chancellor Wal¬
ter B. Hill aud Hon. .T. Pope Brown.
The big military aud civic parade
which ushered into existence the fair
was complete aud brilliant. Long be¬
fore the hour of 2 o’clock, when the
parade was scheduled to start, White¬
hall and peachtree streets from Mitch¬
ell to Fourteenth street w ere thronged
with surging humanity.
Tho formal opening of the gates
found hundreds already in the grounds.
The soldiers and the civic organiza¬
tions made a magnificent showing and
the parade was in every way a big
success.
OFFERS TO SELL OUT.
Filipino Commitndnr Bonds Unique l*ro-
poHiil to Cidiioral Oil*.
A Manila dispatch says: General
Otis has received messages purporting
to come from the general, l’io del
Pilar, offering to sell out his army and
to deliver Agninaldo into the hands of
tho Americans. Although he is not
satisfied that his offer is authentic, it
is not improbable. The policy of
General Otis is firmly set against buy¬
ing any surrenders.
Pio del Pilar offers, for the sum of
350,000 to refrain from attacking Ma¬
nila; for 3250,000 he offers to surren¬
der his armj after a sham battle, both
sides firing into the air, and for the
sum of 3500,000 he says he will pro-
enre the overthrow of the insurrection
and the capture of Aguinaldo, and the
other leaders.
In the course of the communication
he refers to Agninaldo in contemptu¬
ous terms, indicating that strained re-
lalions exist between them. Reports
ar0 being received from the districts
occupied by tho enemy tint the Fili-
pinos believe that Pio del Pilar has an
audacious plan to break through tho
American lines into Manila and seize
General Otis and the archbishop,
Possibly these rumors were started
w j t h the idea of helping him to make
a deal with the Americans. It is un¬
necessary to say that tho Americans
wou id welcome an attaok of that sort,
There has been much speculation of
late regarding the whereabouts of Pio
del Pilar. The recent attack at La
Lollia ig cro dited to him. It is believed
tbat be i(i Ilow In the vicinity of San
-Mateo valley with a force of from
1>800 to 3,000 men.
LIVES LOST IN FLAMES.
Mother and Four Children Burned to
Death in Mi**i»flippl.
At Haint Ann, twenty miles east of
Canton, Miss,, Thursday, Mrs. J. N.
Cambrill aud four children lost their
lives in a.fire that destroyed their
homo.
('Iiarleslon Invites Dewey.
A committee representing tlie city
of Charleston, the commercial bodies
and tho German organizations, left
Thursday to meet Admiral Dewey aud
formally invito him to Charleston.
LASTED EIGHT HOURS.
T!i« Britisli Troops IIa<l Their Hand* Full
at Glencoe.
The earliest dispatches received in
London regarding Friday’s battle at
Glencoe conveyed the impression that
the whole affair was over in a couple
of hours, the British artillery silenc¬
ing the Boer guns and infantry aud
then simply charging right up over the
hill. According to the latest advices,
however, the battle lasted eight hours,
and nearly seven hours elapsed before
tlie !a*;t Boer gun was put out of act¬
ion,
$1 PER YEAR.
ENGAGEMENTS OFF.
Dewey’3 Southsrn Trip Is Sud¬
denly Canceled.
M ,
NERVOUS PROSTRATION TRE CAUSE
Admiral'* Physician* Forbid Acceptance
of Invitations ofVarlow*
Cities,
A Washington special says: “Acting
on the advice of his physicians, Admiral
Dewey finds that it will be necessary
to cancel tlio engagements he has
entered into to visit certain cities and
to doclino all invitations for the pres¬
ent. Ho liucjs that the mental strain
incident to such visits is seriously af¬
fecting his health.”
This is tho substance of an author¬
ized statement, given to tho press by
Lieutenant Caldwell, jn-ivato secretary
to the admiral. Lieutenant Caldwell
added that tho admiral has been in a
nervous state for several dayB past,
and his friends were very anxious
about him. Under the circumstances,
his engagements to go to Atlanta, Chi¬
cago, Philadelphia and other cities are
all declared off.
Early Saturday morning Admiral
Dowey authorized a telegram to this
effect to be sent to Atlanta, at the
same time expressing bis sincere re¬
gret that bis physical condition forces
him to be absent from the Brumby’
celebration. Tho dispatch also con¬
tained the assurance that Lieutenant
Brumby would proceed to Atlanta
alone, according to the original pro¬
gramme.
An effort was made to induce Bear
Admiral Soliley to tako the place of
Dewey in the coming festivities at At¬
lanta, but tho hero of Santiago was
obliged to decline, as he is now sub¬
ject to orders from the secretary of
tho navy.
Mr. Brown, gonernl agent of the
Southern railway, was also notified of
the admiral’s cliango of plans, and the
result was lively telegraphing between
Washington and Atlanta during the
remainder of tho day.
It would bo difficult to express in
cold type the full extent of the disap¬
pointment felt in Atlanta when it was
announced that Dewey had cancelled
his engagement to visit that city.
WRIT WAS DISMISSED. t
.1 u.lgr LftComhe Turns Down Application
of Carter’s Attorney. *
Judge LaCombe, in the United
States circuit court at Now York, hand-
of oddovvi^a habeas decision iu dismissing the of the former writ
corpus case
Captain Oberlin M. Carter, who is un¬
der sentence of five years’ imprison¬
ment for conspiracy to defraud the
government in contracts. The decis¬
ion was given in a lengthy opinion,
which upholds the findings of the
conrtmartial. %
It is saiil at the war department that
Carter will not bo takon at once to the
penitentiary, but will await the out¬
come of appeals and an application for
bail. The right of appeal in such
cases is recognized as unquestionable
by the military law officers and it is
said the first appeal in behalf of Car¬
ter wiii tie to the court of appeals and
after that to the United States supreme
court.
BRITISH TRANSPORTS SAIL.
Many Thousand Men Started on Their
Way to South Africa.
The transport Yorkshire, carrying
tho first troops of the special army
corps for South Africa, cast off at
Southampton Friday afternoon, the
other transports following at regular
intervals. The public were excluded,
from the docks during the embarka¬
tion, but immense throngs gathered
outside, cheering aud singing and
bidding farewell to their friends as
the trains passed in.
SCHLEY MADE A MASON.
He I. Inltlate.l At VVnfttilngton aud After-
ward4 Hold* a Ke<.*eptlo>i,
Tho degree of Masonry was conferred
on Rear Admiral Schley at Washington
Satin day night by Benjamin B.French
lodge F’ree and Accepted Masons. At
tlie conclusion of the ceremony Ad¬
miral Schley held a reception and was
given an ovation, Over a thousand
people were present.
KILLED BY OUTLAWS.
Two RohlifM In Hanna* Shoot Two Men
Dcnd nnd Wound Other*.
A dispatch from Atchison, Kas., -e-
says: killed Saturday night, two robbers shot am,
and one man and wounded an, .
other in a store at Doniphan, whb J lma *
they Later robbed, and Sunday t»atiopi
ambushed and shot and killed a poKJi a j],. v
man nnd wounded another man, b ' J
members of a posse pursuing thet
Dairymen’s Statistics Wanted ifbuie for
sending The census office large at Washingt'” !’. ^ ’
out a number of
ters and circulars making intended tol^'tif! f) u'>
feet tlio work of a comtiotne.”
census on dairy products. .’tu'k rolls
Chicago Landmark Burned, ng nows,
A business block in South Chi,
burned early Sunday morning, en lT „
iug a loss of $120,000 and painfull
juring twelve persons. FonrXITOU is
buildings were burned. An old la
mark was destroyed in the Grand <
tral Hotel.
Forty-Fifth Off For Manila.
The Forty-fifth volunteer infant
Colonel Dorst commanding, left :[■
Paul, Minn., Sunday for Sau Franc!
oo, under orders for the Philippine