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THE WATERLOO PRESjS, FRA.VK W. WILLIS, 1L C. and fubli-shers. THURSDAY, JAN. 13, 1900.

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23rd. NEWS IN BRIEF GUSTS BLOWN IN FROM ALL PARTS OF THE Au Important Record of the Week As Told by Ithe Telegraph Latest from Foreign 8hor-Crimes, Casualties, fires. Etc. Supreme Court On Prize Money. The United States Supreme Court has decided another of the naval prize money cases growing ont of the capture of vessel during the blockade of Havana in the war with Spain.

The case was appealed from the decision of the Circuit Court of South Carolina, the vessel Involved being the New Foundland. The decision of tha lower court was reversed, the Supreme Court holding that the actions of the New Foundland were suspicious enough to Justify its seizure, but not to warrant forfeiture. The restoration of the vessel to Its owners -was thereore ordered, but without damage or usts. The Found-land Is owned in Halifax. Toledo Centennial Exhibition in Peril A dispatch from Toledo, Ohio, saysc Directors of the Ohio Centennial Company announce that unless $333,000 stock subscriptions are forthcoming from the publio within one week they will abandon the project of celebrating the one hundreth anniversary of the admission of Ohio, into the Union in 1902.

The directors of the enterprise have been trying for nearly a year to raise $000,000, which amount is necessary before Government and State appropriations are available. It is thought that If the present company abandons the centennial project that a new company will be formed here, or that the centennial may go to Cleveland or some other Ohio city. Bnirirestione to Farmer. Director of the Census Merriam suggests to the agriculturists of the country that they use some of their spare time between now and June next In thoroughly preparing themselves to answer promptly and accurately the questions relative to the acreage, quality and value of crops; the quality and value of all farm animal and vegetable; the cost of fertilizers and farm labor, and, in fact, all the items of farm operations for the calendar year 1899, which the census enumerators are by law compelled to ascertain. This, he says, will result in a full and accurate census.

Last of Monitor Heroes Dead. Lieut. Samuel Howard, U. S. the pilot and last of the officers and crew of Ericsson's monitor during her memorable engagement with the Confederate ironclad Merrimao, died at his home in Washington from concussion of the brain, the result of a fall.

He was 79 years of age, and for more than fifty years had traversed the seas. During the war he also was en-Raged In patrol service on the lower Mississippi and on the Atlantic Coast. Killed by Burglar. N. K.

Goss, one of the most prominent merchants of Edenburg, Ohio," was killed by burglars. lie was aroused by a burglar alarm and went to his store with a neighbor, where three burglars met them with a volley of bullets. Goss died from his wounds later. A posse of citizens was organized and they are pursuing the burglars toward Palmyra. Three suspects have been arrested in connection with th? Goss murder.

Skelton Aquitted. I At Princeton, the Jury in the case of Thomas Skelton for the alleged murder of his wife, brought in a verdict of not guilty. Mrs. Skelton was found at her lonely home, her head beaten into a shapeless mass. The crime was committed fifteen years ago.

Her lover, Fielden Mounts, deceased, it is claimed, kilted her through Jealousy. Scarcity In Manila Hemp. There has been such a scarcity of hemp recently that many thousands of people employed in the cordage works of the Williamsburg district of New York have been out of employment or on reduced time. The scarcity has been in the Manila hemp. The Olive Crop ai Failure.

Consul Skinner at Marseilles, reports to the State Departmen that the Olive crop In Italy, France and Spain is practically a failure and will hardly reach 30 per cent, of the average. The failure has been caused by a fly. Ex-Bank Cashier Sentenced. Lewis E. Goldsmith, for years the Assistant Cashier of the Port Jervis (N.

National Bank, who pleaded guilty to stealing $100,000 from that institution, was sentenced to eight years in the penitentiary. To Leave Ireland. Rumors that a conscription will be ordered by the imperial government is causing alarm in Ireland. Many are preparing to migrate to the United States. Masonic Temple, Fort Wayne, Ind Jan.

23. "Lady Ursula." Jan. 24. "Devil's Auction." Preacher Kills a Woman. At in dm an, Knott County, Rev.

Wesley Hall shot and killed Mrs. Lucinda Isaacs because she refused to marry him. Ball then turned the pistol on himself and was seriously wounded. Mrs. Isaacs was a sister of Rev.

Mr. Hall's first wife, who bad been dead only a short time. Murder and Suicide. At Belgrade, twelve miles west of Boze-jnan, Frank Roger 3, a merchant, ahot and killed his landlady, Mrs. Etta Davis, and then turned his weapon on him-sell with fatal accuracy.

Reformatory Is Burned Down. The Newark city home, a reformatory tor children at Verona. N. was burn-td to the ground, involving a loss of early $100,000. Three hundred inmates were got out in safety, and about -75 rere marched to other institutions, where vhere they were placed in confinement.

Gotham Firemen Overcome. One of the hardest fires which the New fork department has had to fight for ome time broke out in a five-atory bnild-ng occupied by bowling alleys and a rymnasium. -About forty men were at one time or another by the dense fmoke. LAKE YIELDS UP A NUN'S CORPSE. Body or Sister Augusta Is Washed Ashore Near Kenosha, Wis.

The body Sister Augusta, who disappeared several days ago from Kemper Hall, Kenosha, whither she had come to attend the annual retreat of the Sisterhood, was found in Lake Michigan, south of the balL Two children walking along the shore discovered the body, it was taken from the water and carried to the parlor in the summer home. For nearly a week the missing woman iwas in the water and the body is bruised and discolored from the continuous buffeting of the waves. Sister Ella, a friend of bister Aagusta, identified the remains, An inquest was held. Sister Augusta was only a minor Sister of the Order of SC. Mary.

I She -was not bound by the threefold vow and could at' any time have been absolved from her "allegiance to the Sisterhood. Her act must have been unpremeditated," as -from all indications she, bad made every arrangement to go away for a visit to her sister, Mrs. Smith, in St Louis. She had even written an application for leave of absence and permission was to have been given her. The fact that she left the community roam and went to her bedroom, where she put on her veil and cloak and took her purse, which contained money and a railroad ticket, seems to show that her first intention was to get away from Kemper Hall.

Her act of suicide must have been fan afterthought. RULING ON OLEOMARGARINE. Missouri Law Prohibiting Sale of It When Colored as Butter Sustained. Judge Adams, in the United States Circuit Court nt St. Louis, la deciding the case of Scbeitlin, a commission man fined for violating the Missouri statutes pertaining.

'to oleomargarine, sustained the State law prohibiting the sale' of oleomargarine colored as butter. Scheitlin contended that the law was unconstitutional, so far as it affected him, in that the oleomargarine which he sold was procured from another Stated lie was granted a writ of habeas corpus from the United States Court. his decision Judge Adams said: "We aret of the opinion that it is within the power of the to exclude from its markets any jcompound manufactured in another State which has been artificially colored or adulterated so as to cause to look like an article 'of food in general use and the sale of which may, by reason of coloration or adulteration, cheat the general public into purchasing that which they way! not intend to buy." BIG INCREASE IN FIRE LOSSES. Total fori 1899 Exceeds by $17,000,000 That of the Previous Year. The fire losses throughout the United States and Canada for the year 1899, just computed, have caused a sensation in fire insurance circles, and underwriters are much disturbed as to the couditron of their business.

There is already talk of increasing rates all over the country, especially in the largo cities, where the losses have been heavy. The total fire loss of exceeds by more than $17,000,000 that of 1S9S, and by more than $20,000,000 that of 1897. December shows that the pace set in the previous months of the year were more than fully sustained. There were 217 fires of a greater destructiveness than $10,000. AMERICAN SLAIN IN HONDURAS.

Capt. M. Imboden Murdered byaCrlml- I nal Court Secretary. Mail advices from the city of Guatemala give details of the murder at' San Pedro, Honduras, of Capt. Jacob M.

Imboden, an American who had been inter ested for many years in- mining in Hon duras. shooting was done by Joaquin Hernandez, secretary in the criminal court, apparently without cause. Hernandez also dangerously wounded another American, Dr. William Gold. Imboden left a widow and four children at Guatemala.

WOOED BY THREATS OF SUICIDE. Strange Story of Mrs. Caroline Schmutz In 1 Her Suit for Divorce. Caroline Schmutz, nee Bunde, who was married a year ago to Frederick Schmutz, has filed a petition for divorce at Toledo, Ohio. She claims Schmutz threatened to kill himself if he did not win ber for bis wife, and she felt it was incumbent upon her to prevent his untimely taking off.

She now says that she thinks he was lying. She says also Schmutz claimed he was wealthy and temperate, but that he proved to be neither. Ohio Oil Town Prairie Depot, Ohio, an oil village, was visited! by a disastrous fire, entailing a loss of) from $100,000 to $150,000. The fire broke out in the oil well supply store and spread, destroying it nud Lewis' drug Heath's saloon. Stump's restaurant, Loudenslager's bakery, Jeffries' drug store, Dern Sons' hardware store; Marsh's livery barn and John Wise's residence.

Buy Oil Company's Rights, rs Tlioknk end M. B. Chidester of Bowlihs Green. Ohio, have closed a deal for the entire oil interests ot tne fanner rvi Pnmnn, Th nrice naid is 000 and includes WO acres in fee in Wood County and leases on acres in Wood and Hancock counties. There nrmlncinfr wells on the property.

with a monthly production of 15,000 bar rels, Two Murdered Two Lynched. At Ripley, Marvin Durham and W. D. Turner, peace ofllcers, were shot down1 and instantly killed by two negroes while! taking a brother of one of the two murderers to jail. The white people immediately begau a hunt for the murder- nt-TnR- to be the men who killed the officers, were lynched at 9:30 the same evening.

Robbers Secured $15,000. The McGinn: Bank in Owensville, was entered on a recent night and the safe blown open, the explosion completely wrecking the building. It is rumored that about $13,000 was taken, but the bank officials refuse to give auy infor mation. The burglars escaped on a hand car. 4 Gives SCO.OOO to Obcrlirt College.

Lewis H. Severance of New York has Given $00,000 to 01crlin, Ohio, College for ithe new chemical laboratory. He has purchased the land on which the laboratory is now being builL Mr. Severance's gifts to the eoilcgo the last year were over $03,000. Mayor Jones Founds a Town, i Mayor Samuel M.

Jones, of Toledo, and Albert S. Duliu, of Philadelphia, ha.ve chartered the Association of Altruists and selected Moorostown. N. J- near Philadelphia, for the site of a co-operative communistic colony. Disappointed at Sixty-three.

At Sau Francisco Elizabeth Glad stone, gcd 03 years, has secured a judgment osniust Joseph Boardman, aged 73 years, for breach of promise of marriage. She sued for voOO.000. 1 Judgmeri Taxation Law Killed. 'he Kaiua-i Supreme Court declared unconstitutional the law of 1807 taxing judgments. Donatiors to Missionary Cause.

The Itomrd of S'oreign Missions has made public its eighty-ninth annual report. The summary for the VHE WATERLOO PRESS, THURSDAY, JANUARY 17, 1900. year foilowc: Donations. legacies, donations for school fund, donations for Micronesian navy, $2,587: donations for young missionaries' fund. $3,146: donations for debt of Sept, 1, 1S0S, donations for mission work for women, income of funds, total, HEIR CLAIMS WILL IS HIDDEN.

Sensational Contest for a Dead Man's Millions On in Nebraska. Much interest is being evinced at Falls City, Neb in the suit bronght to set aside the will of the late "CoL" Stephen D. Miles, a pioneer Nebraskan and an old-time Government mail contractor. An estate valued at $3,000,000 is involved. Samuel Miles, one of the sons of the decedent, asks the court to set aside the judgment rendered when his father's will was probated, because be believes that he 'has evidence to prove that a later will was made, giving-htn a large share of the property which his brother, Joseph H.

Miles, obtained under the former wilL His petition implies that Joseph knows of the more recent will, which is alleged to have been drawn up in 1897 at the St. James Hotel in St. Louis, and has either destroyed or is suppressing it, Joseph Miles denies the charges and asks the court to let tne probated will, which makes him principal legatee, stand. FARMER DYING IN JURY BOX. Challenge or Attorney Probably Saves A.

Hay's Life. After C. A. Hay, a farmer, had taken a seat in the jury box in the criminal court at Pittsburg, Pa he was challenged by the commonwealth. He had been seated fifteen minutes and when he failed to respond to the challenge it was thought he was asleep.

Assistant District Attorney John S. Robb shook him and Hay fell to the floor. was carried out and physicians called. They restored him to consciousness and "said that the challenge saved bis life. Had be been allowed to remain on the jury -they thoughts he would have died in the box.

FIRE AT COLORADO SPRINGS. Three Business Houses Destroyed, Entailing a Loss of $150,000. The entire business portion of Colorado Springs, was threatened by a fire which broke out at 4 o'clock the other morning in the May clothing store. Aided by a high wind the flames spread rapidly, but they were controlled after three buildings were destroyed. The total loss is estimated at $150,000.

The heaviest losers are the May Clothing Company, the Nichols Grocery Company and the Waite Shoe Company. CUT HER CHILDREN'S THROAT. .1 Mrs. J. Christie Ended Family Woe by Double Murder and Suicide.

Mrs. Joseph Christie of McPherson, cut the throats of her two children. 5 both nuder years old, then cut her own throat and set fire to her home. The children died at once and Mrs. Christie died soon afterward.

"Joe" Christie, her husband, had been arrested for drunkenness, and was in jail because he could not pay bis fine. It is supposed that worry over the family's condition led the woman to commit the horrible deed. Burn to Death While at Play. Augusta and Olga Stryczunski, sisters, aged 11 years and respectively, were burned to death in their home at Haw thorne, a Chicago suburb. Matches with which the children had been playing 'ignited the oil of a lamp which one of them overturned.

They lived only a short time after their parents rushed through the' flames and carried them to the open air. Famous Woman Doctor Dies. Mrs. Elizabeth J. French, M.

aged 79 years, renowned as physician and temperance lecturer, died at her borne in Boston. Mrs. French's special line of work was in the medical and therapeutic uses of electricity and electro cranial diagnosis, in which she established a fame almost world-wide. Thugs Rob a Drug Store. After robbing John Parsons' drug store iu Chicago, and beating the proprietor into insensibility, two well-dressed thugs went behind the counter and waited on several customers.

Parsons, who is 70 years old, was thrown into the basement. The robbers obtained $50 from the safe. Ends Life in a Coal Office. Henry Carraher of Chicago coiutnisfcd suicide by shooting himself while in his coal office. He lived with his mother and brother in an adjoining house.

He had been despondent over business troubles. Michigan Wins the Debate. By the nuanimous decision of three judges Michigan was declared winner in the' intercollegiate debate held at Ann Arbor with, the representatives from the University of Chicago. Well-Known Indian Is Dead. Spotted Tail, the well-known Sioux chief who has been exhibiting in Paris, died of heart disease.

He was SO years Old. Lowndes Gives Up His Chair. Lloyd Lowndes, for fonr years the Republican Governor of Maryland, has surrendered the executive chair to John Walter Smith, his Democratic successor. THE MARKETS. Chicago Cattle, common to4 prime, $3.00 to hogs, shipping grades, $3.00 to sheep, fair to choice, to wheat.

No. 2 red, 03c to 05c; corn. No. 2, 30c to 32c; oats, No. 2, 22c to 23c; rye.

No. 2, 52c to 54c; butter, choice creamery, 2Gc to 28c; eggs, fresh, lOc to 18c; potatoes, choice, 40c to 50c per busheL Indianapolis Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to hogs, choice light, $3.00 to sheep, common to prime, $3.00 to wheat. No. 2, 67c to. 08c; corn.

No. 2 white, 31c to 32c; oats, No. 2 white, 20c to 27c. St. Louis Cattle, $3.23 to hogs, $3.00 to sheep, $3.00 to $5.00: wheat, No.

2, 71c to 73c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 31c to 33c; oats. No. 2, 24c to 25c; rye, No. 2, 52c to 54c.

Cincinnati Cattle, $2.50 to hogs, $3.00 to sheep, $2.50 to wheat, No. 2, 70c to 72c; corn. No. 2 mixed, 33c to 34c; oats. No.

2 mixed, 25c to 27c; rye. No. 2, 61c to 63c. Detroit Cattle, $2.50 to hogs, $3.00 to sheep, $3.00 to wheat. No.

2, 69c to 70c; corn. No. 2 yellow, 32c to 33c; oats, No. 2 white, 26c to 28c; rye, 58c to 60c. Toledo Wheat, No.

2 mixed, 68c to 70c; corn. No. 2 mixed, 31c to 33c; oats. No. 2 mixed, 24c to 25c; rye, No.

2, 56c to 57c; clover seed, $4.75 to $4.83. Milwaukee Wheat, No. 2 northern, 63c to 65c; corn. No. 2, 31c to 32c; oats.

No. 2 white, 25c to 20c; rye, No. 1, 55c to 50c; barley, No. 2, 45c to 47c; pork, mess, $10.50 to $11.00. Buffalo Cattle, good shipping steers, $3.00 to hogs, common td choice.

$3.25 to sheep, fair to choice, $3.00 to lambs, common to extra, $4.50 to $0,50. New York Cattle, $3i3 to hogs, $3.00 to sheep, $3.00 wheat. No. 2 red, 75c to 76c; ctan. No.

2, 41c to 42c; oats. No. 2 white, 31c to 33c; butter, creamery, 24c to 29c; eggs, west ern, 19c to 21c The Nizam of Hyderabad, who has offered his sword and his purse to Queen Victoria if she needs them, in carrying on the war in South Africa, is an ally not to be despised. As an indication of his financial condition it i ij may be instanced that some time ago he paid $2,000,000 in casn tor a single aia- mood and that his annuaj income is. in the neighborhood of $16,000,000 a year.

kizax or HioiiuiiiD. is capital is a waited city of 500,000 population, while the entire population of his state is estimated at 12.000,000. The people are of mixed origin and are said to be more warlike, in aspect than those of any other part of India. The State of Hyderabad in-i eludes nearly .83,000 square miles of country in the southern tableland, and, agriculture is carried on to a large ex-l tenL The bloody and long drawn out revolu-j tion in Venezuela having at last come tot a close and peace being, restored, tha new government, presided over by Gen. Castro, the victorious warrior and now president of the republic, has selected as its.

representative at Washington. Gen. Vicente Teraza. Gen. Nicanor Bolet-Peeaza was a delegate to fhe Pan-American Congress held in Washing ton in 1SS9, and at oenkbal pebaza.

its close was appointed minister plenipotentiary to the United States. He has been consul general in New York of the Repnblic of Salvador and later of the greater Republic of Central America. He was a delegate to the Universal Postal Congress in Washington in 1897. He took an active part in the revolution which resulted in the establishment of Gen. Castro's government.

Elbridge Hanecy, who. is being prominently mentioned as a candidate for the Republican nomination for Governor of Illinois, is one of the judges of the Circuit Court of Cook County. Judge Hanecy was born' on a farm in Dodge Connty, for-' ty-nine years ago4 He comes of New-England stock andt was named after; Elbridge Gerry, one, of the signers ot jtrnuB a. secy. the Declaration of Hist father, v.

ho died when the son was.l, year old, served through the Mexican, war. In 1870 Judge Hanecy married) Miss Sarah Barton, daughter of William II. Barton. -His family consists of six girls. A.

C. Anson, the idol iA Chicago baseball fans, is again weeding his way into National League baseball, and is expect ed to play a prominent part in four different matters pertaining to the game. It was recently announced that he was to take charge of the National League umpires. This is one section of the League that needs ASSOX. the careful attention of the magnates.

He is also making a bold fight to havq the League adopt the "Anson ball," anl drop the one now used. Word comes from Philadelphia that' Anson's recent visit to the Quaker City may result in) his breaking into the game there. It isj said that he has been offered the man-j 8gement of the Phillies. The latest re-j port comes from Baltimore, and says thaC Anson i-t there, trying to induce McGraw. and Robinson to join the new league.

Cardinal Gotti, who. It is said. Pope Leo XIII, recently intimated might be his successor in the papal chair, is one of the ablest of the princes of the Catholic Church. He is a native of Genoa, Italy, where he was born 04 years ago, and belongs to the Carmelite order of" monks. Like the p-esent pontiff he leads an ascetic life and though a prince CARDINAL GOTTT.

of the church adheres to the rule of the order by sleeping in a cell on a hard mattress. Cardinal Gotti is a favorite with Pope Leo and is popular in ecclesiastical circles, generally. It must not be thought, however, that Pope Leo's selection of Cardinal Gotti as his successor will make him such. The college of cardinals have the fnlk. power of election in their hands.

Maitre Fernand Labori, who stand' out to-day as one of the most famous counsellors in the world, has won his position by his own talents and through industry. He was born in Rheims, where his father was a railway official, and at an early age was sent to Mainz, in Germany, to qualify himself for business. From Mains he went to England, and it was during his stay there that he decided to become a lawyer. On his return home he enrolled himself as a btudent at the Faculty of Law in Paris, and in 1884 he duly called to the bar. It was in "1894 that he achieved fame as a lawyer by his defense of the notorious anarchist, Vaillant.

It is interesting to note that, just aa in the Zola trial, Labori has refused to accept any payment for his services in the Dreyfus case. One of the old-time ante-bellum heroes recently died in Rome at 91 years of age. Before the civil war in the United States Capt. Thomas Jefferson Page was a familiar figure in naval annals. He commanded the flagship Erie when a midshipman, discovered a new channel in New York harbor, fought Malay pirates in the China seas, negotiated the treaties of amity and com- THOMAS J.

PAGE. merce with the South American repub- lies, explored the La Plata river, refused an admiral commission in tne Italian navy, and built the Confederate navy dnring the civil war. a. c. WAB-IN SOUTH AFRICA CRITICAL SITUATION REPORTED "AT LADYSMITH.

Reports Say the Boer Onslaught of Saturday Kesulted in Killinie or Wound' iag Neurly One Thousand British, and About Two Thousand Burgher. The defeat of the Boers Saturday in iheir desperate assault upon Gen. White ai Ladysiaith has not greatly relieved the South African situation from the British standpoint. Terrible losses on both sides ire reported as the result ot the fierct tattle. While nothing official has been riven out as to the British casualties, a ummary of them has been received in London, in.

which it is stated that they amount to twelve officers killed and wounded, and 800 men of the rank and ale killed and wounded. That is a heavy percentage in a force which probably cannot muster more than 8,500 fit for 4uty. The Boer losses were placed by the same report at between 2,000 and J.000. Manifestly there must be a good leal of conjecture about the latter fig-ires, yet it must be remembered that the qghting lasted for seventeen houra and the Boers were attacking intrenched positions. If these figures are correct show very clearly the determined jature of the fighting.

At this writing no movement is reported from any direction in South Africa. All the columns are inactive and appar-fntly waiting directions from the new Xmmander-in-chief. Ladysmith is still besieged by the Boers and Buller, with ois immense army of 35,000 men. is un-ble to relieve it. Kimberley still regains hard pressed by the enemy, and Sen.

Methuen cautiously remains in his fortified camp to the south of the Modder river, evidently afraid to resume operations) against the Dutch. Mafeking, in British Bechnanatand, is surrounded by Boer forces and the latest sortie of the British ended in a repulse, which cost ihe besieged dearly. In northern Cape Colony Gens. French and Gatacre are enable to obtain any imiiortant advantage over the Boers. The reported capture of Colesberg by Gen.

French has turned out to be untrue and one of his later reports is an admission of a defeat in which 157 men were killed or captured. 3atacre, after bis disastrous experience, it Stormberg, warily keeps out of Boer traps by remaining practically inactive. Thus while the British are justly proud jf Gen. White's heroic defense of Lady-jinitb, there is nothing in the general iituation that is encouraging. Every the British are held at bay and iltbough in the campaign thus far they lost nearly 0,000 men they have accomplished practically nothing.

In no jlace have the Boers been pressed back from British territory. The plan of campaign of Buller has proved so far a complete failure. It wonld be unwise to conclude, how-fver, that this condition will long remain to. Humanly speaking, the Boers can lot long withstand the tremendous -ar-aiies that Gens, Roberts and Kitchener will soon be sending against them and the result will be that they will be beaten back Into their own territories, where the Sighting will be of even a more desperate Character than any hitherto in this campaign. A Desperate Fight.

The desperate fighting at Ladysmith Saturday disabused the British and the urorld generally of a highly erroneous Opinion. It was held that while the Boers fought well from cover they were act trained enough to attack an entrenched enemy. But they conclusively proved in Saturday that they are equally brave nd adroit in attack ns in, defense. For early seventeen hours they hurled them-lelves against the British positions, chief-at Caesar's Camp and Wagon Hill, and though repulsed they returned again and again to the attack with indomitable Sraverr. Three times the Boers capture rd the British entrenchments at Wagon Hill and as often they were driven out at ihe point of the bayonet.

One position they occupied all day until late afternoon, when amid a heavy storm they were driven out by the bayoneL Whether Buller can relieve Ladysmith may well be doubted. Since his defeat Colenso, or the Tugela river, a few weeks ago he has not so far as known a single step to retrieve his disaster. Even when Gen. White signalled 'lim Saturday that he was hard pressed, most Buller could do to help him was to order a demonstration at Colenso, which a London paper remarked had as much effect as ordering "a display of 6 reworks." It is however, that Bullet will attack the Boers soon and is merely waiting to have every available gun and man ready. That he will need ail of his 35,000 troops is certain." It he makes a frontal attack he will have to cross the Tugela river, the fords of which are under Boer jfuns and the approaches to which are defended by barbed wire entanglements.

Even the riverJbed )Con-ains barbed wire. Then before him lie a series of entrenchments, some sixteen miles long, nenrly as strong as the works of Plevna, where the Turks so gallantly held at bay the Russians. Defending these entrenchments are men as brave and able as any in the world, for undet the training of European officers the Boers are now a disciplined army. It ii easily apparent that the task before Buller is not an easy one In other parts of South Africa the1 war situation has undergone no material change. The nature of the fighting in northern Cape Colony, where Gen.

French is operating, is of a skirmishing nature and no serious engagement may be expected there for the present at least. Later, when Gens. Roberts and Kitchener formulate their it is probable that a strong force will be sent np the railroad from Port Elizabeth, with the object of invading the Orange Free State. A strong British force in that region would call many of the Free Staters from Natal to defend their own soil. Municipal Matters.

Minneapolis citizens are taking' step for a new city charter. Philadelphia is to hv a labor temple to cost not less than $100,000. Flushing and Newton, L. Lvare to have forty miles of new gas mains. HartwelL was the scene of a "horse swapping convention" recently.

Indianapolis and Logs hsport. will soon be connected by a new electric railwny. At Kansas City -the construction of a new theater tA -cost $75,000 wHl soon begin, i (v" Charleston is to build a big mill foi manufacturing cioth from Sa Island cotton. i. Two rival trolley lines are fighting ovei possession of the- streets- in Wilmington, DeL The Ancient Mechanical Society of Baltimore celebrated its anniyersarj recently.

New York police complain th wretched sanitary condition of a umbel of the stations. New York has a school ia conneetioi with the fire department, where firemet are taught to scale buildings, catch duni mies and handle furniture. On Monday the Senate passed resolution by Mr. Allen calling upon each cabinet officer for itemized statement ot mount of $50,000,000 defense fund each department expended. Passed Mr.

Petti-grew's resolution calling for Admiral Dewey's report, in which he said he could take Manila at any time. After debate postponed until Wednesday Mr. Pettigrew's resolution calling on Secretary of War for information as to alleged interview between Gen. Torres of the Filipino army and Gen. Otis, also Mr.

Lodge's substitute therefor simply calling for general Philippine information. Democrats wishing to speak on the financial bill, it went over for a day. Mr. Morgan made speech on racial question in South. General pension debate on bill amending dependent act of June 27, 1890.

House passed resolution Introduced by Mr. Lents for investigation of charges that John C. Graham, post-mester of Provo, Utah, and Orson Smith, postmaster at Logan, Utah, were guilty of polygamous practices, investigation to be made by committee postotflees and post roads. Passed resolution introduced by Mr. Lenta for investigation of action of Gen.

Merriam and militia in Wardner, Idaho, mining riots in spring of 1899, and their course in preventing employment of union miners, investigation to be made by military committee. Thursday, after 1 o'clock, was set apart for eulogies upon life and character ot late Representative Danford, of Ohio. Wednesday for eulogies upon late Representative Greene, of Nebraska, and Friday, after 2 o'clock. pupon late Vice President Hobart. Ad journed till Wednesday.

The Senate on Tuesday adopted resolution by Mr. Allen calling upon Secret tary of War for data on purchase of transports. Listened to speech by Beveridge in favor of American retention pf the Philippines and by Mr. Hoar in opposition thereto. The House was ltot in session.

"Wednesday in the Senate was devoted to speeches of tribute to memory of lkte Vice-President Hobart. The House adopted resolution offered by Mr. Taw-ney (Minn.) calling upon Secretary of Treasury for information as to States in which oleomargarine is shipped and distributed, amount in pounds and number of licenses for its manufacture. Eulogies upon life and public services of late Representative Greene of Nebraska. Adjourned until Friday, The Senate on Thursday listened to a debate on the Philippines between Mr.

Lodge and Mr. Pettigrew, the former urging full publicity on all matters connected with the issue and the latter bitterly attacking the administration. Heard Mr. Stewart in opposition to the currency reform Passed the bill conferring additional authority upon the director ot the census. Passed the bill increasing to $2,500,000 the limit of cost of the new Indianapolis public building.

"Adjourned to Monday. The House was not in session. The Senate held no session on Friday. In the House Mr. Sulzer N.

.) presented for immediate consideration a resolution for the appointment of a special committee of nine members to investigate the relations of the Secretary oft the Treasury with certain New York national banks and the transactions relative to the sale of the New York custom house. Mr. Dalzell Pa.) objected on the ground that the resolution should go through the box in the regular way. He then asked unanimous but Mr, Hopkins III.) objected. Adjourned until Monday.

Odds and Ends. Vinna," had a big fire. Salem Mason, 108, colored, is dead, Nashville, Tenn. Several stores. Cleveland, burned.

Loss $35,000. Thomas Peak was killed in row at Sweetwater, Tenn. Zinc trust- is said to be forming with $100,000,000 capital. Thieves got $1,500 at Pollard store, Newburne, Ala. James Crocker's store, Huntsville, horned.

Loss' $7,000. Engineer Calloway was Wiled in a wreck. Clarendon, Texas. Thread manufacturers have advanced prices 10 cents a dozen 6pools. Society of ethical culture in New York has begun a crusade against vice.

Chas. Yocum, Harrodsburg, accidentally shot and killed his wife. Sousa's band will attend the Paris exposition as the official American band. Cunningham sugar estate burned at Sugarland, Texas. Loss $90,000.

Indian leaders are said to want to send troops to the Cape to fight against the Boers. Henry Oppenheimer, 19, New York, leaped from a burning building and was killed. Geo. M. Settle, dry goods merchants, Paris, Texas, has failed.

Liabilities $90,000. Smooth thief relieved Sam Johnson, a Cincinnati truck farmer, of $4,000 in Spanish war. bonds. Paterson, N. will erect a $15,000 bronze statue, life size, of the late Vice-President Hobart.

Wm. Baldwin, 23, drowned at New-pert, Ky. He was the champion bag. puncher of Kentucky. New municipal buildings at Norwich, England, are proposed by the corporation at a cost of 100.000.

Britain gains 200,500 a year from the little tax which falls on patent medicines, pills, liver cures and ointments. Mexico and China have completed at Washington a general treaty of trade, navigation and immigration. Negro woman and her two children were found dead from smallpox in Chatham County, North Carolina. Abraham K. Lefever, a prominent Lancaster County, farmer, died after terrible suffering, with hydrophobia.

The Council of Jewish Women will hold its second triennial meeting in Cleveland, Ohio, from March 4 to 11, 1900. Bubonic plague is- said to have made its appearance in Noumea, capital of the French penal eclony of New Caledonia. Since March 10 of last year New Jersey has enrolled corporations that repre-. sent a' face stock value of Two intoxicated men on horseback, near Scipio, I. shot into a house with a Winchester, instantly killing Mrs.

Plun-kett. Congressman Sulzer wants the birthdays of Thomas Jefferson and Abraham Lincoln, both in' April, made national holidays. At a recent local option election in Cloverport, women and preachers crowded the entrance to the polls and sang hymns, while church bells were ringing. The temperance advocates won. INDIANA INCIDENTS: RECORD OF EVENTS OF THE PAST WEEK.

Finds $2,000 in an Old Book Price of Oil Lund Leases Is Doubled New Commandant for Lafayette Soldiers' Home -Farmer Is Murdered. John B. Pankey, manager of the English Hotel at English, while looking through the wareroom of the hotel found a book with the name of Philip McDon-iiouch Of Poughkeepsie, N. written pn the flyleaf. Between the leaves'of the book were fonr $100 bills, one $300 bill and two $1,000 bills, making a total of $2,900.

The book is entitled "Protestantism and Catholicity Compared in Their Effects on the Civilization of Europe." Mr. Pankey has no idea how the book came to be in the wareroom of the hostelry, nor does he recall ever having had a guest by the name of McDouuough jpt his hotel. Capt. Stormont Is Selected. Gilbert Stormont of Gibson County has been elected commandant of the Indiana Soldiers' Home at Lafayette, for three years.

His home is nt Princeton. He is 53 years old and at preseut traveling deputy revenue collector. The board passed favorably upon eighteen applications for admission G. R. STOUSIOXT.

to the Boom in Old Land Leases. Competition for oil leases throughout the Indiana field has never been so lively as at present. Not until Decembor were farmers paid more than 50 cents per acre for oil rights, while now con-lerns are putting up the price on one mother in their endeavor to secure lenses. The minimum "aow is $1 per acre, with a rising tendency, and many old lenses are "hanging hands around that figure. It is said that in the counties in the oil field two-thirds of the taxes are paid by this lWjse K.ouey.

I tmicioi jtooKa Ail iMitminK. Sensational developments have come In Shelby County with the retirement St County Treasurer Wilson and the in-ttallntiou of Treasurer Lee as his sue-' ressor. All the books of the olllee for three years and six mouths prior to last June are missing. The corresponding books of the Auditor fur the same period are missing, and it is not known whut moneys have been received or paid out in that time. Farmer Is Shot and Killed.

In Point township James Rutter shot ind killed Frank Spottsville. Rutter was trespassing on Spoltsville's farm aud was ordered off the place, when he drew a revolver and shot Spottsville. Rutter was captured as he was about to escape to Kentucky in. a skiff. Spottsville-friends tried to lynch Rutter, -l Sheriff Thomas lauded him safely uiil in Mount Vernon.

Within Our Borders. More burglar raids at Goshen. Muncie factory employes voted fot weekly pay. Muncie electric light plant will bo fired with coal. Herman Meir, No'thview, has married his sixth wife.

Henry Butts', 01, the oldest citizen of Evansville, is dead. rhilip Brown, 80, veteran of the Mexican and civil wars, Sullivan, is dead. George W. Brooks' creamery, Muueie, in ashes. Engineer thawed out a go pipe.

By vote, the 'Lebanon high school showed a preference for "modern literature." 1 Marion factories were shut off because of a shortage of gas, and, several bun-. dred bien are idle; There are so many State cases on the Madison court docket that eases may be crowded out. Farmers of Washington Township have organized to protect the birds- and make ar oh illegal hunting. Schools at Elizabethtown have been closed on account of diphtheria, and a strict quarantine is maintained. It is said in the gas belt that.

the Union Traction Company will have Opposition from another electric road. R. L. Woodling, Logansport, has invented a patent way of planting corn. Frank Gordon, Dillsbnro, who was reported to have beenkilled nt Santiago, has returned home and denies it, The Knights of Pythias at Shelbyville have arranged to begin the construction of a $40,000 Castle hall and opera house.

The case against Freeman Moon, charged with complicity In the lynching of Marion Tyler at Scottsburg, has been dismissed. MethodiMts of Brazil will build a church, and the Christian congregation has decided to blow in $15,000 for a new edifice. Fire destroyed the posfoffice and sa-toon and residence of Philip Bretz, Bretz-ville. Lamp exploded in the Bretz kitchen." The postmaster was burned in rescuing the mail and records. Loss with no insurance? Aaron A.

Webster, for seventy years a resident of South Bend, is dead. He was prominent for the part which he took in the famous underground rnilwsy by which many negro slaves escaped tc Canada before the civil war; Fire in H. B. Plumb's restaurant nt Brazil spread to Schromier Wherles' thoe store and Michael Doyle's saloon, and the three buildings and contentswere. destroyed, incurring a loss of $27,000, which was partly covered by insurance.

George M. Langhlin, near Spencer, was killed while loading hogs. Heavy timber fell on him. County pupils will write essays for the farmers' institute at Laporte. The three best will be read.

Marion claims that the big strike she had last summer kept her from leading other cities in building. Union Traction Company has purchased 100 acres along itsj Indianapolis line, near Fortville, for a park. tm. Company has been forced at Kokomo to manufacture the telescope, buckle that Earl Graves recently invented. Josiah Cromer and wife.

Muncie. parents of Congressman Cromer, celebrated rVif-ir eolden wedding. Dr N- C. Neyman. Saltillovdle.

claims to be the son of Marshal Ney, Napoleon's general. It is only recently that admitted that his name was Ney. Anderson curfew ordinance which holds parents responsible for children under 10 years of age being on the street after 8 o'clock, has gone into effect. In Indianapolis John Price, colored, years old, was literally cooked to death at his home by the beat resulting from Increased gas pressure. Price was bedfast and bad never been left alone until that night.

He was a civil war veteran..