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;} . K" .1. i, 1 • k WEEK'S NEWS RECORD '*. " ' •' Itaefcner McKee, a prominent fanner, Md Mt*. .Tohn M. Wilson, a widow, were found dead by the roadside near Law- reneehurg, Ky. Investigation showed that Iwtfa bad been abot, bat whether it was a case of murder or suicide is not known. explosion of dynamite in a shanty at the quarry of Foss & Conklin's Stone Crashing works at Rockland, N. Y., killed four men ami seriously wounded four more. The shanty was uaed to af­ ford protection to the men while blast- Was going on. At Macon, Mo., the jaty in the caw of 8. Gragin, Lmlk-ted for murder in the first degree for killing Jeff Had ley in •May, 1806, brought in a verdict of not guilty. Hadley had wronged Grugin's 10-year-old daughter Alma and Grugin «dmltted that he had killed Hadley.« The United States Court of Appeals at St. Louis decided that suicide cannot be urged by an insurance company or othei organization as its reason for refusing to pay on a policy unless rt can be shown that the individual at the time of sub­ scribing for the policy contemplated sui­ cide. < The country store of Charles Kuch at Doniphan, Kan., was robbed by two masked men. In a battle which follow­ ed Kttch was wounded and Andrew Braun was killed by the robbers, who made their escape. The robbers opened fine on a posse of men who had traced them by means of bloodhounds and killed R.G. Dickerson, an Atchison policeman. In the court of Jndge Perry at Box, Ok., the celebrated case of John Futrell vs. B. W. I)epew for the sum of 5 cents was tried and decided. The suit grew out of a difference of 5 cents in the price of ginning some cotton, and the jury gave • verdict of the full amount claimed, 5 cents, to the plaintiff, but divided the costs equally between the parties, each having a bill of $32 to pay. The most disastrous Minnesota flood in yeaft took place the other day, being caused by the breaking of the great dam near Mllaca. The loss so far as known is more than $100,000. Over $40,000 of this Is in the neighborhood of Cambridge* lsatirti County. The flood moved w'th resistless force along the Rum river and neighboring streams, sweeping away ev­ erything. Many farmers lost everything they had in the world. At a meeting of the supreme council of India C. M. Rivaz said the famine-affect­ ed areas comprised 100,000 miles of Brit­ ish territory and 250,000 miles of the ter­ ritory of native states, each section con­ taining upward of 15,000.000 of people. The situation in the central provinces, and particularly in Berar, Guzerat, North Deccan, southeast and central Punjab, Baroda, Indor£ and Rajputana, was distinctly grave. Mr. Rivaz thought the extreme limit of high prices, how­ ever, had been reached and that the food supplies from Burmah and Bengal would prove sufficient. Bradstrmt's says: "Touching the wheat situation it may be said that while present statistics of stocks of domestic and European wheat are bearish, esti­ mates of the year's crop continue to af­ ford strength to the bulls' position. An average of five leading European esti­ mates points to a world's crop this year not far from 2,500,000,000 bushels, and a falling off of 325,000,000 to 375,000,000 bushels from last year is indicated. Corn is not as depressed as wheat, mainly be­ cause of lighter receipts. Wheat, in­ cluding flour, shipments for the week aggregate 4,100,618 bushels, against 5,- 263,(534 bushels last week and 4,282,778 bushels in the corresponding week of 1898. Corn exports aggregate 5,058,097 bushels, against jfe8S8,793 bushels last week and Imshcte in this week _ .... for _ trllh the Ameri- f|c Company, knows as Hfcr Coghlan, the actress, who, under the name of Marts Sullivan, filed a petition in bankruptcy on July 22. with liabilities of *26,830 and no assets, was discharged as a "bankrupt by Judge Brown in the United States District Court in New York. Lyman C. Larned of Boston has brought suit in the United States Circuit Court against Guglielmo Marconi to re­ strain him and his agents from using the system of wireless telegraphy, which Larned claims, is an infringement of a patent now controlled by him WBSTERN. Nine vafi* ««Fishc<J blizzard., . BREVITIES. in tM Montana ••sir- A! , Underwriters have increased premiums on grain elevators. Scarcity of coal, doe to demand and strikes, affects tttilroads. > Kansas law fixing telegraph toils has been held unconstitutional. French wheat crop is above the aver­ age, though than last year. Col. Schneider/ the former Austrian thilitary attache at Paris, whose name has been pr<«mn«i»tly connected with the alleged treason of former Captain Alfred Dreyfus of the French army, is dead. The Pure Food Association, in session In Chicago, has completed its work and elected officers as follows: President, J. E. Blackburn, Ohio; secretary and treas­ urer, Elliott O. Grosvenor, Michigan. As a result Of the two days' conference held in Obiteago by the officiate of the Pullman Palace Car Company it is an Bounced that the'Wagner Car Company |tad been absorbed by" the < rival corpora­ tion. ••••• if wV'f*- ' -> Lord Mayor Tallon of Dublin and John Redmond, M: P., who are in Amer­ ica soliciting fbttds for the Parnell mon­ ument, were receited by the Mayor of New York, and also visited the navy yard in Brooklyn. Fred W. W a), kins, president of a de­ partment store at Hamilton, Ont., has assigned. His liabilities are not known, but wiii be heavy. Herron, Dickson & Go. of Glasgow, Scotland, are creditors to the extent of $<>0,000. The Boston fishing schooner Two For­ ty was run down and cut in two by the tramp steamer Ardanhu in the upper har­ bor at Boston and four of the crew of eleven on board the fisherman were drowned. The vessel sank at once. Maf. Guy Howard, son of Gen. O. O Howard, was killed in Philippine skirm­ ish. Tfier^has been a triple killing in Estill County, Ky. At a, dance given by John Hoover near Wagerftville a general fight took place, ill which two men uud one WOtnpn are saM to have been killed out­ right and several persons wounded. The largest lumber boat fleet ever in the Duluth-Superior harbor at one time •was there a few days ago. The fleet had * capacity of 20,000,<>00 feet of lumber, and difficulty was experienced in getting men to load the boats. EASTERN. K. Vanderbilt has the plans for his house at Oakdale, L. L Cass Gilbert of St. Paul is to be the architect for the new $3,000,000 custom house at New York. Lieutenant Commander T. B. M. Ma­ son, U. S. X., retired, Saugerties, N. Y., is dead, aged 51 years. . The first of the series of races for the America's cup was sailed in New York, the Columbia winning by ten minutes and eight seconds. The Union Steel Company* with a capi­ tal of $1,000,1)00, which will probably be Thurston, aged 19 years, was killed in a football game at Delphos, Kan. The American Beet Sugar Company at Grand It*!and, Neb., has advanced wages 15 per cent. An unusually severe snowstorm has been raging in the mountains surround­ ing Leadville, Colo. Thousands of sheep have perished. Albert D. Fogg. Cincinnati, Ohio, died. He was agent of the Adams Express Company and had been in the service thirty-five years. Carl Browne, Coxey's old lieutenant, left his second command at Wichita, Kan., and declared the proposed march to Washington off. Maj. Frank Kidder Upham, acting quartermaster and commissary of the Sol­ diers' Home at Santa Monica, Cal., ac­ cidentally killed himself with a revolver. Edward Ortou, Ph. D., LL. D., of Co­ lumbus, Ohio, died suddenly of heart dis­ ease, aged 70 years. He was one of the most distinguished economic geologists of America. A rear-end collision occurred near Granite Canyon station, Wyo., on the Union Pacific Railroad, between a stock train and an east-bound fast mail, killing two men and injuring three others. The college building at Norfolk, Neb., was totally destroyed by fire. The loss is $14,000, about half covered by insur­ ance. The college was closed about a year ago. It was a Congregational school. The body of Jesse Shisler, Pennsylva­ nia Railroad detective, was found ground to pieces in the east yards at Fort Wayne. It Is supposed the limited train struck him. He was looking for tramps in the yard when killed. John Helfrich of Larwill, Ind., died from the effects of stub wounds inflicted by an angry son. The father had pun­ ished the son and the boy drew an ordi­ nary pocket knife and stabbed the father five times. He then fled. Fire destroyed the factory of the W. C. Ritchie Paper Box Company, Green and Van Buren streets, Chicago, entail­ ing a loss of $221,000. At least 000 men and women escaped by a narrow margin from the burning building. Robert and Maria Chatham have gain­ ed their suit in the San Mateo County, California, Superior Court, to be consid­ ered the children of the late capitalist, Robert Mills. They will share in the di­ vision of a $300,000 estate. A tornado struck the dwelling of P. Handron, four miles southwest of Mur- dock, Minn., demolishing it entirely. Mrs. Handron and five children when they saw the storm coming took refuge in the cel­ lar and escaped with but little injury. Frank E. Babcoek. a farmer, residing near Redwood Falls, Minn., killed his wife and three sons. Then placing the muzzle of his gun to his own mouth Bab- cock killed himself instantly. The mur- j dens were committed in a fit of insanity. Rev. Paul Kruger, pastor of the United Brethren Church at Ukiah, Ore., it«3 cousin of President Krager of the Sontk African republic, has fallen heir to a for­ tune left by his father in Germany. property consists of four coal tnir^f sal 10,000 marks. Trinity cathedral, Omaha, XA, was crowded the other day to witness the consecration of Rev. Arthur LI ewellyn Williams of Chicago as bishop coadjutor of the diocese of Nebraska. Rt. Rev. .George Worthing, bishop of Nebraska, twas the consecrator. ; The dry goods store of George Innes & Co. burned at Wichita, Kan. It was brilliantly lighted and prettily decorated because of the local festival in progress. It is thought to have caught front an electric wire. The loss is $75,000, with insuranec of $53,000. One of the most beautiful private col­ lections of art on the Pacific most was reduced to ashes when the country home of W. J. Dingee, near Oakland, was burned to the ground. Art gems worth $300,000, many of them the only works extant, were destroyed. SOUTHERN* James Black of Richmond was fatally stabbed in Clay County, Ky., where he had gone on business. An explosion at the Riverside iron and steel works. Wheeling, W. Va., burned and crushed a number of workmen. At St. Ann, Miss., Mrs. J, H. Gambrell and four children were burned to death. The flames spread so rapidly that the occupants could not escape. Caise F. Askew, trustee of Obion County, Tennessee, was shot and killed by Lee Patterson, a farmer, who mis­ took him for a neighbor who had threat­ ened him with violence. Oscar Everhardt, a New Orleans mu­ sician, borrowed a pistol, and returning home shot his wife through the head while she slept. He tben turned the weapon on himself. Domestic infelicity is given as the cause of the tragedy. At Parkersbuig. W. Vs., George (Kidy Wanko, the Washington, Pa., pugilist who killed Felix Carr, pugilist, in a glove contest, was found guilty of volun­ tary manslaughter. The verdict means from one to five years in the penitentiary. Probably at no time in its history has Texas ever had so many drouths as dar­ ing the past summer and this fall. Every section of the State from the Panhandle to the gulf has been visited by a drouth. Reports from the ranges say that cattle are dying for want of water. j Friction between the Laredo, Texas, police and the negro sobers at Fort Mc­ intosh resulted in a street riot. A Mex­ ican. C. Nuncio, received a Krag-Jorgen- scn bullet through the shoulder. Police­ man William Stoner was badly beaten with clubbtd rifles, and at least i00 shots from the arniy rifles and pistols were fired by the rioting negroes. The trouble grew out of the arrest of a soldier for some offense. 1 The St. Paul union iron molders struck and the strikers claim,, that there Is no molder working in the city. The union has a membership of 150. and there are about forty apprentices, who must neces- st££ w,,rk wbon journeymen strike, i he men want a revised and ad­ vanced schedule of wages. VICTOR IN INTER- NATIONAL CONTEST Mlssssri, with Neb. Gen. William R. Shaftsr, who for over a year has held the position of brigadier general In the rsgiitar amy and major general of volunteers, is sow on the re­ tired list of the (igular a nay. Ha will, however, remain in command of the de­ partment of the Pacific. Estimates for the Interior Department for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1901, aggregate $170,500,000. This includes $146,172,000 for the entire pension ser­ vice, of which $144,000,000 is for all army and navy pensions, the remainder being for agencies, salaries, etc.; the cen­ sus bureau, $9,664,000; Indian service, $6,800,526; the general land office, $1.- <;n0.000; patent office, $1,051,190, and ge­ ological survey, $500,000. The bureau of navigation at Washing­ ton has prepared a statement from the latest available foreign official reports, reports of steamship, of companies and mail contracts, showing an annual expen­ diture of $26,003,688 by foreign nation/ on their merchant shipping. The United States, it is shown, paid to American vessels for .ocean mails $1,038,141 for the fiscal year ended June 30. 1898. The Items are as follows: Great Britain, total $5,672,572; Germany total, $1,894,620; France, $7,632,242; Italy. $2,185,266; Russia, $1,168,187; Austria-Hungary, $1,- 724,24!); Spain, $1,629,927; Portugal, $63,300; Netherlands. $259,971; Norway, $136,948; Sweden. $13,844; Denmark, $S2j,455^ Japan, $3,402,107,,., BRITISH GAIN A DECISIVE VIO- j®$,1DII*ATOLlMOOtVi; * FOREIGN! Count Boni Castellane is now accused of being concerned in the French royalist conspiracy. Emiie Aston of Panama Canal no­ toriety, has been pardoned by the French government. British Liberals ia Parliament have pledged support to the government's con­ duct of the war. A plot is reported to have been dis­ covered in Santo Domingo to assassinate President Jiminez. The national debt of Santo Domingo is now about $25,000,000 gold, and the pop­ ulation is somewhat less than 500,000. Carlos Gutierrez of Salvador, who was receiving instruction at the West Point Military Academy, mysteriously disap­ peared last June and has not been heard from since. According to the Schlesische Zeitung a new proposal has been put forward re­ garding the Samoan question. England has offered Germany compensation if *he Will renounce Upoli. Serious storms, accompanied by floods, prevail in the southern districts of Italy, working widespread damage. At San Giorgio a bridge and twenty houses have been swept away, and it is believed that there has been considerable loss of life. William Fitzhugh Whitehouse of New­ port, R. I., accompanied by several Eng­ lishmen, will leave England at once With an exploring expedition for Abyssinia. The e$edition will take sixty armed men, eighty Somali and Abyssinian porters and ninety camels. The London Times complains of the lax observance of neutrality on the part of some of the States of the United States in permitting the sympathetic re­ cruiting and enlisting of men openly and ostentatiously for service against Eng­ land in South Africa. IN GENERAL. A call has been issued by the executive council for the nineteenth annual conven­ tion of the American Federation of La­ bor, to be held at Detroit, Mich., Dec. 11 next. The last big shipment of gold from the Klondike by way of the Upper Ya- koa and Lynn,Canal reached Seattle on the steamer Dirigo. There was over $1,- 050,000 worth of actual treasure. A dispatch from Ortiz, Mexico, says that a band of over 300 Mayo Indiana has joined the Yaqui rebels at their ren­ dezvous near Sahauripa. In the previous wars of the Yuquis against the Govern­ ment the Mayos refused to become their allies. A general strike on the Great Northern has been threatened for some time and it looks now as if it may occur within a very few days. It will include conduc­ tors, engineers, firemen, brakemen and switchmen and the men expect to tie the road up from end to end. It is announced that the bridge' edm- bine under the name of the American Bridge Company has been completed and will be in operation by the first of next month. The combine includes thirty-five of the thirty-seven plants in the country and is capitalized at $67,500,000, of which $33,000,000 is preferred and $34,- 500,000 common stock. It will control about 08 per cent of the output of the country. The headquarters will be ia New York City. The officials of the Colorado Midland Railway Company have discovered a case of ticket counterfeiting which prom­ ises to prove one of the most extensive ever discovered in this country. The ticket is so made that, with the coupon attached, it can be made out to any point in the country and return. The tickets found have been all on Eastern points, and they were so nearly perfect that not only conductors, but employes in the general office passed them without ques­ tion. WASHINGTON. Ttie Postmaster General has issued a formal warning^ to postmasters against the levy of political assessments. The civil service commission will enforce the law. By direction of the President, Maj. Gen. Guy V. Henry, now on waiting or­ ders in New York City, has been assigned MARKET REPORTS. Chicago--Cattle, common to prime, $3.00 to $7.00: hogs, shipping grades, $3.00 to $4.50; sheep, fair to choice, $3.00 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2 red, 71c to 72c; com, No. 2, 80c to 31c; oats, No. 2, 22c to 23c; rye. No. 2, 56c to 58c; butter, choice creamery, 21c to 23c; eggs, fresh, 16c to 17c; potatoes, choice, 25c to 85c per bushel. Indianapolis--Cattle, shipping, $8.00 to $6.50; hogs, choice light, $2.75 to $4.75; sheep, common to prime, $3.25 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2 red, 68c to 70c; corn, No. 2 white, 32c to 34; oats. No. 2 white, 25c to 26c. St. Louis--Cattl* $3.25 to $6.75; hogs, $3.00 to $4.50; sheep, $3.00 to $4.00; wheat, No. 2, 70e to 72c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 81c to 33c; oats. No. 2, 22c to 24c; rye, No. 2, 67c to 58c. Cincinnati--Cattl* $2.50 to $6.25; begs, $3.00 to $4.75; sheep. $2.50 to $4.00; wheat. No. 2, 70c to 72c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 35c to 36c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 25c to 26c; rye. No. 2, 63c to 65c. Detroit--Cattle, $2.50 to $6.50; hogs, $3.00 to $4.75; sheep, $2.50 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2, 70c to 72c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 38c to 39c; oats, No. 2 white, 26c to 28c; rye, 61c to 63c. Toledo--Wheat, No, 2 mixed, 72c to 74c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 33c to 84c; oats* No. 2 mixed, 23c to 25c; rye. No. 2, 59c to 61c; clover seed, $5.95 to $6.05. Milwaukee--Wheat, No. 2 Northern, 66c to 68c; corn, No. 8. 32c to 34c; oats, No. 2 white, 24c to 26c; rye, No, 1, 58c to 59c; barley, No. 2, 46c to 48c; pork, mess. $7.25 to $7.50. Buffalo--Cattle, good shipping steers, $:i.00 to $6.50; hogs, common to choice, $3 .25 to $4.75; sheep, fair to choice weth ers. $3.00 to $4.50; lambs, common to extra, $4.50 to $5.50. New York--Cattle. $8.25 to $6.75; hogs, $3.00 to $5.00; sheep, $3.00 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2 red, 75c to 77c; corn, No. 2, 40c to 41c; oata. No. 2 white, 29c to 31c. butter, creamery, I7f to 25c; eggs, west­ ern, 15c to 20e Troops Xak« a Desperate aatf Bnccstsfal Cfca***--Tfea EacMyls At* tewptinc «a ttetrsat Casgkt Bstwasa Two Fires--Botlt Sides Lom Bsavftly- British arms trinmphed in a desperate battle fought at Glencoe Friday, bat not without a heavy loss of life. Sir William Symons, the British commander, was wounded and it was said his hurt would prove mortal. Maj. Yule took command. The battle, which continued, for eight hours, resulted in the complete repulse of the Boers. The British loss Is estimated at 300 killed and wounded and that of the BoerS three times as many. The action began at 5:30 o'clock in the morning, when the Boers on Talana hill began to shell Glencoe camp. The Eng­ lish artillery, the Thirteenth and Sixty- ninth batteries, rotprned the fire, finding the burgher gunners no match for them. Gun after gun was silenced, and then the plucky charge began. Half an hour had sufficed to prepare for the charge, but it took hours of crawling, fighting and climbing before the British troops won their way to/the summit. The charge was covered by a heavy ar­ tillery fire from Glencoe over the heads of the advancing infantrymen. The British were fighting their way inch by inch toward the summit when word reached Glencoe that a large force of Boers was advancing on Hattingspruit, a little to the north. The Leicester regi­ ment and a battery of artillery weire told off to check the re-enforcements, and the battle raged on. At 1:30 the Glencoe artillerymen saw their comrades on ythe crest of the hill. Then the British cav­ alry circled around the hill and pursued the Boers in their orderly retreat to the eats ward. Seventeen guns fell into the hands of the British. It is thought that this victory, coming at so early a stage of operations, can­ not fail to have a good effect on the Boers, not only because of their being ousted from a position they had occu­ pied in force, but because of the loss of their guns. This last, it, is judged, will prove even more demoralizing. HARD BLOW ON TRUSTS* I taprene Coart Decloioa in American Glucose Litigation. Trusts and combinations formed for the purpose of controlling prices, regulat­ ing outputs of commodities and stifling competition received a body blow at the hands of the Illinois Supreme Court in Springfield Thursday. In an opinion written by Justice Magruder and concur­ red in unanimously it is held that the $40,000,000 Glucose Sugar Refining Com­ pany, commonly known as the glucose trust, is in fact a trust within the mean­ ing of the statute passed in June, 1893, defining trusts and prohibiting them, in arriving at this conclusion the court fol­ lows the reasoning it laid down in the celebrated case which proved the ruin of the whisky trust, and plain terms are used in denouncing the purposes had in view by the organizers of the company. The case was one begun by George F. Harding of Chicago and makes the American Glucose Company the princi­ pal defendant. The American Glucose Company is one of the six concerns which the trust absorbed, and the pur­ pose of the litigation is to prevent the sale of the American Glucose Company to the trust. The Supreme Court heard the case upon a writ of error taken by Harding after his amended bill had been dismissed upon a demurrer. The court reverses the decision of the court below and remands the case, with directions which will apparently partly, at least, disrupt the trust. The decree sets aside all the conveyances by which the trust became the owner of the property of the American Glucose Company and all as­ signments and instruments which accom­ panied the delivery. The lower court is also directed to furnish every relief con­ sistent with the prayer of the bill. . EUROPE IS AROUSEOU . England's Immense Military Hiiln Pnzzte the Powers. It is reported that Great Britain's im­ mense military preparations against two insignificant republics are viewed with considerable curiosity in some of the European capitals, notably Paris and St. Petersburg. Notes have been exchanged on the subject and it is even hinted in Inofficial quarters that inquiries will be addressed to the British Government as to the contemplated absorption of the two republics by the British; empire. The London Press Association has an* nounced with an air of authority that the. Government's plan is to terminate the war in the speediest manner possible af­ ter the forts at Pretoria and Johannes­ burg have been razed and then to promul­ gate by order of the Queen In Council a new constitution for a group of five fed­ eral states--Cape Colony, the Transvaal, Natal, the Orange River Free State and Rhodesia--under the title of the domin­ ion of South Africa, the crown to' nom­ inate a governor general and the five states having power to eleet its own lieu­ tenant government and to have local leg­ islatures with a dominion parliament to meet at Cape Town. With some modifi­ cations, the scheme is based upon lines similar to those of the Canadian Govern­ ment. . Echoes from South Africa* War poems are popular in Engll& newspapers. v \ Italy has sent a cfuisef to South Af-j rican waters. =?=<?*--?- President Kruger's wealth is estimat­ ed at $5,000,000. * English papers say that many of the Orauge Free State Boers oppose the giv­ ing of aid to Krugen The London Mail's circulation is now over 050,000, haviug increased because of Its attitude towards the war. Bakers are belug enlisted to Mo to South Africa to bake bread V Equal rights to negroes are denied by the constitution of the South African re­ public. Johannesburg street cars are not run­ ning. as the horses have been seized'by' the Boers. Paris newspapers complain because, while there is an Irish and a German volunteer corps in the Boer forces, not a single Frenchman has up to the present demand<>d the favor Of being allowed to perforate an Englishman on the coming battlefields. Nearly every .Canadian newspaper is enthusiastic in favor of the war. I»rd Rothschild is raising a fund for the chartering of a Red Cross vessel dur­ ing the war. ' ^ London newspapers say that President Kruger is not as virtuous and upright as be is painted. • A major iu the Berkshire regiment, who has been attached to the Forty-firs^ depot at Cardiff, received orders to pro­ ceed immediately to South Africa, but before leaving the country determined to become united to a young ludy of 19, the daughter of a London physician. The nuptial knot was tied at the Cardiff reg­ istry office. _ Boers, tnSettag a 1$" hy dispatch riders, and aceanMba dsteifr were hard to get, hut it is certain that some heavy fighting has taken place. ln- formatkm from Mafeking say* that an armored train, while recoftaoitering north of the town, engaged 500 Boers, who suffered heavily. Col. Fltsclareoee's col­ umn foiled the Boers, inflicting severe loss. The British casualties were two killed and fourteen woundtd, two severe­ ly. The British garrison at Mafeking rais­ ed a white flag Sunday afternoon and the engagement ceased temporarily. The Boer messenger who was sent to inquire if the garrison meant to yield was held until after sundown. Col. Baden-Powell did not surrender. The burgher forces have practically destroyed the whole of BKITISH TROOPS GOING INTO ACTION. the railway line from Hopetown bridge over the Orange river, fifty miles south of Kimberley, to Ramoutza, forty-five miles north of Mafeking. The Boers cut off Mafeldng's water supply. A report from Boer sources says that the Trans­ vaal lost sixty burghers killed and wounded in the fighting about Mafeking. A sharp engagement took place at Rath- labama station north of the town. The natives in Zululand are arming, and the Zulu chief, Dimzulu, says he is unable to restrain his people. It is ex­ pected the Zulus will unite with the Swazis to the north and both tribes w'll help the British. Zululand is sorthfsst of Natal and, like Swaziland to the north, borders on the Transvaal. Gen. Sir George White, commanding the Brit­ ish forces in Natal, has refused to arm natives who wish to fight against the Boers. The further advance of the Boers into Natal is being delayed by the fail­ ure of their transport service. OFFERS TO TURN TRAITOH. A Filipino General Is Willing to Betray Hie Conntry. Messages purporting to come from' Gen. Pilar offering to surrender his army« and to deliver Aguinaldo into the hands* of the Americans have been received by Gen. Otis. For $250,000 he offers to sur­ render his men after a sham battle; de­ mands $50,000'to refrain from attacking Manila, and offers to procure the over­ throw of the insurrection and the cap­ ture of Aguinaldo and other leaders for $500,000. Pilar is believed to be in the vicinity of San Mateo valley with about 2,000 men. Reports from the enemy's lines are to the effect that Pilar con­ templates a dash through the American lines into Manila for the purpose of kid­ naping Gen. Otis. The pursuit of Aguinaldo is on in earn­ est. Gen. Law ton began his northern movement from Arayat Tuesday night at midnight, when a battalion of the Twen­ ty-second infantry under Maj. Ballance, assisted by Maccabebe scouts, advanced and crossed the Pampenga river, march-; ing in the direction of San Isidro. Agui- naldo is reported to be at Tariac with a strong force, of which he is said to be in personal command. The Americans are handicapped by in­ adequate transportation facilities. Sup­ plies were to have been brought up the Rio Grande to San Isidro as a base, but the river is fast dwindling to a shallow stream. Horses and mules will have to be employed, and these are scarce. Law- ton commands an effective force of 2,000 men, consisting pf the Twenty-fourth in­ fantry, two battalions of the Twenty-sec­ ond, 600 of the Fourth cavalry, mount­ ed and dismounted, one company of the Thirty-seventh infantry, and 200 Macca­ bebe scouts. s.nV.Vi .••• > 5.-> QUEEN CALLS A BIG ARM*. Militia Reserves Will Be Mobilised bjr Great Britain. A second message of the Queen to Par­ liament, giving notice of her intention to call out the militia reserves, has given rise to sensational rumors. The neces­ sity for the move is not apparent, as it was supposed that the present military force would be sufficient for the South African war. Many prominent mea hold that the strengthening of the army at this time is occasioned by alarm at the attitude of continental powers. Despite pledges of neutrality it is known that nearly all the European powers are hos­ tile to England in the present crisis and the military demonstration may be nec­ essary. According to the statistics pub­ lished this year the militia, including the permanent staff and the militia reserve, numbers 132,493 men. In the House of Commons Wednesday Philip James Stanhope denounced the conduct of the Transvaal negotiations -and defaanded that Secretary Chamber­ lain should clear himself of the charge of complicity in the Jamieson raid. Sir illiam Vernon Harcourt also criticised Government policy, holding that ce was possible had not Mr. Cham­ bers In and Sir Alfred Milner been ds- ned upon war. Municipal Matters* Memphis' recent growth is ascribed ta improved sewerage. At Baltimore a coachman waa fined $10 for delaying a car. will assume control of all street car lines within the city. Policy is flourishing in Philadelphia, and the Press has begun a crusade to close the shops. The police department of Hartford, Conn., will soon be equipped with auto­ mobile patrol wagons, ambulances and prisoners' van. Gambling is "wide open" in Savannah, and the preachers are making a crusade against it. Philadelphia still complains of the wat­ er supply., A filtration plant has been demanded for ten years. Dr. Henry J. Schenck has just com­ pleted his twelfth year as dog constable of Boston, during which time he has kill­ ed over 10,000 unlicensed dogs. He gets $1 for each dog he kills, but his expenses are not small. The Socialist Mayor of Haverhill, Mass., claims as his year's record reduc­ tion in the price of gas, abolition of grade crossings, and the payment WC îghsr wages to city employes. Shamrock la Vanqn'sbed bjr More than Six Minntee -- American Sea- asahship Has Agala ParanatraicA Its Superiority. v The American cap defender, Columbia, Friday gloriously defeated Sir Thomas Lipton's green chsllenger, the Shamrock;. snd the gallant British knight will have to build an­ other boat if he wajvts "to lift that cup." The time made by the mar­ velous white yacht over the deep-sea course of fifteen miles dead before the wind and fif­ teen miles thrash­ ing home was three hours thirty-eight minutes and twen­ ty-five seconds. It has been eclipsed in only one other windward and iee- thb cup. ward race for the ?>rized trophy. That was when the Vigi-ant vanquished the Valkyrie six years ago, in three hours twenty-four minutes and thirty-nine seconds. The Columbia defeated the challenger in actual time by six minutes and sixteen seconds. With the allowance of sixteen seconds which she received from the Shamrock her cor­ rected time was six minutes and thirty- four seconds. The Yankee craft showed her superi­ ority in every point of the game, and her active and hardy Deer isle sailormen were more than a match in seamanship for the nimble Britons of the Shamrock. In the run to the outer mark the Colum­ bia was one minute and eighteen seconds better than Sir Thomas' ship. This seemed to be the Shamrock's best point of sailing. In the weather work the < Co­ lumbia defeated her rival by five minutes actual time. Sir Thomas Lipton will challenge again for the America's cup. He acknowledg­ ed that the Columbia was the better boat k>ng before the race was finished. He said that she had beaten the Shamrock In weather just suited to his yacht, and said he was pleased that there had been a good breezfe for the last contest, be­ cause it precluded the possibility of any excuse for the Shamrock. He paid graceful compliments to the Columbia, her owner and designer, and declared that he had received the best and "fairest treatment that could have been accorded. As soon as the Columbia had crossed the finishing line, Sir Thomas ordered that the Stars and Stripes should be BIB THOMAS I.IPTO&,. , mast-headed, and then, when the Erin ran alongside the victorious yacht he called for "Three British cheers" for her. For the eleventh time the attempt of a foreigner to wrest from America that yachting supremacy of the world 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 Amer­ ican nava.l architecture and a standing challenge to the yachtsmen of all nations. The intrinsic value of the reward which hundreds of thousands of dollars were expended to secure is small--simply an antiquated piece of silverware which Queen Victoria offered to the best sail­ ing ship in the world in the early days of her reign, but around it cluster the precious memories of unbroken American triumph and the honor of mastery ip tfee noblest of sports. ALASKA BOUNDARY FIXE& Temporary Adjustment of Vexed Ques­ tion la Now Made. The long-expected modus vivendi rela­ tive to the vexed Alaska boundary ques­ tion went into effect Friday. This re­ sult was brought about through the direct negotiation of Secretary of State Hay and Mr. Tower, the British charge, after several failures !n the past through com­ missioners and ambassadors. The State Department is confident that it has con­ served every American interest in the arrangement, Without unjustly treating Canada. The divisional line en the west pass by which the Dalton trail is reached is plac-' ed twenty-two and one-fourth miles above Pyramid harbor, which is regarded under the treaty as tidewater mark, so the Canadians are not allowed to reach any point on the Lynn canal. Moreover,v there is no permission given for a free port, or. even, for the transfer across American-territory of Canadian goods, except miners' belongings. These mat­ ters may figure la tor on when it comes to a permanent boundary line, but they are not touched upon in this modus. Newa of Minor Note, Wife of President Diaz of Mexico is fully recovered. Chocolate concerns,ot th* JJaited States will consolidate. ' Iron ton, Ohio, wood "mantel -plant burn­ ed. Loss $20,000. Archie Carroll, Chicago, killed Stewart McKenzie. Woman in it. Southern stove manufacturer* have added a 5 per cent advance. Louisa Harriday, colored, over 100 years old, died at Baltimore. Md. Fall River, Mass., announces another advance in prices of print cloth. Samuel Clark, an ore contractor, Iron- ton, Ohio, was killeil in a wreck. Dan Owens, London, Ky., for killing Homer Smith, gets a life sentence. Private Christopher O'Neil died at Ponce, P. R., from inflammatory rheu­ matism. Uruguay may re-establish its legation In Washington, with Jose Baltey Ordoes as minister. Denver, Colo., has ordinances for the Issuance of bonds amounting to $4,700,- 000 for a water plant, and compelling the street railway company to heat its cars. 13icnccfit tight money market with lt» «fh wtes haa ksd to.aeveral mggestioqa - tar relief by the Government.. She prop- •aitte® is being discassed in Washington that there .should be some provision for keeping th* money of the country in cir- calation instead of having larye sum» locked up ba the* vaults of the treasury and the subtreasuries. 7%e Government has a cash balance of tt8^000,000, of which nearly $83,000,006 is on deposit in. banks. The other ,000,000 is stored in Government vanltlk It i£ earning, nothing for Uncle Sam and if perform­ ing no faction as a medium &t exchange in business transactions. The sugges­ tion is made that the Secretary of the Treasury should deposit a larger propor­ tion of this enormous fund in banks, whence it would find its way into circu­ lation in times of tightness, hat this sug­ gestion is, coupled with the proposition that the Secretary shoald charge the banks interest at the rate of 2. per cent per annum. Internal Revenue Commissioner Wilson- will recommend to Congress that a re­ fund be made of the taxes paid by cigar dealers on the cigars manufactured and Bold by Counterfeiter Jacobs at Lancas­ ter, Pa. The Government knew for a long time that these bogus stamps were being used, but did not interfere with the unlawful business for fear of permit­ ting the escape of those whg were en­ gaged in circulating the famous $100 counterfeit Monroe note. For months ci­ gars with forged stamps were being sold,, and when the counterfeiters were arrest­ ed all the cigars bearing these stamps- were seized by the internal revenue offi­ cials. It was decided, however, that the- purchasers were innocent of any fraud, and they were permitted to have posses­ sion of the cigars-by the payment of the lawful tax. The State Department has xuo sscaids showing the number of Americans in the Transvaal. There is a directory giving the names and addresses of the more prominent business men in the republic, but this does not indicate their nation­ ality. The population, according: to the census of 1896, was 245,000 whites and an estimated population of 600,000 blacks. The State Department makes an effort to keep track of the Americans ia barbarous countries. There are lists fur­ nished annually by the American consuls in China and Morocco. The Transvaal has never been regarded as an uncivil­ ized country, and no effort has been made to keep track of our citizens who go there. -:-- Admiral Dewey Is expected to connect himself with St. John's Episcopal Church in this city. He has never been conspicu­ ous as a religious man. In fact, he haa been known to utter robust and resound­ ing cusswords, in moments of stress and excitement, yet so far as he is anything he is supposed to be an Episcopalian. His relatives belong to that church and his leanings are that way. A Congregational church up in Vermont claims him as a member, but that was in the long distant past when the admiral was a boy. St. John's is the fashionable Episcopal con* gregatlon of Washington, and it natural­ ly wants to include Admiral Dewey ia ̂ its fellowship^. ,v 1^3 5k.: New Department of Justice Building. Front Elevation of the New Structure for Washington. --i- According to the latest bulletin issued by the bureau of labor there are 140 cities in the United States having a pop­ ulation of 30,000 or over. The bureau has been collecting and compiling a mass of municipal statistics, and for purposes of correct comparison has broken away from the last census population figures, now nine years old, and made estimates of its own. Massachusetts leads off with 17 cities of 30,000 and over, Pennsylva­ nia with 13, and then comes New York with 12, Ohio with 9, Illinois with 6 and Indiana and Texas with 5 each. HOT OCTOBER WEATflER. Chicago paid homage to the palm fan Sunday, donned summer garments that had been waft­ ed to moth chests by the autumn winds of some days before,, which threatened to cut short the annual visit of Indian sum­ mer, mopped its brow, and betook itself to summer gardens, the cool drinks of the soda fountain, and the relief afforded by the ice man. In the weather bureau the mercury went up the tube to the 84 degree mark, coming within four degrees of the high- est temperature ever recorded in the month of Octo­ ber. The upward flight of the mer­ cury covered a rise of 23 degrees be­ tween 7 o'clock in the morning and 3 in the afternoon. Pavement thermometers took Issue with the figures recorded in the weather sanctum and registered 87 degrees at 3 o'clock. The October heat record was established in 1897, when 87 degrees was booked. The other extreme occurred in 1887, when the mercury drop­ ped to 14 degrees above zero. Trade and Industry*.. Florida has ostrich farms. :* ~ & , - vf 13?; - J ® Louisiana sugar cane crop wilt be siiort^ Plumbing is taught in the London trades school. Street car drivers In Skaguay, Alaska, ore paid $4 a'day. •" " The oyster crop of Chesapeake bay di­ minishes each year. ^ Eggs without shells are shipped fvsis Russia to England. . Bees raised in Texafe are shipped tsl||l parts of the world. Hundreds of American are at Russian factories. v - *•&••'* . " V > ' v . J ' )& Vj