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The larger part of Lord Roberts' army is delayed at Bloemfontein by heavy rains, and the troops are suffer­ ing hardships. Major General Schalkburger succeeds Oeileral Joubert as vice president of the Transvaal and General Botha is made commander of the Boer forces. The Boers are in strength along the Bigarsberg range and have strong for­ tifications. Lord Roberts has sent General Pole- Carew and General French with rein­ forcements to aid In the relief of WeperkM\ Boers by their activity are surprising the British. Information to the London Times says that the present Boer strength is 80,000 men, 50,000 of whom are In the Free State. Bread is 50 cents ft loaf at Bloem­ fontein and sugar Is (52 cents a pound. General Sir Charles Warren has been retired to a civil office and General Buller is also to be removed. It is reported that other European ambulance corps, besides the Irish- Americans. are taking up arms in be­ half of the Boers. THE WAR IN THE PHILIPPINES. General Montenegro, a Filipino leader, has surrendered to the Ameri­ cans. Twelve hundred Tagalogs attacked the Americans in the island of Min­ danao. Fifteen Americans were killed or wounded. The Philippine commission hassalled from San Francisco to Manila. As a result of the week's fighting around Manila fully l.(KK) Filipinos have been killed or disabled. Ameri­ cans lost dine killed and sixteen wounded. WASHINGTON NEWS. Hoar addressed the senate In op­ position to the policy of "imperialism" and eulogized Aguinaldo. The United States may break of diplomatic relations with Turkey be­ cause of the sultan's failure to pay In­ demnity claims. The agricultural department is to es­ tablish an experiment station in Porto Rico. General John C. Glllmore, adjutant general at headquarters of the army, Washington. D. C., is seriously 111. The United States government Is considering the question of using force to make Turkey pay the Armenian in­ demnity. A bill to give Longstreet $50 a month Mexican war pension is before the sen­ ate. The Sultan of Turkey, acting on the American indemnity claim, orders re­ built the church property destroyed during Armenian massacres# IN THE POLITICAL FIELD. The circuit court at Frankfort, Ky« has decided the latest election contest- that of the minor state officers--in fa­ vor of the Democrats. , The Democrats carried the election for city and town officers at New Ha­ ven. Conn. General Wheeler has requested the governor of Alabama to call a special election to fill the vacancy Caused by the general's resignation as a member of congress. Many of the city and town Repub­ lican caucuses in Massachusetts In­ dorsed Secretary of the Navy Long for vice president. Colonel L. D. Carter of Oakland. Ills., has withdrawn as a candidate for the Republican nomination for con­ gress in -the nineteenth Illinois dis­ trict. A Minneapolis dispatch says tjie "Silver Republican" party has changed Its name to that of "Lincoln Republi­ can." Tennessee Republicans will have two tickets in the field in the coming campaign and two sets of delegates will go to the national convention at Philadelphia. Senator Piatt sajs Roosevelt would accept second place on the Republican national ticket. In the race for governor in Alabama there are four candidates and the in­ structed delegates are divided between them. THE CRIMINAL RECORD. William F. Miller, the New York get-rlch-quick man, has been found guilty of grand larceny. Jewels valued at $10 000 were stolen from the Princess Attersberg in New York city. ^ • James Sowe is on trial at Nelilsville, Wis., charged with attempting to*kill his wife. Five persons escaped from the peni­ tentiary r.t Sioux Fall, S. D. Garfield McDonald, a Chicago bi­ cycle thief, has confessed to stealing nearly 100 wheels within the last two months. A Mississippi mob lynched near Brownsville a negro for an attempted assault on a white woman. Jealousy over millinery induced M Mi -• In-1 Flaunigan of Chicago ahoot aP Mrs. Margaret Cahlll. Mrs. Charles Smith, of Brownville, Neb., shot Jier^husband and herself. The woman probably will die, but the. man may recover. C. P. Casgrain of Chicago committed suicide by drowning in Mountain Lake, Minn. William Aylward. a Chicago fisher­ man. murdered William Larkins tind gashed with a knife an 18-year-old boy. BUSINESS NOTES. . Striking tailors at Chicago have re­ turned to work, having surrendered most of the points for which they had been fighting. Financial men denounce the closing of the steel and wire mills as a part of a scheme to break stocks. Owing to differences between the miners and laborers In the mines Of Vigo, Greene and Sullivan counties, Ind., a strike was inaugurated. The Rockefellers , are reported to have obtained control of the Missouri Pacific. F. W. Schell's shoe store at Dodge- ville, Wis., was closed by the sheriff on attachment in favor of the Beals & Torreny company, of Milwaukee, on a claim of $1,500. The Blackstone National bank of Boston has gone Into liquidation. A crusade has been started to re­ move J. W. Gates, chairmap of the ex* ecutive committee of the American Steel and Wire company. * A discharge in bankruptcy has been granted to John H. Haverly, the the­ atrical and minstrel manager, wiping out $327,749 of debts. James R. Willard. a Chicago broker, has filed a petition in bankruptcy. He owes $845,000 and has not a dollar. The Marseilles Wrapping' Paper com­ pany, of Marseilles. Ills., is being re-' organized, and a sale will be made to a firm to be known as the W. I>. Boyce Paper Mills company. 6W. D. Boyce, of Chicago, Is president of the new company. MISHAPS AND DISASTERS. Four Italians named Ablate--uncle and three nephews.--were burned to death in a tenement fire at Newcastle, Pa. John Brew, 11 years old, was prob­ ably fatally Injured by being dragged nearly half a mile behind a runaway horse at the Chicago stockyards. The French fishing boat Iloche has foundered off Crook haven, Ireland, in a storm, twenty-four persons being drowned. Floods are still causing immense losses in Mississippi, Louisiana and Oklahoma. John Horton, a negro, his wife, and five children were drowned in the back waters, of Pear river near Jack­ son, Miss., while trying to escape from the flood. The flood situation in the south again grows threatening. In some towns water stands six feet in the streets. NOTABLE DEATItl. Mrs. Sarah Pollard, the oldest army nurse in the country, is dead in In­ dianapolis, aged 03. Samuel Howard, a well-known law­ yer and veteran member of the Mil­ waukee bar, is dead. Miss Jennie O'Neill Potter, the well- known elocutionist, is dead at New York. Jules Sachs, the musical Impresario, is dead at San Remo. Otto Wuelflng, the well-known Ger­ man advocate of blmetalism, is dead In Berlin. Henson Robinson, a leading citizen of Springfield, Ills., dropped dead in the rotunda of the Leland hotel there. J. M. McKiustry, grand secretary of the Royal Arcanum, is dead at Cleve­ land. Dr. S. E. Sheldon, a well-known Kansan, formerly state senator, is dead at Topeka of heart trouble. Lord Londesborough. cricketer, pa­ tron of drama and friend of the Prince of Wales. Is dead. Rev. Chas. Beecher, youngest broth­ er of the late Henry Ward Beecher, died at Georgetown, Mass., Saturday, aged 84. THE FIRE RECORD. • The town of Ed in burg, N. D., has been wiped out by fire and two lives were lost. The plant of the St. Louis Chronicle was entirely destroyed by fire Satur­ day: the paper did not miss an issue, however. Loss. $50,000. The Utica, Ills., cement mill burned, throwing 100 men out of employment. Forest fires are raging within a mile of the outskirts of Duluth, Minn. Re­ ports of heavy loss of life in Manitoba by flames are denied. ODDS AND ENDS. Governor Roosevelt has appointed a commission to investigate New York and Buffalo tenement houses. McGovern failed to put out White In six rounds at Chicago. Latest advices received at Kingston, Jamaica, tell of the complete defeat of the insurgent forces in Colombia. The Milwaukee presbytery has over- tured the general assembly to revise the creed. Rev. Hay Watson Smith of Little Rock. Ark., has withdrawn from the Presbyterian church. He says he sees no possibility of a revised creed. Mrs. Eliza Chrisman lias left $250,- 000 for the founding of a university at Topeka, Kan. The navy department has secured a 5.000-ton steamer to carry food to the starving in India. The German government has sent a gunboat to China for a naval demon­ stration. threatens vast damage to bridges and lumber Interests. t The Ashantis have killed 500 loyal Bekuis, and the British governor asks for assistance. 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