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f; ' 4 - STATEOFWAR ON - ** * * 11 m 1 JiDgiaaa's Kepiy 10 ine iransvaai Ultimatum Simply a Refusal to Discnss Its Terms. ' CABINET MEMBERS SPEAK Lord Rosebery Declares No British Government Can Afford to Repeat Majuba Hill. The Boer Ultimatum Demanded the Instant Removal of British Troops From the Frontier?Action of the English Government?Mauy Foreigners Are Enrolled In the Transvaal Army?Latest Estimate of the Boer Forces?Censor" ship Established In South-Africa? Kruger's Parting Words to Burghers Leaving for the Front?American Consals Will Look After Brest Britain's Interests During the War. , London (By Cable).?The Right Hon. W. St. J. Broderlck, Under Foreign Secretary, In a speech at Guilford, announced that the Government had replied to the last note of the Transvaal, saying that it was not prepared to enter into a discussion of the terms of the note. Mr. Broderick and also Arthur J. Balfour. First Lord of the Treasury, and Attorney-General Sir Richard Webster made speeches in other places and took occasion to refer to the situation. They all avowed that the Government had ?f?wADt +r% mflJnfaln nAJlPA and UUUO 4 Wfi? utuiusk ?v cast the responsibility for war on the Transvaal. Lord Rosebery writes as follows: "Party . controversies must cease now. The nation must close its ranks. No government could ever repeat the Majuba surrender. Our simple object is to secure equal rights for all white men." A state of war was philosophically accepted on Wednesday at 3 p. m., London time. "The campaign will not bo a serious one," said a military expert "until the beginning of December, when General Sir BedversBuller will be prepared to march through the open country of the Orange Free State and leave Sir George White well entrenched in Natal. The Boers will not be allowed to fight on their favorite battlefields." Montagu White, Consul-General of the South African Republic in London, has closed the Consulate and left for the continent. m E S. The latest estimates of the Boer.5trength put the total at 21,000 men, distributed as follows: On the western frontier, 2000; against Kiraberley, 3000; on Drakensberg, 2000: at Volksrust and Utrecht, 12,000; on the Portuguese frontier, 2000. The Orange Free State has 10,000 men In the field, but they are .'argely neutralized, owing to the long frontier line and the necessity of guarding against invasion by the Basutos, the most formidable fighting natives in South Africa next to the Zulus, an^ the only Kaffir tribe which goes into Dame mounieu. TEXT OF BOER ULTIMATUM. Non-Withdrawal Of British Troops Equivalent to a Declaration of War. London (By Cable).?Following Is the .test of the ultimatum dispatched to Great [Britain by the Government of the South {African Republic: i "Her Majesty's unlawful intervention in the internal affairs of this Republic, in convict with the London convention of 1984. [by the extraordinary strengthening of slier troops in the neighborhood of tho "borders of this Republic, has caused an intolerable condition of things to arise, to which this Government feels itself obliged, in the interest not only of this Republic but hlso of all South Africa, to make an end as soon as possible; and this gov* ernment feels Itself calledupon and obliged to press earnestly, ani with tsmphasis, for an immediate termination of this state of things, and to request Her Majesty's government to give assurances upon the following four demands: "First?That all points of mutual difference be regulated by friendly recourse to arbitration or by whatever amicable way Dawton-Slcagnay Wire Ready. Consul Dudley, at Vancouver, informs the State Department at Washington, that the telegraph link from Skaguay to Daweon, in the Klondike, has been completed, and is now in operation. The nearest point to Skaguay reached by telegraph, adds the Consul, is Comax, British Columbia. Spread of the Bubonic Plague. The German Foreign Office at Berlin has been officially informed that the bubonic plague has appeared in North China and In Asuncion Island. Xew*y Gleaning*. A 180-mlle electric railway is to be built In the State of Kashmir, India. Minnesota distributes $890,000 among its schools this year?$2.73 per pupil. Government deposits in the Bank of France are $14,000,030 less than they were ? JO?i Uf^v, Negotiations for a long distance telophonesystem between several European capitals have been opened. London schools during ;be past summer sent numbers of boys and girls to the public baths to learn swimming. While plowing on bis farm Joshua Dean, near Petersburg, Ind., unearthed ninety Ight flint spear heads and two skeletons. mav be aereed upon by this government and Her Majesty's government. "Second?mat an troops on tbe ooraers of this Republic shall be instantly withdrawn. > "Third?That all reinforcements of troops which have arrived in South Africa since June 1, 1899, shall be removed from South Africa within a reasonable time, to be agreed upon with this government, and with the mutual assurance and guarantee on the part of this government that no attack upon or hostilities asrainst any portion of the possessions of the British government shall be made by this Republic during the further negotiations, within a period or time to be subsequently agreed upon between the governments; and thi3 t government will, on compliance therewith, i be prepared to withdraw the armed burgh- r ers of this Republic from the borders. "Fourth?That Her Majesty's troops 1 which are now on the high seas shall not ! be landed in any part of South Africa. 3 "This government presses for an immed- . iate and affirmative answer to these four J questions, and earnestly requests. Her Ma- 1 jesty's Government to return an answer ber ^re or upon Wednesday, October 11, ( not later tnan live o ciock p. m. "It desires further to add that in the un- 1 expected event of an answer not satisfactory beinp recelvod by it within the interval, it will with great"regret bo compelled to regard the action of Her Majesty's Government us a formal declaration of war, and will not hold itself responsible for tho consequences thereof, and that, in the event of any further movement of troops occurring within the above mentioned time in a nearer direction to our borders, this Government will be compelled to regard that also as a formal declaration of war, "I have the honor to be, respectfully yours, F. W. Reitz. State Secretary." KRUGEIl TO HIS SOLDIERS. He TelU the Burgher* to Trait Rod, Who Directs Every Bullet, and Be Brave. Pretoria, South African Republic (By Cable).?President Kruger, addressing a number of burghers who were about to ^ leave for the front, told them not to trust themselves, but the Almighty, who direct- J ed every bullet. Ke called upon the bur- . , ghers to keep up their courage, remembering former days when, though their ene- j. I t?l?o war# nnmsrnnq COnnnftrAtivelV few T Boers fell. p The Official Gazette contains a proclamation calling upon all burglier9 domiciled outside the republic without permission of the Government to present themselves forthwith to their respective commandants for service, failing which thev wiii be punished Dy flnes varying from $500 to $2500 or by imprisonment and confiscation of property. Some of the laagers are flying the Irish flag jointly with the flags of the Transvaal and the Orange Free State. The Ambulance Corps has arrived. The German detachment has posted a big gun on the Free State-Natal border In a position to aid Wakkerstroom. Five hundred burghers assisted in hauling the gun up. a steep and almost inaccessible declivity. g Experiments have shown that an armored T tjain can be pierced like tissue paper by j Ureusot guns. c A dispatch from Volk3rust says the en- 6 tire flr3t draft of the Transvaal RDd Free c State Boers Is now mobollzed. The gen- E erals commandants and Held cornets have ^ Inspected the various strategical positions fi on the border. ? c AMERICANS TO REPRESENT BRITAIN g Consuls to Look After British Interests ^ in tlie Transvaal. i ? n London (By Cable).?The Foreign Office 1 confirms the report from Washington that f Great Britain has asked the United States c Government to empower the United States ? Consular authorities in the Transvaal to E represent British interests there during ? the hostilities. Washington. D. C. (Special).?It Is set- v tied that the United States will look after ? the interests of Great Britain In the Trans- f vaal. There is a perfect understanding be- ? tween the representatives of the two gov- ? ernments. Mr. Tower, the British Charge d'Affuires, had a conference with Acting- 5 Secretary Hill at the State Department, at which an understanding' was reached that the UDited States would look after British Interests in the Transvaal in the event of * S Sir Alfred Mllner's Proclamation. Capetown, South Africa (By Cahle).? c Sir Alfred Milner, Governor of Cape Col- r ony and British High Commmlssloner la n South Africa, has issued a proclamation a dociariug all persons abetting the enemy e in a state of war with Great Britian to be j guilty of high treason. n The military authorities in South Africa have declared a censorship over all telegrams, in order to prevent Information regarding British movements from reaching ^ the Boers. BLUE AND CRAY MEET. o President McKlnley Ta'ka to Reunited n War Veterans at Evansvllie, Ind. j Evassville, Ind. (Special).?President v McKlnley and his Cabinet arrived from t; Chicago to attend the National reunion of P the Blue and the Gray. A heavy rain was j falling, but ten thousand veterans aud vis- a itors gathered about the station and ten- t dered an ovation to the Presidential party, a The President and his party were es- t corted by the Cleveland Grays and the Reception Committee to the Tri-State fair t grounds, wbere President McKlnley de- t llvered an address, as follows: s "My fellow-citizen?: It gives me very f great pleasure to participate with you men ? of the North and men of tbe South in this I . glad reunion of hearts. We are already v unified; the peace which Grant and Lee n made at Appomatox bas been kept, not by o law or restraint, but by love and fraternal s rpgard. The Union to-day rests not on e force which may fall, but rests in the ? hearts of the people, a union that never can beeevered. "If I have been permitted in the slightest degree to help in the work of rocou- i ciliation aud unification, 1 will esteem it the greatest honor of my life. When I made the call for troops to prosecute the Spanish war, men from the North and j South, without regard to political belief or t religious creed, rallied to the standard of the Union. 1 "The best men of the South came, the I sons of old Confederate soldiers. The best c of the North came, the sons of the old 1 members of the Grand Array of the Repub- f 11c. All came together in heart and band, t to follow the flair of their coiintrv wliAr- ; ever it might lead. We have been reconciled, more than reconciled, for our reconciliation has been baptized In the best blood of both sections of our beloved country. "I am glad to meet and greet you; we come together not as we came a third of a century ago, with arms in our hands, but we come with love for each in our hearts." The Presidential party was then escorted back to the train and left for the North. t Yellow Fever at Santiago. The Mobile line steamer Flandria, Captain Hansen, arrived at Santiago do Cuba ] with ber first officer and chief engineer ill j with yellow fever, which they had con- j traded at Havana. The ship was strictly | quarantined. This i9 the third infected ] 9hip to arrive this season from Havana. Indiana Bank Safe Looted. The Reynolds Bank, at Reynold?. Ind. has been looted by robbers. The safe was Mown up by dynamite and from S3000 to $10,000 was secured. The explosion demolished the frame building in which the bank was situated. The thieves escaped. Flili For Connecticut Stream*. The shipments of flsh at the State Fish Hatchery at Windsor Locks, Coon., to the various ponds and streams which are to be stocked for breeding purposes has begun. There are now ready for shipment 75.000 brook trout, 40,000 lake trout, C000 rainbow trout, 2000 Loch Leven trout, 15,000 steel head trout, 50,000 Atlantic salmon and 15,000 land-locked salmon. The llsh are shipped in ten-gallon cans, which hold 250 fish. American Fishing Vessel Seized. An American fishing vessel has keen seized at Sklbbereen, Ireland, for flshin? j within the three mile limit, OUR SOLDIERS DROWNED Swollen Streams More Dangerous Than the Ensmy's Bullets. BrJjfadler-Genernl Fmmton and His Men Keceive a Generous Welcome un Arrlvlnfir at San Francisco. Sax Fraxcisco, Cal. (3peci.il).? Tin :ransport Tartar arrived a few <lay3 ago with Brigadier-General Funston, the Tweotieth Kansas Volunteer Regiment, ind 450 discharged men. Governor Stanley ind party of officials, witn a number ! relatives of the Kansas troops, steamed up ihe bay on a tug and gave tho boys a iearty welcome home. From February 4. when they wero before Jaloocau to Xlay 24, which found them at Santa Rita, the Kaunas Regiment lost flftyflvo men killed and one hundred wounded ren others died from smallpox. Ou .Tulj I, just before leaving the front, they had ess than four hundred and llfty men lit foi iuty. Army officers who returned on the trans)ort Pennsylvania from Manila say that - 1 ...^IHxnllnna iiutJ cuurge.i au*i iwo??u ocyuiu^uuviii lave been filed with General Otis, accus ng General Wholloy, of the First Wash ngton Regiment, of cowardice, incoinpeency, looting and responsibility for Cap aln George H. Forston's death. Lieutenant-Colonel McCitskey, of th? twenty-first Infantry, and General Hughes ?rovost ^Marshal of Manila, preferred the sbargos of looting, which embrace the pil aging of the houses of natives and th? leizing of furniture, pianos, dishes, etc.. rhich he had boxed up and labelled as the iroperty of the First Washington Regiment Officers of the regiment, in conversation, lulto generally sustain the charges, whlls nany of the enlisted men stand by Colonel Vhoiloy and say hhr bn.very cannot be [uestloned. Tbose who made the charges leclare they will press them, and hint at onsational developments. According to Information which has just ieen received here, the army in Luzon ha? ost more men in the two weeks ending Ieptember4 by drowning than by bullets ill the little streams which in dry weatbei rere mere creeks have become swift, wld? ivera, with unexpected treacherous cur enta and eddies. Ten colored soldiers o he Twenty-fourth Infantry were drownec it the Marlquina Illver. Soldier; re conveyed acrors streams on bam >oo rafts, whose motive power is i ope stretohed between tbi> tanks. The opes broke, the rafts were overturned, and he soldiers, weighted down with guns, inversacks and heavy ammunition belts irere unable to reach the shore. Private '. E. Poole, of the Twenty-eighth, lost hi? lie In attempting to rescue his comrades. Four men of the Third Infantry, seaioned at QulDgun, were drowned In the iagbag River, when the regiment was tartlng against the forces of Pilar, which rere threatening tho railroad near Malo* os. Corporal Peter Larson was the hero >f this accident. He was drowned in n brave ffort to save others. Lieutenant Chauney B. Humphreys rescued several of his aen by groat efforts, and was nearly Irowned. The regiment started from Quin;ua at 3 o'clock in the morning, and the aen swam the Bagbag River, carrying :uns, 140 rounds of ammunition and haverftcks. The river is wide and shallow. nd most o( the distance was fordabie ut the current bad become so swift that tiany were carried oft their feet. Sevoaeeu were compelled to drop their guns to ;et across. Corporal Larson had reached he further shore when he heard the crie3 if the drowning men, aud plunged in with lis gun strapped to his back. He carried ne man of bis company to safety, and urned back a second time. Ha was heard o say: "X don't think I can muke It, but rill try." He reaohed midstream, and was truggling to bring out another helpless >rivate when both sank and were lost, lost of the men took off their shoes before rosslng, und marched and fought all day n their socks, a most uncomfortable exlerlence in the jungle country. Toy In Kansas on Funston'n Return. Topzka, Kan. (Special).?When word eached here that the Tartar, bearing the twentieth Kansas Regiment, had reached an Fraucisco, all the steam whistles la he city began blowing and the bells ringng. Bands paraded the streets and the ity went wild with joy. Elaborate ar uncements ror tne reception ot ine xhrilent are being perfected by 11 committee ppointed by the Governor. It is expectd tbat the soldiers will remain in Saa 'ranclsco about lour weeks be.'ore being austered out. TYPHOID FEVER AT NEWPORT. (any Cases Among the Apprentices at the Naval Training; Station.' < Newport, R. I. (Special).?For the seend time since 1890 the training station lias n epidemic ot typhoid fever. Medical nspector Siegfried, when called upon to orify the report, said that many cases of ypbold fever had developed within the ast lew days among the apprentices. The patients are being cared for at the fuval Hospital on Cousters Harbor Islnd. Medical Inspector Siegfried has had he city water supply shut off at the tatiou, and now the apprentices are using ne water supply oi me isiimu. At present there are nearly 350 apprenIces at the station. Two hundred wete o have oeeD transferred to tho tralulng hip Monongahela, but that vessel was ound to be In need of urgent repair*, and he was sent to the Brooklyn Navy l'ard. t is considered fortunate that tha boys rere not transferred to her with the fever mong them. Until the present the health if the boys has been good. Newport has ome cases of typhoid fevor, and the Comaittee on Health and Sanitation U invest!;ating its origin. BOTH SHOT IN A STREET DUEL Jominick O'JIalley, of New Oilcan*, Fought Another Killtor. New Obleaxs, La. (Special).?a. desicrate street duel occurred in front of lewspaper row a few days ago in which )ominick C. O'.Malley, proprietor of the Svenlng Item, and n well known promoter >t sport, and C. Harrison Tarker, State fax Co.lector, Chairman of tho Democratic 5tate Campaign Committee and editor of he Delta, the anti-lottery organ, were vounded seriously. The trouoio u saiu to juve originated "over :i curtooa iu the [tem, which represented Colonel Parker as i little dog being led by h string by Governor Foster and labelled "Ale too." About 3 o'clock O'Malley (same out of bis >fflce, accompanied by "Parson" Davles, ind met Parker, Parker started toward 3'Malley, and the m?u seemed to have exacted trouble, for both drew revolvers and )ogan firing, each continuing uulil his pis:ol was empty. Oregon at Hone Kong to lie Docked. The battleship Oregon arrived at Hong Kong from Manila a few days ago to go Into dry dock. She was la*t docked at New York, September 28, 1833, although :he naval regulations require docking of Battleship*, if expedient, every sir months. Boy Hnnter Shot Dead by Companion. Mansfield McLaughlin, eleven years old was sbot by bis companion, Charles Goodhue, while huntiug iu the wools near Hodgson, Me. McLaughlin died within an hour. Tuis Is the sixth fatal shooting in Maine woods since October 1. The KaUer Meets General Harrison. Andrew D. White, United States Ambassador to Germany, nud Mrs. White, gave a reception in Berlin in honor of former President Harrison and Mrs. Harrison. It was attended by about 203 members of the American colony. General Harrison says that Emperor William bold a lone: conversation with him during the Court fete9 in houor of Queen Wilhelmlna of the Netherlands, iu the course of whieli a vurlety of German and American topic? were discussed. Town Taken Without a Fight. General Schwann column entered San Franclsoo de Malabon without opposition a few days ago. The F llpluos had lled.it Is not k\nown where. '.v...;, : ;/AV "RESERVES GALLED OUT. Queen Issues a Proclamation Summoning Parliament and Troops. EXTENSIVE MILITARY OPERATIONS Uoers Convinced That Their Independence is Assailed, While Groat Britain Believes That Her Sovereignty in South Africa Is Menaced?Estimate of the Opposing Forces?Parliament to Act. London (By Cable).?Her Majesty In Privy Council at Balmoral a few days ago assented to the calling of Parliament, the mobilization of the Reserves and the continuance in the army of all soldiers now aurvmg VYUU IU uimuui) tituuuisiduucs would be entitled to discharge or transfer to the Reserve. A royal proclamation in accordance with these decisions has been signed. The War Office announced that under the proclamation calling out the Reserves 2-5,000 men will be summoned. Great Britnln will not make a formal declaration of war against what she considers a dependent nation, the process being u mere issue of orders to the military forces to restore the state of sovereignty which she alleges originally existed. Were England similarly ot loggerheads with a power recognized by her as her equal, pride and precedent would some time ago have compelled her to break off diplomatic intercourse. It is this legend of suzerainty that enables her to palaver without loss of self-respect, and, at the same time, to run a good chance of placing the onus of beginning hostilities upon the Boers, or, falling that, to delay action un- j liW !, \|i>ry"/"oA*A?A mo ' vL: v e,,|T|8 \\UL ,1 BCCHUAI m OltCO I '^TONAMAQUA \ (, LAN0 v_ m lANO' ! 1 I ) Jhhtnnft % j|| CAPE/CO e*?c tqw^' '' ^ C900 ' /xiult MAP OP THE SOUTH AFRICAN REPU] til she baa In the field a sufficient force to overrun the Transvaal. The Boers are thoroughly convinced that their freedom is menaced, and England Is convinced that her supremacy In South Africa is threatened. This constitutes an impasse, against which pacific measures can scarcely be effective. The garrisoning and fortifying of Kimberley, South Africa, are completed. The streets are barricaded, and a perfect system of mines ha9 been laid. Two armored trains are at Mafeking, consisting of tbiee bullet-proof cars, the first of which carries a searchlight, wtiile the sides of the other cars are loopholed. Eaoh train Is complete in itself and carries* its own provisions. Experiments with lyddite in the mines prove-that it is an extremely powerful explosive. A fair notion of the great scale of Great Britain's preparations can bo gained from the semi-official statement thai for the transport of the army corps abo'it seventy ehlDS of from 2000 to 4000 tons burden are required, aot Including a score or more of transport? already oa the way to the Cape. It tlwse vessels effectively disembark their cargoes of men, horses and equipment wilhln five weeks from their date of sailing the programme will have fulfilled the forecasts of the mo9t optlmlstlo British military experts. If all the troops are able to take their places as component parts of the army 'corps by the end of November they will have done, according to the best available opinion, remarkably well. The disembarking of Oeneral Shatter's army from Its thirty-seven transports Is not forgotten by British oficers. Although the vessels employed in the Cape service are of considerably larger average tonnage than those which carried the Americuns to Santiago de Cuba, the Admiralty, In accordance with the existing regulations, is supplying them all and taking complete charge from water's edge to water's edge. Although the army corps- being sent out is a matter of pre-eminent military interest, the troops already on the scene of probable action constitute no insignificant body. The original Cape garrison was 9000 men, and this lias been increased by 4500. The arrival of 12,000 men at the Cape makes the approximate total of British troops In South Africa, before the arrival of the army corps, 25,500. These troops do not iuclude tue irregular forces, the Gape Mounted Rifles, the Port Elizabeth and Grahamstown Volunteers, tbe Natal Police, the Duiban Light Infantry, the Australian force nor the regular naval brigade. The cape squadron now includes ten war ! ships, all heavily manned, and the British first class protected orulsers Terrible and Powerful will soon arrive, enabling the navy to land a brigade of about two thousand men. Attempts to estimate the opposing forces of the Transvaal and its ally, tho Orange Free State, with perhaps a sprinkling of natives, ure hopeless, although calculations range from twenty thousand upward. The Boer ranks will certainly include a number of Irishmen and of former officers of the Gerraau army. It Is said the Boers will adopt the policy they adopted in 1881, when ten sharpshooters were detailed cut of each company to pick off the British officers. A Tornado In the Weit. The first tornado evor known in the State of Washington devastated a tract of land from 300 to 600 yards wide and fifty miles long a tew day.s ago. The damage done extends from Ortlng, thirty miles east of Tacoina, to Mossy Rock and Osborne, in Lewis County. No futalltles occurred, but orchards and fences were destroyed. Department of the Gnlf Abolished. The Secretary of War, at Washington, has I Issued an order dlsoontlnaing the'miiitary Department of the Gulf aud merging it into the Department of the East, under command ot Major-General Wesley Merrltt, headquarters in New York C.ty. Kaffirs Become Troublesome. A few days ago thousands of Kaffirs crowded into Johannesburg, South Afrloan Republic, where they murdered storekeepers and raided many places for liquor*. They were marched out of the town under guard. May Prevent the Seating of ltoberti. Brlgbam H. Roberts will certainly bo challenged when the Representatives are sworn In at the opening of the Congressional session at Washington. All that will be necessary to prevent him from takiug his seat will be for some member to obt??. n n ri thorn or! 11 hn at leHSt One ObieC jot I, ? tlon, and probably more. His salary will then cease until his case Is passed upon and disposed of. Made a General For Bravery. Colonel Harry C. Kesslq?, first Montana volunteer Infantry, has been commissioned as brevet BrIgadler-CJeneral of Volunteers for distinguished oonduot at Maloloa on March 31 laat, FATAL PARIS BULLFIGHTr Animal Escapes and Plunges Through the Mass of Onlookers. Spectators Demanded That More Ball Be Brought in, Bat Gendarmes Pat a Stop to tlie Exhibition. Pahis (By Cable).?Paris has made one more unsuccessful effort to have a bullfight on strictly Spanish lines. The populace Is not anxious to see this kind of spectacle Introduced Into the French capital, but the aristocracy has strong Spanish leanings and it has recently become enamored of all sorts of sports. Rain had stopped the performance the previous Sunday, and the Government is known to be hostile to it, but the law in this particular has been so frequently broken before that the "oflelonados" were hopeful. It was the bull, however, whloh spoiled the show. Ad immense crowd gathered about the bull ring at Denil, near Engbein. The stands were filled with a fashionable and excited crowd. Prince Heart d'Orleans headed a band of young aristocrats wearing flat-brimmed Spanish hats, and there was a sprinkling of eminent poets and painters, together with a few pretty women, but not many. The band bad played the "Toreador" air In "Carmen," tbe matadores, like great tropical insects, in pink, green aud gold had flitted over the arena, trailing tbclr purple mantles in front of an excited bull, tbe picador had tried his first thrust, when suddenly tbe bull made a wild rush for an exit just beneath where the President was sitting, leaped clear over both barriers separating tbe arena from the public, and scrambled ovor the backs of half a dozen spectators. Continuing his mad rush, he trampled a bluebloused peasant lifeless, broke the legs of P' I / _ TJ^ANSVAkl/ I\EqiON from latest sources BLIO AND ADJOINING TERRITORIES. two elegently dressed Parislennes, crumpled up a cinematograph man and his apparatus into a confused mass, passed through the partition of tbe wooden stand as if It had been so much cardboard, and like a flash dissappeared. Outside the arena the ball 'played havoc with the motorcars and bicycles ranged In a neighboring Held, and after breaking both forelegs ovor a wire fence and tossing an old peasant woman fell to the ground in n vegetable garden and was there dislatched by a gendarme. The corrida was then brought to a olose; gendarmes invaded the arena and bundled out the protesting matadores, While the public stamped and shouted for more bulls. But the stamping made che rickety stands shake so dangerously that at last tie people thought it wiser to go away. The management must have cleared about $1000, but it Is not probable that there will be any more Spanish bullfights near Paris In the immediate future.. MARINES CAIN A VICTORY; General Schwan'i Column Taken Carlte Vlejo and Noveleta. Noveleta, Island of Luzon (By Cable).? General Schwan's column, consisting of the Thirteenth Infantry, a battalion of the Fourteenth, two troops of cavalry, Captain Rellly'a battery of tbe Fifth Artillery, and Lowe's scouts, advanced from Bacoor a few days ugo and occupied Cavlte Viejo and Noveleta. The American loss was three officers and nine privates wounded, one of tbe officers being mortally hurt. Tbe loss of the enemy Is unknown, but the bodies of three Filipinos were seen. Tbe marines and naval forces co-onprated wiib tbe troops. The gunboats Wheeling, Petrel, and Callao lay off the shore near Noveleta and threw shells into that town and Santa Cruz for an hour, preparing the way for the marines to land. Two battalions, consisting of 450 marines, under Colonel Elliott, advanced along the peninsula from Cnvlte to Noveleta. The on y way was by a narrow road through swamps. The marines waded through rice fields, forded the river in water to tbeir shoulder<, and carried tbe forts, meeting with feeble resistance, tbe first encounter having disheartened the enemy. Squads were sent to Noveleta and burned the town and the huts along the road, from which tbe enemy commenced the firing. At Noveleta a junction was formed with the scouts' who bad been sweeping the swumps and thickets. Thence the marines returned to Cavite thoroughly exhausted. The bad condition of the roads made the progress of the artillery slow. NEW KLONDIKE REGULATIONS. Chance* in Placer Mining Law?Money Payments In Place of Work. Ottawa, Ontario (Speoial).? An order in Council has been passed making r.omo important changes in regard to placer mining In the Yukon. Under existing regulations it is necessary that ?200 worth of work bo done on each claim every year. This has been changed, and a fee of $200 will be accepted in lieu of the work. If the work or money is not exhibited after the end of the year, tlfe owner must pay n fee of *250, and if this is not done within three months, then the claim wili be cancelled. After three years the amount Js raised to $400. Another important change is that all claims abandonedior cancelled will not be relet, but will revert to the Crcwu. Tlie PaMInC OI ^ottehio ? rmuu. I A few days ago occurred tbe Inst of the numerous executions ihat have made Newpate Prison, in London, historical. Hereafter all banging* will take place in Waudsworth Jail, London, and Newgate will be replaced '// a new Orimi ial Court building. Grand Vizier'* Son A**h inateil. Djarid Bey, son of Halil Rifat Pr.slm, the Grand Vizier, was assassinated on tbe Galata Bridge at Constantinople, Turkey, by an Albanian, who llred four shots from a revolver. Tue murderer was arrested. Cycling Noras. Copenhagen, Denmark is entirely given over to tbe cyclists. The passing of pedal rubbers has had much to do with the Influx of toe clips. Id recent years cue cosi ui wuuoh uu^ been greatly reduced, and improved roads have aided materially in gaining reorults for the bicycle. One way to clean handlebar grips is to scour them with a nailbrush and soap powder, and then wipe off the lather with a cloth wrung out in eold water. A curious case of lo3s of memory has been recorded. A. wheelman was found lying on the ground, bleeding from a wound In bis bead, but could nut recollect ia the least how It happened. _ _ . 130,000,000 1 INTEREST. The Treasury's Plan to Relieve the Stringent Money Market. ri/Tn.nniMilinu PIPU DAIAMPC tAI HAUnUIIMflni Ortan DALnnvu Government Offers to Anticipate the In? tereit on the Public Debt For tlie Remainder ot the Fiscal Tear, Exacting a Rebate ot' Two-tenths of One Per Cent, a Month. Washixotos, D. C. (Special).?'The Treasury Department has decided to anticipate the payment of Interest 011 the public debt, not only for the month of November, as was anticipated, but for the remainder of the fiscal year ending June 30 next. The November Interest will be paid in full, but a discount of two-tenths ot one per cent, a month will be exacted on payments of interest maturing subsequent to November counting from the date of payment to the date on which it legally becomes due. This Will release $4,400,000 on account of the November interest and about $25,000,000 for the balance of the year. Assistant Secretary Vanderllpsald this action was taken because the receipts of the Government were now running larger than the expenditures, thus drawing from the channels of the trade large sums of money, every dollar of which wqs demanded by the increased volume of business. The following statement ot its action was issued by the Treasury Department: "The Treasury Department ba3 decided to anticipate the interest for the entire fiscal year, tbe period ending with July 1, 1900. Th? infnrnqt dim November 1 will be Dald in full without discount, but if holders ot bonds wish to take advantage of the offer to I anticipate Interest due at subseqaent dates a discount at the rate ot two-tenths of one per cent, per month will be exacted. The amount of Interest due from now until the end of the fiscal year is about $30,000,000. The prepayment of this amount should be a relief of much importance to the present stringent money situation, while on the other band the discount will be the saving of a large amount to the Government. Tbe Treasury is in a position to advance these payments without the least embarrassment. "The interest due November 1 is made up of the 3 per cent, loan of 1893, the 6's of 1904, and the 4's of 1925. There is $1,600,660 coupon interest which will be payable at all sub-treasuries on October 13. Tbe books for the registered bonds of 1904 and 1925 do not close until the 15th. The checks for the Interest on these registered bonds will be mailed October 25, and the checks for the Interest on the registered 3's will be mailed October 23. The total prepayment of November interest is $4,363,244." * Regarding the action of the Department Assistant Secretary Yanderllp said: "The Trieasury is in a position to undertake very readily the prepayment of all the , interest due during this fiscal year, large as is that amount. The cash balance Is an extraordinarily large one, being now nearly $290,000,000. It was larger than this a year ago, but we were then just receiving the payments for the $200,000,000 war loan, Our cash balance now, however, is fat larger than it has averaged for many years, nnH If ranrtlr\fa nAnHnna fn hpfir ft.mVtllIflO lilce so favorable a relation to expenditures as they have recently, It promises to b? still larger Instead of being reduced. "The total amount of interest due between now nnd July 1 Is $25,896,535. If th? holders of all the bonds should this month take advantage of the offer for the prepay* meat of interest it would be a saving to the Government of $249,476 In the rebate which would be demanded. The several classes of United States bonds are now selling in the market on a basis of about 2 4-10 pei cent, per annum, and the rebate which the Government asks?two-tenths of ono per cent, a month?Is at that same rate. If th? demand for money is as urgont as it is in some quarters represented to be, it would seem us if holders ought to be glad to. anticipate the fisoal year's interest when the discount is so small, and that the situation ought to be, to a great extent, relieved by this action. "I see no reason why this prepayment ol interest should not meet with approval from every quarter. From the Government's point of view it Is certainly advantageous, In view of the extraordinary cash j balance the Government has lying Idle in its vaults, and of the saving which the discount will make; while, on the other hand, it offers to the money markets over fs25,000,000, which can be obtained with the slight sacrifice of a discount at the rate or two-tenths of one per cent, a month; which, In view of the thirty and forty per cent, quotations that have been made for call money in New York, should look most reasonable." MOST FINANCIERS PLEASED. Decision of the Treasury Department Meets With General Approval. New York City (Special).?News of the decision of the Treasury Department to anticipate the payment of the November interest on the war loan of last year, the 1904 5 per cents., and the 1925 4 per cents., and, subject to a rebate, to pay the interest in advance which matures between November 1 next and July 1, 1900, was well received in Wall street. The payment of the November interest was expected, and the additional relief is regarded as a bonus, but fully warranted by the condition of the Treasury and the growing stringent money conditions. As a banker put it: "There is no sentiment about money; what is needed is mono .-,and nothing but money can work a change. The action of the Government may be regarded as a promise to help. It will have? and has had?a sentimental effect on rates, hut linfii tiia inf-nraqt flows Into ireneral circulation the money market conditions will continue to be ruled by the amount ol money available and the demand for it." CAPTAIN CHADWICK HONORED. Magnificent Sword Presented to Him t>j the Governor of West Virginia. Moroantowx, W. Va. (Special).?"Chad wick Day" was celebrated by 23,000 persons on Tuesday. The special train with naval officers arrived at 6 o'clock, and a salute iu honor of Rear-Admlral Sampson was fired Uy the university cadets. After the parade, which was reviewed by ' distinguished guests, Governor Atkinson presented a sword to Captain Chadwiik on behalf of the people of the State. Captain j Cha'lwick was touched by the ovatiou ae 1 corded him. Rear-Admiral Sampson spok? briefly to the subject "Our Guest." At the i close of bis remarks there was an im I promptu reception and handshaking last I ing tor one hour. i Hogs Tear a Fainting: Man. John A. Barton, living ten miles fron j Cheney, Neb., fell into his hog ren while in n fit, aud, in spite of the frantic eiTort.1 | of his sister, was utmost devoured by tht t animals before help was secured. Mrs Bruuson, bis sister, saw him fall and rat at once to the peD. The hogs were alread; j tearing the body to pieces, though life wa< , not extinct. She beat the hojjs back, bu' there was no one around to help drag thi man from the pen, aud the woman was un . able to rescue him. The woman remainec ' beside the pen six hours, until neighbor: j happened in. Barton wus subject to faint j ing spells. Refugee* at Ibe Cnpe in Deep Diatreir. , There is severe distress among the thou i sands of refugees who have arrived at Cup< 1 Town, South Africa, from the Rand, ant J their misery is intensified by the cold, we " weather. A relief committee ha3 booi formed and has Issued an appeal for helj to the Empire. i 1 [ Girl's Love Saved Parents. ( Antonio de Lucca9'd sweetheart, Kosaric Calapai, saved her parents from going ti ^ jail in Newark, N. J., on a charge of stenl , de Luccas's savings by confessing to Judgt Lambert that de Luccas was her betrothed * The man died, and the Calapais were sus- ] pected of making way with his money I ' THE NEWS EPITOMIZED.! I Washington Item*. 8. B. Callaway, president of the New York' & Central Railroad, testified before the In- ^ dustrlal Commission that he favored pooW.|9 ing among railways. Former Speaker Reed was among connffifli sel who appeared a few days ago before '*? the United States Supreme Court. He' ^ moved the admission of three attorney*1,.3 and entered a motion for a writ of certl-j *9 orari In a steamship damage case froat-Sj California. [J Admiral Dewev has chosen J. W. Ortw<? ford as his official secretary. Mr. Graw?v"4M ford is nn employe in the office of the Judge Advocate General of the Navy. He will ^ hold the rank of lieutenant In the Navy. ;'i The United States Supreme Court co?? vened on Monday. Many cases were (>oft- -'3| poned until December, owing to the ab- "5 sence of Chief Justice Fuller and Justice i Brewer, In Europe. The Government has secured the British J uteamer Benmohl and tbe Russian steamer J Dalyvoatok for Its San Francisco-Hanlla' '[ transport service. Eight war vessels have been selected foe immediate dispatch to the Philippines, ahd1 more will be sent If needed. President McKlnley will not negotiate a :l treaty settling tbe permanent boundary i; line between Alaska and Canada until ha has learned the views of the Senate oil the rd question. ' Oar Adopted Iilr.nrli. ' ja Tbe Mayor of Onanajay, Cuba,, waa -i handed a list ot thirty people whom he waa. requested by the inhabitants to expel fromJ ' the town. He immediately Issued a proc-| - 5 lamation ordering the people to keep the. r$. peace. The gsneral belief in Honololu, Hawaii,! . ^ is that when the facts are known President: MnirinlAv will mtIia Ma orrtar nnlllfvln* I [all sales of public lands, and directing that Jv sales be discontinued. The matter will be) " taken to the United States Supreme Court by several wealthy planters. Hawaii will notify Commissioner Peckj .. that she will require the Bame space In tha( \ Paris Exhibition as is allotted to othar. ' States and territories. It has been deeldod to guarantee $12,000 for expenses. That J Government .will at once begin to gather -i an exhibit, which will be made as com-: ;c*? plete as possible. Qeneral Otis made a display of force ntl Manila because of a rumor that Insurgent! sympathizers were plotting to barn blsrwit^-. dence and other buildings. Governor-General Brooke of Cuba has ^ instructed Senor Dosverlne to formulate a > plan for the organization of a coast guard and customs revenue cutter service. j The police of Matanzas, Cuba, hav? raided a house which It was suspected was the headquarters of a gang-of counter-/ % f?Hara Thatr fnnnil tr thn Am a flrneihlfl ' fall of white metAl and two moulds, *one /v for ooining American flfty-cent pieces, the i? other tor coining American 95 pieces. Uonaatte. Bishop Henry C. Potter in an address-be-. fore the Protestant Episcopal Church Con?* grass at St. Paul, Minn., denounced im- .v t"j perialism and favoredsubmitting the PhQ?< i ipplne question to arbitration. Captain Rboades wns offered the post of 4 assistant to Captain Barr on the America's. . Cup Columbia, but declined becansto ha' thought he would be hampered bv Mr. Is?-'. lln. It,is said Captain Hank Halt declined for the same reason. In the first heat of the Ashland stajce at 'sv. Lexington, Ky., Peter the Great and V Tommy Britton showed the greatest speed <;! ever seen in a public race, when they trot- . ted head and head the half mile In l.Ol^i, yij with the second quarter in 0.2%. The Rev. W. L. Woodward, one of the*' ,'vj most prominent ministers of the DisoiplM* Church in Ohio, preached a farewell ser- <Sj mon to his congregation at Oak Harbor > and then took his own life. No reason can pe assigneu ior iuo uecu. George L. Griswold, formerly Ta* Col- '* lector of Norwich, Conn., has befen sentenced to the Connecticut State Prison for C-\ two years. There are three complaints Vv against Griswold. one alleging the mlsip* Jfl proprfation of 15,000, another the misap- '.T-, propriation of (5100, and .a third the misuse of tl400. > .... . Premier Laurier of Canada, in a speeoh rk at Chicago, said t -ere was no quarrel over the A.laskan boundary. jj' In arresting Freeman Strait in New York. City for restoring and selling cancelled revenue stamps United States officers hate taken the first step toward capturing a' gang that Las robbed Wall street of thou-- 'v* sands of dollars. Clifford ?. Balfe, a farmer, and wife, .ty locked their two children in their house and went to Terfe Haute, Ind. During + K AtiaA K*?wrta/3 H IUCU ttUSQUUD HIO uuuao vu&uwu uvnw| '/"* killing both oblldren. " ;" ' g General Benjamin F. Tracy, who acted as counsel for Venezuela before the Board of Arbitration In the Venezuelan boundary % dispute In Paris, returned to New York City on the steamship St. Louis. The Bessemer boat John Nellson ran down her tug, tbe Record, of the Great Lakes Towing Company's fleet, at Duloth, Minn., drowning Hurry Ellis, the tlreman. 1 The rest of the crew-took to the life raft and were saved. _ . An epldemlo of smallpox has developed at the Orphans' Home in Dayton, Ohio. ,<fi All cases have been quarantined. f4 An earthquake has occnrred along the Tennessee and North Carolina line begin-' ning in the Smoky Mountains. An open-' ing several hundred feet In length was made In tbe valley at the toot of a moun- V tain. No loss of life resulted, as the place of disturbance is Isolated. Large crowds greeted the Presldont as his special train moved westward through; ' Ohio, but he made no speech from the plat- J form. ;? .j'JSB Captain Bodflsh, of tbe steam whaler Beluga, who has just returned in San.Fran- ' ?! cisco from the Arctic district, reports that / a disease resemblinK quick consumption is. * \-i epidemic among the Indians at Point Bar-- r row. '' Governor Mount,of Indiana.has returned to GovernorSayers, of Texas, at Dallas, the, battle-flag of Terry's Texas rangers. The ceremony was witnessed by 10,000 people. General James R. O'Belrne, of New York City, has been appointed Commissioner Ex.raordlnary in tbe United States for th# t Irnnsvaal by Presldont Kruger. Fore! en. The prosecuting officers of tbe French joverument have beeu ordered to prefer i charge of mnnslaughter against the organizers of the recent bullfight at Denil, ' !7here one man was trampled to death by ;he escaping bull and several others wer? severely injured. ? < Premier Sllvela. on bis return to Madrid from San Sebastian, announced at a dip-, lomatic function that there was no ground for the rumor of an aliance between Spain, , ind other countries against Great Britain.' t The Japanese Government intends to introduce in the Diet a law freeing foreign- fsrs from all restrictions to the mining business. < "40 A Are at Hakodate, Japan, resulted in * *1 :he destruction of nearly 3000 houses, ibout one-'ourth of the town. M. Grecoff, Premier and Minister of For- Vj ilgn Affairs of Eulgarla, tendered to Prince Ferdinand tbe resignation of tbe Cabinet, rhe Grecoff Ministry was formed last Jan uary. The Haitian Government ban Instructed ts consular representativ at Kingston, Jamaica, to communicate a free pardon, ucludlncr permission to return to Haiti, to ? Messrs. Mathon, Du Vlvler and Pierre, who ire under sentence of exile. A musical festival in honor of Queen (Viliielmina of the Netherlands and her. j nother, the Queen Dowager, was given In' \\ :he new palace at Potsdam, Germany.' Sir Frank C. Lascelles, the British Ambas-J :ador, and General Benjamin Harrison,' and Mrs. Harrison were present. Numerous chiefs of varies groups ol revolutionists in Peru are asking amnesty or themselves and their followers, offering o submit to the Government if their re 1 .to ? U C J to 51HUIQU. Nine columns of the great halt of th? rumple of El-KAroalt, Egypt, have fallen.' The Paris correspondent of the Dally Mull, of London, says: "I learn that Germany is about to hand over documents which will lead to the quashing of tb? Dreyfus verdict." J i.