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k a ^ 4 V , . ? *v * 'v J ? LAN * x VOL. IX-~, DISPATCHES DOCTORED DV FIELD MARSHAL. > Affair Near Latlysmith Was Quite Serious Figlit. DECISIVE BATTLE HOURLY EXPECTED. ?>t . Jonhert Believed to Be Pressing on Ladysmith. * London, Oet. 2G.?With unconA scions humor, a Cape Town correspondent telegraphed yesterday: "The censorship, which is t<alwaj s a delicate matter, is work?> ing smoothly and without a hitch." This exactly hits off the state of affairs today. An ominous veil is still drawn over the movements ft.. of Gen. Sir George Stewsrt White and Gen. Yule. Beyond belated Ladysmith dispatches concerning the Elandalaagte fight which are still filtering in, the British public is left in complete darkness and to conjecture over "cooked" war office dispatches. The officials of the war office last evening said that very few dispatches have ; X J a. I a. - At* at ? rriTcu una mai Doming iurtner was to be expected until morning. Since it is practically certain 4 that Gen. Yule has now effected a junction with Gen. White? although this was not brought about Tuesday night, as announced by The Daily Mail, but sometime Wednesday?and as both are now in a position of safety, * conjecture concerns itself chiefly with the manner of Gen. Yule's retreat. That it was hasty is evident. Was it orderly ? Was * any considerable camp equipment / abandoned? Was there any fighting on the way? Such questions and others like them the public are anxiously asking. Since the receipt of Gen. White's curious first description of the Ladysmith light, in which the British lost 100 men, little reliance can he placed j on the ollicial dispatches. While; the concealment of the facts regarding Gen. Yule's retreat can be amply justified on the ground of keeping the intelligence from the Boers, the hiding of thh news f .respecting the Hussars and Fusiliers, who were apparently captured in the battle of Clencoe, is severely criticised, no intimation j a. . having been given thait the ulli cers were missing. The heavy losses of the British troops in facing only some 8,000 Boers are commented upon as showing what ritie fire means today in the hands of oven undisciplined men who can shoot fairly straight and stand their ground. Gen. Sir Kedvers Buller is ex ; BRAVE /WEN FALL <Victims to stomach, liver and ? kidney troubles as well as women and all f^el the results in loss of appetite, poisons in the blood, backache, nervousness, headache V and tired, liRtless, run-down feeling. But there's no need to feel like that. Listen to .J. W. Gardner. fdaville. Ind. Ilesavs: "Eloc trie Bitters are just the thing for a man when he is all run down, jp and don't care whether he lives or dies. It did more to give n\e new strength and good appetite than anything I could take. I can now V eat anything have a new lease on life." Only 50c. at Crawford Bros. Drug St'"e. Kvery bottle guaranteed. 3. . *v 5ASTE nLANCASTER, ! pected to arrive earlv iiext week and the indications are that some troops have already arrived at the front and been in the fighting, wnose arrival has not .vet been announced. There is every possibilty, therefore, that reen forcements are moving up. Tins is calculated to hasten Command ant Gen. Joubert's attack on La dysmith, and news of a big battle is daily expected. Amount half a complete army corps is now afloat, and a lull has ?t r *? ' ? ? ? * 1 uluuiiou itl UlspaiClllUg 'llrt r? mainder of Gen. Buller's forces owing to some difficulty in obtaining transports. Although news has arrived that Gen. Sir William Penn Symons is doing well, there is no indication of his whereabouts. It is pre sumed that he is at Dundee in the hands of the Boers. The commander-in chief, Field Marshal Lord Wolseley, has ap parently heeu convicted of "doc toring" official reports from the front, and there is a strenuous demand on all sides for a reversion to the earlier practice, when the reports of Gen. Sir George Stewart White, the British com mander in Natal, were given out fextually as soon as received. The commander-in-chief's sum mary read in the house of commons yesterday spoke of Qen. White having fought a successful action, whereas Gen. White's own account puts an entirely different complexion on the situation and reduces the movement to its proper proportions and shows that further exciting intelligence may be expected from the same quarter at any moment. It is quite evident that the war in Natal has only commenced, and that the Boers are by no meanB discouraged at losing the first two battles, and manv experts are satisfied Gen. Jopberts in t)?pu iiuvv chiho co cue neois 01 I the British and that a decisive action may be fought today or toj morrow. Liter estimates of the Boer losses at Klandslaagte give 300 killed. Their coolness, bruvery and good aim can bo judged from the fact that out of the 17 or 18 [ officers with the half battallion of Gordon Highlanders, four | were killed and 13 waunded, while the casualties among the rank and file were 27 per eent. I during less than three hours lighting. Lieut. Campbell, of the ; Gordon Highlanders, has since died from his wounds. I A dispatch from Capetown toIday says that (-Jen. White has enS gaged the < >range free State Hoera who were advancing on Ladysmith, about seven miles northj ward ami that it was believed the advance had been repelled. 'Ibis | is probably another version of | yesterday's lighting already known. j (ion. White this morning officially notified the war office that I the bullet had been extracted i from Gen. Symons' wound and that he was doing well. Other dispatches from Capetown say that advices from Mafeking confirm the statement that The "Plow Boy Preacher," Kev. J Kirkman, Bells Kiver, III., says: "AfI ter suffering from Bronchial or lung [ trouble for ten years, I was cured by One Minute Cough Cure. It is all that is olaimed for it and more." It cures coughs, colds, grippe and all throat and lung troubles. Crawford Bros. d-w-s Fen 8EMI-WREKLY. s. cm^aturdayToc 50 Boers were killed by the explosion of two trucks of dynamite purposely sent out b? (Jol. BadenI Powell to draw the Boer tire. The offer of Geh. Cronje, the; Boer cotnander in the. vicinity of Mafeking, of Ool. Baden-Powell 1 to exchange prisot?wa referred to I Capt. Neshitt and others of the j I armored train wrecked at Kraal-I I pan. I Some significance id attached al <-apetown to the proclamation issued i ' at Pretoria by the Transvaal govern. merit with the view to safe-guard i j British property. The situation in the west is becoming complicated. The Boer proclainaI tions of annexing and the claims of a victory at Glencoe are likely to induce the Dutch to side with their countrymen already in the Held. It is said, for instance, t hat the Boer forces ( have evacuated Vryburg, which it is added, will be garrisoned by the local 1 Dutch, among whom are prominent Bundites and government employes. ( It is also believed that th Dutch beyond Qriquatown are only awaiting ( encouragement to declare for the Transvaal. Advices from Phillipstown yester day say that the searchlights of the Kimberley defenses were visible the previous night and that therefore Kimberley is still intact. The latest dispatch from Kimberley gives details of the arrangement made by the British commander. Col. Kekewiche, for the defense of the town. The meat consumption is limited to a pound daily. A dispatch from Maseru, dated Oct. 24th, says Commissioner lagden was then starting to meet. I.erothodi and other Basuto chiefs at Putiatsur. river, where the chiefs have assembled at the request of Lerothodi to pledge f haip Inira It v t? ? ?'??? vtivia ivj i*ivj bV wlic l|UCCUi A dispatch from Durban dated Oct. 23d, says authentic information has reached there from Molmoth, Zululand, that on Hunday a large Boer force was approaching. The inhabitants forthwith entered Fort Maxwell, anticipating an attack at (lawn Monday. According to a Brussels dispatch, Df. Leyds, the diplomatic agent of tiie Transvaal in Europe, has issued a statement that the Boers have now nearly 100,00(1 men in the Held, made upas follows: Boer regulars, 33,000; artillery, 1,230: police, 1,730; Orange Free State Boers, including Outlanders, 30,000; Natal Boers, 3,000: Bechuanaland and Khodesian Boers, 8,000; | foreign legion, (500; American 4,000; (Jerinans, (MOO; Dutch-Belgians, 2,000; Irish, I,(Hm?; the Scainlinavians, (500 : French, Swiss and Italians, 200. The dews, it appears, are doing po- i lire work. \ special dispatch from Pretoria, via Lorenzo Manpiez, dated Oct. 21th, i I purports to give an interview with one I III' I lie lllirlliivl 'IVlllKful nvu..iili?..u I who is quoted a* having urged that while tin* liner successes were yet unimportant, there was yet still time for an amieahle set t lenient, as he believed the liners had been misled as to the real issue. TO t 1'Iti: i.a4?ill I'PF, ia two! It f vs I Take I.axativk Hko.mo (Ji imnk Taii- i I i.kis. All druggists refund the money | if it fails to cure. K. \V. t;iu>\ k's sigj nature on every box. 2.r? cents. "J.' SOM K INTKNSIVF FA HM1 N(*. What Alfred Taylor Accomplish ed on llis Twenty-Five Acres. The following letter from Alfred! Taylor, of Taylor's station, received, by Hon. M. I?. Donaldson in reference to bis yield of corn on twenty-tlve or thirty acres, shows what intensive farming can accomplish : "I thought you would he interested j I to know how my corn turned out, in I j fact I think I promised to l/t you hear I from me. 144 square yards of the best | j made 202 pounds, about 125 bushels j per ar.ie; taking the whole on an average 25 or 510 acres it made 505 pounds per acre, about 71 bushels per acre. We weighed it after shucking it. It would not weigh as much after it got thoroughly dry. It is certainly as fine and as well developed corn as I eyer saw.?The Daily Times. TERP fOBER 28, 18997 [ Makes the food more deli I ROVAI BAK1NO POADF mmm \ \ t (in ??? COM MISSIONKltS MKKT. I Convention Was Called to Order by Commissioner Stevens. Atlanta, Oct. 21.? \V lien the convention of commissioners of agriculture of the southern states was called to order this morning Louisiana, North Carolina. Arkansas, Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia and Texas responded. Commissioners Atkinson,of West Virginia, and Koina, of Virginia, are expected during the day. The gathering was presided over temporarily by Commissioner Stevens, of Georgia, who called the convention to meet here. Its objects are to dismiss the cotton situation and to attempt to bring about legislation which will be beneficial to farmers and to effect a plan for a more uniform classification. Governor Chandler, of Georgia, was introduced and welcomed the delegates on behalf of the State. He spoke of the condition of the farmers of the south and said that Georgia farmers will welcome a movement along the line that the convention proposes to act. Governor Chandler said it was a fact that there had been no prosperity among the farmers since 1893. Whether this, he said, was due to federal legislation or thefailureof crops the fact pnnioina f b o t t lw. /AM a?? * - -? ? ~ vuimim nial l lie lailllCIII nave IIOl prospered. Mayor Woodward, of Atlanta, welcomed the commissioners on behalf of the city. The addresses of welcome were responded to by Commissioner Leon Jastrenski, of Louisiana, who represented Governor Foster and the agricultural department of the State. He said that the convention should pass resolutions looking toward the preventing of business disturbances which arise every year over the wild and unreliable estimates published from time to time regarding the cotton crop. A temporary organization was effected by the election of Commissioner Jastrenski as chairman ami Royal Daniel, of Georgia, as secretary. The convent ion adjourned until 10 o'clock tomorrow morning. Hat plenty, Kodol Dyspepsia (Jure wiiiuik'*m wnai you car. n euros all forms of dysoepsia and stomach t roubles. 10. It. Gamble, Vernon, Tex., says : "It relieved me from the start and cured me. It is now my everlasting* friend." Crawford l?ros. d-w-s Heavy Casual!it's. London. < )<?t. -Jo.?The war of lice returns show that tho total Hrilish ea-iialtios since the 1k?-I ginning of hostilities reach 57'J. | Kighfeeu ollicers ha\e been killed and 55 wounded ;?n<l 7<? men killed and 4M5 wounded. There! are l-> unacconiiled for. This total, however, does not include the equadron of the High teenth Hussars which went astray near Dundee, and the ollicers of! the Dublin Fusiliers. The report of heavy losses sent from Koitfontein came as an unpleasant surprise, as Den. White's telegram to the war ofliee yesterday gave the impression that there was merely a brush. "If you scour the world you will never lind a remedy equal to One Minute Cough Cure," says Kditor Fackler, of the Micanopy, Fla., "Hustler." It cured his family of LaUrippe and saves thousands from pneumonia, bronchitis, croup and all throat and lung troubles. Crawford Bros, d-w-s RISE. ^ ^ NO 63 L Baking Powder URE icious and wholesome WILL I> VEST I (I ATE. FEVER. 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