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Grant's Pharmacy, 4 24 St Main Streett Asheville North Carolina Money Lost. Tf . rMa. ia i Hi 'W win astt your uicu-e , y --r . --y.aitOT twelve jnoim hen yl Rf.i .. ... '-it foKn& inner as 1.. . v m- rur ordimairv r.aiTw rtf TTosa, Jthave fir- --'4i.ciIll'r IIDH TliLir--.WJOl. iWOM- o , ty-seven tftykss an - Wool ,-or- $'n' iin, Ribbed or 'OFUeeced, vf ljaA nts and Children,' " for I ytou-.-flw a 8W Irm. A TWWfji!! Inartl JWill !OtCb-:tD0,K..Dl hillside streett. 53 E L. BRdWW;-Agt 67 HILLS IDD STREET.' -. . .. . .. . - .-.'' - 1 i ' 1 . . . i . . . . . t f . ,- ENGAGEMENT LADY SMITH British Loss Between Eighty and a Hundred Men. General White Says Boers' Loss Was Greater. Says He Fas Naval Guns Which Did Good Work. JXLlS&TlVinSS Aroused in England by Despatch. BATTLE LASTED FOUR HOURS BRITISH THINK WHITE'S DES SPATCH ALMOST AN APOLOGY STRATEGY OF THE BOERS EX CITING COMMENT GENERAL BULLER ARRIVES AT CAPE TOWN. London, Oct. 30. Despatches to the newspapers from' Lady Smith show that the reconnoisance of the British in force, though it technically achieved its purpose was not so successful as it might have beem if a strategic move ment of the enemy had not defeated the English plan. It is also known that the loss of the British was seri ous. According to the newspaper cor respondents, the navaJl guns, which White refers to. were fired with ex cellent precision' and auickly silenced the Boers' forty pounders. . ; NINETY CASUALTIES. The Standard's correspondent fixes the British casualties at ninety to a hundred and the Boers' largely in ex-1 cess. He says the Boers were driven firom one 'of their strongholds, but it was impossible to push the success fur- tner, as neyond the point lay a long line of broken ridge, affording every kind of natural cover, of which the enemy took full advantage. The Brit ish shells failed to dislodge them. FOUR HOURS' BATTLE. The battle ilasted only four hours, during which the artillery fire of both was heavy. The correspondent adds at the fourth shot the Boers' forty pounders were knocked out of action, JiereDy rreeing tne town from the ap- prehension of bom-bardment. The Boers held their ground with courage and tenacity. SHORT FIGHT AT LADY SMITH, London, Oct. 30. The war office is sued a despatch from General White, dated Lady 'Smith . October 30, in which he reports a general but inde cisive engagement with the Boers there todiay. The despatch tells of his dispo sition, of his forces, and says the Brit ish pushed the enemy "back several mHes, but did not succeed in reaching the troops at Laagos. He estimates the British loss between, eighty and ai hundred, land , savs tne Boer s loss must have been much greater. ENEMY IN GREAT NUMBERS. Heaidds: "Aftr being in action sev eral hours we withdrew and returned unmolested to Cantonments. The ene my are in great nuimlbers.x Their guns range much! further than our field guns." He says he has now some na val guns which hiasve been temporarily silenced, and he hopes he will per mntneniMv dominate the enemy's best guns, wnich have been bbmibarding the town at a range of over six thousand yards. 1 1 MISGIVINGS AROUSED. London, Oct. 31. The mews of the en gagement at Lady Smith (that reached the public last evening in , ithe official despatch from Gen. White,was received with considerable misgiving. There was so mudh (that Was obviously left unsaid, and what was said; was so unsatisfacto ry th!&t the despatch read much like an apology Com failure, in? whUch every thing necessary ito an' appreci'aitioni of tihe circumE'tance was suppiesselJL) WHITE TOO SANGUINE. A statement, in the. despatch Jthat two iffif antry- battalions were -unaccoumted for and some mules haU stampeded witlha number of guns was not compensiated for by Gen. White's sanguine belief ithat. the naval guns witso! wnicn -ne maa oeen reinforced would enable him. to dominate the enemy's artillery whidb. is believed rtrmstets of "Oreusoit guns which are supe- hrior to the British- gums. It is assumed Ithtat the mavail guns referred to tare six ioidh quack fireers room! one 01 xne cruas e pff Durban. ; ' THE WESTERN BORDER. , CSaipetown, Oct. 30 .-rTh .laftest news from" the western twrder appairently re- assures uu-e." ."'"; . thft ability -of Maf ekln? and Kimber-" . wairdei ooiTrHiirn, . force in a SKirmiS force in a skirmisn at v'W" - "" Rhode'9 Drift. Kiuea iz jwers. r Kaffir spy reported' manymore Boers , lying, In, the drift TlvSng t-BlacKburn died', of ' wounds ' on re'tuirning . to Fort TUM.V Reports say. rae eoera uv wu- centnating"- on'. Khe, Rhodesian s border , with" maxims. ; ' ' - ' : 'STRATEGY -OTT ,THE? BOERS. iTiondonOcti 30.r-The Standard saye: AT ASHEVILLE, N. C, TUESDAY of the work of the'Boers: "Their strat egy is so well -cflanned that ft is tan possible to dotfbt that It is the p-roduqt of some officer trained in the 'beat European school of war." ' BRITISH REPULSED. Pretoria, Oct. 30. General Cronje re ports that the Boers repulsed a bayo net attock on Frtday at Mafekiug arid that the British !eft six dead on the field. He believes many were woun!ed. Colonel Baden-Powell, the British com mander at Mafekinf. reouested an-ar-mistic Saturday to bury his dead. Cron je consented and the Boers helped rto place the bodies to carts. GENERAL BULLER ARRIVED . Capetown, Oct. 30. General Balle. arrived tonight. It is expected that he will nad in the mornling. The city is decorated in his ihono. HUSSARS CAPTURED. Lady. Smitib, Oct. 30. Kb Is reported the Col. Molier's detlachmemt of Eight ent1h Hussars who are now prisoners at Pretoria, nunibers 250 men. BRITISH PRISONERS Pretoria, Oct. 27. (Delayed in Trans mission.) Two hundred British, who idee, and who were taken prisoner by tne isoers wnen tney occupiea uun- dee, are expected to arrive here to night. Schools are being transformed into hospitals for their a??ommodafion. THE WAR BALLOON. London, Oct. 30. The special corre spondent of the Dailv Mail at Lady Smith describes the arrival of the war balloon there. It was welcomed, he said, with wild dances by the Kaffirs, who regard it as a deity. General White and General Sir Archibald Hun ter both laeceriided' and rconnoiternd the enemy's position. FALL OF MAFEKING. EXPECTED IN LONDON TO PEN SOON. I HAP- London, Oct. 30. The Chicago Re cord correspondent cables: It is taken for granted in well informed quarters here that Ithe fall of Mafeking will soomi be reported . The public has' (been prepared for that dismal news from the first, ibut the imminence of the disas ter, as emphasized by the news th'it the town has been subiected to a heavy bombardment, breeds gloomy appre hensions. Despite the acknowledged bravery and J fertility, wf resource of Colonel BaieSl- Powell, he is obviously unable, with his 600 or 800 men, to hold oult much -longer against General Oronje's force, wti'ch numbers probably as many thousand? He lacks proper artillery, too, while the Boers at this point are "particular ly strong in itihat respect. EXPECT WHITE TO GIVE BATTLE. Attention has been -partially diverted to ithe western border by reason of the perilous position of Baden-Powell nud growing extremity of the Kimberley garrison. It cannot but be admitted thatt, thought there is no immediate danger at the (latter" -point, still Kim berley 'is ih a far from satisfactory situation, j As for General Sir George White, ihe disconnected telegrams that continue ,jto arrive from Natal do not add xna- jterially to our knowledge of his state. but the deductions from what is known are not altogether reassuring. Every one concedes that the next action at Lady Smith, expected now at any mo meiat, may be a reverse, and that vic tory, if it comes, will come after a hard fought battle. WHITE MAY HOLD HIS LINE. It is thought General White may be able to defend a defensive position at I Lady , Smith, though the 'main body of , Transvaal Boers fromi the north, no longer hampered by the fierce resist- iamce of General Yule's command, wi'ti jbe able to (advance and carry out scfll further the plain of isolating Lady : Smith. land cutting itoff from its base, ' joining hands in the firslt place, If poe !ftitie. with the Orange Free State Boers from the west. LADYSMITH GETS NEW DEDPTEND ERS. Geni. White's command has been con siderably aeiniforced, land, probaihly now mumbers lz.uuu men. j?ouiuy-tw.oi guua lhave recen tly ilapded, and; a rifle brigatiie is being huinrtied upcoumtry, so tbaJt the sdttDatioii is imprnviiag somewhat. lit is pirobuible thait ont severe action wild have (to be fought. Tlhis, it to be lieved Itoare, will take the form of an at rtaick by Gen. Whi'ba on the Orange Free State Boers, to preventU their, juinction witlh Gem. Joubemts forces. PREPARING FOR A RAID ON DURBAN. ' Nothing further is heard regatnding tibe Boer commiamdoa !imi Zuluiamd. These commandos are! reporteldl Ito be 3,000 stiiong, and they probably are lalbout to make a raid on Durban. The first bor der regiment from Cape Town, (however, iwtilll be ait Durban im a kJay oil two, and two biaJdteriea of the Royal artilretry, just ajrrivuMg at Cape Town, will -also arrive at Durban Tuesday or WedoaeslaUjy next. IMMENSITY OF BRITAHT'S TASK! 1 had an init)eresting in1rvftew today with Gen. Caleb H. "Canton,, of New York,' who sailed' for, home oni the St. Paul today. Gen. Carltoni takes a seri ous view of tihe presenifc sttuaitaon.. "The British (authorities, he siaM, ."are begin ning to recognize the magnitude. of (the task (they sharve undertaken. Gen. Buller Mmseilf was never idteceiveki on tnis point. I know for a f ac5t ithat it was only tmirSg to his -absolute refusal Ita -BtJarli on any other corjditaon that 1ihie"govewmem.t con sented.l4o nd; an enitire- army5 ' coitpav Nor would Gen.. Builer start for-South Africa; until - absolute arrangements had been mads for 'the dispatch "of - what Ihe considered a sufficient force. .: . , . 'LIVES NEDEESSLY SPENT, "Those wlitninJt thieTSoers wfll 'Ibe practically' subjugatea. by the time Gep. Buller arrives 'are uander a great' mtsap- pjehensicob Ties Boers' ' are difficult . -t L- - : . . : (Continued on,, FlTtaPage. MORNING, OCTOBER-30, 1899. FERRYBOAT CHICAGO SINKS t . i - Loaded With Passengers from Pennsylvania Railroad Train. Struck by an Old Dominion Line Steamship. Sank Immediately in Seventy Feet of Water. One Hundred and Fifty Feet From . New York Side. THIRTY LADIES IN CABIN, BUT ALL PROVIDED WITH LIFE PRESERVERS ONE HUNDRED PERSONS ON BOARD AND LOSS OF LIFE BELEIVED TO BE LARGE FIREMAN DROWNED. New York, Oct. 30. The Peonsylva nia railroad's ferryboat Chicago, which left Jersey City at 12:25 this morning, with passengers from the express train which left Philadelphia at ten o'clock, was truck In midstream 'by an Old Dominion steamship, knocking a big hole in her hull. She eank almost im mediately in seventy feet of water. At the moment Of the collision there was a panic among the oassengers. One passenger who swam ashore said there were thirty ladies in the cabin. .ONE HUNDRED PASSENGERS. The captain of the ferryboat made every effort to reach the shore, but the boat went down within 150 feet of the New York side. Officials of the company stay that when the boat left she had a hundred passengers on board but all of them were not from th? triirw - It-4s believed there" has been a large loss of life". LIFE PRESERVERS FOR ALL. The captain of the Chicago said all the women were provided with life pre servers before the 'boat sank, and as the boat went down most of the pas sengers leaped into the water. He says he believes all were saved, and thinks the only one drowned was a fireman. j CUBAN VETERANS PLOT MORE TROUBLE Threaten to Expel Secretary of State Capote From Association. Havana, Oc't. 30. The Veterans' asso ciation continues to plat trouble for Secret'aiy of Stte Capote. A commit tee from ithe vetei?ns 'waited on him to day and asked his reasons for Civil Gov ernoi Rivera's dismissal, Ibu't (they were snubbed. They now threaten to.' expel Capote faom the association. Rivera evacuated his office today. VICE-PRESIDENT HO BART STILL LIVES Was Sleeping Naturally at Midnight, But Condition Critical. Patereon, N. J., Oat. 30. It was stated at Vice-President Hobart's residence at miPdiniglht. tonight that Hobart who is critically ill, was sleeping naturally an)d there is no kioubt tbaJti he will live through the night. Year by year the sales of Camphorlin increase. Could this be true of a fake 25c; all druggists. Lounges, bedroom suits, chairs, mat tresses, all furniture at very low prices at Mrs. L. A. Johnson's 43 Patton aven uc -'Phone 166. Grant's No.24 Cures Cold. Night Work Brings forth ai lurking eye defects. The individual approaching "failure age," will first notice something wrong when -engaged in might reading, or othef nocturnal ' work, by artificial light. Gradually bringing MORE light to bear upon the subject, he soon finds (the light needed is a pair of good glasses properly adjusted. This is where we come In with the light of our optical knowledge. Can we. help you,?' Examination free. Satisfaction: guaranteed. i BAKER & CO. Scientific Refraotiii Opticians, y RICHMOND READY TO RECEIVE PRESIDENT Parade, Launching of the Shubrick and Reception. Richmond, Va., Oct. 3. Extensive ar rangements, have been maide for the ar rival of President McKiMey, who ar rives tomorrow.The train! beariai him will make several stops, including Fredericksburg!. On its arrival the presiitfental party will be escorted ito the Jefferson, hotel, from the balcony of which the president will view ithe 'trades parode. After Hunch the party will visit the shipyard where the president will witness the launching of the torpekio iboat Shubrick. At IJhe conclusion of the launching the president will hold a recep t'ion in the hotel and leave for Washing ton during (the evening. y Governor Fitzhugh Lee arriveli here tonight to participate in the exercises. NASHVILLE WANTS PRESIDENT- WHEN THUD TENNESSEE COME HOME. TROOPS Washington, Oct 30. President Mc Ki'nley leaves tomorrow to participate in the launching of the Shubrick lit Rich mond. A delegation 'of Nasihviile citi zens visited 'the President toiday to in vite him to visiilt that city on the occa Bioin of ithe arrival oif the First Tennessee troops from the Philippines. The presi dent has noit yet givm ia defl.n,ite aniswer. ADMIRAL DEWEY TO MARRY MRS. KAZEN Bate of Ceremony Kot Announced, But Probably Soon. Wasihingitom, Oct. 30. Admiral Dewey toniglh't authorized the amn.run cement of hie engagement to Mrs. Mildred Hazen. The date of ithe wedding was noit an- I'oancea. jjewey movea into ms new house teday, an0 his anxiety ito occupy it without any delay Heads his Iriends to believe his marriage - will itake place shortly. Mrs. Hazein is a daughter of Mns. Washiimgtom Mel ean, anid sister of John R. McLeaa. FRIARS EXPELLED FROM GUAM Only One Let on the Island Action to Insure Peace. Washington, Oct. 30. The navy de partment has received .a report from Captain Leary, governW of tie island of Guam, in the Ladrones, which ex cited a good deal -of interest among of ficials. The president read the report, and his attention was particularly at tracted by the disclosure of 'the fact that the first American governor of the island was obliged to adopt heroic measures to insure the proper admin istration of affairs there. Captain Lea ry soon learned that his authority as governor was being: subverted and ev ery one of the measures of reform pro posed defeated by the hostile influence of friars They resisted every decree. After he 'had exhausted all other means to Overcome this influence Captain Leary report? he was obliged to notify a half a dozer friars ithat tihey might have free transportation away from Guam, and should expect them to avail themselves of the offer. That left but one friar on the island. STORM OFF VIRGINIA COAST Norfolk, Oct 30. The stfaorm which has been moving up ithe coast struck Cape Henry tonight, the wind blowing alt the rate of sixty miles an hour, coup led with a blinking raan. Wrecks upon 'the coast are anticipated. YELLOW FEVER IN KEY WEST. Key West, Oct. 30. Two new cases of yellow fever were repoalted today After shaving close, use Camphorline. Heals and softens rough skin. Delight ful ainfdi fragrant. 25c 43 Pattern; avenue, a large and com plete .stock of household furnishings a popular prices. Mrs. L. A. Johnson, 4 Patton avenue. !$I$I$ISI!8I$IW1S1S18I$ISI$I$I8 I "ON THE SQUARE9' I si HE6KER'S 8 WHEAT lb I -1 I Clarence Sawyer, 1 Sticceasorjto if- BU6K I Wp F. SNIDER. i S?;' r? a v - V'i r PEICE 5 CENTS. ST - MAJ. BALANCE IN CABANATUAN Inhabitants Receive American Troops Apparently With Great Joy. - Two Companies Kncounter Insurgent Cavalry. . Four Rebel Officers and Eight Men Killed. Reciuitiner Will Continue for Army in Philippines. THE ADDITIONAL THO L7 SAND MEN WILL BE USED TO FILL UP REGULAR REGIMENTS ALL VOLUNTEERS WILL BE EN ROUTE TO MANILA BY NOVEM BER 15TH. .1 Manilla, Monday, Oct. 30. 3 p. m. A batltalion of infantry undor Major Ballance entered Oabanatuan today without opposition. The inhabitants re ceived them with shouts of "Viva Los Americanos." Two companies under Major Bishop, reinforcing Colonel Bell, yesterday at Labao, encountered a. body of insurgent cavalry, advancing to cover the retreat of the rebels whom Colonel Bell had driven from 'tihat place, after killing many. There was the liviiest kind of a .fight when the insurgent cavalry attempted to make charges. They were finally scattered in confusion. Four insurgent officers and eight men were killed. Many others were wound ed and three prisoners were taken. A number of rifles were captured. The American loss, wos one killed and one wounded. RECRUITING CONTINUES. Washington, Oct. 30,--AIthough . the twelve additional volunteer vreglmenta authorized iby the president have been recruited the Work of securing addi tional troops for the Philippines will not stop. It has been decided by the secretary of war to enlist at least a thousand more. TROOPSEN ROUTE. With the departure of the Forty ninth volunteers, colored, on Novem ber 15th, the last of the twelve volun teer regiments will be en route to Manila, and with its arrival General Otis will have a force of 65,000 men. The additional thousand me being en listed 'will be utilized in bringing up the regular regiments now in the Phil ippines to their maximum quota. War department officials announce today that they expect General Law ton to make a considerable advance within the next ten days. SCHLEY TO SOUTH AFRICA. GUARDED STATEMENTS ABOUT THE MATTER. HOWEVER. Washington, Oct. 30. Secretary Long: today, in discussing the orobability of Admiral Schley taking: the South At lantic squadron to Delagoa Bay, de clared that there is no objection to his going there, and saidjas ithe South Af rican territory is within the confines of the South Atlantic station, it was probable, in his opinion, that Schley would visit there. Government officials, however, are exercising1 the greatest care to avoid saying anything that could be construed by the continental powers to mean, that the United States intended to make a naval demonstra tion in South Africa, 'as the Indication is that the continental coaCition' against England Is discountenanced by the United States. Grant's No. 24 Cures Cold. fISlI$$ISl4lSl$l81$I!$!l8l ...WE ARB... CLOSING OUT SILVER ARTICLES ranging in j price from 35 cent to $8, that are uitable for gifts and && the price are good Investments for holiday, presents. Your inspection Is solidtsd. 8 ARTHUR M. FIELD, Cornier Church street and Patton Avenue. 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