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EASY WORK
FOR GATAORE
Boers Fall Back Before his
Advance into Orange
Free State.
Report that Boer Forces are
Disintegrating.
A Line of Defence, However, is Form
ing on the Vaal River.
Kruger Declares Orange Free State
Annexed to tie Transvaal.
RUMOR THAT STEYN IS REAY TO
SURRENDER. BRITISH GOVERN-
MENT OF
BLOEMFONTBN-
BURGHERS GIVEN ASSURANCES
IN A PROCLAMATION.
London, March 17. As far as can he
gathered from reports from British
sources all serious opposition to the
British invasion of the southern part of
the Orange Free State has ended.
General Roberts' despatch to the war
office indicates that the railway south
of Bloemfontein was not damaged and
was not threatened. "With Gatacre
across the Orange river at' Bethulle,
Clements at Nerval's pont and Pote
Carew at Springfontein it seems that
the Boers who have been defending tne
Orange river can only choose between
fight and surrender. ' Gatacre's occu
pation of Bethulle was not opposed.
As the British approached the town a
deputation of the inhabitants met them
with a white flag and intimated that
no defense was intended. They said
the Boer forces had left town during
the night, moving, it is -understood, in
the direction of Dewitsdorp. Mounted
infantry were sent in pursuit. The
Union Jack was hoisted on the court
house at noon, the troops cheering It
and singing the national anthem. The j
inhabitants informed'1 the British that
Kruger on March 13 annexed the Fea
State to the Transvaal. The telegraph
at Springfontein, is not interrupted.
Brabant fras reported that he cross
ed -the river at Aliwalnorth some days
ago, the Boers having moved northward
for three miles, where they formed a
laager
Fighting followed but the result
is not known.
Thirteen trains, each consisting of
forty crowded cars, went northward
before the line was cut, some thousand
residents thus escaping. Those Who re
solved to continue their resistance join
ed Joubert, who Is supposed) to be at
Brandfort, though his actual where
abouts are unknown.
BOER LINE OF DEFENSE.
The Daily News correspondent at
Lorenzo Marques reports that the
Boers are intrenching along the Vaal
river at Vereeningen, which, presuma
bly, will be their subsequent line of
defense.
The same correspondent states that
persons who recently arrived from Pre
toria declare that the Boers admit that
their cause is hopeless. Lucas Meyer,
it is said, has refused to continue
fighting and returned to his farm.
Commandant Schalkburger has done
the same. The burghers are return-
ing to their homes by hundreds.
These statements need confirmation,.
hut If thev are true it is ciear mai
- . i a
President Kruger is losing his nolo.
There is no definite news from Natal.
AT BLOEMFONTEIN.
London, March 16. The war office'
makes public the following from Rob
erts:
Bloemfontein, March 16, 12:30 p. m.
Clements crossed) the Orange river
yesterday. Repairs to the railway
bridge at Norval's pont-will be. com
menced at once. Glrouard reports that
it will shortly be ready for traffic.
Meanwhile passengers "and stores will
cross on pontoons. General Pole-Ca-rew
has arrived at Springfontein.
Bloemfontein is now practically in rail
connection with Cape Town.
"My proclamation is having an ex
cellent effect. Several hundred burgn-
ers express their intention of deliver
ing their arms and returning to their
occupations. ResMlent Commissioner
Y. at . Basutoland reports that 8(50
MONTFORD AVENUE,
SCO
one acre, and house of nine rooms
(house out of repair) $2,200 will
!
buy it if taken 4Ms week. A bar-
J
gain at $3,000.
COCO
I WILKIE & LaBARBE,
r Real Estate Agents.
i 'Phone 661. , 23 Patton Ave.
Boers have lately-arrived there from
Bloemfontein. "A further contingent
which has been with Oliver' af Allwal
North are only waiting ' to know -the
terms of my proclamation to surrender.
The refused to attend the council at
Kroenstad, to which they had been
summoned by President Steyn."
Bloemfontein, March 16. -General
Prettyman is succeeding admirably as
governor of the town. He issued a
proclamation today, requesting the
burghers within a radius of ten miles
to deliver up their arms, assuring
them that they would! be paid for the
confiscation of their property. Lord
Roberts is about to Issue fresh proc
lamations which, it is considered, Kyill
have the effect of disarming further op
position upon the part of the Free
Staters ' 'r'
Great quantities of stores captured at'
Wasserfall have been recovered. As a
result of Hunter and Weston's line
cutting the British have secured twenty-six
engines and . the line has . been
cleared to Kaffir river.
Rumors are current that former Pres
ident Steyn is willing to surrender.
Much unrest exists among the Dutch
population. The burghers described the
soldiers as locusts, saying they were
innumerable and identical with them.
ST. PATRICK'S DAY.
Celebration Will be Greater than ever
Before in London.
" London, March 16. St. Patrick s day
will be observed here as never before,
owing to the queen's order for The
Wearing of the Green." Dealers in
flags are completely sold out of their
supply of green flags. Freight stations
are crowded! with crates of shamrocks
from Ireland and the delivery of pack
ages of the Irish emblem by parcels
post equals the Christmas deliveries.
The wearing of the'shamock tomorrow
will not be by the Irish only, but by
the "bated Saxon," who will wear it
partly out of loyalty and partly out
of honor to the brave Irish troops in
South Africa.
I ADMIRAL AND MRS. DEWEY'S
SOUTHERN TRIP
To be Entertained at Savannah, Ma'
con and Jacksonville.
Washington, March 16. Admiral
Dewey, and wife leave Washington Sun
day for a ten days' visit to. places Id
the south to which they have been In
vited. Tw days will be spent In.JSar
vannah, two at -Macon and the rest at
the time at Jacksonville and Palm
Beach .
Macon. Ga., March 16. Admiral
Dewey will be given a royal reception
at Macon next Thursday. All of the
plans have been arranged for the two
days and two nights that he is to spend
here, and it ie to be said that it will be
the greatest reception ever tendered an
American by the Macon people
The idea of having a big military pa
rade has been abandoned. The mili
tary day in Savannah was the primary
cause, as nearly every company in tne
state is going to take part in that city.
The admiral will arrive here from
Savannah on the afternoon of March
22. He will be met at the train by the
reception committee and the Macon
military The military with the Cross
Country Riding 'club, consisting of
some 200 people on horseback, will act
as an escort from the depot to the res
ilience of Mr. Plant. At night a tre
mendous public reception will be ten
dered at the armory of the Macon Vol
unteers by the mayor and council. Five
hundred dollars will be spent on 'the
decorations in the armory. This re-
tceDtion will last Tor several hours, and
j the people will be given an opportun-
Ity t) meet the hero of Manila.
On the following morning, the school
children of the city and county, some
6,000, will be formed and reviewed by
the admiral on Tattnall square. Fol
lowing this review will be an exhibi
tion drill by the two cadet battalions.
In the afternoon the admiral will be
given a drive over the city, and a din
ner will be given in bis honor by Mr.
and Mrs. Plant. At night the Cherokee
club will give a swell dinner, to which
the ladies nave been invited.
Admiral Dewey will remain in Ma
con that night and will. leave on Sat
urday morning over the Georgia South
ern and Florida railroad for Palm
Beach, Fla. He wflf travel, in the pri
vate car of President Samuel Spencer,
of the Southern railway: .
SOUTH CAROLINA TOWN
TERRORIZED BY REGULATORS
Appeal to the Governor for -Help-
Troops to be Sent
Columbia, S. C, March 16. The sta
tion agent and other citizens ot Neuces,
Orangeburg county, telegraphed the
governor at midnight tonight begging
for troops to protect them from white
regulators, Wo had twice visited the
town and "beat the people, white and
(black, and promised to return tomorrow
to kill them. Work on surrounding
farms has been stopped and people
driven from business. The governor
telegraphed the sheriff ' to ride across
the country tonight with--a-, posse and
give protection -till the troops could be
sent: The icause-of the - lawlessness is
unknown, f '
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DAVIS, POYERS AND CULT01I
ARRAIGNED AT FRONKFORT
Monday Fixed as Day of Examination
Hazlivp Gives Bail.
Frankfort, March 16. Secretary of
State Powers, Captain Davis and W.
H. -Culton were, brought here from
Louisville today. Davis was recogniz
ed, by only a few old friends, because
he had removed his beard. The prison
ers were nrralpripr! T-ofnT-Q rAnntir
1- VUlJhJ
Judge Moore, who fixed" Monday as -the
date of the examining trials. Hazllnn
will also be arraigned at the same time.
T-he latter Was irelea
$10,000 bail.
The date fixed for the arraignment
will probably be postponed as the at
torneys for the commonwealth sav
that important witnesses cannot reach
here by that time. Attorney Ramsey
moved that the court permit his client,
uuiton, to remain at home with his
wife under guard. Culton's wife is
yery ill. Judge Moore made an order
permitting Culton to tie taken home
twice a day... .
The prisdners with the exception of
Hazlipp were all remanded; to Jail.
A VIGOROUS DEFENSE,
f. Frankfort, March 16. The defend
ants' attorneys in the four cases set for
Monday have summoned a large num
ber of witnesses and will make a vlgor-
OB defense of their clients. Sub-
titjenaes for a number of representa
tives, Colonel Chinn, Epes, Lillard and
the attending physicians of Goebel and
several nurses were issued tonight by
the defense.
FOR FEDERAL AID.
I JFrankfort. March 16. ReDublican
National Committeeman Yerkes and
several others today conferred with
Governor Taylor. As a result. Taylor
Will call on President McKinley to pro
tect him in holding the state buildings
until the gubernatorial contest has
been passed on by the United States
Court.
Lexington, March 16. Terkes passed
through here tonight from Frankfort on
haja way home. He denied he had a
conference with Taylor or that he was
going to Washington on any mission:.
He admitted calling on iihe governor.
H0W FELL HEAVILY ...
u- OVER A WIDE AREA
t -
fruit, end Early Vegetables Killed in
the South. New York
V Snow Bound.
MffeW York, March 16. Nine, 4nchesof.
bdow and sleet cover the .streets of New
York today and four thousand men bat
tled with St !in Manhattan:. Three thous
and more are at work in Brooklyn'.
Traffic has been partially paralyzed in
some sections of the city eince early
this morning.
.During the early hours Brooklyn
bridge traffic was practically blocked.
Sleet On the third rail supplying the
electric power 'to the bridge cars cut
off the current and a general blockade
wias the reeuit. Trolry lines over the
bridge were not much better. Surface
traffic in the city was of course every
where delayed.
ShamOkiini, Pa., March' 16. This pllace
is now completely snowbound, seven
inches having fallen. Six thousand men
and boye employed ait the various col
lieries are idle owing to the blockade.
In a number of mountain passes tra
versed by the trains the snow has a- if t-
ed from five to fifteen feet.
Chattanooga, March 16. The worst
to be feared by fruit growers in the
mountain' section of Tennessee and
month Georgia was realized in the visit
Of the cold wave last night. The mer
cury dropped to twenty-four and ey
erything was frozen over ithfs entire
section. The loss by this freeze wll'l
amount to hundreds of thousands of dol
lars. New Orleane, March 16. --The weather
hi this crty and throughout Louisiana
continues cold, and the local bureau
senas out predictions of frost for to
night. Snow fell and ice formed not
on'ly generally in north Louisiana last
night, but in the southern section; as
weW.
Birmingham, Ala., March 16. This
city was visited by a snowstorm lasting
all day yesterday and far into the
night. It is said to be the heaviest fall
in recent years.
REV. MR. SHELDON'S VENTURE
Regular Headers of the Paper Not
Satisfied with it.
Topeka, Kan., March 15. The Shel
don editions of the Topeka Capital are
failures as newspapers. The first page
of the paper today, as yesterday, does
not contain a single news item. Very
little of the hews of the day appears in
the telegraph columns, and this is
greatly abbreviated.
Much of the local news of Topeka is
cut out and no reason is given. A doz
en county republican conventionsvere
held in Kansas yesterday, but the cor
respondents in these counties who of
fered stories of the proceedings were
told that the matter was not wanted.
Frateryial beneficiary associations, such
as the Ancient Order of United Work-
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Special attention giyei to repairing. '
OSTEOPATHY.
E. S. WiTlard D. 6,i Osteopathlst.
Offices over Dr. T. C. Smith'ft Drug
Store, Court Square.
Office hours, 9 &. m. to 12 noon and
2:30 o 5 30 p. m.
men, the Woodmen and other societies
cannot get Into . the Capital. Mr.
Sheldon refuses all notices of the meet
ings of these societies, but he refuses
to give a reason.
The whole ; tendency of the paper is
toward) socialism. ' Several' of the lead
ing articles today are by socialists of
national prominence Henry D. Llojtd,
author of "Wealth Against - Common- t
wealth," wbieh attacked the Standard
Oil company, is referred to by Mr.
Sheldon as 'That good man." When
asked this morning if he was & social
ist, Mr. Sheldon said: "If you put
the word Christian before the word
socialist and then read Christ's Sermon
on the Mount you will have my
definition of socialism. "
The verdict of nine-tenths' btr the pa
per's regular readers is that the Shel
don Capital is a failure as a newspa
per. SUGAR ESTATES lirCUBA
MAKE CLASS DISTINCTION
Must
be Divided aud Diversified to -o
TrWa Tlam,. I
Havana, March 16. There is much
criticism "of Secretary of Agriculture
Rivera's statement, in which he seeks
to discourage excessive cultivation of
sugar, because of the liability of the
destruction of fields . by bandits. La
Xiueha sharply rebukes Rivera for say-
ihganything to discourage the rehab-
ftation of the, sugar industry.
Secretary of Finance Varjona, in an
interview printed in La Lucha, agrees
with Rivera that the Cubans should
turn their energies to other things.
His views indicate that the present ex
isting class distinctions result from
enormous sugar estates, held) by a few
aristocratic families, and until these
estates, are broken up and devoted to
the cultivation of various crops by the
peasant class, no real democracy can
exist.
MARTIAL LAW PRO
CLAIMED IN COSTA RIGA
American Arrested Charged with Con
spiracy in Inciting Revolution.
New Orleans, March 16. Passengers
arriving from Costa Rica announce
tnat .tresiaent igieseas, taKing advant
age of the threatened war with Nica
ragua, and the attempt of the Nica
raguans to precipitate a revolution in
Costa Rica, has proclaimed' himself
dictat&r .and.. de&Jared tnvartial law.
United States Minister-Merry stationed
at San Jose, Costa Rica, has gone to
Managua, the capital of Nicaragu, to
endeavor to induce resident Zilaya to
cease military preparations against
Costa Rica.
An American bas been arrested in
San Jose charged with conspiring to
create a revolution. It is claimed! that
incriminating papers were found on
him.
Managua is filled with soldiers, of
which Zilaya is said to have 'ten thous
and under arms.
There are two thousand soldiers in
San Jose. Traveling through oosta
Rica is difficult without passports, be
cause of the vigilance of the authori't
ies.
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FOR THE RELIEF
OF PORTO RICO
House Bill Appropriating
$2,000,000- Passed by
the Senate.
Eef ased to Declare .Regarding
the Constitution.
The Quay Case to be Taken up for
Action on April 2.
xweauiunuu WUUBg Xor a LOpy 01 0U
of Aguinaldo's Letters.
THE DAY IN THE HOUSE DEVOT
ED MAINLY TO THE CONSIDERA
TION OF PRIVATE BILLS PEN
ROSE AND GALLINGER MATrm
UP THEIR DIFFERENCES.
Washington, March 16. After a pro
tracted debate the senate this after
noon passed the house bill appropriat
ing J2.000.000 for the relief of Port
Rico, without resorting to a yea and
nay vote. Previous to the passage of
the bill Senator Allen's amendment,
which dleclared that by the Paris treaty
the constitution was extended over
Porto Rico was tabled, yeas 36, nays -
17.
The only other proceedings of inter
est was the conclusion of the reading
of the Alaskan judiciary bill, fixing1
April 2 as the date for considering the
Quay case, the adoption of a resolu
tion calling for a copy of Aguinaldo's
letter to the American commander.
dated Bacoor, July 15, 1898, and the
making up by Messrs. Penrose and
Gallinger of their recent difference US
connection with the Quay case.
IN THE HOUSE.
Washington, March 16. Today's ses
sion of the house was chiefly devotee'.
to the consideration of private bills In
pommittee of the whole. Several of the
bills were subsequently reported to the
house and passed.
WANT PORTO Ft I CAN FREE TRADE.
Indianapolis, March 16. Thirty re
publicans of this city, many of them
prominent in the politics of the state,
have joined in a telegram to Senator
Beveridge urging him to vote against
the Puerto Rican tariff bill now pend
ing in the senate. The telegram rep
resented! that the people of Indiana, ir
respective of party, oppose the propos
ed legislation and are convinced that the
ports of Porto Rico should be open to
the products of this country, and the
ports of this country open to the pro
ducts of that island. The list of sig
natures to the telegram is headed by
Governor Mount.
MORE BIG COTTON MILLS.
Columbia, S. C. larch 16. The Ice
man milk, McColl, $200,000, and the Al
pha mills, Jonesville, $100,000 have filed
incorporation, papers ait the state cap
itol. The Anderson yarn and knitting
mill increases from $50,o00 to $200,000.
The total capital projected ain cotton
mills this year Is $4,525,000.
Ladies will find an excellent assort
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Do you run the gardeni? We would
like ito have your seed list and that ear
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thing lacking. Grant's Pharmacy.
By the free use of Columbian Insecti
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We regret to say that we have -io old
stock on hand, but will give you any
thing in Furniture or x Stoves- newer -design
and for less money than you can
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