TOL IV: NO. 278
ASHEVILLE, N. C, FRIDAY JIOKNINQ, DECEMBER 28, 1900.
PBICE5CENTS
OESTREICHER&CO
IN BATTLE
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Gall attention to a
few items for Holiday
gifts and all are useful.
Bath Robes $4.00
to$i5-
Dressing Sacques.
Fur Collarettes.
Muffs and Boas.
Neckwear
Handkerchiefs,
all varieties.
Aprons,
Umbrellas for Lad
ies and Gentlemen.
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And one 01 our
Novelty Dress Pat-1
terns makes a very
handsome present, up
to $4.00 the yard.
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Kitchener Reports That En
gagement in Progress
Near Leuwkop.
Boers Active Everywhere, iu
Transvaal and OraDge
Kiver Colony.
ATTACKS REPORTED
AT MANY POINTS
REPULSED AT BURGHERSDORP
RENEWED RUMORS THAT BOER
COMMANDERS ARE READY TO
SURRENDER.
London, Dc. 27. The following- dis
ipatch. lias been received from Lord
Kitchener:
"Pretoria, Dec. 26.: Knox, with Bar
ker, Pitcher and White, is engaged
with DeWet'g force holding a iposition
in Ithe neighborhood of Leuwkop. De
Wet hopes to break through and go
south a gain.
"Boers' eastern coluimjn in Cape Col
ony apparently headed by our troops
about Reimport Spruit. Boers' -western
column reported to have gone north in
two portions, one toward Prieska and
t)he -other through Strydenburg. They
are being ifloWorwed up."
The following dispatch from Lord
Kitchener is received: I
"Pretoria, Dec.. 27. Yesterday 200
Boers attacked ia small police ipost near
Boksbiu-rg. The1 police (gallantly drove
them off (before reirforcernents from
Johannesburg' arrived. The, Boers
damaged mdniiing, iwachinery in the
ueaghborhood. '
-. 'Tii'e Boers attacked Utrecht at 2 this
(morning and were diven off. v The
iBoers held Ufc a train three, mileswest
vodEPan. land wfere drtveotfj
SEHSATIOHAL BtClHNIfiC
OF ENGLISH A8MY REFORM
Maj. 6en. ColviUe' s Resignation De
manded, But is Mot Given
London, Dec. 27. The war office has
begun the promised! reform1 of the army
in a -sensational maner. It haa de
mand ed the resignation Of Maj. Gen.
Sir Henry Colyille, commanding" an In
fantry brigade at Gibraltar and re
cently commanded the Ninth division
of the South African field force.
Gen. ColviUe refused to resign arid
lie is now on his way to England. The
news is ail the more startling as the
question of Gen. Oolville's responsibil
ity for the yoemanry disaster at
Ldndley last May was fully investi
gated by the authorities when Gen.
ColviUe returned from South Africa
last summer. After the inquiry Gen.
ColviUe was reinstated in his command
at Gibraltar in September last.
The attitude of the war office indi
cates that a mew regime in Pall Mall
wall reverse the decision ot; Lord. Lans-
downe and Lord Wolseley in regard to
somft of the recent commanders in
South Africa.
Gen. ColviUe, like Gen. Methuen, has
always been a great social personage
in London and a prominent club man
He has had a most distinguished ca
reer, has been repeatedly mentioned in
despatches, and lis as familiarly known
as "Odgers." He is also a well known
author and on the occasion of his mar
riage created a stir by going on his
honeymoon in a balloon.
MYSTERIOUS TRAGEDY
IN INDIANAPOLIS
William H. Smythe Shot in
His Office He Alleges, by a
"Blonde Woman.".
MYSTERIOUS VISITOR ASKED TO
BE ALLOWED TO USE TELE
PHONE AND THEN FIRED
THREES SHOTS INTO HIM. .
'I cannot exactly describe them in
detail, but I think they were the usu
ail forms, suchi as holding out Indian
clubs until it became tiresome, doing
Wooden Willie eunsd other things- iwhich
were in vogue at that time. Breth was
a very afwfctwaird mfca and did not seem
tto be able to d(o anything right. He was
subject tto uervoueaiess and was easily
rattled."
The witness, im reply to Gen. Clous,
said thalt (he knew of about eight fights
having occiunredl during the first two
years he was ka the academy and about
nine during the next two years
The wltneefs .-said Khere were some
men who used to haze more than others
landl tihajb some of them, seemed to be
without the f acuity of Judging when a
mfan had' enough
Cadet John A. Pearson, of Tennessee,
when asked if he (ever hazed Oadet
Roma- ainiswered m the negative, in
describing several forms of exercising
he Said:
ahoo-chooiig is th!e most exhaust -insC
The "man is required to get down
iamd use his hands and legs as rapidly
EMPEROR SU
IS NOT WILLING
Objects to Some of the De
mands in the Joint Note
of the Powers.
Is Opposed Sternuously to
the H eduction of the Chin
ese Foits.
Indianapolis, Dec. 27. William' H.
Smyth grand secretary of the Masonic
Order of Indiana, was shot and proba
bly fatally wounded at noon today
while he wasi in his offiice in the Ma- Ls pgiible in propelling himself over the j AQ TQ (CREASE OF
somct Temple in this caty in west giroannid." -
Washington street. The hooting is a Asked to define the line where hazing
witness Baid ir ne
CRONJE AND HIS MEM
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make a quick eaie. Ifc to lo
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SCHOOLS,
Colleges, Institutes,
Attention!
College, Institute, Aittentton. Are
you looking after the health otf thoa
kind of Baking Powder are you using
RTJMFOQEtP
IS HEALTHFUL.
is kv some hit-
si-eastern itoree of jters in OUpe
Colony was headed yeerdaaiidr driv
en in the d4retiiBi of yenterstad . The
western force is tiH being driven north
through S,trydeoi,Siurg,.'
Burgthersdorp, Dec. 2S. Col. Grenfeli
continues in touch wfdht rultzangers
commtand . In oaTrylng olt the British
prisoners Krultzinger (has abandoned
Ibis maxims, whiCli bate -been plicked
up toy the British. The Lancers have
suffered by some -casualties, including
t -r. uvcMftnu "Rlaekwood. who waa
wounded.
' OFFER TO SUiRRFNDFR?
Bloeimfontein, rec. 26. There are re-newed-
but JuncotyfiTOnieG rumors here
thalt Gen-eral DeWet, Ptesident Steyn
and Cteneartd Haasbaoecli bave bad a
conference and decided to offer to sur
render, itfovided the colomdal rebe s are
ALARM CAUSELESS.
Uondo-n. Dec. 28. ttdhenier return
ed to Pretoria Wedneday. The general
view htere is (that Ibe'alartn. caused ny
the Boer invasion of Cape Colony ia
causeless. All reptorts indicate iChat
the colondal Dutch haven't joined tne
(Boer's and the invaders have been suc
cessfully checked.
According to a dispatch from tmrgn-
tdom dated December 26, X5ol. Gren
feli, p .cosnananded tne ximiasn in, x
skirmish at Raisiterhuvei, reporxs in
vaders niuimbered 700. They were bard
pressed and abandoned the maxjm
uns and carits. A number of belated
dispatches from the Transvaal and
Orange River show that tne oers are
active in all directions. i
THE DAILY NEWS CHANGES PO
SITION.
London Dec. 27. It is announced
thiat the Daily News, the oldest liber
al paper here, will cease supporting the
government's policy and demand a
cessation of the war In South Africa
and the tfrine of liberal terms to the
Boers. The paper has been strongly
imperalistio since the beginning of toe
attu-vIA Morley. one of the pro-
prietors, is chiefly responsible for the
change.
myaterious' one.
The story told by Mr. Smythe, who
retained consciousness for several min
ute after the shooting, is that a blonde
woman entered his office and asked to
be allowed to use the telephone. As
he was busy he told her he could not
be bothered at the time. Without
further words, he declares, the woman
pulled a revolver from some where
about her dothes and fired at him.
He felt ithe siting of the bullet and af
ter that he did not know what hap
pened until after the woman had made
her escape.
The police reached the scene only
a few minutes after the tragedy and
threw a line of patrolmen and detec
tives about the Masonic Temple, but
no trace of the mysterious: woman was
Thftv Are Still EODeful Of Boer Inde- found. Mr. Smythe was discovered by
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pendence.
Boston, Dec. 27. A letter has been
received from! 'George Gardiner of this
duty, who is on his way to South Af
rica, describing a visit to the -Boer
prisoners at St. Helena. He says:
"We saw Gen. Cronje and over 2,000
Boer prisoners. We had' to climb 700
steps 688 feet) to get where the pris
oners are. They were all singing
church songs, and still think they will
get their independence. Cronje is a
quiet old fellow, and hie would not
talk much. He seems to be in bad
health. The Boers are aw; Dig leiiows,
and nirre out of ten of them wear fall
beards. They could go back home if
feeywiouildf eflgh- Ja41eancrto pngOaod,
but they " are game and iwont admit
that they" are whipped. Cronje is well
x. tr M
treated. The (Boer prisoners ai mv 'A i4m'nUtAn rv PirUt
Helena are suffering from scurvy froiri bharp AamQUltlOn IO lZ-dtl
lack of vegetables, which , are , very
scarce there."
CHILD KIDNAPPED:
Mother Secures Possession pf Seven
Year's Hd Son.
Indianapolis, Dec. J7. Sidney Miller,
the seven-ye aar-old eon of Samuel D.
Miller and grandson of, former United
States AltJtorney-ueneraii) juuw,
was kidnapped by bis mother yester
day, was recovered this morning.
Mrs.. Miller and the child was lounu
beicame bruital, the
saw a man brutally (treated he could
tell 'at once..
The ufext witness wTas R. ICi. Bboz.
The -witness had not seen his brother
during the time he wats in the West
Point academy im 1898. Mr. Booz 'con
tinued: "I received a letter from him shortly
after, he went to the academy. In it he
siaid he felt stra!nge at the place as it
was Ms first experience away from
home. In the second letter, which I got
about the beginning of August, he told
me Ithiart. he would be called out to fight
ia about a week. He complained of
having haid to tiake 'tobasco sauce and
suffered from a sore throat in conse-
quernce. rie ciaimeo, xnax n iwwu
dtotwan Ms thiroat and he had to slwallow
it or choke.
"In o,ther letters .wfcich I goit from
Mmi," the wifcneeb added, "he complain-
edi or being hazed1 and said that he was
being treated more severely than ottiWers.
Later in the year, about October I think,
ihe wrote ijo me and suggested htat my
father alidw !himi to send in hi si resig
nation, dbcar was mtoit the kind of a
boy thlalt would Ibe hiazedi.''
"Did he ever mention any smames of
ithe tmien 'who 'hazed him?" Gera. Obus
'asked .
"No, he did not."
In reply to &uspt. Mills the rwiitness
said:
"I spoke to Oscaa" some time in 1899
about his treaitmeiiit lat the aidademy,
and he toldi me ttot thei tabasco sauce
w"ituj f oiive d do his 'throat
'"Did you ask him who 'were the par
ities who forced Mm ltd do ithi'S?"-'
"No iootat that time. Uater in the
year I . wrote ihm but be ouilo ot
Mot." ' , -" " -
He skid Oscar ' dddt- not 'tell hSs sis
ter any Games and v1he supposed the
reasons iwere -the same as any .college
boy would hajvte, ia false sense of honor
"Wnieaii you say ycjuir brother, was
forced ltto swallow tttafbssco sauce, do you
mean that force was ui$ed asked Gen.
-Bates.
'Yes, sir."
"Didl you see your brother within six
a party TO THE CllTME IF HE I mowthis after his 'leaving the academy?"
LEGATION GUARDS
Lewis A. Goleman, an attorney of this
city, who had gone to the Masonic
Temple to transadt business . Smythe,
he says, was lying On the floor, half
between his desk andl (the door of his
office in a pool of blood, uoieman
called the police.
Smythe's son says he can not imag-
ilne who the the woman is who fired
the shots. A medical examination re
vealed 'that three shots had been fired,
each of which took effect. Three bul
lets were removed from; the wounded
man's head .
BODZ'S BROTHER
5 ah nraft
Peace of North Carolina For
His Admissions
SAW BRUTAU HANGING AND
DID NOT INTERFERE, A MEM
BER OF THE COURT DECLARES.
her. He then comolaine-v of a sore
thsroat and dizziruess. He wjs being
treated by- a physiciaui in Bristol, Pa.,
either Dr. C. B. Abbott or Dr. E. G.
Fj..m8, 1 can't say Which..
Whe witness wets (then 'haBded a portionT
feirOsoaar said he wouldgb ..home eooh.
PRINCE CHING DISCUSSES THE
MATTER WITH THE EMPEROR
A MILITARY FORCE SENT TO
EAST OF PEKIN TO QUIET DIS
TURBANCES, UNDER COMMAND
OF A UNITED STATES OFFICER.
Peking, Dec. 27. Li Hung Chang amid
Priqace Chdng, the iChinese peace com
missioners have heard from the em
peror Kiw'aing 'Su. Prince called on the
former for ctomsultaitioin remaining over
ami hour. The court objects sttrenuously
to redue&nig the (fonts, amd also ;to allow
ing permanent legaltion guards, which
it seexnla to think could! be made suffi
ciently Sarge a)t any itime 41t was desired,
to menace the courit itelf . After the
comference it was decided to hold fur
ther commuiniciaaoin with the court; be
fore seeing the (ministers.
TO QUELL DISTURBANCES.
Pekin, Dec. 27. Continued receipt of
reports Of disturbances in this provinces
ihas resulted in the sending out of a mil
itary force 'to the country east of Pe
kin . The expedition included infantry
and airtMdery,TUnder the command o
Lieut. JCol. Went of the United States.
The-object of tfee expedtU. is Danhow
where it was7recently reported that 1
native Oathoii were ' itfJItKiie. ;-
The Americani oounsui at Tien Tslnv
has .informed Minister Conger that two ;
Japanese were killed and several
.wounded. by Chinese in a village riea
Taku. The Japanese are sending an ex
pedition to that place. A British sub
ject was shot and killed in the Brit
ish distract today by a German soldier.
The affair is creating a stir.
FORI Y-HltlE CHILDREII
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: fWest iPoiet, T.Dec. Zi. xxOtoboi Better to tae recorder. In this iet- "-6. - - " "
iyycbi xa, - i , i ,rw-,nori wiiih a. telenhone TnesBage
rtnn-r etc Bristol Pa., wlxela n&w mvwttttt'vs aiu ne wBuia41go..nffme coon, r '. . Jkt
Booz, o Bortsto fV ftoaasN euM mot starM tfce,treitment airyko the Hawkeye that forty-nine school
in op jnear Buffalo, arxtvelfieaK mm J waw. fflt were drowned at Foster, Iowa,
M& Twriice asleep dn the home of a to itastfifjr foe&we taaaa cwBJfeQHga aeama hfe hKitTW(a troubliaffg today by the tweaking of the ice cn
.Tsh Be3BSSK &tttfctf hwhich they iwere skatinr. Fifty-one
llOUUViU " r - w . tm m - - - - -1 " -
oibtained lodging' iflor the nigmi.
the child was
ttu vinld. courteous and polite
treatment of all persons is one mark of
the true man pa woman .
iiMniiHiim!
DRUG STORE
HEWS.
Dnzecdiats. Toledo. O
0trrb Cure taken internallv
ftCrting't8eotlr ap the bJood ud mii
oous surfaces of the sys.em. Price 7.
per bottle. Sold by ail druggists. Te
timnii free.
taker, to the hotel by the governess 1 ked :tio desorfbe the Cgftns ffAIJBffl, mwtw ,ftT,T
a there Mrs. Miller catueo u, to which Breth wa UDjeowu, rxvvx,
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carriage. The governess objected i npiied:
Ihavin the hoy -leave her sight , as sne
hd been Warned Ithait an atiemtpi- .
kidnap anight be (made.
Mrs. Miller isaid ehe..was only going
for a drive, hut the.glrl Insisted on go
ing along. The carriage was onmi w
the undon station and the girl became
teirm . SShe oranK out and' telepfhon-
ed the father to come to tne eraution.
This gave Mr. Miller Itme opporcumacy
she desired and sne caueea me i
one of the longest chases they have ev
er experienced.
Mrs. Milter was formerly Mfes Helen
Karcher of Plttston, Pa. She married
lyoung' Miller nine years ago. They
have been Ifylne apart since last sum-
BIG FIRE III LOUDON.
ltitimesnit received! by his brother, Ots- zisom ioaamr wamsr guinea tar- weTe to .the party and only two escap
7, rteeased. white a. fourth clas n-680 reftfcatln of the ttedephone and telegraph ms
car, Oately deceaseoi, wxiire a-i ohiarges of ooairdice and ineomJetea- ! tLf tr nnnflrm fch
det at the West Foimlt .military acad- agaInis6 his brother. WomhtosyIn-Ba8,t( l fa" conflrm th
emiy 4 wo years ago. patry of those presebt. rePort
dt is wndexstooUi tnax a Kjen-eml Bates star tied Cadet Pease
iwiho lives to Illinois will be to&re roraw-ijjiy infortmdng hdm Itaht If he .was ures-
-Miia here from her home L, rivb hois version of the thazaxigi (wWetntt ithe brutal ba!ri
In New York last Friday and stopped I piae'tieea ait the post 'du1:n b s" haainig iwas igoasiig on and he did not
. he Denton hotel. By agreement i,mer eaKSampmeoas ioa'rr. pniencere w oouia roe nera as a par
ax Une xwwoiwi . . I . v,,- BScnmWwl Cadet I -vyo Th 4n. w rf-rt ct . j
Wi'ttis G. Peace, of Ma Oarollna, of Pleaise had said previously that he
the first cftass, -wai the first wfefeness. He didnlt thimik he could he held responBl
eoidi he knew former Cadet Brett;hii' ible for the doings of others,
saw hfan hazed in the tent of eqc-3adet After Mr,. Booz's testimony ithe court
Beder In 1897. The witness. Barter i book a recess.
mho; mnfliiftft reakmed the place ab day-
lfghtt. Mrs. Miller gave up the child
and was mot -placed under arrest. The
entire police and detective forces! had
been caUed Into the case
with her husband, who has. had charge
of ithe child since their separation! last
OTmsrnar, Mm. Miller Was allowed to
see the. hoy once a
Yesterday afternoon
London, Dec. 27. One of the most
disastrous fires which have occurred in
the east end of London during1 the last
ten years broke out today at the East
India docks. Five immense sheds
filled with goods. In eluding a thousand
bales of hemp and quantities of ite,
iwere consumed. The shipping in the
neighborhood and other warehouses
were only saved toy the great exertion
of the firemen.
not punished and the leaders, including
themselves, are not deported.
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It quickly controls chill, fever and
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future as well as in ;the past io serve tneir
best interest promptly and courteously. .
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TOOTH BRUSH.
Ten eiiits seem' small for- a
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halve such a one and have sold
over 2000 with excellent satisfac
tion. You cam buy three f --i a
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Compliments of the season to
everybody and many thanks
to our patrons and friends.
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ARTHUR M. FIELD COMPANY,
Leadiny Jewelers.
Clmrch Street-arid Patton Avenue.
Asheville, "N. C.
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