The Weather To-day: ISSSo'KSII! FAIR. The News and Observer. VOL.XLVII. NO. 37. LEADB ALL NOOTM CAROLINA DAILIES 1 IEIS AID OVULATION. COULDN'T FOLLOW f THEIR VICTORY Say Kruger Favors Uncondi tional Surrender. YET’TIS HARD 10 CREDiT AS KRUGER LEADS AX ATTACK OX GLENCOE. SO SAYS A DISPATCH FROM LADY SMITH Boers in Sweling Numbers Surround Kimber ly, Wires Cecil Rhodes. Beer and British Gallantry at Elands Laagte. Lotml-on, Oct. 23.—N0 yet re eedwtl tends to dispel the apprehension cun-sod tty Lord WolseJey's Hr inf sum mary cf the sitwattiom. A rietermiritzf mtirg dispatch says that the censor now iter mitts iso messages to be sent fnonn- the front. Other dispatches the •Boers as boasting that IhwwVee is abso lutely cart off, and assert that dewpiite the British victories, tin' situation is still me certain. It a i >l **ars certain, however, that the brilliant \ u-tory at Eliandisliaiayte was pro ductive of no effect for the relief of Gflent eoe aard line very reticenlr*' nnd brevity of Lord Wolseley’s cotnimiumina,t3on arc only too ominous. It seems to be worded to prepare the public for Had news and it is only too likely that General Yule hias been cvanprilled to abandon the wPa-ulded wad thopri-Hoowrs ut Dundee hetannse his force is too weak to hold thle four and a half ir.vdes separating Dundee from Glen coe. Probably General YnSe believes lu* can better protect DuiwVe from an en-eany ad mnebng from the northwest by co«ceai>- trating all his available stremgth at (41en coe. where there arc 3,500 and batteries. In Hike meantime efforts will be made to re-open the railway and to got reiiir fonc im**i ts froan Ladysmith. If is expected that Corunna n-dauit Eras tiMUS has by this time joined commandant General .Twtibort and that their com bined columns anuonint.s to siotne or 11,000 men, whfllc the FVeo Sit ate Beers, now tiiireatering Ladysmith from the East and a column reported to lx* (Miffing through Zululand nnust lie reck oned with. In short, General Kir George Kite wart White has been unahle to follow up his successes and is obliged to remain at Ladysmith without being ail le to restore railway conmmioiiication which is probably broken at other poi intis liesfides Elamls laagte. Thru* the enemy, tham.glln tShieir original plan, which is supflfcsed to have 1 >en ii i -CoSonei (Kiehiiers. failed, may be fairly credited wtttn having isolated Gen-- era! Yule's brigade and divided the Brit ish forces its Xatah Gen»ral Yule may find hintiself in ii tight place, ricding all his in Indian and Btmnese fighting to extri eate himself. It is cede evident that the War Of fice has news which Has 4«-cn withheld from the public. ami if the Kitniation. as here sketched. Ss conhrmeid. Boeir diivi si*mbs may be exptx'h d at other frontier points. It is regard/d as not impo-S'-ibb* that General White may yet Im* f-oanqadhal to ccf« amt rate all the Natal forces at Lady emfitlh ami await the arrival of tlie ammy corps. A dispatch to the Times from Golets burg. Cu-ix* Colony, says: “The situation today (iMonduy) is grave. The -Boers are 550 strong and will Ik- reinforced from Driekop. Xo de fence* is ]¥).ssilde. The town guard will retire on Xaauwpo-ort on the aipix-araim-a of the enemy. “The Driekpc force is (*sl:in:Ut(-d .-it 1-*OO men. v,.*> re]suit of the* lighting at ing in favor of an utneot.ditiena’ surrender. Il is adkled that, it is exipectetd the exe-cu tive counci 1 will meet on Monday or Tuesday to discuss the advisability of such a step. Tlw* report, it is stated here, must be accepted With reserve. STORY OF ELAXDSLAAGTE. London, Oct. 23.—The British victories in Xatal. following each other in quick succession, though aoeoratpaatied bv heavy hisses* on the side of the victors. linar striking testimony to the valor of the vanquished Boers. They appear to h-avo fallen victims to the very plain which they counted on to drive the Brit ish into tin* sea. They have (been lent en in detail by counter strokes carefully considered and brilliantly carried out in the face of courageous opposition, which has done much to incrc-a.se British respect for the burghers, whose splendid valor and determination, it is -universally ad mitted, reached the highest level. Fuller accounts of Saturday's battle at Eiiamdslaagte emphasize the splendid gal lantry exhibited on bolth sides, and the sawpedority of tin* British in a pitched Hattie, although tin* ll'ootk fought with the greatest tenacity to the last, only vielding when further lighting -was hope less. An armored train with the men of the Manchester regimeint. appeared on the left at Ladysmith, ait daybreak, Siatur day in support of the Johannesburg im l>erial light horse and the Natal held ar tillery, with the object of reopentihg eom mttnw-ation at Elandslaagte. The artil lery took up a position albove the town and shellc-d the railway station, from which the Boers ran out and, the Brit ish mtomited infantry entering the place, released the English prisoners. The Boers, numlwring some 1,000 men. with three guns, ot'cupietl a (*oin;nianding pos-itiion. They potmd such a Well di rected tire on the British and their scouts were so active, that the (British force steadily retired until rei infer co ntents arrived when tin* mounted infan try was sent, to drive tin' Boer scouts from the ridge on the right. A huge force of |nixed cavalry, in the meanwhile, swept -over tin* plain and up the hill (ini the right. Lan-cors were met with a heavy fusilnde, -AChiih* op tin* left a British battery opened fire with good effect. The British infantry which had debark ed from tlu* railway train in tin* interim advanced steadily over the plain and up the rocky ridge, previously cleared by flit* cavalry. The Boer artillery dropiwd shrapnel into tin* advancing eoTmninis. but tin* British fin-ally sealed flu* hill, whence they overlooked the broad valley to three rocky bills, forming tin* Boors’ position, three camps being ill tin* center. On tin* left miter the Boers had a battery of large guns. The smaller hills- were also strongly held. On the Boer right was the station in the valley on the British left. Tlu* latter’s cavalry was on.ivo-th flanks and a battery cm the right was Jmisy throwing shrapnel at the Boers' batteries. The British Infantry formed for the attaCK in extended oilier IwhDrtd the brow of a hill, the Devonslhires on the left with four companies of the Mamnhesters and some Oi the Gcaidons on the right. At about live p. mi. the infantry ad vanced through the valhy as steady as on a field day. Ilallif way down the slope they met a terrific infantry and artillery fire. 'Flic men fell rapidly and the wounded were carried to the rear. But in spite of the steady work of the Boer guns and the sharp shooters eon eea-kvi behind the rocks, the increasing fire of the advancing British infantry gradually gained the uitper hand, and Mane lusters at;*l Gordens. edging toward the right, gained the top of the ridge, tints outflanking the enemy's left. At six the bugles sounded the “charge” and the British swept ahead. (Continued on Second Page.) DEAD UNDER THE BEAM SAD [FATE OF TWO WORKMEN MOVING TIMBER. One of Them Killed and Oth°r Fa'ally In jured by Falling Timber. The In jured Man Married. Madison, X. C., Oet. 23.—(Special.)- While Will Hopper and Riley Pierson were removing timbers from the new cot ton mill at Avalon, both were struck by an upright piece of timber, which kill ed Opper at once and fatally wounded Pierson. Pierson is married. Man Killed Near Marino. * Marion, X. C., Oet. 22.—(S|M'cial.)— Last night at Samuel Weaver’s, two and a half miles east of Marion, Edward Turner shot and killed William Pvatt. The Weaver family, composed of lewd women, has been giving tin* co mini unity and courts nmeh trouble. Several fights have occurred there in tin* past five months, but none of fatal r(*siilt l>e l'ore. Sam, the husband and father, a man of weak intellect, was driven from home two weeks ago. The facts of tin* homicide, as I gather them, are: A woman was talking to Turner. Pyatt caught her by the arm and led her away. Turner followed them, a scuffle ensued when Turner drew his pistol and shot Pyatt through the body. The latter fell and died al most, instantly. Turner has thus far evaded arrest. BRYAN IS READY FOR THE FRAY. He Begins Today his [Two Weeks of Speech Making in Nebraska. Lincoln. Neb., Dot. 23. —I'-o-lonellW. .1. Bryan arrived in Lincoln to-night and af ter three hours' rest started for S-trows burg, where he will begun luin two weeks of ypeeeh-'mokiflilg in Nebraska tomorrow’. He Said his health was excellent antd hie was confident of being a foie to conclude liiis campaign as scheduled. Mr. Br.vaai said Ms long tour in Nebraska hlul no sp-cial significance. 'll<* Iriixl in the past m*gleetcd Jus home K-tate and In* was sim ply rededmiing iwomSscs of sfieeches miade long ago. Horner Scrubs Down Durham. Oxford. X. C.. Oet. 21.—(Special.)— In a game of football here today Hor ner’s second team defeated Durham Graded School by a score of 21 to 0. The features of the game were the playing of Hill. Tnrrentine. Emerson and Arm strong for Horner, and Summerell for Durham. Time of halves twenty and fifteen minutes. Umpire, Keanu; ref eree, Oldham, and time-keei>er, Britt. An Aged Embezzler Captured. TMiimonJd. Va„ int con tinues attended with some difficulty on account of lack of transportation, which will Ik* .supplied soon. Insurgents'South ern Luzon attacked Calamba. These were driven off. Xo casualties. “This morning Kline, commanding at Calamba, vigorously attacked insurgent for#e concentrating on his front, routed them- from trenches mid pu'rsuw-d three miles. His casualties one private killed, one corpora 1 and three privates wounded. Enemy’s loss unknown.” AGUINAI A X)\S OVERT! RJKIS. Wasliiingtoni, Oct. 23.—General Otis’ account of the last peace overturn* is, as follows: Manila, Oet. 22. “October 2Hlh message received al An geles Hinder flag of truce expressed de sire of Ilonortiblc 1 'resident Agmii-aldo to send ( (nninission to MaXilla to arrange (lii'ti-cultics Connected with (Jidi'vcry of Krmuiwh piiso-ii<*.rs and to d'is<-iLss matter oil particular character. Reply returned Chat eoni-iii'isision a* i:*-(!lt(d by any one oftli-er thtan Gencnal Aguinaldo, General in chief of insurgent forces could not he recogniz'd or rcc(*iv(*d. No llaitea* ooa’- re*4pondericc.” CASTRO ENTERS CARACAS. He Meets With a Warm Reception- All Want Peace. Caracas, Venezuela, October 25. —Gen- eral Cipriuuo Castro, the insurgent com mander, during the recent revolution, has entered this city. A warm reception was accorded him. There was no trouble when Castro arrived and no fear of renewed lighting is felt, as every body wants peace without retaliation. Star Pointer Will Race no More. Cleveland. 0., Oct. 23. —The famous stallion Star Pointer has been taken off the track by his owtiner. W. ,1. White. The great pacer's h*g will never again ts* in condition for racing. His trainer. D. .1. McCil'arj’ has -h(**n released sund Point er has been pint in the stud at Mr. White’s t vve-mrlnute villa farm. IT he Techs Wipsd up by Sawanee. £ Atlanta. Ga., (let. 25. The team from thk* Georgia Tekimudugi-eal Kk-bool wei** defeated by tlie iKcwianee eleven, by a score of 32 to 0. STRIPPING THE SHAMROCK. Sir Thomas Lipton Goes to Chicago. Another Challenge in 1901. New York, October 23. —-The crew of the Shamrock began work early this morning stripping the yacht of her racing rigging at her berth in the Erie B nsin. Her topmast was sent down on deck and then transferred to her storage lighter, after which her running gear was unrove and all her sails taken from the yacht’s hold and transferred to the lighter. Captain Hogarth said that lie expected to take the mast off tomorrow mid to have tin* yacht under jury rig b.v tin- end of the week. Tomorrow night Captain Hogarth, Captain Wringe and Shamrock's crew will meet Captain Barr and tlu* victo rious Doer Isle hoys from the Columbia in Prospect Hall, Brooklyn. A feast ami general entertainment has been prepared for the vanquished and the vic tors by tlu* yacht masters, yacht engi neers and yacht officers association. A variety entertainment w ill he provided after dinner. Sir Thomas Lipton will go to Chicago tomorrow. lie has already expressed his intention of challenging in 1900 as la* does not care to try to get ready for next year. He will give way, how ever, to anybody desiring to challenge before him. Will Fife, tlu* designer of Shamrock is still very seriously ill at tlie Fifth Avenue Hotel. So much is he suffering from inflammatory rheumatism that a frame had to Ik* build over his bed to prevent even tlu* belclothes touching him. It is said that it is extremely doubtful if he can return to England with Sir Thomas Lipton. A Revolution at Panama. ‘Washington, October 23. —A cable gram has been received at the State De partment from United States Consul Gtidger at Panama stating that a revo lution has broken out there and that martial law has been declared. Murdered his Young Wife and Himself Bristol. Tenn.. October 23. —At Alley, Scott county. Ya.. last night, Walker Davidson shot and killed his young wife and then shot himself. Davidson is still alive, with no hopes of recovery. Drink is said to have caused the crime. ROGUE MAKES RICH HAUL / MRS.STOCKWEIL, AN AM, RICAN, LOSES VALUABLE JEWELRY. Her Loss Worth 15,000 Pounds Sterling, That is to Say Nearly $75,000. She Re fuses to Discuss the Matter. London, Oct. 23. —Late this afternoon it was announced that a sensational bur glary had taken place yesterday at the Savoy Hotel, where the room of Mrs. Stoekwell, widow’ of a New York jeweler, was entered and robbed, at is understood of jewelry valued at 10,000 pounds ster ling and hank notes and other negotia ble currency to the amount of 5,000 pounds sterling. Mrs. Stockw r ell has been staying at the hotel for some time with a nephew. The apartment was entered while they w’ere at dinner. On returning to the room, Mrs, Stoekwell found the door locked on tlie insidi\ An alarm was raised and the door forced. The room was found' empty, but it had been thor oughly ransacked. The management took prompt meas ures, had the hotel doors closed, sum moned detectives, ami searched all serv ants and strangers. Nothing, however, was discovered. The burglars had escaped, the thick I'og enabling them to get away. Several detectives from Bow street and Scotland Yard are hard as work on the ease, but thus far there is no trace of the thieves. Mrs. Stoekwell declines to discuss the matter. iXew York. o<*» 23.—Airs. Lorise Stoekwell, whose linisbaml was vice president of tin* firm of TSffa-ny until Cumilpany. is lielieved to have been the victim of the robbery. During itmaiiuy years Mrs. Stoekwell made a ecilloelh it r(f jew el's of great value and stem* of Tiffany’s moist famous work found tits way fcnito her coClectkMM*. A di.alirjatnld necklace worth many thousands was well known. Slw* usually took thus necklace with her and it was probably secured by the thieves. Tlie Freight Embargo Case. Washington. Oet. 23.—The United States Supreme Court toduy granted leave to the State of Ixmisian-a to file a bill for un injunction against the State of Texas prohibiting the enforce ment of a trade embargo in connection with the yellow fever quarantine of the latter State. The question of jurisdic tion was argued by Attorney Farrar on behalf of Louisiana and by Attorney General Sinit.h, of Texas. To Study War in the Transvaal. Washington, October 23. —Colonel Summer, Major Storrey, Captain Slocum and Captain Gibson have been detailed to proceed to Soqth Africa and observe and report upon military operations in the Transvaal. Oliver Gray Was Not Lynched. St. Anne’s, Miss., Oct. 23—The report that John Oliver Gray had ls**n -ap tured and lynched was a mistake. Gray was captured and is now iu jail at Car thage. FONSTON STIRSUP MGR, CHftPELLE Funston is Densely Ignorant of Philippine Situation. OR HE WAS MISQUOTED THE FRIARS ARE HELPLESS CHAPELLK DECLARES. SOME IN PRISON UNDERGOING TORTURES The Statements Voiced by the to Church Property do not Represent the Sentiments of the Whole People. Washington!, Oct. 23. ‘Arelibisihop Cbd pelle, otf New (l-rlcans. Apostolic Delegate to Cuba, Porto Rico and the rfliiPilppiucts, today gave out tlie follow ing statement to The Associated IVess: “In answer to General Fuustxm’s state ment, made in am 'address to the stu dents of Stanford University, that ’lf Congress would drive out the friars and confiscate every inch of church property the Ijottnin would drop out of tlu* insur rection within one week. The inhabi tants of Luzon are completely under the church,’ I deem it proper to make the following public statement: “Knowing what I do from, most re liable authority of General Funstoil’s broad-mindedness and sense of fairness, I do mot believe that he has been, quoted correctly. He may have stated that the insurgents demand this as a condition of peace; hurt that he gave them as (has own sentiments I cannot credit. From my owm experience I know’ bow easily it is to be misquoted. All I van say, is, if General Funston did make this state ment, he m-atmi-Tested a dense ignorance of the work dome 'by the religious or ders in this ardhapelago. On the very face of it, however, it shows quite plain ly that it ilad not come from cu** ns well posted as General Fme-tom should lx* on affairs’ in Luzon.' 'He is quoted as say ing: “ The inhabitants of Luzon are com pletely under the churdh.’ Now I would ask 'how earn this he -possible when every priest (with the exception of a tow na tives) In the island of Luzon outside of the walk'd city of Manila is a prisoner of the insurgents? For the past eighteen months this state of affairs has existed and during all this ix-riod more than three hundred and fifty friars have been ‘Umleirgoing unheard of torture in insur gent dungeons. This lieing a fact, it is -hard for me to see how tlw* isAandls can be ‘under the friars.' It looks to me as though just the opposite were the case. That the insurgents have asked as one of their terms of pesaee the expulsion of the friars and tlie confiscation to the insurgents Os all thle ohureih property is a fact well known: tint we are told by the Government offifieiais (and I know it to lx* a fact from other reliable sources), that -the insurgents represent only one triiie out of the 85 tribes peojding the archil tela go, so the sentiments voiced by tlu* iD'-suirgenfs a lout the friars mid church prtex’trt.v eannot lx- token as the sentiisneails ctf tlu* great body of the na tives, any more than they can be taken as the sentLincnts of the natives toward our people and Government. “Whatever the natives are or have they owe to the friars. By them they were lifted out of savagery and brought under tin* blessed and refining influences of Christianity. By them they were educated, not only in tin* schools, but in the fields and the work-shops; were, taught by them the very industries which are now tin* source of their pros perity. Mr. Peyton, tlw* agent of the Episcopal Foreign Mission -Association tells us that ’the natives are the most moral and religious people on the face of the globe.’ Now. the men who taught them to Ik* so cannot be such men as some narrow-minded people would try to have us believe. Rev. Dr. Aibeel. a Scotch Protestant missionary, also tes tifies that ’nearly the whole population of the Filipino archipelago has been con verted to the Catholic faith by tlw* Spanish monks, and a wonderful im provement in their social condition has been tlw* result.' “He tb.cn goes on to show fhiat if uiuy uue d'oubts tliiiis cimijjiroveimcmt at can easi ly be made tnlalnlitfieslt by comparing tin* Christian native with his iSteitlmm neigh lx»r of the same blood —the fanatical Moro. “As to the oowfisicatiiioin of tlw* estatek, you might as well talk of rc,wfiisca ting the cist.iteH (iif the Vanderbilts, the Astors arid other 'millio'uiiiies whowe (“stab's have, in the eours** elf years, grown s>o warn - derfiitly. Thea*i* would be just as niiuch riglt-t and justice in one ease as in the other. The estates of the religious or ders have been acquired in the usual way by purchase, and in the course of nearly four centuries (have naturally grown targe: but if even uuibiasA il Pro testant witnesses are to lx* credited, large as they an*, all are u«eays that owing to the lateness of tig* seilector of the State Board rt*oirts two cases nt Flora 18 miles Worth of lies*'. Many of til * citi zens are leaving. Scottish Rite Masons. Washington. October 23.—The Su preme Council of the Scottish Rite Ma sons (’idled oil President McKinley at tin* White House today and later (•(in cluded its bi-ennial session by conferring the thirty-third degrees of masonry on till* following members of the order. District of Columbia —J. Henry Small. Jr.; Richard B. Nixon, and Ilalbor Nel son. Kansas —William Bushy, William Green, William E. Wilson and F. X. Hair. Minnesota —Dr. W. B. Pinee, Jerome Cooley, Clarence E. Stone and Sheldon Fraser. Indian Territory—Daniel M. Holley. ‘Missouri —Pembroke ll’. Flifcraft and William 11. Brown. North Dakota—A. C. Mather and George 11. Phelps. Tennessee —John B. Garrett. Wyoming—W. B. 'llieks. At large—Gen. Thomas M. Anderson, lowa —Silas Gardner; Georgia—Dr. A. B. Simmons. The election to (ill vacancies in tin* active members of tlie Supreme Council caused by deaths during the past two years resulted in the choice of the fol lowing inspectors general: Dr. Morris, of West Virginia; Har per S. Cunningham, of Oklahoma; E. T. Taulmiann, of South Dakota and Inspector General Anderson, of Ne braska. Vacancies in office were filled by the election of Frank Pierce, of Colorado, t<> lie Treasurer General, and James G. Richardson, of Tennessee to be Lieu tenant Grand Commander. Minister of Justice Resigns. Madrid. October 23. —The Minister of Justice, Senor Duran, has resigned in otiiisequeuoe of tin* decision of the Gov ernment, to suspend the constitutional guarantees at Barcelona.