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Tr-T ".' I hi r Sr. m I: ' A TEXT BOOK .' ; FOP THE Campaign of 1900, ..' BY W. II. HARVEY. Author of ' "Coin's Financial School." Prjc 25c. Ia size It U fully a largo us "Com a r lXAXCIAL )CH(KLf JH'oIUHi' ly illustrated, with beat pajrr, ;u u'meted wivor iu twuculora. j IU treatment of th Hubi-a of M'VMV. Tll'STS ASD Ivft'tnlAUHll. 5 :xhuuHtivr and vet simple and plui Ai A, I). Cm. It will -dui-ttt! uud Mtf-Kt tlie Anu'rlcnn people to common di-fcu of their bnme an the heritage of fr?t? Institution. It teocUiM ui'jfanizAtion und points out lh. rrtiiifflv. It 1m pdui'uLittmil mid practical. It Koould bo iu tit - bauds of errry may, woman, boy uud girl in the United Stat, Th book is a SCHOOL, und tl Ilttlo bov COIN the- tntchvr. His Ktliool in May. 18M. "Coin Fixan clal School, ' ebx'trlfird a tuition m moulded tbe imlitioal ft'ulinu'nt of i national iKlitical iwitv. ' ' Coin on Ko.Mir" may be expxutcd to rally anew iua loree ti nutnua iiiR'ny. 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M-IMcIVXR, Prisibijjt. Hlltritz'. IERR1BLE MINE HORROR TEBONB IIVMDRKV MKN UII.LtD BT KXri.OftlOff. rinjr Dead rod its Taken Oat dud tho Work of RMnt Mill t'ontlnnrs Tbo New Sweeps Throngb Ih ftbeek-Hru, Wmra and Children Frantic la Their Endrnvers Btaeb Ibelr Dentl snd Dying. Charletton, W. Va.,' March 6. The rreateit mining horror In the New River regloa occurred at Red Aihe, about 8 o'clock thla morning by an ex plosion In the drift mine of the Red Aihe Coal Company. The mine wee full of men and the exploilon occurred near the entrance, which wai closed by fall ing slate. A relief crew was quickly at work. The working capacity of the mine Is 176 men and It was being work ed to Its full capacity to nil rush or ders. It Is believed over 100 men were at work. ' Already fifty bodies have been taken out and the work of rescue 1 still going on. State Mine Inspector Plnkney Is on the ground with a corps of experts lending all assistance possible. The explosion made but little noise, and the accident was first discovered by a laborer at the entrance. The in jured are being cared for as well as possible under the circumstances and very nerve is being strained to rescue those still In the mine. The scene of the accident is three miles above Thur mond, on the Chesapeake and Ohio road. The principal owner of the mine is J. Fred Efllnger, of Staunton, Va. The manager is Ferdinand Howell. It Is believed that four-fifths of the men In the mines were killed. The mines are on the mountain side above water and the coal Is similar to that found in the Pocahontas district. On this account. It is said here that the accident cannot be caused by fire damp nor by gas, as supposed, but from dust, as was the case in one of the tragedies some years ago in a Pocahontas mine. The district is a wild one on Rush Run, which- is a south branch of New River, having its mouth st Thurmond. It Is about sixty-five miles from this city. The miners occupied the dwellings in the vicinity of the mines. The news of the disaster swept through the town like an electric shock and within a few minutes hundreds of men, women and children, relatives of the unfortunate miners, were crowded upon the scene of the disaster. As the con viction that the rescue of the en tombed men alive was hopeless forced Itself on the grief stricken crowds they became frantic in their endeavors to J teach their dead and dying in the j wrecked shaft, and the- work of at- tempted rescue was organized with ex treme difficulty. Of the first twelve men brought to the surface Ave were dead or died within a few minutes, and ! several of the others were horribly burned or bruised. I As the work proceeded and the dead bodies were brought up one by one the scenes at the mouth of the shaft be came distressing to the extreme.Shrlk ing. frantic women and children Im peded the rescuers and added to the horror of the wreck. Fire Creek. W. Va., March . After twelve hours work at the wrecked mine for relief. It Is stated to-night that there are at least forty-five miners still entombed. At t late hour to-nlRht the most relia ble estimate obtainable puts the numbet of the victims at 123. So far as could be learned there were thirty-seven dead bodies In the village to-night that hav been 'aken out of the mine during the day. and there are also parts of human bodies at different places, mangled beyond recognition. Most of the bodies that can not be identified or recognized have been placed In the large blacksmith hop4 glv Ing the shop the appearance of a horrlbli hospitals, which are filled to overflow morgue. 'ng. The children's graveyard close The general belief Is that the explosion to the women's laager grows weekly aa occurred by contact with dust when th the young lives are .cut short prema mtners entered with their lights, and turely by shell and fever. We look with that it was not due to fire damp, as hat hope deferred for relief, been currently reported all day. Nearly The cheerfulness which was charac ail the men employed In the mine ni i'terlstlc of the early days of the siege white, only about one-fifth being colored.! has almost deserted us, the men pre- and most of the men were married and had families in the little cottages neat the tipple of the great mine. A spiclal train arrived to-night from Montgomery filled with reporters, physi cians nurses and others, and one' cat contained thirty caskets. ' After the arrival of the train an ordei was sent back to Montgomery for flftj more caskets. Another train arrived front Charleston with physicians, caskets and relief supplies. Still another train cairn In from Hlnton, but there Is no need ol physicians and nurses, as the victims ar dead. There is great need of undertake" and expert mine workers. The work rescue is being continued during the night and will be kept up unUl the mine li dear. ' Later. The latest report Since midnight Is that there are only fifty miners en- tombed. Instead of 125. Only ten bodlet have- been taken out so far. Instead ot thirty-seven, as previously reported, but It Is believed that all of the iorty still is the mine will never be found alive, A CIIANOK F POLICT. rrmldtnt Wrlilnley Ntate Ilia Ken- - sens for alanine lbs Porlo Mean Tariff BUI Giving Ibsi People Free Y Trntta. - -,-'. ' ; I Washington, March 6. The Post to-, morrow will say: President McKlnley, In conversation with callers at the; White House yesterday, reiterated his belief that the people of Porto Rico were entitled to free trade with tha United States. He made it clear that his views had . undergone no change since he wrote his message to Con- gress. He still adnerea to tne sentiment therein expressed. At the same time ha aid he was unable to subscribe to the theory that the Constitution followed the flag, that the Porto Kicana mul have free trade aa a necessary lesal right When he found the House dum: d In the nart of visdom. the Presi dent explained, to imnose a small tari.f upon condition that the revenues collected -shall all be returned to tha Island, he had been constrained to yi'sld to the .Judgment of the House. Tha tariff, under such conditions, would la no hardship to the Puerto Rlcans. Moreover, he believed It advisable, at the earll'St moment, to secure a de cision of the Supreme Court on the con stitutional questions involved. : There fore, he had given his consent to tha nominal tariff and agreed to sign such a hill ..-. .-., . "' . Prealdeni Urager U Qnetetl as yl Hint th I ud f (ha War Would Coma Wlllitn Mi 'exi Mouth. London, March 8. From Varlnui quarters coma signs cf the possibility of peace In South Africa being shortly within the bounds of pioctlcal politics. All the dispatches from Lord Robntts' headquarters. Including those qf the commander-in-chief himself. Indicate that lack of a guiding spirit among the Boers and individual demoralization portending disintegration unless speed ily stemmed. The flight of the burghers from Pop. lar Orovo, according to all accounts, was wholly Inglorious. A Times dis patch from Poplar Grove, under yes terday's date, goes ro far as to assert that the rout of the Doers was so com plete that the submission of the Free Staters being demanded by the bur ghers by their unwilling President, and It Is expected that Its submission will be made within a week. The correspondent adds: ''Probably the Boers' wisest course was flight, but It was most undignified, and Is certain to produce consternation at Bloemfon tein. There la a growing outcry against any further Identification of the Free State with the Transvaal's Interests." Dispatches from the Boer camp at Glenroe, via Lorenso Marques, depict President Kruger as donning a bando lier, seizing a rifle and Inviting volun teers to accompany him, as he wished to have a shot at the enemy himself. President Kruger Is also quoted as having declared In his address to the troops that he "did not know whether arbitration or intervention would end the struggle, but ' that It would end quickly, within the next month, he strongly believed." Meanwhile the British are not stay ing their advance. Lord Roberts has moved ten miles nearer Bloemfonteln. evidently with the view of seising and utilizing the railroad, possibly to reach the Free State capital in three or four days, whence he may begin repairing the railroad southward, meeting the British advance from Cape Colony, which may be expected to be hastened as socn as general White takes control. . The British occupied Jamestown un opposed Thursday, March 8th, and the Boers are reported to be retreating be yond Aliwal North, so that Cape Col ony Is practically clear of nrmed Boers. Reinforcements from Natal are going to Lord Roberts. General Warren's division and artillery have already been ordered to Join the commander-in-chief so that the latter Is preparing for all eventualities. Including possible desper ate opposition to his crossing the Vaol river and the necessity of the siege o? Pretoria, where thousands of natives are reported to be employed In the con struction of defensive works, concern ing which such secrecy is maintained that no one is allowed to walk or drive on the outskirts of the town. WILL NOT ACCEPT THE MEAT IN SPECTION BILL. Berlin, March 9. The Reichstag adopted paragraphs I, 2 and 14 of the Meat bill. Paragraph 14, relating to the prohibition of meat Imports was adopt ed by 168 to 99. It Is now almost certain that the Bundesrath will not accept the Meat Inspection bill in Its present form, and before the third reading a compromise is assured. TIIK MIMJK if MAFKUIXG. Men Wander Abont Ibe Town With flanii t nml llnngrjr Fveea. Mafeking, February 19. Horse meat now composes a considerable part of our rations. There is little grumbling. The first pinch of the siege is over and the town has settled grimly to stick It out. What may be typhoid malaria has broken out In the women's laager, and dysentery, due to the absence of vegetables, Is rife among the garrison. We are thrown upon our resources. Such luxuries as we had are exhausted, or have been commandeered for the ferrlng to remain at their posts rather than move about and work up an appe tite which cannot be satisfied. The natives are In the worst plight. Those who are unable to obtain work are al lowed a "small handful of meat dally. Many braving the danger wander about the town with gaunt and hungry faces in search of work which entitles them to an extra ration of meat. If they find work they are generally too weak to perform it. " From their advanced posts the Boers rake the streets and the market square, It is impossible to dodge their bullets. ot-'We have taken remarkable precaution, however, and tbe casualties, tnougn heavy, are not what they might have been had less able men been at the head of affairs. Even the headquarters mess fares scantily. Like saints under the altar we cry "How long, oh Lord, how Long?" - Two hundred and ninety-two persons have been killed, wounded or died of disease. The garrison is so small that It would be criminal to make its weak ness public, but there Is never so much as a whisper. If no one has suggested the possibility of surrender, it Is be cause we do not mean to get beaten, and we are cheerfully enduring the hardships of to-day rather than make a surrender In any degree possible to morrow. - ' V x THE NEW BRITISH WAR LOAN. ' London, March 96:06 p. m. Th amount of the new war loan will be 30,000,000. The interest will be at 2 3-4 cer cent., and the bonds will be redeemable at par. May 6th, 1910. The Issue price is 98 10s. jv . THE SJ.JSAJUli.il BAf li. Philadelphia, March 9.Word ' was received here to-day that the Spanish steamer Minerva, which has been on the missing list for many weeks and was given up as lost, had been towed Into Bermuda by the Spanish steamer Amboto and the German steamer Skyros. APPOINTED CHIEF JUSTICE. . i Jackson, Miss., March 9. Governoi Longlno appointed Hon. S. S. Calhoun, of this city. Chief Justice of the Missis sippi Supreme Court, to fill the vacancy caused ny the resignation of Judge Thomas H. Woods. - The appointment was confirmed by the Sena;. j ': rDSJIIE.lTP.-F. OF WAR. DO CRN l)At.l.YM. TEMi'oiur.v l i;i:imti A tuvr.uM. Frrsldenf Knurr i. ml I'ronldimi Slryu o-Mi-il rj .Hov l lo be n PreiliiilriMiy m M ,i;'i'o i ol Krgollitllnut fr I". r v tlrwrnl Buler Nurrli'! nl lilt Vlrly Over I he l.wt-ra I.iihI 'I nihility Ilia Br rinu o loncriilriilo All Their Force o I. i :! Lord Kub r f London, March 4. -1:10 n. m. It la vldent that a strict 'eneorrl'.lp Is IaIii:; xerclsed over the news ul the scr.t of war, as the night hits not added any thing to the scanty dispatches rccelvod during the day, i.ioi.t of whl.-h ru ferred to matters preceding the recnt Stirring events. I The War Office lntlmctod at m!di:lg'it that there was no Jiroiiprct of news until something deflni'e chall have hren Bone. This Is quite In kuvplng with tho (Complete silence whl .'h Lord Roberts lias hitherto observed while bin plans Sreren progress of ii'.Tum;jlln! mcnt. and until he la in nclml trip v.l'.!i the Boers It Is probable the pub'lc will bearjittlo or nothing of his doings. London, March 3. I'rccldcnt Krugrr Is said to havo left Pretoria with tha Intention of meetlnc President Steyn. The place where the will meet is not mentioned, but it is believed to be somewhere In the Orange Free State. Those In South Africa who are con versant with the cfltct the recent re verses have had on the Boers express the opinion that the n cetlng of th two Presidents lp preliminary lo a sugges tion of ncGDtliitiuns for pcoce. But the ek.srst observers do not an ticipate any sudden ccpsatlon of hos tilities, and, certainly, the reports from tho theatre of war dn not tend to en cournce the advocates of Immediate peacf. The I3ocrs are apparently rally ing with their accustomed ability to re pair a tL-mporary reverse, and Great Britain has yet to teat their force as a defensive power und;r the new condi tions of warfare. Outalde the meeting of the Presidents thf re Is no news in dicative of any chab.se in the situa tion. Telegraphing from Csfonteln to-day, thanking the Lord Mayor of Liverpool for his congratulations In behalf of the city, Lord Roberts says: "I trust her Majerty'c soldiers In this country will gain such further succnscs as will Bpcedlly restore the freedom and pros perity of South Afrlrn." London, March 4. Spencer Wilkin son, reviewing the situation In South Afrfr'a for the Associated Press at mid nifht to-night, ccys: "General Duller seems to have been surprised to find that he had beaten the Boers on Tuesday. Nothing com moner In war than for an army, 'after hard flRhtlr.g to ba doubtful of the ex tent of Its success. Few Generals lenrn, ns Grant did In his first command, that 'the enemy was a much frightened of me as I was of him.' The question now is as to the futuro cours? of events. There cannot be much doubt aa to the Issue provided no foreign powers or power Interfere. '"Lord Roberta can either order Gen eral Butler, with the 40.000 men of the United Natal army to advance on Pre toria, while he hlr-'se'f moves by Eloem fontein and the Free ftate railway, or he can bring round moat of Bullr-r's force to reinforce his own nrmy. In either case the B'tor strateplsts will have a hard task to make a promising plan of campaign. 'The best Boer plan la, perhaps, to leave the rear guard to cover the pasHci from Natal arid to concentrnte all the rest of their forces to resist Lord Rob erts. In this way they might In a week from now meet Lord Robert, with, perhaps, equal numbers, but Roberta Will be reinforced from week to week, while the Boers cannot be for the mo ment. "The position reems to re that there are six thousand cr sev5ii thousand Boers within striking distance of Rob erts at Osfcnteln. If thia i tho case he will either disperse or capture the mall Boer force unless I', retreats rapidly until r.-lrforced. Lord Roberts ill probably contrive to push forward a small force on the Mafeklng line nnj raise the siege while he Is drawing the principal Boer army cnto himself. London, March 4. A speclul dispatch from Brussels announces that Dr. Leyds authorizes an absolute denial of the report that he had received news that Mafeklng had been relieved. THE UNITED STATES WILL NOT - INTERVENE. Iarls, March 4. The Gaulols pub lishes an Interview with a diplomatist of the United States Embassy here upon the subject of American Interven tion in South Africa. At first the gen tleman in question refused to talk for . publication, but finally agreed to speak upon receiving a promiec that his na;iia Would not be revealed. He said; "The United States will not Intervene. The Monroe doctrine la our rule as long aa American Interests ara not ut stake. The petitions addrefc-sc.! to President JSicKlnley are of no great Jmuortanoe." - j CMPEROR WILLIAM AS A PEACE I , . MAKER. . . Paris, Morch 8 The Courrier du Solr, Which is usually regarded as an in spired organ, touching political mat ters states that there is reason to be lieve Emperor William Is dlrposed to offer his sen-Ices, in favor of mediation In the Transvaal lifliculty, knowing that he is no longer unlso'.ated, and all the powers recognize him as the most fitting sovereign to act the part of peace-maker. j THE BOER PRISONERS. Cape Town, March 3. -The railroad Is now repaired northward from Klm herley to Rlverlon. The engineers are pushing the work 'rapidly. - The Boer ; prisoners captured at Paardeberg total Up 4660 men. About 2000 of them are now on their way here. The pressure , en the rolling stock Is enormous. I Sir William MacCormack. president 1 of the Royal College of Surgeons, who has been act In t as volunteer surgeon with the Pr'.tish army in South Africa, alls for England to-dcy. j . ATTACKED BY A UUAZY NEGRO, Birmingham, Ala.. March 3. Sheriff Cooley, of Chilton county, was struck on the head by a crazy negro named .Campbell in the Clantcn jail to-day and fatally wourded. Cnmpbell last night killed Dan JcrMrs. rehired, who had been placed to wutth him. Campbell aca DC d. to .iNroxiftii ECaorE." PrifcMeni Miryn .Hiiaea n Prophecy l.lhe Mini r Krnzrr'a. London, Murch 7. A. G. Hales, the Lon don Dully News rorrenpondent, who was enptcred by tho Kccrs r:.d rocently re leased, sends tho .f:llc lr .5 from Bterk utroom tamp. Cnpc t'uiuiiy: "Whin n prl-rrc lit Hloemfonteln I had an Intel view with ?.Tr. Steyn, President of tho Free fl',.'t !! r. ld they were deter mined to t':sht to tbe last man. Ho pro phesied that tlm c.ipltulutlon cf Pretoria would be preceded by events thut would UHtonlhh Europe, The President further Kiild- that the tnriiw.li! of the Fre State would be child's play compared with what would follow In the Transvanl." The News alBO hus a dippatch from Lo. renzo Marques stating, (hut mn Kaffirs are (HkkIiik trenches around I'letoila. N. Y. Herald. .... vt THE COTTON MOVEMENT. New Orleans, March 3. BecrctKry Hes ter's analysis of the cotton movmcnt for tho six months cf the senson from Sep tember 1st to the close of February, In clusive, shows that compard with the crop movement Inst year, Texas, Includ ing the Indlun Territory, hits brought Into sight this sec son 074,000 bales less, while other Gulf Btntea, which Included Arkansas, Louisiana. Mississippi, Ten nessee, Missouri and Oklahoma, have marketed ZID.OOO less, and the group of Atlantic States, which includes North and South Carolina, Oeorsla, Florida, Alaba ma and Virginia, show a decrease of 632, Oiti, making the decrease In the total of crop marketed l,TrA.0TO. The amounts brought into sight by groups of Slates for the six months of this season follows: Texas and Indian Terrltery, 2,305,727 bales, a decline under the same time last year of K74.O07, and year before last of 418.M.". Other Gulf States. 2.t:.8,f..".3, a decline under last year of 21S.7S7. and year before last of 735.229. Atlantic States. 2.92MM. a decrease under last year of 631,70, year before last of 711, 478. Total crop In sljrht close February) 7.M.MS, a decrease under last year of 1,7B4,&24. THE 3100,000 APPROPRIATION DE FEATED. Frankfort, Ky March 8. The Trlp lett Joint resolution to appropriate 1100,000, to be expended under super vision of Democratic Governor Beck ham and Adjutant-General Castleinan, was deratcd In the Senate to-day by failure to receive a constitutional ma jority. The resolution authorized the expenditure for the purpose of arming a new State guard and recovering from Republican Governor Taylor the arms removed from Frankfort to London. Four Democratic Senators. Roberts, Puryea, Jones and McConnell voted against It. The vote stood, yeas, 15; nays, 4. It requires nineteen votes to pass a bill. CHARGED WITH INTIMIDATINO VOTERS. Leslngton, Ky., March 8. Chief of Police John McD. Rres, Oiry License Inspector Garrett Welsh, Patrolman Dennis V rmy and D. Mucci, of this city, and the three Democratic election commissioners of Jersamlne county, J. H. Welsh, Robert Hunter and Hugh Scott, were to-day taken before U. S. Commlrslonrr Hill, and gave bond In the sum of f 1500 each for appearance in the United States Court at Louisville, charging felonies In Intimidating or Interfering with voters at the Novem ber election. The last three were charged with conspiring to defraud voters nt the same clecilon. THE OFFENSE MADE A FELONY. Frankfort, Ky March 8. The Sen ate to-day pusred Senator Bell's bill making It a felony, punishable by con finement In the penitentiary from ten to twenty years, for an occupant of a State oflice to forcibly maintain posses sion of the office for more than five days after the Legislature or other competent authority shall have decided some other person entitled to the office. Four Democrats voted against the bill. A LABOR RIOT. Chicago, March 8. Labor troubles culminated in a riot at Thlrty-Blxth and Wallace streets this evening. One man was shot and probably fatally wound ed and six others were Injured, one of them severely. The Injured: William Schlndler, shot m the breast and seri ouslyi wounded by Joseph Walsh, will die; Joseph Walsh, foreman for the Link Belt Machinery Company, nose broken and severely bruised; H. K. McLatn, superintendent same company, beaten about head and body, not seri ous;. James Coffey, machinist, bruised about body, not serious; Samuel Bons tra, machinist, brulned about body, not serious; Peter Speck, machinist, beaten about head, not serious; Nicholas De bar, beaten about face, not serious; others unknown. Strikers . have followed Walsh and McLain every night, threatening to kill them. To-night somebody - threw a club at Walsh, striking him in the back of the head. He accused Schlndler, who, however, was an on-looker, and a fight followed. Believing his life in danger, Walsh shot Schlndler. Forty strikers then attacked the party. Walsh was arrested. . THE SOUTHERN'S NEW LINK. ' Columbia, S. C March 8. The South ern railroad has finished Its preliminary survey of a line from Allendale to Har deevllle. The latter is a point on the Plant system, twenty-three mi.es from Savannah, and on an almost direct line , from Columbia to Allendale and thence to Savannah, The Southern's Florida line now stops at Allendale. Thence Its transportation Is handled over tha Atlantic Coast Line to Yemassee, and from here over the Plant system to Savannah. The new route will form the hypotenuse of a right-angle trian gle with the circuitous route now used, and will shorten the distance by twenty-five miles. This route will be aa nearly direct as the Seaboard's acquis! tion, the Florida Central and Peninsu lar. . The final survey will be commenced at once, and It is said that the new line of sixty miles will be built at once. . A BONUS FOR BIDS. r A Dutch auction at Cape Town Is fre quently exciting. If a house is to be sold the auctioneer offers "fifty golden sovereigns for the man who first bids j 5000." Nobody bids. A pause, an ; then "Fifty golden sovereigns for the man who tirst bids 4900." This is keot on until a hid is secured. But it by no means fellows that the house Is ' sold to this bidder. No; the auctioneer is then at it again. Say that 4400 is of the country. the first bid. The auctioneer cries: 1 "Ladysmlih was successfully held and "There are twenty-five gold sovereigns relieved and th MlVrs and aolUlera, for the first man who has the courage ' colonial and kc-t're tiorn. who had Uons to bid 46C0." rerbtips no one has It. : this, were united by rn-.' desire and la Then 25 is cITered f..r a 4500 Sl. spired by one pan iJltem." 1 TURNED THEIR FLANK. FIELD UfAnaUA. L'.B KOI CITS 1141) A ftl'M'MKFt'I. DAY. Tha Bocra omp nely It'intf and la Fall Bolrem-The I'luhlliig Frnrtl eallj Confined to IHr 'nvlry Dl-Ulon-A tr nl Mov.-nrn4 la Pro Crooa Among lb Cnna 4'olonyl linleh lo Obtain n'Moitlonton! of Ibo Month Alrlmn Ojnestlon. London March 8.-4 a. m. Lord Ro I '(.-its wired yesterday morning from Off. nteln and In the evening from ! '.Isr Grove, fourteen miles eastward. 1 y nn replication cf tho elementary ;ilnefplc of stragcty, tne Buer.positiona, 1 Ken 11. Ilea lung across his rath, have; bi'tn emptied and their holUers havei t,i-iii obliged to retire' in conf usion oon nu:utr.t ution hasty withdrawal. Nothing was done by Lrrd Roberta to disturb the symmetry, the deadly. Ingenuity of the Boer trenches In front of him. I!c raarehed out infantry es timated, from the commands named, at' 30, WO men, and sent 10,0(0 horsemen ana" horse artillery In a bold sweep around the Doer left, whereupon the Doer cen ter and right, became untenable. Fifty British fell when the cavalry came Inta I contact with the Boers. The correspondents differ as to the enemv'a stremrth. Tho Daily Mall ren- rosentatlve thinks the Boeis number something mote than 4000. The Dally News man estimates them at 10,000. As these figures come firm observers at headquarters, it is clear tha,t -Lord Ro berts' force was overwhelmingly su perior. He can scarcely have rawer than 4S.C0O Immediately available aa the guards brigade reached him from' Lord Methuen Twefday. Lord Methuen now command only Volunteers and the local forces at Kkn berley, some of whom have guna toward Mafeklng. The Boers do not yet appear to ap preciate the mobility of Lord ftoberts corps, which was able to strike to j swiftly In this affair that the enemy ; had to abandon a gun, much forage and a large quantity of camp equipment. London, March 7. l'l.!d Marshal Lord Roberts has telegraphed aa fol lows: Osfonteln, March 74:30 p. m. Our operations to-day promise to be a great success.- The enemy occupies a pesi tion four miles nnrtn and eleven mllea south of the Modder River. I placed HnnaHl "-.it .-1 11..',. M I ul.in m. nnftt. V.. ....Lib. V . T lilt- a U. . ....I'll v., , U VH bank and General' Kelly-Kenny's and Tucker's divisions, wl:h cavalry, cn tbe south bank. The cavalry division suc ceeded in turning the enemy's left Hank, opening a road for the Sixth Division, which is advancing without having been obliged to fire a shot an to the present time. The enemy ate in full retreat towards the . north and eastr They are being Closely followed by cav alry, horse artillery and mounted Infan try, while Tucker's Seventh Division, Colville's Ninth Division and the Guards Brigade, under Pole-Carew, are making their way across the river at Poplar's Drift, where I propose to place my headquarters this evening. Our casualties will. I tiuf t, be few, as the enemy were quite unprepared for being attacked by the flank und having their . . I I . .. ...I.W t,l.u.ntf.in,.l lUllllHUilllUllCllU HUH 4tWUMl.(lOU threatened. London, March 4fl8p. tn. A spe cial dispatch from uur-baii says a flying column of Brillsh troops from Zululand has entered the Ttausvaal and bus been dally skirmishing with miboII .parties of Boers. The forces consist of mounted infan try, Natal scouts and artillery, ail com manded by .Major Prendeigast. The column first crossed the bor.iern Feb ruary 2Sth. It now occupies an en trenched position on Cats a Hills, nine miles within the Transvaal. London, March -7. Another Ust 04? casualties sustained by General Cul ler's forces from February 14th to Fen- ruary 27th. shows: Killed, 123; wound ed, 573; mining, 54. Ot these, the losses of the InnlsklUings, were, aa follow! . Killed, 54; wounded, 162; missing, 20: Dublin Fusiliers, killed. IS; wounded, 97; missing, 18: Connaught Rangers, killed, 19; wounded, 105; missing, : Royal Irish Fusl.lors, killed, 11; wound ed, 63; missing, 2; Scots Fusiliers, lull ed, 18; wounded, 63; missing, none. With the list of cusualrico Issued Monday this makes the total cost to the rank and file in the final relief of Ladysmlih 1S59 men. Boer Camp, Biggnrsberg, March J The Federals have fallen bacjt on tha Blggarsberg chain that c Bosses Natal South of Dundee. TLe retreat from Ladysmlih was due to the rnistake of a certain commandant tn ordering hki men to retire frem the key of the posi tion without any rouson for the move. . ( On the receipt of the bad newt from Ithe Modder River Wednesday It was Iresolved to send tba. wagons back to iBlggarsberg, and soon long strings ot ox wagons ilned the roads. Over a (thousand wagons took the westerly route to the laa,ger southwest of Lady smith. Another convoy was sent to tha toot of the Drakensberg. A large num ber of terrtB captured from the British, at Dundee and also the ammunition were abandoned. t Tne chief difficulty was In dismount ing "Long Tom." Cape Town, March 7. An ' official 1 notification has been issued that ile Queenstown proclamation of February , 22d regarding certain terms be offered : the rebels by General Brabant in event of their surrender, has bean withdrawn, . but those In arms against England may return to their farms upon surrender ing their weapons, receiving a pass, but they are liable totcalled to ac count later. ' : i Durban, March (.General Butler, la " a general order, regarding the relief ot Ladysmlih, suys: - "Two forces during the last few months have striven with consplcuoua gallantry and splendid determination to maintain the honor of the Queen and the country. The Ladysmlth garrison for four months held that, position against every attack with complete success and endured many privations with admirable fortitude The relieving force had to force its way through an unknown country, eoross unfordahle rivers and on almost- Inaccessible heights face a fully prepared, well armed and tenacious enemy. By tha exhibition cf the trues.t courage, cour age that burns rteadliy, besides flash- ing brilliantly, accomplished Its object and added a glorious page to history
The Graphic (Nashville, N.C.)
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