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IN lIIK TRANSVAAL
ROBERTS'S ENTIRE ARMY
NORTH OF THE RJYER.
RACING FOR THE BRIDGE AT YEREE
NIGING-BOERS MASSING AT
LA INGS NEK.
right; \vr~i. By The Utm Tmtk Tribune.]
[by (Ai-.i r. to on nuMTus.]
London, May 28, <"> a. m.— The Boers have
retired before General Robert? toward the Klip
River, and a •Tost' correspondent states that
their artillery has been sent to protect Johannes
burg.
Some particulars of the dash for Vereenlglng
bridge are published this»morning. On Satur
day, it seems. Colonel Henry and his mounted
Infantry were In touch with the rear guard of
SETS, who were making for the Vaal at
Vereenlglng. An exciting race took place for
■ ;dge. The Boers succeeded in getting
across first and immediately proceeded to blow
up tne structure, but Colonel Henry was quickly
on their beds, and he succeeded in seizing the
m portion of the bridge. The Boers
were able to destroy only one span ~~ of
the mutatiu portion of the structure before
they were obliged to retire.
"The rimes" correspondent points out that
General Roberta's strategic redistribution of his
front completely upset the calculations of Com
mandant Botha, who seems to have considered
the line of the Vaal indefensible.
The Federal force at La-ing's Nek is variously
estimated at from 7, <*><• to 10,000. The burghers
are. it it said, resolved to oppose General Bul
ler's advance.
General Rundle is slowly but effectively
sweeping the northeast of the Free State. He
ha? now occupied Senekal and the Boers have
lallen bafk to Bethlehem.
A statement forwarded by a "News" repre
sentative at Lourencp Marquts may prove to
have an important bearing on future operations.
It is to the effect that communication between
Pretoria a.n<i Heidelberg: has been cut off. The
latter town is on the railway by which the Boers
at Laing*? Nek would be withdrawn for defence
Of the capital. I. N. F.
CROSSED RIVER UNOPPOSED
BOEBS WITHDRAW BEFORE THE AD
VANCING BRITISH COLUMNS.
[Copyright; J9t«>: By The New-York Tribune.]
[BY CABLE TO THE TBIBCJTE.]
London, May 2S, 1 a. m. — Belated dispatches
received in Fleet Street at midnight confirmed
previous official reports of the advance of Lord
Huberts s nrraj- KJTtne Taai, without tnrowing
much light upon the situation. The passage of
the river was virtually unopposed, and the
centre and two wings probably halted Sunday
on the Transvaal frontier, after a series of fa
tiguing marches. The destruction of the rail
way has been so mplete that this halt may
continue for several days, until transport diffi
culties «an be overcome. The Transvaal burgh
ers are reported to be holding strong defensive
positions between Heidelberg and the railway
near Klip River Station, and there are several
commandoes at Potcnefstroorh on the flank.
The Free State burghers have not retired across
the Vaal, but are hovering about Frankfort
and watching for a favorable opportunity for
raiding the lines of communication. Whether
President Steyn has proclaimed a fifth capital
la uncertain. But only three out of nineteen
districts, or shires, of the Free State remain in
possession of his burghers. These are Vrede,
Bethlehem and Harrismith. General Rundle
holds the line between Winburg and Ficksburg
and prevents communication on the flank be
tweea the northern and southern districts, and
while the Boer commandoes are again reported
at Pretoria to have reoccupied Heilbron and
to have followed General Roberts to Wolve
Bock the manoeuvre does not appear to have
been anything more than a hunt for convoys.'
The passage of the Vaal is conceded at Pre
toria, and there are vague reports, probably
I>i -mature, that President Kriiger has pro
claimed a referendum, by which the Boers may
decide whether the war shall continue or peace
be made. There are similar rumors from Win
burg respecting De Wet's Intention to propose
terms of surrender. Little importance is at
tached to these stories by the London press,
which Inalata upon having peace on uncondi
tional terms, without a convention of any kind.
The War Office gave out a short bulletin from
General Roberts at midnight, with the date line
"Vereeniglng." The infantry, following the
railway, crossed the Vaal yesterday and en
camped on the north bank. What was de
scribed last October aa a promenade through
the Free State baa beei finished, and the pas
sage of the Vaal has been effected with only
four casualties. A good deal, however, has
happened since October. General Roberts's
reference to HeJlbron serves to explain the Pre
toria accounts of the reoccupation of the town
by the Boers. The telegraph operator had
been captured there after the British forces had
been withdrawn. This incident proves that
Hamilton's column takes convoys with it, and
is not dependent upon lines of communication
in its rear.
The narrow escape Of the coal mines from
destruction arouses suspicion among South
Africans that Johannesburg will be in ashes
when General Roberta • nt^rs the city, and that
immense losses will be sustained by mining
properties.
Th'-r*- is no Information respecting General
Bu'ler's movements, and nothing from Mafek
lng, except an oiflcial announcement that sup
plies are coming In from Buiuwayo.
The drawing raoma yesterday were mied with
political - Hip, as the Conservative clv had
bftn Uip previous night. There is general
agreement among Unionist members of Parlia
ment that the elections will be ordered during
•he autumn, but no eteps will i,. taken until
Lord Roberts is in Pretoria. He has been an
tJ'-c-.ione^rlng agent for the Unionist Govern
ment, and has done bsi work so well that the
£S.r fi. elec l Uo " I are i.ot l.'kHy to be deferred
*»*r than October. I »^ # F
LLFTIN FROM LORD ROBERTS.
THE BRITISH ARMY NOW ENCAMPED IN
TRANSVAAL TERRITORY.
Londoj, May 27.— The War Office has received
the nHlajlasj rom L Or< j Roberts:
Vereenldng. Sunday. May 27. 1:50 p. m.— We
GREAT BICYCLE SALE AT O'NEILL'S TO-DAY.
FtAA c h v °^l to ' day a lar £c lot of reMablo bicycles.
fvT \^rX B at J59 and 160. ai 89 75 each. Smh
kVc • _jtn to Bat si.— Advt.
crossed the Vaal this morning, and are now en
camped on the north bank. The advance troops,
which crossed yesterday, wer* only Just In time
to save the coal mines on both this and the
other side of the river from being destroyed.
Our casualties were four.
Baden-Powell reports that the railway be
tween Mafeking and Buluwayo has been re
stored, and that supplies are being brought into
Mafeking. He says the Canadian artillery
Joined Colonel Plumer from Beira with incredi
ble rapidity.
Lieutenant Webber was taken prisoner at
Heilbron a few days ago. He went there on
telegraph duty. It was not known that our
troops had been temporarily withdrawn.
FRENCH CSOBBED ON FRIDAY.
NEARLY SAVED THK BRIDGE OVER THE
VAAL FROM DESTRUCTION.
Taalbosch, May 2<i. — General French crossed
the Vaal at Lindegue's Drift yesterday, and
General Henry, ■with mounted Infantry, to
day. They pushed forward and nearly succeed
ed in saving the bridge, only the northernmost
span being destroyed.
All the refugees agree that the mines will be
destroyed.
The Boers are taking a position at Klip River
Drift, having left the Vaal.
The commandants have assembled to discuss
the advisability of continuing the strugcle.
Meanwhile there is a force of the enemy at
Meyerton.
HAMILTON ACROSS AT WONDERFONTEIN.
Kroonstadt. May 27.— General Hamilton has
Invaded the Transvaal, having crossed at Won
derfontein Drift.
THE BRITISH MARCH NORTHWARD.
BOERS FORCEP TO ABANDON THEIR POSI
TIONS WITHOI'T FIGHTING.
Grootvlel (twenty-three miles south of Vereen
iging>, Sunday, May 27.— Lord Roberts's north
ern advance force steadily continues, and to
day the Transvaal hills were sighted. General
French has secured an excellent flanking posi
tion on the northwest. There is something
irresistible about this advance. The troops
have been splendidly handled, and the Boers,
completely outmanoeuvred, have been forced to
abandon their positions at the first appearance
of the British flanking. force, which has made a
determined resistance at the Vaal impossible.
Many Transvaal burghers are now trekking
homeward, and it is safe to say that the most
irreconcilable Transvaaler at last recognizes the
hopelessness of the struggle. Most of the farms
In the northern part of the Free State, where
the ties of blood with the Transvaal are strong
est, have been deserted. Thia section has been
flooded with false tales of British cruelty, re
ports of burning farmhouses and the eviction
of women and children, in the hope of inducing
the burghers to remain with the commandoes;
but the evidence all points now to the existence
of a permanent feeling of enmity between the
Transvaalers and the Free Staters, en<-h accus
ing the other of treachery and cowardice.
It is regarded as unlikely that the Transvaal
Government will go to Lydenberg, where food
is scarce. A body of Boers, mostly on foot, is
trekking hard toward Vereeniging from the di
rection of Heilbron.
The condition of the British troops continues
excellent, although the cold nights are very
trying. They are able to march three miles an
The Boers have destroyed ev»ry bridge and
culvert. They are said to regard Klipriverberg.
north of the Vaal. as a position of great
strength, and talk of making themselves im
pregnable there.
It is reported that the population of Johannes
burg is in a high state of excitement. The Boers
•who are passing through northward threaten to
blow up the mines, and. in view of their wanton
destruction of everything else, it would not be
surprising if they carried out the threat.
The British are more interested, however, in
grazing and in the water supply than in the
mines.
RIVER CROSSED AT THREE POINtS.
GENERAL ROBERTAS MAIN ARMY FIFTY
MILKS FHOM JOHANNESBURG.
London, May 28.— When Lord Roberta wrote
his first dispatch on Transvaal territory yester
day, shortly before 2 o'clock in the afternoon,
he was fifty-one miles from Johannesburg and
seventy- seven from Pretoria. His immensely
superior forces hnd passed the Vaal River, their
last great natural obstacle, it three points.
The Vaal forms a curve of eighty miles from
Parys on the west to Zand Drift on the east.
The concave of the curve is toward the Free
State. Thus Lord Roberts, advancing along the
railway, was in a position to strike any part of
the crescent by shorter lines than those by
which the Boers oould reinforce the threatened
prints. The Boers retreated almost without a
show of defpnre. General French and General
Hamilton apparently did not fire a shot.
Of Lord Roberts's immediate force eleven men
belonging to the Eighth Mounted Infantry were
the first to ford the river. They came upon a
Boer patrol looting at Viljoen's Drift, and a
skirmish lasting ten minutes followed. Two
hundred Boera tried feebly to hold the Vereeni
ging Colliery, but they were dislodged.
The Boer rear guard is at Moyerton, ten miles
north of Vereeniging. Their main body is
moving toward the Klip River hills that cover
th« south side of Johannesburg.
While Lord Roberts's 90.000 infantry, 20.000
horse and l.V* guns are moving on Johannes
burg and Pretoria, through a parched and de
sert «-d country, the situation at the Transvaal
capital, as it was last Friday, is thus described
by an observer, who sent his message by private
hand to Lourengo Marques yesterday:
Th<» situation, both from a military and a
political point of view, has become very critical.
President Kriiger yesterday admitted for the
first time that matters are very grave. The Boer
determination Is to trust everything to a last
stand in the Gata Rand Mountains, to the north
of Potchefstroom, where r-t.t nH t Kaffirs are
digging trenches. To that point every available
man and gun have been sent.
The whole of the western border of the Trans
vaal from end to end is defenceless, and General
Baden-Powell can march in when he likes. Lord
Roberts, on the other hand, will encounter the
greatest resistance. The Roer endeavor is to
lure the British into appearing to threaten Jo
hannesburg with attack, an excuse thus being
given them for the destruction of property.
The Transvaal Government will not dare destroy
the mines or property without an excuse.
Much dynamite has been pent down the line,
and |90,000 cases lie ready at Zuurfontein. near
Johannesburg.
General IjOulb Botha and General Lukas
Meyer have pleaded for the preservation of
property. Both are large landed proprietors.
and fear confiscation; but they have not re
ceived satisfactory replies from President
Kriiger.
Meanwhile many Frenrh and German advent
urers have come forward with schemes and In
ventions for blowing up the British troops.
Rome of these, have received a tadt permission
to experiment. One German invention is for
use on a railway where It lies perfectly con
cealed until the weight of a passing train ex
plodes the charge.
General Lukas Meyer says surrender would
be at once proposed by the Boers, but thai
everybody fears the ignominy of being the one
to make the prop sal. Ilv d. Hares that he Is
assured that his men will not stand. President
I Ulilinuril on iliin! i>ii«<-.
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NEW-YORK. MONDAY. MAY 28. 1900, FOURTEEN PAGES.-^J^^.,,,,
CROKER IN BRYAN'S CAMP.
TAMMANY DELEGATES TO P.E IN
STRITTED FOR THE SILVER MAN.
SIGNIFICANT STATEMENTS BY THE HEAD
OF THK WIGWAM AND JOHN F. CAR
ROM,—HILL'S FRIENDS TROUBLED.
Rirhard Crok^r. after mature deliberation and
consultation with various Democratic leaders,
has moved into the Bryan camp, bag and bag
gage, and now urges sending an instructed dele
gation for Bryan to the Kansas City Conven
tion. Tammany will follow him to a man. Mr.
Croker is now in control of the State machinery,
and it Is safe to say. politicians declare, that he
will deliver the entire State delegation to the
silver man at Kansas City. Mr. Croker, upon
his return from Europe the last time, said some
kind things about Mr. Bryan, and in a tentative
way declared for his renornination. This was
always taken with a grain of salt, and wise poli
ticians said that Mr. Croker made that state
ment for political expediency and that he was
only searching for some way to compass the de
feat of Mr. Bryan.
When the State Committee met at the Hoff
man House, after Mr. Croker's roturn upon that
occasion, Mr. Croker favored and ex-Senator
Hill opposed the adoption of a resolution recog
nizing Mr. Bryan as the National leader of the
party. The argument was bitter. l T p to that
time it was supposed that Hill dominated the
State Committee, but when it came to counting
noses the resolution was passed: Hill was van
quished and Croker was in control of the State
Committee and State leader, while Hill was
baffled and beaten.
Since that time matters \ver° allowed to drift
in a way until last week, when ex-penator Hill.
ex-Senator Murphy, Frank Campbell, chairman
of the State Committee, and Elliot Danforth
came down to consult with the Kings County
and Tammany men about plans for the State
Convention, which is to be held in this city on
June 5. Mr. Hill outlined what he wanted, and
the Tammany and Kings County men apparently
approved. Not a word was put in for Mr. Cro
ker. The only upset was "n the proposition of
the BTingS County delegation to send Augustus
Van Wyck as a delegate at large to the con
vention at Kansas City, to which Mr. Hill pro
tested. The Tammany and Kings County men
insisted, and Hill practically defied them. He
said that Van Wyck's anti-trust speech didn't
fit in well with subsequent developments about
his alleged holdings of stock in the Ice Trust,
and that to make him prominent in the cam
paign would be to furnish the opposition de
structive ammunition. The matter was finally
left in abeyance, to be settled by the State Com
mittee when it meets here on the night of June 4
to make final plans for the State Convention.
Mr. Hill went back to Albany, serenely believ
ing that he'was to be allowed to run things, and
the Tammany men waited for word from the
other side, as full particulars of all that oc
curred were conveyed to Mr. Croker.
WHAT IT MAY MEAN TO HILL.
Mr. Croker made his views known yesterday,
and politicians said that in the attitude of Mr.
Crolcer could be raad implacable antagonism to
Mr. Kill and the defeat of the Wolfert's Roost
statesman. Mr. Croker's sudden move into the
Bryan camp came like a bolt of lightning to
ex-Senator Hill and his friends, and left them
utterly at sea. "It stripped Mr. Hill and his
followers of any power to act, and upset and
shattered all plans." said a leader. "It clinched
Mr. Croker's hold upon the State organization,
made him the logical representative of the Na
tional organization in the State, and ostracizes
Hi'l and deposes him from any post of leader
ship."
Mr. Hill has admitted that Bryan would be
nominated, but he has urged the sending of an
hninstructed delegation to Kansas City. He has
advocated this, not because he hoped to form a
combination to defeat Bryan, but to have a
power to use in fighting for the adoption of a
conservative platform. He believed that Mr.
Crok°r and Tammany agreed with him. Hill's
attitude upon this question was made perfectly
plain to Mr. Bryan and his followers, thereby
marking him. his opponents say. as an enemy
of the National organization. Had it not been
for Mr. Croker's declaration he would have been
looked upon by the National organization, poli
ticians said, as Hill's ally. Mr. Croker. however,
came out in an interview in "The New-York
Journal" yesterday and said:
W. J. Bryan will be elected as sure as fate,
and a very good thing, too. Why, W. J. Bryan
will defeat Mr. McKinley in his own State of
Ohio. The Republican candidate was elected In
Ohio the last fall election, although his two
opponents had a plurality of 50,000 votes over
the number that carried the Republican ticket.
Since then things have gone steadily worse for
McKinley in Ohio. It is a State in which the
German vote is very strong, and German Re
publicans naturally sympathize very intensely
with the Dutch Republicans of South Africa,
who are In arms against Mr. McKinley's im
perialistic friends.
That is not the only thing in which Mr. Me-
Kinley's position has changed for the worse in
Ohio. There are strikes, and no end of other
local complications, which seem to me to make
it a moral certainty that W. J. Bryan will sweep
Ohio at the next election; find when he does,
then goodby to Mr. McKinley. If he carries
Ohio he can carry anything.
"Then you are a convinced Bryanite, Mr.
Croker?"
"I am for W. J. Bryan," said Mr. Croker.
"The newspapers have heesi putting about the
story that 1 was against him. It is not true; it
is the very contrary of true.
"I am for W. J. Bryan with my whole heart.
He is far and away the ablest man that we
have got In American politics this day. He is
a wonderful man. There is no man to compare
with him anywhere, or to put alongside of him.
He ip a fine character, a man of high principle
and of tremendous energy.
"Mark my words, when W. J. Bryan is elected
he will work eighteen hours a day in order to
carry out In spirit and in letter every plank in
the Democratic platform. Hitherto other men
have regarded the platform drawn up at. their
convention as a ladder on which they mount to
power, and which they kick down as soon as
they get to the top. Mr. Bryan is not a man
of that sort. He does not want to be elected for
purposes of vainglory and love of position. He
thinks, and I agree with him. that if be is
elected he will do his country good. He will be
able to serve the people, and he will be a
p.rverninp President, not a mere lay nerure.
whose movements are governed by wire pullers.
]!»■ is a man of conviction.
"I tell you there is no man I have known
In my time for whom I have a greater regard
and esteem than for W. J. Bryan."
A STATEMENT FROM MR. CARROLL.
Mr Oroker lias been In communlcaMon with
John F. Carroll, leader of Tammany Hall in Mr
Croker's absence. Last night Mr. Carroll gave
out a formal statement. He may be regarded
aB authoritatively indorsed by Mr. Croker. It
does away with all uncertainty about the stand
of the New-Torh delegation at Kansas City, and
there will be BO shifting or evasion If Mr Croker
can bring about his wish. There has never
been a time in the history of New-York politics
so Democratic politicians were pointing out last
night, when the New-York delegation to a Na-
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TO SEND EX-CONVICTS BACK
FTTZHABBIS AND MULLET NOT TO BE
ALLOWED TO KKMA IN HEBE.
DECISION OF THE SPECTAL BOARD OF IN
QUIRY—RESULT OF THE EXAMINATION
OF THE MEN- AM APPEAL TO
WASHINGTON LIKELY.
Admission to this country has been refused to
James Fitzharris. alias "Skin the Goat," and
Joseph Mullet, the Irish "Invincibles" who were
convicted of complicity In the murder of Lord
Frederick Cavendish and Mr. Burke in Phoenix
Park. Dublin, eighteen years ago. They were
pardoned recently by Lord Cadogan, Lord Lieu
tenant of Ireland, after an Imprisonment of sev
enteen years, and they came over here on the
Lucania. arriving last Saturday. From the time
the ship left Queenstown The Tribune has pro
tested against the admission to the United
States of these men. The Immigration law bars
from this country persons "who have been con
victed of a felony, or other infamous crime or
misdemeanor involving moral turpitude." and
The Tribune steadily held that Fitzharris and
Mullet fell within the prohibition of the law,
and therefore demanded that they be sent back
to Ireland. It is because of this conviction that
the Fenians are to be excluded. They spent
Saturday nis;ht at Fllis Island, and yesterday
morning the special Board of Inquiry heard
their cases at the Barge Office and ordered that
the men be deported. This Board was composed
of William Weihe. chairman; H. H. Meier,
James A. Toner and Major Charles S. Sensey.
REMOVED FROM ELLIS ISLAND.
The two men were removed to the Barge Of
fice from Ellis Island yesterday morning at 10:30
o'clock and taken before the B->arrt imme
diately. The case was treated as all such cases
are and the Inquiry was secret. The only one
at the Barge Office to meet the two men, and
who showed any interest in their behalf, was
"Rocky Mountain" O'Brien.
After the meeting of the Board it was learned
that Fitzharris was the first of the two to be
examined by the members. He admitted he had
served nearly seventeen years for crime com
mitted. After the usual questions as to his age.
nativity and residence, Fitzharris was asked of
what crime he had been convicted, and an
swered: "Treason."
He was then questioned as to this charge, and
told the Board that he had been arrested about
nine months after the famous Phcenix Park
murders, in company with twenty-three others.
These twenty-three had been accused of being
accessories after the fact, while Fitzharris was
charged with being an accessory before the fact.
Three months later he had been brought to trial
with others of the accused men. Five of them
had been sentenced to be hanged and Fitz
harris to penal servitude for" life.
While telling his story to the Board Fitz
harris declared that at the time of his trial
£10,000 had been offered trm by the English
Government if he would turn informer against
the other members of the band. This he had re
fused to do, and of his life sentence he had
served about seventeen years In the Mount Joy,
Chatham. Downpatrick and Maryboro prisons.
Daring eleven of th?se years, he ?aid, he was
employed as an operator on sewing machines
in the prisons.
PARDONED EIGHT MONTHS AGO.
Eight months ago he had been pardoned. Fitz
harris told the Board that in the time of his
imprisonment his family received from the Am
nesty Association the sum of 5 shillings. W T hen
he and Mullet had been released from prison all
the funds in the treasury of that association
had been divided between them. Fitzharris did
not name this amount, but he and Mullet had
about $25 between them when they reached this
port. Fitzharris asserted that while he was
on British soil he was compelled to report to
the police every month as to his doings and
whereabouts.
"I came to this country." he added, "because
I want a chance to rest and recuperate. I want
to stay here about three months, and then go
back to my family."
When Mullet was taken before the Board and
examined he indignantly refused to answer
any questions. He declared he was not receiv
ing the proper treatment from the Govern
ment. His examination lasted only a short
time, as he would not respond to questions.
When the men left the room they were taken
to the "excluded pen" where they were met by
"Rocky Mountain" O'Brien, who engaged them
in earnest conversation for some time.
When asked about the exclusion. O'Brien ap
peared indignant because he had not been in
formed that the two men were to be taken be
fore the Board of Special Inquiry.
"If there was any question about money mat
ters." he said, " I ought to have been informed
so that I could have made some arrangements.
We could have arranged for any amount of
bonds, if that was what they wanted."
The case, it was said yesterday, will probably
be appealed to the authorities at Washington,
and if not. Fitzharris ani Mullet will leave this
port on Saturday next on the Lucania.
FAMOrs niAMOXD THIEF ARRESTED.
CHICAGO OFFICERS PAY PRISONER IN LEIPSIC 13
THF, "DIAMOND SWAI.LOWER."'
"Chicagu, May 27. —The Chicago police say that a
man under arrest in I^eipslc. Germany, on the.
charge of stealing $15,000 worth of diamonds, is
Charles Woodward, alias Williams, alias Anderson,
alias Wats in, alias Wright, who has been absent
from Chicago for nineteen years. He Is one of tha
cleverest thieves In the world, and has earned the
cognomen of "Diamond Swallower" through re
peated acts of that kind in order to escape convic
tion. He has stolen SjSRjSI worth of diamonds and
has served nearly twenty years In Jails and peni
tentlariea In this country and in Europe. In the
sixty years of his ":«/e Woodward has become cele
brated all over the world through his penchant for
stealing diamonds.
fie caused a big sensation In Chicago In IS7B.
when, on August 10 of that year, he stole X-," | ">
worth of diamonds from a Jewelry salesman In the
Palmer House. He was arrested shortly afterward
by William Plnkerton. and the only gem he had in
bis possession, which belonged -to the lot stolen
from the salesman, he swallowed. He was con
victed, nevertheless, and sent to Jollet to serve a
year. He left the penitentiary on January 1. 18S0,
and after living a few months in Chicago disap
peared, ami although he was arrested many times
afterward he never returned to this city, so far as
the police know. His arrest In Germany occurred
four weeks ago, and came to the notice of the Chi
cago authorities in a letter to Superinte:,dent
George I'orteous of the National Bureau of Identi
fication, in whiclf the President of Poilce of Berlin
said that he had in custody two men charged with
the theft of JIS.fKKJ worth of gems In Lelpsic.
(in. <.f then >;.iV'' IM name of E-lwani Morton
the other that or Jameit Hawkins. The letter was
accompanied by pictures of the men and their
RmllUm measurements. Superintendent Porteous
pays "Morton" is Charles Woodward and "Hawk-
Ins" Is John Parkins, who is wanted In Pittsburg
on the charge "f stealing several hundred dollars
worth of pre.ious stones.
The letter from Berlin said the men had b»»>n In
Lelpsic only a short time when they swindled a
merchant of that city out of a fortune in diamonds
by pretending to be wealthy travellers who wanted
to settle in that country, and wished to invest their
money in diamonds. They Induced their victim to
bring the gems to a hotel, and It took the swindlers
only a short time to part him from them. They
were getting ready to leave the city when they
wets nrreated.
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OPERATIONS IN LUZON.
MANILA CROWDED WITH NATrvF.s FLEE
ING FROM INSURGENT CONSCRIPTION.
Manila, May 27.— Scouting, small engagements
and the capture of arms and prisoners continue
daily in Northern Luzon. Last week's opera
tions by the Oth. 12th. 33d. 34th and 36th regi
ments resulted in the killing of forty-six of the
enemy, the taking of ISO prisoners, and the
capture of three hundred rifles and a quantity
of ammunition.
Colonel Edward E. Hardln. with three com
panles of the 20th Regiment, and bluejackets
from the gunboat Helena, landed at Palonog.
Masbate Island, under the enemy's fire, routed
the insurgents and. after an engagement lasting
half an hour, occupied the town, without casu
alties.
The insurgent commander, wttl twenty nfflcera
and 2.''.M men surrendered on May 20. giving up
a hundred rifles An impressive sceno occurred
on the plaza when the prisoners were disarmed
and liberated. The islanders were found suffer
ing from lark of food, owing to the blockade, and
the American authorities are endeavoring to
relieve them.
Peace rpipns and no trouble is expected in
Manila, although the city is crowded with people
from the provinces, who are leaving the unpro
tected hamlets in order to avoid the conscription
which the insurgent lenders are enforcing, as
well as robbery and outrages at the hand.-; el
roving insurgents and bandits.
The investigation of the charge against Briga
di.r-General Frederick Funston of having sum
marily executed two natives in the Prsvtaes of
Zambales has resulted In a discontinuance of
the proceedings. It developed the fact that
General Funston caught the natives in the very
act of murdering bound Macabebe seeutS, his
action in view of these circumstances being re
garded as justifiable.
AXARCnr f\ CHfW.
BUOCBSB OF THE ROXERS MAKES THE SITT"
ATION AT PEKING CRITICAL.
Shanghai. May 27— Reports received to-day
indicate that affairs around Peking are ex
tremely critical, owing to the defeat of the Gov
ernment troops by the Boxers.
It is now regarded here as certain that for
eign troops must be sent to Peking to protect
the legations, while the withdrawal of mission
aries from the interior is considered imperative.
Large portions of the Provinces of Pe-Chi-Li
and Shan-Tung are in a Ptate little better than
absolute anarchy: and disorder is spreading in
the Province of Shan-Si in consequence of the
encouragement received from the Empress Dow
ager.
The Diplomatic Corps have decided to ask the
Tsung-li-Yamen (Chinese Foreign Office) to de
fine explicitly the measures which the Govern
ment intends to take in dealing with Boxers.
TO RETI'RX COX FEDERATE FLAGS.
PIjANI OF G. A. R. MEN TO HAVE THE FRF.?'
r>h.NT DO THI^ AT C H r t ' AGO.
Chicago. May 27 fSpecialt. —In course of the
Grand Army of the Republic encampment in
Chicago President McKinley may have th-*
pleasure of returning to the Southern States the
Confederate battleflags now in the War De
partment. Prominent members of the Grand
Army of the Republic have in hand a plan to
secure the authorization of Congress for the
return of these flag?, and it is hoped both
houses will pass the necessary joint resolution
before adjournment, two weeks hence. In th^>
coming week it is expected the military com
mittees will take the necessary preliminary ac
tion.
If the consent of Congress can be obtained,
the flags will be turned over to the G. A. R.
and the representatives r* Confederate military
organizations will be invited to Chicago, an.l
with appropriate ceremonies President MoKin
ley. assisted by the veterans of the blue, will
hand the torn and bloodstained banners back to
the valiant hands of the veterans of the gray
that once carried and defended them. Stored in
the building of the War Department at Wash
ington are 400 or 500 of these Confederate flags.
They have been there ever since the war.
Few visitors to the National Capitol see them
because they are not easily accessible, and are
kept in a d'ngy attic, but there are few more
Inspiring scenes in this country than this col
lection of ragged flags. They hare mute aIUMM
to the valor of American soldiery. Many of
them are mere tatters. Not one but is shot
through many times. Only a few have proper
staffs, and these are broken, patched and bullet
marked. The great majority of the ensigns are
attached to common hickory poles, cut in the
woods by the soldiers. A number of these
hickory' sticks were ornamented by the jack
knives of the Confederates.
None of the friends of President McKinley
know anything of the project to secure authority
of Congress for the return of these flags. The
movement is wholly in the hands of the veter
ans of the G. A. R., and their organization will
have full charge of the proposed ceremonies, in
case the plan is worked out successfully. If
Congress gives its assent to the proposal. Chi
cago will witness one of the greatest ceremonies
that ever took place on American soil.
LA MORIXIERE WTNB GRAND PRIX.
•TOD" SLOAN COMES IN FOURTH ON
SOLON.
Paris. May 27. — The Grand Prix flu Jockey
Club, which was run here to-day, was won by
Baron Rogers's bay colt La Morinlere.
at Ephrussi's Codoman was second and Comte
D« Berteux's Ivoire third.
M. Gaston-Dreyfus's Solon, ridden by "Tod"
Sloan, was fourth.
Thirteen horses ran.
ASHASTEB Risixn STILL BPMEADISB.
HREE EI'ROFKAV OFFICERS KILLED IN THE
RECENT FIGHTING.
Accra. May 27.— 1t is reported that thr«^ Euro
pean officers were killed ajid Captain Aplin and
one hundred Haussas wore wounded In a re
c.-nt effort by the Lagos Haussas to break the
Investing lines of tribesmen at Cnomassie.
The Ashantee loss Is reported to have been
great, as the Haussas had three Maxims en
gased, although themselvrs greatly outnum
bered.
Three hundred Aahantees are said to have
been killed in a previous action.
The rising is still spreading.
CHANGE OF THVIE OF THE ATLANTIC CITY
iJi t** lA l .
Beginning Monday, May 2Sth. the Atlantic City
express of. the Central R. R. of New-Jersey will
leave New-York. Llberty-st.. at 3:40 p. m.. South
Ferry 3:35 P- m. Returning, leave Atlantic City at
S:3f> a. m.— Advt.
DYSPEPSIA, CATARRH OF THE STOMACH.
Gastritis. Nausea Impaired Digestion, cured where
all else falla Doctors heartily indorse l< MAN-
A-CEA. Natural Spring Water. O*SSjgs>B\ or ■
Beavwr-st.— Ativt.
PRICK TIIKKK CKXTS.
PERQUISITES IX (XBA.
SOME REMARKABLE CHARGES SAID TO
HAVK BEEN MADE BY MR.
RATHBONE.
[BY TELECRAPH TC» THE TRtBfNE. J
Washington. May 27.— One interesting aad
important branch of the Cuban investigation
will be that relating to the perquisites enjoyed
by the officials and eWks employed there, by
virtue of their official and clerical status, anil
also that relating to miscellaneous expenditures.
It ha 3 been impossible t<> obtain any satisfactory
or definite information on these points at the War
Department, where such Cuhan accounts and
other data as have bees "seetved relating to
these subjects have been jealoaaJy concealed
from the public eye and kn.-wle.is;*. and not. as
in the case of official accounts lied in th<» ac
counting departments of the Treasury, opened
to public inspection for proper purposes and
under suitable regulations. Much reasonable
and proper as well as »K-r r-.;r\,. Itj exists to
know the nature and amounts of th<» iefalN
which went to make up the totals of disburse
ments under the head <>f per diem" lad "mla-
Vellaneous" a n.i other equally indefinite itema
In the Cuban accounts.
In the accounts of Director-General Rathbone.
for example, the sum of $17,313 is charged to
"P*>r diem. ' That was the total for the year
'-'•••' ThK it appears, was not expended In that
year for* day wages, but for •'allowances" or
"perquisites" enjoyed by himself and members
of his ofnViii and clerical staff, which was a
large and very expensive one. resemMnai In
those respects that of a Governor of an Indian
or African province rather than that of a Gov
etnor of a Territory like Ne*\ -Mexico or Okla
homa. It is reported that in addition to h:3 sal
ary of >',<•< a year the Director-General re
ceived a "per diem allowance" amounting to &>.
or $1.52."» a year, aad thai the head of each of
the ten or eleven "bureaus" which constituted
the "Department of Posts" received a similar,
"allowance" at the rate of $3 a day. The regu
lar yearly salaries ranged from $2,000 to
$3,000. Ther<» was also a force of inspectors
and clerks who received "per diem allowances"
ranging from $1 _'.*• for a $1,200 clerk to $2 or
more for inspectors and clerks of the hi?b"r
grades. There was r.o exercise of parsimony In
that branch of the Director-General'3 official
establishment.
It bj also reported that the Director-General
himself enjoyed other large "official perqui
sites"; that the rent of the "Palace." occupied
by him as a residence, in which he set up a
court rivalling in magnificence and splendor
that of the Military Governor of Havana was
paid out of the postal revenues of Cuba; that
expensive alterations and repairs of the "Pal
ace" were also paid for out of the Cuban reve
nues. A member of the Senate Committee has
also been informed that among other large
items of expenditure charged under -the head of
"miscellaneous" in the Director-General'3 ac
counts for the last year was one amounting to
$l,?. 00 for upholstery, drygoods. etc.. purchased
at a single establishment in the United States.
This and many other equally questionable ex
penditures were borne by the revenues of Cuba.
The heading "miscellaneous" covered a total
of tstXMsflt; the heading "br.iliins and re
pairs'* covered a total of $35,041 l " tss heading
"rent" covered a total of $11.00911.
The four totals under the headings "per diem."
"miscellaneous," "buildlnar and repairs" and
"rent" make an aggregate of $113.308 79. Be
sides these there Is a charge of $7,494 72 for
"transportation." distinguishing it from "mail
transportation" and "star route service." The
amount of £7.494 72. therefore, was evidently
not expended in payment for carrying the mails.
If it be added to 911&808TB the- total will
amount to $121,753 51. To this asaaM be added
$3.10526 for "carriage, harness and equipment"
—another "perquisite" of the Director-General —
making an aggregate of $124.503 77. This was
$4t».441 4.'5 in excess of the total expenditures on
account of "star route service." mail trans
portation, letter carriers, railway postal clerks,
mail messengers, mall wasjaaa and majl bags,
which amounted o only $75,42234. The total
per diem allowances aloiv* amounted to more
than 22 per cent of that total, and it in turn
amounted to less than 3rt per cent of the total
amount paid as salaries to Director-General
Rathbone and hi.-* official and clerical staff at
the headquarters of the Cuban postal service.
DO XOT LIVE EXTRAYAHAXTLY.
DENIALS FROM AMERICAN OFFICIALS IN
CUBA.
Havana. May 27. — American officials here
feel that they have been unjustly treated by
certain newspapers in the United States which
have published the sweeping statement that
they all live extravagantly. Army off}. r point
out that if they have to live in cities their ex
penses *re much greater than when at home.
Moreover, very f*w care to risk the health of
their families by keeping them in Cuba during
the. summer. Thus two establishments are nec
essary. As their duty compels them to remain
in a tropical climate, they feel that the Initei
States Government, like other Governments
under similar conditions, should pay additional
stipends.
So far as the officers <>f high rank are con
esrasdL it should be pointed out that General
Weed occupies only a amall portion of the Pal
ace fur residential purposes, th^- rest of tha
building beinp utilized not only for rhe divisional
offices, but also for all the mvniclpal offices.
A number of employes have to be kept at Gen
eral Wood's expense — cleaners and helpers gen
erally—and he says rhat if he did not have some
private resources to eke out his pay and his
allowances it woaM be next t.> impossible for
him to live in the Palace at all.
Collector Bliss lives quietly in a single room
at the Hotel Tei-srafo. going to and returning
from his offices in a hired vehicle .»f the most
ordinary description. Major Ladd. Chief Quar
termaster, lives at El Veiiado. in a house which
he shares wi'h three other families. General
Lee lives at headquarters, at Quemados. where
do all his staff officers who are unmarrte.'
eral Wilson. Governor of Matanzas-Santa Clara,
lives in a house for which he pays a small
rental. Colonel Whitesi.ie. at Santiago, lives in
a little wooden bungalow formerly occuj
General Wood, and leased from Mrs. Pi made a.
wife of the former Brfish Coaaal General
Humphrey. Colonel Black. MaJ <iptaln
Pitcher and many officers live in buildings used
by the Government either as | - police
barracks. General Wood, when asked to-day
what h* thought of such . harges. re;
considered charges of extravaj.
partments". except the postal, unfounded, add
:■-' ' it he : -.: ,■■ 1 | . that kpaitSM • hSji
anytpßjfeT to fear on that score, and that all
could endure the closest Investigation possible
A postal official who ha> ie^ n in the island
more than a year says that when
cans first rame there were n,i records .t | n^
furnltu! • . that the S
the only ones who knew anything abo>" th
service—coul.l not be employed because
cry "Cuba for the Cubans." and that conse
quently the service • built v;
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