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BOER-BRITISH WAR.
London thinks no news is good news.
Bad meat and moldy hay have been
found among army supplies.
Six thousand men are on the way to
aid Gen. White at I*adysmith.
three more troop ships arrived at
Cape Town; three have gone on to Dur
ban.
The boers were within 1,500 yards
of White’s lines at Ladysmith Thurs
day.
Nearly 24,000 British troops have al
ready arrived in south Africa as rein
forcements.
iyord Salisbury objects to the reading
of "no annexation" into his speech on
the South African situation.
Attacks have also been made on
Kimberley and Mafeking, but without
compelling their surrender.
Sir Michael Hicks-Beach said no one
desires south Africa to be "governed
permanently from Downing street.”
The commissary department of the
British army and also the admiralty
are being criticised for alleged scan
dals.
The boer attack on Khame in Bulu
wayo was repulsed. It is reported that
forty boers were killed in the last at
tack on Mafeking.
The boers have renewed their bom
bardment of Ladysmith, Natal, on a
big scale. At last accounts the British
were still holding out.
The bombardment of Ladysmith, Na
tal, was still going on at the time of
the latest advices, but no decisive re
sult, Is known to have been reached.
It is reported that. State Secretary
Reitz of the Transvaal has threatened
to have six British officers executed
unless Nathan Marks, a supposed spy,
held at Ladysmith, is released.
Despatches that have taken a week
to come through tell of continuous but
Ineffective shelling of Kimberley, and
dispatches dated Friday tell of the
steady bombardment of Ladysmith.
SPA NISH-AMERICAN ISLANDS.
Generals Lawton and McArthur have
captured Tarlac, Luzon.
Ramban, a Filipino stronghold near
Tarlac, was also captured.
Aguinaldo and his army are sur
rounded by the American forces.
Admiral Schley assumed command
of the south Atlantic squadron.
The Filipinos are reported to be suf
fering greatly from Kick of proper food
and medicines.
General Gomez has refused an offer
of a subscription of money to meet
his personal needs.
In his yearly report Gen Otis justi
fies the whole course of the American
army In the Philippines.
The reorganization of the chaplain
corps Is suggested to rbl the army ot
ignorant and lazy preachers.
The first Tennessee regiment, which
has boon serving In the Philippines,
has arrived nt San Francisco.
President McKinley will visit Ten
nessee to welcome home the regiment
of that stnte from the Philippines.
Threo American saloonkeepers of
Havana were fined and Imprisoned be
cause they refused to cater to colored
Cuba ns.
At Havana the local newspapers ob
ject to the criticisms made by some
American Journals upon Sunday racing
in Havana.
The American troops who are invad
ing north Luzon are advancing with
wonderful rapidity, and the Filipinos
retreat before them.
A pension of sls a month was grant
ed to Adelaide W. Hagley, mother of
Lieutenant Worth Hagley, who was
killed In the war with Spain.
General Brooke has reported th‘>
death on the 11th inst. of James R. Div
inney of Company H. fifth Infantry,
who died at Guantanamo of typhoid
fever.
General Brooke has issued a procla
mation designating Nov. JO, Thanks
giving day In the United States, ns a
day for the same kind of observance in
Cuba.
American troops lost seven killed, in
cluding Major John A. Logan, and 13
wounded in a fight at San Jacinto.
Luzon. The Filipinos left 81 dead on
the field.
The students of Havana University
protest against the new scheme of ed
ucation proposed by Senor Lanuzn.
They threaten to withdraw if the uni
versity authorities attempt to carry
out the proposition.
Whether Chinese exclusion should be
applied to the Philippines is among the
subjects engaging the attention of the
Philippine commission. Admiral Dew
ey is understood to be favorable to the
admission of the Chinese.
DOMESTIC.
The meteoric display was a lizzie.
Chicago December wheat. 67 S-Bc.
The Knights of Labor met in Bos
ton.
Col. Henry Inman, soldier and au
thor, died at Topeka.
The Western Waterways association
met at Memphis.
Senator Thurston married Miss l’ur
man in Washington.
The broomcorn trust put prices up
from SOO to S2OO a ton.
The health of Senator Vest of Mis
souri is much Improved.
At Morris. 111.. Eli F. Johnson, a pio
neer husiness-man. is dead.
J. J. Frey resigned as general man-
tiger of the Santa Fe road.
Cornelius Vanderbilt was fined SIOO
for failing to do jury duty.
An advance of 50 cents a dozen will
be made by the broom trust.
The United States supreme court has
taken a recess for a fortnight.
Senator Hawley thinks the question
of the size of the standing army may
go over to the second session of con
gress.
George B. Pettit, American consul at
Dusseldorf, Germany, is dead.
The Tennessee supreme court sus
tained the anti-cigarette law.
The National Association of Post
masters convened in Washington.
At Cleveland the Bradley block was
damaged SIOO,OOO by fire and water.
A Memphis undertaker was arrested
on the charge of trafficking in corpses.
Havana cigar manufacturers formed
a combination with $10,000,000 capital.
Congressman Roberts of Utah says
he will not resign, but will fight to the
end.
W. G. Dows of Cedar Rapids will be
a candidate for speaker of the lowa
house.
The postoffiee department favors the
reduction of postage on merchandise
by half.
Intemperance among fashionable
women in New York is said to be in
creasing.
John T. France, a well-known law
yer and politician, died at his home in
Decatur, fnd.
At Falrbury, 111., Miss Nellie Lewis
was married to Clarence Smith of
Chatsworth, 111..
Mrs. Fanny M. Ross, wife of Edmund
G. Ross, former United States senator
of Kansas, is dead.
The Wakarusa find.) Mill and Ele
vator company assigned. Assets $5,000;
liabilities, SIO,OOO.
A Philadelphia and Reading express
tore to pieces two men who were fight
ing on the railroad tracks.
John O'Neil of Milwaukee committed
suicide at Green Bay. Despondency
over domestic troubles.
Senator-elect Hayward of Nebraska
is thought to be dying. Bryan may be
appointed in his place.
At Muscatine, W. S. Ritchie, a prom
inent business man and commission
merchant, is dead, aged 69.
Illinois men in Washington suggest
Comptroller Dawes as a compromise
candidate for governor.
J. D. Rockefeller conditionally of
fered $150,000 to the Baptist rheolog
ical seminary, Rochester.
During the last navy year it required
$13,983,174 to maintain in commission
the ships In active service.
Schley stated that he considers it im
perative that the Nicaragua canal
should be built at once.
Memorial services for the four an
archists executed for implication in the
Haymarket riots in 1886 were held.
The president has appointed Jesse H.
Johnson of Texas to be consul of the
United States at Coaticook, Quebec.
A large attendance marked the ex
hibitions of the national horse-show in
Madison Square Garden, New York.
1 At Bakersfield, Mo.. Luke Seels
mortally wounded Postmaster W. M.
Sharp In a duel over domestic troubles.
The New York presbytery has de
cided to refer the heresy case of Profes
sor McGlffert to the general assembly.
In Kansas City Dwight 1,. Moody,
the evangelist, spoke to 30,000 people.
Four thousand were unable to gain ad
mission.
General William McK. Dye, at one
time military adviser to the king of
Korea, is dead at Muskegon, Mich,
aged 68.
At Cleveland diamonds valued at
$30,000 were stolen from the store of
Sigler brothers by sneak thieves, who
escaped.
Once more is Alonzo J. Whiteman,
formerly of Duluth, arrested; this time
in New York and swindling is the
charge.
The Illinois Trust and Savings bank,
in the stnte supreme court, has filed a
petition for a rehearing of the glucose
trust case..
Richard B. Molineux was placed on
trial in .\ew York charged with caus
ing the death of Katherine J. Adams
Dec. 38, 1898.
William J. Bryan and son joined Col.
\I. C. Wetmore’s hunting party and left
for the latter’s game preserves In me
Ozark mountains.
Ihe interior of anew Chicago fiat
building on which non-union labor had
been employed was damaged SI,OOO by
unknown persons.
''he leading shipyards of the Atlantic
and Pacific coasts, it is reported, will
be consolidated under one general
management.
The election in Kentucky will depend
upon the settlement of contests in sev
en counties, the returns from which
are now in dispute.
Warden Wolfer of the Stillwater.
Minn., penitentiary may resign to ac
cept the position of sup. rvisor of pris
ons in New York.
The treasury will buy $25,000,000 of
bonds, paying 112.75 for Is of 1007 and
111 for 5s of 1904. to relieve the strin
gency in New York.
A grand jury will investigate the al
leged use of money in the passage by
the Mich an legislature of Gov. Fili
gree's pet measure.
John Paul of Garrett, ill., who was
traveling by wagon in Florida for the
benefit of the health of his insane wife,
is dead of marsh fever.
At Chippewa Falls. Wis.. the C. L. At
B. company s sawmill closed down aft
er a season's cut of OO.tHKi.tKH) feat,
which breaks all records.
I'he architect of the treasury depart
ment thinks it improbable that ant
hills for new public buildings will pass
the next session of congress.
The American miniaturist, Amelia
Ktisaner, is among the beleagnred peo
ple at Kimberley. Cecil Rhodes is sit
ting to her for a miniature.
At Carthage. Mo.. Judge John Horn
beck, aged 78 years, died. He had tak
en active part in democratic state and
national conventions for years.
Ex-Senator Reagan of Texas told the
industrial subcommission on transpor
tation that government ownership of
railways would destroy liberty.
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through a trestle. Crew uninjured;
three tramps supposed to be dead.
The Carnegie company will enter the
field against the Rockefeller interests
for the lake tonnage. The new com
pany has a capital of $5,000,000.
The managing director of the Amer
ican Steel and Wire company told of
an attempt to form a world-wide com
bine of wire-producing companies.
Mrs. Ada Hill has been arrested at
Aurora charged with killing her
mother-in-law, Mrs. Eliza Hill, by
pouring carbolic acid down her back.
William E. Heal, the Grant county,
Ind., treasurer, who disappeared two
years ago after embezzling SIB,OOO, re
turned yesterday and gave himself up.
Joseph E. Johnston has announced
his candidacy for the democratic nom
ination to the United States senate to
succeed Senator Morgan of Alabama
At New Albany, Ind., the heirs of
Bourbon Graham were given judgment
for $2,000 against the Supreme Tent,
Knights of Maccabees. Insurance
claim.
The body of the fourth victim of the
recent ferry boat collision was taken
from the North river. New York. It
was that of K. G. Haviland of Brook
lyn.
Four cylinders, containing 16,000
pounds of powder, exploded at the Cal
ifornia powder mill, wrecking the
buildings and killing the night watch
man.
In St. Paul Fred Guion shot and
killed James Miller during a quarrel
in the office of a justice of the peace.
Guion was under the influence of
liquor.
Mrs. C. A. Hollands of Lima, Ohio,
died from the effect of a beating said
to have been administered by her hus
band. The woman would not admit
his guilt.
Anew scheme for a cigar syndicate
called the Havana-American company,
with a capital of $73,006 000 common
and $3,000,000 preferred stock is an
nounced.
A co-operative piano factory, the
stock in which will be owned by work
men. will probably be the result of the
present lockout in Chicago of the piano
and organ workers.
At Pittsburg 300 delegates represent
ing 250 companies with a capital of
$175,000,000, are attending the fifth an
nual convention of the Continental
Hardware association.
The Daughters of the Confederacy j
have indorsed the movement to buy i
’’Beauvere,” the Davis homestead, and J
turn it into a home for confederate
soldiers and sailors.
Andrew Carnegie, in a letter to M. !
\V. Pittock, a well-known newspaper
writer of Arizona, offers the city of
Tucson the sum of $25,000 to pay for
a public library building.
The president has appointed First
Lieutenant Thomas H. Slavens, fourth
cavalry, captain and assistant quarter
master. vice Captain Howard, recently
killed in the Philippines.
In New York Abraham Popkin. doing
business of A. Popkin & Cos., manu
facturer of cloaks, announces his in
solvency. Liabilities between $150,000
and $200,000; assets not stated.
Henry C. Payne, national republican
committeeman of Wisconsin, gives it
as his opinion that Chicago would be
the place selected for holding the next
national republican convention.
Chairman Hanna has decided to call
the republican national committee to
meet at Washington Dec. 15 to fix the
time and place for holding the next
national republican convention.
A proclamation has been Issued by
which the president reserves for naval!
purposes certain lots and plats of
ground in the city of Honolulu. There
are several distinct tracts reserved.
A double-headed Pittsburg & Lake
Erie freight train of 55 loaded cars
crashed into the caboose of another
train at McKees Rocks. Pa. Two men
were killed and three seriously injured.
J. E. Crandall, a Johnson City. Tenn.,
banker, who in ISP6 was sentened to
eight years in the penitentiary for em
bezzlement. had been released. President
McKinley having reduced the sentence.
The week beginning Jan. 2, 1900. has
been set for the electrocution of How
Scene of Operations in South Africa.
Fifty privates of Company K. forty
second volunteer infantry, were the
victims of ptomaine poisoning and
, eighteen of them are now in the hos
pital. The poison is supposed to have
been made in the hash.
It is feared that the government
stores of winter clothing consigned to
the two compan.'es of military at Fort
Gibbon on the Yukon will not reach
the troops this winter, in which case
the men will suffer severely.
In Philadelphia the Methodist bisli
ops discussed the best methods of deal
ing with the southern negro problem.
An important question considered was
the appropriations for southern
schools. The amount asked is $107,630.
After being locked in her room for
three days, and submitting to inhuman
abuse from her insane husband, Mrs.
Ralph Reiff was rescued at St. Louis.
She was found lying on her beu with
her husband’s hands clutching he."
throat.
Frank Doyle, brother of John Doyle,
the wealthy contractor, was shot dead
in Chicago by Claude B. Giles, a de
tective, who was attempting his arrest
on a charge of robbery. Serious doubt
is now' raised as to the truth of the
charge.
At Frankfort, Ind„ Andrew Thomp
son committed suicide by taking mor
phine. The death has developed be
yond doubt that there is a suicide club
jin the city and that two of t raem
| tiers have already carried out their ob
ligations.
It is understood that Mrs. Stanford
jhas sold her stock in the Southern Pa
cific for $11,400,000. The money will be
made available for the use of the Stan
ford university, which is now one of
the wealthiest institutions of learning
in the world.
It is understood that the president
| will soon promote and retire from the
rank of brigadier general in the regu
lar army several of the few remaining
colonels of the regular establishment
who rendered conspicuous service in
the civil war.
The steamship Managua, from Guat
emalan ports, reports that since the
Guion was under the influence cf
10 events a stem on bananas planters
have stopped cutting and cargoes of the
fruit are not obtainable. The tax is to
defray the expenses of the recent anti
revolutionary operations.
Joseph Koch, manager of a New York
private letter agency, positively identi
fies Roland ,i Molineux as the man
who engaged a letter box on Dec. 21,
IS9S, under the name of H. Cornish.
He also states that a package of Kut
now's powders, as well as other mat
ter. arrived, addressed to H. Cornish.
FOREIGN.
The kaiser will push his canal bill.
The rebel Yaqtiis were defeated bv
Mexicar. t’-oops.
France will sue churches to recover
taxes avoided by falsifleations.
The French chamber opened in a
turmoil over the Dreyfus case.
Brazil celebrated the tenth anniver
sary of the proclamation of the repub
lic.
A German expedition in west Africa
ard C. Benham, a Batavia, N. Y., bank
er, who is under conviction for the
murder of his wife Jan. 4, 1897. by poi
son.
At Red Bank, N. .1., James Walsh,
formerly chief of police, now acting as
constable, was shot and killed by Wil
j Ham Bullock, a colored man whom he
tried to serve with a summons for
debt.
At Cincinnati it develops that Rev.
Adolph Foith, who suddenly died at a
police station while waiting trial for
j gross improprieties at an orphans'
home, committed suicide by poisoning
himself.
The leading feature of the annual re
port of Assistant Secretary Allen to
Secretary Long relative to the naval
militia is his strong indorsement of
the plan for the organization of a na
val reserve.
At Springfield, 111., not a street ear
was run owing to the strike of the
street railway employes over the re
fusal of the company to recognize the
men’s union and to reinstate dis
charged employes.
The stockholders of the newly-incor
porated Telephone, Telegraph and Ca
ble company of America met and elect
ed the following officers; President,
Wm. J. Latta; secretary, George F.
Hawkins; directors, Wm. J. Latta,
Martin Moloney and James E. Hayes.
The authorized capital stock is $30,000,-
000.
killed 200 cannibals as a punitive meas
ure.
The danger of war between Russia
and Japan is regarded as more immi
nent.
State department officials deny the
probability of war between Russia and
Japan.
Berlin police forcibly dissolved an an -
archist meeting in honor of the Chi
cago executions.
Five lives were lost in the wreck of
the schooner Edna and Emma near St.
Pierre, Miquelon.
Ministerial supporters elected Col
ombo president of the Italian chamber
of deputies by 198 to 179.
A German punitive expedition in the
Cameroons, west Africa, is said to have
recently killed 200 cannibals.
Great Britain has acquiesced in the
American desire for assurances regard
ing the “open door" in China.
A large Russian fleet intends winter
ing in Nagasaki harbor, and some re
monstrance by Japan is probable.
France demands indemnity from Chi
na for the murder of two officers in
Hainan and has arrested the prefect.
Russia is endeavoring to secure
another loan in Germany, having failed
to effect one amywhere else in Europe.
The wife of Daniel Dupuis, the
French sculptor, killed him so she
would not die first and then killed her
self.
Colonel Ore of the insurgent forces
made an attack on Pisco, in the de
partment of Lima, but was utterly de
feated.
A leading reason for the czar’s re
cent visit to Emperor William was the
desire to urge the securing of a Rus
sian loan in Germany.
In the French chamber of deputies at
Paris the rightists and anti-Semite3
criticised War Minister Gallifet on ac
count of his treatment of the army.
Gen. Castro, leader of the revolution
ary movement in Venezuela, took Puer
to Cabello after killing or wounding
650 persons in an attack upon the town.
Lieutenant C. C. Wood, who has died
from wounds received at Kimberley,
was a grandson of Jefferson Davis and
a great grandson of President Zachary
Taylor.
The Hamburg-American liner Patria
caught Are in the English channel.
The Russian steamer Ceres rescued the
150 passengers. The crew remained to
try to save the ship.
Captain Raymond of the steamer
White Cloud, which foundered on the
way to Manila, has just been arrested
in Hong Kong for taking the vessel to
sea in an unseaworthy condition.
The Belgian steamer Belgique found
ere<i off the Casquet rocks, near Alder
ney Island. Eighteen persons, includ
irg the captain, out of a total crew of
t'venty-six, are believed to have per
ished.
There is a belief that a clash between
, Russia and Japan is likely. The Rus
sian clutch on Chinese commerce and
territory excites the Japanese, who
think their army and navy could de
feat the czar's.
At Montreal fire destroyed the biscuit
and confectionery warehoues of Viait
& Frere, and adjoining buildings on
Notre Dame street. Loss, $500,000.
One fireman was fatally burned and the
chief seriously injured.
The Bank of Spain report for the
week ended Saturday shows the follow
ing changes: Gold in hand, increase,
2,000 pesetas; silver in hand, decrease,
1.298,000 pesetas. Notes in circulation,
increase, 1,930,000 pesetas.
Hurry orders have been received by
the builders of the Japanese battleship
to complete the vessel as rapidly as
possible. The new ship will be one of
the largest afloat. It is believed that
these instructions are the result of in
creasing tension between Japan and
Russia.
, George Cooper, who in 1892 was sen
tenced to ten years’ imprisonment for
having killed his wife at Douglas, Isle
of Man. has just been released, and
finds himself in possession of a fortune
estimated at nearly $3,000,000. Both
his father and father-in-law. who were
always convinced of his innocence,
died during his imprisonment, leaving
him large properties.
ALL QUIET IN SAMOA.
But War Inevitable Unless Annexa
tion Solves Question.
San Francisco, Nov. 18. —Advices to
the Associated Press from Apia, Sa
moa. dated Nov. 3d. received Friday
per steamer Alameda from Australian
ports, via Apia and Honolulu, state
that everything is quiet in the Samoan
group; that the collection of taxes is
progressing smoothly, though it is
said the Matafans will not pay taxes
over to the government. At the time
of the departure of the Alameda from
Apia nothing was known of the an
nounced intention of the three powers
to agree on a sifb-division of the group,
and the correspondent states that "un
less annexation is the solution of the
Samoan question war will be inevitable
in these islands.”
M ARTHUR PUSHING NORTHWARD.
Manila. Nov. 18. —Gen. MacArthur,
with the thirty-sixth infantry and a
battalion of the seventeenth infantry
troop of the fourth cavalry, with sever
al gatllngguns and a detachment of the
signal corps, has begun the northward
advance from Tarlac. which will be
continued to Bayombong, province of
New Vizcaya.
REPEATING TACTICS
BOERS PLAN THEIR FORMER COUP
AT DUNDEE. - 4
BRITISH ON THE ALERT
Big Army Almost Ready For Opera
tions at Dundee— Ladysmith Hold
ing Out Under Fierce Bombardment
—Operations in Northern Natal—
Connaught Wanted to Fight.
London,, Nov. 18. —Absence of news
of any serious movement against Lady
smith seems to show that the boers are
repeating the strategy adopted by them
at Dundee when they appeared in front
and endeavored to effect a surrounding
movement. This seems to have been
the object regarding Estcourt and since
it is impossible that relief should
reach there for some days it is not un
likely that a farther retiring movement
on Mooi river will be made. Major
Wolfe-Murray has returned to Pieter
maritzburg to take command of line
communications. Col. Long of the
royal artillery has taken command at
Estcourt. The forces now at Pieter
maritzburg are too weak to attempt to
reopen communications. Artillery and
cavalry are especially badly need
ed and it necessarily will
take a very long time to obtaiu
either, owing to the difficulty of en
tertaining and the necessity of allow
ing horses to rest after a long sea voy
age. The announcement of the arrival
of General Mothuen at Orange river
doubtless means that arrangements are
in a forward state for the advance from
that point, if advance has not already
begun. Kimberley was safe Nov. 10.
Last Tuesday a boer force of 600 en
tered Aliwal, north of Cape Colony,
hoisted the flag of the Free State and
declared the town and district to be a
part of the republic. The activity of
the boers in this locality woffld almost
point to the necessity of insuring the
safety of the column marching to the
relief of Kimberley from attack from
this direction or from Bloemfontein.
In view of the reticence of Gen. Buller
it is almost useless to speculate regard
ing the report of the movement to re
lieve Kimberley. It can only be in
tended to withdraw the boers, if pos
sible, from Natal. The object of the
occupation of Aliwal is understood to
be to prevent a large quantity of am
munition at Herschel from being for
warded to Jamestown, thence to
Queenstown. The boers have
notified the inhabitants that
no looting will be allowed. There are
reliable reports of mysterious move
ments of the Free State commandoes
along Orange river and important de
velopments are expected. Everything
tends to show that, the relief of Kim
berley could only be safely overtaken
by a strong column. Lourenzo Mar
ques continues to send Joubert stories,
the latest being that no news has been
received from him at Pretoria for three
days and that it is rumored he was
taken prisoner. It is announced the
Duke of Connnaught was among the
first to seek employment in war, even
offering to waive his seniority for this
purpose but it was not deemed expe
dient that an officer who was senior to
Sir Redvers Buller should serve under
him. The duke was greatly disap
pointed.
Big Army at Durban.
London, Nov. 18—The admiralty an
nounces the arrival at Capetown Fri
day of the tropoship Arcana, bringing
the reinforcements up to 23,500 of
which 7,290 are already disembarked at
Durban. This force, with mat already
between Esteourt and Durban, is con
sidered sufficient to enable Gen. Hilde
yard to take the aggressive against the
boers south of Ladysmith. According
to the latest advices Ladysmith was
holding out satisfactory, everything
having been well up to Wednesday.
Prisoners Well Treated.
Durban, Nov. 18.—(16th.) A gentle
man who was arrested at Johannesburg
and taken to Pretoria and released, has
arrived here, via Delagoa bay. While
at Pretoria he was confined with the
military prisoners, compromising 52
officers, 1,275 non-commissioned officers
and men from Natal, 10 officers and
25 non-commissioned officers and men
from Mafeking, and 4 men from Fort
Tuli. The prisoners' guards are almost
exclusively Germans and the artillery
men manning the forts are almost all
Germans. The prisoners are well fed
and shown every consideration.
Many Officers Missing.
London, Nov. 18. —It is reported the
British government has purchased the
Creusot guns ordered by the Transvaal
but not delivered. An official dis
patch confirms the statement that
Capt. Gen. Haldane of the Gordon
Highlanders attached to the Dublin
fusiliers, and Lieut. T. H. Frankiand,
and 37 non-commissioned officers and
men of the Dublin fusiliers are missing.
Meyer Has Confidence.
London. Nov. 18.-A dispatch from
Marques says: “Pretoria
newspapers announced last Wednesday
that 4.000 burghers had left General
Jouberts force around Ladysmith to
join Commandant Botha’s force near
Estcourt with a view to assisting to in
ercept the British advance to the re
lief of Ladysmith. Gen. Lucas Meyer,
Free State commander, asserted he was
convinced the battle of Elandslaagte
will be the first and last boer defeat of
the year.”
At Clinton, la., by an explosion at
the Northwestern railsawing mill.
Fireman Proesaie was instantly killed
and Engineer Edert fatally tainted. i
The mill was wrecked. * vX *