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Continued From First Pajce.
high-minded remarks of my friends I
thought if I could only have Oom Paul
here to look at you. I come as a citizen
to listen to what the friends of a brave
little nation in far off Africa have to say
for its struggle for freedom and liberty
against one of the greatest and most
powerful nations in the world. They are
a brave and noble people, who have left
their native lands far across the sea to
build up a new home in South Africa, to
live In peace and haimony and serve
their God according to the dictates of
their own hearts. Mr. Chairman, the
•war is on—"
Somebody in the rear of the auditorium
Bhouted "already yet," and after the
laughter and applause had subsided
Mayor Kiefer observed:
"I have a friend, Mr. Chairman, who
always says, 'So it is.' Rightfully, the
one who is entitled to our sympathy is
the Boer. Not only is he entitled to our
sympathy, but the sick and wounded
should receive substantial aid at our
hands. The Red Cross should again cross
the seas to help that little nation. A na
tion struggling for a government of the
people, for the people and by the people
Is thrice entitled to the sympathy of lib
erty-loving humanity."
Then came another outburst of ap
plause, and after the orchestra had ren
dered a selection Health Commissioner
Ohage was introduced by Chairman
Clapp.
FIGHTING A FORLORN HOPE.
"The purpose of our meeting tonight is
not only to express our sympathy with
that little band of heroes in South Africa,
who are fighting a forlorn hope against a
mighty empire, but to show our own j
government how we feel," he said. "It |
is the old story over again, when man |
destroys man against whom he has no ill
will. People who do not like to live un
der the laws of the United States need
not stay here. (Applause.) It is different
with the Englishmen in South Africa—
from the English viewpoint. All our re
ports come through English channels, but
you may be sure, were the provocations
that England claims true, we would not
find Americans, Dutch, Irish and French
fighting shoulder to shoulder with the
Boers.
"You are told that England is fighting
for civilization. These words in the
mouths of Englis.. statesmen are blas
phemy. It was English humanity that
blew the Sepoys from the mouths of can
non, it is English humanity that denies
poor Ireland justice. It is English hu
manity that brings about the use of lyd
dite and the dumdum bullets. It is Eng
lish humanity that slaughters the Boer
prisoners and then boasts of It. English
humanity stands today v.here Roman hu
manity stood 2,000 years ago. Her con
tracts have been written in blood and
teara. She has made a b.slne?s of civll's
ing weaker peoples on the lion and lamb
principle, with the lamb inside. She stoo 1
by us when we were righting a sevcn.h
rate power, and protected us when no
body was trying to do us harm. Next
to a coward, the most abhorrent tiling
Is a braggart. England has come to com
plete isolation—a bully among nations.
She has not a friend upon the earth ex
cept, perhaps, Washington, D. C, and
Washington, D. C, does not mean the
American people. In numbers little moie
than the populaton of the Twin Citie3.
The Boers have entered into this struggle
for their all—their liberty and their
homes. They are Spartans in every re
spect. These are the people that Eng
land wants to civilize. Rome had h.r
Cato, England her grand old man, Glad
stone. The best English abhor this war,
but they are in it because of an unscru
pulous, corrupt ministry. Let us pray
for victory for the little band of Bo^rs,
whose every man, woman and child is a
hero."
KANE SCORES OFTEN.
T. R. Kane, who followed, delivered
the longest address of the evening, but
almost every sentence was punctuated
with applause. It was a masterly and
most eloquent review of the history of the
Boers and the causes leading up to the
•war, with a stinging arraignment of Jo
seph Chamberlain. He paid in part:
'"The world is witnessing at the pres
ent hour the saddest and most gloomy
spectacle that has ever disgraced the
pages of history. Two struggling repub
lics have been forced Into warfare to re
sist a rapacious foreign invader. Tho
presence of a free republic in South Af
rica is a menace to English domination,
and the edict has gone forth that the
republics shall cease to exist. The sad
dest feature is that a Christian civiliza
tion stands idly by and looks as a r-pec
tator upon this horrible spectacle witnout
a word of protest. England had, long
before the outbreak of hostilities, pre
pared her case by systematic falslicatlo-i
in regard to the character of the Boers.
Her case was given to the world through
the Associated Press, and every other
agency that could be reached by gold,
•while the Transvaal had to tell her story
witlr British censorship or remain silent.
England for once reckoned wi'hout her
host. She forgot that truth <ould not be
strangled in the sands of South Africa,
even when surrounded by British bayo
nets. I will prove out of Joseph Cham
berlain's mouth, by his statements in the
British parliament, that the war could
be termed but a war of Immorality. I
am not making a direct charge against
the Englishman, remember, but against
the policy which his government pur
sues.
CHARGES ARE UNTRUE.
"One of the British charges is that the
right to vote is denied foreigners fn the
Transvaal. That charge has been made
In the Associated Press, nncl is as untrue
as the other charges. The truth is that
any foreigner who will forswear allegi
mca to his sovereign can become a citi-
zen. The Englishman wants the right to
vote, but refuses to forswear allegiance
to his queen. Then he is not allowed to
vote, and there is not a state In the
American Union that has not similar
laws. It is claimed that the taxation is
unequal. So it is in St. Paul. The truth
is that the taxation in the Transvaal is
based pro rata upon the value of prop
erty. If I own $20,000 worth and you $10,
--000 then I pay twice as much as you,
which is certainly fair, .tsut the English
men have come over and secured control
of the gold and diamond mines, and made
riches out of the Transvaal, where they
left poverty at home. If a great syndicate
takes $2,000,000 in dividends out of its
mines in a year it is but just that it
should pay more for the support of the
government than the poor farmer upon
the African veldt. The whole purpose of
this war lies in the desire of Cecil Rhodes
and the Kimberley diamond speculators
to get possession of that country."
Mr. Kane was given an ovation when
he concluded. He was followed by G. J.
Lomen, who spoke briefly, and then the
chairman introduced C. D. O'Brien, who
was greeted with prolonged applause.
"1 am thankful for the pleasure and
the honor of being with you tonight.
"When the instinct of the American people
detects any cloud that threatens the safe
ty of the republic they arise in their
might and assemble in mass meetings as
you have assembled here tonight—a sov
ereign people sitting in deliberation to
direct its servants, the representatives in
congress, to do such because we are the
people, your masters, and we will it.
Never since the' days of the American
Re-volution has such a spectacle been sef-n.
A little band of people In far off Africa,
standing back to back, surrounding their
wf men and children and battling fcr
their lives, because they chose to love
their God and the liberty He gave them.
The Almighty God has His purpose Ui
directing the attention of the American
people to this tragedy. The similitude
between this conflict and our own strug
gle for independence is great. It was
our struggle that made possible the con.,
ditions existing today,when the grandson
cf an Irls-h emigrant occupies the presi
dential chair."
"They've got him hypnotized," shouted
a voice from the rear, and there was a
roar of applause.
'One Irishman is enough at a time,"
remarked Mr. O'Brien, continuing his ad
dress, after the interruption.
"I hate, and I should be false to my
race and principles if I did not, hate with
great bitterness the English government
and the English system of aristocracy-
a system that says of two children one
has blue blood in his veins and the other
red. It is the old battle of aristocracy
against the people that is being fought
out in South Africa.
"If I were fit to pray before the Chanc
ery of Heaven, I would ask Him to help
the men who are battling tor liberty in
South Africa, because they love liberty
better than they do their lives."
RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED.
At the conclusion of Mr. O'Brien's ad
dress, Chairman Clapp read the follow
ing resolutions, which were adopted by
a. rising vote, and copies ordered sent to
the Minnesota representatives in con
gress :
It appears that the English government
claims to be justified in waging war upon
the Boer republics, mainly because the
Boers placed what the English govern
ment claimed to be an unjust tax upon
the persons and companies operating the
mines in the Transvaal, and because the
Boers do not grant the right of franchise
to aliens. It should be remembered that
the Boer republics only impose a license
of 5 per cent of the net profits for the
right to remove the mineral wealth of
that country and this license is ultimately
largoly borne by stockholders resident in
London. While this license is fixed at 5
per cent, a license of 60 per cent on the
gross output is imposed in the adjoining
English province of Rhodesia and 10 per
cent in British Columbia.
In answer to the claim that the Boera
do not grant franchises to aliens it must
be remembered that before the Salisbury
government forced war upon the Boers,
the Boers reduced the residence limit of
foreigners to five years. They make this
concession to avoid war with a great and
seemingly invincible power. This is the
limit fixed in the United States, and while
it is true that no foreigner can be elected
to the upper house of the legislature in
the Boer republics, it must be borne in
mind that no foreigner except by special
act is eligible to the upper branch of the
English legislative body. No civilized na
tion does nor can permit foreign nations
to dictate the terms of naturalization
la~ws. It appearing that the war waged
by the Salisbury government against the
Eoer republics is wholly unjustified, there
fore, be it
Resolved, That the citizens of St. Paul
here assembled, in mass meeting, and rep
resenting all creeds, nationalities and be
liefs, declare that when Joseph Chamber
lain stated that the American people were
in sympathy with his effort to crush out
the Boer republics, he not only mis
judged the character of the American
people, but forgot that the Boers are only
repeating the struggle we made more
than a century ago, except that we then
revolted against the English crown, while
the Boers are struggling to maintain a
government which has been twice rec
ognized by the English government in
treaty convention.
We, therefore, must emphatically refute
the base insinuation that the American
1 people sympathize in the effort of tho
English government, represented by the
Salisbury ministry, to overthrow and
crush out a sister republic.
It is further resolved. That we un
hesitatingly declare that it is our earnest
hope that in this struggle the Boers will
be able to maintain their national ex
istence and retain their national inde
pendence.
It is further resolved. That in view of
the growing sentiment among civilized
nations to submit matters of difference to
arbitration, if there was any real dif
ference between the English government
and the Boer republics, it is greatly to be
regretted that such difference was not
submirtd to arbitration, in accordance
with the earnest request of the Boor re
publics made before resorting to arms, es
pecially in view of the great disparity In
the power and strength of the two na
! tons.
It is further resolved. That copies of
I these resolutions be sent to our senators
i and representatives.
THE ST. PAUL GLOBE, SUNDAY, JANUARY 7, 1900.
PARCHEDWITBTBIRST
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BRIBES FOR A MOUTHFUL OF
WATER FROM fiINGINES
WAB'S AWFUL REALITIES
Night Sortie In Which Many Men on
Both Sides Give Up Their Lives—
Beleaenred People In La<dysm(th
Barrow In the Ground for Shelter
From Boer Shells—Modder River
Battle to Become Hiatorlc.
Correspondence of the Associated Press.
LONDON, Dec. 30, 1899..—*' The men
were crowding round the engines in line,
offering the drivers fabulous prices for a
cup of water," writes the Globe corre
spondent, describing the close of the bat
tle at Enslin, "but it was useless. The
drivers had been threatened with courts
martial if they supplied any, as there
was great difficulty in keeping sufficient
supply for the engines. I saw one soldier
lying flat on the line, under an engine,
catching a few drops in his mouth from a
steam pipe."
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The accompanying map is designed to
show, In a way to be plainly evident to
St. Paul people, the relative positions of
the centers of interest In the Boer war
and the distances which separate them
in terms of familiar cities. The cut shows
maps drawn upon the same scale of the
theater of war in South Africa and the
country adjacent to St. Paul, placed one
over the other, Ladysmith and St. Paul
being made to coincide. If the forces of
Gen. Buller, who is at Ladysmith, were
located at St. Paul, then Gen. Methuen,
descriptions of fighting In South Africa
give some faint idea of the conditions un
der which It is being carried on. Belated
as these letters are, by the time they ap
pear in English papers, they throw much
needed light upon the campaign, so bar
renly reported over the censored cables.
The heat that drove British soldiers
to drink gratefully from the exhaust
pipe of an engine, after seven hours fight-
Ing at Enslln, where they lost 179 killed
and wounded, has proved a serious factor
in the care of the wounded. Surgeon
Makins, formerly of St. Thomas hospital,
writes under date of the field hospital at
Orange River:
"During an eight-day stay some 600
wounded men have passed through the
hands of the royal army medical corps
here. In one night alone 300 patients ar
rived from the fight at Modder River.
Yesterday the thermometer registered 125
degrees Fahrenheit in some of the tents.
The journey from here to the base hos
pital at Wynberg, which takes twenty
eight hoUrs, emphasizes the difficulties
due to the immense length of the line of
communication.
• "The immense majority of the wounds
have been inflicted by the Mauser or Lee-
Metford bullet, and a small proportion by
Martini bullets and large projectiles. A
wounded Boer Teferred to the Lee-Met
ford as a 'gentlemanly bullet,' and this
remark is equally applicable to the Mau
ser. The wounds made by them are
small, clean and little disposed to suppu
rate. Those bullets met with have been
little deformed unless they have struck
bones before entering, and I have seen
no single instance which would suggest
the use of either flattened or so-called
explosive bullets among the wounded
here."
NIGHT SORTIE.
From Mafeking, under date, of Oct. 26,
the Times correspondent in that be
leaguered place vividly describes a night
sortie by Capt. Fitzclarence, with fifty
five men of the Protectorate regiment,
and Lieut. Murray, with twenty-five men
of the Cape police.
"Shorty after 11 o'clock," writes this
i correspondent, "Capt. Fitzclarence and
his men started on their perilous, under
taking. In the faint light of the night
we could see their figures silently hurry
, ing across the veldt. Then in the blue
j haze of the distance a black blur be
i tokened the position of the enemy, and
! it seemed that at any moment the hoarse
challenge of the Boer outposts would
give the alarm. The men crept on si
lently in extended order, holding them
selves in readiness for the supreme mo
ment. The silence was intense. The
heavy gloom, the wistful noises of the
j veldt at night, the shadowy forms of the
| men seemed to heighten the tension of
! one's nerves. In a little while our men
were within a few yards of the enemy,
I then furtively each fixed his bayonet to
: his rifle, and as the blades rang home
[ Upon their sockets the gallant band
; raised a ringing cheer. Instantly the
; Boer position was galvanized into ac
: tivity. Figuies showed everywhere, shots
j rang out, men shouted, horses stampeded,
■ the confusion, which reigned supreme
, everywhere, gave to our men one vital
I moment in which to hurl themselves
! across the intervening space. Then there
| was a crash, for, as it happened, many
I of our men were nearer the intrench
ments than had been anticipated, and
their charge had precipitated them upon
some sheets of corrugated iron which
the Boers had torn from the grand
stand at the race track for protection
from the rain.
"Approaching the trench a few rapid
volleys were sent Into the enemy, who,
taken entirely by surprise, were easily
demoralized. Those In the first trenches
seemed petrified by fright. Those that
remained were disabled by the bayonet,
knocked senseless by the clubbed rifle
or shot dead. Capt. Fitzclarence him
self Is credited with killing four of the
enemy with his sword, his men plying
their bayoiifcts the while. After they
were out <ft the trenches the fighting
grew hotter! Some recollections of their
earlier boasts Inspired the Boers and
they made „&. stand. Commandant Bo
tha, in charge of the flag party that ar
ranged for an armistic, this morning told
our officers he thought 1,000 men had
been hurled against the trenches.
~BXYONET CHARGE.
"After thjei first few volleys our men
charged wits the bayonet right across
the line of Jhe trenches, v It was In this
charge thei Boers lost so heavily. So
soon as the* squadron reached the ex
tremity .^of.. the Boer position they re
treated independently, their movement
covered jby lahe flanking flre of the Cape
police, whicfi added still further to the
perplexi^ies/pf the enemy. The galling
fire of bthe I police disturbed them for
some time longer than was required in
the actual retirement of the force.
"The Boers had been completely un
nerved by the onslaught of the Protec
torate men. and a feature of the hours
which elapsed between the final with
drawal of our force from the scene of
conflict and the advent of dawn was
the heavy firing of the enemy, who still
continued discharging useless volleys into
at Kimberley, it will be seen would be
in the vicinity of Pierre. S. D. Colesberg,
where Gen. French is operating, would be
off beyond Sioux City, while Gatacre, at
Stormberg, woulu be further to the south
and down towards Central lowa. Pretoria
is approximately the same distance and
direction from Ladysmith as is Walker,
Minn., from St. Paul. The distances make
it apparent why each of the English gen
erals is compelled to carry on an Inde
pendent campaign, but the difficulties arc
even geezer than are apparent from the
map, since in South Africa the county is
space. The loss to us in the encounter
had been six killed, ten wounded and
two of our men taken prisoners, but the
gravity of the loss which the enemy sus
tained can be most surely measured by
the fact that until a late hour this aft
ernoon they could not find the spirit to
resume the bombardment. It is said
in camp here that some 200 Boers will
have reason to remember the charge of
the Protectorate regiment."
The doing* of the besieged at Lady
smith have been fully described by recent
letters. If the Boers continue to so close
ly hem in and continuously bombard
White's force, the besieged promise to
become full fledged cave dwellers, for.
according to the Daily News' correspon
dent at Laclysmith, the prevalent ten
dency there is to burrow.
-: LIVING IN CAVES.
"Some people," writes the authority,
"having spent much time and patient
labor in making burrows for themselves,
llnd life there so intolerably monotonous
that they prefer to take the chances
nbove ground. Others pass whole days
with their wives and families, or in soli
tary misery, ' where there is not light
enough to read, scarcely showing a head
outside from sunrise to sunset. They
may be seen trooping away from fragile
tin-roofed houses half an hour before
daybreak, carrying children in their
arms, or a cat or a monkey or mongoose
or a cage of pet birds, and they come
back similarly laden when the night gets
too dim for gunners to go on shooting.
There would be a touch of humor in all
this, if it were not so deeply pathetic and
so closely associated with tragedies. No
one ever knows at what hour a stray
shot, shell or splinter may fall. It is
pitiful to hear the cry for dolly from a
prattling one, who may be fatherless or
motherless tomorrow.
"We are making the best we can of a
melancholy situation. The imperial light
horse have amused themselves at Lady
smith by constructing tunnels to the
river br.nk, connecting with dark caves
in which whole regiments might be hid
den. Knowledge of mining is sometimes
useful, though there be no precious metal
to dip out. Tn these caves the men find
cooling relief from the burning sun,"
••Looking out over the smiling plain
that stretches to the southeast of the
THE NAVAL BRIGADE WOBKING A 4.7-INCH GUN AT LADYSMITH.
town," writes the Standard's representa
tive at Ladysmith, on Nov. 10, "It Is hard
to realize that we are In the midst of
war. There Is not a Boer In sight. A
great mystery of peace has fallen on the
land. That serene tranqullity that fills
the air and covers the sunny hills car
ries one to the country on a summer
morning. On the veldt—level reaches of
meadow—cattle are grazing, with pros
perous farmsteads dotting the green
plain. A wreath of smoke, followed eight
seconds later by an angry rush cf air and
a deafening crash, recalls ono to the
actualities of the moment. On the hills,
a few miles away, are twenty-two guns,
and the enemy lies concealed along the
ridges and among the patches of green
brush that cover the ravines and kopjo3.
The enemy is estimated at 20,000 to 30,000."
GRIM SALUTE.
The same correspondent, describing the
repulse on the Prince of Wales' birth
day, says:
"At noon, when the enemy had fallen
back on their laager, a royal salute of
twenty-one puns was fired by the naval
brigade. Capt. Lambton was resolved
that the salute should be effective. One
shot silenced the Imsulwani gun for the
day, while another fell into Jouberfa
camp and—according to a coolie, who
escaped In the confusion—killed twenty
five men. It must be many years since
the national anthem was sung to an ac.
companiment of shrapnel."
Of the hard fight at Modder River, the
Glebe correspondent says:
'•On the plain were numerous white
crosses, which we subsequently discov-
much more difficult and means of commu- ■
nication much less adequate than is the
case In Minnesota and the adjacent states.
If the only railroad available to generals
operating near St. Paul, Sioux City, Grand
Forks and Pierre was a line from Pierre
to Grand Forks, largely in the possession
of the enemy, and from Pierre to Sioux
City, also in part in adverse possession,
the situation as it exists in South Africa
would be approximated. To complete the
parallel the enemy would have entire pos
session of a line connecting Sioux City,
10., and Montevideo and Walker, Minn.
ered were marked ranges set out by the
Boers previously. The fighting line on
both sides extended quite six miles, and
there was an Incessant fusilade and can
nonade for twelve solid hours. The
Boers were never seen by us; none of
the officers and men to whom I have
spoken since saw a Boer. It is certainly
marvelous how they always manage ta
hive themselves.
"The heat yesterday was terrific, no
wind, but a blazing sun at midday. We
were all done, and literally parched. Our
only refreshment duiing the twelve hours
was water heated by the sun in our water
bottles."
Of the same battle the Dally News cor*
respondent writes:
"The historian who writes a truthful
story of the battle of Modder River will
have a strange story to tell, if all one
hears is gospel truth. Stories of guides
who reported Modder River to be held by
600 Boers; of a regiment sent to clear
them out and finding 12,000; of regiments
flanking the enemy's position and within
a few hundred yards of his guns having
to retire because they were shelled by
their own artillery. Modder River was
an Alma, It was a hard fight. Grit,
doggedness and pride of cast made us
masters of the trenches. For sixteen
hours the battle raged. For sixteen
hours on a plain as bare of cover as the
dome of St. Paul's the infantry ad
vanced by short rushes in the swelter
ing heat to shoot and get shot. For six
teen hours the artillery, innocent of that
shelter which tacticians in books lay
down as absolutely necessary, pounded
away at an invisible foe. The wounded
fell out and were in most cases left, for
the stretcher bearers did not dare to en
ter the zone of fire. Each wounded man
was made a mark for the enemy's rifle
men. The wounded men were made use
ful, for the Boers took sighting shots at
them and thus got the range perfectly."
DEFECTIVE ARTILLERY.
Among the many criticisms of British
artillery none has attracted more atten
tion that that written on Nov. 12 at Lany
smith by the Standard's war correspond
ent. There is a frankness in it which
doubtless would never have passed the
censor, yet its text and the evident
knowledge of the writer upon artillery
matters stamp it with undeniable truth,
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however unpleasant reading It makes for
the British public. Summing up, this cor
respondent says:
"The disadvantage? under which we
have labored have been demonstrated re
peatedly. At Elandslaagte It was found
two men of the First field battery were
wounded at a range beyond that at which
they could fire shrapnel. Hence our field
guns axe useless as long as the siege
lasts. The Boer shrapnel Is fused for
5,200 yards, whereas our flre ceases to be
effective at 4,100 yards. The meaning of
this will be clear when I say that for
1,100 yards, or nearly three-quarters of a
mile, our artillery are exposed to the
fire of a practically invisible enemy, with
out being able to fire a really effective
Bhot In self-defense. In other words, our
guns would never get within effective
range of a French or German field bat
tery. We must have a gun that will
shoot with much greater accuracy at 5,000
yards and a fuse that is effective at 6,000
or 6,000 yards. Our equipment Is unduly
heavy. Our guns carry too much weight.
The double teams that brought the
Twenty-first battery to Elandslaagte, a
distance of fifteen or sixteen miles, had
not an ounce left In them. This is the first
time the British army has faced mod
■ em artillery, and the lessons to be learn
ed will be of the greatest value. Al
ready we have discovered that with the
aid of smokeless powder and with long
ranges the enemy may be Invisible and
CECIL RHODES, SAFE IN UNDERGROUND ROOM IN KIMBERI/V MINK.
LONDON, Jan. 6.—A private letter from
Kimberley states that Cecil Rhodes,
Rochfort Magulre and the Hon. Mrs.
Maguire are all living in luxuriously ap
pointed underground chambers in the
Kimberley diamond mine, secure from
that he is training shot and shell upon
us, and that days may pass before dis
closing the position of some of his guns
and Howitzers. The Boers have many
modern guns, many of them rifled, which
experts now in our army declare to be
more accurate and trustworthy than the
Lee-Metford at any range and position
and undetectable with field glasses. Our
equipment in this respect is deficient and
should be improved without delay."
England's Courteous Gift.
The British museum has presented 30.000
documents relating to the French revolu
tion, of which it had duplicates, to the
French National library, in Paris.
GRANTED A DIVORCE. "
Julia Marlowe Tabor Gela Freedom
and Alimony.
HYDE PARK, N. H., Jan. 6.-Julia
Marlowe Tabor, the actress, has been
granted a divorce from her husband,
Robert Tabor. The petitioner had three
charges upon which she based her re
quest for legal separation, but the court
threw out the allegations of desertion
and refusal to support, and considered
and approved that of alleged cruel and
Intolerable severity. The court granted
Mrs. Tabor's request for alimony, fix
ing the sum at 13,000.
Mrs. Tabor's deposition, the chief one,
was borne out by verbal testimony given
by Miss Marlowe's maid, Miss Beatty.
It was to the effect that the petitioner
was married under the name of Sar*h
Frances Frost, In Philadelphia, May 24,
1894. The coniugal relations between
the petitioner and her husband were
pleasant until 1836. when the latter ex
hibited signs of Jealousy, which condi
tion at times caused him to lay hands
upon her, and at one time he choked
her. In 1896 the petitioner claims her
husband ceased to contribute to her sup
port.
Christian Gilbert, an actor, in his de
position, said he had seen Tabor mal
treat Mrs. Tabor on several occasions.
Neither par'y to the action was pres-
shot and shell. Their rooms are boarded
all over, hung with carpets, lit by elec
tricity and heated by hot air. The writer
states that Rhodes wou!d never surren
der alive, though friends of the Colos^a
here consider him of far too practical a
turn to sacrifice his life for sentiment.
ent at the hearing, and after the case
had closed a paper signed by the at-*
torneys for both sides was filed in which
it was provided that if a divorce should
be granted Mrs. Tabor should receive
$3,000 alimony.
DOMESTIC TRAGEDY.
Philip W. Rose, Once Insane, Shoots
His Wife and Himself.
NEW YORK, Jan. 6.—Philip W. Rose,
a young man who two years ago rpent
some time in an insane asylum at Jack
sonville, 111., today shot and killed his
wife at her father's home, in this city,
tried to shoot her father and shot hi.
self, Inflicting- what are believed to be
mortal wounds.
Rose and r.is wife were second cousin:-,,
and they were married six years ago,
when Rore was prosperous. Two years
ago Rose became Insane and was con
fined to an asylum in Jacksonville. Aft
er being released from that Institution
he found difficulty in getting employ
ment and his wife came to this city to
live with her father. Her husband came
here a year ago, but the two did not
live together It is said that she re
fused to live with him, although he
often urged her to do so. Today he.
called on her and his father-in-law per
mitted him to,see his wife, when the
Bhooting occurred.
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SITUATION IS GRAVE.
Newfoundland Modus Vivendi Dead
lock Remains I'nbroken.
ST. JOHNS N. F., Jan. 6.—The dead
lock over the modus Vivendi for the
French treaty shore continues. The
colonial government is unable to arrange
for an early session of the legislature
to pass a bill renewing it, and the French
government is insisting upon the imme
diate passage of such a measure either
by the local assembly or by the British*
parliament. Officials here admit that
the situation Is very grave. The colonial
office in London is making every effort
to adjust matters and provide compensa
tions which vill induce the local au
thorities to act promptly.
Brooklyn Church Dnrucd.
NEW YORK, Jan. 6.—St. George's Epls->
copal church, corner of Marcy and Gatea
avenues, Brooklyn, waa completely gut
led by fire tonight. The walls were left
intact so far as could be determined
Loss, $50,000-