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KJJ NEV'SEEEBA3L1D PLATTSMOUTH, NEB.. MAY 15, 1900." VOL. IX, NO. 5 THK NEWS', Fstablshed Not. 5. 1891. 'consolidated Jan. 1.1895. THK IlKliALD. hsiat.hshed April 10. IsCt fWMUllu,BU ITLLEK NOW STRIKING Tl i INHERITANCE TAX IS VALID. Army IlrporliMl lo Have lrien iidt-is I'roni ISifjjsirsburs'. EEITI2H ONCE MORE EEACH DUNDEE Union Jack Again at the Point Where Hostilities Began. Pretoria Kcpoi-t an Atlackon JIafe khii Wliicli limns the Katftr tuailcrs Bm-r Women Dcuiaiul Arms. London. May 15. General Buller has at last li rii heard from iu action airain. 11 has, it seems, driven the Boers from their strong position iu the Biggarslerg. anl has occupied Dun dee, here the war began and where General Synioiids fell. There Is noth ing otlii ial from the seeue at this writ ing, lint the following is u special dis patch from Stone Hill Farm. Natal, ilated yesterday: "Gen. Puller's advance coiiitneuced Thursday, when he left Ixtdysmith iu strength. When within two miles of llelpinakaar the I5oers opened a heavy urtillery tire and the P.rilish jjuiis re plied, while a portion of Huller's troops worked rotmd the Boer Hanks. The British attack was pressed home Sun day, lleihmie, ou the right, out ranked the Boers, whose splendid de fensive isi tions on the Biggarsberg were practically taken. (Jen. Huller's mareh subsequent to the attack was earrieil out without a hitch. The liritish are still pushing on." Another dispatch announces the ar rival of 15rit!sh troois at Dundee. Itorra Again Attack Mafekiug. A dispatch from Pretoria is pub lished, dated May 12. which says: "A war bulletin has been Issued here announcing that the British are ad vancing against the federals at Help makaar and Touders. Nek. The burgh ers this morning attacked Maf eking. The lelegrapliist at Maloio says that a heavy title and canuoti lire was heard before 0 o'clock today and that the 'kahir location was in flames with in au hour and was totally destroyed. At lo o'clock, he athls, everything was quieter. ISoer Women Ask for Arms. At a meeting of y50 Afrikander wo men held yesterday it was resolved to ask the government for arms and am- National Supreme Court Det lares tb Whole Law Proper and Good. I Washington, May 15. The supreme j court of the United States yesterday ! announced opinions iu the cases I arising under the inheritance tax provision ox tne war rev enue act, and also in a case involv ing the applicability of the state in hertauce tax law of New York to es tates composed of government bonds. There were live decisions under the federal law and one under thj state law, but two of the former class ap plied, as did one of the latter class, to the taxation of government bonds. The court held that neither under the state nor the national enactment were national bonds exempt from tax tlon. The validity of the general fed eral law was affirmed, but it was held to be purely applicable to legacies and not to the entire estates of deceased persons, the court holding that "the tax Is on the passing of legacies or dis tributive shares of personalty, with a progressive rate on each. seiarately J determined by the sum of such legacies or distributive shares. GOV. TANNER IMPROVES. May lie Able to Avoid the Knife or the Surgeon Altogether. Chicago, May 15. There will be no operation performed on (Jovernor Tan ner iu the Immediate future certainly, and not at all unless there should be a recurrence of the syrnixtoms of the trouble from which he has been suffer ing. This was decided at a consulta tion held Sunday afternoon at the gov ernor's apartments at the Great North ern hotel by Dr. Nicholas Senn and Ms regular attending physician, Dr. L. C. Taylor, of Spriugtield. The governor was given a thorough examination, and it was decided he had beuelited so much from the treatment given him since his former visit here that an operation at present was not necessary. He is said to have gained several jounds in weight. lie left for Spriugtield yesterday. Alleged Dynamiters Committed. WVlland, Out., May 15. After three adjournments the preliminary hearing of the alleged dynamiters, Dallman, Nolio and Walsh, was resumed here yesterday. Only one witness was ex amined yesterday morning when the crown attorney stated that the crown case was closed. (Jorman, counsel for Dallman. made a strong plea for his client claiming that he had a com plete and satisfactory answer to every charge brought agaiust him. The three prisoners were committed for trial. IE UPON STRI RERS St. Louis Police Catc-li AVire Cut ters In the Act. F0B0DT EITHEE HIT OR CAPTURED Suburban Line Gives in to the Strikers Negotiations with the Transit Other Labor Troubles. St. Louis, May 15. Nearly fifty shots were fired in an encounter between :ards and wire-cutters near Brent- i.s-d, on the Meremac division of the i- t.lurbau road yesterday. The fight took place a quarter of u mile from the power house at Brentwood. Four men guardrng the property of the Suburban saw two men on foot and one on horseback moving along, the car tracks. One began climbing a wooden trolley pole, carry lug a pair of shears. The guards opened lire at the climber, who slid to the ground. The three men re turned the shots and tied, with 'more bullets following them. St. Louis, May 15. There were im portant developments in the street car strike situation yesterday. At a confer ence held between the officials of the Suburban Railway company the only system in St. Louis not controlled by Lightning Struck Iilm in the Neck. Holland, Mich., May 15. Henry D. Brink, aged 23 years, of Hamilton, Mich., member of the senior class of munition and suggest that they do the j Hope college, this city, was killed by work of the men officials in the town. who they declared, 'ought to le light ing at the front. The resolution was carrid unanimously. The Volkstem asserts that the British prisoners iu the hands of the Boors will first feel the effects of the embargo placed on tinned meats and clothing destined for the Transvaal at Delagoa bay. TREATMENT OF PRISONERS lightning Saturday morning while pre paring for breakfast at the home of Henry J. Luidens. A broken collar button and -burned shirtband indicate where the bolt struck, passing down his body, leaving a streak of discolora tion, tearing a rubber shoe from his right foot, and burning the floor and carpet under him. Record of the National Game. Chicago, May 15. League scores on the diamond yesterday were as fol lows: At Chicago New York 0, Chi- Pitts- 3. St. Subject of Interchange of Telegrams Ite tvrtn Kolwrtt and Kruger. V, ' V '"-" . eago 4; at Pittsburg Boston 3, published a dispatch from Lord Lob- , ,.. t St Tisnrooklvn ci ts dated Kroonstad. Sunday, May 13, j iuis 2; at Cincinnati Philadelphia giving me coriespoinience ueiweeu 7, Cincinnati 4. Lord Roberts aud President Kruger American League: At Buffalo Mil r. I.itive to the alleged ill-treatmt ut of ! waukee U. Buffalo 10; at Cleveland Chicago 5. Detroit 3; at Indianapolis Kansas City (J, Indianapolis 11. Saloonlst Wants a Mandamus. Tort Huron. Mich., May 15. John Gustke, an Eighth ward saloonkeeper, has asked for a mandamus to compel the city of Port Huron to accept his liquor bonds. The council recently passed an ordinance prohibiting sa loons within 'MO feet of a school house and Gustke's place of business is just across the street from the Eighth ward school building. It is the first con test under the law in this county. Descendant of John Alden. Waukegau. Ills., May 15. Little Miss Dorothy Bradford Alden, aged 5 days, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Alden. is the youngest direct descendant of John aud Priscilla Al den. of Mayflower fame. Her ancestry traces back to the Mayflower baud of pilgrims in a line more direct and stronger than that of any descendant in other branches of the family known of today. Avenged Himself by a Triple Crime. Butte. Mont., May 13. Charles Paustein, a well-known athlete, shot colonial ori.-oiicrs. The Transvaal s reply was to the effect that there was no difference in the treatment of the colonial and other prisoners, and that oi.ly a few who had contravened mar tial law or who had tried to escape, or who. it had been suspected, might try to escape, had beeu placed in jail for security. Otherwise they had been treated like ihe other prisoners of war. Regarding enteric fever, the govern ment ef the Transvaal said it was pre valent among the civil population as well as among the prisoners, and every remedial measure had been taken. Lord Roberts replied April 22 that he was glad to receive President Km .gel's assurances, and pointed out that no differences was trade by the British autho'ities in egard to the Boer pris oners against whom there might be reasonal U ground for suspicion that they would try to escape, adding that such exceptions gave room for abuse by officials without the knowledge of kraal, killing Captain Elsworthy and wounding two other officers and capt uring two officers r.rnl twenty-one rcen. When fired on the British were unsad dling their horses. the authorities. Roberts also scuds an official dis patch announcing another violation of the white flag by Boers at a kraal on May H. The white flag was Hying over the kraal and a party of Britisa rode up when it was lired on fron tne ' and killed Alexander Tate, manager of a butchering concern; shot aud seri ously wounded Mrs. Alexander Tate, and then committed suicide. Paustem's wife secured a divorce on account of cruelty. Paustein charged Tate and his wife with being responsible for the separation of himself and wife and avenged himself in the above manner. litis Hopes for Mafcking. London, May 15. The parliamentary secretary of the war ojee, Mr. George Wyndhain, replying to a question in the house of commons yesterday, de clined to divulge Lord Roberts' plans for the relief of Mafeking, but. he add ed that he hoped they would shortly be accomplished. Charged with Assassination. Montgomery, Ala., May 15. War rants wre sworn out yesterday for the arrest of Warren S. Reese. United" States district attorney for the middle district of Alabama; Julian H. Bing ham, internal revenue collector for Alabama, and Frank Morague, on a charge of conspiracy to kill certain doorkeeprs at the state capitol on the day of the meeting of the Republican state convention. . . . . 1 Poisoned Dy Eating Peanuts. Liberty, Ind., May 15. Alex. Beard and Leroy Martin are in an alarming No Amalgamation vf Socialists. Indianapolis, Ind., 13. Hugo Miller yesterday announced that by a refer endum vote of 1,313 to 931 the Social Democrats have defeated the proposed amalgamation with the so-called "kan garoo' branch of the Social Labor party and that this result will force Job Harriman off the Social Demo cratic ticket for vice president. Motiou to (2uaslfau Indictment. Lansing, Mich., May 15. A motion to quash the indictment against ex-At toruey General Fred A. Maynard, of Grand Rapids, has been filed in the circuit court by Attorneys O'Brien and Taggart, of Grand Rapids, and Os trander. of this city. Eight reasons are assigned in the motion. College Men on a Raid. Kalamazoo. Mich.. Mav l.V Mem- condition from eating peanuts. Itisa'bers of the sophomore and Junior case of vegetable poison. Their lips, I classes of Kalamazoo broke Into th mouths and tongues are swollen bad-, home of Rev. G. D. Adams, where the ly, andi it is feared blood poisoning seniors were being entertained Thurs- MAYOR HEKRT ZIEGENHEIJT. the St. Louis Transit company and on which a strike was inaugurated ten days prior to that declared on the Transit svstem and the omnloveS of that road an amicable adjustment was effected and the men returned to work this morning. On lust what basis the strike was settled could not be learned. but it can be positively stated tliat tne uuion received full recognition. In many quarters it is figured that the settle ment of the strike on the Suburban presages an adjustment of the diffi culties between the Transit comiany and i:s 3.('.it) striking employes in the near future. May Settle the Trunsit Strike. Iu fact, it was learned last night that at a conference held yesterday atternoou of the officials of the Transit company the chairman of the em ployee" grievance committee, and some of the members of the citizens com mittee, matters were adjusting them selves nicely for a settlement of the difficulties when a member of the citi zens' committee injected into the pro ceedings a propositioin of sucii a ciiar-. acter that the discussion was brought) ... . . 1 . . . . tl . . . via.. .m 1 IO Jt ( Htr iUililt t n mi iirturi i settlement than had heretofore exised. It is thought, however, that a future meeting of the same parties will result in establishing a basis for the settle ment of the strike. Situation on the Lines. The Suburban company had no diffi culty in maintaining a thorough run ning schedule yesterday and 110 seri ous demonstrations on that line oc curred. On the Transit company s system there were a number of demon strations more noisy than otherwise. In one instance the police were obliged lo charge on a crowd of strike sympa thizers to disM'rse it. and in a number of instances used the flat side of their sabres in accomplishing their puqHise. No casualties of a serious nature were rcport-d during the day. PESSIMISTIC PRESIDENT ItOYCE. may follow, with fatal results. It is the first case of peanut poisoning known in this part of the state. Washington, May 15. Acablegram was received at the war department yesterday from General MacArthur, dated at Manila Sunday, stating that Robert B. Cramer, first lieutenant of the Thirty-fourth United States volun teer infantry, had been sentenced to dismissal from the military service by day night, and made an unsuccessful attempt to carry off the ice cream and cake. Sparta, Wis., May 1-f. El'mer Benja min, the young man who shot Mrs. Emma Priest Thursday, was adjudged insane and taken to th easylum at Mendota. Bubonic Plague Record at Sydney. Sydney. N. S. W., May 14. The number of cases of the bubonic plague a court martial, and that he (General ' officially reported to yesterday is 210. MacArthur) had approved that sen- Of these seventy-three nave proved la- teuce. Famine Distric ts of India. New York, May 15. The Indian fa mine relief committee has issued an nppeal to the citizens, saying that Americ a ought to send at least $1,000, OOO to the famine districts of India. tal. Torrid Weather at Fargo, Fargo. N. D., May 14. It was torrid Saturday. The official maximum tem eprature was announced at 96, though many other thermometers announced 100. Labor Lender Who Paints I'nt le Sam in Iurk Colors. Denver, Colo.. May 15. In his ad dress at the opening of the annual con vention of the Western Federation of Miners yesterday President Boycesaid: "I will say wcfiout hesitation or fear of contradiction that in the grandest republic ever organized in the world we are fast descending to a condition worse than has ever existed in any monarchy on earth. It Is time for laboring people to say that no mil itary despot shall exist iu any state or county of this country. "We should not longer endure the ac tion of the judges sitting on the bench of the Unted States supreme court who issue injunctions restraining laboring men. There seems no relief to be ex pected from any political organization existing today, I am sorry to say, and all hope of gaining relief through poli tics must come when we come to the point where we can rely upon ourselves to cast a united vote." Another Labor Fight In Kansas City. Kansas City. Maj 15. Following out their declared Intention of last week the builders" trade lockout became ef fective yesterday. Members of the club say that about S00 carpenters, painters, tinners and plasterers were locked eut. while the union men declare that but between 300 and 400 are af- fpctcil Tin 1i-L-iit ii n tost tf strength between the boss buildersnd j the unions. The lockout was ordered! citing Incident yesterday. The strik ers, to the number of about 200, pa-1 raded the streets with a brass band in the afternoon, appearing on the streets j after the chief of police had refused to issue a permit for the parade and an ' appeal to Mayor Reed had been re-' sorted to, the mayor issuing the per mit. WAS A PREHISTORIC TUSK. Supposed Tree Root In the Mud of a Wis consin Creek. Baraboo, Wis., May 13. A valuable find was mado near the home of Jo seph Carbary at Spring Green, this county, ret'entlv. For several vears th by the master builders in an effort to break up the Building Trades Council and force each union to treat with con tractors independent of all other un ions. Street Car Strikers Parade. Kansas City, May 15. The street railway strike here was devo'd of ex family had seen what was supposed to be a root of a tree sticking out of the mud In the bottom of Bear creek. The other day while the children were playing about the creek they put a rope around the supposed root and hauled it to shore. It proved to be a large tusk, evidently of some animal that lived in these parts in the pre historic age. It was thirty-seven inches long, twenty inches in diameter and weighed forty pounds. Mr. Carbary also secured pieces of the other tusk and is going to dig for the rest of the skeleton. LOVED THE STAGE BETTER. Woman Leaves Her Husband and Chil dren for the Footlights. Kokomo. Ind., May 13. "Good-by, husband and children. How I love yeu all! (Jood-by, perhaps forever." The above words were the closing portion of a note F. O. Bloomfield found on a dinnerless table Sunday. The missive stated that the writer, Mrs. Bloomfield, had gone to St. Louis to join a theat rical company. Mrs. Bloomfield, who is a fair sing er and dancer, was recently a resident of Hoopston and Danville, Ills., where she figured in amateur theatricals. The abandoned husband, who is left with two small children, will make no effort to see-ure the return of the stage-struck woman. White Woman Kills a Black One. Danville, Ills., May 13. Mrs. Mary E. Smith, white, and a colored woman known as "Nigger Lucy" were arrestee! Sunday evening for eifgaglng in a street fight. The police put them in the woman's department a single large room of the police station. As soon as the door was locked and the women were alone hostilities were re newed. "Nigger Lucy" threw Mrs. Smith down and was kicking and bit irg tn?r. when Mrs. Smith drew a p -eket knife out of her stocking and sUbbed "Nigger Lucy," iustautly kill ing her. Labor Unions In a War. Tampa. Fla.. May 13. The labor troubles here have taken a turn for the worse. There is now a general strike in all the cigar factories of the Havana-American company in this city, and about. 1,000 are out. The trouble is .a struggle between the labor un ions, eae-h tr3-lng to make the strike settle the superiority of one over the other. Sul tiled at the Age of 67. Vlroqna, Wis., May 13. Ilartwell Allen, formerly superintendent of schools of Vernon county, committed suicide yesterday by hanging hdmself. He was a native of Vermont and was 07 years of age. During the early days he was one of the most prominent men in the county. Death of an Indiana Judge Logausport. Ind., May 15. Judge norace Biddle died Sunday night, aged 00. He was an eminent lawyer tcirlit;oratear and had served on the bene-h of the circuit aud supreme courts of Iudiana Yukon River Is Open. Victoria, B. C, May 15. The steam er Amur has arrived from Skagway. She brings ue-ws that the Y'ukon river opened at Dawson on the morning of the 8th and steamers are now running regularly from Lebarge through. No Michigan State Encampment. Lansing. Mich., May 15. There will be no state encampment this year ow ing to the refusal of troops to waive their per diem pay. TIES UP THE STRIKERS. Street Car Tie-Up Lealer Are Served With Injunction. i BURGHERS IN 111! 1 MAKES THE PICKET A LAW BREAKER -j Very Comprehensive on All Points at Issue St. Louis Has Peace , with the Cars Idle. 1 j Free Stater.s and Trans Are Reported to lie at CI ROBERTS WALKS INTO KROo! College Girl Gives a Comedy. Champaign, Ills., May 14. The Thi Beta Phi sorority of the University of Illinois entertained 250friends in Music hall Saturday evening toy presenting the play. "The Man in the Case." The young women took their parts in excellent style. Their guests were the members of all of the different sorori .ties aud fraternities, besides many "members of the university faculty. Some More Mine Workers Strike. Ishpeming. Mich., May 14. The trammers at the Winthrop mines quit work Saturday, the wage rate being unsatisfactory. No demand was made and the walkout was unexpected. New men are being hired to till their places. AU hoisting is4 suspended. NEWS FACTS UT OUTLINE. The president has appointed Charles S. Wiuans, of. Michlgau, to be consul at Iquique, Chile. The Ancient Order of Hibernians, in session at Boston last week, passed a pro-Boer resolution before adjourning. Archibishops Corrigan, of New York, aud Kaiu, of St- Louis, have arrived at Itome. The board of foreign missions of the Presbyterian church will for the third successive time close irs fiscal year, May 30, free from debt. Chicago vacant lots are to be sown with garden seed, the board of county commissioners having douated $300 to the Associated Charities for that pur pose. George Flemming, accused at Chica go of stealing a poeketbook, held l.OOU pursuers at bay Saturday night at Thirty-sixth and State streets by throwing ttrieks. John II. Clough, of Chicago, left ail his property, worth $304,000, to his wife. He expressly stipulated that his children should never have any of it French troops have occupied Ksarl gli, thus gaining control of the Moroc co frontier. Russian Dedegate Kabeko has left Sofia, declaring the czar will not ail the Bulgarians financially. John Buskin's will shows that he left an estate valued at only $00,000. Thomas F. Stockdale, of Chicago, agent for a stock yards commission company, was found dead in bed at Burlington, la. The betrothal of Princess Victoria, daughter of the Prnice of Wales, and Prince George of Greece is to be an nounced soon. John Wanamaker accuses A. L. Eng lish, director of public safety of Pb"; delphia. with attempting to blackmail him. English denies the accusation. Stanley Stavicki stabbed Stephen Podlinskl at Chicago because both loved the lame girl. Podlinskl may die. Special treasury agents nave found that quantities of Canadian wool has been smuggled Into Boston. Kansas City, May 14. Judge Will iam C. Hook, of Leavenworth, Kan., sitting In Kansas City, Saturday issued from the United States district court an injunction that is made absolute, for a week, the matter being set for a hearing on Saturday next, and if its re strictions shall be observed by the strikers the Metropolitan company has Its fight M-on, for the strikers' hands are tied for seven days. The injunction is predicted upon the fact that several of the persons complained against as threatening the interest of the com pany are residents of other states, and the further fact that the strikers threat en to prevent the company from carry ing out its contract with 'the United States government to transport thecity mail carriers to and from their routes. Effects of the Injunction. Harry Brynn, the national organizer of the Amalgamated Association, de scribed as a resident of Michigan, aud Is one of the parties enjoined, aud the others named are twenty-two local leaders of the union, several of whom are mentioned as residents of Ohio aud Kansas. The injunction restrains the persons named and all others from iu any manner, directly or indirectly, stop ping or interfering with the running of cars on the lines of the Metropolitan company; enjoins them from harrass iug, assaultiug or in any manner inter fering with any person who may be in the employ of the company as he goes to or from his work, or as he Is en gaged In the operation of a street car; enjoins union men and all others from picketing or patroling the car houses, stoppiug places, stations, tracks or approaches thereto, or loitering in large numbers in or about any of the places named, or making loud or bois terous noises in the vicinity thereof for the purpose of intimidating or interfer ing with the company's employes. Conoerted Action Retrained. The injunction even goes further than this, and enjoins any concerted action to cause any act or annoyance which will assist In stopping the opera tion of the cars, or interfering in any wise with an employe in moving a car which may carry a mail carrier or a messenger, or upon which a mail car rier or messenger may wish to ride. The restrictions not only apply to Or ganizer Harry Bryan and the twenty two men named, but to all others who may be acting iu concert with them aft er the entering of this injunction. In addition to the police and the deputy county marshals sworn in Saturday a force of United States marshals will be on hand to interfere in case the in junction is ignored, and there is ev ery probability that the strikers will not desist in their efforts to bring out the men who have so far failed to join them. All the Car Lines Running. Every street car line in this city and Kansas City, Kas., was in full opera tion yesterday and no show of violence was offertd by the strikers. The in junction of the federal e-ourt, enjoin ing the union men from interfering with the running of the cars, and the added fact that it was Sunday, e-om-bined to have a salutary effect uion the strikers, who, however, held a meeting and adopt eel resolutions ad elressed to the Missouri members of congress, which say: "We appeal to you in the name of humanity to use your best endeavors to have congress pass an act limiting the iower of Unit ed States judges in issuing ' injunc tions." They also favor the election of judges by the people. QUIET SUNDAY AT ST. LOUIS. HYPNOTIZED THE JAILER. Appears To Be the Way This Prisoner Got 1' ' His Liberty. Indianapolis, May 14. A peculiar case of Jail elelivery Is reported from the town of Geneva, where Frank Steed was arrested and placed in Jail on a charge of assault with Intent to kill. At noon Turnkey Johnson went to Steed's- cell to serve hi.m with din- - - ner. Afterward, when Johnson was ' found, it was several minutes before j Without Firing a Shot, a N he could be induced to talk, and when f Burehera Surrendering in- uivi ii Yiia niui rai euni mat he could be understood. He finally said that all be remem bered was that Steed had fixed his eyes upon him and had told him to unlock the door and let him out. He did not know why he did so, but he obeyed the request and was powerless to stop the prisoner as he walked out through the door, though he knew that he should not have done so. It developed later in the day that Steed, who was a stranger in town, was a hypnotist. Press Dispatch Says the Back the Keaistanoe Is Broken ling Voices Loyalist L'eiuai DID HE KILL HIS DAUGHTER? That Crime Is Charged Against a Fisher man Named Pearson. , Escanaba, Mich.,' May 14. John Tearson.' a fisherman residing at Ston- j ington, was arrested Saturday on a j warrant charging him with the murder ' of his 15-year-old daughter. Stoning- I ton is a hamlet on a narrow peninsula ' across Little Bay de Noquet and cut off from al communication save by boat. Pearson is a widower and for some years has lived alone with bis daughter. Ree'ently it was claimed that the girl was being mistreated and the neighbors threatened to bring charges against the father. Thursday she was taken suddenly ill and died within a few hours. It is claimed that Pearson buried the body with his own hands Friday while in j toxicated, related the occurrence to a neighbor. A warrant charging man. slaughter was sworn out and Pearson was arrested and brought to this city and placed in Jail. Payne on the Vice Presidency. Milwaukee, May 14. In regard to Governor Scofield's proposition that II. C. Payne be nominated by the Repub lican nartv for vice nresldent. Pavne had this to say to an Evening Wiscon- I -fu inhabitants. sin reporter: "Naturally 1 reel gratified at the kind things the governor has said of me. . Regardless of how I enter Into the matter personally, I believe the governor's argument for a vice presidential candidate from the west or middle west is sound." Londou. May 14. The S publishes the following from dated yesterday: "There are pel rumors here of heavy righ Natal. A Red Cross train night for the north." Cubans Orderly Daring Election. Havana, May 12. Senor Diego Taniayo, secretary of state of govern ment, says that all reports from the provinees go to prove that the people were very orderly during the election. Senor Taniayo adds that he is prepar ing to make a full report of the num er of cattle on the island and thor oughly investigate the cattle Industry in order to decide what taxes should be levied on cattle breeders or what protection is necessary to enable na tive cattle to compete with the Im ported meat market. Troops Prevent a Lynching-. Richmond, Va., May 14. At day light all was quiet at Martinsville. Va. The troops are guarding the jail where the negro. Charles Hairston, is con fined, and the governor will allow them to remain as long as they are needed by the sheriff. There were no mob demonstrations other than an under current of excitement and mutterings. No Cars Attempt to ICun. Except a Few Which Carried Mail. St. Ixiuis. May 11. The sixth day of the street railway strike yesterday was especially quiet and devoid of in terest. Not a wheel on any of the lines, except of the mail cars was turned in the city, in e-onsequence of the decision of Chief of Police Camp bell to give the men of the force, who had had but little time for rest during the past live days, a chauce to re cuperate. The management of the two street railway companies, who feared to run cars without police ' protection, decided to make no attempt to keep their lines open. Yesterday was the last day that the places vacateel by men on the St. Louis Transit company would be held open for them. All the old men who returned to work yester day were. to be allowed to avail them selves of the new scale of wages and get the increased pay to whiedi they will be entitled by reason of their length of service. Saturday night nine men succeeded In shattering a number of switches with dynamite on Papin street. They worked openly and without being molested by the large crowd. When the police came to the scene the men scattered and escaped. With the as sistance of the police the Transit com pany succeeded in getting three more of its lines open. Saturday, although no cars ran after 7 p. m. There were a number of small riots, and as a result a number of broken heads, for the police did not spare the clubs. One mounted policeman was struck on the head by a stone thrown by a woman, who was arrested. Henry Turner, a striker shot at a street car on Laclede avenue, his bullet passing through a window in a flat and miss ing a woman's head six inches. Bar ricades on the tracks were numerous. Robbers and Money Found. Indianapolis, May 12. Mrs. Cath erine Schwartz, living alone a few miles from here, was robbed of $2,500 In money and securities at midnight. Two hours later polie-emen met R. F. Poenitz and Marion Caudell, coremak ers at the Atlantic Engine works, act ing suspiciously. After the arrest th money was found on them and they confessed. Jnilje Phillips Not Seriously 111. nillsboro, Ills., May 12. Judge rhillips caught a severe- cold and has been compelled to remain in doors for two days. He sat up Thursday and is recovering from his slight relapse. London, May 14. The war d ceived the following dlspatc General Roberts Saturday nig "Kroonstad, May 12, 2. p.m tered Kroonstad at 1:30 today opposition, when the union Jaf Hoisted amidst cheers from British residents. President fled last evening after vainly en! ing 10-persuade tne burghers tinue opposing us. The Tran said Ithey would no longer 1 orsnse tree scare sou, ana n for the Vaal river. Free Sta cused the Tranvaalers of ha? id use of them and then deserting of the Free Staters have goue homes. Before leaving etaei rresident Steyu Issued nation making Lindley the government of the Free State! erals Botha and Ie Wet accoi the Transvaalers, Bad Report of Irlsh-Americsl 1-ollowlng Is a press dUpatc Saturday describing the si "The arrival of Lord RobeH hailed with enthusiasm by all t three hundr Staters were anxious to surrem bridge to the south had not atroyed, -but the large bridge 1 town had been demolished. T brigade with the burghers ye burned the goods shed. Accoi the townspeople many of the drunk. The Boers are now t to the Vaal river, where they trenching. General French enf : northeast of the town and disp: force to cut the line. The profl ceeded late at night, but unfori after the departure of the last . Free State Opposition About C "President Steyn has gone ley, the new seat of the Fri government. A number of t ghers are trekking homeward, position in the. Free State is p ly over. All the prisoners in th of the British here agree that tl ; rel between the Free Staters i Transvaalers Is so acute that th ' vaalers have decided to leav . allies, whom they accuse of col and lack of patriotism What May Happen Neat. "Most of the Transvaal j think that if they are defeate Vaal river the Boers will re Pretoria, but there appears growing distrust in the Transv ernment. In a word, the bat Will of the Late John Ruskin. ! Boer resistance seems to ha Loudon, May 14. The publication of broken. The burghers are the will of the late John Ruskin shows without their previous stuM that his nersonal estate was onlv 10.- 1 They seem ready to retreat 000, all that was left of his father's be- ; slightest pretext. The prlsonc quest of 200.000. In a codicil Rns- the Transvaalers. appear glad kin revoked the bequest of his art treasures to the Bedlolan library at Ox ford, and the treasures will remain at Brant wood. Renominated for Congress. Kansas City, May 14. At Independ ence Hon. William S. Cowherd of Kan sas City was renominated for con gress by acclamation by the Demo cratic convention of the Fifth district City High School la Ashes. Bloomington, Ind., May 14. Thecity high school, known as the old college, was destroyed by fire Friday. Loss, $10,000, covered by Insurance. NEWS FACTS IN OUTLINE. James N. Constable, senior member of Arnold, Constable & Co., died at New York, aged 88. Omaha wires: "If we have the weather and wind in July we are now ' Bft(j It is been captured. They say they or a war wntcn can nave it end. Several have exclaimed: ' lost our liberty: but why sh lose our lives?' " Hoers Making a Final Eflb London. May 14. The I Marques correspondent of Tint telegraphing yesterday, says: rumored that the Transvaal secret session, has resolved to residents, irrespective of na to assist in the defene of tli 11c, in accordance with the t the amended military laws. T recognize that tbey are now last extremity and all sorts ail tions of men are being comma The merchants here have against the stoppage of a con.4 of clothing and corned beef, n 1 the latter was purchased In United States oCnsul Stanley whose smypatbies are noteH to have remonstrated 'Interferen having, it is good-bye to corn. awful." . One murder and five suicide is the record of Chicago for two days. There has been trouble in St. Mary's Roman Catholic parish at Wllkesbaxre. Pa., culminating in an attempt to as sassinate the priest in charge. ejamunage maue rwing usear 01 ,n b, uv.Ur.n mtntst Sweden a Doctor of Laws. I . . . , . , ,, , , . , . s president of the British Wesle Charles II. Cole, former president of ' , , , the now defunct Globe National bank.' V ,,T " J of Rnttnn. pops to the nenltentfarv for the two republics. To this ap? what he called American trades' J KIPLING'S I"A 0 A PO Great Britain Must NotBsOenen Expense of Loyalists. London. .May 14. Rudyard brought from Cape Town the i eight years for violation of the bank law. Captain Dreyfus Is at Paris and the French government Isi worried. , Arbuckle says be will bring suit to compel the sugar trust to make a state ment at its transactions. " " n. ' Li Kellogg, a mill workman, for merly of Tomahawk, Wis., bad his hand mangled in a saw mill at Plain- field, two fingers being taken off. ling adds: "If. through any ini lasclviousness, we in England j tickle emotion by being generj again at other people's' ex pen the settlement comes, al lthlj bloody work wll lhave to be o4 from the beginning, five or t ahead. I assume that you i knowledge of the situation Africa, but I do not think you ize how passionately and eag "u "ur T' 'lovalists look to England fo unoiera is sweeping tne muiaiain.u he mother oountry will n V"'"V T1 , . , . ... ert them nor betray them John Redmond warned England that r'lch invaders who might land on the Irish The" Saturday Review, int coast wouiu uyi oe greeieu as erue-uiiesi. - . Sntiohiirr'a recent eener Mrs. Edna Becking has asked the cardjng hatred toward EngE Chicago police to look for her daughter he neces8ity of arming the ce uuDy, years oiu, wno uisappeareu especially applicable to tnt Saturday. She fears kidnaping. Stategf declares: "During th James Sloan, banker, died at Baltl- war there were a large numb more, aged 67. I r-i,, this country who syn Hundreds of Kansans are pursuing wjth gnaln. hut JhejAeDt ,tn two bank robbers who tfroke Jail and mgs strictly to themselves. Ti killed two men who chased them. --. cardan t note was newu iu e Fire at Camden, N. J., destroyed and the British government I 1 the market, ten stores and fifty dwell- a combination or European p Inrs. wouia nave iuwu iuc Aa . The milltarv anti-ReDublican party ernment on its oaea. o has control of the Paris council. Tablets and sculptures of the My cenaean ag were unearthed in Crete. Rioting has been going on at Turtle Creek, Pa., because the board of health tried to use an abandoned school house for a smallpox hospital. Great Lakes Navigation company has ordered two new passenger steam ers, to cost $1,000,000 each, from the Chieago Shipbuilding company at South Chicago. ed States repay us? half the American press aci Iwidly proclaim their sympa? tne oBers. and are oragnlzli tions for their delegates. V have todefeod our empire, anr. it. as Lord Salisbury says, right arm." Ninety-Five la trie Shad Marquette, Mich., May 1 was a summer temperature terday. 95 In the shade. r j