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DOERSPHTTOUOUT One Thousand Casualties in ' - Battle at Glencoe. XOSS OF THE BEITISH IS 300. Dstimated Losses of Burghers Placed j at Eidit Hundred. 15EITONSMAKE GALLANT CHARGE. Oeneral Kock Dies of Wounds Eeeelved at ElandsRaate British Casualty List Is Placed at 150 Jonbert Attacks Caiup at Glencoe. Glekcoe, Oct. 2'0. The battle yester day afternoon has been a brilliant suc cess. The Boers got a roverse which may possibly for a time at any rate, check all aggressive action. The Brit ish artillery practice in the early part of the day decided the battle, The seizure of the Dundee hills by the Boers was a surprise, for although the pickets had been exchanging shots all night, it was not until a shell boomed over into the town that their presence was discqvered. Then the shells came fast. ; The "hill was positively alive with Boers, still the British artillery got to work with mag nificent energy and precision, the bat teries from the camp took up positions to the south of the town, and after a quarter of an , hour magnificent firing silenced the guns on 'the hills. The correspondent could see shells dropping among the Boer pieces with remarkable accuracy, and doing tremendous execu tion, for the . enemy were present in large number. By this time the enemy held the whole of the hill behind Smith's farm and the Dundee Kopje, right away to the south in which the British in fantry and cavalry moved at once. The fight Was raging particularly hot at the YaUey outside the town. Directly the Boers' guns ceased firing, the infantry charged. The charge was- mag nificent. The King's royal rifles and the Dublin fusileers charge of the position was a magnificent sight. The Boer fire was not as deadly as might have been. Indeed, the hill was al most inaccessible to the storming party, and any hesitation would have lost the day. The enemy's guns, so far as the correspondent could see, were all aban doned, for the Boers had no time to re move them. A stream of fugitives poured down the hillside into the valley, while the battle went on with no abate ment. General Symons was wounded early in the action and the command went to Major Yule. The Boers, as they fled, were followed by the cavalry, mounted infantry and artillery. The direction was to the eastward. Some say that four, and some five guns were captured. The Boer artillery fire was weak. Although the enemy's position was carried shortly after noon, the firing continued all afternoon. The final rnsh was made with a tri umphant yell, and as the British troops charged to close quarters, the enemy turned and fled, leaving all their im pediments and guns behind them in their flight. While this was going on, one battery of artillery, the Eighteenth Hussars and the mounted infantry, with a part of the Leicester regiment, got on the enemj's flank and as the Boers streamed wildly down the hills, making for the main road, they found their retreat had been cut off, but they rallied for a while and there was severe fighting, with considerable loss to each 6ide. Many of the enemy surrendered. A rough estimate places the British loss at 300 killed and wounded and the Boers' at 800. Another Boer Knot. London, Oct. 23. The war office pub lishes the following dispatch from the general commanding in Natal, General White, regarding the engagement Sat urday at Elandslaagte, between Glencoe and Ladysmith, when the British under General French routed the Transvaal forces under General Jan Kock, second in command in the Transvaal army, who wad himself wounded and captured and has since died: Although desultory fighting took place earlier in the day, while reinforcements, sent out later, on ascertaining the enemy's strength, were arriving from Ladysmith,the real action did not begin until 3:30 p. m. At that hour the Boers held a position of very exceptional strength, consisting of a rocky hill about a mile and a half south east of Elandslaagte station. At 8:30 p. m. our guns took a posi tion on a ridga 4,100 yards from the Boers, whose guns at once opened fire. This fire was generally well directed, but somewhat high. This time, con trary to previous experiences, their shells burst well. The Imperial light horse moved to ward the left of the enemy's position and two squadrons of the Fifth lancers toward his right. - During the artillery duel mounted Boers pushed out from their left and engaged the Imperial light horse. In a few minutes the en emy's guns ceased firing and our artil lery was turned on the mounted Boers, Who opposed the imperial light horse. The latter at once fell back. After the artillery preparations our infantry ad anced to the attack, sapported by our guns in the second position. The Do onshires held the enemy in front while the Manchester regiment and the Gordon highl&uder turned his left think. The Boer gun, although often tem porarily silenced, Invariably opened fire again on the slightest opportunity and Were served with gnat courage. After severe fighting our infantry carried the position. At 6:30 p. in. this was ac complished, the euemj standing hU ground to the last with courage and te nacity. The Fifth lancers and a squad ron of the Fifth dragoon guards charged three times through the retreating Boers in the dark, doing considerable execution. We captured the Boer crmp with tents, s wagons, horses and also two guns. The Boer losses were very considerable, including a number of wounded and nnwounded prisoners. Among the former are Jan Kock and Piet Jonbert, nephew of Commandant General Joubert. One goods train, with supplies for Glenooe camp, and nine English prisoners were recovered. Our loss, I regret to say, was heavy. It is roughly estimated at 150 killed and wounded. The Boor loss is esti mated at 400. ANXIETY IN LONDON. Crowds Watch for War Office Bulletins With Deep Intercut. London, Oct. 24. No news yet re ceived tends to dispel the apprehension caused by Lord Wolesley's brief sum mary of the situation. A Pietermaritz burg dispatch says now that the censor permits no message to be sent from the front. Other dispatches represent the Boers as boasting that Dundee is abso lutely cut off and assert that despite the British victories the situation is still un certain. The Pretoria dispatch giving the report of General Joubert ' to the government evidently refers to the first battle at Glencoe, and the reasons why Commandant Erasmus failed .to come to the assistance of Commandant Meyer cannot be fathomed. If he had done so the British victory inight have been still more dearly bought. Probably Com mandant Meyer, arriving at the rendez vous first, thought to get all the glory of wiping out the Britishers himself . If so the Boers suffered badlybecause of his hastiness. It appears certain, however, that the brilliant victory at EhmdsUuigte was produced for effect as a relief of Glencoe, and the very reticence and brevity of Lord Wolseley's communcia tions are only to ominous. "'" It seems to be worded to prepare the public for bad news, and it is only too likely that Gen eral Yule has been compelled to abandon the wounded and the prisoners at Dun dee because his force-is too weak to hold the four and a half miles separating Dundee and Glencoe. Probably General Yule believes ho can better protect Dundee from an enemy advancing from the northwest by concentrating all his available strength at Glencoe, where there are now 8,500 men and three batteries. In the meantime efforts will be made to reopen the railway and to get reinforce ments from Ladysmith. It is expected that by this time Com mandant Erasmus has joined Com mandant General Joubert and that their combined columns amount to 10, 000 or 11,000 men, while tho Free State Boers now threatening Ladysmith from the east and a column reported to be coming through Zululand must also be reckoned with. In short General White has been un able to follow up his successes and is obliged to remain at Ladysmith without being able to restore railway communi cation, which is probably broken at other points besides Elandslaagte. Thus the enemy, though their original plan, which is supposed to have been Colonel Schiel's, failed, may fairly be credited with having isolated General Yule's brigade and divided the British forces in Natal. General Yule may find himself in a tight place, needing all' his experience in Indian and Burmese fighting to ex tricate himself. It is quite evident that the war office has news which has been withheld from the public, and if the situation, as here sketched, is confirmed, Boer divisions may be expected at other frontier points. Up to midnight the war office was be sieged with inquiries, the heavy lists of British losses causing much heart burn ing. Said a workingman who was reading the list: "If this is the price of suzerainty, good God, but we are paying in full." It is regarded as not impossible that General White may yet be compelled to concentrate all the Natal forces at Lady smith and await the arrival of the army corps. 5 Message From the Queen. London, Oct. 23. The secretary of state for war, marquis of Lansdowne, has received the following message from the queen, dated today at Balmoral cas tle: "My heart bloods for those dreadful losses again today. It is a great suc cess, but I fear very dearly bought. Would you convey my warmest and heartfelt sympathy with the near rela tives of the fallen and wounded and my admiration of the conduct pf those they have lost. V. It. I." Iloers Lose Heavily at Mafrklna;. CapeTowx, Oct. 23. A message re ceived from Colonel Baden-Powell, in charge at Mafeking, says that 60 Boers were killed and a large iiumber wounded in the encounter with his force. It is believed that the explosion of dynamite at Mafeking, so cleverly arranged by Colonel Baden-Powell, resulted in very large loss to the Boers, so that it is quite probable that General Cronje will not resume the attack and will perhaps retire altogether. Ynle Forced to Fall Bark. London, Oct. 24. The Daily Tele graph has received tho following from Ladysmith. dated Sunday, 2:10 p. m.: "The Boers, reported to be 9,000 strong and under tho command of Command ant Joubert and President Kruger in person, are today again attacking Glen coe. General Yule, commanding our troops, has moved his camp back into a better defensive position." Open Fire on Ilnndee. London, Oct. 24. The Daily News publishes this dispatch from Lady smith, dated Sunday night: "A large command of General Joubert and under Commandant Yogan opened fire on Dundee yesterday. The firing was con tinned today." NEWS OF NEIHl ASKA Xfger Gets Klght Years. Tekamah, Neb., Oct. 23 Judge Key sor Saturday sentenced Oscar Yegor to eight years in the penitentiary for the killing of John Egirloton at Decatur last May. l.oup City Roller Mills Burn. Loup City, Neb., Oct. 21. The Loup City roller mills, owned by George E. Hotchkin, burned. The cause of the fire is unknown. The loss is $10,000, partially insured. Give l p Effort to Uniform Women. Omaha, Oct. 23. The attempt re cently made by a local department store to have its women employes wear only black has met such an emphatic protest that the order has been withdrawn. Hartley Bondsmen Again. Lincoln, Oct. 21. The bondsmen of ex-State Treasurer Bartley, against whom judgment was renderod in the district court in Douglas county for $(548,818.5, filed their brief in the su preme court. . Burlington Improvements. Trenton, Neb., Oct, 23. The Bur lingtou's slag gang, which has been at work on the track for several . mouths past between this place and Stratton, has reached hero. The work will be continued to Culbertson' and will take the large force that is at work all winter to complete the track. 7 Farmhand Meets Cnknown Fate. Nebraska City, Neb., Oct. 20. The body of the mau found in a cornfield near Lorton has been identified as that of Harry Neimaun, a German farm hand. He had been employed by farmers in the vicinity until July 10, when all trace of him was lost. , An in quest was held, the jury deciding that he1 had come to his death by unknown means. ". Murderer Recaptured.1 AuBurtN, Neb., Oct. 23. Sheriff Frank Cole returned Saturday night from Garner, la., with George H. Kay, who was captured at that place. Ray was wanted for the killing of Frank Cheesman, which occurred about six months ago at Browuville, Neb., hav ing escaped on horseback, and his whereabouts could not be ascertained until recently. He is now confined in the county jail. Reception for lewej's Man. Tecumseii, Neb., Oct. 23. A move ment is on foot to give Ensign Arthur Kavauagh a cordial reception on his re turn home. Mr. Kavanagh was with Dewey in the Manila bay bombardment, being an officer on the Olympia. He is expected home at any time. A mass meeting of citizens has been called for tonight, at which time plans for the re ception will be adopted. It is proposed to make the-occasion one of great pomp. Contest In the Big Sixth. Lincoln, Oct. 20. Secretary of State Porter heard testimony on the protest of Juan Boyle of Kearney, contesting the nomination of William Neville for congress by the Democratic congress ional committee in the Sixth district. Affidavits asserting that no resolution was passed empowering the committee to fill vacancies on the ticket were sub mitted by Boyle. Attorney Pearsons of North Platte, representing Neville, pro duced several affidavits to the effect that such a resolution was passed, one of them signed by M. O. Harrington. Secretary Porter after the hearing de cided against the protestant. TRAILED BY A HORSESHOE. Deputy Marshals Follow Bobbers' Path for Hundred and Sixty Miles. Bartley, Neb., Oct. 21. William Miller, the Merna postoffice robber, and Bart Olson, who broke jail at Broken Bow, Wednesday morning, were cap tured about fifteen miles southwest of here by Deputy United States Mar shals Barber and Palmer. They were tracked from Broken Bow 160 miles by a broken shoe on a horse's hind foot. They left here for Broken Bow in cus tody of the officers. Miller will then be taken to Omaha for a hearing before the federal court. WHIRL AT THE FINISH. Closing Week of the Campaign In Ne braska Will Be a Lively One. Lincoln, Oct. 23. Beginning tomor row morning, W. J. Bryan will make the most elaborate county by county and town to town canvass he has ever made in Nebraska, not excepting the year ho ran for president. On a special train he will travel over nearly every line of railroad in the state and will make over 100 speeches, concluding at Lincoln on tho Saturday before election when he will be assisted by ex-Governor Altgeld. The Republican committee has also secured some of tho best known campaigners in the country and the canvass for the two remaining weeks will be as exciting as that of a presi dential year. BEES ATTACK A TRAIN. Engineer Threw Open the Throttle and Left Tbem Behind. Calhoun, Neb., Oct. 21. When the southbound accommodation train on the Omaha and Minneapolis road drew out of the depot at Calhoun, it was tie sieged by a vast swarm of lees, which came whizzing from the went, headed by a quern. With a humming loud enough to drown the song of a planing mill, the swarm struck the sides and roofs of the cars, and to the passengers within the noise of the attack was as if carloads of earth and clods had been dumped on the car from above. Before the windows and doors could be closed, several of the passengers were stung. The engineer took in the situation at a glance and flung the throttle wide open. As the train escaped the insects the swarm hovered for a few minutes alovo the track, then whizzed after their queen. NAILING A PREVARICATOR. Nebraska's Prosperity fa Doe tm Good Crops and the 1'opulUte, . This is by all odds the greatest year in Nebraska history. The land is flow ing with milk and honey. A higher de gree of prosperity than ever prevails, j There are happiness and contentment everywhere. Republicans are constant ly calling attention to the fact and claim some credit for it Reformers, on the other hand, have not stopped talk ing calamity and when forced to admit the prevalence of better times deny the Republicans are entitled to any credit thereof, Whether Republican doctrines put into practice are or are not condu cive to prosperity, everybody is forced to admit that good times are always possible under Republican rule. The vital point for discussion in this state by the fusionists is the campaign of 1896. in which they promised us dire calamity just as sure as gold standard bearing Republicans were put into the high places. The fusionists know they are beaten on every, count in the ar raignment. Omaha Bee. We publish the above in order that our thousands of readers in other states can see the kind of twaddle the Repub lican papers of Nebraska are giving to their renders. . The Bee is the leading paper of its pnrty in this state, and this is the kind of arguments it uses to over come the Populists. There are happi ness., contentment and prosperity in Nebraska, and therefore yon should vote the Republican ticket. Why should the Republicans claim any glory for these happy conditions ) They are not in power in Nebraska. The Pops are carrying this state. They have reduced expenses, cut down taxation and given the state good government after it had been mercilessly robbed for 80 years. They have even put some of the great Republican leaders in the penitentiary, where they are now doing the state some service. If any party is to be thanked for our prosperity, it is the Populist party Did the Republicans give us three good crops in succession T Did McKinley cause the sun to shine and the rain to fall in Nebraska? Did he give us our 8.000.000,000 bushel corn crop? If he didn't, he can claim no credit for our measure of prosperity The Bee says that Republican doc trines put in practice have helped the people. What doctrine, please? What great laws have you passed since Mc Kinley was elected? You have not changed the currency. You have not given ns international bimetallism as you promised. But you have willfully and maliciously destroyed the civil service. The laws now are exactly the same laws that exifted during the panic of 1803, with one single ex ception. You have amended the tariff whereby you have built np and pro tected trusts and raised the price of all commodities Nebraskans have to buy and lowered the price of most commodi ties they have to eelL This is all yon have done to promote the prosperity of onr people.1 Do yon take the people for fools that they can be so easily gulled ? Cannot they see that the present boom in business is worldwide that it is just as prevalent in England and Germany as it is in the United States? Did the Republican party throw its mantle of blessedness over all the world? Yon want to confine ns to our arguments in the campaign of 1896. Well here goes We told yon that business would get better when we had more money Yon said it wouldn't; that there was money enough in the United States. Well. there is $400,000,000 more money nowi than then, and business is better Who lied, yon or we? We told yon that an increase of tariff would rob the people and protect the trusts. Every manufac tured article has risen, some of them 100 per cent. Didn't we tell yon the truth then? We told you that a single gold standard was unsafe: that it would make money scarce, so as to bring panics in time of war or public calam ity What is the situation in onr great money center now ? London is threat ening to issue bills of credit, and New York is jnst ready to pnt out clearing bouse certificates because the bank re serves are exhausted and there is not money enough to do business. In New York call loans have been made at the unprecedented rate of 20 per cent Didn't we tell yon the truth that time also? You can't flimflam the people again by lying promises. They under stand yon now Such arguments as yon give them in the above extract pass by them as the idle wind which they re spect not Omaha Nonconformist Hard Facta. Read these figures, which simply ex press the hard facts and are absolutely reliable, and teach tbem to your chil dren One-eighth of the people in the Unit ed States own seven-eighths of the wealth of the country One per cent of the people own 55 per cent of the wealth Only two-liundredths of 1 per cent of the people own 29 per cent of the wealth. That is to say. that one-two-bun-dredth of 1 per cent of all the people in this nation have secured already 29 per cent of all the wealth of the nation that is. this small number now own one-quarter and approaching one-third of the entire wealth, or about 6.000 times theii share on a basis of brother hood. If we have come to this terrible state of affairs in. say, 60 years, what is be fore us, nnless the people learn their rights and change the system? And this change must come while the people have the power. Reed'a Saeceaaor Predlets. I predict that a Republican congress will legislate at the approaching session so as to increase the confidence of the people, establish firmly the gold stand ard of the civilized world and let the people know that all of their obligation will be discharged on a safe and firm basis. David B. Henderson. How One Mother Saved Her Daughter t illfilpi EVERY WEEK ON THURSDAY AT 6 P.M. 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