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Ensue may figot THE TRANSVAAL SITUATION AS SUMES SERIOUS ASPECT. Srttlshera Hava An Army of 30,OOC Man Ready to Do Buelnaaaat Short Notion. London, June 13. When the secretary f state for the colonies, Mr. Chamber lain, in the house of common or Thursday, summed up the result of th Bloomfonteln conference by declaring that a "new situation has been created' he used a pregnant phrase, open ap parently to a variety of interpretations, but In reality only open to one. The politicians who have closely fol lowed the affairs of the Transvaal and Mr. Chamberlain's attitude with respect to them are fully satisfied that the colony secretary plainly meant to de- Clare that by the means of the open negotiations, in which the British high commissioner, Sir Alfred Milner, had exhausted every diplomatic resource to effect a reasonable settlement of the matters in dispute, it had been proved definitely that President Kruger was irreconcilable and that all hope of an arrangement by a suggestion of diplo matic pressure was henceforth vain. The British are especially exasper ated, because they feel they have been trifled with, and the question on every body's lips is "what next?" Mr... Chamberlain is not the man to be distorted from his course. He has pub licly and deliberately espoused the cause of the Ultlanders, and his next step will be a demand. Then there will be energetic action to support the demand. It is regarded as certain that this contingency has been fully foreseen for months past. Both troops and large Quantities of munitions of wax have gone to South Africa by every steamer. The troops have been described as re- liefs, but those they were supposed to relieve have remained in South Africa. A steamer which sailed in May took 600 of these reliefs, and passengers who bad previously secured accommodation for the officers and men. In Natal, notably at Lady Smith, a large force has been assembled, fully equipped and ready to march at a moment's notice. Hundreds of mules from South Africa and Cypress are on the spot. The storehouses are full of forage and the magazines are packed with ammunition.' It is estimated that the Transvaal could muster a fighting force of from 1,000 to 18,000 men, while the British troops there already number 11,000 men, commanded by the veteran Major' Gen eral Sir William Francis Butler, who pas been in command of the troops of South Africa since 1883. His wife was Elizabeth Thompson, the well known artist. He served in Canada In 1870, in Ashantl in 1874, during the Zulu war, 1878-9; in Egypt, 1882 and 1884-85, and commanded the British troop at Alexandria from 1890 to 1893. In addition, the British have a large Oody of splendidly mounted riflemen and mounted police available, so if hos tilities break out events will move guickly. While the country generally is back- ' ing Mr. Chamberlain, many well-in- formed people assert that, urged by the potent social Influences of the British Chartered South Africa company, he is ourrying the country to disaster. They jay not only will President Kruger not retreat, but that the Transvaal forces, familiar with every inch of the country, rill be able to cope with any force 3reat Britain can put in the field His artillery is known to be much luperlor to the British artillery, and signs are not wanting to show that the Boers have more than the moral sup port of the Orange Free State. UITLANDERS' MASS MEETING. . Johannesburg, June 10. At the mass jneeting of Ultlanders held here today for the purpose of confirming and sup porting the proposals of Sir Alfred Milner, the British high commissioner, a resolution was adopted, declaring that no settlement will be satisfactory which does not provide for the recogni tion of equal political rights for all. President Kruger"s proposals were considered wholly Inadequate to satisfy the just demand of the unenfranchised, while Sir Alfred Mllner's were indorsed as the Irreducible minimum acceptable. The meeting was orderly and was at tended by 6,000 Ultlanders. The government Issued a notice, ad vising the enfranchised burghers to al low the meeting to proceed without dis turbance. APPROVE KRUGER' B PROPOSALS. Pretoria, Transvaal Republic, June 13. After deliberation in secret for all the morning, the Volksraad yesterday after noon approved President Kruger's fran chise proposals and instructed the gov ernment to draw them up In the form of a law, which will be submitted to the Volksraad. The Volksraad yesterday also passed a resolution of regret that the British high commissioner had not accepted President , Kruger's proposals, which the Volksraad "considers reasonable In the highest degree." GERMANY COMES OUT PLAIN. Oponly Opposes th Plan of Par manant Arbitration. Washington, D .G, June M. Germany baa thrown off the mask and come out aa avowed opponent of the princi ples of arbitration. A cablegram set ting forth this Information was receiv ed at the state department from Mr. Hollls, the secretary of the Ameri can 'delegation at The Hague confer ence. According to the department's informal lon.Oermany la opposed to any of the schemes of arbitration which ba been submitted, and It Is ex pected by the officials that she will use her influence to oppose Its adoption. This attitude may have Important bearing on the result of the conference, and especially upon the arbitration plan, which has been a matter of espe cial solicitude to the administration. It la already apparent that the plan ap proved by the president, proposing a - isiwsiniit arbitration tribune, will not be accepted, bat It had bam expected that son of Its feat area at least woald he t ssUsa la the otaa adapted. purr! o ituomajdmocx nuo. T7-ir-te, ftc. mm (L-A wain. r io taaa rap at fie aaarr at i a. t mm arpm Urtm, the t t ! fUe 4esK at Cr . i i , I "Ac nm mmmm i i . tfi i an : BUFFALO STRIKE ON AO AIM. Freight Handlers Go Out and Ann Shovelers' Aeeletanoa. Buffalo, N. Y., June 14. The striking freight handler and housemen en the Erie docks were joined Saturday by the housemen and freight handlers em ployed on the Lackawanna docks. There are now about 300 men out and there is a possibility that all other housemen and freight handlers along the docks will be called out. There Is in addition an effort being made to bring about the active co-operation of the gln shovelers and the coal heavers and ore handlers. A telegram was sent to President CKeefe of the International Longshore men's association, asking him to come to Buffalo at once and assist in the set tlement of the existing troubles. Pres ident MeMahon of the Grain Shovelers union stated that if Mr. Keefe favored the sympathetic strike the grain shovel ers would go out. President Joyce of the freight handlers' union said that by Monday night there would not be a wheel turning on the docks. A conference was held at the Elliott club, at which were present represent atives of the Erie. New York Central, Lehigh Valley, Lackawanna and Great Northern companies. The dock situa tion was gone over and it was agreed that demands of the housemen for an increase of wages should not be acceded to. Men to take the places of the strikers would be secured as rapidly as possible if the men do not return to work on Monday. NEW CUP DEFENDER AFLOAT Sloop Columbia Glides Into the Waves at Bristol. Bristol, R. I., June 13. While twice before in Its history this little town has felt the thrill accompanying the launching of an American cup defend er, the lowering into the water of the beautiful sloop Columbia was never theless an event of great importance to Bristol, as well as to the entire yachting world. An hour before the launching Satur day morning the big door that for weeks had screened the back end of the shed was taken down and for the first time the world had a chance to see the shining underbody of the boat In side the shed, assembled under the bow of the boat, was the christening party, with Mrs. Iselin as the central figure; while on deck were twenty of the Co lumbia's crew, with one or two officers and Nat Herreshoff. At 8:05 Mr. Herreshoff gave the sig nal and the work of lowering the boat into the water began. It took about ten minutes to get it started and at 8:14 It was seen to move. There was con siderable creaking at first and ene or two short stops, but at 8:19 it began to slide steadily and then It was that Mrs. Iselin dashed the bottle of cham pagne against its bow and said: "I christen thee Columbia." The launch ing was successfully concluded. INVESTIGATING TRUSTS. Sub-Committee Appointed For the Northwestern State. , Washington, D. C, June 14. The in dustrial commission has appointed a sub-committee to visit the Northwest ern states during July and August to investigate the alleged elevator trust. This committee consists of Senator Kyle, A! Harris and E. D. Conger. John Arbuckle, the coffee and sugar magnate, has asked to be excused from testifying before the commission. He suggested that his manager, James N. larvle, be summoned in his stead. Mr. larvle will reach Washington some time next week. Filipinos Ara Astonlshad. Chicago, 111., June 13. TwelveFlll Dinoe. members of the Vlsayan tribe and natives of the country surrounding Iloilo, passed through Chicago on their ay to New York. A drive around the city filled them with wonder. Maximo Aleutrea, who speaks English, said: "The high houses, I cannot believe It. Everything Is so great, so big, so dif ferent from Manila, and my friends here they know not what to say." The, members of the party are all un der 30 years old and are Intelligent looking. They came on the steamship City of Pekln on May , but because of being detained at San Francisco by Im migrant Inspectors were not allowed to see much of that city. The party con sists of six men, four women and tw children. NOTES OF INTEREST. Fruit costs England $50,000,000 annu ally. Lots of family trees bear mighty poor fruit Dominican nuns shoe horses In South Africa. Only Insanity can deprive the mem ory of past pleasures. He Isn't always happiest who wears the happiest look. The cook as well as the dressmaker ihows her taste In dressing. The only man who is fully satisfied with arbitration Is the arbitrator. Don't measure your Industry by the things you are going to do tomorrow. In northern China many of the na tives are dressed In dogskin. A ton of oil has been obtained from the tongue of a single whale. About 4,000.000 bottles of pickles are consumed weekly in the United States. Parisian barbers are legally compelled to wash their hands after attending a customer, and before waiting on an other. They must use also only nickel plated combs. More than 6,000.000 messages are sent each year over the 150 separate sub marine cables which girdle the earth. The ISO cables were laid at an estimated cost of $2(0,000.000. At this season of the year the Twen tieth Kansas find that the only really essential article of clothing In the Phil ippines is a waterproof cartridge belt. It Is not a man's misfortunes or his weaknesses that make people mock and scorn him, but the awkward gap be tween what he Is and what be might be. Paragrapnara who refer to "the sum mer girl of ninety-nine" seem Inferos Unity to Indicate that the fountain of perpetual youth has at last bean dis covered. Tho Detroit Free Proas says: "The late Miss. Rhea once refused a proposal front a governor of South Caroliaa. " Thai to ssora than the sjoveraor at Nafta Caroliaa ever did. Ho, str," said las las-totts. 1 would art aeeopt a bribe, bat when my efforts la Naatf of say frtonai rnosiys a aaa atsatlalraeArtttoji f eaaast be bat AMEMCAHS ADVAKCE TWO OFFICERS KILLED AND 2 SOLDIERS WOUNDED. Forty Par Cant of the Amerlcar Forces Absolutely Exhausted By Excosslva Heat. Manila, June 13. General Lawton'i forces have occupied Paranaque. The rebels had escaped to the north during the night. Only amigos were found in the town. Manila, June 13. At daybreak today a force of 4,500 men under Generals Lawton, Wheaton and Ovenshine ad vanced from San Pedro Macatl, sweep ing the country between the Bay of Manila and Bay Lake south of Manila. By noon the country had been cleared almost to Paranaque. The Americans lost two officers killed and twenty-one soldiers wounded. The rebels resisted desperately at the stronger of their positions, and left fifty dead In the trenches. Many more wounded were left behind by the rebels In their retreat The heat during the day was over powering and there were many pros trations of American soldiers from that cause. General Lawton'i force consisted of two battalions each of the Twenty-first and Ninth infantry, six companies of the Colorado volunteers and a detach ment of artillery. The Nevada cavalry was under General Wheaton and the Thirteenth and Fourteenth lnfantry.Lhe Fourth cavalry and a detachment of ight artillery were under General Oven shine. It was scarcely dawn when the troops, in a long, silent procession, wound up the hillside behind the American trenches and formed a skirmish line. Concealed In the Jungle, the advance rebel outposts fired a few shots before being seen. The opposing forces occupied two ranges of crescent shaped hills. The artillery, the Colorado infantry and the Nevada cavalry swung around the hill top of the left and opened the battle at 6:30. The rebels made no re sponse from the hills and the Colorado men cautiously advanced through the thick grass until they were confronted by a trench, from which a few weak volleys were fired. A spirited response followed and a charge Into the trench found It to be deserted. In the meantime a part of the Thir teenth and Fourteenth regiments formed In skirmish line, extending a mile to the right and supported by the rest of the regiments, swept down the valley and up the hillside toward an, other trench. Approaching through the morass seriously hampered the Four teenth and the rebels taking advantage of this, poured a galling fire upon them for thirty minutes. The Four teenth was twice compelled to with draw for the purpose of finding a safe crossing In the swamp. Finally, the trench was enfiladed on both flanks. The rebels fled to the woods and sus tained severe loss. General Lawton then pushed his en tire command south, through the cen ter of the isthmus until a few miles south of Paranaque, when he swung around and baited on account of the heat. During the march the Americans were prostrated on all sides owing to lack of water and exposure to the sun. It is estimated that 40 per cent of the troops were exhausted. The double-turreted monitor lion- adnock and three other vessels shelled Paranaque In the morning and the reb els promptly evacuated the place. MEN WE HAVE LOST. Washington, D. C., March 13. Among the reports submitted by General Otis concerning the operations of the army In Manila, Is one from Colonel Henry Llpplncott, chief surgeon of the army, for the month of March. Colonel Llp plncott says; The long list of engagements between our troops and the Filipinos continuing through the month resulted in the fol lowing casualties to our command: Killed, officers, 6. enlisted men, 71. Wounded, officers, 18; enlisted men, 485. Total casualties for the month, 596. Total casualties since outbreak, 1,029. Our force has been much overworked, but nevertheless has met with every emergency. Major Crosby has put up excellent tent wards, and the purveyor, Major Corblscer, has fumeshed abund ant supplies of all kinds at shoit notice. Considering the work done and disad vantages we labor under, being so far from our base, I can safely say that the success in meeting all requirement! thus far has been marvelous. The Filipino wounded will receive the same kind of attention they have In the past, no efforts being spared to make them comfortable and give them every chance for recovery. Number of Filipinos admitted to hos pital during the month, 85; number died, 8; number transferred, 22; remain. Ing in hospital under treatment, 108. HOLD NEBRASKA BOYS' MAIL. Ban Francisco, Cal., June 13. Thomas J. Ford, local superintendent of the United States mall, has received tele graphic Instructions from Washington to hold all mall for members of the First California and the First Nebraska regiments skid to send to Portland, Ore., all mall for the Oregon regiment. The Inference Is that these regiments will land In America before any mall could reach them In Manila. It Is prob able that the homeward-bound trans ports will not stop at Honolulu. SUPPLIER FOR PHILIPPINE. " Ban Francisco, Cal., Juno U. The freight steamer wyefleld has been char tered by the United States amy trans port service hero, and will be loaded Im mediately with general suppUee for She earned ijm tons, wnicn II be distributed among quarter- Sbe to espseted to art at wKala tMantfa, master! atoras. BANDITS NOT YET CAPTUREI Oanaral Manager Dickinson Givat Some Details of the Pursuit. Omaha. Neb., June 13. General Man ager Dickinson of the Union Pacific re turned Saturday afternoon from Cas per, Wyo., where he had spent fron: Monday until Friday morning looklnt after the pursuit of the men who rob bed the Union Pacific train three mile west of Wilcox, Wyo., one week agr Friday morning. Mr. Dickinson said that he had but few facts to give In connection wltB the robbery or the pursuit that had not already been printed in the dispatches from Wyoming. He said that, though Mall Agent Dettrlck was confident he saw five men outlined against the sky ascending the bluff Just after the hold up, and although Engineer Jones was confident he saw six, it is believed, after consideration, that there were only three robbers. This Is chiefly be cause the trail of three horses only was found. Still, Mr. Dickinson thinks there might have been five or six of the bandits and that two or three might have made their way along the track without leaving any trail. When the fight occurred in which Sheriff Hazen was fatally wounded, the robbers fired with smokeless pow der from a covert protected by grease- wood on the side of a washout. This was after a day's chase, generally northward from a point nix miles west jt Casper, and Just after the purBuers had found three hobbled horses In the washout or gulch. And this was Mon day morning. Finding the horses, the pursuers supposed that the robbers were in the vicinity, and, happening to ad vance in a particular direction, they were fired on. The wounding of the heriff temporarily disconcerted the (arty, and the robbers, as it afterward tppeared, ran down the gulch to a ;reek, waded up the creek on foot for 3ve or six miles and then took across ;he country. Not supposing this, the posse sur rounded the place and did not find out jntll twenty-four hours afterward that .heir men had escaped. Up the creek the trail was again found, the fugitives traced to the sheep aerder's ranch and from there to the Powder river. On the hobbled horses, which, Mr. Dickinson says, were sent back to Dheyenne, were found all the things :hat the robbers took from the train parts of the bills of $3,400 In unsigned sank currency, something like tluo in food currency, packages of Jewelry and I shotgun taken from the express car. Mr. Dickinson was asked atout me prospect of catching the men (whose pames, as suspects, were memioneu iu ;he Cheyenne dispatches). He replied :hat the Union Pacific would go to the ast extremity to effect their capture He said that the railroad's offer of 11,000 for each man dead or alive was peing scattered, through circulars, all ver Wyoming, and that It was epect- d that the state of Wyoming ana ai- any county, in which the robbery took place, would offer rewards. 3ILLION DOLLAR BEER TRUST scheme Said to Be on Foot to Con trol American Output. Indianapolis, Ind., June 14. The trim! nania has reached the brewer and it i laid on the best of authority that a tcheme is on foot to form a trust with ;i, 000,000, 000 capital and buy all the ireweries in the country. It is said .hat the scheme, which is at present inly In its inception, received Impetus it the national convention of brewers it Detroit, when plans were discussed lecretly. While the trust Is only In the furm- itive stage enough men of capital are K-hlnd It, Judging from reports, to war rant the belief that the American beer Irinker will soon have no other alter lative than to quench his thrist on the roduct of a trust. Albert Lleber, manager of the brew ery syndicate of this city, which In- ludes the three largest breweries here. anight confirmed the story of the jomblnation of a big brewery trust. llr. Lleber had Just returned from Lie irott, and after learning the story was ul, said: A Pittsburg broker named Murkie, presenting the American Malting company, has Just closed a deal invoiv- ng 192,000,000, whereby all the Penn- tylvanla brewers were consolidated. Nils was one of the first steps in the big cheme. Options are now out on a lumber of Indiana breweries and the lame is true of other states. The prln ;lpal factor in the big scheme is Sey mour Scott, a wealthy broker of New fork City, who had been working on h, for some time. The scheme is a stupendous one, and It will require at least three years to nerfect It. The American Matting com pany already has a monopoly on all the malt produced in this country. The tiistillers will all be bought up, and also the 2.200 breweries, l snouia say u win require at least 11,000,000.000 to do the work. The consumer will not lose. Beer will remain at & cents a glass." DISCUSSES WESTERN COLLEGES Swedish Lutheran Synod Talks of Expanditures For Schools. St Paul, Minn., June 14. The Au gusta Swedish Lutheran synod devoted two sessions to the consideration of leminaries, colleges and academies of the church. The entire morning ses- tion was spent in discussing the prop osition of the Minnesota conference for a reduction or a different use of their apportionment for colleges. The Gus lavus Adolphus college In this state Is upported entirely by Minnesota, part of whose general assessment goes to the college at Hock Island and part lo the theological seminary. The Min nesota conference contended for a larger portion of their money to be given to the Gustavus Adolphus vol lege and that the Iowa and Illinois con ferences support the Rock Island col lege. No decision being reached during the morning, the matter was made a special order for the last session. Re ports on the colleges were presented during the day, making a prosperous showing, notwithstanding the old debts till banting over them. FILIPINOS FOR COAST EXPO. Ian Francisco, Cal.. June II. The Mechanics' Institute baa received per mission from the department at Wash ington to bring to this country for ex. iiuHmm fi Sorts' Flllrrfnna. the department stipulating that they be of absoiateiy no expense io w fwwru meat. The Institute wlU flte a bond foi will be exhibited la native costumes al saaoMUoa aaw am la aajraw. PARIS WANTS FEACE HYSTERICAL FRENCH CABINE1 TRYING TO CALM ITSELF. Law Makore Mora Noisy Than the Common Pooplo During Thalr Turbulent Sessions. Paris, June 14. Peace Is the battle cry here jast now. Both Dreyfuslte and antl-Drevfusites are howling them selves black In the face for pacification The public spirit of each Is ready, Ukr Twain's Black Fanshaw, to send th other party home on a shutter In the Interests of peace. As a matter of fact, the public is as quiet as a lamb. In. di?d, the only lawlessness displayed is among the lawmakers. Every session In the chamber of depu' ; finishes in a row that beats a panic on the stock exchange. People have become quite used to this stale of things. They even seem -to like it, for parliamentary sit tings are more popular at present than any spectacle going. One notes that the polomists among the deputies are aa well known and as popular as Cnquelln, Bernhardt, Itejane jr Mnunet Sully. The debuts of new .uembers are followed with the passlon- ite interest that the first appearance jf some rising theatrical star used to voke. Even deputies who are far from telng freshmen sometimes find them K-lves famous after a single speech or nsult, which nowadays is pretty much the same thing. Only the other day. 'or example, M. De Largentaye, deputy for Cotes du Nord, who has sat in the jhamber ever since 18M, without ut ;erlng a word, suddenly unsealed his Ips and became a notoriety. All he laid was, "Loubet is the honest man jf Panama." The remark seems Inno ;ent, even complimentary enough. It's nnocence, however, constitutes its :rlme. INSULTS DON'T COUNT, insults do not count in the chamber sowadays. They have been so hurled to and fro by all parties Dreyfusites, intl-Dreyfusttes, socialists, royalists. re-publicans, Bonapartlsts, right, center, deft and extreme left that they have ost all their vitriolic power. Every body knows that when one deputy calls :owards and traitors he does not mean hat they lack courage or have com- nltted, or even would commit, treason -he simply means that they have not oted the same way as he has. Even the courteous president of the hamber, M. Paul Deschanel, does not hlnk It worth while noticing such trivialities as that. He Is used to them. On the other hand.compllment is sure x attract attention by Its very novelty, rhis was why M. de Largentaye's Iron cal Interjection, "Loubet Is the honest nan," staggered everybody and ultl nately brought about the deputy of Jote du Nord's temporary exclusion rom the chair which he has occupied mostentatlously for fifteen years wlth ut speaking. Silence is golden, even in he chamber of deputies. Many of the demonstrators of last Sunday probably think It Is also golden in the race course. They have received Ittle sympathy. Everybody feels that here was no crying need for the loctrine of French politeness to be iwept away. M. Loubet Is an old man. He Is at be head of the nation. He was at tuteuil by Invitation. He had--thua hree claims on courtesy and consldera Jon. This he did not get. People of ill parties, papers of every color In he political rainbow, have unanimously irotested. It is. Indeed, touching to see lie reconciliation of socialistic organs lth their hereditary enemy, the gov jrnment. There Is a rumor that the police let o all the manlfestors who were not titled, and that in this way the demon ttration was given a caste aspect TO WEAR PANAMA HATS. Hatters and florists are blessing M. Loubet and the manifestors. As you (now the great grievance of M. Lou set's opponents is that he was lenient toward those Implicated In the Panama tffalr. This Is the meaning of the In tuiting cry, "Panama, Panama," that m raised at anti-revisionist meetings whenever Luubet's name Is mentioned. Kb he has declared that nothing shall prevent him from attending the Grand Prix, there has been endless plotting tnd manifestations. Hatters have not been slow to seize he hint, and genuine palriirtlc Panama lats can be bought as cheap as If 45c. Who would be unpatriotic as the price? As for the florists, they are over loyed. Every party has detected a lower as a badge. Socialists will wear l red rosebud. A white pink Is the sign f the royalists, violets that of Bona partlsts, while De ltouledists have de eded upon a red pink, the former padge of the Boulangist party, the red pink being the flower that Mme. Sever ne handed to the general who gallantly Ixed them to the headstrap of his fa mous black charger. TELEGRAPH BRIEFS. German laborers are stll lexcited ovei the emperor's anti-strike bllL Canadian Pacific earning! for the week ending June 7, loM.000; Increase, 142,000. The lowest bidder for the Mare Isl and dry dock is Dennis Jordan, San Francisco, f7,679. David Walsh, S4 yean of age, for ilx teen years a member of the Chicago chool board, Is dead. Fire at Springfield, Mass., destroyed the grist mill of F, L. Worth A Co Loss, 1126,000; Insured. The strike at the Springfield, Mass., breweries Is off, the men getting th nine-hour day demanded. Vtlma Paraghy, the poor Berlin paint er, will shortly wed the wealthy Rus sian, Princess Kugenelevon. Robert P. Porter, President McKln ley's commissioner to Cuba, has sal lei from Southampton for New York. A number of German cities have be gun to provide sanitariums for the poor, as fwalt of tat tuberculosis confer 'HOT HIS WIFE AND DAUOHTtl South Dakota Fathar Makaa Mur daroua Attempt on Family. Sioux Falli, 8. D., June ll-The Uttk village of Delmont, S. D., Is consider, ably worked up over a double shooting incident which took place there Friday noon. S. Clark, a well known farmel in that community, shot his wife ana daughter. The shooting took place al the home of M. E. Bundy, where Mm Clark and the girl were visiting, which is only a mile from the Clark residence, Four years ago Clark and hll wlf separated, she securing a divorce. In June of last year they become recon ciled, and were remarried. The recon ciliation was not of long dura.lon, and a second separation followed, and Mrs Clark had Instituted proceedings for divorce. They have four children, all younger than the girl who was shot by the father. She kept houae for her father. Friday, shortly before noon. Mrs. Clark was driving along the road, en route to Bundy's. when Clark, who was plowing In the field, called upon her (o stop. She did not do so. Shortly after this the daughter went to the field and asked her father's permission to visit her mother. The father re fused, whereupon the rlrl took the three younger children and went to the Bundy house. A little before noon Clark entered the hmiRe and aoked Mrs. Clark why she didn't stop when he commanded. She told him she had nothing to say io him. Home words followed, wnen ne drew a revolver and shot her, using a 44 caliber wearon. the ball passing through her neck. He then turned upon the girl and ehot her twice, the first IaI1 tmtwlntr through her shoulder and the second passing through her head, hitting her in the back of the head and coming out at the forehead. The doctors said they could not live. Following the shooting Hark returned to his home, and after changing his clothing, mounted his horse, armed with a rifle and revolver, and struck out in a northwesterly direction. He had several hours the mart of the county officers and is still at large. JEFF WANTS SHARKEY NEXT. Will Meet Him For Charity's Sweet Sake If Necessary. Philadelphia, Pa., June 13. James J, Jeffries, the new champion fighter, ap peared at the Academy of Music here Saturday before a packed house, a not able feature being the large number of women present. Jeffries boxed three rounds with his sparring partner, Jim Daly of this city. William A. Brady. Jeffries' manager, read from the stage a challenge to fight Tom Sharkey about September 15 for the largest purse offered by any club and a 110,000 side bet. He stipu lated that the entire purse go to the winner and that no side agreements or secret arrangements be considered, and that the sailor must agree to George Slier as referee. The contest, he as serted, must take place in an eighteen foot ring. Mr. Hrady was very caustic and called Sharkey a "blow hard," accus. Ing him of havjng robbed Fltislm nions of the decision in their fight two years ago. Jeffries had little to say regarding his victory over Fitxsim mons. "I feel a bit sore about the shoul Sers." he said, "but beyond that I am ill right." Asked whom he was likely to meet next he said: "I am not par ticular whom I meet, but 1 would like to meet that talkative tar, Sharkey. I'll fight him for charity Just to show the people that he does not know how to fight." War Medals For Heroes. Washington,, D. C, June 14. George H. Wanton, Fltz Lee, William II. rbompklns and Dennis Hell, all mem bers of the Tenth cavalry, a colored regiment, have been awarded .medals pf honor for distinguished gallantry U Talbaico, Cuba, June 30, 1898, where, iftc-r a force had succeeded in landing Mid had been compelled to withdraw to the boats, leaving a number of killed a.nd wounded ashore, they voluntarily went ashore In the face of the enemy and aided In the rescue of the wounded comrades, who would otherwise have fallen Into the hands of the enemy; this, after several previous attempts had been frustrated. The board has granted certificates of merit to Lloyd Nelll. battery H, Third artillery, for services In an engagement near Manila, and to John Kennedy, signal corps, for Bervlces before San tiago. Neither of these men Is now In the service, and the war department, does not know where they are. Cubans Cheer Native Land. Havana, June 13. An Immense Span ish flag with a picture of Oeneral Wey ler painted on It was borne Saturday at the head of a party of fifty Spaniards who were on their way to embark for Spain. As the party proceeded. Its members cried "Viva Espana." Twio Cubans, Carlos Cruxado and Miguel Atieza, were met by the Spaniards, who endeavored to compel them to hurrah for Spain. This the Cubans refused lo do, replying with shouts of "Viva Cuba." The leader of the mob, Vln cente Mora, attacked Atieza and was assisted by his companions. Atlexa was severely handled and received a num ber of severe bruises. The police Inter, fered and arrested Mora, but sent the remainder of them aboard ship. Smelter Strike May Spread. Denver, Colo., June 14. A general strike of the employes of the American Smelting and Refining company In this state Is threatened. A committee from the Smelter Employes' union today sub. mitted a scale of wages to ei-Oovernor J. I). Orant, chairman of the advisory board from the smelting company. They demand 20 cents per hour for yard men, 26 cents for roasters and 20 cents for box men. This Governor Grant de clined to accept. He says It Is simply a demand for ten hours' pay for eight hours' work and will not be considered. A strike which will tie up the entire mining Industry of the state Is feared. BIG OUN FOR CHETENNB. Cheyenne, Wyo., June IJ Governor Richards has been notified by the wai department that Wyoming Is entitled to one of the cannon captured In the war with Spain. This trophy will bt placed on the capltol grounds hare. ' H. B. Carpenter, United States dep. uty surveyor, loft here with a parti of survey ore to make government sur veys la the southern part of Car bo I oouatr.