Nebraska Newspapers

    Loup City Northwestern.
VOL. XVII. LOUP CITY, SIIERMAN COUNTY, NEBRASKA, FRIDAY, JULY <i. ltKMi. NUMBER 34,
Tearful Havoc Caused by Big Fire at
Hoboken Docks,
CASUALTIES OVER TWO HUNDRED
I.arge Number of Vl*||»r* Were oil Hoard
the firemen—fCfltlumut Plaer* llumnge
to Properly at HI* Million* of Dollar*
"“Dork* Htlll Smoldering;.
NEW YORK, July 2.—The fearful
liavoc to life and property caused by
the fire which broke out at tne docks
of the North German Lloyd company
f In Hoboken Saturday cannot be ap
proximated with any degree of cer
tainty. Conservative people who have
experience along the dock are of the
opinion that not more than 200 lives
wire lost. One of the oulcers of the
steamship Bremen said today that
there were fully 200 visitors on board
the vessel when the fire touched it, the
majority of them being women, A
boat was loaded from the Bremen
shortly after the alarm had been given,
but the craft capsized as it touched
the water and all hands were precip
itated into the water and none of them
were saved by those remaining on the
vessel. This would indicate that the ,
list of dead may be larger than at first
thought to be.
Hundreds of lives, perhaps, possibly
53,000,000 to (6,0011,000 worth of prop
erty, including three fine steamships
of the Bremen line, were lost in a tre
mendous fire which scourged the Ho
boken water front.
The steamship Maine burned at her
clock with a great number of men
aboard.
The Salle, now beached on the Jer
sey Hats, went down river all afire
with life boats and fleets of tugs pick
ing off such men as they could and
such men as flung themselves over
board to escape the flames. In her
hold were many corpses.
The Bremen with seventeen living
men aboard, penned in on one side of
the hold, with fire aft and forward,
and fire above them ano one one side,
was beached off Weehawken
y Fifty tugs hung around her. The
Jiving men talked with the boatmen
through the ports. They said that the
men on the other side of the hold were
df ad.
Late tonight when your correspond
ent came aw-ay rescuers bad hopes of
getting the living men o tfalive.
The fire destroyed all the North Ger
man Lloyd Piers, dozens o* lighters
and canal boats ,a great quantity of
eotton and ihe storage warehouse of
Campbell & Co., to the north of the
pier. The great building was full of
valuable merchandise.
A list of a hundred seamen, fire
men and longshoremen rescued chiefly
from the Saale has been compiled. The
fate of the officers and some of the
ships is in doubt. It is known that
Captain Morrow of the Saale is lost.
There were eighteen lighters all told
at the several piers. Some burned and
sank near the shore. Others with
their cargoes ablaze floated down
stream. It is guess work to say how
many are dead, but the lowest guess
is J00. There is an unknown number
in the hold of the Saale, and a num
ber probably as great in the hold of
p the Maine. Many men of the crews
are practically homeless, save lor the
ships and there Is no one to report
them missing until a general muster
of clews Is made.
GIVE CAlSt 10R WAR.
Ki'pott of Murder of (iorniioi Minister
I.rnI Month is Con firmed.
LONDON, July 2.—Official dis
•patches received at Shanghai, an ex
press cnlde dated at Shanghai. July 1,
confirm In thp fullest manner the re
port of tlm butchery of Huron von
Ketieler. tho German minister, on
June li.
The uniha.seador was riding in l.e
gatlon strict when he wan attacked
i>y Chinese troops and Boxers, drag
* ged from his horse and killed.
His body was hacked to pieces with
swords. The German legation and
six other buildings were burned and a
number of servants of the l»Ka'ions
were killed and their bodies thrown
into tin* flames.
Offieinl confirmation of Oil- ghi-tly
business has created the utmost con
ntr.nation snior.g the consul generals
of the powers, who express'd fear that
war a Tout mine w ill !*«• declare |
ngtintt the I’rkltt guverutneni 'the
• otisuls entertain little hop.1 that .«■»>
foreigners uie left alive in the cat -Bn*
There were IW foreigners connected
with the legations, fifty In f!t«* custom*
h< ' .e Ktiglioh and Atnei i • tn tourist i
and others to the nundier of IjO and
nearly W l-gat >ou guards.
the British foreign oftt. e, the Dully
hi til letrns. hss re el1. e.| new,, front
the British consul at Che I'wi that Hi
run von Ketteley has been hilled but
•a other Information
Usw.eapsr rust H.'m
ItMTHOfT Mi. b Aliy t 1‘tre yes
terday gutted the buibling oceupted
hy the Ibinm Journal amt deniroved
III* banlcai butisrw and eutlorfal
outfit of the paper WttM the exception
of the press***, wbt h eutiiMd only
• e'er damage The total lose it |»<m eg
at 111 auu parttaiiy rs**twi hy insur
ance The w'ultrrls* Print s* f-oga
pa«y suffered to the «V Mil of |>. »*,
isnifnl
0k
BOERS ARE FIGHTING HARD.
Lord Roberts Reports Several Kugace
ment*.
LONDON, June 30.—The War office
has received the following front Lord
Roberts:
"PRETORIA, June 30.—Page reports
from Lindley that he was engaged on
June 26 with a body of the enemy
who were strongly reinforced during
the day. A convoy of stores for the
Lindley garrison was also attacked
on Juue 26, but after a heavy rear
guard action the convoy reached
Lindley in safety. Our casualties
were ten killed and four officers und
about fifty men wounded.
"The fight reported yesterday was
under Lieutenant Colonel Grenfell
not Prelper. Brabrant came up dur
ing the engagement. Total casualties
of the two column, threa killed and
twenty-three wounded.
"On the previous day, near Flcks
burg, Boyes’ brigade was in action
with a body of the enemy. Our cas
ualties were two officers killed, four
men wounded and oue man missing.
"Metheun found yesterday that the
Boer laager near Y'achkop and Spitz
kop had been hastily removed in the
direction of Lindley. He followed the
enemy twelve miles and captured 8,- !
000 sheep and 500 head of cattle which
the enemy had seized in that neigh- 1
borhood. Our casualties were four
men wounded.
Hunter continued his march yester- ,
day toward the Vail river unopposed,
llany farmers along the route have '
surrendered.
"Springs, the terminus of the rail
way from Johannesburg, due east,
was attacked early yesterday morn- j
ing. The Canadian regiment which
garrisons the place beat off the enemy
No casualties reported.
"Lieutenant north, reported miss
ing after the attack on the construc
tion train, is a prisoner of the Boers."
A Capetown dispatch reports an at
tempt by the Boers to blow up the
artillery barracks and magazine at
Pretoria. It is added that an artil- ■
leryman, who frustrated the attempt i
by withdrawing a lighted fuse, was
killed by a Boer whom the soldiers
afterward attempted to lynch.
The British authorities are deport
ing large numbers of Hollanders to
Holland, to be dealt with by their
own government for not observing
the state of neutrality declared by
The Netherlands.
President Steyn is reported to be at
Bethlehem, consulting with General
DeWet.
Sir Alfred Milner, the British high
commissioner, has notified the gov
ernment to pay the interest on the
Free State 6 per cent loan, due July
1, on condition that there Is no
further liability, either for capital or
interest.
Capetown reports that President
Kruger is still at Machadodorp,
"afraid to move for fear the bridges
are undermlneu."
Martial I.aw In Alaska.
SAN FRANCISCO. June 30.—At
Dutch harbor ou June 8 martial law
was declared by Colonel Noyes, who
had sailors and the gunboat Wheeling
patrolling the shore with guns and
fixed bayonets. All the saloons at
Dutch harbor and I’nalaska were
closed. Deserters from the government
vessels were found by the force under
Colonel Noyes in several of the other
vessel and when all the runaways hail
been found the marital law was abol
ished.
Alaska advices received trfdny state
the steamer Gust in from Dawson and
Yukon wayports arrived at St. Michael
June 15. It brought 300 passengers and
$2,000,000 in gold-dust, most of which
belonged to the Dawson banks.
Miltiltt Ordrretl Out.
MOBILE, Ala.. June a0.—Ooverflbr
Johnston lias ordered out the Conroy
Guards of Evergreen to prevent trou
ble between negroes ar.d whiles of
Evergreen. Wednesday afternoon the
son of a man said to be named Morey,
four miles from Evergreen. Ala., was
beaten by a negro, whereupon .Morey
followed the negro and cut him fatal
ly with ail axe. Negroes assaulted
Morey's home last night, tiring many
bullets into It. The wiiites rallied ami
it is reported shot two negroes, one
of whom died this morning. More
trouble may result.
Illlllit III III* In;
EVANSTON. Wyo. luif \ nun
named Hiram who * tuinu is
In Illinois, was shut in th-i ie* tty n
eante nf tramps n*-.tr Ini* Ttnsday,
Mihm and tour ■ onp.mltins Rut into
a si.n k ear at t*h >. iuu- «i»rt »i-ii- i|J.
iuic Hki|*i», A! I Hits, west in her*
thr«* tramps ainu-d wuh pi tots
-1imiifil Into tin stn k i ar ami mliM
th* nu n WIiMt tin hold . i t»i im
iar at lb* m xt stop lb*> fired half a
doxon shots its* of them atria in*
Mi»-*.i In Iln lu* vi m*'■- vi taken to
lb* «lty tm*!dtial at osden
1*111*4 III ll|Mmu|
IT It A S b Inn* : •» Whil- p
ln« Ridf mi lb* link* of lb*
-lihas* club. n**r thi* * sty John l A
i iawiiitti* *4**1 14 y*4i» sun of **»
M-Uur Chat In A HhmUII!* «u lit
stsntl) bitllsrd by ligbinlM In i N
r«*t*r, wh * was piny ins near hint was
r*nd*t*d inniiAt- i-Hi for firstly twen
ty ntiawl**
%«4**w M•*->•• l|«M«i
IIENI.IN -Inn* J» Tin r*p*»rt m-l
to bn** ■>■ ifiiwsird at Vatdo* Norway,
that Andre* wh» ati-wpt*d to rmh
ibr wrtl pib In * Uu-ns h tst* tuts
b*«n lenurrd bar* and ia r*#v-l*4 it
i iwisi unf-Mtndw-i
Vice Admiral Seymour Mikes Official Ee
port of Belief Expedition.
WEEKS Of BATHE AND TIRIIOR
Imperial Troop* a* Well u* Ilmen En
Iii tcrual louaN— Chinese Slake
Treacherous Atluck After I’rofesslons
of Friendliness.
LONDON', June 30.—The adven
tures of the hard lighting allies un
der Admiral Seymour, their reaching
Anting, twelve miles from Pekin, the
decision to retreat, the capture of rice
and immense stores of arms and am
munition, affording material for a
strenuous defense until relieved—all
this is told in a dispatch from Ad
miral Seymour received by the admir
alty at midnight, which runs as fol
lows:
' TIEN THIN, June 27. via Che Foo,
June 20.—Have returned to Tien Tsin
with the forces, having been unable
to reach Pekin by rail. On June 13
two attacks on the advance guard
were made by the Hoxers, who were
repulsed with considerable loss to
them and none to our side.
"On June I I the Boxers attacked the
train at Lang Yan in large numbers
and with exeat determination. We
repulsed them witli a loss of about
100 killed. Our loss was five Italians.
Tlie same afternoon the Boxers at
tacked the British guard left to pro
tect Lota station. Reinforcements
were sent back and the enemy were
driven off with 100 killed. Two of our
seamen were wounded.
"We pushed forward to Anting and
engaged the enemy on June 13 and 14,
inflicting a loss of 175. There were no
casualties on our side.
“Kxtensive destruction of thp railway
in our front having been made further
advance by rail impossible, I decided
on June 16 to return to Yang Tsun,
where it was proposed to organize an
advance b ythe river to Pekin. After
my departure from Lang Yan, two
trains left to follow on were, on June
18, attacked by Boxers and imperial
troops from Pektn, who lost from 400
to 500 killed. Our casualties were six
killed and forty-eight wounded. These
trains joined me al Yang Tsun the
same day. The railway at Yang Tsun
was found entirely demolished and
the trains could not t>e moved. The
force being short of provisions and
hampered with wounded compelled us
to withdraw on Tien Tsin, with which
we had not been in communication
for six days, and oi r supplies had
been cut off
"On June 19 the wounded, with nec
essaries, started by boat, the forces
marching alongside the river. Oppo
sition was experienced during the
whole course of 'he river, from nearly
every village, the Boxers, when de
feated in one village, retiring to the
next and skillfully retarding our ad
vance by occupying well-selected posi
tions from which they had to be forced
often at the point of the bayonet and
in face of a galling fire difficult to
locate.
On June 22 we made a night march,
arriving at daybreak opposite the im
perial armory above Tien Tsin.
where, after friendly advances, a
treacherous, heavy fire was opened,
while our men were exposed on the
opposite river bank. The enemy were
kept in check by rifle fire in front,
while their position was turned by a
party of marines and seamen, under
Major Johnson, who rusheii and occu
pied one of the salient points, seizing
the guns.
“The Germans, lower down, silenced
two gnus and then crossed the river
and captured them. The armory was
next occupied by the combined forces.
Determined attempts to retake the ar
mory were made on the following day,
but unsuccessfully.
“Found Immense stores of guns,
arms and ammunition of the latest
pattern. Several gnus were mounted
In our defense and shelled the Chi
nese forts lower down. Having found
ammunition and rice, we could have
held for some days, but ludug ham
pered w ith large numbers of wounded.
1 sent to Tien Tain for a relieving
force, which arrived on the morning
of June 25.
“The armory was evacuated nnd the
forces arrived at "Men Tsin ou June
We burned the armory.
i.r uni i huff«*#'* I tirrr.
HAN FKANC1HCO. Cal Jui* :* -
The transport Grant whole will *u!l
on Holiday for Nagasaki and thence,
it is believed to Che Fmi or Takti.
will carry boo turn of the Hixth m*•
airy which. In udditlon to a hospital
corps, mum- u|i at the I'residio. hihi
re< rolls Hinl Sun marine*. will const I -
tote the force kohik to ( IIIIt t the
Ninth Infantry and a signs! corps
from Manila ami the unarlties already
in China wilt complete General Chaf
fee# fortes making n.wW to i.mm ia
%l I
Thte.t surge..a* wilt arenni|i«tit the
hospital corps V. hi.4 Assistant Hur
gvoA John I lliltrli Will have «turns
of the mcdl s! tlepaiIntent 04 Ur
! transport,
A« r«t r.« 1stl«e ttiima
I'H VXkD'H’f, June 34 timer
| 11 or It*, vbam today r*fused ta approve
c soouis far servo e af tb« tailor mil
I PWH the data Goebel was lie. la red
(ai*<»sr *#ii the eya oatum «f th*
frowns *h' f the rf is* su
preme isgrt the • hole sum itsimed
i in salaries aggregated upward* *f
[ I'.piAM
BOfRS SlFtfR TWO RtPllSTS.
Lord HolierU Cable* New* of fcniiill
Htirrentfill Fight*.
LONDON', June 29.—Lord Roberta
has sent bulletins of two small fights
occurring on June 26 and 27, in which
' the Boers were discomfited. In a dis
patch from Pretoria he says:
"A small force of mounted troops
witli two guns, commanded by Lieuten
ant Colonel Drelper, was attacked by
the enemy under Drefus and Nel, on
the morning of June 26, seven miles
north of Senekal. They beat off the
enemy and burned their laag**r. Our
rasualties were three wounded and ten
killed.
"Hunter, temporarily commanding
Ian Hamilton’s troops, made one march
yesterday from Heidelbetg toward
Frankfort without meeting any oppo
sition.
"The enemy attacked our Roodeval
spruit i>ost on the railway yesterday,
but was easily beaten off by a detach
ment of the Derbyshire light Infantry,
the West Australian monnteds, a fif
teen pounder and an armored train.
"Buden-Powell reports the capture of
an influential Hoer n titled Ray. who
was endeavoring to raise a commando
in tin* Rustenburg district. A patrol
brought in ilfty rifles. More than 400
rifles and 100 inferior pieces have been
taken during the last few days.”
LONDON, June 20. The Pretoria
correspondent of tlie Daily Telegraph,
in a dispatch dated yesterday, says:
"Since Sunday General French on
the left. General pin Hamilton on the
right, and the Eleventh division in the
center, have been endeavoring to sur
round the enemy's posi'ion in the hills,
fifteen miles east. There was light
ing fur three days, but Tuesday night
the enemy decamped, going eastward.
The total casualties were under 150.”
TO fOLlOW WOOILEY’S 1140.
ProlilbItlonUt* Nominate Illinoisan for
President.
CHICAGO, June 29.—The prohibi
tionists, in national convention assem
bled, nominated John G. Woolley of
Illinois for president and Henry B.
Metcalf of Rhode Island for vice presi
dent.
The attendance at the convention
was much larger than on the previous
duy. The galleries of the big First
regiment armory were thronged when
Chairman Dickie rapped the conven
tion to order at 10 a. m., while the
number of the delegate iiad been in
, creased considerably by arrivals from
I the more remote states.
After a brief prayer by Rev. C. H.
Mead of New Jersey, Chairman Jo
hann .if the committee on credentials
made a supplementary report, showing
additional arrivals of thirty-nine dele
gates. The total number of delegates
present was 790, representing forty
states. On account of the total failure
of Chairman Dickie’s voice, A. O. Wol
fenbarger of Nebraska took the chair
amidst considerable confusion.
Chairman Wolfenbarger recognized
National Committeeman Oliver W.
Stewart, who. in a speech of some
: length, outlined the work of the na
tional committee during the last four
: years and the work as contemplated
for the coming campaign.
Mr. Stewart concluded with a plea
for funds from those present to con
duct the campaign, which it is in
tended will be on a much more ex
I tensive seal.} than the party has ever
' before attempted. Several thousands
1 of dollars were tubscrlbed by the dele
gates and visitors.
GORY BATTIE IN COIOMBIA.
More TIimii 4.500 Dead Found on Field
Ml Kin Nt-jro.
NEW YORK, June 29.—Esplnoaal,
the Colombian consul general in tins
city, has received a letter from Bogota,
dated June fi, describing a return of
! Colombia to comparatively peaceful
| conditions. The letter says:
"1 he revolution is entirely at an end.
I The enemy were unable to resist the
: last charges on their front ami left
flank and retired to Rio Negro, hotly
, pursued by the government troops. The
Held abandoned by them was strewn
; with more than 4,500 dead ami a great
many stands of arms were taken. Oen
i nil Moibe, their leader, is trying to
leave Colombia by the Venezuelan
frontier. Ail vices from Barranquitla.
| of date of June 12. confirm the coin
p'et victory of tin* government forces
over the revolutionaries and say the
j country will lie in p>-rfict peace wltir.n
•a period of thirty d.iv., as the rebels
I are turning their grots over to the gov
er n me tit lit order to Join their f.iml
I lies."
I H.rr.i III l ife Held I tiri|>
HAVANA. June 2# ' Cuban pa
! licemait, who recently killed an \nt*r
Pan named Welsh, and uguitist whom
1 the evidence Wd» aiipdfeutly ran
pletr in the opinion of utfii » r* mid
, other* wild mw the whole affair, has
' plat In* n Si quitted t v the Judge* IB
<treum*tsncea so rv'iio! dinar/ Hut
(l iiirmii (ieiiera* W aul will older an
i investigation
Th* ft** at **Pl th«> i«m had teen
j eompUtely proved and he demanded
I a *ei|teUc* of toll:te>u year*.
Americans in Havana are very in
I ihitottl over wbst th<y claim U a
^•tolled atleiitpi to .how lb* Cuban*
that It la «<* ritine to hill an AntcrC
tan they refer la a vase occurring
•owe month, ago when a Cuban edi
tor hilled Mi Ptatih. the A merit *»
• oil* tor of custom* at Cuter* im the
trial th* go* at said ha naa with re
gret 11 r«v|ue*t the puntaoineht nt a
t‘u)>*a fo> hi ug tin- of the inte>
ven-ira an n«t which In hla opinion,
• ti * an elf t crlma
IN VEliY BAD ^
Admiral Seymour is Rescued in Very
Nick of Time.
PROVISIONS NEARLY EXHAUSTED
Roller Party lint to fight It* Way
Through Mm**** of Ho»tlle» —
l*rUofi«r» In Ifaitd* of llrltlsli hive
ion flic ting Ntorlfi Kegnrdlug MInl»teri
LONDON. June 29.~The casualties
of the international force attacking
Tien Tsin were: Americans, 3 killed,
2 wounded; British, 2 killed, 1 wound
ed; Germans, l!» killed, 27 wounded;
Russians, 10 killed, 37 wounded.
The gunfire of the Americans and
British Is described as "beautiful."
After the relieving force pushed on
to relieve Admiral Seymour, Chinese
regulars under General Nieh, says a
dispatch from Shanghai, again t.ttack
ed Tien Tsin fiercely and bombarded
the foreign settlement with a terrible
lire.
Colonel Dorward, British command
ed the column that relieved Admiral
Seymour. American marines partici
pated In the achievement. The ad
miral was found entrenched and sur
rounded by Immense masses of Chi
nese, who were driven off by the re
lieving column after a brisk fight. Mis
men made a brilliant resistance, never
failing in courage for fifteen days of
continuous fighting. During ten days
the men were on quarter rations. They
started with provisions for ten days,
ft»d they would have held out a day
or two longer.
The column was a few miles beyond
Lofa. Deeming it hopeless to attempt
to break through the hordes, Admiral
Seymour essayed a night retreat to
ward Tien Tsin, but came in collision
with a strong Chinese force arriving
from the northwest and could neither
advance nor retreat. There was noth
ing to do but intrench and stand siege.
He vainly attempted heliographic com
munication.
Seymour’s men caught several Chi
nese, who said tile legations had been
burned end the ministers killed, oth
ers said that the ministers had been
imprisoned.
The Chinese displayed fanatical
courage In the attack.
Four thousand Russians left Tien
Tsin four days after Admiral Sey
mour, but they never got in touch
with hint.
GERMANY IS PERPEEXED.
Kmiirrnr William Worrying Oyer I’lwn*
In Moot Situation.
BERLIN, June 28.—A prominent
member of Emperor William's entour
age. who has just returned to Berlin
from Kiel, where the emperor Is, says
that his majesty and Count von Bue
low, the foreign minister, are consider
ably perplexed as to how Germany is
to meet the present situation in China,
Inasmuch as they are inclined to
think that a much larger force of
troops will lie'-ome necessary to carry
the campaign there to a successful is
sue. They are also convinced that
Germany should bear its full share of
the responsibility.
Meanwhile disquieting reports ron
tinue to arrive from Kio Chau, where
Governor Jaeschke fears that an out
break may occur at any moment, pre
cipitating a general eruption and into
the German sphere.
Moreover, it is understood that
Emperor William lias not decided
whether to continue tlie former en
tente with Russia and Franco in
China, us after the China-Japanese
war. or to turn more to the side of
England, the Fnited States and Japan.
Herr Eugene Wolff in the Berliner
Tagebiatt, publishes a powerful arti
cle regarding China, drawn from In
timate and very recent acquaintance
with the land and its people. He
gives a history of the Boxer movement
and blames Germany and England
for not recognizing its dangerous
character during the last two years.
He says that the French minister in
Pekin. M. Plnchof. alone energetically
forced the empress dowager to re
move Que Hhen from the governor
! ship of Shan Tung. Que* SIumi having
| lieen appointed, although the empress
knew that he was the founder of the
! Boxers.
_
president fUn. i«« T>l*
WASHINGTON. June 'I > | .m
blent. Mr* MeKtnley ami party will
leave fur Canton. O . lu u private car
attached to the regular 7 ti p ni
; train ou the I’eniiavlvaula railroad
I Friday The priidth-nt will be ancon
' panted In Ur Httey, d»- retary Cur
lelyuu and A *b»int nleiiwtary I lit rite*
Ututuu tbe abatnre of get retary
IOlid ytlU the ese. lithe oftb e will be
I lit charge of A*d»Uni S eretary |*iu
I tlen Only the most Import a nt mat
i tera v|ll l»- transmit! I tu Canton,
| and. while the president will tie at ail
: nine* in dirert eomcaunb atiwn with
! Hie Wht'e House and.member* of the
I cabinet, he will be re ileted a* mu. It
! as IMiwIblr of nuttier* which should
pto|Htly be disputed of lu Washing
•on
KOI « hew tmk tab*
HIN FHtSCUittl Cal June J*
The |MM»isirai imbiPbUou* la Nm
Turk newspapers of a story tu the «f
f«K*l tkst He* J. Oe-.rge UihbMt of
tbit <tt» is dead too that before his
demise h» made a OU few* toil that he
murdered . Isa be I nmnbt sa t Min
a is Williams, have a# fuua*Uti«b la
hvt
LITTLE DOING IN AFRICA.
Boer* anti HrUlsh Apparently Are Best*
lug on 1 heir Arm*.
LONDON, June 28.—General Sir
Leslie Bundle had an artillery and in
fantry skirmish near Senesal Friday
with a lar;e force of entrenched Boers.
This is C’e only fresh fighting re
ported.
Tiie Boer outposts northeast of Pre
toria are busy. The telegraph wires
between Standerton and Newcastle
were cut Sunday anil Sir Reilvera But
ler had to report by heliograph.
Commandant De Wet, with 3,040
men and three guns, is moving north
east In the Orange river colony. It is
understood that he and Commandant
General Botha entered into a compact
that neither would surrender so lung
as tiie other was ill the field.
Twelve thousand rifles, all told, have
been surrendered to tiie British.
President Kruger is still at Marha
dodorp.
The exposure regarding the hospi
tals in South Africa have made a great
sensation in England. Tney began
with three rolumns of restrained lan
guage in the Times yesterday from W.
A. Burdett-Coutts, conservative mem
ber of parliament for Westminster.
Ills disclosures have been widely re
produced and they are supplemented
this morning witli denunciatory tele
grams and interviews from survivors
and army medical men. The arett
liishop of Capetown, in an address tie
fore the Society of Good Hope, in the
Capo government house, Monday, ex
pressed great dissatisfaction at the
way tiie sick and wounded were treat
ed. He declared that the warm cloth
ing that was absolutely necessary was
freely offered, but was rarely if ever
distributed by the army doctors; that
the sick slept on the hare ground and
that even in Capetown the way the
hospitals were mismanaged made one's
blood boll.
A news agency dispatch from Cape
town says: “Certain revelations point
to malfeasance in connection with the
supplies of comforts for the sick and
wounded.”
Tiie Capetown correspondent of the
Daily Telegraph says that I.ord Rob
erts will reply fully to the charges of
Burdett-Coutts, Frederick Williams,
consulting physician of tiie London
hospital, who was reoentiy at the
front, says the charges come to hltn as
an absolute shock and are quite In
credible. He praises the medieul de
partment.
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MAKES ONE SINGLE ISSUE.
I’roliibitlonliln Will Manil or Fall on llo»
tlllty to l.l<|iior.
CHICAGO, June 28.—The prohibition
party will make its national campaign
this year upon a platform of a single
Issue, tlie liquor traffic, all other issues
being subordinated to this one ques
tion.
1'pon this platform it is probabla
that either Rev. S. C. Swallow, the
“fighting parson" of Harrisburg, Pa.,
or John G. Woolley of Chleago, editor
of the New Voice, the prohibition na
tional organ, will be nominated for
president.
The national convention of the pro
hibition party in a session here, morn
ing, afternoon and evening, cleared up
all business except the nominations
for president and vice president, which
will lie made today. The convention,
in points of numbers and enthusiasm
shown, is considered one of the great
est Held by the advocates of cold w'ater.
Thirty-seven states of the union wera
represented when Chairman Oliver
Stewart of the national committee
railed the convention to order at the
First regiment armory, many delegates
being present, while scores of others
are expected.
The platform, as adopted by the con
vention, bears solely upon ttie quesiion
of the suppression of the liquor traffic.
SLffP WliH PIST01 IN IHND,
Missionary ul Tlrn ThIii Write* of st.ita
«>f I it nt nine**.
PHILADELPHIA, Juno 28—Mrs. Ol
iver Clifford, who with her husband
is connected with the Presbyterian
mission nt Tien Tain, writes under
date of May 2'J to her brother in this
city as follows:
“We sleep now with our firearms
close at hand. Oliver and I each have
a brace of pistols under our heads.
I always have two valises packed,
ready to flee at any moment, and the
entire foreign population is anxiously
wat liing for the first sign of an tip
rising. Last Monday in > ning when
the people awoke In the city huge
placards were found postei on the
walls and fence- trading i< fallows:
* 'The heavens a-e dUph.t'd a* the
preen.*. of the foreign dog- In China,
The kimIh have decre • I that there
shall l>e no luore lain In th ■ whols
king iota until they me all expelled.***
> Urrsisn limuite.l
tiltkKN RiVffH. U m) dune *t —
A young man named K i' Wes *«*,
who had he.*n working fur tiintriiaof
Callahan WO Utile* west of tirceit
Hiver on the I it ion Patiltc mu off.
was drowned Munda* afternoon while
bathing in lit* n rivet 1 he body hit
t * . r». •*.''• * V. - . . * ■..
msn and > .m e to this country ia I fit*
tie was t! >e,yis ol,|
l ..I t at t - 11,
BK ATTI.K M ash June f% -Th*
g*d<l receive*! at tit y ailed aisles aa■
say iiM * state June I IWa .***•.**
ia value to over |l wimi from m*
formation aosr at Head it is ptwsiaie t»
make the certain prediction lint the
re. etpts of the t»M-« during th • aatitfe
of inly will amount i« over |i *nw *».