Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, November 11, 1899, Page 2

The Hevali--Review. E. C. KILBY, anne GRAND RAPIDS - Broad assertions are apt to fall flat. Flowery speeches do not always in- dicate budding genius. It is strange but true that today will be yesterday tomorrow. Telling one lie will ruin the effect of twenty years of honesty. Scholars are supposed to extract the honey of life from the archives. There is a time for everything, but the cheap watch seldom indicates it. The rose soon fades, but the thorn continues to do business at the old stand, The banana peel has contributed much toward making the law of gravi- ty unpopular, Pride and poverty are often seen to- gether, but they can hardly be called birds of a feather, An old bachelor says the average woman's mouth is so small that it doesn’t hoid her tongue. One who is supposed to know says there is just about the same real feel- ing when girls or billiard balls kiss each other, A New York medical society is very enthusiastic over goat’s lymph as a cure for insanity, The ordinary in- dividual will be disposed to try goat’s milk awhile in preference. Kaiser Wilhelm has contracted for a sailing yacht, and has given orders that the boat must be the fastest that unlimited funds can build. Can it be possible that the kaiser intends to go after the American cup next year? “If you open fire on the town I shall proceed to shell your works,” was the short, sharp and emphatic message sent by the American consul at Puerto Cabella to the Venezuelan insurgents who threatened to bombard that city. ‘The cruiser Detroit was in the harbor ready to translate the words into ac- tion. obeyed. It is now known far and wide that American gunners hit what they aim at. Wireless telegraphy is likely to be the subject of litigation. Professor Amos E. Dolbear of Tufts College de- , fort reports clares that he is the discoverer of wire- | that during less telegraphy aud he proposes tak- ing steps to prevent Marconi from in- fringing on his rights. Professor Dol- bear is prepared to show that he holds and controls the United States patent on the whole art of wireless telegraphy and wireless telephony. His patent was granted in 1886. According to Professor Dolbear’s statement he was THE NEWS RESUME DIGEST OF THE NEWS FROM ALL PARTS OF THE WORLD. A Comprehensive Review of the Important Happenings of the Past Week Culled From the Tel- egraph Reports — The Notable Events at Home and Abroad That Have Attracted Attention. Criminal Record. Christopher C. Chew, forty-nine years old, proprietor of the largest de- partment store in Southern New Jer- sey, committed suicide in bis store at Camden by shooting himself. Ex-County Treasurer Frank M. Par- ker of Nevada, Mo., found guilty of embezzling $26,000 of county funds, was sentenced to three years and six months in the penitentiary. A desperate street fight between members of a Tennessee colony recent- ly located at North Salem, Ind., and citizens of North Salem resulted in the instant death of one man, the fatal wounding of another and winor injur- ies to many others. From Washington. The government receipts in October svere $3,359,562 greater than the ex- penditures. Victor H. Olmstead, assistant direct- or of the census, has inspected all the provinces of the island of Cuba, and reports that all incapable enumerators have been discharged. The president has commissioned Col. Wilder S. Metcalf, Twentieth Kansas volunteers, brigadier general by bre- vet for gallant and meritorious ser- vices in action at Cuiguento river, Lu- zon. Assistant Secretary Spaulding has issued a circular permitting the entry, without detention, of sealskin gar- ments worn by persons temporarily visiting the United States from Can- ada. The president has appointed George T. Langhorne and James M. Shipton majers, and Harry E. Bishop a captain in the volunteer establishment. They will be at once assigned to duty with regiments in the Philippines. Bids were opened at the navy de partment for the construction of s sheathed and coppered cruisers, a thorized by the last naval appropria- tion bill. ‘Their speed is not to be less than sixteen and a half knots. Special Agent Sewall, at Honolulu, reports to the state department that The natives, needless to sSaY,/ the tctal imports into Hawaii during the first nine months of 1899 amounted to $13,667,372, an increase of $5,306,- 792 over the corresponding period of 1898, and $2,016,432 more than for the entire year of 1898. Consul General Guenther, at Frank- to the state department the period from Jan. 1 to June 30, 1899, 598 strikes were begun in Germany, affecting 2,190 establish- 1,048 employes. The most merts and serious strikes were among employes of building, textile and machinery mantfacturing establishments. Foreign. Venezula is to have a new revoiution, Twenty-nine British cruisers are to sending messages for a distance of a be mobilized. mile and a half without the use of a| wire when Marconi was only 8 years pay for her enlarged army. old. * The New England Educational Germany is to put up grain duties to German underofficers being re- cruited for the British service in South | Africa. Jeague is urging the electric railways | The federal council of Switzerland to follow the example of Springfield | has elected Eugene Rufly to be direct- and Toronto by providi: “sr school pupi!s. It is claimed that “more children than edults can be car>! ried in a car, that they would ride at | rath or national council of Switzerland hours when other travel is light and that the companies would find) their ‘ the political color advantage in the numbers and regu- larity of this class of passengers. President Eliot of Harvard thinks the location of secondary schools should be determined by accessibility rather than by local boundaries; and he adds that fifteen miles by rail is easier than two miles afoot on a country road, A French savant has published an interesting paper in which an expla- nation is solicited of the formation of clouds, threads and crystals chat are produced in the so-called chemical or camphor barometer which consists of a solution in alcohol of equal parts, of three substances, nitrate of potash, camphor and hydrochlorate of am- monia, when the glass tube that con- tains the solution is hermetically seal- ed and the variations of temperature to which it is subjected have no in- fluence on the phenomenon. In Eng- lish-speaking countries this form of barometer, under the name of “the farmers’ weather glass,” “the domestic barometer” or some other equally mis- jJeading title, is found everywhere. In some forms there is but little apparent change in_the clearness of the liquid from the beginning tc the end of the year. In other instruments the crys- tals of camphor, from day to day, as- sume different forms, which, however interesting they may be to observe and study, have nothing to do with the weather and storms, and but little with the current temperature. Skilled me- teorologists know that for their pur- pose, as well as for that of the farmer, these instruments are of no value, but to the student of molecular physics they are well worth an investigation. The battleship Kearsarge on her offi- cial speed trial over the Cape Aun course Sept. 25 averaged 16.84 knots an hour. On the outward run of thirty- three knots she averaged 17.32 knots, with smooth sea and wind abeam. On the return she averaged 16.37 knots against a head wind. The contract re- quirement was sixteen knots. It is to the credit of the Kearsarge that her relative speed, with 500 Iéss horse power, and 350 tons greater displace- ment, was approximately equal to that of the Iowa, although the latter on her trial made 17.02 for an average, half-fares ; or Sf the bureau of the universal postal unfor, The general elections to the national were held but resulted in no change iu of the chamber. A new agreement as to Samoa is be- ihg discussed by the United States, Great Britain and Germany, involving the retirement of the latter power. Lieut. Gen. Charles Wright Young- husband (retired) is dead at London. The death is also announced of Ed- ward Fleetwood John Pellew, fourth Viscount Exmouth. It is semi-officially asserted at Ber- lin that the increase in the naval ex- penditure will be defrayed by the in- crease in grain duties in 1903, which is expected to produce a surplus of 90,000,000 marks. Maj. John P. Storey, Seventh artil- lery, who was recently detailed to duty with the British army in the Transvaal for the purpose of obsery- ing the military operations, has at his own request been relieved of that as- sigrment and will continue on his pres- ent duty. Personal. Capt. Charles 8. Lester, U. 8. A., re: tired, died at New York as the result of an operation for the removal of a cancer. ; Admiral Dewey announces his en- gagement to John R. McLean’s sister, widow of Gen. Hazen, of the signal service. George Butler of Montana has been appointed superintendent of irrigation on the Wind River Indian reservation in Wyoming. E. W. Vaughn has resigned as chief engineer of the Nickle Plate railway to take a similar position with a West- ern road. His place will be taken by E. E. Hart. Prof. George D. Herron, of Iowa col- lege, at Grinnell, has tendered his res- igpation to the trustees at a meeting held in Des Moines. The resignation has been accepted. Ngo Talbo, the famous teror singer and teacher, is dead at Stocton. Cal., after an i/Iness of two weeks. He was a noted singer in England thirty years ago, and has prominent relatives in Stecton. ‘Capt. Nicoll Ludlew has been re- tired with the rank of rear admiral cf the navy on his application after thir- ty years’ service and under the terms of the personnel bill grade in rank in case of such retire- ment. Capt. Ludlow is a son-in-law of Mrs. Wash McLean and a brother-in- law ¢f Mrs Hazen, conferring one | ' Accidental Happenings. ‘A six-story building im Chicago col- lapsed with deadly results. Fire, which started in a tenement block known as the Platt block, in Connsville, Conn., destroyed the block aa eight other buildings. Loss, $60,- The coroner’s investigation of the ferry Chicago at New York may re- sult in the charge of manslaughter against the captains of the Chicago and City of Augusta. The business portion of Wakarusa, a thriving town nine miles west of Goshen, Ind., on the Wabash railroad, was destroyed by fire recently, nine- teen business places being burned. Loss estimated at $50,000 to $60,000; partially insured. A Pittsburg & Western yard engine blew up in the yards at Painesville, Ohio, while in motion, The engineer was uninjured, but the fireman, con- ductor and brakeman, who were on the engine, were badly scalded. The fireman will probably die. The Aberdeen Packing company’s cannery at Fairhaven, Wash., was burned. The loss is estimated at $150,000. The cannery and contents were insured for $70,000, $20,000 of which was on the buildings. There were 15,000 cascs of canned salmon in the building and very little will be saved. Otherwise. Wisconsin swamp lands may be re- claimed by means of a drainage canal, There is talk of the Wisconsin Cen- tral losing its Chicago terminal rights. National and state officials are to make an excursion over the Chicago drainage canal, An Iowa physician thinks insanity can be cured in most cases ‘by resetting dislocated bones. A Chieago man -while hunting was nearly killed and his dog entirely so by an army of muskrats. “Hong Chamberlain!” was the ery at a Chicago Dutch meeting that passed resolutions sympathizing with the Boers. A steel shipbuilding plant is to be es- tablished at Collingwood, Ont., with the assistance of Capt. McDougell of Duluth. Vigorous Eastern opposition is being plavred at Marien, Ind., against the wood pulp trust that is now being or- ganized in New York city. The Ilirois State Bar association has asked for more dignity in state tri- bunals and also has suggested that too many are being admitted to practice law. Zi Pittsburg men and Pittsburg capital will soon control the fire-proof building business of the entire country, that is, the manufacture or fire-proof building material. The Cleveland & Eastern Railway company, electrical, gave a mortgage for $1,000,000 to the Cleveland Trust company. The money will be used in extensions. Ter gales, which blew at New- bern, N. C., drove the tide higher by two feet than it ever has been. The city was flooded, and small boats were used in the streets. Owing to the present low price of su- gar and the poor prospects, many Cu- ban planters have decided not to grind their present crop, but to use it in re- planting and in increasing their acre- age. The Woman’s Foreign Missionary_s0- ciety has declined to unite with the Heme Miosionary Society of the Meth- odist church, the convention deciding that both could do the most good work- ing separately. The Judiciary committee of the grand lodge, Knights of Pythias, has decided that nearly every act of the grand lodge at its last session is un- copstitutional and not according to Pythian law, At the national W. C. 'T. U. conven- tion it was decided to maintain an ac tive lobby at Washington this winter in order to prevent the seating, if pos- sible, of Congressman-elect Roberts of Utah. The exports of silver from New York to all countries for the last week gregate $685,368 in silver bars and ¢ oy Id. The imports of cie for the week were $28,954 gold and $84,173 silver. A party of about 100 Indians, most- ly from the North and South Daketa reservations, are stranded at Omaha, and Special Indian Agent Jenkins has been ordered from Pine Ridge to se- cure their return to the agencies. In the county court at Pittsburg; Pa., Judge White held that an employer has a right to operate his factory independ- ent cf a union, and that a union has no right to persuade his apprentices to become members of their organization, The gold output for Cripple Creek district for October was $2,001,600. This is the first month that has ex- ceeded $1,000,000. It is estimated that the total of the year will not fall short cf $18,000,000. At a meeting of the hay press manu- facturers held at Chicago it was de- cided to advance the price of baling presses 10 per cent. The advance was made because ef increased cost of material. and it is said another ad- vance will be made soon, Since Jan. 1 the Seattle assay oftice has received treatment $11,611,214. since the office began business Jw 1898, $17,280,361. During the we office made three shipments of assay gold to the United States mint of a total value of $1,500,000. . ‘Two hurdred employes of the Story & Clark Piano company at Chicago went on a strike, and it is probable that their action will be followed by the workmen in several other Chica; factories. They demand a higher scale of wages. Officials of the Western Union .and Postal Telegraph companies at New York, deny that those companies are in any way interested in the telephone and telegraph company ‘which will seon be launched with a capital of $25,000,000 to fight the Bell company, About 500 girls are still out of the potteries at East Liverpcol, Ohie, on a strike fer an advance of 25 per cent. Byery factory in the city but one is nffectcd. Maycr Bough has wired Sec- retary Joseph Bishop cf the state | board of arb tration, and the latter will go there and attempt to settle the istrike. 4 JEFFRIES WINS IT GETS THE DECISION AT THE END OF THE TWENTY-FIFTH ROUND. One of the Most Marvelous Fights That Has Ever Taken Place—Des- perate Struggle for Pugilistic Su- premacy—Jefiries Has the Better of the Fight in the First Two and the Last Three Rounds, During the Other Twenty Sharkey Forced the Issue—Jeffries Loses His Glove in the Last Reund. New York, Noy. 5.—James J. Jeffries retains the championship of the world, Referee George Siler giving him tie decision at the end of the twenty-fifth round over Sailor Tom Sharkey at the Coney Island Sporting club last night. It was one of the most marvelous bat- tles that has taken place and the great- est crowd that ever gathered in the Coney Island club house witnessed the desperate struggle for supremacy. In five rounds Jeffries had the better of the fight, in the first two and in the last three. During the other twenty Sharkey forced the issue, and like a pull terrier, was at his man with both hands unceasingly. In those twenty rounds Jeffries’ great weight and brawn helped him to hold off the sail- or, and in the twenty-second round he swung a couple of vicious upper-cuts that made Sharkey groggy. Tom came back again in the twenty-fourth and twenty-fifth, but he was weakened greatly by Jeffries’ vicious blows. One minute before the gong sounded to end the fight Jeffries’ left glove came off and practically the contest was over. The referee motioned Jeffries to his corner, an American flag was swung around the champions shoulders and the crowd on that side and end of the arena cheered wildly. The crowd on the opposite side and in Sharkey’s cor- ner yelled for Sharkey as the men were led back to their dressing rooms, The tkousands of spectators were banked fifty feet high in the building, the place being packed from ringside to rafters, and the aisles around the ring were lined. The tremendous crowd sweated under the glare of 400 are lights. The heat was intense. The fighters Were Almost Exhausted, but ihe spectators shrieked themselves hoarse. It seemed at first as though it would be a short fight, for in the second reund Jeffries put the sailor to the ropes with a left to the jaw, and the referee began to call off the sec- onds as. Skarkey knelt on the floor. But in the third round Sharyek, with his vicious swings on the ribs and jaw, kept the crowd on its feet waiting for a knock-out. Jeffries stood the terri- ble purishment, and, with his eye, ears and nese cut, came back just as vicious in the last three rounds and al- most retrieved himself. Then the un- satisfactory end of Jeffries’ glove fly- ing off, bringing the fight to end, althovgh the crowd urged Sharkey to rush in and end it. This he tricd to do but Jeffries fought him back and Ref- eree Siler rushed between. It was noticeable that Jeffries used his weight to its best advantage, throwing him- self on the sailor, but the latter did his share of the hugging, ‘to, and both were warned repeatedly. The najority of those at the ring- side thcught Sharkey would get no worse thar a draw, for the sailor fought vicicusly, alwoys efter bis man, with gcod ment, and outpointed the champion. On the cther hand, Jeffries, while he had the better by long odds of the last three rounds, did very little leading in the cther twen- ty-twe, and when he led he was either too high cr too low, getting in but few gocd punches. The decision was not announced from the ring, cr, if it was, few heard it, and a great mob surged around for several minutes, yelling and shouting for victor and vanquished. Crowds Greet Schley. Lynchburg, Va., Nov. 5,— A great crowd of people greeted the train bear- ing Adn.iral Schiey and party to At- lanta. A reception committee of preminent citizens, including Mayor Smith and Senator Daniel, welcomed the admiral, Senator Daniel introduced the admiral to the gathering and the distinguished sailor was enthusiastic- ally cheered. He made a speech of a few words. Ee a i LT ‘To Manafacture Thorite. Washington, Nov. 5. — The war ce- partment has cancelled the order for the manufacture cf the high explosive thorite in the Philippines. After a conference yesterday between Secre- tary Root. the chief of ordnance and the inventer cf the explosive, it was decided to begin the manufacture ot therite at Sandy Hook immediately. Banker Indicted. Mortreal, Que., Nov. 5.—A true bill has been returned against William Weir, president of the Bank Ville Marie; Jeffry Smith, one of the direct- ors. and Ferdinand Lemieux, the ex- cashier, for making a false statement cf the bank's affairs to the govern- ment. ba eae teen en cece See ED SSeS essere phar =i sos lasses artesian Adversity and Suicide. Redwood Falls, Minn., Noy. 5.—Mrs. fosina Van Ormun, residing eight miles southwest of here, committed suicide by cutting her throat with a razor, ‘The cause was mental aberra- tion growing out of financial reverses. Fire at Hawkeye. Waterloo. Iowa, Noy. 5, — Fire at Hawkeye destroyed six buildings, com- pe *siness_ portion cf the town, incluaiug ihe postoftice. The Icss is $15,600; partly insured. Germany’s Navy. Berlin, Nov. 5.—The federal council has received a communication from Vice Admiral Tirpitz, minister of the navy, stating that a new navy bill was in course of preparation and would be submitted shortly. Holden Indicted. Wooster, Ohio, Nov. 5.—Rev. Louis Edward Holden was _ inaugurated president of Wooster university, vice Dr. Syivester Scoville, resigned. Rev. Holden comes from the University of Beloit, Wis. : Recommendation of the Philippine Commission. Washington, Nov. 4.—In accordance with the understanding reached at the conference at the White House Tues- day the Philippine commission yester- day submitted to the president the preliminary report which it had prom- ised to prepare. The report appears to be a compact summary of conditions on the islands as the commission left them; of the historical events’ which preceded the Spanish war and the in- ternal Filipino insurrection; of the ex- change between Admiral Dewey and other American commanders and the inscrgents; the breaking out of the present insurrection, and, finally, a statement of the capability of the Fil- ipino for self-government. The feature of the report is a memorandum by Admiral Dewey explaining his rela- tions with Aguinaldo. 1 The commission is of the opinion that American sovereignty over the archipelago will prove a great political boon to the people, and says: “Should our power by any fatality be withdrawn the commission believe that the government of the Philippines would speedily lopse into anarchy, which would excuse, if it did not neces- sitate, the intervention of other pow- ers andthe eventual division of the islands among them. Only through American occupation, therefore, is the idea of a free, self-governing and united Philippine commonwealth at all conceivable. And the indispensable need from the Filipino point of view of maintaining American sovereignty over the archipelago is fully recog- nized by all intelligent Filipinos, and even by those insurgents who desire an American protectorate. The latte, it is true, would take the revenues and Jeave us the responsibilities. Never- theless we recognized the indubitable fact that the Philippines cannot stand alone. ‘Thus the welfare of the Filipinos is considered with the dic- tates of national honor in forbidding our abandonment of the archipelago. We cannot, from any point of view, escape tke responsibilities of govern- ment which our sovereignty entails. The commission is fully’ persuaded that the performance of our national duty will prove the greatest blessing to the people of the Philippine is- lands.” They deny the reports of desecration of churches, the murdering of prison- ers and the committing of unmention- able crimes, and say they are glad to declare that the war is the most hu. mane in history. The commission gives a general view of the value of the islands, their rich- ness in agricultural and forest pro- ducts, their mineral wealth, and com- manding geographical position. It says that the Philippine group should become one of the great trade resorts of the East. In concluding the report the comm's- sion has this to say regarding reten- tion of our control in the islands: “Our control means giving the in- habitants of the Philippines internal peace and a guarantee against foreign aggression and against the dismember- ment of their country, commercial and industrial prosperity and a largé share of the reins of government as they shall become fit to take them. When peace and prosperity shall have been established through the archipelago, when education shall have become general, then, in the ldnguage of a leading Filipino, hisypeople will; under our guidance, ‘become more American than the Americans themselves.’ ” The report is signed by J. G. Schur- man, George Dewey, Charles Denby, Dean C. Worcester. AGUINALDO'S PLP. Asks His People to be on Their Good Behavior. Manila, Noy. 4. — Agumaldo has is- sued a proclamation announcing that the American congress will meet in December to decide whether the “im- perialistie policy” and “this bloody work” are to be continued. He ex- horts his followers. to conduct them. selves so that congress will consider them worthy of independence, and re- quests the priests to abstain from pol}- tics and to redeem the church from the bad name the misdeeds of the friars have given it. A crisis in the Filipino cabinet is predicted as the result of the resigna- tions of Paterno and Buencamino, two Filipino leaders who have lost the con- fidence of the rabid revolutionists. Lieut. Slavens, of Gen. MacArthur's staff, reconnoitering with eighteen men in front of Angeles, discovered a Filipino outpost in a trench. The Fili- pincs numbered about forty men. AS the Filipinos had sighted the Ameri- cans, Lieut. Slavens’ only course was to charge, and h’s party, rushed to the trerch, shooting and yelling. They killed three of the insurgents and wounded several, who, however, suc- ceeded in escaping. Not one of the Americans was hit. The lieutenant se- cured yaluable information about the enemy’s posit’on. The feeling of disquiet aroused at lloilo by the arrest of Santiago, the wealthy F.lipino, wko is charged with forming a revolutionary junta, has subsided. The natives in their quarter of the town were restless and were heard chanting the death song at night, with the refrain “The Ameri- cans Sleep.” A provost marshal's force surrounded the quarters and drove the suspicious looking natives outside the lines. The Americans oc- cupy Iloi.o and the adjoining town of Jaro and Molo, with 4,000 men, con- sisting cf the Eighteenth ani Twenty- sixth reg’ments, two battalions of the Nineteenth regiment, a detachment of the Sixth regiment and a battery of the Sixth artillery. The insurgent force is now supposed to be between 500 and 5.000 armed men and many more unarmed. Their lines are about 900 yards from Jaro, which is occupied by the Twenty-sixth regiment. The insurgents are supposed to have five smooth-bore cannon. For a long time past they have been building trenches between Jaro and their stronghold, Santa Barbara, eight miles north. HOBART’S CONDITION. No Change Is_ Reported—Patient Sleeping Quietly. Paterson, N. J., Noy. 4, 2.4. m.—No apparent change is reported in the con- dition of Vice President Hobart. ‘The family retired early, and at 1 o'clock this morning Herbert Tuttle said Mr. FHfobart was sleeping quietly. weer maz muavoe. [GLOOMY FORBRITISH POSITION IN SOUTH AFRICA ONE OF” GRAVEST PERIL. The Holding Back of Dispatches by the War Office and the Announce- ment of the Mobilization of An- the Deepest Alarm—Boers Are Threat- _ ening to Attack Ladysmith in © Force—Pictermaritzburg, Capitar of Natal, May Fall Into Joubert’s. ( Hands. other Army Corps Causes New York, Nov. 5.—A dispatch to the World from London says: Gen. Jou- bert’s movement to cut off Gen. White at Ladysmith from Colenso is being carried out, and it is probable that Pietermaritsburg, the capital of Na- tal, will fall into Gen. Joubert’s hands before Gen. Buller and reinforcements ean arrive. The South African situation is again causing the deepest alarm. The silence of the war cffice, which re- ceived several dispatches from Cape Town and Durban, the holding back of the list of casualties at Ladysmith, and, finally, the announcement of the mobilization of the second army corps on the 10th of this month, all combine to show that the position of British power in South Africa is one of gravy- est peril. The World correspondent learns that the Dutch rising in Northern Cape Colony kas assumed menacing propor- tions, owing to the Boer successes, while the native unrest all along the Transvaal and Orange Free State borders has become most menacing. Threatening Ladysmith. London, Nov. 5.—According to dis- patches filed on tuesday defensive works were being constructed on the hills around Ladysmith, and it was ex- pected there that the big naval guns would be mounted the following day. The Boers were threatening to attack the town in orce Wednesday and Thursday, and the women and ebil- dren and other non-combatants were being sent by train to the south. Lady- smith is provisioned for two months. There is very little fresh intelligence to-day, but it is believed that if the Delagoa bay route is not already re- stored, speedily will be, thus giving quicker communication with the Cape. The situation is still hopeful. The ac- courts that continue to arrive regard- ing the fighting on Farquhar’s farm only confirm its serious nature and the narrow escape Gen. White had. On this point the Morning Post remarks: “Nothing tells such a tale of battle as the list of the missing. When the missing exceeded the killed it is al- most safe to write defeat across the story, because “missing” means aban- donment or rurrendered.” A dispatch from Colesburg, dated Noy. 1, announces that six police who were stationed at Colesburg bridge were surrounded and captured. This: is probably the origin of the story that the Beers had occupied Colesburg. Paris and Berlin continue to supply statements of British reverses, the latest being that Mafeking has fallen. Merriment at Mafeking. Londen, Nov. 5.—The special corres- pondent of the Daily Mail at Mafeking, under date of Oct. 22, says: Gen. Cronjes’ bembardment of Mafeking was monotonous. The Boers fired sixty-two shells but did no harm, the whole town, even the ladies, laughing at the affair. He threatens to bring a forty-pounder from Pretoria. Cronjes says he is sorry for the women’s sake that he shelled the town, but that it was not playing the game to send dynamite truck among his men. Fif- teen hundred of his command have since departed to the southward. small parties of our garrison nightly harras the Boer outpests. I hear that the Daily News correspondent at Leo- batsi is a prisoner in the hands of the Boers. The Boers Fell in Piles. New York, Nov. A Journal spe- cial from London states that a Lady smith dispatch, dated Tuesday, says: Although Monday is not a good day for us, it was awful for the enemy. Our artillery fire was appalling. The Boers lost huncreds, killed and wounded, where lyddite shells from the nayal guns raiped upon them, They fell in heaps. The havec was so great that Joubert sent a formal written protest to Gen. White against the use of lyddite as inhuman. ‘The British long- range guns are vastly superior to those of the Boers. The captured column ex- ceeds 800, We are confident that we can hold our own, Afrikanders Not Disloyal. Lendon, Noy. 5, — The Cape Town correspordent of the Daily Chronicle says: There is not the slightest indi- eation kere of Afrikander disloyalty. Lady Churchill as a Nurse. London, Noy. 5. — The Outlook an- nounces that Lady Randolph Chureh- ill is going to the Cape to attend to- the wornced. WHALER’S SUCCESS. Large Quantity of Amebrgris as- Well as Oil Secured. San Francisco, Nov. 5.—The whaling. bark Charles W. Morgan, which has arrived here from the Okhotsk sea, during the year’s cruise secured 1,400 barrels of sperm oil, 2,600 pounds of bone and GO pounds cf ambergris. The latter was an especially good find, as it will bring from $250 to $400 a pound. The amberg’s was landed in Japan and has already been sent to the own- ers of the vessel, J. & W. Wing, of” New Bedford. The Morgan caught in all forty-eight sperm whales and two- right whales. Thrifty Porter. New York. Nov. 5. — George W.. Birchett, a colored porter employed by” the ACams express company, Was ar- raigned in police court and held for trial on a charge cf stealing a money bag containing $6,000 in gold. He has: confessed, Samoan Negotiatio London, Nov, 5.—The Bevlin corres+ pondent of the Times says he hears om: reliable authority that the negotiations. respecting Samoa are progressing fae-— yorably and may close anygilay.