Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, March 3, 1900, Page 2

nm TTT Ee a Ne an Nene eee ER RE ORE RA a Eee eee EE ARN ase The Aievala--Review. MINNESOTA. GRAND RAPIDS - Some people mistake contrariness for tenacity. A heart that has been often tendered dsecomes tough. If money really talks, about all it Says is wet me go.” But few men are proof against the flattery of a pretty woman, In the meantime Alabama pulled oft! a@ measly little two-man feud. As an omen of success, industry is better than a four-leafed clover. A judicious silence is always better than truth spoken without charity. The blot on a man’s good name may often be traced to a poor fountain pen, A man who has a good start in life may fall because he is facing the wrong way. You need not pack up any worries. You can get them anywhere as you go along. If you never make up your mind to do a thing the chances are you will never do it. Some men are like blotters; they bear many good impressions, but are of little value. Several gentlemen are disposed .to make a junk depository of the Con- gressional Record. The most delightf2l feature of a sleighride on a cold night is the ar- rival at your destination. Happiness may resemble either a mountain or a molehill. It depends on the distance you are from it. Some women would rather go hun- gry than miss an opportunity to pur- chase a new complexion cream. The fact that Count Castellane has gone home in a good humor would seem to indicate that he got what he came for. France seems to think she neeeds about 0,000 worth of addition to her navy. It is about time for the czar to call another peace conference. An ounce of essence is worth a gal- lon of fluid. A wise saw may be more valuable than a whole book, and the plain truth is better than an argu- ment. Large views, high -hopes and un- sh aims dissipate a whole army of petty trials, annoyances and irrita- tions, and even reduce real anxieties and solicitude. Aguinaldo’s bravest warriors are poor antagonists compared to the fe- rocious politician of Kentucky, and thé American soldier runs fewer actual risks in battle than the Kentucky statesman. The Filipino means to kill, no doubt, but his equipment is usually confined to one rifle and a few car- tridges, while it is not on record that any Filipino has yet been caught with five revolvers and a ten-inch bowie knife on his person “ready for busi- ness.” A gentieman who failed on the New York stock exchange the ‘other day made the following candid confession of his position: “Owing to the banks sing to certify our checks we are obliged to suspend temporarily.” There were, to be sure, some incidental circumstances, such as the gentleman’s having bought 25,000 shares of stock without having any money to pay for them. Perhaps the banks will try to excuse themselves by showing that the gentleman had no money in their hands to meet the checks which they discourteously refused to certify. But there can be no doubt of the substan- tial accuracy of the gentleman's state- ment. Tact in the management of your judge is a great thing. A certain well- known British treasury counsel was driving over Blackfriars bridge one day, on his way to Surrey sessions. Noticing Sir Peter Edlin trudging along in the mud and rain, he instantly stopped his hansom and offered the judge a “lift.” It was accepted, and the pair proceeded to Newington in great amity. Arriving, the learned counsel hurried in, as he had an im- portant application to make on the sit- ting of the court. To his horror and surprise the said application was re- fused. He was dumfounded at the sudden change in the demeanor of the judge until the usher, in a husky whis- per, said: “Do you know what you’ve done?” “No! What is it?” “Why, you ran in and left the judge to pay for your cab.” The heart that has passed through the deep waters of tribulation is the most tender; the voice that has itself cried with pain is the most gentle; the hand that suffered is the most soothing ministrant in the chamber of sorrow. The best sympathizer is one who has been a partaker in the same sufferings. A mind in the grasp of a terrible anxiety is not credulous of easy solu- tions. The one stay that bears up our hopes is sure to appear frail, and if Jooked at long will seem to totter. LINCOLN'S WORDS Applicable to Some of the Great Questions of the Hour, While Recalling His Birthday, Reflect on Truths He Uttered. How His Words Confirm‘‘Crim- inal Aggression”’ of This Administration. The Minneapolis branch of the American League, through the local anti-imperialist organization, has is- sued a, pamphlet of the utterances of Abraham Lincoln, which bear on the “Criminal Aggression” and un-Ameri- eanism of the McKinley administra- tion. They are taken from Nickolay and Hay’s volumes of the ‘Complete Letters and Writings of Lincoln,” the pages and volumes being given in every case. Read the extracts and make your own application to McKinley’s war of conquest, our forcing of sovereignty over and government on the Filipino race; our subjugation, now apparently about complete, of a people who have fought for liberty for many years, and that had an established government of its own, with all their land wrested from Spain when we arrived in the Philippines, except the city of Manila; nay, who hailed our soldiers and flag as their deliverers, acting as our armed allies, up to the time they" discovered McKinley’s intent to perpetrate forci- ble annexation upon them, since which time they have made the best fight they could for independence and lib- erty. Read what Lincoln left for us, kind friends, and having read, hand it to your Republican neighbor to read, and go out yourself and do something to aid in the overthrow of this adminis- tration of “Criminal Aggression.” Pesident McKinley’s Congress, April 11, 1898: “I SPEAK NOT OF FORCIBLE ANNEXATION, FOR THAT CANNOT BE THOUGHT OF. THAT BY OUR CODE Of MORALS WOULD BE CRIMINAL AGGRESSION.” message to LINCOLN IN DEBATE WITH DOUG- LOUS, OCT. 16, 1854 (Vol. I, page 195): * NO MAN IS GOOD ENOUGH TO GOVERN ANOTHER MAN WITH- out THAT OTHER'S CONSENT. * ‘This is the leading principle, the eect anchor of American Republi- LINCOLN IN LETTER TO H. L. PIERCE ET AL., APRIL 6, 1859 (Vol I, page 582): “s = BUT SOBERLY, IT IS NOW NO CHILD’S PLAY TO SAVE TH PRINCIPLES OF JEFFERSON FRO} TOTAL OVERTHROW IN THIS NA- TION. “se @ The principles of Jefferson are the definitions and axioms of free siety; and yet they are denied and 1d with no small show of suc- One dashingly ealls them ‘glit- ng generalities.’ Another bluntly them ‘self-evident lies.’ Others liously argue that they apply to superior races.’ These expressions. differing in form are identicai in object and effect the supplanting the princi- ples of free government and restori those of class caste and legitimacy. They would delight a convocation of crowned ‘heads plotting agai the people. They are the- vanguard, the miners and sappers of returning des- potism. WE MUST REPULSE THEM, OR THEY WILL SUBJUGATE US. This is a world of compensation and he who would be no slave must con- sent to have no slave. THOSE WHO DENY FREEDOM TO OTHERS DE- SERVE IT NOT THEMSELVES, AND. UNDER A JUST GOD,CANNOT LONG RETAIN IT. All honor to Jefferson, to the man who, in the concrete pressure of 2 struggle for national independence by a single people, had the coolness, fore- cast, and capacity to introduce into a merely revolutionary document an ab- Oto ey stract truth, APPLICABLE TO ALL MEN AND ALL TIMES, and so to em- balm it there that to-day, and in all coming days, IT SHALL BE A RE- BUKE AND A STUMBLING BLOCK TO THE VERY HARBINGERS OF REAPPEARING TYRANNY AND OP- PRESSION.” LINCOLN’S SPEECH AT CHICAGO, JULY 10 1858 (Vol. 1, page 259): “Those arguments that are made, THAT THE INFERIOR RACE ARE TO BE TREATED WITH AS MUCH ALLOWANCE AS THEY ARE CA- PABLE OF ENJOYING; THAT AS MUCH IS TO BE DONE FOR THEM AS THEIR CONDITION WILL AL- LOW. What are these arguments? THEY ARE THE ARGUMENTS THAT KINGS HAVE MADE FOR THE ENSLAVING OF THE PEOPLE IN ALL AGES OF THE WORLD. You will find that all the arguments of king-craft were always of this class; they always bestrode the necks of the people—not that they wanted to do it, but because the people were bet- ter off for being ridden. * * TURN IN WHATEVER WAY YOU WILL— WHETHER IT COME FROM THE MOUTH OF A KING, AS AN EXCUSE FOR ENSLAVING THE PEOPLE OF HIS COUNTRY. OR FROM THE MOUTH OF MEN OF ONE RACE AS A REASON FOR ENSLAVING (OR CONQUERING) THE MEN OF AN- OTHER RACE, IT IS ALL THE SAME OLD SERPENT.” President McKinley’s Congress, April 11, 1898: “I SPEAK NOT OF FORCIBLE AN- NEXATION, FOR THAT CANNOT BE THOUGHT OF. THAT BY OUR CODE OF MORALS WOULD BE CRIMINAL AGGRESSION.” message to LINCOLN'S ADDRESS AT DEDICA- TION OF NATIONAL CEMETERY, AT GETTYSBURG, NOV. 19, 1863 (Vol. LI, page 439): “It is rather for us to be here dedi- catea to tne great task remaining ve- fore us—that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave thel ast full measure of devotion; that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain; that this na- tion, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom; and that govern- ment OF THE PEOPLE, BY THE PEOPLE, FOR THE PEOPLE, SHALL NOT PERISH FROM THE EARTH.” LINCOLN’S VIEWS OF CLERGY- MEN WHO OVERLOOKED THE GOLDEN RULE, FOUND EXPRES- SION IN THE LETTER £0 REV. DR. IDE ET AL., MAY 30, 1864 (Vol. IL, page 526): “When * * professedly holy men * met in the semblance of prayer and devotion, and, in the name of Him who said ‘As ye would all men should do unto you, do ye even so unto them,” appealed to the Christian worldTO AID THEM IN~- DOING TO A WHOLE RACE OF MEN AS THEY WOULD HAVE NO MAN DO UNTO THEM- SELVES; TO MY THINKING THEY CONTEMNED AND INSULTED GOD AND HIS CHURCH FAR MORE THAN DID SATAN WHEN HE TEMPTED THE SAVIOR WITH THE KINGDOMS OF THE EARTH. THE DEVIL’S ATTEMPT WAS NO MORE FALSE, AND FAR LESS HYPOCRIT- ICAL.” ’ —— President McKinley’s message to Congress, April 11, 1898: “I SPEAK NOT OF FORCIBLE AN- NEXATION, FOR THAT CANNOT BE THOUGHT OF. THAT, BY OUR CODE OF MORALS, WOULD BE CRIMINAL AGGRESSION.” LINCOLN’S LETTER TO W. H. HERNDON, Feb. 15, 1848, ON “ABUSE OF PRESIDENTIAL POWER IN MEXICAN WAR” (Vol. I, page 112): “The provision of the constitution giving the war-making power to Con- gress was dictated, as I understand it, by the following reasons: Kings had always been involving and impoverish- ing their people in wars, pretending generally, if not always, that THE 70OD OF THE PEOPLE WAS THE OBJECT. This our convention under- stood to be the most oppressive of all kingly oppressions, and they resolved TO SO FRAME THE CONSTITUTION THAT NO ONE MAN SHOULD HOLD THE POWER OF BRINGING THIS OPPRESSION UPON US.” ON SAME SUBJECT FOR PRESI- DENT POLK’S “CRIMINAL AG- GRESSION,” SPEECH IN CON- GRESS, JAN. 12, 1848 (Vol. I, page 606): “I more than suspect already that he (the President) IS DEEPLY CON- SCIOUS OF BEING IN THE WRONG; that he (President Polk) feels the ood of this war, like the blood Abel, iS CRYING TO HEAVEN AGAINST “IM; that originally having some strong motive—what, I will not now stop to give my opinion concerning—to invelve the two countries in a war, ind TRUSTING TO ESCAPE SCRU- Y BY FIXING THE PUBLIC AZE UPON THE EXCEEDING BRIGHTNESS OF MILITARY GLORY —that attractive rainbow that rises in showers of blood—he plunged into it, and has swept on and on till, disap- inted in his calculation of the ease th which Mexico might be subdued, he now finds himself he knows not where. How like the half insane mum- blings of a fever dream is the whole war part of his late message! * * As I have said before, HE KNOWS NOT WHERE HE {S. HE IS A BE- WILDERED, CONFOUNDED, AND MISERABLY PERPLEXED MAN. 30D GRANT HE MAY BE ABLE TO SHOW THERE IS NOT SOMETHING ABOUT HIS CONSCIENCE MORE PAINFUL THAN ALL HIS MENTAL PERPLEXITY.” ON SAME, LET R TO REV. J. M. PEEK, MAY 21, 1848 (Vol I, page 122): “If you admit these as facts, then I shall be obliged for a reference to any law of language, law of states * * law of religions, any law, human or divine, in which an authority can be found for saying THESE FACTS CON- STITUTE ‘NO AGGRESSION.’ * * THEN I ASK, IS THE PRECEPT ‘WHATSOEVER YOU WOULD HAT MEN SHOULD DO TO YOU, DO YE EVEN SO O THEM’ OBSHLETE? OF NO FORCE? OF NO APPLICATION?” President McKinley’s message to Ccngress, April 11, 1898: “I SPEAK NOT OF FORCIBLE AN- NEXATION, FOR THAT CANNOT BE THOUGHT OF. THAT, BY OUR CODE OF MORALS, WOULD BE CRIMINAL AGGRESSION.” Lonpon, Feb. 24.—The Globe says The spirit in which a brave, strong na- tion should meet trial isadmirably illus- trated by the temper displayed by Can- ada. The war, if it has done nothing else, has killed political bitterness and mere party strife in all the colonies. The contrast between Ottawaand West- minster is painful and humiliating.” Berit, Feb. 23.—Dr. Leyds, who is now illat Amsterdam, has accepted an invitation tendered him by the Berlin International Association of Political Science and Economics to deliver a lec- ture in Berlin, March 14, on ‘‘The Po- litical Economic Situation in the Trans- veal’! New York, Feb. 23.—Henry Clay Miner, the theatrical manager, dropped dead during the afternoon at his home on Riverside drive of apoplexy, aged 58. Mr. Miner had been remarkably well all winter and there was no warning of the eau. ... vas in his room preparing to-go for a drive with his wife and was walking across the room when he fell. While his name was always closely identified with the theatrical business his interests were varied. He owned drug stores, a big lithographing com- pany, a photographic supply house, big phosphate interests and large blocks of railway and mining stock. In 1894 he was elected to congress and served one term. His estate is worth $5,000,000. New York, Feb. 23.—A special from Hong Kong, British China, to The Evening World says: United States Consul Wildman has irreplacable. , ROBERTS IS SILENT BRITISH PUBLIC THIRSTING FOR NEWS FROM THE FRONT. Conjecture as to the Reason for the Dearth of News—No Diminution of Confidence in Roberts—Publice He Has Good Ready to Believe Reasons for Withholding Mention of Cronje—Buller’s Advance Stub- bornly Contested—Cronje Willing to Quit, but Youny Boers Won't Let Him. London, Feb. 26.—Perhaps never be- fore in the course of the present cam- paign haye such crowds visited the war office as went there yesterday. As the Times remarked, “such dearth of news can only mean that success is immivent.” No dimunition of confi- dence in Lord Roberts is felt, howev- er, and the public is ready to believe that he has good reasons for net men- tioning Gen. Cronje in the official di patches. Probably he is in no bur to end a situation which daily brings parties of Boers in a vain etfort to re- inforce Gen, Cronje. ‘These he can deal with in detail. Lord Roberts has already captured over 400 Boers, and at this rate he will soon have quit a respectable array of prisoners to hold as hostages for the 3,500 British al- rendy in Pretoria. Gen. Cronje’s re- fusal to accept the offer of Lord Rob- erts regarding the women and chi- dren indicates either that the position is less desperate than is reported or that he has been able to dig an abso- lutely safe place for them. Everything goes to show that Gen, Builler’s ad- vance is most Stubborniy Contested and most carefully thrown out. It is hoped he will soon be in a posivion where Gen. White will be able to as- sist him materially. The situation is now presenting most interesting phase. In about a month the congress of the Afrikander bund will meet and it is then believed Mr. Hofmeyr will propose peace terms on the b: the republics reatining absolute pendence, but offering to disarm, If these terms are rejected it is under- stood a manifesto will be boldly issued to the Dutch throughout South Africa, calling upon them to throw off their allegiance to Great Britain. Probably these rumors are exaggerated, but there is no doubt that the greatest anxiety prevails in Cape Town re- garding coming events. German through the semi-o cial Berliner Post, reiterates that all reports of German interference are quite without founda- tion, Cronje Is Ready to Quit. Paardeberg, O. F. 8., Feb. 26.—Gen. Crenje’s position is more hopeless than ever. Our guns dominaie the sloping ascents from the river on all sides, and by the rush of the Shropshires on ednesday night up the river bed the Boers lest 200 yards space in their cover. Deserters say the British fire has been very deadly and affirm that Gen. Cronje himself if willing to sur- render, but is overborne by the young Boers trom the Transv There are women and children with the Boer force. Gen. Roberts proposed to let them pass cut of danger, but this sug: gestion. vel} as the proffer of med- ical aid, been rejected. ‘The kopje ceptured by the British last Wednes- were taken. day, when fifty prisoner is a most important s tion. Its possession she to repulse the Boer from the eastward. Gceupied by British. London, Feb. 26.—Lo Reberts has sent the following tional advices to the war office, Saturday p. m.: Methuen reports that Ba vy West was oceupied by our troops on Feb. 22. The loyal in- habitants displayed ¢ The country west of the railv Cape Town to Kimberley is gradually settling down. A detachment has started from De <Aar for Britstown, and Douylass and Prieska will shortly be visited by our troo Methuen’s account of the admirable manner in which the Kimberley hospital is man- aged made one desire to send some of our sick and wounded there.” Boers Loxe Heavily. London, Feb. 26. — The war office published the following dispatch from Lerd Roberts: “Parties of boers re- eently arrived from Natal attacked our outposts in force again yesterday. They lost a good many killed and wounded and nearly 100 prisoners, in- eluding a commandant and three field cornets. Our casualties were four officers wounded, nite men killed, twenty-three wounded and iwo men missing.” Uprising Threatened, London, Feb. 26.—The Standard has the following from Cape ‘Town, dated Saturday: “The Boer force occupying Prieska consists of 120 rebels, led by Free Staters. A proclamation has been read annexing the Prieska dis- trict to the Free State and ail loyal British have been given five days to quit the place. I am assured by resi- dents of Prieska that unless troops are soon sent there the whole north- east district will rise.” Scouts Compelled to Retire. Sterstroom, Feb. 26. — A reconnais- sance in force by Gen. Gatacre, with ten guns, found the Boers occupying a ridgé three miles beyond Molteno, in the Stormberg directfon. Montmor- ency’s scouts charged the Boers, who crept around the scouts’ flank, pour- ing. in a deadly fire. The scouts were finally compelled to retire, having lost heavily, fourteen being missing, Capt. Montmorency being killed. Urge Kruger to Suc for Peace. London, Feb. 26. — The Lourenzo Marques correspondent of the Times says: The feeling among officials at Pretoria borders on consternation. Gen. Louis Botha and Pretrin are both urging President Kruger to sue for peace. At Blcemfontein Gen. pure position is regarded as hope- less. Rhodes Sces the End of tt. London, Feb. 26.—A dispatch to the Morning Post ffom Kimberley, dated Friday, says: “Gen, Cronje is report- reinforcements ed to have plenty of provisions but to be running short of ammunition, Mr. Rhodes is extremely hopeful that the war has reached its concluding stage.” Buller Close to Ladysmith. Lordon, Feb. 26.--The Times has the follewing from Colenso: The Brit- ish are now within two miles of being in touch with Ladysmith, but the ground still to be covered is the hard- est part and very severe lighting must be expected.” TERRIBLE One Handred and Vifty Persons In- jured by Explosions. Paris Feb. 26.—As the result of a fire that brol out at St. Ouen, a suburb of Paris, in a collection of al- cohol and oil stores, 1 series of explo- sions occurred, spreading the flames until a block of sixteen immense warehouses were involved in a huge conflagration. A great concourse of spectators had assembled and had ap- proached too near, when suddenly and unexpectedly the explosions occurred. A large number of people, including some firemen, were more or less in- jured. The +t explosion occurred at 6 o'clock in the afternoon, When it was thought that such danger had been averted. Thirty persons were injured by flying debris. ‘fhe official computation shows that 150 were hurt, quite a number seriously. Portunate- ly the flames did not reach immense reservoirs of petroleum. ‘The loss is estimated at 2,000,000 frances. The Cutch’s Rough Trip. Vancouver, B. C., — The steamer Cuteh 3 sterday merning from the rougkest trip it has ev enced, There were five feet of ice on its decks on Friday morning. Mountainous seas rolled over its bows and swept nearly from end to end of the steamer, Ice was even over its pilot house and the whistle pipes which ran half-way up the funnel, were shrouded in the ice. The weather was frightfully cold, and for twe days p: Ae AC s the decks had to be cut with a Rev. Edward Lorenz Bend. Dayton, Ohio, Feb, 26. — Rev. Ed- ward Lorenz, editor of the German periodicals of the United Brethren eburch, and for more than forty y S a2 prominent minister in that derom- ination, is dead as the result of a rupture of a blood ves in his brain, oeccustoned by a_ pare sm of cough- ing. He had charge ¢ ne missionary work in Germany, for a number of years, and occupied pulpits in a num- ber of American cities. Confessed the Theft. Washington, Feb. 26.—James Koon- ey, a young butler employed by C. A. Spalding, a wealthy St. Louis theater owner at No. 1079 Rhode Island ave- nue, was arrested ye rday charged with stealing more th 100 worth of silverware and br from the house of his employer. He confessed the theft, wh s more than a year. The pro ich had been disposed of at covered, Free-for-Av F Lonisville, Ky... Feb. 2 special to the Commercial from Whitesburg tells of a free-for-all fight near Pound's Gap in which one person was killed and several were injured. The trouble occurred during a dance at the home of Bill Mullins, 2 Virginia moonshiner. Pistols and knives were used in the scrimmage. which lasted until the place had been cleared of all but the wounded. t; yued. Cincin ry Weldon. for twenty yea the sporting editor of the Cincinnati Enquirer, in which ‘ity he wen for himself ‘and his paper a national rey ion, was stricken with para he retired to his room at 3 o’eloek this morning. Wis great nt, 300 pounds, is somewhat again: him, yet his pby- sician says bis ehauces for recovery are good. Many Men Thrown Ovt of Work. Albany, N. Y.. Feb. 26. — Fre de- stroyed the buildings of the Troy Malleable iron works yesterday. Loss. $125,000. The plant is located in the town cf Colonce. just north of the Watervleit city bow 'y line and east of the Erie canal. uliy 1,000 em- pleyes will be thrown out of rk and will suffer from enforced jdleuess probably for three months. Carnival in Full Swing. New Orieans, Feb. 26.—The New Or- leans carnival of 1900 may now be said to be in full swing. Every hotel in the city is crowded or has its rooms engaged in advance; every arriving train is packed and the promise fs for the Jargest crowd that has ever been present during Mardi Gras season in this city. The outlook is for cool and fair weather.” Baby Escapes Parents’ Fate. Decatur, Ind., Feb. 26. -- A buggy containing W. Gilbert, wife and young baby was struck by the west-bound Chicago & Erie limited at the Mercer street crossing. Gilbert and wife were badly injured, and the trainmen, when they reached the depot, three blocks away, found the baby lying on the pilot of the engine, uninjured, Henley Trip Abandoned. Philadelphia, Feb. 27.—The proposed Henley trip.by the University of Penn- sylvania crew has been abandoned, the rowing committee having finally decided that sucb a trip would be im- possible. The matter has been fully considered for some time and every endeavor was made to bring about a race in England. Swedish Veterans Organize. Chicago, Feb. 26. — Swedish-Ameri. cans who fought in the Civil and Spanish-American wars, both in the army and navy, held a meeting here yesterday and perfected an organiza- tion to be known as the Swedish- American Veterans’ association, BE. G. Dahl was elected president. Egyptian Of'cers Cashicred. Cairo, Feb. 26.—As a result of the investigation by a caurt of inguiry held at Obdurman in connection with the recent insubordination of-two bat- talions of Soudanese troops five Egyp- tian officers have been cashiered and sent as prisoners to Cuiro, sdrae MEXICANS’ BIG LOSS FIERCEST FIGHTING OF THE INe DIAN WAR. Two Hundred Mexican Soldiers Bité the Dust — Torres Saves GQua« yamas From the Yaquis—Indian@ Make Use of Fortifications fom the First Ti Mexican Troops Run Upon Them Without Warn. ing and Are Met by a Withering Fire in Which One Hundred Mew Fall, i Chicago, Feb. 27.—A special to the Chronicle from Pottam, Sonora, Mex., says: ‘Fhe Mexican federal troops under Gen. Torres have saved Guayamas from the Yaquis, but by dint of the fiercest fighting of the war and at a sacrifice of 200 soldiers. ‘The town here is filled with wounded and sil the public buildings are utilized. ‘Torres anticipated the surprise the Yaquis in- tended. Indians were accompanied) by ten adventurers, miners and cow- { boys, who acted as commanders of a separate companies of forty men each. \ The Yaquis had also a Maxim. gun which had been smuggled through at Bisbee, Ariz., in a load of machinery. The gun was manipulated, the Mexi- cans claim, by two ex-rough riders. ‘Torres reached here Thursday 2fter- noon and then decided to advance his army of 760 men in two divisions. 'The first and strongest, flanked by the gunboat Demcerata, left he tt day- break Fvidzy morning. scouts preceded the force, and the firs: inti- mation of the presence of the Yaquis was a withering fire from the Maxim and of rifle volleys from concealed fortifications in a dence thicket. The , first division Retreated in Confusion and was sheltered in the growth along ike river. More than 100 men fell at the first fire. The » Demecrata then steamed up and swept the thickets with her machine guns, but evidently ineffectively. Her forward decks were sv the protected upper de peppered with bullets from the Maxim. Ten sailors and First Lieut. Rambolo of the army, were killed. The Democrata drifted for more than half a mile until 2 bend in the river sheltered her. Late in the afterncen hill signals showed the » * waiting commanders of the first di- vision that the second de 1 ment had reached the neighborir heights to the southeast in iis flank move ment. A simultaneous attack was made frem the frent and fiank and the Indians eated. The } im gun, displaced and useless, was brought » Indians sno pur- timber into Pottam and seventy-th There were found dead. suit and the Inc drawn in goed order. fire of the Yaquis twenty. can federals were driven into th in a panie and were drowned. iotal Mex river The CAUCUS ON THE "Aanirr. Republicans Trying to Patch Up Porto Rics bil. W: Ingten, Feb. 27.—After a long conference, lasting until midnight taken by the ¢ looking to- , Steps were Rican tariff bill. veloped the fact that fully t or forty of the Republicans belling against the bill fo the way nd means ¢ ring to iet iise s , proposed ake the 25 per cent the bill s tariff spe thus shov This pe of the s led “rebels,” who were al- most a majeriity, ‘nto line, but others held out, sliey the committee would ultimately agree to cut down the raie to 10 or even 5 per cent in addition to the stipulation of only two years’ time. It was ¥: appoint a joint committee of ten, halt from the ways and means committees and the other five from the “iusur gents.” They will report at another it caucus of the Republicans to be hel¢ this evening. The efforts to unite the Republicans of the house on # Porto Tcan bill have failed, and at midnight last night after a prolonged conferen it was stated that matters were subsiantially where they were yesterd Othet efforts at harmony may be made to day. THREE MEET VIOLENT DEATHS. Two Men and a Woman K Aceldents Within Hours. South Bend, Ind., Feb. 27. — 'Three citizens of South Bend have within the last twenty-four hours met violent deaths. Yesterday Michael Bukowski, Polish, aged thirty-seven years, was killed by a west-bound Lake Shore train. A few hours later James Bauer, aged sixty-two years, ex-councilman and ex-street commissioner, was over+ come by sewer gas and dropped dead while in the street. The third death was that of Leona Lonzo, who, while preparing the family dinner, was care- less in lighting the gasoline stove, Her clothing caught fire and she we burned to death. § dad by Twenty-Four DISMISSED FROM OFFICE. Governor of New Brunswick Re- leases Minister cf Public. Works. St. John’s, N, B., Feb. 27.—Goy. Me Callum has dismissed from ottice. William Woodford, minister of public works under the Winter government, who voted with the Bond opposition last Monday in defeating the cabinet. «- “8 Killed in a Wreck. ? Montgomery, Ala., Feb. 27—A Loui. ville & Nashville passenger train Tromp; t New Orleans was wrecked by an open” 1 switch near Flomaton. The negro y fireman was killed. Another fireman ( Was probably fatally injured, ( _ 4 Grain Goes Up in Smoke. Halifax, N. S., Feb. 27.—The works of the Maritime Milling company at 7. New Glasgow were destroyed by fire, together with a grain elevator and 4g. me bushels of grain. Loss about j ‘ Sit mS