The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 29, 1899, Page 1

— XVII=NO. 29. SAN FRANCISCO, FRIDAY. DECEMBER 29, 1599. PRICE FIVE CENTS. SPRICR - BOMBARDMENT OF LADYSMITH BLYTHE'S HEIRESS IS (WD~ AND A SKIRMISH NEAR COLENSO N0 LONGER A WIDOW AN ASYLUM Nine Boers Killed and Six Wagons Lost in an Encounter With Florence Hinckley Becomes the Busdes Patrols Sent Out by General Buller—British Loss WIfe Of X K MOOFG JIr Such Is the Story That Re-i Is Not Stated. United in Marriage at the City Home of VOIUME LX vives the Famous Tich- | e e reies e borne Case. |4 e B S e e e e S s SO S S e ot ) s e i e + T ] NEW SOUTH WALESIS = the Bride and Left Immediately on A2 ¥ . s § V) VIR Ji1 & AT A N 3 H H INVESTIGATING, ¢ { Their Honeymoon. i i~ L Fs A E g . ol o WY MR S PN b +| VERY quiet and very simple cer- | practicing in this city From the Antipodes Comes a Fresh |2 ® emony: at § o'clock yesterday aft- o was . erncon made Florence Blythe- District Attorney Chapter in & Most Remark- | Hinckley the wife of A. A. Moore . . Jr. A few moments later the able Affair. . 34| couple left on a brief wedding ® T | journey, in a direction that will not be |, lawyer . ¢ | divulged, which will terminate at the | with a bril Sp B © | New Year's reception to be given by Mrs Mrs. Florence Bi e 3 ¢! A. A. Moore Sr. at her East Oakland | heroine and heiress ) & | home Monday next. i ¢ | It can hardly be said that this wedding : 1| was unexpected, though it cer a surprise at this time. The sto: | and_coplousiy . ? | engagement between these young people llythe mar- é @ | has been told repeatedly, and just as re- 4 | peatedly denied, and thus it Is, while the | avenue, fier ttle more : & | fact of the wedding is not 5o much of a | than a year of married life Mr. Hinckley $ 3 @ ¢l * ) P . bd 4 l . 1| | L 4 ] ¢! : s . +| 'S @ ¢ ? . 2 ¢ * ‘ | @ | . . . + - * . + : se who have ent of the military power of the Transvaal. @ s been n crease in the number of guns. He visited Y ) mself acquainted withthe splendld weapons ' BUns were pure ed there, and, before the out- b - ned with 10-inch and 11 g from the ¢ ) miles P the British can produce. The gun fllustrated € - and is upon a siege mounting. It Is typical of the largest type of ordnance which the BoerS have brought ¢ | i at , and the Orange State some twenty-five of smaller caliber, but no account that o $ : " o wh ] B 250000 0ieP PP I tTIIItitdeltrisiedededoededeiedeitsdetedesdsieied -GS D e e Pedsi-0d e@ 101 exist on Cres- = o E= e - y 3 H ceryir pbed e Bl CHIEVELEY, Natal "Wednesday, Dec. 27.—A heavy Boer gun on Buiwhana Hill fired steadily upon | surprise. that it should have come at the e Rk i o Simee Ladysmith throughout the morning. Ladysmith did not respond. ‘H.:".‘;:i‘"'%—.»:fi ;:;'::f:fi:.}:; - so, many The Boers having been again detected attempting to improve their trenches facing General Buller, T ‘lnn.,\.?‘;,‘;,ifi.);:; ire - e pu . - s A : der to avoid saying anything ¢ .| the British heavy guns opened fire upon them, and the Boers scampered back into the hills. The British at al. nwe st patrols sighted the enemy in force on the extreme left. Nine Boers were killed in a skirmish that 10l- | te sremeantic s hoge af S B _lowed and six Boer wagons were captured. A , 1522 Sa pr mento street,, this city. N nt except the family of Mr. | v v -~ > 3 3 2 A 5 and Mrs. Julla Campbell, who has I ONDON, Dec. 29.—From|station does not make up for this| where, but the lists of casualties, { Gov ernment first accepted 3000 | been, the companion and old-time frl f5e ; By b of Mrs. Hinckley. As soon as the brief Chieveley camp this morn-| disadvantage. | which of late have been longer, | volunteers and yeomanry. and Fied; e Spme. stavt- | ing issues news which ac- The Boers, we learn from lend coyntenance to the suppo- | last night it asked Lord Gresh-|wile, ceremony w 2 : 53 g R Willlam Carson cords with what was said yester-| other communications, have in-| sition. Church of th = as performed by Rev. Sha rector of the | East Oakland, am’s committee to furnish 10,000 is mo! T rer "3 2 E 2 | S 2 i who came to San Franclsco to unite the " Roger was educated Mt | day as to the possibility of an ac-| trenched both east and west of] A Chieveley telegram of | yeomanry to be used as mounted | for%e: i b s | ated: dtrs, it hoda” e ivihes he was quite 1! \er | HiVE mOvement in this quarter. the British camp. ILord l)un-;\‘\ ednesday’s date reports the infantry. The first batch of | fhehe b e R I g o rien “Sriw up’ betweeh 3 t mother e : . R . | i 1 P ) Sr.. p oy I3 A )T 0 - do v ® Lrting The war correspondent of the|donald, with the cavalry patrol,|sound of heavy bombardment j= A L g ik o SEESwilse wae | 1000 will probably sail in the .| Daily Telegraph wires thattheris- | has pushed the Boer force back | the direction of Ladysmith, ana | second week of January. on March 4 1, the ore, his_ brothe it gave rise to very \gement. For Carmin, Marguer- | frequent 8 E ite and_Jaquiline Moore, his si some re o0l further 1 f f 1 | prio! € r 8. P. g o d eity, [ y de- Janelro fvny“. »| ing of the Tugela should enable| on the westward of the British|the Boers are probably re- BOERS 3 “":»:xln||r\~"~"i’x:§"r:r 3 n!’h“:luulfl"lzc“u Pied ana i wx,m tention to pr General Buller to catch most of | position some five miles away, | doubling their efforts to rcn(k‘l“ BECOME A }}o-\film‘k“"».-’ n:.r;:-lw':lrzn:lml.mff: Mrs. A. A. Moore Jr. will b r a no f 2 | 1 - i Thi 2 'S .m‘ nd g A 1 e o Oakland sock 3P0 h gea and no « the Boers who are south of Co-|probably on the Little Tugela, | General White’s position unten- DISCIPLINED ARMY |&room. and Mry J. A Hall, ih S asnd 4 picked up by lenso within the next few days.|while recently there have been | able. [Emanben. e e s h Soige; wan: Mrs JuligtemotelL he will o s 5 R e 3 % 4 N, Dec. 22.—A dispatch to the s : e d > eption. b was pEby and the natural inference is that | skirmishes in the neighborhood The Boer force at Magersfon- | Pa!ly Mail from Pietermaritzburs, dated e S o tion, but betleved tha | . f > 103 i awe . e - P Saturday, December says: Ve xclusive because of a desire on t Upon thei belleved that the destruction of the road|of Inhlawe Mountain. tein had a false alarm on Tuesday ery day reveals some fact regarding | part of the bride {o avoid any mor Jr. will t tised extensively over the Boer position at ( toriety than was absolutely necessary. | house that | bridge has made a real d n. In 1866 Thomas Ci ence| . From Ladysmith comes the|night, suddenly Opening a very | lenso. Thanks to the serviees At Cous. | She Shrinks from Al o R T F o SRy S d 5 % 2 X - 2 . § 8 e Moore Jr. . gT0O s the eldest | This w on e tempors P i in the safety of the Boer position|news that the town has been ! he: er of the cam- | . A- A- Moore Jr.. the groom, s t : nly SEpOrary fire. The British cavalry | Rental officers, the char: - £ A. A. Moore, for years the leader | Moore will remain a resident of Alameda Wie ar . 4 L paign has changed. We are no longer | of the Alameda County bar, and now | County and will soon find a home there. e are not told | have reconnoitered to the north- | fighting a foe who relies upon guerrilla | tae 2 TR 8 g at F § E s i S , ties, but we e to deal with what fs | = which they established farther|whether the Boer shells are|east, while other TeCONNOISSANCES | rapldly becoming a disciplined army, en. | lost ok d that the rough crossing|shelle recélved the following from Cape Town, | the military organ, contains a severe erfti- ntinued on Second Pag: north in the direction of Pieters|bursting better here than else- | have been carrie ear. Ens- | J9¥ins the \tages of knowing the | gateq Wednesday, December 27 clsm by a high officer, in which the Continued on Second Page. | 5 4}?“‘ been carried out near Ens ;;:u:n(\r{\; ,):n:lnu:‘r; lecting the scene of con- | ““.i\fathyen reports as follows: | writer claims that hitherto the Boers, { lin. e e . burdens of 1'umher§0me\ missariat. There have been reports of | “The Boers have converted the hills | ¥ e el | near Colenso into fortresses of immense Boer detachments near General | strength. Everywhere they have splendid | Methuen’s line of communica- | frenche: any of them bomb-proof. “At 9:30 yester evening the Boers ders and men on the south side of Magersfontein opened ' more efficlent In ev a very heavy fire for some time. This ish. The ational morning the naval brigade fired at the o artl enemy at the west part of Magersfon- ditorially teln. The cavalry brigade is reconnolter- solution for Germany would ave proved far ry way than . Zeltung publ le. The | Eritish Priloners, Captured at Nicholson’s Nek, Cctober 30, Arriving at Pretoria Station. (From a photogra ph for London Dally Graphie.) N \ Y s, TICA~ | rramway lines permit the shifting of tion. Of course action in this di- | guns with astonishing rapidity. The main 5 .. | positions are connected with the outlying | rection by the Boers was antici- | positions by underground passages and 4 i | the forts proper bristle with machine guns pated, but General Methuen | that command the approaches. Probably | seems confident of holding his | mines are laid. 3 : 7| “One hears less nowadays about Boer | own and keeping the line to his | shells not bursting. Observers of the Co- s Ry | lenso fight say the Boer shell fire was rear open. After all he is on the | very eftective. This is due largely to the H lhat | fact that the distances are marked off spot :m«l' the best J_u:l(ge of \\.]mt LR At DAIA S The Gatiity o Assibiine is expedient, but it is obvious 53 . | great manual labor, for which the Boers that he is in a very exposed posi- | have a keen dislike, and the way in which : | they restrained their tire when our troops tion. | were advancing is another evidence of im- The Kimberley garrison con-|Proved soldiering.” | = ... tinues active. On Sunday last a| PECULIAR DOINGS reconnoissance was made with! AT DELAGOA BAY jnolln!ed troops, and three of | | the enemy’s guns were located.| LONDON, Dec. 28.—A correspondent of Y % B the Standard at Lourenzo Marquez says: A similar reconnoissance on the | Delagor Bay Is the residence of Herr 7 e e 5 | Pott, a Hollander, who is Consul-General Wednesday preceding by mount- | g5 tne Transvaal and Consul for the si ;- . _ | Netherlands. Pott is the principal me- ed troops, assisted by an artillery | aium between Pretoria and Dr. Leyds in force, advanced into Free State Europe. He controls the Netherlands PR s | Raflway through the Transvaal, and fs territory. The Boers were met | the head of the Transvaal customs. He is s e c i o | aiso head of the Dutch East Africa Com- with some """”c_'j“ and hrmg‘ pany, and has the ear of the Portuguese ensued. The Kimberley force |Governor as well as the chief of each de- % B 5 | partment. ultimately retired, as the Boers | it is openly asserted that Pott has a pri- ; : | vate wire to the frontier and knows twen- were strongly intrenched. These ‘ ty-four hours before others what Is hap- sallies serv | pening. About him gather all the other | sallies serve to kc'cp the Boers at | Consuls, the Portuguese officials and the |a respectable distance and also | German forwarding agents. | . ope . If Delagoa Bay is closed the Boers will 1(letermmc the position of their | retajiate by ralding Portuguese territory. e Lt | guns and outposts. 7 i HEAVY FIRE OPENED The War Office is now recog- nizing more and more the im- UPON MET_HUEN’S FORCE portance of mounted troops. The| 1oxDON, Dec. 25.—The War Office has ing in a northeasterly direction. guaranteeing the Boers their “Lieutenant Masters has made an ex- independence and securing the future— tended reconnoissance westward and that s, creating a state whose frontier northward of Enslein and reports all well. | touches the sea In order to enable it to The farmers were glad to see our men. adapt itself to th times upon which They were suffering for want of food. Africa is enteri That must be the “I have established a market here, | policy of the Boe: We do not desire the is fmproving. The trenches represent | where 1 can purchase fresh milk and British to be wholly expelled from Africa, selling to the farmers tea and s which they cannot other- purchase. A heavy rain fell last t. Gatacre and French report no change in the situation. Baden-Powell reports all well December 12. e s FORMER BRITISH OFFICER. WHO INSTRUCTED BOERS CAPE TOWN, Dec. 28.—Colonel Otter, commanding the Canadian contingent of troops, is to join the staff of General Bul- | ler, all the members of which are pro-| ceeding to Natal, indicating that General Buller's sphere will shortly be confined to Natal. A man named Green, a former sergeant major of the British balloon department, is among the Boer prisoners captured at Magersfontein. Green, who deserted from Aldershot In 1as, admitted that he had been some time in the service of the Boers and had instructed them in Intrenching. He says there were 23000 Boers at Magersfontein, 21,000 of whom were en- gaged the day of the battle. The Boer losses, he erts, were heavy, the trenches being full of dead. Green further declares that If the attack had been pressed the Boers would have ylelded. | He says the Boer horses have to be taken to the Modder River, as water Is scarce but we do not see the necessity of making the entire African Continent British. The ideas of Cecil Rhodes will split upon the rock of Boer courage The British embassy in Berlin author- ized a denial of the report that the Duke of York and the Duke of Connaught will attend th, ter of the Order of the Black Eagle next month and be created knights. - MACRUM’'S EXPLANATION IS ANXIOUSLY AWAITED WASHINGTON, Dec. %5.—The case of Consul Charles E. Macrum, the United States representative at Preto who in- sisted upon being relieved at the time the South African crisis became t acute, is assuming additional fmpoy as Mr. Macrum nears home. The understanding at the State Department is that he fs not coming by way of the Edglish ports but is on a German ship which comes through the nean and th direct to . the trip taking about six weeks from December 15 last, the date of his sailing from Lourenzo Marquez. In the present aspect of the e there is little doubt that unless the Consul presents ample explanation for his course he will not continue in the consular service. It has been reported that the mystery sur- rounding his departure had been cleared at Magersfontei { up by a letter from him to Representative | Tayler of Ohlo, who represents the dis- | trict from which Macrum comes and who MORE EFFICIENT trom, which s and : secur: s appointment as Consul ut THAN THE BR'TISH | Mr. Tayler said to-day that he had heard nothing from Macrum except indirectly through his letters to relatives. These BERLIN, Dec. 25.—The German press | give no intimation of the cause of his re- continues to comment upon the war in | turn. but speak of the excitement ineident South Africa. The Militair Wochenblatt, | to the war and the hurried preparations