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Aadh e g A R g Pages 1710 24 "t B g g gl on o g b gh e & o by e e b g e 444040 R o e The N R P S et 3 T4 :Pages 1T to 24: R R R e R T I T T TR TR R R e g VOLUME LXXXVII-NO. 31. SA N FRANCISCO, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1899—THIRTY-TWO PAGES, PRICE FIVE CENTS. FILIPINOS BEATEN BY LOCKETT'S MEN position. f American Troops Make a Brilliant Charge and Drive Insurgents From Their Position. ANILA, Dec. 31, 9:30a. m.—Colonel Lockett has had M a second engagement with the insurgents northwest of Mont Alban, and by abrilliant charge drove the enemy 3 ( >~:I\]: one American was killed and five men were wounded, but the loss of the insurgents was heavy. The American tronps captured a number of rifles and a antity of ammunition and provisions. a ry. & number of clergymen, the »vered with flowers, the personal senerals Wheeler, Bates, Forsythe, | and Schwan and Admiral Watson carriages, a naval battalion, Ma- ral Otis and staff, the foreign in full dress and the members of the Philippine reme Court delegations from the towns w*ye Gener: Lawton established civil rnmen held wreaths. Women from he s swns waited upon Mrs. Lawfon v nd presented her with thelr ¢ es and flowers is of natives and Americans wit- the proces the band played | d the crowds uncovered. asig the casket was transfer taps” was sounded ffered by Chaplain Ple r enlisted pall-bearers accompany remains to the United States. GENERAL FUNSTON r DID SWIM A RIVER MINNEAPOLIS, Dec. 30.—I. Seymour of | St. Paul, a veteran of the civil war and a | friend of General Funston, saw a pab- lished statement which intended to cast discredit on the latter's swimming ex- ploit, for which he has been honored by Congress. Mr. Seymour cut out the cli dirges 1 to | |a tug. wer, IMPRESSIVE CEREMONIES AT LAWTON'S FUNERAL he funeral ping and forwarded the same with a letter who at sea, who was from the transport I vember 3, as follows officer of whom you spoke is un- dou one 6f those small-souled crea- tures who, never having the c Age to do hing them ke a sort of pupp: delight in depre ng the laur- els won by other men, His statement t heard me say that I never swam “ in the Phil and that in fa I could not swim o out of wh cloth. Will you favor to tell | him that I said so, and show this to what- | ever persons were with you wt » made the remark? I swam the Bagbag River with one other officer and four men of the eth Kansas under a hot fire April The Rio Grande River I crossed.two ater on a raft, and with forty-five rate fight, drove 20 of n entrenched position. feat that I was made from the the prayvers t ral was Ix-horse caisson, n was composed of | th Régimént, Gen- wo the enemy It was for this Iz a brigadier gene at r BROWN READ OUT OF | FROHMAN’S STARS THE REPUBLICAN PARTY | ROBBED OF JEWELS Senator Elected on the Independent | Burglars Enter a Boarding House at | Ticket in Ohio Denied a Voice in Which the Company Is Caucus. Stopping. De , Dec. 30 ~The Ohio | Monday and CHICAC thi v eves en Mrs ing the boarding-hou Michigan of th nd | Stewart, | while the membe: on | at dinner, and carr monds other property v than $1 T to members of ( | pany, which is Maxim’s” at a local theater. The losers are: Miss Josephine Hall, the | star of the company; Miss Gertr Whitty, and Robert Hickman, the s bout the same hour porch-climbers en- | tered the residence Robert Lindbloom of the Civil Service Board and stole cash | and valuables amounting to over $2000, alreosina b =1 Ore From the Orient. | . Dec. 30.—One hundred and seve one sacks of ore concentrate: | were brought here on the City of Lon don from the mines near Singa in the Straits Settlément, for treatment in the tent to take part Tacoma smelter. This Is t first ship- | ment of ore from the Orient i Amer- | fcan smelter. - The product of these mines has bgen =ent to England In the past, and | this shipment is in the nature of a trial | order for the Tacoma smelter. There are a number of large producing mines in the | seltlement and others are being opened up, ] ABYSSINIAN ARMY MOVES TO THE NORTH Reaches the Province of Tigre and Will Attempt to Subdue the Carnegie's—(}flt to Cheyenne. i Rebels. CHEYENNE, ‘Wyo., Dec. :w.—Andrpw‘ HOME, Dec. 30.—A 4 sowah says an Abys t north to Carnegie to-day made Cheyenne a pres- | ent of §50,000 to be used in constructing a free library buflding. The conditions ;.p-‘ pended were that the city furnish a site | and that"the library be maintained at a | cost of not less than $3000 a_year. The | offer will be accepted. | y of 10,000 Tigre reb- d that rnor of Tigre prov Attacked by Plague. Mr. and Mrs. Dunsmuir at Boston. | MELBOURNE, Dec. 30.—Advices from| BOSTON, Dec Edna Wallace Hop-.| Noumast” Msts s five | Per says the story of her mother's mar- | whites the h by ~»..|r(~-r'< Alexander Dunsmuir is true. | plag of Fifteen Ka- | Alexander Dunsmulr and wife are at the'| Chine dled from the | Imperial Hotel, where they have been d twelve der treatment. since November e | -— i Sl J 2 Miner Killed. =8 1\91xr\;c¢-¥‘3epq an Adm_x'r‘n!- MARIPOSA, Dec. 30.—Late this after- V1 ec. 3 'm'fllq Jo- an unknown man was killed by a | ppointe ry of Prus- | fal rock in the sh ¢ the Mot pes 4 miral in the Austrian navy. Galnes mine, near Hornitos. '° Mgum} ir Taxah Pagit Deall ; Sarah Bernhardt Ill. | 5 Ly R Bt s PARIS, Dec. 31.—The Theater Sarah | z . Dec. 3. gt n d last night on ac- nou James Paget, in his elgh Mme. Sarah Bernhardt having aken suddenly i1l | e S S 0‘9'0-,0-‘-00‘5-04.5,..@..&.9,’ BRITISH FORCES FOR WAR. v + New York Herald. 4 ] reat Britaln to South Africa or : REGULAR ARMY i 2 Intantr 61,860 $,660 §.940 3,200 | & H] O e e e e s R | i Local forces, 3 Included under last call, about.. Grand total, ‘about R e e e S Q0000 000050t 000 detsieiesstesss® @t rieie b oot eiede o e R g Native | & | tie from Maieking, according to | statement that General White SEIZURE OF GERMAN STEAMER, DISASTROUS SORTIE AT MAFEKING British Force Reported to Have Lost More Than One Hundred Men in an Attack on Boer Forts. . R ey ) ONDON, Dec. 31.—Two B¢ I_ officers killed, two others | wounded—and they per- sons of such social consideration as Lord Edward Cecil and_Iord | Cavendish-Bentinck — Charles and a loss aggregating upward | of one hundred, such has been]| the disastrous outcome of a sor- Boer advices received via Lou- renzo Marquez. That up to the| present no confirmation of this | has been received from British sources does not invalidate Com- mandant Snyman’s report. News about Mafeking can come much more quickly by way of Pretoria and Lourenzo Marquez than by | way of the Modder River and Cape Town. Colonel Baden-Powell, the British commander at Mafeking, | have carried out the seems to ion threat miade in his proclan and adopted offensive tactics by attacking the The | Boers ‘say that the fighting was carried right up to the forts and that the British retired with very heavy loss—fifty-five according | to one dispatch and 109 accord- | ing to another. .The Boers re- | Boer forts. e S o S o o o o 2 e o o o o WOLFSOHN PROVES THAT HE IS ALIVE Arrives in LusaAngeles and IS Identified by Agent Jones and Clerk Thompson. OS ANGELES, Dec. 30.—Aaron Wolfsohn, the man who is supposed to have committed suicide in this city last July, is in Los Angeles. He has been identified by Eu- gene Thompson, clerk of the Nadeau Hotel, and by Agent S A. D. Jones of the New York Life Insurance Company, who placed the $10,000 insurance upon the life of Wolisohn. The much-wanted man stepped from the west-hound Santa Fe train at 1:35 this afternoon accompanied by Attorney O'Bryan of Chicago and Attorney J. Bomberger of St. Louis, who repre- sents the senior Wolfsohn of the Missouri city. That Wolisohn was coming to Los to Public Administrator Kellogg's demands that he be identi- fied in his flesh is evidenced by Agent Jones meeting the man as he stepped from the train. to inter- viewed. He says, however, that he has come here to clear up the mystery in which his name has so frecly been used. Attor- ney Leon F. Moss, who has acted ior Kellogg, is inclined- to the belief that the mystery will now be fathomed and those who are responsible for the attempted swindle upon the insur- ance company will be shown. Mrs. Maggie O'Neil is incensed and does not believe that the present living Wolisohn is the same party. censed by the tone of the dispatches from Chicago in which covert hints have been given of complicity on her part in the Angeles in response Wolfsohn refuses be She is also in Wolfsohn insurance swindle, as it is now regarded by many. She declares that she will hold her traducers strictly to ac- count for any reflections upon her character. Mrs. O’Neil still insists that Wolfsohn committed suicide in this city and that his body is buried in Evergreen Cemetery. She is unable to understand the dispatches relating to his ap- pearance in Chicago and she is tempted to ascribe to the insur- ance company ulterior designs in the transmission of such tel- L S ] Modder (Mud) River, the Scene of Lord Methu egrams to this coast. B e AR AL S S s . ” ,“\___,.:; en’s Battle of e S e R e R e B e R A e e e S L ) - . port a ridiculously small number | ¢ Nove ber 28 of casualties on their side—two |$ m . ‘é From the London lliustrated News killed and seven wounded. e N fiehly 6 SR G The view is from the north or Kimberley side of the river. The battle was on the south or far side. The Modder River, according to the notes of an Another Ighly mterc:lmg;; officer of Lord Methuen's command, is something over forty yards wide, with steep, sandy banks. The ground rises from the river out, and is covered with i[e"] Of news at h;“)d (his morn- ps thick mimosa scrub, affording excellent cover, d6f which the Boers availed themselves largely. ing is that the Hamburg steamer lundesrath has been seized by | hill. her. Majesty's ship Magicienne | in Delagoa Bay, having, it is al-| leged, three German officers and a number of men on board, who were on the way to fight with the Boers against Great Britain. The Bundesrath had also on bhoard a cargo of what is de- As this news comes from a native runner it requires con- firmation. | sued anything about either Gen- | eral Gatacre’s venture or General | White's reported success. What does seem certain, liow- | ever, coming as .it does irom scribed as contraband of war and [many sources, is in the dis- has been brought to Durban for | patches published yesterday adjudication by a prize court. |morning that Dordrecht has This seizure is regarded as most important, not so much from the value of the cargo, whatever that may have been, but from the fact that it shows that the British authorities are on the alert. This should have an effect in keeping back other craft which are bound to Dela- goa Bay on a similar errand. . From Ladysmith comes the | been reoccupied by General Gat- acre. This is regarded by mili- tary experts as a move by Gen- eral Gatacre of great strategic value, opening up as it does some fifty miles of country hith- erto in full possession of the Boers. : Nothing further has come to hand about heavy firing in the neighborhood of Stormberg. It was thought that General Gat- acre might have been engaged with the Boers. But had that been so the War Office would has again been the aggressor, having made an attack on the Boer position and captured a The War Office has not yet is-| | surely have had something to re- | port about it by this time. From General Buller nothing fresh has come in. It is calcu- lated that he now has a force of about 27,000 men, with six one guns, not counting heavy | naval weapons. Military experts here are in- clined to think that General Bul- ler may contrive to achieve something important, though he | cavalry. | his selection of a time for strik- ling will be in any way affected by the approach of Lord Rob- ertss trepid woman ‘war correspond- ent, has been interviewed and tells much of what she heard among the Boers during her captivity. She says that her im- pression is that the Boers are heartily sick of the war. It is ‘evident that the Boers have suf- is still handicapped by want of | It is not believed that | Lady Sarah Wilson, the in-| R A R R R R R R I ing the closing century, Herr Eiffe, speak- ing In behalf of the firms trading with South Africa, asked whether the chamber | was doing all that was necessary for the | protection of German trade in that part of the world. German commerce, he asserted, ?h.ul already suffered detriment through ‘Ihv war In South Africa, and now news BRITISH CRUISER SEIZES A GERMAN MAIL STEAMER came of the seizure of a German b A | by a British warship. G An Incident in North Delagoa Bay | Herr Woermann replied that the cham- Causes Anger in the Kaiser's ber had already considered the question Realm | of rep ntations, with the view of tak- : Ing actlon in the matter. The chambe; DURBAN, Friday, Dec. 23.—The British | ;.5 E . . e cruiser Magicienne seized the German | &, omtim B et tThe r . | steamship owning the seized ;;:;!mpr Bundesrath in North Delagoa | vessel had telepraphed to Prince Hohen- Bhe will be taken before a prize | 1 il " (L eral Chancellor, asking. fo court. | SR S __ | Government intervention, and it was de. LOURFNZO MARQUEZ, Delagoa Bay. | cigred that nothing whateve had beeg Dec. 30.—The steamer Bundesrath, which P% cdmnaty SEk sials belongs to the German East African line, | Gone Y the company which cotid in an has been taken to Durban. The Bundes- |\ > v 3 % Seunl fered more than they allow them- selves to admit. ——— ity. rath arrived here from Mozambique. She Ak safled from Hamburg on November § for | TONDON, Dec. 3.—It Is stated here East Africa, that there were three German officer. and twenty men, attired in khaki and jn tending to serve the Hoers, on boaed the Bundesrath, which explains her capture, WASHINGTON, Dec. ®.—Diplomats gre much interested in the selzure by g Bry- ish crtuser of the German steamer Buyn- desrath, with German officers and men board, and some think it will precipigs:s a controversy that may affect the gt tude of Germany and other Europess powers toward the South African wa: At the German Embassy the ineiden: /s not regarded as serfous. Said an attgen. “If Gefman vessels or any other pa ger steamer has passengers who are istered for Pretoria it is diffculr 1o how they can he rightfully stopped. 1: * fair to presume that iIf they were pount for the Boer army they would not 19 nounce that fact. As long as the way con- tinues there are likely to be seizures foF The capture of the Bundesrath has in- creased the already strong anti-British feeling here among the Hollander and German section of the population. HAMBURG, Dec. 30.—The directors of the German East African line have re celved news of the arrest of the imperial mail steamer Bundesrath. The command- er of the port of Durban refused an ex- planation of the cause of the selzure. It is declared here that there was no contra- band of war on board and when applica- tion was made to the German Forelgn Office the latter immediately promised in- terposition with the British Government. The seizure of the Bundesrath was re- | ferred to at a meeting of merchants held here to-day. After a speech by Adolph ‘Woermann, president of the Hamburg Chamber of Commerce, dealing with the great progress of the German empire dur-