The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 8, 1900, Page 3

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1900 OTIS WILL BE RELIEV HIS COMMAND General Asks Wa a Respite—New Commission Given Extended Powers. Special Dispatch to The Call. UARTERS, WELLING- 1 be de- nder of the immediately w Philippine 1 be ordered to return s. This action will be h the wishes of General med the War De need of a respite e to the War De- | pect to remain in Manila only two years ED OF r Department for rn to the United States and will then r to practice la “TAPS” SOUNDS FOR TWO AMERICAN OFFICERS WASHINGTON, Feb. 7.—General Otis has informed the War Department that t Lieutenant James B. Toncler of the irty-sixth Infantry died at Manila this | orning of hemorrhagic smallpox. He was a resident of Tennessee. The adju- tant general has received a cable mes- sage from General Otis as follows: Rl T Y - s gun casket will be = Captain Smith was a natlve of Connec- | 2 He graduated from the military \nd was appointed second Nineteenth Infantry. He utenant in that regiment mber, 1889, and captalin in January, He participated with his regiment in anish-American war and at its close Collector of Customs at Ponce, last summer, when he regiment to the Philip- message was recelved at the nt from General Otis to- R e e e e e e e o ol ol o A e e O o S O R e S S S R B L e e I S 2 | CALL HEADQUARTERS, WELLING- | TON HOTEL, WASHINGTON, Feb. 7.— ¢ | One day’s deliberation upon the Hay- | Pauncefote Isthmian canal treaty by the ¢ | Senate Committee on Foreign Relations | has considerably improved its chances | for ratification without material amend- | ment. The clause prohibiting fortifica- tions at the entrances to the canal will 4 | not be a serious objectiod to the treaty, notwithstanding the agitation it at first 4 | caused. The whole trend of discussion to-day | was dectdedly favorable to the treaty and the prediction was made by one of the leading members of the committee that | | it would be reported favorably and prac- tically without amendment, though there | may be a few slight changes in the phraseology. During the discussion sug- gestions were made that a clause be ! ted abrogating all the features of the layton-Bulwer treaty and that “Nicara- guan canal” should be substituted for “Isthmian canal,” g0 as to conform to the pending bill. These and questions of fortifying the canal were the principal | points of discussion, which finally result- ed in the appointment of a sub-committee consisting of Senators Davis, Morgan and Lodge. to consider all the amendments suggested and the full effect of the pend- ing treaty, together with the effec ) DD e Pt ed portions of the Clayton-Bulwe not abrogated by the pen g i te. | After the committee had rned exercising dominion’ ov quarter authoriza: French volved in sible that France may Government to t d suggest co ton-Bulwer Eistory k America, and GOOD PROSPECTS | FOR CANAL TREATY ‘Clause Prohibiting Fortifications l Will Not Be a Serious Ob- ‘ jection. Special Dispatch to The Call, sub-committee, and this is understood to have shown s s tee reports to the full committee no objec~ tion will be m: prohibits fortif Senator Mor; ment for the abrog of the Clayton-Bulwer treaty on the ground t cle 1 Gres cupying. gua, C At when this omm! e proviston which oppose an amend- ation of the remaining erms of arti- tzing 1 osquite coast, America of as- M of the guan _canal. 2 is pos- e attention of y they will basis. Lord it a powerful |ISLAND INSURGENTS pris- referred to is Second Lieu- D. Stockley of the Twenty- who has been missing from since January 12 last, when Tallsay, ntry mpan sappeared at a point in D R R SO The larger picture, from a sketch e I, DRIVEN FROM LEGASP| Feb. 7.—The insurgents have | of Legaspi, on Albay | Al The rebels of T. province were ome 300 Spanish prisoners to . and on arriving the prisoner arved, revolted and d rds with stones and clubs. ed a few rifies and barri- manan, where BULLER'S FORCES AGAIN | BATTLE WITH THE BOERS Continued From First Page. Buller the attack on the Boer positions was begun this morning by nearly the whole of cur batteries—seventy-two guns SCHOONER JOSE GOES ASHORE Littie Hope of Saving the Vessel. atch to The Call 7.—The little forty- sie went ashore near night about $ o'clock, hat raged abated t can be saved when very un- water and VENEZUELANS INVADE BRAZILIAN TERRITORY Force Sent to Oppose Them Obliged to Retreat After a Sharp Fight. YRES, Fet — PEACE MEETING THE CAUSE OF A RIOT IPTOD , England, Feb. 7.— t that Henry Labou- a ith and Liberal mem- ¢ Parllamest for Northampton, ress a peace meeting in the Town Hall this afternoon rowd of opponents, who n the platform and smashed Mr. Labouchere’s arrival was the signal 5 cks. The promoters of rs were hurled into the body of es of “God save the chere was struck on the head, usly injured. He man- orted by _the of the peace m and declared joined York City of the Govers- me COLONEL THOMPSON ON HIS DEATHBED | Physicians Say That He Can Last But a Few Hours at the Most. RE HAUTE, Ind., Feb. 7.—Colonel W. Thompson is on his deathbed Thompson has been in failing for several years owing to a gen- of his nervous system, and ute attack his recuperative notieed as failing. Within weeks he would sleep almost con- usly for two or three days, to be fol- lowed by periods of wakefuiness for al- most an equal length of time. he physician at a late hour to-night said that he expected death at 4 or § o'clock in the mornt: Colonel Thomp- son’'s friends and physicians think that he might have lived longer had for excessive smoking. 5 al of American | —shelling the ridges where the enemy | have thelr trenches and redoubts on the | Brakfonteln and the low crest facing Potgleters Drift. | 3 Beveral H |S ST”-L | “The enemy suftered severely. hills wers smoking like volcanoes from the effects of the bombardment, which set | on fire their stores and the grass. | *While the third pontoon bridge was belng constructed under fire near Schiel | Drift the Eleventh Brigade, now u;\der iti issi i the command of Colonel Wynne, made a Britishlissionsey tsinc demonstration against the Brakfontein | in China. Ridge, marching across the meadows with | | the support of seven batteries of artillery. | i | At 11 o’clock the enemy Dpexlmed with & y Feb. 7.— _ | heavy cannonade of shrapnel, common v it e e | shell and pompin shells, chiefly from from the O this morning, reports lit- | Spion Kop. This was accompanied by 5| tle diminution of the plague in Northern | rattling musketry fire. Our gunners be-‘ Japan and numerous deaths among the | haved aflrglrably and were as cool as if o ai . upon parade. 'Arkz‘::‘::rg'a:::a:;‘\ r:ixb:ex;xdeinsfltuted “The demonstration having gained ef- in the Hokuriku districts against the | fect, the real attack upon the Boer left abolition of Buddhism as the state reli- | was delivered at 4 o‘clock. The Durham gion of Japan, and also against the pro- | Light Infantry carried Vaal Krants, the > tom and teachers shall | key to the lower ridges, while General ey = Hildvard’'s brigade assailed the higher ; | ridges. The general and his troops are bivouacking upon the fleld of battle. In the language of boudoir bulletins, Mother and child are doing well.” Our losses are trifling.” . | fatall uejacket was wou Rev. Sydney Brooks, a British mission- s reported to he en beheaded by e o near Pengyin, China oot P WAR BALLOON A a. other report is th e Korean Gov- :}r_‘nmnm sent 100 solc - command | USEFUL ADVANTAGE a, to kill fifty if th | SPEARMANS CAMP, Feb. 7.—The war lloon has proved a most useful advan- fire at Nugoe] ge, making ascents daily and getting in- at Hangchow rmation as to the Boer positions. The | cked one entire | Boers directed a heavy shrapnel fire in | ng boundary dispute. in | the endeavor to destroy the balloon ap- | sula between Slam and | paratus. s been settled. The| The artlllery behaved splendidly t the frontier between | throughout, ably covering the infantry re- Banbup e alleged | tirement from the front, attacking in the il of Perak.| e, a of a heavy Boer shell fire. e YT D o & prar| It s sald that the Boers suffered very has been pending for | heavily, as their ambulances wers hard a which is sald to | at work satisfactory to Great Britain, was| The Boer position consisted of a line of reached through Mr. Greville, the British | o 42 "0, 0 oie™ intrenched, extending | three miles from Splon Kop and curving | sharply at the eastern end to the south, about opposite Zwarts Kop, which is a steep hill south of the Tugela that the | 7.— | British occupled before the seizure of Pot- s navi- | gleters Drift. trouble Special Dispateh tc NFORD C. G UNIV Calkins, Dew | & arift while scouting on Buller’s front vn the Upper Tugela. 4 Upper Tugela where the Boers were intrenched to resist B | @0 00000000000 00t0 0000000000000 400 4 040+0+0400+00000000 BULLER’S THIRD ATTEMPT TO REACH LADYSMITH. - Horse crossing a ¢ The inserted picture Is from a photograph of a drift on the er's crossing. . by a London war artist, shows Thornycroft's and Bethune's inforcements, as he thought that he could | scems to have had hard fighting from the then overwhelm the Boers holding that |start. An agency telegram states that | position. It is possible that Lord Roberts | his further advance was prevented by the may decide to leave General French in|Boers' heavy fire from Spion Kop and | front of the Boers there and strike out | Doorn Kloof, and that the British casual- | east from the rall ¥ at some point south | ties amount to 250. of Modder River. In this case Cronje's | Dispatches from Boer sources say that | army would be menaced in front by Lord | the British were beaten back at Pont | Methuen and on one flank by General | Drift, while the position seized by the | MacDonald and on another by Lord Pob- | British, Krantz Kloof, is of no importance, | erts, and would be in great danger. | Nevertheless, Buller has thrust the point Returning to Buller's movement, he { of his wedge Into the Boer line. Instead | | there was an informal discussio: ot threatening the center and Boer right by trying a turning movement to the west he has this time feinted at the center and broken through on the left or east of | of the Boer. Free Sald Spion Kop. General B From Boer sources comes Information |pe estima that on Monday Ladysmith had a little | talions of fighting on its own account, probably o | cayalry, nins the southward, where the Boers would | {nen howlt ser naturally be in some strength about On-| . untain battery deobroek and Groblers Kloof. i ey It Buller's and White's forces converged | peauceing fosses, the forca should total in this direction it would be & Serious | o5 00 reguiare and about 6000 eolonial matter for the Boers there. With the . .,,5c The available field force woul Tugela behind them, White on their front | spobe, (i€ Ao and part of Buller's force on their flank - - they would be hemmed in, especially as STARIC FOR THE FRONT. there is every probability that a British | — brigade is watching the opportunity for| CAPE TOWN, Feb. 7.—Lord Roberts crossing to the northwest at Colenso and | and General Kitchener have started for that Lord Dundonald with his mounted | the froat. e westward, and the roads leading to p s will be held by them, thus cufting off any possible retreat men has gone to teries, a five- ery, seven-pounder nd about twenty-four T e v, We give samples of clothes. free of charge. free to any one asking for them. The samples will fully prove the value of the You can ask any one who knows about cloth whether the suits or overcoats will be serviceable. The samples are always cut from the very piece that is taken to make the clothes. We fully guarantee the making—your money’s worth or your money returned ; a year’s repairing these suits and overcoats board the flagship Olym- er a lecture evening. Quest for | w Empl! | Bo After the capture of Krantz Kloof the heavy Boer fire prevented a further ad- vance Monday. The next morning the s indulged in long range shell fire, | but in the afternoon they made a vigor- | The suits and overcoats are $17.50 and $20.00 ng were forced off the platform | persons were | e, Miss Hardy Promoted. ous attempt to recapture the position stal Dispatch to The Cail | Their assault was made upon the nortk ANFORD UNIVERSITY, Feb, 7.— | ern end of the kopje and at first it w. % Hardy, instructor in English, | successful. _Reinforcements bromoted to assistant professor | ever, burried up and the British recarried 1 gl » leave of absence for one year. | the position at the point of the bayonet will be spent in literary work. | and advanced along the ridge. : o Jritish have the larger force of troops, SALOON QUARREL LEADS | ine cotiook is hopefit. 2 T0 A STABBING AFFRAY IMPORTANCE OF THE = BRITISH MOVEMENTS LONDON, Feb, 8.—This morning’s news from South Africa is of greatest impor- Wourded Man Lying in a Criticai | tance, showing, as it does, that the re- Condition at the Hospital—Knife- |inforced British columns are putting Selder Is Oaptinel | themseives in motion and that a deter- Wielder Is Capf z mined, combined attack upon the Boers s apparently in progress. . H. A. Carter, a pipe-fitter, employed by | The significance of the telegram an- Messrs, Wyberg & Lawrence, was stabbed | nouncing that Lord Roberts and Lord in the gro t by George Lucy, an | Kitchener have departed from Cape Town ex-prize fighter, and is now lying at the | can only be appreciated when read In con- Recelving Hospital in a critical condi- | junction with the reports of movements on the extreme flanks of the British line. 7 met in McDougald's| In Natal General Buller has again ¢ northeast corner of Sixth | crossed the Tugela, and, according to olsom streets, early in the even- | latest accounts, was fighting his way to ing and both ¥ ged in a heated | the relief of Ladysmith and achieving to blows, but friends | some success. Y s both signified Far to the westward, on Methuen's left, . Bl l{‘l“{;jg; eneral MacDonald is threatening the hie men stripped to tne | fank of the Boer forces at Magersfon- d to pummel each other, | tein by his Dositjon at Koodoosberg, on s sledge-hammer blows proved | Rict River. From this point he could t00 much for Lucy gxnd”(“!:sxl::;‘lrfirl'sor‘l;'d‘ turn Cronje’s fiosl(lon. nnddwlll: naturally {to an = Lucy sudaenionanced in the | gitract the Boers towar im. Any nent and grazed his arm. Ie repeated ihe | ward will render it easier for Lord Meth- | foul move and the knife blade struck Car- | uen to push forward on the way to Kim- [ e e S g L A ter of this wide field ore Jo further execution. Car-| yn the center of this wide field of war | zer_zen 1o the gre e e husienty 4% | Lora Roberts, it Is thought, at least, feels | himself strong enough to push forward | | | H. A. CARTER DANGEROUSLY ‘ CUT BY G. LUCY. to the Receiving Hospital. Doctors Put- | nam and Croll worked over him for ap|and converi the defensive attitude which hour u"dn'imm‘"ss:\lt)w“;fl'm"“’{,’ that the | the British have been maintaining into an man might no ve the stabbing. i » | “Carter refused to make any Smngme & offensive movement directed at the heart [ as to what led to the quarrel. He sajq | °f the Orange Free State. | that if he died he would carry the secret| With#a force which does not number far of the controversy to the grave, but if he | short of 30,00 men he has commenced his | survived he would let the world know | march upon Bloemfontein. As to the di- what 1t was about. rection of this advance, color is given to Lucy was arrested at an early hour this | the report that it is by way of Colesberg, morning by Officer Riordan and wil! by the fact that French’s recent visit to 1 it not been ;mld pending the result of his victim's {n- | Cape Town was for the purpose of urging juries. the commander-in-chief to give him re- were, how- | As the | prices. and overcoats at the same value for $13.50. We are making these | faced if preferred. If out of town write for catalogue measurement blank. values—a fact which we take pride in proving. 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