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VOLUME LXXXVII-NO. 154, SAN FRANCISCO, MONDAY, APRIL 23, 1900. PRICE FIVE (;EI\ TS. AWAITING NEWS OF THE ADVANCE OF LORD ROBERT London Military Experts Believe | ‘the Forwafd Movement Is About to Begin. Patriots Will Make Their Stand Between the Invading Army and the Transvaal Borders. ASERU, Br Basutoland, April 22.—General abant’s advanced guard reached Bush- ans Kop last evening. The Boers held a position there with two guns. The engage- opened at sunrise with heavy rifles. At 6:30 M. cannonading began and continued for sev- hours. General Brabant’s forcz2s are on the plain and have fairly open country all the way to Wepener. Evidently the Boers reattacked Colonel Del- gaty to-day. Colone! Delgaty heliographed: ‘“All well. Boers fired 300 shells yesterday withou: doing much damage.”’ MASERU, Basutoland, April 21,evening.—Four Boer guns have been ~ard at work all day on Col- onel De!gaty’s position. The British guns have replied intervals. The Boers are divided into three divisions, two being in positions to repel the me A. er at I i | | relief columns, the distant roar of whose artillery | is audible. General Brabant’'s relief force is re- ported to be to-day in the neighborhood of Bush-| mans Kop, twenty miles from Wepener. The Basutos are posted on the border for de-| fensive purposes. They are behaving in orderly fashion, but are showing the mostintenseinterest. RS L, Cable to The Call and New York Herald. Copyrighted, 1900, by the New York Herald Company. pec. hat fine weather continues to be repofted that news of Lord Rob- divisi advancing ot encounter at Orlogs- dle was unable to make fur- is that he is waiting for e north and General Bra- Dewetsdo hat General R Rauxville, engaged the Boers at He has with him not only t briga four battalions ance is near at hand is the nary changes, which adequacies in the organization ed. ear Glen and Bosmans Kop, immediate neighborhood of ng tactics, but the general im- the burghers will make no Sac disc perfe: a lant eye has observ p appe: ort borhood of Boshof bears out the view tary expert that the Boers are determined to offer to he most vigorous resistance of which they are capable. For Lord Methuen's force has been holding an ad- Zwartkoppiefontein, northeast of Boshof. On Friday menaced by 2000 Boers under the command of a Vhen the column retired a determined attack was It failed, owing to the skill with which the <h side, but it is obvious that the re- me. The fact that the Boers necessitated a e evidence that they have not Jost their dar- e ger threatening their extreme ce, composed entirely of mounted e da he Boer s were busy again on Saturday act which seems to dispose of the All things v be expected very soon. RAIDERS PROVIDING HORSES FOR ROBERTS' ARMY. ONDON, April 22.—The Standa ishes a long dispatch from Bloemfon- t Friday. explaining t difficulties which tend to delay the . G o The corres s nsport diffi r v weather and by t " ¢ providing for . perhaps months, . »n of the f . together with the country in our re ctics of the enemy. no longer menaced no forward vest ri . f horses. General Hamilton has -, services of the Australian bushmen to scour the Free «, buying horses from f. s who have surrendered, and s found upon unoccupied f Horse ralding Is ds sshmen are mord thar 1 for the Boers.” B e REPORT THAT GENERAL DEWET IS DE@D, o> 23.—The Dal ews has the following from Lourenzo Mar- ey April 20 ere that General Dewet has been killed. Other European am- bu s the Irish-American are taking up arms in behalf of the Boe P imabie to obtain smokeless powder. Trenches are being con- structe s around Pretoria. There are sixty guns in position at Xr ench guns at Pretoria. Twenty-five mines at Johanne e arged with dynamite and the Johannesburg fort has been dig. e e BOERS HAVE EIGHTY THOUSAND MEN, ON, April 22.—The Lourenzo Marquez correspondent of the Times, under & date, says: “Information received from responsiblesourcesshows that at wo republics had 105,000 men in the field, including the colonial rebels, me informant they can still muster £0,000, of which 50,000 are in re in the Biggarsberg district and 15,000 in the district of risdorp. It is now believed that before the war the ately falsified in order to deceive the British intelligence PR RS DECISIVE B4ATTLE MAY HAVE BEEN FOUGHT. \pril 23,1t is quite probable that by this time General Sir Henry t a decisive battle with the Boers. - He intrenched himself on \it the arrival of General Campbell with the Sixteenth Brigade. mander arrived on Saturday evening and news may, therefore, be ex- y moment. WARREN TO BE FREE STATE’S GOVERNOR. LONDON, April 22—1It is reported that Sir Charles Warren is to be appointed Gove r of the Free State. Nothing is known regarding Sir Redvers Buller, but there is little doubt regarding his removal, and rumor has it that Lord Kitch- ner will get @n important independent command. 0'90'3'0'90@0?0);9@0@0@01@»@@@—0—@%«9—0%’ B R e e S 3 * ® - . . . ¢ * @ . - be - ® . ¢+ THE ABOVE PICTURE, TAK o WERE MET BY W. B. WALLE * AND HALF A BATTALION OF & ACGAIN MARCHED AT I ‘ ARD AGAINS Q@oioieieioiesiobeded ’ SLAUGHTER Caed — | g | = - | . 89 —_—— {4 o ) OF TAGALS Number tally Wounded Exceeds a Thousand. AMERICAN LOSS TRIFLING Lty General Pio Del Pilar, Formerly Re- ported Slain, Appears at the Head of His 0ld Command Near San Miguel. il MANILA, April 2.—Last week one of the bloodiest of the war since the first day’s fighting around Manila, authen- tic reports, mostly official, showing a to- was tal of 378 Filipinos killed, twelve officers | more | and 244 men captured and many wounded.” The number wounded can hardly be estimated. Considering that the Filipinos entirely lack hospital facill- ties, a great majority of the wounded will die. Probably the week's work .finished 1000 insurgenfs. The American loss was nine killed and sixteen wounded. Two ser- geants and one private were killed in am- bush while escorting provision trains The insurgents ve been aggre! almost every province in Luzon Pio del Pilar's band, numbering 2 was out of sight for three months, leader having been repor: appeared in its old fleld about San Miguel. Pilar is supposed to be again in command. He gave the American garrison at San ve in General 9, which the | Miguel, consisting of three companies of | S8an Jose. the Thirty-fifth Infantry with a Gatling, a three hours’. fight during a night attack. The loss of the insurgents in this en- | sagement is not included in the forego- ing total, as they removed their dead and wounded, but presumably it was consid- erable. Twenty-two Filipinos in the province of Santangas Lieutenant who with e scouting near The lleutenant and five men were wounded and one private was killed. Sergeant Lednius of the Thirty-fifth In- fantry was badly wounded in an ambuszh | near Ballung. Lieutenant Batch of the Thirty-seventh Infantry, with seventy men, had a five hours’ | tenegro, surgents in the Nueva Caceras district Twenty of the insurgents were killed. Colonel Smith of the Seventeenth In- v, who captured General Montenegro d brought him to Manila, is in the isola tion hospital, suffering from smallpox. Colonel Smith's command captured 180 officers and men with Montenegro. Mon- who was formerly one of the most dapper officers in the Filipino army, looks worn and haggard. He says he led a terrible life for months and he has of- fered to return to the north-with Colonel Smith to endeavor to persuade his former comrades of the uselessness of opposing the Americans. One hundred escaped Spanish prisoners from the province of South Luzon have arrived at Manila. The insurgents have 400 more Spanish prisoners in that dis- trict. Recently the Filipinos destroyed several rods of the railroad line near Paniquo, in an unsuccessful attempt to wreck a train. SHIPS CAPTURED WHILE FLYING FILIPINO FLAG Special Dispatch to The Call. WASHINGTON, April 22.—Major Gen- eral Otis has informed the department in the cases of several vessels captured by the navy for engaging in trade with the insurgents in the Philippines. One of the vessels captured, named the Surigio, was overhauled while flying the insurgent flag and was immediately brought into the TERVALS MOUNTED ID ANY POSSIBLE ATTEMPT AT RESCU of Killed or Mor- d killed, has re- | o CRONJE’S FOUR THOUSAND ON THEIR MARCH THE SPHERE, WAS MADE FROM A SKETCH TAK PECIAL ARTIST FOR THAT PAPER. F TRY GUARDS, WHO MARCHED WITH FIXED BAYO! AND CITY IMPERIAL VOLU N AT KLIP KRAAL THE PRISONERS WERE 4119 IN STS FOUR PAC RS, WHILE W ° e >0 R ) SOUTH GUARDED BY BRITISH BAYONETS. GHT MILES SOUTH R. AND WERE § ON EACH “OLU — — * » - OUTSID MNS SCOUTINC D R o | @4+ 4444444444444 444440 | = SEES IN 4 VISION THE COLLAPSE OF BRITISH EMPIRE | | AR R R e e R R e RS e R e e e e e e e WASHINGTON, April 22.—An intelligent man, who has written books, who has held high official station, who is known well as a public speaker, receives from time to time communications through |+ w he considers supernatural | agencles. This man is not a Spirit- ualist in the ordinary sense. He Is not dependent upon mediums. Things are revealed to him as he sits alone in his room. Not long ago he had a vision which forecasted for him one of the severe defeats of the British in South Africa. He saw one of the checks of Buller's army when the campaign to relieve Ladysmith took Its most dis- astrous turn. But the most not- able communication of his was one which came to him within the past week. This Is the communica- tion: “The coming century will see re- markable, wonderful ' changes in governments and religlon. The different branches of the Christian church will comes closer to one an- other. Love of God will bring men nearer to brotherhood. Sec- tarian bitterness will in a great part be wiped out. Within the next quarter century a great upheaval ,of European govern- ments will take place. Repub- lican governments will be the rule; monarchies the exception. At the opening of the second quarter century - Queen Victoria will die very suddenly and so on. The The Prince.of Wales will come to the throme. After a short reign he will die by violence. The Duke of York will succeed him and be the last of the line of monarchs of Great Britain for the present. A republic will be established in Eng- land in about fifteex years. India will be lost to Grext Britain in the meantime. After the loss of India rapid decline of the power of Great Britain will take place. France will hav comparative peace and prosperity, with a stable republican government for at least twenty-five years to come.”" The reciplent of this forecast has unquaiified faith it it. He seeks no personal notorlety. He prefers his name - should— not bé& associated with: it publicly, but he confidently consents to its publica- tion. 3 P R e ‘0004000600000006600000*0#&00‘0#00#‘0#0 4+ N D S EA AT+ S AR DD 0 50,5 | ,‘{ | + + ++e+e | alias. Mr. Stevens, a native of Michigan | and a graduate of the law department of | buildings | Candlish West, VANTED FOR MARY CRES N THE WEST George H. Wright, College| Graduate, Charged With Four Murders. jy FUGITIVE FROM JUSTICE S Ll President of Three Mining Companies Deeds His Property to a Chi- cago Attorney and Dis- appears. it CHICAGO, April 22.—A remarkable se- quel to a series of alleged crimes in the Rocky Mountain country has come to light here. The Chicago developments are told in an interview by Attorney Willlam Candlish of this city in explanation of no- tices received by the Chicago police ask- ing for the arrest of George H. Wright, alias James S. Weeks, alias C. T. Case, 000000000"00000900004000*;00900#0&6#’0000000000? 00000;090900# the University of Ann Arbor, charged with having murdered four persons, three in Utah and one in Colorado. Attorney Candlish says he became ac- quainted with Wright because they lived at the same Chicago hotel in July, 1567, and Wright engaged him to go West and gagher evidence to defend him on the charge of having murdered a man named Crampton near Guffy, Colo.. in January, 1897. Wright then, it is alleged, under the name of Case, deeded to Candlish a bank building, a residence. two office | and numercus vacant lots in | Cripple Park .and. Guffy, Colo., besides transferring to him all his stock In v rious mining- enterprises. Candlish says Case left his office to return in an hour | with $200 as advance payment on Cand- | lish’s traveling expenses, and has not re- | turned to. this day.” The Chicago man in- terested in Case’s mining property sent | however, and he exam- ined. the property at Cripple Park and | Guffy, and- was later made president of | the Hub_ Hill Mining Company and of the Fines Mining Company and counsel for | the Union Mining Company. Case had | | been president of the three companies. port of Cebu. Here the captain pleaded | that the vessel was engaged in the coast- ing trade, and in the transportation of insurgent troops under compulsion, a force of armed insurgents having been | kept cn board continually; and, further. | that he was constantly under arrest and | made to obey insurgent authority on the | Mindanao coast under penalty of death | for disobedience. His statement was in | part substantiated by the original com- munications and instructions of the insur- gent officer. Three other vessels which had been cap- tured by the navy on December 15, 1899, were all flying the Insurgent flag at the ; time of their capturé, and were equipped for inter-island trade. In the cases of two of the vessels, the owners confessed that their vessels were trading under the insurgent flag off the coast of Leyte, buu they denied the use of the flag by their authority. In the case of the third ves- sel, it appears she had been engaged for nearly a year in conducting an insurgent trade along the northern coast of Min- danao, baving made many trips to small ports of that i{sland and collectell hemp at the port of Surigao. Her many clear- ances were furnished by insurgent officers, and the insurgent flag was displayed dur- ing the whole period of time. In the case of the Surigao, General Otis imposed a fine of $100, but, In view of the fact that legitimate trade was sus- pended and the inhabitants of the islands | ‘were in need of food supplies General Otis deemed it proper not to ~onfiscate them, but to impose a fine of 15 per cent of their value. Case told Candlish he was innocent of | .Crampton’s death and that the charge | was an effort of enemies and business rivals to ruin him. A circular issued by Sheriff George A. Storrs of Provo City, | Utah, charges that Wright murdered | three boys in Utah County in February, 1595, and sank thelr bodies beneath the jee of Utah Lake, the alleged reason of the crime being that the boys claimed to have knowledge of Wright's guilt as a cattle thief. This explanation was, it Is i alleged, given to the Utah State Board of Pardons in the hearing of a pardon last April for the stepfather of the three boys, who had been convicted of their murder and sentenced to be hanged, the witnesses before the Pardon Board being the di- vorced wife of the missing Wright, whose | property and official positions have so | strangely fallen to Attorney Candlish in | Chicago, half-way across the continent. SON OF CRONJE TO OPPOSE METHUEN LONDON, April 22.—A correspondent of the Times at Boshof, telegraphing Sat- urday, says: “I have been with an am- bulance to the Boer lines. While there I conversed with Commandant Cronje, sec- ond son of the famous general, and with Assistant Commandant Bowthwaite. They had expected Lord Methuen to ope- | burghers was rate to the eastward and were still ex- him an y were confident that | defeat they could his column. Bowth- w.lo complained t he had not changed his clothing for a fortnight. in- [@+++ 4444444444444 4444@| pe + VICIOUS ELEPHANT CHOKED TO DEATH BY HIS TRAINER Spectal Dispatch to The Call. N NEW YORK, April 22.—“Dick,” the vici. elephant belonging to the Sells & Forepaugh circus, was 1 to death In Madison Garden to-day in an at- tempt to subdue his belligerent dis- position. “Dick” was one of the original Forepaugh dancing ele- phants and was trained by Adam arly twenty years ago. A few weeks ago he began showing a rebellious disposition. When the circus reached Madison Square Garden “Dick” became dangerous and heavy chains were fastened to his four legs and also to his tusks. Forepaugh Jr. n While preparations were being made to-day to move the circus “Dick” started to trumpet. When an elephant does this, circus peo- place say, he is likely to stampede the others. As there were four- teen elephants, Lewis Sells, one of the proprietors of the show, decided upon stern measures. Huge ropes were passed around the giant’s body and about his neck, a dozen men seized the ends and began to pull, the idea being to choke him into submission. “Badger,”” a colored man, got too near “Dick” and the latter struck him with his trunk, knocking him ten feet. Finding the men made no Iim- pression upon him, Mr. Sells had elephants attached to the ropes. They pulled with such vigor that the ropes tightened about “Dick’s™ neck and choked - him to death. The cageass was cut up and carted away. ' It took fourteen men near- ly sixteen hours to perform the task. The elephant was about thirty-five years old and welghed 5000 pounds. skin may be stuffed and pfaced in Andrew Car- negle's new museum in Pittsburg. + + @++++ 4444444444404 0440 dicating that he had been traveling a long distance, but I could not ascertain from what point. The. Boer commando reoccupies strong positions around Spitz- kop, about eight miles northeast of Boshot.” A dispatch to the Times from Jammer: burg, dated Saturdav, says: “The Boers are displaying renewed activity. Five guns were used freely to-day from four different positions against our position. Officers and men are on dutv day and night in the trenches, and the heavv rains of late have made their task a great feat | of endurance and pluck.” The Bloemfontein correspondent of the | Morning _Post, telegraphing on Friday, says: ‘‘President Steyn's address to the an impassioned speech. He implored them to continue their re- sistance until the resuits of the efforts of the Boer peace commissioners were known."” WANTS A GOVERNMENT BY SOUTH AFRICANS CAPE TOWN, April 22.—Sir Alfred Mil- ner, replying to-day to a deputation of the Guifld of Loyal Women of South Africa, who are sending an nddress to the Queen, said: “An attempt is being made to confuse men's minds by saying that in the future there will be two parties here in South Africa. Speaking as an imperialist, I can only say that it is an essential part of my political creed that South Africa should be governed in the interest and by the agency of the people who have made it their home.” He deplored the intolerant spirit ang mania of suspicion now rampant. — Death of a Pioneer. COVELO, April 22.—News has been re- ceived from Mendocino of the death yes- terday of Willlam Host, a ploneer settler of Covelo and of late years a prominent of Mendocino City. Deceased family of grown-up children. citizen leaves a R R R e SR s | accusation. INPELLED BY JEALOUSY 10 TAKE A LIFE W. H. McMullen Shoots J. Channon, Hotel Keeper at Marysville. VICTIM'S WOUND IS MORTAL —_— Tragedy Results From the Real or Fancied Alienation of the Affec~ tions of the Assailant’s Wife. ——— s Spectal Dispatch to The Call MARYSVILLE, April 2—John Chane non, landlord of the Dawson House in this city, was shot and fatally wounded by cMullen, one of his lodgers, at ¥ The trouble was not unex- it has been brewing for several weeks. McMullen, who is a hostler em- ployed at the Neison livery stable, is of a quarrelsome disposition and jealous of his wife. On several occasions recently he has upbralded Channon for the latter's alleged attentions to Mrs. McMullen and yesterday he accused Channon of having caused their separation. According to the deathbed statement of Channon to District - Attorney McDanfel, McMullen approached him to-day and | again accused him of having alfenated his wife's affections. Again Channon denied the charge. Finally both men agreed to g0 to Mrs. McMullen's room decide as to the truth or falsity Mrs. McMullen’s mother, Mrs. Granler, was present when the men entered the room. Channon says he put the question to Mrs. McMullen, and. she made positive denfal that he was in any of the way accountable Jor the separation of herself a her" husband. McMullerny | shouted: “You lie!” drew a revolver and shot Channon in the left side just below the heart. The men wege only three feet apart and Channon's clothing and flesh were badly powder burned. The wounded man grappled with McMullen, who was trying to shoot again, and succeeded in | wresting the pistol from him, when out- siders separated them. McMullen then went to the police station and gave him- elf up. The prisoner's sto different from C went to his wife non_standing by resfing on her Channon of and his wife, came angry and fina | object from the table and threw it at him. v to the police is quite annon’s. He says he | It struck him on the head and almest | stunned him, causing him to sink to his | knees. He says Channon was about to strike him w his pistol | ana fired. He ex od deep scalp wound in substantiation of his story. The | women corroborate Channon the bullet passed 7, the point of exit | being "about one the left of the | spinal column. He cannot recove Channon is a married man. mily | tving in the house where the trouble oc- | curred. He formerly was _engaged in farming with his brother, Frank Chan- | non, near Live Oak. Surgeons foun through Channo: EARL RUSSELL IN CHICAGO. With His Bride Will Leave in a Few Days for London. CHICAGO, April 22.—FEarl Russell, whose recent divorce in Nevada from the Countess Russell and marriage immediate- |1y atterwara to Mrs. M - sensation in England, a in Chicago to-day. accompanied by his bride. The | Earl says he will leave In a few days for London, regardless of the theorics of some English lawyers that his divorce is not valid there and let her .