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Bee ta fT EAT Terrible Slaughter Is Re- ported at Spion Kop Fight. 0 = WERE = WOUNDED. Buller ie Battling Again to Foroe His Way to Ladyemith. Fed, B—An undated de- from Ladysmith says the Boer fm leet week's fighting were 1.10 and @ wounded, among the five field cornets. , Feb. unda' I 2A despatch from ted, via Spearman's 3 » g FS f EE of Magaliers- | State cornet. The) seven Boer guns were approximately information ts not con- ne thts ” UIT, Jan. 2.—Command- the Orange Free State, the Boers at Ladyarey. men were almost sur- rmberg and unless re- rthcoming he would be abandon the position. | i i 7 fe a@mities that in the recent fight, at the Boers lost 3,100 killed 0 wounded. Many colonists who fouget a: Storm- | berg have nat | have refused vies, tough Among these are some conspicuous Borghers, who originally invited ne! Free Beaters to invade Cape Colony BiG BATTLE ON, Be Already At- Relleve LONDON, Feb. 3-—-Buller's third bie Rattle to save Ladysmith ie on. It began; yesterday afternoon or shortly after, @aylight this morning. This tnnouncement fs positively made NERS 'GOULD’S DINNER | PARTY BROKEN UP. Was Too | way against a regiment. But I'm not through with this matter. this I shall certainly bring an action for false imprisonment against some one.” Fifth avenue. supper, at which they when Tibbe—what a | been stirring up the Old Harry in the kitehen, burst into the dinin, began loudly to attack the gentlemen walters. The Butler Officious and Created a Distressing Scene. John Tibbs Tried to Run Things in the New Fifth Avenue Mansion —Was Arrested and Fined, Howard Gould's butler got @runk Isat night and broke up a dinner party that the young millionaire was giving to eighteen friends in his palatial home at 824 Fifth avenue. John Tibbs, the butler, wae abusive to Mr. Gould and was arrested. He was taken to the Yorkville Court this morning and fined %, Mr. Gould ap peared against him ‘The dinner was given in the gold room, | and though not meitioned in the poclety ld wished it to be strictly privaic, was an claborate affair, Untted States Senator and Mra, Thurston were among the guests. ‘Tibbs sald he had been outrageourly treated. He was intensely indignant, columns as Mr | Said he: Tibbe Ie Indignat “When I wie arrested they took my money without any right, I was not drunk. Miss Croucher, the chief house- keeper, know: | was not drunk. “When I wis in the station-house I told the sergeant | was willing to be examined by 4 Socter, and 1 told Mr. Gould even that I wan willing to be ex- amined by his shysician and abide by their decision, if 1 was drunks, “What was the use in my talking, any- 1 was one In the station-house When I get out of Broke tp the Party. There was a reception at the Goulds’ last night in thelr new home at 524 Tt was followed by « late sitting down who had nam andl " "Hire you's and “Don't do this's" were Rouring from his lips in « Joud and ngry stream. The guests were much a Gisturbed, The ladies became frightened, | row from the home of Edward Mathews, to-day by Mr. Charlee Williams, they military expert of the Morning Leader. ! MP. Williams to the writer who had “in- ide” information regarding Huller’s pre- view movement and who, despite the from South Afrien saying that J ha@ started toward the Boer Jet, Gectared tha: Warren had started Westward to turn the Boer right flank. | Days later the official despatches baal firmed Mr, Williams's information. A Gematch from Spearman's Ca | it geen moving from Mount Tabanyama j toward the hills opposite Potgieter's Drift, This massing of the Boer forces opposite Buller’s army shows that they had acen evidence of an advance and) that they were preparing to meet it | Heliegrams, flashed from Ladysmith | three days ago, declare that the Boer jn-! veatment lines were then thinning out | ¢,. and that the commandoes were moving toward the Tugela River. This, too, indicates that they expected fighting there. BULLER CAN WIN OUT. ‘Bet Majer Bathere: Says He Will) Lese €200 Wen at Lady- LONDON, Feb. %—Major Bathurst, | who wae wounded at the battle of Co- Jene0, arrived at Southampton to-day on board the Servia. | He cays there are 2,00 Boers at the} Pugela, but that Gen. Buller can get 8080 oF 6,000 men. | ee ~ NOT AFTER GAS TRUST. Mr. Whitney Explains Why ite Pare:eced Russell tage’s Mold. tuge Im Standard Company. loudly ner, with a dark scowl toward the la- dies, that he was ready and willing to Mek the public, then amd there. Feturned with Roundeman Kane Howard Gould summoned the buder and ina low tone bade him leave the room. “HI'll be blowed hif Hi do,” said Tibbs, and he added in a defiant man- whole bloomin’, bloody Yankee Gould's Kaort V Mr, Gould was forced to Jead the mad John Bull a fered him a % Dill. “John.” he ald, “take this and go to and sleep tt off.” 11 be dombed hit Hi do,” said Tibbs. A servant who had been aent 0 the East Sixty-neventh street station-house Tibve was al first Inclined to try a Splon Kop engagement with (he roundsman, but made up his mind that the “bobby” was too heavily armed for him He was stil! drunk when arraigned be- Magistrate Meade to las, whirh shows that bibulows butlers had better keep clear of such clinging Leverages as champagne and brandy, and stick to the more ethereal and quickly dissipated case Of pure hexcitement. he sald. But Mr, Gould was there to press his complaint. Fined Five Dollars, “This man's conduct waa simply out rageous,” he sald. unit for service house.” in any gentleman ® | In poor health “He proved himeeif | “Five doliars,” “Holn't « hit,” sald Poe “Downstairs,” sald the Magistrate | Ang Tibbs took his fatal Jag down to the prison 14 9190 which they found said the Magistrate. pokets a He was offered ( ing for court Mr. Tibbs was Imported Van Alen. once of now of London. Mr. Van m marsied one of the Ag or iris, and after he had been appointed Minister to Spain end ered that he Was not wanted there ik the dust of Amer from his inh quently learned country by J ie isi nd, but Ake ct he To the story in circulation in Wail, feet assiduously 9 with Waldorf A favor | mreet te-day that WilMam C. Whitney at Br ircies was trying to corral gas stock and) gilie ‘rec vores Te the alabtene et form & trust, Mr. Whiney eaid: asing to serve in an American fam at's why, FUMOr paith, “When I purchased Russell Sages drink" Pe ee * iu the Standard Gas Company it) @8 @ general bargain day, The pur- ee made through Mr. Braman. | Mt bas ne opedial significance. the Andrewe stock. 1 and persons axso o4 with me in electric ight Gas stocks as we purchase to our other holdings BUZZARD IN BRITAIN “I id not buy, as has been reported. | Lendem Nuried in Snow and Tele-| it Mi: Braph Wires Down in the Provinces, Feb, 2-This met find the str in snow, which wa converted into mud and slush Snow ond bitter cold, wether are reported from many po nis in the Provinces. In Bedfordshire the people are suffering from tre w Snow storm experienced in years, ing until noon and covering the ground more than a foo dev. The roads are imparrable and the drifts reach to the hedgetops. The rait road lines are partiadly Mocked “tt snowed ¢ fh ord ling thickly pens A sd petite’ waltalg wil bw fester the evening's entertainment bitanenrd-ithe | ® | Man to face the present Imperial crisi« ires are down in many | = ims WORLD: SATURDAY KE THE JOHN TIBBS. HOWARD GOULD'S BUTLER. | The opening of the stock market to- lleading specialties went off quickly, Sur | Transvaal war, | statement, whieh indie: STOCKS THE [TUMBLE {Slump in Prices Follows Opening Advance in Market. with the higher all around * In sympathy quotations. Prices tracts advanced firmness did ngt jas: long, The sar fell @ point, Metropolitan, which be- point to the good, dropped a and a half. Third Avenue made the same exhibi- tion, Tennessee Coal also was noticea- ly woak * General Electric wae a leader in the nduetrial list. It opened at 12% and quickly oltmbed to 1261-8 A general takirg of profits by the oom traders was the caure of the de- Hine at the opening, The ease of money @ Indication of a good bank state- ( were relied upen to overcome the { of the etrife in Kentucky and the in the different issues was marked up sharply during the second hour, After the publication of the bank larger in- crease In caah than anticipated. profit. taking began and the downward move- mint Was agcentuated by heavy selling of Sugar, which gold at 115. 1 of the advances in the general were wiped out in the decline, a substamtial fraction being retained by many stocka to the end. In the fina Ne dealings there wi : movement in some stockae notably eal market Nowever, | rket, however, lef: ied, with regular net obenwes, iif Amertean Linseed The VENING, FEBRUARY 3, 1900, Ge FIERGE STREET FIGHT |WOMMN ADS WITH A BURGLAR, *WOLE. ———— +4 —__ -_ Smith Used a Jimmy and the Detectives Beat Him Uncon- scious with Revolver Butts. While a crowd persons leoked on two Central Office detection had a fighvt with a notorious eafe-bower and bank burglar at Ninety-second sireet and Becond avenue (ils aftermoon. The burmtar used a jimmy on one detectivs's head, but tho sleuths younded him into unconsciousness with the butts of their revolvers. The burglar is George Smith, alias Palmer. He wan standing at Ninety second street and Second avenue at 1.0 P. M., when Detectives Tinker and Doran selsed him. Smith, @@ the detectives took hold of him, drew the jimmy from under his coat and struck Tinker on the head. Tinker staggered back and for a mo- gate blowing. His number { ment was desed. Rogue's Gi flery.. He has served terms Smith then turned hte attention to | aggregating ninteen years in prison. CRE OF TEACHERS. oi i a tie] Mle Wright, Principal, , and 0 K bar WO HER H AR er and Her Assistants ‘The Closing Quotations, Suspended. Open. Mi Low. Clee i] ny 1 a 8 « se! ‘oe es i a ch pee args isd osha] 8 fre aly : 4 | Education, of thie city, tate ge iy in| Mine rien, princi! of Mo, Sires -_—_ —_—>— a. Malt sak 3 ts] ton achool, Newton, N. J., and her are § Hy 8 tigation o Am. Smeit. & Ket. pf. of teachers pending an invest This Loving Couple Will! Moore's Larceny Was a} \s saa‘. we ee the fire watch occurred In the school iy at 4 o Hot? Am. Steel & Wir yesterday afternoon. Have a Double Pudding’s” Love Am. ‘Fugar AS" SR] Bome of. the children were badly in- Funeral. and $917. 1EY UE | Jured by Jumping from the second story 1038 1024 | windows. $3 ER) _No charges have been made goer There will be a double funeral to-mor Magistrate Poo! Grew a complaint this Ht he] Mise Wright safe Ree anu te 2 7 morning in Harlem Court chargiag Wiil+ wm Te. said that cowa! $25 Past Thirteenth street, and Edward |iam A, Moore with breach of promise of 1 HM | reason for the suspension. vii a th eld him in $1,000 ae The teachers are uccused of deserting and his wife Ellen will be laid in the|™arriage, and then held him 000 | inurl U4 TU ane pupite and leaving them to thelr same grave. As they ait talking beside Hid the Grand Jury on a charge of py oS vig pI grand larceny f the coffina of this husband and wife. )P ir. sa ccused of getting $917 out of Mrs. ing 722 | tn denial of the charges the teachers Joined together not alone in life bUt IN) Johanna Albers, after promising to be Hey US |oay that after vainly trying to get te death, the two children, smiling through | ier hubby, Moore is thirty-three. Mra. 12” dr'*| puplie out of the school they had to give thelr tears, and the other friends, sald: Aipers is forty-nine. Bhe lives in Har: 108% 109% it wp and save themselves. ‘Et is better thus, God was kind when|iem and he lodges h & McNell's AH ig | It ts rumored about town that some He took them away together.” and has an office as trical engineer’ GN G1 | of the irate parents of the children that It was a marriage made in heaven. For | at 11 Broadway. ny “sy were Injured yesterday wil bring sult years they had dweit together in unity,| In September last he Inserted this per- 4 «6 | againet the city for damages. rerving God in a humble way, practi* sonal in a newspaper 4 1841 “The Board of Education will make « ing the precepts of the Golden Rule. | Wanted, a lady of some mearm. Ob: A Fl enorough investigation. They were members of the Church of the Nativity, where a mission is going nd where many recreant souls et back Into fellowship with ject, matrimony When they me timony, she told hi 15,000, but ta his looms, told him t |like an actor man ey love She gave him Sm sums, she gave h $7. They arn z to the tem was worth She liked yoked just the Master wee toe 30 For some time Mr vows had beer He red, the doctors sald, from a weak heart. He had to be very careful In what he ate and what he Aid, His wife was his ministering angel On Wednesday she was suddeniy|cember, but when December Sorpius reserves, increase. 1.509, 290 stricken with apoplexy. In three minut J not resporel, On Jan. 2 she called Laan epost per she was dead. Her husband had caugh his office and they had words, she | Sprete, Inerease enters, inetesse “aw her as she was falling to the floor and jattempted to grab 9 gold chain she had | Kan & Mix eal wots 14,001,309 bore her to her bed. When he learned | given him, and he—(sobs)—ne struck het. | take trie ® Wer. pe Cireletion, Inerrase mh she was dead he was seized with faint-| Sho had him arresied £ cault, He | Lovie. @ Nak The banks now hold $90,871.27 in ex- His and It seemed as ft he would] was discharged. She had him arrested | Manhatten | cess of the requirements of the % per her, He was more resign’ for breach of promine cent. rufe. ™ good priest had come and Perfidious letters from him to her were at Total cierinee ot gia bask hes ing- tered to him the consolations of the |introduced, ‘They usually began, "MY Fy houses tn the United States for the week Churob, and after a while was able tol doar pudding ending to-day were $1,045,041,781, a de- take part In he fainily councttle tonehe/ oa to | Ne crease of 16.8 per cent, over the corre- ag her funeral, which was to be beld ped | sponding period last year, ioe fe bad ve Ny , “! ie : Clearing-House statement for to-day: ‘esterday morning be felt so weil th Of saul MEG do csc tase Tit | Exchanges, (96,271.19; balances, #9,407,- f 10 60 10 Ose, URANO ait come bi yous Wh “! tr . WS | 18. For the week: Mechanges, $1.008,- church he met many friends! (oo iid Wot a ‘a ots | yore ‘Treasury had a debit balance to-day of 1 their sndolen he building iis she owns) eB SN YY. cht * t #107088. 4 r i home, walked into the | ¥"* ere thie minuie | w ny and Joo! t You know how 10 The © Market. r he loved, and fix m 30% | The closing prices of cotton to-day tumbled to ihe foo %s M | were: February, 7.16 to 7.91; March, 7.99 aim up he was dead a y to 7.4; May, 7.98 to Word was at ¢ sent to the under. By te a to 7.97; taker, The funeral of the wife wan| ql ah 48 to post none and ad e funeral to-mor- | ¢ 3° Sei A Hevea ce) v asa . u 1 December, 1.33 to 7. Market — _ | ae it Irregular and’ easy. by be ! ROSEBERY 1S THEIR HOPE, | s (Copertant, 1990 Skin from Pather's Arm, LONDON, Feb. &-The Indignation,| gmiy, the four-vear-old daughter of hum! and amazement of the na and Mra. John Andrews, of W incompetency displayed b misters hae risen to belghts prob suly never before attained N. J, was fatally burned dur! absence of her mother yesterday ervatiam, declares the “chatter in the her clothlag caught fite oe “A ¢ passing, ran in and pet out the nine out of ten people in the United | a. and in so doing their hands were lbadly burned. The child died tn terrible Conrequently, it is not astonishing that agony last night. A year ee wes | the people are looking for some strong! jagiy burned, but her {ife was saved by *|man to lead them. Lon! Rosebery’ + ms | Tame ts the most prominent. His pit.;2, 2H" aemft taken from her father's lees lashing of Lord Salisbury om (he tay Parliament reassembled marks him, the opinion of many, as the right — -—- A small faction, lod by the Daily Mell, is pushing the claims of Joseph Cham- | Court the Colon Awards Indemaity of 4,060 pola Maa re retary, for a Franes to Dramatict Kiae- he Mal he har shown | himself be ined bpaeracéad | ama able organiser, ar PARIB, Fed. 2.-orah Bermbarat war | Jemned to pay an inde Dr Kirema vs 1 altewed, and ceran to re nm November, 1898, but failed to only member of sped Loe realities ‘BRNHARDT HAS TO PAY.’ * | lower. ace, itm, | to-day on the dimappointing Liverpoot Gas Con. Tobacco Con:ine nial Tobmere pt Del one iv . at Northern pt rth. pt exrights 32 3 85555" 84329" 3" 5352 Fate Volume ef Business, and American Railway Jeouce Strong. Tandon security markets were strong to-day sod a fair volume of business, was done. ators stilt have faith in, of Gen. Baller to retieve American Railway shares strength displayed here yeat La | were sellic be New York in lg ("and the pet Ohio jesues were ¢ Meet AE Tannin ate Red neicadiitlies ao Wheat Weaker on Lower Cables, Trading tn wheat was quiet and easy cables x were: May THE BANK STATEMENT, rease of Iouns and Depestis Shown hy This Week's Figares. ‘The weekly bank statement shows the following changes: JUSTICE AT | Wronged Husband bout to bring the stec! Jimmy down on the detective's head with a blow that might have killed him. Tinker dodged and pulled his revolver from his hi» pocket. Jumping at Smith he brought ihe butt down on the bur- Glar's head. Doran drew his pisto!, ‘00, and both men beat a tattoo on the prisoner's head. He sank to the sidewalk, vieeding and unconscious. Handouffs were snapped on his wrists and the rest was easy for the detectives, They tcok Smith to the Presbyterian Hospital, where his In- Juries were dressed. Then he was taken to Headquarters. ith in forty years old and a power. Pe icc He is wanted in Baltimore for TE Is Praised for Thrashing False Friend. BOSTON, Feb. 3.—George Kitchener, of Bouth Boston, who claims to be a distant Felative of the Britich General, Lord | Wor ine Kitchener, was arraigned !n the South baa} Boston Court to-day, charged with as- sault on John St. John, of Bouth Boston. | mat! Upon proving to Judge Joseph D. Fal-| Park, Jon that the affair resulted from anger at| dentally they pumped the sation agent wal format facts about Bchroete: Greenswood amor name wae learned only by accident, a8 8 | no one ever spoke to her. ‘handro: ed figure, money, pe) appearance and manner Detectives Hunting for - Companion of Julius Schroeter. Secret Service detectives had in their posession to-day many new facts con- cerning the lost $431,000 of State of Vir- ainla bonds, part of which, with forged .| ignatures, Jullus Schroster used to rals@ loans amounting to 986,000 from ladenburg, Thalmann & Co., the Na- tonal Seaboard Bank and the Importers and Traders’ Bank, It looks now a@ though the whole plot would goon be unveked, the forger caught and all cone cerned sent to long terms of imprison: ment. That there are women in the ease= possibly but one gullly—shere te ne longer any doubt. One of these in pare Hoular the detectives are anxious te fet. Two Secret Service men spent ali last night at Tiffany Park, Forest Hill, N. J.. where Schroeter, who ie now ta the Tombs, lived. ‘There are ten houses, all Queen Anne style, in @ cluster that form Tiffany Park, Schroeter lived in No, 4 He had with him a beautiful woman and a ~ouag man. The man, who was twenty-f years old, he sald was his son and the © woman his housekeeper, Now the detectives on the case are particularly anxious to find this woman, as they tl nik she might give tem i bie ton fonceening "life. ‘This woman wax known as Mrs. the neighbors, Her fhe te me, forty years old, with hair, a straight nose. He ey 4 face, eyes, pearly s ind heavy aid hada healthy Bhe always had of , Greased expensively a: gt of a well- ed lady, t 1 about the Sebsoetat. Geet’ ariving’ ron mh he hol Except for keeper and gon. Woman there were so other man visitors to the house. bet Matters continued until two weeks t was banks learned that State ‘inia bonds were forgeries. On . 12 two stranger station of Forest Hill casual inquiries ‘About bie (4 acroas the railroad track. 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