HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Times, 1899-10-26, Page 3SU RENDER. OF VRYBURG.
Warlike Native Tribes Are Rising
Against the Boers.
Boers Admit That An a Battle North of Mafeking
Their Casualties Were 79 Killed and, Wounded—
British Camp Sacked After Severe Fighting—
Boers Blown Up by ,Sunken Mines.
A.sles'patcb from London says :-- from Durban , Natal, tbe Zulus are
Mann) reports of figb Wag 'a I: IVIafekinglarining with assegais.. Cbief It i -
and in tbot neighboarbood came from anu says he is unable tee restrain
It is expeeted that they will
Dundee, and these axe repeated from heji'lleinett by the Swazis
,A despatch from Ladysmith, Natal,
dated Tuesday, says a native tribe in
Zululand, whose cattle hen been raid-
ed by Beare, applied to Gen. Sir Geoege
Stewart Winte, the British coramans
der in Natal, for permission to make
occureed. Thursday's eport thatthe oamed resistaece. General White ree
Been had cut of lktafeleinge water fused their request, as he is opposed
to the use of coloured auxiliaries in
the canting etruggie. •
The rising of the warlike native
tribes adda new and serious element
in the military .situation, for the Brit-
ish wilt have to keep them quiet. The
paramount chief of the :Basutos, Le-
rothodi, has thus far bebaved well,
but the other chiere may follow the
exaraple of Me.heko, who is reported to
have risen against the Orange Free
State„
, .BRITISH CAMP SACKED.
A despatch froan Lorenzo Marques,
says :--:The Volkssten, the Boer of-
ficial organ at Pretoria, gives the
following amount of the occupation
of the British camp at Ramathlabama,
just north of Mafeking :—
'The British camp at Ramathla-
.A.nother Cape Town despatch to the barna has been capiared arid sacked
News says that an eccentrics persori in be General Cronje, ,after severe fght-
Pretoria known as Baron de Guiles -
berg, w.ho was suspected of being a
British spy, was count-maxtialled and
snot, rt is stated that he. possessed
Plans oi . the forts at Pretoria. •
The Boers -have blown ulp the bridges
at Fourteen Btreams, and the 1VIodder
Cape Town- in various guises, one
sitateanent, alleging that. 1,51)0 Bouts
have bee;ni killed. Air these must be
read in the light althe officiel staten
meat that nothing of importance has
seinply ale° needs confirmation.
Vetriburg, whieb has been reported
to have been quietly abandoned, is now
etened to brave been betrayed by the
'Watch; inhabitatts to the Boer forces.
IA. deepatch to the Daily News from
Cape Town, states that the defenders
of IVIafeking, after repulsing an attack,
iPureued the enemy. The British then
feinted a retreat, entereupon the ene-
my rallied and pursued them. The
Boers were 'thus led over mines charg-
ed with lyddite, which were exploded
killing and wounding 1,500 of•the ene-
my.
mg. Many burghers were killed or
wounded. The British loss is not
known."
The Volkssten adds that "success
has thus far, everywhere attended the
burghers," although it admits that, in
the various skirmiehes near Mafeking
andat other paints, the Boer ca.suo..-
ties number some 60 or 70 killed and
river, the former nortb and the latter -wounded.
T E EXE'TER TIBT4S
then made bold to approach ucarer
tool open fire with, the Maxima The
burghers replted with heavy rifles,
again ehootinnwidiy. Ouly three or
four bullets struele the train.
viva?, 130EiRS KILLED.
Subsequently the crew learned that
Live Boers and two Boer horsewere
kilned, while several Beers and horses
were wounded. Not inenaber of the
British 'faros was so eauela as touched.
.130ELIS ATTACIniNG ItIAFEKING:
A Cape ,Town despatchreports that
the 130ere are now attacking Mafekingt
but says that they have been repulsed
several times. It is admitted that if
the Beare make a strong attack on
Vryburg, south of Mafeking, it cannot
be withstood. • .
An 'Edinburgh paper, the Scotsmen,
of Friday morning asserts that a battle
hes been engaged between neneraf Sir
(large Stewart, White, conamanding
the forces in Natal, and the Boers who
entered Natal by the way of Van-
Reenan's pass. General Wh•te, the
noutsman says, Os very sanguine of the
success of the British movement. The
foregoing report is considered to be
correct, as iaie Thursday night, the
War Office had news of a British ad-
vance from Ladysmith, and was hourly
expecting further intelligent:a.
WRECKED AN ARMOURED TRAIN.
be Bzers wrecked an armoured Brit-
ish train north of Vryburg and then
shelled it. The train was en route
tram Cape Town to Mafeking.The
st
Boers muhave had acourate informa-
tion of the intended movements of
train. Two seven -pounder guns, w
were on the train, and which were
ended to strengthen the defences
:faking, were captured, by the Bo
A.1 the, men in charge or the tr
with the exception of the eng
driver, were captured, but no det
as to casualties have been rani
although one report states that fift
soldiers were killed.
The fact that another train, having
on board, 300 woman and; children, re-
fugees frorn Mafeking, was due to pass
Vryburg abuot the time of the dis-
aster, led. to the surmise that this was
the train, that had been derailed. Late
telegrams, however, announced • that
this train had passed the .Boer camps
and arrived at Kimberley in safety,
the wreaked train being the one tra-
velling in the other direction with the
gums, as stated.
BOERS HAVE THIRTY MAXIMS.
A despatch from London says
:—
Hiram Sievem,s Maxim, chief engineer
nd director of the Maxim-Nordenfeldt
Guns and Ammunition Cornpany,
imited, in the course of an interview
n Friday said:
"So Ear as I am aware, the Boers
it -
h need not fear the Boer artillery,
, which has always proved a source of
veakness rather than strength to the
urghers."
After warmly approving armoured
rains and pointing out how useful
hey had been to the Americans in the
bilippines, he went on to say:
The Boers remind me of the people
the Southern States of the An:tart-
an Union. They are excellent marks -
en, and as good. fighters as can be
oencl anywhere in the world. How-
yean one ever fouglit better than the
outheruers, and yet they lost. Just so
ill England vanquish the Boers. if
ou to see what the English -
races can do, look across the
;auntie and sten what America has
MURDERED nY FRPNCHNIEN.
onee zierreat Engusionne and stiii
Ms Han.
A
despatch front Paris, saes:- — A
great geusatiou has been eansed here
by the murder of an Englishman nam-
ed Derrick by French detectives at
Dieppe. Derrick was so shockingly
injured that an uunsual surgioal
operation had to be performed upon
him, with the result that gangreee in-
tervened and he died. •
Derrick was set upon at the same
time as bis master, a wealthy Eng -
nehmen nemed, Capt. O'Neill Murphy,
who is a brothernnnaw •of Sir Charles
Wolseley and a cousin by meanings
of Lord Wolseley, the British coin-
thanderein-chief. Capt. Murphy had
incurred the wrath of the Dieppe
casino officials because he had caused
U director of the inane Cheyaux at
Calais to be condemned for swindl-
ing.. The Calais and Dieppe casinos
am under the management of the
same man, an adventurer and ex -gaol
bird named Bloch.
Bloch, with the assistance of the
local procurer of the Republic, other-
wise the public prosecutor, an °Mehl
whom he had under his protection,
caused Capt. linurphy's footsteps to be
dogged, and finally a night assault to
be made upon him, as a result of
which Derrick lost his life.
tbe I Capt. Murphy is one of the most re
hich
in -
at
ex
spected English residents of! Paris; he
is a brother or D. P. Murphy, of San
Francisco. In spite or his passport
and credentials he was hauled off to
sin+ [gaol, stripped and measured, and fin.
meally sentenced to eight days' imprison -
ails ment for protecting his own house
ved, against armed thieves whe had attack-
een ed it in the name of the law,
The British Consul is attempting to
bring the murderers of Derriok to jus -
doe. English feeling is intensely ex-
oited about the incident, which is like-
ly to have important international con-
sequences. ,
south of Kimbei ler. ,A representative of the transvaal a
Tbe Ilea. J. W. E. 4/elegies Governnaent has arrived here, and is ! L
Monetigu, M.P., who is Well acqu.ainted Jellying 4;ip ticize Jororrificaiile e
ossess thirty Maxims, but the Br
a e. On un re and t yr per -
with Mafeking, ridicules the report sons just released from the Barber-
ithati the Boers bave ic'uit: off the water, ton gaol, Transvaal, have been put ; is
r
supply of that place. He says that over the Portuguese binder
laesidee, the supply from the Molopo
river, there are several excenent wells
in the fown
BOER TACTICS FAIL:
Bennett Burleigh, the London Dile
Telegraph's correspondent at Lady-
ISIAAXIIVIS STOPPED BOER RUSHES.
diespateh from Pietermaritzburg, b
says:—The skirmishing at Acton Homes ,
anti Beater's on Tuesday was brIsk The 4,L.
Natal mounted volunteers, who born 1.3'
the bment of the work on the British -
side, were owe In censiderahe eril
„e
sraith3, skys no newspaper represents.- arid Lost all their kit. One officer is
tives are allowed . to propeed from. nansing. When the men returned to ?„
tamp; they di:clued that the shooting
there, either , to Bester's elation or ol the Boers was wretched.
Acton Homes, and adds that General'.The Boitish Maxim guns Stopped the g
joube•rt's eorces are moving against Bnel• rushee and killed sixteen a the
Glencoe arid Bester's sLatian, on the enelmn. Some Jnitsueos are fighting
with the, Boers. • Y
HEAVY FIGHIING IN PROGRESS." A
.A special despatch from Pretoria: d
dated Saturday, by way of Delagoa I
Bay, says:—
"A cyclist despate.h was received w
here from. Ottoshoep, near Malmeni, A
at six onlook Saturday evening, assert-,
Lug thal heavy lighting, had been in: w
progress all day long north of Mane -
king. The British troops 6n board an tr
armoured train acted as a coveriug ra
force to ranitary engineers engaged in
fl
en the track. A Maxim on the ' c
train kepi up a co.atinuous fire. .
peaking, "Conspicuous bravery was display- ce
ed on both sides, but, it soon became •
apparent that the rifles or the leurgha' no
ere were ineffective against an arm.- be
oared train.
Sa
"The latter, however, was once fora- der
ed te retreat before a particularly ea
strong assault, but it soon returned, nu
med an, and soeffering severely. aecorneatned by al:let:ash mounted con-
A despatch to the Daily Mail from tingent, and the fighting was renew- po
Durban reports that the Natal Beers ed tiercely. Fighting still continues, Lb
are designing to auk the railoyay be- the Boers holding their positions well.. (A:kJ
tween Durban and Pietermaritzburg.! dozen Boers were killed on wound.
Thiehas necessitated the patrolling r be
the line. 0- I ed, but. the British casualties, cannot en
• be ascertained.
Theliavoc the Boers are making wtih wi
"Heayy firing can be heard south tee,
• the railway and telegraph lines will e
g, e General Cronje s
seriously impede the movement of Gen- commando Is operatihg." .•
eral Redvers Buller's army carps. •
A corps of experienced Continental
There are conflicting reports as io engineers, former officers, has left
whether the Boers have or have not tee ' Pretoria. for the south-western bor-
cupied Helpenakaar. Ancerding to the ders, accompanied by a commando of
best accoants, the rumour that they picked Boer shots. it is probably in -
have dune so is untrue, but if the , tended for large dyua.miting opera -
Boers have succeeded in this manoeu- ; dons.
vre they are completely around the A Kimberley despatch says :—PA re-
rigat of General Sir George Stewart port was bipught here by despetch
White's positiont and will be able eith-. rider's by way of Vryburg that Colonel
er to attack him at an advantage, r
o- Baden-Powell made a sortie in. force at
to, Move down into Natal behind Jame.
'1VIafeking a,nd attacked a,nd defeated
The Deily News plate this out, and the Boma The Boers suffered heavily,
neeltne to think that if the Boers loop and 18 English soldiers were killed."
their way through Zulu territory or
Basutoland, the natives ought to be BOERS THRIC.E REPULS'ED.
permitted to exact reepect for their I A. deepstah from Cape Town says:
own welling. • --A special despatch from Mafeking
300 WOITNDE'D BOERS. says that all was intact there up to
.41 despatch from Cape Town says:_- Saturday night. At thee time the
A; refugee who has reached Grahams- lloer artillery. WaN being brought up,
town from the Rand states that a but it! had not been placed. in posi-
troin arrived at Johannesburg on Mon- tion.
den from Klerksdorp with 300 wound- According to thine advices, the 134 -
ed burgbera, Every available convey- tish have blown up, the Hopetown rail -
arm, tee refugee says, was called into wa,y bridge over the Orange river, with
requisition to take the wounded men- a view of checking tee Boer advance
to the hospital. southward. '
Tbe, Daily Mail 'suggests that these From Colenburg come persistent re -
'wounded were from Marelting. Kferlese iterations of the report that the Boers
(imp is about 100 miles from Mate- have attacked IVIafeking, tesiog thrice
king, repulsed with heavy losses. From other
Vryburg surrendered Sunday. Thurs- towns on the border simnel. reports
day night',s despetehes from fanrunia,n, are reeeived,
90 miles -west by south et Vryburg,
thate that, the pol:ce having withdrawn
from Vryburg, the town surrenderedto
the Boers, the inhabitants fleeing in
all directions, anoetly toward Kurtzman,
When the police withdrew, the Cape
noere notified the feet to the enemy,
thus invi,ing them to take possession.
There was a fearful. petite, The Brit -
nee ars wildly indignant at this scut.,
tli ng.
RISING AGAINST THE BOERS:
arrismith-Linch line.
e•-• .According to the same authority,
some volunteers who had just come
Lino Ladysmith from Raster's station
and Acton Homes before the despatch
was sent reported that 300 Boers had
tried ineffeotually Mout off smolt pir-
ties of British troops, but the Natal
men were too wary 'to be caught, and
retired firing. The enemy, as usual,
hid themselves behind hills and rocks,
and in gullies, but were unable to ad-
vance. They used. cannon against the
British riflemen, who, nevertheless,
maintained a stout resistance. The
firing was very heavy:
�be cou,ntry about Acton Homes he -
big More open, the British mounted
volunteers there are retiring upon
Dew Drop.. TWO thousand Boers were
engaged at Acton Homes and rather
fewer at Bester's station. It is re-
ported. that the enemy there is hem -
one."
BRITAIN TO SEND 70,030 TROOPS.
.A. despatch from London says:—
ben the army corps reaches South
fricii. the British troops there will
umber 07er 70,030 men. Many weeks
ill elapse, however, before this large
rce is at the front, as not o.nly the
oopis but vast quantities of stores
ust be conveyed aoross the sea and
ountry which will be, generally
exilifeo.ver
d:estitute of the necessaries
a hundred miles into a
1.1 is estimated, that 35,000 Boers are
w in the field, but little reliance can
placed on these figures, as there are
id to be 21,003 now within the bor-
s of Natal. 'the I3oers of the Trans -
al and Orange Yves State probably
, .
'Beginning next Friday, six trans-
rts will leave Southampton daily.
45 means the despatch of over 50, -
troops in six days. It would be
yowl the power of any otber Europ-
11 country, for the troops will earey
th them everything necessary for a
gbily campaign.
The war Is expected to last until
April, and it in expected that it Will
et.',V, 200,000,000. The Govervinent will
ask Parliarae,nt to vote immediately a
credit for 450,0J0,600 or $75,000,000.
BOERS AFTER OECIL RHODES.
A despatch to the London Daily
Mail from. Cape Town nunday even-
ing says that the Boers have cut the
railway at Belmont, 56 miles south of
Kinaberley, and also at a point 12
miles to the southward of Kinabeeley.
The strong detending force at Mod -
der bridge, which is 21 Inile.s south of
Kimberley, and between the places
where the line is out, is likely to be
attacked.
The Boers have seized the railway
state= at SpylonLein, which is near
Kimberley, and fortified it with earth-
works. The object of their energetic
operation is believed to be the cap-
ture of Mr. Cecil Rhodes.
OMINOUS SIGNS AT CAPE TOWN.
Ominous signs are already seen here.,
The Duteh population of Oape Colony
are likely to develop a strong anti-
British feeling at the first report of a
British reverse. When the report
reached here that the Ninth Lancers
had been driven back by gales they
said: "Already God fights on the leoer
side," The Free State Boers now see
a chance to satisfy their rankling
longing to retake Kimberley, their
Alsace-Lorraine.
1VIAFEKING COMPLETELY ISO-
LATED.
Mafeking is now completely isolat-
ed. The Boers are raiding Zulu cat-
tle,
A. large number of newspaper cor-
respondents in Cape Town are unable
to get into the interior. It in reported
that Gore Joubert positively refuses to
allow any war correspondents of Eng.
liab newspapers to follow the Boer
army, claiming that they cannot but
injere the cause of the Tranevaal by
giving information to the British.
The captain and seveh of the OreW
of the wrecked brig Ida Maud, from
Chatham, N. B., for lnevv York, have
arrived at Philadelphia.
A despatch from London, sayse-Tbe
War °Moe ha e handed out a despateh
from General White, in oommand ixi
Natal, as followse—"The I3asutos are
;said to manifest an attitude, hostile to
the Beete, and they may neutralize a
certain 'number oil the Beer.s forces,
SKER1VIISH NEAR KIMBERLEY.
.A. despatch from London, says:—An
axmoured train, while reconnoitring
tear Spyfontein, twenty miles south of
Kimberley, engaged the Boers, seeerel
of the enemy being killed.
The skirmish was quite lively. The
armoured train, with a detachment of
the "Lailioashires, approached unixtolest-
ed until wtthin range, when the Boers
opened fire, The Maxims Were in-
stantly set to work, and did great ex-
ecution ,among the 'burghers, The
latter alas used artillery, but ineffect-
ively. The arineured train returned
to Kimberley unharmed.
The crew of the armoured train set:
the Boers fired tbirteen shall, but
thoir aim waa svretched, ahd not a
AiScording to a epecial despatch single slick truck the train, which
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A KNOCK -DOWN BLOW.
--
Or. Tanner, M. P., Was Punished by a
British Soldier.
A. despatch from London says
:—
The Cork Constitution says that a few
evenings ego Dr. Charles Tanner.
Nationalist member pf Parliament
for the na'nelle division of Cork, was
abusing the Queen and the British
stediers, whereupon, one of the Royal
Engineera knocked, him down, promis-
ing to repeat the.operation if Mr. Tan-
ner would rise. Dr. Tanner says the
soldier hit him with a `stone, thus
causing the swelling and discotora-
tient or his face.
STEAMER SENATOR OVERDUE.
Returning Troops 'w",re on Beard, and.
Crave Fears Are Felt.
A despatch frnm. Victoria, B.C., says:
—The steamer Empress of India, which
has reached here from Japan, has com-
pleted the roughest trip of her 43 voy-
ages. The second day out from Yoko-
hama she encountered a typhoon,
which destroyed communication be-
tween the engine -room and bridges,
and destroyed some of the boats. Tbe
storm continued unabated all day and
night.
Fears are expressed by officers for
the transport steamer Senator, carry-
ing herne the Fifty-first Iowa. She left
Yokohama for San Francisco eight
hours before the Empress, and, having
immense upper works, would fare bad-
ly in a. gale,
TENDERS FOR SUPPLIES.
War Office 'Wants Bids From Canadian
Canners.
A despatch from Ottawa says:—The
Department of Agriculture has re-
ceived a cable messege, froen the High
Commissioner for Canada, intimating'
that the -Wax• Office asks for tenders,
required immediately for 850,000
pounds ,of compressed corned beef and
mutton, chiefly in six pound tins, but
fwo-pound and other sizes inay benf-
fered. It miust be unexceptionable,
quality guaranteed and date of can-
ning stated. Prices should be quoted
for delivery at Woolwich and Cape
Town, stating the earliest date for
supply in each case.
GRAIN RIOTS IN INDIA.
Sliddell RIs 1,1 Prices May Result fii
A despatch frern Simla, Ont., ears;
'—Grain riots are feared in the central
provinces of India owing to the sud-
den and severe rise in prices. Native
infantry has been sent to Nagpore to
prevent: looting. The anger or tho peo-
pie is inoreased by the knowledge that
the usual stores are in the great cities,
and -they attribute the scarcity in the
provinoes to the rapacity of the grain
merchants.
WILL COST ONE MILLION.
New C. P. IL Motel and Station to Iss
'Erected at Winnipeg.
. 'A. de,spatch from Winnipeg, says: -
President Sbaughnessy, on the C. P,
R., is here. ale says the company will
build next spring a large hotel and
etation combined, costing about a mil-
lion dollars'. It will be 820 by 208 feet:,
six storeys high, with three-storey
towers., 14e proeeens on his tour of
inspection on Tuesday, making Orovv's
Nest first.
POWER, or EXAMPLE.
Like alone acts upon like, Therefoxe,
do not amend by Veasoting, bnt by ex-
empla Approach feeling by feeling;
do not hope to excite love except by
love. Ile what you wtah others to be-
oome. Let yeureelf, seed not Your
weirdos, pretteh„
1iAlidiET8 OFTRE WORLD.
Priaes of Grain, Cattle, Cheese, 8te
in the Leading Maine.
---
Tomato, Oct. 21.—Wheat— Better
innier 'to the markets tentley. Chicago
Was feanareless beyond a slight ad-
vance, following eteadier cables, Liv-
erpool closing 1.4d bigher. Toronto
market quiet to -day. -Manitoba was
steadier. No 1 hard was sold, grind-
ing in 'transit', at 81 to 81 1-2c, and
wae.geoted at 80 to 80 1.-2c, Toronto
and \YOGI:. Ontario wheat at a -stand-
still. Red and white quoted at 66 to
66 1e2c west and no buyers. Spring
s teeny at 67 to 67 1-2e, eapt, and goose
dull at 70 to 70 1-2c, low freighte to
New York.
Elotar—Not mueb doing. Straight
nolltens are quoted at n3 to §3.25, To-
ronto freig,b,ts.
Barter—Firm, and good steady en-
quiry; at 4ec west, and 41 to 45e east.
for No, 2.
Oats --Better feeling White was
quoted to day at 27c east, and 26c
west, azal mixed at 25c.
Irlillfeed—Holding firm. niran is
quoted at $12 to 412.50, and shorts at
$14 to $14.59, west.
Corn—Pirm. No, 2, American, yellow,
quoted at 42 1-2c, on CPR., Toronto;
and No. 3, American, yellow, 41 1-2 to
12c.
Oatmeal—Unclanged at $3,40 for
care of begs, and $3.50 for bbls., on
track, Torouto.
Buckwheat—Steady and quoted at 48
to 59e, west.
eeas—Rather easier at 69 1-2c, east,
59 1-20,1'13:addle freights, and 58 to 59c,
north and west. A sale was reported
to -day at 58c, west.
Rye — Easier ae 53c, west, and 540,
east,
Milwaukee, Oct. 24.--Wheat—Stead-
ier; No. 1 Northern, 70 to 71o; No. 2
Northern, 60 1-2 to 67c, B,ye —.Steady;
No. 1, 58 to 68 1-2c, Barley — Firm. No.
2, 46 to 47c; sampa.e. 39 to 46c.
Duluth, Oct. 24. — Wbeat — No. 1
hard, cash, 69 1-40; No. 1 Northern,
cash, 68o; October, 68c; December, 68
1-4e; May, 72 1-4c; No. 2 Northern, 65c;
No. 3 spring 620.
Buffalo, Oct. 24.—Spring wheat —
'Aga enquiry; easier; No. 1 Northern,
spot, old, 770; spot, new, 75 1-2c; .No.
2 Northern, 72c. Winter wheat—Easy;
No. 2 red, 73c, spot, or to arrive: elo.
11 white, 72c. No. 3 extra red, 72c.
Corn—Dull; go. 2 yellow, 38 1-4e; No.
yellow, 38c; No. 2 corn, 371-4 to 37
1-2,c No. 3 corn, 370. Oats—Dull; No.
2 white, 29o; No. 3 white, 28 1-4 to 28
1-20,; No. 4 white, 273 -do; No. 2 mixed,
26 3-4 to 270; No. 3 mixed, 26 1-4c. Rye
No. 2, on track, offered at 64.0. Canal
freights—Higher; wheat and flaxseed,
4c; corn 3c paid; barley quoted. at 3
1-,8c, to New York. Flour—Good de-
mand, firm,
Cnicago, Oct. 24.—Flaxeee.dn-North-,
Western and South-West, $1.31; Octo-
ber, t$1.30 bid; December, a.29 1-4;
May, 1.30:nDuluth, epot, $1,24 1-2;
tO arrive, §1.24 1-2; October, n1.24 1-2;
December, $1.23; May, $1.25 1-2 bid. ,
• SOLDIERS OFIHE QUEEN.
085 1111011,8181 e888818118 Will Fight in
the Sow it Afrlean War, ,
.A, despatch from Ottawa says:—S;
far as the plan of the IVIelitia Depart -
men; can be learned they contemplate
tbe enrolment of 1,000 men for infan-
try service only. They will be all
packed men, chosen from the number
who volunteer, with regard to their
physique and qualifications as marks-
men. There will be eight units of 150
men each, under one captain, and
three subalterns. Only one officer of
the rank of major will go with the
corps. Further, it is the intention of
the Minister of Militia that the vol-
unteers shall be. chosen from each
province in proportion to its militia
strength. Thus, placing the num-
ber in. militia. in Ontario at 15,000, and
Nova Szocia ab 3,130.), the representation
of those provinces respectively on the
contingent will be as 15 to 3.
The following militia order has been
issued from leadq,uarters
Militia orders, 1899, No. 211.
ocHteald4thquarters, Ottawa., Saturday,
1. His Excellency the Governor -Gen-
eral -in -Council, having been pleased to
approve nf the d+espanch of Canadian
volunteers, formed into eight compan-
ies 'of infantry, for aptive service in
South Africa, it is hereby notified that
1,000 volunteers wili be accepted,
and that their enrolment has been au.-
naorized at the pieces mentioned be-
low upon the following conditions,
a, Service under the Army Act for
ssiioxnintoone
year.onotnvs, tirn
with liability of exte
tob,beRaptrioovnisd,edciclftzheizg and equipment
a Pay at the rate laid down in
militia regulations for the permanent
corps from attestation until dale of dis-
embarkation in South Africa., from
which date, pay will be at British rates.
Standing height -5 neet 6 inches,
with 34 inches chest measurement.
40Age—Not less than 22 or more than
The following are the places of en-
listment :—Victoria, Vancouver, Win-
nipeg, London, Toronto, Ottawa, King-
ston, Montreal, Quebec, St. john, N.B.,
Charlottetown, and Halifax. Men de-
sirous of offering. their SerVieen should
make application in person, or by let-
ter a6 the office of the officer cora-
mending the railitlary district, or to
a commanding offioer of coxps of
militia. Commanding offioers will at
once forward to the district officer
oomma riding the names thus received,
with their remarks.
13,3r order,
HUBERT POSTER,
Colonel, Chief Staff Officer.
The diplomatic list, just imbed by
the Washington State Department con-
taine the, new title of the British
Ambaseader. It shovvs that -Sir Selian
Pauticatote ie now "the ItIght Honor-
able Lord Paancetote of Prestoh
G. C. B„ G. O. NI. 0., Aciabassanor,
Envoy and Plettipotentiary of Great
Britain."
IHENEWS IN II MORI
THE VERY LATEST FROIYI
ALL THE WORLD OVER.
'Oteresting Items Admit Our Own Country,
Great Britain, the United States, and
A4IslsoPreaertdefeerf etabsey (la leoabdei gC. ondensed and
Hamilton 15 to Java xaiglit sohools.
eciAatteHmopmeriannocn
eleague has been form-
,arDriuvreiti6gatSeWPtiennanbire;f1•3401 immigrants
thlelloxiogrelestttonpo
eeshsajoftiebeeeen stolen from
33n°cIloeurv-nlerto Rv
rse:17to.0kne. strike from
Va
Mrs. Langley, wife of the Attorney-
:a:I:74.1 of Nova Scotia, is dead.
The Statietical Year Book for Can -
Lakes.
built at Kingeee7sb1;::4:120iisoh
811-8001.18m, lieza'stojus oseouemids Muskoka oOkbtae.
and cut to piecee.
was run over by a Montreal street car
A little boy named Tames De,sjardins
C. R. Hosiner, manager of the C. P.
dRitret:tioergiOafP•hthse hea.Ps .11b.eell appointed a
Montreal Irishmen are arranging for
a reception to John Redmond and
Mayor Talton, of Dublin.
An exploding lamp set fire to the
clothing of- Miss Nfarie Geyer of
Montreal, burning her to death.
Ten tons of dressed poultry was
shipped from the 0. P. R. station a,t
London, Ont., to Vancouver, B.C.
The Poole:nap nine, neax Nelson,
B. C., is reported to have been sold
to an English company tor 215,000.
A Kingston Public school committee
. '
panes cigarette smoking among school
will co-operate with the police to saw -
President Shaughnessy, of the Can-
adian Pacific. Ry., ha.s started for the
spection.
Pacific Coast on his annual tour of in -
The Canadian Pacific Railway land
department reports very heavy sales
of farm lands in Manitoba, one day's
sales amounting to 37,000 acres.
T.he official survey of Nova Scotia
coal mines nee proved the known
seams to be of unsuspected magnitude
and new seams have been found.
ehipmeut of 4800,000 in gold has
reached Skagony, the largest single
shipment that hap come up the Yukon
River and over the White Pass road.
a public meeting iRoseland,
British and American residents join-
ed in, a resolution supporting green
l3ritaites position in the 'Transvaal
war.
An n
at Woodstock hen been awarded by the
The =Arent for the new post -office
$31,000.
Govereinen.11 to O. A.. Desrivieres, of
Ottawa. The building will cost about
rastac
The bailermakers and blacksmiths of
rit
the C. P. R. shops at Winnipeg, to
the number of about 100 went out on
rdinstss.Y131.
'panty with the striking
Tee loss to the owners of the Scots-
man will be $50,000 over insurance of
$450,000. Of the seventeen stokers
hoacavdetirgaolt.rehsatil. at Montreal. fourteen
Two miners, namad James Mills and
Chas. Crane were killed at Moyle Bay,
B. C, by a premature blast in Lake
Shore ranee. 1h.ir bones were hor-
ribly mangled.
Menlabers of the "Sign ol the Cross"
Theatrical Company wilt sue the own-
ers of the ill-fated steamship Scots-
man lo recover the value of, their ef-
fects lost in the wreck.
The .1.meeriel authotines bave con-
sented to bear the cost of recapping
about 7,000,000 rounds of cordite am-
munition, stored at Quebec, which was
found to be defective.
At the Intercoionial station at Hali-
fax, the safe of the Dominion Atlantic
Railway was blown open, the cracks -
mea secured $100 in oash and private
papers of value to officials.
R is reported that the Canadian
Pacific Railway Co. have placed or-
ders for 311 or 10 new locomotives with
manufacturees in the United States.
:this is the result oa the strike.
Mr. James Cratbein, who sonte time
ago gave. an organ to St. George's
Churcb, Montrati, now otfers certitin
improvements which will bring the to-
tal cosi. to 016,50, and give tee church
the linest and moat complete ()igen in
Canada. •
AL a conference between C. P. R.
solicitors, managers, and strike Com-
ruittees, the' dispute was practically
settled by the company conceding re-
cognition of the machinists' order.
Other details of the schedule demand-
ed by the men wilt be arranged and
tbe strike will be terminated.
GREAT BRITAIN-.
Emperor William will not visit Eng-
land this year.
Lord Londonderry's second son is
dead from coneumption at London.
The British Government is thinking
of introducing three penny, telegrams.
An American fisherman has been
arrested at Skibbereen, Ireland, for
fishing inside the limit.
The British Government is arrang-
ing for the ettralmetit ot 500 New-
foandland fishermen in the naval re-
serve,
The standing reward offered for the
rapture of deserters from the British
army has been raised troro LI to £2
sterling,
Baron Pauncefote of Preston, Brit-
ish' Ambassador to the United State,
will aait on his return to Washington
oft November 1.
The °mart at. Lortdon has appointed
a receiver for Maudelay, Sons &
the well knoWe eiagineters and boiler-
makers. The firm is hopelessly insol-
Vent. UNITED STATES.
Commercial failures in the United
States this week humber 1.64. agandst
205 for the correepending Week last
year,
&polls, Ind., was ell'ot and killed by his
George Gerard, farmer, near Indian -
son, who tailstook his rather not a
thief„
Dy$pepsia a.nd Inct)getcrIOn,
common, diseases, but hard to
cure with ordinary remedies,
yield readily to Manley'
celery -Nerve Con.ipound.
W. H. Buckingham, .396 King St.
East, Hamilton, Ont., says:, -"I
was troubled with Dyspepsia and
indigestion for a long time, and
coold get no relief until 1 tried
mannees Celery -Nerve Compound,
which cured me, and I cannot
speak tno highly In its praise."
0•1•1•6111•0416
SAW NOT PROPERLY GUARDED.
e --“s
Umber Illferchant at Cuelph lia$ to Pay
8800 to en linjured 'Workman.
A. despatch from Guelph saosenekt
the asisizes on Tlittrsdese Thomas Slain,
21 nleara of age, aued Robert Sitrawaxit„
lumber mbrelaant, for the less of three
fingeat and thumb of the right haled,
and al portion of the little fingeel byi
a rip saw. Tim contention was that
the, sew wag aot' piroperay guarded in
ace,ordainee with the Workman's Com-
pensation. Act. A verdict of 0500 was
awarded tile eztlaintiff.
—
Owing to the increased cost of build-
ing material, Andeew Carnegie has
raised his gift of $300,000 for a public
library in Washington to $350,000.
In a contest for the Democratie
leadership in New York State, Richard
Croker has defeated David B. Hill, and
the State Committee has declared for
Bryan as Presidential candidate.
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