HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1899-6-23, Page 6THE BRtTSSELS POST,
JUNE 23, 1899
The a .News
Briefly Told
THS WORLD'S EVENTS OF INTEREST
CHRONICLED IN SHORT ORDER.
Interesting Nnppenings of Recant Date -The
Latest News o1 Our OWn Country --.Doings
• In the Mother Land -What Is Going on In
the United States -Notes prom the World
Over.
CANADA.
Roseland Masonic Hall was destroy
ed by fire.
A. test of Brantford's fire apparatus
was highly satisfactory.
Wentworth County Council raised Its
clerk's salary from $720 to $900,
Woodstook carried a by-law to spend
$7,000 for a new fire -hall.
The late Wm. Anglin, bursar of
Rockwood Asylum, left $25,000,
The 14th Batt. of Ktngaton has been
invited to Rochester for July 4,
There are 12 cases of smallpox am-
ong the Doukhobors at Grosse Isle.
The Hamilton Methodist Conference
will abolish the billeting, system,
The Montreal Street Railway Co.,
bas voluntarily raised the pay of all
its employee.
Brantford grocers and butchers will
have a Wednesday half holiday during
the summer.
Woodstock will celebrate Dominion
Day on Monday, July 8, instead of Sat-
urday,. July 1.
The body of John Higham, drowned
in Hamilton Bay on Deo, 28, was found
on Wednesday.
Alex. H. Delaney confessed to big-
amy at Winnipeg, and was given three
months' imprisonment.
fhe. Umon Bank of Ottawa, has of-
fered $500 reward for the arrest of
th i defaulting clerk, Henderson.
Wm. Ball, a mail carrier at Brock-
ville, has been sentenced to three years
in prison for robbing, the mails.
Mr. William Hendrie, of Hamilton,
has been elected a director of the
Imperial Bank of Canada,
Mayor Raymond has resigned his
position as Mayor of Brantford to ue-
aept the position of postmaster.
Stratford ratepayers have voted
against the by-law to raise 5120,000 for
oleic ownership of the water -works.
Londoners who abuse and annoy
man who took the places of the street
railo ay strikers are being fined in the
police court,
Jua_ph Mnbnnin, who rescued Sir
John Schultz from Riel during the re-
bellion of 1370, is dead at Winnipeg]
aged 89 years.
The British cruiser Intrepid went out
of cenamissiou Thursday at Halifax,
and sailed for _England, where her
crew will be maid off.
Frank P. Jell, of London, Ont., Man-
ager of the Surprise mine, Texada Is-
land, B. C., was killed by a premature
dynamite explosion.
It has been definitely settled that
the Dlontreal battalions will camp at
Laprairie on June 30, and remain
under canvas until Sunday evening,
July, 2.
Very early this season have forest
fires started near Nelson, B.C., Fire
along the cottonwood, Smith Creek, is
destroying timber mills and bridges,
Henry Prince, Chief of the St. Pet-
er's Indians, is dead at Winnipeg. He
was a son of the celebrated Chief Pe-
guis, and father of Rev. W.H. Prince,
Baptist missionary.
Buffalo are increasing north of Ed-
monton, and the Dominion Govern-
ment will ask Parliament to extend
the close season in an effort to save
the animal from extinction.
Christopher H. Mooney, a financial
agent, of South Bend, Ind., is in cus-
tody in Montreal, on a °barge of steal-
ing $20,000, belonging to Miner E.
Listenberger, of South Bend,
A movement Is now on foot among
the graduates and undergraduates at
McGill College University, Montreal,
to raise a statute in the oampus in
honor of Sir William Dawson,
J W. Brewster, Former C.P.R. agent
at Trail, B. C., was sentenoede to 15
months' imprisonment, and his assist-
ant, J. H. Sinclair, to two years and
six months on charges of embezzle-
ment,
Sir A. P. Caron, now in England, says
that the company of which he is presi-
dent, chartered to build a telegraph
line to Dawson, wilt claim damages
arum the Government for infringement
of charter.
The new drill hall coutractors at
Kingston have agreed to grant the
nine -hour day to the masons at the
old wages, but the latter refuse to go
book while three or four non-union
seen aro kept on.
Charles Little, of West 'Plumber°
coughed up n snake wbich had been
in hie stomach for two years. Tha
snake was 10 inches in length. It is
supp 'sed Little swallowed 11 when tak-
ing a drink at a spring.
W. G. Moore, 20 years of age, and T.
J. Cavanagh, are in custody in Motet -
real, in connection with several forger-
ies, which have been uttered on the
City and District Savings Bank within
the last few days,
Lord Minto, while wheeling, took the
sidewalk in the suburbs of OLtawa the
other day. A little girl got out of his
Excellency's way, with the protest,
"Here, you big man, get off the side -
Walk or we'll hive you pulled."
As a .result of a scuffle at Brookville
between two employes in the James
Smart Company's foundry a man nam-
ed hloKinley is laid up with an ugly
wound to the thigh, inflicted with a
knifes by a lad named Pitt,
The labor problem is becoming a
serious one with the railways in the
Northwest. Tha C,P.R,. are now call-
ing for 800 workmen on their western
division, but is unable to secure men
tither in Manitoba, Lhe Territories or
Itritieb Columbia.
Cable despatches from Rome state
that the Pope is making arrangements
to establish a permanent apostolic de-
legation in Canada. Mgr. Zalewski,
the apostolic delegate to Tndia now in
Rome, is spokon of as being likely to
be sant to this country.
The °fetters and crew of the Cana-
diaa skinnier, Gasj,esia, whose owners
Were recently eondeinued,to pity $12,-,
500 salvage to Lim steamer .Kite
towing the Gaspesia out of the
Flues in the [lull of St. Lawrence, h
brought suit for four months' Wo
aggregating Beatty $12,000, a$ t
number 80 all told.
The Riehelieu & Ontario Naviga
Company has (leaked to purchase
$80,000 the Via'ginia, a handsome
steamer, now awned by the Baltim
Packet Company ei Baltimore. I
said she cost $225,000 originally. 1
Virginia will replace the Catoliva
the Saguenay'. Croute and will
brought to Quebec without delay.
Ou Sunday morning, June 4, wbil
gang of men clearing earing the an
Lrom the track of the W.P. & ' u
Railway, hundreds of tuns of sn
rock and mad slid duwu the meant
On t0 the Crook, burying several m
Others rushed to them assistance,
soon extricated those who had b
buried. One was dead and three s
ously injured.
GREAT BRITAIN.
The eatarael oa Mr, Justin ➢leCar-
thy's right eye his been painlessly and
successfully removed.
Westley R:cbards, charged in Lon-
don with receiving some of the stolen
notes of Parr's Bank, has been re-
leased.
hear -Admiral Lord Charles Ber
ford, Conservative member fur Yu
City, delivered a scathing criticism
the Government's policy of "driftin
in China in the British Commune.
for! Fresh negotiations have been open -
ice i ed at Madrid fur the release oe the
,ave Spanish prisunet'e in the hands of the
lees ' Filipinos.
hey ! Seventeen native miners were killed
i and thia'ty injured Iia Sunday in a
be
Alen mine al Iiintrley, In Griqualuud
(or I West, by the explusiou, it is aupposed
new !of a dynamite magazine.
ore Sir James Winter, the Premier, an.
t is . aotmcod in the Newfoundland Legisla-
The; Lure, that the elinistry did u01 th-
entend to enact uuy other french shore
be !legislation, H , iso declared his be-
lief that the 1'' tisk tic ' frsntent pre-
p a furred there should be no amain on the
ow part of the colony, because France
ken would thus be cumpelled to negotiate
inv,1 for a rotllemeni or the difficulty.
sin It is now out'Leesed ...at the R.us-
en.lsiatt arbitration scheme was only pre -
Ind sensed hurriedly ou Russia learning
sen that England was about to present a
eri- • scheme, Neither Russi't nor the Unit-
e d :trues appears anxious to press 110
scheme, and the work of the Arbitra-
tion Committee has mainly to do with
the schema of air Tatum Paunaefote,
which is likely to be adopted.
es-
rk
of
S" says :-Details have been received here
from Adelaide, Australia, of the wreck
By an amendment to the Land
Local Government 8111, adopted in t
Imperial House of Commons, wum
were declared eligible to election
aldermen and councillors.
The Prince of Wales, as Grand Ma
ter of the English Freemasons, has se
a letter to the Grand Lodges, object
the growing custom among the M
sons of wearing the order's regalia
non -Masonic functions.
The London Philipino Junta asser
that the Pape has forwarded to Was
ington, a protest against the excess
of the Amerie_:as in the Philippine
which bis Holiness received from e
religions orders in Manila.
WRECKED WITH THIRTY SOULS.
Women flashed the ilastn, lint Were
1Podtrd Overboard.
A. despatch from Victoria, B. C.,
on of the Glasgow -owned ship Loch Sloy,
he
en on Kangaroo Island, with the loss of
as 30 lives. The auly four survivors
n'andered for days in the scrub seek-
s- ing vainly for help. When found the
nt men were in a pitiable condition. Their
ing clothing consisted of a few rags and
a- a shirt each.
at Within 10 minutes from the time
the vessel struck all hands were wash-
ts ed overboard, an enormous sea run-
h- Hing. Two women passengers, Mrs.
es Leyoster and Mrs. Cartlidge, a wi-
s, dow, climbed the masts and showed
he no fear, but the insists were washed
down in a few minutes. f
Further discoveries were made In
the dellli.eld Cemetery, at Aberdee
to the course of official investigation
The walke were dug up and sever
bodies without coffins were found bu
ted in shallow graves. 1n one ho
were Lound 400 plates, presumably 10
eu from tufting whioh had been Lur
ed. The revelations have created
Sensation.
The news in regard to the Transva
is mostly of a speculative nature. 11
understood that Great Britain's lee
move will be to make u demand as t
suzerain power upon the Boer Guver
meat. The meeting oe the Uitlaudo
for the purpose of endorsing the pox
tion taken by the British cunonission-
er was allowed to take place without
interruption from the Boers.
The British Empire League in Lon-
don passed the following resolution:
That in view of the undoubted value
of the Paoifio cable to the empire, and
of Its probably profitable results as
a commercial enterprise, the council
expresses a hope that every effort will
be made to overcome any obstacles
that may delay the co-operation of the
Mother Country in the undertaking.
One of the results of the efforts to
induce the imperial Government to
grant a Canadian "long -service" medal
is that warrants are published in the
London Gazette, consulting a new
decoration designed for the colonial
auxiliary forces. There Ls an officers'
decoration, and the new medal, It i
announced, is to be officially known
as "the colonial auxiliary fortes' long
service medal.'
Both the House of Lords and the
Rause of Commons passed votes of
thanks to General Kitchener of Khar-
toum and the other officers and men
engaged in the Soudan campaign. Mr.
Michael Davitt, the Irish Nationalist
four Send) Mayo, protested and chal-
lenged a division, with the result that
there were 321 votes in favor of the
motion and 20 against it. Mr. 4..1
Balfour remarked that Mr. Devitt at-
tended the House "as an avowed enemy
of the country,"
UNITED STATES.
Rudyard Kipling will spend a few
days by the sea before returning to
England.
President Thomson of the Pennsyl-
vania Railway Company, is dead at
Philadelphia.
Sheriff Hazen, of Converse county,
Wyoming, was shot and killed while
in pursuit of the Union Pacific rob-
bers.
Lieut, P. W. Pierce, of the 615 U:S.
artillery, overstayed his leave at Man-
ila, whore he Had gone from Iloilo,
andsuicide. un being arrested committed
po
Senator Mason, oz tae Pure Food
Commission, says they will prepare a
bi 1 compelling manufacturers of food m
products to ark their goods for what
they are,
Mae arrest ).n Philadelphia of Samuel
McKinney upon charges of oruelty to
his wife, has led to statements from
his wife that McKinney is a mur-
derer and a robber.
The casualties of the United States
troops, stone the outbreak of hostilities
in the Philippines has lambed a total
of 1,029. During the engagement of
Saturday the United States lost two
officers killed and 21 men wounded.
Thirty-six buildings, comprising al-
most the entire plant of the Nordling-
er-Charlton Fireworks Company, et
Grauitcville, a suburb of New York
city, were blown to bits, and the en-
tire fireworks plant practically de-
stroyed within'a space of five minutes,
Mrs. Byron Douglass, formerly Mies
Booth, a niece of the late Ed-
win Booth, is destitute in New York
without money enough 10 pay room
rent. For three years her husband
has neglected and deserted her and
her child, who is nine years of age,
GENERAL.The reported illness. of the Sultan
is denied,
Both factions of the Samoans are
surrendering their arms.
The disabled steamer Perthshire is
being towed to Auckland, N. 0.
The market town of Linse, near Ot-
tensheim, has been totally burned.
Fout women perished.
The Gorman press is not overjoyed
with the aequieition of Spain's remain-
ing islands in the retsina,
The Budget Committee of the Reich -
deg voted the first instalment of 200,.
00.0 mark for the German antarctic:
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s.
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n- n. despatch from Glasgow says: At
a a mass meeting here Thursday after -
a, noon of manufacturers, ship -owners,
is and merchants, a resolution was pass-
xt ed expressing alarm at the serious in -
he' jury to British and colonial trade
n- arising from the continued and threat-
ened extension of foreign competition.
•
COST AND LOSSES OF WAR.
THE ENORMOUS SAC TICE OF LIFE
AND TREASURE,
955 Every Century 10,000,50U Human ltrngt •�
Lose 'L'lteir Lives In Wor-Shwea the
Trojan Nor three l,000,000,U0,) ytea.
nave Perished Cal 4..011111r(-'L'he ('est tit
Money Is alatast Iteyond ('nleulallaa,
That wars oust a great amount of
money and that many lives are sacri-
ficed is the every one knows, but
the vest sums that have been spent
few have any adequate conception of
and or the enormous number of human
lives that have been lost to this way
during the present century. A study
of this subject would be interesting at
any time, but It is especially timely
now in view of the fact that repre-
sentatives or all the great Powers have
mel at The Hague with the avowed ob-
ject of devising means by which war
can be abolished altogether and an
era of universal peace be inaugurated
in its stead.
The seemingly extravagant claim
has been made that 40,000,000 human
beings lose their lives in war every
century, and that in Europe alone the
loss amounts to between 18,007,000 and
20,000,000. Three thousand years may
have elapsed since the Trojan war, and
since then it is estimated that 1,000,-
200,000 men have perished in (waffled..
In other words, we are told that, if
all those now living were massed on a
vast plain and by'their sides were plac-
ed the bodies of all those killed in war,
the numbers on the one side would
very nearly equal those on the
other.
During the European wars of the
irst half of this century 2,500,000 men
BRITISH TRADERS ALARMED.
8
Blass :fleeting 01' Shipowners and stern,- 3
111115 field at Glasgow.
lost their lives in battle, and Europe
was impoverished to the extent of 16,-
50,000,000. Sinoe 1850, it is claimed,
,000,000 men have
a PERISHED IN WAR.
The Crimean war oust Great -Britain
$850,000,000, while Russia and France
spent 31,150,000,000, to say nothing of
the 500,000 slain. The Franco-Prus-
sian war cost France $850,000,000 for
the seven months that it lasted, and
this does not include the indemnity to
Germany or the value of Alsace-Lor-
raine Russia's victory over Turkey
is 1877-78 oast her 5050,000,000, and
bar groat struggle with China cost
Japan, 211,000,000 yen.
During the brat seventy years Rus-
sia has spent $1,670,000,000 and has lost
700,000 lives° in wan. The great Pow-
ers o" Europe alone spend. $200,000,000
a year in maintaining war forces, and
it is estimated that within the last six
years their war budgets have Decrees -
ed twenty-five par cent, In 1869 the
European peace armies numbered 2,-
200,000 men ; to -day they number more
than 4,100,000, Again, In 1869, Europe
spent 5117,000,000 on her armies and
navies, whereas to -day she spends more
than $240,000,000.
The effect of war on a country's pub-
lic deb( is naturally very marked. Dur-
ing the French war that began in 1792
England's debt increased to the extent
of nearly $1,500,000,000, and again dur-
ing the Napoleonic wars there was an
increase of about $1,000,000,000. Dur-
ing the forty years of peace that 101 -
lowed there was a decrease of $455,000,-
000, but, on the other hand, over 5200,-
000,000 was added duri.ag the Crimean
War and the Indian Mutiny.
The North spent $4,800,000,000 during
the
AMERICAN CIVIL WAR,
Mr. Anderson, of the Anchor line,
said Amerioa and Germany were tak-
ing markets where Great Britain had
long been pre-emtnent. He added that
British subjects nae not received just
support from the Government, assert-
ed that the Board of Trade has asaum-
'uapem 0e011. peals age
uoget puma 6luo aoll)o ufliaaos sqt
pamlupo into 'oohed ao .ralovautlo eqa pa
MANITOBA CROP BULLETIN.
Gron L1•,; Gr5lu. Well Adi aimed 111111 In
healthy Condition.
A despatch from Winnipeg, says: -
The June crop bulletin, the first of the
year, was issued on Monday by the
Manitoba Department of Agriculture.
_ The. information it contains regarding
crops is of a quite satisfactory nature.
The cultivated area has increased con-
siderably compared with last year's
Glares, and the growing grain is in
well advanced and healthy oondition.
The wheat area is estlmatsd at 1,029,-
995 acres; barley, 575,136; oats, 182,912;
and these, with other cereals and root
Drops, bring the total area under cul-
tivation up to 2,449,078, compared with
2,210,942 last year, and 1,958,0'25 in
1897.
The wheat area last year was 1,488,-
282, making the increase this year 141,-
662 acres.
GREAT WEALTH FOUND.
Report of hirers Work Mg on a 91,sisi:on
OFarsltip 0nnk Over MO Years Ago.
A despatch from Athens says: -Greek
divers who are working on the wreck
of the Russian flagship which was
sunk in Grecian waters in 1770 say
that the hulk of the vessel is literally
filled with gold and silver coin. The
attenti,n of the cowers is directed only
to the gold coins, of which £1.1,000 has
already been recovered, and the sum
is being largely added to every day.
The divers say that the bottom of
the. sea about the wreck 3a heaped with
silver pieces of the size of a dollar, to-
gether with jewels, swords, and ether
articles of value.
A TEMPORARY ARRANGEMENT.
Alaska Oltfl ulties Smoothedover for the
'rime Being.
A despatch from London says: -The
United States Ambassador here, Mr.
Joseph H. Choate, has just received
from the Foreign Office a communt-
cation on the Alaska question, which,
it is understood, is a satisfactory teal
porary ar;pangement of the affair.
The officials of the Foreign Office,
while unwilling to discuss the details,
assure the Associated Press that the
Alaska difficulties are practically
smoothed over until the meeting of
the 'High Commission in August.
CURZON WANTS KITCHENER.
Probability That (5,c General DOI' be Glvr11
n Il lab 1.001 Ma 111 hulls,
A. despatch from London, soy$: -Tho
Standard says, -"We understand that
the Viceroy of Tndia (Lord Curzon of
Kedleston) is anxious to obtain the
services or General Lord Kitchener in
India for the economical organization
of the frontier fief„n':ns and expedi-
tions, owing to the urgent necessity
of effecting reductions in the military
expenditure, It is probable, theme
fore that Lord Kitohencr will be
wii.lidrawn from the Sondem and ap-
Pointed to a high post in Incline'
and the South spent $2,300,000,000.
The number of casualties in the vol-
unteer and regular armies of the
United States during this war was as
follows: -Silted in battle, 67,056; died
of wounds, 43,012 ; died of disease, 199,-
720; died from other causes, 40,1.54;
total number of deaths, 849,944. The
number of soldiers in the Confederate
service, who died of wounds or disease,
was about 133,800.
It is claimed that, while the losses
in actual battles are now less than
they used to be, in spite of the super-
ior excellence of the weapons, the
total losses are increasing owing to
the feet that larger armies are engag-
ed. Certainty the Losses in some of
the great battles of the century were
very great. At the battle of Waterloo
Blucher had 124,000 men, the British
forces consisted of 93,717 and the
French forces of 124,588. The total
less of the allied armies were 22,248,
and it is estimated that the )French
lost between 31,001 and 32,000. At
Leipzig 93,000 end at Borodino 62,000
were killed and wounded. On the oth-
er hand, the total loss ac Koenigagratz
was only 32,000 and at Gravelotte 28,-
000.
8;000. At Borodino twenty-five per
sent of the entire fighting force was
killed, at Waterloo twenty-four per
oent, at 11oenigsgratz seven and a
half par cent and at Gravelotte eight
per cant.
Interesting statistics are also fur-
nished by the groat sea fights of the
century., At Aboukir tba conquerors
lost 900, at Trafalgar 2,500, at Lissa
only 176, et Manila not ono and at
Cavite 4. The losses on the side of the
vanquished were naturally much
greater -name, at Trafalgar, 7,000,
at Nn arino 6, 00, at Lissa 800 and at
Manila and Cavite considerable. That
economy in the construction of ships
dots not pay, there are abundant
proofs.
AT TRAFALGAR
19 of the enemies' ships were astray -
ad or rendered useless, at Navarino 55,
at Lissa 2 and at Manila and Cavite
preatically all. •
The extent to whioh war impover
fishes n. realm is aptly illustrated by
a story whioh is told of a worthy
smith, who worked for the Prussian
government during the campaign et
1806.1807, One of his bills was re-
cently discovered at the War Office in
Berlin. It was for seven thalers and
twenty five grosehen, and underneath
these figures the smith Wrote as fol-
lows: --
Being a good patriot, I have
waited three yeafs for this money,
and now 4 beg that. it bo paid.”
The hill was brought to the noLloo
of the King, and he wrote;--.
"Sinoe he is so good a patriot, he
mUs1 wait even longer, fur the stale
has no money,"
If we nceeppt the eel bleat° that 2,500,-
000 human Urea have been lost in war
during the lust hall oenlury, le can
readily be shown that the average
cuss of each of these lives has been
nbcul 550,000. Flo what extent the
people of every civilized country are
required to beta' the expense of maia-
Minhtg the armies and navies, without
Shiest war could not be carried on,
rety be seen from the following table,
whioh shows the amountPaid per cap-
ita in the various countries toward the
military and naval expenses: -
EUROPEAN COUNTRIES,
Russia,
$1.17
Germany. . . . . , 2.70
France, .2.111
England. . •. 3.21
Austria. . , , • 2.08
Italy. . . 1.40
Spain. . •. 2.12
Turkey. . . . . , 0.83
Net
Danmark'1.2'2
Sweden and Norway. . . .1,36
Belgium. . . . . . . 1.44
Roumania 1 56
Portugal. •. . . 1.00
Bulgaria, , 1.39
Swits'erlend 1 40
Greece.. . • 1.,29
Servia• . . . 1.16
Finland. 0.62
NON -EUROPEAN COUNTRIES.
British India. ..$0.40
Japan. . , 0.54
Brazil. . . . . . . . 0.59
Chili 172
Guatemala, . . . 1,49
Cape of Good Hope. . . . 0.51
United States, '90. . . . 0.72
China. .0.03
Argentina. . . . . 1.28
Egypt. . . •0.23
Ca
Corea. . 0,07
Advocates of peace find In the fore-
going statistics abundant evidence of
the fully and uselessness of war and
of the fact that in no other direction
is so mucic human energy wilfully
wasted. Whether we agree with them
oe not, it must be admitted that the
figures, as shown hero, tell a very
curious story and which is bound to
prove of moth interest at this moment
when so nanny earnest persons are
cherishing the ]cope that an era of
universal peace may in time be inaug-
urated as a res,ilt of the Czar's sug-
gestion of disarmament.
NATIVES MADE IT WARR
HEAVY FIGHTING BETWEEN THE
AMERICANS AND IILIPINOS.
Milted Slates Troops Now la Po55esslon or
Iineeoi•it--Text Ratite Likely to ba
100115115 .11 1510 Town or tants.
A despatch from Manila, says: -
Goneral Lawton unexpectedly stirred
up one of the liveliest engagements of
the war south of Las Pines on Tuesday
morning, upon which occasion United
States field guns were engaged in the
first artillery duel against a Filipino
battery, concealed in the jungle.
Companies F and I of the 21st in
Pantry were nearly surrounded by a
large body of insurgents, but the
Americans cut their way out with
heavy loss.
The United States turret ship Mo-
nadnock
anadnock and the gunboats Helena
and Zafiro, trained their batteries un
Bakoor and the rebel trenches near
Lea Pines all the morning. Bakoor
was once on fire, but the natives
stopped the spread of the Carnes,
During the night an insurgent =a-
non was fired three times at the Am-
ericans on the outskirts of Las
Pinar.
General Lawton Tuesday morning
took a battalion of the 14th regiment
and two companies of the 21st regi-
ment to locate the rebel battery and
then two guns of the 015 artillery and
four mountain guns were planted
against it at 600 yards' distance
The rebels had a large gun from
which they were firing home-made ca-
nister, loaded with nails, and two
smaller guns. Their ehootiug was
most accurate. The first lot of canis-
ter burst directly in front of Scott's
guns and another shattered the legs
of a private in the 14th infantry.
Several shots struck the edge of the
town.
The country traversed was as had
as 11 is possible to imagine, being
mainly lagoons, mud and water
fringed with bamboos, As soon na
the fighting opened the Americans
were attacked by
HIDDEN RIFLEMEN
on a'1 sides, even the Amigos, or friend-
ly natives in the houses of the town,
shooting into their rear.
The companies of the 21st regiment
skirmishing along the beach with
Amigo guides, found what appeared
to be a Handful of natives who re-
treated', /the men of the 21st foie
towed, when suddenly the natives
opened a terrific fire on the troops
from the sides and rear, The soldiers
withdrew to the water edge, find-
ing what shelter they could and were
picked off rapidly. Alter their ammu-
nition had been nearly exhausted the
companies or the 2101 retreated, isut
General Lawton dashed down and
rallied the men.
A little group made a desperate
stand, General Lawton, Major Starr
and Lieutenants Donovan and Con-
nelly taking rifles (cora the wounded
men and firing at the enemy, .the Gen-
eral bringing down some of the rebel
sharp -shooters from a tree. .Finally
their cartridges were all gone and
they were forced to break through
the enemy's flank, carrying the
wounded to Cha main body of the
troops: Lieut. Donovan, whose leg
was broken, floundered for a mile
through a bog, leading his man in the
fake of a greatly suporinr tone.
General. Lawton ceased righting un-
1.i1 reinforcements could be, broughli
OD, Two baIlalians of the 14111 regi-
ment and one nattalion of the 911.1
FULL 01? && O iiitithiElltiENT
luacrass . It em ' T = m. T •
Ln Bed 5 1'§ioanths—Had Given Up A4 Hopp
of Getting' Well—A Remedy Found at
Last to which' 1f, Owe Ply Life."
Bofence has fully established the
fact that all the nervous energy of our
bodies is generated by nerve centres
located near the base of the brain.
'Then the supply of nerve force has
^est diminished either by excessive
r:tysical on mental labours, or owing to
a derangement of the nerve centres, we
are first conscious of a languor or tired
and worn-out feeling, then of a mild
form of nervousness, headache, or
stomach trouble, whioh is perhaps suc-
ceeded by nervous prostration, chronic
Indigestion, and dyspepsia, and a gen-
oriel sinking of the whole system. In
this day of hurry, fret and worry, there
are very few who enjoy perfect health;
nearly everyone has some trouble, an
ache, or pain, a weakness, a nerve
trouble, something wrong with the
atomaoh and bowels, poor blood, heart
disease, or sick headache; all of whioh
are brought on by a lank of nervous
energy to enable the different organs of
the body to perform their respective
work.
South American Nervine Tonto, the
marvellouenerve food and health giver,
is asatisfying success, awondrous boon
to tired, sink, and overworked men
and women, who have Buffered years
of discouragement and tried all manner
of remedies without benefit. It is a
modern, a scientific remedy, and in its
120112 follows /bounding health.
It is unlike all other remedies in
that it is not designed to act on the
different organs affected, but by its
direct action on the nerve °entree,
which are nature's little batteries, it
'.louses an increased supply of nommen
energy to be generated, whioh in ice
turn thoroughly oils, as it were, the
machinery of the body, thereby en.
abling it to perform perfectly its dif.
ferent functions, and without the
slightest friction,
If you Lave been reading of the re-
markable cures wrought by South
American Nervine, accounts of which
we publish from week to week, and
are still sceptical, we ask you to in.
vestigate them by correspondence, and
become convinced that they are true
to the letter. Such a oonrse may save
you months, perhaps years, of suffer.
ing and anxiety.
The words that follow are strongt
but they emanate from the heart, and
speak the sentiments of thousands of
women in the United States and Can-
ada who know, through experience, of
the healing virtues of the South
American Nervine Tonto,
Harriet E. Hall, of Waynetown, e
prominent and muck. respected lady,
writes as follows :—
"I owe my life to the great South
American Nervine Tonic, I have
been in bed for five months with e
scrofulous tumour in my right side,
and suffered with indigestion and
nervous prostration. Had given up
all hopes of getting well. Had tried
three doctors, with no relief. The
first bottle of Nervine Tonic improved
Hie so much that I was able to walk
about, and a few bottles cured me en-
tirely. I believe it is the beet meds.
oine ini the world, 1 cannot recon.
mendi
it too highly,"
Tired women, can you do bettc•
than become acquainted with We
traly great renedv 9
..4 Sold by G. A. Deadman.
regiment was hurried to the front,
and in the afternoon the battle was
resumed.
LATER.
The Filipinos retreated several
miles southward. after Tuesday's en-
gagement, to the strongly -fortified
town of imus. Tha shelling of the
American warsbips drove the rebels
from Bacoora, so the Americans 1300-
trol several more mike of coast,
General Lawton, with his staff and, a
troop of the Fourth Cavalry, started
to ascertain the nature of the insur-
gents' position. He rode Live mites
along the coast to Become wit.hont
discovering the enemy, and found the
town full of white flags. But there
were no 'soldiers there. The woman
and children, who had fled to this
woods during the bomliardment, were
camping in the ruins of their homes.
The shells had almost knocked the
town to pieties, Tlie big churoh was
wreaked, and many buildings were
ruined. Even the trees and shrubbery
were torn as by a hailstone. Several
hundred women and children came in-
to the American line for refuge, and
the road from Bacons was covered alt
day long with processions of them, on
foot and in carts, driving animals and
carrying goods on their heads. The
appearance of the battlefield testified
to the fierceness of yesterday's fight. -
The tree3 along the ricer between
the lines are a'most torn down by bul-
lets. l (the American o1Iioors esti-
mate that 1.00 were killed and that 300
were Wounded daring the engagement.
The next battle will probably be
fought at 1'mus, The American troops
will mann Control the coast to Cavite.
After crossing (ha viver the troops
were withdrawn, with the exception of
the 9111 and 21st Infantry, these rags
meals being feet: with four guns to
guard AS twng
farmedth.e intobridge. companies thehey insurgeare beints
commenced to fire volleys front the
hamboo (jungle 800 yards away. The
re.gimetits formed into line rapidly and
coolly, though under fire, and cheer-
ing rushed into the woods, driving the
enemy a mile away, the Filipinos
disputing every foot, Tha 14th en-
camped Harass Cho river, the men caw-
ing for many of the Wounded Filipi-
nos. Tight priannora were captured.
The tnn,inrily of the. Filipinos wore red
ttli.forms.
M1N WANTED IN THE WEST.
Railroads and harmers Cannot Get likens
at Any Pelee.
A despatch from Montreal says: -
That times are prosperous in the Cana-
dian North-West is shown by the fact
that labourers are very diffiouli, to
find in either the provinces or the Ter-
ritories. The problem is fast becom-
ing a serious one for the railway and
the farmer. At the present moment
the Canadian Pacific railway is badly
In need of 800 additional men on its
Western division. The men cannot be
got for love nor money. Tempting
wages have been held out as an in-
ducement to labourers to enter the
service of the company, and the North
West has been scoured in search of
men, but none are to be had.
DROPS NOT WORTH REAPING.
5flssry,i11 Southern Russia Promises to Con-
tinuo,.
A despatch from Odessa says: -
Grain exporters report that the ,um -
mar crops its brave areas in South
leussin have boon so badly damaged by
drought that they will not be worth
reaping, The reports also state that
there will be no kitty and very low
[rage tables.
Coming on top of the failure of the
winter crops, the situation promises
extreme misery for the people.
AWFUL CRUELTY.
Several G1tnMrell citizens and C'lltpines
'rorlemetl ie De11111 by Spn11111etls at Fee-
eiittido Po.
A deapetch from Liverpool says: -The
steamer Niger, which )las just arrived
hate from the West Coast of Africa,
reports that only five of seven hun-
dred Cuban and Filipino politiettl
prisoners who were confined in the
Spanish Penal colony on the .Island of
Fornmtndo Po are all now, 7'lle
prisoners were treated with incredible
ferocity. They war'° beveled Tike
sheep, and wore mercilessly thrashed
with happopolamus_hitta whips' for
trivial otleneas; Disease kilted dos -
ens daily.
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