The Brussels Post, 1899-11-16, Page 3Nov. 10, 1999,
TRIO BRUSSELS POST.
® B .ITISH VICTORIES.
infantry Gallantly Storm the Strong Position
Meld by the Boers.
Cavalry Complete the Rout at Colenso Slaughter of
Boers at Niafeking-.After Shelling the Town for
36 Hours the Enemy Attack the Town, But Are
Driven Off With Frightful Losses.
IA] deapaloh from Orange River Ste- lege of Nellhorini, seven miles south
lion, says: -(By despatch rider fromof Ladysmith. Evidently they nurse
piafeking)-`.Che Boers bombarded the I a hops of eventually axing both in their
descent on Pietermaritzburg. Mean-
ramp and town for 30 hours, while the British are also able to use
They threw in 300 ehells, ana did not both, as they have already done, in
cease firing 1111 the evening of October running up an armored train, whieh
Wu. nuty al the present moment he cover-
ing the advance of the F.,eteourt force.
During the long bombardment of the At Estcourt and Pietermaritzburg
town by the, Boers only four English the defensive works have been greatly
soldiers were wounded, strengthened within the last few days,
The bombardment was so futile that holding
they aro now believed capable of
holding their own against any I3oor
it seemed to be a joke. force, which General Joubert would, at
At il.a conrlusioo the Bores tried to the preiwent juncture risk sending,
M its conclusion the Boers tried to Both are likely to be strengthenedbe-
rush the town. fore the week to out by, afurther
A fearful rifle Eire resulted, and the naval forge, and even by the first de-
tachment of General Bu:ller's army
Maxim guns of the British wen° used corps.
with such deadly effect that the Boers TO CAPTURE KIMBERLEY.
bloke and: etampodekin a mad panic.,The situntion. looks brighter at Mafe-
They were driven hack over mines, king, where the Boers are apparently
disheartened at the unexpected rests -
which were exploded. 'mitering the
Itanco, e largo body of their force have
Boers In all directions with greating bean detached to the south to as -
loss. !stet in the investment: of Kimberley,
around which the cordon is drawing
tighter. Evidently the Boers intend
to make a concentrated effort to eke -
Lure Kitnberley and their arch -enemy,
Cecil Rhodes.
BRI:1'ISH VICTORY AT COLENSO.
.A. despaloh from: London, says: --
Tuesday night's waloome despatebes
from the Crone show the British gar-
rison at Ladysmith not merely stand-
ing on the, dogged defensive, but axe -
outlet; a series of brilliant sorties. An -
u
Ca from 'o n ro different sources
agree
�
,
that the 1aaonic official le
set iPtion
of :Llit,uradiey'Is engagement as
"an effectual shelling of the
Boer lnager" was unduly modest.
It
appears that SirGeorge B
e Stewart
of cavalry
White sent a strong torte }
and infantry to attack the Boers al
Further details from Mafekiag in-
dicate lint the Boer( firing was easing
off, the garrison was in high; epiril_s
and the siege was; becoming a farce,
The correspondent dent suYs that the peo-
ple were in the habil of shouting from
the housetops "ware shells!" and that
rabbit -holey had been excavated in the
town, into which the men would dive
when, the smoke or the Boers' big gun
was sewn. General Cronje is acoused
of drat tin shells in the direction of
drapping
1 s
the women's 'eager.
Awarding, to a despatch from Kuru-
Tetham's farm, about 10 miles to the man, J3rilish• Bechuanaland, dated
north-west, near Beater's, and agger_ Monday, Col. Plumer's column, march-
nof
orth-west,
achieved a surprise, the 13oers Nnforog, m had reart ched Asvogell to the f kola,
being caught on the open veldt and opposite Oosti, tea miles north of
out to pieces, and their camp cup- Lobatsi, and was nearing Mafeking,
lured.
Encouraged by this success, General QUEEN TO LADY WHITE.
White decided to risk an even more A despatch. from London says: -
important engagement on the follow- The feeling of relief inspired by re-
ing day, which was again justified by cent good 'tidin.gs is tinged by a cer-
itemess, tain alloy of anxiety lest Gen. White
BOERS ATTACKED IN THE REAR. should again make some fatal isolated, and a miscal-
h had been miscal-
culation. Her Majesty does not share
Lndyamil
Boer force had intercepted the rail- this ¢nxiety, and, apparently, is san-
wa.y between L adynm:th and Colenso, nine of his ability, to pull through sac-
way
force on Friday had descended easefully. It to asserted that She has
upon Colons°, and, as shown by the written to Lady White a pressing
despatches from Estuunrt, had tom- sympathy with her husband in the
pelted a hurried abandoamenl of Co- trials and difficulties he is now ex-
leaso and a retirement of the 13ritish periencing, and assuring Lady White
to Estcourt.. at her own undiminished confidence
Gen. White had era artained that the in his generalship. The public report
ot this letter has b en cabled to
Boers were attacking Colenso, bol. he(ten.
was not aware of the British retire-
White by the Marquis o1 Lanadotcn,
anent. IIe had determined, therefore, Her Majesty .has written. a latter of
to attack the Boers Lu the rear, thus condolence to the merles of the late
hoping to achieve the double object of Oummander Egerton, of the British
drawing off an attack upon the gar- cruiser Powerful, who was fatally
rison of Colenso, and possibly of re- wounded by the explosion of n shell
opening communication southward. at the bombardment of Ladysmith on
The Boers had advanced southward Novemb: r 2,, when, as a gunnery Oen-
until they, had occupied the hills north tenant, bel was in charge of one of the
of Tugela river and dominating Col.eu- cruiser'e big guns.
so on the other side of the stream. FUSILIERS IN COLENSO.
The hills, stop toes. plain that reaches A despatch from Estcourt, Natal,
to the banks of EltEis Tugela. t says; Details wore received from the
PERISHED ALMOST TO A MAN. armoured train, which returned from
Gen. White's division caught the Colenso un Tuesday, of a brilliant lit -
Boone in'the rear, and after• the hills tie performance. Tha train, which car -
had been shelled, the British infantry Tied two cumpaniets of the Dublin Fu -
stormed the posi'ion, silieris, under Captain Romer, sight -
Meanwhile the British cavalry aware.' ed near Colanp°, the Boers in consid-
round the hills, and as the re'reating eruble force near the line. The Fuel -
enemy descended 'into the plains, we b limas immediu,tely opened a brisk fire,
British baronets behind ''hem and the, which the Boers replied to ineffective -
river to front of them, (trey were' 1Y, and, as they were suffering loss,
changed by the cavalry and seam to' they quickly retired out of sight,
have perished almost to a man. I13ut as the train cautiously advanced
The British then ret.u'rned to Lady-, the $Doris were seen moving around
smith without coating into touch with, on its loft flank, their presumed ob-
the Colenso garrison, which had retired ject being to take the train In the rear.
to Eetcoort, To avoid this the train retired,
BOER TREACHERY PUNISHED. I It was then seen that the Boers diad
A despatch from Durban, Natal, Sun- no intention of attacking but were in
clay says :-A native eye -witness of full retreat over the road and bridge.
There'dag'e battle near Ladysmith says 'Immediately a strong detachment left
the Boers were caught on the open the train and entered the town, while
ground and raised several white flags. the train slowly advanced to thesta-
Phe British then advanced without fir- den. Several volleys at long range
ing to accept the surrender of the' were fired on the retreating enemy.
Boors, but were received with avohley1 The British also au:needed in enter -
Ing Fort Wylie, near Colenso, and
brought back four waggon loads of
shells, provisions, and stores. 1'
at close range.
ilnraged at this treachery, the Lan-
cers, Hussars, and Dragoons, follow-
ed by the,Lnfalllry with fixed bayonets, ATTACK ONI RIMBEIILEY.
charged through and through the A dovetahl:roni Orange River, Cape
enemy, and did great; execution. Colony, Monday, enyst-The Boers in -
A lot of prisoners and loot were cap- vesting Kimberley have boon reinforce
Weed. ed b+y 2,00 Omen, and have sucneed-
T0 JOIN HANDS WITH WHITE, . ed in corralling about, $25,000 worth of
• ,A adespatch from Estcourt announces stook belonging to Kimberley mar -
the departure of, a strong force of chants, which was intended for the sus -
mounted troops and artillery fey a tenanee of the town,
destination not given in the de- , STUCK TO THEIR TARTANS,
splashes. -A despatch from Cae Town says:
A
specdaspntoh Cram Pietermar- p
itzburg, dated Sunday, says i-"11 is -Many of the Gordon Highlanders
confidently expected that railwaywho were wounded ae Elandslanglo
co:mmuniieaLion will he restored with have arrived here. A majority of
Ladysmith within a few hours." them declared that they were shat
Another .message announces the sr- after the Boers had exhibited four
rival at: Estcourt anal. Ptetermaritz_ flags of 'trues and, the British bugler
burg, wtlhi.n the loot fern days, of re- had sounded "Cease firing."
bn0ortemonls from Darba•n, and that The Highlanders admit that their
5,500 troops are assembled ready, for a heavy loss was clue to their action. in
1'sadvance to Colenso when the eppor- • unanimously refusing their command-
tune moment arrives. The Latter cr.'s °Kfee to tat diem fight without
despatch throws light on the former, 'their tartans.
and the force whtoh left :Estcourt 1 SIEGE TRAIN FOR AFRICA,
Mantles last doubtless r°oeatm pled Col- A despatch from London, stays: -The
mere and possibly is new advancing War Moe is monolizin a siege train
cautiously up the railroad toward composed of 14 O'ineh howitzers, eight
Ladysmil:h,, Gen. White's sortie of 5 -inch, and eight 4 -inch guns, with tra-
Friaiay almost: to the blinks of the veiling ca1•riagea, and 15,000 rounds of
Tegela river encouraging its commas• l daps and cordite shells• The 0 -inch
der In the hope ot joining hands with guns will have a range of 10;000 yards,
WM. a advices Eleven bunched. and thirty -sax officers
General Joubert the Weal, a'ed men, sup•pliece with 25,000 rounds
indicate, draw in hie horns after Fri- of email arm ammunition, will accom-
da.y% engagement, and has since with pan1Y the i;raln. .
drawn the southern Boor coming°[11.x, The armament loolin. us now being issued
leaving only outposts on I he lime iron oolviah mra;c Ctrl of 11 has nl-
Ladysmith to Colonia°, The Boers who from W w , 11n
050111 ies ('olonen about the. middte of ready been forwarded to Devonport
last week, retired withant damaging for shilrtnrnt to South Africa.
litilwer bridge, over the Tugela river, This will be I he .first, ennl,lnynt.n
nt of
011 ISG railroad as fat.nort1t as the vils a modernized eiege train by an Isurope
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CHART OF LADYSMITH BATTLEFIELD.
The flag with the double cross marks
the poeition of Gen. White's army
of
12,000 British troops.
p
The flags with the black and white
stripes shows the known positions oc-
cupied by the besieging Boers. The
mate body of Free State Boers had its
Mese of operations at Resters. The base
of the Transvaal army
y
was
at Elanda-
leagta whore Commander-in-Chief
JoubeiN, was.
Boers attempted to cut the railway
at Pieter's south of Ladysmith, but
were driven off by British cavalry.
At Colenso, still further south some
o were
ro
Baalllos-feions natives vh C
supposed by the British to
be deadly
enemies of the Boers -were caughtht ob-
structing the British railway.
Navigation on the Yukon has closed.
peau army ; and the progress of the
reduction of forts by lyddite shell fire,
a preliminary to storming by infantry,
will be watched with interest and car-
iosity by all pa•ofessional soldiers.
MORE GORDONS SAIL.
A despatch from Liverpool says :-
Eeo:1mons crowds in the streets and
about the docks here bid farewell on
The News
x� rief1 y Told
° was crushed in the ice al the Yukon
The .Montreal Customs received dur-
ing the past, month the sum of 41808,-
333.45, being an increasa of $154,510.44,
as compered with the eorf,espooding
month of lasts year.
The steamer Stratton, bound inward,
' — River, at Selwyn• and sank in a short
THE WORLD'S EVENTS OR INTEREST time. The freight, including a large
Thursday to the .First: Battalion of the OHRONIOLIiD IN SHORT ORDER. mail, is 1 total loss.
Garden Highlanders, Dargai heroes, in Mrs, Olive Adele Siernaman, who
which a son of Geoertal White is a, '-" was sentenced to be hanged in Cay -
lieutenant. The presume of Lady tlatereoting Happenings of Recent Date -The uge for the, alleged poisoning of her
While and her daughter increased the Latest News of Our own country-Doingshusband, was married in Niagara Falls
enthusiasm. In the Mother Land -What le Going on In Ont., to Frank Creulzbourg, of No. 220
the United States -Notes Prom tho World Bird avenue, Buffalo. •
Yvsr. The Richelieu es Ontario Navigation
Company is anxious to increase its
fleet between Toronto and Prescott,
owing to the great increase of its traf-
fic, and has been negotiating lately
with a' number of shipbuilders for the
construction of u fine new steamer.
but so falj without success.
Mr. Collingwood Schreiber, Chief
Engineer and Deputy( Minister of the
Department of Railways and Canals,
after an inspection, says the Canadian
Pacific Rahway, from Montreal to the
Coast, is in splendid order, exempt for
a little roughness from the rainfall on
the prairies. Excellent work has been
Ilene on the Crow's Nest Line,
Charles D•I. Allan, of London, is
taking action against Policeman Robt.
Egeltun for $2,000 damages. On Sat -
RUSSIA -JAPAN WAR
THE NEXT.
The island li,nptre's Opportunity to Eafl
the Bata's Schemes.
A despatch from New York, says: -
The probability of war between Russia
and Japan before the spring is const.,
dered hl a half -page of cablegrams in
the Herald of Tuesday, Japan has a
larger fleet in the East than Russia,
and in pursuance op a design to ace!
quire Corea and thwart Russia's Chine
ase schemes before the completion of
the trans -Siberian railroad may, the
eorrespondeece thews ,make war in a
bow weeks.
The London Daily Mail, commenting
on the report, says, "J'apan knows
that her time for striking is now or
In the forthcoming spring. That is to
say, she must assail Russia before the
completion of the trans•lSiberian rail-
way, while the hands of France are
tied. by the Paris Exposition.
"If Japan takes the opportunity;
war is likely to have but one result.
Russia teas never more heavily handl-
capped, while Japan has never been
better prepared. Both nations are suf-
fering Pram the stringency of money,
but the plight of Russia le infinitely
worse than that of Japan in this re..
specie Russians are badly provided
with ships in the far East, and they
have a fanaine to contend with.
"We have before pointed out the
strict neutrality of the Russians, and
at the present moment it is by no
means due to friendship for England,
With the German Emperor's visit to
:England to occupy Russia in the west
and with the activity at Japan in the
east, Russia is hardly ready to adopt
the suggestions of Dr, Leyds at the
present moment.
"It is for this reason that the three
rased in'ervcntion for wi soh the French
worked ,•o vigorously a week or two
ago is fading out of view."
ANOTIIER RIG PAPER MILL.
Largest in the World to ba Located la the
alt in nm. Palley.
,1 despatch from Ottawa, says:- It
is stated that at the opening of next
season the erection of the largest
paper still in rho world will be begun.
The mill will be located in Ile Ottawa
valley, it is understood, on the Galin -
eau, and it will have a capacity of be-
tween 500 and 000 tone per day. , The
machinery, most of whieh has been
ordered, and a great part already com-
pleted, is of American make, and is in
every respect of the moat soienti1ia
and modern manufacture. The pro-
duct of the mill wilt indlude book! and
newspaper, fine paper, manila paper,
and bleached sulphite paper for ruling,
When running at full time, the mill
will employ from 1,800 to 2,000 work-
men, and the cost oe its establishment.
0
will be between $8,000,000 and $ ,
000
000. It is expected by the promoter -1
s
of the scheme that the rata will be in
operalio0 by next autumn. British
capital is behind the enterprise.
Negotiations are en foot for acquir-
ing 8,000 miles of sprees, limits on the
Upper Gatineau, with a View to sup-
plying the proposed mill With raw ma-
Curial.
CANADA.
Hamilton bartenders have organized
a union.
Hamilton doctors have organized an
assoniation.
C. P. R. land sales for October ag-
gregate 30000 acres for $95,000.
President Shaughnessy, of the C. P.
11., wee banqueted by the Vancouver
Board ot Trade.
London, Ont., labor men have nom-
inated a municipal ticket and pub-
lished a platform.
Miss Martin fell dead while singing
In a choir of a church at Albertan,
near Charlettetown.
Inspector Ballard of Hamilton re-
ports that out of 7,000 Public school melee night, during the Old Boys
pupils 418 are short-sighted. visit to Londoitl loaf summer, Egalton
The will o. Mr. Wm. Duffield, pre- to aileged tod have committed an un-
sidsnt of the London Gas Co., disposes provoked assault upon Allan, striking
of au estate valued at $88,000.
Mr. John Tanton, of the firm of Tan -
toll,
se-
riously. halt in u runaway accident.
hilar on the, head with a club and In -
Dieting injuries width incapacitatedincapaoltate
Adams Si
Tanton, London, was hen for work.
Owing to the increased demand for
The retail price of milk in Ottawa iron, The Hamilton Blast Furnace Co.,
was raised Wednesday to 7 cents per has decided to rebuild and enlarge its
quart, the highest price charged since furnaces, and about $50,000 will be
spent on the work. When the fur-
naces were constructed they were of
lii0 tons daily, capacity, but the da-
nvand was ao small Lhat they were
bricked les s°. as to reduce. their cap-
acity to 1000 tons a day,
GREAT BRITAIN,
Viscount Exmouth is dead in Lon-
don.
The Kaiser is to arrive at Windsor
ending o o ar exceeded amt un Castle Nov. 20.
histaryt Four men were killed and twenty
Lloyd Co., of London, England, will persons injured by a boiler explosion
establish a large paper mill at Niagara at Sheffield, Ung., on Wednesday.
Falls, Ont. About 2,000 men will bo Baron .Hylton, Headwortla Ilylton
City Engineer Galt, of, Ottawa, has
ordered all the work on the city's
streets to stop, on account of lack of
sands,
Miss Mary E. Easton of Kingston
has been selected by the United States
authorities to go to Cuba to teach
aahooh
10. P. Ii. traffic receipts for the week
d' Otb 31 d d milli
en
the largest in the company's
employed.
Liquidators' of the Ville Marie Bank,
Montreal, offer $5110 reward for. the
apprehenelon of J. J. Harbert, the miss-
ing teller.
11: is believed that the Western hotel
fire in Montreal was owned by rats
igniting matches The injured are
doing well.
For the fear months ending Oct.
31st, the total trade at thesport of Ot-
tawa was $2313,708, as against $178,172
for the same period last year.
Three men have been arrested at
Revelstoke, B. C., on suspicion of being
cou°erned in the murder at Winnipeg
DI John Gordon, two .weeks ago.
The Montreal Rolling Mills Co, has
made overtures to the Town Council
of Sydney, C. B„ with, a view to es-
tablishing extensive works there.
John Hayes, alies Alf. Quigley, has
beau arrested near Fernm, .B. G., charg-
ed with the murder ot his brother-in-
law, Nelson Eagle, near Edmonton.
Mayor Eeet7•ei, of Hamilton, in a
schema of munintpnl reform, suggests
electing aldermen for five years, pay-
ing them and seducing their nutnber.
M. Mentor, owner of Anticosti, has
won hie ejectment suit against the Fox
Bay' setllere, 73e has, however, offered
to pay their costs and give each an in-
demnity.
Tho employes ot the Carling Brew-
ery at Landon have p:t•asanted Sir
John and Lady Carling with a solid
silver service as a memento of their
golden wedding.
J. A, Meltt:m'Iry, of Toronto, who is
Canadian agent for a telephone patent,
and tetchily asked, for a franchise in
Toronto, has nen 1e 0 similar applica-
tion in MOOIOOal.
Jolyffo, formerly of the Coldstream
Guards, died Tuesday. Ho was born
June 28, 1821, and he was created a
Baron in 1880.
,Aeco'ding to a Stock Exchange des-
patch from Lahore, the British author-
ities in Northern India are greatly dis-
quieted by the situation among the na-
tives, The fanatical 1lfullah. Proviud,
is preaching rebellion to his co -reli-
gionists, and it has been deemed ne-
cessary to expedite the despatch of
troops,
UNITED STATES.
Tenders have been opened at Wash-
ington for six cruisers, ,
Bishop Neely, of the Protestant Epis-
copal diocese of Maine, is dead at Port-
land, Me,
Admiral Dewey is to marry Mrs,
Hazen, at wealthy society widow of.
Washington.
Dwight Townsend, for years associ-
ated with John W. Markey, the mil-
lionaire, is dead at Now York,
A tsouple of American warships have
made successful seperiments with
wireless telegraphy in the North River.
The seminary at Hackettstown, 14.3„
owned by the Methodist. -Episcopal
church, has been destroyed by fire.
Loss $000,000.
The great broom -earn twist of
Chicago has bean incorporated as the
Union Broom Supply Company, with
headquarters at Chicago.
George Birahem, colored porter for
Adams Express Company, New York,
hhe confessed to the theft of $0,000
from the eompany'e offices.
Three men aro known to have perish-
ed and three others aro reported miss-
ing, as the result of the Oolleps°. of
FULL OF + C
ed 5 Months—Had Given Up All Hope
of Getting Well—A Remedy Found at
Leal; to which " 1: Owe My Life."
defence has fully established the
fact that ther
nervous energy our
ur
bodies is generated by nerve centres
located near the base of the brain.
'iThen the supply of nerve force has
been diminished either by excessive
h eical o
r mental laboursowing
# or to
Py ,
a derangement of the nerve centres, we
are drat conscious of a languor or tired.
and warn -out feeling, then of a mild
form of nervousness, headache, or
stomach trouble, which is perhaps suc-
ceeded by nervous prostration, chronic
indigestion, and dyspepsia, and agen-
eral 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
eche, or pain, a weakness, a nerve
trouble, something wrong with the
stomach and bowels, poor blood, heart
disease, or sick headache ; all of which
are brought on by a lack of nervous
energy to enable the differentorgansof
the body to perform their respective
work.
South American Nervine Tonic, the
marvellous nerve food andhealth giver,
is asatisfying suocese, a wondrous boon
to tired, sick, and overworked men
and women, who have suffered years
of discouragement and tried all manner
of remedies without benefit. It is a
modern, ascientific remedy, and in its
;Seeks fellows :abounding health.
It is unlike& all other remedies in
that it is not designed to act on the
different organa affected, but by its
direct notion on the nerve centres,
which are nature's little batteries, it
•causes an increased supply of nerttpus
energy to bo generated, which in its
turn thoroughly oil; a
e
it w
er.
e,
machinery of the body, thereby
e
a ia it perform perfectly, its d
ferent functions and without th
slightest friction,
If you have been reading of the i;1
markable cures wrought by Sout
American Nervine, accounts of whie
wepublish from week
to week a
,
are still sceptical, we ask you to en.
vestigate them by correspondence, and
become convinced that they are tries
to the letter. Such a course may save
you reonths, perhaps years, of suffer.
ing and anxiety.
The words that follow are stronge
but they emanate from the heart, and
speak the sentiments of thousands of
women in the United States and Cage
ada who know, through experience, of
the healing virtues of the South
American Nervine Tonio.
Harriet E. Hall, of Waynetowa a
prominent and mock respected ladyr1
writes as follows :—
"I owe my life to the great Sontit
American Nervine Tonic. I have
been in bed for five months with a
scrofulous tumour in my right aid
and suffered with indigestion and
nervous prostration, Had given'u
all hopes of getting well. Had tz
three doctors with no relief. Tie
first bottle of Nervine Tonic improved
me so much that I Walt able to walk
about, and a few bottles cured me ens
tirely. I believe it is the best medii
Dine in the world. I cannot recom-
mend it too highly."
Tired women, can you do betaw
than become acquainted with this
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Sold by G. A. Deadman.
a six storey building( at 139 and 141
West Lake street, Chicago.
Highwaymen held up R,B. Jennings,
manager of the Broadway Cable Go.,
in It. Louis, on a street car, and,rob-
bed him. of $8,100, which he had, drawn
from the bank to pay wages.
Levi R. Duty, at capitattst, of Chi-
cago, president of the Northern Fuel
Company and Lehign Coal & Coke
Company, has tiled a petition in bank-
ruptcy, with liabilities amounting to
$5,000,000.
Fireman Eugene Deegan and Brake-
man Warren Robinson were killed, and
another train hand, fatally injured, by
the explosion of a locomotive on the
Lehigh.Valley line near 'Towanda, Pa,,
yesterday.
Buffalo is alarmed( over the rivalry
promised the Erie canal by the St.
Lawrence route, and the danger of
divergence of the grail' forwarding
trade from that oily to fort Colborne
and Montreal,
14lichasl Halal, the magician, known
as " the bullet catcher," who wits acci-
dentally shot on Saturday night in
New kork, while giving an exhibition
of arching a bullet in his mouth, is
dead of hie injuries.
At Chicago Sigmund Breech and Emil
Swart, who murdered Martin S. Moir
last June, were sentenced to the Joliet
Penitentially for life. They were rob-
bing the old man, and put a potato in
his mouth to gag him, As a result he
choked to death.
Gen, .ir'unston, of the 2015 Kansas
Regiment, has instructed his solicitor
to bring action against Archiishop Ire-
land and the Catholic Monitor, a pa-
per published in San lfranaisco, for
libel, in charging Funston with permit-
ting his mon to loot Philippine
altntrwhes.
GENERAL.
Herring are reported very plentiful
at Newfoundland.
A hurricane has caused .great dam-
age between Havana and Santiago.
Bombay mills are running half time
owing to the failure of the cotton
orgies.
Germany may pay for the increase in
naval expenditure by increased grain
duties.
Smallpox has broken out at Cope
Town, brought there apparently by,
Transvaal refugees,
Prince Frederick Augustus, ot
Saxony fell from his horse while hunt-
ing. His skull was fractured.
Two leading Chilian politicians, one
a member 00 the Government, have
'Might a duel, and both were killed.
Germany's nein postage stamps will
bear a bust. representing Germania in
(place of the present Imperial eagle.
The, leading newspapers, of Germany]
express the opinion that the nation's
, interest in Samoa will be ceded to
Britain,
�, The,fl3ritish will protect the Chinese
'x.alcnmer, Yang Yu. Wei, who ie
�thought to ba on board the steamer
Empress of India from Vancouver for
Hong Hong.
Hina, Godard, who gave Dreytrs'
water shelter at Rennes, has been made
the victim °f an outrageous attack by,
• a man who claimed to be the secretary
' of aha ltothscliUds sent to buy her
house,
R,abah„ the notorious native chief of
the Central Scuclan, has massacred the
members, of aFrench expedition. Ad••
minietrator Bretonnet, Lieut. Braun,
Sergi. Legis, and twenty-sevenSone-
gaiesa were killed.
It is reported that Captain lliobun,
It is reported that Captain Mohan,
bar, now commanding the Belgian
Tanganyika -Congo telegraph expedl-
tion, has had ra fierce battle with
cannibals at Tauguli,
Alfred Boit, the South African mil.
Jpnaire, is in Beri111, pushing the con-
mrueti,tm ol'iha teegraph lies through
Getman :linea Afririt, and also for the
purpose of providing a telegraph and
railway connection with the (Ritmo.
copper mines in German Southwest Af-
rice, owned by a German -English syn-
dicate.
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I think,said the in enious man, that
I have ainvention at last which will
maks my fortune,
;Whet is it?
It is a cemera for use in fishing
camps, It exaggerates the size of rho
fish, while taking the fishe'iman at his
normal size,