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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance, 1902-03-27, Page 7BOER LEADERS TO MEET KITCHENER. • Schalkburger, Reitz and Others Arrived in Pretoria. Now on Their Way to Kreolistadt to See Kitchener -Peace Talk in the Air -What the London Papers Say -Will Botha, DeWet and Delarey Abide by Decisien S -Canadian Domes for South Africa -Dr, Loyd& Preparing a Counter Demonstration for Coronatiou Day. ----• 13eussels, March 21, -According to statement made by the Transvaal Legation here, Lord Kitchener has received the reply of arr. Stave and Mr. Schalkburger to the communi- cation of notes recently exchanged between Great Britain and Holland. The Boer leaders in the field refuse to enter into negotiations whieli are not based upon oomplete Door inde- Pelidenee, It was stated in the Hoene of Com- mons shortly after the publication of the Dutch note and the British reply thereto, declining to allow the Doer delegates in Europe to consult the Boer leaders in the field, with a view to bringing the war to an end, that the correspondence had been sent to South Africa for presenta- tion to the fighting Boer generals. • Boer Prisoners Fight. • London, Match 21. -In the prison camps of Bermada a large number of prisoners of war have taken the oath of allegiance. The administration of the oath to several prisoners now confined on Hawkins' Island recently 'gave rise to a serious incident, says Reuter's correspondent, writing on February 24. A week before, on learning that several of their fellow -prisoners of more moderato views had taken the oath, a paity of the irrecomilables attacked the former, and attereptee to drown them in the Great Sound. The attempt was frustrated by the military guard, and the perpetrators are now undergoing a period of dis- cipline in the military prison at St. George's. ; , • The It•ony of Vale. London, March 21. -The 'convoy" trek during which Lord Methuen was captured was practically, if not ac- tually, the last which his Lordship intended to melte. Atter over two years' hard work of travelling up and down the country, his Lordship was intending to take up permanent headquarters, and from there direct, under Lord Kitchener's supreme nom - Mand, the operations of the columns in his district. Besides, he was of the mind that the convoys which he was accompanying were becoming too small to Justify the employment of an officer of his rank. Numeer of Boer Prisoners. London, March 21. -The following figures represent the number of Boer prieoners, including tilos° in the con- centration camps, who have volun- tarily eurrendered. Tee totale are • from th eiatest returns: , St. Helena ... ... 5,606 Bermuda •.• •••••• d••••• •••••• 4,552 India ,.. ..... 5,077 Ceylon. 4,585 South Africa (not in camps) 7,769 in various localities .......79 Captured since Feb. 26, ap- proximately 1,200 Males, only,. in the conceue • , tration camps................18,99 47,617 Over and 'above these figures there are about 5,000 men in their own nomes and on their owe farms on parole, thus raising the grand total of 33oers and Boer sympathizer's in our hands to 52,617, The Boer prisoners at Umballa, In- dia, have refused to sign the parole, which is the condition of their going to Simla, for the hot weather. Conse- quently they will remain in the plains, which are already uncomfortably hot. The Boer officer, Smorenberge who escaped from 'St. Helena in. a box and was recaptured on a steamer, ittes been tried by a court of in- quiry and released. It was decided that he did not break his parole, as he got into the box inside the camp and was tient away by others. . Trooper Blear() Geed of Fever. Ottawa, March 2.1. -The Casualty Department to -day notified tho Gov- ernor-General of the death from dye- entery of Trooper It. C. Moore, of the Canadian. Mounted Rifles. Moore bailed frein MOosomin, A.ssa. • , No Word of Miles. Ottawa, Mara eele-Up to midnight to -night the Ministoe of Militia had aot received any lenity to hie query about the alleged outbreak of small- pox amongst the Canadian Mounted Attlee in South Africa. Botha's Position. Vryheid, March 21. -General Bruce fahmilton has ascertained that Louis Botha with SOO men is in 'eager • on hie oevai farm, 26 miles northeast of this place, Hundreds Sought to Go. Toronto, March 2°.-Eig1t lady tectobere are being c"hosen by the Minister of Edtroattlon, Of whom five have been already definitely selected, tO go to South Africa, An equal num- ber la being chagen at Ottawa. There will be three held in reserve here.and at Ottawa In ease anyone chosen ishould be unable to go. Hon. Mr. Har- court Isaid yeeterday that all the ems- deesfel itpilleattnte bete, wIfese etetes cannot yet be made pubile, were ex- perieeced teachers holding good posi- tions, were proficient in MUSIC, and had pie:Owed tnedietti Certifleates as to eltrong physique. "I have received applications literally from hundreds; of ladiee willing, to go," he said, "and 1 Medd Wive eeeured in fourteen days 200 eligible bandidatee, all reedy and anxiona, heel they been requited." The deluge of appletente, lie thought, weer Aertainly eridenee of energy, friabl- e-1On, end desire for new somefe. 16.11.4,••••iii A ',otter Veen' the Frog. London, March 2L -A Lieuttmente Colonel. of Yeentattry serving with Cleberal Brien) /larelltail, in a letter Ito a member of the, /roue° of Com- mons. mays Since Dee. 3 we have no - Wanted for between 800 and 1,000 Boers, Of °olive) it has entailed ire. niettdette Work and terrific night marehes, generally three a week, one ;Week four, great distances in bad weather, hampered by heavy rain frigetful thunderstorms and swollen rivers, frequently lying out in this sort of thing, never with more than one bittneet apiece, and frequently none at all. And then the fit* thing that greets us ie a letter to( the Times, saying everything out here 1 sleekness and want of mobility. It does not hurt ue, because eve are aware that the huge bulk of the English people know it is not true! and we can therefore afford to laugh!. I have never seen hard wore more eagerly done or great discomforts more cbeerfully borne Our chief individual capture has been General Erasums-quite a Moe old felicity, He sees what utter fools they have been. If he eau only ar. range matters with Lord Kitchener lie wants to fight on our side now, and so it is with them all; directly they are 'caught and E180 how well they are treated ley ue (for the men fraternize with Brother Boer and make him as comfortable as they ean), the first thing they seem to desire is that all the rest should be caught and the war ended. Eras- mus thanked us most profusely, and it le my firm belief that the great. est of all the various kinds of "rot" whicli are talked at home is the Idea of race hatred in the future. A French Prisoner Still Bela. Paris, March 21. -The Foreign Mite Lister M. Deleasse, in the Chamber of Deputies to -day, repiying to ques- tions regarding Ereneamen cap- tured by the British while fighting for the Boers, said: "Some of the prisoners were ar- rested at Johannesburg under the pretext teat they were engaged in eertain intrigues. We consider a pris- oner of war can only be taken on the field of battle, But Great Britain does not accept this view. There is only one French prisoner' on this category, however, who has not boon releasedeand strong efforts are being made to secure his liberation. " Regarding the concentration camps, the British Government in- forms us that all facilities have been given for forwarding provisions and other objeets requested by the Freneli committee." The Minister's statement was ap- plauded. Pretoria, March 23. --Messrs. Schalk- bruger, who is acting as President of the Transvaal, in the absence of Mr. Kruger, in Europe, Secretary of State Reitz and Commandants Lucas Meyer and Krogh, arrived here yes- terday morning from Balmoral. Only a few persons knew of the arrival of these important members of the Boer Government. The railway sta- tion was kept clean until they had left it. They were driven to the chief's house and nad an interview with Gen. Kitchener. In the after- noon they left on a special train fee the Orange River• Colony. inette to DeWet. London, March' 28.-A despatch to the Central News, sent from Pre- toria this afternoon, says that Mr. Schalkburger, the Acting -Pref. -Went of the Transvaal, with .State Secre- tary Reitz and Commandants Lucas Meyer and Krogh, arrived at Pre- toria to -day on a special train from Balmoral, to which place they coin° under a flag of truce. After a short stay in Pretoria, they left for the Orange River Colony. The Central News says :that the foregoing news caused excitement in the clubs and other places where the public gathers. Mr. Schalk - burger, and his companions, accord-- ing to the Central News, have gone south With the object of meeting Gen. Kitchener, who is in the field south of the Vaal River operating against General De Wet and Gener- al Delarey. It's good news, and the prospects of peace aro brighter than for many a day. had Been Grenily Berried. London, March 24. -According to the Pretoria, correspondent of the Standard, the Boer delegates ar- rived at Pretoria at 2.40 p.m., and left at about five o'clock. As some of the despatches do not mention their having interviewed General Kitchener, there is a certain amount of doabt whether they actually did so. One editorial suggests that 'nob - ably General Kitchener was not in Pretoria, or the stay elf Um dele- gates would not have been go short. The correspondent says timt the Doer delegates, after interviewing General Kitchener, left for Kroon- ertaelt, from enrich place they will go out under a, ear° conduct. All of the delegates are looking well, showing clear evidence of the healthiness of life on the veldt. The correspondent adds that Schalkburger and the other delegateshave been stationed at Rhenosterkoo, north of Balmoral, for a week. They have been great- ly harried by Col. Park and other Brash commanders. Once Schalk - burger had a narrow escape from be - Ing captured. The Doer position be- ing increasingly hopeless, despatch riders were sent to Balmoral Friday night to inform the British there of the coming of the delegates. . 4.1.4 ‘'hat i he Press Say. London, March 24.-T1ie news that the wandering Boer "Government" had entered the Dritinh lines is re- garded as having but one meaning, namely, that another attempt le being made to negotiate peace, The tact that the ceneor passed the news of this movement is accepted as confirmation of this opinion. Nothing is actually known here of Messrs. Schalkburger, Boltz, Meyer and Krogh. It le possible they have only sought permission to traverne the British lines in order to conenit with Mr. Steyn and the Boer Gen- erale Dewet and Delarey, bat, what- ever their object, the news hat' been WeleOined In London as pointing to the possibility of pettee, Some correspondence which was seized a sitert time no when Mr. Sttayn narrowly Maned ettpture proved that he and Air, Sclialkberg- or 'were anadotte to conclude Dente. No eattraVagrolt Wee, however, are ....--f. - 1 beiree built CM the outeoeie of the 1 inoreinent of Mr. Srehalkburger and hie companion% Chiefly becuelee U le feared that Deherey, le the [Will of hie reeelit eueeekie, Wili ranee to lee a party to any negetiatione, Tate War Office bee informed a representative of the Associated Peess that it has received no offi- cial Information either to confitrill Or Contradict the pew% Few of tile papers here ceeninent on the new% Times take it fer grant, ed that Mr, Schalkbarger and is coullialliente aro on a mission Of peace. They again engage In a dike °mean of possible peace terins, ex- preeeing the hope that the overtures will have a fiticeessfel outcome, The preemie° o/ Lueas Meyer is regarded as significant, as he is an Intimate friend of Louis 13ot1ee CoMmonclant '<rough is one of tlie Secretaries of the Boer GOvernmeete He was for- merly the admenistratOr of Swazi- land, and has not been prominent during the war. The Daily Chronicle, commenting on the absence of Botha froin the depu- tation, suggests 118 is standing aside owingto the failure of hie overtures of a year ago, and considers that, although the conditions Lord Kitch- ener time offered to Botha have been annulled, it is highly probable that peace may still be arranged on similar lines, but that the •Boers cannot e,xpeet more lenient terms. The Daily Chronicle remarks that a settlement would be possible if the Boer e were treated like civilized com- batants, "but men do not eurren- render unconditionally Just after taking one of the enemy's Generals and four of his guns." •••••........, Berries for South Africa, Toronto, Mareli 24. -Nine thousand one bundred and eleven horses have been shipped from Canada to South Afr.ca foe the use of the British army by Col. Dent eince he was sent out on this mlesion in 1901. Last month 761 were shipped, and Col, Dent told a reporter last night that he expect- ed to ehip 800 more early in April. Hie orders aro etill, as at the first, to ship all the suitable horses he oan get, • . 1 ..-,.. r Pro -Boer leisplay for Coronation. London, Marcia 24,-A despatch! to the Standard from Brueffele says that Dr. Lards, the diplomatic agent of the Boers, is about to organize an inter- national demonstra,tion by American and continental sympathizers on the day King Edward is (gowned. All pro -Boer eocleties will be asked to display the flags ef the Transvaal and Orange Free State, and to tele- graph to Ma leruge.r. The deepatch adds that it 119 doubt- lessly true that the Transvaal Lega- tion has for several months been re- ceiving regular report,' from South Afteca, probably by way of Lorenzo Marques. Ono of the laet despatches from Acting President Schalkburger states that the Doer losses from Oct. 1, 1000, to Ocet 1, 1901, were 400 men killed and 700 wounded. No mention ha made of prisoner% MORE CENSUS HEMS. Figures Showing Population by Nationalities, HOW WE ARE CLASSIFIED,. Ottawa despatch: The eensue of Canada, by origins and nationalities, Is presented in a new bulletin grouped by provinces and territories. Among whites the racial of tribal origin is teatea throughthe father, and among Indians through the mother. A per- eonwhose father is English and Whose mother le Scotch, Irish or French, is therefore. classed as Eng- lish in origin; but a person of mixed white and red blood, connnonly known as a "breed." is classed as Indian, with a sun-degeription of his white origin to denote the breed. Nationality applies by right of es- tablished usage to tele citizens of Canada, and in this bulletin the term "Canada" is used as descriptive of every person whose home is in the country, and who has acquired rights of citizenship in it. A person who was born in the United States or France or Germany, or other foreign coun- try, but whose home is In Canada, and who is a naturalized citizen, is classed as a Canadian; so also is every per- son born in the United Kingdom, or any of its colonies, whose reselence in Canada, is not merely temporary. Aliens living in the country are etas - allied by nationalities, according to the country of their birth, or the country to which they profess to Gyre allegiance. Population by Origins. The population by origins for On- tario and the definitions, are as follows: Ontario. Totals ... Arabian 83 Armenian ... 17 Austrian ... ... 1,040 ;Belgian ... ....e 184 Behemian 188 e3ritish- English. ' 701,582 Irish 624,847 aeons '179 Scotch e. 899,534 Welsh ... '6,664 Bulgarian nil Chinese ... 732 Dutch 28,291. Egyptian Finnic ... 1,225 Rbentsh e. 82 French-- ... 158,698 Galician .,, 83 German...... 203,964 Grecian ... • i• ••• i '115 Hatvallan nil Hungarian ......... 94 In.dlan 19,696 Indian (English breed) ... ' 527 Indian (French. breed) ...... 2,506 Indian (trish breed) 175 " (Scotch breed) 720 " (Other breed) 1,074 Japanese . 20 .rewleit2,120 Lutimanian,itualan nil Miiteo 27 Negro ... 8,087 Persian ... „.. 3 Polish 8,000 Polish, Austrian. nil Polish, German 111 ortuguese ......... Itoemantall • 88 ... 1,877 Scandinavian 265 Danish ... 947 Icelandie 146 Norwegian 621 Swedish ... 1.082 Slavic) 156 SOrYhat rve ••• goo 8 EaCillan 0 Spn,111811 ...... 297 Styles 1,761 Fkrrhtn 458 Turkish Unspecified 8,295 Various Orighte 4 Totals. 5,871,051 115 84 10,211 2;578 870 1,263,575 989,858 286 798,986 13,004 9 17,299 33,839 11 2,502 334 1,649,852 5,682 809,741 091 GO 1,510 98,319 4,557 17,012 I/89 6,300 4,716 10,892 4,788 9,128 24 87 17,427 15 6,255 27 467 845 03,586 1,029 3.945 9,202 5,841 10,597 768 21 9 902 0,863 1,641 40 20,609 10 JAMES QUIRK'S TRAGIC [NO. The Inquest Opened in 'Brant- ford Yesterday. WHAT WITNESSES SAID. Was Ills Death Caused by Mercier or Accident ?-111s Visit to the Barn -Ms Partner's Opinion -Particle - tars of the Sad Occurrence -Au Autopsy to be Made, Brantford, Mareb 24, -Is it a 2nur- der or an accident that caused the cleath of James Quirk, one of the proprietors of the Commercial Hotel of thie pity? Found about midnight on Senility night lying on the floor in a room in his barn, his head frightfully mashed, and just in hie last gasp, Quirk died before the eyes of his friends without being able to utter a word. Only for a. couple of seconds a quivering of the eyelids eold those about him that lie was Just passing, away. It is the impres- sion here, and that impression ie backed up by the circumstances sur- rounding this sad tragedy, that Quirk was foully murdered, and if he bas been it is at this present moment a most mysterious case. No weapon was found near the scene,nobody was noticed near man who 18 now dead. He had been, hardly ten minutes before the. time the body was found, chatting with friends. Only an open gateway leading !Senn the yard of the hotel to a main street, a gate .that Is usually closed, geve evidence that somebody might, after committing a murder, have departed by that way. However, the result of tile autooster, which will be made to -morrow morning by Dr. Harry R. Frank, will settle doubts as to the dense of death, although there seems to be little doubt but that a murder has taken place. The scene of tile tragedy is in the most open and possibly one of the best lighted localities in Brantford. The Commercial Hotel stands on Dalhousie street, facing the Market Square, which is surrounded by elec- tric lights, and Sunday night, more- over, was a brilliantly moonlit even- ing, while people were moving about the street not fifteen minutes before the discovery o.f the body. Mercier or Aecident? Murder or accident? That was the question When the friends of Jim Quirk picked up his body. His partner la business, Mr. Toole, said to your - correspondent, that he thought it was a case of murder. "Jim always carried with him," Mr. Toole remarked, "a large amount of money. He was a sport and would flash a roil or bilis, and he had three days' bar receipts, quite $200, in his pocket. I found $21 on him when I felt his pockets. I can't understand why he ever went out there unless he was decoyed out of the house." Mr. Toole offered an explanation as to the blood on the ladder. "You kuow Jim had game cocks. I told him to keep away from that gort of thing, but he was interested in it, anyway. He would sometimes take the birds up to the loft alter a fight, when they would be bleeding, and again, their combs would be cut, and that would make them bleed. It would be an easy matter for anyone to get into the hotel yard. It. is a large square, two sides occupied by the hotel and two by the low brieh barns of the house. The lane leading in is cov- ered over, and the gates closed and secured by iron bars, so that an entrance could not be ef- recited there. however, entrance ilea:a be made by the hotel itself or over the low roofs of the barns. After the tragedy of Sunday night the gates were discovered to be open, but the hostler states that he closed and fastened them as us - Representatives of some life and ac- cident insurance companies in which Quirk was insured are in Brantford watching the developments in the case. Mr. Quirk carried considerable insurance, $2,500 in the Ocean Acci- dent, $5,000 in the London Guar- antee, $3,000 in the Home Cirdee, and $4,000 in Um Exeelsior, besides amounts in other companies. The Inquest. The Inquest was opened to -night in a little room ie the Court House, Dr. C. O. Fissette the coroner, em- panelling the following jury W. lt. Harley (foreman), C. A. Montgomery, Philip Senn, Froth. Wilson, Wm. Hun- ter Wm. Snider, S. R. Stewart, S. P. !Maher, G. S. Montgomery, II. A. You'd% It. Pierce, J. M. Dyelnuan, Thos, Collie. The Crown was represented by Mr. W. T. Henderson, of the firm of Wilkes 84 Henderson, Mr. Wilkes being the Crown Attorney. The story of the discovery of the body was told by Rejig. Ryan, a cook of the Com- mercial Hotel. Ryan testified that Ito had been spending the day in the cOuntry Ivith a couple of Mende, but retuned to the hotel about 11.00 and bat en a settee in the office. There he saw Mr. Quirk pees through. Then Mr. Toole entre away to go to bed. A few) minutee later Gete Rolits, n, barteeder of the Kirby Homy, calne in and went to the room where Quirk whs euppOsed to be and rapped. Receiving no answer Rollie returned to the office. 'Net 'about this: time lite bell boy, named Kenny, came to the head of the stairs and cried out that, smite one was dying in the barn or getting kieked by a horse, for he could hair the groan% Ryon started for the barn and found the elect:tic light In n room to the lett lighted. %he barn door was open and three other raceme leading into the mein Where lie entered. There lie Sound Mr. Quirk lying on the Door eft the foot of the ladder leading to the loft, his head against the wall. He was on hie baek, With his tiring thrown . out. "Jim, Jim," Rytta called Out, but the dying man, for he WAR still breathing, gave no answer, and Ryan rushed back to the hotel to give the Marne "1 repped at Mr, loole'e door and said that Jim Was dying, that he had fallen down tile ladder, for thought at first he had. T then ran to lkirs. Quirk's toom and new her eonaleg out. I mid : ging' Jim's dying.' She fainted," After that Mr. Plan relnellibere very little More, Thr ha was tee excited, exeept that he saw Mr. 1.0010 tome along the hotel (earthier, going in the Mere - tion of hitt bedroom, George noire' f‘tory. Tile bartender of the Kirby House, mentioned by the last wittiest", Ue0,„ Roles, testified to his visit to the Commercial Ilottee on SUMlaY night eveleuce correberated that of igyan. Tee two itad chatted together NV a rew initiate% and Rents Was there when the boll boy gave his call of alarm, Rollie followed Ryan to the Darla, but did nett go in on hearing leyan's immberent remarks about !somebody being dead. lie had tried to prevent Rean from calling Afro, quirk, because he considered Ryan too ex - tater Rollie ran upstairs and saw Mrs. Quirk leaning against the wall in the reoeption room. Ile caught her le bee arms, laid( ber an tile floor, sent foe ice water and bathed her face and head. Afterwards he with others carried her into a bedroom and laid her on the bed. By thle tinle the gueSte in the hotel were up, after which Rollie returned heme to the Kirby House, The only other witnese heard Was David Taiomace an eugineer of 'ebe Street Railway Company, who spent about two hours iu the company of Mr, Quirk on Sundae' evening. Ffe met 111r. Quirig at 0.80, tore; a stroll with him, had a couple of drinks and Swim oysters, and finally left him at the C0111111(4'010 Hotel t Abeut 11.25 that night, • The inquest was then adjourned till Theralay night next at 8 o'clock. COL. EVANS WRITES HOME, Ono Case of Sniallloox Among the roops on Board. Ottawa, March 24. -Mayor Cook. of Ottawa, to -day received a letter from Col. Evane, commanding the third Canadian _contingent to South Africa. The letter was dated Cape Town, Feb. 14, and confirmed time rumor that enuallpos existed in the contingent whey they reached that port, After expressing his warmest appreciation of the good wishes Sent to that corps on the departure SEMI Halifax, Col. Evans goes on to say: "We have had the Venal ups and downer since we sailed. The first week was rough and cold, very hard on the herses. Later we had a small epidemic' of measles, 20 cases In all, but none very serious, Last, but not least, a case or small- pox was discovered. As it was dis- covered the blankets of the squad- ron to which the infected Man be- longed were all thrown overboard and the troop decke thoroughly washed and disinfected. Just twelve days had elapsed when COI. Evane wrote, without further development of fresh cases, He hoped that there would be no fur- ther difficulty. The case discovered was so light that the man did not require a nurse. Ile was isolated in one of tl.o cabins. Coe Evan e did not give the name or address of the patient. FINER SHERRICLOBBED Unknown Assailant Fled Into " the Bush, VICTIM WAS DRIVING HOIVIE, Toronto, March 24, -As the result of a blowdee•it by an unknown mac on eaturday night, Henry Barker, a farmer, who lives near Thestietown, 10 lying at hie home in a, very preear- low condition, I Barker was In teem on Saturday and started for home shortly before Six o'clock, driving a team hitched to a form wagon. Ile had just passed Wcston when, according to his story, a man ran out from the bush beside the road, climbed into the wagon, and dealt him a blow on the head with a club. Ile fell from his Seat to the road, almost stunned, but still holding the reins. A buggy com- ing around a bend in the road shortly after the blow was struck, his assail- ant took Co the bush and got away. Barker recovered pufficiently to eihnb into the wagon and start off again, but alter he had gone about a he became delirious, and his hoisee wandered on until they came to Ihe first farm lane, where •Lbey 41rnefi in. This happened to be the aome of h:s brother John, who had hint taken into the house and a doc- tor sent for, His condition is such that the doc- tor:, ,ire unable to say whether he wJ recover or not Tho injured man was unable to see the features of hie assailant in the dusk, and his de- e.:eriptIon el him is very meagre., It is supposed that robbery was contemplated, but that the lucky ap- In:aroma dr another rig prevented the h:ghwayman from carrying out bin designs, TEACHERS FOR THE, BOERS Ottawa, March 24.-iSpecia1e-The following tette:here have been selectee in Eastern Ontario to go to South Afrem to teach the Boar children In concentration camps: Miss Davina Notiger, Normal .School, Ottawa ; Mos Georgia A. Grant, Normal School, Ot- tawa; Miss Lottio I. Bleakney, Loa - per street, Ottawa; Miss Libbie Rod- ger, Lanark; Miss Mor- ena^ /I. Randal, Ottawa ; Miss Julia Urquhart, Bank street, Ottawa ; Miss Sarah .11 Dryeela,le, Perth; Miss Annie Moulton, Oananoque ; Miss Ruby M. Bothwell, Ottawa, • The following have been selected from Prince Edward Leland: Miss Clara L. Arbuckle, Summerside ; Miss Maud 1.4. Bremner and Miss Grace Dutcher, •Charlottetown. CRIED "AU REVOIR." Paris, March 22. -lite reeent ap- pearalico of the Princess Intimay and her Imisband, the Gypsiligo, hero has caused once more that old- time mandril to raise its head and lunge mulch of itself. A Most embarrassing situation was observed the other night at one of the more prominent cafe -to be preeise, the Cafe Americaine-wben tile Prince Chimay entered with a relative of id% They Look seats at n, table near the entrance, and al; most immediately the Princess and lier gypf9y entered and oompled an adjoining table. leer SOMO time neither notieed the other until the Princess' voice was KOMI in exelted protest on some point which had been inaudible to the rest ot the parting. Prince Chimay turned about im- haediaiely, and discovering les neighbors, flushed a deep crimson and burried from the place, not, how- ever, before his ex -wile had called tea lam nueokitee aceentR: "Au rower, mon cherie." ror tido elle was freely criticized by tbm guests assembled, and the Proprietor within a moment or two approached and requested her to leave the place. Col. Pellatt, ot the Queen's Own, will probribly bri offered the totem:Ind of the coronation contingent. TRAINS.. CRASH TOGETHER KILLINO FOUR 111EN. Death of Scout Who Would Have Saved Custer. Gored to Death by a Buffalo --Boy Med by Amateur aymnaium Apparatus -After Thirteen Months.' Trailing of a Post Office Robber a Post Office inspector Brings Back His elan --Chased efeeo Miles of Country. Youngstown, Ohio, March 24. -In a head-on collision between freight *eine at 7.10 o'clock this morning on the Pittsburg, Youngetnwn & Ashtabula division of the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne & Chicage road, four men were killed and three injured. The dead aro: Norman Graham,1 had read in some of tbe journals ef the athletic advantages to be gain - fireman, New C.astle, Pa.; James ed through the use of a pole hung 'laminae, fireman, Anhtabela, 011101 in the closet, and tried the scheme. --, brakeman, name not yet When he did not appear at tilt) ue., lumen, and Charles Blackburn, tar- ual time his parents investigated and found lam dead in the closet. He was got tender on the Erie road. hanging by .the nee% to the ropes The trains crashed together in a which had become twisted so that heavy fog, completely wrecking he was unable to free himself, and both engines and piling the cars PP choked to death. so that traffic will be suspended .• ( neigh t;i118 Mae. 'Wichita, Kansas, March 21. -After tor houre. The.ca,use of the wreck treiling 1118 Man from the Missiefrippi is not yet determined, the engineers to the Pacific coast, covering more on both trains claiming they had than 5,500 miles, in the pursuit and devoting las entire time to it for orders to go ahead. t icemous Seouge Tragic lend. hirteen months, Inspector D. W. Peters, of the !Census City division Butte, Mont., March 24, -Now e bas of post-offiee inspectors, captured bean received here of tbe death of George Irons, alleged to be the leader :diehard Rock, an old-time and widely of a. gag of western post-offiee rob - known scout and frontiersman, at here, and brought him back to Kan- -de ranch near Henry's Lake on Sat. sax, where Irons VMS wanted on the Imlay. Rock was gored to death by a epecifie charge of robbing the post - buffalo which he had raised. Rock office at S Elva, 011 Feb. 18th, 1901. was one of the scouts with the ill- A Federal .grand jury at 'Wichita fated Custer expedition, and Is said has indicted Irons with Albert Gibb, La be the man who gave Custer in- R'ay Taggart and Albert Taggart on formation of the presence of the in- charges of poet -office robbery. 'The titans under Sitting Buil In the val- three last-named men have all eon - ley wheee the crafty chieftain had feeeed that they were members of encamped. Rock advised the Generaf it gang svhich committed many post - to waft for the coming of Reno be. office robberies in western Kansas fore attacking. A year or so ago under the leadership of Irons. Rock was sent by the Government into Yellowstone Park to count the Buffalo remaining there. 119, Vatal inventiveness. Milwaukee, Wis„ March 24. -john Brown, 16 years old, living with hie parents in this city, is a victim of bedroom gymnastics. Young Brown -ce,ceeeeefeee Z,e.g..eseeergeeeeseeeeee kl4 eseeneseeseseege.-eeese._,,e-a-age,-,seaji.gge, A GREAT BOER ROUND -UP. Benuett BurieIgh Describes Kitchener's Great Drive in Orange River Colony. London, March 12. -Full details of Lord Kitchener's great drive hi Or- ange River Colony have reached Lon- don by mail. Bennett Burleigh, in a weird picture of the night battle after describing the preparations and eurroundings of the Boers continues: "It was about 8.45 p. m. that the real battle of the night commenced. "The Boers within the girdle re- alized that was their last change to break through. So when night's curtain was fairly pegged down, and only inky shadows hung in the west, the battle began. Our men had been biedeu eo spare no ammunition, but to keep the Boers in front. ,The enemy, using the ground to every advantage, crept up to where they had seen the columns C. ea We down. Then began a terrible fuellade from their Mousers to try and find or force an opening. Closer and closer they crept, the soldiers' Lee-Metfords in- cessa.ntly punaping back lead until the weapons were nearly too liot to hold. The blackness of night was speckled as with Myriads or FireilieS. (lancing in dark underbrush. Bit by bit the old tactics were employed by the enemy. Daring spirits, Jump- ing from the oprults, galloped their horses up to, and where possible through the lines, for if is hard to hit anything in the dark, even with a scrap of paper or phosphorus on the foresight of your rifle. Cattle were again requisitioned to overrun the defenders or our line. By nine o'clock the battle was raging from ten miles north of Hellbron for fully thirty miles away down the Heil- bron-Kroonstad Road. Boers were being killed, wounded, or made pris- oners by the wire fence, the Heil- bron outposts, and in the columns' lines. The contest swelled, and Max- ims, pom-poms,aimd cannon joined in the flare and A Magnificent hpectoele. "'It became not merely a battle, but a pyroteelinie display en the grandest scale, infinitely bigger and noisier than anything ever seen at the Crystal Palace or the Military Tournament. The armor -clad trains flashed their electric searchlights, arid bellowed with the best, using ri- fles, Maxims, and quick -firing 12. pounders. So close were the mobs of cattle and horses pushed up to the coltunng that more than half a scoro of time the gunners used case to stampede them, turning thent back. With splendid persist- ence the Boers tried again and again to break through, but relatiVely few succeeded -say, forty on Bowfin - son's right, a score elsewhere, and dozee, mayhap, to the north, be- tween Helibron and Gottenberg. Sonne there were who get hung up, horse and rider, and were killed On the Barbed -Wire Pence. Others sought safety and escape by olimbing trees. Up and down leaped the floodtide of battle, with- out intertnission, from 0 p. m. until 2 a. 111. About 10 P. in, 120 Boers ehargfx1 the line six miles north of Heilbron, held by the Leinsiers. Glad to see them come, the wild Ir- ishmen rose to meet them, witb yell, cheering and a volley, and then dashed at them with the bay- onet. firer Boer bloke and fled in- continently. A few whose horses carried them too far, were allot and bayoneted, and half a dozen made prisonern. But that Trish yell -1 heard it milea away, and it came like a fresh breeze sweeping down the line as presage of vietory. And later on, in a crucial moment, when 300 had got up to Rimington'e linos, their leader, Irish Mike, raised a wilder yell, as he called upon his men to lutrl them Week. They re- spanded most gallantly, took up the cheer, Which absolutely rolled along the entire lines from Gotten - berg, Hellbron, almost to 'Cretin- ettal, or at any rate to flouts Kop. The battle, of the night was won, nithough between and 4 it. an. there Wan' it sputtering ot rifles, it WAS ag nettling. 'With daylight the wounded Ewe rind priseners were eolleeted. A badly - hit Beer, jammed ip a tree, Wag touml dripping with blood by Ilmrlinton, who discovered six othere dead on hie front, several *Mauled, and took thirteen prisOners. A little later lie bagged forty Mete hiding in the grata. Tb.61'0 Were elety-five dead horses on Rimington's immediate front. He took that day eighty-nine prisoners, not counting dead or wounded, together with 200 horses and 1,800 cattle. Byng found twelve unwounded Boers in the morning and captured others later in the day. It was so, but in a lesser degree, with. Gen. Elliott's force. Shortly after 5 a.m., Saturday, 8th, the final advance began: There was a little firing a few rounds by the scouts just before the columns moved for -Ward. There- after the Boers' made no resistance, but hastened to turn their horses loose, and hide in rocky defiles and in the reeds and marshes of 'Rhenos- ter and the various %emits. Beating (Mit the Enemy. "The task 'was now to beat theta out, and how to search the ground - no easy task for tired men and jaded horses. There were plows we passed that were most inadequately ex- plored and beaten. Boers were pulled out from under the rocks and out or ant bear -holes. 0.1e man he -d got into a holloWi tree hnd was given away by his lanky knees and leather - patched trousere. Another actually ventured to lie down in the water of a sluggish pool, hiding his body be- neath the surface and breathing through a reed. He was accidentally diecovered and hauled out of the bulrushes, a man -grown, bearded Moses Boer. And so oel with many variants ere 5 p,m., and the hunt was finished, and 800 Boers for cer- tain were bagged, together with over 5,000 cattle and 1,800 horses. TEs majority or the prisoners were dirty, ragged, their hair and beards matted. Without undue harshness they would be classed as men of the lowest order of intelligence, with facee carrying you back to the typos of Saxon thralls and Russian serfs. Most of their trousers were patched with skins, but it few had contrived to make nether garments out of soldiers' blankets." How GeWet, Escaped. Mr. Burleigh thus deseribes how De Wet broke through the blockhouse lines during the drive: "De Wet, who had hastened south with 400 burghers, or thereabouts, having found a weakplace at Worn- kop, near Kroonstad, approached tlie lino of blockhouses, driving cattle and horses. Amongst the madly har- ried animals, lying flat on horseback, rode De Wot and his followers. The wire was brushed aside when the mob struck it, and gaily through and away rode the Boors, sustaining but a lose of three killed for the blockhouse fire was neither bitter nor deadly. It, however, added a few cattle to the blockhouse leaders. The enemy tried to pass through between Rawlinson and Byng. Commandant Van Collor, who succeeded to Van Steenkamp's comntando during 1,he night driving a. big herd of cattle near Iletibron, attuked the colienne named. The rush was preceded by much sniping and the dashing for - 'ward In the darkness of groups of burghers trying to find an outlet. With the yells of Boors and cracks or stock whips and ejaeriboks, the cat- tle were driven up to our lines. Then, Ln a roar of eXcitemeet, omelet shouts of "Sterns Begetters, Storm!" the enemy broke through. At least the leading sections some 250 or more, escaped, losing six killed and half a score wounded in the rush. With them went eferitze, Mears, Van Steenkamp, and others. The 250 who followed lost direction, ran up against some of our horse and cattle lines, were stopped, and had to gal- lop back. There were minor attempts made elsewhere. A few Iseera scrambled out upon their titomachs, leaving their barges behind, and go- ing afoot, anti there were otherwho discovered breaks in the wire fence, Or Made these through which they stole, scattering In many directions, Next morning the columns found ly- ing along their front many dead and wounded horses and cattle, 'and a number of dead and wounded Boers. Our losses were insignifienett- four killed, and under n. dotett wounded. Dearing the advance 'that day Byng picked up six unwounded Beer pritOn- ors, who 'were hiding in the long rasa, elinging cies° nef 'winged birde. RaWlintion'ti Martin Mind forty ein. wounded Boers doing their heat to hide in 1101eat and corners like rah. bite."