St. Louis Post-Dispatch
November 26, 1899

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_ @eded by a7 SF ee ” 5 > 2 7) “ m ie ee Piel PR ok, - - . . OR oe ee Cae ke ya pe ik oie _ 5 af = ‘4 . st ep 2 oy FIFTY-TWO PAGES. ‘ST.LOUIS: POST- DISPATCH. 130,602 Greatest West of the Mississippi. 40,945 Higher Than Last ist Year, i 4720 Higher Than Last Year. VOL. 53, NO. 97 1899 PRICE FIVE CONS SUNDAY MORNING—ST. LOUIS NOVEMBER 26, THE SUNDAY POST-DISPATCH NOV. 26. Including the Sunday Post-Dispatch Song “A Hymn of Thanksgiving” Be Sure Your Newsdealer Gives You All. INDEX OF NEWS AND FEATURES. PART I. ie Crime of the Maine Exposed. *“Bill’’ Anthony’s Mother in Need. He Proved to Be a Woman. Gioom in ‘England Over Boer War. St. Louis Men Safe in Texas Storm. To Battle With Giant Trusts. Confidence Men's Large Gains. The Conditions in Havana - A-New Hymn of Thanks. . Scenes at Union Station. . Cable News of the World from Post- Dispatch Special Correspondents. World's Fair Work. It Was Built for Music. Did Good by Stealth. . The Khalifa Ki lied in Battle. Pratt’s Mission Here. S. Grant is Writing Her Life Hobart. lssues, 1. Funeral ‘of Vice-President Congressman Payne on Public 12. Gowns, Gloves and Bonnets. They Are for Imperialism. ———— PART II. gomes. 13. Love Drove Mae Marshall He Is ‘he Riley of Colors. It Was the. Making of a Man. Mrs. Kent Denies It. Wolf Farm in the Wilds. A Pian to Dam Niagara. Editorial. Week's Record of Trusts. Coal Trust Hit Decisive Blow. Oriental Faith Followed in Wisconsin. Woman Seeks Her Loved Ones. - A New Engine of War. Hunting for a Hoard. His Wife Is Another's. His Love Was Fixed. An Angry Enowh Arden . The Romance of Nellie ‘Batiste, Her Love Had Been Lasting. . With the Plaver Folk. . Fight Thousand Miles in a Yacht. How to Catch the Widows. . Taking Pictures of a Spirit. . Actor Nelson’s Little Romance In the Dispensary. He is Going Back to China. PART III. to Death. 14. 15. Pages. 23. Aguinaldo Has Only 200 Men Ia@ft. Safe Biown Open The Snell Case Revived. In the World of Sport. 97, 28, 29, 30, 31. Post-Dispatch Want Ads. . Among the Women's Cu.ubs, . In the World of Soctety. . No Trace of Mre. Harison. Strikers Win in Belleville. A City’s Sort Heart. PART IV. Louis Author Page 1. Mrs. Kate Chopin, a 8t. and Whose Who Has Won Fame, Latest Book, ‘““The Awakening, Re Translated Into All European Lan- guages. Illustrated. A Thanksgiving Menu ‘a. Thanksgiving cy 4a of St. Louis. Diamonds May Be Found in America. lilustrated. What the Eves of a Common Sees. Illustrated. . What Lyddite Is and Does. Scientists Have Produced by Means of Chemicals. . Photographs of Beautiful Women An Extraordinary Half-Tones. The Architecture of the Human Body. . Women and Wrinkles Fashions in kevening., Gowns, Illustrated. Pittsbure Girle to See the’ Pope. The Magnificent Gowns Woagn’ by Julia Arthur and Virginia Harnéd. Rev. Dr. Holland of St. Louis and His Series of Sermons on “The Man With the Hoe.”’§ Illustrated. Dwight L. Moody, the At op eg Who First Came to St. Louis to Sell Shoes, and His Great Work tin This C ity. ll- lustrated. Illinois Letter This Week at trated. Astrophysics, a New Study at the Smith- sonian Institution, Tllustrated. A Jesuit Mission for the Italians of St. Louis. The Enormous Arch of the New Church of St. John the Divine. Illustrated. Jacob J. A. Morath of Clayton, St. Louis County, Mo., Has Invented an Automobile ‘low, Illustrated, The Automobile in Porto Rico. The Town of Pelzer, 8S. C.. From Which Politicians, Actresses, Editors and Sa- loonkeepers Are Sarred, ard Which Has no Police Force. The Savate, the Frenchman's Method of lllustr ated, 123 Years _ Til, Sayvs He etal of Youth. Illustrated. Cowboy Sullivan's Wedding by Novel Means. lLllustrated. St. mute Soldiers in the Philippines, The Faculty of Love Cut From a Baby's Braih to Save Her Life. Illustrated. A Page of Personal Opinion, ing Contributions by Elizabeth ( ady Stanton, Rev. T. De Witt Talmage, David Belasco, the Marquis of Lans- downe, Bishop William CC, Doane. Jonn Burrows and Others. . My First Appearance Sir Henry Irving. tiona. Ie the Dresden “lIAstine Madonna” a Copy? lllustrated., Animal Intelligence; by Rev. Adams. , merpert Bismarck, Son Prir as a Charmer ane cate iss Alta Who Bee Dewey “Sassed" by . Women in for Six, at @ Housefly Animal Life Illustrated. St. Louis Group Carriers’ Convention Bloomington. lllus- Old, Born Near Prevented on the Stage: by Half-Tone Illustra- (hariles J. Iron li- of the of Women. Frishbie of ‘ame a Creorg! an Pa Washington Soctety Why the Season This Ye ar Wi 1 Re "Wa dey ingly Quiet, -Tone Lilustrat “Sunshine ; 's) adow:;:"" a Study Child-Life ' Abuse of the s . George Westt: Smoke Les inover The the Smithsonian Institution The Original Man. “‘the Lived in the Philippines Exploding Iron Shella With Ice. . Beautiful Women From Five States ep tered in the Post-Dispatch and forid Pan-American Leauty Contest. Half-Tones. Alice Flood, a St. Louls Child. BRecome an Actress Half-Tone. Five Generations Represented at a Mis- sour! Family Reunion... HMalf-Tones. PART V. of Iilustrated Massena iA Ls ng. chusetts, mit. sONS In lias ‘Invented a youse Four Pages Humor. WEATHER INDICATIONS. RAIN; THEN FAIR. Fair in western; probably rain, eastern portion Sunday; fair, wortberly winds Illinois— Kain saadel Monday fair: _ Westerly yee a a, 4s . J 7 Pe "OWL of ° Dancing and Other | Has Discovered the | Contain- | Wonderful Collection of Baskets at . Missing Link.” Who Will | Sunday | RIME THE MAINE OW STANDS E The Cleaning of Havana Harbor Has Disclosed a Secret Which Adds Another Link to the Chain of Evidence Against Spain. i i A. i id GUN-COTTON TORPEDOES STRUCK THE SHIP'S SIDE AND BLEW HER UP. - = = Facts Discovered by a Joint Investigation Made by American Secret Service Men and a Correspond- ent of the World and Post-Dispatch. aoa ——~0 0 The destruction of the Maine was the greatest international crime in his- tory. It brought about results of tremendous import. It changed the map of the world and completely reversed the positions of two nations. Although convincing evidence that the Maine was destroyed from the outside was dis- covered, the method of destruction has been unknown up to the present time. Through the joint investigation of Mr. Louis Seibold, correspondent of the World and Post-Dispatch, ard the secret service agents of the United States, the explosive vsed and the source from which it was obtained have been dis- covered. The results of the investigation are given below by Mr. Seibold. Copyright, 1899, by the Press Publishing Company. Special Carrespondence of the Post-Dispatch. HAVANA, Nov. 19.—Officials of the United States Government, most secret investigation, have discovered the explosive used in blowing up the warship Maine, in Havana Harbor on February 15, 1898. It was gun cotton. Seven hundred pounds of gun cotton were used. The gun cotton was the property of the Spanish Government. It was sent from Barcelona, Spain, to Admiral Manterola, commanding the port of Havana, a month before the destruction of the Maine. Six cases, each containing 350 pounds of gun cotton were received in Ha- after a vana. The contents of two boxes, 700 pounds, were either stolen from the magazine where they were stored or were taken with the knowledge of the officials in charge. Admiral Manterola’s records undoubtedly show the names of his subordinates who had direct control of the explosives, and in that way the identity of the authors.and the executioners of the plot to destroy the Maine may be dis- covered. | The Post-Dispatch has the highest authority for these statements. The “Government @t Washington has been,..em@gen will be, in possession THE UNITED STATES IN POSSESSION OF ALL THE FACTS of all the facts relating to the néw discoveries and will probably solicit the assist- ance of the Spanish Government in securing the punishment of the authors of the crime. Evidence that has come into the possession of the United States officials at Havana is substantially conclusive. The Captain of the Port of Havana made ithe first discovery a month ago. Commander Young is cleaning the harbor, | which was probably one of the filthiest in the world when the United States took ‘control. He says he is giving Havana a new stomach.” In exploring the buildings surrounding the harbor, formerly used by the Spanish naval forces, Young found six cases used in shipping explosives. Two This discovery, with other facts, which officers of the United States Secret Service have learned, confrms the declaration of Capt. Sigsbee of the Maine when she was blown up, and of Capt. Stevens, of the Ward Steam- ship Company, that the Maine was blown up from the outside. The newly discovered evidence further shows that the destruction of the / Maine was accomplished by the use of torpedoes charged with gun cotton and contact with the keel of the warship. three men were engaged in the destruction of the Maine. A steam used by the United States Government in Havana Harbor, conveyed the torpedoes, according to the new evidence, to a point within a few feet of the berth of the Maine and there anchored them. The torpedoes were kept in their position by means of buoys floating eleven feet un- der water and ten feet above anchors used to prevent them being swept away. The Maine was drawing fourteen feet of water at her anchorage. The testi- mony showed that the explosion which destroyed her, struck the starboard bottom plate three feet above the bottom line. : The conclusion reached by the officials who have recently been investigat- were empty. exploded bh Two o launch of Spanish make which is now ‘ing the cause of the destruction of the Maine is that the men who planted the | torpedoes containing gun cotton made a careful study Of the Maine’s anchorage ‘and the changing conditions of the tide, planting the gun cotton SO as to obviate the necessity for explodig the torpedoes by an electric wire. It was suggested before the Board of Inquiry that torpedoes charged with gun cotton might have been used in destroying the warship, but in the pub- ‘lished report of the evidence no reference was made to it. Experts who explored the wreck of the Maine could find no trace of a marine mine or of electric wires in the harbor. TORPEDOES WERE ANCHORED NEAR THE MAINE The new evidence shows that gun cotton torpedoes were anchored at ebb tide on the starboard: side of the Maine, and within a few feet. of the ship's bottom plate. The Maine anchored with her nose pointing toward Havana. The action of the tide swung her stern toward the southern end of the harbor and her bow toward the west and northwest in the direction of the Moro. Capt. Sigsbee in his official report said “If an expert had been charged with purely as a-matter of harbor defense and having only one mine available 1 be- lieve he would have placed it under the position that the Maine occupied that mining the Maine's mooring berth, night That is precisely what the men who placed the gun cotton torpedoes under ‘the Maine. did, according to the conclusions drawn by officials of the United *States from the new evidence discovered. Plates of the Maine coming in con- tact with torpedoes which were on ‘the starboard quarter, or that section from the center of the ship which would be designated northwest, were exploded. The torpedoes were placed at a. spot where Sigsbee says a mine would ‘have been.placed. The Maine swinging with the tide struck the caps attached to ‘the floating buoys and exploded the gun cotton in the torpcdoes below. The force of the explosion undoubtedly destroyed the torpedoes and the sub- merged buoys, while the anchors used to prevent the torpedoes and buoys from floating away were undiscoverable in the mass of debris of the Maine itself. The officials of the Secret Service who have conducted secret service work both here and in Spain believe that the torpedoes were shaped like big buckets and made of aluminum or other light metal easily destroyed and leaving no traces behind. Capt. Stevens of the Ward Steamship Company, who. witnessed the explo- sion, told me that the theory evolved by officials of the United States. based on evidence Secret Service officers have obtained, confirmed his own view of ithe explosion. He ‘said: “I was standing on the port side of the City of Washington, looking directly at the Maine. The explosion was on the outside and underneath. It makes me angry when anybody suggests it was an internal explosion, because if I can be- lieve my own eyes, I saw it before anybody on the Maine knew anything about ™ covnmnker ¢ ON PAGE Two. DS EXPOSED. ‘la medal for bravery | because he was. HE'S MOTHER 1D IN - —— Mrs. Anthony, Despite Grief, Tries te Hide Foverty. HER SON COMMITTED SUICICE. DEAD MAN WAS “BILL ANTHONY OF TRE MAINE.’ |Charitable Persons Will Kerp tke Body From Potter’s Field, but There Is No One Left to Provide for the Old Woman. Special to the Post-Dispatch. NEW YORK, Nov. body ies in the Presbyterian Hospital. He : he haa no money could not work, but charitable men—now that It too late to buy him food—will puy a |coffin and save the body from potter's field. | Anothony’s suicide was peculiarly :dis- tresesing. His wife and baby were to re- turn soon, she to go to work in a store, }and all was to be well with them. |sad is the blow to the aged mother of An- thony. She is 82 years old.. Although she is the mother of one of the heroes of the Maine, she lives in poverty in two squalid rooms in Hoboken, N. J. When she was seen to-night her thin gray hair was dis- heveled because she could not keep her hands away from her head, which she says pains her all the time: She wore a threadbare dresss with only a shawl around her shoulders to keep her warm. In the room were two chairs, an empty stove and a table. The old lady stood in the doorway, trying to block the visitor's view of her destitute surroundings. “T cannot talk,’ she said. "My head feels so strange, and it throbs and aches just Hike my heart. Oh, my boy! My boy! The old.lady trembled and moaned and could not be comforted. Her granddaugh- ter, who came in from work, with eyes red from weeping, tried in vain to soothe her. “I cannot stay home with her,’’ said the girl, ‘“‘or I would lose my posjtion. I am Mary Anthony. and ‘Bill’ Anthony was my uncle. He was his mother’s sole suppor and he provided for her when he had to go without himself. He was not the kind that was a hero outside and mean to those at home. He was grandmother's favorite, and she was always so proud of him. When people talked about how he did his duty she called him a hero. It seemed to make her young again—she was so proud and happy; and when the government gave him she cried over it—she ‘“Rrave Bill’’ An- morgue at the Killed himself o> a) thony’s because and get is was so giad. “When Uncle Billy used to come over in his uniform she was as proud of him as if he had been the President, and she knew he would do something great some day, and be the pride of her ol gage. He was all that Kept her living, and now that he is gone I don’t know what she wi!! do. ‘‘When he told her all about the nice girl he had, and then how he had married, and the baby and all, she was perfectly happy, We haven't seen him for some months. He didn’t tell her he was out of work, bus said in his letters that he was getting along so nicely and how happy he was with hjs wife and baby. “If she’d on?y stop moaning and cry,” said the girl, wringing her hands, “I think it would do her good. She feels so terrible and ehe can't cry.’’ Can I do anything for you?” porter asked Mrs. Anthony. “For me? No, ‘no,”’ she replied drearily. “Don't bother about me; nobody does. I'm only a poor old woman—a poor old woman.” LAVINIA HART. —— MR. GRAU FAILS IN CHICAGO He Savs That the West Ia Unappre- ciative and His Tour Is a Failure. some the -+te- a Special to the Post-Dispatch. CHICAGO, Nov. 2%.—Mr. Maurice Grau, who had such an unsuccessful season of grand opera in St Louis, has now a com- plaint against Chicago. With stars ill, the l\chorus reduced and prices advanced Grau falled to win here, as he did in St. Louis. | He does not think Chicago ‘‘civilized up to ‘grand opera” and has so expressed himself. Seven of his seasons have been unsuccess- iful, and when the curtain fell on Walkuere”’ Friday night he said: ‘I ghall | | not attempt to manage another grand opera pate in Chicago unless a guarantee is riven and the city gives good evidence ‘appreciation. Although prices have lower than in New York and the company as notable, Chicago stays away. This sea- son has been a disastrous fallure.’’ SCHLEY HAS NOTHING TO SAY He Starts on His Voyage to South At- lantic Station Without a Word to the Public. been NEW YORK, Nov. 2%.—Rear Admira! Schley of the South Atlantic squadron salled to-day on-the flagship Chicugo for Santa Lucia, Windward Group, where he will coal. Thence he will sa‘l to Bahia and Buenos Ayres. In the Platte he will pick up the Montgomery and the Wilming- ton. | When asked if he had anything to say to the public Rear Admiral Schiey held up both hands and exclaimed: “Absolutely nothing.’ Steam was on s:x of the Chicago's bo;l- ers, capable of driving the flagship about 15 knots an hour. With cheers from ner crew, music by the ship's band. and the acknowledgement of salutes by the dip- ping of her flag, the Chicago steamed out lshrough the Narrows y Equally. ELLIS GLENN “1S NOT A MAN, The Handsome Beau of South- ern Lllinois Is a Weman. SEX DISCOVERED IN PRISON. WAS TO HAVE WED ELLA DUKES AT HILLSBORO. Disappeared and Was Supposed to Have Drowned at St. Louis, but Was Captured and Ccn- victed of Forg- ery. Special to the Post-Dispatch. CHESTER; Ill, Nov. %.—Sheriff Cassidy of Hillsboro, Montgomery County, arrived at the Chester (lil.) penitentiary to-day with Ellis Glenn of that county to serve out an indefinite sentence for comm/'tting forgery. He turned his prisoner over to the authorities of that institution, and accord- ing to their rule, each prisoner is thorough- ly examined. The prison physican, Ww. Lane, began to make the necessary exam- ination and to his surprise found that G'enn was a female in d'sguise. ago to-day Glenn gained considerable pub- licity by supposedly falling ofr a steamboat near St. Louis drowned, but was captured at Paducah, Ky., and turned over to Sheriff Cassidy. On Oct. 8 Gienn was to have been united in marriage to a young lady in Hillsboro, but disappeared three days prior to her mar- riage. The officials says this is the first case of the kind that ever dccurred at the penitentiary. Sheriff Cassidy arrived with Glenn, alias H. Terry, on the noon train to-day. The G. | prisoner was received and receipted for by 'Deputy Warden Towell, ; Capt. turned over to Lee, the receiving officer, to be in- ducted into stripes, was photographed, had his hair cut and sent to the bathroom. On being partially stripped an objection was raised by the prisoner against going into the water by reason of cramps. Capt. Lee was sent for, and then came the start- ling discovery that Glenn was a woman. Glenn was taken to the hospital and exam- ined by the surgeon, who said the prisoner was certainly a woman. The deputy war- den was sent for, made acquainted with the facts and promptly returned he. con- vict to the custody of the Sheriff, who left ' with his prisoner for Hillsboro on the even- | | ‘Die | | of ; ing train. Closely questioned by Deputy Dowell, *““Miss’”’ Glenn said she was from Ohio, but had been in Texas; that the forgery had been committed by her twin brother, her double in size and appearance, resembling him so closely that they could not be told one from the other when clad alike; that in order that he might escape she had changed clothes with him in Paducah in or- der to save him. It is needless to say the Story was not believed. The prisoner is coid blooded and cal- culating and the officers are inclined to be- lieve has an =interesting history if it could be found out. Glenn wanted to be taken direct to the Female Prison at Joliet, which of course, under the circumstances, sentenced as a man, the officer could not do, t had to take her to await the fur- ther\action of the court. 5o far it has been impossible to discover Glenn's identity. The sheriff was in a quaidary when he left with the prisoner, whom he ironed se- cure.y before leaving the prison, as he re- garded the convict as being both desperaie and cunning, liable to escape at any oppor- tunity. Gienn’s photograph was taken at the penitentiary and copies will be sent to detectives all over the country. From a legal standpoint, what will be done with Gienn ise interesting. The pris- oner was arrested, tried, convicted as a man. Sent to a prison where only mace convicts are received and returned to the Sheriff, he could not convey the prisoner to Joliet, nor could Warden Murphy re- ceive the woman. It is a legal puzzle. No confidence is given the story that the woman ig personat!ng a twin brother and suffering for his sin. The record of Glenn is most remarkable. So closely was the fact of sex guarded that engagement to a young woman of Hillsboro was announced. No one ever suspected that the groom-to-be waa not a man, and reference to Glenn was always made as in this story of his courtship. Glenn was a sewing machine agent at Butier, Ill. When he made the acquaint- ance of Ella Dukes, a school girl. He went to her home one morning a few years ago to sell her mother a machine. He was a dashing fellow in appearance, tall and straight, with curly jet black hair and heavy mustache. He dressed in the height of fashion, and\was a man that any fe- maie would be proud to own as a husband. He had land and money at that time, and was considered the most desirable youn man in the vicinity of Butler. He had many warm admirers .aamong the fair sex, and it was a matter of considerabie gussip whom he should choose as his wife. While Glenn was talking to Mrs. her daughter, Ella, chanced to come t®e room. She had just returned Duke into from ' school and had been romping with her girl held her bonnet In her hand, golden hair was failing in ringlets over her face, and in long curls down her back. Her cheeks were red aa and when she laughed she displayed her lovely teeth to advantage. When the girl entered the room Glenn ceased talk- ing. His eyes were riveted upon her beau- tiful face. He forgot what he had called for, and sat as one enchanted. From that moment he became an ardent eultor for the hand of Miss Ella. He waited until she grew into womanhood and then asked her parents’ consent to marry their daughter. Mr. and Mrs. Dukes, xnow- ing that their daughter reciprocated the young man’s love, gave their consent, but begged that the ceremony shoula not take piace unti) the fall of this year. Glenn than began to negotiate with contracturs in Litchfield to bDulld a home for his bride. This was in the early spring of 1899. Everything went well and the young peopie were preparing for the wedd! ng. when sud- denly came news of financial reverses to the young man He had lost heavily {n speculations. Then came an order from 4 company to make’ his annual settlement with them. He presented a note to J. J. Frey, a broker, who was well acquainted with the signatures of the MeLean Brothers, whose names appeared to the note. On Mr. Frey's complaint Glenn was arrested. He was taken before Justice Charles Grassel, who bound him over to await the action a the Grand-jury. enn’s bond was fixed at $1000. and this" he readily gave, his Pg om tive father-in-law goin on on his bon hen Mr. Gienn was arrested _. CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO. 4 friends. She her beautiful rost Ss, + _ | leaguered garrisons in Natal, One month | ‘that the outiook and being — sible is made GLOOM HAS CHEERING UCCEEDED IN ENGLAN =~ =" rw” Methuen’s Small Triumph at Belmont Does Not Relieve the Bad Outlook of the General British Situation. i ii i BCERS COUNT ON THE FALL. OF. , LADYSMITH WITHIN A FEW DAYS, = i as The Expected Relief Movement From Durban See Effectually Checked and Expert Opinion in Lon- don Regards Conditions in South Africa as Extremely Critical. y= i LONDON, Nov. 25.—The position in Na- | tal remains full of perplexities. which the censorship has increased. Although a di- vision and a half hav- now reached Dur- ban that place is practically powerless un- | til supplied with cavalry and artillery and until these arrive the situation will un- doubtedly remain grave. With three be-, besides Kim- berley and Mafeking, and no signs of suc- cor in the Immediate future, it is no wonder is regarded as distinctly to-night, and that the most pos- of Gen. Methuen's success, such as it was. That bettle decided noth- ing and it seems certain that many ex- perts are of the opinion that the story of gloomy “object of preventing an the return of the pursuing cavalry with- , out getting in touch with the retreating Boers indicates that the cavalry discovered in time that if it had gone it would soon have been wn the Pretoria race course with its comrades of the Hussars. It will not surprise any one greatly if the Boers are shortly again discovered in an intrencned position near the spot from which Gen. Methuen has just evicted them. From no other point can even a semblance of success be reperted. Mafeking is appar- ently in worse plight than the Britishers have hitherto cared to admit, and it is difficult to see how it can be relleved for some time to come. While the official dis- patch frem the Boer head laager outside Ladysmith, dated Ndy. 24, showed that the town was still flying the Union Jack on Friday, The situation In the northern portion ot Cape Colony is about as unsatisfactory af it can be Boers are turning up in all di tions. “ dispatch received at @ - hour to-night, reports that the enemy ha clown up a railway bridge between R mead Junction and Miadlebure, with advance from P This was effected by a sma)}l commando, which, it is stated, remains ip the neighborhocd. The effect of blowing up this bridge will tend to Isolate Naauwe poort, which was recently reoccupled BF the British, and must delay the advance ef the troops just arrived at Port Elizabeth. Even if Gen. White holds out until ree lieved, it will only remove a picturesque phese of the campaign and does not mean that it will hasten its speedy end. The Boers, it is claimed, are not likely to risk the deciding battle of the war until they have got Gen. Buller’s invading force into a position believed to be favorable to them, or until they are driven into a A Cape Town Miizabeth. which promises to be a matter of months, the cheerful tone of the message | and the evident anticipation of the speedy | reduction of Ladysmith is not calculated to cheer anxious relatives. The reported silénce of the British guns also again arouses fears of a shortness of ammunition, and the fact that the Boers have just placed In position another siege The criticism of the methods of the Brit- ish army organization has led several writers to again seriously consider the ade visability of adopting some form of con scription but, aithough a preponderance of military experts might favor such a step, the British nation has not yet reached that stage where it could submit to such mill- tarism. ? An official @tepatch from the Boer | outside Ladysmith, dated Friday, Noy. which comes from Preteria, says: * “The garrison at Ladysmith was strange. ‘i quiet yesterday. The cannonade to-day gun shows that they have not yet dens | their worst. The arrival of the German officers, some of whom, it is understood, perience in reducing fortified towns in 1870- 11, is calculated to lead to a oOonange of tactics, which will adc to the suspense of the sorely tried garrison. gained large ex. | | ! night hardly evoked a response. The balloon no longer soars. The third big cannon, which the placed in position to-day. ficers arrived last night. “The Boer generals think they will enco pass the fall of Ladysmith at the end this week. “There was a terrific thun/erstorm last Four Boe rs guarding a cannon were seriously struck.’ The German of CAPTIVE POST-DISPATCH WAR CORRESPONDENT, ——— __- = -™ ww ~ Mr. E. F. Knight, Although Wounded, Dictates an Account of the Battle at Belmont.: The following special cable dispatch to the Post-Dispatch's war correspondent with the Kimberley relief expedition, who was wounded tn the battle he meld beh ate ee neh & oe bd Be Ser. Ie reer oe Gen. Lord Methuen promptly > ena ae his regret that | corner, — Boers have baptized Suzerainty, was bia. ; a - mt - e Gee a »; La Sie A See? Ope 7 3 ‘ — = ou . a F : 2 9 ey oe ee ae eee ce es oe Zz ye > ~ ee - mp: =~ ee - ws Bohs Lat al ORAS - . 4.4