St. Louis Post-Dispatch
March 18, 1900

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RETR, Dee url ie . 276,150 Last Year. | 14,528 MORE THAN ANY OTHER WEST OF THE MISSISSIPPI. 41,809 More Than the Year eeewemeess Before. FIFTY PAGES. I. LOUIS POST- DISPATCH. 161,857 ast Sunday. BIGGEST WEST OF THE MISSISSIPPI, BY OVER 50,000. 58,871 Higher Than One Year Ago. a VOL. 52, NO. 209 PRICE FIVE CENT ee enw ee ie nee aD Qe THE SUNDAY POST-DISPATCH MARCH 18. Including the Sunday Post-Dispatch Song, “Just a Little Spray of Heather Bells,” and a Fourteen-Page Magazine, Iliustrated With Half-Tone and Line Cuts, Be Sure Your Newsdealer Gives You All. INDEX OF NEWS AND FEATURES -_—_—_—-—--—— PART I. Pages. 1—Nearly $1.900.000 Lost in a Poke: Another Flop by McKinley The Joers Hope tor koreien Aid. 2—All London ‘‘Wearing of the Green. (ot Pollowing In Hlis @ Ops, First X Rays, then Surgery 8—A Transport Scandal. Hanna Must Defeat Lentz. Archbishop Chappelle tn Phi lippines. Bishop Potter in the Orient. 5—Spent 20 Yeurs Behind the Bars. 6—News of the World by Cable from Post- ‘Dispatch Snecial ¢ ‘orrespondents. 7—New (ases in Court 8—The Exvle Not a Hiv 9, 2—In the World ; 10—-A Day’s Politics in nois Eng! ane a Good Pa for 11—Packe,, 12—Postnm:, ment. (;ame, ’f and Illi- Hanna. {Pal Vie ‘Sanith or Alissourti Mm Ships L. S *a Se gheatth neral PART II. Pages 13—-St. Helena and Its Prisoners. Was Not Cured by Faith. Automobile in the Icy North. Auto Fell Into a Shaft. “Angel Rabv Thief.’ 14- Amo ing the ar, had —_. » Streer Raiiw Polit ic u) Fx Mt ria! The Case of the Boer Against t 17—The Cubans Do Not Like Us. 8—Iu Society Circle 19—Married the T hird Real Estate ‘ments Markets and Pine incia) Ne 0—The World's Fair Work. Henaghan Hud Money Why Mails Are Late. PART III. 1§- he Briton. Time. AS Pages. "Strike Trusts Throurh ‘gi AXCS, 26 78, 29. ®—Poe itch Want ’ ‘ - Di S| Ads. $2—-Jonnson Got Into Jai} They Took Snap J: St. Patrick's Parade Papers for Transfer by Acadident, idzmerit Paces. 1—Baths, Lectures, rounds in Pu 2--" Phe Biack New Claimant to Stewart's Mi)- . lions Propos es to bight For Them 8. aes. Hitchcock's Washingion Success Leads to Riva! Iry With Mrs. Hay The Broken Swerd of Capt. Dreyfus. Pretty Annie O'Neill, the Rieh Widow of H. (. Miner. Hfis lAfe the Price of a 4—Exhibit of Sr. exposition Women Kay nloyed as of Au renes. Traditions the eons. 6—‘and'‘dates li pot sokee ping Hints for led Ov to tecipes “lower tjardens Criminals. , IG BS age he t ; Stories of yt Moved Yea Spring Birds Here Them Away -Is J.ily langtry Woman? Pearl Crop son. An Invention by the Prince of Wa Minnie Maddern Fiske, a St. louis Ac- tress, in Scenes From ‘“‘Becky Sharp.” ®—The Y. aut. Their Country and the Cause For hich They are OF ighting. St. Bis s Soldier Commands Important Filipina City fay Become Senator Clark's Bride 10—Lost Tribe Found by Explorer on North End of pu ateon Ray. Lidraries and Play- dlie Sch Joke. Assistant Pastors Young Smoker Should From Neighboring Cities. the New!|s Make (jood Bread anid to Reform Women | of St. boy: seven Times in | and Snow Can't Drive} de Rathe a Reautiful Six Months Ahead of Sea- les, r?O#8FO + OoO27O O20 | @OPO-O-0-90O0-4 0-70 O02 -O- 'o? the | PART IV. | j 4,S i Wolf's Breed." | T | 600,000 week i , | Was one af the plavers., Louis Schools at the Paris!- Mar- { | Other | § ' Louis. | = . a Largest Collection of Confederate Money In the World. The Biggest Fish that Swi mes l—A Page of Personal Opinion | ‘ont nated by David Belasco. ‘Hor: yo phart, Arthur MacDonald. Alice Reena la. k- well and Hudson Maxim. 12--St. Louls Women in Ha! Hints for Women on Teitet by Harriet Hubbard Ayer fy Rathbone Kent. Persons are Starving in India 14—The Many Kinds and True Nature Kissing Bugs. Plants Which Grow in the Mou nine seete te Deoay. emarkable Surgery on the Hich Se What is Your Favorite ee _ Animals as Prophets of D'saster. PART V. Four Pages of Illustrated Sunday Hu- ™mo ' WILL TEST — REPUBLICANS Democrats Will Try the Sincerity of | House Republican Leaders in Trust Prosecutions. ftone Hamme Mat aad and and of th Cause | ewift Chi Bpecial to the Pest-Dienatch. WASHINGTON, March 17.—The sincerity of the House Republican leaders in trust | si Prosecutions wi!] be tested by the Demo crats. Representative Richardson, leader of the minority, introduced to-day two joint resolutions aimed at the American Steel and Wire Trust and the Federal Trust. The resolutions provide that six months Steel after the passage of the bills the products | of these two corporations shall not transported from one State to another. THE WEATHER INDICATIONS. WASHINOTON, end Monday: Iilinote—Warmer and fair Sunday, except snow in mortbeast portion; Monday, fair: fresh southerly winds. Indiana—Warmer and fair Sunday, preceded by light snow in extreme northern portion; Monday, fair; fresh southerly winda. Arkansas—Geverally fair and warmer Monday, fair; southerly winds Oklahoma and Indian Territory—Fair: warmer Sunday; Monday, fair; winds mostiy southerly. Western Dexas and New Mexico—lalr Sunday and Monday, veriable winds. lowa~Fair Sunday; warmer in eastern portien; Monday, fair; west to south winds. Missouri—Falr; warmer Sunday; a to south winds. rt | Dakota, South Dakota, Kansas, Nebraska, March 17.—Ferecast for Sunday Sunday; Monday. fair; i i must high i Wite tne New were Col. (ol, made. It be nameless might hurt entire part including to the intimated club mgine the loss was des, it The York In spirits, $300, 000 |loser. T! went people and quietly like of old fourteenth floor. Im gO magnates when they rooms had been turned into 11 ‘Let's play in our rooms, then,” of the big losers, and no sooner said than done. ey one the rooms on found 1 he bed rooms. erled one The game began each night after dinner | hands | lasted till 6 a. m. Then all in for sleep and then did business. A nap tn the afternoon, a bracer or two, dinner and the gate again. This. con- tinued till last Monday when another lim- ited train brought thetr special car back to Chicaro again. SMALLEST CHIP WAS $50. It was a simple game. A $0 chip was the ante, but this was nothing. The smallest, if any came in, was $40, and it was just as apt to be $00. Jackpots cost $1000 a corner as a starter. A good hand was worth $10,000 before its owner felt Ike cali- ing, and more than once $20,000 changed hands on a full house. The biggest pot held $42,000. It started with $6000-—$1000 from each. Three men stayed when it was opened for $1000. The opener teok threes cards; each of the other two wasiconient with one. and turned A RAILWAY TRAIN All a Lb fe) POPO®O®O® | “How I JOHN W. GATES. — = eee — | “A thoausand,’’ said the opener, calmly, | for he , of k ‘“‘Make !t another five,’’ said the second man, for he had pulled in the ace of dia- monds to his other four of the same sult. “That sults me,” said the third player, “and we'll put just another $000 to it.’’ The opener with his three Kings called. The ace-high flush man had the nerve to do the same. about asked the third man, aying down a full house. He had caught ten to his tens and fives. He taok nes ss ree 1D gia another the pot. TWO CHIPS ON FOUR PAT DUCES. The biggest hand won two chips, $100. The rule of the game was that as six were play- | ing {ft jackpot. The ante man put up his %. A man with a pair of eights came in wich an- other $0. Everybody else dropped out till it came to the dealer. He had four deuces pat. “Another $500 to draw cards,”’ hoping to get a raise back. “You win,’ said the ante man, down his hand. “My eights are not other. The biggest bluff. that 000. It was another jackpot. a pot not to be shown. The winner had four clubs and of spades. This sort of thing kept up for six nighis. The nearest that any New Yorker came to getting into the game was the invitatian extended to Daniel the American Tin Plate Company. “No, siree,"’ sald he, when asked {f he played. ‘I was invited to take a hand, but when I saw $50,000 In a jackpot I concluded that it was too much like gambling.”’ WHO THE PLAYERS WERE. John W. Gates {gs many times a million- aire. He formed the Steel Wire Trust and ewreated fortunes for himself and dozen o hers. John A. Drake !s regarded as the finest amateur card player In Chicago. He is also known to fame as having been sandbagged and relieved of $21,900 by a thug. Col, Lambert and Col. something about the cards, Palm isn't so well known. men are intimate friends of Gov. Tanner, who no longer plays. The story of a fa- mous game in which all hands took part Is still told. The crowd had gone East for Grant Day in 1897, and besides those already men- tioned young Joe Lelter took a hand. The game lasted ome night, but In that time $50,000 changed hands. Tanner lost $11,000, Illwood $14,000, Leiter $18,000 and Lambert $3000. The winners were Gates and Drake. BIG LOSSES AT GAMES. ‘Tucky'’’ Baldwin sat in some of the big- said he, throwing worth $500,"’ sald the It was too big too, but Most of the gest poker games ever played f{n this coun- i trv he- { ie y a | the | disgust of the; : winnings amounted to $2M.9m%— three aces in Saratoga in ‘otal $69.4) on His Won 1897 l-known French Thomas Merriit Pougy, a wel ©1200 from Liane de actress, Wwon lof San Fran Milton Young flim of yt. senator Timothy D. Sullivan of New York at peker from $50,000 to $75,000 during the last year. Sullivan does not chew or drink, and is superstitious to last degree. Bewause a friend iit ihe blamed him for lastng $196,009. |. **Hred’’ Walbaum lost witin a to $205,000 He played most of it Saratoga, and also at Hot Springs. The late George Law, president of the Eighth avenue line, lost heavily at poker before his death. He det as high as $1000 on one ham. His losses for one year amounted to several hundred thousand. Steve I'Hommedieu lost between $20,000 and $25.0 recently. Denman Thompson, the actor, is said to have lost $100,000 playing poker in John Morrisey’s old gambling house, No. 818 Broadway. Col. Tom Ochiltree has also been a heavy loser in his day. Dropped $000 In a gam- bling game in Washington about two years ago. Tom Dorris is said to have won a row of houses on Olive street, St. Louls, be- tween Eleventh and Twelfth streets, from a member of an old french family in a pok- ‘18co. of Kentucky won $50 by ‘ ‘4 a « smoke the at | pair of eights won the pot. had caught another king to his pair | thoritatively (the President NOTH ALOP BY MAINLY, —_——eo— SF o—o—/—C[ Wants the Porto, Rico Tariff in His Own JHands. ‘FAVORS THE ELKINS PLAN. ‘ | ciiscigaaennis ‘POWER TO LEVY OR NOT LEVY TAX, AS HE SEES FIT. by the Opposition to the Meas- ure Passed by the House. From a Post-Dispatch Staff Correspondent. WASHINGTON, March 17.—President Mc- Kinley has changed his mind again. Sena- tor Elkins of West Virginia more than an hour to-day with the President cussing the Porto Rican tariff bill. He does not believe with others of his party (nat the proposed 15 per cent tariff on Porto Kti- {gs good politics, and has fa- leaving the en lent, the Presi- spent dis- can producis vored a resalution ter in the hands of the I’resl The Elkins plan !{s to permit dent to levy a tariff tax at such times in 'such sums and under such conditions as he thinks best, provided the maximum rate does not exceed 15 per cent. The Post-Dispatch is au- informed that not only dues now approve of the E/kKins anxious to have {t adopted. be- correspondent scheme, hut is As a lieved resul: of the Fikins visit, It MerKinley will re is frik ‘quest hi ‘nds to needed three to play or else tt was a ! | | ' { worked won $23.- | ' refus! ng to state Ww: hether he is the ace. | ce her {inexorable attitude. H. Reid, President of | Vearly for her inexo | would half a | LOSSES IN THE PHILIPPINES Eliwood know | Mr. | a match year $16,- act on this Senator Proctor came Int the President and Senator Elkins were talk- ing. He gave his hearty apaovel the Elkins plan. Proctor foresees Cisaster to the Republican par:yv if the proposed Porto Rican tariff be adopted. A do-nathing policy ts far preferable the leaders than the present tariff plan. While it is not possible to-night to say whether a majority of the Senate Republic- ans will give sanetion to the Elkins scheme it is a certainty that a word from the White House wou!d tnstantly stop all efforts to- ward getting the tariff bill through. DAVIS DEFENDS THE BOERS The “Missourian Who Has Visited Kruger Says England Will Pay Dearly for Her Present Attitude. advice oO Be e room when of to Special Cable to the Post-Dispatch (Copyright, 1900.) March 17.—The fKCanzler has arrived from Lorenzo Marquez. ‘Assistant Secretary of the Inte- rior Davis of Washington was on board. I] had great difficulty in Interviewing him, Mr. Davis maintaining strict reserve and bearer Mr. NAPLES mail steamer the of a message to President Me Kinley. Davis appeared much impressed with the heroism and resolution of the Boers, and thinks Pretoria will not be taken without an appalling loss of life. England will pay Mr. Da- vis {s convinced that the Boers will fight to the last man rather than lose thelr in- dependence. He hoped the civilized world interfere and prevent the ruthless massacre. Mr. Davis was very favorably impressed with the intellectual, social and moral qualities of the Boers, and thinks them worthy to govern themselves. The Secretary has sailed on Lliayd’s boat Alper direct for New York. All Army cbaenes- Claims That Otis’ Force Wi!l Soon Be as Small as Was a Year Ago. Special to the Post-Dispatch. WASHINGTON, March 17.—An army of- ficer to-day, speaking of the situation in the Philippines, showed a very alarming state of affairs. He said: “Any one who will analyze the reports of Gen. Otis for one day will see that there is a steady loss, amounting to nearly a com- day. This inclu the losses by and disease, officers resigned, ided home and other minor losses, Invaliding one battalion will ratse the Inc pany &a aes wounds men inval “The new or from every regular re figures of loss rainy season hand Tne ' comman lers. rirmnent. fey the 40, 000 vo) unt —_ aniaiivameaile THE cOEBEL MURDER TRIALS Have Been Set “for | ainda but Will Probably Not Until Later. oe . — Begin The ‘retary of Culton and before Judge not be FRANKFORT, Ky., March 17 amining trials of Republican Se State Caleb Powers, W. H John Davis, set for hearing Moore next Monday, will probably held till later In the week County Attorney Palsgerove eald to-night that owing to the fact that the Common- wealth's witnesses are e@ecattered over the State, it will be IiImry to get them here sooner than Wednesday. Col. T. C. Campbell, who East, returned to-night, and is the prosecution In the preparation cace. The defenee has summoned a number of witnesses, among Whom Adjutant-General Dani@ R. Collier, As#- sistant Adjutant-Genperal J. K. Dixon, Moe- Kenzie Todd. private secretary to Gev. Taylor; ex-State Treasurer George . W. Long, Assistant Secretary of State J. B. Matthews and many other attaches f the State departmenta and membera o, the vossible ASSISLIOg€ large er game. A hand of three queens and a Legisiature. The Commonwealth ha not } disclosed its list of witnesses. The Missourlan, ame tire Mdie- | hape of for America (offer of mediation. ex- regret at the oppor unity ' eure o1 Trejt has been tn the: ' | res of the | in wor are | THE BOERS —— " Roberts Resting His Army Before His March to the Transvaal! Capital. EUROPE FEARS 10 MEDOLE - . ° s , ‘Some Irritation in England he President Seems to Be Frightened (ver President Mckinley’s Offer to Bring About Peace. ‘WEBSTER DAVIS OUTSPOKEN. ee ee ee Who Is on His Way Home From Pretoria, Declares That England Will Regret Present Attitude To- ward the Little Republics, LONDON, March 17.—Spencer Wilkinson, the writer who voices the opinion of the best milltary experts in London, says: “The Transvaal Boers may fight on in the foreign intervention. They have mo other chance, Bs either British oer outnumbers them, and they cannot escape, | being between two fires, except by perpet-, ual retreat. “But though I can see no chance for them except through intervention, I expect the Transvaal Boers will fight unt!l the last, as their animosity! to the British is deep rooted. “Intervention hardly seems likely, as the British navy is an’ unknown quantity and the British nation Quite determined. ‘““Meantime the Transvaal Boers solemnly declare that they have made the Biggars- berg impregnable, but LBuller has no need to run his head against Biggarsberg. Lord Roberts, by advancing along the Vaal River, would turn Biggarsberg and the Loers must then be between two armiles.”’ Special Cable to the Post-Dispatch. LONDON, March 17.—Lord Roberts’ army is resting. MBuller’s forces ere stretched across the neck of Natal and Gatacre and Clements’ are clearing the Orange River country of Boers, who are retreating towards the north. It is not probable that another battle will occur for several days. A dispatch from Lobotsi, 0 miles north of Mafeking, says the railroad is open to that point, and there is wire communica- tion as far as Pitsani. The Boers who were at Sequani have retired to Rusken- burg. The relief of Mafeking is expected s00n, The above {is the military situation, ac- cording to the latest news from the front. The only hope for the Boers ts foreign | intervention—and this apparently can only come from Russia and France. A dispatch from Paris to-night says: “The tension of feeling between France and England certainly has undergone abatement this week, for which the con- eonciliatory article of the London Times ts largely responsibie, and the fact that it was so well received by the French press demonstrates that the Francophobe atti- tude of many of the English papers is, to | a great extent, accountable for the strained relations of the two peoples. ‘Those na- tionalist organs Whose Anglophobism is a part of their studied party policy have not abated their attacks, but the moderate journals have responded to the advances of the London press in the same spirit.” Mr. Smalley, the New York correspondent of the London Times, apologized humbly im regard to the President's “He went too far,” Mr. Smalley cables, “for the majority of Americans, weo per- ceive that it is to America’s inierest that England should triumph and not far enough for the LBoer sympathizers. Lord Roabérts’ policy toward the Boers in Bloemfontein. and his suppression of the Boef civil gov- ernment most favorably -impresses the Americans.” Sume of the leading London papers my that between the ines of the politely word- ed editorial comments on President MeKin- | ley’s expression of willingness to ald in restorgtian of ritain andthe boer Miaily eviaenees f an whi the less r outwardly the government } , . stil Lie pPuwWwe#rs the | peace between Great erned be dis iward rT) Republics can ation | , ‘ tle : ad es not expre ted ta assume what ‘the ungraci some form of Interf added this expression: ieip con rast ng per attitude of openly offer of had come from could only have infriendly ‘men cannot the t correctness of the infriendly France Srates, which, if it terested source, with the the | United a iess disi! been regarded as an \ act.’ the overt though carefully ated Great Rrt:. especialiy ted States express open ; offered to critics to compare the refusal of M. Deleasse, the French Minister of Foreign Affatrs, to grat- ify the hostile sentiment in I'ranece by mak- ta Lord Salisbury wh! on with what they testily call " of Washington, and ative and clothed ‘ndiiness and cour- tesy, came at fnoapportune Moment when the supreme seif-sufttc the British Empire is the predominating feeling of the day. Everywhere one hears expression of satisfaction that while the answer to the proposal was clothed in words of perfec: courtesy, the language of Lord Salisbury in “brushing azide’ President McKinley's proffer was so extremely definite as to kil) eh . t. loubt that ures of even iy irr.t iile cire'les osals ‘> were ng pro} , iace he “interference hich. though only tent fet . ’ an lency af -o— —*-- © -@ © @ © oo -—-¢-*—- — oo ¢—__# -#—-@- © -©— 0—o—0—_o © -¢—-o—_ o_o ‘tended « i|drop, in the ,and along Sundays River our patrols come jin contact i but th HOPE FOR FOREIGN AID. - T° THE CAPITOL AT PRETORIA. One of the handsomest buildings tn Pretoria, the seat of government of the Transvaal Repuabile, is the Raadzaal, or Council Hall, as the Capitol ie designated. The building was completed in 1891, and its cost was $875,000. Above the portico is carved in stone the Transvaal coat of arms and the national motto: ‘‘Eendragt maakt magt,”’ a free translation of which is ‘‘Ia anion there ie strength.” : ! | RHODES COMES WITH BLOOD ON HIS HANDS. LONDON, March 17.—All Englishmen and al! English newspapers are 4 not admirers of Cecil Rhodes. The Leader says: } $ HAVE THE BOERS MADE THEIR LAST TREK? If the Boers are beaten and driven from Pretoria, will they submit to the British yoke, or will they, as in the past when Britain’s hand fell upon them, trek to a new land? The prospect of another trek is a gloomy one. The only possible path lies to the north. Mountain range upon mountain range rises throughout the northern half of the Republic to the Limpopo or Crocodi!e River, which divides the land from British South Africa. If provisioned the Boers can carry on the war in these ranges—a guerrilla warfare—for years. There is really no land left in South Africa to which they can fly and establish a new Republic. Portugal is to the east of them, British Central Africa above British South Africa. Then comes the Congo Free State. German East Africa, British East Africa and Ital- ian Northeast Africa. There is also Portuguese West Africa. Unless they emi- grate to some unoccupied island in the Pacific Ocean and there relay the foun- dations of their Republic, there is no spot open to them for a new and inde- pendent settlement. The favorite battle hymn now sung in the Boer camps say “We Will Trek No More.” Tocarry out this sentiment, if there be no intervention, means submission or annihilation. - © - - @¢ ¢ » . a) ee a Mr. Rhodes is once more about to visit England. There {s nothing sur- prising in this. Mr. Rhodes is in the habit of visiting England whenever he has been engaged in some specially obnoxious job in South Africa. Thus he visited England shortly after the Jameson raid, and assured Mr. Chamberlain, who possibly believed him, that he was entirely clear of any complicity in that disreputable and ridiculous business. There was blood on his hands then—the blood of the burghers shot down in defending their country; the blood of the Englishmen who were deceived into believing that the Jamesoninvasion had the sanction of Her Majesty's government. i The score against him was increased by the terrible sacrifice of life in- volved in the Matabele insurrection, when the natives, goaded by oppression ; into rebellion, rose against Europeans who had been deprived of their natural protectors. As for the blood upon his hands no w—the blood of those valiant British » soldiers and those valiant burghers who have so well learned to respect each other—it seems difficult to allude to it in terms of sufficient indignation. ? For let no one lose sight of this fact—that though the war now devas- ’ tating South Africa is, so far as Imperial responsibility is concerned, Mr. % Chamberlain's war, it is, in respect of the intrigues that have so astutely led ¢ up toit, Mr. Rhodes’ war. ' The government, for reasons which are somewhat mysterious, is in the hands of Mr. Chamberlain. Mr. Chamberlain, for reasons which are perhaps a little less myterious, is in the hands of Mr. Rhodes. What Mr. Rhodes wants is the forcible subjection of South Africa to himself, by the aid of imperial soldiers. That is a necessity for him, for his crimes against the peace of South Africa would els¢ involve him in a terrible retribution. The annexation of the Republics means the presence of a powerful imperial army to overawe not only the Dutch population of the Republics, but also the Dutch population of the Cape Colony. -e-o-o- AN ARMY OF 14,000 BOERS IN THE MOUNTAIN PASSES. I & i | | : Holding the Drakensberg and Biggarsbereg in Front of Buller’s Far Superior Force. Special Cable to the Post-Dispatch. (Copyright, 1900.) LADYSMITH, March 17. good food. Gen. Buller’s army, with the increase of the Ladysmith men and guna, is noW a very powerful force. The soldiers ering about 14,00, occupy strong positions |4re growing impatient for an attack and the Biggarsberg Range, which runs at | Want to completely expel the enemy from angles with Drakensbergs. They | Briush territory. The feeling here is gene orted to have ® cannon These men that this great aim will to be caught sooner or later. The revictuailiing of L army occuples widely ex | proceeding daily, but as the ‘mps from Acton Homes and Dew- | over the Tugela River. will not be ready west, to Elandsiaagte and! for several food comes in slowly. River, on the east, with outposts | Medical comforts, however, are now sufe rd towards Van Reenen Pass fictent and the accumulation of supplhea, Kaar. Both opposite Recnen /with a ylew of further operations, Is pro- ceeding. occasionally, | ‘The hospitals are being evacuated steo” with few ifly and a large onvaiescent camp naving of the South | been formed with the theugands of beda. The Maine and other hospital ships are fi.iling up with cases for England. The Maine sails Saturday with a full compie- ment of cots. Still there are about 2008 cases {n the camp. WINSTON SPHBNCBPR CHURCHILL -The Boers, num- ey > , ipa ili are rey eral net remains idysmith is ral.way bridge, dle, btish now days Sundays pus and hed forwna hHielpmat with the Bh are outpost casual Yesterday a patro! African Light Horse, beyond Besters, were fired on. Two men were wounded and cap- tured. Otherwise all is quiet in Natal. The troops are rapidly recovering from fatigues. The Ladysmith garrison is re- cuperating well with plenty of exercise and ers ey affairs ties. this case, auiside the bonds oF diplomaie courtesy. It is asserted that {f Lord Sallebury been addressing himse'f #trictly to the Arnerican government's communication this phraseology would have been different. ts bellewed that he would have informed Washington, having precise regard to See. tetary Hay's language, that there was ne way In which the United @rates could “ald” all possibility of a repetition of the offers from any source, unless those proposing them are desirous of being recognized as openly antagonistic this country. Rad to yj Emphasis is laid on the fact that Great Britain declared at the outset her unwill- ingness to consent to any outside interfer- ence, and therefore, according to the well- established principle of Internationa) law, that the right of intervention ts conditional on the willingness of both parties to the quarrel to accept the good offices of a me- diating power, such interference wis, & | not have epoken so Gat = = vee ae ae. eae Se i winging abewt peste, and anne Progen | ie ree eee ee ee . 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