St. Louis Post-Dispatch
March 22, 1900

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Rai a era, ee ee Se TOS 2 ES Ry SO at es yr? - : te * = ae e on é - RegularEdition here Are St. Louis’ Slums And what can be done for the regeneration of the inhabi- tants. By an expert. See the next Jsunda y ee ST.LOUIS POST-DISPATCH. SWORN AVERAGE SUNDAY CIF.CULATION FOR FEBRUARY, 152,565. SIXTEEN PAGES. THE ONLY ST. LOUIS EVENING PAPER WITH THE ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCHES. “ e) Post-Dispatch} vor. 52, No. 213 ———- THURSDAY EVENING—ST. LOUIS—MARCH 22, 1900 PRICE} In St. Louis, One Cent. Outside St. Louis, Two Cents. ~_—— HUSBANDS THR "7 STILL FREE, Who Is Next Bidder for Mrs. Chilton-Tuttle- Wright- Havens ? THREE-TIME BRIDE NOT YET 39. eee we “AH,” SHE SIGHS, “LOVE AND RICHES ARE NOT ALWAYS ONE.” Divorced With Cyclonic Speed From Three Milionaires, She Does Not Repine, but Admits That “Love Is the Queere:t Thing in Life.’’ » Spe:ial to the Post-Dispatch. NEW YORK, March what’s my your friends’’—husband ~» ~~. —"*Old he is gain: let's No. loss ") 2 to husband No. 3, speaking of Mrs. Letitia Chilton-Tuttle- Wright-Havens. Though wedded to them Tuttle-Wright-Havens Wealth, position, attention, love—all the third three millionaires and Mrs. Letitia Chilton- is bird by all, loved free as a again. she has cast to the winds for Justice Giegerich, in the has just unbound time. Court, that husband. Not that there is any hard feeling. band No. friends with No. 3. They visit much in common, As for husband No. 1 he is a millionaire, too, and his time is taken up with running his bank in Plattsburg. The former spouse of the thee is rich also; her grandmother left her a fortune in her own right. “Ah.” sighed Mrs. Chilton-Tuttle-Wright Havens when a Post-Dispatch reporter called, “love and. riches are not aiways | one.”’ There was nothing to hide; she rejoiced in her freedom again, just as a bird might that had escaped its cage. The news of the third. decree had gladdened her heart, but it madé her pensive. This three-time bride {Is not yet 30. “An only child, perhaps I was spoiled,” home at Plattsburg, N. Y., tract a rood many dashing from Fort Ticonderoga; my father personally many prom:nent politicians, and so it happened that I was flatiered and made a foolish marriage when | ly 16. Mr. Tuttle made violent protesiations of love and my head was turned. He Was President of the First National Bank of Platitsburg. “We did not live happily forced to get a divorce. He good traits, was a church dea real estate owner and an able happenings away from our home made my marriage There was a trial and I received my decree. “T came New York to and to console myself with my music, my and the good friends who had solaced me in my lonely married life. “But at Newport I was introduced Robert C. Wright, a dashing Philadeiphian, who had a fortune in his own right and would tnherit a million more when father died. After-a brief courtship i made | a second matrimonial venture.” | Mrs. Chilton-Tuttle-Wright-Havens here sighed. “Mr. Wright was the most lucky fellow imaginable. Poor more I went through that dreadful divorce court experience. “My health was so that physicians and friends insisted upon send- ing me Bouth. “That was another mistake, Carolina I met Mr. Havens. college man, suave, “self-pvised vorite with everybody. His wealthy and Influential. Well, che was s0 impetuous that | marry him and we settled down in “But it was the old, old story. that suavity, that coolness and deferential] manner was a difficult type of man in the home. Home!’ she repeated, “what a parody on the word my acquaintance with home has been! Love is the queerest thing in life.” 7 * Another severance of the tle that binds and Mrs. Havens no longer calls Rodman W. Havens her life partner. She has vowed never to marry again. TO GIVE DEWEY A GOOD TIME Mayor Ziegenhein Thinks the City Should Raise $25,000 With Which to Entertain the Admiral. Supreme | down the decree her handed her from third living Hus- 2 is great husband each other and have both being millionatres. pampered, “Our and she petted said. to al- fellows knew seemed was bare- was many large but and I has 1, & man, intolerable. to live tried pets to his happy-go-. chap. Once shattered my for in North He was a and a fa- father is to be brief, consented to Texas. Under A meeting of the Dewey Reception Com- mittee wil] be held Thursday afternoon in Mayor Ziegenhein's office. The Mayor has issued circulars to prominent citizens, ask- ing them to be present at 2 o'clock. “I hope to make the St. Louis reception to the Admiral ecilpse everything of the kind ever held in the city,”’ eaid the Mayor. | “We should raise by subscription §25.000 for his entertaimment. There should be not the slightest edifficuity in obtaining this amount. Admiral Dewey will arrive in St. Louis May 3 and remain two days. Vote Against a New Courthouse. Special to the Post-Dispatch. BUTLINR, Mo, March 21.—Complet . + v9 hag Reg- the special election, helt eke the vrpowe of veting tion to build a $00 Cou slace, show that e vo chap, | tures in the next Sunday be. { * iin tonaiieg (1) on aoe wm ‘4 pe , t y ae | 4 4 —a 1HE “OPEN DOOR" FOR 2 ¢.. . 7 » G Ac * . —— a ® . ek eae Se Save ct ar ‘ iepe> eeteeaat \ SIT. LOUIS. I LOVE AFFAIR IN.ALABAMA HAS A TRAGIC ENDING. en JEALOUS SUITOR IS KILLED. se ee ee He Begins the Shooting and When the Lamps Are Relit He Is Found a Corpse. Special to the Post-Dispatch. LW THE DARK. BIRMINGHAM, A.a., March 22.—A duel to | |} other men will go, knowing that they are the death was fought in the dark last n ght by George Washington and Will Harris, at the home of Mrs. Lulu MiHer. Elizabeth Judge, a young woman of whom both men are enamored, was the cause of the tragedy, Harris had forbidden Washingion to her attention, claiming that he and Miss Judge were engaged. When Harr.s arr.ved at Mrs, Miller’s .ast night he found Wash- ington there with Miss Judge. Without parley he ordered the women to vacate the room and toid Wash.ngton to defend himself and drew a pistol. ington drew his pisto! also, but dash for the door. In his hurry he upset a lamp the table and the room became dark pistoi shots were then fired in rapid sucvession. When the police arrived a few moments afterward Harris’ dead body lay oun the floor and Washington had fled. on Ten FOLKS AT HOME. | a on KNOCKS AND EQUINOX. I'e saw the twenty-first of March (ome in with winds as stiff as starch, And murmured as they fanned bis locks: ‘This Is the vernal equinox.’ The year has two ‘‘nox’’—that is all~ (ne In the spring and one in fall; But man, proud man, is a crafty fox, And all the year around he knocks. SOULARD MARQUETTE. (“hristlan Editor Sheldon had his troubles just the same as the unregeneraited. ‘Sun- King, a Kansas character with whom Mr. She.don is acquainted, failed to receive his copy of the Topeka Capital during Shel- don week. Being eager to see the result of his preacher friend's efforts as an editor, he fired him this telegram: “What the —~— did Jesus do with my paper?” Moral: bled. liave you a baby? “Yes,” I hear you say, “a couple of 'em."’ All right; you are the man I am looking for. A former St. Loulsan, now we .-known in the Bast as an athlete and tra r, has invented a system of physical cuiture for babies, which wall be thoroughly explained by him and filustrated with halftone pic- Post-Dispatch. Whether that infantfle prodigy of yours is sick or well, this system is the very thing to make his muscles stick out and put leather in his lungs. It was Pudd’nhead Wilson who said: “Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.” Wilson was not a pudding-head, as events recorded by Mark Twain proved. He was very wise, as a matter uf fact, and a the- ory which he held and used with great ef- fect has given rise in St. Louis to a unique society which has no counterpart in these United States. This ‘society is composed gWholly of 8t. Louis men, and they have some odd official titles, you may be sure. The organization is secret, but the main features and che first obligation taken by members have been made public, and they will] be de- *? Se. jacribed in the next Gunday Post-Dispatch, | Wash- } Kven a Christian editor is trou- are { pay | | | made a} with pictures of the organizer, who is .0ow the Main Squeeze, and other officials. A poet once inquired: Why rack the eager, pulsing brain With hope of joys we cannot gain? Which was equivalent to saying: “Why strive after the unattainable?’ Yet that !s what mankind does, every day of the world. At various times within the last two or three centuries, just by way of example, 202 different parties of men have etarted out to find a certain treasure which no man ever saw, and which would do them no good even if discovered. In this vain search for the unattainable more than 300 men have laid down their lives after suffering more terrible than can be imagined, and $120,000.00 has been spent. They are not searching for a Golden Fleece; they are chasing an Ignis Fatuus. Yet they keep on and on and on, and yet liabie to be brought back dead, or, what is worse, that they will never be brought back at all. Why will men be so persistent {n such a matter? What is the esearch in which they are engaged? See facts and illustrations in the next Sunday Post-Dispatch. You saw the verbatim ‘‘conversations’’ on the first page of the last Post-Diepatch Sun- day Magazine. Great scheme, eh? And unparalleled for accuracy. The next lesue wiil contain two more of these ‘“‘conversa- tions,”’ wide In scope and literally reported. In one of them a St. Louis pastor will in- terview a well-known actress; or, to be more precise, they will interview each other on a subject of interest not only in St. Louls, but throughout the United States; yes, even throughout the civilized world, In the other symposium a number of prominent St. Louisans will interview each other on a subject now of paramount inter- est to every man, woman and child in this city. Can you afford to miss these? The poor old mother-in-law has been made as much of a butt for jokes as the meek-eyed mule, “Who. if he happened to kick you, And you didn’t have a chance to duck, you Would be wafted above so quick you Would never know what struck you.’’ But the much found a champion has that abused mother-in-law in St. Louis, and | good lady may yet have her inning, while the grouchy son-in-law takes an outing. For further particulars see the next Sunday Post-Dispatch Magazine. “Time will tell,”’ sald a philosopher; and so will the gossips; and of nothing can they tell mvure than of love and its vagaries. Tom Moore once warbled a strain about Love, ali-defying love, that sees No charms in trophies won with ease. that brand of affection some- times has a hard row to hoe, and many the romances brought into existence thereby. In the next Sunday Post-Dispatch you will find a rare collection of interest- ing love storics. You may find a duplicate of your own experience. Who knows’? Among many other excelient features don't forzet the half-tones. One famous American woman who has “rights enough” will present some interesting views, _— RE THE WEATHER INDICATIONS. PROBABLY FAIR. But even St. Louis and vicinity—Unsettied, but probably fair Thursday night and Friday. Missouri—Generally fair Thursday night and Fri- day; moderate temperature. Illinois—Fair Thursday night and Friday ercept threatening extreme south portion; moderate tem- rature. indiana—#air Thursday night and Friday; warm- er south portion Thursday night; southwest winds. lowa—Fair Thursday night and Friday; slightly cooler in northeast portion Thursday night; west- erly winds. Here and Elsewhere at 7 a. m. Kansas City ........ Litlle Rock New Orleans .. 36 .30 FAIR WORK DELAYED ee SPECIAL COMMITTEE HAS NOT YET BEEN ORGANIZED. —- — LITTLE CHANGE IN THE BILL. Only a Few More Unnecessary Safe- guards Are Thr@wn Around the Apprcpriati¢n ) Sought. 2 Snectal to the Poet-Diepatch, WASHINGTON, March,-22.—Ex-Congress- man Seth W. Cobb, who fas had charge of World’s Fatr wor in Washington, started home this afternoon at 3:40 o’ciock Until return of Repre tative J wr Tawney of Minnesota, Chairman of Ulfe committee, will tnat the House special! nothing De done towaracs orga lea eon, completed no further pier ss can be made. Mr. Cobo will return as soon as the com- mittee is ready for tin@phearings. Mr. Joy, who has be@™ laboring earnestly for the il look™after affairs during Mr. Cobb's absence. The new World’s Fair bill was yesterday Houre by Congressman and until is fair, wi introduced in the zane of Iowa. The only important 4@ffference hetween it and the original bill i# with regard to the conditiOns which must be met before the Government appropriation becomes availa- ble. The bill has been considerably short- ened and improved by the leaving out of unnecessary verbiage. Representative Lane’s bill provides for a Government building to cost $40,000, Pro- viston is also made for the creation of a federal commission and for other features giving the exposition a national and inter- national scope. the omz.na! bill it » $5,000.000 appronriation ment to the fair was to be propriation, without condition. In the new bill it is provided that when St. Louis shall have furnished sati some ort will be as ‘re rhe eo Ve FRANKFORT, consignment of guns received here to-day and adjacent to the jail, Powers, Davis, Whitaker ' confined This action was day, when it was said that armed bodies of the mountain mieht come here to the preliminary trials to-mor- row. These rumors were accompanied by hints that an atiempt might made to rescue the prisoners. Democratic Adju- tant-General Cast.eman spent the night and after a with Gov. ‘ckham, returned tu-day. There will be two detachments of troops here to-morrow, One under command of tne feckham government and one under the Taylor government. | An authorized etatement on behalf of Codi. avid G olson WwaS gen out to-day, | David G,. © W swe! it to-day, in which it is stated that he knows nothing of the ailegwed confession of Sergt. Fk. W. Gold- en or Berry Howard. It was claimed that ' Col Colson had been talking eecretly w:tn the prosecution and had been instrumental in securing information from Berry HLlow- ard. who is friend. THREE WOMEN AS WITNESSES. They May Shed Light on the Mystery of Goebel’s Murder. ' CORBIN, Ky.. March 22.—Sheriff Rees of Knox County summoned witnesses in the Goebe! murder case Ella Smith, Jane Catron and Lizzie Mathewe of Barbours- ville, who are aileged to have said they heard John Powers remark that if some one did not kill Goebel he would do They will testify at Powers’ hearing morrow. RECEIVER FOR APPLETON & CO Liabilities Placed at $1,110,000, and Assets Consist of Stock and Outstanding Accounts. stored where and Culton ordered yester- ings Aare men from counties naiso be his close AS has eu to- NEW YORK, March 2—Justice Bischoff of the Supreme Court to-day appointed J Hampden Dougherty receiver for D. Apple- ton Co., publishers, on the application of Daniel Pritchard, a stockholder. TRe bond of the receiver was fix at $150,009 The tlabilities are $1,110,000. @ assets consist : of stock and outstanding accounts. ’ ‘ ; GUING ACROSS Tht CONTI -— ONTINENT Train Load of Engineers the Guests of St. Louis. NEW YORK CENTRAL EMPLOYES —— THEY ARE ADMIRERS OF THE WORLD’S FAIR CITY. Some of the Thrilling Experiences Through Which These Veterans of the Cab and Throttle Have Passed. An excursion party composed of locomo- tive engineers of the New York Central Railroad system and their wives and daughters spent Thursday in St. Louts and saw the city. The party arrived at Union Station early in the morning and will de- part in the evening. During their stay in the city the engin- eers are the guests of the Terminal Rall- road Association. They were shown over ithe association's yards and possessions in Se the morning and the afternoon was de- voted to trolley and carriage rides. The vis.tors are greatly pleased with the recep- tion given them in St. Louis and say they Will hereafter be enthusiastic admirers of the Worid’s Fair city. The party is traveling on a special] train provided by the New York Central sys- tem. Transportation is doanted by all the l.nes in the ininerary. The train left Buf- fa.o Mareh X. Its destination is Los Ange- eS, Cal., where the members of the party wWiil remain a few days. Their intention is to be back in Bulialo by April 2], which will mike the trip last 31 days. The train con- sists of five sieeping cars and two baggage coaches. It is handsomely appointed and the commissary department is stocked with all tabie luxuries. During the entire trip ano members of the party will Hve in the train. following is a complete lst of the occu- pants of the tra‘n: Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Watson and daughter; Mr. and Mrs. William Frazier and daughter; Mr. and Mrs. Tred Lamjpbere; Mr. and Mre. Willlam Free- Inan; Mr. and Mrs. Frank Hulbert; Mr. and Mrs. William Fe.lenz and daughter; James Jacobs and two daughters; Mr. and Mrs. A. M. Carroll, Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Burton; Mr. and Mrs. B&B France; Mr. and Mrs. “M. QOabill; Mr. and Mrs. Adam Scott; Louis Everlatt; Mr. and Mrs. William Owles; Fred Chapman; Mr. and Mrs. George West; James Evers; -J¢hn Riley; John Baker; Mr. and Mrs. Robert Liliy; Mr. and Mrs. Faiward Eaton; Taomas Judge and niece; Mr. and Mrs. Dennis Murphy; George Saw- yer; Wililam Secor; Mr. and Mrs. Ben Blue; Sam A.bro; Mr, and Mrs. James Peake; Anson Fisher; Mr. and Mrs. An:hony Myers; Mr. and Mrs. James Jones; Mr. and Mrs. James Crane; Mr. and Mrs. J; mes Paul; Mr. und Mrs. Eklward Mur hy; Mr. aod Ly. Johnson; Mr. and Mrs. D. Rives apd tT; F. Johnson; Mr. and Mrs. Robert Leffen; Mrs. Tobias; J. H. Gilbert: E D. Vand- '. F. Attridge; Mr. and Mrs. William Scott; Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Niles; Mr. and Mra. J. Heugel- ton: EE. O. Hare, KB. Peronio, R. W. Metcalf: J. EB. Hiffron, T. Jackson, Lb. M. Pioss, John Chandler, Mrs. Delevau, Mr. and Mrs. Sam Frost, Joha Kim- bor; ID. EF. Darling; James Brady, James King, Kkdward Burnes, W. W. Daucer, A. C. Da:ton, Mrs. Cudy, Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Hurley and daughter, Mrs, Cornell, and Dr, Frederick M. Boyle. the engineers of the party are .uose who have given their company long and faithful service, and the vacation is allowed them in testimony of the appreciation in which they are held by their employers. Among them are many white-haired men, but thelr age has not perceptibly weakened their physiques. Physwrally speaking it would be a difficuit task ta get together a finer look- ing body of men than the masculine con- tingent of the visitors. Strange to say. when their ealling is considered, not one of them Imps in walking. They were in a happy mood when they arrived in St. Louis, and told many inter- esting stories ta the Post-Disnatch. As some of the narratives might reveal com- parry secrets, the names of the historians are withheld at their request. “Well,” sald a gray-hatre@ but finely preserved man, “TIT have heen an engineer ror 40 years and have had some exciting experiences, but all of them pale into in- signifieance when IT think of one that I had severel vears aro while I was workine for the Baltimore & Ohio. I was ordered to hs excurs‘on train from Lex'ngton, Va., to Staunton one day. We had eircht conacnes inl they were heavily loaded. The trin to Staunton was mode without incident. ;and we_ started on the return, just about | dark. ‘or ‘watching | el gine fend waited for the cmsh which I felt sure The Jast 19 miles of the run ingo Lexington Was on a down grade that was steep it was almost. a mountain s'‘de. We had made zond time to the ton of thta grade, but it became neceseary for us to Slack un down that bill. The air brakes were appled. but they did no-¢ speed nerceptibly. Upon examination [ dlts- eovered that they were not working. train gradually increased ‘tg speed vorked at the brakes. We worked S$) they would not resnond to Tn a few minutes the train was a runaway. Iam positive it went at the rate of 70 milea an hour I held the steam down. but cequired mot‘fon sert the cars along like a recket. From a potnt one mile out of Lex- ington, the RB. & ©. and the Cc. &. O. the same track Into town. the cab of My engine and saw the lantern on the switch far down helow me. It marked the junetion of the two tracka, To my horror, I saw that it was turne to onen on the C. & OO. track and was closed to us. Rut one development could feilow this condition. We must str’ke the closed sw'tch and be hurled tnto the James tiver, which was but a few feet away from the fonction of the tracks. “With 600 pessengers on the train the cordition was terrify’ne. If the train was ihably half of them would lose In. an instant I saw that there me thing to be done and even it was a.most hopeless. I must make my en- gine break the switchrail at the track june- tion and gpen a way for tteelf on to the main tracks So I onened the throttle of the engine and sent her Gewn the mountain as fast as she could ego Heaven only ows how fast that was but we tore aiong like a whirlwind. I d'd not craw my breath as we shot down upon the point where life death turned. “I kept my head out of my cab window. wth terrified interest for the ‘ast we struck the switch. The a slight folt. I shut my eyes At gave crisis. was coming. But we . without a further Jar. eyes and looked ahead. “The firet glance showed me that we were still on the track, and that the en- gine had done what cou'd not be done in a thousand times ega‘n—broken the obstruct. ing switch. The same jar that had shat- tered the switch frog put the alr brakes in order and we pulled tnto town withou: the passengers ever ‘earning of the peril through which they had passed, “I never made any report on this acct. dent and tho company will never know whet @ narrow escape it had from what would have oeen one of the most horrible accidents in railroad history.” ntinued on our way and I opened my “A remarkable feature of this excursion” said a member of the Executive Com (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO.) i ‘ att ; - f , ae wy 2 - ts iti fo ae _w . IMANY FREE STATE BOERS - ~ ” O- D ay. j £ oe \ ty LAY DOWN THEIR ARMS - — Boers Claim to Have Won a Victory at Bethulie, But Report Is Discredited. MAFEKING IN A BAD WAY. RELIEF COLUMNS FROM THE NORTH AND SOUTH CHECKED IN THEIR MARCH. Correspondence Passing Between Krug- er and Salisbury Supposed to Be Important, as Its Character Is Not Made Public. 7 ~~ LONDON, March 22.—Lord Roberts tele- graphs from Bloemfontein: “So many burghers have expressed a desire to sur- Commandant Olivier Retreats Northward From the Orange River Country With Only a Small Force. Mafeking is 190 miles north of the Vaal River, where the railway crosses at Warrenton and Four- teen Streame. It is 150 miles west of Pretoria. The siege began Oct. 12, as soon as war was de- clared, and is 163 days old to-day—-longer than that of Plevna. Col. Baden-Powell commands the be- sieged force, which is composed chiefly of 600 Rough Riders organized by himeelf. | by the Boers at Warrenton. t SCENES IN BESIEGED MAFEKING. i | Nothing has been heard from him eince Merch 10, and then the garrison was on quarter rations, The only meat supply was borse flesh. ' Col. Plamer, who was trying to relieve Mafek from the north, has been stopped, and Gen. Metip ven, moving up from Kimberley, has been checked _ ae. | render under the terms of the last procla- mation that I sent small columns in various directions to register their names and take over their arms. “A cavalry brigade has gone to the east- ward to Thahanchu, and a detachment from Springfontein has occupied Smithfield, where some Transvaalers and a wagon with some °rms and ainmunition were cap- tured. The Scots Guards are at Edenburg and Reddersburg. Gen. Clements’ brigade is marching hither by way of Philipopolis and Fauresmith. ‘“Commandent Olivier left Smithfield two hours before the British scouts arrived. He only succeeded in inducing about 160 men to accompany him, mostly Insurgent colonists. The Free Staters refused to go with him and are returning to their farms.”’ LONDON, March 22.—A dispatch from | Kroonstadt, Cc i a ee | News from Springfontein, dated Tuesday, The | as we | : with | mirht and main to put them tr order, but , the pressure. ‘north of Bethulie, the | ‘affair was made by Lord Roberts use | I peered out of | ‘his ability Orange Free State, via Pre- torla, says the Boers, under the command of Gen. Olivier, defeated the British troops under Gen. Gatacre in the vicinity of Be- thulie on the Orange River. The report is not believed here. A dispatch to the Dally March 2, says Gen. Gatacre was “All well” and adds that Gen. Brabant had not lost a dozen men ina fortnight. The last advices also placed Gen. Gatacre about W milies where the Boer report eays the defeat was inflicted. This, cam- bined with the fact that no mention of the in his dispatch of March 21, confirms the beilef that the Kroonstadt advices are erroneous. Reports of skirmishing near Lobatsi, north af Mafeking, while apparently not Infilct- ing any serious loss on Col. Plumer’s columns, cause grave anxiety in regard to to reach Mafeking. Further news from that quarter is anxiously awalt- ed, for in the six days that have elapsed since the last messages were sent off a | serious engagement may have occurred, though not of Col. Plumer's seeking. The Boers seem determined not to give up their prey at Mafeking without a flerce struggie. Methuen’s command of 20,000 men is said to have encountered a strong force of Boers near the crossing of the Vaal River at Warrenton, and is making little progress in the march on Mafeking. The Times, in its second edition, published a dispatch from Lorenzo Marquez, which quotes President Steyn as saying at Kroon- stadt that the Boers could continue the struggle for six months longer. “President Steyn stated that in the six months the war had been going on, the Boers had lost lees than 1000 men in killed, ing now. burghers not to believe Lord Roberts’ prociamation and accept his invitation to lay down their ares. “He assured them that the British had fatied on every occasion to keep the solemn treaties they had made. Sir Alfred Milner. the Governor of Cope Colony, Mr. Steyn stated, had publicly proclaimed that the Afrikanders would be exterminated, know- ing that the republics would fight to the eo “As President he warned the Free State end.. He closed by urging the burghers a pitch of wild enthusiasm.” > Several telegrams have passed belween President Kruger and the Brit.sh Govern? ment, in addition to the Salisbury-Kruger correspondence already published. The Foreign Office received a @spatch fr Pretoria yesterday. Tho contents of th communications cannot yet be obtained. © Judging by tho dispatches, the poilcy of Field Marshal Roberts in his adva seems now to be foreshadowed. He ape parently intends to approach Pretoria with three armies, one movirg from the wesi from the vicinity of Mafeking, a second, under Gen. Buller, moving from the Natal base, and, finally, his own army at Bloem- fontein, pushing northward. Upon vom Mo.tke’s maxim, “Divide for the marchy unite for the baftle,"" this course seems ade vantageous, as it enables him to utilise a@ifierent railways leading toward Pretoria, But it is not likely that any one of thes@ armies will make a near approach to thé Capital of the South African Republiila without encountering flerce resistance, And it can hardly be yet seld that the end of the war is tn s‘ght. Though the t force of Gen. Joubert will be Iinfertor t Buller’s army alone, and much more in- ferior to Lord Roberts’ army, it is not im- possible that Joubert, by concentrating hip troops and by sk‘liful maneuvers, may be abie to strike a blow which would cripple cne or anothef of the Briti#h armies and thus greatly delay the Investment of Pree toria. CHECKING PLUMER’S ADVANCE ‘The Boers Moving Against the Brit- ish Column at Lobatsi, and Wrecke- “ ing the Railway. ' LOBATSI, Friday, March 16.—The\Boerm, under Commandant Snymen, are edvancing ‘In force from Mafeking towards Lobatal Col. Bodle made a reconnaissance on March 13 and found Pitsani and Pothlugo oceupied ,by the Boers. He returned to Goode Sid- ,ing and made a demonstration on Mareh ~~ iM. He sharp mounted a gun on the ine in wax for the construction Brisk firing occurred a few of Lobatso on the The Boers’ Maxim was freely Bodie came and that the fighting was really commenc- , Li ~~ 7 ith the - camp eur- %, Y ‘é ob - le all whe “a a Ca he ~% - “3 wep EE Ries ORR. A 4 : > ~e Sai A RE 3 Wy oe yo a found the Boers tn et ) 3 curve on the railroad. shad were SOE nA Ra RS, RR Ae . a REE Pad J : o— % Ne soa