The age-herald., 1898-12-30
DISQUIETING NEWS
 FROM TRANSVAAL BOerS Propose to Hang DF. Jameson
 in Eiiigy. KRUGER'S OFFICIAL ORGAN
Publishes an InilammatOry Article
 Against tho English.
DOM PAUL DEPRECATES THE MATTER
The President Declares That He Will Prevent the Anti-Jameson Demon stration Which is Scheduled
 to Occur January 9.

London, December 29-A disquieting situ- ation is developing at Johannesburg. Ac- cording to the latest advioes from there, the place is seething with discontent, as on the eve of the Jameson raid, in consequence of recent and proposed government measures, which the Outlanders regard as being a fresh series of impostions. In addition, racial animosities are intenslfying at the vexatious treatment of the British Indians and Cape boys which is arousng much bitterness. There was a serious develop ment last week, when a Boer policeman murdered an Englishman named Edgar, entering the latter's house and shooting him. The policeman was arrested upon the charge, but upon the following day the charge was reduced to one of manslaughter and the policeman was allowed his liberty on bail. The British agent demanded a res- toration of the charge of murder, and a mass meeting which was attended by 1000 Uitlanders was held at Johannesburg on Sunday to protest against the murder of Edgar and to protest to the British con- sul with a strongly worded petition to the queen, reciting the wrongs of the Uitland- CTS, appealing for protection and demanding such other steps may be found necessary to Terminate the existing intolerable state of affairs
 No Speeches Made
 There were no speeches, owing to the laws prohibiting political gatherings. The dem- onstration was very demonstrative. The petition was presented to the consul on the balcony of the consulate, the whole multi t,,lx pirrn fxrpe hxy1 hands References to the Boer policeman elicited shouts of Lynch him" The meet ing, however. was peaceful, with the excep- tion of slight affray with the police at it's conclusion.
 The newspapers publish venomous arti- cles on the subject. The Boor organ, the Rand Boston, on yesterday discussed the prospect of war with Great Britain and ad- vised on the first British act of war, the women and children at Johannesburg be given twenty-four hours to leave and that theewhole place be then razed and that "the perpetrators of these turbulent proceedings, if caught should be thrown into deep shafts of their mines, with the debris of their machinery for costly shrouds,'' and adding that "the whole of Johannesburg
 
 vered into a gigantic rubbish heap, as mighty tombstone for the shot-down au- thors of the monstrous deed."
 The Pretoria Vollstein suggests that Jan uary 2 be observed as Jameson day and that Dr. Jameson Ee burned in effgy.
 Boers Thoroughly Aroused
 London, December S0.-The Johannesburg correspondent of the Daily Mail who utters a warning against the optimist reports cabled to London in the Kruger interest says:
 q have interviewed the British consul who said that Saturdays demonstration i'm pressed him as based upon deep public feeling, while the deputation which pre- scented the petition was to his personal knowledge composed of men of high char acter and standing.
 Signs are multiplying that the Outlander sentiment has been reused to the point of asserting claims for justice. The ex-reform leaders are debarred under pain of banish- ment from interfering in politics, but they declare that despite Pretoria terrorism they will not keep silence much longer The present temper of the community is such that the opposing demonstrations will al- most inevitably be followed by serious riots.
 "I learn on high authority that during the negotiations al Pretoria regarding Sat urday's demonstration the British agent carefully avoided an admission that the British government assented to the public meetings act. He then suggested that Great Britain might test the legality of that measure under the London convention.
 'The present position has aroused the deepest public excitement known since the Jameson raid, and it is plain that something must be done immediately to terminate a humiliating and intolerable situation"