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evacuate the second camp a shell killed
two soldiers
When General Yule heard of the battle
of Glands Laagte he sent a squad Of Hus-
sars, under Colonel Knox, and battery
of artillery to intercept the Beers at Big
garsberg. The artillery succeeded in
shelling the Beers as they were retreating
over the Umpau Mountains. killing and
wounding many, but the artillerymen
were forced to retire by the rife fire of
the enemy.
1t appears that the Beers shelled the
camp all day long Sunday and the Brit
ish were kept busy skirmishing and re-
moving their transport wagons out of
range. During the retreat there were
many anxious moments Monday night,
when the British marched through Van
Londeer's Pass, six miles long. across to
Biggarsberg The troops got through
the dangerous defile, which fifty men
could easily have held, at o'clock Tues
day morning
LONDON, Oct. IA dispatch from
Utrecht. Transvaal, says: THE fighting at
Glencoe lasted nine hours The burgh-
ers say that they never witnessed such a
fight. General Lucius Meyers force Of
60O0 men, with eight six-inch guns, was
several times repulsed.'
Belated reports from Tun Fort partially
elucidate the situation on the Rhodesian
border. 1t appears that Colonel Plummer
ascertaIned that all the Zoutpansberg
Beers. numbering 700 men, mustered un-
der Piet Joubert at the Black River and
proceeded to Limpopo River. where they
arrived October 16 accompanied by a
number of armed Shangaan and Zout-
pansberg Kaf11rs, whom they had COM
PEELED to take up arms. The British
troopers thereupon captured three Kaf-
fir chiefs, who are now held as hostages
for the good behavior of their tribes.
+. On October 10. reconnoitering patrols
proceeding along the north bank OF the
river in a westerly direction, suddenly
encountered a party Of Beers in some
dense bush on the RhOdesia side Of the
Limpopo. The patrols retreated and the
Beers fired. wounding a trooper. Subse-
quently Captain Chime, with a patrol,
left Tuh with the object of locating the
Boer force.
On October 81 a strong Boer patrol was
encountered at Rhodes Drift in thick
bush. A sharp skirmish was the result
Two of the British were killed and two
wounded. The Beers had seven men
killed and many wounded. The Beers re-
tired to a strong position on a kopje at
Points Drift. Major Pilsen, with an am
bulance, proceeded to fetch the dead and
wounded, and while placing the bodies on
a cart. the Beers opened fire. killing two
horses, but in spite Of the sharpshooting
the British succeeded in carrying away
their comrades.
The latest dispatch from Tuli dated
October "a, says: "A Boer patrol crossed
the river ten miles above Rhodes Drift
twice recently, carrying native women
and children. They shot and looted
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"BoER sPENDER' BEATEN.

LONDON. Oct 27.-The Parliamentary
bye-election for the Bow and Bromley
division of Tower Hamlets, London, held
to-day to replace the Hon. Lionel R. Hol-
land, Conservative, was fought on the
Governments Transvaal policy and re-
suited In a big victory for the Govern
ment the Conservative candidate, Will
liam Guthrie, being elected. The Con-
servative majority was practically twice
that secured at the election of Mr. Hol-
land.
Through the campaign Mr. Spender op-
posed the war in South Africa and Mr.
Chamberlain's conduct of the negotiations
with the Transvaal Government His op-
position was SO persistent that he was
dubbed by the Conservatives throughout
the canvass as "Boer Spender." His elec-
ton literature denounced Tory patriotism
as Invoking the slaughter of British
workmen for the German millionaires on
the Rand and declared that orders for
clothing and blankets were given by the
Government to German concerns and not
to British. Mr.. Guthrie, moreover was
accused by Mr.. Spender of being a mem
Der of the board of directors of an insur-
ance company which had raised the pre-
miums on policies of officers going to the
war, while he pointed out that no Ameri-
can insurance company had Increased
premiums during the Spanish American
war.
The constituency, which is mainly Of
the working classes, nevertheless pumped
for "Chamberlain and war"
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THIS IS NO
LITTLE WAR" SAYS
LORD ROSEBERY

LONDON, Oct 27.-Lord Rosebery IN
a speech at a private dinner of politicians
Wednesday referred to the war and the
heavy loss of life, saying that they had
10 deplore the death of General Symons,
and before they sheathed the sword there
would be many more such losses. Mean
while,s he added the country ought to
present united front to the enemy In
his opinion the Transvaal was not very
complicated question, but merely the eff
fort of community to put back the
clock. Referring to MaJuba Hill Lord
Rosebery said Mr.. Gladstone's action was
determined by the belief that the power
of Great Britain was so great that she
could afford to do things other nations
could not afford TO do without risk. The
Beers regarded Mr.. Gladstone's magnan-
unity as proof of weakness upon which
they could encroach.
Dwelling on the unfriendliness of the
foreign press and foreign public opinion,
Lord Rosebery said:
This is no little war. There are ma
tions watching with eagerness every trip,
every stumble, and, much more, every
catastrophe and disaster that may over
take our arms. War waged under these
conditions, therefore, is not a little war.
1 do not know why we should attract
suclf ill-feeling. There is one simple test
that will apply to the British empire as
compared with other empires which watch
her with so much, l won't say malevo-
lence, but candid feeling. We would be
only too glad at the present moment to
strike a bargain with the rest of the
world that every frontier should remain
as now. OF what other empire can that
be said? Yet we, who are not trying to
gain, but to maintain an empire; we who.
in the best and highest sense. are the
most conservative force in the world. are
the objects of the concealed dislikes Of
Governments who think, are less single
minded than ourselves"
Lord Rosebery, in an impassioned pero-
ration calling upon the nation to main
tain united front, after speaking Of
Great Britain as this lonely island in
these northern seas, viewed with such
jealousy, such hostility. such Jared am
bition by the great empires of the world,
who count their armies with embattled
Millions. concluded amid stormy ap-
plause with Shakespeare's words,
'Naught shall make us rue
If England to herself remain but true
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BOER LOSSES
AT GLENCOE UP
IN THOUSANDS

LONDON. Oct. 27.-The war situation
this morning presents no new features.
It is presumed in Natal that the Beers
are reconstructfng their plans and that
the English are resting, bat kilograms
from Ladysmith at express rates still oc-
cupy forty-eight hours in transmission to
London, and therefore it is not impossible
that something is happening.
One special dispatch asserts that Colonel
Baden Powell, the British commander at
Mafeking, IS aware that Pretoria has
given General Cronje orders to stay his
hand. as already there is quite enough to
employ the Beers in Natal.
The Government has chartered the City
of Rome as a hospital ship.
According to the latest account OF the
first battle at Glencoe. the Boer army
amounted TO 1000 men and about noon an
other army, almost as large. under Com
mander General Joubert, advanced within
5000 yards of Glencoe camp and then re-
tired. The Boer losses were very heavy,
fully 1000
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DETAILS OF
THE FIGHTING
AT KIMBERLEY
English Stories of the Rout of
Beers and Killing of Com
mandant Botha.

T ONDON, Oct. N.-During the mo-
mentary lull in the fighting in Ma
tai comes new: from the western
border which temporarily shifts
the scene of chief interest to the
beleaguered British force at kimberley.
The sharp struggle there Tuesday appears
to have been the result of sortie, with
the view of breaking the Gordon surround
ing the place. The British, apparently 800
strong, met TOO Beers, and according to
the official and other accounts routed
them after severe fighting, in which the
armored trains appear to have done val
liable service. The Beers were ntrenched
strongly seven miles northward. and the
British brilliantly carried the enemy S
position without serious loss. 1t is said
that the Beers twice unfairly used a
white flag
Botha, who was among the killed was
member of the Volksraad and famous
Dutch fighter. He distinguished himself
as a marksman at Brenkhorstspruit when
the Ninety-fourth British Regiment was
moved down. He afterward defended a
farmhouse against the British. When he
surrendered the farmhouse Botha was
found. with five wounds, bathed in blood.
A special dispatch from Cape Town to-
day gives details of the defeat of 700
Beers by the British at Riverton, north
of Kimberley. Wednesday, in which the
enemy was completely routed with heavy
loss, the British loss being three men
killed and twenty men, including two Of
ticers. wounded. This is probably the
same fight, though a different date is
given. as referred to in the Cape Town
dispatch of yesterday in which it was
said that official reports from Kimberley
Tuesday announced that Colonel Scott
Turner, with go men. had an engagement
with the Beers, during which a detach-
ment OF $50 men of the Lancashire Regi-
ment distinguished itself and the armored
trains did good service. The Beers were
unable to withstand the splendid charge
of the Lancashires, who cleared the hill
occupied by the enemy at the point of
the bayonet.
The Boer losses are described as very
heavy. Colonel Scott-Turner's force con-
sisted of the local volunteers, who with
the Lancashires completed the rout of the
burghers after the artillery had driven
them out of their intrenchments. Botha
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Mails for Refugees.

WASHINGTON. Oct. 2z-The British
Government has reported to the United
States that large numbers of people from
the South African Republic and from the
Orange Free State have fiocked into Cape
Colony and Natal for temporary residence
during the war and that every effort will
be made to deliver their mails. The Brit
ish authorities suggest that If this coun-
try puts into the British mail letters and
packages addressed to persons in the
Transvaal or the Orange Republic the
Cape Colony office will try to deliver them
to such as are found there or In Natal
1t. is assumed from this that the British
have list of refugees from the Boe1
country. Mails TO be delivered by this
means must be ihdorsed by the senders
"Via England
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WAR POLICY
IS ATTACKED
But the British Parliament Passes
the Appropriation Bill and Re-
ceiyes Queens Thanks.

T ONDON, Oct. 7.-The third reading
of the appropriation bill in the
House of Commons to-day gave the
IL opportunity for further attacks on
the Governments war policy Gavin
Brown Clark, Radical, formerly Consul
General of the Transvaal, accused the
Secretary of State for. the Colonies, Mr.
Chamberlain, of publishing an emascu-
lated version of the Boer franchise bill
passed by the Volksraad
Mr. Chamberlain tartly repudlated this
He said the bill was published exactly as
received from Secretary of State Reitz.
Thomas Gibson Bowles, Conservative
member for Lynn Regis, referred to the
heavy military task before the Govern
ment and said he feared the foreign pow
ers would take advantage of Great Brit
aims difficulties to make an attempt upon
her possessions. All the great powers ex-
cept Austria, he asserted, hated Great
Britain.
Lloyd George. Radical member for the
Carnarvon District. declared the offers of
the Transvaal had been misrepresented, ,
whereupon Mr.. Chamberlain jumped up
and protested, and the Speaker, William
Court Gully, interviewed.
Lloyd George then withdrew his ex-
preston regarding Misrepresentation.
preparation bill. after which the measure
was taken to the House of Lords and.
passed through all the stages.
The session was then suspended until
o'clock in the afternoon.
In the House of. Lords at o'clock the
Lord High Chancellor, Earl Halsbury,
and the Lord Commissioners. fully robed.
took up positions In front of the throne
The black rod summoned the Commons.
the Queens speech was read, and the.
Lord High Chancellor declared Parliament
prorogued until January Is. The Commons
then returned to the Lower House, where
the. Speaker read the Queens speech, aft
er which the members filed past and
shook hands with the Speaker, and the
House then adjourned.
The Queens speech was as follows:
MY Lords and Gentlemen: 1 am happy
to be able to relieve you of the exceptional
duties which have been imposed upon you
by the exigencies of public service l con-
graduate you on the brilliant qualities
which have been displayed by the brave
regiments upon whom the task of repell-
ing the invasion of my South African
colonies has been laid. In doing so l can
not but express my profound sorrow that
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commanded the Bashof force. The fight
lasted four hours.
Before the British sortie Kimberley was
apparently in high spirits, as a dispatch
from there dated October % says every
ore was cheerful. there at that time and
that a wedding was celebrated there that
day. The dispatch adds:
Great enthusiasm has been aroused
here by the news of the British success
in Natal. Several farmers in the neigh
borhood of Kimberley have been noticed
in the ranks of the Beers. A letter from
Father Rorke said 600 Beers with 100
wagons We're laagered at Taungs. All the
whites have left except the women. who
sought refuge in the convent The Boer
commandant has promised to protect
them.
The news from the northern border in
dicates that the Beers are actively -ry-
ing to prevent Colonel Plummer from re-
lieving Mafeking, whence the absence of
news since Pretoria announced the bonn
bardment of the place is creating consid-
cradle alarm.
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THREE BOER COLUMNS ARE
ADVANCING ON LADYSMITF
British Troops Under General White
Receiving Reinforcements for the
Coming Big Battle, Wbicb IS Ex-
pected to Begin on Sunday.


proach
third Orange State the Harismh
HoChS an S en-
n
Petma
the ghem.
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TWO CHIEFS THREATENED.

CAPE TOWN, Oct pa telegram from
Buluwayo. Rhodesia, dated Monday, says:
"a Boer force is threatening Chief
Khama and Chief Linchwei who are loyal
to Great Britain. The two chiefs coun-
try lies at the extreme northwest of the
Transvaal and includes Bechuanaland. 1t
seems a gross mistake for the Beers to
provoke war among the natives. The
probable explanation is that the Boer
force intends to destroy the railway to
Buluwayo, which runs through Khama's s
country, and thereby prevent a movement
by Colonel Plummers Rhodesian force to
go to the relief of Mafeking. Already
there have been stories of a Rhodesian
armored train engaging the Beers some
distance north of Mafeking."
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BEREsFoRD OPPOSES RosEBERY

LONDON, Oct. 2T.-Rear Admiral
Charles Beresford. speaking at Glasgow
to-day against Lord Rosebery's candidacy
for the rectorship of the university, said
he admired the Earls character and bril-
liancy, but opposed him as politician.
The speaker charged Lord Rosebery with
following instead of leading public opin-
ion and asserted that he was largely re-
sponsible for the Transvaal resistance and
the present war because he had remained
silent until war had actually begun, and
the Transvaal has interpreted his silence
as meaning that the country was divided
or, the Issue
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TO OFFSET ANNEXATION.

CAPE TOWN, Oct. 27.-Sir Alfred Mil
ner. Governor Of Cape Colony, and w P.
Schreiner. the Premier. have issued proc
lamations declaring null and void the
proclamation of the Orange Free State,
asserting that portion of Cape Colony
is now Free State territory.
Sir Alfred Miners proclamation warns
all British subjects in the colony of their
duty and obligations to the Queen.
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SOME SPIES WILL BE SHOT.

DURHAM, Natal, Oct "a DELAYED in
transmission). Many spies have been ar
rested mere and some of them will be
shot. On the strength of representatio
by the Mayor of Durham the Governor of
Natal, Sir Walter Francis Heley-Hutchin-
son. has prohibited the landing of all but
British refugees. Undesirable persons of
all nattonalities will be rigidly excluded
Already there are too many of this class
in Durham.
1t is reported that one of the Indian
transports is being fitted out to convey
the 'Boer prisoners elsewhere.
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scHIEL HAS A RECORD.

LONDON. Oct. N.-The Cape Town cor
respondent of the Daily Telegraph says
he learns that Colonel Schiel, the wound
ed and captured commander of the Ger
man contingent of the Boer forces, is the
same individual who acted as Cetway' s
military adviser In the Zulu war and who,
after the battle of Ulundi. offered 910OO
as reward for the capture of the fugi-
live iaf
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CROCODILE POINT SEIZED.

|. LoURENZO MARQUES, Oct. 27.-The
following dispatch has been received from
Pretoria, filed yesterday:
1.-The Government has issued a procla-
nation declaring that no rents or interest
on bonds can be claimed during the con-
tinuance Of martial law, nor within a GER
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RHODES WATCHED THE FIGHT.

CAPE TOWN. Oct. 27-According to
further advices from Kimberley the
Beers removed their killed and wounded
in cars. No reliable estimate of their
losses have been made. Mr.. Rhodes rode
out and watched the fight. The towns
people. including the women, mounted the
trenches. watching eagerly for the return
of the troops. Mr.. Rhodes is cheerful
and gives dinner parties daily, at which
luxuries are abundant.
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FIGHTERS FROM MANILA.

MANILA, Oct N.-An informal meeting
was held here this evening Of men pro-
posing to proceed to South Africa to fight
for the British More than a hundred
Englishmen, Australians and Americans
decided to 60. They organized a party
and believe they can secure 200 more men.
The volunteers include ex-soldiers from
tiersmen, Englishmen familiar with the
Transvaal and commercial clerks
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BATCH OF BoER PRISONERS.

LONDON. Oct 27.-A special dispatch
from Pietermaritzburg. Natal, dated Oc-
tober "a. says: Nine hundred and eighty
eight Boer prisoners arrived here this
morning. They include Captains Dewitt.
Hammer, Ferthus. Dorey, Van Logger
and Dottner."
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BRAVE BOERS DIED
TO SAVE COMRADES

DURHAM. Notul Oct. 27.-an interesting Incident
D connection with the EoDds Loogte fqbt is report
ed bere. When tbe fire Of tbe British quns becone
too hot, eight Beers roD forward out Of cover upd
standing together cooly opeDed fire at the Imperial
Light Horse, with the evident purpose of drowino
the lotter's fire, while their comrades retreoted
Seven out Of the brave eight killed
a {. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. 80 :............. 8.
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CAUSED RUMoRs OF INVASION

COLEsBURG, Cape Colony, Oct. ga
detachment OF twenty-four Free State
burghers crossed and recrossed the Or
ange River at Allemans Drift yesterday
for the purpose of studying the ford.
which caused the circulation of rumors
of an intended invasion Of the Colony
from that point.
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taln nxed period after the repeal of the
same: The Beers at Vryburg have Sc
cured quantity of ammunition. Com
mandant Schooman has seized Crocodile
Point and destroyed the railway bridge
there. President Kruger is in excellent
health"
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r ONDON, Oct. N.-The third reading
of the appropriation bill in the
House of Commons to-day gave the
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T ONDON, Oct. N.-During the mo-
mentary lull in the fighting in Ma
tai comes new: from the western
border which temporarily shifts
Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1899-11-08
Beefy Beauties.

I'm Turkey the most beautiful and
desirable woman is the one who
weighs the most" writes an American
who has been sojourning in the sui
tan's domain. "A thin and willowy
creature would have no social standing
in Turkey and would be total failure
on the stage in Constantinople I'm
less woman is fat she cannot secure
an engagement In musical hall, and
the fatter she is the more enthusiasm
she arouses and the larger is her sal.
airy.
ION the evening after my arrival in
Constantinople went to the Concordia
Music hall, and there saw more fem
mime breadth, depth, thickness, heft
and circumference than l had ever be-
fore seen under one roof. The first
woman who sang was fat; the second
was fatter: the third was-no. not fat
test, although she was much heavier
than No. 2. She was merely the prom
Use of what was yet to come. They
We're holding back the really big art.
lists for the finale.
"At last these two came on. They
were sisters and they made a large
family by themselves. The house arose
in joy as the two vast. egg shaped OBJ
jects appeared on the stage The
Turks. who had been sitting stolidly
in the boxes looking with dull uncon-
Germ at the frail vocalists who weighed
less than roo now Straiphtanad I'm and
clapped their hands,"
Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1899-11-08

Miss Viola Buxton closed her second
successful term of school on the East
Hill last week and after a two weeks
vacation will commence the winter
term. The other schools of the town
be congratulated ON the fine work
that has been done in the past school
term.
For some time the beIfry of the
Universalist church, in which the only
bell of the town is located, has been
so out Of repair that it was not safe to
use the bell, and as this was the only
bell on which to strike the fire alarm,
a subscription paper was circulated
and enough secured to repair the bel
fry, which was done last week by l.. G.
Townsend.
Murray HOLSTER Of Chicago, Mrs.
r. G. Brown of Minneapolis and Mrs.
Leroy Kent of HardWick, who was
visiting in Chicago, were in town to
attend the funeral of :. d. HOLSTER
their father, which took place Sunday
afternoon from his late home. Rev.
Miss Aldrich of East Mont pelier Off
eating. The interment was in the
HOLSTER cemetery.
Some of the village residents. in
default of the proper officers whose
duty it is to see that the streets on
dark nights are property lighted, are
engaged in a commendable work by
placing lights SO us to dispcl the
darkness to some extent in front of
their residences. This action on the
part of individuals should impress ca
the minds Of the village committee
the necessity of immediate action in
the matter of street lighting.
The competitive whist contest be-
tween st. John and >horey, and Kid
der and Cutler, which was played last
week, was SO much one-Sided as to be
Iminteresting. According to the
claims made by each party before the
playing it was thought the two sides
were evenly matched, but as the
former won 81 points to their adver-
saries "a, it proved a walk over. The
successful parties are now waiting for
the defeated ones to learn the game
before playing more.
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Railroad Ties.

A fact of some interest in railroad
construction is the great diversity in
the number of ties used to the mile on
different lines, as we'll as in the size
and quality of timber. Thus, accord
ing to the construction details Of the
New York, New Haven and Hartford
railway, the number Of ties used on
that line is $500 to the mile, three
quarters of these being chestnut and
one-quarter oak, while some roads use
1000 only, or $500 to the mile. More
than 60 per cent of the ties are cut =
feet long - per cent 8 feet and the
rest So feet long; the nine foot ties are
used chiefly hy the southern and gulf
group of railroads. where pine timber
is very abundant and cheap. The .(ew
England roads have their ties cut from
five to six inches in thickness. while
the southern roads seem to prefer sew
en- inch ties; the width Of the ties like
wise varies from five to six inches in
New England to eight inches in the
central northern and the southern
roads.-New York Sun.