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CAN'T RECONCILE STORIES.
Rescued Spanish Officers Have Major
Rockefeller Located at Widely
Separated Points.

Rescued Spanish Officers Have Major
Rockefeller Located at Widely
Separated Joints.
WASHINGTON, January 29.-TEe
following has been received at the
War Department:
MANILA, January 2S.-Adjutant
General, Washington: Rescued Span
ish major reported that he saw Major
Rockefeller in Northern Zambales. De-
cember II. Another Spanish officer in
Southern Luzon states that he saw him
there a short time ago. No satisaac-
tory conclusion can be reached.
OTIS"
Major Charles M. Rockefeller has
been missing since April %, last and
his fate is a mystery to the officials of
the war department. He stayed away
from Gen. Lawton's command on the
late given and until to-day nothing has
been heard from him and it was not
known whether he was dead or a pris-
oner in the hands of the insurgents.
He is a native of New York, a regular
army officer and a veteran of the war
of the rebellion. Although to-day's
dispatches gives ground for the hope
that he is still alive, the officials here
are not entirely satisfied on the point.
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R PRESS COMMENTS
On the Latest From the South Afri-
can Operations.

On the Latest From the South Afri-
can Operations.
BERLIN. January 29.-The latest
Jews from South Africa is commented
upon by the German papers. The
National Zeitung says:
"The British position around Lady
smith is now untenable. Either Lord
Roberts must await achievements or
remove his strategic center elsewhere
abandoning LadysEith.'
The Lokal Anzeiger says:
"The defeat at Spion Kop is likely
to become of decisive Importance for
the whole war"
The Kreutz Zeitung says:
"It requires a good piece of British
conceit still to believe in an approx
mately favorable issue of the war but
whom the gods would destroy they
first make mad"
The Vossische Zeitung says:
1.-THE best prepared and most care
fully planned British operation during
the war has now ended in complete
fiasco. What is there now to prop up
the sinking prestige of world power?'
To talk about another hundred thou
sand men is rubbish and the few bat
talions that can be raised will not
change the issue of the campaign"
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NO PEAcE YET.
DR.. Leyds Says the Beers Are Not
Ready to Quit Fighting, and Sure
ly England is Not.

DIR. Leyds Says the Beers Are Not
Ready to Quit Fighting, and Sure
ly England is Not.
BERLIN, January 29.-To the cor
respondent of the Associated Press,
who interviewed him to-day, DR.. Leyds
made the following statement:
Il know nothing about the reported
missions of either Mr.. Macrum or Mr..
Webster Davis. Nor, to the best of
my knowledge, is either the bearer of
a message of peace. There are no
movements under way on our part to
induce President Mckinley to inter
vene between Great Britain and the
TransvaaI AS l do not at present
have direct communication with Pre-
toria do not know what Mr.. Montagu
Whites mission is except to establish
diplomatic relations with the United
States.
"All this talk about peace is sadly
premature. Great Britain surely will
not succumb now. Neither will we.
While we are talking here it may be
that a decisive battle is being fought
there, for l presume Lord Roberts has
withdrawn the troops around Lady
smith, and is massing them for a for
midable COUP"
DR.. Leyds repeated his former declar-
alton that the Beers when concluding
peace would want back part at least
of the territories which England "stole
from the Beers" He rather expects
also that a harbor south of MoZambi-
que will go to the Transvaal, for our
legitimate extension" he added, eve
need free access to the sea-" He as
serted emphatically that one condition
of peace would be the recognition of
the absolute independence Of tie
Transvaal.
Berlin is certainly very much excit-
ed over him. He is overwhelmed with
invitations. His apartments at the
Paleast hotel, where the Transvaal
flag is flying, are beseiged day and
night by crowds including contractors
and mining spectators as we'll as fine
ladies, gentlemen of the court and army
officers who wish to congratulate him
upon the Boer successes or to offer
their services.
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CIVIL PENSIONS
In the weather Bureau, Receive
Their Death Blow in the House.

In the Weather Bureau, Receive
Their Death Blow in the House.
WASHINGTON, January 29.-The
bill for the reorganization and i'm
provement of the Weather Bureau,
which includes provision for pension
ing disabled and aged employees of
the service, received a black eye in
the House. The bill was bitterly
fought by the opponents of civil PEN
sion rolls on account of the life ten
ure provision it contained, and 1t was
side-tracked by a test vote of 70 to 81.
Although the Speaker ruled that it
remained unfinished business when the
House was again in committee of the
whole, the opponents of the measure
believe the action to-day kills it.
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crease in the naval and military ex-
penditure will be necessitated by the
lessons of the war, and be altogether
apart from the special war vote.
The Westminster Gazette invites the
country to cast aside all decisions
and recognize the fact that progress
for the present is stopped in Natal,
and that safety lies in concentration.
Gen. Whites force, as an effective aid,
must be written off, and probably
most of Gen. Buffers army has left
the Tugela. The Beers have been given
time to prepare against an advance
through the Free State, and we have
not sufficient strength at present to
undertake this advance with any safe
ty. These r ugly facts, but those
who disguise them are again mis-
leading the public. The plain truth
is that we will have to make a new
army somehow from somewhere. We
need at least 100,0 900 more men-50,0 600
to reinforce the Cape and $1,000 in re-
serve"
The Pail Mall Gazette comments in
much the same tone and adds:
Even if Ladysmith falls Spion Kop
is not Majuba in The most vital sense.
1t will not end the war. There will
be no muddling compound of mag
nanimity' and cowardice this time. The
war will end when Gen. Roberts die
tates the terms at Pretoria. To that
end the empires mind is made up"
AS the afternoon newspapers are
commenting without full knowledge of
the facts, they are not disposed to
offer any apologies for Gen. Buffers
defeat. The st. James Gazette says:
'The meaning Of the retreat is
obvious. We have had to recognize
that we cannot force our way through
the enemy's lines to L~adysmith. Why,
we do not know. If the Boer posi-
ton is impregnable, it ought never to
have been attacked. If it is capable of
being taken, we were repulsed because
the leadership was bad, and it is idle
to attempt to conceal that the latter
is far from incredible. To start out
declaring there must be no turning
back is cminently foolish. When
swagger and cant prevail there is
commonly plentiful lack of judgment
and true resolution. 1t requires seri-
GUS effort not to yield to the gloomy
conviction that the intellectual and
moral qualities which make for sue
cess have been replaced on our STAFF
by words, words, words. The remedy
for South Africa is not to add to the
numbers, but to put the troops where
their force a come into play"
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les engaged and the temper OF other
powers that are looking on are not less
important elements in the problem"
AS 1T required a month for Butler to
recover from his earlier defeat at Co.
lenso, it not thought he can pull his
~disheartened army together now in
time to do anything for Ladysmith.
London waits anxiously for the Beers
to move. They seem to be fighting on
a very definite plan and it is thought
they may attack Butler or assault
Ladysmith.
Parliament meets tomorrow and the
Radical and Irish members are pre-
pairing for a savage onslaught upon the
government.
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to the Register.

Special to the Register.
WILLIAMSON, w. Va, January %.
AT Breeder. neal here, a row oc-
CURED among miners and woodchop
pers last night, which resulted in the
death of Harve Mayner. the fatal In
jury of kid" Jennings and critical In
juries to Peter Jennings and Mrs.
Owen Woomer.
The tragedy occurred in a boardins
house where miners and laborers from
timber camps gathered to spend the
evening drinking and gambling.
A dispute arose and only a few words
passed when Mayner and kid Jen-
nings came to blows. In the fight both
men drew knives and carved each 9TH
er frightfully before they were sepa-
rated.
The trouble was thought to be over.
until Peter Jennings arrived and on
learning Of his brothers difficulty chal-
lenged Mayner for q fght.) He was
accommodated, and IN a short time II
lenged Mayner for a fight. He was
knives, chairs and pokers ware used.
Mayner was fatally shot. "1sid" Jen-
nipgs stabbed, and Peter jennings suf-
fcred from a fracture of the skull
where he was hit with an iron poker
Mrs. Woomer, a woman Mt the board
ing house, who ran to the scene OF the
fight, received a blow on the head with
a chair, causing a dangerous wound.
Warrants are out, but a number OF
those engaged escaped to Kentucky.
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LONDON, January 29.-Gen. Butler
wires from Spearman's Camp, Janu-
airy 20, that the casualties among the
officers of the Fifth division and
mounted brigade at Spion Kop, Janu-
" "a, were:
killed, %; wounded, 20; missing, 6.
The killed include Capt the Hon.
w. H. Petre and Lieut.. c. G. Grenfell,
both of Thornycroft's mounted in
fantry. Among the wounded are Col.
Bloomfield, second Lancashire Fusiliers,
who was taken prisoner; Gen Wood
gate, dangerously, and Major E. w.
Ecott-Moncrieff.
1t will be seen from the report that
the announcement of Gen. Woodgate's
death was erroneous.
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They Cheered the Queen.

VALPARAISO, Chill, January 29.-At
lister Costing presiding, the plan of Mr..
F. Hayne to form a British universal
patriotic league, enabling all subjects
of the Queen to keep in touch with
the mother country, was unanimously
adopted. The subscription for member
ship will be a guinea. There were
cheers for the Queen and the soldiers
in South Africa.
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middle west, particularly from the lake
cities.
WAYS AND MEANS. COMMITTEE
VIII Have Charge of the Sulxer Res
oIution to Investigate Secretary
EuOA

N4SCs
WASHINGTON, January 29.-Im-
mediately after the reading of the
Journal in the House to-day, MFR. Dali
zell, (Penna.). from the committee on
Rules reported back the Sulzer resolu-
ton for the appointment of a special
committee to investigate the deposit OF
public funds by Secretary Gage in New
York banks and all the transactions
relating to the sale of the New York
custom house with the recommendation
that it be referred to the Ways and
Means committee.
Mr.. Dalzell explained that the re-
Spouse of the Secretary of the Treas
ury to the Sulzer resolution of inquiry
upon the same subject had gone to the
Ways and Means committee and 1t was
proper that that committee should have
Jurisdiction.
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PITTSBURG, Pa, January 29.-The
steel department of the Phillips, MINI
lex & Company's rolling mill on West
Carson street, was completely wrecked
and a dozen men were injured by the
explosion of a battery of four large
boilers.
The shock of the bursting boilers
was heard throughout the lower end
of the city, and several Thousand peo-
pie were attracted to the scene of the
accident. The loss to the plant will
be enormous.
All the injured men were quickly re-
moved from the ruins. Five were
mutilated almost beyond recognition,
and one or two more deaths nay re-
suit. The injured were taken to a
temporary hospital hastily provided,
and local physicians were summoned
to relieve their s~ufferings. A rescuing
party then went to work searching the
wreckage, which it is supposed, en-
tombS other of the workmen.
Following is the list of the most
serious casualties: Dead:
Simon Holland, fireman, lived neal
South Eleventh street; died at the
Homeopathic Hospital.
Injured:
Daniel Noonan, badly cut and scald-
ed.
Constantine Gallagher, badly burned
and cut.
VIM. Kirkpatrick, cut above the eye;
not badly hurt.
Frank Stone, cut over the eyes.
Patrick Daily, cut fon the head; not
badly hurt.
jeremiah Collins.
Barney E%asterburg, cut over the
eye; not badly hurt.
w. T. Cook.
Peter Bynos.
The explosion was one of the most
terrific that ever occurred in a Pitts
burg mill. The roof of the boilA
room vas completely lifted from the
building and the flying iron and steel
fell in all directions. Heavy beams
and portions of the masonry were
thrown from the foundations.
The men were crushed to the ground
on the spot where they were attend
ing to the rolls. Those beside the
boilers were scalded by the escaping
steam. The bodies of the men were
SO burned and begrimed that they
were scarcely recognizable.
The families of the workmen who
live in the neighborhood realized the
extent of the accident the moment the
thunder of the explosion was heard,
and women and children rushed at
once to the mill, crying for their loved
ones who were believed to be buried
beneath the ruins. 1t was impossible
for the cooler heads to keep back the
torrent of humanity that surged up
to the gates, and for a time the fran
tic women interfered with the work
of the rescuers.
The mill had been stopped over Sun
day and the boilers had just been fired
preparatory to starting the mills again.
More than a hundred men were stand
ing about ready to go to work when
the explosion occurred. One of the
boilers rose on end and a sheet of
flames shot out of the furnace door,
completely enveloping Holland.
The cause Of the explosion cannot
be known until a thorough investiga-
ton is made. No estimate of the prop
erty loss could be made to-day.
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LAUGHED AND JEERED.
Operators and Miners Make Fun
of Each Others Demands.

Coal Operators and Miners Make Fun
of Each Others Demands.
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, January 20
When the joint conference of operators
and miners met at 2 o'clock the two
propositions of last Saturday which
caused the deadlock in the point scale
committee were read. The operators
proposition is to establish the price
of mining coal on the basis of 8 cents
per ton advance on screen lump coal,
making the price Is cents per ton in
the Hooking Valley as the base, with a
pro~portionate increase for inside day
labor and dead work-all Of which is
equivalent to an advance of 13 and
36-1,0OO per cent.
The miners rejected the offer in the
committee and submitted a PROPOSE
ton in favor of eight things-run of
mine, fat differential of z cents be-
tween pick and hand mining, the abo-
lition of day labor and dead work. %
cents a day advance for day labor, 80
cents per ton increase for mining, the
base for run Of mine coal in the
eleventh district to be 4712 cents per
ton, and the same conditions to pre-
vail throughout the Indiana block
field.
The operators committee rejected
the proposition and the conference re-
ceived the report with mingled cheers
and jeers. The miners hooted at the
operators proposition, while the OPP
orators laughed at the demands of
the miners.
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NEWSPAPER
And Criticisms Heaped Upon
Everybody Connected With the
War-AI Airy Attempts at Ex-
PLANTATION Abandoned.

And Criticisms Heaped Upon
Everybody Connected With thu
War-An Airy Attempts at Ex-
PLANTATION Abandoned.
LONDON, January 29.-The usual
airy attempts to minimize the serious
ness of the situation in South Africa
are entirely lacking this afternoon,
and it is frankly acknowledged that
the most serious effort of the present
war has dismally failed. There is no
sign of a wish on the part of the
leaders of public opinion to disguise
the ugly facts, but, on the contrary,
there is every disposition to face the
full difficulties and discover the best
way out. In short, the policy voiced
everywhere is the gathering up of
forces for more effective blows. All
hopes of the speedy relief of Lady
smith have been abandoned, and the
consensus of expert opinion urges the
immediate shifting of the theater of
war from the rocky kopjes of Natal
to the open veldt of the Free State.
One thing appears certain-another
long pause is inevitable, because, even
in the event of Gen. Butler further
attempting to reach Ladysmith, the
planning of a new move will neces-
sarily occupy time.
Curiously enough, there is visible,
especially in military circles, an I'M
dercurrent of relief at the news that
the British are safely south of the Tu-
gela, for the rumors of Saturday had
conjectured up visions of an immense
catastrophe.
The st. James Gazette this after
noon returns to scathing criticism of
the language of Gen. Buffers reports.
1t says: Gen. Buffers reflection on
the terror he put into the foe reminds
us of things we have heard about
Chinese mandarins."
The afternoon newspapers are dis
cussing whence are to come the troops
for a ~protracted campaign. 1t is be-
coming generally recognized that some
form of compulsory service is more
imminent than previously thought of.
The st. James Gazette, however, sug-
gests that the solution of pouring
and mor troops into South At
RIGA savors of the Spanish action In
Cuba, adding that the solution of max
ing better use of the thousands already
there has never suggested itself.
The Queens speech at the reas-
sembling Of Parliament tomorrow is
awaited with unusual interest In the
expectation that . considerable IL
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ONLY EIGHT U

Will b. I'm the National Base Bali
League the Coming Season.
NEW YORK, January 29.-For the
purpose of hearing the report of the
circuit committee Of the National
League of professional base ball clubs,
a special meeting will oon be called,
to be held in this city. Although no
official announcement has been made,
it is understood that the committee
has perfected all arrangements with
the exception, possibly, Of a few minor
details, for the reduction Of the cir
cult from twelve to eight clubs.
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Officially Repudfated.

BERLIN, January 29.-An official
agency has communicated the follow
ing to the press:
IN spite of official statement that
DR.. Leyds (the diplomatic representa-
tive of the Transvaal) is here by Off
cial invitation, his visit is entirely by
his own initiative, and though he has
received ordinary courtesy his pres
ence is entirely without political sig
niicance."
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wf1 RetIre rhnrsdnr.

CINCINNATI, o., January pm.
z. Ingalls,. president Of the Chesapeake
& Ohio railroad company. to-day an
nounced that on February LIST next be
will retire from that Office and that
he will be succeeded BY George w.
Stevens, at present the general man
ager OF the road.
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NO CONFIRMATION

OF the Death of the Chinese Emperor
Received by the State Depart
ment.
WASHINGTON. January 29.-No
confirmation has reached the State
Department Of the reported death Of
the Chinese emperor. Because Of the
peculiar rnQHdahout rav II - tie
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JUMPED THE TRACK.
Accident to "A Trolley Car
Near Dayton, Ohio.

FrightfuI Accident to a Trolley Car
Near Dayton, Ohio.
DAYTON, O., January pa runa-
way electric car on the Dayton & Ken
i "a traction road left the track at a
sharp curve just east of the city to-day
and was demolished. An unknown
man was crushed into an u~nrecogniz-
able mass. Hattie King, a young wo-
man residing at Alpha, Ohio, was in
stantly killed her skull being fractured.
John Cox, the motorman, had his leg
injured and amputation may be neces-
sary. Several other passengers re
ceiyed injuries.
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GoING TO EUROPE.
January Will Show An Extraordin-
arv Number of Passports Issued

airy Number of Passports Issued
WASHINGTON, January 20 An
extraordinary exodus of Americans to-
ward Europe is in progress. according
to the figures OF the passport bureau
of the State Department. Up to date
the number of passports issued during
January was 1883, and 125 more will
be sent out before the end OF the
month. Last January tho number for
the whole month raj $50. This record
for the winter months Is totally with
out precedent In the State department
Most Of the tourists ars from the
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LIVED A DOUBLE LIFE

Charles Prince, the SAT- Blower,
Was Finely Educated and Had a
Fine Home.
DIES MONIES, Iowa, January 20
Charles Prince, the supposed safe blow
er who was shot at Quincy, Ills, on
Saturday night, while resisting arrest,
was a resident of this city. He lived
in an attractive home and his wife is
reported to be worth $50 900. He was
finely educated.
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DUNDONALD SAFE.

Has Gotten His Forces Back on the
South side of the TugeIa.
LONDON, January 29-3:26 p. NJ
Great anxiety has been removed by
the announcement that Lord Dun
donald's cavalry forces, which it was
feared were isolated among the hills
in the neighborhood of Acton Homes,
are safe on the south bank of the
Tugela river.
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LONDON, January 29.-The war Of
fee denies the report that Ladysmith
has surrendered, and announces that
a very heavy list of casualties will be
issued tonight.
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FREE-FORALL Fight.
HARyE WAIVER SHOT TO DEATH
AND KID JENNINGS FATAL
LY STABBED

I'm n Row at Breeden, West vir-
ginia, sunday NiEht-Peter Jen-
fngs and Mrs. owen Woomer
Critically Injured-Miners and
Woodmcn Had Gathered for a
Drinking and Gambling bout
Those Implicated Escaped to KEN
lucky.
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OIL PROFITS.
Dividends Have Ranged From Five
and n Fourth to Thirty Per Cent.
Der Auuuna.

Per Annum.
WASHINGTON. January % A
statement by S. C. T. Dodd, solicitor
of the Standard Oil Company, concern
ing dividends OF that company from
1882 TO the present year, has been
made public BY the Industrial Com
mission 1t shows that the company's
dividends have varied from 81 per
cent per annum in 1852 to 50 per cent
il 1881.
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WASHINGTON. January 2o.-Tha
Lawton fund to date amounts to ts5.-
922. Gen. Shafter reports that he has
$1,000 at San Francisco.
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WASHINGTON, January 1s-For ohia
western Pennsylvania and West ylr-
ginla-Fair anhNTarmer Tuesday. snow
ara old u .sdnys brisk 10 nigh
southwesterly 10 northwssserly
winds.
Christ. Schnevf. to "a House drug
gisf, nlade The follow ~
the ~temQerature yes
Wezfhe1 kssr.
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A FATAL BOILER EXPLOSION
AT TIL ESTEEL DEPARTMENT OF
PHILLIPS, MUNNIC & CO.'S
ROLLING MILL.

The Plant Had Been Closed Down
Over Sunday, and the Boilers
Were Being Fired Preparatory to
Resuming When the Explosion
Took PIace-FOur Boilers in the
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Property Loss.
List of Dead and Injured.
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TWENTY-FIVE OFFICERS
KILLED At SP|ON KOP.
TWENTY WOUNDED AND SIX MISS
ING, ACCORDING TO bull
LER,S REPORT.
THE WAR OFFICE PROMISES
TO ISSUE TO THE PUBLIC A VERY
HEAVY LIST OF CASUALTIES.

Denies That Ladysmith Has Surren-
dered-LondOn Newspapers Rec
0Gnfxe That the British Arms
Have Been Defeated, and No Pre-
tense of Smoothing Matters Over
is Made.