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BOERs SAY THEY BEAT BRITISH

Pretoria. Jan. Last uighs (Sun-
day) the British IN great force attacked
Commandaus Schoemao's commando IN
the Coiepsburg district and tried to
e.orm the position. They repeated the
attack this oroing. but we're forced to
retreat, the Beers boldiog .he position
The loss of ,ne British is cot knowr.
but it is reported 20 have been heavy
The Beers ccnsider it great compi
ment to tie Transvaal that Lord Rob
erts should have been seiec'ed TO she
supreme command Of the British forces
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Gen French Success.
Retreat of Beers About Coles
burg Officially Confirmed.

London, Jan 2 The success of Gen
Freocb column is at leog,h cou6rmed
officially. the war Office this afternoon
issuing q dispatch from Cape Town,
Monday, Jan /, as follows:
French reports at 2 p N today
from Coleskop, by heliograph, as
follows Leaving at Rensbarg.
holding the enemy in front, half of the
First Sufolke aud section of the
Royal Horse Artillery, | started thence
at 5 in the afternoon, Dec 81, taking
With me Eve squadrons of cavalry, balf
of the Second Brrks and 80 mounted
infantry, infantry carried 10 wagons,
and 10 guus.
SC 4 ba!ted for four hours at Maidcrs
farm. aud at 8 80 this morning occupied
the kopje overlooking aad westward of
Colesburg The euems's ou.posts were
taken completely by surprise. Al
daylighs We shelled the !aager aud
enfladed the right of sbe eoeny's
position. The artillery FIRE 10 reply
was very hot from Is pocuder using
royal laboratory ammunition, and other
guns We silenoed the guns on the
eoemy's right flank, demonstrating
With cavalry aud guos to the oorth of
Colesburg towards the Junction, where
= strong laager of the enemy was bold
Jag hill aud position southeast of
Colesburg. as far as the junction
Our position cuts the line of retreat via
the road and bridge Some thousands
fof Beers, With sso guns, are reported
TO be retiring towards Norvalspont
All Remingson's scouts proceeded
towards Acbterland yesterday morning
Slight casualties about three killed
and few wounded details later
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SUMTER. S. c.. WEDNESDAY. JANUARY 10, 1900

Poos o7,.;ce witt two guns aod also
command the Colesbe.g bridge a"d
tuat The B5ars have GO vay to retreat.
except by way Norm5c1g
Tne dispatch adds that big develop
men.s are expected.
Naauvpoort, Cape Colony, Jan q
There was brisk fighting today in the
hills around Colesberg. The Beers
stubboruly resisted the British at every
point, bat gradually retreated.
Tue British holds the extreme
position to the south and east, over
10 k.og the town
The bills around Colesberg are
numerous, not 10 ranges. but iu groups,
making i. very difficult to hunt the
Beers out Sixteen wounded have
arrived at Arundel.
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Tie Negro Pension SWlnd!e.

Macon, Ga. Jao 3 3-Some Macon
pegroes are tak:pg steps to see il the
operations Of tae Na;icpa! Ex-Siave
Mo:1a! Relief Bouoty and Psosion
Association Of the Uaited States oi
America c.ooo' be stepped 81 law A
ceru6:a!e c: membership tas bsea
turoed cys: 70 cau7t cfneia; ssse 1t
vas Issued from Nashville ED is s;gued
D D McNairy, presideot S N. n:
Saith. secretary. and | T. Dtcae.sou
manage, TIE face of :he certificate
shows that the tc'der h2s PAID % csnss
to aid the novemeos aad agrees to pay
10 cents ooo,h TIE association Gas
many mem hess 10 this section.
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ANOTHER ACCOUNT

London, Jan 5-The war Office
has received, through Gen Forester
Walker, at Cape town, the following
dispatch from Col Baden.Powell,
dated Mafeking. Dec 26:
eve attacked one of the eDemy's
works this morning. endeavoring to
push back the Gordon northward
Our force consisted Of three guns, two
squadrons of the Protectorate regi
ment, one of the Bechuanaland rifles.
an armored train, etc. The enemy
had strengthened their works during
the night and doubled the garrison
since yesterdays reconnaissance
Nevertheless, our attack was car
ried out and pressed home with the
greatest possible gallaDtry and stead.
mess under very hot fire. But ali
efforts to gain the interior by escalade
failed, the fort being prastically i'm
pregnable
"Our attack only withdrew after
six of our officers and large number
of men had been hit. Nothing could
have exceeded the courage and dash
displayed
The general situation remains ua
changed, and the health apd spirits
of the garrison are very satisfactory
4 regret 10 report the following
casualties
"Killed-Copt R F Vernon; Capt
81 C Sanford, Lieut. e c Patton, Is
non commissioned officers aud troop
eIs
"Wounded-Capt Charles Fitz
Clarence, % non.commissioned off
cers and troopers
"Prisoners-T Three troopers +"
Gen Forester Walker points out
that while the dispatch gives all the
names, fails to show that six officers
were nit
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RECONNOITERING FROM FRERE
CAMP.

London, Jan GA dispatch to the
daily telegraph from Frere Camp,
daied Friday, Jan 5, says:
"Tbere has been firing today at
Ladysmith aud at Colepso A strong
cavalry reconnaissance under Lord
Dundonaid, proceeded westward this
morning toward Springfield. where
firing is proceeding
There is revival Of the refor:
that the Beers are short Of provisions
Gen Buller's army is eager for the ed
vance" "
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position of man having tiger ca:
in a trap and unable to kill it for
want of stick
A dispatch from Dover Farm an
nouuces that Lieut. Col Pitcher has
returned safely from Douglas
Since Commandant General Jou-
bert's return to the front the cannon
ade of Ladysmith by the Beers has
been much livelier Between Dec IL
and 20 four shells killed one officer
and Ii men and wounded l3 officers
and ii men
The war Office acknowledges the
inferiori.y of the regular artillery by
authorizing the equipment of the
new battery attached to the London
volunteer corps with Vickers and
Maxims, some of which the Boers
use, and by ordering 100 of these
l2a poupder quick frers built imme
diately. The officers and men OF the
new battery will be supplied from the
Honorable Artillery company.
Eight additional militia regiments
have been called out Seven of these
will serve IN ireland. replacing the
regulars sent to South Africa
From course which has many
facilities of gaining inside news from
South Africa, representative OF the
Associated Press learns that Col
Pitchers occupation of Douglas is
regarded as merely the first step OF
Gen Methuen's carefully matured
plans to outAank the Beers
According TO this authority. 1t is
probable Col Pitcher. in copjunction
with Gen Bab;agtoa's force f'om the
Modder river, will proceed to the rear
Of these iutreachmeots wbich oow
prevecs Gen Methuea from proceeding
to Kimberley Col Pitcher has only
about 40 miles travel before ne achieves
this end. and if this understanding is
correct 90 attack by Gen Metbuen aud
a determined effort to relieve K!mber
ley may be expected any day
A special dispatch from Reosberg,
dated Tuesday, Jan 2, says supply
,raio. without locomotive, vas ses IN
motion within the British lines pear
Colesberg, aud proceeded SO pear the
Boer position that it was impossible to
recover it, and the British guns there
fore destroyed the trucks 1t is sus
pected that this was the ac: Of traitor
The total British casualties about
Coleaberg. in Two days, we're six men
killed ADD 20 wounded.
The supply train, says ano,ber dis
patch from Rensberg. ran toto broken
culvert aodnwas wrecked The Beers
began lootios it and another Rsosberg
train vas dispatched to the spot 10 an
attempt to recover the provisions The
Beers opened fire on the troops and
oa,ives accompanying 1t. forcing ths
second train to retreat after several o
the natives had been killed
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BOERS ACTIVE AROUND KIM
BERLY.

Kimberley. Dec. 26 -Toa Beers last
night eviuced considerable interest 10
the Premier nioc. using their search
lights. This morning they actively
stei!ed the fort TIE Royal Artillery
replied Our shells we're we'll placed,
and dropped amid the smoke of the
'enemy's guns.
Las: nights storm ignited some OF
our military mines. but there we're 20
casus !;ies. Cecil Rhodes has supplied
she Boe. prisoners With pew clothing
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WILL NOT TAKE DELAGOA
BAY

Loodoc, Jan 3-A representative
Of toe Associated Press has been In
formed en- good authority that Grea:
Britain will 10, take Delagoa Day The
British government, it is added, does
not conseu. plate any such step. 10 spite
OF the cauor Of the press and pubic
opinion upon the advisaollisy c! SO
doing.
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WILL ACCOMPANY BOER ARMY.

Washington. Jao. 3.-Cap:. CaTi
Reichmanp, ofthe Seventeenth infautry,
and assistant adjutao, general OF vol
upteers, has been detailed By the secre
targ os war to accompany the Boer
army for tue purpose o! observing aud
reporting upon military operations IN
the war 10 South Africa.
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MAI HARVEY KILLED.

London, Jan 5-A special dis
patch from Rensburg says Maj
Harvey, of the Tenth Huesars, was
killed and Maj Alexander wounded
while the Hussars were pursuing
retreating Beers after the attack
on the British left Jan 4th near Coles
berg Lieut. Gibson of the Innis,
killins, was among the wounded.
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TDGELA RIVER BECOMES
FORDABLE

London, Jan S-Tbe Daily Tele
graph mas received the following. dated
jan 2, from Frere Camp:
The weather is foe. The Tueela
River is cow fordable Gen Buller's
a-my is in 6ne form. ready and conf
dent for the work before it.
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GATACRE AT cYPHERGAT.

Sterkstroom. Jan 4 Gen Gatacre,
today met the invading force at Cy-
phergat near the British advance
camp at Brushmanshoek The Beers
retired burriedly shortly after the
British artillery opened fire The
enemy occupied Molteno and CIPHER
gat today, but the latter place is now
veoccupied by Us.
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WONT TOUCH AT HONOLULU.

San F.a5cisco. Jso 3-Un4il ali
dagger Of a spread OF the plague oow
prevalent io Hono'uia IS past, tvsos-
ports leaving this port fer tie Philip
pires will DOT stop there. tak;cg ssh.
cient coal With them froGa here to last
the entire trip.
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BOER HORSES STAMPEDED

Frere Camp. Jan "A vigorous
sheiling of the Boer trenches on the
plain this morning forced the burghers
to shift their position after their horses
had stampede
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Beers Still Forttfylng the
Hills, Now Have 40 Miles
Of Entertainments.

London, Jan S, 5 m.-This
mornings news throws no further
light upon the war situation
Lord Methuen's cavalry scouting
has developed the fact that the
Beers entertainments extend some
40 miles. fer overlapping the British
position and making flank attacks
exceedingly difficult Military anaIy
sis affirm that the Boer trenches con
fronting Gen Butler stretch away
some II miles and that work upon
them is pushed unremittipg'y
1t now appears that it is John
! Cburchiii, second son of Lady Ran
doph Churchill, aud not Winston
Spencer Churchill, who has been
given command of the squadron of
the South African Light Horse
A report comes from Berlin tina.
Great Britain's reply to Germenv's
Representations on the subject of the
Bundesrath is regarded as unsa:isfac
tory and procraetnating.
Further details of the fighting be.
tween Gen Gatacre and the Beers at
Oyphergat yesterday shows that
5000 Beers, with artillery, attacked
British outpost between Cyphergat
and Molteno Gen Gatacre, with
mounted troops and field artillery,
moved out in front of Sterkstroom
and found the Beers strongly posted
at Coperberg, whence they were
quickly dislodged, the Boere fleeing
in the direction of Stromberg The
Beers used the British guns captured
Dec 10 and shot well, but the British
kept under cover and there were no
casualties on their side
The war office has received a
report from Cape Town dated
Wednesday, Jan 8, reporting the
situation in Gen Gatacre's district
1t saye "Dordrecht is DOW evacuated
by Moatmorency who occupies Birds
siding Of the Indwe line
.Mclteuo is being attacked today
BY the enemy, who more or less
surround the police station, but who,
according to reports, are being
forced back Reinforcements Of
mounted Infantry and field artillery
have been sent by Gen Gatacre The
result is not known
"a company of mouated infantry
under Andersen has reconnoitered to
Prieska aud exchanged shots with
the rebel forces on the moth bank
~No movement Of Gems Methuen
and>French is reported "
The British foreign Office knows
nothing about the report that the
Berne arbtrators have made their
award in the Delagoa bay rsilroad
question. and, so far as the foreign
officials are able to ascertain, it has
not yet been made
BOERs REPORT ON SITUATION.
Boer Camp, Colenso, Tuesday, Jan
2-The British naval guns at
Chieveley camp continue their inef-
fec.ive long range fire night and day,
in order to divert Boer attention from
the movement of the troops
Fedral scouts yesterday penetrated
into the British camp When return.
ing the British pickets discovered
them and wounded one Boer
Gen Lucas Meyer resumes com
mand of the division here.
Gen Joubert denies that he has
ever protested against the the use OF
iyddite He AYERS that tptto the
present he has not lost single man
by lyddi;e
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16 MORE REGIMENTS OF MILL
TIA.

London Jan An army order
has been issued directing the embodi
ment of l6 additional battalions of
militia
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LOST RATIONs AND RUN

Rensberg Jan 4 The casualties to
Gen French's forces up to the after
noon of Jan 8 were FIVE men killed
and "a wounded.
Coleskop is now the principal
scene Of the fighting. The destruction
of the wrecked train included $4,000
rations and a supply Of rum
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TEN THOUSAND PAID.

soperioseoden: Griffith OF the STATE
oenitentisry yesterday completed the
6oarcia portion OF bis ANNUAL report
Daricg the day be paid $4,000 iato
the tate treasury aod be aunouooes
that be has on hand in cash aud cotton
unsoid and bills coilec,able the SUN OF
So. $50 % He also states that pien'y
ci corp. e:c.. bas been c:ade ,h;s year
ta supply the S:a!e foTns for another
year Ioe summary of the lns,!'u
rlan's financial s;a.e0eoi is as follows:
Baeac4 On n:ad Dec. 81, 1898, s S04 Al
Total receipts 10: 1890, 3:5l3 2;
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BRISK ACTION IN PROGRESS At
MOLTENO.

sssrkstroom, Cape Colony, Jao. 8
Morning -The Beers aaecked n oleeuo
tsls morning. a brisk acs;oo is now
10 progress
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PLAGUE BREAKS OUT IN RIO
JANERlO.

Rio Jsneiro. Jan 3.-The tcbonic
plsgue hes broken out 10 the city aud
neigh borhcod of San Pac!o
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KAFFIRs DEFEATED BY DUTCH

Pretoria, jan 4-Since starting
the mint here has coined l4D, 900
sovetcigns The machinery is now
in fell swing
Varsensberg reports from Derde
poor. that tie kaffir stations have
been destroyed and that the inhabl-
tan's are flying
Chief Lyach. with 5000 Katllcs,
attacked the Boer laagets, but the
natives were dispensed
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PH.CnEpSis Ra1pING EXPE5I-
TON
Belmont. Cape Colcny,

Belmont, Cape Colony, Hcanrs-
day. jaa Sol Pitcher, i! Is
off ei.:::y announced being o.is or .
.aiSii..s exoeG55;o.s. -; 70; t.s}l.ia1y
;e.so;,s bei@g uoab;e u occaag
d eagiass permanently hes s:aoG4ted
the town. bringing eff I'll f:le
!ova!isis lie iias now returned safe
ly 70 close proximity to Belmont
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BULLER CONTINUES HIS SUR
PRISES

L2odoa. Jaa 3-Gen. Butler coz.
,iores his nigh. bon oas6mea;s aad
pa:rol surprises TIE Tuge'a is asa;a
for;la5le, and the stretcher bearers have
agaio been 'cqais'.ioned at DuTsac aod
P'eter;aar;i,zorrg There il dt>pos
to,. 20 believe t,at the Bg!;.sa Vii! OF
long oe delayed
I, is reported at Da-ban that The
apu74t: sfesmer 3nadesra.h I'D 81
5oafd f:e o'g gus. ak tons G! .fc!is
I'D lS9 ,ra:cec a7tliter. mea
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FIGHTING At COLE BERG

Loo..oo. Jan s.. speciei s.s?afea
from Naarvoort, ds.cd Tuesday, Jsp
2. sa;s ,be British comm.cd No.vais
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is reasonable to suppose, therefore,
judging from analogy, that when a
sufficient population settle below them,
the works will called upon to supply
their full capacity, and II they have
been carefully planned and estimated
for, economically constructed and adj
ministered under proper system, they
should return fair interest on the origi-
nal outlay.
1t has been in our semi-humid region
OF the United States where there are
naturally good crops once In several
years that hard times have fallen the
hardest, but 1T is also here. judging
from Indian experience. that irrigation
works would pay least because they
would not be continuously used.
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MILLIONS STARVING
Thousands Of People in India Can
not Obtain Water.
Despite Twenty Million Acres of irri-
gated Land. Thousand, or Natives
VIII s,nrve The Boer War .. a
Disnd vantage to Indin.

India is again confronted with the
misery of great famine and England,
even with a disastrous war in South
Africa upon her hands, will have to
stretch forth strong hand to help the
suffering millions of her Far Eastern
peninsula. Over $4,000, 600 souls are
now reported to be affected by the
famine, and with the famine area rap
idly expanding. \ London dispatch
states that the sum of sS.7O0.OO0 will be
expended OH relief works. and that
already over 100000 persons are re-
ceiving relief. Water, or rather its
lack, is the cause of the afIliction.
This year both the monsoons and the
winter rains failed and left the earth
parchcd and dry for months
Yet the English by their public works
In India and their great rriga ton pro-
jects have vastly added to the pro-
ducng capacity of the country and
have greatly amclorated the natural
condition of the natives. The prod
ucts from irrigation for last year ac-
cording TO the Indian official figures,
amounted to 450,000,000 rupees.
NATURES MlGHTIEST WORKS.
India includes within her borders the
highest mountains i'm the world and
some of the mightiest rivers and great
est plains. The great Himalayan
range 1880 miles long, lying across the
northern border, shuts out the rest OF
Asia. Mount Everest. the highest
peak in the world. pierces the sky 20
002 feet above the tides while peaks
over 10000 feet elevation abound i'm all
parts of the range. There are numer-
Gus we'll worn trails leading from India
across the Himalayas through Kash-
nicer and Nepal into Thibct and China.
and the passes on these are from 16-
600 to $4,000 feet high. In making
such journey the traveller for several
days remains above 16. 600 feet altitude.
Only one pass Is as low MS 16, 400 feet.
The historic Ganges, the Indus and
the Brahmaputra are the three great
rivers of India. These with their af-
iiuents drain an area of nearly 900. 900
square miles. Their waters are large
ly used for irrigation constituting i'm
reality the life blood of much of the
country The food discharges of these
great streams are enormous. The
Ganges alone, in flood. may discharge
1880 600 cubic feet per second
HEAVIEST RAINFALL IN THE
WORLD.
Indla's rainfall which is accountable
for this immense body Of water, comes
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GENERAL MILES MUSEUM.

In what General Miles calls his gal
lery, but which is known to the neigh
borhood as the Spite Room" Is To-
Gated veritable museum of Indian
relics and Indian art. Some of them
recall stirring scenes in the Generals
career as an Indian fighter. especially
head dress of eagle feathers worn
by chief who fired at the General
while In conference. The head band
Is marked with n round bullet hole,
a token of the unerring aim that car
ried him to the happy hunting ground
for his trcacherous act
The gun of Joseph. chief of the Mex
Perces. which was SURRENDERED to the
General at the time OF the arrest Of
his band and their deportation to the
government reservation at Fort Leav-
enworth. forms the center of a rack OF
rifles. There are many other relics of
the tribe. and all recall the pathetic
taking off of numbers of the tribe
so savage yet so civilized in their arts
during their cncampmcn. IN the
unhealthy river bottoms OF the Mis-
souri,
The bow and culver of Geronimo
show the uacivlized mode at warfare
the General encountered. The rest of
the collection is rich in buffalo and elk
heads and the prepared and decorated
skins OF wild animals. the collection of
blankets representing nearly every
tribe of North American Indians.
There are Indian pottery, head dresses.
scalps. moccasins. Shields and arms of
all kinds, each telling u story Of the
Generals Western career.