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WAR NEWS IN BRIEF.

The rainy season has begun in Natal.
The Beers have 46,50O men in the field.
independence. Kan, is shipping more
mules TO England.
Explorer Henry NJ. Stanley thinks the
war will end by July.
Chamberlain is now considered as the
next British premier.
Alfred Miner has declared martial law
in several districts in Cape Colony.
The Queen sent kilograms of congrat-
uation to Gems. Butler and White.
London Standard says Great Britain
will get port in Portuguese Fast At
rica.
The Beers have dynamited in thirty
places the railroad between Modder river
and Kimberley.
American manufacturers expect many
orders for mining machinery as result
of the Boer war.
Alarm is felt over leakage of news in
cables from Africa, but England is un-
able to locate the parties.
The Inniskilling Fusieers went into
the battle of Peters Hill with "a Off
GERS and came out with five
The English budget will be Increased
$50 100000 for current expenditures and
$210, 100000 for war expenses.
Sir Michael Hicks Beach estimates the
war expenditures at $300,0O0,0O0. An
addition to the income tax of shilling
a pound is suggested.
The Canadians were only prevented
from carrying Gen. Cronjc's laager at
the point Of the bayonet by the impcra-
tive orders to the contrary.
The jailer in charge of the prisoners at
Pretoria, Opperman by name, was dis
missed after Winston Churchill's escape.
He went to the front and was killed at
Spion Kop.
To procure a black background against
which the khaki of the British regiments
will be thrown into relief the Beers have
been burning the grass along the line of
the British advance.
The convocation Of Oxford University
will be asked to pass on a decree allow
ing all undergraduates who volunteer for
service in South Africa to put off their
"honor schools" for year.
Turpin, the inventor of melinite, is said
to be with the Beers. The petroleum
bombs fired at Kimberley are attributed
to him. Great Britain was the only pow
er that offered him compensation for his
discovery.
A letter from Sydney to a Londoner
says: "They are war mad in Australia.
More than half the white gold miners in
the Transyaal were Australians and were
harshly treated by the Beers"
An officer Of one of the Highland regi-
ments has written home for a sleeping
bag and also requested that clean shirt
be sent him once week, as IL was inn
possible to get anything washed.
Once q week the staff officers of the
Russian army assemble under the presi-
dency Of the Grand Duke Vladimir to dis
cuss the progress of the Boer war. The
Csar occasionally attends the meeting.
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9sA1iAS1irHS1iA A1'AGiA3A4SA2iA
/ CHURCH AND CLERGY. Z


The first Russian orthodox church in
America is to be erected in New York at
a cost of $4,000.
OF the 34,O00,00O people in South Amer.
lea it is estimated that 30,000,O00 have
never seen n Bible.
The London Mail speaks Of Mr.. Moody
as "the great link between the churches
of England and America"
The Congregational churches of South
Carolina composed of colored people have
formed a State association.
Secretary of State Hay has presented
to st. Paufs Church at Warsaw, ILL.,, a
carved oak altar as memorial to his
mother.
The London Council for the Promotion
of Public Morality has begun vigorous
effort to drive out evils which are SUBJ
ject to law in London and to purify the
moral atmosphere of the city.
In 1890 the Young Mems Christian AS
sociation erected new buildings in the
United States at the rate of one every
ten days, many of them costing from
$4,000 to 100000
st. George Mivart, whose orthodoxy
has been questioned by Cardinal
Vaughan has been Catholic for over
fifty years, having joined the church
when he was IL years old.
The Bishop Of Koniggratz, Austria, has
published Latin circular directed
against the love of dancing shown among
the clergy Of the diocese. All priests
who dance will be suspended.
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SOLDIER KILLED FROM AMBUSH
Trcacherous Act of FiIipinos
cans Burn Village.

A Manila dispatch says that Lieut.. Ed
gar f. Kochlcr of the Ninth infantry was
shot in the abdomen and killed at vii
lage six miles north of Tarlac where he
went in search of some hidden rifles. \
Filipino. promising to produce the rifles,
led him into I'm ambush away from his
command. The American soldiers in re-
yenge burned the village and killed
twenty-fOur of the enemy.
Gen. Bates expedition to southern Lu-
zon, consisting Of the Fortieth and Forty
fifth regiments, Il total of 1900 men. has
occupied Neuva Caceres, province of
South Camarincs; Dact. province of
North CamarncS. and the neghboring
smaller towns. The enemy resisted at
one point and two Americans were killed,
including Lieut.. John Il. Galleher of the
Fortieth regiment The rebels lost heav-
lily.
On Feb. 20 the expedition arrived at
San Miguel bay. landed. and in three
columns Immediately pushed inland, con
verging upon Nucva Caceres, and at
tempting To control the enemy's routes
TO retreat. At Lithuanian. north of Nueva
Caceres. the enemy was concealed in the
rice fields and resisted battalion of the
Fortieth regiment. which engaged them
at close quarters with bayonets. After
forty minutes fighting the enemy fled
and Libmanan was occupied. The Amer
leans buried siNty-four of the enemy.
whose total loss in killed and wounded
is estimated at 40
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WIPED OUT BY FIRE.
Historical Theater Francais at Paris Is
Wholly Destroyed.

hoiiN DtetToSSus
The Theater Francais. in Paris, has
been destroyed by fire, i'll which Mile.
Henriot lost her life and seven hremen
were injured The fire originated in the
foyer of the theater Al / 80 o'clock
p. III. Thursday huge column of flame
burst forth and in short time the
whole building was enveloped in fire and
smoke. Shortly afterward the historical
playhouse of Paris and the home of the
world-famed Comedic Francais, was a
mass Of ruins. The burning of the the
ater will come as loss To lovers of the
art of Corneillc. Racine, Moliere and
Shakespeare. while TO visitors to the expo
sition one of the notable sights of Paris
will be missing.
The Thcater Francais was founded in
1900. but the editce which was destroyed
by fire Thursday dates back only to
17S2, though its facades on the Rue ST.
Honore and the Place were renewed in
recent years. The famous playhouse had
also recently undergone renovation i'll
view of the crowds expected during the
exposition which is to open Easter sun
day. Happily the fire broke out an hour
or so before the matinee performance of
Dumas fills drama. Diane de Lys," or
the theater might have witnessed at its
close the greatest tragedy of its his
tory.
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quis, when he was only 21, and became
lord of the treasury three years later.
He has been in Office almost steadily for
the last thirty years, his highest post pre-
vious to that he holds now having been
that of governor general Of India from
1888 to 1893. Previous to that he was
governor general of Canada Lord Lans-
downe was a Liberal until Mr.. Glad
stones home rule bill sent him over to
the other side. His reward was the APP
pointment by Lord Salisbury to be gov
ernor general of India, and after his re-
turn thence TO be secretary of state for
war.
Just before Lansdowne stepped into
this office Gen. Wolseley became com
mander-in-chief succeeding the old Duke
of c. Cinbridge, the Queens first cousin,
who had held the office forty years.
What has caused the greatest agita-
tion is the affair Of Gen. Butler He
had been in command in South Africa
until the outbreak of the war and upon
him the Government relied for informa
ton as to the Boer strength. When the
war broke out and England was unpre-
pared people openly charged that Gen.
Butler was either blind or a traitor. But
now it transpires that Gen. Butler not
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CHICAGO'S LABOR WAR.
Ten Thousand Men Are Added to 10,
900 Already Idle.


Ten thousand men have been added to
the 10000 made idle by the labor contest
and property estimated TO aggregate $50
00n000 in value has been ordered tied
up by action of The building material
manufacturers of Chicago at meeting
Tuesday afternoon. Beyond attempting
to fill contracts now on hand the mate
rial men will, they state, do no business
until the labor war is settled. Self
preservation is the motive they give and
a diversity of opinion exists regarding the
effect it will have on the labor situation.
Ofi.cials Of the building contractors coun-
ell declare that it means support for
them while the supply men assert that
they are neutral and will sell to no con
tractor or builder in Chicago regardless
of whether he is involved in the struggle
1t is conceded on all sides that enough
material will be forthcoming TO complete
most of the big structures under way in
but it is held that il will he impossible to
proceed with any new building opera
tions.
While some maintained that this may
do much to force a peaceable adjustment
of the labor difficulty. many minimize the
effect of the material mems decision. be-
cause in several lines. they say. there are
manufacturers not bound by the action
of their fellows who will probably seek
to make the most of the emergency that
will throw them trade.
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An explosion at the Red Ash mine, two
miles west of Thurmond, w. Va, killed
nearly 125 miners. The explosion is be-
lieved to have occurred near the mouth
of the mine. 1t was he.rd on adjoining
mountains and coal ears and mules were
hurled several hundred yards down the
mountain side. The sound of the eXplo-
sion spread terror in every direction, and
rescuing parties were soon on the scene.
The mouth of the mine was found jam
med almost full of carts mules, and
few human bodies. II is believed that
every man in the mines perished. Hun
dreds of women, wives, daughters and
sweethearts of the unfortunate ones,
crowded about the mouth of the mine
and their walls were heartrending.
These mines usually employ $50 people,
Gut Sherman Shirley, the bookkeeper
states that for week only about three
fourfhs of the men have been on duty
Fully 80 per cent of the miners were
white people and about GO per cent were
married men, John Laing, the superin-
tendent, came out of the mine not more
than ten minutes before the catastrophe
He is of the impression chat the gas in
the mines was ignited from miners
Red Ash Coal Company, the principal
owner of which is j. Fred Effinger of
Staunton, Va.
Portions Of body were found after
the explosion hanging to a tree almost
sixty yards from the mouth of the mine.
Andrew Pritt, chancellor commander of
Beury Lodge, Knights of Pythias, was
taken from the mine, but was unable
to speak and died soon afterward. More
than a dozen doctors We're dispatched to
the scene from the various towns in the
vicinity, but their services were unnec-
essary. All the victims were dead. The
mine is in a mountain overhanging the
little town of Red Ash, where most of
the miners lived. The opening was high
upon the mountain wall, about 700 feet
above the west side of New river.
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Consideration was created in Puget
sound cities Thursday by the official an
nouncement that seventeen cases of bu'
bonic plague have existed ut Port Town
send for nearly month. Early in Feb
ruary the japanese tramp ship Nanyo
Maru arrived there with suspicious dis
ease on board. The ship was ordered
into quarantine at Diamond Head and
has since remained there. Two men had
died on the voyage over and at least one
more succumbed after reaching Port
Townsend.
Quarantine officials at first would not
state what the disease was, but later
gave out that it had been diagnosed as
beriberi, an affiiction familiar to japanese
physicians. Ii is similar TO the bubonic
plague. and. while equally fatal, is be-
lievcd to be less infectious. Thursday.
when il was officially announced that the
disease was nothing more nor less than
the death-dealing plague. CONSERVATION
spread throughout all the Pacific coast
ports. The Nanyo Maru has been fumi-
gated more than thirty times in an at
tempt to kill the disease germs with
which the ship is infected. Its timbers
are yellow and discolored from the fumes
of sulphur. Thousands of rats infested
the ship, including the cabins and sleep
ing quarters. Her Japanese crew was IN
bad state of health, aside from the out
break of the plague. II is believed at
Port Townsend that more than three died
ut sea. The ships crew numbered forty.
She came across in ballast TO secure any
kind of cargo offered.
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Cervera's Watch i'm Pawn.

The watch of Admiral Cervera, who
commanded the Spanish fleet at Santiago
is in pawn in Wichita. Kan. \ local
genius is organizing a company of forty
persons to redeem the timepiece and send
it back to the admiral. Forty dollars
was the amount advanced on it to a lieu
tenant in the Twenty ythird Kansas regi-
ment, colored. The watch was given to
a Cuban pilot by Admiral Cervera on the
morning of the memorable battle for
showing him the way out of Santiago
harbor. After the battle the Cuban was
in bad repute among his countrymen and
endeavored to get back to Spain. While
skulking in the woods around Santiago
he was caught by the lieutenant, who se-
cured the watch from him.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1900-03-15

a clerk in an egg-exporting establishment
in Fort Dodge, Iowa. During a period
of rest Miss Glday inscribed her name
and address on n large white egg with
indellible ink. 1t was shipped with a
big consignment to New York dealer,
and made part Of one Of the first ship
ments of American eggs to Cuba. The
egg at last came into the possession of
Charles z. ii. Smith, one Of the United
States civil service men at Guines, and
he noticed the address. He wrote to
Miss Gilday and in due season received
a reply.
In the near future Mr.. Smith will jour
ney to Iowa, and as soon as arrange
ments can be completed, will, il is said,
return to Cuba with the bride which was
brought to him by an egg.
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northward from De Aar TO the relief of
Kimberley; Gen. Butler. north from Dur
ban for the relief of Ladysmith; and
Gems French and Gatacre, northward
along the railroads passing into the Or
ange Free State. to clear Cape Colony
of Beers. Gen. Methuen'S column adj
vanced more rapidly than the others,
fought four battles but was not able TO
relieve Kimberley. Gen. Buffers column
got no farther north than Colenso. Gen.
French was stopped below Colesberg.
Gen. Gatacre was held at Moteno.
The third stage Of the campaign open
cd with the arrival of Gen. Roberts and
another reorganization of the British
army. Making fent on his extreme
right at COlenso. Roberts moved his main
column To flank the Boer position at
Magersfohtein. This movement broke the
Bocr line. resulted in the relief of Kim
berley. in the capture Of Gen. Cronjc and
his army. Sn the retirement Of the Beers
from Colesberg and jamestown, and was
the determining factor in relieving Lady
smith.
The fourth stage of the campaign opens
with the retirement of the Beers To new
lines of defense. The reports indicate
that a show of resistance was kept up
south of Ladysmth until the siege guns
and war material were transferred north
ward. When this was accomplished no
military purpose could be served by the
Beers in clinging TO the positions about
Ladysmith. Their retirement from Lady
smith, and their possible retirement from
Bloemfontein. yield great advantages to
the British invading columns, but both
moves were inevitable. With northern
Cape Colony free of Bocrs, Gen. Roberts
has three railroads at his service. This
fact simplifes the problem of supplying
his army.
The retreat of the Beers i'm Natal will
be less precipitate than in the Orange
Free State, because the former have the
mountains behind them and are retiring
on positions which nature has made al
most impregnable. The Boer generals
must guard against n formidable attack
from Gen. Roberts i'm the Orange Free
State, must resist the advance Of Gen.
Butler toward Laing's Neg and Van Rec
mems Pass, and must at the same time
strengthen their lines on the left to resist
a flanking movement through Zululand.
Withdrawal from the Tugela and from
the Orange river to the mountain passes
and to Kroonstad will greatly shorten
and strengthen the Boer line of defense.
Their line will then represent two sides
of n triangle, with the point OH the Drak-
ensberg Mountains below Van Reenen's
Pass, with one side line extending north
ward along the partially completed rail
-oad to Kroonstad. and with the other
reaching along the mountains up to and
eastward OF Laing's Mex.
Kimberley was relieved after a siege
Of 122 days, and Ladysmith after a siege
of 11S days. BY laying siege to these
two points, both of them of great impor-
tance to the British, the Beers practical
y chose the fighting ground for the first
months of the war. A dozen engage.
ments were fought for the possession of
Kimberley, and over twenty for the pos
session OF Ladysmith.
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News of Minor Note.

Fifteen persons were injured in a
wreck at Mineola, Texas, Friday.
Battleship Kearsarge will become the
flagship of the North Atlantic squadron.
Unusually cold weather in Florida is
believed to have injured the orange trees.
Steamer was lost during the recent
gale on the Caspian sea and twenty-five
persons drowned.
\ bill has been introduced ia the New
Jersey Legislature requiring trusts to
publish their reports.
The battleship Wisconsin, building at
San Francisco. Cal, is expected to take
her trial trip before July /.
Kentucky furnished more soldiers, Con
federate and Union, than any other
State, according to population.
Mrs. Kate Grant, 60 years old, died nj
Harlem Hospital, New York, from the
effects OF gradual starvation.
Chicago police are trying to extermin-
ate the investment companies which
promise fabulous rate Of interest.
Congressman Lentz OF Ohio proposes
the public distribution of a United States
unp to oil schools In the United States.
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BUSINESS SITUATION.
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chlcago Correspondence:

| Chicago Correspondence:
The general tenor of the trade reports
indicate that the movement of business
is still large, and that prices for all the
staples are being well maintained. In
certain lines there is little less eager
ness To contract for forward delivery on
the assumption that a presidential year
always carries with it more or less uncer-
tainty, but as a rule stocks are low and
deliveries still backward.
Business of the week in speculative
grain circles was of normal activity,
without being subjected to violent change
from previously prevailing prices. The
general tendency was to a somewhat
lower range, but with prices already rea-
sonably low holders displayed considera
BILE reluctance to part with their property
at any marked reduction. There being,
however, an excessive supply at the mo-
ment, compared with the demand prices
were compelled to follow the inexorable
economic law. Shipments of wheat from
Argentina were never so heavy for the
same period as they were last week. and
European buyers appear to be able to buy
on better terms than are asked by hold
ers of American wheat. Unless there
occurs a serious failure Of some one or
other of the more important wheat crops
Of the world that mature about July or
August permanent material improve
ment in price seems improbable.
The price of corn yielded slightly, and
some of its former friends expressed
themselves less hopefully regarding its
future than they had been doing for the
previous two or three months. Many who
had bought corn when the May price
was around 30 cents sold out at and
above 80 cents and profess to believe de-
liveries from farmers will exceed the de-
mand from shippers from now until they
start their spring plowing at least. Dur
ing that time the expectation is the pres
sure of the Immediate offerings will en-
able bulls who have sold at around 80
cents to buy back perhaps cents above.
The tendency of the stock markets dur
ing the week has again been downward.
There is little pressure on the part of in
vestors, but Che traders who bought on
the slump of last December have been
taking their profits and practically no
new buying has made its appearance.
Special causes are largely responsible for
the present condition of the market, and
until these csuses are eliminated it will
probably be useless to look for any per-
mancnt Improvement in the general list.
Marcel Habert. the colleague of Paul
Deroulede, Paris, was found guilty and
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IN,
TEMPEST IN BRITISH WAR OFFICE
Fight Between Lansdowne and woIse-
ley Is Bitter.

AS the result of British unsuccess in
South Africa in the war with the Beers
much criticism is being directed against
the British war Office and considerable
friction has arisen between the secretary
of war, Lord Lansdowne, and the com
mander-in-chief of the army, Lord Wolse-
ley. The followers of each accuse the
other of being responsible for England's
unpreparedness when the crucial time ar
rived and it is probable that as the out
come of the agitation one or the other
will have to retire. Parliament will in
quire into the. matter and interesting de-
velopments are expected.
Lord Lansdowne comes from one of the
oldest and haughtiest families in the
kingdom, dating to the twelfth century.
He succeeded his father, the fourth mar
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lean women in London TO carry it out.
The sum of S1J5.000 was raised in
short time. At this juncture b. n. Ba-
ker OF Baltimore. Nd president of the
Atlantic Transport Company, offered the
steamship Maine and its crew to the
committee, to be used as a hospital ship
as long as the war lasted. This gift
represented an outlay of between $4,000
and $4,000 month. To equip the YES
sci the committee expended $125, 900. and
as it costs some $4,000 month to keep
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the purest sophistry. 1t is the argument
with which the prurently curious salts
fy their consciences when they go slum-
ming in evil places. Such pictures of
vice tend to demoraliZe rather than re-
form the world, even though misery is
portrayed as the result of it. In any cir
cumstances. it is claimed, the play is dis
tinctly vicious and its influence bad.
Magistrate Mott in New York did not
undertake to pass finally on the question
of its morality but he held the managers
and principals for trial before a jury. and
thus was at least successful in securing
its temporary withdrawal.
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the ship in service, Mrs. Adair, who in
the absence of Lady Randolph Churchill
is the head of the committee, comes here
to interest Americans in the work.
Mrs. Adair is well known in the fash
ionable society of New York and New
port. Her first husband was Mr..
Ritchie OF Boston. In 1867 She married
the late John Adair. who was one of the
great land magnates of Ireland and high
sheriff of the County Donegal. She is
very wealthy in her own right
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ASKS AMERICAN AID.
Mrs. Adair's Appeal on Behalf Of the
Hospital Ship Maine.

Mrs. Cornelia Adair, who is now in this
country in the interests of the hospital
ship Maine, which it may be remembered
was provided by American women in
England for the nursing of wounded
British soldiers in the Boer war, is her
self an American, being a daughter OF
the late Gen. Wadsworth of Gcneseo,
n. ", who fell AT the battle of the Will
derness.
The idea of fitting out a hospital ship
originated with a Mrs. Blow, an Ameri-
can, and she, with Lady Randolph