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The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1900-01-13
SCENES or PATRIOTISM.
Volunteers Were Given an Ovation
in London,

London, January 10 RemarkabIe
scenes OF patriotism we're witnessed In
London last evening after a Short SER
vice held for the volunteers 10 St Paul's
cathedral. The vast audience was SLOW to
dispense. Ladies stood upon the chairs
beckoning and calling brothers. sons and
friends in the ranks, the latter signalling
back. A scene OF great animation ensued.
The organlsts introduced a few bars OF
the national anthem in concluding the
voluntary The effect OF this was magical.
First the volunteers and then the congre-
gatlon took up the strains and the vast
cathedral was filled with enthusiastic
song. These Recommendations were renewed
by immense crowds outsides st. PAUL.
churchyard and I.udgate hill were black
with people and II Was impossible for the
volunteers TO march, Individual members
were pulled out OF the ranks by their
friends and admirers who raised them
on their shoulders aud thus carried them
down Fleet street. Those who escaped
hosting proceeded slowly. surrounded by
clinging women,
AfiereGTdf "a the various thea'ers
where the men were entertained, and vel
later or returning 10 barracks thes'
scenes we're renewed and the streets were
filled until midnight with cheering PEG.
ME
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SENIOR MORA WAS REMOVED
HE TOLD on COLLECTOR BLISS AND
DISMISSAL FOLLOWED.
Gencrni Wood snys the Removal OF
the officer Is for the Good>of
the Police Guard.

Havana January l2,-"Federico Mora,
fiscal of the supreme court, is hereby re-
moved from office for the good OF the
police guard.
This is the result of an investigation
into the conditions existing in the adj
ruinistration OF justice under his admins.
tration This order was given this morn
ing by Governor General Mood. This
move has not been unlocked for. For some
time II L7s been said that Mora has been
devoting too much attention TO social af-
fairs and too little TO his duties. General
Moods investigation has shown that the
officers OF the supreme court fiscal are
largely responsible for number OF the
untricd cases and that not only Nora but
that others in the department of justice
have been persistently trying to block
The charges against customs officials whom
Collector Bliss is anxious to prove guilty
of Wholesale bribery and corruption
Everythns possible has been done to pro-
vent the men from receiving heir Just
punishment. but he was scarcely wiling
10 believe that the officers have been 10
completely Mora's letter 20 the supreme
ccuft regarding the custom house ta1d
cases under trial which has already been
puonshea was the last straw. Hls als-
missal had been decided upon some days
before senior Estcves secretary of jus
tice. had a long consultation with the
governor general before final action was
taken.
The only paper which comments upon
the removal is the Discussion, which eVi-
IDENTIFY received the news just before going
to press this evening. Its only remark
/ n protest As tho order was not yet
issued to the press the Discussion, when
is Mora's mouthpiecc, must have received
il from the dismissed fiscal.
Senior Andrade and Senior Pierra are
prominently mentioned as successors IN
1 the fiscalship. Senior Andrsde has strong
political backing but by many he is con
| sidered too vigorous and anti American
| senior Pierra was formerly the editor oil
the Independence. His loyalty to the
/ Cuban cause is unquestoned and. IS he
I lived many years in the United States, HI
Is friendly to the Americans Either APP
pointment would probably be popular viii
the people.
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AS THE WRITERS VIEW IT.
SUFFERING FROM THE WAR IN
AFRICA GRAPHICALLY TOLD.
Btucrs Arc starving ana iIi-Cind
rich ride Ia Observation-Disclosures
Misery M Lndysmith.

Correspondence OF tho Associated Press
Copyrighted. i9oo 10y Associated presg.)
London January 10 British war CORE
spondeuts are pouring in through tho
mails columns OF descriptions Of the on
crations in South Africa.
Julian Ralph, writing for the Daily
Mail, says: LET mo describe tho Top
Of ono of tho small hills In tho Belmont
engagement, the one In storming which
the brave Grcnadiors suffered part Of their
fcarfully heavy losses On this kopio the
Boer commando had compelled the poorer
men OF his commando 10 live foi weeks,
took It that these were men Of the SER
want and iaboror class. Their dead whose
untimcly and neglected bodies saw
seated as the British bullets and bayonets
found them, confirmed this story for they
were poorly clad, unshaven, unclean and
hungry looking They were OF that class
having started at Seventeenth century
standard and deteriorated for 300 years.
knew when / saw such men among the
dead the wounded and the prisoners, how
It could be that white men could misuse
the white flag and mock the sacred pur-
pose OF tho Geneva cross, The food, tho
dirt and the extraordinary profuson Of
cartridges and cartridge wrappings were
all mixed together but The earth and dis
order were not SO offensive as the grimy
soasily condition Of the dead.
III ] could write steadily for week
(and II there were no such strict censor.
ship as fettors mel I could not express
tho list OF peeullaritles, eecentricitics
anomalies and novelties of this war wage'
against US by undisciplined men who arr
soldiers by instinct and farmers or eatti
raisers for a Livelihood. But / could no
IN all that week state more ASTONISHING
fact than that some OF the better class o
Beers have come to battle in their car
riages like gentlemen driving 10 the Derb
at home, and having done their best hav
retired In the same way. leaving their vas
sails 10 cover their retreat
In lighter strain the Pail Nal
I Gazette's correspondent at Frere Cam
under date OF December g. described cam
I life thus. "The tedium OF camp life her
has been relieved by surprise visits pal
1 to various Dutch farms whose owners hav
3 Detn suspected OF cOmpliclty IN the rlSlnt
No looting was allowed. the orders beln
very strict on this point Despite how
ever, the strictness with which thes
necessary orders have been carried on
the return OF some raiding parties rattle
resembled q border fray OF the olden time
The verb to commander. covers a multi
tude Of petty larcenies."
Fran the Ladysmith correspondent {
the Daily Chronicle comes a grim touc
OF besleged misery. fDishevclled wome
are peerlng out OF their dcns In the rocf
and holes in the sand. They crawl In N
evening light shaking the dirt from the
petticoats and the sand from their bac
hair; they rub tho ohlldren's faces roun
wish the tails q their gowns. They TENT
scraps Of flames TO take the chill of u
yellow water for the ohildren's tea, An
shutdown steady Scotch drissie settle
down upon U.S."
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BoER sYMPATHIzERs.
strong Resolutions Were Passed i'm
McI<inIeN's state.

Toledo, Ohio, January Memorial hall
was filed to the limit Of standing room
tonight with Boer sympathizers. who were
addressed by former Congressman John
Finerty q Illinois Resolutions were
adopted denouncing the war as blow at
liberty and holding THAT as American
citizens and free men We protest against
any manifestation Of sympathy on the part
Of our government with the British gov
eminent in its oppressive war against the
Sr,,tb African republics. and that We de-
nounce any alliance. whether expressed or
understood, between the governments OF
the United States and Great Britain or
Az other monsrchial power. The genius,
the traditions and the interests o. tne pso-
mic OF the United states command them 70
( symnathize with republics in their strug-
gle from oppression from any empire or
Kingdom"
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eEnMANy NEUTRAL.
Herr Krnpp Can Not Sell 10 Either
BeIligePcut.

Berlin. January l2.-The semi-oiisial
Nora Deutscbe Gazette says the govern
ment has decided that It would NOT be
compatible with strictly neutrality 10 al
low war materials to be sent from GER
many either to Great Britain or 10, the
Trausvsal. and therefore when il was re-
ported that Herr Krupp was making steel
shells for Great Britain the Arm was
promptly requested 10 stop any intended
dispatch Of arms. guns smmnnitiou or
sss.e= war munitions to either beliigerens.
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HE DRAWS NEARER.
Butler Is Now Within Fourteen Miles
of White
ON SOUTH BANK OF THE TuGELA
River Is Flooded and Enemy Strongly
Entre1ched.
sdsi, 5s,QE AN ENGAGEMENT.
War Office blso- ak and File Cys-
ualtieS al Lauysmith.
THERE WERE I35 KILLED; 2l2 WOUNDED
Deaths from Disease Mt the Be-
lcaguered Town Are Causing
| Much Uneasincss.
/
War Office Lls.- ak and File cys-
ualtes al Lauysmiih.
THERE WERE 1856 KILLED; 2i2 WOUNDED
Deaths from Disease mt the Be-
lcaguered Town Are Causing
Much Uneasincss.

London, January 1.-THE war ofhoe this
morning received the following dispatch
from General Butler dated Springfield,
Thursday January II. at $50 evening -
occupied the south bank of the Tugela
river at Potgieters drift this morning and
seized pont. The river is Hooded. Enemy
strongly entrenched about four and half
miles to the north
The war Office announced that the Brit
ish casualties at Ladysmith January 6
among the rank and file we're 1856 killed
and 242 wounded.
Lady Methueu has issued an absolute
contradiction of the rumors that Lord
Methuen is III or that he was injured by
the falling OF his horse at the battle OF
Magersfontein.
London. January 1S, a m.-General
Buffers twenty-eight words announcing
his forward move Thursday is interpreted
AS meaning that he has passed arousN tn,
4 western end of the Boer lines At Colcnso
and is now several miles behind them and
within fourteen mics Of General Whites
outposts at Ladysmith, The Beers a few
days ago had forces with guns at Spring
field, where General Butler dates his dis
4 patch These commands have been OBJ
ylously dislodsod, either by fighting or by
maneuvers, the Beers retiring across the
Tugela as General Butler advised.
From Generel Buffers dispatch, coupled
with tho fact that unofficial ntelligenc,
from the seat OF war has virtually ceased
since Monday, the deduction is drawn that
important operations are in progress as
he can not move far without going against
the Boer entertainments.
The death lists from cnteric fever ans
dyseniory at Lsdysmith, averaging from
eight to ten daily are considered more Sc
rious than the forty-two casualties Of sat,
urdays fight. as they indicate frghtfull,
unsanitary condition of the beleaguereC
town. A letter from Ladysmith dated be
cember Gays that even then ninety out .
$40 men in the battalion of which th'
writer was member were sick with
dysentery or cnteric fever, and sccordin'
10 dispatch to the Daily Chronicle, date
January S. the patients and attendants ii
Tomb camp, where the hospital is, mum
, bered 500.
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no FIRING.
Heavy Rains Have Flooded the
Couutry-Roads Imphssabie.

tOuutFs -''N .. ., -
London. January l3.-The Daily reie-
eraph has the following dispatch da'ei
January 9. from Frere camp = hasFy
storm has been raging all night and there
is every prospect that Il will cont.nue'
The roads are impossible and the rivers
are full There has been no firing al
I.adysmith or colenso The trenches mus
be nlled with water The Beers aye Is. !
ing Mount Hiangwanno, but they are GER
taIuly quite isolated. as their bridge Oyer
n. Tugela must have been carried away
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FREE WOOL.
Claimed Bryan Has Changed ON the
Subject.

Boston. January l2.--In It's weekiy
review OF the wool market the CONNER
cial Bulletin tomorrow win say; "Utaa
correspondents OF Boston wool house say
that they have received personal assaf.S
apces from w J, Bryan that Il eleeied
president be will retain protective duiy
on WOOL having changed his MUD ON rec
wool"
Lincoln, Neb., January ~ w J. brsan
was 10 the city few hours This afternoon
on his way from Minneapolis 20 cosaub'a
Mo. His itinerary tour includes speeches
In ST. Louis Frankfort, KY. clneinnsti
and the Atlantic and New England States
and win not be finished until Febfusry n.
Mr.. Bryan left for the south AZ o'elpct
Political intImatcs. when asked eqncexr-
ing his reported change Of oplnion ~ ~
question OF free wool said they couia no<'
speak with authority, but uctk3p< ee'i nv
said had Indicated that altitude Ana
doubted tho correctness " ~ r94z &.
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wabach. Ind January i2,-Mrs. Sarah r..
Dick. The only woman, who is cashier Of a
national bank in the United states. was Tor
Tho eighteenth time elected TO that respon-
sible position in a bank in this city TO-DAY
The institution has deposits ol F2op'os.
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u,..,a.aer commspder i>'iied.

London, January iz--Ainonk -.
wounded at Ladysmith was i-'eo's ,.
colonel william Henry Diek-cuuniasnsn''
n e commander Of the sesond nalla l.'., 2
81 he Gordo1 Highlanders since ~ w ,,
has since succurnbsd to his WOUNDS ~
Vas immensely popular eyerys'ns.s -
his death viii cause widespread soiio".
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General Obscrvuttoins.
ceservatlons taken by the United States
s's'r bureau at all stations. at .. m,
70 nerdiso time. yesterday.
New-York tribune., 1900-08-14
THE NEWS THIS MORNING.

FOREIGN.-A dispatch in cipher, dated
August 1, similar in purport TO those hereto
fore made public from other ministers an
n. De Giers the Russian Minister at Peklng.
- It was stated in Berlin that the En-
press Dowager had declared her intention to
transfer her Court TO another city II the
allies reached Picking. - Lord Salisbury lett
London for a health resort in the Nosges,
where he VIII stay a month: he will retain the
conduct Of the British foreign ahalrs py tele-
graph and messengers. - Fifteen persons
were killed and forty injured in the railway
wreck near Rome: among the passengers on
one Of the trains was a sister OF the new queen
OF Italy. - The court at Kingston, Jamaica
ordered the sale of the American yacht Siren
70 satisfy claim for wages.
DOMESTIC-General Chaffee announced TO
the War Department that his force had covered
half the distance between Tien-Tsin and Peking,
the Army August being at Ho-Si-Wu. -
Another message from General Chafee gave
list Of the officers and men killed in the hght at
9ang-TsUn. - The answer or the Onlteo
State to the Imperial edct Of August g. asking
the Powers TO treat regarding terms OF peace,
said that action could be taken before the
deliverance Of the Ministers was assured. -
the Mortified Conference - August Bel
mont's Mineola won the coveted Astor Cup in
the Yacht races off Newport. == The National
Lawn Tennis Championship tournament begins
method Of punishment is employed at Eln1ira.
CITY.-Stocks were active and higher
in price. - James Shevlin came down from
Saratoga as Crokers envoy to consult with
Brooklyn leaders about the Coler boom for the
Governorship; 1t was said that effort would
be made to get Hugh Mclaughlin to oppose
Coler. - Governor Roosevelt in the
city, and said that he might give public hear
ing on the Gardner case. - An appeal in the
case Of Charles F. W. Neely to the United
States Supreme Court taken, and the extra
ditiOn papers were not signed by Judge La
cOmbe = William Steinitz. the chess player.
died at the Manhattan State Hospital -
The steamship Cymric, of the White Star Line,
reported that she fire at sea on Sunday.
August ,. Captain Lindsay and many OF the on
GERS and men being overcome by fumes Of
chlorine gas from the hold. - Three work
men were killed and four others were badly
scalded by the blowing out of an elbow in a
steam main in the plant Of the New York Steam
Company in Greenwich-st.
THE WEATHER.-Forecast for to-day: Part
ly cloudy. The temperature yesterday: High
est, n degrees; lowest, 20; average, 1874
New-York tribune., 1900-08-14
THE PREREQUISITE TO PEACE

Our Government is a patient 1t is we'll
that it is. for patience is much needed in deal
ing with the Chinese question and elsewhere
than at Washington does not seem greatly to
prevail. The simple exercise of that quality of
course with tact and discretion. is by no means
she least valuable service that is being and is
10 be performed. The manner in which it is
being performed is strikingly shown not for
The first time, to-day. Three weeks ago, in
personal message to the Emperor of China the
President set forth. in the most direct and un-
mistakable language, the conditions on which
alone further military activities would be aban-
doned and the good offices Of this Government
would be used for the restoration of amicable
relations between China and the other Powers
Little by little the Chinese Government has
acquiesced in the Presidents temperate and
reasonable requirements, but as yet not fully
Again and again in these three weeks has 1t
been necessary TO remind the Chinese Govern
ment Of the conditions required. II is neces-
sary to do so again to-day. And the Govern
ment at Washington does it with unfailing pa
tience and with unrufHed temper. as though il
had not through Chinese obstinaey, been com
PEELED TO do so several times before But it is
well. For many precious lives are at stake
dependent as much upon our patience In dipio-
macy as upon our energy and expedition in the
field
The conditions of July % were three: In
formation as 10 the welfare OF the Ministers
restoration Of free communication with them
and Chinese cooperation with our expedition
for their relief If the Chinese Government de-
INJURED to them, the world has not been in
formed Of the fact. What is known is that 1t
presently began to acquiesce in them, and
practically TO grant Them thus, one would say
Indicating its recognition Of their justice. The
first condition granted. with some reluc-
tance. The second was likewise granted. with
further reluctance and delay. And now the
third is the sticking point of the whole case
The Chinese Government has shrewdly tried to
eyade il by commissioning its most eminent
servant TO negotiate for peace That move is
met by the Washington Government with un-
moved serenity and with admirable patience
as well as with that straghtforwardness which
in this case, well as in more than one other
has proved TO be the most effective form of
diplomatic dealing. The Government frankly
and unhesitatingly accepts the proposal of ne
gotiatiops through Ii Hung Chang But-and
here is the cruX Of the whole Inatter-there is
something necessary before that. II is the full
filnent Of the third condition prescribed by the
President on July %. The Acting Secretary of
State does not mention IL An unfulflled CON
dition, which the Chinese Government has been
apparently trying 10 evade He mentions IL
with patience and without even implied re-
proach as though it were now for the first time
named But he does so with an explicit en-
phass that can have only a single meaning
The Ministers must be relieved and rescued
before there can be talk OF peace. That is the
GArArnment'o final word-fnal. though repent
New-York tribune., 1900-08-14
ROUGH ON KRUEGER-

1t is to be hoped that Pretoria Is not going
to attempt to rival Shanghai as source of
weird tales for newspaper consumption. But
| the fear that such q movement may be on foot
| is suggested by a dispatch to THE London
Morning Fost" from its correspondent in Pre-
tOria, Mr. John Stuart, announcing that "the
"Boers say President Kriiger is contributing to
"the election expenses Of Mr. Bryan between
100000 and f75O,00O."
| This communication contains no positive
proof that Mr.. Stuart is not possessed of
powerful mind and all the essential virtues, for
1t is to be observed that he does not vouch for
the truth Of the report, but apparently put 1t
on the wires merely for what it was worth or
might be considered TO be worth in the office
Of "The Morning Post" 1t is conceivable also
that the correspondent may have been justified
in supposing it to be worth good deal Much
depends on the state Of facts which led him
! TO begin the dispatch with the words "The Beers
say" If large, cocksure and aggressive bodies
! Of Beers traverse the streets of Pretoria day
and night, declaring in manner which brooks
no contradiction that President Kriiger is at
the present moment engaged in contributing
from $2.500,OO0 to $3,750O0O to Mr. Bryan's
campaign fund, then the only fault TO be found
with our London contemporaries envoy at the
Transvaal capital is that his description of
| highly remarkable performance Is too brief and
restrained. If, on the other hand, an occasional
Boer, suffering, let say from thirst which
he saw no prospect Of being able to queEch out
Of his own material resources. discerned in Mr.
Stuart an agency for converting a lively imagi-
nation into liquid refreshment we do not hesi-
tate to say that the cost of the dispatch should
be deducted from the atter's salary.
! We shall not venture to decide which, IL
either Of these two hypotheses is correct but
II must appear to every benevolent mind that
President Kriiger has never deserved to have
such thing said of him. Fate has recently
been buffeting him with uncommon severity
and he may be comparatively Indifferent to ad-
ditional blows, but If he has any choice In the
matter. and prefers, the whole, not to be
represented as destitute Of even a rudimentary
trace Of intellect. il is a shame to announce
that he has invested several million dollars in
American politics There is said to he an ach-
ing void in the Democratic treasury, but we
cannot believe that Webster Davis himself
would advise Mr. Kriiger to I'LL II. Colonel
Bryan is not the most modest and self-distrust
full man earth, but thus far there is no rea-
son TO accuse him Of supposing that his ellen IN
New-York tribune., 1900-08-14
TRANSATL4NTIC TRAVELLERS.

The steamship Lain of the North German
Lloyd Line sails to-day for Cherbourg. Southamp-
ton and Bremen with these passengers, among
others: Mr. and Mrs. Johann Philip Bahr. the
Rev. Canon and Mrs. Jones' "a teman. OF Grenada
British West Indies; c. T. Mills ana Cohsul-eIehefd
Paul MerliRg, Of Berlin
On the Anchor liner Anchoria which sails to-
day for Londonderry and Glasgow, viii be Dr. and
Mrs Luther NJ Allen OF Philadelphia; Albert
Banks of Brooklyn. and the Rev. and Mrs X
Marshall Harrison, OF Brooklyn
Among the passengers who arrived yesterday on
the steamer Colorado. Of the Wilson Line. from
Hull were John T. MeDonough. Secretary Of state
and John McMackin. Commissioner OF Labor Statis-
tics
On the White Star Line steamship Cvmric. which
reached this port yesterday from Liverpool and
Queenstown were Mr.. and Mrs. Peter Alexander
Dr. Burdett Craig Mrs. Craig, @. L. Darte. United
States Consul at Patras; Robert B, Davies. Mrs
Rigelow Dodge, John Ducey. Miss Ducey, Mr.. ana
Mrs Henry B. Laidlaw. 6. @. Maekay, G. n Man
Howard Wainwright II. Jasper Smith and Mrs
+. 5. Waterman.
The Atlantic Transport steamship Mesaba' which
arrived yesterday from London. had among her
passengers Professor Melville B. Anderson. Mrs
T. s Butterworth Mrs. Charles Cnerry, Albert
Cheese Robert Riddle DR.. and Mrs. Alexander Me-
Kirgan. Mrs. Julius P. Otis, Mr.. and Mrs Thomas
A Wise and Alfred SEE.
Ex-Governor Francis. of Missouri will sail for
Paris tomorrow to study the Exposition for the
benefit of the Worlds Fair 70 he given in St Louis
in 1903.