New-York tribune., 1900-03-04
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SUNDAY, MARCH 4, 1900.
THE NEWS THIS MORNING.

FOREIGN--The Boer prisoners captured at
Paardeberg, Orange Free State. by Lord Rob-
erts, numbered 1890 men: the British re-
pairing the railway running north from kim
berley to Mafekng; a report from Pretoria said
that President KRUGER had left that city, ii was
presumed. to confer with President Steyn at
Bloemfontein. - Reports of continued ac-
tivity among the insurgents in the Philippine
Islands have reached Manila; the rebels are
planning guerilla warfare on a larger scale as
soon the rainy sets in. = Robert
]. Thompson, special Commissioner on behalf
OF President Mckinley. presented TO President
Loubet of France the first Lafayette dollar that
struck from the mint = A German
schooner foundered off Dungeness England, af-
ter collision with a Spanish steamer, seven or
the schooner's crew, including the captain, be-
Ing lost. - The Prince and Princess of Wales
opened new tenement buildings at Bethnal
Green, London. == A force of Peruvian troops
has gone from Lima to the Upper Amazon ter
ritory, under Colonel PARA, Minister Of Home
Affairs j. H. Douglas william, formerly a
rancher Of Wyoming, has been declared bank
rupt by London court. - British papers
urge that the United Irish League be placed
under the Crimes Act, because Of the murder of
Irish Magistrate at Bantry.
CONGRESS.-Senate: Mr.. Ross spoke in op-
position TO seating Mr.. Quay, and Mr.. Teller
bill; resolution offered by Mr.. Pettigrew call
ing for information on Adjutant,General Cor. Cor
business was transacted and an early adjourn
ment was taken account Of the death Of
Representative Epes, of Virginia.
DoMEsTIC-Ma bills have been introduced
greatly increase taxation in this city. :"
Whitelaw Reid spoke the meeting of the
Massachusetts Club, at Boston. - Arrange
nnents were made by the Senate Committee on
Elections for hearing arguments Of counsel in
the Clark case. - The State Department
has not learned of any intention the part Of
the British Government to extend Lord Paunce-
fote's term as Ambassador to the United States.
The arguments in the Kentucky contest
over the Governorship were concluded at Louis
vile, and q decision is expected in a few days.
The strike in Chicago has assumed great
proportions, and sixty thousand men out Of
work.
CITY.-Stocks were dull and strong. -
President Mckinley spoke at the annual dinner
OF the Ohio Society at the Waldorf-Astoria.
- Albert ]. Elias retired from the presi-
dency OF two OF the subsidiary lines of the
Third Avenue system. - The steamers La
Normandie, Pennsylvania and Wells City
aground in Gedney Channel while proceeding TO
sea but all got off. - Robert B. Roosevelt
resigned as president Of the Empire State Chap
ter. Sons Of the American Revolution. -
Cecil Leslie, the press agent of William F.
Miller Of $40 per cent notoriety, was brought
from Cleveland under arrest - American
Mailing Company's investigating committee re-
ported that instead of the companys earning
small surplus last year. there was actually
deficit OF 81, 100000.
THE WEATHER.-Forecast for to-day: Fair.
The temperature yesterday: Highest, 40 de-
grees; lowest. 81 degrees; average, 351s degrees.