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Boer war Reaches InIn.,s.

CHICAGO. Feb. IA dispatch to The
Times Herald from Danvife, Ills, says:
Frank Speeht, q German who has an
English wife, and William Shoemaker
an Englishinan who has German wife,
got INTO an argument ever the Beer war.
The injured: Frank Speeht, stabbed
three times with pitehfork, may die;
William Shoemaker, badly beaten and
scratched; Mrs William Shoemaker,
scratched and hair torn out, and Mrs.
Frank Specht, badly bruised and scratch
ed At the beginning of the fracas each
woman stood Yaliantly for her own ma
tionality, but as the fght progressed each
forgot country and fought for her hus-
band. When the police arrived, Specht
was unconscious and bleeding profusely,
while the women were tearing each 9th
er's clothes and hair"
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added, was well known. The general had
never suggested to the war office, either
publicly or psivatsly, that the number OF
troops required would be anything like
the nrmher actra1lv eent
In REGARD to the suggestion that Indian
troops should have been used in South
Africa, the house, Mr. palror said
would understand the tmpossihifity Of
this. .,s4
Replying to questions relating to the
letters Of MIR. B. f. Hawksslsy, counsel
for the British Sonth Africa company,
and other letters published by the Csrre-
pondanee Beige, the secretary of state
for the cohen;as Mr.. Chauherlain, ad-
nitted that those Of which he had per-
sonai knowledge were published substan-
italy correctly. The letters, he added,
were stolen from Mr. Hawkesley's office
by clerk who was sumHarily dismissed
In 1897.
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THE Sun,
No. .62.3 SHIPLEY STREET.
Wilmington, Del.
q. A. n. Encampment Plans.

shicago, Feb. 1.-Commander In Chief
bert ID. Shaw of the q. A. r. listened
reports of the progress made by the
feral committee having in charge the
langements for the thirty-fourth an
Ri encampment which convenes in this
h the last week in next August. One
fhe most important matters considered
the abolition Of large camp for the
erans and the quartering of them in
public school houses. A report rec
&ending that action was rendered by
medical director and was received
rably. The advancing age of the old
PRS was one Of the principal reasons
ped for the proposed change from
rogramme of all previous encamp-
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The News ROW cn!ra.

Paris, Feb Ia lispft,h Ir.,m PIX ng
says the report of the death of Emperor
Kwanssu is not confirmed. The dis
patch adds that the safety of foreigners
is not threatCucd, bnt that, IN English
missionary having BEEN mVidn,ed in the
province Of Shangtung, the British,
American, French, Italian and German
ministers have addressed note to the
tsung-li-yamen tforrign off q ak ny that
measures be taken by the Chinese author
tiles for the safety OF the missionaries.
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Corner ntlne cnne pecisIon.

Helena, Mon, Feb. Title iu'y in the
United States district court has rpturned
a decision in favor Of f. A. IIeinze in
the suit brought against hm by Il. Il.
Morse. trustee, for tile recovery Of $3.50
600 damages for the extraction Of ore
from beneath the surface of the Michael
Davitt claim in Butte. The Importance
of the action lay in the fact that the rich
steppes between the Davitt surface, val
nel at S4,000000, are a part of tile as.
sets Of the Amalgamated Copper com
pany. Morse is presumably trustee Of
the company holding the proper ty, which
was sold TO him by the receiver OF the
Butte and Boston company two years
ago.
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. Bar Gambling MT Fafrs.

by, Feb. 1.-Assemblyman Bur
,bill, which prohibits gambling ON
fair grounds, was passed in the
1t provides that IN agricultural
agricultural club or agricultural
pm which shall use or permit the
ny gambling device, instrument
vance in the operation of which
lnid or wagsrs made, wheel Of
= r the playing or carrying on Of
OF chance upon the grounds
or or during any annual meet
pr exhibition shall thcreupon
rights to any maneys II would
entitled t. reesivs nnaer tAs
Pf this axtY
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Local Quotations.
The Prairie sails.

New York, Feb. 1.-The auxiliary eruis-
er Prairie passed out quarantine for Bal
timote to take on board the United States
government exhibit for the Paris exposi-
tion, which is being sent there. from.
Washington. She is also to carry to
England crew for the new cruiser Al
bany, just completed at the Armstrong.
shipyards at Elswick. The Prairie is ex-
pected to sail from Baltimore on Feb. 8.
stopping at Norfolk for coal, going first
to England and from there TO Havre 10
unload her cargo.
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Standard or In Or nod,

Ottawa. Feb. 1.-The railway commit
tee Of the privy council has to deal with q
charge against the Canadian Pacific and
Grand Trunk railways ~ discrimination
in freight rates. The Standard Oil COM
pany is interested in the ease The com
plainants are the Sun Oil Refinery com
pany and the Call Snider Oil company,
who allege, among other things, that a
secret agreement was made between the
Standard Oil and the railways, by which
the latter We're to return to tie former II
large part of the money received from
the STANDARD for freight.
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For Monument ~ M,rtxra

Albany, Feb. 1.-Senator Davis has in
troduced bill appropriating $4,000 to
be expended by the Prison Ship Martyrs
Association Of the United States under
the direction of the governor and secre-
tary of war for the erection Of a monu-
ment in the borough of Brooklyn in mem
ory of the martyrs who persisted in the
prison ships in New York harbor during
the war of the Revolution. 1t is provid-
ed, however, that no moneys shall be
paid by the state until the further sum of
S1o0 600 shall have been secured from
the United States or other sources.
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Cole Held For Grand yury,

Boston, Feb. 1.--Charles Fl. Cole, for
merly president Of the Globe National
bank, which now is in the hands Of re-
ceiver, charged with embezzIing and mis-
appropriating 100000, the property Of
the bank, waived examination before
United States Commissioner Fiskc in The
United States court and was held in S.,l,-
900 for the grand jury Of the district
court, which sits March 20. Benjamin
r. Smith and Benjamin w. Wells Of
Boston were accepted as surcties.
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Death Alter a Rcacue,

Chicago, Feb. LATTER carrying his
wife and two children from his burning
cottage Herbert FLETCHER was overcome
by smoke and flames. fell near the door
way and died before assistance could
reach him. The weather was bitterly
cold, and, MS his wife and children were
clad only In their night garments. Fletch-
eS rushed,- hack into the burning building
to obtain elathing for them. 1t was then
that he Was oyerQame
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Lenpea From Flames 10 Dc..n.

Philadelphia, Feb. 1.--During tore
ment fire in the Italian quarter Filenlcn
ID. Geneva, aged 10 years, leaped fronl
a third story window, sustaining fatal
injuries. There was no other avenue OF
escape, the fire having started on the
second floor. A mattress was placed on
the pavement, but the girl struck the
bricks and was internally injured.
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Daytou suffers From rrre.

Dayton, o., Feb. IA fire which for a
time threatened the entire manufactur-
ing district resulted in damage estimated
at $500,000. Help was sent from Gin
cinnati and neighboring cities. The prop
erty destroyed includes the warehouses
and factory of j. y. Wolf & Sons, tobac-
co merchants; Il. Bimm & Sons, grocers; !;
Benedict & Co., cigar manufacturers;
the Dayton Paper Novelty and several
other smaller concerns. e
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nrr. phcIpn, condifion.

New Haven, Feb. 1.-The condition of
Edward ]. Phelps, ex-minister to Eng
land, Is unchanged. The attending ply
sician says that the pneumonia las dis
appeared, and that no danger is antici-
pated from that source. But the severe
Illness has left Mr.. Phelps in q very
weak Btate, and his eendiiisn ia consider
ID asst a0ffieal
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Financial and Commercial.

New York. Feb. /.
Money on call nominally at 2lsas per cent.
Prime mercantile paper, 4a5 per cent. Ster-
ling exchange frmer, with actual business
in bankers bills at $4.s719a4.S'M for demand
and at S4.S41aa4.S49s for 10 days. Posted rates,
S4.85 and 81 8Sa4ssl6. Commercial bills,
S4.s3Aais394 Silver certificates. 59I6a6olse.
Bar silver, 609sc Mexican dollars. 4115c Gov
ernment bonds strong. State bonds inactive.
Railroad bonds ire sular.
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Deaths From Cold In ch,cueo.

Chicago, Feb. /. Two deaths were
caused by the cold weather in Chica 70
during the last "a hours. Many persons
suffered from frostbites of varying Sc
verify. Hundreds of homeless men were
cared for by the police. The mercury Mt
. n. m. and $3.50 a. NJ. touched eight be-
Low zero, the lowest point this winter in
Chicago,
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caI to View Iersex m,n,ster,

Toronto, Feb. 1.-The congregation OF
Chalmers Presbyterian church, Toronto,
has extended a unanimous can 10 Rev.
MIR. navey Of nedbank, ". j. 1t Is be-
lieyed the rsyeIsi isA geAtie.,yau viii ace pr
the oaA
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The Business People

afford to ignore the medium (which
peoples And having attracted at
nton it enough but keep leir
,ehzed you by
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hundreds of the best homes is found every
stand the public reading club hotel and the
ubc fact place where intelligent thinking
Eeope found.
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THE CHINESE SITUATION,

II the telegraph reports from China
are to be relied upon-and they are
to be presumed to be correct-the sit
uation in that vast empire of
four hundred millions of people is
daily becoming more serious. A rev.
olutionary movement more general
than even the great TAPPING rebellion,
which broke out in 1850 and was only
ended in 1864, appears to be on foot,
and is, from all accounts, steadily gain
ing in Importance. Already the rebels,
pouring down from the north and
northwestern provinces, have threat
ened the safety of Pekin itself. and the
foreign governments must. appar-
entity, throw compost force
of soldiers and marines, repre-
senting a dozen different nations.
among them the United States, into the
Chinese capital to protect the various
interests involved. Vigorous action
will be necessary, and the powers are
than one hundred and fifty European
and American war ships on the Chi
nese coast, or within few days steam
ing. Of these the United States has fifty
five, England thirty-five, and other
powers less numbers. England has
soldiers handy, so has the United
States, while Russia and Japan can
provide troops adequate to the situa-
ton. 1t is safe to say these three ma
tons could land one hundred thousand
men on Chinese soil in week, if nee
essary, for in an emergency we could
temporarily spare twenty thousand
men from the Philippines, Russia has
an equal number at Port Arthur, and
Japan could be relied upon for any
thing else necessary. The conditions
are ominous of serious trouble, and
the present rebellion may furnish the
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-05-31
OUR CRIME CROP
AND OUR CHARITIES.
New York Journal.

-NC" VI n journal.
1t is fine thing to build commodious
prisons for our worthy murderers and
burglars. 1t is a good idea to plan and
endow clean and tidy insane asylums for
our f1ourishing population of crazy peo-
pie. The scheme of establishing houses
of refuge for bad girls and BOYS is a
worthy one.
But what waste of charitable energy
is here! What misdirected and misapplied
salve to our feelings of humanity
And why? Walk down into the dark
hells of the tenement districts and you
Will find the tiny bubbling source of all
these things. Through the mud and bab-
bic and uproar, the tapping of clothes
lines and rags the curses of drunken men
and hays, you will find all about Won the
damned and muddied springs of crime
greatness and depravity which fill our
prisons. asylums and reformatories.
Children are all about you. cursing.
crying, learning mean tricks and petty
thefts. forgetting truth and honor, hat
ing the gloomy dens they call home, and
knowing nothing of God
But do not disturb them. BY all means
let them riot in wretchedness and wallow
in precocious crime undisturbed. Can Won
not see that they are not yet ripe for ref
ormation such as we give them?
That little boy in the gutter NAV make
fine murderer some day, and then we
will take him to our prison, send him our
flowers and our tracts and reform him.
The little girl gnawing rat-like at the
rotten apple will give our good Scripture
readers fine chance for the exercise of
their talents in a few years, when she has
grown sodden with depravity
A fine crop truly, Let US leave them
therefore, and proceed half way along the
stream of life. between these bitter
springs and the great sea of death. and
establish our little prisons and our little
asylums and our fine houses of refuge.
and wait for small germs to float to US as
grown up criminals and lunatics.
And they will surely come. They will
their hearts. a sullen, maddened army.
murmuring. remorseless. and filed with
hatred of their fellow men.
Let us continue therefore. to nut ont
the familiar signs on our tenements-'sNo
children wanted" and in the halls. NO
children allowed in halls or stairways. :"
and on the roof. mo children permitted
here"
Thus the children will be driven to the
pavements-the hard sea-level of crime
But do not let any of our multi-miIlion-
aires try to prevent all this by building
tenements with big playrooms for the
children of the house. in charge of some
good. child-loving woman This would
cost extra money-it would be true char
ity.
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THE END IN SIGHT.

The news from South Africa this
morning Indicates that the end of the
war is in sight The British are in
johannesburg, and Lord Roberts adj
vance is close upon Pretoria, about
thirty-seven miles 10 the north, prob
ably at Britt. The defenses Of the
Transvaal capital are said to have been
abandoned by Kruger's troops, the
forces having probably partially disin-
tegrated, while those who still hold
together have drawn off toward the
east, along the railroad to Nazareth,
the few who still mean fight intend
Ing to cut north across the country to
Lydenburg, while those who intend to
leave permanently, including, doubt
Lorenzo Marques, the Portuguese port
on the east coast, whence Boer sup
plies and reinforcements streamed in
before and all during the war. All
reports from Pretoria, which is a town
of about II 900 people, have been that
the defenses were wonderfully strong,
and that supplies and ammunition had
been accumulated for a years siege.
The indicated abandonment of this
stronghold, prepared for battle at the
cost of millions, was probably dicta
ted by the impossibility of longer hold
ing the Boer forces together. For two
or three weeks there has been a steady
pressure upon Kruger to sue for peace.
The old man refused, and the army
rapidly shrank through men steadily
leaving for their homes, or places of
safety. The result is that those still
willing to fight wele unable TO hold
Lord Roberts in check, even behind
the best of entrencmnents. To give
battle would simply be to be over.
whelmed by numbers. This is the only
reasonable explanation of the reported
abandonment of the forts of the cap
ital. Few Boer prisoners appear to
have been taken, and there is no rec
ord as yet of the capture of guns. The
Beers retain their ability to carry away
everything portable. and no doubt Pre-
toria has been stripped to the bare
houses.
AT Laings Mex and IN the vicinity
Of Majuba hill, in northern Natal, the
Beers still hold the English in check.
but with Lord Roberts at Johannes
burg they may be attacked from the
rear, via Heidelberg and Standerton,
and must speedily surrender or escape
to the north along the Drakenberg
mountains. 1t may be that desultory
fighting will continue for some weeks
yet, but as this is written the indica-
lions are that for the English it is all
over but the shouting
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THE CASUALTIES INCREASING.

The list of killed and wounded at ST.
Louis, because of the street railway
strike, is growing rapidly, and now
numbers one hundred and fifty The
authorities appear to be powerless to
enforce order. and the traction COM
pany and the strikers are no more able
to come to terms than was the case in
the late similar unpleasantness in this
city. The loss to the business men of
the city, directly attributable to the
strike, is estimated at sixteen million
dollars up to last Monday, while the
most serious rioting Of all occurred on
Tuesday, and there is the gravest dan
ger of sudden outburst of lawlessness
which will leave the streets strewn
with wreckage and with shot or beaten
men. st. Louis is toying with a very
dangerous state of affairs.
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Continued From First Page.

the various Posts decorated the graves
of their comrades. The graves of
those who died in Cuba or the Philip
pines, or on the sea in the service of
their country were also decorated.
Confederate veterans held service at
their monument in the confederate
plot at lakewood. They first marched
through the G. A. R. plot, and as they
passed through the lines of federal
veterans laid their tributes of peace on
the graves of their former enemies.
The fraternal call was repaid later by
Dewey Post, G. A. R., the members Of
which strewed flowers on the lawn
under which are buried the confeder-
ates who died while prisoners at Camp
Douglas, this city.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-05-31
THEY WON'T MIX.

There are signs of a clash between
the policy Of expansion and the policy
of protection. To attempt to reconcile
these two things is very much like en-
deavoring to mix oil and water. You
can stir them up with a stick, tempo
rarily, but there is no permanency of
amalgamation. The conflict between
expansion and the continuation of
tariff tax has attracted the attention
of Senator Lodge, who appears to be
thoroughly convinced that the Repub
lican party must accept free trade
very shortly. He points to our in
creased commerce with Hawaii; pre-
diets an immense volume of business
with Cuba and Porto Rico when the
bars are thrown down, and, if not in
terms, at least by strong implication,
argues that the abolition OF tariff taxes
except for purely revenue purposes,
would have a wonderful effect upon
manufacturing and business.
This is good Democratic doctrine,
although coming from Republican.
Senator Lodge is in the right road.
But he is liable to get himself dis
liked at Republican headquarters by
proclaiming this heresy upon the eve
of an election, when the protected
trusts are being called upon to con-
tribute any number of millions you
please to the end that the policy Of
protection may be continued at least
four years longer The combine will
cough up" if protection" to them is
assured but checks made payable to the
order of Mark Hanna are liable to be
few and far between if men like Sena-
tor Lodge are to take the stand he has
assumed and blurt out the truth at
such a critical time. Senator Lodge
should be sent over to see the Paris
Exhibition, with instructions to re-
main abroad until November.
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excuse, long sought, for the permanent
partition Of the great empire

excuse, long Sought, lot the p6Fmdnent
partition Of the great empire
The rebellion of the Boxers has its
origin in a number of things. Per-
haps the main cause is an implacable
hostility to foreigners. The foreign
devil" who insists on opening up trade
with China, who puts telegraph lines
In operation, insists upon railroads.
and generally determines to break into
the ten thousand year old isolation of
the Flowery Kingdom, is an object ofal-
most universal detestation throughout
the empire. The more the average
Chinaman sees of the foreigner the less
he likes him. He jars rudely the placid
calm of the teeming millions. His
ways are not those of the people he
comes among, unbidden and unwel-
come. He upsets the traditions Of
hundred centuries. He does everything
from Chinese point of view, wrong
end foremost, upside down, and in a
hurry. He has no veneration for an
cestors and no respect for customs as
fixed and immovable as the stars. He
tries to set up strange ideas, and
breaches the religion of an unknown
God. He is unindurable, obnoxious
and unwelcome And thus it is that
if the Chinese government had the
power it would close it's ports to the
outside world and return to that iso-
lation in which it continued for thous-
ands of years.
But there are other elements in the
uprising of the Boxers. They are in
league with the Dowager Empress,
Princess KangY and Ching-Tuan, and
others of high degree in Pekin, who
are believed to be secretly supporting
the Manchu movement in the hope of
overturning the present government,
and of inaugurating a return to the old
national policy of isolation. This ex-
plains that while the rebellion stead
lily grows, the imperial armies appear
to be powerless and impotent, and the
capital is practically beseiged. The
next few days will probably bring big
news from China.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-05-31
BRIDGEPORT.
Chronicle of Daily Events from tho
Town Across the Way.

w. B. Hall was in Cadiz yesterday.
The brick for repaving Bank street
have arrived.
Elmer McConnaughy, of Chicago
Junction, is visiting here.
The Bridgeport base ball club receiv-
ed bad defeat yesterday at Tiltons-
yille-10 to 0.
Entries for the bicycle road race
given in connection with the Union
fair and bazaar, can be made at the
Crescent store.
The water main running out the pike
will be shut off at o'clock this morn
ing for repairs. and the water will be
turned on in the evening.
Clement Lodge, Odd Fellows, will en-
terrain the sister lodges of Wheeling,
Benwood, Triadelphia, Bellaire and
Martins Ferry next Saturday evening.
The citizens of Bridgeport seem to
be we'll satisfied with the settlement of
the trouble between the village and
Pennsylvania Company. The settle
ment is a saving to both sides and
does not humiliate either.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-05-31
PROPOSALS.
PROPOSALS FOR PAVING.

Sealed proposals will be received by the
Wheeling until - O'Clock noon, Monday,
June 4, 1900 for paving certain streets and
alleys with paving bricks. Specifications
can be obtained at the office of the Clerk
of the Board
The successful bidder or bidders will be
required to furnish bond in the sum of
three thousand $685. 00) dollars. with sure
ty to be approved by the Board. for the
faithful performance of the contract The
names of the sureties must accompany
each bid. Proposals must be made on
printed forms. which win be furnished by
the Clerk. Proposals shall be marked
Proposals for Paving.
The Board reserves the right to reject
any or all bids.
VIM. H. HORNISH. Clerk
ma2Sev
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-05-31
THE PRESS LOOKED AFTER.

The English government takes good
care of the newspaper men on duty at
the Houses of Parliament. 1t now
provides a gallery in each house, three
large writing rooms, a smoking and
reading room, a tea room, a dining
room with well-equipped kitchen
attached, lavatories, dressing room,
a stationer shop postoffice, messen-
ger service, and a modest refreshment
bar. An assignment to duty at the
House is evidently a good thing.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-05-31
DIED.

JEFFERSON-On Tuesday, May 18th.
1900 at II 80 a. M. Aaron, son of Willard
and Elizabeth Jefferson. aged years, 6
months and fifteen days.
Funeral from residence of parents, No
4527 wetzel street, on Thursday. May 31st
at p. m. Interment at Peninsula ceme-
terry. Friends of the family are respect
fully invited to attend.
COLEMAN-On Wednesday, May 30th
1900 at $40 o'clock a. m, Genevieve, in
FAINT daughter of John and Caroline Cole
man, aged 10 months.
Funeral from residence of parents, No.
50 Twenty-seventh street. this Thursday
afternoon at 8 o'clock. Interment at Mt
Calvary cemetery.