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to blame for his condition, and that he
had the revolver in his hand when it was
discharged.
Mr.. Wrghts son-in-law and partner
Fred Morgan, was at his side at death
Mr.. Morgan held that his father-in-l law
was on an errand to help a friend, who
had become entangled with the woman,
when he received his death wound
Although he admits he can offer no evi-
dence, Chief of Detectives CoIleran
strongly believes that the weapon was not
in the hand of Wright when it was dis
charged. A careful examination of the
position of the wound he says, will show
that it would be impossible for Wright
to have held the weapon in his hand.
Capt. Colleran says also that Mrs. Lot
fridge says she could not remember
whether the weapon was in her hand or
in Wright's. He also cites the fact that
Wright's beard is not singed, as it would
have been If a weapon had been dis
charged close to his head; his face is not
| marked with powder, in fact, Capt. Col
leran says there is nothing to show that
he held a revolver close to his face.
MRS. LoTTRIDGES STORY.
Mrs. Lottrldge, In statement made at
the police station, said:
81 cannot remember what led up to the
production of the revolver. I was talk
ing to Mr.. Wright when he asked me to
show him a revolver, of which he had
spoken previously. 1 refused to do so,
! and we talked on other matters for a
while. 1 remember that finally 1 went
to my valise and took out my weapon,
and, when he saw it, Mr.. Wright begged
me to throw it away. AS remember, he
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TO RESIST BoERs.
Three Thousand BasutOs Are Guard
ing the boundary.


ing the boundary.
MASERU, Basutoland, Saturday, April
14-Sir Godfrey Lagden, British resident
commissioner returned here yesterday
F'riday) from the scene of operation near
Wepener. He and the paramount chief
have stationed 1900 natives to resist pos
sible Boer encroachments. The orders of
the resident commissioner are that the
Basutos are not to be allowed to cross
the Free State frontier on any pretense
whatever. Two natives who crossed and
looted an abandoned Boer farm are now
in custody.
Col. Dalgety's position is strong and
we'll chosen, but he is completely sur
rounded.
The Beers have their backs against
Basutoland and if they stay much longer
they will be hemmed in. The British
operations are keeny watched from the
neighboring heights. Smelling and snip
ing have been going on steadily during
the last six days
Col. Dalgety's guns are admirably serv-
ed and there is no waste of ammunition.
The Beers, when they see the electric
flash of the cordite, bolt into their holes
or behind walls. So near are the Beers
and the Basuto guards that they converse.
The ambulances are close to the border,
but the killed and wounded are not re-
moved until night fall, in order to con-
ceal the number of casualties.
The Beers are fatigued and their horses
are tired and footsore.
The Beers attacked fiercely the British
northern position on Monday, April 8, but
they were beaten back at daybreak. Moth
ing is known here of the casualties on
either side.
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long was swept by a storm at o'clock
this evening and several farm houses,
barns and other buildings blown down.
No casualties are reported from there
The fact that indefinite scraps Of infor-
nation are all that can be obtained gives
cause for alarm that the storm is much
more serious than is generally admitted.
From small settlement several miles
west of Fremont, in Sumner county, it is
said all of the houses were wrecked, with
loss of life. This report, however, cannot
be substantiated.
The storm area. so far as can be learn
ed, extends over about ten counties near
and at the southern lile OF the state The
cyclonic disturbance seems to have fol-
lowed the trend of the Arkansas river.
This morning at Newton over an inch
of rain fell, and between and this even
ing three inches fell, flooding the north
east part of the city. A baby cyclone"
accompanying the storm this evening took
southeasterly course mile and half
southeast of here. 1t jumped a farm
house and took the roof off barn.
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but simple, brief, Saxon statement Of
half dozen or so of the vital ingrcdi-
ents of Jesus Christ's message to the
world. I could get along with a confess
sion of faith containing but the little thar
Jesus said when he was trying to make
Christian of Nicodemus: God 50 loved
the world that He gave His only begotten
Son, that whosoever believeth in Him
should not perish, but have eternal life
That gives to us the doctrine of Gods un-
limited love, human guilt, the divinity of
Christ salvation through Christ, faith in
Christ, mNortality-every word Saxon,
three-quarters of the words nlonosylla-
bles, profound enough for any elder, sim
pie enough for any four-year-old.
WANT NEW CREED.
AT any rate we want new creed.
Amending this one will not meet the ne
cessities of the church. Better give it a
dignifed place in the museum for what
1t is, than hack 1t to pieces and revamo
it for what 1t is not.
And then, once more if there were
among us the distinct feeling which the
gospel so wonderfully guarantees. that
everything in all this great Christian mat
ter p1vots on the absolute and profound
love Of God, we should be intoIerant
toward everything that states or even
suggests anything like & partial or an
arbitrary love on Gods part, loving some
because He chooses to, and damning the
rest in order to show what He could do
and how just He was.
Now that is our book the Presby yterian
confession of faith in the third chapter
DAMNED IN INFANCY.
If we are thoroughly Presbyterians,
and believe what our doctrinal prospec-
tus advertises US as believing, We believe
1T possible that some of the children in
your homes, little children, perhaps the
babe of your bosom, is damned, already
damned, damned before it was born,
damned from everlasting to everlasting,
and then you are invited to come into
church and say Our Father Why, any
man who should become a father for the
in burning and racking his own offspring,
deliberately creating a child with view
to the agony into which he was going to
torture it, would be chased from the earth
as fend and as an ebullition 1t does
not meet the case to say that it IS only
in the Book, and that nobody breaches
it. 1t is true that nobody breaches it, and
equally true doubt not, that nobody be-
heves it, nevertheless it is printed on tbs
flag beneath which the Presbyterian army
is marching, and it hurts US as a denom-
inatfon. Men are staying out because it
is there, and men are going out because
it is there"
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EXCULPATES MRS. LOTTRIDGE
WHILE DYING HE PERSISTED In
SAYING THE WOMAN WAS
NOT TO BLAME
MR.. MORGAN AT HIS BEDSIDE
The SOn-in-Law Says the Deceased
Was on an Errand for a Friend
Who Had Become
EhtangIed.

CHICAGO, April 15.-Rufus Wright, the
millionaire manufacturer of rubber tires,
who was shot during scuff1e for possess
sion of revolver in the apartments of
Mrs Louisa Lottridge, at the Leland ho-
tel. died today from the effects of the
wound. The body of the millionaire is
now at the undertaking rooms, where an
inquest will be held tomorrow.
1t is the opinion of the police that the
coroner's investigation will mark the close
of the sensational case. A statement by
the deceased to Chief of Detectives Col
leran that the shooting was accidental
will, it is thought, clear Mrs. Lottridge of
all responsibility.
Wright died with words of exculpation
on his lips for the woman whose revolver
was responsible for his death. He per-
sisted in saying that the woman was not
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HIGHWAY ROBBERS, BUR-
GLARS, PROSTITUTES AND
GAMBLERS FIND ST. PAUL A
PARADISE UNDER REPUBLIC
AN RULE.

tone. There seems to be a heavy demand
on the railway, for so large an army
leaves the pOpulace bare of everything
save the absolute necessities of life
The fact that the cenosrs allowed Win
ston ChurchilTs dispatch on the subject
of remounts to pass speaks volumes for
the condition Of that question and con-
corning the prospect of any immediate ad-
vance towards Pretoria. The utmost Lord
Roberts will be able to do for some time
will be in the direction of clearing the
Beers from the southern part of the Free
State.
The dispatches announce the approach
of winter. The first pinch of frost has
been felt at Bloemfontein, where consid-
cradle rain has fallen. 1t is said that
President Kruger has visited the camp at
Kroonstad, as well as Brandfort.
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Republicans Are Badly Split In That
State.

Republicans Are Badly Split In That
State.
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn, April 15.-Con-
gresham w. p. Brownlow and Pension
Commissioner H. Clay Evans were in
Chattanooga today, en- route for Nash
vile, where the state Republican conven-
ton meets Tuesday. The state committee
will meet tomorrow to take up all contests
for seats in the convention. The deci-
sion of the committee will be final Con-
gressman Brownlow and his friends con-
troll the state committee, the former being
its head.
Commissioner Evans said today that
two sets of delegates would apply for ad-
mission to the state convention, and in
case the Brownlow committee refused to
seat his delegates two conventions would
be held and contesting delegations sent to
Philadelphia
Congressman Brownlow maintains that
nothing but fair treatment will be ac-
corded the Evans faction of the party,
and that all proceedings of the committee
and convention will be regular.
Fully one-third of the total vote of the
convention is contested, and upon these
contests the committee will have to pass.
Two candidates for governor will in all
probability be put forward by the Repub-
licans and a bitter fight ensue.
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NO PLACE FOR VISITORS.
Sir Alfred MiIner Tells why Sight
seers Should Stay Away.

SAA ~AAAAN NN IHAAAASE AcAAs why Sight
seers Should Stay Away.
LONDON, April 15-Joseph Chamber
lain, secretary of state for the colonies,
has received the following dispatch from
Sir Alfred Miner, British high commits
sioner in South Africa:
''The number of visitors to South Africa
is constantly increasing, and includes
many, especially ladies, who seem to have
no particular call of duty or business
II am sure this would not be the case
if it were realized at home that visitors
who, in ordinary times, would be most
welcome may, under existing conditions,
become serious source OF inconvenience,
interfering with the work of the military
and civil officers and putting a strain on
our limited means of accommodation,
which are urgently required for those
who have duties to perform here or who
are invalided from the front
"a considerable increase in the ex-
pense of living-at all times very highs
caused by this excessive influx of visitors,
apd this is hardship to persons Of the
latter class"
After saying that there is no place less
suitable for recreation than South Africa
at present, Sir Alfred Miner concludes
as follows:
Lord Roberts, to whom I have SUBJ
mitted this message, authorizes me to
add that he fully concurs in the views ex-
pressed
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PoPULIsT CONVENTION.
Sioux Falls Arrangements for the
Event Well Under Way.

SIOUX FALLS, S. D., April 15.-(Spe-
cial) Ut was feared for a time that the
railroads with lines entering Sioux Falls
would decline to contribute toward the eX-
pense of caring for the Populist national
convention, to be held in this city May g.,
but these fears have now been dispelled
by the announcement that all the roads
but one have notified the local managers
that they would contribute literally. The
road which has as yet failed to notify the
committee as to whether or not it would
also contribute will, it is believed, also
report favorably in the near future.
The mammoth tent, which was recently
secured in Chicago as the place in which
to hold the convention, will be erected the
Friday before the convention at a con-
venient location and will be suitably dec
GRATED. Large consignments of cots, bed
ding and other furnishings necessary for
the comfort of the delegates and visitors
to the city during the convention are ar
irving daily, and the committee having in
charge the securing of lodgings express
confidence in the ability of the city to
take care of all who may come to the con-
YentiOn
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LOSSES AT wEPENER.
Free Staters Have Taken Up Arms
Again with the Beers.

Free Staters Have Taken Up Arms
Again with the Beers.
ALIWAL NORTH, April 15.-It is Off
cially reported that the British losses at
Wepener in four days fighting were Is
killed and 1872 wounded.
ALIWAL NORTH, April 14-Col. Green
fell wires that the casualties at Wepener
Included Quartermaster Williams, Lieut..
Halford and Lieut.. Duncan and fifteen
wounded
Sir Godfrey Lagden, resident commits
sioner at Maseru, telegraphs that no
shelling has been heard from the direction
of Wepener today.
A regiment of British infantry and a
battery of artillery arrived Friday.
Gen. Brabant's headquarters and all the
mounted troops have gone to Rouxville.
The Northern Post asserts that the
Rockville district furnished 1000 recruits
to the Boer force as a result of the in
yasion last year.
Five hundred Beers, under Commandant
Swanepoel, forced the Roya; Irish rifles
to evacuate Rouxville The former land
rost, who had been acting for the Brit
sh offered to go to the front to prove him.
elf a true Free Slater, and almost to a unit
"a E'rAA statara who ha taken the oath
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Deavg Qfnd Storm m Kansas.

KANSAS CITY, April ia Journal
special from Wichita, Kan, says: A
storm approaching tornado in proportion
is reported from New Winfield, between
here and Newton, and in the vicinity west
of Clearwater. Two deaths are reported,
and four people are said to have been in
jured by overturned houses. Wires are
down and names and particulars are un-
obtainable at 10 o'clock tonight.
At Putnam, it is said, several houses
were blown down and four people serious
ly injured. Word was brought by pas
sengers on the southbound Santa Fe pas
senger train that two persons were killed,
but it is impossible to confirm this report
at 10 o'clock tonight. The telephone and
telegraph wires were rendered useless by
the wind, and all attempts to reach Put
nam, Newton or affected points have
proved of no avail.
West of Clearwater, in the country
northeast of Adams, on the Englewood
branch of the Santa Fe railroad, it is re-
norted that a strjn of country i've miles
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TOTTERIEG UNDER INCUBUS
SURPRISING, HE SAYS, THAT THE
CHURCH HAS BEEN ABLE TO
DO ANYTHING
GOOD THING IN A MUSEUM
Cannot Tolerate the Creed That
Holds Mayhap the babe in
Arms Is Already
Damned.

NEW YORK, April 15.-Rev. DR.. Charles
II. Parkhurst, speaking in his pulpit at
the Madison Square Presbyterian church
today made a vigorous assault on the
westminster confession of faith. He
said:
We ought to have new confession
OF faith. 1t is surprising that the Presby-
ter1an church is able to do as much as
1t mas done with such an incubus strapped
upon US as we are tottering under in our
present confession. In the first place, the
thing needed is not a system of theology,
for that is what cur present system Is,
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LoUIsIANA's ELECTION.
Democratic victory insured by the
Republican SDIit.

Democratic Victory insured by the
Republican Split.
NEW ORLEANS, April 15.-The state
campaign closed last night with rival
mass meetings in this city. The Demo-
Gratis had a rally at Elk place, present
ing three dozen speakers from four plat
forms. The Caffery Republican wing
held a meeting at the head of Canal
street. The campaign has been very
bitter.
The Caffery Republican faction, of
which Senator Caffery's son is the can
didate for governor, has severely ar
raigned Democratic election methods and
attacked the one-man power they say is
exercised by Gov. Foster. The latter at
one time threatened to call Senator Caf-
fiery, who has taken an active part in the
Republican campaign, to personal ac-
count. Despite the feeling aroused,
however, the outlook is for quiet cleo
ton Tuesday.
There are two Republican tickets, one
representing the Wimberley faction and
one the Caffery faction. The Demo
Gratis have one ticket in the field. The
Caffery managers claim they will come
to the city with 10000 majority, which
will not be wiped out in the city. The
Democrats say the Caffery ticket will
not get 10000 votes in the state. The
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-04-16
TREATMENT OF PRISONERS.
Lord Roberts Says the British Are
Treated Like Criminals.


BLOEMFONTEIN, Saturday, April IA
Lord Roberts, in his telegram of protest
to President Kruger, regarding the treat
ment to which the colonial officers and
troops, who are now prisoners at Pre-
toria, have been subjected, complains that
the Beers have treated them as if they
were criminals confined in jail
He points out that there are ninety
cases of enteric fever and dysentery in
the prisoners camp at Waterfall; that
the Transvaal government failed to sup
ply, on demand of the doctor, the neces-
sary medicines and medical comforts;
that the prisoners were forced to bivouac
on the open veldt; that the sick were
placed in an open shed with an iron roof,
and that it was only when the new doctor
threatened to resign that medicines and
mattresses were supplied.
He invites President Kruger to remedy
this state of things, and contrasts it with
the treatment of the British toward the
Boer prisoners, sick and wounded who,
as Lord Roberts says, receive the same
treatment as our own soldiers"
Four farmers who had taken the oath
to abstain from further cooperation with
the queens enemies were found signaling
to the Beers, and have been brought here.
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LONG UPSET THE PINS.
Republican Slate Makers Given
Something to Think About

Something to Think About.
WASHINGTON, April 15.-Secretary
Longs implied willingness to accept the
Republican nomination for the vice presi-
dency as inferred from statements made
by him on that subject yesterday was a
matter of general comment in Washing
ton today. 1t set the- Republican slate
makers to thinking, am for the time
being has seriously upset the calcula-
tions of those who believed that the
honor would go to one Of the half dozen
others mentioned for the vice presi-
dency.
Secretary Long was called upon by a
number of persons during the day and
was importuned for an exact statement
Of his attitude on the question. He
seemed disinclined to enter into any
general discussion of the matter, how
ever, preferring to let it rest with what
he has already said upon the subject.
Secretary Long was asked tonight for
an expression of opinion regarding Ad-
miral Dewey's candidacy for the presi-
dency. In a good-natured way he
evaded making a reply, but laughingly
remarked that Dewey was "the honored
man of our navy"
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Wimberley faction claims 1t will poll
larger vote than Caffery, though it
comedies Democratic success The cleo
ton on Tuesday will be for the entire
state ticket and the local tickets in all
the parishes. The next legislature will
elect two United States senator's. S. d.
McEnery will succeed himself, while
Gov. Murphy ]. Foster is almost sure to
succeed Senator Caffery.
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GREAT DEMAND FOR HORSES
WINSTON CHURCHILL SAYS THE
WAR WILL BE AN EXPEN-
SIVE ONE
DALGETY's LAST DISPATCH
Wires That All Are Well and That
the Enemy Is Apparently
Stacking the At
tack.

LONDON, April 16, 4:55 a. m.-The war
office had nothing to communicate to the
public yesterday. 1t may be taken for
granted that the rumor of Gen. Brabant' s
victory at Wepener is premature. With
the remainder of his force, he left Aliwal
North Saturday for Rouxville, and there
has scarcely been time for an engage
ment.
There is practically no fresh news this
morning. All of the Bloemfontein dis
patches, however, breathe a confident
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WHAT Do THE PEOPLE
GET FOR THE TAXES THEY
PAYs OUR SCHOOLS ARE
CRIPPLED; OUR POLICE
FORCE A FARCE; OUR CITY
COUNCIL A DISGRACE: OUR
BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS AN
INFAMY. LOCAL CRIMINALS
ALONE RECEIVE POLICE PRO-
LECTION.
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FROM THE CORRESPONDENTS.
Winston Churchill Doesn't Paint
the Prospects ROseate.

winston Churchill Doesn't Paint
the Prospects ROseate.
LONDON, April 16-Winston Churchill
telegraphs to the Morning Post from
Bloemfontein, under Saturdays date, re-
iterating his opinion that the war is
bound to prove an extremely expensive
business. He says:
Two hundred and fifty thousand men
will be needed before the end is attained
The question of remounts will continue
one of vital Importance. Great num-
bers are now arriving, but owing to the
fact that they have to be put to work
before time is given them to recover
from the effects of the voyage their con-
dition Is low and the death rate among
them is high. Thousands therefore will
be wanted in addition to those now here
or on the way and great resting depots
must be formed together with an ample
staff to nurse and exercise them. If
that is done then about four or five
months hence you will be able to give
your cavalry a new lease of life and
strength
BOERS LAYING PLANS.
The Bloemfontein correspondent Of the
Daily News telegraphing Saturday, says:
President Kruger attended a conference
of the Boer commandaLts at Brandfort
on Thursday. 1t is believed that a
decision was reached to withdraw the
Transvaal forces to the north of Vet
river, preparatory to a general retire
ment against the Vaal river, If hard
pressed, leaving the Free Staters to
their own resources.
REPORT UNCONFIRMED.
The Cape Town correspondent Of the
Daily News, telegraphing Sunday, says:
An uncoDfrmed report is in circulation
here that Gen. Brabant has inflicted a
crushing defeat upon the Beers at Wepe-
ner, capturing guns and taking pris-
oners.
BOER REINFORCEMENTS.
The Bloemfontein correspondent Of the
Times, telegraphing Friday says:
1t is reported that reinforcements for
the Beers with sixty wagons have ar
rived at Dewetsdorp en- route for Wepe-
ner. This should precipitate an action.
The statement that President Kruger
has been South seems to confirm the re-
port that the Beers are getting dis
heartened. This continued exertion of
his personal influence appears now to
have become necessity.
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DEPENDS NOT ON MONEY

and not on doing politics, but it depends
on the dynamic force of ideas and on the
conquering power of justice-two forces
that have never yet been arrested, two
forces that have given America this re-
public, have given the world its civili-
cation and have been at the bottom of
all progress.
1.-THE Democracy must name man for
the vice presidency who possesses the
same character, the same conviction and
the same positive and aggressive force
as the man who is to head the ticket
LET me say that l have great respect
for Gov Pattison as a man. He is a
gentleman and man of great ability,
and in any other manner 1 should be
glad to honor him, but there are thou
sands of men of high character and abil-
ity whom 1 respect but whom the Democ-
racy could not put upon it's ticket this
year.
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MISTAKE FOR DEWEY.

Gen. AIger Says He's Sorry for the
Manila Hero.
DETROIT, Mich, April 15.-'I think
Admiral Dewey has made a grave mis-
take in announcing his candidacy for the
presidency" said ex-Secretary of War
Alger, in the course of an interview, to-
night. 1T looks as though the wealth
of prai e showered on the admiral since
his retU from the East has turned his
head. is harder to resist prosperity
than advJrsity. 1 feel sorry for him, for
his ambitions will certainly be unfulfilled
His action is ill-advised. 1 predict mel
ancholy disappointment"