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The Red Cloud chief., 1900-01-19
BULLER ADVANCES
Sends Word to London Of a
Forward Movement
MOVE PROBABLY MANS A BATTLE
English Cant Go Far without Rup,,,g
Across Enemy -Ladysmith Is in Rad
straits-Garrison Fast Being
Declmated by Disease.

a London. January IL 4 n. m. special
says; Buffers twenty-cight words an
n%ouncing his forward movement of
Thursday is interpreted rs meaning
that h had passed around the western
end of the Boer line Of Colcnso and is
now several miles behind them. and
within fourteen miles of General
Whites out posts at Ladysmith. The
Beers, n few days ago, had forces with
guns at Springfield, where General
Butler dates his dispatch. These COM
mando have been obviously dislodgcd,
either by fighting or by maneuvers the
Beers retiring across the Tugela as
General Butler advanced.
From General Buffers dispatch.
coupled with the fact that unofficial
intelligence from the seat of war has
virtually ceased since Monday, the de-
duction is drawn that important opcr-
atoms are in progress, as he cannot
move far without going against the
Boer entertainments.
The death lists from enteric fever
and ~dysentery at L~adysmith, avcrag-
ing from eight to ten daily are con-
sidered more serious than the 400
casualties Of Saturdays fight, as they
indicated the frightfully ~unsanitary
condition of the beleaguered town. A
letter from Ladysmith, dated Deem
hey 7, says that even then ninety ont
of $40 men in the battalion of which
the writer was "A member were sick
with dysentery or enteric fever, and
according to a dispatch to the Daily
Chronicle, dated January s, the pa
tients and attendants in Tomb camp
where the hospital is, then numbered
$500.
The wal Office this morning received
the following dispatch from General
Butler, dated Springfield, Thursday,
January IL, at 9:20, evening: II occu-
pied the south bank of the Tugela riv-
or at Potgieter's drift this morning
and seized point. The river is in flood.
The enemy is strongly cntrenched
about four and a half miles to the
north"
Apart from the definite news that
General Butler has commenced a sec
ond attempt to cross the Tugela river,
the only official news this morning is
the list Of casualties among the Brit
ish officers in the fight at Ladysmith,
Saturday, January 6, showing thirteen
killed and twenty-seven wounded.
The Red Cloud chief., 1900-01-19
Ia Cultured Wcai.

II Is a far cry from the horschair
furniture OF New England to the splen-
did palaces OF the west. The west may
rolls It's rs and like checked suits and
breezy ways, but when IL comes to in
teriors" the east must hire It's cul-
tured head. plain living and high
thinking" are not the ideals that en-
courage the art Of draping doorways,
of combining colors. or making a few
bargains from the china shop look like
ancestral blue" The western girl who
comes to- New York to study makes
her hall bedroom to blossom like tho
rose. Give her u plaster cast, a BIT
of cotton for drapery. a photograph or
two, and a sofa pillow, and she will.
in her colorful. wild and willy way,
transform her barren lodging into q
semblance of beauty and comfort
which the average sophisticated east
orner seldom achieves In her well-or-
dered and permanent home.-Nsw
York Commercial Advertiser.
The Red Cloud chief., 1900-01-19
CaRt Of Living.

An investigation into the compare
tive cost of living at the various Eu-
ropean capitals resulted in the follow
ing facts: At Vienna the prices OF
most articles of food are lowest; at
Madrid they are dearer than In any
other capital, and such things as bread,
meat, sugar and coal are very expen-
sive indeed. At st. Petersburg, also,
the price OF bread Is still considered
q luxury above the means OF the work.
ing classes. Next TO Vienna. Brussels
Is an inexpensive city; Paris Is a little
higher In the scale, while London is
still more expensive. An American
spends on an average $50 a year for
food, a Frenchman S4S, a German Si5,
a Spaniard 1913, an Italian 1924, and a
Russian, $40. OF meats the American
eats 100 pounds a year, the Frenchman
81 pounds, the German GA pounds, the
Italian 2S pounds, and the Russian 81
pounds. OF bread the American con
$50 pounds, the F'renchman $40
pounds. tie German $50 pounds, the
SpaniGrd $50 pounds, the Italian 400
The Red Cloud chief., 1900-01-19
GENERAL BATES is MOVING
Americans Hard to Check and Many
Towns are Taken

General Otis has made n report TO
the war department in regard to the
military operations in Luzon. south of
Manila, showing u capture of several
towns and a large number OF prisoners
with arms and ammunition. The mes.
sage is as follows.
Manila. Jan. 12.-Continucd opera.
tions by Bates command south Of Ma.
Mia, with the ~1hirty-scvcnth and
Thirty.ninth regiments at Calamba,
commanded by Bullard. On January
] Billiard, with two battalions of the
Thirty-ninth. attacked a force of in
surgcnts in the vicinity, driving the
enemy and capturing the town of
Cabayuo, and on the following day
Binan. Encmy's loss, thirty killed,
large number wounded, twenty prison
ers captured; three Americans slightly
wounded.
The Red Cloud chief., 1900-01-19
STATE BANKS PROSPEROUS
Report of Secretary Hall shows Usual
Winter Activity.

Secretary Hall of the state banking
board has completed an abstract of the
report of the condition of state and
private banks, including savings bankss
at the close of business December g..
The report shows a flattering condi-
ton, and Secretary Hall is willing to
have it compared with any report is
sued in the past. The number of banks
is iOi. One year ago the number was
1913. The general deposits amounted
to SlS.2?5,ls0 one year ago, but now
they are SCI ,666,l1l. One year ago the
loans and discounts were ST., 500, ga.
The report as compared with the re-
port three months ago shows an in
crease in the following items: Loans,
s2,3i9,fS3.63; ov~erdrafts, 81, O9S. 2s;
bills discounted and bills payable, $3ls,-
G?3. 90, and decrease in capital stock,
GiO3, 700; deposits. 81, 242, 400. OF.
The following is a summary of the
report of the condition of Nebraska
banks at the close of business Deem
Der .:
Resourccs-Loans and discounts, Sell
209, 1926, ovcrdrafts, 1884, 800 OF;
stocks, securities, Judgments, claims,
etc, S279, 479. 66; due from national,
state and private banks and bankers,
s5,2ll, $50 go; banking house furniture
and fixtures, 81, 1893, ST.. O3; other real
estate, Ssl6, 07l 20; current expenses
and taxes paid, SiGO, s75.6 S; premium
on bonds, etc, S!,456.46; assets not
otherwise enumerated, Sl2i,ls5.6l;
cash items, $50, 573 90; cash on hand,
81, 900, 4I6. 90; u. S. bonds on hand, S2s,-
700 90. Total 1871, 57l. 465.47.
Liabilities-Capital stock paid in,
s7,ls0,4s co. surplus fund, S04O, SIS. 90;
undivided profits, si,3ll, SIS. 35; divi-
dends unpaid, slO,3l9.Go; general do
posits, Sal 500, lille: other liabilities,
8 l,s55.5i; notes and bills rediscounted.
sl9l as3. 10; bills payable, secs, $50. o..
Total S3l,57l. 4G5.47.
The Red Cloud chief., 1900-01-19
NEWS IN BRIEF.


Troops at Halifax have been ordered
to South Africa.
Charles Townsend, cX-sccrctary Of
state OF Ohio, is dead.
Ellis Misher, convicted of rape, was
hanged at Seguin, Texas.
Fire in a Utica, n. Y, dry goods
store did damage to the mount OF
$1,000.
Foreclosure proceedings have been
begun against the Ferris Wheel com
pany at Chicago.
In the French chamber motions were
made to suspend the import duties on
coal and iron.
The blizzard which swept northwest
ern New Mexico was the worst ever
known in the region.
Eight deaths from bubonic plague
have occurred thus far at Honolulu.
A military funeral was accorded Cen
eral Berriozabal, the dead minister of
war of Mexico.
Maj. John ID. Guthrie, who assisted
in the storming of San Juan hill, died
suddenly at Buffalo, N. Y.
Diamonds and other jewelry to the
value of 81, 200 was stolen from a pri-
vate residence at New York.
Lewis +, Goldsmith, the thieving
cashier of the Port Jervis, n. V, bank,
was sentenced to eight years in the
penitentiary.
The Red Cloud chief., 1900-01-19

Over in England they have just been
celebrating the cighty-third annivcr-
sary Of the death Of Richard Brinslcy
Sheridan. A short life and a merry
one-that VAS this great dramatist's
lot. for he died In his fifty-ffth year.
on his death-bed dunncd by creditors
and with bailiffs fighting among them
selves for the remains. Sheridan was
born in Dublin in 1851, went to Lon
don when but nineteen and when only
two years older bolted from Bath with
the beautiful and far-famed Miss Lin
ley, fighting two duels and going
The Red Cloud chief., 1900-01-19
BURROWS IS DEAD
Father Of Nebraska Populism
Passes Away.
WAS A WRlTtR OF GREAT ABILITY
Falls Asleep at an Early Hour Tuesday
Morning After a Very short Illness
Notable as the Editor OF the
Paper, Farmers Alliance"

Jay Burrows, one OF the founders Of
the farmers alliance in Nebraska and
for many years a political leader. died
Tuesday at his home, 1913 ID street,
Lincoln. lie died at 4.3O in the morn
ing after an illness Of only Il few days.
Last Friday he was on the street. lie
had been suffering from n cold and
was troubled with neuralgia for a
time. He frequently suffered from
lumbago and that ailment was notice
able in his last illness. However,
death is supposed to have resulted
from rheumatism Of the heart, though
pneumonia IA also noticeable. lie
was sixty-six years old.
Mr.. Burrows leaves six children. Mrs.
l.. II. Boggs, Lucinda and Sara 4. Bur
rows of Lincoln, George c. Burrows,
living near Adams in Gage county,
Neb.. +. Il, and j. Il. Burrows, who
reside near Beatrice.
Mr.. Burrows was born March 4, 1893,
at Maysvillc, Chautauqua county, N.
Y. He was married in that state in
1857. He enlisted in the Ninth New
York cavalry and served as a licutcn-
ant through the entire war. His rec
ord rs "A soldier vas made while scrv-
ing under Sheridan and Custer in the
Shenandoah valley.
During the war his wife removed to
Iowa with her parents and after the
war he joined her there, where they
lived until 1850, when they moved to
Finley, Gage county, Ncb., and settled
on a farm. In 1850 Mr.. Burrows came
to Lincoln and started the Farmers
Alliance, a paper published in the in
tcrests of a political organization in
which Mr.. Burrows became the rccog-
nized leader. His family came to Lin
coin in 1899 and have since lived here.
Mrs. Burrows died "A few years ago.
Mr.. Burrows took exception to the
nomination Of G. II. Van Wyck as the
populist candidate for governor and
his opposition to others in his party
finally led to his voluntary retirement
from the editorship Of his paper. He
sold the plant and the paper was no
longer heard of.
While Mr.. Burrows did much toward
organizing the populist party in Ne
braska and in the nation he was not
in sympathy in later years with the
men who worked IN the interests OF
fusion. lie was a man of decided con-
victions, a deep thinker and "a good
student of economic questions.
His austerity and independence of
thought and action aided him in the
organization of n political movement,
but also made many opponents for him
in his W party. He is said to have
left some interesting manuscript on
which he had been working for sew
eral years. These papers will be left
in the care Of his daughters.
The Red Cloud chief., 1900-01-19
Banker IL Shot.

Maj. John +. Stone, n Of the most
widely known lawyers in oklahoma
and president of the Peoples bank of
Kingfisher, vas shot and killed at Crcs-
cent City, twelve miles west of Guth-
rie, by j.. +. Watcher, who afterward
made his escape. Watcher had mort
gagged property to Stone to secure a
loan and later mortgaged the same
property to the Capital National bank
of Guthrie, for which he was arrested
and is still under bond. The shooting
of Stone followed his attempt to fore
close on the goods.
The Red Cloud chief., 1900-01-19

has his own possibilities for growth,
to be tempered with; his own pri-
vacics, not to be invaded; his own
holy of holies,' to he held holy. Tho
power that Is working in the vast life
of this universe Is working in your
son or daughter AZ part Of 1t; and IL
has It's W purpose In regard to each
child-life as surely as for each planet
in It's orbit. God needs much help
from mothers. Cooperate, then, with
the power working through your chill
dren. mothers. DO not make the great
mistake OF attempting to compete with
It,"
The Red Cloud chief., 1900-01-19

Capt. Baron Won Luttwitz, who is tho
military attache in London for tho
of the kaiser, is the gal
liant officer who Is at present the guest
OF Gen. Butler and his staff In South
Africa. Baron Won Luttwitz accepted
n very generous invitation to go to the
front to study the British plan OF cam
paign and to report on the same to his
home government, being one OF the
many foreign tacticians who are re-
The Red Cloud chief., 1900-01-19
INSURGENTS MAKE STAND
Colonel Bullard Has stubborn Engage
mcnt, but Wins.

A Manila, January II, dispatch says:
Colonel Billiard, with the Thi rty-ninth
infantry, moving in three columns.
from Calamba, with two guns, attacked
ten companies of insurgents, strongly
entrenched on the Santa Thomas road.
They resisted stubbornly, making three
stands. Twenty-four OF the rcbcl Is
were killed and sixty prisoners were
taken. The Filipinos r~ctrcatcd, carry.
ing their wounded toward Lake Taal.
One American was killed and two OIL
GERS were slightly wounded.
The Red Cloud chief., 1900-01-19

through two marriage ceremonies be-
fore his wife was finally acknowl-
edged as his own personal property. In
1875 THE Rivals was produced at
COyent Garden and was n failure,
though II later version made a great
enough hit. Sheridan's London house
is shown In the accompanying picture.
This was not the house which Shcri-
dan calmly watched burn down, and
when reproved for his unseemly jocu-
larity on such an occasion gravely re-
marked that II ought to have n right
to be happy beside ones " fire.
The Red Cloud chief., 1900-01-19
Luigi Crispi n Feion.

Luigi Crispi, son of Signor Francisco
Crispi, the distinguished Italian states
mar and former premier, was Friday
sentenced to four years Imprisonment
for the theft Of jcwelry from the Count
css Cellerc in April, 1896. Luigi Crispi
is the naturalsson of the e~x-prcmicr.
His career has been notorious.
The Red Cloud chief., 1900-01-19
Women burned to Death.

Mrs. Mary Theobold, aged ffty-eight,
was burned to death, and her daughter,
Lucinda, aged twenty-eight, was per-
haps fatally burned at their home in
Louisville, KY. Miss Theobold was
filing a lamp in front Of a stove. An
explosion followed, setting fire to her
clothing. In attempting to save her
daughter Mrs. Theobold's clothing took
fire and before assistance arrived She
had burned to death.
The Red Cloud chief., 1900-01-19
God Needs Mothers.

"The grave mistake of depressing
children" writes Barbetta Brown In
the December Ladies' Home Journal,
lis caused by the mothers failure to
be keen enough to see where she may
touch a child's life and where she may
not; where 1t is for her to guide, to
help. to encourage, and where the
child-life Is sacred to itself alone. That
the child Is another individual never
occurs to some mothers, nor that he
The Red Cloud chief., 1900-01-19
CHICAGO RIVER PURIFIER
food Eject of Drainage Canal on q
Murky stream.

Ten days have elapsed since the
waters of the Chicago river were
turned into the drainage canal through
a narrow sluiceway with II capacity of
only sixty thousand cubic feet a Min
ute. The waters of the river have
been so purified that a sample Of water
taken from the river al Wells street
was pronounced by chemists to be fit
for drinking after being boiled. 1t is
better water than has been obtained
many times from the city in-takers out
in Lake Michigan.
The Red Cloud chief., 1900-01-19
Rcciprocity with Portugal,

Special Plenipotentiary Kasson, for
the United States, and Senior Duartc,
for Portugal, signed n protocol intend
cd to make operative the reciprocity
arrangement entered into last spring
between the two countries. The
treaty will not bc proclaimed, however,
until the protocol has been ratified at
IiShnp
The Red Cloud chief., 1900-01-19
Policeman Kills Burglar.

Fleeing to escape arrest on a charge
Of robbery and almost at the door of
his home, John Burke was shot and in
stantly killed at Chicago by Policeman
Joseph l.. Tischart. The policeman
had trailed three highwaymen for al
most half a mile and surprised them as
they were sharing their loot in an al
ley. Burke's companions escaped.
The Red Cloud chief., 1900-01-19
Indicted and uur rled AWAY.

Max Deitring. the alleged embezzler
from Springfield, H.. was arrested by
Sheriff c. NJ. Wood of Sangamon coun-
ty, Illinois. The sheriff left for the
east with his prisoner. The prisoner
was hurried away to avoid the service
of a writ Of habeas corpus. behring's
attorney says the proceedings are IL
legal.
The Red Cloud chief., 1900-01-19
Killings Ccr.

From the Weekly Telegraph: Mrs.
Billings (aside)-Goodness me! Hero
comes Mrs. Spruce with her smart
looking husband. and here John goes
along by my side stopping and shut
fling. What shall | do to brace him
up? All! I know! (Aloud) John!
John! Did you sec that handsome girl
looking at you? Mr.. Billings with
alacrity)-No! Where? Where?
The Red Cloud chief., 1900-01-19
Soldier Indicted.

At New York the grand jury found
an indictment for assault in the first
degree against Willis Rosser, who shot
Mr.. Slater. Rosser, while n soldier,
recently killed n man in San Fran
cisco and was tried and acquitted.
The Red Cloud chief., 1900-01-19
Fire at Colorado Springs.

The entire business portion of Colo
RADIO Springs was threatened by n fire
which broke out in the May clothing
store. Aided by a high wind, the
flames spread rapidly, but they were
controlled after three buildings We're
destroyed. The total loss is estimated
at $50, 900.
The Red Cloud chief., 1900-01-19
Preacher Kills u Woman.

Rev. Wesley Hall, at Hindman,
Knott county, KY, shot and killed
Mrs. Lucinda %Isaacs, n sister OF his
dead wife, and then shot himself in
the abdomen. Physicians say he will
recover. The cause was Mrs. Isaacs'
refusal of his offer of marriage.
The Red Cloud chief., 1900-01-19
Iowa Man Amounted.

John Mcdonald of Dubuque, Ia, has
been appointed superintendent of the
agricultural an cx to the Paris EXPOSE
ton. He will sail February IL.
The Red Cloud chief., 1900-01-19
Ira G X In Girls.

Barnot G~rinberg, formerly Of Seattle,
Wash, has been arrested in Tarnapolia,
Gallacia, Austria, on a charge of buy
ing girls for export from Austria to the
United States. Grinberg was n well
known business man of Seattle for
eight or nine years. He is a natural
lied citizen of the United States.
The Red Cloud chief., 1900-01-19
Get &IH.OOO.

The McGinnis bank at Owensville,
Ind, was entered and the safe blown
open, the explosion completely wreck
ing the building. 1t is rumored that
about $4,000 was taken, but the bank
officials refuse to give any information.
The burglars escaped on a handcar.
The Red Cloud chief., 1900-01-19
Burn u Pest House.

The city pest house in North Des
Moines was burned by citizens TO pre-
vent its use for smallpox patients. Tho
council having determined to isolate
all eases of the disease there, the citi.
zens of that part of the town rose In.
dignantly and declared the pest house
would burn,
The Red Cloud chief., 1900-01-19
To Sell the Collateral.

At a meeting of the Boston clearing
house association it was voted to sell
the collateral held as security for the
50, 500, 900 in clearing house certificates
issued to the Globe National bank be-
fore it's collapse.
The Red Cloud chief., 1900-01-19
Hriiish Want Moro MnIes.

The Iona Corinthian and Kildona,
British transport which took out car.
goes of mules TO South Africa, have re.
turned To New Orleans for more which
they have begun TO load.
The Red Cloud chief., 1900-01-19
Ami POprIat0.

Hardacre-Going to build a wash
house In the yard, Zeke; what kind OF
stone would be the best for a founda-
ton? Crawfoot-Dld you say a wash
house, Zeke? Well, it seems to me
soapstone would be as good as any
Chicago News.
The Red Cloud chief., 1900-01-19
Allen Has Another RIII.

Senator Allen has introduced bills to
prohibit the over-capitalization of rail
roads and to authorize the creditors of
insolyent national banks TO elect re.
c~eivers.
The Red Cloud chief., 1900-01-19

A bad beginning may make a good
ending, but too many people never
make any kind of a beginning.
The Red Cloud chief., 1900-01-19

pounds. and the Russian 655 pounds.
Outside OF Europe, in times of peace,
Manila Is cheaper to live In than any
other city in the world.
The Red Cloud chief., 1900-01-19

Verdi, the famous composer, who Is
in a precarious condition on account OF
a severe cold, has entirely lost the uso
of his voice.
The Red Cloud chief., 1900-01-19

When Fairmont's city martial has no
disturbers to corral he is supposed to
repair sidewalks.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-05-27
Raleigh Development Company.

The Raleigh Development Com
pany" was yesterday incorporated
with a capital stock of $50 200, divid-
ed into 500 shares of the par value of
$1,000 per share.
The incorporators are j. d. Boush-
all, {. a. Eastman and +. y. Holding.
The business proposed by the cor
poration is as follows:
To erect. repair and improve
bridges. building and structures of
all kinds, and carry on general con
tracing and building business in all
its branches.
TO build, equip and operate rail
roads, street car tracks, telegraph and
telephone lines, mills, quarries, power
plants and factories of all kinds.
To do road work and road building
OF all kinds, grade and pave streets
and furnish material for such work
TO buy, own and sell real estate
and act as agents for others in man
aging leasing and renting property
of all kinds.
To carry on and conduct a mate
rial and supply business in all of its
branches, also a storage and ware
house business in all of its branches.
The length of time proposed for the
corporation to carry on its business
is 80 years.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-05-27
PROF. OLMsTED's POEMS.
Ee is Now Eng aged in Writing Novel and a
Play

Prof Stanley Olmsted, director 70 mu
a book Of poems, and will, this summer,
write play and a novel
Prof. Olmsted will at once go to work
TO find publisher for his poems, many
CT which are weird and intended to mys-
tify. These the author says he does not
expect to be appreciated in Raleigh but
that among people of real depth and
culture he looks for the genuine article
For such we have copied here and there
choice line or two, which will give some
idea of the book. Here's a gem:
Dreaming lovely fancies mid lucent
lamEencies.'
And this
THE radiance, radiance that never
came
The poet delights in the church yard
and thus he describes "stabbing
scene" there witnessed:
"Firehy from tombstone to tombstone
fitting,
With his ray of light stabbing the
gloom"
The two most recent poems in the
book, in point of composition are Luna"
and Fresh Day. This is the rolIicking.
saucy manner in which Fresh Day"
bursts upon us:
Morning shake the nounces of thy
skirt
Neither the novel nor the play has as
yet been completed and no promise is
made as to the date of their publica-
lion.
Prof Olmsted is now at his home in
Cherokee county, at work on them.