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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-01-06
THREE MEN SHOTLN PARK A We
ONE IS TAKEN TO A HOSPITAL, BUT THE
OTHERS HAVE DISAPPEARED:

Morris Williams a tile layer, twenty -four
years old. living at No. 120 West Ninety y-eighth-
ST. was locked up in the East Sixty-seventh-st.
station last night, charged with shooting Dennis
Farley, twenty-four years old, of No. 500 East
Eighty -frst-st., a coachman for a Everyman
named Connolly, at First-ave. and Seventy
eghth-st. Two other men. John Mahoney. a
tile layer. of No. 423 East Eighty -second-st.
and James McNally. a truckman. twenty-seven
years old of No. 507 East Seventy-fourth-st-, it
is said were also shot, but they could not be
found by the police, although it learned
that McNally had his wound dressed in the Ger
man Hospital, at Seventy-seventh-st and Park
ave. Farley was taken to Bellevue Hospital.
having received a bullet wound in the calf of
the left leg. The wound is not serious.
The shooting is said to be the outcome of some
trouble Williams was experiencing with some
striking tile layers. He was employed by Pass
more & Meeker, tile manufacturers. of Newark,
to do some work with other men in a house at
hundred -and-second-st, and Broadway.
Several of the workmen struck for more wages.
Williams refused to quit work. He says he was
often threatened by the other men that unless
he Joined them there would be trouble
Yesterday Williams was sent by his employers
to a house at Seventy-eighth-st. and Park ave.
to work. He was going home when he met
Farley Mahoney and McNally- Williams says
that they set upon him and knocked him down.
A lively fight took place, in which Williams
says he struck McNally the head with
rule and then fired three shots out Of his
voIver. The men then got up from top OF
Williams and walked away.
Williams then started down the avenue and
met Policeman O'Brien. When stopped by the
policeman ne had blood on his hands and face
his eyes were blackened and the collar of his
coat was torn. The policeman took him back
to Seventy-eightn-st. At Seventy -ninth-st. Far
ley was found in the custody of Policeman
Nevins. of the East Eighty -eighth-st station
II is believed by the police that Williams
acted too hastily In shooting. He admits that
he fired three shots, and says that he carried
the revolver to defend himself Mahoney lives
in Eighty -second-st. with his mother, and left
his home at 10 o'clock yesterday morning. Will
Jams came to this city from Boston short time
ago. He lived at No. 120 West Ninety eighth-st
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-01-06
THE soRTIE FROM MAFEKING.

GALLANT ATTACK OF THE TROOPS UNDER
BADEN-POWELL
London JAN 5-The War Office has received
Town, the following dispatch from Colonel
Baden-PoweIl, dated Mafeking. December %:
We attacked of the enemies works this
morning. endeavoring to push back the Gordon
northward. Our force consisted of three guns
two squadrons of the Protectorate regiment
one of the Bechuanaland Rifles, an armored
train. etc. The enemy had strengthened their
works during the night, and doubled the garri-
son since yesterdays reconnaissance.
Nevertheless, attack was carried out and
pressed home with the greatest possible gal
lantry and steadiness under a very hot fire.
But all efforts to gain the interior by escalade
failed, the fort being practically impregnable.
Our attack only withdrew after six of our
officers had been hit and large number Of
men. Nothing could have exceeded the courage
and dash displayed
The general situation remains unchanged and
the health and spirits of the garrison are very
satisfactory.
regret to report the following casualties:
KILLED.
Captain captain + r = yERE0Sn yEERREE0Sn
Lieutenant Fl. C PATTON.
Eighteen non-commssioned officers and troopers
WOUNDED.
CAPTAIN CHARLES FITZCLARENCE.
Twenty-three non-commissioned officers and troopers
PRISONERS.
troopers
General Forester Walker points out that
while the dispatch gives ell the names. it fails
to show that six officers were hit.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-01-06

way bridge over the Orange River French has
been reinforced by a battalion Of infantry and
battery, and the Household Cavalry and Es-
sex Battalion and Field Artillery have been sent
to him.
The campaign in that quarter is full of prom
ise General French is evidently holding the
Beers at Colesberg until with an increased cav
airy force he cut off their retreat to the
river, or possibly occupy both bridges behind
them
Neither General Gatacres official report nor
the press dispatches throw fresh light upon the
repuise Of the Beers at Molteno. The attack
seems to have been a surprise, for Gatacre,
after his manner. having a field day and
drilling his men. He acted promptly and aided
by the prudent conduct of the Cape Police
drove the enemy back without being drawn into
trap himself. He could not cut off the retreat
OF the Beers owing to the lack of cavalry
GALLANT sORTIE FROM MAFEKING.
Official reports do not change the aspects of
Colonel Pitchers raid There is no important
news from Modder River. and the Cape Town
rurnor or a successful sortie from Mafeking is
unconfrmed. The British account of the unsuc-
cessful attack on the Boer fort was received at
midnight. Happily. Lord Edward Cecil has not
been wounded seriously. The Boer account of
the defeat is confirmed, but the losses were not
serious The story of the sortie is most spirit
ed one.
The rumor has not been officially confirmed
that the German Emperor has sent a member
OF his staff to Windsor with a private letter to
the Queen which is assumed to relate to the
seizure of the vessels at Delagoa Bay, but there
is evidence in the German press that a strong
feeling Of resentment has been excited by these
unpleasant episodes. The cargo of the Bundles
rath VIII probably be discharged for the pur-
pose of critical examination by a prize court
The American Embassy is discreetly silent
respecting the seizure of American breadstuffs
but 1t Is an open secret that the Foreign Office
Is carefully considering the question raised by
the state Department. All the summaries of
Mr.. Choate's presentation of the case are pre-
mature The truth is that the seizure has been
rendered complex question by the flag under
which the cargoes of foodstuffs were carried
American flour presumably for the Transvaal
was shipped on British vessels for a neutral
port. and the Queens subjects had been warned
against trading with the enemy. The question
of contraband trading and neutral rights is
complicated by this and other facts The con-
troversies with Germany and the United States
tend to convince many we'll informed men that
England will be driven into the seizure of Della
goa Bay as the easiest way out of the difficulty
/. n. f.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-01-06
TWO KILLED IN A FIRE.
SEVERAL OTHERS BADLY HURT IN A
HARLEM BLAZE.

Two people were killed and several others
were badly hurt at a fire early this morning
in the big tenement house No. 305 East Nine
ty-second-st.
Policemen Doran and Murtha got to the tep
floor, where the fire fiercest, and found q
Mrs. Switzerland and two Of her children CROP
ing about in the halls They carried all three
down. On the sidewalk Mrs. Switzerland re-
covered, and not finding her child Harry she
screamed to somebody to get him for the love
of God The building then filed with
inky smoke and it seemed impossible for any
one to live in it.
Doran and Murtha rushed back in, and with
hard work got to the top floor, where they
found the missing boy lying unconscious. in
the hall. When they finally got him out they
saw he severely and possibly fatally burned
He was sent to the hospital without delay
while friends took the frantic mother away
with the other two children.
Raphael Pettito, his wife. and three children
were caught on the third floor Pettito got them
out the fire escape, where they were found
and carried down by Policemen Doran. Murtha
Stewart and Nevins. PettitO would not wait
for the 1remen to run up ladder, and jumped
from the second floor He broke an arm, and
sustained internal injuries. He sent to the
Harlem Hospital.
At 1:30 o'clock the bodies of two women were
taken from the fourth floor They were uniden-
tilted.
Foreman Charles Stone of Engine No -
was found in the basement of the building al
most overcome by smoke and so drenched by
water that his condition is serious. Had he not
been found Just then he would probably have
lost his life. He was taken 10 the Harlem Hos
pital.
The police and fremen say that Second-ave.
car is responsible for the accident. When the
first fireman arrived the blaze had not spread
out of the basement They got line of hose
out quickly, and had a stream on the blaze with
every chance Of getting it out, they say, when
an electric whirled by with express speed
cutting the hose in two. as if it were made of
wet paper.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-01-06
THRILLING STORY OF HERoIsM.

REMARKABLE BRAVERY OF BRITISH Off
GERS IN THE FIGHT.
London. Jan. g. 4:45 a. m-''The Times pub
fishes the following dispatch from Mafeking,
dated December 20:
At dawn to-day Colonel Baden-Powell organ
ized an unsuccessful attack upon strong po-
sition of the enemy at Gametree, two miles
from Mafeking, from which the Beers have been
maintaining q desultory but annoying shell and
rife fire for several weeks. The railway has
recantlv been reconstructed between the town
and Gemetree where the Beers had destroyed
q the final repairs being made in preparation
for the sortie'
Durng the night the armored train. with
Maxinn and Hotchkss guns, under Captain Will
ianas and troops. took up positions for attack
from two sides Captain Lord Charles Bentinck
ard a SQUADRON were in reserve upon the left.
while the extreme left wing was occupied by
artillery under Major Panzera and Maxim OF
the Cane Police. the whole being under Colonel
Hore
Ennlacsuents were thrown up during the
n,7b, ,be orders being 10 attack at dawn and
the artillery fire TO desist upon prolonged footing
,oro tho arnored train. AT daybreak the guns
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-01-06


IBr CABLE THE TRIBUNE.l
London, Jan G. 6 a. m.-The official dispatch
from Colonel Baden-Powell, announcing the un-
successful sortie from Mafeking on December
26. proves that the Boer account was fairly cor
rect. The British casualties are officially stated
to be three officers and forty-eight men killed,
and officer and twenty four men wounded
made OF either Lord Edward Cecil or Lord
Charles Cavendish Bentinck. both of whom
were wounded according to the Boer report of
the affair Colonel Baden-Powen however.
mentions six officers hit and onl yincludes four
IN the list of casualties
1.-The Posts" correspondent states that the
Beers had been treacherously forewarned. and
had blown up the railway line so that the
armored train is unable to act efficiently The
Tiness' correspondent alleges that the Beers
used explosive bullets and plundered the British
dead and wounded
Sir Redvers Butler continues to she'll the F3oer
Entertainments at Colenso, but no important
news is yet to hand.
Webster Davis, the United States Assistant
Secretary of the Interior, has arrived at Cape
Town. THE Chronicle's' correspondent says
that Mr. Davis stated that his visit to the
Cape is entirely for the sake of health. but he
expressed his intention of paying visit to Pre-
toria, matter at what personal inconveni-
ence.
Brussels paper publishes a number of docu-
ments purporting to establish Mr. Chamber
lain's completely IN the Jameson raid.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-01-06
MORE PAY FOR STEEL WORKERS.
ADVANCE OF 7H PER CENT GRANTED BY
AMERICAN STEEL AND WIRE COMPANY

ADVANCE OF 71s PER CENT GRANTED BY
AMERICAN STEEL AND WIRE COMPANY
Pittsburg, jan (SpeciaD.-The American
Steel and Wire Company has informed it's en-
ployes that their wages will be advanced az per
cent, to take effect from January l. This will
affect the tonnage workers. workers paid by the
hour and day laborers, in all about thirty thou
sand men throughout the country. This concern
probably employs more persons than any other
In the country. The company will also pay into
a fund Ok per cent of it's entire annual payroll
for the relief and benefit of its workmen.
committee will be appointed by the company
hereafter TO look after this fund and it's proper
distribution.
The pay of the men employed by this concern
will average between 81 25 and 81 80 a day.
ranging from 81 40 for day laborers TO $40 and
So day for rollers in rod mills. The advance
came unsolicited and unexpected The plants
are in Worcester Mass; New Castle. Beaver
Falls Rankin Allentown and Pittsburg. Penn.
Salem and Cleveland. Ohio; Anderson. Ind. and
Chicago, Joliet and De Kalb ILL.,. together with
few fence making plants scattered throughout
the West, but only two OF which are in oper-
alton.
In closing the notice the concern wishes its
employees a happy new year and more pros
porous year than last year.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-01-06
FRANCE TO ENFORCE PAYMENT
ATLANTIC SQUADRON ORDERED TO SAN
DOMINGO-FRENCH SIDE OF CASE

ATLANTIC SQUADRON ORDERED TO SAN
DOAINGO-FRENCH SIDE OF CASE
Paris Jan 5-The French Government has
sent a dispatch to the commandant of the naval
squadron in the Atlantic TO proceed Immediately
to San Domingo
In view Of the feeling in San Domingo against
the action of the French Consul in pressing the
Boismare- Caccavelli claim Of 2S0.0OO francs. the
following statement OF the French position is
given from a source whose accuracy of informa-
ton is undeniable:
In accordance with the treaty concluded In
1890 between President HeureauX and the
French Minister to Hayti. the Government of
San Domingo agreed to turn over to the French
Consul a monthly indemnity in reparation for
services rendered and for damages sustained by
families of French citizens who had been as
sassinated In default of payment. the treaty
stipulated that action might be taken against
the Improvement Company having the conces-
sion to collect the revenues of the island. Since
the assassination of President HeureauX the in
the disturbances following his death France
made NO Immediate demand for payment As
N ore than ak months have passed without ac-
tiop and San Domingo showing bad faith in the
erecutiop of the obligations the French Consul,
in conformity with the treaty received an order
to place an embargo on the revenues of the I'M
movement Company The execution OF this
Sar nrovoked disturbances which the Govern
rnent az san Domingo has not attempted to sup
rress and serious Insults have been offered TO
France and the consulate AS soon advised,
the French Government sent dispatch TO the
commander of the French Atlantic Squadron to
proceed Immediately to San Domingo
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-01-06
FIGHTING IN NATAL RENEWED.

fIhINOT AT LADYSMITH AND COLENSO-
CAVALRY SKIRMISH REPORTED.
London, Jan. Ga dispatch to 1.-The Daily
Telegraph from Frere Camp, dated Friday,
January 5. says:
There has been firing to-day at Ladysmth and
at Colenso. A strong cavalry reconnaissance,
under Lord Dundonald, proceeded westward this
morning toward Springfield, where firing is pro-
ceeding.
There is a revival of the report that the Beers
are short of provisions.
General Buffers army is eager for the ad-
vance.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-01-06
1oRn EDWARD NOT WOUNDED.

Cane Town Jan. 5.-With reference to the
Boer reports that Lord Edward Cecil and Lord
Charles Bentinck were recently wounded at
Mafeking, inquiries have been made at Pretoria
with the result that it has been ascertained
that neither took part in the sortfe and Lord
Bentinck's troops were not engaged.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-01-06
CHESAPEAKE AND OHIO INTERESTS

THE PENNSYLVANIA COMPANY SAID TO HAVE
SECURED LARGE BLOCK.
philadelphia. Jan. 5.-'The Press" tomorrow
will say:
1t was reported in railroad and financial circ,es
yesterday that the Pennsylvania Railroad Company
had just completed negotiations for a large block
of Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad stock. 1t was
stated further that other railroad companies have
also secured interests in The Chesapeake ard ohlo;
A few weeks ago II announced that the
Pennsylvania Railroad had made a considerable
investment, amounting to several millions OF dol
lars in stock Of the Baltimore and Ohio and the
purchasing OF stock oc the Chesapeake and Ohio is
In line with plan mapped out by the leading trunk
lines to prevent cutting of freight rates ana 70
bring about closer relations and more harmonious
action in the conduct of these roads.
The amount of money paid for the Baltimore anu
Ohio stock by the Pennsylvania Is SAID 10 De De,
Chesapeake and Ohio stock purchased Is not gwen.
il is said il will amount to millions. The Cnesa-
peake and Ohio for long time has been CONSIDERED
part of the Vanderbilt system Its terminus at
Newport News is fitted up with al modern improve
ments 1t is also stated that the Speysrs ana the
Baltimore and Ohio have taken a slice OF the
stock.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-01-06

EVENING HERE. THEN YOUR TRIP
.,,ar Ianuarv g boat for Lackawanna mi:s.tght
train n snranton, Bnghamton, Syracuse, E4ara,
Buffalo' Chicago leaves Barclay Street u go p M
Christopher Street A:~ p HI sieeperS open y A'
AAdrt
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-01-06

within the scope OF the working agreement now
operative between the two dominant factors in
the railway field east OF Chicago, the New-York
Central and the Pennsylvania And so. with
the railways of England controlled by one
or both of these great systems with the Big
Four already a Vanderbilt property, the Erie a
Morgan property. the Lackawanna dominated
by the Vanderbits. with the Chesapeake and
Ohio, the Baltimore and Ohio and the Norfolk
and Western acting in harmony and all parties
to the New York Central-Pennsylvania compact:
with the Southern Railway controlled by Nor
gan interests the Louisville and Nashville con-
trolled by Mr. Belmont and the Illinois Central
by Mr., Hartman, 1t would appear that the days
Of rate war decentralization in the East, the
South and the Central States may be considered
past and gone.
Boston. Jan. 5.-No information has been re-
ceived at the Executive Department Of the State
House in regard to the lease of the Fftchburg
Railroad to the Boston and Maine. The Com
monwealth is a large stockholder, but it's stock
Is in the minority. 1t is said the Executive
Department that offers to buy the stock have
been made to the Governor and Council by any
body, neither mas the proposition to lease been
presented to that body. If such propositions
were to be made they would naturally come to
the Governor and Executive Council. as they
have Jurisdiction over the investment.
President Tutte Of the Boston and Maine Rail-
road says: II cannot deny the statement made
that President Goldman OF the Fitchburg has
seen and that he has made me offer to
lease the railroad which he represents to the
Boston and Maine. We have come to no def
mite settlement yet and there is, of course, a
possibility that may never come to one. Re
garding the lease in question, the boards of
directors of the two roads cannot consider the
matter together until all the details of the propo
sition have been completed by the directors of
the Fitchburg and I do not know when that
will be-"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-01-06

POLAND! POLAND, POLANDl POLANDI
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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-01-06

Three generations recommend the Cough Cure
IAYNRS EXPECIORANT.-AdvI
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-01-06

PoI.ANDl POLAND! PoLANDi POLAND!
Try III Poland Water Depot. Park Place N r.
Advk
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-01-06

COUNTESS FON L4NDSBERG DITORCED.
Berlin, Jan 5.-Countess Won Landsberg. former
ly Miss Henberger. OF Fort Wayne. Ind. has Sc
cured divorce at Munich
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-01-06

POLAND! POIANDt PoI-ANDi POIANDI
Adyt-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-01-06
TRATIoN IN NEw-ENGLAND.

POLANDl POIAANDl POLANDi POLANDl
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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-01-06
BADEN-P0WELLS FIGHT.
DETAILS OF THE ACTION AT
.MAFEKING.
BRITISH FORCES VAIN STRUGGLE
NEXT BATTLE LOOKED FOR AT
THE TUGELA RIVER.

TCopyright; 1900: BY The New-York Tribunel
LEY CABLE TO THE TRIRUNE.l
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EVENING HER

Continued on third page.
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The letter was then read after being placed N
syidenca II was addressed 70 The Studio Pub
fishing Company. No 1.S0 Broadway. New-York
CITY" and asked for a sample copy OF The
studio." It was signed Roland Mohneux per
G. d. A.
No. l6a0 Broadway Is the address OF the Koch
letter box agency and said De from this let
ter that Koch learned Molineux's address and
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-05-02
CHANGE OF VENUE
Granted in the Cases of Five of the
Men Charged With the Murder OF
Governor GOebeI.

Granted in the Cases of Five of the
Men Charged With the Murder of
Governor Goebe
FRANKFORT, KY, May AFTER
hearing the testimony of about forty
witnesses and brief arguments Ivy
counsel, Judge Cantrill granted the pc
tition of five of the defendants, charg-
ed with completely in the Goebel assas-
sination, for change of emu Those
who Joined in the petition were Re-
publican Secretary of State Caleb
Powers, Captain John w. Davis, Henry
e. Youtsey, Harland Whitaker and
Richard Combs, colored.
The attorneys fail to agree upon
what county the cases shall be taken
to. The defense suggested Bourbon
county, where the next term of court
begins the second Monday in June.
The prosecution objected to going to
Bourbon county, basing the objection
to statutory grounds, and suggested
a special term of court to be held for
the exclusive purpose of these trials in
either Woodford or Scott county.
Judge Cantrill took the matter under
advisement and will decide tomorrow
to what county the trials shall go.
The hearing of proof in the mo-
lions for bail for these defendants and
also for w. H. Culton, who did not
ask a change of venue, will begin to-
morrow and according to the present
outlook will take up the remainder of
the week and will be practically COM
plete so far as the available evidence
on both sides is concerned.