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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-01-21
Captures Ridge After Ridge and Camps at
Night on the Enemy's Former Position.
Main Stronghold of the Beers Still i'm Front and
Further Desperate Fighting is Expected
British Casualties Not Heavy.

LONDON, Jan. 21.-The War
Office shortly after midnight posted
the following dispatch from Gene
raj Butler, dated Spearman's camp,
Jan. 20, evening:
General Clery, with part of
Genera. Warren's force, has been
in action rom o'clock this morn
ing until I. this evening. By a ju-
dicious use of his artillery he has
fought his way up, capturing ridge
after ridge, for about three miles.
''The troops are now bivouack-
ing on the ground he has gained,
but the main position is still in
front of them.
1.-The casualties were not heavy.
About one hundred wounded had
been brought in by $50 p. m. The
number of killed has not yet been
ascertained."
1t is evident from General Bui-
ler's dispatch aud advices received
by the Associated Press from Spear
mans camp, up to 4:30 this morn
ing, that big battle is now being
fought. AS far as can be gathered
from these dispatches the result re-
mains undecided, and unless the
Beers withdraw during the night,
the engagement on which hangs
the fate of Ladysmith and which
may prove the turning point of the
whole war, will be resumed this
morning.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-01-21
MACRUM AT ROME.
He Has Letter from President Kru-
ger to President Mckinley.

ROME, Jan. 20-Chas. 4. Macrum,
former United States consul at Pretoria,
who left Lourenzo Marques on Dec IS and
landed at Naples last Thursday, has ar
rived here. He positively refused to be
interviewed Mr.. Macrum will go to Paris
and London and, 1t is believed by some,
that he has seni-official mission to
European governments from President
Mckinley. The Tribune expresses the be-
lief that he has a delicate mission from
President Kruger to the Government of the
United States and has orders to report in
Washington as soon as possible.
LONDON, Jan. I.-A special dispatch
from Rome received this morning differs
from previous statements that Mr.. Macrum
refused TO be interviewed, and says: "Mr
Macrum. who arrived here yesterday (Sat-
urday), denies that he left his post owing
to disagreement with President Kruger
and State Secretary Reitz. He says he has
a letter from President Kruger to Presi-
dent Mckinley and also a message to Pres
ident Loubet, but no mission beyond de-
livering them
Regarding the war Mr.. Macrum said that
while he believed the British would ulti-
mately be successful, IL would take a long
time to convince the republics that they
must submit. He said they had ample
stores and munitions, that there was the
greatest enthusiasm in Pretoria for the
war, and plans had been laid for long
struggle.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-01-21
GEORGE w. STEVENS.
Career of the Late Correspondent of
the London Daily Mall

LONDON, Jan. 2O.-The news of the
death of George Warrington Stevens. the
special correspondent of the London Daily
Mail, from enteric fever, last Monday at
Ladysmith has been received with genu-
Inc sorrow in London. where he had many
friends in and out of his profession. Mr.
Stevens had a distinguished career at OK
ford. His last work before going to the
Transvaal was 1.-The Tragedy of Dreyfus,''
and his long stay in hot, unsanitary Rennes
is thought to have undermined his con-
stitution to an extent that made him easy
prey for the fever. Mr.. Stevens made
a romantic marriage few years ago with
Mrs. Rogerson, well known In London
society. She was sixty years of age and
Mr.. Stevens was twenty-six, but the mar
riage was very happy. They were devoted
to each other. Mr.. Stevens used to write
to her daily, wherever he was.
Though young man. Mr.. Stevens was
one of the greatest British war corre-
spondents. and few newspaper men have
won the success that he achieved in re-
cent years. He first won fame by breaking
through many old traditions. and by ut
terly discarding the somewhat ponderous
dignity of the old-style newspaper writer
He united with considerable scholarship
q style which was almost free and easy.
with, the result that his work was ap-
preciated by the careless many as well as
the cultured few.
Mr.. Stevens was born in December, 1862
so that he was only thirty at the time of
his death. He was educated at the City of
London School and at Balliol College Ok
ford. He also possessed the London Uni
versity b. A. degree. He contributed free
lance articles TO the London Press in his
undergraduate days. and also after leaving
the university. In his twenty-fourth year
he joined the editorial staff of the Pail
Mall Gazette. He and its editor, Henry
Gust. made that evening journal quite a
power in the land. 1t was for time quite
the most interesting newspaper in England
When Mr.. Gust was discharged by William
Astor. the millionaire proprietor of the
Pail Mall Gazette, Mr. Stevens left with
his chief.
Early in 1897 he Joined the staff of the
Daily Mail and did great deal of special
correspondence for that journal His
series of articles entitled 1.-The Land of the
Dollar" afterwards published In book
form, will be remembered No better ap-
probation OF American life and manners
has been published for years in England
Mr.. Stevens afterwards was sent out as
war correspondent during the Greco-Turk-
ish trouble and his kilograms were among
the most interesting sent to London. He
rose TO the front rank of war correspond
ents during the recent campaign in the
Sudan. his descriptions being most graphic
At the outbreak OF the war In South Africa
he was early on the scene. representing
the London Daily Mail. He was heard from
after the early encounters. bat was with
General Whites forces when the Beers
hemmed them in at Ladysmith
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-01-21
CROSSING THE TUGELA.
Boer Account OF the Advance of Gen.
Bullcr's Army.


BOER'S HEADQUARTERS, UPPER
TUGELA. Jan. Is, via Lourenzo Marques.
Jan. 10. (afternoon) 1T became known to-
day that three hundred English had
crossed the pont drift over the great
Tugela and were on the federal side. A
display in force had been made toward
Colenso and another northward, toward
divers Hoek bridge, which was blown up
by us "a few days ago. Toward o'clock
the alarm was given that the English were
coming. The lookouts observed long sue
cessive lines of infantry moving down to
the new British position. bush-covered
chain of hills known as Swartzkop. Their
forces were some times lost in the trees
studding the river bank. At s they emerged
in open order and advanced in two lines
to the low kopjes on the river bank. At
$50 they took up a position, amid COM
plete silence on the Boer side, their horses
tethered where there was the least danger
from chance shells and the men prepared
to make night of it at their posts
Night had now fallen. With the gloom
came fitful flashes of lightning from the
thunder clouds, which had been threaten
ing all day. The clouds eventually separ-
ated, showing the moon. simultaneously
with the clearing sky well-known Dutch
hymns were repeated from kopje to kopje
With a strangely weird effect, highly in
spring both to the greybeards and the
beardless youths. The battle field is full
OF historical significance. Spionkop hill,
whence am now writing, was hill from
which the Boer treklxers. after crossing
the Drakensberg mountains spied out the
then barbaric Natal and found it fair in
their eyes
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-01-21
CANADIAN ARTILLERY SAILS.


HALIFAX, n. s., Jan. 20.-A wildly en-
thusiastic crowd, estimated at $4,000 peo-
pie, bade goodbye to the First Artillery,
second Canadian contingent, which en-
barked to-day for South Africa on the AL
Ian liner Laurentian. The section COM
prised 20 officers, 321 men, four nurses IL
guns and 34s horses. The troopers marched
through the street to the Royal navy yard,
escorted by a detachment of the Imperial
Regulars. Royal Canadian Dragons, Of
Winnipeg, and the Northwest Mounted
Police. The cheering was incessant The
buildings on the line OF march were gaily
decorated. \ large American flag fioated
from the window Of the American con-
sulate.
The embarkation took place during a
heavy rainstorm. followed by dense fog.
The transport was lost to view hundred
yards from the wharf but salute of seven
guns was exchanged with one of the forts.
The steamer dropped down 10 anchorage
ground and will probably go TO sea to-
night. The voyage to Cape Town is ex-
pected TO occupy at least twenty-five days.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-01-21
BoER TRENCHES sHELLED.
Fire Was Kept I'D All Yesterday by
the British Artillery.

sPEAMAN'S CAMP. Jan. 20. (evening).-
The Boer trenches We're shelled continuous
Iy to-day. General Lyttleton's brigade ad-
vanced and occupied a kopje 1000 yards
from the Boer position at Brakfontein.
A company of rifles advanced with a bal
loon. into action and were received with a
heavy fire from the Beers.
The artillery and musketry fire continues
from General Warren's position. The en-
emy had not shifted its position at the
time this dispatch was sent. and the shells
set fire 10 the grass.
Lord Dundonald's force on Thursday sur
prised $50 Beers. The British who were
posted on a kopje. allowed the Beers TO
advance leisurely before opening fire. The
Beers did not reply. and a majority of
them galloped off. 1t is reported the re-
main6sr surrendered.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-01-21

Evidently General Warren has commenced
the bombardment of the Boer trenches on
Tabanmyana mountain. There was also
brief musketry fire.
Among the prisoners captured on Thurs
day was grandson-in-law of President
Kruger.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-01-21
BOER LOSSES TO DATE.
Over Six Thousand Men Killed,
Wounded and Captured

RENSBURG, Cape Colony, Jan. ia
gentleman who has escaped from Coles
burg reports that the Dutch inhabitants.
who are sympathizers with the Beers, are
proceeding to the Orange Free State In
anticipation of the evacuation of the town.
Mr.. Van der Walt, a member of the Cape
Assembly, has already gone. The Boer
force there is estimated to number from
5000 to 1900 men. besides strong force
at Norvals Point.
The British shells did much execution
eastward of the town. The Boer loss is
probably 200 men. Carefully compiled
figures, from representative sources. some
OF which have been investigated and found
to be correct, show the Boer losses up to
date are, approximately. 6.425 men. includ-
ing 1000 casualties during the siege of
Ladysmith
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-01-21
DIR. Leyds to wouId-Bc Fighters.

BRUSSELS. Jan. 20.-Dr. Leyds. the rep
sentative in Europe OF the Transvaal gov
ernment. has issued, through the press,
a statement saying that he is in receipt
of so many offers from men who wish
to volunteer for service with the Beers
that he is compelled TO announce that
he is in no wise authorized 10 enroll any
body in Europe and that every one wish
ing to serve in the war must go to South
Africa at his own risk and expense.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-01-21

Whites Troops Jubilant Over BuIIer's
Successful Advance.

LADYSMITH. Jan. 20. via Spearman's
Camp.-The enemy has placed In position
new guns throwing eight-inch shells and
has been bombarding more vigorously for
the last few days. though little damage has
been done. Three of the Br...sh forces
have been wounded. The troops are jubi-
liant over General Buffers successful ad-
vance His guns can be heard distinctly
and the bursting OF shells can be plainly
seen.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-01-21
PRESS CENSOR APPOINTED.
Lord stanley Given Important Place
Ly General Robe cts.

LONDON, Jan. 2o.-Advices from Cape
Town say Field Marshal Lord Roberts has
appointed Lord Stanley. member of ParIia-
ment for East Lancashire. and a former
lieutenant OF the Grenadier Guards TO be
press censor
The War Office to-day received a brief re-
port from Field Marshal Lord Roberts, un-
der this date, saying in substance that Gen.
French has extended his line TO the east.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-01-21
BOERs WELL SUPPLIED,


NEwGoRK, Jan. 2o.-Exporters in this
city who make speciality OF the South
African trade believe that the Beers are
remarkably well provisioned. and that any
attempt TO starve them out is hardly likely
TO succeed. The United States is the source
of cereal supplies OF the lighting republics.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-01-21
ENGLISH SENTIMENT.
Ii Is Now Swayed Entirely by the
News from south Africa

Copyright. 1870. by the Associated Press)
LONDON, Jan. 20.-To thoroughly and
conservatively appreciate the political con-
ditions as they exist in England to-day;
TO understand the reflections ths. military
successes or reverses in South Africa
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-01-21
BRITISH TAKEN TO PRETORIA.
Captain Dennison and I35 Men of the
kuruman Garrison.

PRETORIA, Jan. l9.-Captain Bates Dem
nison and l35 prisoners of the Kuruman
garrison have arrived here. 1t appears
that six Beers were killed and eighteen
were wounded during the lighting at Ku-
ruman.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-01-21
GRANDsoN-Ix-LAw or KRUGER.
One of oom Paurs Relatives Cap
tured by the British.

sPEARMAN's CAMP. Natal. Jan. 20.
HIS a. m.-The firing OF field guns was
heard early this morning from the left.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-01-21
GREAT BATTLE in NATAL
British Fighting Every Foot of Their Way
Towards Beleaguered Ladysmith.

General Clery Has a Thrteen-Four Engagement
With the Beers, and Succeeds i'm Advancing
His Force About Three Miles.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-01-21

Lady Burdett-Coutts's romantic mar
riage, owing TO the disparity between the
ages of herself and her husband-she was
then sixty-seven and he was thirty-broke
up the close intimacy which for forty years
had existed between Queen Victoria and
herself The Queen openly opposed the
marriage. and upon its consummation she
ran her royal pencil through the name OF
the baroness and struck II from the list OF
people privileged TO appear at the royal
drawing rooms and other court functions.
For several years the ba.pntss was regard
ed as personae non gFatce by her sovereign.
but the ideally happy life of the strangely
assorted couple gradually outwore the
Queens resentment. and nowadays the
baroness and her husband have both the
entree 10 the inner circles OF court life.
Mr. Burdett-Coutts was the youngest son
of the late Ellis Bartlett. of Plymouth,
Mass, and was born In 1851. He was edu-
Gated In England and entered the service
OF the baroness as her private secretary in
CONTINUED on FIFTH PAGE)
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1900-05-02

through Hoffman's abdomen, causing a
wound which was likely to result in
death.
After the examination the officers re-
turned to Pitts6eld and summoned assis-
lance from Rutland, Berlin and Wood
stock.
Deputy Sheriff Hoffman will be remem-
bered as the man who went single handed
into the Warden barn at Hanover to
capture Frank Amy.
The use of bIoodhounds has been en-
ployed in the pursuit of the Shaws. The
animals were brought up from Rutland
and taken to Stockbridge and put on the
trail of the Shaws, who were still making
their way through the woods.
Deputy Sheriff Hoffman died Saturday
at house near where the shooting &C.
Cured, where he was compelled to re-
main on account of his critical condition.
Mrs. Hoffman was at her husbands bed
side very soon after news reached his
home in White River Junction that he
had been injured, and she remained con-
stantly in attendance upon him until his
death. He had been prominent resi-
dent of White River Junction for several
years. He was we'll known as lover of
good horses and as the secretary of the
joint association of the state fair and the
Billings park agricultural societies. He
leaves wife, who was daughter OF the
late A. o. Harris of Lyndon.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1900-05-02

and at a railroad hearing in Boston last
week Mr.. futile said that there was alb.
solutely no truth in the reports that the
road is controlled by the Vanderbilt in.
terest, the Morgan interest or the Ameri.
can express. Nobody controls it, NO
single interest,"" said he. Its largest
ownership is in Massachusetts,. Not a
share gifts stock is owned by the Van.
derbilt interest, the Morgan interest or
by the New York Central, either directly
or indirectly"
Notices signed by John G. Mccullough,
president of the Bennington & Rutland,
and Percival w. Clement, president OF
the Rutland Railroad Company, were is
sued last week announcing that begin
ming Tuesday, May 1, the former road
would pass into the hands of the latter,
and be considered part of its system,
the agents and employees of the former
road becoming at that time agents and
employees of the latter, and all orders
and instructions relating to the running
of the road would originate in the offices
of the Rutland road.
For the present there will be no extern
sive changes in the officials or the offices
of the Bennington & Rutland. The sup
erintendents and train dispatcher's Of
fees will remain at Bennington, and in
one sense the road will be entirely dis
tinct. The auditors office, no wever, will
be moved to Rutland, and the auditor of
the Rutland will do the work of both
roads. This change is made no w because
the late auditor of the Bennington road
has been appointed postmaster at North
Bennington.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1900-05-02
The Paris Exposition.

The press dispatches say that the
Paris exposition will not be entirely
ready for visitors until sometime in
June and this report is verified by a
personal letter to the editor from a
New York commission merchant
who had just returned from the
French capital. The merchant says:
while in Paris had the pleasure of
going all over the worlds fair ground
twice, but must say that l think they
had considerable nerve to throw open this
exposition to the world as early as
April 18th. There is positively nothing
ready as yet and will not be for fully a
d month or six weeks to come. The
buildings are, of course, very grand and
the show will no doubt be something
worth travelling thousands of miles to
see -
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1900-05-02
The QUAY Case.

The Quay case represents high
water mark in the movement to save
the present method OF electing United
States senator's from breakdown BY
bringing in the governor to fill va
cancles which legislative intrigue anG
discord have left open-and otter
purposely to force into the Senate
men who are not wanted there by
the majority of the Legislature. 1t
is well that this is so. If the states
in the constitutional way cannot
keep their representation in the Sen
ate full, let them be compelled to put
up with partial representation or
none at all, or compel change to
election by popular vote. The warn
ing is wholesome one.-LSpring-
field Republican.
Holding in his hand a note, upon
which the ink was not dry, begging
him, for the sake of all that is sacred
in friendship, to save from the shame
and humiliation of defeat the man
dearer to him than all other men,
Senator Vest was true to the highest
ideal OF manhood and American
craftsmanship, and rounded out a
long aod honorable record in public
life with that heroic word that saved
the honor of state. Such is the
stuff OF which the ideal Senator is
made, and which the youth OF Amer
lea are taught to believe alone can
make a Senator of the United States.
But men of that make are not often
chosen, and Senator Vest looms up
a grand and lonely figure in the pub
lie life of to-day Philadelphia
North American.
1t is great triumph for political
morality. There were some good
men who supported Mr., Quay's pre-
tentlons, but to most right-thinking
people the attempt to place him in
the Senate after his rejection by his
state Legislature was an indecent
and an immoral act. Gov. Stones
part in the matter was a fragrant
usurpation, in open defiance of the
state constitution, which he was
sworn to uphold as the chief execu-
tive and bound to obey as citizen
of Pennsylvania. The support and
couutenance which Mr.. Quay re-
celved in the Senate from among
those who were already on record
against the power Of governor to
appoint in such cases was most dis
cred1table to large body of sena-
tors. 1t showed that with them
principles are nothing compared with
personal preference, and that a CEN
fury of presidents should not, in their
opinion, be allowed to stand between
friends and keep good fellow" out
OF the Senate. That body, however,
though by perilously narrow vote,
is true to itself, its history, its deci-
sions and its dignity. The rule es-
tablished in George Washington's
time and followed consistently ever
since is again reasserted and enforced,
and Mr.. Quay remains in private
station. And there he will abide. |
i Philadelphia Press.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1900-05-02
Railroad Gossip.

At Island Pond the Grand Trunk rail.
way is making extensive improvements
in charging its terminal facilities, and in
the establishment of machine and repair
shops. From a quarter to half million
dollars will be expended at that point
and the village OF Island Pond is enjoy
ing a typical western boom.
The present season will witness con-
siderable activity in railroad building in
Vermont. The Rutland Canadian line,
more than so miles in length, and pass
ing through the islands of Lake Cham
plain, will be completed about Oct. /.
This is the largest steam railroad enter
prise that has been projected in Vermont
in many years.
Corey, Milliken & Co., the Boston
bankers, say that the Vanderbilts are
planning to get control of the Boston &
Maine and this story has been continu-
ally repeated the past few months, On
this matter it is well known that Presi-
dent futile does not favor such lease