The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1900-03-22

Gen. Gatacre's forces reached
Springfontein, finding country free
from Beers. The British are pursuing
the retreating Beers. Lord Roberts
is preparing to march on to Pretoria.
Mafeking is now the only point for
anxiety, but column of British
troops are marching to its relief az
RAPIDLY as possible.
Ex-Congressman Charles A. Towne,
of Minnesota, IL seriously i'll in Du-
luth. 5te.
The Society Of the Army of Porto
Rico has been Incorporated at SPRING
field, Ill.
!. The Mohawk Valley hotel block at
Mohawk, n. Y, burned, entailing .
loss of 100000.
Gov. Taylor is said to have prepared
q statement making second appeal
to President Mckinley.
"a Over 5000 men and boys are idle at
Shamokin, Pa, owing to heavy snowl.
1t is II inches on the level.
The cold wavefin Eastern Tennessee
and Northern. 3Aorgfa did an immense
amount Of damage TO fruit.
All amendments to the Porto Rican
appropriation bill were voted down
or withdrawn in the senate, and was
passed.
= A warship will be sent from Cavite
to Taku, China, to look after Ameri-
can missionary interests which are
threatened.
A revolution has broken out in
Entire Rios, in Brazil, the insurgents
already occupying three of the prin-
cipal towns.
Gen. Wheeler reported to the war
department, thus complying with the
order which brought him from Ma
snila to Washington.
Ex-Gov. John Young Brown has ac-
cepted the employment as chief coun-
sci for the men arrested for the MUIR
der of the late Senator Goebel.
A severe rain, sleet and snowstorm
prevailed all over the country east of
the Mississippi river. In several places
through the south 10 inches of snow
fell.
Senator Mcmillan introduced bill
ito prevent robbing the mail" The
bill provides a system of post checks
to be sent through the mails instead
of currency.
Gen. Prettyman issued a procIama-
tiop requesting the burghers within a
radius of ten miles of Bloemfontein
to. deliver up their arms, assuring
them they would be paid for the con-
fiscation of their property.
The amended answer of the repub-
licans in the Beckham-Taylor. consol-
idated suit, involving the governor
ship of Kentucky, was filed with
Judge Field in the circuit court at
Louisville. 1t is made principally to
perfect the record before the case is
taken to the court of appeals.
THURSDAY.
The republican senators reached a
bill.
There has been 22 deaths from bu-
bonic plague in Buenos Ayres within
the past two months.
Gen. Clements brigade has effected
a junction with Gen. Gatacre's troops
| at Burghersdorp. 1t is reported at
Bloemfontein that Gen. Joubert is at
Brandfort, but others locate him at
Biggarsberg.
Affairs are very quiet at Frankfort,
KY, no further warrants for arrests
were sworn out. Gabriel Taul, the
Breckenridge suspect, was released.
there being no evidence to hold him
as witness.
In the house of. commons the gov.
ernment leader, MI. Balfour, asserted
that her majesty's government would
not accept the Intervention of any
power in the settlement of South
African affairs.
Mrs. Sallie Bake, of Cincinnati
died at the hospital in Kansas City OF
injuries received in the. Missouri Pa.
cific wreck near Independence, Mo.
February ~. She is the fifth victim
of the collision.
Gen. French's entrance to Bloem'
fontein was unobstructed, the Beers
having gone northward the day be-
fore. Lord Roberts is occupying the
official residence of the president, Mr.
Steyn, who evacuated the place when
| the Beers fled.
Secretary of State Powers. Harland
Whitaker, w. H. Culton and Capt
Davis, the -four alleged accessories to
the assassination of Senator William
Goebel, will be returned to Frank.
fort, KY, from Louisville, and given q
speedy examination trial.
The coroner's jury investigating in
to the Red Ash mine horror in West
| Virginia, returned verdict that the
explosion was caused bya lack of prop
er ventilation. The men had entered
the mine before the fire boss had re-
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