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LATER NEWS.
DR.. Leyds is being lionized in Berli

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now expected as result of Buller's
second defeat.
Lord Pauncefote will retire as am
bassador of Great Britain to the United
States, April /.
The interstate commerce commission
has sued the Northern Pacific to en-
force disregarded laws.
Senators are said to want no change
in the manner OF their election. The
house favors popular vote.
Dundonald's forces, for whom fears
were entertained, are safe on the south
bank of the Tugela river.
Five business men of Walla Walla
were victimized by smooth folger,
who cashed bogus checks.
The Prince Regent of Bavaria has
conferred the Order of St. Michaels,
first-class, on DR.. Nansen, the explorer.
In Cincinnati, Charles Barlruff, a
tanner. killed his wife, his son and his
daughter and then tried to set the
house on fire.
A funeral train, arranged by the
Southern Pacific, will convey the re-
mains of General Lawton and Major
Logan to the East.
James H. Britton, ex-mayor of st.
Louis, and for many years one of the
leading bankers of the West, died at
Ardley, N. Y, aged 8S.
London papers scathingly criticize
the language of Buller's report, and
accounts of battle from Boer sources
are accepted as correct.
Church property in the Philippines
has been turned over to the United
States government by Spain, but the
Catholics claim it.
Captain G. H. Stockton, president
of the naval war college, says: Com
mand of the sea on our North Pacific
coast and the waters of the western
basin of the North Pacific should be in
our hands in peace and war time.
This can only be effected by readiness
of proper and sufficient naval force
either on the spot, or to be furnished
from the Atlantic through an un-
tramelled canal. In addition to this,
and ready for combining, should be the
available forces normally attached to
the Philippines and the waters about
China, Japan and Corea. In other
words, the Pacific ocean, from Samoa
northward, should be within our
control"
The plight Of Kimberley is urgent.
The kaiser's birthday was celebrated
In the usual way throughout Germany.
Buller's army has retreated to the
south of the Tugela, with heavy losses.
Revolution in Venezuela, under the
leadership of Hernandez, is spreading.
Fire in Minneapolis destroyed four
story brick building, causing loss of
$12O, 900.
1t was reported on good Transvaal
authority that Mafeking was relieved
on January %.
Edgar Oswalt, 6-year-old boy of
Astoria, was run over by a street car
and fatally injured.
The Bank of Deerfeld, Deerfeld,
Wis, was robbed of about SIT,
The vault was blown open by dynamite.
Fire destroyed the works of the Elec-
trio improvement Company at San
Jose, CAL, entailing loss of $100, 900.
Samuel Gompers, in a conference
with President Mckinley, advocated
an eight-hour law for all government
work.
1t is said that Lord Roberts favored
leaving Ladysmith to its fate and
on Bloemfontein, capital of
Orange Free State.
The surgeon-general of the marine
service has shipped to Homo
lulu l, 900 doses of halffkine prophylac-
tic, plague serum.
Phil Armour Jr., son of the Chicago
died suddenly near Santa
Barbara, CAL Death was due to con-
gestion of the lungs.
DIR. Leyds, diplomatic agent Of the
says the Beers do not need
to apply for mediation, as everything
was going splendidly.
Three masked men entered the fac
tory of DR.. Peter Fahrney & Son, at
Chicago, blew open the safe and escaped
with 81, roo in currency.
The senate committee on Puerto
Rico, has decided that the island shall
be known as Porto Rico, and not
Puerto Rico, as fixed by recent execu-
tive order.
The weather in the vicinity of Mel
bourne, Australia, has broken all re-
cords for heat recently. On New
Years day five deaths occurred from
The thermometer stood at
ia in the shade, and l56 in the sun.
Cowboys and miners in Southern
Arizona and New Mexico, have organ
lied and are preparing to invade the
state of Sonora, Mexico, to avenge the
murder of the six American pros.
pectors by Mexican soldiers under Gem
eral Torres. They will fight against
the Mexican troops for the independ-
ence of Sonora and the Yaqui nation.
Brigadier-G General Greely, chief of
the signal corps, is steadily recovering
from the injuries inflicted on him by
expressman.