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BISHOP POTTER'S TRIP.


NEW YORK, March 18.-Bishop Henry
c. Potter formally announced at the morn
ing service IN Grace Church to-day that the
object of his recent journey to Honolulu
and the Philippine islands was to extend
the influence of the American Protestant
Episcopal Church in the new possessions
of the United States government. He said:
My trip to Honolulu and the Philippines
had for it's object the extension of the in
fluence of the Protestant Episcopal Church
in those islands. My observations convince
me that the Protestant Episcopal Church
should be extended in both Hawaii and the
Philippines, and that it Is now the clear
duty of the English-speaking people to see
that the Christian religion is firmly estab-
lished among the inhabitants of those
islands"
Bishop Potter told of the work done by
foreign missions in Shanghai, Canton.
Hong-Kong. Singapore, Calcutta, Rangoon,
and Colombo. in Ceylon. He dwelt partic-
ularly upon the labors of the missions in
British India, where. at the time of his
visit. between 100000 and 100000 of the
natives were dependent absolutely upon
outside aid for the meager food necessary
to keep them alive.
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LONDON, March 1s.-The War Office has
received the following dispatch from Field
Marshal Lord Roberts. dated at BIoemfon.
tein. Sunday. March Is: 'The Guards
brigade returned yesterday from Norval's s
Pont- Several hundred burghers have laid
down their arms to General Pole-Carew at
Edenburg and elsewhere.
The officer commanding at Belmont re-
ports that some deserters have come in
with Maxim. nine-pounder and another
gun. Another nine-pounder has been
brought into Colesberg. The cavalry bri-
sade has gone to Thaba Nchu in order to
reassure the inhabitants OF that district
and TO Distribute copies of the proclama-
ton to the people Of the Free State. These
proclamations are being eagerly sought
after.
Lord Methuen reached Warrenton on
March 16- He was in time to prevent the
Deviation bridge from being completely
destroyed and to secure the pont on the
Vaal.
'The English mail was dispatched from
here by rail yesterday. and tomorrow the
regular railway service with Cape Town
win be reopened.
'Mafeking reports that all was well on
March g."
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PROSPECTS FOR PEACE.
Several Correspondents Take an Opti-
nistfc Vfew-The Situntfon.

several Correspondents Take an Opti-
mistic yfew-The Situation.
LONDON, March ia dispatch to the
Daily News from Bloemfontein, dated Fri
day. March 16, says:
Events have occurred which induce some
to predict that the war will last only so
long as 1t takes to march to Pretoria The
educated Beers, even the Transvaalers, are
ready to accept the inevitable.
Il am told that a corps of 1000 women
has been formed at Pretoria. 1t is called
the Amazon Corps. All the members are
uniformed in kits and are armed
Another dispatch to the Mail says: "we
are getting rifles surrendered faster than
factory could turn them out 1t Is quite
certain that if a British official can reach
the northern laagers with Lord Roberts's
proclamation the whole Boer population
will declare for peace"
The correspondent of the Times at LOU
renzo Marques. telegraphing under date of
March 16. says: State Secretary Reitz, Of
the Transvaal, in the course of an inter-
view has said that the Transvaal govern
ment considers the American reply highly
satisfactory. and that he believes the
United States will bring such pressure to
bear as will result in a settlement agree
able to the people of the two republics
While admitting the seriousness of the sit
nation. Mr.. Reitz says he is convinced that
the burghers of both republics will enthusi-
astically defend the independence of the
Transvaal to the last.
A dispatch TO the Times from Ladysmith
dated Sunday, March is. says: "Our ad-
vanced camp is on Sundays river, two
miles north of Elandslaagte. The Beers
hold two positions on the Biggarsberg
range about ten miles north. The strongest
is on the Newcastle road, where several
guns nave already been mounted, and
where they are digging extensive trenches.
The second position, which is on the Dun
dee road. is not so strong"
Spencer Wilkinson in the Morning Post
says: Probably Mafeking will be relieved
by the approach of Colonel Plumer before
Lord Methuen, who seems engaged in the
work of clearing the country north of Kim
berley. can arrive.
1.-THE pacification of the Free State is pro-
crossing satisfactorily. Ultimately there
will arise. probably among the TransvaaI
Beers, strong peace party, who will point
to the condition of affairs at Bloemfontein
as evidence that even in the British prov
ince of Pretoria life may be tolerable.
1T must not be too readily assumed that
Lord Roberts will continue his advance by
direct line to johannesburg and Pretoria
There are other routes with advantages
that may be worthy OF consideration.
According TO Winston Churchill there
are 1900 Beers. with twenty guns. in the
Biggarsberg range. They will have to be
caught sooner or later. The British troops
are anxious to try. and the feeling is gem
eral that before long they will be permit
ted to do So"
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"LEX HEINZE" IN GERMANY.
1t Is Giving the Government Party
Much TrOuble-Cabinet Quarrel.

BERLIN, March 1S-The so-called LEX
Heinze," whose third reading was not fin
ished last evening, will not be taken up
until the Reichstag majority has changed
the rules of procedure requiring the fifty
members who move any resolution to re-
main in the House during the vote upon it.
thus rendering impossible the sort of OBJ
struction that was practiced last week.
The Popes wish. expressed to the Gen.
trist leaders, that they should vote for the
naval augmentation bill, has not had the
expected result. The miscarriage, thus far,
of the governments meat inspection bill is
delaying the third reading until after
Easter. The government meanwhile hopes
to effect a compromise. The situation is
largely due to the treacherous activity of
Count -Wehner. Against
Prince Won Hohenlohes definite instruc-
tions and also against a previous agree
ment into which all the members of the
Cabinet entered, Count Posadowsky
Wehner raised false hopes among the
Agrarians and pledged them his word that
the extreme form of the bill. as the second
reading fixed Ii, would be acceptable to the
Bundesrath. Consequently the Agrarians
feel that they have been unfairly treated,
and the relations between Prince Won
Hohenlohe and the count are very much
strained. Possibly Baron Won Thielmann.
who is thoroughly in accord with the chan
cellor, will soon succeed the imperial secre-
tary Of state for the interior
To-day's papers vigorously comment
upon yesterdays proceedings In the
Reichstag, which, for vituperation, noise
and INSCRIPTIONS obstruction. are without
parallel in the history of that body. The
fact is also criticised that the chancellor's
son. Prince Alexander, spoke in vigorous
condemnation of the entire LEX Heinze"
as proposed by the government.
To-day being the anniversary of the Ber-
lin insurrection of 1s4s. the event was cele-
brated In the usual manner by the Social
lists and Radicals. The weather was very
unfayorable.
Emigration from Hamburg and Bremen
in the months of January and February
reached 2. S57. as against Is, sol for the cor
responding months last year.
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PUBLICAN'S DOUBLE CRIME.
Shot His Daughter and Her Husband
ON the Street i'm Butte.

BUTTE. Mont. March 1s.-Thomas
Pooley. a saloon keeper. tonight shot his
son-in-law. Thomas Littlejohn. and the
latter's wife. LYDIA, during a difficulty on
the street In the upper part Of town. There
had been bad feeling between Littlejohn
and Pooley since the former married the
latter's daughter. The marriage was with
out the fathers consent.
Tonight Littlejohn and his wife. the lat
ter carrying their baby, met Pooley on the
street They quarreled. and Littlejohn
knocked Pooley down. and, according TO
the latters story. began kicking him.
Pooley drew a pistol while on the ground
and shot Littlejohn. He died in a few
minutes. Another shot missed the intended
victim ard struck Mrs. Littlejohn in the
head. She died after being removed 10 the
hospital. The baby was uninjured. Pooley
was arrested.
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JULIA ARTHUR RETIREs.
All Dates Are Cancelled and Her Com
pany Il Disbanded.

PHILADELPHIA. March 1s.-B. c.
Cheney. husband of Julia Arthur, the
actress. tonight announced her retire
ment from the stage for the season, and
perhaps permanently. All dates have been
cancelled and the company disbanded. Mr..
Cheney says:
'If in the future Mrs. Cheney has the
desire 10 re-enter her professional career I
shall have no objection. though / shall
only consent to short seasons of ten weeks
or so. If she does play again 1t will be only
in Boston. New York, Philadelphia and
Chicago. and only In such standard plays
as Romeo and Juliet" and "As You
Like It"
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Powell Has Hard Work Keeping the
Natives In Check.

LoURENzO MARQUES. March ia
dispatch from Mafeking. dated Saturday,
March 10. says:
'The garrison is holding its own. We
have heard numerous rumors that the
siege will be raised. but so far that is not
the case. We are pegging along patiently
on quarter rations supplemented by the oc-
casionai capture of cattle.
"our homemade gun erratically bonn
bards the Boer trenches.
Horrible stories are current that the
Beers are inhicting nameless tortures upon
captured native runners. These may not
be true. but they are tending to infiame
native passions to such an extent that IL
may soon be impossible to hold the natives
In check.
owing TO the Beers having deliberately
bombarded the native stadt. which is full
OF women and children. Colonel Baden
Powell has armed the natives. but he has
only allowed them 10 act on the defensive.
although they have ciamored to be allowed
to go out and attack at the point OF the
assegai.
They wiz be prevented as long as possi-
BILE from inficting reprisals on the Beers. %
Relieving Force at wurrentcn.
CAPE TOWN. March ls-rhe mounted
force from Kimberley proceeding to the
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ON A TRIP SOUTH.
Admiral and Mrs. Dewey Leave Wash.
ington ON a Tour.

WASHINGTON, March 1s.-Admiral and
Mrs Dewey left here tonight for trip
South. They expect to visit Savannah,
Macon. st. Augustine. Jacksonville and
Palm Beach. The admiral and Mrs. Dewey
probably will not return to the city until
the latter part of next month, at which
time 1t is said they will sail for Europe,
visiting the exposition during the summer.
Mrs. Dewey has been made chairman
Of the battle ship committee in the chill
drens Easter festival for the Cuban Or
phan Asylum. A meeting of this society
was held during Admiral and Mrs. Dewey
stay at Lakewood. at which time the lat
ter consented to become the chairman.
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LONDON, March 19.-The Nables corre-
spondent of the Daily Mail telegraphs an
interview he has had with Webster Davis,
United States assistant secretary of the in
terror. According TO this Mr.. Davis said:
When 1 left Pretoria the Beers were
Becoming desirous OF peace. President
Kruger and General Joubert were the
strongest opponents of the peace party,
but they were becoming exceedingly un-
popular. I do not believe the Beers will
resist much longer"
The correspondent says Mr.. Davis de-
clined to speak regarding his mission, but
that the general belief in Naples is that he
is bearing peace terms and a request for
American mediation.
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The Porte Demurs and Offers a Com
promise whereby Both Countries
Will Perform the Work.
GERMANY'S PLANS IN CHINA
GROWING AGGRESSION IN THE SHAM
TUNG HINTERLAND.
American Interests Said to BE I'm No
Danger - Government Bills. at
Berlin Are Creating Discord.

BERLIN, March 1S-The st. Petersburg
correspondent of the Neueste Nachrichten
says: Russia, although tacitly encourag
ing the champions of Bulgarian independ-
ence, does not consider the time propri-
tious for any action.
''She hopes to bring pressure to bear upon
Turkey In the railway question, but
should she fail to secure the required
concessions. important events may be ex-
pected in the Balkans.
1.-THE repatriation of the Armenian refu-
gees still furnishes Russia with good
diplomatic weapon wherewith 10 obtain her
demands"
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OUTWITTED THE MOB.
Omcers at Joplin, Mo-, SmuggIed q
Culprit Out Of Jail.

JOPLIN. Mo-, March 1s.-At II o'clock
tonight a mob OF nearly two thousand
citizens surrounded the city jail and de-
manded a negro who had been arrested In
the evening for assaulting a seven-year-old
white girl When the officers refused 10
surrender him the mob broke the Jail of
fee windows and crowded into the Office.
During the excitement the lights were
turned out and the negro smuggied from
the building and started for Carthage ten
miles distant. The mob later learned that
they had been fooled and started after
midnight for Carthage. bent on lynching
the culprit.
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Strong Peace Party Is Said to Be
Forming Among the Influential
Burghers of the TransvaaI.
WEBSTER DAVIS ONCE MORE
HE SAYS KRUGER AND JOUBERT ARE
BECOMING UNPOPULAR.
Story of nm Amazon Legion at Pre-
toria-St. PatrIcIx's Day CeIebra-
tion-Military Operations.

LONDON, March 10, 4:3O a. m.-The news
from South Africa to-day is entirely salts
factory to- the British public. The relief
Of Mafeking Is not yet announced, but 1t IL
extremely probable that this is already
accomplished by Colonel Plumer's ad-
vance. Lady Charles Bentinck. at Cape
Town. has received a telegram from her
husband in Mafeking. dated March II. say
ing that he expected to join her shortly.
The actual relief movements have not
been publicly developed In detail. but 1t
seems that Lord Methuen only started very
recently, and is rather engaged in dispers-
ing the Beers of the district than aiming
at actual relief. Colonel Peakman his dis
persed five hundred Beers at Fourteen
Streams.
Lord Roberts probably ascertained from
Mr.. Frazer, the new mayor OF Bloemfon-
tein. before dispatching Gen. Pole-Carew
southwark. that, in all likelihood, the rail-
way was clear. The next move will be to
collect at Bloemfontein, by railway, suffi-
cient stores for the immense army Lord
Roberts will have when the Orange river
forces have Joined him. This will probably
occupy from two to three weeks. There
fore, the next important operations may be
expected In Natal
The cavalry brigade which Lord Roberts
has sent to Thaba Nchu, thirty-five miles
cast OF Bloemfonetin, is desired to cut off
some two thousand Beers who are escap-
ing from the southwark. The Beers are re-
ported to have destroyed the railway in
the neighborhood of Kroonstadt
Lord Kitchener is quietly organizing In
the northeast of Cane Colony Predictions
ard betting are beginning here that the
war will be ended by the middle of May
Dispatches from Durham, Pietermaritz-
burg and other South African towns de-
scribe most enthusiastic celebrations on
st. Patrick's day.
A London newspaper credits to Lord
Roberts the suggestion to the Queen that
the wearing Of the shamrock be permitted.
Whether this be SO or not. it has been
most advantageous political move.
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relief of Mafeking has arrived at Warren
ton AS the force neared Windsorton the
Beers evacuated the town, blowing up the
bridge. 1t is reported that the rebels who
refused to accompany the Transvaalers
when the latter vacated Taung and Vry-
burg are preparing to trek into Damara-
land on the approach of the British, but
that the Hottentot chiefs are getting ready
to bar their escape.
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Ramsay and Thomas E. Thorpe, director
Of the government laboratories in Lon
don, representing Great Britain, and Pro-
fessors White and Z. ]. Wolff. of Harvard
University, representing the American
Academy of Science and Art. United
States Ambassador White represented the
Smithsonian Institution. Professor Har-
mack has just issued a history of the
academy
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GROWING StrenStn Oh Her Urasp IN tne
Shan-Tung Peninsula.
VICTORIA, B. c., March 1S.-According
to advices by the Adzu Maru, the report
that Germany is to essay what is every
where recognized as practical occupation
OF the province of Shan-Tung is generally
credited as being in line with the newly
accepted plan of foreign encro lchment in
China. The steps of the process are out
lined as follows:
First, railway concession; troops to
protect the works; military occupation and
finally complete alienation of the territory.
This has been Russia's course in Man.
churia, and it is pointed out that Germany
will follow it. In the meantime. 1T is said.
the signs are that the great empire will
soon be torn by civil strife.
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NEW YORK. March 1S.-The United
States transport Burnside arrived to-day
from San Juan, Santiago and Gibara with
forty cabin passengers, fifty-two dis
charged and furloughed soldiers. twelve
prisoners and fifteen guards. The Burn
side brought nine soldiers bodies.
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scientiac Men Received.

BERLIN. March ls.-The Prussian
Academy OF Science gave a reception this
evening to the foreign delegates In connec-
tion with the bi-centenary OF the institu-
ton. Among those present were Pro-
fessors Moissan, De Pranqueville and
Cenart. OF France; Professors Mahaffy,
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PRETORIA. March 16.-The chief OF the
intelligence department. Molengraaf, an
nounces that the federal losses prior TO the
relief of Kimberley and Ladysmith were:
Killed. s77; wounded. 2.l2s. Accidents. sick
ness and other disabling causes. he asserts,
bring the total to 4.351.
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WASHINGTON. March 1s.-In official and
diplomatic circles here denial is author
lied of reports that there have been con-
ferences with view to the dispatch of ad-
ditional warships and United States SOL
diers to China, and that news of the grav-
est character had been received from the
United States minister to China. There is
said to be no fear entertained that any
serious danger to American interests is i'm
pending.
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Bank of spain's Finances.

MADRID, March 1S.-The Bank of Spain's
report for the week showed the following
changes: Gold in hand. an increase of $685.
900 pesetas; silver in hand, increase of
4,7lS,OO0 pesetas; notes in circulation. de-
crease of 5.o70.000 pesetas.
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a MOnth-Press Comment.
LONDON, March 19.-Mr. Trohane sends
to the London papers a letter he has re-
ceived from the secretary of the Delagoa
bay railway arbitration T. Junal, which is
TO the effect that the award will probably
be officially proclaimed in about a month.
The Standard, commenting editorially
upon this communication from the Amer
lean advocate, says: when this pro-
tracted arbitration has been settled We
shall be in position to deal with Portugal
on the entire subject, and we may possi-
bly, secure for the Anglicized Transvaal i'm
proved commercial facilities. 1t would be
welcome coincidence If the award should
coincide with Lord Roberts's arrival at
Pretoria"
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Fourteen Miles from Mafekfng.

LOBATSI, March 17.-It is reported that
Commandant Eloff, with commando. has
left Zerust for Mafeking.
Commandant Schwartz, with $50 men, is
threatening the railway near Aasvogel
kop, north of Lobatsi.
A British patrol who reconnoitered within
fourteen miles OF Mafeking, finds the rail-
way uninjured and the telegraph wire un-
touched north Of Pitsani.
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st. Patricl<'s Day Celebrated I'm south
Africa-kipling's Verse.

CAPE TOWN. Sunday. March 1s-St.
Patrick's day was celebrated with extraor-
dinary enthusiasm throughout South
Africa. In reply to message from the
Irishmen of Cape Town. the Queen sent
the following: II have always felt con-
fident that the spirit. courage and al
legiance which have distinguished the
Irish soldiers In the face of the enemy
CONTINUED ON SECOND PAGE.)
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CONSTANTINOPLE. March 1S.--After
prolonged deliberation upon the Russian de-
mands for exclusive railroad rights in
Asia Minor, the Sublime Porte has pro-
posed a compromise whereby the railways
would be constructed by Turkey and Rus
sia in partnership. The Russian embassy
insists upon the original demands, which
the Turkish military commission strenu-
ously opposes.
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General Mile. mt Charleston.

CHARLESTON, S. c., March 1s-Mat
Gen. Nelson A. Miles and stan arrived in
Charleston from Washington tonight. The
party will spend tomorrow in Charleston
Tuesday in Port Royal and go to Savan-
nah on Wednesday to be present at the
Dewey reception.
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MANILA, March 19, $40 a. ma mill
tary commission, at Bayambang. has sem
fenced to be hanged, on March 90, two ma
tives who have been found guilty of muir
dering their countrymen.
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BLoEMFoNTEIN. Saturday. March H.
General PoIe-Carew's force has returned
from Springfontein, where junction was
effected with General Gatacre. General
Pole-Carew also proceeded to Norvars
Pont. from which point he photographed to
General Clements that 1,sOo Free Staters
had submitted at Edenburg
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PRETORIA, March 16.-It IS officially
denied that the siege of Mafeking has been
raised or the town relieved British officers
here have been removed from the model
school to quarters in the outskirts of town.
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Ftght nt Fourteen streams.

CAPE TOWN. March lS.-The Mafeking
relief columns, Colonels Drummond and
Peadman commanding, had sharp en-
gagement at Fourteen Streams. The Brit
ish succeeded in driving the Beers off and
they sustained only a few casualties.
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GENERAL wHEELER's SERVICE.

War Department Makes . Clear State
ment Concerning 1t.
DALLAS. Tex. March 1s.-M. b. Davis
who served with General Wheeler in the
Confederate army. recently wrote to the
War Department concerning the reports
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CAPE TOWN. March ls-The mounted
force from Kimberley proceeding to the