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The Red Cloud chief., 1900-02-16
BULLER GOES BACK
Last Movement Declared Conn
plete Failure.
HAS Rf(ROSSED THE TuGflA RIVER
Dosultory ~Cannonndc. Eut No Active
Fighting First Report From Boer
Headquarters Telling OF Retreat
Causas Constcr nation.

A LeipSic, February 9 dispatch saws:
The Neuste Nachrichtcn prints a spe.
cial dispatch from a correspondent
who claims that General Bullcr's third
attempt to relieve Ladysmith has com.
pletely failed.
MIR. Balfour, the government leader,
replying to n question in the house of
commons as to whether any informa-
ton had beer received from the seat of
war, said:
Our information points to the fact
that General Butler is not pressing an
advance from the position he has oc.
cupied. We do not consider it right,to
press him for details of the operations
which are in progress. nor if he gives
such information do we deem il proper
to make this public until such opera
tons are completed. The government
had no Information as to whether Gen.
eral Macdonald has retired" q
A dispatch from Bocr Head Lager,
L~adysmith. Thursday. Feb. 3, says:
The British who were in possession of
the kopje at Molen's drift abandoned
IL after after n bombardment by Bocr
cannon this morning and retired across
the Tugela river to their former pc.
sition.
A dcsultory cannonadc is proceeding
at the Tugela this morning, but other.
wise everything is quiet.
A London, Feb. ., dispatch says: Up
to the present time the war office has
evidently heard nothing Of General
Buffers retreat as described in the dis
patches from the Bocr Head Laager,
Ladysmith, February s.
When shown the Bocr dispatch the
officials appeared utterly dumfounded.
Apparently they had not the least sus.
picion of the possibility of such an out
come of the opcrati on.
1t is said on reliable authority that
General Buffers dispatch announcing
Mondays and Tuesdays movements
was particularly hopeful. He de-
scribed the position gained as effect
i've, so the news of another retirement
is exceedingly bitter to the British,
and, though it comes from Bocr
sources. there is little disposition to
diScredit it.
The news spread rapidly, and, nat.
urally, disappointment was visible on
all sides, although the long silence
from the Upper Tugela had already
aroused apprehension that General
Butler might have found it impossible
to go forward, in which ease he would
have no option but to rccross the river.
The Red Cloud chief., 1900-02-16
CANNOT BE EXCLUDED
Interesting Case OF Violation OF school
Regulations at Grand Island

The police court Mt Grand Island,
fudge Abbott presiding. wa the scene
Of an interesting ca~c recently. On
Thursday of last week. Principal
Matthews If the high school suspend
ed Ed Havmau. n Young man in his
oom for not complying with the re-
ccntly.madc regulation, declaring IL
compulsory for male students of the
high school to take the cadet work OF
the school rs n physical exercise. The
young man appeared willing but his
father objected. On Friday morning
the young man returned and took his
seat. The principal took from him his
books and in n friendly conversation
with him asked him To obey the order
of suspension until the matter causing
the suspension, ovcr which he, the
principal had no control. was other
wise settled. The young man obeyed
and went home. hut returned in TWEEN
" minutes. lie had seen his father and
told the teacher that he must remain
and continue his work in school. The
principal asked the student not to
cause any more trouble, but the stud
cnt persisted and the principal swor
out n warrant against the student for
the disturbance of the school discipline
and the trial was had before n jury.
The defense tried to go into the cause
OF the suspension. hut was warned by
the court that the only questions to be
decided were IL the principal had power
10 suspend. and whether, IL he had,
the pupil was creating a disturbance
to the discipline of the school in rcfus-
ing to leave the room when requested.
The jury took the cause into consider
alton, evidently. for II took hut n few
minutes for it to bring in u verdict OF
not guilty. and the result will prob
ably he that the young man may he al
lowed to sit in the rooms, without
books and without study, as long rs
he p~leases. or he asked from day to
leave the room. That is To say, the
question really at issue, the cumpul'
order, was not decided.
The Red Cloud chief., 1900-02-16
LOOK FOR BAD NEWS
London Accepts as True Third Reported


A London dispatch of February 10,
AGO a. m, says: London accepts as
true the Boer statement that General
Butler has failed again. These state
ments were passed by the British cen
sor at Alden and are read in the light
of Mr.. Balfour's announcement in com
mons hat General Butler is not press
ing his advance. Mr.. Winston Church
i'll wires that Naal krantz vas imprac-
ticablc for the lack of guns which were
needed to support "A further advance.
His cablcgrams leaves General Butler
on Tuesday night sending a fresh
brigade to relieve the tired holders OF
Naal krantz. The descriptive writers
with General Butler were allowed a
rather free hand again in explaining
the ugly position which the British
held and the natural obstacles which
had to be overcome. So it is easy to
infer 18th lioer ritlcmcn and artillery
defending them these hills, 'ravines
and junglcs have not been overcome
and thus the public is prepared in adj
vance for bad news.
Kilograms from L~adysmith, dated
Monday, describe the effect General
Buffers cannonadc had on the worn
garrison. Hope ran high that the long
period OF inactivity and tediurn va
drawing to IA close. The crash Of guns
was almost continuous for ten hours
and at times il seemed as If as many
as twenty shells burst in n minute.
The Beers, preparing always for the
possibility of defeat, were driving
herds and sending long wagon trains
towards the DrakcnSbrrg passes. In
tense darkness aud silence followed
broken only by frogs croaking and the
occasional blaze of star shells, sur
rounding the town with Il cirle of light
to prevent the uuobServcd approach
of the cnemy. A series of British
mines laid for the Beers exploded ac
cidcntally, shaking and alarming the
city and camp.
The Red Cloud chief., 1900-02-16
Planning Another New Depot.

1t is authoriativcly stated that the
st. Joseph & Grand Island road will
begin the erection within the next
month of n new passenger depot at
Hastings on the east side of Denver
emu IN the ground now occupied by
Hciler's coal yard. The coal yard will
be removed across the avenue to the
place now occupied by the charred
wreck of the old depot and the old
grain elevator standing on st. Joe
avenue will be removed to the south
side Of the tracks and east of the -four
ing mill. This will bring the st. Joe
depot within a'block of the site selected
for the B~urlington's new passenger
depot.
The Red Cloud chief., 1900-02-16

Mining Industry of tho Country wants
Representation In Cabinet.

A new cabinet officer, to be known
a. the secretary of mines and mining,
is provided in the bin favorably acted
on Monday by the house committee on
mines and mining. Another mining
measure favorably acted on establishes
"a mining experiment station in each of
the mining states, similar to agricul-
tural experiment stations, and provides
for the appointment of a government
geologist at $4,000 "A year and an as
sayist at 300 in the several mining
states. These officers are to furnish
assays, issue public bulletins and to
conduct explorations of mining re-
gions.
The Red Cloud chief., 1900-02-16
NEWS IN BRIEF.

Colonel W. Il. Thompson, who was
secretary of the navy when Rutherford
Il. Hayes was president, died at his
home at Tcrrc l~laute, Ind, at the age
of 81 years.
BENJAMIN Royce, "A well-to-do farmer
ncar Dixie, Wash, was shot to death
by his grandson, Frank Royce, who
afterwards cremated the body and com-
mitted suicide.
Three persons were killed and three
seriously injured in "A head-on collision
between fast freight trains on "A branch
of the New York Central at Gordon
Heights, Pa. Both engines were de-
molished, and thirty-Scvcn ears were
wrecked.
The coremakerS' strike, which was
inauguratcd at a number of foundrics
in Cleveland several weeks ago, has
terminated i'm a victory for the strikers.
They will get $3.50 per day, time and
a half for over hours ana double pay
for work on Sundays and holidays.
Word was received in Lincoln Fri
day that the plant of the Beatrice
Creamery company at Harrington,
Kas., burned. The entire plant was
consumed. The insurance carried did
not cover the entire property, but 1t
was sufficient so that the loss will not
be complete.
A London, Eng, dispatch says: Sin
Henry NJ. Stanley, the celebrated At
rican explorer and unionist liberal of
parliament, was taken suddenly i'll
with gastritis in the house of com
mons Wednesday night and is in a
somewhat serious condition.
Reuben Ross (coloredl was hanged at
Lamberton, N. C., for criminal assault
upon a white woman named Mrs. Bet
tie Ingram. He declared his innocence
of this crime, but said he was guilty OF
assault on a young white woman OF
Rockingham, for which = negro named
John Evans was hanged.
The Red Cloud chief., 1900-02-16
PEACE PACT PUT OFF
Governor Taylor Refuses to sign Agree.
ment and Trouble Expected.

Governor Taylor had not, up to sat
urday morning. signed the Louisville
peace agreement. He announced.
moreover. that he had no intention OF
doing So for some time. aud did not
know whether he would sign it at all.
On the other hand, the democrats were
confident that he would aniX his sigma.
turc to the document. Friday was a day
of conferences in Frankfort. They
were in full swing from 1890 in the
morning until $3.50 at night, and out.
wardly nothing tangible resulted from
them. The situation is now. to all ap-
]pcarances, exactly where it was when
the peace agreement was first submit.
ted To Governor Taylor.
The tension under which the rcpub.
lican members of the state Legislature
who are at London, Ky, has been la
boring, especially during the past
week, reached "A crisis when the fol-
lowing message from Governor Taylor
was received by "A member:
Have warrants issued for members
of the house and put in the hands of
scrgcant-at.arms to serve"
The warrants were made out late
Friday and given to Scrgeant-at- Arms
Cecil of the house. Lieutenant Gov
ernor Marshall ~tclcgraphcd he would
come to London.
Sergeant-at-Arms Cecil of the house
and Howard of the senate left after l
o'clock Saturday morning on the north
bound train armed with warrants for
the arrest or absent democratic mem
! berS of both houScs.
The Red Cloud chief., 1900-02-16
M'ClFFERT ESCAPES TRIAL
New YORK F~rcsbytery simply Disavows
His Teachings.

The New York pr~esbytery decided
by a vote of seventy-sevcn to thirty
nine not to Try DR.. Arthur Ii. McGif-
fert Of the Union theological seminary
on the charges of hcrcsy preferred by
Rev. q. w. Birch. the stated clerk Of
the p~resbytcry, at the January meet
ing. A resolution was adopted dcclar-
ing in effect that the action of the
presbytery in December. when it de-
cided not to try DR.. McGiffert for
heresy, but to disavow his teachings,
was sufficient under the circumstances
and that the opinion of the ~presbytery
was that the charges should not be
considered.
The Red Cloud chief., 1900-02-16
UPHOLD SHERIFF SECORD
killing Of Hawkins Justified at the Dead
Mans Home.

The body Of Smoky Jack" Hawkins
the man killed by Sheriff Secord at
Davenport was taken to Harvard and
buried in the cemetery, Theodore
Clark, n of the gang to which the
dead Hawkins belonged, had n leg
badly injured while attempting TO
hold up a couple of men near the Gem
etery at Harvard. He has been lodged
in Jail at Clay Center.
The shooting of Hawkins by Sheriff
Secord is all the conversation at IIar-
ward. While the killing is deprecated,
yet there are not many who do not
think hat the sheriff was wholly JUS
titled.
The Red Cloud chief., 1900-02-16
IN BEHALF OF CONSTITUENT
Congressmen Ar Securing for tho
People OF Nebraska.

Congressman Burkett has just Sc
cured the allowance of the claim of
Captain l.. Wilson of $685., and has also
secured an order for general repairs of
the Lincoln postotiicc. THIS does not
include new paving or walks.
Congressman Sutherland has secured
a ruling by the land commissioner af-
fecting the rights of county Judges in
taking final proof entries. The ma
ter came up III q Of the refusal
of the McCook office to designate Judge
Pyle of Frontier county To take final
proofs. The department holds that
the register must designate the court
officer whom the applicant requests.
The president has nominated Peter
Jansen aS one of the commissioners to
the Paris exposition. This was to
fulfil n personal promise made by rresi-
dent Mckinley over IA year ago.
Claire Roberts has been appointed
postmaster at Rising City, Butler
county, Neb., vice A. Roberts, re-
signed.
Comptroller of the Currency Dawes
has approved the application of H.. II.
Adams, n. =. Nelson, Thco. Windhu-
sen, Christ Kruger and II. B. Treat for
authority to establish the First Ma
tional bank of Hooper, Ncb., with "A
capital of $4,000.
The postal receipts at Omaha for
January. AS reported to the ~postoflice
department, were S34 1913 against $50,
O44 for the same period last year. This
is an increase of 81 ,3Ol.
The Red Cloud chief., 1900-02-16
Archbishop Feehan III.

Archbishop Patrick A, Feehan of the
Roman Catholic archdiocese of Chica-
go, is i'll with pneumonia at his resi-
dence in that city. The venerable
prelate was taken i'll on Friday with
what seemed to be a severe cold. Tho
archbishop's regular physician was
called. lie diagnosed the disease as
pluro-pneumonia.
At the archepiscopal residence ii is
said that the prelate's condition is not
regarded as critical. The archbishop
is seventy-one years of age.
The Red Cloud chief., 1900-02-16

Fruit jar manufacturers of Peunsyl-
the entire production of the country,
have completed al organization where
by hereafter, it is said, all the product
will be sold from the Muncic factory,
and each factory will share in profits
as per capital invested. Jobbers have
not been allowed to buy this year as
vet and the entire seasons business is
yet in the hands of the manufacturers,
who have advanced prices % per cent.
The Red Cloud chief., 1900-02-16
FOUND DEAD ON SIDEWALK
New York Congressman Eithcr Jumps az
rails From window.

Congressman Charles 4. Chickcring
Of Copenhagen. y. y, was found dead
outside the Grand I Mon hotel in New
York. He had either fallen or jumped
from a fourth->tory window of the
hotel.
The body VI MIR. ChickCring was
found ON the sidewalks of the Forty
first street side of the hotel. under the
open window Of his room. which was
ON the fourth floor. 10y II milkman who
was driving through the street at : n.
III. Evidently it had been living there
Tor some time. rs the clothing was
saturated with rain. II was clothed
in underwear, socks. night shirt. truus-
crs and vest. There was II bad cash
in the right side of the head.
Mr.. thickcring had been in the ho.
tel all OF the day before. lie had
complained considerably Of rhcuma-
tisin. but nothing irrational in his ac-
tions had been observed 10y those at
the hotel.
Members Of were greatly
shocked at the news of Representative
Chickering's death in New York city.
The cws Of the death was kept from
Mrs. Ihickcriug for fear the shock
would prove too great, and arrange.
mcnts were made for her to leave for
New York at noon. MIR. Chickcring
was II of the we'll known and univcr-
sally esteemed men of the house. lie
was last seen at Washington when the
vote on the financial bill was taken.
He insisted On coming on crutches in
order to record his vote for the bill.
The Red Cloud chief., 1900-02-16
The Methodists started u revival at
Centerville Sunday.
County Commissioners Meet.

County Commissioners +. Beckmann,
of Lancaster county, president of the
county commissioners association OF
the state, has sent out a call for the
annual meeting of the association at
Hastings, beginning on February 20.
The meeting this year will be none
the less interesting than last year
when the legislature was in session.
Secretary Will Brookley joins with
President Beckmann in asking all
members of the association to attend
the meeting.
The Red Cloud chief., 1900-02-16
BOdies Arrive,

Adjutant General Barry has received
messages from the depot quartermester
at San Francisco showing that all the
bodies of Nebraska soldiers that ar
rived on the transport Ohio had been
forwarded to the state with the ex.
ception of the following: II. Guy
Livingstone, company NJ; George j..
Smith, company II; Edward Day, com
pany A; Guy &, Walker, company g..
So far as known the transport Indiana
has not arrived,
The Red Cloud chief., 1900-02-16
IRISH GIRLS GET FORTUNE
Declared Entitled to Property of John
Mcclellan.

In the celebrated ease at Sioux Falls
involving the heirship to the estate of
John Mcclellan, the wealthy pioneer
who was crushed and killed in an elc-
vator in the Vaneps building on Au-
gust . last, County Judge Wilkes the
other day handed down his decision. in
which he holds that the Ireland claim
ants, Mary Mcclellan and Margaret
lIamill, nieces of the deceased, have
made the best prima facie case and, in
accordance with their petition, Will
liam Nancps, a prominent business
man, was appointed administrator of
the estate.
The Red Cloud chief., 1900-02-16
To Adjust Indebtedness.

Mr.. Powers Of Vermont has intro
duced a bin in congress for a commits
sion TO adjust the Indebtedness of the
central branch Of the Union Pacific
railroad to the governments. Other
bills introduced were: Mr.. Smith
ullinois), amendment To the interstate
commerce law so as to give the com
mittee greater powers; by Mr.. Noonan,
Qllinois), prohibiting the Transports
ton Of convict-made goods.
The Red Cloud chief., 1900-02-16
FRED KELLEY IS ARRESTED
Appreciated In san Francisco on Re-
turn From Manila.

Frederick :. Kelley, formerly an
employee of "A prominent insurance COM
pany in Omaha. but who left that city
about two years ago when defalca-
tionS, amounting to about $1,000 were
about to bc discovered, has been ar
rested 10y detectives in San Francisco.
The arrest was kept n secret for
time when IL was learned that Kelley
left for Chicago in the custody of he.
tcctives. lie was accompanied by his
young wife, formerly OF Oakland.
Since his departure from Omaha Kelley
has travelled much and held n good
position in Manila. but his love for his
W country got the better Of him and
he returned. kcllcy's relatives are
wealthy and prominent people of Lin
coin, Ncb.
The Red Cloud chief., 1900-02-16
COUNTER STROKE OF Beers
Assume Aggressive and Force British
to Retire From COlesburg District.

The latest ews from South Africa
is the enforced retirement of the Brit
ish from the Colesburg district, under
heavy Boer pressure and probably after
brisk fighting. Thus at IA time when
Lord Roberts is apparently to push an
army into the Free state, the Beers
make a counter stroke in unknown but
seemingly great force, not far from the
vital line of railway connecting De Aar
and Orange river.
Military observers do not regard this
rs more than a menace. Nevertheless.
the news produces an unpleasant i'm
preston at London.
The Red Cloud chief., 1900-02-16
Food Company Assigns.

The Standard Food company, propri-
etors of the new Desipota factory at
Aberdeen, =. D., have made an assign
apolis, and w. l.. skunk, principal
stockholders, declare the embarrass.
ment is only temporary. The factory'S
product is manufactured from potatoes
by patented processes.
The Red Cloud chief., 1900-02-16
Working for Convention.

Mayor Rose of Mil waukee and for.
mer Governor Peck of Wisconsin are in
New York, to secure, If possible, the
democratic national convention for
Milwaukee. Mayor Rose said that
Milwaukee had made an active and he
believed a successful canvas to secure
the next convention. lie said that the
people of Milwaukee had raised a guar
antee of Sl0O, 900 for that purpose.
The Red Cloud chief., 1900-02-16
Find the Dead BODY.

City Treasurer King of Grand Island
has received information from Pay
cite, Idaho, hat the body of Walter
King, his brother, who was drowned
in the Payette river in November had
been found. The remains will be
brought back TO Grand Island.
The Red Cloud chief., 1900-02-16

The India Office at London has re.
ceived a dispatch from Lord C~urzon,
the India viceroy, in which he says
that the distress arising from the fam,
inc is steadily increasing, and that
there now in receipt of relief number
LISA 600
The Red Cloud chief., 1900-02-16
Mother shoots Her Son.

A Youngstown, o., February |. dis
patch says: At Hubbard last night,
Elmer Egue, while under the influence
of liquor, threatened to kill his mother,
w%hereupon the latter drew revolver
and shot Elmer twice, probably fatally.
The Red Cloud chief., 1900-02-16
For New Cabinet Member.

Senator Nelson has been authorized
to report his substitute for a bill
providing for a department. of com
merce with "a cabinet officer. An
amendment was made to take the pat
emit Office from the interior department
and include il in the new department.
The Red Cloud chief., 1900-02-16

by "A vote Of about four to one Val.
entine has decided to bond itself in tho
sum of 81, o for the purpose of build.
ing a road across the MinnechaduxN
canyon.
The Red Cloud chief., 1900-02-16
BECOMES "A Catholic Priest.

General w. A. Olmstead, who served
through the civil war, has been or
dained to the priesthood of the Roman
Catholic church at the church of the
Sadred Heart, Notre Dame University,
south Bend, Ind.
The Red Cloud chief., 1900-02-16
Wedding OF Physicians.

DIR. +. II. Mccall, osteopath, and Miss
Hettie Healy, also a practicing osteo-
path, were married in Grand Island,
by Rev. Il. &. Clark.
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