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Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-08-06
ISIS Matilda Burnan at UniDntown,

MISS Matilda Burnan aG unlDnLoWn,
Pa.
James Parker and VIM. Finder will
leave for Atlantic City on the 9Th inst.
Miss Henrietta Rinehart leaves this
week for Aurora to spend the summer.
Miss Annie Rohrl, of Eighteenth
street, is visiting friends at Cleveland.
Roy Boyd left Saturday for Buffalo
and Niagra Falls to spen0 his vaca-
ton.
Miss Ella Decker, of the South Side,
is the guest OF relatives in Eastern
Ohio.
Miss Bessie Prince, of Steubensville,
is the guest of Miss Anna Johnston, OF
the Island.
Ngs. A. league and Mrs. Geo.
Sauers, of South Chapline street are
in Cleveland.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Klinker, of the
East. End. leave to-day for Green's
town, " Va.
Miss Bertha Tomilson. of the Island,
is the guest of Miss Gertrude Hook
at Terra Alta.
Miss Nellie Craddock arrived home
yesterday from a two weeks stay at
Mt. Lake Park.
Misses Emma and Agnes Conrad. or
the East End, left yesterday TO visit
friends in Cleveland
Sam Brilles, popular young man
of this city, was sojourning in Steu-
benville over Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Blanke and family, of
Canal Fulton, Ohio, were visiting John
.Zarnitz of South Side.
Wilbur Flood, O. Stifels clerical
force, is home from a two weeks va
cation spent in New York.
Perry Cummins, of Bellaire, accom-
panied by his brother Tom, left last
week for Hot Springs. Ark.
Mrs. Geo. X. Wheat is expected
home from Atlantic City to-day, where
she has been for several weeks.
Miss May Sturgeon has returned to
the city after a pleasant visit to Miss
Emma Gilmore, at Darlington, o.
Hans Delbrugge, of the SoutA Side,
leaves this week for Indianapolis,
where he will spend his vacation.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Zwilling and
daughter, of Cleveland, Ohio, were
guests of Mr. John Zarnik yesterday.
Mr.. and Mrs. AL. Glass arrived
home yesterday from two weeks stay
to New York City and Adirondacks.
E. Bruce Dawson, the genial pre-
scription clerk at Geiger's pharmacy,
was calling on friends at Scio Sunday.
Mrs Hall, of Lancaster, nee Miss
Kittie Kincaio, is the home guest of
Mrs. VIM. A. Isett on North Main
street
Mrs. VIM. Neiben, Miss Annie Mel
ben and Mrs. r. Lindeman, of the
South Side left yesterday for Mt.
Clemens.
Mr.. Edward Bailer, 0: Rodney, Ia,
who has been visiting his parents at
Milton, Ohio, was in the city yesterday
visiting friends.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. K. Graham and
daughter, Miss Ada, and Miss Jesse
Smith, Of Buckhannon, are expected
home to-day from Put-in-bay.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-08-06
BOATS Held BY THE FOIS.
THE PACKETS AND rows FIND DIFF
FICULT y0YAGING on THE
OHIO.
NO PROSPECT OF A RISE.
The Low Water Gives Repairers
Much Work-Bfds Asked for Cow
ernment Work-An Boats to the
Local Wharf Late Yesterday-The
Weeks Table of the River-Notes
From Above and Below.

PITTSBURG, Pa, August 5.-The
river craft is finding rough boating
just new, for added TO the low water,
fogs have been working over time
This has not been SO noticeable about
Pittsburg. but the tow boats have ex-
perieneed great trouble between here
and Cincinnati and Louisville. Capt.
John H. Dippold, who took the Belle
MCGOWAN through to Louisville, re-
turned by rail this morning and said
he had seen few denser fogs than those
of the last several mornings. The
Falle, Dave Wood, B. d. Wood and Belle
MCGOWAN reached Louisville yesterday,
but should have arrived sooner. Be-
tween here and Cincinnati the tow
boats were obliged to tie up a number
of times on account of the heavy mists
that obscured every land mark along
the banks of the Ohio.
Capt. Dippold said to-day that while
no serious accidents had been reported,
scrapes and bumps were numerous
and the big tows that are leaving
Louisville for Mississippi river points
may have some trouble in getting
through. At present the river work is
principally on the Monongahelia where
some coal craft are being loaded to be
in readiness should a late rise show
itself, but many of the tow boats
have been on the ways at various
points, being put in shape for future
work. The yards are also busted with
the coal floating craft.
The Raymond Horner has returned
from the Mississippi to Louisville and
left from there again yesterday with
tow of Is barges and six boats. The
John A. Woods, going down from
Louisville with % barges and four box
boats, passed Evansville this morning.
The Harry Brown has delivered a
tow at New Orleans and left the Cres-
cent City Thursday for Pittsburg The
w. w. O'Neil, returning from New
Orleans passed Natchez to-day.
Maj. Charles F. Powell has advertis-
ed for bids on a big job just above
Lock No. 3, on the Monongahela riy-
er. Piling is to be placed there as a
protection and to preserve the bank.
Bids for the work close at noon Aug
ust 18TH Bids have also been asked
for work on LOCK 10 on the Mononga-
hela.
The local steamboat inspectors exam
ined the new pleasure launch Esplen
to-day at Esplen. The craft Is owned
by John L. Coroett, U. NJ. Beck and
D. l.. Roach all Pittsburgers. 1t is a
small boat, being but 80 feet long and
six feet beam, but is fitted with a pow
erful little engine and it is expected to
make from Is to Is miles an hour.
The Winifrede Coal Company, of Gin
cinnati is looking for a suitable boat
to do its pool towing on the Kanawha.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-08-06
CINCINNATI RIVER NEWS.

CINCINNATI, Aug. 5.-The J. C.
FISCHER, which has been doing harbor
work here In place of the Relief. will
return Saturday night to Pittsburg
with an empty tow.
The Relief will be here Sunday
morning to resume her harbor work.
The Crown Hill is due Saturday
from above with tow of timber.
The e. r. Andrews left PIT. Pleasant
Friday night for Cincinnati. Monday
she will be hauled out on the Queen
City Marine ways to have her huh
scraped and painted.
The Pitshurg towboats that passed
down Friday are due to pass up here
late Saturday night.
The snagboat E. A. Woodruff is at
Caseyville working upward.
The Fallie will bring up the Wash
Honshells tow. The latter took the
Fallie's tow to Cairo.
The II. F. FrlsbIe arrived from be-
low with several barges of slaves.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-08-06
THE GUTMANS WON
A Game From the Jack Arthurs Be-
fore a Big Crowd at Fulton.

fore a Big Crowd at Fulton.
Fully fifteen hundred people saw
the Will Gutman's defeat the Jack
Arthurps yesterday afternoon at the
Fulton grounds, in game which was
very one-sided The Gutnan's Knocked
Davis out of the box in the seventh in
ming, and scored almost at will
throughout the game, while the Arthur
could not hit Schwartz, who pitched
splendid game. The score was as
follows:
oiutmans IS "A 2 3 2-25 Is ?
Arthurs Il o 0 0 2 0 0-3 A 5
Batteries, Gutmans, schartz and Whar-
and Fox. Two base hits. Miller. Stein 2,
Miller. Three base hits, Peskstein Miller
2 Lucas, Halter, wildwood. Home run,
PeckStein.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-08-06
-~s5Ef-Bn-------
TO CLEANSE THE SYSTEM

yet gently, when costive or
bilious, to permanently overcome ha-
bitual constipation, to awaken the kid
neys and liver to a healthy activity,
without irritating or weakening them,
to dispel headaches, colds, or feyers,
use Syrup of Figs, made by the Cali
fornia Fig Syrup Co.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-08-06
AMERICANA LEAGUE.

At Detroit:
Detroit 0 0 0 1 So 6 1
Chicago 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 90 A 4
At Kansas City.
Kan. city. 10 o o o 0 1-ss7 8
Buffalo 0 1 0 0 0 0 o. 10 4
MILWAUKEE, August 5.-Score:
Milwaukee :. 0 0 0 0 0 SIS /
indianapolis. 0 0 0 0 0 OIL 1
At Minneapolis: s>ss
Minneapolis. 0 o 0 2 .srne-4asls 8
Cleveland 0 0 Q % 0 3-11 II 0
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-08-06
Atlantic City Excursion.

The next Atlantic City Excursion
over the Baltimore G Ohio will leave
Wheeling August 9Th. Fare, $40 for
the round trip. Tickets good sixteen
days, including date of sale. Trains
leave depot 1920 a. m, SIS a. M, and
500 p. m. Secure your sleeping car
space now.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-08-06
SUNDAY DOUBLE HEADER.
WHEELING AND THE SENATORS
BROKE EVEN AT COLUMBUS
YESTERDAY.
PITCHERS GET THEIR BUMPS.

Poole and Osborn Were Both Hit
Hard-Crippied for Pitchers-he-
suits Elsewhere in the Interstate
md National Lengues-Marion
Makes "a Good Shareholder SPORT
ing News. ~ 80.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-08-06

Innings pitched, STREET., 6; Wolfe. 3; Os
borne, s. Poole, 4. Hits MADE off of,
STREET., Il; Wolfe, l. Osborne, 10. Two base
hits. Beyille, Robinson, Ritter, Lyons.
Three base hits, Locke. Home runs.
Bradley, Williams. Sacrifice hits, Beville.
Stolen bases, Dundon, Mccain Congal
ton. First base on errors, Columbus /,
Wheeling L. Left on bases, Columbus 2;
Wheeling 4. Struck out, by STREET., 4;
Wolfe, l; Poole, /. Wild pitches, STREET.
Time, 2:O2. Umpire, Colgan. Attendance.
LOCO
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-08-06

The John Mackey did the work last
year, but the Winifrede Company has
decided to do its own towing 1t IS
understood that an option has been Sc
cured on the Catherine Davis.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-08-06

Cincinnati. keystone. State, a. m.
Parkersburg. II. X. Bedford, 1880 a. m.
Steubenvine. T. III Bayne $50 D. m.
SiStersville, Ruth, $50 p. m.
Darlington, Leroy, $3.50 p. m.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-08-06
To-Day's Boats.
To-sIorrow's Packets.

Steuhenville, T. NJ. Bayae, $50 .. m.
Sistersville. Ruth, $50 p. m.
Darlington. Leroy. $3.50 p. m.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-08-06
The marks on the wharf at midnight

The marks on the wharf at midnight
showed 8 feet and falling.
All the packets were late yesterday.
The Kanawha got away at about l p.
M, the Telephone at 2 and the Key
stone State at p. m.
The Telephone had a good freight
trip yesterday, having all the freight
she could carry and a barge piled up
half as high as the packet
The following table shows the aver
age temperature and the height OF the
water each day for the past week
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-08-06

CHICAGO. August 5.-Errors were re-
sponsible for all the runs to-day Brook
lyn won in the sixth, after two cuts. Tav-
base and. rnuffing a throw, two hits fol-
lowing. The third base play on both sides
was the feature, everything hit in that
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-08-06

Two base hits, Wagner. O'Brien. Stolen
bases Beckley, Corcoran, Quinn Double
plays, Steinfeldt to Beckley: Ely. Ritchey
Yer, |. Hit by ball. by Leeves, /. Struck
out, by Lever, 4; by Hahn, 8. Thine
: /: S0: Umpire, Swartwood Attendance
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-08-06
Marks From Above.

PITTSBURG-River > feet inches; sta
tionary. Clear, pleasant.
STEUBENVII.EE--R River feet inches
and falling. Weather clear and warm.
Passed up: Kanawha
BROWNSVILLE-Rive 4 feet inches
and falling.
MORGANTOWN-R River feet and sta
tionary. Weather clear and warm.
WARREN River at low water mark.
Clear and warm.
GREENSBORO feet 2 inches
and falling. Weather fair and warm.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-08-06
NATIONAL LEAGUE.

CINCINNATI. Ohio. August 5.-Bunch
locals to tie the score. They won in the
eighth on single, a hit by pitched bali
and Elys excusabe error Score:
CINClNNATi Alb. Z. Il. Pc A E
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-08-06
THE LOCAL BOILER
AND HULL INSPECTORS

Treasury at $1,000.
Special to the Register
WASHINGTON, d c., August o.
The Secretary of the Treasury has FIX
ed the salary of the local inspector OF
hulls and boilers at Wheeling at 1900
for the ensuing year, this being the
rate for inspection districts where 100
steamers or less are inspected annual
".
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-08-06
direction going like rife shots. Attend
ance, 5000. Score:
Chicago b O. 4 900 e-1 a3 d
Brooklyn -. 0 0 0 0 10 0 0-3 g 5
Earned runs none. Batteries. Taylor
and Chance; McGinnity and Mcclure.
IImnire. Hurst Time l:55

ST. LOUIS, Mo-, August 5-Mercer was
easy picking for ST. Louis to-day. Me-
Gan was sick and Donlin took his place
at first. Attendance, 1890. Score:
ST. Louis .210 i 0 0 0 6 30 Is /
New York 0 0 o 0 0 0 o. 10 /
Earned runs ST. Louis, Z; New York /.
Young and Criger; Mercer and Grady.
Home run, Doniin. Umpire, Emslie. Time.
hours.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-08-06

Innings pitched, Poole, 5; Taylor, 8.
Hits made off Poole. IA; Taylor, /.
Two base hits, Dundon, 3; McCallister, Be
vile, Taylor, 2; Pequinney, Meaney, Boyd
Three base hits, bev1lle, Locke Home
runs, Beville, Turner. Stolen bases, Nc
Calllster, Taylor. First base on balls, off
Wolfe, 2; off Poole, ?; off Taylor, 3 First
base on errors, Columbus, 8; Wheeling, 3.
Left on bases, Columbus g. Wheeling, g.
Struck out, by Wolfe 2; by Poole, q
Double plays, Congalton to Poole to Turn
er. BalK, Wolfe, l. Passed balls, Boyd,
l. Time, 1:4l. Umpire, Colgan Attend
anCe, LOCO.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-08-06
LOCAL RIVER NEWS.
Yesterdays Departures.

Pittsburg. Telephone.
Sistersyille. Leroy.
Pittsburg. Kanawha Z
Pittsburg, Keystone State.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-08-06
DIED.

ROLF-On Sunday. August 9Th. 1900. at
$3.50 O'Clock p m. VIM. r. Rolf, In his
2Sth year.
Funeral notice hereafter.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-08-06

The police discovered a light burn
ing Saturday night in the cellar OF
Kraft's clothing store on Main sereet,
but the place had not been entered.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-08-06

In another column Parke Division
of the A. 0. H. is called to meet in the
basement of the Cathedral tonight,
for the consideration of important bus
mess.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-08-06

TOLEDO, Ohio, August 5.-score, first
game:
Toledo 90 $1,000 o 2-S 10 ?
Mansfield 0 8 l 0 2 Go 10 4
Joss, Gates and Hannaford; Smith and
Fox.
Second game:
Toledo o 0 0 50 0 O-3 II 3
Mansfield 4 0 0 O 0 O-6 - 2
Ewing and Hannaford; Meredith and
Fox.
MARION, Ind, August Sit took ten
innings to decide the game to-day be-
tween the Marion team of the Interstate
League, and the New Castle team. Score:
Marion 0 0 0 0 0 ID 10 /
n. Castle 0 l 0 0 0 0 0 % !
-Wadsworth and Graffius; McCord and
Keller.
DAYTON, Ohio, August 5-Score. first
game:
Dayton 0 0 0 o o o al .
TT. Wayne 0 0 0 0 0 0 90 8 q
Moore ad Donahue; Frichen and Ber-
gen.
Second game:
Dayton 2 0 0 o % *-s o
Ft: Wayne . 0 0 0 0-1 4 0
Wicker and Donahue; Harper, Jones
and klienow
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-08-06
NOVEMBER Sd, 1899.

WEST VIRGINIA PRINTING CO.,
Wheeling, West Va.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-12-21
BOTTLE OF POISON
lord Kitchener Always Carried When
 spv to Cheat His Enemies

lord Kitchener Always Carried Whoa
 Spy to Cheat Hts Enemies
 There is 8 pretty general impression that the work undertaken by the spy is invariably disgraceful work, and that the professional military secret service agent is more or less degrad- ed creature-degraded, that is. for tha time being, by the very nature of the mission he undertakes Of course, nothing could be further from the truth. There are spies and spies. The paid renegade, who fer mere pay, un. dertakes 10 pry into and betray the secrets of his friends, stands upon an entirely different footing from the offio ger who, taking his life in his hands. ventures into the eneHly's camp in or- der to gratuitously to obtain informa- tion which may turn out to be of infin- lte value to his own intelligence de. partment. Lord Kitchener was a spy of this latter sort, and it was his clev- erness, energy and resourcefulness in this capacity which first attracted to him the notice of his superiors. Alone and unarmed he plunged into the re- volted Soudan in the autumn of 1882 and succeeded in penetrating, disguised hs a peddler of hurra cakes, as far as Omdurman itself. Here he saw fel- low spy stripped naked. flogged till the flesh hung in ribbons frem his body. and then erueifed face downward iE the blazing sun Ever afterward, i5 his wanderings among the wild deser. tribes, Kitchener carried with him , tiny phial of cyanide of potassium. Al he tersely put it: T did not fear death but such a deathi'
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-12-21
AMES OR DAYS.
Have Curious Derivations Which Few
 People Know.


 People Know.
 Last night l was at stag dinner, where the company at large was asked from what source the days of the week derived their names, and only one man out of the twelve present could answer the question, and he was the man Wha asked it, and he was one day wrong at that, for I've since looked the matter up. Sunday and Monday are simple enough, and in themselves suggest their derivation from the sun and moon, but with Tuesday We come to the ancient gods of our forefathers. the Hngels, that hardy race that displayed the Briton and gave their name to the English people. Tuesday was named for Wi, their god of death, Wednes- Gay for 0din, Woden or Wotan, who occupies in their mythology a position analogous 10 that of Jupiter on Mt. Olympus; Thursday for Thor, the god of air and storm and rain; Friday fer Freia or Freya, the god of peace, and Saturday possibly for Saeterr, an ob seure god of their mythology, but more probably 1t takes it's name for Saturn. It would seem as though almost any one you would ask would know the derivation of these words oi daily use, hut I'll wager that not one person out of hundred can tell them correctly. It's like the surprise the Bible gives one not familiar with 1t, by the idioms and phrases they will come across when reading it's pages, that are fami- liar and colloquial in the language they use, but which are uttered without the slightest knowledge of whence ther came on the part of either speaker or lstener.-New York Tribune.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-12-21
THE BURLINGTON ROUTE

New Through Trains to Port land, Puget Sound, "The Fur lfngton-NOrthern Pacific Ex- press" No. fl, from St. Louis, at 800 a, m, for Cansas City, St, Joseph, Northwestern Nebraska, Black Hills, Wyoming, Montana, " ashington, sTa- coma.ss Seattle, Puget Sound, and port land, Oregon, via Billings, Montana the short line and time saver to the Upper Northwest. To the Puget Sound in 77 Hours. Through coaches, chair cars (seats free), stand ard sleepers and dining cars with through tourist sleepers from kansas City. This is the main travelled route St. Louis to the Northwest
 Nnmhea 5, ="Nebraska- Colorado Ex- press" midday train from St. Louis for Nebraska. Colorado, Utah, Pacific Coast; one night to Denver. Also for St. Paul Minnea polls andlbeyend
 No. I5. at 8 45 D. III. ~t. Louis fo Kansas City, Omaha, St. Joseph, Kansas Nebraska. Colorado. Utah. fFaelfe G ast, xia enstr also to tie Horthwest--M Montana, Washirg- ton, Oregon. via Lincoln and Billings.
 Write,
 M UGG, L W WAKELY T A, GOA Pine St., Gen. Passenger Aef'
 St Louis, aie. St. Louis, Mo-.
 tHOWARD ELLIOTT, Gen1 Manager.
 St. Louis, Mo.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-12-21
ORIGIN OF THE SLID.
Ieems to Havo Come from Country
 Where snow Is Unknown.


 pr. Karutz, an original scholar Of Lubeck, has iast completed some val
 uable investigations relative to the in- vention of the sled. After long study he comes to the conclusion that prim, itive man probably arrived at the idea of the sled from seeing trees slip and slide down the mountains. In Madeira. for instance, where there is never any snow, sleds drawn by oxen are used just as they are in the Philippines. It Is development from the idea of a man dragging burden along the ground, when it was too heavy for him to lift 1t up and carry it. He at first hftched his dog to the deer that he had just killed and both dragged 1t toward the cave or hut in which they lived. When he saw logs slide down the mountain side the idea of using smooth logs that would slide over the ground easily when drawn by himself or one of his animals was the next step in the development of the sled. Primitive peoples like the Malays of tne Philippines, and the nnprogres. ssye peasants Of Madeira, still use the sleds invented by their ancestors thou- sands of years ago. In countries where Ice and snow are found it is probable that the very fact of a man slipping on the ice showed some inventive per son that there was an easy way tc carry what he wanted to transfer from one place to another, and so first pull ing branch along over the frozen snow instead of carrying it, he thought of putting other things on the branch, he trimmed off the twigs and leaves that caught in the stumps and other trees, and the beginning Of the sled had come. The joining together of two logs, and shaping them were only steps in the perfection of the earliest method of transportation which antedated the intention of wheeled vehicles by many enturies.-Detroit Free PresR
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-12-21
Farming In Colorado and New Mexico.


 The Denver & Rio Grande Rail- road. "The Scenic Line of the World, , has prepared an illustrated book up- on the above subject, which will be sJnt free to farmers desiring to change hsir location. This publea- ton gives valuable information in regard to the agricultural. horticul- tural and live stock interests of this section, and should be in the hands ofevery one who desires to become acquainted with the methods of of farming by irr. 4tion. Write s. K. Hooker, G. P. x. T. A., Denver, Colo.' If
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-12-21
surs-Footea Beer Her.sn.

The horses which the Boers ride are very much like the Welsh or Scotch ponies. being very sure-footed, and with power of leaping from rock to rock that Is phenomenal.
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1900-04-14
The Africen War.

The British forces have again met
disaster. In cablegram received
at London and dated April 6. Lord
Roberts reports as follows:
"BLorNToNTElN, Thursday, April 5.
Another unfortunate occurrence
has occurred resulting, fear, in the
capture of party OF infantry con-
sisting OF three companies OF the
Royal Irish Fusiliers and two COM
panies OF Ninth Regiment of Mount
ed Infantry near Reddersburg, lit
tie eastward of Aethany railway
station, within few miles OF this
place,
They were surrounded by a
stronger force of the enemy with
four and five guns. There can be
no doubt the whole party has been
made prisoners
A London cablegram dated April
6, states Lord Methuen captured 81
Beers aud that General Villebois
Mareuil was killed.
Mareui was chief OF staff Of the
Beer army. He was fifty years old
and is said to have been responsible
for many Boer success. 1t is said
that he entered the Boar service
merely because war was his trade
He went through number of cam
paigus in the French army. Now he
is dead.