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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-04-24

How the News Was Received at Otta-
wa-A Political Plot.

OTTAWA, Ont, April 2S-The news of
the attempt to wreck the Welland canal
caused tremendous sensation here and
there was much speculation as to what the
outrage meant. Mr.. McClearey. member
for welland. expressed the opinion that
there was no political movement behind 1t
and said he believed that IL the facts could
be got at some of the grain handlers at
Buffalo. alarmed at the prospect of the
diversion to Canadian channels OF good
deal of produce now going out by way of
Buffalo and New York. would be found to
know something about 1t. This view how
ever, is not generally shared there is
abundant evidence In the possession OF the
government pointing to the existence OF a
movement in the United States to infiict
injury on Canada on account of her par
ticipating In the South African war. The
headquarters OF this movement, 1t Is be-
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MYSTERIOUS AFFAIR.
Wife Of a Former State Senator Falls
from a Second story Window.

PHILADELPHIA, April A-Mrs. Lille
Kuhn. wife of Former State Senator Will
liam Kuhn. of Richmond. Va, was found
in the sideyard Of a boarding house at No
716 North Sixteenth street, shortly after
midnight this morning, with her head and
face badly lacerated. one leg broken. and
her body badly bruised. She was removed
to st. Josephs Hospital, where her hus-
band, with his throat badly cut. was also
sent under the guard Of two policemen.
He is under surveillance on suspicion to
wait the result of his wifes injuries. The
affair is wrapped in mystery. as neither
the injured couple nor the police would
talk Mrs. Kuhn was found in a pool OF
blood. directly under the second-story win
dow
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TORONTO, Ont, April 23.-Richard Har-
court. minister of education. said to-day
regarding the attempt to blow up the locks
of the Welland canal that he did not think
ii was an international affair. Had the
dynamiters. he continued, gone TO the
aqueduct, nine miles further down. they
would have destroyed 100000 worth of
property.
A dispatch from Ottawa tonight says:
1.-The government has no evidence of any
conspiracy in the United States. at Chi
cago or elsewhere, for the purpose of at
tacking Canada because of its sending
troops to South Africa. The opinion Is ex-
pressed here that the attempt to blow UP a
Welland canal lock was the work of
cranks- The local authorities have called
out the militia to assist them In the Nj
agara district"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-04-24

Pole-Carew and French Sent to the
Assistance of Rumble.


LONDON, April 2s.-The War Office late
this evening issued the following dispatch
from Lord Roberts, dated Bloemfontein.
April q. ESQ p. m
Yesterday. I dispatched the Eleventh
Division under General Pole-Carew and
two brigades of cavalry under General
French from this point to assist General
Rumble. The force reached Karriefontein
without much opposition. Casualties re-
ported:
welsh Regiment-Private killed. Cap
tain Prothero mortally wounded and seven
men.
'Yorkshires-Eight wounded
Eighth Hussars = One killed, one
wounded.
Fourteenth Hussars-One wounded.
Royal Artillery-Two wounded
Seventh Dragoons-Lieutenan Jenkins
and ten men missing
Captain Rotton, Royal Artillery broke
an arm by a fall.
General Pole-Carew's Mounted Infan-
try seized Leeuw kop. high hill a few
miles north of their last nights position
The enemy evacuated hurriedly, leaving
some rifles and ammunition.
General Rumble reports that twenty
five men of the First Worcester are miss
ing. Fffty-three were sent with Wood 10
an outpost after dark. and only eighteen
returned. Their numbers and names will
be reported to-day as well as four wounded
yesterday"
The War ONCE has given no explanation
OF the apparent discrepancy in the figures
as TO the men OF the Worcester regiment.
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Leeuw Seized by Gen. PoIe-Carew's
Mounted Infantry After
Sharp engagement.
SMALL LIST OF CASUALTIES
sTRATHCOyA's HORSE AND OTHER
CANADIANS IN THE FIGHT.
DaIgety still Holding Out. but One Of
His Guns Disabled - Large
Force Opposing Methuen.

LONDON, April "a, a. m.-The strong
body Of reinforcements which Lord Rob-
erts sent to assist the relief of Wepener
and to endeavor to envelop and cut off
the Beers from a retreat northward fur
nishes further evidence that the Beers are
assembled in much larger force around
and, as the Times in an editorial this
morning remarks, whatever may be the
difficulties of roads and rains. the Beers
always appear to have guns, and some
times big ones, where they want them.
A Boer dispatch dated Thaba N'Chu,
April g. says fresh supply of cannon and
ammunition has reached General De Wet
at Jammersburg drift 1t also asserts that
one of Colonel Dalgety's guns has been
smashed. A dispatch from Aliwal North
says: Colonel Dalgety is holding out at
wepener. 1t is reported that all the Beers
have crossed to the north side Of the
Caledon river
Karriefontein, mentioned in Lord Rob-
erts's message to the War Office. is seven
teen miles southeast of Bloemfontein.
Leeuw kop is two miles further south.
Apparently the British captured Paarde
Kraal Sunday night. The Beers evacuated
Lecuw kop during the night. removing the
gun and the British occupied the kop the
next morning.
Although the Beers appear to be offering
stout resistance to the British advance
their position is dangerous They can
scarcely delay further their retreat north
ward without incurring the risk of being
cut or Usually they have been wen In
formed regarding the British plans and
they arc not likely to run such risk. espe-
cially as they have partly accomplished
their object I'm drawing large forces from
Bloemfontein on long marches and have
thereby delayed the advance on Pretoria
The Morning Post, commenting on the
difficulty Lord Roberts is experiencing,
asserts the wisdom of arranging for a
steady flow OF reinforcements.
The report that Boer commando was at
Frankfort proved to be without founda-
ton. but evidently there is large force
opposing Lord Methuen.
The Transvaal government has asked
Lord Roberts to be allowed to send a
clergyman to st. Helena, and also a neu-
trail consul to watch the interests of the
prisoners in the same maner as Adelbert
Hay guards the interests of the British at
Pretoria A proclamation has been issued
prohibiting the working of mines on Sun
days and infffcting punishment on man.
ayers paying over 81 a month to natives.
From Ladysmfth to-day comes dispatch
saying all is quiet and that the Boer guns
are silent.
At Cape Town a government contractor
named BAN has been arrested for harbor-
ing three escaped Boer prisoners. dressed
as clergymen. The prisoners were sent
back to simontown. whence they had es-
capped.
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in a manner quite friendly to the United
States and expressing confidence that Tur-
key will pay the indemnity demanded by
the United States. Referring to the al
legged intention of the United States to oc-
cupy Smyrna in default of the payment,
the Temps says: "The United States would
rot, perhaps, be sorry to display a little
before the eyes. not only Of the Sultan, but
of entire Europe, the newly-acquired gilt
ter of their navy, crowned with the laurels
of Cavite and Santiago. The occupation of
Smyrna would be no joke, and there is
ground to hope that Abdul Hamid will see
the madness of resistance which. for such
a trivial object. would bring about such Sc
rious results"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-04-24

Military May Rise Against the New
Venezuelan President.

KINGSTON. Jamaica, April 2S.-News re-
ceived here from Venezuela, via Trinidad.
says President Castro's administration is
SO despotic that his own troops are rising
against him and that military officers are
engineering another revolution. The pop
ulace, however. is clamoring for the re-
establishment of social order and security
insuring full political and other rights.
Some of the leading wealthy men are leav-
ing Caracas for Europe, the United States
and the West Indies because of the present
regime which is classed as being abomi-
nably tyrannous.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-04-24
MAN CREMATES HIMSELF
COOLLY LEAPS INTO THE AIR AND
DIVES INTO A COKE OVEN.
Tragic Suicide Of An Unknown at the
Connellsville Foundry Works of
the III. c. Frick Company.

CONNELLSvILLE, Pa, April 2s.-Leap-
ing high into the air as an expert diver
would in taking fancy plunge into the
water, an unknown man committed sui
eide this morning at the foundry works of
the H. C. Frick Coke Company by diving
into q coke oven. In less than a minute
what had been a man apparently in the
full vigor of life had mingled with the
curling smoke of the oven, distinguishable
only by it's blush brown color and nauseat-
ing odor from the gas smoke of the burn
ing coal.
more tragic death never occurred in
this region. The coke workers saw him
only for an instant as he prepared for the
leap. He was well dressed, of medium
height and weight and smooth shaven. For
the slightest possible space of time he
seemed to pause on the sloping ground
behind the ovens, then. quick as a fash.
he ran down the slope, taking the quick,
short steps of trained athlete who gauges
them precisely for the jump. he intends
taking. Eight feet from the oven tops the
man shot into the air, his hands poised
above his head in the fashion of a diver,
and descending swiftly dropped head first
into the trunnel head of an oven that had
burned to the sizzling white heat of coke
just before 1T is drawn For instant
the body clogged the trunnel head and
the legs wriggled as though desperate
effort was being made to squirm through
and meet death quickly in the blazing oven
pit.
A rush was made for the oven pit by the
Mortified oven drawers. All there was TO
show of the man who but a few seconds
before had been in life, was a charred
mass of flesh not three feet in length.
There is nothing about it that could serve
as means of identification. 1t will be
buried tomorrow.
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FLED FROM LEEuw koP.
Details Of the Enlargement Between
Pole-Cnrew's Army and the Boers.

LONDON. April 4.-The Bloemfontein
correspondent OF the Standard. describing
the operations at Leeuw kop. says: AT
an early stage the cavalry came under a
heavy fire from pompom on a ridge ad-
joining Leeuw kop. Unable to continue It's
march 10 the southeast. General Dicksons
brigade fell back TO the north 10 await the
infantry attack. The thanking movement
having failed. General Pole-carew. with
General sts2henson's brigade. advanced In
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Attributed to n Crank.

MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., April 2S.-Local
grain men and contractors interested in the
Corners syndicate scheme to divert the
grain trade from United States to Cana
dian ports regard as absurd the charge that
the attempt to ruin the Welland canal was
caused by jealousy of the new plan. Bar
rett and Record, the elevator contractors
who have just commenced work on the
great elevators and warehouses in Mont
real, say several months must elapse be-
fore the syndicate can hope to share in tie
grain handling trade. The outrage is al
tributed to some crank.
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BRAVE OHIO BOY.


DAYTON, O., April 23.-Harry Frank,
High School boy. and his sister Daisy, a
teacher, son and daughter of Judge Frank,
while walking on the street tonight. were
assaulted by a negro, who tried to outrage
Miss Frank. Harry, hero that he was, de-
Tended his sister and prevented the crime
Meantime, in the struggle. the negro shot
Harry Frank in the neck, below the left
ear. The surgeon pronounces the wound
fatal. The negro was pursued quickly, and
If caught can hardly escape lynching.
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TRENCHES FULL of WATER.
Britons Shot as They Come Ont to
Shake ThemseIves-Boer Debate.

Brftons Shot as They Come Ont TO
Shake Themselves-Boer Debate.
BOER CAMP. Thaba N'chu Orange Free
State, April 22.-Fighting continues day
and night at Jammersburg drift. The
English trenches have been SO full of rain
that the men have been obliged every now
and then to Chamber to the banks, only to
be shot down. The Beers were so drenched
on Saturday that they were unable to
sleep, so they started debate on the SUBJ
Ject of the good to be derived from virtue
and courage. The discussion lasted most
Of the night, shells at intervals interrupt
ing the speakers.
Robertsons tower mill is reported to
have been captured April q. and it is ex-
pected that the Cape Mounted Rifles have
lost, during the siege. 120 out of 500 men.
The British prisoners defy the burghers
to capture Colonel Dalgety's camp. even
IL the British are not reinforced
A surprising number of relatives are
fighting on opposite sides at Wepener.
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DAYTON. o.. April 2S.-Albert ]. Deadly
and his sixteen-year-old wife tonight
jumped from a bridge into the canal and
were drowned, each tightly clasped in the
others arms. Albert Desdy was employed
as inspector by the National Cash Register
Company. They leave a young babe. To-
night they ate supper together and were
cheerful. 1t is supposed Deady had finan-
cial trouble.
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RETURN OF THE MAINE.
wounded Soldiers Sent to NetIey-
Lady Randolph Churchill Well.

SOUTHAMPTON. April 2s.-The hospital
ship Maine arrived here from South Africa.
this morning. unexpectedly early. A small
group OF friends Of those or board awaited
her arrival and vigorously waved their
hands and handkerchiefs as they recog-
nized Lady Randolph Churchill on the deck
OF the steamer.
Lady Churchill, who was in the best
health. wore blue serge dress and straw
sailor hat. with a ribbon inscribed a. II.
s. Maine (American hospital ship Maine.
lcoNTINUED ON SECOND PACrl
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The Whole Tribe May Go.

NEW YORK, April 2S.-It was announced
to-day that Tammany Hall has decided to
send a delegation of from $50 TO 600 to the
Kansas City convention. 1t has taken op-
tions on accommodations for 600 persons in
Kansas City hotels. and 1t is likely to send
the full quota. Two special trains will be
used by the delegation. Richard Croker IL
expected home about May Il
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THIS BOY WAS FATED.
While Wounded His Clothing Caught
Fire and Exploded Cartridges.

BARABOO. Wis. April 23.--Henry Wrist.
a lad Of sixteen years, lost his life while
out hunting yesterday In a most peculiar
way. His gun was accidentally discharged
wounding him I'm the hand He tainted
from loss of blood. His clothing took fire
from the burning gun wad and exploded
the cartridges In a belt about his waist
The body was found to-day horribly
mutilated.
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BOERs MAY BE SURROUNDED.
Outflanked on Bushman's kop by GEN.
eral Brabant.

MASERU. Basutoland. April 23.-General
Brabant's force outianked the Boer posi-
ton at Bushman's kop yesterday. but the
movement had not been completed when
darkness fell.
At dusk the British forces. apparently
infantry, were seen approaching from two
directions with a view of surrounding the
kop.
Colonel Dalgety's garrison at Wepener
was not molested to-day.
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CANADIANS UNDER FIRE.
Strathcona's Horse Receives It's Bap-
tism Of Battle Near Leeuw Kop.

tism Of Battle Near Leeuw Kop.
BLOEMFONTEIN. April 23-Colonel AL
dersons corps Of mounted infantry. con-
sisting of the first battalions Of the First
and Second Canadian regiments and
Strathconas horse. was engaged In the
operations OF General Pole-Carew and
General French. Anderson had undertaken
to drive the Beers from their line of de-
Tense south Of the water works.
The Canadians sustained a heavy fire.
The Beers shelled Anderson, who made a
marching movement around Leeuw kop. on
the extreme. left of the Boer position.
When the British battery opened fire the
Beers removed the gun. Leeuw kop was
found evacuated this morning.
General Dickson's cavalry brigade, which
made a wide detour to the left. found it's
further progress barred by a strong Boer
position.
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lieved, are in Chicago. and IL Is said that
confidential information showing the ex-
istence OF conspiracy was some time ago
communicated to the United States gov
ernment
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Turkish Torpedo Boat Blown Up.

has just been received from Beyrout, Syria,
to the effect that the Turkish torpedo boat
Schmay blew up in that harbor, April 21,
resulting In the loss OF twenty-three lives.
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CLOSING IN ON BOsHOF.

Beers Threatening Communication
with Kimberley.
LONDON, April A.-The Daily Telegraph
has the following from Boshof. dated
Monday. April %: THE Beers are closing
in on Boshof. Their nearest laager is five
miles distant. Communication with Kim
berley is still open."
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TRIAL OF REBELS.
| Colonials Given Sentences Ranging

from SIX Months to Five Years.
CAPE TOWN. April 23.-The trial of
sixty-nine rebels was begun here to-day in
spite of an application for postponement
of the proceedings on the grounds that a
fair trial was impossible at this place.
Three of the prisoners were sentenced TO
five years imprisonment each. The SEN
tence imposed on the others varied from
three years to six months. according to
their ages.
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PARIS. April n-The Temps to-day pub
Iished a long article on the Turko-Amer-
lean situation. reviewing the circumstances
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CONCORD, N. H., April Ex-senator Will
liam E. Chandler has written letter to N.
B. Bryant, who will preside at at the Re-
publican state convention in this city to-
morrow. in which Senator Chandler says:
1T seems TO me that all differences about
other men and other measures should be
resolutely thrust aside, and that the great
event in America of the closing year Of
this wonderful century should be the re-
election of the President. who will so fit
tingly represent the national glories which
the sailors and soldiers Of the Republic
achieved in our disinterested war with
Spain, which forever liberated from her
bloody rule ten millions of people. victims
of her tyranny. With the overwhelming
victory next November of Mckinley and
Roosevelt you and / can cheerfully rest
from the labors we began together In 1856
and have continued to 1900"
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CONTINUED ON SECOND PAGEl
The Brunswick times. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 188?-1900, 1900-06-19
no GET THE RETURNS.
A Big Stroke Of Enterprise on the South
eru Bell Telophoks cos. Part.

A Big Stroke Of Enterprise on the South
era Bell Telophobs COS. Part.
Manager Il aleyof the local tIioe,an
nounces to The Timee that The south
eru Bell Telephone Company w,il have
instruments run through lhe r PM IL
can convention halt at Philadelpl IA
and comm neing with to-day will
& We regular bulletins free TO the pub
lie and patrons Of the company
This is big strokezof enterprise and
something unique in the handling OF
news. II demonstrates what wonder
fu strides the telephone company has
IN ide and Manager Hsley has prepar-
ed special wire service here which
will enable him to do his part OF il to
perfection. The Times is pleaed to
know that Manager Haley has ar
r4ngedto to keep Brunswick up with the
procession.
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At lhs bal

on Thursday night, Jane 2l'l there
will he most uoique and delightful
entertain meut at the opera house
4 serirs 1t CHARLES Dana Gibson's
famoas pictures win be given Iy q
numberof BrunswicA's loysl'est giFls
ana hsnasomest mer. Beside tuiS,
tbers vi sl.o lie "ree Z ye'ies Of a
Bsehelor, shoe ng The weeihearts at
yarit a. siages q mans career.
a musical program has also been
prepsred, in which Mrs A. ). O. watt,
Mr.. G,as ~ ming, Mr.. Howard Wan
The Brunswick times. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 188?-1900, 1900-06-19
THOUSANDS COMING
TO BRUNSWICK'S FAIR
Reports Handed in Last Night
Indicate Enormous Crowds Will
Be Here.
SOUTHERN WILL RUN SPECIALS.
Great Nitro ions Booked an Everything
pOiuts to Graad Success for he
Mid summer Fair and Cornwall

The Ulcers and directors Of the Fa
Association met last nightto lay out
plans for the last weeks work before
the Fair opens, and it was found from
the vari, US re- ports resd that the out
look for the midsummer Fair and
Carnival, to he held in Brunswicl =
June Goth to 3oth, Inclusive, was most
aattoriog, and as the opening day
grows near, there Is every indication
that enormous crowds wlll come to the
seashore during that week
General Agent C4ndler, Of the South
ern railroad, has received advioes to
the effect that the Southern willrun
special trains from Lumber City to
brunswick on Wednesday, june 27tb,
the occasion of the visit Of Governor
Calder and staff, and on June Soth,
Negro day, when Prof w. II. Conn
Gil, President Of the Ayr cultural and
Mechanical College Of Norma, u
oapa wilsbe orator Of the das. me
oolered po pie of BUN v ck have ar
rang monster pirfde on ha dsy,
snd ote orgsu z,tnn n f aaor' 4 nfen
waIh2y, over ii teen hundfoA q Iae,
The eltpe pafsd icing cry hr.e
hoassid asopg,
Friday Is Hoo Hoo day, and the or
Of ne lsiacK Cat VIII Z YEA grand lsse
'istSeei parade, and pubic conoatena-
ton in the opera house, tie first ever
held in Georgia.
The Fairwil open Tuesday with a
lloral parade, and each day there will
be numerous parades and street attrsc-
tions to amdse visitors while at the
Fair grounds, both days and nights,
there VIII be countless attractions,
coneerts. and dancing
The Fiflh Regimentb band Of Atlantis
fhas been engaged for the entire week,
ana viii bring down thirty pieceq.
The opera house willbe open nightly
aud boating exeursioos willrun on the
way to the Island resorts, thus afford
ing visitors 10 Brupswiok any kind Of
music that they desire.
The Fair this year comes just in the
right time for people to visit the sea-
shore, and reports from the various
advertising men now on the ROAD war:
rant the belief that there viii be more
people TO this Fair than at the last,
when Brunswiok entertained the most
enormous crowds that ever came &c
this section
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for ever yone 10 buy sdmissi' u
fair Sr, md At less than one
he regular rate, includirg both
ana day admission.
Fitth r giment band VIII glve
nSn' 'erisinmeuts WITH dsoc-
the various vaudeville per-
rs will entertain She crowds free,
ke will be plfn'y Of fun aDd ma
aing every night during The
You >ta,b lsinese vi b bad
sQkiDg suit on. % see Jim Carter.
The Brunswick times. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 188?-1900, 1900-06-19
Of on . Big Fish.

Col II. II, Dunn, Capt. Ben Fahn,
Mr.. J. B. Abrams and other proml-
n7nt Brunswiokians will head large
Marty who take the steamer Emmeline
foi bis 4 hing trip down the river.
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so on down the llue, the lowest rate

so on down the llue, the lowest rate
being 50 cents from Everett.
The band contest plans will be taken
up by Pres, Chas. Clark and the G 'ynn
0oraet Band today and invitations
sent out so ia IN, Jesup. Fernandinp,
savannah, Jacksonville and various
other places around this section.
saturday, Negro Day, promises to
see ten thousand people onthe fair
grounds.