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Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1900-02-22
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uAsrpO0n Dispatched
.,.,,,s Drift, orange Free state
y rsb 20. via Modder RVer
.S Feb. gi.-one of the costli-
s... n the war occurred at Paar-
nm sunday, Feb. 18th. Gen
...r..Dy. in pursuit Of Gen. cronje'
y, n. rear guard at kip Drift
= 20 o. sieqsiuq oR p9AOIIO' pu'
"a 1t KoOdoOsrand' ,.,.
:. An, action began at daybreak,
United infantry driving the Beers
4 pad Up the river towards the ne
.,ay while another body OF
~ infantry manouyered on the
I, i-,,t and aanked the Beers
BRITISH MAIN ATTACK.
:, british main body advanced to
A., ne Beers lager on the bank
aver Cen. Kelly.Kenny having
y NO drifts found the Beers
~, enclosed and ordered an at
"a the Highland brigade on the
.. Gen. Knox's brigade on the
:, nd right while Gen, SMITH
,,,Ib brigade crossed the river and
trrs along the north bank
mn SIDES LOSE HEAVILY.
,sA the north and south banks
sr.rd IS level and the advance
r.As was deadly and the British
eyre heavy. The battle was an
s,ElIca OF the Modder River. The
4 we're under fire all day, and
"A irh.lng had no definite result,
kss Boers' lager was we'll barri-
n ii they remained therein.
4 British guns shelled the lager
ssxsy and the Beers confessed 10
a 4 over sOo men.
y terrific shelling was resumed
IrlE when Gen. Cronie asked for an
rEN
n selling was continued Tuesday.
y ~ guns pouring lead into the
y amp
sEy B0THA BEATEN BACK.
Lz.ss Feb %. 1881 p. ma special
ElgA from Paardeberg, dated
lshssiay, February q, says.
GAnandant Botha has been at
r;tng 70 relieve Gen. Cronje. There
VA severe fighting. Gen. Botha's
his scattered with heavy losses"
trp n.-The war office has received
r Lod Roberts the following mes
tshich was delayed In transmission,
u Paarteberg, Wednesday, Feb. 2l:
Roberts REPORTS VICTORY.
Yesterday afternoon I was satisfied
itrsia reconnaissance In force OF
sNys position that ] could not
Nli L without very heavy loss,
|lal vas most anxious to avoid. Ac-
e-iglJ decided to lombard him
|n artillery and turn my attention 10
Asnys achievements as they ar
q detail. which they have al
~ Started doing. The re-
y vas NOS satisfactory. The Beers
|''s .1ytn IN IN all directions. losing
10 many killed and wounded, and
!. my prisoners. who say they ar
= ron Ladysmlth two days ago by
,rsd They also say It was our ar
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1900-02-22
Labor Leader Acquitted.

Williamsburg. Ky. Feb. 22.-organ-
izer George W Purcell of the United
Mine Workers. has been acquitted Of
the charge Of leading a riot Purcell.
accompanied by 200 others, went 10 the
Proctor mines 10 organize union. He
was met at the edge OF the company's
land and forbidden entrance. Purcell
came on against the orders OF the SUI
perintendent and organized a lodge, but
was not disorderly. The jury after be-
ing out a few minutes returned yer-
diet Of not guilty.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1900-02-22
MISSING WITNESSES
WILL RETURN SOON
Mana WitbeCk and Emma MathisOn are Ex-
pected Back from Chicago in Few
Days to Testify in BenbrOOk case.

The General impression Is That Jury Will Be Secured by
Saturday Night and That the Taking OF Testimony viii
Commence on Monday Morning Two Full Weeks May be
Occupied in the Examination OF Witnesses and in Argu.
ments-Jurors in This Case viii Not Be Allowed to
Separate Which the Prosecution and Defense Will
FoIOw-The Six Jurors So Far Selected to Try the Case
More OF Benbrook's Relatives Coming.
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cRoNJE HOLDS ms OWN.
BRITISH CASUALTIES.

Gen. Butler reports that his casualties
Monday. February Is, were: Killed,
Captain Thorburn OF the royal fusileefs.
Wounded-Two officers and fourteen
men.
HURRY ORDERS FOR ARTILLERY.
London. Feb. 22.-Artillery officers re
ceived hurry orders today to proceed
TO South Africa with 80 l-pound MAXIM
NOrdenfeldt guns.
All the war Offices information Is sald
10 point to Gen. Cronje's escape being
impossible and II Is now generally TAX
EN- for granted that Lord Roberts mas
him surrounded.
All the critics OF the afternoon news.
papers urge rushing achievements to
Lord Roberts so that he may be aole
10 risk much In endeavoring TO inlet
a decisive defeat before the Boer forces
gathering from every quarter strength
en- Gen. Cronje's threatened force.
BULIEk CRITICISED.
Gen. Buffers apparent Hardness and
failure 10 prevent the Beers from sip-
ping round 20 assist Gen CronJe ere
ates no little comment
The relief OF Ladysmith Is now taken
10 be a matter Of course and as likely
10 be announced before the end OF the
week but IL is quite within the prob
abilities that severe fighting will occur
previous 10 the relief, while the de-
lachments to be sent by Gen. Butler TO
reinforce Lord Roberts, subsequent TO
the relief. are likely TO meet with siren
uous resistance In the passes OF the
Drakenberg. In which fairly powerful
burgher forces remain.
JoUBERTs NERVES UNSTRUNG.
Roer reports say Cen. Joubsrt's nerves
are unstrung and that he no longer ex-
ercises the chief command.
A dispatch from sterks Spruit, dated
Feb. a, says the prominent rebels IN
| this district intend 10 surrender and
the Stormberg rebels will shortly lay
down their arms.
There have beer many euloglstlc
references 10 the speeches Of Laurier
and other Canadians on the subject OF
the losses Of the Canadians in South
Africa. concerning which curiously
enough. there Is not a single word OFF,
clal or otherwise. known or published
here, except that two officers were
| wounded.
The Globe says: THE spirit In which
a brave strong nation should meet trial
Is admirably illustrated by the temper
| displayed by Canada. The war, u II
has done nothing else, has Killed politi-
cal bitterness and mere party strife In
all the colonies. The contrast between
Ottawa and Westminster Is painful and
humlIating."
In the house OF lords today replying
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1900-02-22
BRITISH DEFEAT CHINESE.
Seventy Mongolians Killed in Battle
on the Border.

Rangoon, British Burmah. Feb, "a
A British official attached to the boun-
dairy commission named Hertz. while
touring in the Durham, Chinese frontier.
with an escort, has engaged and routed
two considerable forces Of hostile Chi
nese from Mirkawg Pa, killing the
leader Of the Cinnamon and seventy
Chinese.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1900-02-22

to a question on the subject Lord Sails
bury declared the government had no
engagement whatever with any power
In respect 10 the course 10 be taken
in the ultimate settlement with the
Boer republics. No power, he said, had
asked or suggested entering into any
such Arrangement
Lord Salisbury also said he knew
nothing Of Gen. Cronje's proposed ar
mistice.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1900-02-22

supplied with food, and a quantity Of
provisions were left behind.
II is expected further resistance will
be half-hearted and that Ladysmlth
viii be reached In few days.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1900-02-22
LOSS OF ~ MEN.

An additional list OF casualties sus-
tained by the British troops during the
retreat from Rensberg, Feb. TO- shows
that fourteen men were killed, that lSS
members Of Wiltshire and Worcester
shire regiments are missing, the latter
fact confirming the Boer reports that
number Of prisoners had been captured
by them.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1900-02-22

tulery fire which caused them to aban-
don the kopje they were occupying. our
loss was two officers, captain camp
hell Of the ninth lancers. and Lieut.
Houston Of the artillery and four men,
all slightly wounded
cRoNJE HOLDS HIS OWN
Paardeberg, Wednesday, Feb. a. wv
D. ma Boer kopje has been captured
with fifty prisoners. Gen. CronJes po-
sition Is unchanged.
New York, Feb. 22,-Arriyed: Ems
Genoa.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1900-02-22
KANSAS CITY GETS IT.
Democratic National Convention for 1900
Gees There.
Milwaukee Was Its Competitor, Hut
The Missouri Town Takes
she Prize.

Washington Feb. 22.-Kansas City
won vote: Kansas City 10; Milwaukee 2.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1900-02-22
oTHER RELATryEs COMING.

SO far, Benbrook has been attended
in court by his wife, two brothers, a
sister, brother-in-law, and niece. II Is
understood that one, and perhaps two,
more brothers viii come on to attend
the trial.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1900-12-28

Save for the thought in mems minds,
there will be nothing to mark the hour of
IL next Monday night and the day which
follows from any other hour and day in
the year, but nevertheless there are few
men and women of serious purpose and
conscious responsibility TO whom the time
will not have a meaning such as no other
in their lives has had. Turning toward
our country and the world at large there
will be thought Of all the wonderful ad-
vance IN science aud art, in invention and
discovery, in war and in peace, in changed
ways of living and thinking, of startling
development which we are apt to think can
hardly be equaled in the century to come.
To each individual the time, applied to
his own life, will have It's own significance
In retrospect there will be memories both
pleasant and painful, and there will be re-
grets that are inevitable. Looking for
ward there will be both anticipation and
forebOding, but more, we hope, of high re-
solve and steadfast purpose than of either.
There are few good resolutions, categLr-
lcally made, which do not get sadly worn
and battered before any year grows old,
but a habit of upward looking, of aspira-
tion, of quiet determination to do ones
best, is a good companion which may be
summoned any day of the year.
We suspect that the discipline of life
teaches most of us that the best gift which
any year brings is courage and patience
and fortitude to live our own life as We
find it. The year 1901, and the other years
of the twentieth century, will form no ex-
ception to this rule. Let us meet the new
century with the confident and cheerful
belief that, however we as individuals may
fare, the hundred years to come will bring
to the world better things and reveal to
humankind greater wonders and possibill-
ties than any century that has gone before.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1900-12-28
BRATTLEBORO, FRIDAY, DECEMBER %, 1900.

prominent Christian workers in the coun-
try. It is to be national in scope, with
New York as the centre, and absolutely
undenominational i'll character. "Christ
and the Bible" is the only battle cry.
Practically every branch of the Protestant
church and all the great religious societies
identified with it are urged to unite in the
crusade. A general appeal is now being
sent out to all the religious bodies of the
country urging them to mutually and unit
eddy engage in a campaign for the promo
tion of revival of Christianity in every
city, town and village at the opening of the
twentieth century. The leading clergymen
of New York and Brooklyn, Father Clark
of the Christian Endeavor movement, and
Others are members of the committee in
charge, and the chairman is William Phil
lips Hall Of New York, formerly of Brat
tleboro, who was speaker at the Inter-
state Y. M. @. A. meeting held here few
months ago.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1900-12-28

DR.. D. K. Pearson D Chicago, who is
remembered by Vermonters as a native of
Bradford, sent a check fpr $50, 900 to Colo
RADIO college in Colorado Spring, as a
Christmas gift. Within the past seven
weeks he has given 100000 to another
educational institution, his name not to be
used publicly in connection with the gift
until after his death. These two gifts,
with the $4,000 donated by him recently
for the erection Of woman's dormitory at
Northwestern university, bring the total
amount of his benefactlons in the past ten
years up TO 81, 4s9 600. The money which
he has expended anonymously is said to
make the total amount of his gifts to edu-
cational and charitable institutions a round
S3,000,0 900. He has always lived frugally
and has never INDUCED in lavish expendi-
lures for his own pleasure. He is now
over so years old, and expects to round 100
years, as he has system for keeping in
good health which he follows carefully.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1900-12-28
aye Urrurunt d9Bamis.
TEN PAGES.
BRATTLEBoRo:
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 2s, 1900.

There seems TO be no doubt of the pas
sage by Congress Of the river and harbor
bill, which sppropriates sos, OOO 600. Over
half of this is for pending and continuous
authorized work, making the amount of
the bill as a regular river aud harbor meas.
ure, so far as new appropriations are con-
cerned, about $27, OOO,O 900, In 1896, when
President Cleveland vetoed bill carrying
S72,OOO,0OO, it was passed over his veto.
Fourteen years before President Arthur
vetoed bill appropriating $l2, goo, 900 for
rivers and harbors, on the ground it was
excessive, and Congress passed it over the
veto.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1900-12-28
TO BE REPRESENTED.

Organization Formed at Montpelier
Yesterday Will Raise $4,000 to be
Expended at Pan-American EXPOSE
ton.
A conference of a few representa-
tive business men of Vermont was
held at Montpelier yesterday at the
request of Gov. Stickney to consider
plans for representing the state at the
Pan-American exposition to be held
in Buffalo, N. Y. An organization
was formed with these officers:
President, Gov. w. w. Stickney; vice
presidents, Lieut.. Gov. M. F. Allen
and Speaker Fletcher Proctor; secre-
tary G. S. Forbes of st. Adams; treas
urer, j. W. Brock of Montpelier. An
executive committee, one from each
county, was also chosen George w.
Hooker is the Windham county mem
Der, j. r. Bacon from Windsor county
and H. s. Bingham from Bennington
county. The organization is pledged
to raise $4,000 by popular subscription,
of which $4,000 will be expended for
the New England States building,
where Vermont will have a room, and
$4,000 will be used to provide an ex-
hibit to advertise the natural attrac-
lions of Vermont as a summer resort
and an exhibit of articles of historical
interest.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1900-12-28

is Vermont the Great Hiurder State"
the query propounded by the Essex Rec
ord and answered by The Phoenix, is an
swered again by the Chicago Times Her
aid, which gives the average number of
murders committed annually during the
past decade in several states and territories
of the Union. In Vermont the average
for population is to 80, 404 New Hamp.
shire has the second best record, to A,
1877, followed by Maine to SO, 727, and
Massachusetts to 1882. Nevada, Ari-
iona, Montana and Colorado are put down
at the bottom of the list, with ratios re-
spectively of to 117S, l to 1887, l to
146s and 1 to 1854. The table is a strik-
ing commentary of the cheapness of hu-
man life in all of the Southern and West
ern states. Our Essex junction coptem-
porary ought to come out with some Of
those lamboyant head lines equal to the
onts which gave the impression the state
was going to the demnition bow-wows.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1900-12-28
Crusade for Christianity.

One hundred thousand ministers will
start on the greatest crusade for Christian
ity which this country has ever known
within the next ten days. At a secret
committee meeting held in New York Fiji
day, details of the plan over which promi-
nent clergymen and laymen have been
studying for months were perfected. This
great revival to usher in the twentieth CEN
tury was the thought of the late Dwight
L. Moody. After his death, friends took
1t up, and enlisted In It's support the most
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1900-12-28
NoRTHFIELD, MASS.

Mr.. and Mrs. Elkana Lane of Cleve-
land. Ohio, have been the guests of
M. S. Stearns recently. Mr.. Lanes
brother Samuel Lane, was once
resident of Mortified.
VIM. d. Field and family of this
town have closed their house for the
winter. After visiting their son in
Mattapoisett, they will go to the Ber-
mudas for the winter.
Miss Jennie Mann, daughter of Yves
ley Mann of this place, and Alexander
Holton of Los Angeles, Cal, are to be
married next Tuesday afternoon at
the home of the bride. They will
live in California.
By mutual agreement z. ]. Kelley,
Stearns & Archibald, Woodbury. &
Leisure, Wallace Holton, and Robbins
& Evans will close their places of
business on Tuesday and Thursday
evenings at six o'clock.
On Thursday Representative Stowell
from New Salem came to the town
hall to meet some of the voters and
the selectmen to hear the matter of
the toll bridge discussed and learn
what the town wants to accomplish
in the matter.
The Unitarian society will hold
their annual fair and festival on the
last two nights of the month. The
first night a chicken-pie supper will
be served, followed by a dramatic en-
tertainment. On the second evening,
a supper and dance will be held.
Fancy articles will be on sale both
evenings.
The supper given by the Unita-
rian women last Friday night was
more largely attended than ever be-
fore. 1t was followed by the second
session of the Unity club, the enter
tainment being furnished by the
Field family. The program consist
ed of music, recitations and character
sketches, and at the close a song and
dance by the Misses Field and B. F.
Field, THE Pickaninnies." The
whole was of the highest order of
merit and was immensely enjoyed by
the large audience.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1900-12-28

BEGIN THE NEW YEAR

Cortr of the " Neio Vermo"ter " in miniature
BEGIN THE NEW YEAR
and New Century as a subscriber of
the New Vermonter" New Stand
ard Form Munsey size. New Cover.
New Type. Enlarged and Improved.
New Features. Distinguished Con-
tributors. Finest illustrations. Read
the list of Attractions for 1901:
Twentieth Century History of Yer
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Residences; Vermonters Abroad;
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Remit one dollar to the publisher
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scriber forwarding a dollar to the pub
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Don't delay. The Vermonter is sold
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fishers of Vermont newspapers. Sam
pie copy sent on receipt of 10 cents.
CHARLES S. FORBES, Publisher.
st. Adams, VT
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1900-12-28

when plans now under way are CON-
plected an entire subdivision of Chicago,
comprising tract of 100 acres, will be
heated by single steam plant A realty
firm will erect 176 two story fat buildings
on the property. and viii install at once
boilers capable of supplying 5000 feet Of
street mains, and additions will be made
as they are needed. 1t is estimated that
the cost will be made s40a fat per annum.
The innovation, by the way, is an innova-
ton only in so far as Chicago is concern
ed, for Boise City, Idaho, has had a SINH
lar plan in successful operation for many
years, with the difference that there the
entire city gets its heat piped to it from a
huge spring of boiling hot water some dis
lance beyond the city limits.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1900-12-28
The vsrmou,er in New Form.

The Vermonter appears in its issue for
January, 1901, in its promised change of
form to the standard magazine size and
with a new makeup throughout. The
change is one in every way to be COM
mended. 1t adds materially to the con-
venience, usefulness and attractiveness of
the magazine. In its contents 1.-THE num-
Der is made notable by the publication of
the first instalment of Twentieth Cent
ury History of Vermont" The opening
chapter is contributed by President M. Il.
Buckham of the University of Vermont,
and is accompanied by half-tone portrait
Of the author which appears as frontls-
piece. This article covers IA pages and is
handsomely illustrated with scenes and
portraits of the early time. There is a
sketch, with portrait, of George Ed
mund FOss, who now represents the 7th
illinois district in Congress, and who is a
native of Berkshire in Franklin county.
A sketch, with portrait, of Gen. Julius J.
Estey is the first 10 series of "Vermont
Men of Today" There is a group of
"Vermont's Fair Women" and a repro
duction of the late Rowland E. Roblnson's
poem in French Canadian dialect, can
toine's Version of Evangeline." The COW
er has a special design by Paul Revere
Henkel of Brattleboro.
Col. Charles S. Forbes, the publisher of
the Vermonter, has shown commendable
enterprise and courage, with a gener-
Gus confidence in the people of Yer
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1900-12-28
4e CHILDREN DROWNED.
Ice Gave Way on Pond in Iowa and
Only Two Escaped.

A telephone message from Wash
ington, Ia, says that 81 school chill
dren were skating on the river yes
terday near Foster, Ia, when the ice
gave way and 40 were drowned
A Des Moines despatch states that
telephone messages by way of Oska-
loosa and Ottumwa say the report of
the drowning of 40 school children at
What Cheer is true. The children
were skating on a pond near the fair
ground, and the accident occurred
about 8 o'clock in the evening.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1900-12-28

Frank L. Smith. who was held at
Springfield, Mass. ,en the charge of
swindling Daniel Leonard of Feeding,
Hills out of $4,000 by the gold brick
game, was released on $4,000 bail yes
terday.
Carrie Sinclair Huntoon, who was
arrested at Concord, N. H., for plan
ming her husbands murder, was taken
to the New Hampshire asylum for the
insane yesterday, the physicians hav-
ing decided that she was mentally de-
ranged. She had poison for the pur-
pose of suicide.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1900-12-28

mont, in his management and de-
development of The Vermonter, and we
hope sincerely that the new departure,
with the beginning of the new century,
will mean the beginning Of period of
prosperity which is we'll deserved.