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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-01-25
TUESDAYS FIGHTING.
Beers Fought Desperately, but Were
Slowly Driven.

Beers Fought Desperately, but Were
Slowly Driven.
LONDON, Jan. 25.-The Daily Telegraph
publishes the following from Spearman's
camp. dated Jan. B. 9:sO O'Clock p. m: ION
Monday Sir Charles Warren's force can
nonaded and fusilladed the Boer position
west of Spion kop, near the Acton Homes
road. h lyddite battery co-operated with
the other batteries and Maxims. Certainly
the fire was effective. causing the enemy
serious losses. The Beers, however, clung
they are only being very slowly driven.
To-day the enemy fired their guns oftener,
using also the captured fifteen Founders
with shrapnel. Our casulties to-day were
less even than those Of yesterday. Fight
ing began about 6 o'clck in the morning
and continued until dark. but there has
been nothing like a general engagement.
The naval big guns assisted from Pot
gieter's drift in shelNng the Boer posi-
tions"
Another dispatch from Spearman's camp,
dated Jan. %. ESQ p. m. says: "The Brit
ish field artillery and howitzers shelled the
enemy posted on the crest of the ridge
this morning. The infantry, under excellent
cover. kept up an effective rife fire. The
Beers resigned a kopje, of which the Brit
ish infantry took possession. When re-
firing the enemy sheltered themselves be-
hind a stone wall on the slope of the
kopje. which they held for hours. This
afternoon they ran across the ravine. The
British artillery poured shrapnel and lydd-
lite into them and the infantry took the
stone wall. The British casualty list was
SMALL
A dispatch from Pretoria, dated Jan. %,
somewhat amplifies the dispatch of Jan. %,
from the Boer head laager, cabled Tuesday
evening. 1t says: -Four or five times dur
ing the day the British replaced their SOL
diers by fresh ones The Beers casualties to
date one man killed and two men
slightly injured. Our men are in excellent
spirits. There is large slaughter of the
British. General Botha is now in sole COM
mand, General Kronje having been sent
elsewhere"
The same dispatch. apparently referring
to the situation at Colenso. says: lone of
the large Boer Maxims was temporarily
disabled, but was soon repaired. The Brit
ish north camp is in confusion. People are
observed trekking aimlessly in all direc-
tions.''
dispatch to the Times from Spearman's
Camp. dated Tuesday. $50 p. m, says: 1.-The
Beers to-day had more guns and are pre-
pared to fight almost interminably, having
intrenched their ridge. which stretched in
an almost unbroken line from the Drakens-
burg many miles eastward. Firing con-
tinued throughout the day. We have not
advanced any farther, but we threw up in
trenchments during the night from behind
which the musketry duel continued from
exactly the same position as yesterday"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-01-25
BOIEs FOR PRESIDENT.
Bryan VIII BE Asked to Step Out of
the Why for the Iowan.

WATERLOO, Ia, Jan. A.-Horace Boies,
as the Democratic nominee for President
is the suggestion of S. III. Bashor. Those
who know the close relations existing be-
tween the two men regard the declaration
as a practical announcement of his candi-
dacy by Mr. Boies himself. In discussing
the question Mr.. Bashor said: Horace
Boies is the ablest Governor Iowa ever
had. On national questions he has shown
a grasp and insight that time and events
are proving accurate. Men who want
sound currency csr find no objection to
him or his ideas on bimetallism. Western
men love, honor and trust him, and East
ern men have no fear of him. He is the
man upon whom all the great mass of
Democrats can unite He will poll vote
in the North and West that Mr.. Bryan
can never touch and there is no Democratic
sentiment in the East that can be en-
Enthusiastically for him. Mr.. Bryan is only
forty If he is the statesman his friends
think he will ripen and grow with age, and
years hence will be better than now. But
Horace Boies is the man of the day, and
hour, and the Democrats of the Nation
need him, can unite on him and L believe
will call him.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-01-25

''Recessional." 1t Is entitled Progress
ional." and is dedicated to .AIudyard Pip
ling" The first stanza follows:
Gods of the lingo, brass and gold,
Lords of the world. by right divine.
Under whose baneful sway they hold
Dominion over mine and thine
Such Lords as these have made them rotten.
They have forgotten. They have forgotten.
United States Ambassador Choate called
twice yesterday On Lord Salisbury, which
was the regular diplomatic day.
The president Of the British South Africa
Company has given out a curious denial Of
the statement that the company is pur-
chasing large quantities of rifles and sad
dlery for prompt delivery in South Africa.
He admits the purchases. says they were
made by himself in his private capacity.
but adds that they were only for the equip
ment of the Imperial Yeomanry There was
a growing impression that the company
was concerned in the purchase.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-01-25
HUNTER BROUGHT BACK.
Alleged Defaulter Who Was Arrested
I'm Tangier, Morocco.

NEW YORK, Jan. 24.-Among the pas
sengers who arrived this afternoon per
steamer Kaiser Wilhelm from Naples and
Gibraltar was a representative OF detec-
tive agency, having in charge as prisoner
f. L. Stevens, alias T. ]. Hunter, the al
legged defaulting auditor of the Atlantic &
West Point Railroad. Hunter was arrested
by the detective and w. p. Hill, the legal
adviser of the railroad company, at Tanore,
Morocco. There being no extradition treaty
between the United States and Morocco,
Mr.. Hill succeeded in securing a warrant
issued by the federal government. which
was served on Hunter at Tangier. After
discussion Hunter agreed to return to the
United States in the detectives charge.
Hunter declined to talk at quarantine The
detective says Hunter was all out OF funds.
and, after a little persuasion, agreed to
surrender and return TO New York.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-01-25
Newspapers Forced to Go to Press
with Nothing but COnjectures as
Advance of the British.
A FEW BELATED DISPATCHES
THAT SHOW THERE HAS BEEN
HARD FIGHTING AT THE FRONT.
Beers Have Mounted More GUNS and
Are Prepared to sfubbOrn1y Resist
Advance of the British

LONDON. Jan. 25., 5 o'clock a.
MP to this hour nothing has
been received from Gen. Butler as
to the result of Gen. Sir Charles
Warren's assault on Spion kop
Wednesday night. In his last
dispatch TO the War Office Gen.
Butler said an effort would be
made to capture Spion kop, the
most formidable of the Boer de-
fenses, but according to state
ments made at the War Office he
has not yet reported whether the
engagement was successful or the
reverse. From Brussels comes the
rumor that Warren was defeated,
but there is nothing to confirm the
report. The anxiety here all yes
terday and last night was intense.
Crowds besieged the War Office for
news that did not come. Shortly
after midnight the officials an
nounced that nothing further in
the way of dispatches would be
given out during the night. ~
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-01-25
NO HOPE FOR CARTER.
Dismissal of Habeas Corpus Proceed
ings Affirmed by Higher Court.

NEW YORK. Jan. 24.-The United States
Circuit Court of Appeals to-day affirmed.
with costs, the decision of Judge Lacombe,
dismissing the habeas corpus proceedings
in the case of former Captain Oberlin NJ
Carter. of the United States engineer corps.
convicted by court-martial of frauds in
connection with the Savannah river and
Cumberland sound improvements. The
decision was signed by Justices Wallace
and Shipman. Carter is prisoner at Fort
William, but has been sentenced TO six
years at Fort Leavenworth, Kan. He was
also ordered to pay a fine which he has
DONE
After reciting the findings and sentence
of the court-martial, the decision, in part,
says: 'It is not the office of a writ of
habeas corpus to perform the functions Of
a writ of error in reviewing the judgment
of a court-martial. Courts-martial are
tribunals created by Congress i'm pursuance
of the power conferred by the Constitution
and have a plenary jurisdiction of offenses
committed to them by the law military as
do the Circuit and District Courts of the
United States in the exercise of their statu-
tory powers over other offenses. 1t is not
COHteHueu lux lHc dppSildut THAT lue COuit-
martial did not have jurisdiction of the
person of the accused and of the offences
of which he was convicted. but it is insisted
that the court transcribed its power when
it punished him by fine and Imprisonment
instead of fine or Imprisonment: and that
the conviction and sentence for offense al
legged to be in violation of the sixty-second
article of war were void because the facts
charged did not constitute an offense
against that article. There being no statu-
tory decision on the subject, usage per-
mits indefinite number of offenses to
be adjudicated together. in one proceeding
by court-martial and the rendition of a
single sentence covering all the convictions
and imposing punishment accordingly, how
ever, separate and distinct may the differ
ent offences and however different may be
the punishments prescribed for them"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-01-25
SPEECH BY JOHN MORLEY.
He Intimates Britain May Have TrOu-
bic in other Quarters.

BILE I'm other Quarters.
LONDON. Jan. A.-John Morley, address,
ing his constituents this evening at For
far made but little reference TO the present
aspects Of the war in South Africa, confin-
ing himself chiefly to a renewal of his in
dictment of the policy which led TO hos
tilities.''
He ridiculed "the notion that a few Boer
successes entitle the Transvaal to be de-
scribed as a first-class military power"
and declared that ''the fact of the Beers
sending the ultimatum no more disposed OF
all other questions than the defiance of the
American colonists in throwing the tea into
Boston harbor disposed Of all the questions
of the war of American independence"
'It is quite certain" continued Mr.. Nor
ley that had the government appreciated
the temper of the Transvaal people and
foreseen what was coming-what we all
know in these black. gloomy days-there
would have been no war. 1t is dreadful,
but true, that want OF decent foresight
and decent information led the government
to stumble into war in the dark. Lord
Salisbury's menacing speech of July 2s. If
applied TO a great power. could only have
meant war. 1t was absurd. IL the govern
ment really believed in a Dutch conspir-
acy, to spend time in negotiating regarding
the franchise. The conspiracy was an aft
er-thought OF the government, conjured up
to mask hideous and CHASTITY blunder."
In conclusion Mr.. Morley declined to COM
nit himself as to what would happen in
the future. but he warned his hearers not
TO be duped by the idea that the Beers,
CONTINUED ON SECOND PAGE)
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-01-25

Brief Sketch of the New Sergeant-at-
Arms of the Senate.

Daniel NJ. Ransdell was born June Is,
1872, in Marion county. He was the son
of a Baptist minister of limited means,
and therefore had few educational advan-
tages. By his own energy he secured
scholarship in Franklin College, when he
was seventeen years old, and supported
himself while there by teaching school.
He left college in 1852 TO enlist, as pri-
vate, in Company G., Seventieth Indiana
Infantry, Colonel Benjamin Harrison COM
manding, and was with the regiment until
the battle of Resaca (Ga.), May Is, 1864.
when he was wounded in General Hooker's
charge on the Confederate works. in which
his regiment took the lead. He returned
to Indianapolis, and with his wounded arm
still in sling. took a course in a COM
mercial college, getting his diploma and
his discharge from the army about the
same time, in the winter of 1S64-65. In 1866
he was made deputy recorder Of Marion
county, under General w. J. Elliott. and in
1867 was elected city clerk, which office
he successfully filled two years. After an
intermission in business life he was elected
to the City Council in 1875, and in 1878, in
the Republican convention held March 2,
was nominated on the first ballot for clerk
OF Marion county. lie was eleCleu py
very large majority.
During the Harrison administration Mr..
Ransdell was marshal of the District of
Columbia. afterward returning to his home
in Indianapolis to engage in business. He
was for two years secretary of the Amer
lean Plate-glass Company, and has since
been engaged in various enterprises. lie
was defeated for nomination for mayor at
the Republican convention of August 10.
last year.
Ex-President Harrison has always been
one of Mr.. Ransdelrs firmest friends and
expressed himself yesterday as greatly
pleased upon receipt of a telegram from
Senator Fairbanks announcing the result
of the Senate caucus.
Mr.. Ransdell is at present president of
the Columbia Club, and that organization
sent him highly enthusiastic telegram of
congratulations upon receipt of the news
of his success. A large number of similar
messages were sent by personal friends.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-01-25

: there are any trusts wen take care of

If there are any trusts wen take care of
them"
Mr.. Bryan devoted fifteen minutes to
the subject of taxation. and had started
to say something about the income tax
bill of 1896 when a voice in the audience
shouted. "Oh, dry up"
Leaving the income tax and the trusts
Mr.. Bryan launched into the old silver
question and at once became very much in
earnest and less amusing to the audience.
He told of the number of times the free
silver question had been reported dead, but,
in his candid opinion. the corpse had
enough life to last another year. Some
people, he said, wanted TO know why he
did not drop the silver question, as If it
would break. 'In fact, have nothing to
do with the silver question; that question
is bigger than any man. Do you know
why this question so often takes new life?
Because it has never been we'll buried,
and they will never be able TO bury 1t.
Mr. Bryan closed his speech with dis
cussion of imperialism" repeating his
familiar arguments.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-01-25

Artesian Well Bored Beneath the
Ocean on Atlantic City.

ATLANTIC CITY, Jan. 24-Captain John
L. Young is sinking an artesian well that
is the most novel OF its kind in the world.
The well Is being driven midway on the
ocean pier and has already reached a depth
of 740 feet. 1t Is to go down 1000 feet, when
it is expected a large flow OF crystal water
will be tapped beneath the salt water of
the ocean overhead. 1t will take until the
latter part of next month TO finish the
boxing. One Of the peculiar things OBJ
served about this well is that the water
now in il rises and falls with the tides on
the beach. IL has been ascertained by
measurements that the rise of the water
In the well at the depth of 740 feet is two
feet, while than on the beach is more than
double. This is the first fresh water well
that has ever been sunk in the ocean, and
the water that II being obtained from it
now is pure, clear and sweet.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-01-25

Arounu Laoysmftn.
LONDON. Jan. %, Ais a. m.-The assem-
blage in Pail Mall outside the War Office
and those privileged to wait in the lobbies
reluctantly dispersed at midnight, after the
final word that nothing more would be
announced The morning papers went to
press with conjectures and forecasts of all
sorts. striving to guess out something from
Spion kop.
Topography maps show that spion kop
is the highest part of rocky plateau.
Eastward for eight miles are the Boer posi-
tions along the Tugela. Northwestward
from spion kop the plateau runs gradually
up to great spur OF the Drakensburg
General Buffers infantry. to reach the
summit of Spion kop. must cross a natural
glacis three-quarters OF mile wide, and
climb 500 feet up a steep slope.
Nobody here seems to know, not even the
War Office. what Lord Roberts has done
with his large reinforcements. Six thou
sand troops awaited his arrival at Cape
Town, and since then six thousand others
have reached there. Military critics are
all hoping that good share OF these
twelve thousand have gone to help General
Butler. and they argue that few days
wait may make him strong enough to over
come the deadlock. There are nineteen
thousand troops at sea. and this heavy
weight on the British side is expected to de-
strcy the equilibrium now existing or. every
field OF operation.
The British losses up 10 date In killed.
wounded and captured, according to Gen.
eral Buffers last list. totals s.2is men.
+. w. Reitz. the Transvaal state secre-
tary. has written parody on Mr.. Kipling's
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-01-25

SEATTLE, Wash. Jan. 2i-Advices from
the north received to-day substantiate the
report of a big fire at Dawson. 1t oc-
CURED on Jan. II, and destroyed buildings
and merchandise to the value OF $i00.00
The news comes by telegraph from Daw-
son to Skagway. The fire is supposed to
have originated from defective fue. The
flames burned about 400 feet along the
principal street. laying In ashes many of
tie most substantial structures in the
klondike metropolis. These buildings in
cluded many saloons, restaurants. opera
houses, grocery and general stores and a
branch OF the Canadian Bank of COM
merce. There was no loss Of life.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-01-25

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. Jan. A-Hon. Will
liam NJ Howard, of Ft. Payne. to-day an
nounced his candidacy for the United
States Senate on the Populist ticket. The
announcement had been expected for some
time. A conference of Populist leaders was
held in this city about ten days ago and
it was decided to put State ticket in the
field and run man for the Senate. Mr..
Howard is we'll known, having served i'll
Congress, and is the author of the bJ2k,
eff Christ Came to Congress"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-01-25

Sir Charles Warren Alleged to Have
Suffered Defeat.

BERLIN, Jan. "a. - German press tao
ticians are almost unanimously OF opinion
that the situation OF the British forces
around Ladysmith is desperate. The Ber-
liner Tageblatt prints a Brussels special,
claiming that Sir Charles Warren has been
signally defeated. A military writer for the
Kreuz Zeitung says the movement to re-
ieve Ladysmith has failed. rendering the
British line OF retreat endangered.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-01-25
Rhodes Firing "Long Cecil,

KIMBERLEY, Jan. 23.-The lombard
ments have ceased, but the Beers are per-
retually engaged in shipping. Long
Cecil'' is doing excellent work and Cecil
Rhodes has personally fired several shells
from the gun
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-01-25

have had in it and have never from the
start asked a senator for his support. nor
talked nor written to any senator on the
subject, except he had addressed me first
or had asked to see in regard to it.
Nor has any one Of the forty or more sena-
tors signing the invitation to me ever in
timated to me the least desire to recall
his nameo
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-01-25
MANY BOERS ILL.


tein Becoming UnbearabIe.
LONDON, Jan. 25.-A correspondent of
the Times at Modder river, telegraphing on
Tuesday, says: 1.-THE reports of deserters
agree that the situation of the Beers at
Magersfontein is becoming unbearable, be-
cause the camp is unsanitary, fever is
spreading and vegetables are wanting. On
the other hand, the health of the British
camp Is satisfactory, although the ground
has been exhausted by the long encamp-
ment and the trees have been cut down
by insect pests and dust-storms."
Der Nordstern. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1874-1931, 1900-01-11
q. 4dnifeI.

1leter ben Na9laB bes Notars @au-
fhenber9 mar Der @Oneurs aussetro'
den, bic fdlimmen 9efirhtunaer
Sanoforts batten ftp als be~sranoeter.
tuieIen.
Sic 2aEe mar, Big auf eine feb &c.
rin9e @slbinmme, leer, iiber ben Der.
bleib Der peri1wunoenen 3ruanii9tau.
ieno Sbalsr tano iib tein Rahweis Dor.
bas 3aHenbuh idien iberbaupt iebr
lieoerll4 9efiibrt uoroen 81 iein, uno
bic Goroerun9en, Die ihon IN DEN eriten
S1sen angemeloet tuuroen, ma1ten ben
Nuin unpermeiolih.
Ser Notar bate betrddtliae Sduloen
hinterlallen. aber teiIe Mlttel, um lie
su tilsen.
3luar iolten Wertbpapiere borban.
ben iein, einise Notiaen i'm 8ebeimbu1
beuteten barauf bin, aber lie Wuroen
niht gefunoen.
Mo warsn nun bic 5tuan3igtauIenb
9baler uno iene Wsrtbpaplere 9eblie'
benz
@sfoblen fonnten he ni6t iein. ben
G1laiel gum 8eloidrant babe Moele
benz erltsn Sdreiber i'm Selisin oes
Stentners 9ein,mann p~eriiegelt iiber.
Qeben. iofort mar er ibr Suriif9eseben
uno slsia oaraui Der Sarallt Ueriieyelt
iuoroen.
IS muBte Tb MIes uobt 70 berbat.
ten. mie Seinrld Sanofort es bel Der
Serihtlihsn &epiiion ertldrte.
Ger Notar butte in friibsren Sabren
an Der Yorie ipetulirt uno srobe Ger-
lutte 9ebabt. bas 9lng aus iellsm De-
beimbuhs berOor, baourd mar er II,
SbulOen 9eratben, bic er nur bel gro
Sen ginrdrdntunsen i'm 2aufe pleler
Sabre tilgen tonnte.
9lber er, Der aenubIahtise 2ebemntlrt,
mar tein Greunb bon iOlhen Gini4rdn.
~turoen, bic iiberbies feinem Sreolf
iaabsn unb bas 9ertren.n. ons es OILS
aneebli9 ielr p%erm6Senoer Wtaru1 9e'
nob. eri9iittern mpBten.
OF uno rpslae totipielisen Siebha'
b.reiem er se6abt battle. behauptete
Samofort niht gu pifen. Ct lieB einise
Mmbeutunaen falen, bat aber aud) au'
9lei4, niat rusiter Su forI4et, oa er
ni9t ben 8orruurf Der @ebdili8teit aur
fih LADEN NOBLE.
Sebenfaas mar e. benz Notar tlar
aeiporoen, baB e. Rh aus feinen Wer'
leaenbeiten niat ulebr befreien tonute,
bok IL unrsttbur Dor benz Hutn tf0no,
Der Nordstern. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1874-1931, 1900-01-11
Streifidter.

Bon einem Meniden geliebt fem.
ST mebr. als bel bunoert beliebt iein.
0iele Sreunoe peri4wei9en uns un.
iere s@wd&en. um lie Anoeren mitau-
theilen.
Wan1er erf4eint ben 2euten fleiR,
neil er ibnen 10 melt poraus 1T.
Cine 9ano pdi&t bic anbere, bod
ma&t au& oft cine 0ano bic anoese
i1mubig.
Sas Siesel Der Berf6uiesenbet
cine beliebte S&abmarte fur QlotI&k
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