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The Saint Paul globe., 1900-04-15
NOT A BEAUTY.

The woman registered at the hotel
April H. when she arrived in company
with Mrs Ida Koss, who was arrested
after the shooting. Mrs. Koss spent
every night with her friend and left
her yesterday only a few minutes be-
fore Wright arrived at the hotel, in an
swer to note from Mrs. Lottridge.
Mrs Lottridge is a widow of not very
prepossessing appearance. She is near
ly six feet tall and weighs about 1S5
pounds. What little she said was elic-
tied from her by Capt. Colleran. She
told the chief of detectives she had been
acquainted with Wright for many years
and that on every one of her visits to
Chicago he had called on her.
Mrs Koss, who denies all knowledge
of the shooting declares that she and
Mrs Lottridge had several drinks in the
room of the latter, and when Mrs. Koss
was about to leave the room Mrs. Lot
fridge announced that she intended to
send for Mr.. Wright
WINE fLOWED FREELY.
ger Dabb, of the hotel orders for wine
were plentiful after the arrival of
Wright Several coolers, in which the
bottles were sent to the room, were
found by Detective Burns. The orders
ceased about o'clock and half an hour
after that the bellboy, Hugh Willis, hur-
ried to the desk of the hotel office and
notified Chief Clerk O'Brien that DIR.
Hammond was wanted at once in the
room occupied by Mrs. Lottridge. The
clerk sent for Dr. Hammond, and the
physician found Wright lying on the
bed suffering from a wound in his
neck.
The bullet had entered on the left side
and had lodged in the right shoulder
as far as could be ascertained. He at
tempted to probe for the bullet, but de-
cided it too dangerous an operation when
he found 1t impossible to locate it. When
DR.. Hammond took the revolver with
which the shooting was done, Mrs. Lot
fridge attempted to take 1t from him
and struck him several times In the
face.
The condition of Wright at midnight
was critical and the physicians were un-
able to predict the outcome. DR.. Ham
mond expressed the opinion, however,
that the would would prove mortal.
The Saint Paul globe., 1900-04-15
LORD ROSSLYl AMONG THEM
BRITISH COMMANDER Is SENT TO
KROONsTAD BY HIS Sue
az CESSFUL FOES
ROBERTS MAKES NO MOVE
Situation at BIOemfontein Prac-
ticaIly UnchanGed-PrOtes En-
tered Against BOer Treat
ment Of Prisoners.

LONDON, April 15.-A dispatch
from BIOemfontein, dated April IA,
sayss
IA patrol of Royal Irish, with
whom was Lord Rosslyn, has been
captured. Lord Rosslyn has been
sent to KrOOnstad."
The Saint Paul globe., 1900-04-15
WOMAN's STORY.

The story told by the woman is that
Wright, who had spent two hours in the
company of Mrs. Lottridge, tried to take
revolver from her which she had taken
from her satchel, with a view to getting
his opinion on It,. In the struggle which
followed for the possession of the weapon
1t was discharged, and the bullet lodged
in the left side of Wright's neck
The shot was not heard by anyone in
the hotel, and the first known of the oc-
currence was when Mrs Lottridge called
Hugh Willis, bellboy, and told him to
notify DR.. ]. D. Hammond the house ply
sician, of the shooting. The doctor hur-
ried to the room where the wounded man
lay, and, while he worked over him, Mrs.
Lottridge stood by and watched the ef-
forts to save the life of the wounded
man.
Mrs. Lottridge was found in a room next
to that in which the wounded man lay
when. the detectives arrived She appear
ed to be under the influence of wine and
made no resistance when Detective Burns
told her she was under arrest. She sim
ply said the shooting was accidental and
expressed her willingness to accompany
the officer to Jail. AT the central police
station she positively refused to talk of
the shooting.
The Saint Paul globe., 1900-04-15

Burns arrived at the hotel he found Mrs
Lottridge there. He at once placed her
under arrest, and she is being detained at
the Harrison street police station.
friend who had spent several hours
with her previous to the shooting was
also arrested. She gives her name as
Mrs. Ida Koss
Much mystery attaches to the shooting.
Both the victim and Mrs. Lottridge per-
sist in saying it was accidental, while the
police hold that, from the location of the
wound, there is no doubt as to the truth
of the declaration.
Capt. colleran, the chief of detectives,
says the stories of the two, while they
tally as regards the cause of the shooting,
differ in details
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A social party of the Ladies Guild OF
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The Red Cloud chief., 1900-11-23
THE WATCH.

There are two kinds of people we
want to watch. They who have watch.
es-we want to repair them. They
who have hon9-we want to sell them
watches.
The Red Cloud chief., 1900-11-23
Till CLOCK.

A reliable clocks a necessity in ev.
cry well regulated household. Our
antee every clock we sell aud know
how 10 make it go right il 1t goes
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THE RING.
Our finger rings all have the ring of
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The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1900-05-21
EVERYDAY RAILROAD SCENES IN SOUTH AFRICA.

the British. The Beers are said to be
outnumbcred four to one. but when il Is
remembered that Roberts has had to
scatter his men out behind him TO in
sure his lines against interruption IL is
not so difficult TO realize just why the
Boer is able 10 hold so long I'm check the
great army which England has sent up
against him.
The railway line leading up To Mafe-
king has already been the scene of
many engagements. Almost the first
stroke delivered by the Beers was made
against this road. when n body OF their
men at the beginning OF hostilities
crossed over from the Transvaal border
and tore up the track south of Mafe-
king. Along this line. too. the armored
train has done considerable effective
work. Even the little stretch OF road
about Mafeking controlled bv Colonel
Baden-Powell has It's armored train,
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1900-05-21

Superiority Tell against the Confederate
forces. Roberts second great strategic
movement. the spreading OF living net
10 capture for second time the Boer
forces In the neighbofhood of Wepener
was not so successful as his first At
tempt at Paardeberg, for the Roers
had learned their lesson, and. after in
iiicting what damage they could on the
British, ran away Ito fight another
day" IL was the superior mobility OF
the Beers that was their salvation in
this instance, for Nhen once away from
the railway the British must move al
a snaillike speed as compared with the
well mounted burghers. With Roberts
advance northward into the Orange
Free state his difficulties have contin-
ually increased. Even at the present
time the question OF communication
and transportation is q serious one. for
IL Is no easy task 60 move and supply
with meat and bread and fodder 100. 900
men 4d many thousand horses i'm the
heart OF hostile country which Is pen
etrated by only one line OF single track
ed railway. And the farther the Brit
ish advance the farther behind they
must leave their base. Every inch OF
their line OF communication must be
gsarded and kept open along this rail-
way for isolation i'm the land of the
Boer would mean disaster TO the Brit
ish. The wounded and sick have TO be
hustled away south day by day, and
fresh supplies and mounts and re-en-
forcements have 10 be hurried back
north as fast as the iron horse can haul
them. Then, too, the commander who
holds the railway also holds the tele-
graph wire. To guard the railway and
telegraph line between Bloemfontein
and Norvals Pont is taking an army OF
$1,000 men. This is a distance Of but
107 Sriles. From this may be imagined
the number of men necessary 10 police
all the lines Of communication held by
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1900-05-21

little difficulty here. for, according TO
an international agreeInentsmade at the
time or the construction OF the road
Great Britain was 10 enjoy certain
transportation privileges into Rhodesia
IL was not until the midsummer OF
1898 that the Beira road was finished
When the last spike was driven in that
little narrow gauge line, its roadbed
stretched much farther than was orig
inally intended. because, on one hand,
OF the detours which had TO be made To
avoid the hills. and also because the
border line between the Portuguese
and British territories had I'm the mean
time been moved some ~ miles To the
westward. SO. when finished, the line
was 2OS miles long. From Beira IL rose
steadily 10 an elevation OF 3350 feet
above the level OF the sea at umtall.
Under such circumstances. Of course,
great rate OF speed could not he
looked for on. such line. In fact, on
the Beira railway freight trains usually
travel at the rate of ten miles an hour,
while the fast passenger express hurtles
over the country at the rate Of ~ and
sometimes IL miles an hour. The COM
plete journey from Beira to Umtali
takes two whole days. IL Is at Umtali
naland railway, which stretches on 10
Salisbury, the capital OF Rhodesia,
named in honor OF the English premier.
This latter line was built under con-
tract with the British South Africa
company, that great organization OF
London capitalists which was behind
the Jameson raid and which has always
been the bitter foe of the Boer This
company guaranteed the interest on the
debentures and made a very good thing
out of the undertaking, which was root
ed In Great Britain's desire to have rail-
way connections between Cape Town on
the south and Beira on the east coast OF
Africa. And Ii will not be long before
this dream is realized. The road from
Cape Town. which skirts the western
border of the Transvaal already
reaches up north of Bulawayo. There
is yet just one missing link i'm the long
chain, and that is the $50 miles
that lie between Bulawayo and Sails
bury. Work is now being done. and Il
will not be long before Salisbury and
Bulawayo are linked together with the
two potent little lines of steel rails
Then the passenger stepping into his
train at Cape Town will travel north
1000 miles and step out at Salisbury.
BY turning east and travelling s7s miles
he will once more stand on the coast II
the Indian ocean.
When Darlington reached Salisbury.
he had this $50 miles of overland march
ing ahead of him before he reached
Bulawayo. The ordinary traveller pro-
ceeding from the one place to the other
does so by bullock wagon or stagecoach
III he Is i'm hurry and wants 10 pay $50
for the trip. he takes the coach. If he
wants to travel more cheaply and time
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1900-05-21

and this played It's part i'm holding back
the besieeing Boer army under Snyman
and cronje. A little TO the south. too.
Plumer has done most or his lighting
along the railway AID made sevesal in
enectual efforts 10 open communication
with the south. IL was owing TO his
failure i'm this that Mafeking was not
relieved weeks and weeks ago.
The line running from Durham
through Pietermaritzburg and Lady
smith up into Natal figured conspicu-
ously in the war from the very opening
OF the campaign. This lire was also
neatly blocked by the Beers before the
British knew what they We're about by
the blowing up OF Colenso bridge This
put a barrier between Ladysmith and
Durham, and 20 IL might be traced the
series OF defeats which overlook Butler
when he left the railway and tried TO
force his way into Ladysmith by new
route. IL is indeed hard TO say Just how
the history OF the South African war
would have been changed II Colenso
bridge had never been blown up and
the line of communication had been
properly guarded i'm time and the rail-
way kept open from the coast TO Lady
smith. If such. indeed. had been the
case. there might have been very diff
ferent tale TO tell.
But the most interesting. If not the
most important, railway figuring I'm the
South African campaign is that known
as the Beira railway. The llttoral ter
minus OF the Beira railway is AT Beira,
in Portuguese South Africa, and con-
meets that seaport town with the town
OF Salisbury. in Rhodesia. 1t was to
Beira that General Darlington and his
division were sent by Lord Roberts, the
movement being one OF the most inter-
esting and unique features of the Sam
paign. The object of this move was
threefold. One aim was to be the re-
lief OF Mafeking from the northeast;
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1900-05-21

the second aim was TO keep an eye on
any scattered bands of Beers who
might have been drawn off into Rho
desia, having crossed the Limpopo river
as Lord Roberts advanced into the
Transvaal. The third and most impor-
tant object of this great northern de-
tour on the part OF Darlington was the
fact that he was expected TO operate as
that mobile hammer that was TO pound
back the main body OF the Beers
against the army OF Roberts stretched
out across the republic 10 the south. II
WAS a Ranking movement OF a few
thousand miles. It was long way
round TO the Beers back door. but,
thanks to the Beira railway. one that
was not impossible or Quixotic.
IL was necessary, in the first place,
for Darlington TO carry his troops
across colony OF Portugal, an obvious
ly neutral power. However, there was
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1900-05-21

runs from East London. on the south
eastern coast OF Cape Colony. TO Pre-
toria by way of Bloemfontein. The
third runs into the Orange Free State
from Durham by way OF Ladysmith and
Harrismlth. The fourth goes from Lou
renco Marques. on Delagoa bay, 10 Pre-
toria, and the fifth is the Bera railway,
which runs from the port Of Beira, i'm
Portuguese east Africa, TO the town OF
Salisbury. in Rhodesia.
Each one of these lines has played its
own particular part I'm the Boer- British
war drama. Before this war shall have
come TO a close they are destined to
play still greater part. This war"
said Rudyard Kipling. speaking I'm this
connection, 'has been a war of shunt-
ing and side tracking. OF telegraphs and
time tables. Some day England will re-
alize what IL means TO handle armies
and their supplies over 600 miles of a
single three foot six line!"
The Lourenco Marques road running
from Delagoa Bay 10 the Transvaal
capital, has been the lire along which
for years the Beers supplies OF arma-
ment and ammunition have been
brought secretly into the country from
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1900-05-21

Europe and the United States. Since
the outbreak of hostilities IL has been
the highway into the Boer republics on
either side OF the Vaal. Just how many
soldiers of fortune have stepped ashore
from French and German vessels at
Delagoa Bay and gone Pretoriaward
over this line IL is impossible to say.
but the number has been considerable,
and often old Dom Paul must have con-
graduated himself that he and his gov
eminent held the Netherlands railway
as a means of communication with the
rest of the world. Most of this road
lies I'm Transvaal territory. only a short
space OF 1t being required to cross that
narrow neck of land between the Le-
bombo mountains and the Indian ocean.
This road Is 2s5 miles long and has been
in operation since 1895.
Since Lord Roberts has been near
Bloemfontein he has had to depend
principally upon the road which runs
from Cape Town 10 DE Aar junction, at
which point IL meets. the road which
traverses the Orange Free state (pass-
ing through Bloemfontein) and con-
tinues into the Transvaal. with it's
terminus at Pretoria. II has been
obvious, since the defeat and cap
ture OF Cronje, that the British com
mander intended to conduct move
ment, or series OF movements. like those
OF Grant. when. at the head OF the army
of the Potomac, he made his numerical
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1900-05-21

The seventh richest man in America
is James Henry Smith OF New York.
His fortune is estimated at 500 000. 900.
M Smith had made millions for him
self I'M his shrewd. close mouthed way
that gave him the name of The Silent
Man" but recently his uncle. George
Smith Of London who amassed a huge
fortune i'm Chicago real estate and
banking operations. died and left him
the bulk OF his wealth. Sir Michael
Hicks Beach announced that the deati
duties on George Smiths estate amount
to $i,5OOaQO
In order to avoid the death duties
George Smith, who lived as an eccentric
recluse i'm the Reform club in London
and died there. decided away much of
his property during his later years.
still there was enough left To yield
sum TO the British treasury that shows
he bequeathed $50, 900 by WILL
One other heir besides James Henry
Smith received a large sum. but The
Silent Mans share of the estate. added
To mis- own accumulations in Wall
street, is estimated to make his pres
ent wealth s60. 100000
This places him well up among the
ten richest multimillionaires In the
United States According To the latest,
estimates the highest seven men OF vast
fortune in America now stand thus:
John n. Rockefeller. $3.50, 900 900; Cor
nellus Vanderbilt (estate). si25,0oo, ,ooo
Andrew Carnegie. $4,000. 900; William
X. Vanderbilt. Sioo. 900. 900; John Jacob
Astor si0o 900. 900: William Rockefeller.
si0o, o,o0o, 600: James Henry Smith, $780,
o00 0nO
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1900-05-21

is no consideration, he goes via bullock
wagon.
So IL can easily be seen that General
Darlington had no easy task to get
down into the country where he is now
operating. a whole division taxed sore
ly the resources of a new and imper-
fectly equipped line, used only, as a
rule. for the shipment or goods
IL was in the transportation of the
horses that the greatest amount OF
trouble was experienced. There was
but "A small number of horse boxes,
and covered goods trucks had to be
converted into live stock coaches for
mounts and ammunition mules. when
IL is remembered. too. that the Portu-
guese portion ofthe road Is a two foot
gauge line. II viii be seen that to rush
several thousand men into the heart OF
Rhodesia from the sea was no easy
matter. ARTHUR J. STRINGER.
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and forth throughout that land of arid

and forth throughout that land Of arid
plain and rocky kopje.
When war broke out in South Africa
the military commanders on both sides
saw that the coming campaign would
in a way be a battle of railways. 1t
was realized that the steel rail was the
key TO the situation. for where a rail
way pierced mountain range there
was sure 10 be pass.
At the very beginning of hostilites
the Beers saw this. They knew, also,
that the British had the advantage I'm
the matter of railways, though they re-
allied, on the other hand, that the To-
Comotive was far more necessary TO the
invader than IL was TO their own army
The Englishman. II seems. did not ap-
rreciate this situation so quickly as he
ought 20 have done. Tho general condi-
tions of affairs In South Africa were new
TO him. Life In his little home island
had made him more or less unable to
estimate distance. symptom of in
sularty that has always chung TO the
Britisher. When he first landed in
South Africa, he had a vague idea that
Kimberley was a days march from the
Cape and that a little jaunt from ST.
mons Town would bring him UP to
Mafeking. The truth dawned on him
with bewildering suddenness. The long.
weary. overland marches. the weeks of
toiling with heavy guns over spruit and
kopte. the days and days I'm dusty
trains that crawled over brick red. sun
baked deserts for hundreds and hun
dreds Of miles-these things all taught
the Englishman that he was i'm land
where distance could not be measured
with ten inch rule. He found that a
days journey or weeks march land
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1900-05-21


"politeness forbade his tasting Il until
the three generous donors had had an
opportunity TO enjoy its excellence" LII
cut the cake. and one OF his servitors
handed IL TO the unwilling guests. Each
took piece and ate. on pretended To
eat. One crumbled the pieces and let
them fall TO the floor. but the other two
ate calmly without manifesting any
emotion. Ten minutes and the two men
began to show symptoms OF suffering
Ii smiled benignantly and said to the
man who had not eaten;
Your wisdom Is so great that / am
compelled to preserve your head as a
souvenir to transcendent genius"
The man was removed and promptly
decapitated. To the other two the pre-
mier remarked: The cake that you are
eating is not the one you sent, but one
which had my cook initiate. The poi
son from which you are suffering ex-
lists only in your imagination. ] know
of no way TO cure your present pain ex-
cept by letting you share the fate OF
your friend who has just left the room."