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The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-02-04
BOERS TAKE BRITISH POST
KITCHENER R EI'ORTS THE FAIL OF
 MODDERFONTEIN.

The Place Attacked by a Thousand
 Burghers-A Relief Column sent Out
 from Krugersdorp Failed to Prevent
 the Reverse--The Boers Released the
 Prisoners Taken.
 London, Feb. 4.-The war office has received the following dispatch from Lord Kitchener commander-in-ch chief in South Africa:
 Pretoria, Feb. 2.-Our post at Mod derfontein, on the Gatesrand, south west of Krugersdorp, was attacked by a thousand Boers. The relief column sent out from Krugersdorp failed to prevent the fall of the post. No details yet at hand, but officers and men captured at the post are arriving at Vereeniging
 Lourenzo Marquez Feb 3.-There is a commando of two thousand Boers on Portuguese territory. It Is supposed that their intention is to rescue the Roers here. The Portuguese authorities have decided to remove to Madeira such Boer refugees as decline to surrender to the British.
 Bloemfontein, Feb. 2.-The British have reoccupied Petrusberg.
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PLOT AGAINST MRS. NATION.
Topeka Liquor Men Plan to Tar and
 Feather Her.

Kansas City, Feb. 3.-A special to tha Times from Topeka, Kansas says: Po- liceman Luster has reported to City Marshal Stahl a plot on the part of the liquor men to tar and feather Mrs Car rie Nation, the joint smasher. Lus- ter says that negro tough whom he once befriended gave him the inforna- ton. The report has frightened Mrs. Nation and her sister crusaders, but they declare they will continue the work Iof destroying murder shops" They met this morning at Mrs. Nations room and held session of prayer. Mrs. Ma tion braved the storm day and made three temperance speeches. K; N
 A recruiting officer for the Topef3. brigade Kansas division, Carrie Na \ tion's army, has been opened About three hundred soldiers" have signed the roll, mostly women. The programme of the defenders is to march down Kan- sas avenue at 2 o'clock to- morrow af- ternoon, with drums beating and flags flying, and hold prayer meetings in front of every joint Mrs. Nation saya that 1t was the intention of the homo defenders to smash joints tomorrow, but this feature of the crusade may be postponed for day to enable secret service agents to inquire into the story that armed men are guarding the joints.
 St. Joseph, Mo- Feb. 3-The wreck ing of joints" at Hlawatha, Kansas, which began there yesterday under the leadership of the temperance people. was completed to-day and when 1t was finished not a joint" in the town re- mained. The proprietors have fled.
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COY. N4SH,S REASONS.
Explains His Determination to Prevent Jeffrfes- Rhulin Fight.

Columbus, O., Feb. Ex-Governor Nash
 to-day made public statement of his l position with regard to the proposed
 Jeffries- Ruhlin fight and the grounds
 upon which his determination to pre- vent the fight taking place in Ohio is based. The statement is contained in letter prepared and mailed this af- ternoon in reply to petition from the John c. Roth Packing company and !! 1000 other citizens of Cincinnati pro- testing against interference with the fight Governor Nash says in his letter that he fears the petitioners have been mised by erroneous legal advices. He quotes the law relating to prize fighting and boxing contests and says concern ing the proviso upon which the peti- tioners rely:
 Tn my opinion the proviso covers only exercises among the members of the club and exhibitions in which mem bers only take part Even if my in depreciation is too strict, it does not authorize the bringing together Of mo- ted prize fighters and the offerings of large purse u lHe OIt WlO PACFuAiS over the other.
 Again the Saengerfest association of Cincinnati and the exhibition which it proposes to give is not such an associa- tion and not such a contest as is con- templated by section 6S90.
 'The law cannot and will not be tri- fled with in this manner. l am con- vinced that this affair, if it comes off, will be a prize fight.
 "rhe immense multitude of people gathered from distant states and cities, some of them at least not possessing the highest order of citizens, will be terribly excited. Such men would brook no interference; they will no control over themselves your police will be overpowered and your city will be wis., ited with disgrace, which you will re- gret as long as you live. Such fearful risks must not be taken"
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Photographic and Cable Notes.

Muskogee I. T., Feb. 3.--Chitto Harjo, or "Crazy Snake," the leader of the warning Creek Indians, and seventeen of the minor leaders of that tribe have been landed In the federal jail here, where they will be held pending trial for treason. It is stated that certain attorneys who, 1t is asserted here. misled the Indians. may be prose cuted.
 West Point, N. Y., Feb 3.-Oflcial orders were received by Colonel Mills yesterday afternoon from Adiutant General COrbin to take steps to graduate the first clas of ca- dets on Monday, February IS. The order was hailed with delight by members of the first class.
 Waltham. Mass. Feb. 3.-The funeral of Mrs. Banks, widow of General Nathaniel P. Banks, took place from her home this after noon with extremely simple services. There was no music and the interment was made in Grove Hill cemetery beside the body of the general.
 Pittsteld, Mass. Feb 3.--There have baen no new developments in the mysteri- ous Fosburg murder cace to-day. The elder Fosburg returned Saturday night from New York, where he went to arrange for the bonds which he is to secure for his son from a surety company.
 New York, Feb. 3.-Evelyn Baldwin, the Arctic explorer, who next summer is to head the Baldwin-Zeigler expedition to the North Pole, returned to-day on the steam ship New York. Mir. Baldwin has been abroad since the first of December securing vessels and equipmepts. @'---- --ir '--7S
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HEAVY SNOW EAST AND WEST.
Great Drifts in Chicago-Storm Severe
 In Kansas.

Chicago, Feb. 3.-Six inches of snow
 on the level and drifts in many cases
 in the outlying districts piled as high as second story windows is the condi- tion Chicago is in tonight. The snow began to fall early in the day and by the middle of the afternoon a regular blizzard was raging with the wind
 blowing a gale from the west.
 Atchison, Kan, Feb. 3.-The worst storm for several years occurred in southern Nebraska and Kansas last night. Three hundred miles of the cen- tral branch of the Missouri Pacific, traversing northern Kansas are tied up and not a train has some in over the road to-day.
 New York Feb. 3.--A snowstorm that had been moving northeastward from the Great Lakes for about twenty-four hours struck New York city in full force shortly before o'clock tonight. The snow came down in big white flakes and with but little wind. It was but a short time before the streets were covered and sidewalk sweepers went to work. At midnight nearly three-quarters of an inch had fallen and the downfall continued with no indication of ending. The storm is gen. efal throughout this state and New Jersey.
 Grand Rapids, Mich, Feb. 9.-'The worst blizzard of the winter struck here about 1 o'clock this afternoon and in creased in fury tonight, impeding street railroad and railroad traffic to a con- siderable extent. Snow is still falling and is drifting badly. Reports from various points in central and western Michigan show that the storm is quite general and of great severity.
 Burlington, Ia., Feb 3.-The worst blizzard in three years ragged through out the state to-day and is increasing to- night. Railroad trains are late and street cars are blocked.
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been done, it was only few days ago that I wrote letter to Senator Hale chairman of the naval committee of the Senate, a copy of which I enclose, ask ing him if he would not, as last resort, have the naval committee or a sub com mittee of it take up the matter and con- sider the report upon the deserts of these officers.
 Yesterday I wrote another letter to the president copy of which l en- close, reciting recommendations which I made to him in my annual report of 1899, that he make the same recommen- dations to congress in the cace of the Santiago squadron which was made in the case of the Asiatic squadron viz, that the thanks of congress be ten- dered to the commander -in-chief, and be extended through him to the officers and men.
 T think you will cordially acknowl- edge that the president by his speedy nominations for promotiop has been prompt, and that by this action has left no stone unturned to do justice in this matter, and 1t is now for congress, of which you are so distinguished mem- Der, to act.
 Trusting that we may all cooperate land at last secure to these officers and men an expression of the country's ap- preciation of their services, I am, very truly yours John D. Yong.
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A CLERGYMAN SHOT DOWN
hEP. JOHN KELLER, OF ARLING-
 TON, ~. J., BADLY WOUNDED.
Attacked on the Street by Thomas G. Barker Sight of One Eye Destroyed and That of the Other May be LOst--A Confession by Barker's W fife the Cause Of the Assault

New York, Feb. 3.-The Rev. John
 Keller, secretary to Rt. Rev. Bishop
 Starkey, pastor of Trinity Episcopal
 mission, in Arlington, N. J., and chap
 lain of the First New Jeresey regiment,
 was shot and probably fatally wound
 ed by Thomas G. Barker, on beach
 street, near Midland avenue, Arlington,
 this morning. MT. Keller had just left the house of John S. Sands, where he
 ate his meals when Barker, who was
 in front of the door, opened fire. One
 bullet went through the facial bone from the right side, destroyed the sight
 of the right eye and after tearing
 through the nasal bone, buried itself
 beneath the skin on the right side of
 the face. Another bullet shattered the
 fingers of the right hand and another passed through the clergyman's hat. The
 fourth went wide of it's mark
 The shooting, 1t is said, was the re-
 suit of disclosure made by Barker's wife, although MT. Keller denies the | accusation made against him. Barker, after the shooting, surrendered himself l to the police and was locked up. He l will have hearing tomorrow. MT. 1 Keller was carried into the Sands home, 1 where three doctors were called in. Later an eye specialist was called in the hope of saving, if possible, the sight of MT. Keller's left eye. The doctors said he had an even chance for life. MT. Keller said after the shooting that he did not know who shot him. He refused to sign a complaipt.
 According to a story told by Barker to several friends after the shooting his wife last night told him that the ill., ness from which she has suffered for nearly year and which caused the Barkersl to break up their home and go to boarding was due to an assault con- mitted on her at her home by the Rev. MT Keller.
 The assault, it is alleged, was com mitted after hard struggle, during which Mrs. Barker became unconscious. The Barkers and the minister were very friendly and had continued apparently friendly. Mrs Barker was a member of the mission, but her husband was not. When Barker heard his wife's story he waited until morning and then lay in wait for. the minister and shot him. Barker has lived in Arlington about ten eyars. He is about thirty nine years old and for many years had been in the employ of the Commercial Cable company, being in charge of one of, the departments in New York.
 The Rev MT. Keller is about thirty eight years of age and a native of Philadelphia He was graduated from | the General Theological seminary in | New York in 1886 and the same year | was made deacon. In 1888 Mir Keller [ was made chaplain to Bishop Starkey | and in 1895 was made chaplain of the First regiment, but at tile solicitation of the bishop did not go with the regiment when it was called out during the Span ish war. Two years ago last May he was made secretary of the diocese and still holds that position.
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D. B. HILL NOT A CANDIDATE
HAS NO WISH FOR PRESTDENTIAL
 NOMINATION..

l Not Resp0nsfbie for the Action of Hts
 Friends and Will Give Them No En- l couragement-Engro in His Law l Practtce-His Decision Not Duo to 1 Pique.
 New York, Feb. 3.--The announce l ment that ex-Senator David B. Hill IS
 not candidate for the presidential
 nomination of his party in 1904 is made by the Albany correspondent of Leslies
 Weekly in the current issue. He says: II have the highest authority for the
 statement that Senator Hill is not Q
 candidate, in any sense, for the presi-
 dential nomination and that he Is not
 responsible for the action of his friends
 and will in no way encourage the con-
 tinuance of such action. Whatever
 Senator HilPs ambition may have been
 in the past he treasures no presidential ambition now. He is engrossed in his law practice It has grown larger and more lucrative each year, and his ab- sorption in professional duties gives him little time and less inclination to respond to the growing call for him to actively assume the party's leadership.
 This reluctance on the part of the senator to re-enter public life is not the result of pique or disappointment. He simply finds greater comfort and en- joyment in the practice of his profess sion, and less allurement in the field of politics, who has never been source of profit, and oft has given him hardly comfortable support. Like every other man who has reached middle life, Sen ator Hill looks forward to achieving substantial financial independence by maintaining his established and we'll settled professional practice. He is de- voting his best energies to that end and therefore he is not inclined to respond to such calls as have been made by the Texas legislature and by prominent democratic leaders and organizations in the south and west.
 "Those who have intimate personal relations with Senator Hill greatly doubt whether he will ever consent to lead his party again in presidential campaign. While he is averse to mak- ing public expression of his feeling in the matter, his determination is not a secret. Devoted as he has been for so many years to his partys welfare, his from politics Is regarded as impossible. He will continue to be an influential factor, but this will not in- terfere with conviction he has recent ly expressed to many friends that office l holding is unsatisfactory and unprof1t- | a ble"
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TVO*RUNAWAY GIRLS ARRESTED.
One the Daughter of n Wealthy Boston
 Widow.

New York, Feb. 3.-Two runaway girls from Boston were arraigned be- fore Magistrate Deuel in the Jefferson
 Market court to-day. They described themselves as Louise McGlynn, sixteen years old, 29 Millmont street, and Az nes Berry, fourteen years old AS High land avenue, Boston Highlands They were arrested last night at the St. Denis hotel by a detective on the request of Police Inspector Watts, of Boston.
 The Berry girls father was in court and said he wanted to take his daugh- ter home. The McGlynn girl said at first that she would not go home as her mother i'll treated her. She told the magistrate thta she had property in Boston worth $25,OOO and was able to take care of herself. She also said that she had wealthy relatives in this city and wanted to send for them.
 Both girls were stylishly dressed. A night with MT. Berry, said that the Me- Glynn girl had collected money belong ing to her mother, of which she had $50 left when she was arrested. He said when the girls determined to leave home they went to a dry goods store and purchased complete outfits which were charged to Mrs. McGlynn, who is Z a wealthy widow. After a lecture by the magistrate both girls consented to so home and they went away on an afternoon train.
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JUSTICE FOR NATAL MEN.
Long Regrets That Hohson and Others
 Are still Unrevarded.

Washington Feb. 3,-secretary Long
 has addressed the following letter t1
 Senator Morgan:
 Dear Senator--I have your letter
 with regard to Lieutenant Hobson, Cap | tain Clark and others, and to the fail
 ure of the government to recognize their
 services. l need not say to you that no | one feels this more keenly than myself, nor has done more to endeaVor to secure | justice for the men who conducted and
 consummated the Santiago naval cam delay is not with the executive branch
 of the government so much as with con- gross. l do not say this to in any way shift the responsibility, but in the hope
 that the cc-opera ton of congress may yet be secured in this respect. With the interest which you and other mem bers of the legislative branch feel in the case l do not despair.
 Tt is more than two years now since the president sent in nominations for promotion, and these nominations have never been acted upon by the Senate. At each session of congress l have pre- pared and submitted bills asking for rewards for these officers; no action has been taken upon them. In each of my annual reports l have urged the matter with all the force possible, but it at tracts no attention. The president has asked for the creation of the grade of vice admiral, which would perhaps lead to solution of the matter.
 q feel keenly the lack of any recogni- tion to Hobson, whose feat is famous the world over. l heave repeatedly talked about him with the president, who, as you know, feels the most cor dial interest in behalf of all these men, He cannot separate Hobson's case from the rest, nor can I advise him to do so. It would be an unjust discrimination aeainst Captain Clark, to whom you re- fer and who is two numbers worse off now than if there had been no war; it would be an injustice to the command er-in-c chief, who planned and consum- mated the whole campaign and who had greater responsibility upon him for longer time than any officer on the At lantic; it would discriminate against the enlisted men, who have yet had neither thanks nor medal, nor any rec ognition, and are humiliated on the deck of every warship on which their ship | mates who served in the Asiatic squad- | ron display their medals, and the San- tiago men have none. l feel almost like | invoking the help of yourself and every | other senator and representH tive to | what seems to be the simplest justice.
 Mot content with what has hitherto
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PHILIPPINE FRIAR TR0BLEM.
Meeting in Manila to Inaugurate the
 "EvangeIical Movement"

"EvangcIical MOvement.' | Manila. Feb. 3--Fewer than 400 per sons attended the meeting called by Senor Buencamino at the Rizal theatel | in the Tondo ward of Manila to inaug-
 urate the Evangelical Movement. Considerable interest was manifested in the proceedings and there wele some expressions of approval of the address es. No attempt, however, was made
 to commit the meeting to Protestanism
 that aspect of the case being left for
 subsequent action al his discretion, to
 Rev. James B. Rogers, a missionary of the Presbyterian board, who was pres
 ent.
 Senor Buencamino explained that re- ligious effort was wholly outside the
 Federal party, which had been organiz- ed solely to promote political peace. The The first mild applause occurred when he compared priests to white ants which eat the substance and leave noth- ing of value"
 Senar Buencamino argued in favor of supplanting the present priests with Filipinos having the privilege of inar- rying. Gradually he led up to Protest ant ideas and asked whether they were any longer to submit to the authority of a pope of an archbishop Some shouted "No!" But others remained silent
 A Methodist minister baptized hum dred Filipinos this afternoon at MaH- bay, about four miles from Manila. The Rev. MT. Prautche has secured a score or signatures in neighboring village to a declaration in favor of handing the church over to Protestant worship and debarring Roman Catho- lies. The Rev. MT Rodgers preached short sermon, but refrained from any criticism of Roman Catholics. Rev. MT. Prautche, of the Methodist mission, offered the four gospels in Tagalog and anti-friar tracts which were sold at the door by Nicola Zamora, native Meth odist revivalist, who conducts exhor- tation meetings every Sunday.
 Prior to the meeting in the Rizal the- ater there was political gathering at- tended by practically the same people, at which the advantages of American sovereignty were explained from the federal party point of view.
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C. E. CONTENTION CLOSES.
Endeavor Hymns Sung by Chorus of
 2,OOO.

Portland, Me, Feb. 3.-With meetings
 in every Protestant church in Portland the twentieth annual convention of the Y. P. s. c. B. came to close to- day. The principal gathering was at city hall in the afternoon, when Dr. Francis E. Clark presided over union meeting, and thirty minute addresses were deliv- cred by Rev. Dr. Hoyt, of Philadelphia, Rev MT. Wilson. of Hamilton, Ontario, and President John Henry Barrows, of Oberlin, Ohio. An immense crowd WAS present and the hall was crowded to the doors, many being unable to gain ad- mission. The special feature was the congregational singing of the most fla miliar Christian Endeavcr hymns. the chorus of nearly two thousand voices uniting in one tremendous volume of sound.
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To XIII King Victor.

Paris, Feb. Ale Rappel publishes despatch from Rome, saying: Agents of the Italian detective department in the United States report that Calcagno, an anarchist, has left for Europe to make an attempt on the life of King Victor Emmanuel and that he is acting under the orders of the Paterson an- archists. The Italian police are watch ing the ports and frontier stations"
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Evangelist Arrested for Insanity

Springfield, Mass, Feb. 3.-Rev. s. Hartwell Pratt, an evangelist who lives in this city, was arrested tonight on the charge of insanity. He returned from Brooklyn, N. T., at 2:30 o'clock this morning and went to Cooley's ho- tel, where he stayed all day in the writ ing room to conceal himself from off, cers, who, he said, were on his trail He was Respondent when arrested and sup posed the charge against him was over drawing his bank account.
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An Unusual Vaccination,

Poughkeepsie, N. Y, Feb. 3.-While dressing the arms of her little daughter who had been vaccinated, Mrs. Robert E. Farrier, wife of the pastor of the Baptist church in this city. chanced to brush her hand across her face. In this manner some virus from the child's arm was introduced into a slight scratch on the mothers face, which re- suited in her thorough vaccination and left a bad sore on her face.