Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-12-28
KRUGER TO APPEAL
TransVaal Exile Will Send a Let.
ter TO the President by
Special Envoy.
BRITISH REPORT OF FIGHT LOSSES
Marquis Ito Visits King Edward
Important Suit in Which La
Dor Is Involved.

Amsterdam, Dec. 2S.-As the result
of conferences between n clergyman.
Rev. Mr. Broeckhuysen, and the Boer
leaders hore, it has been decided to
send c. NJ. Vessels to the United
States in January, bearing a letter
from Kruger TO President Roosevelt.
G.. NJ. Vessels is the former chair
man of the Orange Free State raad, or
legislative assembly. He visited the
United States in May. 1900 with Abra-
ham Fischer Qeader of the party. and
4. d. w. Wolmarans. and returned TO
Europe in June of the same year.
London. Dec 2S-Details received
here yesterday from South Africa of
the ambuscading near Beginderyn,
Orange River colony, Dec. 81, of 200
mounted infantry by 300 Beers and
forty armed natives, led by Command
ant BritZ. show the British losses to
have been ten men killed and fifteen
wounded. The losses of the Beers are
not known.
Marquis Ito Sees King Edward.
London. Dee. 2S.-King Edward re-
ceived Marquis Ito in audience at
Marlborough House yesterday. Ear
Iier i'm the day the Japanese statesman
called on the foreign secretary, Lord
Iansdowne. and the latter accom-
panied the marquis to Marlborough
House and introduced him to the king.
The marquis and his suite. all wear
ing court dress, We're driven to Marl-
borough House i'm royal carriages. King
Edward. when he received the Japan
eSe statesman, wore field marShaPS
uniform. Marquis Ito said after the
audience that the object of his visit to
London was Structly nOn-political. but
in view of the belief here that the
marquis will return to office some i'm
portance is attached to his interviews
with King Edward and Lord LauS-
dOwne.
Damages Wanted Against Labor Union.
London. Dec. 2S.-In the suit of the
Taft Vale Railway against the Anal
gamated Society of Railway Servants,
an important trades union case, the
plaintiffs filed Il statement yesterday
claiming f24.626 damages suffered
through an alleged conspiracy and un-
lawful combination. The plaintiffs
claim (Which is based ON the house Of
lords decision Of July last. holding that
il was not the intention of the legiSla-
ture to prevent n trades union from he
ing sued if. through its officers. it is
guilty of illegalities) is against Rich
ard Bell, member of parliament for
Derby, and general secretary Of the
Amalgamated Society Of Railway Ser
wants. and against the trustees of the
society, as well as against the society
itself.
Decision of the Lords.
The house of lords On July % last
reversed the decision of the apDaal
court disSolving an injunction rendered
Aug. 80. 1900. by Justice Farwell IN
the high court of justice. which en-
Joined officials of the Amalgamated
Society of Railway Servants from
watching and beSetting'' the Great
Western railway stations and ap-
proaches with a view to inducing non
unionists to refrain from taking the
places of strikers. That action of the
house Of lords restored Justice Far
wells Judgment. the house holding
that it was not the intention of the
legislature to prevent trades union
from being sued if. through its officers,