Durango semi-weekly herald., 1901-06-10
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reitefates this morning that five ex.
oihcers and one hundred privates were
serving life sentences In British pris.
ons for allowing arms and munitions
TO reach the Beers: that all were
sentenced to death, but that their sen.
tences were comuted by Earl Roberts.
Since Kitchener took charge there
have been no imprisonments. but it is
asserted that Kitchener had all the
sentences of execution carried out
and the deaths of the men reported
as caused by enteric fever.
PRETORIA. June 6.-News of a
decided British victory has Just been
received.
Colonel Wilson. with 24O of K.ch-
ener's scouts. routed 400 Beers OF
Beyer's command After very live
ly battle the Beers left 81 dead On the
field.
Wilson captured 5000 head Of eat.
tie. large amount of supplies and
100 prisoners.
Boyer is now left without supplies
or transportation. The British lost
20 killed and wounded
BUFFALO, N. Y, June G.-Promi-
nent hotel men from all over the Uni
ted States are gathered at the Pan
American exposition today. They
held their annual convention at Mag
ara Falls.
1t is said that the bonifaces gener-
ally condemn the practice of the prin-
cipal Buffalo hotels for doubling their
prices during the present exposition
ANTWERP, June 6.-The Royal En-
trepot, the biggestwarehouse in Hol-
land, was destroyed by fire this morn
ing. Loss S10.000,O0O
A large quantity of American goods
was consumed, especially cotton oil
machinery.
LONDON. June 6.-The welcome
which Queen Wilhelmina received in
Berlin would have been dlstasteful
to her subjects a few years ago. but
is now tolerated as a necessary Sc
quel to the German marriage. Dutch
resentment is reserved exclusively for
England and the anti-German preju-
dice has been steadily suDsiding since
the outbreak of the war in South AT.
rica.
Is libW ulSllktu DN EVERY
body in Holland. and the German en-
peror is left free TO shower compli-
ments upon Queen Wilhelmina and
her subjects He is one of the clev.
crest politicians in Europe: he has
contrived to gain the friendship of
both England and Holland by his
course during the Boer war. and he
takes advantage of every opportunity
for counting France and Russia. The
Anglo-German agreement was negoti-
ated mainly for his benefit. and as
Count Won Waldersee commanded the
international forces in China. the pre-
eminence of the kaiser has been as
serted and emphasized at every turn
of the negotiations; yet he has sue
oeeded in playing a great part in the
far east without woundng Russian
sensibilities. The German emperor
has gained prestige both at home and
abroad by the astuteness and persist
ence he has displayed throughout the
negotiations
RICHMOND, Va. June 6.-This city
has decided to reject Andrew Carne-
gie's offer of 100000 for a library
if he insists on having negro on the
board of management.
ST. JOHNS. N. b.. June G.-Thc
transatlantic liner Assyrian from Ant
weIp for Montreal. heavily laden with
n rich cargo. went ashore off Cape
Race early this morning.
The ship will probably prove to
tai loss. The crew managed to es-
cape on rowboats.
CLEVELAND. O.. June 6.-Major
Arthur, paymaster of the army and
son of Chief Arthur of the Brother
hood of Locomotive Engineers. died
suddenly this morning while sitting
in chair at the Weddell house.
GREAT FALLS. Mont. June c.
Articles of Incorporation were filed
here today organizing with ten million
dollers capital an extension of the
Great Northern railroad from Jen-
nings to the Canadian boundary and
thence to the big coal fields of the
Crows Nest country
LONDON, June 6.-Dr Bond the
famous surgeon. while suffering from
melancholia this morning committed
suicide by throwing himself from
third story window of his residence.
DIR. Bond was Gladstone's surgeon
and celebrated as an analyst.
BALTIMORE, Md. June 6.-Former
President Gilman of Johns Hopkins
university is out in an address bit
terly denouncing the excessive read
ing of American men and women. He
speaks of it as an EZRA of Carnegie"
and says il is too much stimulant of
the wrong kind.
Mr.. Gilman says that publishers
make works too many and too attrac-
tive. and urges people to study and
think or their mentality will be seri.
ously injured.
TOLEDO, o.. June 6.-Leroy Grove,
the 16-year-old son of a prosperous
farmer living near Napoleon. stabbed
his sister aged "a, to the heart, stran-
gled his 13-year-old brother. set firse
to the house and barn. then shot him
self through the temple.