| Show FIFTEEN YEAR TERMS alleged Comm commutation tation of sentences of death HARD LINES FOR REFORMERS alpo is held out that after a year these heavy sentences will bo be considered again and cut dow down u somo of the prisoners discharged thir ty two of the unfortunates confined in a boom magnificence of tho the entertainments at moscow nt at tile the Wro ro nation pretoria may 20 0 the ahn sentences of tile tho isadora of tile the arg reformers it was announced today will stand over for tho the present anil and meanwhile sentences of fifteen years imprisonment have been substituted for tho the sentences of death impost on oil col rhodes Rh Otlea bohu hammond lionel PhIlil ps anti anil georgo farrar nine other prisoners wera were discharged Ligh lightern teen were sentenced to five months imprisonment and twenty two to three months imprisonment A dispatch as been received from sir Ifor hercules cules relative to the sentences imposed upon the reformers at pre pretoria torla which says one portion of the prisoners will bo released immediately and another coition lu in three months A third thara portion of the prisoners will have their cases and passed upon after live five months and LL a fourth portion after ono one year gov cov robinson says that the death sentences imposed on tho the tour four leaders rhodes rhode lI hammond ammond phillips and far been commuted committed to it fifteen cars imprisonment adding ho however wever that the utter latter Is only a matter of form and that the sentence Is not likely to bo be carried out the further commutation of the lite headds sentences will bo be discussed next week gov robinson adds that the fines in tho the case of the other prisoners will remain but the sentence of banishment mill be suspended it if uie the pi prisoners isomers give their word of honor not vo to interfere lit in the politics of tile the transvaal TORTURE FOR new york may 20 AL A special to the world from capetown cape colony says capt american one of tile the johannesburg reformers in prison at Pret pretoria cala Is ill mr air buckland still another of the reformers la Is sick niall typhoid fever and has been removed to a hospital ane imprisoned reformers are hallm a serious time of it thirty two of them being confined jn in a tin shanty poultney bigelow has haa arrived in ili the capital of ill the e or rings free state where he w was cordially received by president steyn mr bigelow says there if 14 no reason why unity of the iho african states should not come on the same effic as that of 0 the united states mark twain has beef been lecturing lec turine to crowded houses housea In la johan Johannesburg ats burg |
