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Show Call substitute for the Porto Rican secured bill was defeated by sixteen votes. in the shortly before noon today, a verdict of guilty was returned. Wm. The Supreme Court was person of This means victory for the Porto E. appealed . McCary. , to save the young man, but Rican bill by an easy majority, they INTERNATIONAL TROUBLE. found no reversible errors in the FIRE AT SgA. Guaymas, Mex., Feb; 28 In a record and decided that the court Sour ay bay, Java, , Feb. 28. fight'which occured over a flag not pass on the sufficiency of the The American ship St. John, Cap- raising here ' today, three Americans evidence. tain Sales, from New York, for Yo- and five Mexicans were killed.' Attorney-GenerNolan was so kohama, is reported lost by fire. certain that the court would deA11 hands were saved and landed ' NEARLY EVERYMAl FELL.' cide the case fer Hurst that he reat Banj DdwangeT The St. John had Colenso, Sunday,.1 Feb. 25. In fused to appear in the caseand a registered tonnage of l,8S5and the attempt of on said that there wag not a scintilla the'Inniekillings was owned by Chapman and Co7 of Friday evening to rush the Boer of evidence against the young man New York. position on Pieters billr the Boer and that his arrest and conviction fire was so terrible when the infan- wad one of the Most horrible crimes MURDER AND SUICIDE. try emerged from the cover of the in the history of - the state. Her. . Ulne Field, W. V. A. Feb. 23. trees that almost every man in the ald. Joseph L. Glean, a farmer living leading half of the NEAYY snowstorm. six miles north $f this plana, killwt wounded. - company fell his daughter and Albert Marsh, Special to Journal . The advance line of the - British her lover, and then ..killed himself, .Chicago, Feb.28.- - The; heaviest - reached a donga in- front -- of. .the yesterday. - first Boer trench, which was not snowstorm in 15 years is prevailing A NEVADA EATHQUAKE. ; apparent until they were actually between Colorado and the Atlantic in it. The Boers retired . to the Coast. Hundreds of 'trains, are deWinnemucca, Nev., Feb. 28. crest From and thenxeturned," on " either layed- and -- many eta lled - this An earthquake' d flank of the Innisklllings, enfilad- twenty inches to three feet already section at 1:35 p. m. ground-an- d ifris- etill It was especially: noticed in the ing the captured dohga with a ter- covers the falling,-; rible courthouse. The errth rocked sufMYSTERIOUS POISONING. Finding it impossible to advance ficiently to startle every one in the or to bold the position theBritisb T building.fell back and entrenched themsel- theProvo, Feb.27.Brigham Gates, little boy of Mr. VIOLATOR OF EDMUNDS LAW. ves half way up the hilL:l The Jacob died &ndMrs, sudden Gates, Washington D. C., Feb. 28. Leo I Boers maintained a heavy fire. The doctor ly today. says the boy Whitehead, aged 43, a resident of I In the course of the night the died from poisoning, but how he was Salt Lake, is held here on a charge Dublin -- fusiliers ' and the Con poisoned is a unless it was mystery, of violating' the Edmunds law. naughts arriving to support the from The child was eating candy. The complainant is a woman who InniBkillings, another determined perfectly well yesterday aud was says she is the real MrB. Leo White effort was made to take the Boer down town with his father quite head of Salt Lake City. " The wo - Portions, This also failed. A late in the afternoon, at which time man carried a young child in - her I heavy fire continued throughout the father gave the little fellow a arms, which she said- was a son of I the night, nickel with which tobuy candy. The Inniskillings lost fourteen The the accused man. She declared candy purchased jwas.nf the that the : prisoner had - left - Salt out of seventeen officers kllled'and common klnd andelite qiitelrra Lake City on June 30th last, in wounded, and about 250 - non - com - hy 0f it. This morning he would comyany with a Washingtonian missioned officers and men killed eat no breakfast and complained of and came to this cityr abandoning Und wounded. bead nd stomach ache until about General Lyttletona her and seven children ranging in re- - n-- a. when his condition b- eage from 17 years to 11 months. He heved General Harts brigade- - in came alarming and be went into failed to return, and she was forced the morning, and the artillery duel convulsions. Ur. KODPon was sent 7, to sell the household efTects to pay waa continued I Saturday, though for but when he arrived1 at the her fare and that of her children to no great damage was done. boys bedside nothing could be St. Joseph, Mo. She was living! Today an armistice wasx agreed I done. there with relatives 'and friends nPn to enable both sides to collect The doctor it was a verv vi and helping to support herself and tkeir dead and wounded, the Boer olent - case ofsays poisoning and the my having had very heavy losse, childs parents say he had eaten family bf washing and ironing, when she received an unsigned let- - bu they scout the idea that the nothing but the he bought ter from au acquaintance in Wash- - British will compel them to raise last evening sincecandy yesterday about siege of Ladysmith. ington conveying the information noon. Herald an Hj Disco yek .. Piss8o i Oier m Mela Blier. Details Delating Why he British Forces. al Bill-F-ire 0itoEic Tariff Haider. -- andSnfci? evada ' - at Jiw-aile- . Se- a- Earth Violator, of ths Edmtmdi -- Report . of Cronjos Benbrook Last Juror ;on' - ged Eacapo r t : His Troops Vera Discontented Became' Despondent Four Thousand Prisoners J and Fifteen Guns Csptnred British 1 Loss QnitHeavy-Brit- ain - Rejoices- , Trial- - (Special to Journal.) - London, Feb. 28. --The War. office basreceived tbe following die .j patch from at Landwanik, Feb.28,5 Finding that the passage of .quarters t. m. "ft Succumbed Ungewatches Spruit was ' com- by strong intrenchmente, I reconnoitered for , another pasOne was found sage of for me below the cataract by. Col. Sandbach of the royal engine ere, on manded 1 the-Tuge- la. - . - - - , Shock-visite- -- ,i cross-fire.- - five-year-o- ld London, Feb. 27, 4:38 p. m. The secretary of state for war, the M&r-qn- is of Landsdowne, announced in the House of Lords this afternoon that the prisoners captured with General - CrOnje - numbered about 3000 menr General Cronje will besent to Capetown. , he war-offic- e has the 'following ' dispatclffrom Lord Roberts: 1 1Paardeberg, Feb. 27, . ll oclock, TaSaday morning. From informa: Feb. 25th. tion furnished to me daily by the 1 We commence marking an! apintelligence department H became proach thereto, and onFeb. 26th, 1 apparent that General, Cronjes I crossed with the guns and. bagforce was becoming more depressed 1 gage back to the south Bide ef the and that the discontent among the' the pontoon Tngela. Took up troops and discord among the lead era was. rapidly increasing. This bridge on Monday night, , and re, laid it at the new elte, which is feeling - vras doubtless accentuated below the marked by the disappointment caused when' I just present . the Boer reinforcements which tried cataract. to relieye General Cronje were deDuring all this time the troops feated by our .troops on -- February bad been scattered, cronohingun-de- r 23rd. ;;l Resolved therefore to bring hastily constructed small stone shelters and exposed to pressure to bear upon the enemy. availing Each night the trenches were fire, and throughout - they - maintI I ained the most excellent spirits. pushed forward towards the eneGen. Barton with two Tuesday mys laager so as to gradually conbatallions of the Sixth brigade and tract his position and at the same the Dublin Fusileere, crept about time I bombarded it heavily with a mile and a half down the banks artillery, which was yesterday ma-of the river, and aecended an alterial ly aided by the arrival of four most perpendicular cliff of about howitzers .which I had or600 feet, assaulted and carried the dered up from Do Aar. In carrytop of Pieters hill. ing out these' measures a 'captive This hill to a certain balloon gave great assistance by extent, turned the enemys .bae bookkeeping us informed of the dispoleft, and the Fourth womih nd w .lmngin brigade under Colonel Narcott, ,0UDg sitions and movements of the enuke F(h A,. 2sThe the capital city. She arrived y and the Eleventh ' on the V bar, Fiflh West Col. , , brigade, ,of , terday and Whitehead was arrested return from Washincton this emyAt 3 a.m. Kitchener a most dashtoday commanding the whole, by ,h, poUce on heanog the under command of Gen. made by the Qan-adiadvance was ing Warren, i announced a or I western assailed the meeting I and . $31 in cash taken morning rigiment and some engineers, enemys position, which was . from the till. Nothing eUe waa Clty April supported, by the First Gordon magnificently carried by the Douth Lancashire PPised to Highlanders and Second Shrop-Bhir- es, toweTer,.J. WilliAms, i8-!,- 1 & bfii fortlma regiment about vise, eay tbAtCrooieB mAin fon to con- sunset. men eresa dealinir presentation resulting in our gaining a with his heavy guns have escaped the Jr Wrht with MUm .some600 British occupy rensberg. , point yards, nearer tho And joined Joubert. Boberta and w it hi n a bou t e ighty enemy from -- Arundel savs find a hard t&Bk to Governor :Poynter;says that ; if w ww,vava the British have yards of "his trenches, where ; our .uo I Wu-pie- d fontein. again are. not soon ceded men entrenched-thenoselv- es crowd while the other went through ,and Rensberg. LAST JUROR OBTAINED. iCh the money drawer. .The police r0.1?,81!? ln maintained their positions unftre,10 PORTO. RICAN TARIFF BILL, f the 8t1t!er8 til morning, a gallant deed worthy, vj? Salt Lake, Feb. 18 The last I were telephoned and Officer Barlow fill?. went down with Patrolman Cannon I Washington, Fdb. 23.Tbe Mc companies will get juror in the Benbrook case was 'and control of thm. Continued on 5thpge. the wagon. , A fairly good description of the men were given the officers, but a search In the - neighboring Rio Grande yards failed any - 1 -- - -- Td V mii gu q?, . an -- f.00.'.?1 o-reveal clneofthem. This is the second time in one year that the bar has been held tip, the robbers getting awaywitlroverj J'wt time. .Mr,. Hegney,Jhe. proprietor, said last night that he thought it was about time the city was furnishing police protection to OO that district. thug-infes- ted INNOCENT MAN TO BE HANGED. Butte, Mont Feb. . 27. According to the public .belief, an inno-- j cent man is to be hanged at GIenJ dive on March 80, for the m order of Sheriff . Dominick Cavanaugh, w ho was brutally murdered , ; on December 23, 1898. . Joseph ;C. Hurst, a young man who was the Republican Candidate for the office, was arrested and convicted, chiefly on the theory that he had the only knowfi motive to kill Cavanaugh, although the t women:had been -- I SHARPSHOOTER ,flTlS11 mPrVifvl ve 1?tr f Colwao Jk ,.rn? v0iner .Pateh nfe"1 ch i' Ti e close personal friends. Several near relatives of Cavan- 6Bgh were on the jury and Hurst cad his Jawyera and friends were eo confident of hia acquittal that BEHIND BOCKS. i 'hOWll Tl"Critih . batxL, l.elatireljr thi ii rnnong' the moet damaging wm made from a inap&Uot photograph taken In the frtrf,waJwUK h!-o- i . -- little testimony waacficred In da-- 1 th:y rrer herrified trkca ' 'fensdi' and n - X l u i ' |