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Show WANTTO END WAR. the -- Odd Fel lows conducti n g - the -- The deceased was 24 services. old and unmarried. He years leaves a father and sister who reside here. lie carried 00000 life Botha Begins Flirtation insuraueo which will be paid to them. Tribune. - Boer General With English BRUTAL MURDER DISCOVERED. i Itnieer Through Nether-n- J Government To Sue For Peace War-Pat- h Thousand Zulu Go On UrTttPre1 Ten grilse ol Boer Raids. June 1. The Sun today sensational story to the publishes a effect that Gen. Botha has arrived communicaat Standertdn, and is with Mr. Kruger, ting by telegraph GovernNetherlands through the to ment, appealing to Mr. Kruger sue for peace. Lord Kitchener is said to have given Botha permission to adopt this course. The Sun further hears that lO.OCO Zulus have gone on the warpath, owing to Boer raids in Zululand. The reticence of the Gov 'rninenl regarding the battle of Vladfonteii and other military events of so m importance which have recent occurred at widely separated point: in South Africa, has led to anxiety. This is in no way allayed by th curious answer of the War offid todav to a question regarding tin accuracy or otherwise of the rccen report that the British were severe! defeated near Pretoria May 2nd. losing 46 killed, SO wounded, G0( prisoners and six guns. The replj which the War office vouchsafed, London, 1 eon-sidernbl- e We have no official information, has aroused some misgivings. A dispatch from Slanderton Transvaal Colony, dated today Gen. Tobias Smut Dewet. says: . ! not explained. TROOPS LEAVE PEKING. Peking, June jJ.' At a meeting ol the Generals of the allied troops, today it was decided to transfei the administration of the- city ot - to the Chinese ofiieule Peking gradually dnriug June. Count von Waldersee, acrorn panied by his saff, will leav. show their appreciation of the British -- bade farewell to the American troops. maimer SHORT Montpelier, Ida., June week ago Friday - Oswold Short, a arc man on the Line Short Oregon railway, disappeared from his en gme when about fifteen miles from Bci'P. His- - coi-ps- e WIPED OUT BY FIRE. Beaumont, Tex., June 2. The own of Jasper, .capital of Jasper ounty, was entirely wiped out by ire today. Seventeen houses, in-ludi- ng every business liou.e in the dace and a number of residences were destroyed. The town has no ire department. Previous to the fire the postof-Ic- e safe and the safe of the Coun-- y Treasurer had been blown open mil robbed. The conclusion is but burglars blew open these safes and then set fire to the town to create excitement that would afford them an opportunity to es-"ap- Peking tomorrow. Two special trains will run all the week taking troops to Taku. The Germans arc removing an extraordinary quantity baggage, including Chinese carts, tables and chairs. ThfiL Baluchi regiment left this morning amid impressive ceremonies and farewells. All the other British troops with tlieii bands and every American office! in Peking was present, the Americans being particularly anxious to BODY OP OSWOLD - - 'secretary to Gen. Louis Botha arrived here this morning, lib mission is The Holton, Kan., June 2. dead body of Mrs, W. II. Klues-mir- e was found last night buried in a hollow trench less than a hundred yards' from her home, one mile north of Holton. The dead womans head was found to have been crushed in as if she had been struck with a club or some heavy blunt instrument.- The crime was committed on Sunday, May 19th. On that day the children of the family were nway from home. When they returned their father :oid them that their mother had Later 4one to Texas on a visit. Kleusmire left for Texas. Friday he children' received a telegram from that their mother had died Jowq there of yellow fever and he had buried her. Paul Swrtliek, brother of Mrs. Klensmire, was murdered in 1892,' iml the manner of his death was leyer explained. He carried $80,-Klife insurance, the beneficiaries oeing Mr. and Airs. Klensmire. Part of the insurance was contest'd and a verdict for $38,000 was lecnred in. favor of the estate in he United States Circuit court. The case was appealed and argued it St. Paul Friday. . The whereabouts of the f the murdered woman was made cnowu by the gruesome digging of logs. They pawed the earth and evealed the decomposing corpse in There was he shallow trench. aot more than two feet of ground ao the body. . engineer missed him oon alter and stopped his train, he crew started back to see w h it Jad become of him, and on the e. - The loss by the fire is estimated The robbers esat $100,000. caped. It is not known how big a haul they made. FIFTEEN MEN DROWN. Charlstou, S. C. June 1. ALLIES HAVE A ' Perished in Conflagration Which British, German, And French Soldiers Mix Tilings. ; Rav- - The second section of a workJrain ishes isthmus of Tehiuntepec. on the Pittsburg, Ohio Valley & Cincinnati By. today crashed into the first section near Powhatan, killing tvro and injuring more than The Cremated Were Member o! Fimilie 20 persons. . ' MAY OET Fire Started on of Acre Thousand Plantation' 'Coifeir Banana and Oranges Destroyed. of PlinUiioa Laborer BETTER. Coflee Washington, June 3. Hope of improvement in Mrs. condition, was lieliL out Bfitiia Police When Alt imp tin to Maintain by the attending physicians after Chicago, June 2. A dispatch to Order At Tien Tsin Are Set Upon an hours consultation this mornthe Tribune from Oaxaca, says: By Fren:i And German Soldiers A ing. Further details of the great fire Fiend Narrowly Escapes Lynching Mr FILIPINOS IN SPANISH PARLIAMENT. which raged ou the Isthmus of McKinley Slightly Better. Aladrid, Juno 3. Amongst those Tehauntepec for several days, elected to parliament are three have been received here. Over Filipinos resident in Spain. They, were unable to esI propose, cluing the course of the seventy people debate on the Queen Bcgents mes- cape the rapid progress of the j T Tien Tsin, June 3. A serious sage, to bring up the question of llames and were burned to death. the Philippines. They --will call The fire started on) a coffee affray occurred here yesterday be-- 1 attention to the fact that the conplantation, and owing to the dry-- , tween the international troops, j dition of the Filipinos is much ness of the vegetation it was Aoon Some British Fusileers, acting as worse than before the war, when 7 beyond control and wrought great police, sought to prevent some they were Spanish subjects. to growing crops. destruction g French soldiers from Many thousands of acres of coffee-treeswhen they were attacked THREW CONSTABLE OUT. bananas, orgauge trees and with bayouets and bricks. The Youngstown, 0., June 2. Jim others tropical products weie fusileers in self defense fired in McDunn of Newcastle wasgiven . the air and this brought- - a number the decision in the first rouud of Those who met death in the-thof German soldiers to the aid of what was to have been n twenty-roun- d flames were all families go with Alike Lavillo of the French, the troops numbering laborers, who, being-unablPittsburg, at 2 o dock Sunday altogether about 300. to escape the fire, perished morning. The battle took place Five of the fusileers fired killing in a large barn and was witnessed in their huts. The fire burned; one and wounding 3 Freuch by 400 sports from Newcastle, for ten days, and was d soldiers. In the subsequent fight-ing- 4 Youngstown and Pittsburg. A by a l&avy tropical tusileers, 5 Germans and N1 Constable who attempted to stop rain. The ihe. fight was thrown out. Japanese,, werewoy'thed. arrival of German others with n CUBAN? MUST SUBMIT., . , FILLED WITH BUCKSHOT. ended the fray. streug guard 'V. Washington, June 1. It is ofW. June A. 2. stated that the United States, AlaryvilleAlo., ficially A FIEND IN DANGER. Walker oojecteil to Swen Logan, a will remain in control in Cuba unPittsburg, Pa., June 3 Benjam- prominent yonugsfoekman, calling til the Platt amendment has been in Setter, alias Watson j 28 years on his daughter, aud doming upon This substantially adopted. old,, had n narrow escape from the couple suddenly last night as 'was communicated to Gen. Wood ate, last Tuesday by Secretjary Boot, lynching today at the hands of 50p they stood at the Walker enraged citizens of Ale Keesport. emptied a load of bncksbat infojjind his action has been approved Setter is accused of criminal as- Logans breast, fatally wounding bydhe President. sault upon the. four-yea- r old him. Walker gave himself up. He Secretary Boot was with the daughter of Judge Thomas Sulli- had, it is said, frequently threat- President-p- r about an hour and a ened to kill Logan if he did not half today, Xiscussing with him van. : The police were forced to use desist in calling on or paying at- the cablegram which had been pretheir maces vigorously to keep tentions to his daughter pared to be sent to Gen. Wood at Settey out of the hands of the Havana, relating to tMNmtion of STRUCK AT A CROSSING. mob. this Government on theXuban The little girl is still in an unErie, Pa., June 2. While driv- Constitution, This message vis conscious condition and may not ing ncrosst the track of the Lake long and will be forwarded to Gen.. recover. The greatest excitement Shore railroad sixteen miles west Wood with the idea of having him prevails and the jail is heavily of Erie today, Hugh Walters and communicate it to the ConstituMichael Findley were killed nml tional convention. It will not be. guarded. Bruce Hazlett fatally injured made public at this time and not-untRAILROAD COLLISION. Their rig was struck by the fast the convention takes action. mail going at n terrific, speed.- - The 3. Wr Juns BIO BLAZE AT QUINCY. Va., Wheeling, men lived at Findleys Lake, N. Y. 111., June 2.- - Fire Quincy, destroyed the wholesale house of the Tenk Hardware company today and damaged adjoining property. The fire was started from a defective electric light wire, and George Selling. Chief of the fire department was badly burned by the Total loss $75,000 current. covered by insurance. slow Ale-Kinle- ys -- . house-breakin- ,, dgs--troye- d. , e e finally-quenche- - I il , Fif- teen fishermen are supposed to have been 'drowned in a wild squall afternoon while the yesterday fleet of fishing boats was mosquito off the anchored fishing patches. The eight boats fishing at the time were scattered to the four winds, but all save throe were accounted for tonight. There were fifteen men in the three boats. When the supposed disaster was reported the revenue cutter Forward- went tq sea and skirted for thirty miles Ground the lightship, the report that hut came back tv not a sign of life or disabled boat oukl be teen. All hope for the fishermen was abandoned at dark today, when the cutter got into port. ;ear nver bridge were evidences at he had fallen and dropped in-MRS MCKINLEY VERY LOW. the river. Search was made l,i tm body, but without avail Washington, June 2. Airs. Mcml n arrival here liis weak. Her disappear- Kinley continues very ance was is not condition changed greatly reported. !Siine then the search each but of that from yesterday, has been in a (1 up and without that gain elapses today, the body 'was day remuni on mile below the of her lessens power bridge strength I, a,! fall,.,,. The . only cuperation. The complaint which stl-iea(l "here he came near ending her life in San VYias ?u k' in vork. on the bridge .Francisco. is stilljire?ent. . . , less a slightly from his machine, aggravated form, and the wflS brought here and but gives the. ph3'sicians )0tv, tlm f concern. much uncial will occur tomorrow. President -- DRUNKEN well-know- n first-named- ,- DROWNED IN DENVER. Denver, June 2. William E Thaut, 24 years old,' a machinist and Second Lieutenant of It com-nnnFirst regiment Colorado National Guard, was drowned in the lake at City park this afternoon in full view of 50(H) people. With two companions he was rowing on the lake when the boat was accidently swampcd'and Thautp , who could not swim, drowned be fore help could reach him. v, Sr'1' Itis mAnS CRIME. St. Joseph, Ah)., June 2. Fred young man Finger, a of this city, attacked Fred Smith, Henrietta Aliller and Fred Miller with a knife today and fatally and the wounded the others may die. He was intoxicated and can give no reason for the assault. o ln BURNED; SEVENTY SET-T- O. MRS. BLAKKLEY IIALL. Tli langla nter tli niUliotr of Hie lake (IiKrgu'Fraii.l Giriuo1tt 'merchant prince," who died recently near Bridgeport, Ooim.Mtrowwt U Ut a Uu . Tlie blood relation thenieelve. while Mi, Bbtkdey 101. re baa lived in the Gilman umnrioj lor eevfcral yean, My the dead millionaire wealth will come to her. - - . |