Show I f-CONDENSA f CONDENSATIONS FROM THE TL MORNING l PAPERS The British columns have again come In contact with Dewet's forces near Reitz Orange River colony The latter were split spilt up and dispersed Au Austria has decided in compliance with the demand ma made le by Great Britain to abolish sugar bounties and to reduce the Import dut duty on sugar to 5 I francs Tho The Moscow corr correspondent of London Mall laIl says that Count Tolstoi has suffered suffered suf suf- a relapse that his fever eer has haa returned returned returned re re- re- re turned and that his heart is weak The Danish Premier J. J II H. who consented to stand a a. candidate for fOl the to succeed Hedd G. G bro late President of the has been elected with opposition The Belgian League for the Rights of Man has addressed an appeal to President President dent Roosevelt asking him for tor the love lovo of God to Intervene to prevent the possible possible possible pos pos- sible execution of ot the Boer Boar commandant K I and others e erIa elf Bishop Hartzell of the e M M. M E. E church In Africa things the formation of ot concentration concen concen- camps was a u. wise military move and that the they likely to are prove a most moat Important factor in future settlement because because because be be- cause of the education of ot the Boers Doers in the matter of hygienic laws as well as in other directions affecting social life The Commercial Cable company announces announces an an- flounces that commencing March 1st the rate to Bunnah Burmah will be reduced to elgh- elgh y x cents per word On account of the slowness lowness of Mrs Kliot's Kliots recovery from her recent illness President Eliot of Harvard has abandoned abandoned abandoned aban aban- his hia Western trip J J. J dP P. P fM Morgan Co distributed t a dividend divi d of OC y yesterday ie to the e members members mem mem- bers of the syndicate formed to tn underwrite underwrite under under- write th the United States Steel corporation The province of or Nueva NUe in the northern orthor Bar ar tJ p pf Luzon tw n. n has just been heen I I organized and given a civil form of gov gov- There are now about thirty thirty- I five organized provinces l I Th The big strike at the Singer Manufacturing Manu Manu- company's plant Is still an on men refusing to gO back to work until until un- un til their demands for tor two and one-half one cents per hour hoUt Increase Is granted James R R- Keene of New York gave for the relief of ot the poor who wha suffered suf suf- in the blizzard of ot Monday It Jt was the duplication of a similar gift made last winter by Mr Keene and was sent to the United Hebrew Charity societies A cablegram announces the death at Charing Cross Cross' hotel London of ot Col I Francis J. J Turner a noted Boer scout Albert the artist died last night at his residence in New York city aged 72 l ears years Heart disease the cause Gen Frederick K Funston was discharged discharged dis dis- dis charged from the Kansas City hospital yesterday h tc and d dt last s night hie at Convention hall hail reviewed t the Third regiment m rv M. M NG N N. G G. He lIe appeared to be In perfect health and took great interest in Ire the affair altair He was given a rousing reception Senator George R R. Carter of ot the HawaIIan Hawaiian Hawaiian Ha Ha- Legislature arrived in San Francisco Francisco Francisco Fran Fran- cisco yesterday en route to Washington in response to a a. letter from President Roosevelt asking Carter CartH for tor a statement of political conditions in Hawaii Carter preferred to go to Washington and make a personal statement Regarding the statement that Canada intended building a a. cable in addition to other transatlantic trana lines the Dominion Postmaster-General Postmaster says that owing to the pre pressure sure of other public work and also that the Marconi system was under I trial I it was inopportune tune to do anything f at the present time Andrew Carnegie has offered to the city O of Pomona Cal for the establishment f tet tP thc t of a free p public library with the condition that the city furnishes the tho site and supports tho the library J. J 13 R Leonard whose home is believed to have hae been In Santa Cruz and who was wag known to many residents of this vi viCinity vicinity vi- vi 1 lo h was crushed s t to d death h In the dSt hL 8 Southern Pacific yards dS in n San L Luis S ObIspo Ob- Ob Mrs Mrs Irs Annie Elizabeth Browning a a. milliner mil mil- I liner 28 8 years of or age was found dead in j to t the Delaware house at 1157 Market street San Francisco Tho woman held a gas I tube in her mouth and death was due to asphyxiation What caused the suicide is isa Isa isa a mystery Fred Reber an an apprentice boilermaker was shot In the right leg in a street fight In San Francisco Mrs Anson Van Leuven was probably fatally and one other person severely InjUred in injured injured In- In in in- ina a runaway in Red Redlands lands Cal While w working In itt the corral of a slaughter ter house at Sonoma James JamE'S was attacked and seriously injured by a vicious boar Mrs Nancy Bray Dray an inmate of the County hospital at Santa Rosa Cal celebrated tho the one hundred and first anniversary anniversary an an- of ot her birth Sunday Mrs Irs Coy of ot Ca Cal committed commit commit- ted suicide by shooting Suicide was due to remorse over a tragedy resulting from rivalry of ot two men for tor her affections The first annual debate between Stanford Stan Stan- ford tord university and the University of Washington will take place In Assembly hall on the Stanford campus on the second of May Artell Greenwood who formerly lived in Redding Cal but who Is believed to b be now employed in San an Francisco as asa asa asa a coachman is being sought as the heir to an English estate While Mrs B. B J. J Jost of ot 2060 Euclid avenue ave aye nue Oakland Cal was trying to pull down a window which was as hard to move iv It gave gae w way y suddenly striking her In Inri the stricken ri head t with Fifteen minutes a later she was partial paralysis due to the slight blow I hi Little n Amello Amelio ell Muzio 3 years of ot age oge lost his life In a a. caving well at 22 2 Alvarado street n V San fan Francisco The accident happened hap hap- in the yard of the little one ones one's s tJ home 1 and Silvia a year old I brother nearl nearly sacrificed his life in an effort to save that of or the victim His us brave efforts went for naught Robert a well-known well horseman and H. H of ot f the California f Jockey secretary club i died In San a Ft Francisco from I injuries J received in a street car accident two weeks ago tn in Fulton v 1 K Ky Officers R R. M. M Potts and Hardie il ie Beasley easley were ere a arrested td charged with killing Bill Dooley Doole the negro nero who was t taken ken from his home by by four men men Friday night and assassinated Gov Beckham of Kentucky kY has offered rewards of each for tor the arrest and conviction of Lee T Turner owner o of the u ri rT Y notorious Quarter r house In Bell 11 county coun coun- o ty the scene of ot the latest mountain bat bat- tle tie The Governor of Kentucky has offered a reward of for tor the arrest and three masked men who at Fulton sayera several several sev say era eral days ago dragged Bill Dooley an inoffensive negro front from his home and murdered him Florence Florenc Burns the young woman who is accused of the murder of Walter Brooks at a hotel in New York city last Friday was vas not arraigned yesterday the hearing having been postponed until to today today to- to day at the request of ot the District ney I Robert M. M the Kansas City financier for whom a bench warrant was Issued by the St St. Louis grand Jury Saturday Saturday Satur Satur- day charging bribery in the Central Traction franchise case reached StLouis St St. Louis from New YO York and has given I bond In lir the s sum of ol to dJ Judge Ryan for appearance In court Fire in the Jefferson rooming house on Ontario street Cleveland 0 O. did aid Id damage to that and adjoining property the Jefferson being destroyed In Chicago at last J night twenty six e families lies were burned r out lh In nt a fire that de destroyed destroyed de- de the story four-story apartment buildIng buildIng building build- build Ing located at sixth Fifty and Madison avenue avenue Loss D. D C. C Kent shot and fatally wounded I Mrs Harriet L. L Wiley and then turned I I his revolver upon himself in an unsuccessful I attempt to end his life lite The bullet bullet bul bul- bulI I let lct failed to penetrate his skull inflicting I Ionly I I I Ia only a superficial wound Kent then got gota I a razor and slashed his throat throat inflicting a wound that may prove fatale fatal tatal The Baltimore syndicate which has I been negotiating for tor the Market street Sutro and Slitter street railroads railroad San Francl Francisco co will close Its option on FebruarY Feb Feb- railway railway rail rail- For y the e Market Marke s sway street way approximately will be paid I lines Tines a. a and d for tor f the Sutro Suro and Sutter prof Proto Prof William A A. A He dean of the I Henry n of I Ithe Colle College e of ot Agriculture and d director the United States agricultural station at the University of Wisconsin where he I holds tI the tle e chair of agriculture u has ac accepted accepted ac- ac ep f a p position In the faculty of the University of Call California Cornia as a lecturer in the coming summer session The Ways and Means Ieans committee gave a hearing yesterday to Prof H. H W. W Elliott of the Smithsonian Institution favorable to the bill providing more effective re restraint restraint restraint re- re of ot pelagic sealing or else eise the extermination extermination ex ex- ex- ex termination of ot the fur seal herd The Senate Committee on Claims has authorized a favorable report on the Omnibus omnibus omnibus om Om- om- om claims bill and Senator Warren reported the bill to the Senate As reI reported re- re I I ported the bill provides for the payment of about claims and makes an aggregate I gate appropriation of Chancellor Chancellor- Magle Magie has appointed Louis Loula J. J Schenck of ot receiver for tor the Washington a V building nan and County loan Joan tK association operative Co-operative of bank New New- ark The application was made by the department of ot banks and Insurance Henry Guzeman a Chilean this morn morn- ing log shot and killed a fellow countryman whose s name l is unknown w at Millerton rh this county o Guzeman u claims al s lof that the dead man came to his home and started a quarrel with two other Chileans when he fired killing his assailant Guzeman surrendered Miss 1 Alice Allee Morton fourth daughter of ot former Vice President Morton and Winthrop Winthrop Win Win- Rutherford were married yesterday yesterday yester yester- day in Grace Episcopal church New York Rev Dr Huntington rector of ot the tho church hurch officiated Tho The wedding was simple in the extreme In Springfield 0 O. yesterday a cablegram cablegram cable cable- gram was received stating that Michael Bolan a Springfield contractor had been forced to leave Ecuador Bolan Dolan was recently arrested at Guayaquil Ecuador and thrown Into Jail on the charge of or not raying paying a a. debt to a native The American Newspaper Publishers' Publishers association by resolution has Indorsed tho action of ot the Postmaster-General Postmaster of the united States In his efforts to confine conOne second class mall mail privileges to the rations legitimately entitled to su such privileges The Chinese exclusion bill has not yet been considered by the Senate or House HOus committees having It in charge except to hear interested parties |