| Show KNOIISH iMlliirieN AUbClm CompD of tile Hojwl Niger Cony Mrn Ported Killed Aka i West rlcn Fell SIt Is reported that the Crollver eledl lon composed of Niger coast protectorate protec-torate troops which has been operatIng operat-Ing In Ihe liilerjn cgclsl the Cdlba tribes mil which was reported yesterday yester-day as having had some severe lighting light-ing Captain Tellon being killed and Captain Middleton being among the wounded wan mnnaered while destroying towns about Assay creek The Royal Niger Co has sent a force of constabulary to rescue the prisoners Irlmd At JlrKlnley Dead Wa hlngton Feb GMr Jos phP Smith dlr ° ctor of the Bureau of Ameil I cnn i Republics died at Miami Ilu at 440 this morning of heart failure lie had been well known In Ohio politics for many Yearn before coming 10 Wahlngton on the Inauguration of Me Klnley ns President For many jeara he published Republican newspapers In several Ohio towns anti espoused Mr McKlnliy unit a piotectl Inrill After Mr McKlnley defeat an n Member mem-ber of Congress from the Canton dim I trlct by reason of a gerrymander he Immediately put the Ireoldent name at the head of the columns of his Papers for the Republican nomination for governor When McKlnles I was elected Mr Smith was ehnsen stale llbnjrlm Ho and Ihe President were Intimate friends and when AcKnly was Inaugurated < he ten elell Mr Smith the death office he held at s the time of his ren and 1 Chl Wi Settle Valparalo Chile Feb GIt Is slated that the Chilean government will accept ac-cept the proposals of Vice President Dllllnghurt of Peru who Is I now in Santiago negollllng for a settlement of the questions between Peru and Chile arising out of the holding of the provinces of Tacna and Arlca Chile Is I willing It Is said lo return the province prov-ince to Peru without the plebiscite provided vided In the treaty or exacting the stipulated sum of ten million soles giving giv-ing Bolivia 3000000 soles forthestrlp of land ending at Victoria Cove |