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THE BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE FOUR O'CLOCK NEW YORK, MONDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1899. VOL. 59. NO. 301.

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SCHEIMER DIES L. SHEA A FEDERAL OFFICIALS SAY FIGHTING BEGUN woman picked him out from three men ae the person who had committed the offense. She died on September 18, and the Jury In the case found that her death was due to a criminal operation performed by Dr. Harvey. But he was dismissed fro mcustody when he was taken back to Manhattan.

It Is likely that In this latest case the police will make an effort to follow Dr. Harvey If the facts brought out on the autopsy warrant such a proceeding. bring thousands of sympathizers and adventurers to their standard. Operatiois of Cavalry. The active of the last few days have shown cavalry under modern conditions, armed with long range weapons, in an entirely new light, proving them able to work as infantry, both alone ind In conjunction with foot soldiers.

Thesi calvarymen have shown themselves able to hold Infantry positions against mounted in'antry, which, under previous conditions, thy would have been forced to relinquish, whllj the actual assault on Elnndslaagte was ltd by dismounted cavalry. Civilian Physicixn Appointed as Consulting Surgeon. Another eminert civilian. Dr. Edward Treves, surgeon lr ordiuary to the Duke of York and surgeon )f the London Hospital, has been appointed consulting surgeon with the troops in South He will start immediately.

The true Inwa dness of these appointments seems to ie the recognition by the authorities that th; senior military medical officers are behind the times and, as the latter would consider It below their dignity to call in consultatior junior officers who are more conversant win modern practice, the difficulty has been overcome by the appointment ol civilians at ai enormous cost. The Situation on the Western Border. The latest news from the western border has apparertly reassured the British authorities as to ability of Mafeklng and Kim berley to withstand assaults. Colonei Baden Powell's dspatch from Mafeklng, "dog killed," gives a vivid picture of his happy frame of mind. A dispatch from Fort Tuli, forwarded during the evening of October 24, announces that Blackburn's force in the skirmish at Rhodes' Drift, klled twelve Boers.

A Kaffir spy reported tnat many more Boers were dying in the drift. Blackburn died of his wounds on returniig to Fort Tuli. Scouts there report that the Boers are concentrating strongly on the Rhodesian border, with Maxims. Armored Train Engages Boer Force Near Crocodile Poort. A war office dispatch from Cape Town, dated October 26, says: "An armored train, under Llewellyn, got AT Boers Started to Shell the Town With Forty Pounders at an Early Hour.

SEVEN SHOTS WERE FIRED, British Batteries Then Succeeded in Silencing the Guns of the Enemy. BURGHERS NOW ADVANCING. Report Peaches Berlin From Holland That the Whole British Army Has Surrendered. Ladysmith, October 30, 11:50 A. M.

Firing commenced at 5:20 o'clock this morning, the Boers shelling Ladysmith with forty pounders. After seven shots the British gunB succeeded in silencing the Boer Are. A force of Boers is now advancing on the British left flank. Report From Holland That the British Have Surrendered. Berlin, October 30 A report received here from Holland says that the whole British army at Ladysmith has surrendered and that the troops are now prisoners of wart EarljTBber Shells Directed af the Station.

London, October 30 The dispatch of the Associated Press from Ladysmith this morning, which was sent at express rates, came through in the remarkable time of two hours. It shows the crisis which the present stage of the war operations has reached and that the expected attack on Ladysmith by the joint Boer forces has opened. A dispatch from Durban, timed 9:55 this ciorningsuDDlejiieiitsthe Ladysmith dispatch with tSeinformatio3 that the Boer shells were chiefly directed at the station and that no damage was done up to the time the message from DuTban was forwarded. That the heavy guns of the Boers, from which so much was expected, should be silenced so speedily, as indicated in the dispatch from Ladysmith, Is a matter of great surprise: but the subsequent advance of the burgher force on the British left flank shows that the attackers were in no way dismayed thereby and were still full of the same self confidence and daring they tiave already exhibited on various occasions. Boers Concentrated for a Supreme Effort Apparently the Boers have concentrated lor a supreme effort at Ladysmith.

They have withdrawn their forces from other points, which they consider, momentarily, to be of less importance. The ease wilt! which they reorganized the German corps, which was al His Condition Undergoes a Marked Change for the Worse. Paterson. X. October 30 The family of Vice President Garrett V.

Hobart, who is ill at his home in this place, announced this afternoon that the condition of the Vice President had undergone a marked change for the worse during the two hours following 1 o'clock. RAMAPO MAY PASS. Controller Coler Fears That the Restraining Injunction May Be Dissolved. Controller Cdler to day reiterated his fear that Judge Bookstaver would dissolve the injunction restraining the Board ot Public Improvements from making a contract with the Ramapo Water Company and that an effort will be made to push the contract through the board. It is now said that the attempt will not be made until after election day.

but that when the injunction is dissolved the Tammany administration will undertake the work of pushing it through, and that all the Tammany Commissioners will have to vote for it. With the votes of Commissioners McCartney and Kearny, both Tammany men, the contract could be pushed through. Both Commissioners voted against it before, Mr. Kearny personally and McCartney through his deputy. Captain Gibson.

President Holahan and Commissioner Dal ton say that the contract with the Ramapo Company will be made. GUAM FRIARS DEPORTED. They Subverted the Authority of Captain Leary and Defeated His Reform Measures. Washington, October 30 The Navy Department has received a report from Captain Leary, tho naval governor of the Island of Guam, in the Ladrooes, which has excited a good deal of interest among tho officials to whom it has been exhibited. The President himself has read the report, his interest being particularly attracted by a disclosure of the fact that the first American governor of the island has already been obliged to adopt heroic measures to insure a proper administration ot affairs there.

Captain Leary soon learned that his authority as governor was being subverted and every one of the measures of the reform which he proposed was being defeated by the hostile influence of the friars. They resisted every decree, no mutter of what character, from a spirit of Intense conservatism and a belief that any disturbance of the order of things which had governed the island for so many years would cause them to lose their hold upon the natives. After exhausting all other means to overcome their influence, Captain Leary Teports that ho was obliged to notify half a dozen of the friars that they might have free transportation away from Guam, and he should expect them to avail themselves of the offer. That left but one friar on the island, and he was a man whose character and reputation was Buch as to convince Captain Leary of his fitness to remain. CONGO CANNIBALS ROUTED.

Estimate That 300 Were Killed and 600 Wounded by Captain Mohun's Expedition. London, October 30 Mail advices from tho Congo announce that Captain Mohun, for merly United States consul at Zanzibar, who la commanding the Belgian Tanganyika Congo telegraph expedition, has reached the Congo Free State and was engaged at tho end of July in a fierce battle at Sangull, where the force consisted of ten Europeans, with Cap tain Mohun commanding. Shortly after the attack commenced Baron Dhamis, the Belgian commander, dispatched threo companies of soldiers to assist Mohun, and the enemy, consisting of cannibals, who horribly torture their wounded, were finally routed. Captain Mohun did great execution with a Winchester repeater, it is estimated that the enemy numbered 1,500 men, and lost 300 killed and COO wounded. The Belgian force lost 9 men killed and 47 wounded.

Tho enemy fled to Tanganyika. HENRY B. HYDE'S ESTATE. Appraiser Belford Finds It Is Worth $1,771,762.20 How the Money Was Left. (Special to the Eagle.) Rlverhead, L.

October 30 Joseph Belford, the appraiser appointed by Surrogate Nathan D. Petty to appraise the estate of the late Henry B. Hyde, president of tho Equitable Lire Insurance has filed his report with the Surrogate. Mr. Belford finds that the personal estate foots up tbat the debts and costs of settlement, were $124,3 17.

HO, leaving $1,647,415.61 subject to tax. The total tax was $16.67 4. IS. If this Is paid before Thursday, November 2. a rebate of per cent, will be allowed.

The tax will he paid to County Treasurer Sherry In River head, who receives a 5 per cent, feo for handling the money. This fortune was divided as follows by Mr. Hyde's will: Legacy to William II. Mclntyre, legacy to Henry B. Hyde Ripley, $10, 000.

Residuary estate to Annie Hydn, James W. Alexander and James Hazen Hyde, as executors and trustees, $1,632, ADMIRAL SCHLEY'S ORDERS. Secretary Long Says He Does Not Contemplate Making Any Change Station Not to Be Strengthened. Washington, October 30 Secretary Long today said that ho did not contemplate making uny ''hang Admiral Schley's orders. So fur, these are nothing more than a direction to take command of the South Atlantic station.

The date will bo definitely fixed when it Is known exactly how soon the Chicago will be ready for sea. Nothing has been decided by the department as to the dispatch of one or more warships to South Africa. Secretary Long pointed out that that section of the world is within the geographical bounds of the Atlantic station. Therefore, Admiral Schley will be at perfect liberty to go there or anywhere else on his station after he lakes command. No order from tho department will be necessary in such a east1.

Respecting the mooted increase of the OF ACUTE INDIGESTION. His Wife Says the Attack Was Largely Due to Political Disappointment. MUST GIVE UP CAMPAIGN WORK. Local Democratic Chairman Prostrated at His Home and Now Under Doctor's Care. Bridge Commissioner John L.

Shea is very seriously ill at his home, 278 Jefferson ave nue. It was reported this afternoon that he had had a stroke of paralysis, but that was denied by his physician to an Eagle reporter. Mrs. Shea is much worried about her husband and said that worry over the disappointment of being Tefused the nomination for sheriff had much to do with his condi tion. In the opinion ot many the gallant fight which the Bridge Commissioner made against the Ramapo water contract and his success in defeating it was the highest argu ment for his nomination.

It is known that he desired the nomination very much, and that he felt his turning down very keenly. Instead of sulking, however, Mr. Shea went to work with redoubled energy and has made himself ill by overwork and lack of sleep. Mr. Shea was taken ill on Saturday night and is now confined to his bed and no one but his family and his physician are allowed to see him.

Mrs. Shea said that she had been fearing for sometime he would not bo able to stand the strain. "Mr. Shea," she said, "does not know how to shirk work. He thinks that if there Is anything to be done he must do it.

He is too honest to throw it upon others. I have feared he could not stand the strain, and his disappointment at being refused the nomination for sheriff worried him a great deal. It. Is not true that he has had a stroke of paralysis, but there was some danger of it. Dr.

Jenkins of Jefferson and Marcy avenues said: "Commissioner Shea has been troubled for over a week with insomnia and on Saturday night I was called in. He was then suffering with nervous prostration and acute indigestion. He will not be able to do any work this week and perhaps not for longer. He ought to leave his official duties for some time. He is feeling considerably better today." "I was asked this afternon if Mr.

Shea had suffered a stroke of paralysis. That is not true, but it Is possible that his condition might have led to paralysis but that, I think, has been averted. He is of very active temperament and a full blooded man. He Is simply worn out with his political work and official duties." Mr. Shea's Illness will necessitate a change in campaign arrangements at Democratic headquarters.

There is no hope now that Chairman Shea will be able to take the helm again during the rest of the week, which is the last and most Important of the campaign. If he had any feeling of disappointment over the work of the Democratic county convention and tho decision of the leaders as to candidates no one at headquarters was made aware of it. His loyalty to the ticket was so great that he was endeavoring, apparently, to eclipse the splendid record of last fall, when Kings County, under his management, went Democratic by over 18,000, the largest majority in years. There Is much anxiety at the Thomas Jefferson Building over the unexpected illness of Mr. Shea.

No one was so familiar as he with the details of the campaign. MRS. NORTON'S INGRATITUDE. Swindled Her Benefactor Out of $3,000. Gets Thirty Months in Prison.

Mary Ann Norton of 845 Second avenue was sentenced to two and a half years' Imprisonment in the Auburn prison for women, by Recorder Goff, in Part I of General Sessions, Manhattan, this morning, for gettiug from Mrs. Annie Feehan of the same address $3,000 on the representation that she had an estate in ireiana. i ne Aorton woman was very sick in Juno, 18'JS, while she was with Mrs. Feehan. and the latter nursed her and took care of her.

Mrs. Norton told her a relative had died in Irelaud leaving an estate and that if she could get to Ireland she would settle it and do good deal for Mrs. Feehan. The latter hail $3,000 in the Seaman's Bank and she drew out every dollar of it and gave it to Mrs. Norton.

Mrs. Norton went to Ireland and had a splendid time for a year. Then she returned with some of her relatives and stopped at Mrs. Feehan's house again. She told her hostess that the estato had not been settled.

Mrs. Feehan became suspicious and had the woman arrested. She was convicted. REMOVE COLONEL GARDINER? Rumor Has It That the City Club Has Made This Request. A rumor reached the city to day via Albany that the City Club has filed charges against District Attorney Gardiner and has asked Governor Roosevelt to remove him.

James W. Pryor. secretary of the City Club, refused this noon to affirm or deny the truth of the rumor. Other members ot the club seen were equally non committal. Pressed for some sort of a reply to the questions put, Mr.

Pryor said: "You may quote me as saying that I am not authorized to speak for the club, but as far as I know, no such action has been taken." Mr. Pryor declined to say that such action is not in contemplation. VESTIBULED TRAIN WRECKED. Three of the Crew Slightly Hurt Passengers Escape Injury. Pittsburg, October 30 Vestibuled train No.

on the Pittsburg and Western Railroad, which left Chicago for New York at 3:23 o'clock yesterday afternoon, was wrecked at Carbon, about daylight. Fireman George HolUday and Engineer George Cupps and the baggagemaster were slightly hurt. None of the passengers was injured. The train was running over a new siding to pass a freight train which was standing on the main track, and the heavy engine caused the rails to spread. KAISER TO VISIT ENGLAND.

Windsor, October 30 Preparations are being made at Windsor Castle for the visit of Emperor William of Germany, who is due to arrive November 20. His majesty will occuply the same state apartments as he did in isr.4. OF CRIMINAL Made a Deathbed Confession Accusing Dr. Harvey, a Manhattan Practitioner. CHARGES AGAINST HIM BEFORE.

Groner's Jury Found Him Guilty of Malpractice on Another Brooklyn Woman Who Died. tlrs. Edith Schreiner of 331 Park place died ths morning at her home from the result, the atonding physician says, of a criminal operation performed, It is alleged, at 144 West enty third street, Manhattan. The case ws reported to Coroner Burger by Dr. Claries H.

Goodrich, who later swore to a coaplalnt to the effect that Mrs. Schreiner ha. confessed to him that the operation which ha made her so very ill had been performed by i man calling himself Dr. Harvey, at the add ess mentioned. The ease wil be brought to be attention of the police authorities in Manhattan, for the criminal operation was perf.rnied there, and the authorities of Brooklyn borough Lave under the charter no Jurisdiction in the natter.

The case is of more than usual interest, not only fiom the prominence of the victim, but because of the fact that it is only a short time sir.ee a young woman died In St. Catherine's Hospital under srailar conditions, who before her death identiled "Dr. Harvey" as the man who had teen responsible for her fatal illness. Harvey vas under arrest for a time and the jury imianeled in the case by Coroner Delap found hat her death was due to his act, yet nottin: could be done in the matter in Brooklyn bcause the offense bad been committed on the other side of the bridge. Harvey had been arrested by Detectives Vallely and Langdon of the Mulberry street force he was dismissed bjcause the peo pie of the district attorney'sjffice in Manhattan and the coroner of thatpart of the city had declared tiHrt tbere wasiotbing in the case.

Dr. Harvey was set freeind since then there have appeared daily In be Manhattan newspaper advertisements dravog the attention of the public to the pecliar business carried on there. Coroner Burgr is disturbed over the case, because his hand are officially tied by the limitations of the carter. Mrs. Schreiner is a daughter Thomas Mo ran, who wa3 a wealthy and wel known contractor of Brooklyn.

Moran's rtdow subsequently married Dr. Paul Kretschmar, who was at one time the superviso at large in Kings County and was well knojn among the local German societies. After the death of Dr. Paul Kretzschmar his widov married her second husband's brother, Dr. William Kretzschmar.

iSJLaa to naV een a very beautiful woman She went to consult Dr. trl Ya 12th of last and she confessed to her attendhg that Dr. Haivey whom she hat consulted about a lliV qI ha.d an operation on her. Shortly after ber hst visit to the place on third street, which is ad PPsite Proctor's Tleater," she became in. ur.

uooancn was caled in and ten days later the physician havin; questioned her as to the cause of her she made the confession which resulted in the case being called to day to the attentbn of the coroner. She also made the sam. confession. Dr. Goodrich says in his affidaxt, to her sisters, Mrs.

Le Smith and MiesEthel Moran; to Dr Smith, her brother in Ia, and to the two professional nurses, who wee in attendance. Then her case was very seriois and Dr Goodrich called another reputabe physician in consultation. All that unlimied money could do was done to save her life. Her death this morning. Dr.

Goodrich says was due to a clot on the brain esultlng from a criminal operation performedSeptember 1" 1899, at 144 West Twenty thin street, Borough of Manhattan. The tissuesof the heart, according to the physician, we involved' Coroner Bulger took Dr. Goodri h's affidavit in a formal way and it formed what was practically a complaint against ir. Harvey, whose name was mentioned in the sworn statement of the physician. The coroner directed Dr.

his post mortem examiner, to make an aitopsy in order to determine the correctness of the attending physician's diagnosis. Dr. Goodrich Is a well known and reputable physi.ian, who gave a great deal of attention to' Mrs. Schreiner's case. Appended to tht doctor's complaint is a copy of the advertisement of the place where the woman is alleged to have been operated on.

Coroner Burger said this afternoon that it was his plain dut to hold the inquest, but he declared that he could not proceed against the doctor who is alleged to have performed the fatal and criminal operation. That remains for the authorities In Manhattan, where the alleged unlawful practice was carried on. "I intend to again call the attention of the coroners of Manhattan to this man, Harvey, and see If something cannot be done in the matter." said tie Coroner. "You will see by the advertisement that this business is still flagrantly carried on. But my hands are tied.

I have no right under the law to send to Manhattan for the arrest of this man. All that I can do is to diaw the attention of the people over there to the case and see If they can do anything this It is only a short time since Coroner Delap held an inquest of a similar kind. The man who had committed the operation vas arrested and he was brought over to the lospltal where the woman lay dying, and he was picked out as the man who had performed the operation. "The jury ftund that he was guilty, but he was dismissed because. I was given to understand, the evrlence was not of a sufficiently conclusive chiracter to convince the people in the Coroner's office and the District Attorney's ofllcoover there that he was guilty.

This business is still going on and I have been told that there is daily a procession of women to the place. I cannot stop it." The case of Alvina Klingsblel of ISO Har man street, wlich first called the attention of the local autlorlties to the place on West Twenty third street, was of peculiar interest. The young wonan was unmarried and but 25 years old. She was taken in an ambulance to St. Catherine's Hospital in September last suffering from septic peritonitis, due to a criminal operation.

She was questioned by Dr. Maurice Cotnor, the attending physician, to whom she confessed that a doctor at the place on West Twenty third street had performed the operation. The result was that the police were informed, and Dr. HaTvey was arrested. He km taken to tte hospital, and the dying IS Judge Thomas and Commissioner Morle Deny Wholesale Registration Frauds.

THE RECORD IN BROOKLYN. It Shows That the Superintendent of Elections Was Away Off in His Figures. The United States District Court in Brooklyn for the Eastern District of New York has called on State Superintendent ot Elections John McCullagh to submit the evidence which he claims to have, that frauds have been perpetrated in this court in the issuance of naturalization papers. As soon the chargets of Superintendent McCullagh came to the notice of United States Attorney George H. Pettit, for the Eastern District Court, Mr.

Pettit wrote and mailed to the elections superintendent the following letter, together with a clipping from the Brooklyn Eagle: Hon. John McCullagh, State Superintendent of Election. New York City, N. Sir 1 see by the morning papers that yott have made a report. In which you state that there havo been five thousand persons naturalized in the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of New York, since January 1, 1899.

up to and including August last, many of them being fraudulent naturalizations, and that you propose to submit to me, the United States Attorney of this district, the evidence of tho alleged frauds in such cases as have occurred in this district. I write to say that this otrice stands ready to prosccuto any offender against the naturalization laws, where the offense has been committed In this district, and has always taken that attitude. I enclose to you herewith a clipping from the Brooklyn Daily Eagle, published Sunday. April 2, lbus, which contains the presentment of the Grand Jury of this district, for ths March term, of the United States District Court, touching this very' matter which tne court refused to accept. Respectfully yours.

(Signed) GEORGE H. PETTIT, United States Attorney. District Attorney Pettit was not tho only" one who was announced ready for the evidence! of fraudulent naturalizations. United States Commissioner Richard P. Morle said: "I only wish that Mr.

McCullagh, Instead of distributing among the newspapers a letter full of inaccuracies and mis statemants. would have come to me with his evidence of fraud and I would have instantly had every accused person arrested and punished. If will give me the evidence I will gladly prose cut every case." Judge E. B. Thomas and tho other officers of the court denied the statements contained In Superintendent McCullagh's charge of fraud.

The commissioners turned their records over to the Eagle reporter as a proof that Mr. McCullagh had not made an accurate statement of the naturalization work of the Eastern District court. The records showed that Mr. McCullagh's statement regarding the Eastern District court was Inaccurate. Instead of 5,000 persons hr.fe.ng been naturalized from January 1 up Includ.

August 9 of this year, as Superintendent WSfc Cullagh claimed, the records show that 3,633 applications for citizenship were made in tbat time. Of these nearly two hundred were turned down. The records show that Superintendent McCullagh's statement was again wrong wher he said that, especially In the Eastern District court, the vast majority of the 0,000 men naturalized during the year were naturalized under the provisions of the law relating to minor children. He claimed that men who came here at ages ranging from 25 to 40 years of ago were naturalized without tha first papers under the law relating to minors; that theso men were admitted to citizenship simply on their claim that they arrived in this country under the age of 18 years. Tho records show that.

56 per cent, of the 3,633 men naturalized during the year were naturalized under this minority law. Of the total number naturalized, 2.1 17 were admitted under tho law for minors; 1,463 were admitted on their first papers, and 23 were admitted on presentation of their honorable dlsohargea rrom the service of the United States as seamen or sailors. in the records it was found that some men had appeared us witnesses many times. The Commissioner explained this by saying that the witnesses whose names appeared so oftea. were officers in societies or had position among their countrymen that made them prominent and esvu them a knowledge of th newcomers to this country.

The commissioner admitted that it was possible for trau4 to be practiced in some cases by very shrewd and intelligent men, but said that the examin ations nro so rigid and so conducted that very few men can pass who aer uot telling tha truth and are not so sure of their facts as to proclndo tho possibility of getting mixed under tho cross questionings. "We have never known of but one case of a man impersonating an applicant." said Major Morle. "und in that case both the impersonator and the witness are in jail. A few weeks ago a man giving his name an Ven censo Basoll of 10 Sixth avenue, applied for naturalization papers. His witness was man named Olicaj Yurdi of SI Third avenue.

We did not know the witness and. as we never accept witness tinder such circumstances, investigated. We found that 10 Sixth avenuB is a stable and that Third avenue is a brewery. The men had never been heard of at either places. I arrested them at ones and they are now in jail.

I intend to see that they irr punished to the full extent of the law. As for the men who so frequently appear here as witnesses, they are men who have well known reasons for knowing tho applicants and we know wau tin; witnesses ars and can take their word. "Mr. McCullagh's statements are all wrong. You have seen from the records that he did not know what he was sayirm when be mad his charges against this court.

Commissioner Percy G. It. Gilkes. who conducted most of the examinations which Mr. McCullagh says were frattlulent, said that not a single statement tna le by Mr.

McCullagh in reference to ten Eastern District Court was true. Ho described minutely the methods used bv him and the otlnr officers of the court in determining the truth of the applicants and witnesses. He said that he be lieved no fraud had benn perpetrated under tho law relating to minors. Judge Thomas Denies the Storiete ot Wholesale Fraud. Judge E.

D. Thomas of the 1'nited States District Court for the Eastern District, Brooklyn, admitted that there litis undoubtedly been some fraudulent naturalization, but be declarc that Superintendent McCullngh's statement regarding tho Eastern District Court wns false. He said that there wa no excuse for the charge of such enormous frauds In his court and he thought that Mr. Met'ullab should have fortified himself with faoiK before making tile charge. Judga Thomas tlatly contradicted nearly every stat.metit that been made by the superintendent of flections in reference to the naturalization.

"We arc living in a day of eensationB," said Judge Thomas. "I believe Mr. McCullagh Is doing what he thinks is right and that he is not simply trying to etlr up BRITAIN TO PREVENT SEARCH. Shanghai, October 30 The British officials here, fearing that the Chinese reformer, Kang Yu Wei. is on board the steamer Empress of India, from Vancouver, have sent the torpedo boat destroyers Fame and Whiting to Woo Sung, a maritime town at the mouth of the Woo Sung River, ten miles north of Shanghai, to prevent the Chinese from searching the vessel.

It is reported, on the other hand, that Kang Yu Wei left Kobe on the British steamer Rohilla, bound direct for Hong Kong. ROBBED, THEN MAIMED. Man Forced by a Tramp to Jump From a Train Loses Both Legs. Sandusky, October 30 Rollin Thorne. residing at Graytown, entered a box car on the Lake Shore Railroad here last night, Intending to ride to his home.

A tramp, whom he did not notice or. entering the car, attacked him while the train was running at full speed three miles west of here and robbed him of his watch and S7 and then threatened to shoot him if he did not jump from the car. Thorne leaped from the car and fell under the wheels, which cut both his legs off below the knees. The injured man was brought to this city and placed in the infirmary. BRUSH WITH THE REBELS.

Detachment of Thirty sixth Volunteers Scatters the Enemy at Florida Blanca Young's Advance. Washington, October 30 The War Department has received the following from General Otis: "Manila, October 30 Detachment of Bell's regiment, Thirty sixth Volunteers, reconnoi tering toward Florida Blanca, West Guagua, struck body of insurgents in newly constructed trenches. Attacked and drove enemy, who left In hands of detachment four insurgent officers and eight enlisted men killed and three prisoners and nine rifles. Casualties, Captain French and Lieutenant Ferguson, wounded, not dangerously. One enlisted man killed; six wounded." Manila, October 30, 8:30 A.

M. General Young, with the infantry, is advancing upon Cabanatuan, under difficulties. The country is furrowed with rivers and deep ravines, the bridges over which have been destroyed; the mud is deep, rations are short and the transportation of supplies has been delayed by low water and the poor condition of the roads. There are sufficient stores, however, to keep the brigade. The insurgents for a long time have lived off the country, impoverishing it.

The American horses are not yet accustomed to the native grass and a long bullock train has left San Fernando carrying hay for the cavalry. The Spaniards report that there are no insurgents at Cabanatuan. The gunboat Laguna de Bay dispersed a force of rebels who were engaged In con structing trenches beyond Santa Rosa. The boat was fired upon by a party of insurgents bearing a white flag. She is now aground.

Numbers of Chinese are coming to Angeles from Tarlac, paying the insurgents for the privilege. It is reported that Agulnaldo and the Filipino Congress are still at Tarlac. There are about 500 insurgents before Angeles. They have been quiet for the past week. Two thousand rebels are at Bamban, five miles to the north.

General Bates has been recalled from San Fernando and ordered to sail for the Southern Islands as soon as possible. PHILIPPINE COMMISSION. First Meeting Held in Washington Today Sessions to Be Secret. Wishington, October 30 Tho Philippine Comnission held its first meeting to day at the luarters selected for it In the Arlington, ton. Prolnssor Schurman, for whose arrival the other members have been waiting, reached Washligton this morning and paid an early call at the State Department, after which he went tt the commission's rooms, whero Admiral Eewey and Coloney Denby were waiting.

Profesior Worcester was the last to arrive and the commission sat down to business soon aftr 10:30 o'clock. It was announced before tht meeting that all the sessions would be secret and none of tho deliberations would be made mblic until the commission had finished its labors. Colonel Denby said that no programme had been arraiged and that it was impossible to say even what general course would be followed till after the commissioners had discussed the matter. ROOSEVELT'S PROCLAMATION. Thursday, November 30, Set Apart as a Daj; of Thanksgiving and Prayer.

Albany, October 30 Governor Roosevelt to day Issued tie following Thanksgiving Day proclamation State of Xew York, Executive Chamber. During the past year this state has been blessed with prosperity and with order. Un der Providence each man has been permitted to live his life and do his work as seemed best to him, provided only that he in no wise interfered with the liberty and well being of his fellows. Moreover, the oeople of this state are not. merely Xew Yorkers; they are Americans, and as such they have shared In the blessings that have come upon America during the year that has gone by.

It is right that we should give thanks for the prosperity that has come to the nation, and for the way In which this great people in i tne tirst hush of its mignty manhood Is mov I ing forward to meet its destiny, and to do without flinching every duty with which that destiny brings it face to face Therefore I. Theodore Roosevelt, Governor I of the State of New York, do hereby set apart Thursday, tho 30th day of November, 1899, as I a day of thanksgiving and prayer, Done at the capitol in Albany this 30th day of October in the year of our Lord 1899. THEODORE ROOSEVELT, i By the Governor: William J. Youngs, Sec ret.nry to the Governor. NASHVILLE INVITES MC KINLEY.

Washington, October 30 A delegation of citizens from Nashville. visited the President and the heads of the various executive departments to day and invited them to visit Nashville on tho occasion of the reception to be given to tho First Tennessee Volunteer Infantry, which regiment is now on its way home from the Philippines. NATAL CARBINEERS, within 1,900 yards of the Boer laager, three miles south of Crocodile Poort. The Boers had driven in their horsea on the approach of the train. Three Maxim belts were discharged into the Boers, who must have had considerable They returned ten shots with no effect.

Colonel Plumer's outpost has had several skirmishes on the Crocodile River. From later advices it was learned that the Llewellyn train returned to Mochudi, 100 miles north of Mafeklng. Llewellyn reports all quiet." SECESSION ADVOCATED. French Canadian Papers Protest Against Sending Troops to Help England in Boer War. Buffalo, October 30 A special to the News from Ottawa says: The leading French ultramontaine organ of Quebec, La Verite, is out for the secession of Quebec Province from the Dominion.

It declares that the dispatch of a Canadian contingent for South Africa, on the demand of the Governor General, under a threat of dismissing the Cabinet in case of non compliance, marks the approach of a new struggle for contitutlonal liberty. A special from Montreal says: "Many of the French Canadian newspaper are protesting vigorously against sending troops to help England in the Transvaal, and declare that Canadians should have nothing to do with the wars of the British Empire." La Tribune of St. Hyacintbe, the personal organ of M. E. Bernler, member of the Dominion Parliament for that constituency and a man who is mentioned as a possible member of the Laurier Cabinet, saya: "On the day when there shall be no other alternative but to enter into an imperial federation or to leave the confederation, we will not hesitate to pronounce freely and frankly for separation from the confederation." PRAYERS FOR BOER SUCCESS.

Chicago, October 30 Prayers were offered Sunday in the Dutch churches in this city for the success of the Boers. A conference of Hollander clergymen will be called this week to eel aside a special day of prayer for all Hollanders. DISCHARGED FROM BANKRUPTCY. Judge Thomas, sitting In the United States District Court, has granted discharges in bankruptcy to Morris Petchort, Simon Nager, John F. Stratton, Solomon I.

Loeb, Henry Stecking, GaDriel Marks and Samuel Saloway and Jool B. Arnold, formerly composing the firm of Arnold Saloway of Brooklyn, and Ernest. L. A. Ballin and Tito Nini of Richmond County.

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OTTO HUBEK BREWERY. Adv. BLOEMFONTEIN, the seat of government of the orange free STATE. most annihilated at Elandslaagte, and General Lucas Meyer's column, shattered at Talana Hill, shows how great are their recuperative powers and their fertility of resource. The preseverance th? Boers have shown in transporting heavy ordnance and posting it in commanding positions has forced admiration even from their enemies.

To day's Battle May Decide Issue of the War. Unless the present attack is merely a feint to occupy the British while the invaders are cutting off communication southward, the battle which opened this morning may decide the issue of the war. so far as fighting in the open Is concerned, as, unless the eighteen or twenty thousand Boers about Ladysmith are able to destroy the twelve thousand British there, they can hardly hope to cope with Gen eral Buller's army corps; so it may be ex pected the Boers will return to the attack of Ladysmith after they are beaten off. so long as they have a gun in position and men willing to face the British, for they must be fully cognizant that the news of their success will strength 'if the South Atlantic Squadron, the GENERAL COLLIS IMPROVING. so.

i ctarv said that lie would not hesitate to General C. H. T. Coins, who was seized with th" of. ii wuii Wcre necessity for it.

So far. the ne heart trouble at the Lotos Club Saturday cessty has not appeared and therefore it was night, was said at that place this morning to not contemplated to have more than three be improving and will be able to be removed vessels, the Chicago, Montgomery and Wil to his home soon. I mlngton on the station..