Wide-Awake, 1900-01-24

Mictainei! an irregular fir * during the tight, hut the British outpost? did not re- V daybreak Tuesday morning the , rs opened a stiff fire. The British stood -"guns, where they had slept, and the a -' eil ;',' nt was resumed vigorously. The artillery poured shrapnel into the ttfray's trenches. . A rumor that Ladysmith has been re rei - i rei the British, who sent up a ' cheer. This was taken for an ad- The first kopje was carried at the <!j ? bayonet, and the Boers re reto - to reto the next kopje, which, like most r? - was strewn with Immense boulders, by mounds on the summit. British advanced steadily, and the ys relaxed slightly. The latter did not v-i.'J ?!le ' 1 as previously. Their ; k Wu[ehlts tired at long intervals, and Ivth c s nnon bred but seldom. Apparent Apparent.-De - .-De Apparent.-De Boers were short of big ammunition. i - tbe roar oI musketry continued. Wltish took three Boer positions on j ;in . t , aiu auJ found shelter behind the to the Chronicle from Spear Spear' - ' Spear' baron, dated late Monday, says: r arren continues pushing the s«rv tll0 ugh necessarily he is making Btrons° W Progress, the Boers being du duisr - isr duisr strou gly intrenched on the rar's,® y They have several good m,,? 0 ? 1 ? I ®''' b ut greatest effect is tbelr and rifles. jj. 1,1 ltltr y i* working over parallel 1 hord Dundouald's cavalry iy iy*out - *out iy*out on the left flank awaiting de deats - ats deats - General Warren's artillery re redi; - di; redi; oU( iay morning. The Boers i w "~, re P'y and our lire became less Wet ' e uaval guns here have been itwtePrisoner hero has boasted that 6 US tbree m °aths to reach it t ei' l9nrshi P ls very strict, but the a ll°wed to come through lie Tifi..' , reports that the progress of Was Ver V s *ow and difficult. '' however, left too much no no. - . no. a , realization of the precise °L tbe British forces. kitish ~® v ery moderate total of the -deatiiq 1 le ? au,i tlle small proportion Wtil ' tr v Wei a very different handling r "hju?p, compared with many of the Hvof 0 » I ,* :a B® ,n ®nts. It »lso furnished tO -''«rnin I » h correspondents' statements * !;. r tb ® growing skill of the British ® e tbeßoer« Vtt *^ UB themselves of cover of Sunday's fighting was an l e f' t Boers to turn the extreme u,, Je manoeu-vre was defeated, ' 'e artillery and the Devon Devonn. - n. Devonn. r^^ t - A' correspondent concurred the - lers iu saying that the Boers kiuir th,, p 1? captured ut Colenso in op- T h« first B K iib advance. is 1 ' exhibition of the friction ntl(i to exist between imperial u irotu v'", 1 ' is described in a dls dls?oteoloni. - ?oteoloni. dls?oteoloni. i - wbicll states that a num numr - r' numr ,Tl ®issi, Jl ' '®rs are resigning their tn'l1 1 ' i nte °d proceeding to rAi,te 'l Mlln V tßeir K r i evaQce9 before

Domestic. Two daughters of the Rev. G. N, Day wore drowned it. Shaffer's fork of Cheat. River, W. Va. They were crossing the river on horseback. The horse fell down, throwing them from his back. The father saw the accident, but his skiff sank before he could reach his children. A church tn Leavenworth, Kan., has ob' tained a Circuit Court judgment against the Chicago and Great Western Railway Company for disturbing Sunday services by working trains near the church. Marshal 0. Wagoner, of Toledo, Ohio, the infldel whose conversion to Christian Christianity - ity Christianity was recently announced, has burned his fine library, consisting of the writings of infidels. The Brrtish bark Inverlochy arrived at San Francisco, Cal., 143 days from Swan Swansea, - sea, Swansea, and the British ship Kilburn, 150 days from London. William Hummell, held at Williamsport, Penn., under the charge of quadruple mur murder - der murder of his family, has confessed. He re refused - fused refused to give any motive for the crime. He will be tried next March. The Evening Post, of Louisville, Ky., has a sensational article declaring that trea treason - son treason and revolution are in progress. It says that 100,000 men would go to Frankfort if the situation was understood. John H. Cook, a well-known undertaker of Baltimore, Md., was married to Miss Ruby Becker, In pursuance of the dying wish of Cook's first wife, who died several days ago. Miss Becker had nursed her during an illness lasting several years. Albert Learned, formerly acting City Auditor of Pittsfield, Mass., was sentenced to serve one year in jail, having been found guilty on a charge of forgery. Edward Moore, an employe of the Hills Hillsboro - boro Hillsboro Coal Company, mistook his wife,Rose C. Moore, for a burglar, at their home in Hillsboro, HL, and killed her. The Supreme Court of Delaware has ruled that woman lawyers cannot practice before it on account of a Constitutional prohibition. Attorney-General Knowlton, of Massa Massachusetts, - chusetts, Massachusetts, formally suggests that confine confinement - ment confinement for life supplant the death penalty for murder in the State in the cases of women and minors under the age of eight eighteen. - een. eighteen. The training ship Dixie left Norfolk, Va., for San Juan, Puerto Rioo, whence she will go to the Mediterranean for a cruise. She has nearly four hundred landsmen on board, and the object of the cruise Is to train them for service on men-of-war. All these men are American citizens.

Will Have Two-Third* of the Delegates. Gubernatorial Race C lose. The Clarke county convention will instruct for John T. Morgan for senator. Morgan's popular majority is about 500, or two to Johnston's one, and he will have two-thirds of the delegates in the county conven convention. - tion. convention. Additional returns from Saturdays primary are as follows: Coffeeville, Johnston 125, Morgan 48, eleven dele delegates; - gates; delegates; Gosport, Johnston 12, Morgan 7, four delegates; Good Springs, Morgan 28, Johnston 23, three dele delegates; - gates; delegates; Walker Springs, Morgan 48, Johnston 29, five delegates; Salt Works, Morgan 84, Johnston 12, nine delegates; Anderson, four delegates, majority for Morgan; Gates, three delegates, majority for Johnston; Gainestown, eight delegates, all for Morgan, Tallahatta, Morgan 80, Johnston 81, three delegates. Returns so far received give Mor Morgan - gan Morgan the following: Gainstown, 8; Salt Works, 9; Jackson, 6; Suggs Suggsville, - ville, Suggsville, 6; Walker Springs, 5; Ander Anderson, - son, Anderson, 4; Good Springs, 8; Bashi, 4; Pleasant Hill, 8; Thomasville, 12; Grove Hill, 11. Total, 71. For Johnston - Gosport, 4; Coffee Coffeeville, - ville, Coffeeville, 11; Tallahatta, 8; Gates, 8. Total, 21. There will be 115 delegates in the convention and 58 is a majority. The gubernatorial race is between Samford and Stallings, and Is very close. This makes the sensational contest to date stand: For Morgan, four members of house, one new senator and nine holdover senators; total fourteen. For Johnson, six mem members - bers members of the house, one new senator and seven holdover senators; total fourteen. These figures give the two Morgan* county representatives recently nom nominated - inated nominated to Johnson, as they are per personally - sonally personally for him, but as they are to be instructed at the second primary in April it is possible they may yet go to Morgan. Indications are that Massey Wilson and Frank E. Poole have been elect elected - ed elected to the legislature. The race be between - tween between Dunn and Cunningham for the state senate is very close. Samford has probably carried the county for governor, though Stallings is running him a very close race. The county officers are badly scattered.

Waslilncron Items. Officers of the Stat* of Washington are accused of having been instrumental in the kidnaping by British Columbian of officials - ficials officials of an American named Everett, and the State Department will Investigate. The Navy Department has prepared a tariff for Guam based on the schedules now in use for Cuba and Puerto Rico. The House passed the Senate measure to build the League Island and Mare Island dry docks of stone instead of timber. The Senate resolved to make an inquiry as to polygamy in the United States. Colonel George M. Randall, Eighth In Infantry, - fantry, Infantry, and Colonel James M. Bell, Twen Twenty-seventh - ty-seventh Twenty-seventh Infantry, were nominated by the President for brigadier-generals. A delegation of Puerto Ricans appeared before Secretary Root to urge measures for the relief of the people of the island. The Senate bill increasing the powers ol the Director of the Census was passed, with a proviso that the printing must be done by the Public Printer. Representative James S. Sherman, ol New York, has declined to accept the sec seccretaryship - cretaryship seccretaryship of the United States Senate. Postmasters have been notified that the postage on letters to the Philippines has been reduced to two cents. In the Senate Mr. Pettigrew's Philippine resolution was tabled and an amendment to the resolution of Senator Hoar, calling on the President to furnish copies of the Instructions to the Peace Commissioners, was defeated. The vote on the latter was 41 to 20. The War Department reports that ex exports - ports exports from the port of Iloilo during the months of February. March and April, 1899, aggrated $549,387. The House Committee on the Judiciary fixed February 13 as the date for a general hearing upon the proposed constitutional amendment granting woman suffrage.

Congressman Brewer's Bill. A Washington special says: The following is the text of the bill intro introduced - duced introduced by Representative Brewer, of Alabama, regarding the granting of lands to the state of Alabama for the use of public schools: A BILL To grant land to the State of Ala Alabama - bama Alabama for the use of public schools. Be it enacted, by the senate and house of representatives of the United States of America in congress assem assemsembled, - sembled, assemsembled, That all the lands of the United States known as public lands, title of which now remains in the United States, shall be, and are here hereby - by hereby granted to the state of Alabama, to have and to hold forever - in trust, however, for the use and benefit of the common schools of said state for foreve - eve foreve ?. Section 2. That nothing in this act shall be understood to prevent the sale of said lands by said state, under such regulations as the general assembly thereof may provide; but the proceeds of such sale shall be forever kept invested in such interest interestbearing - bearing interestbearing bonds of the state as are now outstanding, the interest on which said bonds, when bought with such proceeds, to be expended in the maintenance of the common schools; provided, that such interest so ex expended - pended expended shall be applied per capita among all the children taught in such common schools without regard to race or color.

Bridoepobt, N. J. (Special); - the Cor Coroner - oner Coroner held an inquest into the death of George B; Eytc, the Chester clubman and athlete, whose body was found in the Dela Delaware - ware Delaware Rivet, hear here, Sunday. At the in inquest - quest inquest Dr. George C. Laws told of,the dis discoveries - coveries discoveries he made at his autopsy on Eyre's body, They prove the crime to have been most brutal, the murderer most deter determined. - mined. determined. They indicate that, although the dead man was stripped of bls valuables, some other motive than robbery incited the deed. Eyre disappeared on December 21 last, while he was gunning on the Delaware. Dr. Laws found that: a charge of shot had been llred from behind into the unfortu unfortunate - nate unfortunate man's head. And it had been fired at such close range that a hole two inches in diameter had been made in the skull. Some of the shot and two gun-wade remained Imbedded in the brain. No man could have lived an instant af after - ter after receiving so terrible a wound. Yet Eyre's savage assailant rained blow alter blow on his head, smashing his skull into thirty pieces. Then the murderer tied a weight to his victim's legs and dropped him overboard. But, happily, the weight became detached and the river gave up Its secret. From the character of the gunshot wound and the direction of the shot Dr. Laws is certain that the gun was fired by a man

Foreign. The Mexican Government is taking strlat means to prevent the introduction of the bubonic plague, and has forbidden vessels from Brazil to enter any Mexican port. The Provincial Government of British Columbia has declared its intention of so amending its alien exclusion law as to hereafter permit Americans to hold claims purchased from Canadian locators. The officials of the Bank of Pern, at Lima, received from their branch bank in London two boxes, each of which was sup supposed - posed supposed to contain $25,000, but upon being opened one of the boxes was .found to be filled with bags of shot. The whole Rhine district is threatened with floods, owing to the masses of snow and frequent thaws. A number of the Moselle towns are now flooded. The Minister of Bolivia had a conference with members of the Brazilian Govern Government. - ment. Government. He claims the State of Amazonas is aiding Galvez in Acre, and demands that Brazil send troops aud vessels to subjO'- gate the rebel Government. The Duke of Teck, who died in Surrey. England, had been insane since the death of the Duchess, and had been constantly under restraint. His death was hastened by an attack of paralysis, which came on suddenly. The Russian ironclad Poltava, of 10,960 tons, ran ashore near Lilian, on the Baltic. The Poltava was built at St. Petersburg in 1894 at a cost of $5.490;000.

The British Crmlnally Forced the Boers Bmk - Heavy Artillery Fire Covered the Infantry Advance - B tir c l.ern I»e I»e--femleil - -femleil I»e--femleil Their Positions With CrtUraj-e _H c htii>g I pbill Ail the Way. Lonov By Cable). - General Buller be begau - gau begau hit tinai move for the relief of Lidy Lidysoith - soith Lidysoith sevnral 'lays ago. He succeeded in crossing the Tagela River with hardly any on the part of the Boers. General Buil'r's forces then advanced, and ;i ;ireport? "hewed that the armies of the .publics made a fierce and determined of their entrenched positions. 0; sun lay the War Office received the Mowing dispatch from General Buller: .-.pearman's Camp. - General Warren has bp-n engaged all day, chiefly on his left, which be has swung forward about a couple of miles. -Th<' ground is very difficult, nnd, as th* lighting is all the time up hill, it is dlffi-nit to -ay exactly how much we have join 1. hut I think we are making sub subttiutial - ttiutial subttiutial progress." A pres? dispatch from Spearman's Camp, date) late Sunday evening, saj's: ' After ten hours of continuous and terri terrific - fic terrific tire Saturday Generals Hart and Clery advanced one thousand yards. The Boers