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WAR NEWS STILL VAGUE, RINDIES FIGHT OX SATURPAY-ROB- ERT.- MIST CLEAR HIS FLANKS. ryrt^fct; 1800: By The Msw-Totfe Tribune 1 'BT CABLE TO THK Tr.IBfNE.j I^or.don. April 23. <i a. m.— The British forces ender General Rundle and General Brabant are p-adua':y c-nverging on Wepener. From the few particulars that ar.-> puV-l!shed concerning ptur. * • -ent on Saturday, however, it (Joes BJOt seem that he was able to do much n the position from which the Boers had been driven on the previous day. Brabant had on Saturday reached Bushman's is teaaj than twenty miles distant '- er. Hf has not encountered any : . but It is evident that unless the Boers retire with great dexterity an im- engagement must take place very Meanwhile the Wepener garrison is ut well and relief is practically certain. ~ Standard" correspondent with General | :ai:.= at some jength the reasons for f the offensive. He points The main army can advance In it is absolutely necessary to \u25a0 -:ks and rear fr<->m menace, and also | :n case of interruption of \u25a0 omnrantcatiocaß. Rut when the fi-rr.y It arlll be seventy thousand t • [oipped. Ed al Purban on Satur- sage for East London. The = it is ptnted that his destlna- \u25a0*\u25a0 State, where he will assume a pHU appointment I. N. F. BRITISH COLUMNS CONVERG- ING OX THE TOWN. RELIEF NEAR WEPENEH Selena report that a been boveclpg about the \u25a0 as attached to th* ' Cape Town that a con- en effected \u25a0 rally been en property I. N. F. ICopyrleht: 1P00: By The Hew T. rk Tribune.] [BT Cißl.fc TO THE rnir.tNE.] London, April 2'.\. 1 a. m.— There was last night the usual Punday medley of ominous rumors and confused conjectures from the theatre of war, Tilth a heavy budget of mall correspondence on minor incidents of the period of masterly in- activity. The most serious news was the evi- dence from Roer sources that formidable prep- arations have been made to resist the advance cf G<"-nera! erts*s army. The Boers are vaguely reported to have mounted sixty-nine pun? at Kroonstad and to have constructed a circuit of defences eight miles Jong around Pre- toria. It is ,i foregone conclusion that Pretoria vi!l be vigorously defended, but the experts are sot prepared to accept evidence from a Boer Fonrc? that Kroonstad has been strongly forti- fied, although the srtaesjt among them hope that the news is true. Kro.instad offers strong ad- vantages for defence, but General Roberts, with his- vastly superior force, can turn the position fey either flank and compel Its evacuation, with & pood chance of Inflicting a decisive defeat which will greatly impair the Boer resources for spelling an attack upon Pretoria. The Boers are reported as mustering every man capable of carrying a rifle and as taking their ambulance corps into the fighting line. They. need all these reserves in order to justify current estimates of their available force. They are alleged to have from eight thousand to ten thousand men in the district between Dewets- dorp and Wepener, where heavy lighting is re- pcrted Friday and Saturday. They are also £f«cribed as occupying a line ten miles long In Upper Natal, and as shelling the British posi- tions at Elandfiaagte on Saturday with un- Ebar^d spirit. The motive of this activity is not Cltar. but it is Furmised that the Boers are anxious to prevent :he transfer of British force* from Natal to Bloemfontein an ! (oshof, which apparently Is still in progress. The Boers have also been active ;n front of General Methuen and at Fourteen Streams, and H&feklng remains under Investment. If the tiastic estimate? of Boer forces are footed up an apsrrf gate is produced which upsets the rea- Bonable deductions from the census returns and the casualties en the Dutch side. More careful estimates allow twenty thousand Tranrvaalers zz>A five thousand Free Staters for active opera- tions all around. Experience has shown that in all South African reports the strength of the Dutch Is grossly exaggerated. The War Office was silent at midnight, and the results of Bundle's advance toward Wepener •ere not announced, although there was little reason to doubt that there had been serious fipbtirjg Saturday. There were details of Gen- eral Methuen's convoy fight near Boshof. but these did not materially alter previous ac- counts. BUIIORS ANT) CONJECTURES BURDEN THE SOUTH AFRICAN CABLES. THE KEY TO THE PACIFIC. NAVY DEPARTMENT'S BILL FOR A NAVAL STATION AT PEARL. . . HARBOR. [BT TET-EGItAPH TO TUB TIUBr7?rB.] Washington, April 22.— Secretary Long has sent to the Naval Affairs Committees of the Sen- ate and House of Representatives the adopted plans for establishing a naval rendezvous, re- pair plant and coaling station at Pearl Harbor, Hawaiian Islands, with an urgent recommenda- tion pointing out the necessity for promptly Instituting the improvements to utilize this key to the entire Pacific Ocean. In its present con- dition the harbor is worthless to the United Statas or to commerce, but by a comparatively insignificant expenditure will become one of the most valuable of National pospeßslonj. Senator Hale has promptly introduced the bill drawn at the Navy Department for this purpose. It authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to con- demn under the Hawaiian civil laws of eminent domain, for the establishment of a naval sta- tion in Pearl Harbor, Island of Oahu, four tracts of land with an aggregate area of about 1.880 acres. One of these is the island known as "Mokuumounie," or Ford Island, comprising about 370 acres Another 's a nearby peninsular tract called Waipo, with an area of about 830 acres. These two will constitute the naval sta- tion proper. They are admirably located, and pe- culiarly adapted by nature for naval uses. The island has a deep Indentation which can be readily transformed into the greatest graving drydock In the world, and there is sufficient shore line to moor the entire Navy of the United States within the station limits. The other two plots of land average about three hundred and fifty acres each, and are situated on each side of the narrow entrance of the harbor. They are required as sites for for- tifications, and on account of their commanding position can render, the station impregnable with few guns. An appropriation of $1"0,000 is provided for the acquirement of these lands, which were selected by the Board of which Ad- miral Barker was president. The second sec- tion of the bill authorizes the Secretary of the Navy Immediately upon the passage of the act to establish port warden or harbor lines in Pearl Harbor, and to detail a naval officer as Super- visor of the harbor to enforce the harbor regu- lations and maintain the established lines. Section .°. appropriates ?400.000 for the purpose of dredging and improving the channel to pro- vide for the safe entrance of vessels of 6,000 tons displacement, and transfers from the Army to the Navy $100,000, \*"hieh was appropriated for Pearl Harbor on March 3. 1889, but which, up to this time, the Army engineers have shown no disposition to utilize. This sum was Intended particularly for cutting through the coral reef that blocks th» entrance of the harbor, and was appropriated by Congress as the result of Ad- miral Walker's investigations of the character of the reef and upon his estimates for dredging. The bill provides that none of the money for dredging or improvements shall become avail- able until the tracts of land shall have been act- ually acquired. The latest reports from Honolulu show that th« small harbor there Is whollyunequal to the demands of the great trade that has sprung up in the last two years. Frequently as ma.ny as twenty ships are compelled to lie to off the port waiting their turns at the crowded wharves, which are limited in extent by the exceedingly small shore line. In bad weather the condition is extremely dangerous. With Pearl Harbor en- trance opened, miles of wharf room would be available, and several thousand vessels coul.l lie In the harbor In absolute security. At the evening meeting for the consideration of the last one hundred years of mission worl the topics trmted \u25a0 .'it be a review of th« century Just closed. Its triumphs (occupation oi strategic points), expansion ot the problem and development of methods; a statistical summary, Japan— Material anal intellectual pi-ogres*. au-vrr of educational work. i>r*>i*ut educational ami re- ligious problems, i>tu;;tnthro;.tc work and or- pbanages. Corea— Evangelistic work; BMdtral; educational- business n.eir.s view «.f mission work in Corea.' Chtna-Rellglous i aspects, review of missionary work, evangelistic work, educational worK rssrl ical work political :t*->>. cts. '•'\u25a0•• present situa- tion, stability of China: the out!ook. Burmah— Religious e\,>:ut!.iu of the Burmese. ml»- \u25a0!on work among \.:.v K;».-*n«. advance work In North :i:i<l East Burmah, among Bfcans, Kach- Ir.s, etc. Assam— Beginning of work in the i>:alns; hill trttteai and work among them; questions. Slam— Observations of m!»ston wu rk In Slam mis- sion work in I-uos» ixvA North Slam, map eSSB*> InO!:i and Ceylon—Attitude of educated Indian* to\v:ir«i Christianity, bonds thai unite India to Christian countries, charaetertsttcs of Chrtitian and ;>titlaiithri>plc work imomt the names. character of tedian ChrtsUsits, ralattoa of in-1- lan i'hrlntt.ir.a t<> their nun-ChrlMtan neighbor*, woman's pal in the ev annexation of In.lt i. Oceania— General »urvey of the. Island WorlJ— Ha- wriit. Micronesia, Malaysia. Phlltpptnea New- Hebrides, M-tdaic:i!«iar; ihc Bible !n the Pacific; some Oci-anlo converts. Mahometan Lands—General survey of the Ma* hoi'ietan world— Turk«T, Per:<!.>. Syria. Arabia. Egypt, North Africa. Africa—The t:«!m» of Afrl?a upon the ''h:Uttan world, hopefulness of Africa as a mission Held, native trait*, evangelistic, incOt.-at. Intluatriul v. rs North nml S^uth Amerii'i— The aburiKtnal and p*»- »r:»n jiroll>:us. the rrllKl >u» problem of l..iti:i America. «'.'illrj{ with •x'st'rjr f >tmi of hrl*- tl.mity; practical cor«!<!-'rations of the wcrlt. Hi-brews In All Lands— At this meetLnr A. T. Pter- fon will 1> H cbaircxan, Of the «prakem. J. Fair- ley Daly represents the Jewish Comrr.ltte* t>t the Free Church of s<><>tlan<!. David W. Tor- rence i-i tJ-.e founder of the mission near t v « 9e» of Galilee, and A. C Gab^Uln represents th» Il( brews of America. Japan and Corea— J. L. BEARING, jrL.lf"3 SOPER. ALBERTUS PETERS. MRS. J. H. PETTEE. C. F. REED. O. R. AVISON. W. M. - BAIRD. China— T. W. PEARCE. MRS. S. L. BALDWIN. J. H. M'CARTNEY, GEORGE OWEN. C. F. KUPFEB, MRS. F. 11. TAYLOR. Assam, Burmah and Slam— F. H. EVEL.ETH, MRS. J. M. CUSUINO, W. M. COCHRANE. W. EJ. WITTER. S. A. PERRINE. JOHN BARRETT. CHALMERS MARTIN. India and Ceylon—L. B. WOLF. J. WILKIE. 3. E. ABBOTT. W. MAUSELL. L. W. JUDDER. J. P. JONES. T. S. WYNKOOP. J. ABERLT, D. DOWIE. Mrs. PH. BADLEY. MISS SWIFT. Oceania— R. WARDLAW THOMPSON. O. H. GI'LECK. BISHOP HURST. JOHN G. PATON. CANON EDMONDS. W. E. COUSINS. FRAN- CIS M. PRICE. JOSEPH KING. Mahometan Lands— J. L. BARTON. ROBERT B. SPEER, WILLIAM JESUP. W. H. BUTTON. A. J. HARGRAVES. Africa—BISHOP TURNER, BISHOP WALTERS, HENRY RICHARDS. R. 11. NASSAU. ROBERT LAW.- . A. MARENSKY. North and South America -TAYLOR HAMILTON D. B. 6RITBB. 11. W. BROWN. G. W. CHAM- BERLAIN. JOHN W. BUTLER. Hebrew? in all lands J. rAIRLSI DALY. DAVID W. TORRANCE, A C. GABELEIN. In the evening at Carnejrie Hall: EI'GENf.: STOCK, editorial secretary of th© Church onary Society, London: the Rev. Dr. JAMES S. DENNIS, author of "Christian M!*- !1n,?,,a-n ' 1 Social Proeress." and the Rev. Dr. ARTHUR T. PIERSON, Editor-in-Chief of "The Missionary Review of the World." In the evening at Central Presbyterian Church: The Rev. R. WARDUW THOMPSON, of London- the £ cv - I)r JOHN G. PATON, •>' Oceania and the Rev. Dr. JOHN HENRY BARROWS? The prayer meeting at Carnegie Hall -will be led by Walter a Sloan, secretary of the China Inland Mission, and that in Central Presby- terian Church by th» Rev. James Cunningham, minister of the' Memorial Presbyterian Church. Wandsworth. London. It hi hoped that as many as possible will attend these early morning gatherings to pray for the guidance and bless- ing of God in all the sessions of the day. The addresses in the meeting following the prayer meeting will be limited to twenty min- utes each, and an? to be followed by discussions open to all delegates and missionaries. At the afternoon meetings for the survey of mission fields each tleld will be surveyed in Its past history and present conditions, with a re- view of the work of Christian missions, tha development of the native church and Christian Institutions, a consideration of the chief prob- lems Involved in the effort to evangelize each country, and the outlook and demands for the coming century. The topics for these afternr>on meetings ar« as follows: 2i30 P. M. — Sun of mianlnn field* in Japan and Corfu, at Calvary- llnptiat Chorebi China, at the Fifth Arrnnr Preabj-terlani Asuani, Hannah and Mam, at the Chnrch of the Strantcerat India and Orion, at the Central Presbyterian Chnrchi Oceania, nt the BroailTva) Tabernjtclet Mahometan lands, at the Madison. Are- ni \u25a0- Reformed I hnr.hi Africa, at the Union Methodlnt <hnr<-h: Northland South America, nt the Mndl*i>n Avenue I'reaby- terlnn Church, anil "Hebrew* In All I.oniU," nt CarneKle Hall. 8 P. M.—CarneKle Hall and Central Pre»- byterlun Church- Consideration of on« hundred years of mltaton york. "While the great Ecumenical Conference on Foreign Missions held no formal session yester- day, hundreds of missionary meetings were held all over the city, wherever Conference delegates could be prevailed upon to fill the pulpits of Protestant churches of all denominations, and generously they responded to the call. It is esti- mated that almost three hundred congregations in New-York and its vicinity listened to sermons from the missionaries and had their interest in the Conference greatly stimulated thereby. The actual business of the Conference, that for \u25a0which many of its members have travelled from the uttermost parts of the earth, will begin to- day and continue with only one break — that of next Sunday— until May 1. Simultaneous sessions will be held in two different audi- toriums In the morning, In nine In the afternoon and In two in the evening. The subjects to be discussed at these sessions are given at the head of the article. The speakers will be as follows; In the morning at Carnegie Hall: The Rev. Dr. AUGUSTU3 H. STRONG, president of Rochester Theological Seminary; the Rev. J. HUDSON TAYLOR, founder of the China Inland Mission, and ROBERT E. 3PEER. secretary of the Board of Foreign Missions of the Presby- terian Church In the United States. In the morning at Central Presbyterian Church: The *Key. HENRY T. CHAPMAN, secretary of th« United Methodist Free Churches In England: the Rev. PAUL DE SCHWEINITZ. secretary of the Board of Missions of the Moravian Church, and the Rev. Dr. H. C. MABIE, secretary of th« American Baptist Missionary Union. In the afternoon: PROGRAMME FOR To-nvr. oi3O A. M.—)Hrnr E l<> Hall and Central Pt«mm iitluii Chnrch — Prayer mi-rtlnf. 1O A. M. — rnrne-Elf lln.ll nml Central Preatty- tfrlmi 4 htiri'h — III «eii«*lon of the author- ity and nnrpoiie. fin- annrce and power anil the nnprome and iletiTinlnlng aim In foreign mtsalona. many VOCAL rn.viTS wr.nr. ftt.t.kd WT THE DELEGATES YESTERDAY. TO THE DELIGHT OF LARGE CONGREGATIONS. GA TES STA RTS To- DA Y. ACTUAL BUSINESS OF DELE- CONFERENCE AT WORK. BUY YOUR SUMMED FURNISHING 3AT O'NEILL'S Your money will go further there than in any other store In town. Bee Ujclr advertisement to-day. Slxth-ave.. Twentieth to Twenty-flrxt-st.— Advt. Rome. April 22—Th» Italian newspapers aro much Concerned regarding the renewal of commer- cial treaties with Germany and Austria. The "Pun- golo Parllamento" assorts. i»i (!:<• authority of a formor •ml \u25a0\u25a0\u25a0 of the Cabinet, probably SU'nor Branca, that a clause was added In 1>:<1 " tho i •:.;. und treaty whereby the ' : '••• Power* stipu- late to grant «n- mother favored nation treat- ment ami the great**: posulble facilities in tr.i.le. The • Tribunn. romnv upon lhw» revelation, tny« that, In p;ilt«- of it, the prospect* for the fut- ure are not reassuring In \iew <>f the ultra pro- tectionist tendencies <>: the Austrian ami German Agrarian*. FCATTTRB] "X THal DREIBtTND N'T llir!li:RTi> y \:>r. PUBLIC. ITALTS COMMERCIAL TRI \Tlf:s. New-Orleans. April 22 (Special).— lt Is raining again to-night In New-Orleans and the districts ad- jacent, with the outlook for more floods. The Louis- ville and Nashville rid^n at West Pascagoula was carried away to-day, and thus the last route of communication with the East has been cut. The company will endeavor to put In a transfer boat, but for the present all traffic Is off. To-night great mountains of saw logs are reported massed against tho large railroad bridge over the Pascacoula, sumo miles , ; ,st of the West Pascagoula bridge, and II is hardly possible that the Btructura ill be aMe to stand th.- strain for many hours. II it goes down the I.oul vllle anil Nashville will be tied up for a long period. In Mississippi the situation is about the same, with as yet uncalculated loss to crop* and a smaller loss to personal property and stocks In stores. Fl.oopg PARRY AWAY OKB RAILROAD BRIDGE ASU ENDANGER ANOTHKK. HOUSE IS STOPPED PY A BENCH AND THE DRIVER IS UPSET. A horse drawing a light runabout with Harold Frank, seventeen years old, of No. 142 East Twenty-third-st.. bolted at Twenty-fourth-st. and Lexirgton-ave. about 3 o'clock yesterday and rushed through Twenty-fourth-st. to Madison Square Park, across the first grass plot and against a bench, where Frank was uflset on the grass and the horse Stopped. Frank was unhurt. For a time there was some excitement, but It did not last, as the horse was stopped by the bench. Frank drove the animal away. The runabout was only slightly scratched. The outfit belongs to his father. \u25a0 MORE RAIX IX THE 80VTB. WASHINGTON NOT YET ADVISED. Washington, April L'L'.—N<-i'h. r Secretary Hay nor the Turkish Minister Ins been advised of the reported action of the Porte In replying to the American demands. In the absence of official In- formation and of the specific conditions of the reply, officials here prefer not to discuss the mat- ter, but express the hope thar 8 satisfactory and amicable settlement of th.- differences between the two countries may be reached, RUNAWAY IX MADISOS SQUARE PARK. The I'nlted States Legation Joined the other Embfissles in protesting against the increase of Import duties, the reply to the notification of the Porte asserting that the United States Government expects to be previously consulted with regard to any changes. The Porte has not j-et replied to the last col- lective note, but the changed tone of the Otto- man officials leads to a belief that a settlement has been reached in conformity with the de- mands of the foreign representatives. It is now fully expected that the Porte will invite the Embassies to discuss the proposed changes. There Is the greatest Interest In political cir- cles regarding the attitude of th^ United States in the indemnity claim, and it !s believed that the Powers having similar claims will support American action. Constantinople, April 22.—The Porte has re- plied to the American demands, stating that Turkey will compensate American missionaries under the same conditions as in the case of other foreign subjects. AMERICAN CLAIMS TO BE TREATED AS ARE THOSE OF OTHER COUNTRIES. TURKEY MAKES REPLY. BATTLING AROUND WEPENER. DOERS AND RELIEVING COLUMNS DOING SOME SER!Oi:S FIGHTING. Ma*?ru( Bzsutoland. April Genera]- Bra- best's advanced guard reached Bushman's Kop, twenty miK-s from W^j-ener. last evening. The Boers held a stror.g position there, with two puns. Th*; engagement opened at sunrise, with heavy rifle fir*. At <\:"'.l a. m. cannonading began £~d continued for several hours. General Brabant** forces arc on the plain and flcv< fairly open country all the way to Wepener. Evidently the I>*-rs reattacked CY.Jonel Dal- EHty to-day. Colonel Dalgetty heliographs: All well. IJ<.f-:s frecl three hundred shells yes- H-riiay without Ing much iiamag». Four Boer £un 3 were hard at work all day Saturday on Colonel Dalgetty's position. The British guna replied at Intervals. The Boers are CJvided Into thr<-.- divisions, two h Ing in posi- tions to if pel the relief columns, the distant roar t* ttfcose artillery is audible. Tho Basutos are ported on the border for de- fauJve purposes. They are behaving in orderly fashion, but are showing the most intense Inter- <*t in the outcome of the developments of the B'-xt tw<»nty-four hours. V<'akkoj-stro<.m. near Dewetsdofp. April til. ~Fightirg was continued to-day, mainly sjftn thir artillery. The yeomanry and mounted infantry pushed forward on the right flank and ere subjected to shelling and a heavy rifle flre. « -.i.li;. ou fourth pajjra* A i'I'RE POR INSOMNIA. A rtd« from New York to Chicago over New York Central Lines, so emootli and luxuiluus you can't k««i< »»»t> i»iur daiit—AdvU i urn only <,!••• paymaster, and these deposits rep- resent the troop* only on I 'anay and Ne^ros Isl- ands. Of this amount one company of the 37th has about $30.4*0 richest company in the world. This $30,000 represent* the capita.l these m<vi wl:l have when their term <•: iervfee expires to engage in developing these Islands, for most of the men v.-ho re-enlisted in the volunteers did so with the Intention of remaining here. I must lm'vipe on you my opinion ;is to educa- tion. Here la a fleltl for the man or woman with \u25a0 inlSHlon. Kindergartens are t'le practical way of getting at the working people, of making them understand that the coming of the Americans means real elevation to them The ordinary native must be reached and helped, or every ambit Urn sprig of wealthy classes, every escaped desperado ran in the future inke to the mountain! with a following of bolomen, to live by plunder or to beep alive political factions. LARGE SAVINGS OF SOLDIERS. Washington, April 22.—Major Theodore Bternberg, of the Pay Department, station. at Hollo, has written \u25a0> letter to \u25a0 friend In this city in regard to the situation in the Philippines. He says that the soldiers are making large deposits of their money, and that he received $202,940 on that ac- count In the six months Sliding December 31. He adds: One hundred escaped Spanish prtsr.ners from the Province of Tayaiias, South LttSOtt, have ar- rived at Manila. The insurgents have four hundred more Span- iards in thru district. Recently the Filipinos destroyed several rods of the railwn\ line near Panique, In an unsuccessful attempt to wreck a train. Colonel Smith's command captured one hun- dred and eighty officers and men with Montene- gro. The officers were brought to Manila. Montenegro, who was formerly one of the most dapper officers In the Filipino army, lochs worn and haggard. He says he had led a terrible life for months, and he has ofr>ied to return to the north with Colonel Smith to endeavor to per- suade his former comrades of the ÜBeleesness of opposing the Americans. Sergeant Ledoius, of the :',."ith Infantry, was badly wounded in an ambush near Baliuang. Lieutenant Balch. of the .TTth Infantry, with seventy men, had a five hours' fight wi:h four hundred Insurgents In the N'ueva Cacerea district. Twenty of the Insurgents were killed. Colonel Smith of the 17th infantry, who capt- ured General Montenegro and brought him to Manila, Is in the isolation hospital suffering from smallpox, presumably caught from th» Filipinos. The Insurgents have been aggressive in al- ' most every province of Luzon, General Pio del ! Pilar's band, numbering three hundred, which | was out of sight for three months, the leader i being reported killed. Las reappeared In its old Held about San Misru 1. Filar Is supposed to | be again in command. He gave the American i garrison at San Miguel, consisting of three com- I panics of the .'!.">ih Infantry, with a (Jailing, a three hours' light, during a night attack. The loss of the insurgents in this engagement Is not Included i:. the foregoing total, as they removed ' their dead n-.d wound* d, but presumably it was considerable. i Twenty Filipinos In the Province of Hatangas attacked Lieutenant Wonde, who. with • Ighl men, was scouting near San Jose. The Lieu- tenant and five men were wounded, and one pri- vate was killed. Manila, April 22 —Last week has been one of the bloodiest of the war since the first day's fighting around Manila. Authentic reports, mostly official, show a total of 37S Filipinos killed, 12 officers and 244 men captured, and many more wounded. The number wounded is hardly guessable. Considering that the Flli- pinop entirely lack hospital facilities, a great majority of the wounded will die. Probably the week's work finished one thousand insurgents. The Americans' total loss wns nine killed and sixteen wounded. Two sergeants and one pri- vate were killed in ambushes while escorting provision train=. PROBABLY A THOUSAND INSURGENTS PUT OUT OF ACTION LAST WKEK IN LUZON. REBELS HEAVILY PUNISHED. KAISER DISCIPUXES A GENERAL. Berlin, April When Emperor William arrived Iat Altona the other day to salute tin Prince of 1 Wales returning from Copenhagen to London, (\u25a0.'• was struck with the lack of suitable arrangements on the part of Lieutenant-General yon Schleinltz, commander at Alion.i. After bis return to Merlin j the Emperor Issued orders giving General yon Schlelnitz six month**' leave of absence. The Gen- 1 eral has tendered his resignation and left the army. m The surest Cough remedy Is JATNE'S EXPacTonArrr^Ajdn. "PLATT'S" "PLATTS" "PI^ATTS" 'VLATT'S' 1 Rely upon Pl«tf» Chlorides* for household dleln- fucUon. OdorlMs and cheon.— Advu Inside of the walls of fire are from five hun- dred to one thousand persons, and It Is believed that fully half of them will perish. Thus far half a hundred or more logging camps. In addi- tion to several, small towns, have been swept away, and not a word has been heard from the hundreds of men employed in them. A conductor, named Nelson, of a Great North- ern train running between Eckles and Boiway, this State, has proved himself a worthy imitator of the engineer, James Root, hero of the Hlnck- ley fire, who a few years ago at the risk of his own life ran his train through the burning woods to rescue a party of men and women who had taken refuge In Skunk Lake when driven from Hinckley by the forest fire. Word came to Nel- son that twenty women and children were hemmed In by the fin- between Sol way and Eckles, ana that unless help reached them in a short time they must all perish. Although he knew that It was almost certain death to venture with his train Into the sea of flame. Nelson started to the rescue. Cutting off everything but the caboose, he ordered the engineer to go ahead, and away dashed the train into the blazing pine forest. The women and children were tine My reached, crouching in a big sinkhole alongside the tracks, with the giant pines on either side of them blaring fiercely. The heat was intense. Th« rails wore begin- ning to warp and the paint and varnish on the engine were beginning to peel off. in huge Rakes, Quickly the refugees were packed into the caboose, which was then drenched with water from the sinkhole, and the trip to Eckiea was begun. Desperate chances were taken by the train crew, and more than once the train v.as saved from destruction only by the mercy of Providence. The women and children are now being cared for by the people of P'ckles, who may soon need assistance themselves, as the flame* are bearing down upon them from three sides. Lumbermen say the Same* have not yet reached the heavies! timber, and predict \u25a0 Are that vHi be known in history as Minnesota's greatest forest flre. '. :-\ The little town of Nary has already been wiped out as completely as if it had never ex- isted. Since Friday night Mayor Wall of Cass Lake, with a force composed of all the able- bodied men In the town, has been fighting the rapidly encroaching flames. The country be- tween Hlbbing and Swan River, one hundred miles northwest of I>uluth, is one vast furnace, with no chance of escape for the settlers living within the lire lines. DEADLY FOREST FIRES. HUNDREDS OF LIVES BELIEVED TO HAVE BEEN LOST IN THE NORTH- WEST—A BRAVE RESCUE. [BY TELEGRAPH TO THE TrtlBUXE.] Minneapolis, Minn.. April 22. — The forests In almost the entire northern portion of Minnesota and the lower portion of Manitoba are tn flames, \u25a0which In Minnesota extend for many miles through St. Lnuls and Itafica counties, In the heavy pine timber belt of the State. Already several small settlements have been wiped out, and as the fire spreads and prows the bigger town? are threatened. The loss of life will,it Is believed, be heavy, as report? received show that many persons have already perished. In the path of the flames were the homes of hundreds of settlers. Searching parties with wagons and accom- panied by doctors and nurses are now scouring the edges of the burned district. In the hope of picking up persona who have managed to es- cape, although the chancel of finding many are small. Men who have just come In from the northern portion of the State are of the opinion that the loss of life will equal that of th« Hlnckley fire of a few years ago, when nearly four hundred persons lost their lives. For the first time in many years the timber country in the northern portion of the State and in the lower portion of Manitoba is as dry as tinder, caused !>y the lack of spring rains and the absence of heavy snow last winter. The flrr has already invaded the proposed Na- tional park of Minnesota, in the Leech Lake region, and the small towns in that locality are fighting fur life. SOMF DELEGATES WHO PREACHED IN CHURCHES HERE YFSTFRDAY. NEW-YORK. MONDAY. 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I^or.don. April 23. <i a. m.— The British forces
ender General Rundle and General Brabant are
p-adua':y c-nverging on Wepener. From the
few particulars that ar.-> puV-l!shed concerning
ptur.* • -ent on Saturday, however, it
(Joes BJOt seem that he was able to do muchn the position from which the
Boers had been driven on the previous day.
Brabant had on Saturday reached Bushman'sis teaaj than twenty miles distant
'- er. Hf has not encountered any
:. but It is evident that unless
the Boers retire with great dexterity an im-engagement must take place very
Meanwhile the Wepener garrison isut well and relief is practically certain.~
Standard" correspondent with General| :ai:.= at some jength the reasons for
f the offensive. He points
The main army can advance
In it is absolutely necessary to\u25a0 -:ks and rear fr<->m menace, and also
| :n case of interruption of\u25a0 omnrantcatiocaß. Rut when the
fi-rr.y It arlll be seventy thousand
t• [oipped.
Ed al Purban on Satur-sage for East London. The
= it is ptnted that his destlna-\u25a0*\u25a0 State, where he will assume a
pHU appointment I. N. F.
BRITISH COLUMNS CONVERG-ING OX THE TOWN.
RELIEF NEAR WEPENEH
Selena report that abeen boveclpg about the
\u25a0 as attached to th*
' Cape Town that a con-en effected
\u25a0 rally beenen propertyI.N. F.
ICopyrleht: 1P00: By The Hew T.rk Tribune.][BT Cißl.fc TO THE rnir.tNE.]
London, April2'.\. 1 a. m.— There was last night
the usual Punday medley ofominous rumors andconfused conjectures from the theatre of war,Tilth a heavy budget of mall correspondence onminor incidents of the period of masterly in-activity. The most serious news was the evi-dence from Roer sources that formidable prep-arations have been made to resist the advance
cf G<"-nera! erts*s army. The Boers arevaguely reported to have mounted sixty-nine
pun? at Kroonstad and to have constructed acircuit of defences eight miles Jong around Pre-toria. Itis ,i foregone conclusion that Pretoriavi!lbe vigorously defended, but the experts aresot prepared to accept evidence from a BoerFonrc? that Kroonstad has been strongly forti-fied, although the srtaesjt among them hope thatthe news is true. Kro.instad offers strong ad-vantages for defence, but General Roberts, withhis- vastly superior force, can turn the positionfey either flank and compel Its evacuation, with& pood chance of Inflicting a decisive defeatwhich will greatly impair the Boer resourcesfor spelling an attack upon Pretoria.
The Boers are reported as mustering every
man capable of carrying a rifle and as taking
their ambulance corps into the fighting line.They. need all these reserves in order to justify
current estimates of their available force. They
are alleged to have from eight thousand to ten
thousand men in the district between Dewets-dorp and Wepener, where heavy lightingis re-pcrted Friday and Saturday. They are also
£f«cribed as occupying a line ten miles long InUpper Natal, and as shelling the British posi-tions at Elandfiaagte on Saturday with un-Ebar^d spirit. The motive of this activity is notCltar. but it is Furmised that the Boers areanxious to prevent :he transfer of British force*from Natal to Bloemfontein an !(oshof, whichapparently Is still in progress.
The Boers have also been active ;n front ofGeneral Methuen and at Fourteen Streams, andH&feklng remains under Investment. If thetiastic estimate? of Boer forces are footed upan apsrrf gate is produced which upsets the rea-Bonable deductions from the census returns andthe casualties en the Dutch side. More carefulestimates allow twenty thousand Tranrvaalerszz>A five thousand Free Staters for active opera-
tions all around. Experience has shown thatin all South African reports the strength of theDutch Is grossly exaggerated.
The War Office was silent at midnight, andthe results of Bundle's advance toward Wepener•ere not announced, although there was littlereason to doubt that there had been seriousfipbtirjg Saturday. There were details of Gen-eral Methuen's convoy fight near Boshof. butthese did not materially alter previous ac-counts.
BUIIORS ANT) CONJECTURES BURDEN
THE SOUTH AFRICAN CABLES.
THE KEY TO THE PACIFIC.
NAVY DEPARTMENT'S BILL FOR A
NAVAL STATION AT PEARL.
.. HARBOR.
[BT TET-EGItAPH TO TUB TIUBr7?rB.]
Washington, April 22.— Secretary Long hassent to the Naval Affairs Committees of the Sen-ate and House of Representatives the adoptedplans for establishing a naval rendezvous, re-pair plant and coaling station at Pearl Harbor,
Hawaiian Islands, with an urgent recommenda-tion pointing out the necessity for promptlyInstituting the improvements to utilize this keyto the entire Pacific Ocean. Inits present con-dition the harbor is worthless to the UnitedStatas or to commerce, but by a comparativelyinsignificant expenditure will become one of themost valuable of National pospeßslonj.
Senator Hale has promptly introduced the billdrawn at the Navy Department for this purpose.Itauthorizes the Secretary of the Navy to con-demn under the Hawaiian civillaws of eminentdomain, for the establishment of a naval sta-tion in Pearl Harbor, Island of Oahu, four tractsof land with an aggregate area of about 1.880acres. One of these is the island known as"Mokuumounie," or Ford Island, comprisingabout 370 acres Another 's a nearby peninsular
tract called Waipo, with an area of about 830acres. These two will constitute the naval sta-
tion proper. They are admirably located, and pe-culiarly adapted by nature for naval uses. Theisland has a deep Indentation which can bereadily transformed into the greatest gravingdrydock In the world, and there is sufficientshore line to moor the entire Navy of the UnitedStates within the station limits.
The other two plots of land average aboutthree hundred and fifty acres each, and aresituated on each side of the narrow entrance ofthe harbor. They are required as sites for for-tifications, and on account of their commandingposition can render, the station impregnablewith few guns. An appropriation of $1"0,000 isprovided for the acquirement of these lands,which were selected by the Board of which Ad-miral Barker was president. The second sec-tion of the bill authorizes the Secretary of theNavy Immediately upon the passage of the actto establish port warden or harbor lines in PearlHarbor, and to detail a naval officer as Super-
visor of the harbor to enforce the harbor regu-lations and maintain the established lines.
Section .°. appropriates ?400.000 for the purposeof dredging and improving the channel to pro-vide for the safe entrance ofvessels of 6,000 tonsdisplacement, and transfers from the Army tothe Navy $100,000, \*"hieh was appropriated forPearl Harbor on March 3. 1889, but which, up tothis time, the Army engineers have shown nodisposition to utilize. This sum was Intendedparticularly for cutting through the coral reefthat blocks th» entrance of the harbor, and wasappropriated by Congress as the result of Ad-miral Walker's investigations of the characterof the reef and upon his estimates for dredging.
The bill provides that none of the money fordredging or improvements shall become avail-able until the tracts of land shall have been act-ually acquired.
The latest reports from Honolulu show thatth« small harbor there Is whollyunequal to thedemands of the great trade that has sprung upin the last two years. Frequently as ma.ny astwenty ships are compelled to lie to off the portwaiting their turns at the crowded wharves,which are limited in extent by the exceedinglysmall shore line. Inbad weather the conditionis extremely dangerous. With Pearl Harbor en-trance opened, miles of wharf room would beavailable, and several thousand vessels coul.l lieIn the harbor In absolute security.
At the evening meeting for the considerationof the last one hundred years of mission worlthe topics trmted \u25a0 .'it be a review of th«century Just closed. Its triumphs (occupation oistrategic points), expansion ot the problem anddevelopment of methods; a statistical summary,
Japan— Material anal intellectual pi-ogres*. au-vrrof educational work. i>r*>i*uteducational ami re-ligious problems, i>tu;;tnthro;.tc work and or-pbanages.Corea— Evangelistic work; BMdtral; educational-business n.eir.s view «.f mission work in Corea.'Chtna-Rellglous
iaspects, review of missionarywork, evangelistic work, educational worK rssrlical work political :t*->>.cts. '•'\u25a0•• present situa-tion, stability of China: the out!ook.
Burmah— Religious e\,>:ut!.iu of the Burmese. ml»-\u25a0!on work among \.:.v K;».-*n«. advance work InNorth :i:i<l East Burmah, among Bfcans, Kach-Ir.s, etc.
Assam— Beginning of work in the i>:alns; hill trttteaiand work among them; questions.
Slam— Observations of m!»ston wurk In Slam mis-sion work in I-uos» ixvA North Slam, map eSSB*>
InO!:i and Ceylon—Attitude of educated Indian*to\v:ir«i Christianity, bonds thai unite India toChristian countries, charaetertsttcs of Chrtitianand ;>titlaiithri>plc work imomt the names.character of tedian ChrtsUsits, ralattoa of in-1-lan i'hrlntt.ir.a t<> their nun-ChrlMtan neighbor*,woman's pal in the ev annexation of In.lt i.
Oceania— General »urvey of the. Island WorlJ— Ha-wriit. Micronesia, Malaysia. Phlltpptnea New-Hebrides, M-tdaic:i!«iar; ihc Bible !n the Pacific;some Oci-anlo converts.
Mahometan Lands—General survey of the Ma*hoi'ietan world—Turk«T, Per:<!.>. Syria. Arabia.Egypt, North Africa.
Africa—The t:«!m» of Afrl?a upon the ''h:Uttanworld, hopefulness of Africa as a mission Held,native trait*, evangelistic, incOt.-at. Intluatriulv. rs
North nml S^uth Amerii'i— The aburiKtnal and p*»-»r:»n jiroll>:us. the rrllKl>u» problem of l..iti:iAmerica. «'.'illrj{with •x'st'rjr f >tmi of hrl*-tl.mity;practical cor«!<!-'rations of the wcrlt.
Hi-brews In All Lands— At this meetLnr A. T. Pter-fon will 1> H cbaircxan, Of the «prakem. J. Fair-ley Daly represents the Jewish Comrr.ltte* t>tthe Free Church of s<><>tlan<!. David W. Tor-rence i-i tJ-.e founder of the mission near t v « 9e»of Galilee, and A. C Gab^Uln represents th»Il(brews of America.
Japan and Corea— J. L. BEARING, jrL.lf"3SOPER. ALBERTUS PETERS. MRS. J. H.PETTEE. C. F. REED. O. R. AVISON. W. M.- BAIRD.
China— T. W. PEARCE. MRS. S. L. BALDWIN. J.H. M'CARTNEY, GEORGE OWEN. C. F.KUPFEB, MRS. F. 11. TAYLOR.
Assam, Burmah and Slam— F. H. EVEL.ETH, MRS.J. M. CUSUINO, W. M. COCHRANE. W. EJ.WITTER. S. A. PERRINE. JOHN BARRETT.CHALMERS MARTIN.
India and Ceylon—L. B. WOLF. J. WILKIE.3. E.ABBOTT. W. MAUSELL.L. W. JUDDER. J.P. JONES. T. S. WYNKOOP. J. ABERLT, D.DOWIE. Mrs. PH. BADLEY. MISS SWIFT.
Oceania— R. WARDLAW THOMPSON. O. H.GI'LECK. BISHOP HURST. JOHN G. PATON.CANON EDMONDS. W. E. COUSINS. FRAN-CIS M. PRICE. JOSEPH KING.
Mahometan Lands— J. L. BARTON. ROBERT B.SPEER, WILLIAMJESUP. W. H. BUTTON.A. J. HARGRAVES.Africa—BISHOP TURNER, BISHOP WALTERS,
HENRY RICHARDS. R.11. NASSAU. ROBERTLAW.-. A. MARENSKY.North and South America -TAYLOR HAMILTON
D. B. 6RITBB. 11. W. BROWN. G. W. CHAM-BERLAIN. JOHN W. BUTLER.Hebrew? in all lands J. rAIRLSIDALY. DAVID
W. TORRANCE, A C. GABELEIN.In the evening at Carnejrie Hall:
EI'GENf.: STOCK, editorial secretary of th© Churchonary Society, London: the Rev. Dr.JAMES S. DENNIS, author of "Christian M!*-!1n,?,,a-n '1 Social Proeress." and the Rev. Dr.ARTHUR T. PIERSON, Editor-in-Chief of "TheMissionary Review of the World."
In the evening at Central Presbyterian Church:The Rev. R. WARDUW THOMPSON, of London-the £cv- I)r JOHN G. PATON, •>' Oceania andthe Rev. Dr. JOHN HENRY BARROWS?
The prayer meeting at Carnegie Hall -will beled by Walter a Sloan, secretary of the ChinaInland Mission, and that in Central Presby-terian Church by th» Rev. James Cunningham,minister of the' Memorial Presbyterian Church.Wandsworth. London. Ithihoped that as manyas possible will attend these early morninggatherings to pray for the guidance and bless-ing of God in all the sessions of the day.
The addresses in the meeting following theprayer meeting will be limited to twenty min-utes each, and an? to be followed by discussionsopen to all delegates and missionaries.
At the afternoon meetings for the survey ofmission fields each tleld will be surveyed in Itspast history and present conditions, with a re-view of the work of Christian missions, thadevelopment of the native church and ChristianInstitutions, a consideration of the chief prob-lems Involved in the effort to evangelize eachcountry, and the outlook and demands for thecoming century.
The topics for these afternr>on meetings ar«as follows:
2i30 P. M.—
Sun of mianlnn field* in Japanand Corfu, at Calvary- llnptiat ChorebiChina, at the Fifth Arrnnr Preabj-terlaniAsuani, Hannah and Mam, at the Chnrchof the Strantcerat India and Orion, at
the Central Presbyterian ChnrchiOceania, nt the BroailTva) TabernjtcletMahometan lands, at the Madison. Are-ni \u25a0- Reformed Ihnr.hi Africa, at theUnion Methodlnt <hnr<-h: Northland SouthAmerica, nt the Mndl*i>n Avenue I'reaby-
terlnn Church, anil "Hebrew* In AllI.oniU," nt CarneKle Hall.
8 P. M.—CarneKle Hall and Central Pre»-byterlun Church-Consideration of on«hundred years of mltaton york.
"While the great Ecumenical Conference onForeign Missions held no formal session yester-day, hundreds of missionary meetings were heldall over the city, wherever Conference delegatescould be prevailed upon to fill the pulpits ofProtestant churches of all denominations, andgenerously they responded to the call. Itis esti-mated that almost three hundred congregations
in New-York and its vicinitylistened to sermonsfrom the missionaries and had their interest inthe Conference greatly stimulated thereby.
The actual business of the Conference, that for\u25a0which many of its members have travelled fromthe uttermost parts of the earth, will begin to-day and continue with only one break
—that
of next Sunday— until May 1. Simultaneoussessions will be held in two different audi-toriums In the morning, In nine In the afternoonand In two in the evening. The subjects to bediscussed at these sessions are given at the headof the article. The speakers willbe as follows;
In the morning at Carnegie Hall:
The Rev. Dr. AUGUSTU3 H. STRONG, presidentof Rochester Theological Seminary; the Rev. J.HUDSON TAYLOR, founder of the China InlandMission, and ROBERT E. 3PEER. secretary ofthe Board of Foreign Missions of the Presby-terian Church In the United States.
In the morning at Central Presbyterian Church:The *Key. HENRY T. CHAPMAN,secretary of th«
United Methodist Free Churches In England: theRev. PAULDE SCHWEINITZ. secretary of theBoard of Missions of the Moravian Church, andthe Rev. Dr. H. C. MABIE,secretary of th«American Baptist Missionary Union.
In the afternoon:
PROGRAMME FOR To-nvr.
oi3O A. M.—)HrnrEl<> Hall and Central Pt«mmiitluiiChnrch
—Prayer mi-rtlnf.
1O A. M.—
rnrne-Elf lln.ll nml Central Preatty-tfrlmi 4 htiri'h
—III«eii«*lon of the author-
ity and nnrpoiie. fin- annrce and power
anil the nnprome and iletiTinlnlng aimIn foreign mtsalona.
many VOCAL rn.viTS wr.nr. ftt.t.kd WT
THE DELEGATES YESTERDAY. TO
THE DELIGHT OF LARGE
CONGREGATIONS.
GA TES STARTS To-DA Y.
ACTUAL BUSINESS OF DELE-
CONFERENCE AT WORK.
BUY YOUR SUMMED FURNISHING 3ATO'NEILL'S
Your money will go further there than in anyother store Intown. Bee Ujclr advertisement to-day.Slxth-ave.. Twentieth to Twenty-flrxt-st.—Advt.
Rome. April 22—Th» Italian newspapers aromuch Concerned regarding the renewal of commer-cial treaties with Germany and Austria. The "Pun-golo Parllamento" assorts. i»i (!:<• authority of aformor •ml \u25a0\u25a0\u25a0 of the Cabinet, probably SU'norBranca, that a clause was added In 1>:<1 " thoi•:.;.und treaty whereby the '
: '••• Power* stipu-late to grant «n- mother favored nation treat-ment ami the great**: posulble facilities in tr.i.le.The •
Tribunn. romnv upon lhw» revelation,tny« that, In p;ilt«- of it, the prospect* for the fut-ure are not reassuring In \iew <>f the ultra pro-tectionist tendencies <>: the Austrian ami GermanAgrarian*.
FCATTTRB] "X THal DREIBtTND N'T llir!li:RTi>
y \:>r. PUBLIC.
ITALTS COMMERCIAL TRI \Tlf:s.
New-Orleans. April 22 (Special).— lt Is rainingagain to-night In New-Orleans and the districts ad-jacent, with the outlook for more floods. The Louis-ville and Nashville rid^n at West Pascagoula wascarried away to-day, and thus the last route ofcommunication with the East has been cut. Thecompany will endeavor to put In a transfer boat,but for the present all traffic Is off. To-night greatmountains of saw logs are reported massed againsttho large railroad bridge over the Pascacoula, sumomiles ,;,st of the West Pascagoula bridge, and IIis hardly possible that the Btructura illbe aMe tostand th.- strain for many hours. IIit goes downthe I.oul vllle anil Nashville will be tied up for along period. In Mississippi the situation is aboutthe same, with as yet uncalculated loss to crop*
and a smaller loss to personal property and stocksIn stores.
Fl.oopg PARRY AWAY OKB RAILROAD BRIDGE
ASU ENDANGER ANOTHKK.
HOUSE IS STOPPED PY A BENCH AND THE
DRIVER IS UPSET.
A horse drawing a light runabout with HaroldFrank, seventeen years old, of No. 142 EastTwenty-third-st.. bolted at Twenty-fourth-st. andLexirgton-ave. about 3 o'clock yesterday and rushedthrough Twenty-fourth-st. to Madison Square Park,across the first grass plot and against a bench,where Frank was uflset on the grass and the horseStopped. Frank was unhurt. For a time there wassome excitement, but It did not last, as the horsewas stopped by the bench. Frank drove the animalaway. The runabout was only slightly scratched.The outfit belongs to his father.
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MORE RAIX IX THE 80VTB.
WASHINGTON NOT YET ADVISED.Washington, AprilL'L'.—N<-i'h. r Secretary Hay
nor the Turkish Minister Ins been advised of thereported action of the Porte In replying to theAmerican demands. In the absence of official In-formation and of the specific conditions of thereply, officials here prefer not to discuss the mat-ter, but express the hope thar 8 satisfactory andamicable settlement of th.- differences betweenthe two countries may be reached,
RUNAWAY IX MADISOS SQUARE PARK.
The I'nlted States Legation Joined the otherEmbfissles in protesting against the increaseof Import duties, the reply to the notificationof the Porte asserting that the United StatesGovernment expects to be previously consultedwith regard to any changes.
The Porte has not j-et replied to the last col-lective note, but the changed tone of the Otto-man officials leads to a belief that a settlementhas been reached in conformity with the de-mands of the foreign representatives. Itis nowfully expected that the Porte will invite theEmbassies to discuss the proposed changes.
There Is the greatest Interest In political cir-cles regarding the attitude of th^ United States
in the indemnity claim, and it !s believed thatthe Powers having similar claims will supportAmerican action.
Constantinople, April 22.—The Porte has re-plied to the American demands, stating thatTurkey will compensate American missionariesunder the same conditions as in the case ofother foreign subjects.
AMERICAN CLAIMS TO BE TREATED AS
ARE THOSE OF OTHER COUNTRIES.
TURKEY MAKES REPLY.
BATTLING AROUND WEPENER.
DOERS AND RELIEVING COLUMNS DOINGSOME SER!Oi:S FIGHTING.
Ma*?ru( Bzsutoland. April Genera]- Bra-best's advanced guard reached Bushman's Kop,twenty miK-s from W^j-ener. last evening. TheBoers held a stror.g position there, with twopuns. Th*; engagement opened at sunrise, withheavy riflefir*. At<\:"'.l a. m. cannonading began£~d continued for several hours.
General Brabant** forces arc on the plain andflcv< fairly open country all the way to Wepener.
Evidently the I>*-rs reattacked CY.Jonel Dal-EHty to-day. Colonel Dalgetty heliographs:
All well. IJ<.f-:s frecl three hundred shells yes-H-riiay without Ing much iiamag».
Four Boer £un 3were hard at work all daySaturday on Colonel Dalgetty's position. TheBritish guna replied at Intervals. The Boers areCJvided Into thr<-.- divisions, two h Ing in posi-tions to ifpel the relief columns, the distant roart* ttfcose artillery is audible.
Tho Basutos are ported on the border for de-fauJve purposes. They are behaving in orderlyfashion, but are showing the most intense Inter-<*t in the outcome of the developments of theB'-xt tw<»nty-four hours.
V<'akkoj-stro<.m. near Dewetsdofp. April til.~Fightirg was continued to-day, mainly sjftnthir artillery. The yeomanry and mountedinfantry pushed forward on the right flank and
ere subjected to shelling and a heavy rifle flre.
« -.i.li;. ou fourth pajjra*
A i'I'RE POR INSOMNIA.A rtd« from New York to Chicago over New York
Central Lines, so emootli and luxuiluus you can'tk««i< »»»t> i»iur daiit—AdvU
iurn only <,!••• paymaster, and these deposits rep-resent the troop* only on I'anay and Ne^ros Isl-ands. Of this amount one company of the 37thhas about $30.4*0 richest company in the world.This $30,000 represent* the capita.l these m<vi wl:lhave when their term <•: iervfee expires to engagein developing these Islands, for most of the menv.-ho re-enlisted in the volunteers did so with theIntention of remaining here.Imust lm'vipe on you my opinion ;is to educa-
tion. Here la a fleltl for the man or woman with \u25a0inlSHlon. Kindergartens are t'le practical way ofgetting at the working people, of making themunderstand that the coming of the Americansmeans real elevation to them The ordinary nativemust be reached and helped, or every ambit Urnsprig of wealthy classes, every escaped desperadoran in the future inke to the mountain! with afollowingof bolomen, to live by plunder or to beepalive political factions.
LARGE SAVINGS OF SOLDIERS.
Washington, April22.—Major Theodore Bternberg,of the Pay Department, station. at Hollo, haswritten \u25a0> letter to \u25a0 friend In this city in regard
to the situation in the Philippines. He says thatthe soldiers are making large deposits of theirmoney, and that he received $202,940 on that ac-count In the six months Sliding December 31. Headds:
One hundred escaped Spanish prtsr.ners fromthe Province of Tayaiias, South LttSOtt, have ar-rived at Manila.
The insurgents have four hundred more Span-
iards in thru district. Recently the Filipinosdestroyed several rods of the railwn\ line nearPanique, In an unsuccessful attempt to wreck atrain.
Colonel Smith's command captured one hun-dred and eighty officers and men with Montene-gro. The officers were brought to Manila.Montenegro, who was formerly one of the mostdapper officers In the Filipino army, lochs wornand haggard. He says he had led a terrible lifefor months, and he has ofr>ied to return to thenorth with Colonel Smith to endeavor to per-
suade his former comrades of the ÜBeleesness ofopposing the Americans.
Sergeant Ledoius, of the :',."ith Infantry, wasbadly wounded in an ambush near Baliuang.
Lieutenant Balch. of the .TTth Infantry, withseventy men, had a five hours' fight wi:hfour hundred Insurgents In the N'ueva Cacereadistrict. Twenty of the Insurgents were killed.
Colonel Smith of the 17th infantry, who capt-ured General Montenegro and brought him toManila, Is in the isolation hospital sufferingfrom smallpox, presumably caught from th»Filipinos.
The Insurgents have been aggressive in al-'
most every province of Luzon, General Pio del !Pilar's band, numbering three hundred, which |
was out of sight for three months, the leader ibeing reported killed. Las reappeared In its oldHeld about San Misru 1. Filar Is supposed to |be again in command. He gave the American igarrison at San Miguel, consisting of three com- Ipanics of the .'!.">ih Infantry, with a (Jailing, athree hours' light, during a night attack. Theloss of the insurgents in this engagement Is not
Included i:. the foregoing total, as they removed'
their dead n-.d wound* d, but presumably it wasconsiderable. i
Twenty Filipinos In the Province of Hatangasattacked Lieutenant Wonde, who. with • Ighlmen, was scouting near San Jose. The Lieu-tenant and five men were wounded, and one pri-vate was killed.
Manila, April 22 —Last week has been one ofthe bloodiest of the war since the first day'sfighting around Manila. Authentic reports,mostly official, show a total of 37S Filipinoskilled, 12 officers and 244 men captured, andmany more wounded. The number wounded ishardly guessable. Considering that the Flli-pinop entirely lack hospital facilities, a greatmajority of the wounded will die. Probably theweek's work finished one thousand insurgents.The Americans' total loss wns nine killed andsixteen wounded. Two sergeants and one pri-
vate were killed in ambushes while escortingprovision train=.
PROBABLY A THOUSAND INSURGENTS
PUT OUT OF ACTION LAST
WKEK IN LUZON.
REBELS HEAVILY PUNISHED.
KAISER DISCIPUXES A GENERAL.Berlin, April When Emperor William arrived
Iat Altona the other day to salute tin Prince of1 Wales returning from Copenhagen to London, (\u25a0.'•
was struck with the lack of suitable arrangements
on the part of Lieutenant-General yon Schleinltz,commander at Alion.i. After bis return to Merlin
j the Emperor Issued orders giving General yonSchlelnitz six month**' leave of absence. The Gen-1 eral has tendered his resignation and left the army.
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Inside of the walls of fire are from five hun-dred to one thousand persons, and It Is believedthat fully half of them will perish. Thus farhalf a hundred or more logging camps. In addi-tion to several, small towns, have been sweptaway, and not a word has been heard from thehundreds of men employed in them.
A conductor, named Nelson, of a Great North-ern train running between Eckles and Boiway,this State, has proved himself a worthy imitatorof the engineer, James Root, hero of the Hlnck-ley fire, who a few years ago at the risk of hisown life ran his train through the burning woodsto rescue a party of men and women who hadtaken refuge In Skunk Lake when driven fromHinckley by the forest fire. Word came to Nel-son that twenty women and children werehemmed In by the fin- between Sol way andEckles, ana that unless help reached them in ashort time they must all perish. Although heknew that It was almost certain death to venturewith his train Into the sea of flame. Nelsonstarted to the rescue. Cutting off everything
but the caboose, he ordered the engineer to goahead, and away dashed the train into theblazing pine forest. The women and childrenwere tine My reached, crouching in a big sinkholealongside the tracks, with the giant pines oneither side of them blaring fiercely.
The heat was intense. Th« rails wore begin-ning to warp and the paint and varnish on theengine were beginning to peel off. in hugeRakes, Quickly the refugees were packed intothe caboose, which was then drenched withwater from the sinkhole, and the trip to Eckieawas begun. Desperate chances were taken bythe train crew, and more than once the trainv.as saved from destruction only by the mercyof Providence.
The women and children are now being caredfor by the people of P'ckles, who may soon needassistance themselves, as the flame* are bearingdown upon them from three sides.
Lumbermen say the Same* have not yetreached the heavies! timber, and predict \u25a0 Arethat vHi be known in history as Minnesota'sgreatest forest flre. '. :-\
The little town of Nary has already beenwiped out as completely as if it had never ex-isted. Since Friday night Mayor Wall of CassLake, with a force composed of all the able-bodied men In the town, has been fighting therapidly encroaching flames. The country be-tween Hlbbing and Swan River, one hundredmiles northwest of I>uluth, is one vast furnace,with no chance of escape for the settlers living
within the lire lines.
DEADLY FOREST FIRES.
HUNDREDS OF LIVES BELIEVED TO
HAVEBEEN LOST IN THE NORTH-
WEST—A BRAVE RESCUE.
[BY TELEGRAPH TO THE TrtlBUXE.]
Minneapolis, Minn.. April 22.—
The forests Inalmost the entire northern portion of Minnesotaand the lower portion of Manitoba are tn flames,\u25a0which In Minnesota extend for many milesthrough St. Lnuls and Itafica counties, In theheavy pine timber belt of the State. Already
several small settlements have been wiped out,and as the fire spreads and prows the biggertown? are threatened. The loss of life will,it Isbelieved, be heavy, as report? received show thatmany persons have already perished. In thepath of the flames were the homes of hundredsof settlers.
Searching parties with wagons and accom-panied by doctors and nurses are now scouringthe edges of the burned district. In the hope ofpicking up persona who have managed to es-cape, although the chancel of finding many aresmall. Men who have just come In from thenorthern portion of the State are of the opinion
that the loss of life will equal that of th«Hlnckley fire of a few years ago, when nearly
four hundred persons lost their lives.For the first time in many years the timber
country in the northern portion of the Stateand in the lower portion of Manitoba is as dryas tinder, caused !>y the lack of spring rainsand the absence of heavy snow last winter.The flrr has already invaded the proposed Na-tional park of Minnesota, in the Leech Lakeregion, and the small towns in that localityare fighting fur life.
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