The Gazette

THE GAZETTE . PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY. SUBSGRIPTION RATES, @x apvaxce.).. ee BO MOMS oo. eescceess coseescccecc cece 1.00 MORUDB eee ie cesecescccccese BO Subscribers are requested to remit by post @Mice money order or registered letter. Entered at the post office in Cleveland, Ohio, (Gs second-class matter. All communications should be addressed: H.C SMITH, Editor and Proprietor Tas GazeTTr, Wick Block, Cleveland, Ohio 1804 to. ng Member Ohio Legislature, | tooo 30 190 ee OE, x cara Sy (TRADE sich COUNCIUD Sa ———————— ‘CLEVELAND, SATURDAY. JAN. 11, 1902. | THE GAZETTE ts the oldest, and has the largest bona fide circulation, double that of any newspaper in the fnterest of Afro-Americans, published fm the state of Ohio, and comparison with any will immediately establish ts rank as one of the NEWSIEST AND BEST in the country. ees JUDGE CRUMPACKER PLEADING THE ENFORCEMENT OF THE FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT. Under the reconstruction meas- ures as adopted in congress, 1866, the fourteenth amendment to the Constitution reduced the representd- tion in congress of such states as did not give citizens theright to vote and prevented from holding office all who had taken part in- the war against the government and who had formerly held any United States office. The southern states, as evi- dence of good faith and loyalty to the United States, ratified this amendment as a condition of their admittance into the Union. In Feb- ruary, 1869, congress adopted the Sfteenth amendment, which gave the right to vote. ahd empowered the government. to enforce it. This ‘amendment was ratified by tle nec- essary number of states and was de- clared in foree March 30, 1870. In obedience to such a pledge on the part of the nation and obligation on the part of the south, it is plain that: a sworn duty has been assumed by the south which can only be abro- gated by the law-making power of the land. The pledge of the nation and the obligation taken by the southern states was never to be im- paired, never to be broken, They re- main’ as a part of the organic law of the land and as an expression of loyalty and allegiance to the goy- ernment to which every citizen has sworn his support. But the obliga- tion of the\south was more. It was a renewal of broken yows and good faith. The south had betrayed its trust—had renounced its former al- legiance and was readmitted into the Union upon: conditions as pre- scribed in the fourteenth and fif- teenth amendments to the Constitu- tion. ‘To al] intents and purposes they were to remain steadfast and immovable, true to the measures which they had ratified when re- turning to their allegiance, But af- ter years of trial. of growth and prosperity, the spirit of treachery intervenes. Rebellion and disloyalty have again grown defiant and the attempt is made to nullify the laws upon which the south had taken its most pjighted yows. To disfranchise the Afro-American voter is a bold as- sault upon the Constitution, and Judge FE. D. Crampacker, of Indiana, signals a note of warning to the nation. He reminds the country of its moorings, and he reminds the peuple of the terrible conflict out of which our Union had come and the conditions and circumstances~ which made it possible for our government to exist. Reedgnizing the plan upon which our government was recon- structed and standing upon the floor of the house of representatives in congress, this man of heart and couTage calis again the nation from danger and to duty. He reads from the fourteenth amendment as fol- lows: “Representatives shall be ap- portioned among the several states according to their respective num- bers, counting The whole number of persons in the state, excluding Int dians not taxed. But when the right to vote at any election for the choice of electors for president and vice- president of the United States, rep- resentatives in congress, the execu- Mtive and judicial officers of a state or the members of the legislature thereof is denied to any of the male inhabitants of such state being 21 years of age and citizens of the Uni- ted States or in any way abridged except for participation in rebellion ‘or other crime, the basis of repre- sentation therein shall be reduced in the proportion which the number of such male eitizen shall bear to the whole number of male citizens 21 years of age in such state.” The ‘above ix the letter of the faw. How ean a goverment disregard its own injunctions and its own requirements and what, will # aval the nation or how can we hope to command the respect of the world at large when the greatest governinent on earth suffers its mandates to be Spit upon? Judge Crumpacker takes direct aud jmmediate ground in vindicating the claims of justice and jovalty to the government for whieb so much of Yife and treasure have, already been sierificed to maintain. The opinion ‘once obtained that the encroach- gnevis of the slave power could be tolerated with no real danger to the repubjic, but there were mighty and far-resehing perils gradually ss ing upow the nation of accoant those achievements. Again the south: offers her encroactiments fn violation of thie Constitution and the sacred ‘Fights of the people and it cemahds pulmission un the part of the gov- St ze » THE GAZETTE,\ CLEVELAND, 0., SATURDAY, JANUARY 11, 1902. ernment to its mad presumption, Judge Crumpacker protests against this outrage; he protests against the usurpation of authority to disfran- chise American citizens, and he in- sists that under the terms of the law and the Constitution the govern ment shall assert its rightful author- ity and protect the rights of its citizens. Gays he: “The power of establishing qualification for suf- frage rests exclusively with the states, subject only to the limitation that the right to vote shall not be denied on account of race, color or previous condition of servitude.” This provision he makes plain, clear and mandatory, and he declares can- not be ignored except by the arbi- trary will of congress. But the right to yote is being denied in the main on account of race, color and previ- ous condition of servitude. The power of the government is de- signed to repress and prevent any abuse of the powers of the state over the control bf the suffrage and that is, the reduction of representa- tion whenever such abuses are known. States in the Union have disfranchised male citizens to such an extent as to deprive them of sev- eral representatives under the con- stitutional plan of apportionment. The argument made by Congressman Crumpacker in the house of repre- sentatives upon the disfranchise- ment of Afro-Americans in the south is at once unanswerable. He has hewn to the line, applied the law and offers the only remedy for the great crime against the government when he asks: Shall the only con- nective power fér such abuses that resides in congress be abrogated by passive nullification?” Despite the fact that there is not a member in congress, nor a person well versed in a knowledge of our National Con- stitution who does not know to a moral certainty that a flagrant wrong is being committed against the United States, yet there are men having the affrontary to justify the wrong, though they compromise truth and honor and betray the sacred cause of liberty and justice. Grandly, nobly and well, the able judge discloses the distinction be- tween qualifications which restrict the right of suffrage and regulations preseribing the method of exercising that right. No abler effort for free- dom and justice has yet been made upon the floor of congress and no sublimer cause has ever been espoused. Let the friends of our country heed his words of admo- nition and let justice be done. FORAKER AND HANNA. ‘the Washington (1), %.) star Of @ recent date publishes’ the following correspondence from Columbus, 0.: “Since the succession of Mr. Roose- velt to the presidency, the suspicion has grown in the minds of Ohio re- publican politicians that Senator ‘Hanna's power is on the wane. The story has come repeatedly from Washington tnat Senator Foraker now finds more favor at the White House than Senator Hanna and that the president will require that Sen- ator Hanna prove that he is the head of and in control of the repub- lican party in Ohio before he will re- gard him as tne Ohio leader.” ‘By this time the president is doubtless aware of the fact that Senator Hanna's power in Ohi is not only on the wane, but was prac- tically lost with the death of Presi- dent McKinley, and that Sefator Foraker is unquestionably the repub- liean leader in this state. The contest over the organization of the Ohio assembly made the above perfectly clcar to all who watched and understood it. Senator Foraker selected his friends to back for po- sitions in both branches of the as- sembly. Senator Hanna did the same thing, but seeing certain defeat staring him’ in the face, he dropped his friends who were candidates for speaker and clerk of the house of representatives and took up two mén (McKinnon and McElroy), anti- Hanna wen, and friends of Senator Foraker> Last fall, when McKinnon was a second time a candidate for renomination to the legislature, his opponent was ~a man_ selected by’ Hanna and Dick. When Hanna’s friends decided to support him for speaker , ¢ the house he at once re- paired to .he Foraker headquarters, making proper explanation and say- ing that in return for their support he surrendered™ absolutely nothing and proposed to retain his independ- ence of.the Hanna faction. He fully realized the tact that the latter were forced to take him up as a candidate. Foraker's zandidates were success- ful in the senate and friends of his were successful in being elected ‘of- ficers of the house of representa- tives. It is the concensus of opinion among republicans’ throughout the state that Hanna met his Waterloo, ‘at least as far as polities in Ohio is concerned; at Columbus, the latter part of last week. There is also no doubt in their minds as to who is the republican leader in this state and as to -the fact of Senator Foraker’s finding more favor at fthe White House than Senator Hanna. Those who were at Phil- adelphia when Gov. Roosevelt was nominated as the candidate for vice- president on the republican ticket with President (McKinley, will under- stand, after a moment's thought, why this should be true if they re- cell. the animus prompting the Hanna opposition to his nomination. It is true Mr: Roosevelt did not want to be the candidate for vice-presi- Gent. It is equally true that Sena- tor Hanna did not want him nomi- nated. Indeed, the latter preferred almost anyone élse to Roosevelt. ‘The great majority of the leading republicans of. Ohio welcome the change in the control of the party im this state—the return of Foraker Jeadership. The past five years of Hanna “czarism”™ has been quite enough—indeed, entirely too much. “Thank God! from whom i bless: Ings flow.” ' Emancipation Banauet. Lockland and Wyoming, 0.—At the Emancipation banquet at Bethel church, recently, covers were laid for 150. The tables were heavily laden and there was an excellent program. ‘Toasts were responded to by Messrs. Geo. Allred, Wm. Lee, John_ Sanders and Rev. John Dickerson; recitation, Miss Maggie Johnson; solo, Mrs. Wm. Lee; solo, Mr. Harry Shaffer; instrumental solo, Mrs. Henry Johnson. Too much praise can- not be given the committee, led by Mrs. Leander Car and assistant. A neat~ sum realized.—The quarterly meeting at Bethel chureh Sunday was well attended. Love feast in the morning, Rev. Dorsey preached in the afternoon and Rey. Dickerson, P. E., in the evening.—The week of prayer will be observed by all the churches, —Rey. W. W. Cordell will be pastor of Christian church for another year. — Miss Malinda Smith and mother entertained on January 3 Mr. and Mrs. Joanna Poston. Rev. and Mrs. Coleman, Mrs. Lucy Smith and sister and (Mrs. Orden at a din- ner of thrée courses.—Mrs. Edward Lee entertained Rev. and Mrs. Cole- man on the 5th.—Miss Alice Poston returned to Warsaw, Ky., January 2 to open school.—Mrs. Rebecea Wil- liams left January 2 to visit her brother in Vincennes, Ind.—Mrs. Bailey, Miss Orden and a number from Cincinnati and vicinity went to Glendale Sunday to attend the instal- lation service at Zion church. Rev. Gray, of Walnut (Hills, preached at 3p. m. - Gave Their Husbands a “Warm” Re- ception. Lima, 0.—Quarteriy meeting Sun- day at St. Paul’s church. Rey. John- son ¢ficiated.—Messrs. Fred Hug- gard, Tom Taylor and Miss Bessie Collins, of Piqua, spent Sunday here. —Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Young and Mr. John ®oung are visiting their moth- er, Mrs. Eliza Young.—Mr. and Mrs. Levi Raymer entertained at dinner New Year's day. It proved a family reunion.—Mr. and Mrs. Richard Moss had a family dinner New Year's.— (Mr. Wm. Butler is sick.—John H. ‘Parker entertained a party of four at Raines’ restaurant Thursday even- ing.—Tbe Ladies’ Loan Star Court of alanthe, No. 23, gave a reception in honor of their husbands New Year's evening at K. of P. hall. The hall was beautifully decorated. Sup- per was served at 11:30 p.m. Each gentleman spoke from a selected subject and Mrs. Julia Bond_respond- ed. The Queen City Mandolin club rendered music.—Mrs. C. R. Raines thas been sick.—Mrs. Eliza MeFeaters, of Paulding, spent. New Year's with her aunt, Mrs. Mary Moss. c A Svlendid GQpvortunityrt! ‘The old reliable Gazette desires an energetic and honest agent, and % good correspondent, in every city and town in Ohio and adjoining states having a number of Afro-American residents. 2 We sire especially desirous of hear- ing from persons in the following named cities: Springfield, Ironton, Hamilton, Painesville, | Oxford, Lorain, Yoledo, Wilmington, Kenton, Portsmouth. ChiNicothe. Delaware, Sandusky, Lancaster, Fostoria, Ur- bana, 0.; Allegheny, Pittsburg, Washington, Braddock and other western Pennsylvania cities and towns; / Wheeling, Charleston, and other West Virginia cities and towns; northern Kentucky and eastern In- diana cities and towns. Address a card to the editor of The Gazette, Case Library building, Cleve- lund, 0., and our terms and fall in- structions to agents and correspon- dents will be sent at once. Send us the name of any good person ox persons in any of the cities named above to whom we can write relative to the matter. Agreeably Surprised. New CASTLE, Pa.Mr. and Mrs. B. Hackett entertained in honor ot their daughter, Lena. ‘The out-of- town guests were: Miss Ruth Roots, of Pittsburg; ‘Messrs. Wm. and Moses Lewis, of Uniontown.—The ladies of Nora’ Court pleasantly surprised their worthy matron, Mrs. Osear Shannon, recently. Mrs. W. H. Roots, of Pittsburg, was present.—Rev. C. P. Hurrington’s revivals are success- ful. Rev. M. iH. Frazier will assist.— ‘Miss Jennie Johnson gave a New Year's party—Mrs. Frank Brooks gave a dinner party on New Year's. Miss Lonley and Mr. Tribue, of East Liberty, and Mr. and Mrs. Lober, of Pittsburg, were present. — Watch meetings were well attended.—Zion ehurch has a revival.—iMissvs Pearl Heath and Janet ‘Ward have returned home.—Mr. and Mrs. John Lash are rejoicing—a_ daughter—Miss Nora Eccles was here Sunday.—All of our people should read The Gazette. Heard Booker T. Washington. New Brighton, Pa.—Miss L. Brown visited in Allegheny Saturday.—Mrs. W. H. Brown entertained at tea Sun- day evening Miss Bessie Richardson, Mrs. L. Wilson and Mrs. L. Knight.— Quite a number from here went to Beaver court house Friday to hear Booker T. Washington speak. His sibject was, “Up from Slavery.”— Mrs. ‘M. Daries, of Pittsburg, was the guest of her sister, Mrs. L. Jordan, recently.—The W. M. M. so- ciety met at Mrs. Luey Reed’s on Friday. The meeting was opened by prayer by Rev. Caliman, P. E.—Miss Elizabeth Webster has returned from New Lisbon, 0. Ralline-Walker. Piqua, O—Mr. John Rallins and ‘Miss Edna Walker were married Sunday morning by Rey. J. H. Smith at J. N. Jackson’s.Mr. Fred Hug- gard and Miss Bessie Collins visited in Lima Sunday.—Thé musicale at K. of P. hall New Year's evening was an enjoyable affair and a financial suc- cess.—A series of meetings are in progress at the A. M. E. church_— The Kk. of P. society recently pur- chased a handsome piano.—Mrs. Ro- gan is slowly improving.—The trus- tees of the A. M. E. chureh will have a financial rally on January 19. Emauguration Excursions to Colum- bus. Exeursion tiekets to Columbus for the inauguration of Governor Nash will be sold via Pennsylvania Lines January 12th and 13th, good return- ing until January 14th inclusive. For particulars about fares and trains, apply to Ticket Agents of Pennsyl- vania Lines. The Nickel Plate Road will mail its 1902 Calendar to any one making application to the Gen- eral Passenger Agent, Cleveland, Ohio. No.2 Fach succeeding year finds the unedu- cated million less surprised to hear that diamonds and coal are the same substance. Sea ea eche SPEAR RN Ce re oe Io ee g « ah aa “ cage aang ear ete 3 keene Straightens Kinky,Curly Hair | fraig inky, Curly fal | z ine 4a Bie Kat i : : Peres ae 3 \ i Moi — eas aoe I 3 fs bow megs emt i a cy Ep | SP sy J » me TRADE ‘MARK KING 6 Ice . ar . ay i 4 Sat OFALL HAIR TONS En I a ee ri S arasisan "CGNG E-*. ee ees Oe | i PERO i aiey” —w . eg NO ep eIPRecassegi ee Shy ZGk—= . RG”. See AERIS Tog Gas TATRA p/ -.2 SN ‘ -* ES an PE aldo ; ANON YE LFW \ ; , ae & Se Si ee Besse) ff 2M ; / SER 0S ie BNE 3 HAO. gee NR ak RS eg ad a? ENN Bi ees! Vy Nica n SSB SSNS a se YY ee See | ee y T\s Ni 0 SIN Y yy ee 5 aera ISD i LY Ea oy ee rey C NY ; | GL R Reg y Bay ANS I & cat ay 4 Ys FE SOW 2 E eh “a eC et i\ Sas AFTER. C ay ! sisi i H | tm I IBB WwaARNRNED— ———————— N ordez to protect the public from the numerous quack nostrums now on the market, which claim to straighten and cause the hair to grow long, and which are simply put up by alotof quacks, charlatans, and fakirs, who have no chemical skill, with the sole idea to get your hard-earned cash and give you nothing in return for your money but a dirty, sticky mass of worthless : greases, which injure the hair and cause it to fall out, we have placed our trade-marlc, granted ‘to us by the Government of the United States of America, on every box of OZONO, King of all Hair-Growers and Hair-Straighteners. This trade-mark con- sists of two heads, as shown in this advertisement—one head showing short, curly hair, the other showing long, flowing hair. Any preparation showing the heads with the hair done up in a coil, or showing features different from the faces shown in this advertise- Ff ment, isnot OZONO.. Seeing our marked success with the true hair-straightener, OLONO, King of all Hair Growers, numerons firms are now widely advertising spurious compounds, and trading on the reputation that we have made for OZONO. Do not befooled ff by these flaring advertisements, which are all promises. Buy the genuine and only original King of all Hair Tonics, OLONO. Two hundred and fifty thousand colored people pought OZONO in the last twelve months. OZONO fasold in every State inthe Union, |g all over Europe, Asia, Africa, and Sout: ‘America, also in Cuba and the West Indies. Its fame has travelled around the world, because it is a true Hair Tonic, that straightens without any outside assistance. No hotirons are used; nothin ees OZONO. It not ff only straightens the hair, but produces a long, silky, beautiful, luxurious growth of soft, fine hair. To neglect your hair is more than foolish, when you can increase its beauty by a few applications of OZONO. We can send OZONO to any place that you may live in, no matter where you may live. The price of OZONO is 50c. a box, sent to any point on receipt of price. Four boxes isa F complete treatment. In order to introduce this great Hair ‘Tonic, we will send to you, on receipt of only $1.00, the following grand : aggregation: Four boxes of OZONO; one bottle of ELECTRICAL SKIN REFINER, which softens nonee skin and elchtent! lack ; skin, making it several shades lighter, worth 50c. ; also one bottle of ELECTRICAL SKIN FOOD, Nature’s cure for all diseases, » such as Pimples, Tan, Acne, Itch, Eezema, and Boils, It also removes Wrinkles, and makes the skin soft and plane ‘We will also include a one-pint package of ANTI-ODOR, which removes all smells and Odors arising from the human body, such as feet, arm- pits, &c.; also one bar of our PURITY SCALP SOAP, made expressly for the human scalp, This grand aggregation offer is made to introduce honest goods, Cut out this coupon and mail to us, with $1.00, and we will send the goods the same day we receive the money. If yousend $3.00, we will send you four lots Sif you send $2.00, we will send you three lots. If you have a friend who i wishes to take acvoniese ‘of this lot, let them pin their name to this coupon, and the goods will be sent promptly. If this offer is read by sore one who does not own this newspaper, they can get the goods by simply sending $1.00 and peor the name of thapaper in which they saw our advertisement. Parties who desire one of our MAGNETIC COMBS, which aids miaterially in the straightening process, can obtain same by sending 50c, extra. Remember, OZONO is guaranteed to straieiien Pee a make it grow long, soft, and glossy; also to cure a! BOSTON CHEMICAL CO., 310 E. Broad St, Richmond, Va. faake it grow lone vcmiliating scalp diseases. To Enclosed find $1.00, for which please send mo the following goods, as by your offer: | make the hair grow out again on bald spots, espe- © Four large boxes of Ozon0, worthr. oie BED” cially around the temples, there isno Hair Tonio on Que eae bottle of Blectrical oein efiner.......- 53 5 earth one-hit so good. vue poe ee ca ri OR iisoe . or * see pany holds a charter granted by the tate o1 r- SORE ISTES BURSON Scatp Soap, worth. 45 Einla "Wo also refer o the Metropolitan Bank of MOLDL. cece cere cece PISO tei and to the Boe oe any. ister your letters; it prot ou. ie Name House No. ___ Street. | BESZ'yourlletters plainly to— e Post-Office_______——_—=———Nearrest Express Office. BOSTON CHEMICAL COMPANY, County. ‘ State, wa eet ees 310 East Broad Street, RICHMOND, VA. ah ‘ EERE Oe oe a ee ee x PR ee ee Mi Siee ss oye are CHARLESTON EXPOSITION Excursion Tickets Now on Sale vin Pennsylvania Lines. Low fares to Charleston, South Car- olina, for the Interstate and West In- ian Exposition are offered via Penn- sylvania Lines. Two forms of excur- sion tickets, season and ufteen-day, may be obtained at special rates. For information about fares and trains consult nearest’ ticket agent of the Pennsylvania Lines, or_ address C. L. Kimball, A. G. P. A., Cleveland, 0. Low Rates to Homeseokers. On Jan, 7th and 2ist the Nickel Plate Road will sell round trip tickets to points in the West, Northwest and Southwest at very low rates. Liberal return limit. Consult nearest agent of the Nickel Plate Road or E, A. Akers, ©. P. & T. A., Cleveland 0, °No.160 TO EXCLUDE CHINESE. A Bill Framed by Congressmen from Pacitic Coast States Is Very Strin- gent. Washington, Jan. 7.—The senators and representatives of the Pacific coast who have been considering a bill for Chinese exclusion have per- fected a measure which will be in- troduced in both houses in a few days. It is much more comprehensive than any bills that have been pre- sented heretofore on tifis subject, most of which provided for excluding Chinese or re-enacting the ‘ Geary law. The bill does not limit itself to any term of years, as did the Geary act, but if passed in its pres- ent form would be perpetual unless repealed. ‘The bill declares that all Chinese, other than citizens of the United States or those who are secured in coming to and residing in the United States under the present treaty with China, shall be refused admission and returned to the¢ountry whence they came at the expense of the trans- portation company bringing them. ‘Transportation companies bringing Chinese to the United States shall de- tain them until their right to admis- sion shall be ascertained. Penalties are provided for not complying with the provisions of the act, $1,000 fine and one year’s imprisonment being the minimum, with a liability to for- feiture of vessels violating any of the provisions of the law. The only Chinese persons permitted to enter the United States under the act are those who have become citizens by birth and naturalization, and officials of the Chinese government, teachers, students, merchants, travelers for pleasure or curiosity, returning la- borers, who must have certificates, or domiciled merchants. Chinese coming as above enumerated i must have certificates with a photograph asttwiad: Gorman’s Election Seems Certain, Annapolis, Md,, Jan. 9.—Arthur Pue Gorman and Chairman Murray Vandiver, of the democratic state central committee, were selected as the democratic nominees for ‘United States senator ahd state treasurer respectively at the democratic caucus held last night. There were 64 mem- bers present, and as 61 are sufficient to elect on joint ballot, the question of the next United States senator and state treasurer is regarded as settled. The republicans nominated Congressman William (H. Jackson, -of Wicomico county, for United States senator, TESTIFIES. a W. H. Reeves Tells About the Frauds im the Cuban Postal Service~Stamp Clerks? Evidence. Havana, Jan. 7.—At the continua- tion of the trials arising from the Cuban post office frauds, in the audi- encia court yesterday, Senors Lanuza and Desvernino reappeared as coun- sel for Estes Rathbone. Upon open- ing of the court last Saturday Rath- bone was informed by the judges that his counsel, Senors Lanuza and Desvernino, had withdrawn from the case. Moya and Mascara, the two Cuban stamp clerks, testified that they had received surcharged stamps from Charles F. W. Neely without making record thereof, that they had sold them and had given the money re- ceived therefor to Neely. The two stamp clerks recalled about 18 in- stances of sitch payments, of about $100 each. Moya said that Neely's clerks ageetved this money when Neely Was not present. W. H. Reeves, one of the defend- ants, was on the stand for three hours. His voice was so weak that the interpreter repeatedly asked him to speak louder because the official stenographers were unable to catch one-half of what he said. The fiscal examined Reeves with regard to the paying of four duplicate warrants on the post office department for the pay of employes in July, 1899, when Keeves was deputy auditor of Cuba, and involving about $8,000. One set of warrants had been drawn about the middle of the month, and _an- other later, and the names on them had been forged. Reeves said that both sets of warrants had been paid. He testified that Neely told him that he had cashed the warrants. , THE COST OF WAR. Boers Lost 18,000 Men Last Year and the British Half That Number. London, Jan. 8.—A published re- view of operations in South Africa during the past year, based upon of- ficial reports, gives an interesting comparison of Boer and British losses. The review says that the total reduction of the Boer forces, in killed, Wounded, taken prisoner and surrendered, amounts to 18,320 men. Out of this total only 7,993 rifles were secired. The captures of Boer am- munition amount to 2,300,000 cart- ridges. British columns are supposed to have taken all the Boer artillery, amounting to,/27 guns exclusive of the two captured by Gen. De Wet at Zeefontein. During the last year a total of 29,882 horses were captured, while of other stock, such as cattle, oxen and sheep, 366,821 head were captured. The British casualties from actual fightie amounts to only half the those sustained by the Boers, name- yly 9113 men, of which 1,513 were taken prisoner, and have since been released. During the last year 4,090 men died of disease, 15 officers and 342 men were accidentally killed and 25,800 men were invaliued home. 1 NTINN A MET IN. A TUNNEL. A Frightful Accident at New York City. A New York Central Train Crashes Into a Passenger Train, Causing the Death cf 15 Persons and Injury to 30 Others—Signals Disregarded by Engineer. New York, Jan. 9.—In the New York Central railroad tunnel that burrows under Park avenue, this city, two local trains collided yes- terday. Fifteen passenfers were killed and twice that number were injured. A dozen of the latter were seriously hurt and the roster of the dead may be extended. ‘ It was a rear-end collision between a South Norwalk local that ran in over the New York, New Haven & ‘Hartford railroad and was halted by ‘block signals at the southern en- ‘trance of the tunnel, and a White | Plains local that came by the Har- lem branch of the New York Cen- tral. The trains were crowded by suburbanites. Most of the death, injury and dam- age was wrought by the engine of the White Plains train, which plunged into the rear car of the motionless train and was driven through to the middle of the car, smashing the seats and furnishings ‘and splitting the sides as it moved forward. The vic- tims eithere were mangled in the mass of wreckage carried on the pilot, crushed in the space between boller and \ear sidengihr scalded by steam which came hissing from brok- en pipes and cylinders. The en- gine, in its final plunge of 40 feet, carried the rear car forward and sent twisted iron, broken timbers and splinters crashing into the coach ahead. Lights were extinguished and from the wreckage and darkness came the cries of the injured and calls for assistance by those who escaped. Responsibility for the disaster is unfixed, but Superintendent Franklin said that so far as he had been able to discover, John Wischo, engineer of the White Rlains train, is to blame, It is declared that when the South Norwalk train stopped a flagman ran back into the tunnel, and, be- sides placing a torpedo on’ the track, endeavored to flag the oncoming train. The tunnel was beclouded with steam and smoke, while the snow, which fell through the air shafts, tended to obscure the view. Engineer Wischo and Fireman Cbvistopher Flynn were arrested. Superintendent Franklin has issued a statement as to the accident, in which he declares that the block ‘sig- nals at Fifty-ninth street were ale by the New Haven train, while the engineer of the White Plains train disregarde} them. “The torpedo on the track went off,” said the superintendent, “but he aid not stop, even though the fire- man called to him to do so. The system of block signals is such that it is a physical impossibility for a signalman to make his light declare the track free if another train is on the block.” District Attorney Jerome visited the wreck and examined many wit- nesses. he state railway commis- sion also announced its intention to: make an investigation and similar in- tent was expressed by the officers of both the New York Central road and the New York, New Haven & Hart- ford railroad. Residents of New Ro- chelle contributed the largest num- ber to the casualty list because the rear car of the South Norwalk train ‘Todi “emit De diate. Hant Record, Has Crossed the Great Divide. ‘Belvidere, IH., Jan. 9.—Commodore Edward Potter, retired, died from faralyste at his home in: this city last evening. He was born at Medina, N. Y., in 1833. He was appointed from Rockford, IIL, to the Annapolis academy in 1850 and served in the navy until his retirement as commo- dore in 1895. At the outbreak of the civil war Commodore Potter was with Admjrat SchJey on the steam frigate Niagara. When Capt. MeLean learned that war had begun he gave the crew a chance ‘to choose between the north and south. Potter and Schley were the first to step to the Union side. Com- mhodore Potter was sent to Ireland with the Constellation with provi~ sions to relieve the famine in 1880. He had command of the Norfolk navy yard during the world’s fair, when foreign warships made it a rendez- vous. (His last command was the ‘naval home in Philadelphia. His record during the civil war was a notable one. He had command of the ironclad Chippewa at the siege of Fort Fisher and while serving in the gulf” squadron participated in the bombardment and the passage of Forts Jackson and Philip and the capture of New Orleans. A Man Accused of Murder Expects to Prove an Alibi by Means of a Pho- nograph. Chicago, Jan. 9.—A_ phonographie record of # story, which he says he told, is what Louis. Thoms, under ar- rest on a charge of having murdered Minnie Larson during the night of December 30, was advanced | yester- day as proof that he was not on the steamer Peerless the night. the = is said to have been slain and her weighted body sunk in the river. He declared that he spent most of the night with friends and that Al- bert Ristau, one of the party, had a phonograph into which they all talked. Ristau confirmed Thoms? story, but it was stated that the record of Thoms’ story had been broken, as well as two others. It is said to be possible that the wax cylinder, which Thoms said was his best witness to prove an alibi, may be patched up sufficiently to show the truth or falsity of Thoms’ story. St. Etienne, France, Jan. 9.—A pas- try cook named Tantale hada quar- rel with his wife and killed her with a revolver. He thrust her body into an oven, under which he lighted a fire. He then committed suicide. 'The calcined remains of the woman were found in the oven. NAVAL HERO DIES. HIS BEST WITNESS. A Pastry Cook's Crime.