Mafeking'srelief Announced with Baden-Powell at Mafeking
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'"H, * * * * ' I I ~^l \u25a0 '^^^Z ~*J^^^^t^^^*T^^^Uo^U^^^^^^^.^^^M Hw^* li^Z^^^^MaK«w^ \u25a0 I^^H - VOlV01 LX N°* 10.543. NEW-YORK. SATURDAY. MAY 10, 1900. -SIXTEEN PAGER^WWS«SU. \u25a0PRICE THREE CENTS. MAFEKING'SRELIEF ANNOUNCED WITH BADEN-POWELL AT MAFEKING. NEW MONTANA CLAIMANT GOT. SMITHAPPOLXTS A SUC- BRITISH COLUMN FROM THE SOUTH DRIVES AWAY THE CESSOR TO CLARK. BESIEGERS AXD EXTERS THE TOWN. THE ANT GOVERNORS ACTION A DAY OF NOTABLE SUCCESSES FOR ROBERTS. DECLARED TO BE VITIATED BY ri:.\ri> macinnis named I as SENATOR. A dispatch from Pretoria announced that a British column, coming from the south, had relieved Mafeking. The Boers, after their laag-crs and forts had been Helena, Mont.. May 18.—Governor Smith this afternoon appointed Martin Magtnnts United severely bombarded, abandoned the siege. States Senator, to succeed William A. Clark. General Robert? announced that General Hutton's mounted infantry The Governor bases his action on the ground sur- that the appointment of Clark by Lieutenant- prised and captured General Botha north of Kroonstad. The British War Oft'ice Governor Spriggs Is vitiate! by fraud. He al- doubted ifthe prisoner was Louis Botha, the Boer Commander in Chief. leges that the resignation of Senator Clark was written In Steyn paid a to Pretoria, April,and that the date It now bears. President hurried visit going from the Orange Free May 11. was the result of an erasure of the State to consult the Transvaal Government. 5 original date, which, it Is said, can be easily announced occupation Newcastle, Upper Xatal, by proved by an examination of the document. General Buller the of in 'He also alleges that the resignation was In his army, the Boers retreating northward, being described as a disorganized the possession of Charles W. Clark, son of the rabble of seven thousand men. Senator, for several weeks, and that the resig- nation of Senator Clark at the time It was made One of the forts used in the defence of MaffkinK.—(The Navy and Army General Methuen occupied Hoopstad. an important point near the Vaal was part of a plot to Insure his appointment by River, the Orange Free State, capturing two and the Lieutenant-Governor. In carrying out the in Boer Generals forty men. plot. cavalry Itis asserted, misrepresentations and other British under General Broadwood occupied Lindley. whither the devious methods were used to get the Governor capital of the Free State was transferred after the fall of Kroonstad. out of the State. The Governor holds that ow- ing to these alleged fraudulent practices the appointment FEW DETAILS KNOWN. PRETORIA SENDS THE NEWS of Clark Is void. XO HOPE FOR CLARK. THE NAME OF THE COMMANDER OF THE BRIEF TELEGBAIf WHICH SET RESOLUTION NULLIFYINGHIS ELECTION BELIEF coLFMN EVEN A MYSTEKY. ALL BRITAIN WILD WITH JOY. By TO BE PRESSED TO PASSAGE. [< opyrigtit; Z'JOv: The New-York Tribune.1 Pretoria, May IS.—lt was officially announced \ TUE [BT CABLE TO TRIBUNi:.] to-day that when the laagers and forts around [BT TELEGRAPH TO— THE TRIBUNV.] London, rt —All this morning's Washington, May IS. The decision reached May W. a. m. Mafeking had been severely the bombarded this morning by the Senate Committee on Priv- BMWnpapera devote large portions of their space abandoned, siege was a British force from the ileges and Elections to press the passage of the of Mafeking and reports to stories of the siege south taking possession of the place. resolution nullifying W. A. Clark's »•>. -in as a enthusiastic throughout the of celebrations Itis reported that five thousand British troops Senator from Montana for the term beginning ciuntry of its relief. The War March 4. ISJ>O. will have the effect of closing in consequence have surrounded Christiana, and that the. the doors of the upper house of Congress on that Office has not yet made any announcement, but Landrost and other officials have been taken political equilibrist for at least the rest of the Mr. lialfour in the House of Commons last prisoners. current session. The committee was not unani- had good night remarked that the Government James Milne, the correspondent of the Reuter mous In voting to continue its efforts to invalid- telegraphed from original action, reason to think the news Telegram Company, who has been a prisoner ate the Montana Legislature's In spite of Mr. Clark's cleverly devised scheme of Pretoria was true. her.', was liberated and escorted to the border resignation ami r»appo:ntment. But the two- A brother of Colonel Baden-Powell is said this morning. thirds support given to Mr. Hoar's proposal to tele- to have yesterday received in London a President Steyn arrived here on Wednesday push the committee's finding to a vote in the gram from a Dutch friend in Pretoria advising night and was in close conference with the Senate indicates the strength of the feeling In branch, that no should be him of the relief of the garrison, but there is Transvaal Government. He left here for the the deliberative stone to prevent Mr. Clark's return to nothing to show the exact date on which the left unturned Free State last night. Addressing a crowd on membership on terms so repugnant to the Sen- appears, relief column entered the town. It the platform he urged them to be of good cheer. ate's sense of dignity and so suggestive of po- however, that there was sharp fighting around litical trickery and scandal. TUESDAY. — Mafeking on Thursday, so probably the Boers Till: TOWN RELIEVED ON Three members of the committee Messrs. Pettus, strictly by the column before London, May IS.—A special dispatch from Am- Harris and Prltchard— took the v»ere defeated southern THE OF that, validity sterdam says a telegram from a Boer source an- DEFENDERS MAFEKING. technical view whatever the of they raised the slfge. Men who under Lieutenant-Colonel Baden-Powell made such a gallant and effective defence.— (The Xavy and Army cf office, ail processes nounces that was relieved on Tuesday. Mr. Clark's original tenure By many people General Kitchener is believed Mafekint? resig- The recipient of the telegram is credited with to question or upset his title fell with his to have been in command of the relieving force, bavins heard of the relief of Ladysmith before nation as a Senator. The other six members HEROIC ItAHEX POWELL. .4 SENSATION IN THE XAYY Burrows, but "The Nets" understands that the column it was announced. WIPE AN ALLEGED PLOTTER present— Messrs. Hoar. Chan— Mc- Comas, Turley and Caffery contended that the was by Bryan Mahon, who, like so led Colonel AT BADEN-POWELL'S HOME. OF THE REMARKABLE estop CHIEF FIGURE IN ONE HYDItoG- mere act of resignation did not the Senate many distinguished officers now serving in COMMANDER TODD. THE registering opinion of the legality or CHEERING AND SINGING THOUSANDS BE- SIEGES OF HISTORY. AN OLD MAN from its Sc-jth Africa, Kitchener ACCUSED OF MARRYING Legislature's action, won distinction under FORE THE HOUSE. HAPHKK. SUSPENDED ON CHARGES illegality of the Montana in the Soudan. The eyes of ,the world are now. fixed on Colonel or from determining whether that action con- — TO GET HIS KICH ESTATE. OF It in reported that the Boers have blown up London, May 19. Ten thousand people stood Robert Stephenson Smith Baden-Powell, whose he- DIPT-ICITY. stituted a performance of it? constitutional obli- of Mrs. Baden-Powell's house, In St. roic and picturesque defence of Mafeklnar is on* fill vacancy caused by the expira- Latag*fl Xek Tunnel and thereby interrupted in front gation to i'uo of the finest passages Mn the history of the South [nr THt.K>;R.\iu to the George's Place, to-night, cheering and singing. ' triium:.! tion of Mr. Mantie's tejm. A bitter attack on communication by that route between Xatal and African war, Since the middle of October his Washington. May IS.—Commander C. C. Todd, and a 6core of cabe brought congratulations. LETTERS FROM A STCDKNT IN BROOKLYN Mr. Clark and his political methods is under- the Transvaal. Miss Baden-Powell, the Colonel's sister, said: the hydrographer of the Navy, has b«en sus- stood to have been made by Mr. Turley. th» PREVKH'S WEDDING — pended from duty pending investigation by the All messages frnm Pretoria indicate that the The same tale has been brought to us many INDICATE A senior Democrat on the committee, and the at- Department of the charge of duplicity. The burghers are feeling d< sp..n>lent, owing to their times during the last anxious months. The "War SUIT IN* THE SUPREME COURT. titude taken by the Senator from Tennessee Office has promised us the earliest information. gravity of the charge has caused the utmost reflects the opinion of the Montana Lourengo Marques probably continued reverses. From We only hope it is true. astonishment in the naval service on account of by a ma- A case came up in the Supreme Court yester- man's 'peanut" tactics entertained "The Times" reports that Boer agents are buy- Later in the evening Colonel Baden-Powell's Todd's high standing and excellent day in which it v.as charged that Alice Wood, Commander jority of the Senators on the Democratic side. forwarding them with all mother sent that she retired, that reputation. Officers acquainted with the details question of referring ing up provisions and word had and twenty-eight years old, had entered into a con- No vote was taken on the if any telegrams she was not to be of the affair refuse to give any information on speed to the Transvaal, in anticipation of the came dis- spiracy by which she had induced Cornelius H.