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Th Era more home news every week than any tyro other papers in North York combined and is acknowledged to be the Leading bounty NORTH YORK INTELLIGENCER AND ADVERTISER PAGES mo to know to uttor and freely according to above all rt ST No paper sent outride of North York paid in advance No Single Cents fiaoh Newmarket Ont Friday Dec 1899 per annum if paid in advance FOE The Tiisal Bloodiest of AND HOCK STRAPS SHIN PAD London Nov British waggons the shooting of a British warships at in Boor and Boors of dumdum bullets But ho refused to that these acts wore of Boors lie Kftvo them credit unconvinced to the contrary that they like British wished to fight fair and square TICKS HA TOV a FURNACES PAINTS OILS LA pedal New Cook Stoves Guaranteed A NEWMARKET number as to cause comment as to tho object of this unusual concen tration of naval force The ships already there in the Med iterranean squadron are battleships cruisers and torpedo boats under Ad miral Sir John General Methuens despatoh to Queen after battle of Riv er says The battle was the bloodiest of the century British shelled the enemy out of trenches and then charg ed result was terrible Deo situation in South Africa today is decidedly clear er than at any time since com mencement of hostilities General has forwarded a partial list of caflualilies from River showing that four British officers wore killed and sixteen wounded in Tues days fight In London it is believed that this comparatively small loss among the officers means that the total casualties were not after all so heavy as the first deppatches appeared J to indicate General was slightly wounded A bullet struck him in the thigh inflicting a flesh wound The officials state that generals wound is very slight and that ho will probably bo all right in a lew days It is probable that wound will prevent his being in the saddle and there is to know whether ho will bo compelled temporarily to abandon the personal direction of affairs His next in command is Col commanding tbe Guards Brigade Orange Rives Monday Nov Boer prisoners here repor that number of killed at Belmont is believed to have boon 140 and at Pan Nov has been received here that the Lancer attacked tho Pitt relief commando which Gen despatched toward inflicting great loss on the enemy Later they arrived at Two Boers were made prisoners One of them walked into the camp believing it to be a Boer laager It is reported that Gen has treated to He travelled it is said in an omnibus drawn by six I horses Gen night attack with cold steel at Willow Grange paralysed the Boers The Boer surgeons report that thirty of their men were killed fow many precipices This height at Junction railway station is feet above the sea Tho descent into the plains is zigzag and very treacherous The whole country will require most careful and systematic scouting Deo The following despatoh from dated Nov via was re ceived today On Nov the enemy commenced bombardment but had not courage to carry it on Tho alarm bell was rung At tho sent a shell from its now position smashing the wall of hotel knocking down several press correspondents who were playing bill- The hospital and convent have been hit eight times The nuns refuse to leave but take shelter in adjoining bomb proof shed The timidity of the enemy who do nothing compels the town guard to remain idly in the trenches It would be immense satisfaction calculated to encourage the defenders if the feeble fno world pluck up spirit and come within ColBadenPow ell hopes will happen and give an opportunity to the garrison to show the stuff it is made of in the mean time he encourages everybody by his confidence Projectiles Few people outside service have an adequate idea of what a modern big gun is capable of said an army officer of considerable experience in If they were told for instance that some of the guns used in the Soudan campaign could send a projectile from Shepherds across the extreme length of London and drop it into the East India docks a dis tance of between nine and ten miles they would probably open their eyes wide with incredulity they were told further that this distance could bo covered by a projectile in thirty seconds or almost in less time than a man could walk from one room to another they would refuse probably to believe it And yet it is the simple truth and by means represents the full possi bilities of modern ordnance Before our imaginary projectile had reached its destination two or oven three others be following it in its flight ail fired from the same gun and the arc they describe or more ex actly a parabola would take them a few thousand feet over the highest mountain in Great Britain The ex plosive shell fired from these guns hits a killing capacity of men so that a single gun if every Prohibited Publications Notwithstanding tho instructions of the Post Department our mails are often flooded with trashy reading that is infinitely more to our young people than gross ignorance The following list publications whose transmission by mail in Canada was published in the Herald Gospel Libert recently and at the request of the we give it a place in the Era It is hoped that parents will pre serve this list and if they find that any of those papers get their homes they will be doing a favor to the boys and girls of this county if the papers are destroyed and the post master notified of fact Tho County Press Mis at Roachs Point would also be pleas ed to receive any information regard ing the violation of mail instructions in this matter J Advance Vt US The Agents Guide New York The Herald Philadelphia The American Agent BoyJeston The American Cottage Home City The American Farmer Portland Maine The American Fireside and Farm Jersey City The American Homestead Jersey City The American Journal Jersey City The American Nation Boston The Breeze Maine Cheerful Moments Boston The The Chicago Mascot Chicago The Climax Chicago The Columbia Boston Cupids Columns Dean Minn The Detective Library New York Detroit Sunday Son alio known as Illustrated San Detroit Detroit Sunday World Detroit Foxs Weekly New York Gil Parle France Good Augusta Maine The Hearthstone New York The Home Boston The Home and Fireside New York shell did its full work might easily Home Circle New York LIEUTENANT GENERAL SIR GEORGE WHITE General White Is a veteran campaigner but outnumbered as he Boers his campaign around was practically doomed to failure when ft was begun When opened he was In command all British troops in Nate OF THE COUNTRY Price is not everything Quality and Price- go hand in hand with us AND If you will deposito in the Bank each month what we save you in price you will never be Broke See our Fail and Winter Dry Goods See our Fresh Family Groceries See our Boots and Shoes Which we make a specialty of BUFFALO ROBES BUY BE SATISFIED COME AGAIN force may be slow in be ginning operations The country in which it has to work is excessively difficult and most favorable to The shell burst in the room overturning the billiard table dispose of the enemy at the rate of a minute The piojectiles of some of our modern arc so heavy that twenty strong men could scarcely Hit one of them and it would take the united strength of ten men to carry the powder which propels them There is at least one gun in which carries a projectile weighing more than a ton over a range of twentyone miles Other shells followod one going through a house where five people were at breakfast They had an ex- Nov steamer an admirable shelter nnlamAia will sail tomorrow for South Africa taking one of the heaviest war cargoes on record It includes 000000 rounds of small arm ammu nition shrapnel shells lyddite shells boxes of fuses boxes of pistol ammunition and a large number of star shells for dis covering the enemys position and for signalling Each of these shells contains six magnesium light stars which burn for seconds and Boers tactics Mountains covered escape The roof of the house being knocked off A rainstorm then checked the marksmen and river beds offer exceptional opportunities for am bushesthis is the nature of the ground It is eighteen miles from Burghers- dorp and for more than half the distance the road winds be tween precipitous declivities There is a deep railway cutting which could but it was resumed at pm The Boers secured the rangeand had magnificent practice Theyl made a target of fort which was struck by seven successive shells from the The men were not injured but the trench was completely demolished The men stood at arms be effectively blocked by dropping a as the first shell with terrific velocity few big rocks struck the base of the exterior of the The Stormberg mountains are great fort The Boers threw other shells in- a Teacher Wanted you Nicer Buggy than lias a flick or or one of the boat Kobe In the country call on AH I Experienced Teacher holding data WlUUirA Township of King Term to coiumcnco mm stow some quiet later than Deo to very and they Secretary are nil lor sale If you are not a subscriber to the Era Send for a trial trip of months seven stars which burn from to seconds London Nov That Lord Me thuen anticipated dogged resistance on his northward march is shown by the speech which he delivered to bis troops Nov after the battle of Graspfln After reading a telegram from Gov Milner congratulating the troops and sympathizing with the wounded General personally congrat ulated the troops on the work done and expressed appreciation of the man ner in which they had endured the hardships The work ho said was the most severe encountered by the army for many a long day They had in front of them ho added an enemy to whom hey could not afford to give a single point tactics had been excellent and he re cognized and admired their courage Continuing General said that when called upon to fight for his country he preferred to fight a foe worthy of his steel rather than savages whoso sole recommendation was bravery He then expressed the hope that he and his men had gained each others confidence and would all do their duty to their country as Englishmen should General also do- scribed as dastardly conduct of the Boers in firing on ambulance i masses of indurated limestone town Censorship In Giving the News of the Great Effected by South American Ner vineIt Has Bayed an Army of Sufferers Prom the Pangs of Indi gestion and Nerve Troubles Holmes of was taken seriously ill about a year ago with nervousness and indigestion and for some time was completely prostrated He consulted best doc tors but they failed him A news paper advertisement brought South American Nervine to his notice He tried it with the result that he was greatly benefited from the first bottle and six bottles completely cured him and he would be pleased to give de tails of his case to any person asking him Sold by Lehman Bent- leys Pharmacy Newmarket DEFENSES OP JOHANNESBURG the Boers have been fighting the British to Haul at home bare not been Idle Johannesburg Is at present by forts of formidable strength fort be atronxer General ready to begin the of the Transvaal Mr Jos Gilroys 100 acre farm near Newton Robinson has been re cently sold to Mr Houghton for the past five of the current year the customs revenue has increased compared with the corresponding period last year A Canadian editor being asked if he had ever seen a woman replied No we never did Nor have we ever seen a woman waltzing around town in her shirt sleeves with a cigar between her teeth We have never seen a woman fishing with a bottle in her hip pocket sit on the damp ground and then go home drunk at night Nor have we ever seen a woman yank off her coat and swear she could lick any man in town God bless her She aint built that way English Spavin Liniment re moves all hard soft or calloused Lumps and Blemishes from horses Blood Spavin Curbs Splints Ring Bone Sweeney Stifles Sprains Sore ftnd Swollen Throat Coughs etc Save by use of one bottle Warranted the most wonderful Blemish 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