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The gives more ri J i NORTH YORK INTELLIGENCER AND ADVERTISER PA Give me the liberty to know to otter and to argue freely according to conscience above all other liberty No paper sent outside North York unless paid in advance No Single Copies Each Newmarket Ortt Friday March 14 per annum I if paid in advance YOUR WANTS In Heavy and Shelf British Reverse so ox- and Plumbing Can be Supplied to your ENTIRE SATISFACTION G A BINNS NEWMARKET ONT PLUMBING P R I C on PATENT MEDICINES are the LOWEST filled Wounded Men arid Missing -oo- March At this late The fight in which General hour of the South African I he was occurred before dawn on news a disaster which is entitled March between and to be placed almost Orange River Colony The ahead of Nicholsons Nek Saunas British for e numbered men The Post and has come like Bees all the British bag- a bolt from upon the British gate General Met is retained people Lord with four as a prisoner guns has fallen into the hands of the active and the most persistent of the Boer generals next to Wei who hare taken the field For the first time in the history of the War a British general officer has fallen into the hands of the enemy and for this reason the Further Details of the Affair In a dated Pretoria of March General Kitchener sends the following summary of the latest reports of the disaster Gen ox convoy escorted by half his force started an hour in stands somewhat apart from the ones advance of the mule convoy The above referred to General enemy made a sudden flanking and for months occupied the territory be- enveloping attack from the rear The Matching and and at disorder was occasioned by the one a portion of C native boys with the led horses of the Canadian contingent thru the mule convoy as the in for six weeks failing latter was endeavoring to comply in his effort to capture the defendeis with Gen directions to Canadian S a Point SO Narrow Escape of Ross o n AT- DRUG STORE 1 Have a Look at some of them owing to the vigilance of BadenPow ell with whom the Canadians were then serving Incidentally the news of the fight which has proved so fate ful to British arms shows that latey has changed his sphere of oper ations and has shifted his lighting ground to the Orange River Colony close on the ox convoy This dis order in the mule convoy communi cated itself to the mounted troops and Boers dressed in ijhoki riding along with the wagons frustrated all attempts of the officers to rally their men- Great confusion ensued among this f m COLONEL ROSS London March Lord Kitchener hi lies his father- spirit of loyalty to in a despatch from Pretoria dated to- the Brill- Grown We all reports the discovery of a Boer laic on smtess Magazine in a cave northeastward of and the he is bringing lu the having penetrated so far South as the portion of the mounted troops I Orange River Colony contain- Canadian Scouts in Smith Africa of which is they and the mule wagons galloping not much more than sixty miles from miles beyond the ox wagons were It is evident that sections The and larey is making a diversion in favor Thirtyeighih Batteries fought with of his friend Wet who is on the gallantry Three hundred of verge of being enclosed in the British the Northumberland Fusiliers and cordon of blockhouses Whether he North Lancashire Regiment rounds of ammuni tion hundreds of shells ami pounds of powder a Maxim gun he- venye Department Ottawa received has succeeded in his purpose or not remains to be seen The fact re mains however that the British arms have suffered one of the most serious field telegraphs and quantities following let of stores- Thirtyfive Boers have captured in the same y since March The magazine 4 ler from Major ding the Canadian been captured in the same y Africa dated Pie- mention hood Oar Toronto Letter The Ontario Educational Associa tion meets here on April 1st 2nd and 3rd A very extensive program has been prepared As a result of tin big convention week before last all the 2nd year students at College arc re ported to have volunteered to Mr for service in the Foreign Mis sion fields The Ontario Dank will make a new departure and place a lacrosse team on the ice next winter The Toronto Conference of the Meth odist Church will meet in the Metro politan Church this year has again promised to give a cup for tiu Canadian Horse Show at Toronto this year for the test Canadian bred suitable for ridirg or cavalry purposes Hon Sydney Fisher gives 20 and the As sociation fur first in the same class Rev Dr Sutherland left here last week on his trip to Japan He tra vels as Mis this means somebody pays the expense On the frags were flying on all the public school buildings of the city to mark the anniversary of Founding of Toronto March being the nay and year Gov named the place Little York The ISth Highlanders band will re turn from their great tour in the States on the day before Rood Fri day and have been seemed for the farewell conceit to Jessie in the Horticultural Pavil ion on Good Friday The Kilties will a rousing Regular Our Price Price Williams Pink Pills 35 Kidney Pills Ozone Any three of above Regular Our Price Price showed conspicuous courage in pro- j was the wagons to commanded by Col llors render until revisiance was useless force were almost all since the war began The de- diesei in our uniform whih made containing the direful news of it impossible for the infantry to reads as follows between our men ami the General and four juns have counted troops were J Australia became and Chases Syrup of Linseed and Turpentine Ozone large Burdock Blood Bitters 100 Ayers 100 Hoods Scott 8 Emulsion 100 Chases K Pills Pre8Grip Pierces Golden Medical Discovery Electric OH Dr Thomas South American Kidney Carters Little Liver Pills W Cure Compare our Prices with any others All patents at Cut Prices We in all Branches of our will not be Undeisold by anyone J II I The Leading NEWrVlARKET ONTARIO per at for the last month General Rimington in the River Colony and a very hot Major Charles it is too for the Boers there now commands the Canadian Scouts are the word go On in the Transvaal has had a loving and of the month I had and adventurous career A native of a fifth and had two white men kill- one native scout also five been captured by General driven In on America at an early age and men and one native wounded Methien was wounded in the The enemy men adopted the life of a scout on The Boers had casualties Not to Three British officers and men with a and a western plains He served in several had an old wcrc killed Five British officers and Collies Vermass Indian fights with the United States budge I man of mine was and in the Canadian North- shot thru the head I had an tebellum of accompanied other shot thru the forehead men were wounded One British and other Boer commanders oficex and men arc missing were present west Colonel Otters column as and he lost about three teaspoonfuls Gigantie fidvertising on the Prairie Trunk Arranges Plans for Picture TOUR Some years since a party of sur veyors had just finished their days in the northwestern part of Illinois when a violent snowstorm on They started for their camp The wind was blowing very hard and the snow drifting so as to nearly a scout For his in the of brains and yet is going to get campaign received high praise over it ail right so the doctor When the South Aft an war broke I have about offiteis and out he was in Montana but lie soon pompoms Colt machine abandoned his occupation for the more g and a pack train of mules exciting life of a soldier and made ami are all as good his way to Cape Town Before there is in South Africa ing this side lie at Ottawa and Canadians came out here of lien to Ami jtiiutd our Our first Shipment of New Dress Goods are very attractive All the New Shades of Silk in Stock TORONTO JOBBING HOUSE a lot as Fortyfive last week Some of ill in writ of Col men of the ami others of the hi At and were of old who had gone home but again I expect to start to- mot row Jlaiiismith and move on horn My friends in had it that I was tilled and so were rather rtse second reading of he icfereu dum bill was a majority of thirteen is the number unlucky Members of the Press Gallery were of the at a informal luncheon in the Speakers Chambers in the Parliament ings on the day the bill received its reading The first annual meeting of OKI Hoys of was held at the Temple Cafe last night and was well attended Among the was John Ilarvie who tn be a conductor on the old nearly half a century a A wicked attempt to blow up inond Chainlets in Hi street was made last Thursday when delitrately a large pipe one of the rooms The plot was discovered just in litre to prevent a ion Many lives were The why and wherefore remains a IXo hoys John Street school attacked another boy to whom ley had taken a dislike and in the threw at id in his face This was on Trmsday hut by Saturday lad on whom the a id was thrown much worse that his father had warrants Though the Grand Trunk Railway system carried over tourists ilc was very bard ape Town early in and was and sportsmen into one district of andlhc snow drifting so as nearly ft a iff Troop of Canadas summer play pounds last them When they thoujda they Light Horse Hoys year the Company is slatting out f rea lhcr P they part in General Frenchs ride this year with a vigorous policy at J lrat in to and came out Using to still further in lhe These they looked at with although he had several narrow the Influx of pleasure seekers who an- JUIU lo dismay that ajos lie was aho wih the iravel over this system in upon the VM WATrAM f The company has now decided to was now plain that they were Orange and lo See turn up again I did j ftilnv give the populace of some of the prairie and that if capitals and figured most of the a very ball when crossing reuns cities in the slates of Ohio Midil- the tad to there in engagements of Hat to net the cover of some Kaffir the Street Railway Indiana Kentucky and snow- the chance always in the thickest of the fight Ire huts My horse stepped into a hole J to vania an opportunity of seeing the them would be alive to a life and and fell on me and he could not get I iei series of photographic- views it hid coming While hey wee While many of his comrades fell Ross mr could 1 get my leg from tfl double of what on exhibition at the PanAmerican shivering with fear and cold the was untouched When the late Major him and the Boers were not HOD position at Buffalo There will bo over pictures in the collection each measuring feet inches by i feet in addition to one of the finest collections of mounted fish has ever shown The fish include specimens black bass from the Highlands of Ontario do re and from St Lawrence land locked from native waters and other miens of value A representative of the Grand Trunk will accompany the exhibit and the Art Gallery will be installed in the business portion of the cities vis ited Thousands of copies of litera ture describing the several regions to be advertised will be distributed- The exhibit will open at Saginaw Mich March ID ami goes from there to Grand south to sev eral points in the other states The tour will occupy ten weeks two days being allowed each city chief surveyor caught sight of one of their horses a gray pony known as Old Jack and said If any one can how us our way to camp in this blinding snow Old Jack can do it I will take off his bridle and let him loose and we will follow him think he will show us the way to our camp The horse as soon as he found him self if pro his yards away shooting at me as hard at a commission as they Lieut- Lee one of my enforced vaccina- under him The leaders death led to to mv remit and having disband merit of the corps and me fee under my A lf lle science Howard formed scouts Boss accepted Boss then formed a new icginunt mil- let graied his while helping enis the Scouts of whih he me Lis ho was hit o It was passed away here deservedly respected Canon Osier free threw his head in the air as in the field and the large one is always ii of the trust Then he snuff- We can hardly claim Rosa K and the large one is always flying labored many years in be and Miss enler- last Friday evening ere laid for nineteen the breeze and gave a loud snort s Newmarket boy yet we feel more Boers for the Boers will never be Sheriff and M which seemed to say Come on ordinary in him from able to take it I think this ihcjtninrd at hays Follow me Ml lead you out hfB freehold first one that they have ever seen when rovers this scrape resident of this Town on Prospect We are having lots of rain here guests He then turned In a new direction Ai who unite cold rain too The war and off and the men followed a During the now no nearer in end than it did a him they hi winter Mrs Boss mother from Fort ago in Hopes that it Liver Conitipatfon Biliousness and Sick Headache TAKE BRISTOL Safe Mild do not weaken and always give satisfaction A tot rcllnbtc Medicine be at on by or Children re l BRISTOLS James Richards a farmer six ago was in William has resided with her owing would have been over by time to the fact that the Colonels daugh- I am still adding to my collection of now in her teens is attending curios for I have the finest collection boarding school in the city Col of war relics in South Africa and am They felt grateful to for their stirring little boy saving a lot of them for you I am who surrounded by many trophies ol sending you a photo of my sitting- war Jn his own home naturally room with some of them in it had not gone more than a mile when they saw the cheerful blaze of tlieir campfires They all gave a loud hurrah at the sight safety and threw their arms around Old Jacks neck thank for what he had done I know this is a Our Dumb Animals miles west of Chatham early true story for my father was the on Saturday morning discovered a the party on the occasion man In his henhouse and in the struggle which ensued Richards dis charged a shotgun which bursting seriously Injured the farmer while the thief escaped That Whoop I Have you had it in your house Its enough and cough and cough and then that terrible Dont the stomach more by giving nauseous medicine There are Jews in Africa The Canadian Northern has Just San Antonio Texas March A wpo- ted 50000 worth of rail a frightful wreck on the Southern Pacific Railway near Station miles west of San Station 25 miles west of at oclock this morning From the account received liere IS people were killed and were more or injured incut mostly rollii MORE COLDS are cured by than any other one remedy It cures quickly and certainly Bron chial affections give way to it Manufactured by the proprietors of Perry Davis J Reports come from Fort George Mr John Absley a Hamilton car- Just 1st the child Northern British Columbia that the pen was killed while tearing down soothing vapor of Indians have out and tried to a verandah at the Grand Trunk- it goes right to the spot thats take possession of the fort The Pro- sheds eased Relief is immediate and in vincial Government has tent a force Ottawa March Since the begin- a very few days the cure is complete of officers to quell the rising n war hi South Africa the You cant say the same of any other London Friday March A War Office has purchased thru treatment For asthma catarrh sjialth to the Times from says Acricultuial food and for- and cold9 it3 equally good that among tire Mikados presents to supplies to the value of 7000- vpoCrcwiDo It mm by King Edward on the occasion of hi- If to this be added the muni- im pair of stiver of war thru the will a vases fifteen Inches high with the total will be gold Tire vaves represent seven yrs brought up to about ex- work of thirty of the lest Japanese elusive of the outfit of the third Viporiier tad And a of CreioUoft centt d lllosirtttd booklet res upon VA7oCxitoLMS Co St tit Recommended and by EL Lehman drugglat Newmarket- iftRirivJvtli5 T-Urf- Sr i i