Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette, The (Newspaper) - February 24, 1900, Fort Wayne, Indiana THE FORT WAYNE ESTABLISHED 1868 New York SATURDAY MORNING FEBRUARY 24 1900 PRICE FIVE CENTS DRESS GOODS Our dress goods supremacy is unq The best products of the best makers -ire here In bewildering variety selected with taste and ment All the new fabrics till the new shades Choice pickings for early Homespuns In grey and tan mixtures Me a yard plaids for children's school a rosses lave and a plaids Cor skirls very stylish a yard tweeds for skirts and suits a yard Satin striped choice shades a yard BlacK Goods London Absolutely Without News and That Means the Boers Are Unbeaten or oilier boer agents from ing with Pretoria THE GALLANT FIGHT AGAINST OVERWHELMING ODDS EXCITES TION EVEN FROM THEIR FOEMEN special values and up extr heavy es suits 51.00 and a yard Black camel s hair suitings to a from to a yard Silks w vT K the and most fashionable tnd the newest designs from the leading makers New and novel in a great variety of styles and co Foulard silks the fashionable fane y of season GSc and a vard silks fur waists beautiful shades a yard Novelty silks for In endless variety Trie and a yard cascade silks our well known brand none better for wear all the popular weaves from to a vard lack and colored taffeta silks in complete Hour ll Is unusually Luncheon Special Ginger Punch with AND SERVED WITH IK A OF MENU The Rurode Dry Goods Co FIGHTING WED ON TMK AND CAVALRY WEHE GENE UAL AT TO STEM THE LOUD MBS ILL WIFE OF THE HYING OVER WAIt YORK Feb dispatch to tbe Herald from Brussels Private letters from Pretoria received here announce Mrs Kruger the wife of the president is very ill The war has grievously Impressed her health is also by anxiety for her numerous sons grandsons lighting fur their one of whom was killed at I'oort THIS YBAK JT WILL UK NOT AND IT HAS BULLETIN rumor gains credence thai IIMS been relieved l is also reported Cronje has surrendered i and General Kitchener has been slightly wounded in I he lefl arm Crowds throng the Ing and because of supposed victories Seventeen hundred boers have been nr wounded In latter It Is Including General Cronje FINDS MUCH SYMPATHY NEW YORK Feb Maud Gonne who has just returned from a lecture our in New England in til in- terest uf the said last I find I was not deceived in my belief that a vast amount of sympathy for the boers exists here in America T lectured in every Id full houses and almost invariably have been turned away I shall my tour at Cincinnati and go is far west as Omaha 1 intend sailing March X as 1 must return to we have an in progress And the only reason for making prices so low for our great Closing Out Sale is tp make a short horse of it ness done so far has exceeded our most hopeful expectations At the present rate the end will come and find some of you wishing you had heeded our words Here are hundreds of high-class Suits and Overcoats marked at Startling re- from former low prices and all the time woolen trimmings and labor advancing at an astonishing rate You'll not be able to match a garment next September at less than double the price we now ask Goods exchanged or money refunded LONDON Feb a In house of commons at this morning lhat no further news regarding General Cronje had been by He had sent to war during hour and he asserted that nothing bad come lo hand there General Cronje Is pre- No oilier con- Is upon the three days silence of Lord Yel no one ices how ll Is humanly possible Judging from the If his Wednesday morning for him lo so lung Great not admiration for he of a against such like pride n Cronje even as a foe says the Dally In a position covering only a mile hemmed In on all sides circled with a chain of lire from ride Maxim and howitzer played in by bursting In Its own sickly green light his hastily by a stream of lead sweeping down from north bank General Cronje still Ho U is a iniKo General wife Is described by Hie prisoners as urging hint to Id- In order tit save the lives of Ids men bin he would not The cavalry patrols sent by Uird north of dis- covered boers er for offense or defense Is simply con- The boers seem lo be General al in order lo sintei had not been latest news left Natal ago The had Ihen half way holw and C If only six thousand went lo II Stale both lie and Itrl ish accounts assert tlie 12.0110 win a lefi purpose to maintain Hie I to resist General within lines General tors Is tin the boers are merely covering a The editorials in tile morning more or less the 1 government laval proposals in view t be naval efforts of German other powers The Standard this is tlie navy is considered enough for its but the nation wi ask for full on lhat point The Daily Mail The proposal arc so we cannot hn express deepest surprise Unit th board I SON GOES TO THE WAK i-.sTrrKit VITAS AK IN VI N 1 IX i LONDON Feb in a de- of soldiers Iliac embarked f he a week or so ago was if Carey Invincible in- former who was shot on board the Mel by Carey's son gave evidence al he preliminary ing O'Donnell and ho an- of Ills Inro for South Africa brings to a curious in- stance of family as it Is on the outskirts of where many of I be troops destined for Uic Natal campaign are disembarked that elder Carey lies burled ll develops before being out as a re- servist was employed as a tram conductor In London bearing an name NEW REVERSE FOR BULLER OF THIS ON HACK HY THIC HOICKS lighting has been renewed on and General has twain repulsed The who defeated were a portion of who were trying to cross river Duller si 111 holds LONDON Fob i dispatch from I hut ler had been repulsed again bad a dis- effect on lie public Later WASHINGTON Feb consid Hie doings of i he democratic na committee two are receiving the general attention an comment of the politicians Out- is Ih return of Arthur Pue Gorman to tin inner councils of the party and lln other is the democratic plan for ing off the Gold and glory of tlie republicans by of powder with Hie rallying cry of public not Empire Realizing the of natch words and fearing results of appeals to ple lo rally to the support of the ican Hag and William flu democrats have decided lo lo In: entire declaration of independence incorporate if in their platform and to make appropriate its indorsement they independence day for their convention In all this politicians here see the hand of ator Gorman In fact It was who spoke in favor carried his point with Ex- question Hie lo have bcsl of campaign thunder Many republicans will admit valely While Ion feds thai it can rely strongly on effects of prosperity and the which is the natural result il is would admit lhat there is grave danger in Hie Ihal the opposition hie ligure capacity of sole protector of the and all be ancestral rights an which cluster about It Th appeal is to deepest sealed lions of and can not lie dis- posed of lightly The opening guns t be campaign have Bounded in congress the bcsl friends of Me Kin ley do not heir sound TO-DAY WE WILL SELL A JOc AND 12 PER YARD LACE OR EM- BROIDERY FOR YARD then WILL CENSOR EVERYTHING KNOW CONTENTS ol KENT TO TOHIA NEW Feb special t be Herald from Washington says Great has announced her pur lo censor as well as cablegrams to international al Pretoria This tion is one of the most important relations lakei Great since war witli lln Transvaal began H is likely to voke correspondence which Will be ol great moment to the neutralization of cable lines Following close upon the heels ol the violation of the American mail il is understood the an- has created a impression in official circles Il will lie for the Hulled Stales however to do more Hum to represent to Great desirability ns dispatches passing Mm censor without There is no doubt thai purpose or the censorship is to prevent Dr patches from however were hat Hie repulsed Were only mutinied troops Wednesday the division under Warren In- Tugela north of hill and now occupies Wylle an An dnel continues between on the the heights of he A lo from Camp The near are not visible II Is Impossible to say owing lo broken whether the back it is possible thill hey occupy the behind lie Colenso as guns are shelling us now A lo from nil h February which was via have three armed Ger who are supposed lo be gence men One bad an ambulance and wore a lal band The nf ABE OUT OF THIC A Vli QUIT am MAY OF NICW ci All shades of Camel Hair Dress Goods at HOC yd lust received an importation order of shades In Polka Dot French els 20 pieces of Dress Goods inches wide for skirts and resses worth yd yd Just received a complete Hue of spring shades in those value Kid Gloves to-day a pair Take elevator lo third and sec the handsomest line of Summer Wash ever shown in Hie city Just received a large line of Pulley from up Mill Ladies lilack Taped Edge steel rod lassel and case anl large Dresden Alt Winter Hosiery and r a eoM new line of Spring Ginghams we are selling at yd One case of yard wide Percales al new spring regular alne lOc yd Our Ladies Muslin Underwear department should be visited by every in the city as there is no as lo its superiority o all similar ments in city 100 colored Petticoats umbrella shape double worth To introduce a new Corset we will sell one of the best made In a for Ladles black all silk lined through Tailor made Mulls In Cheviot with box back for lo any ever shown In the oily 100 Ladles New Spring Jackets lined through for worth fi 00 our store Is of new Airing and summer goods and ladles should our dally to keep posted on what will be worn CHICAGO Feb general the machinists Is threatened on a of the refusal of large imu In no which were lo have gon nlo on March I The was taken yesterday by 17 ployed by the company al and Vn Huren sired who wore ordered out b Business Agent W on ac of the of Wester company lo sign the new BRITISH NAVAL ESTIMATES LONDON naval esli nates lor an of pounds i in I a class cruiser luo luin screw I wo gunboats and I wo torpedo boats M IDS Vip preliminary trial e knots e experiments will he as importance 10 her novel of sion Marconi of wireless tele graphy was in the naval ivers and proved successful The in Hie coaling llf the Meet haVo received special consideration and steps will tie aken increase the reserve stocks coaling The rate of siippl} of propelling anil armor il u explained is he cans delay In the work last year and though lite date makers have doubled their icily they are slill un vilb orders il is added are in ess for of a naval re in Canada There will he under in 100 seventeen twenty d cruisers a two second-class misers a cruiser I wo four oats and twenty boat de- BULLETINS Feh arrived here He will as administrator of dis- ict southward to Hie range Uiver Colonel Kekewich will lain in of I lie forces of siege sunn lere are prisoners Ivere Thursday e main body of the has lied Page provided for a increase li wanes and included among other Hie day However decided he Wa in ordering and a In Hie employes be building ox THIC tie-up is b Monday in Western cone which means hat 1.000 will of il is will b called old With I hem will go 1100 wlm run the Ing MACHINISTS GROWS of grealer ions when Agent called in at I he Siemens jc com- pany bad refused lo sign th II staled last by labor ers thai probably machinists in Chicago would walk within ew days because ol ing i sign the agreement with Ih union d union are in trade and men may strike re- of the declared lockout had signed nl for free each of the lockout will per week from Hie national K per week from local lockout is over contractors have had sworn n a large number special police i guard 2IL jobs in lily which they ire with men board ol business agents has pro tested lo mayor ii el these special police PENSIONS FOE ASII have to as Wanatah Albany Hilda Decker lo Nelson Ji and 1 Kose Thomas K Creek 10 Parks lo Jacob Miller SI Hilton I W Hindi 1 Vevay lo Henry Muncie Corl to Al Hill Ss In C Lawlis Kd i n I I SI lo Darsi co Kails special u Craft Markland Mexican War Thos V SI ran New Albany JS lo 70 and 72 Calhoun St Pixley Co Annual February Sale This important yearly event opens up with a promise of greater results than any of its predecessors Our invoice has been completed and we find many small lines of men's and boys suits and overcoats which it will be impossible to again duplicate These small lines must go In order to move them ly we have placed them on ate counters and will offer them to all we can fit at about what the cloth is worth to-day Whether on buying bent or not come the prices on this list are so extremely low that duplication elsewhere this season will be out of the question Pixley Cornp'y
