Le Mars Semi-Weekly Post (Newspaper) - March 14, 1899, Lemars, Iowa Every Tuesday and VOLUME EQUAL RIGHTS TO ALL AND SPECIAL PRIVILEGES TO LE MARCH 14, 1899. PART NUMBER 25. THE WORLD OYER LATEST NEWS FROM EVERY TAKE CITY OF F I G H T I N G I N P H I L I P P I N ES D A Y M O N D A Y. A L L Advance B e g u n a t Daylight and I n Are Slowly Driven Back by Our One American Reported M o n d a y ' s F i g h t i n g. At daylight Monday consisting oC the Twentieth and eight companies of the Washington troops oC Cavalry and a mounted battery of Ihe were drawn up on the ridge behind Sail Pedro a mile south of The was sounded at 11: 80 u. Hie cavalry leading the at- a smart trot across the open to the eventually reaching a commanding the rear of Supported by tho Oregon the advance force opened a heavy lire on the While Hie l i g h t of the column was swinging towards the town of advanced and poured volleys into the A small body of rebels made a determined stand at Guadalupe but the enemy was unable to withstand the At 7: 81) m. a river gunboat started towards The rebels first encountered by this vessel were in thu near The gunboat poured a lire from Galling guns into the in the Scott's battery ashore was the trenches The artillery then advanced to a ridge of bamboo and drove a few of the enemy's sharpshooters away with volleys from The artillery moved to the ridge commanding and Hy this lime the enemy was in full along a line over a mile and the firing was discontinued temporarily to give the troops n rest before malting an attack on city of Gen. When ton attacked and captured city of easl of Manila during the The enemy made a stand for an but at the end of that time was forced to The loss of the Filipinos WHS thirty killed and sixteen ( if Hie Failed Stales forces three privates lire reported to have been killed and six C A S T I L I A N G O E S A S H O R E. Passengers Showed Good Discipline and All Arc Taken Off in The Allan steamer bound from to is ashore at Gunnel near S. The vessel went ashore early Sunday at low tide in a dense her compasses being The passengers speak in the highest terms of the discipline maintained after the ship She bad been moving with a sharp outlook in the The wanted to give a wide berth to Cape which they feared they might be Nothing of whistle or buoy was heard or seen and no sign of land until the which was so light many passengers thought it was a heavy Engines were but when it was found the steamer held fast the boats were got ready and the sleeping passengers awakened and told to pack up in case it should be necessary to send them Splendid s was displayed by ( lie whole j were tired at intervals and at daylight the | first and purser went in a i small boat to They ' drove nine i miles to Yarmouth for In the | afternoon the boats were launched anil the j passengers and crow told off to Shortly after the whistles of the lugs j hoard and at B o'clock all hands 1ml. the engineers and some of the crew I were safely taken ami conveyed to i W O M A N H U N G I N Q U E B E C Herself and for Killing the Mrs. Cordelia Poirier and Samuel her were hanged at St. March 10, for the murder of Isidore the woman's Mrs. Poirier was the organist of the Human Catholic Church at St. Parslow sang in the Parslow cut throat while ( lie latter was Parslow and Mrs. 1' confessed the crime and endeavored to put the responsibility on the Their necks were both Mrs. Poirier was linn and collected On the scaffold she shook hands with the hangman without a A crowd of ( 500 people inside the jail jeered at but her composure did not at the suggestion of thu she turned and faced her stood erect and prayed to the Parslow was more dead than alive when the drop The condemned s were prevented from seeing each other by a screen placed between B R Y A N S C O R E S T R U S T S R I O T I N G F O R G O M E Z Police Could Not P r e v e n t ( l u s t r a t i o n 1' civil governor of when he learned Monday morning of preparations for an outpouring of people in honor of directed Hie police In prevent the The committee having demonstration in charge asked Gen. Ludlow fo revoke Senor Mora's Gen. Ludlow replied that he would not do so. Meanwhile the police tried to prevent Various societies were toward los the residence tit At first little attention was paid to their When a policeman seized u ( lag or made an individual arrest the others in thu linu would simply march and yelling Down with the Long live Death to Hie The Twentieth who were at with fixed to protect Ihe charged down upon u Everybody Including Ihe and women and children tumbled over each other in Hie Two minutes l a i d the avenue was cleared for not a person was lout by Ihe without regard lo Ihe immense armed crowd collected in front of the residence of cheering and waving more than 000 flags and accompanied by many notable soon made his appearance upon H ID balcony and was with long continued Scores of were Hung nl Jle made a brief speech along lino of bis appeal lo tbe Cuban army und people and expressed bis gratification at such mi illustration of public I M P E A C H G E N G O M E Z Cubans Their Leader anil Native Savior of T h e i r The Cuban Military Assembly in public session last Saturday impeached Gen. Maximo and removed him from his command as general in chief of the Cuban the first ballot taken resulting in six voles being east in support of the motion to impeach and remove Gen. against four in Gen. Gomez's only supporters were Gen. and Gen. The original which was introduced by Manuel provided for the abolition of the grade of in- but an amendment was offered lo this by Senor which To abolish of in- and lo remove Gen. Gomez for failure in his military and disobedience to the I The position of ( lie Assembly is notably I as the military administration j ports Gen. as do all the planters j and properly owning who j tired of the Cuban which half upon charily and half upon i lions levied by means of j Gen. Gomez receive I at Molinas a | phone message announcing to him the He answered 1 All 1 enjoy the ] F E L L W I T H O U T W A R N I N G Silver Champion Talks to ( i B ig Crowd nt Hon. William Jennings Bryan addressed 0,000 persons al last week After staling that the Chicago platform still while the S I Louis one had been violated by its he declared himself in favor of opposed to government by in junction and in favor of Ihe income He paid particular attention lo Ihe excoriating them McKinley's assertion thai he favored expansion because people demanded it. he said should not gauge public opinion from the end of a W A R REV E N U E T A R U L I N G. PROBABLE FATE OF EXPLORER PARRY ISLANDS V POLE vS IB EH i A T H E S T A TE N E W C O F T H E W E E K C O N C I S E LY C O N D E N S E D News of the discovery of t he bodies of three men and the wreckage of n the base of the Kena in seems lo remove all doubt as to the fate of and his The location of the wreckage would indicate that the after sailing a short distance to ( he on leaving Dalle's on July 11, 1SP7, was caught by counter currents to the The Government lias dispatched a parly lo bring iu the bodies and anil until its return nothing definite will tie T H E C E N S U S O F 1 9 0 0 H A Y W A R D N A M E D S E N A T O R. I t Illinois Supreme Court Renders an Interesting The Illinois Supreme Court has rendered a decision in the mandamus proceedings to lest the authority of a city to refuse saloonkeepers licenses unless a cent war tax stamp was the The held that the tax was an unwarrantable interference with the principle of slate that Die complainant had a right lo having complied with the conditions imposed by the Slide and city without affixing a Tugs Bought for Three tugs for in Manila Hay and among the Philippines have been purchased by the Lulled States Government in Hong They are Hie Lee Pat and Kinn al but Admiral Dewey will probably Kach lug is Hill tons 7H feel M feel 7 inches heam and S feel They will be used lo transport troops from point to point when S A { - t l y g a m i N t Lost In the Connecticut House of Fire AVall Crashes Down on nit Ad- Joining B u i l d i n g i The massive wail on the cast of the eight story structure which was partly de- i lives the Federal nidations stroye I by fire in Chicago Saturday fell without warning completely demolishing the adjoining building and setting the ruins on The loss on building and contents is estimated at $ IL ' 3,0( fully So sudden was the collapse of the fire wall that a score of barely escaped being caught under the mass of The loss by lire will probably be much heavier than al first i i O s s e s which were believed lo b e only partial were found Sunday in some cases lo be and it is now ted the total loss will approximate $ 80d, 00li. F I R E C A U S E S A P A N I C T O W N I S T E R R O R S T R I C K E N. A U u n g o f I n c e n d i a r i e s Has B u r n ed Much P r o p e r l y In t* a. Tho people residing in the town of a suburb of are terror stricken over the work of a gang of On Saturday last they set lire lo causing a loss or $ 20,000, and early Monday Ibey thu largo public school and il was entirely together with Iwo Loss $ ( Insurance * 00D. teachers were employed in I lie building and 1100 children arc without school A mass meeting if cns lias been called lo take Grain Shippers The Interstate Commerce Commission is In session in Chicago investigating the grain rates of Western Tbo Hoard of Trade complained that Western roads were discriminating against Illinois la favor of places west of the The and Warehouse Commission of is conducting the ease for ilia L i b r a r i a n o f The President has nominated Herbert of librarian of ' I t e s l g u s Hie Dr. Do Wilt who for nearly years has been pastor of the Presbyterian J - hits soul a letter to tho session of that ( his lie will his to literary Labrador's Mail Bags mail bugs w Die steamer aurador 1 while on U M I P Story New York Burns Many Narrow A story tenement 4 tin yard New caught lire curly Sunday Twenty families were aroused from their The tenement burned like tinder and a number of people were forced to drop from the windows into Several little children were thrown from ( lie windows and were caught all escaping fifteen p ' i- sons were carried from Hie upper The panic was Chief Homier said ( hat ( here were no bodies in the j ' I a 1 has been appointed guardian of John William M. and Kale Barber of The President is the children's with the adult children of Mr. and Mrs. are heirs ( o properly left by George D. for whose murder Anna K. George will soon be Strength of f The War Department made ( ho formal i announcement f lie oilier day of the strength j of the regular in accordance ( he recent reorganization It was thai ( he necessary assignments lo the organizations mimed will bo made as rapidly as recruits become available for Horrible A caused a sensation by cutting the throats of his wife and Iwo children and then culling his All four are The only motive for the crimo was dial Ihn man was u fanatical and had been ordered by his physician to eat P r o b a b l y mi A n a r c h i s t O u d ' a The published iu confirms Die report that the Government Inquiry regarding the explosion of the powder magazine at Ln has shown that il was not of accidental mid much credence is now given In Hie rumor ( hat il was an anarchist Loses Life in ( h o F l u m e s The woolen mill was damaged $ 160,000 by lire Sunday During Die progress of the lire Frank Peck of Yuba a well known bicycle entered Hie and was over come by ( ho smoke and burned lo at Mount The plant of Gray Iron Casting Company at Mount manufacturers of iron novelties and shelf was der by J. os i 000; l u. reported favorably a which called upon I lie Connecticut representatives in Congress to work for a constitutional which would prevent the election to Congress of After a debate the committee's report was rejected and the measure was Killed a Dr. F. son of Dr. 1(. Mm one of the best know n and highly respected residents of Sew v. shot and killed John his father's Murray for about a week has been acting and il is thought Ins mind has been I by Fatal Fred aged and 1). aged got into a over some trifling lit I When they finally came together Limp drew a knife and cut a fearful gash in tho The boy lingered for a few ii mrs when lie h um o l ' i j i i i u ' l e i ' i A 1 ( 110 1 the entire plant of Lie Cummer | Lumber Company win destroyed by entailing a loss ( f over $ ith S per of Kansas Session Tbe Kansas Supreme Court bunded down a unanimous opinion that the extra session of Hie Legislature railed by Gov. in December was M A R K E T Q U O T A T I O N S Will He Taken Under Different Auspices from Any The ( liking of ( lie census of I { MM is mure a year in Hie yet the mutter attracts more than usual This may be due in part ( o ( lie fact ( hat thai census will be taken under different auspices from any the act. j u s t passed establishing n Census as a permanent of Hie machinery of the The taking of the census under ( he new law creates ( he of director of ( he and to Hull the President bus appointed ex- Governor William It. of with Dr. Frederick of us assistant Governor has more patronage at ids disposal the President of the United He h a s under Ihe law lie of more than public as Fifty thousand of Ihe census at graded Three hundred salary i 0 each or Five thief salary 5 One chief one disbursing lie salary Ml Five exports chiefs of division and two salary 0ll Ten clerks of class salary $ 1,700. Fifteen clerks or class salary 1 10. clerks of class oi i Three thousand clerks of class and computers and skilled with salaries of from lo 000 One captain of thu salary S. S- 10. Two messengers mid forty assistant watchmen and at Receives ( he Joint In joint session of ( he aska l. Sr. L. l i n y ward was elected Lulled Stales Senator to succeed William V. He received 71 Hie solid with the exception of one This ended the long anil at limes bitter Judge was horn in N. Dec. 1^, 1S- 10. Al the outbreak of tiw civil war he enlisted iu Ihe New York and was afterward transferred to the Fifth l i e wits discharged in owing lo disability arising from On returning home he entered Fort College where he rone Thomas n 11 G T. OOO Which lie Had Just Drawn from an Had it in His Hunker Loses ( tl 11). Thomas the banking linn ol A- Pusey of Council lost roll of bills on Hie streets of Omaha one day last The roll contained which be bud just drawn from Hie Kirs I National Hank of that and placed in an overcoat lie had only walked a few blocks from the bank when be discovered his loss null instituted a but no ( race has been found of Hie It slipped through a hole in bis CHARGED WITH Criminal Unit Against a i Attorney and a J. F. an attorney of and Theodore n prominent fanner of Plymouth were wilh a warrant by the Sioux County last week Willi assault and ' liod bonds for Some lime who act ee ill Sioux fount 1 John lo I I I hooil ' f lii odore his In 1* 1% - month f Lee i bo is Hie i u l i ie was married lo Mrs. a d law of John iml al whose old man made his objected In his b taken Mrs. has been dead some and Theodore thought his father was not receiving the attention a man 70 years of age The old man died a short time to Ibis and recently Lee Grant proceedings through the county P. D. Van of o claims be and Theodore had an order from I Court lo remove the old and Hint il wa mauled on the recommendation of Dr. it of MO DATE si September Theodore t by his w eul to the ml ol T H E C A P T A I N ' S S P E E C H The Like A number ut naval officers t a l k i n g ( he o t h e r night a t t h e c l u b of Ihe launching of t h e says Hie Washington ami from Hint the talk drifted into recollections of Incidents on w a r s h i p s just going Into This habit Hint some commanding have of making n. wobbly Utile speech to a l l h a n d s when the j a c k goes up on u she in formally iu may be all snUt one of t h e t a r s of t he but I don't believe any element of ( he or men takes stock in such The men forward don't like a garrulous commanding T h e y ' r e likely to fasten I ' on a skipper makes n practice of haranguing i Joseph one of t ho obi school of war a nd a man who had t h e confidence and a If cot Ion of all of t h e e n l i s t ed men l hat ever served mi one of his s h i p s hail u great for talkativeness on the part of a skipper of n. l i e was n j u s t a n d every man who was a shipmate with Captain Flip knew that be was bound to get all ( h a t was coming to hi in. 1 w a s a n F. a t t a c h e d to one of the ships that Captain Fife p ut ' into When all was S I be executive passed the word i lo h a v e all hands mustered After the usual Captain Fife stepped to i h e cleared bis and instead of wandering off into u said iii an o r d i n a r y conversational I ' m Joe You all k n ow me. Pipe T h a t ' s nil t h e r e was lo his b i l l all It w a s t h e most effective one of tho s o r t I ever It inaile a hit with the They wero so much taken Willi the s t r a i g h t o n - i h e l e v e l little speech that they proved the crew of bluejackets I was ever shipmate R E T R E A T F R O M M O S C O W. I I A Y W A I I I I ' his His had re moved ( o nnd young lie studied law al and went lo Nebraska in 1SU7, settling at Nebraska where he has since He never held any Hint of member of ( he Slate i in 1S7! 1 and a short term on Ihe j bench iu when fie filled ( he re- ] of a term by from the lie has a one j ler and Iwo tine of | is a surgeon iu the Slates William is a and was a captain iu tin* Second Nebraska regiment during the late The new Senator has aci - a comfortable Fe Cat common to $ 3.00 to $ j * i; shipping $ 3.00 In ff fuir | 00 to $ 1.75; No. U 70c to 7le; No. lo No. ( o * No. ' Trie lo i c choice c to 17c to 10c; to per Indianapolis - fli OO to 7o; choice 7ri to $ 4.00; common lo lo i; when No - 71c lo 72c; No. 2 lo lo No. 1! l. Oe ( o V. Si ( o 1.00; 0 to $ 4.00; $ 11.00 to $ 1.75; No. 2, 7,' ie to 71c; No. U Ho lo No. 28c lo I fl. No. 2 No. 2, to 01c. ' o $ 2. o0 lo $ 5.7,' $ 3.00 to 2 ' i; $ 2 ( o No. 2, 71c fo 7," Hue to No. 2 110c to 112c; No. 2, Ic lo ( $ 2.50 to $ 5; i OO to $ 4 i ( $ 2 r 0 to $ 1.50; 2, 7'( c ( o 7." No. 2 to No. 2 fo t l c ( lie lo 2 72c ( o 7! No 2 IWe lo No. 2 0c to 82c; No. 2, to 57c; clover to t. No. 2 08c to ( No. 3 32c to 31c; No. 2 20e to 31c; No. 1, 5( lc to No. 2, 45c to 50c; $ 0.25 lo 1.75. good $ 3.00 lo $ 5.75; common | u to $ 4.25; fair to choice 1.50 lo $ 5,00; common fo $ 4.50 to $ 5.50. New $ 3 to $ 5,75; $ 3 to $ 4.50; $ 8,00 lo $ 5.01); No. 2 82c to 88c; 8, 42q to Hc | No. 8 80c to 37c j 10 to j wg iJ AM. j $ 1100 i n c r n g c r boys at $ 4 0 0 and charwomen at $ 2- 10 has been given t h a t next or twelfth census will not he so iu its scope lis the two which have A the priming of which nearly through the succeeding can be of no use except to make work for Ihe government printing The law provides that the ufier the preparation of the figures of und may collect statistics relative lo public public telegraph and telephone business mid street which be special C U R T A I N - F A C E D M A N D E A D Ir of In Life n Michael who for five years was the puzzle of t he fright of children In Hie strangest case ( New hospital ever died Ihe other day iu that He was known as T h e faced Upon Ids neck and long stringy bits of forming a fringe of living The nature or composition of the growth was never the physicians and surgeons being content with ( ho generic mime of tumor lo Kelley's Thn pathologists hoped in d e a th to reveal the significance of the but Iu this they were for wealthy relatives claimed the preventing under the peculiar provisions of Hie State autopsy law thv performance of a mortem M A N Y K I L L E D I N C H I N A Imperial Defeated by and Many Among Hie reports brought over by tho of India is one to thu effect that the rebels defeated the impo rial troops near alo iu January Hundreds of the Imperial soldiers wero and after being ' mutilated tho bodies wore thrown Into Hie I the rebels took thi o j ana ma j | f many at the Qu was o t i k em * Notes from Havana custom house on 1." amounted to $ 41,001. The is now Havana's leading and most popular It occupies building of the former di r. Northern ore arriving iu Cuba at the rute of a hundred u and the lending Havana holds are already d. I a of the late Spanish l. ler of public works for baa been appointed by Governor General Brooke to the civil governorship of Dinar del The men of Hie nth army corps are to a new form of amusement near their Il is a good old American which Mr. owner and has imported from the Some of I lie I of the Seventh army i developed a liking for the Spanish and it is no uncommon tiling now out in the camps lo hear the shrill notes of n Spanish sounding an American HI a urges Cuban land holders not lo sell their property to ami insists ( he rapid of estates by American and foreign syndicates is the greatest menace lo future Tho of ( lie Third Nebraska have leased a dwelling house on Ihe Marianne near I heir ramp in and lilted it out as a II is a delightful and is well patronized by the of the Nebraska regiment ami their Brooke governs Culm from n little wooden the in | suburb about two miles from llu ity boundary Ho has no no guards no secret service men in plain clothes protecting Ids A collection of postage stumps is nowadays without the stamp recently issued by II is jet is marked on one side in white 5 and on I he do war and 1S0S-'!) The stamp Is ( o all domestic loiters as a war t a x in addition to the regular postage otherwise thai letter doesn't American tourists may no longer have Ihe pleasure of visiting the wreck of Hie Maine In Ha rami Commodore Cromwell having by a bile decree bonis to approach the upon pain of $ 5 mid of $ 5 0 line lo occupants lown Democrats Will Hold Their Convention ut Deo li stale Central f ' of Iowa convened at Moines seven r U present 1 ' e e | i I lie plate of dale was chosen the convention tieing lo lie 1 eall ol chairman Cato Sells of Vinton was named of tin late Stephen V. Morrison ol temporary and Sarler of Ma. on Mules I. Fire ill o. S of the f foal Company nl i. did considerable damage to properly and burned The lire was not discovered until ' d Mich a slarl that il was impossible t. For a while it was feared thai me - would take a well organized force under the ion of Super intend lit saved The Haines w i v to the and the properly loss aside from Hie mules is not will be readily and Ihe mines will be running again as usual in a short Two mules were gotten but they are iu bad and i f they do nof die have lo he ly Mouse Is l i r e al Webster City Peter and I also W. A. and Ihe wall of Valentino's ami burned the roof Smith's general store Hie bandy i soaped wilh his lie was and the smoke nearly overcame lie rushed in his excitement lo the i i i e alarm box and opening tho little doer My house D This d i d not bring the bid other alarms d i d. e l e c t i o n in t h e l i l ' l i c l l i. Gen. Dyers has an election of regimental iu the reorganized Fiftieth Iowa National for March o. There are two candidates lor of and Maj. V. Harvey of S. C. Chambers of Fori F. F. of ami C lies Centerville are talked of for Three majors are t i b c e l e c - ( Is a pt. 11. recently of now a resident of Dcs lias filed a petition iu voluntary Ilia including about 5l i nil of lo $ 5l,( Mr. Lyons was the bead of Ihe syndicate which opened several additions in the low u city and built ( lie Iliad lie failed three years ago and into the bond business in L i g h t - H o u r Miners and operators of Appanoose nl have agreed on a uniform yearly rate or cents per ton for digging coal and an hour This action is because it will similar action iu oilier Ileitis In Ihe and marks the inauguration of ( ho hour day for miners iu Coal The coal mine near known as the v reek bus played Tho miner has been operated for over years by Hutchinson and has put out thousands of tons The coal was of n high Will P u t Up B i g Driving Club of has added a purse 5, for- all trotting the of this class since 1SU2, at Grand which was won by in 2: 11. This brings tho total of the purses to $ 87,000. Napoleon t h e G r e a t on w i t h o - flick ill I l l s I I was on Nov. 25, ill about 7 o'clock in ihe when wo s aw the head of The first we s aw were a whom were on bin i h e m a j o r i t y on The painfully dragged ( almost all having ( heir feet frozen and bound up lit r a g s a n d pieces of and dying of Wo iben - aw w hai was left of t h e cavalry of the g u a r d The came next mi with a slick in his I Io was in 11 ( II 4 tI up in a l a r g e capote lined wilh a n d wore on his hend au a i i i a r a u l h i i i e cap edged with On his right also on on h i s 1' Viceroy of I t a l y then Marshals Prince of a nd Marshals whoso corps bad been They were followed by 7 0 0 to a n d In order and bearing lit ( he g r e a t e s t silence eagles of tho regiments to which they had belonged ami t h a i bud so oft en b d in to They were i lie of over ( 10,000 My poor who had not seen the for a ed on but h ' s convulsive showed only too well tt he I miw b ig t e a r s roll down the eks and fall on h i s from which icicles were turning lo I do nol k n ow whether I am asleep or a w a k e 1 weep because 1 have seen our on a. s t i ck In lils he Hint w a s so great and who inaile us so From Memoirs of Sergeant Broken A who was asked what should be done in tho case of n fract u r e of a n The plan would he to g e t some one in bind thu limb but not too lo your I. sny n o t for a is s u r e to I am. of presuming Hint the fracture is n simple Hut many n simple f r a c t u r e becomes complicated by trying lo move the patient without binding up t h e This happens through tho piercing of thu skin by jugged end of a I n order to prevent this a tempora r y splint must ho This may be made of nny linn that is at such as s t r a i g h t a bundle of si book covets or a number of newspapers Before p u l l i n g oil t h e It must be well padded with u. one of t h e u sp of hay or s t r a w ur t h e and then t h e splint must bo kept In by s t r i p s of ( doth lorn from thu or s l i l r l Gov. Savor of Texas has signed a which provides for tho of State tux * j w vise the laws of the tne to getting one 1 tUo ej ft d V l UU Oi Will Coach Isle A. H. Poller of dern ol bus signed a contract to Ihe Drako University football team of Dc: ilu did the work last year and the loam won the western championship A has been lor next full with * A w v p l f A Very Odd The visiting of tho 11. Is u real It Is printed on Bristol board ' ors long nnd 30 n If N linnio In largo Gothic and beneath it in loiters us null Is no Tito in Berlin - who turns with special envelopes to nut livers to his imperial client from 20,' to 30,000 cards n nnd tho uses no A Visitor's n w - -
