Le Mars Semi-Weekly Post (Newspaper) - June 27, 1899, Lemars, Iowa Published Every Tuesday EQUAL RIGHTS TO ALL AND SPECIAL PRIVILEGES TO L E J U N E 27, 1899. NUMBER 5 5 As Firm Attitude of Great Britain i Having Desired HOT QUIET SO TO I n d i c a t i o n N o w P o i n t t o a Compromise I n T r a n s v a a l Oom Panl I t Said t o U a v o Consented t o u More 1 oral F r a n o b l s e for U l t l a n d e r s LONDON Juno 26. The Ann of Great Britain appears to be having the desired effect in the Transvaal The latest cablegrams from South Africa talk of various semiofficial missions between tein and aiming to reach a franchise compromise on a basis of five or six years President Kruger ks represented as agreeable to some but as finding considerable ( difficulty in handling h i s own conservative In a reported interview he is T e p r e s o n t e d to havo s a i d of tho war rumors that mountains wero being made b u t of molehills a n d t h a t ho was convinced t h a t Queen Victoria would never allow letting looso tho d o g s o f war over South Oom P a u l l l u y l n g I LONDON June 20. Tho government pf tho South African according to a dispatch to tho Daily Mail from is ordering largo quantities of rifles from Italian firms for T A G E P U T S O U T T O S E A m i s s i o n of tins Cruiser May B e to Meet t i l e BUEST June 20. The first class cruiser Tago put to sea the official explanation being that fibo is going to experiment with carrier Usually a torpedo boat is sent and the opinion gains ground that tho Tage has gono to moot tho and to take Captain Dreyfus on Tho pigeons con bo used to announce transfer and tho Tage might proceed to another port to land tho As against this theory aud as an indication that tho lauding of Dreyfus will be effected here there is tho fact that a large number of gendarmes from tho country around Brest are The treasurer of the famous of I the French Fatherland reached Brest last evening from Paris and as this organization has been at tho bottom of the movement it is thought he has come to a O L D C H I N E S E W A L L M U S T G O of I t s Own W i l l D e stroy t h o A n c i e n t June 20. According to $ r a n k a Chicago civil was hero a guest at tho Oxford tho government contemplates the destruction of tho wall that separates China proper from Ho is en route to China to assist in tearing down tho famous structure Mr. Lewis is a civil engineer and goes to China on behalf of a syndicate of Chicago Ho I understand that tho enterprise is one of the government's own conception and is independent of Gorman or French The cost will be involving millions of Rousseau's Speech t o P a r l i a m e n t June 20 At the cabinet conn pil tho M. read a of his speech in parliament which is merely ing that tho now ministry has no aim but to follow out the order of the voted June 12, waB as follows Tho is determined to support only a government resolved to defend vigorously republican institutions and to secure publio order and passes to the order of Germany W i t h d r a w s LONDON June 26. The correspondent of tho Daily Nows a t The Hague Count the head of tho Gorman delegation has Prince Hohenlohe's instructions and will withdraw her objections to the establishment of a court of arbitration provided tho obligatory are Tho Russians themselves do not a majority for their mont which aro not advanced j Baford B r i n g s 1 June 20. The United States Buford arrived yesterday from with 83 cabin 29 7 destitute Americans and 08 soldiers and four of the xo adults and 5 are in of who repre sents the Omaha They will represent the inhabitants of the Cuban village and will bo sent to in this Paul Wetiel KANSAS CITY Juno 26. Paul one of the first German Dun kard clergymen to in this is He died here in his 70th Ho had in Somerset Franklin Grove and Grundy and Kan. The interment will be at Grundy la. Not Enter | June 36. W wheelman of the is Ho visiting his Bilen O He has given up - the idea of becoming a naval Ho has not the means to go through a preparatory a and Drauth Bring ' ij QT. V v t p w t m Jwe ae The t w of Js under the administration of ' of the is threatened with ' owing { p the prolonged S T O R M DOES D A M A G E B a r t l c y F r om a n d I s F l o o d e d EY Juno 20. aud adjacent territory were visited by tho most destructive hail and rain storm in its history at 4 o'clock yesterday For miles to northeast not a stalk of corn or a speur of wheat is loft Tho wholo country is flooded and thousands of worth of property Tho B and M. track is under water at this while boats can float all over the east part of Little hail is carried by tho farmers and the loss will bo heavily Hailstones measuring six and one- half inches in circumference j were picked up in j RAVENNA Juno 20. of rain fell here between 5 and 7 o'clock last The streets are raging torrents of sidewalks are afloat and many cellars in the lower part of town aro flooded and much damage done to Beaver crock is higher than ever before aud mill dam is threatened with So fur the has stood the pressure and a largo gang of men aro on guard watching far A washout is nt the east oud of tho Burlington yards and a number of washouts have occurred between hero aud Broken Another largo ouo is reported near St. east of Roosevelt and His Rough Riders at Memorial REVIEWS REGIMENTAL Ten Thousand Persons Attend the T o u r n ament at Las Governor of N ew York Starts o n Ills Return Trip P r e s e n t e d W i t h a LAS N Juno 20, Memorial service was first thing on tho rough reunion program They wero held at tho Duncan opera house and Rev. Thomas A. pastor of tho People's tabernacle of preached the memorial ser Lafe editor of tho Iowa State then delivered an Mr. served with the rough riders and his recitation of the experience at and San Antonio found a echo in the hearts of tho assembled rough On tho plains of ho when I T I M O T H Y D W I G H T R E T I R E S. Preaches Ills Last B a c c a l a u r e a t e Sermon at NEW HAVEN Juno 2G. President Timothy tho retiring president of Yalo yesterday preached h i s last baccalaureate sermon before t h o graduating classes of the academic a u d scientific Tho occasion w a s also t h o 50th anniversary of President Dwight's own Many of his o l d classmates were i n t h e Tho graduating class occupied t h o greater part of tho body o f Battel All o f t- heni wore t h e academic robe and with them were many visitors from out o f President Dwight's address was largely of a retrospective and At t h o close of t h e sermon President Dwight addressed a t i o n i n t h o most and his voice often choking with S I O U X C I T Y B A N K I N A S U I T Some of t h o Stockholders Say a n Effort I s I l e i t i s Mailo t o Defraud Sioux CITY Juno 20. Tho First National bank of Sioux City figures in a suit begun in the courts b y somo of t h e who that t ho recent transfer of t h o controlling interest in t h o hank t o t h o Loan and Trust company of Sioux City s with tho object of defrauding thorn o ut of their interests b y them out through the levying of a b i g A number of other sensational charges aro made against t h o bank Tho court is asked t o au injunction preventing t h o transfer and to also appoint a Martin June 20. police stato that positive has b e e n secured pointing t o Matt Smith aud t w o as t h o m e n who robbed and murdered Martin t ho aged Swiss who was found in h i s lonely h o m o on Fif sev street about throe weeks ago Smith and Brauer aro said to b o i n Michigan and several Chicago officers aro searching f o r Troops t e a v o PANA Juno 20. One hundred negroes yesterday hold a meeting at t h o Penwell mine at which they do to refuse to re- enter t h e mine after the of the a heavy guard surrounds the mines day and While there aro many startling rumors afloat of hostilities following t h o soldiers departure local officials as well as union minors there will bo no trouble T E L E G R A P H I C B R I E F S. Firo damaged the Moro Phillips chemical works of N. to tho extent of $ 100,000. In tho Kiol rogatta Sunday Emperor William sailed his winning tho first Tho Madrid Official announces that tho activo army for tho next fiscal year has been fixed ut 108,000 The Borlin striko has been settled by a court of arbitration and the men will got an advance Mrs. Elizabeth Storor of Mount has handed to the trustees her to take one year from Jessie a chambermaid at tho Palmer was shot and fatally wounded Sunday night by William G. who killed The transport St. Paul soiled for S t Sunday with 800 soldiers under who are going north to relievo the troops now up on Hali tho Turkish threw three men twice each in 68 min utes at Cripple His contract was to do the job in The town of Hien Kng in Fo has been placarded with bills offering a reward of 1,000 for tho heads of Anti- foreign riots ore Jay twelve years jeer ed * tramp on the Baltimore and Ohio The tramp throw a stone at him which fractured the boy 's The church of the one of the most prominent Episcopal in is to have a silver service made from tableware and heirlooms of all contributions of over a hundred members of its fashionable The posse of officers has been following the trail of the Union robbers for three weeks has up the d returned to ( The trail was lost west of in the Big Horn It is believed the got into the Owl Creak COLONEL saw the sons of veterans marching bo neath tho which their fathers died to a n d tho sons of confederates clothed in the same bearing tho sanio arms and marching under tho samo and tho sons of formor and armed liko tho others with tho dug above and the same purpose in thoir aud 100 nativo full blooded Indians in tho samo linos and aiding tho same when I saw I mado a vow to high heaven nuver to lie a partisan again and henceforth a n d forever all Americans should look alike to The regimental parado took place a t o'clock under regiment formed at and marched to tho tour six blocks Col Roosevelt rode as a ac by a staff of At tournament Colonel Roosevelt occupied a box reserved for him and the guests of tho As tho rough riders passed and repassed tho grand in performing their Colonel Roosevelt stood with bared Each troop was preceded by its respective as far as they were scene was witnessed by fully 10,000 While review was going on rain clouds wero banking heavily in tho and Chairman of tho local committee on arrangements colonel to hurry the movement of rough ostensibly on account of tho approaching complied with tho and in another instant tho troopers wore standing nt attention in front of the grand This was a neat bit of and before Colonel Roosevelt could realize why ho was being spoken Hon. Frank acting on behalf of the people of New began his speech presenting Colonel Roosevelt with a j Colonel address was cut short by which put a stop to tho amusements of tho daylight At midnight Colonel left over tho Santa Fo road for F O U R T H O F J U L Y I N H A W A I I P r e p a r a t i o n s for u u E l a b o r a t e P r o g r am tu H o n o l u l u Aro June 18. The first celebration of Fourth of July in Hawaii under sovereignty is to bo made a Tho plan of includes salutes in the at noon and at a grand field addresses and other literary exorcises and fireworks and a ball in tho An was appointed witli full power to provide for and carry out tho It is almost certain that tho chest containing $ 25,000 in lost from tho steamship was taken from tho ship a t this port. Tho man who is suspected of having robbed tho ship is also known to havo escaped boyoud tho Hawaiian Ho is now in N O N - U N I O N M E N U N P O P U L A R Cleveland Street Car S t r i k e b u t r a t i o n s C o n t i n ue CLEVELAND Juno 20. Only of attended tho resumption of traffic on all the lines of the Big Consolidated railway Thero was objection in somo parts of the city to tho retention of tho nonunion men who wore kept by the A party of 25 men assembled near tho Brooklyn just south of the and whenever a car came along with a non- union crow tho passengers wero asked to disembark and wait for a car manned by a union In most cases tho did as Finally a non- union conductor undertook to argue with tho crowd and ho was promptly struck over tho head with a club and ho and tho driven The mob refused to permit the car to move until a union crow came along and pushed it to the As a rule tho old men wero glad tho strike was thero was some grumbling because tho non- union men aro It is predicted that all the non- union mou will bo glad to leavo tho city within 80 though tho company imposed us ouo of the conditions of the agreement for tho settlement of tho that all tho now men should be treated with consideration by the old P I T I L E S S E D I C T B Y W O M E N I d a May E IV I UE Terrible Punishment a t Mo. Juno 20. Mrs. Ida May tho young woman who was recently acquitted of tho of murdering her in- is now undergoing not contemplated in the criminal Dissatisfied with the jury's tho womon of tho community at havo ostracized They havo broken up her homo aud scattered hor Horl husband's business is for tho people will not and a social has sought iu tho home of her E V E R Y M A N ' S H O M E And Entitled to tho Best Ho ca Afford Cor it. littlo Money We you an opportunity to afford the Best a t THE LEFT OVER GOODS AT LEFT OVER Month Almost Call CLOSING OUT SALE irig a r e a ew o f O u r P r i c e s. Covered $ 5 8 5 Polish Oak Center Tabic Seat Arm Rocker Springs $ 1.45. 85c. $ 1.25. GRAND RAPIDS FURNITURE STORE Special Attention ( liven to LE M A R S I O W A n t C l i i n l i i n n l l. VATI Juno 26. J. Deiler of New president of tho North American arrived hero last night to over tho festival A delegation from tho Music wis here yesterday to arrange for Such delegations from cities havo boon coming a r i d going for moro than a Visitors to tho festival aro beginning to pour in. There wero two orchestra rehearsals This evening ( here will I K a general rehearsal of all musical forces at Music I 1H WICHITA Juno 20. When tho body of Miss Belle was found at H o'clock Inst Thursday morning in the of the Bank of dentil having resulted from a bullet wound in it was supposed that she had committed loiter developments seem to indicate that tho young woman was McLaughlin now says her death was not suicidal and tho on the theory that murder was I ' r i ' H h l P iM ( 1M 2 ( 1. Tho ruin kept the president and all members of his party indoors almost all tho fore noon but it cleared up somewhat before noon and all except Mrs. attended services at tho Congregational whero tho A B. preached on tho War for Righteousness and His argument wus that a struggle is necessary for ] r Juno boiler of the electric light plant at 80 miles from wrecking tho rank tho was dug from tho fatally Peter who was in tho room at tho escaped with an assortment of slight but his who was with had her arm broken and serious T E L E G R A M S T E R S E L Y T O L D M g l i t H l l n r n l M K i n ] HI hlj MANITOWOC Juno 20. Captain Edward Cairns of tho Goodrich steamer which arrived last re ported sighting tug Satisfaction burning in the Tho tug was towing tho bargn Tracy J. and tho two boats wero la miles south of this port. The crew iif tho tag had sought shelter on board the Tho m en on the barge were iu no danger from wind and sea and tho liner did not tako th in but left her i n tho It is thought that the t u R W i l l bo a total The fire was making great headway and wero no appliances on the to extinguish the ' T r u i l i M ' I N June l. Comity Treasurer Wilson Saturday the tender of 1, made county liy tho heirs as bade taxes for 1MIH, due on personal properly withheld from the county demanded $ UM 00 as delinquent taxes for live years and a penalty of 50 per cent and its refusal to accept the proffer made doubtless will result iu another big lawsuit against the M i t e l f a n A tH LINCOLN June ' M. Chancellor Lean of the University of Nebraska sunt a telegram to the regents at Iowa City announcing his acceptance of tho presidency of Iowa The action is regretted by regents and friends of Nebraska Imt was not Chancellor will l e a v e in a few w e e k s for r e turning for tho opening of the c o l l e ge year i u W A L T E R L. M A IN FASHION PLATE SHOW fou Pittsburg ( F MAIN'S 1310 CIRCUS yesterday was voted the BeBt Ever The different acts wero loudly The most conspicuous the 83- Horse Act and THREE - RING CIRCUS MONSTER MENAGERIE RACING CARNIVAL CONGRESS OF S O C I E T Y H O R S E F A I R A N D C H I L D R E N ' S M E N A G E R I E THE 6 W E R N T l ' S MOST WONDERFUL TROUPt Or MID- AIR H t m u l l l i K II T l l i i i CI U I M. NATIONAL l. W I J W J I M 7f. 1i r ' l i i u l i i n i i t l ai m 17 ID ( Ml New 1* 7 III 21 J BI 111 HI ail CO: OU I IB mi Ht. iM - M SKII lS 40 l V ( I WES I. W L PtJ W L I l 677 St. Puul 28 & gx aj ISM 25 27 C 27 2U 540 K ( 2l 110 2S 21 2 0 111 F i g h t e r Kenl l a Juno 20." tho St. Louis pugilist who foil unconscious in tho ring last Wednesday iu tho sixth round of a with Harry tho California died yesterday without having regained death is 1 attributed to a blood clot on tho resulting from over whilo not in a physical Poppers was arrested as as i t became that condition was aud is pow in jail in default of f 9,000 Boat a n d Three Bio Juno 20. By tho capsizing of a boat iu the Yellowstone river at Grey 12 miles east of throe meu lost their The dead Bono J. W W. Kansas Major Bleu la J one Otis department tho announcement of the death of Major qf tho He had been ill for months of 0 The strike of 200 textile workers at after lasting two has settled by a Thomas tho noted New York bettor known us ' ' F a t t died Sunday night of heart ( 11) Cardinal Count do Paula vou archbishop of Prague and S rimato of died in Vienna unday in his Colonel Thomas an Oregon pioneer of 1845, is doad at his homo iu Washington Iu 1880 he was a candidate for but was defeated by Sylvester Tho jury in tho case of Mrs. Clementine on trial a t for tho murder of hor returned a verdict of In u former trial tho jury failed to village of St. was almost willed out by fire About 40 buildings wero burned and tho badly Tho loss is about $ 60,000; well For the first timo since 1870 tho Vatican party has obtained a majority in Rome iu the and tho fronts of tho churches aro fantastically illuminated nightly iu honor of tho cases of yollow fever with deaths been officially reported since tho opening of the present outbreak at One of the deaths in tho Fifth Tho other four wero Rooky mountain locusts aro again making thoir appearance in some soc tions near K. D. Owing to tho lateness of tho crops is felt by the farmers lest the of the post may be greater thau tost Joshua au died at aged 70. Ho invented a system of steaming boilor u rubber lead a breech loading 7 - shot repeating a sowing machine railroad signal and all of which are in practical l l i u u l i u l l NATIONAL 1. 4: 1. Second ( 7; 6. Ht. I Ht. D. i 7. IIN l. 10; Kansas 4. 4; 8. 4; 2. THE 0*' 8 TB No Western but who took part In that Famous Battlo of San Juan S O U S A ' H H A N I by Main's Own A l u m n a e o r t h e Sun rises at 4: 80; sotB at 7: 114. Moon rises at 0: 55 p. in. Tho Iowa and Increasing cloudiness probably showers light southeasterly Order a case the as o es f t t g h r e a h d i e g h * Agents through out t h e S t a t e DUBUQUE MALTING CO. i um i in i n ill I R E A D T H E S P E C I A L F E A T U R E S 63- Horses and 63 Performing in One Ring at One Timo and Managed by one HIDING First and Only Act of tho Kind over C O M I ' I J K T E M E N A G E R I E Baby Baby Wons and Tho Only Pair of Living Nursing Baby tho Vermont with his troop of Performing 10 LADY head d by the Circus Queen Miss Rose 10 headed by tho Brazilian Horseman Una Lo J r WOMEN AND BIG NEW IDEA STREET P a g e a n t & $ $ | f i P e r f o r m a n c e by t h e P a r a d e FREE 0? I ClB AT 10 O'CLOCK EACH t h e Performance AFTER and Reserved Seat Tickets on Sale at l i o t W s Commences at 0 M. DOORS OPEN HT 1 KID 1 P. M. PERFORMANCE AT 2 to 8 i i i l U USHERS II TENTS ABSOLUTELY WILL EXHIBIT AT July 1st Fruit Shade and Ornamental Forest Trees of all sizes and kinds suitable for this Come and see We are at the old Will antee that what we recommend will give satisfaction W J advise as to planting and care to insure F A 1 R M O U I N T I N U R S E R I B 8 1 S o u t h C l a r k S t 3
