LeMars Semi-Weekly Post (Newspaper) - December 29, 1899, Lemars, Iowa Every Tuesday unci VOLUME GIRDLES THE GLOBE IS WHAT OUR NEWS 6UM-MARY ROBBERS GET PROMINENT STOCKMAN HELD UP IN COLORADO His Coat and which Contained Most of Aro Torn from His Trace Found of tho W. J. a prominent was seized by two men when about to enter Ills hotel Dec. 28 anil lobbed of The money was mostly in Ills coat Mid vest These L garments were torn from No trace of the criminals has been Milsap was on bis way to to buy IOWANS GO TO Innuendo Tract of Limit cured by n An Iowa headed by O. 15. Hunt and A. lias secured an option on 10.121 acres or rice land in Jefferson fur which they agreed to pay The same also secured a ninety-day option on another which makes tho total transaction amount to the purchase of to them The are acting as trustees for syndicate now being organized in Iowa to go into the rice business on a large This syndicate is projected w ith a paid up of and in addition to raising rice tlie land is to le cleaned and drained lor The plan has progressed so that the say the options the bind were necessary to completion ot the from Iowa are to he brought to Texas to do the and they will he cheeks have been deposited Tor per of the purchase EQUAL TO FIJI DECEMBER 21). 1890. NUMBER 4. TO BE GOOD TO Cabinet Decides to Treaty lit Mont Liberal The cabinet on the 2Hth inst. decided to construe ill a most liberal waj that portion of the treaty with Spain regarding the return Spanish soldiers and prisoners of liy the terms of the treaty the United States agreed to transport all such from territory to The whether the terms of is Spanish prisoners m the Philippine now j has been the subj. Col and Spanish representatives at The decide I to guage of the treaty 1 but their and all S and Al home at expense WHEN ONE GOES DOWN THE OTHER QOES the treaty hands of the NO DEMAND Dept. Not Disturbed by Equanimity in tho state department is not at all disturbed over the significance in legal and mercantile circles to tho stopping by British warships of British and Dutch merchant vessels bound for Delagoa Hay with cargoes exported from tho United Officials express confidence tho government will make full reparation for any act committed by its naval agents If it turns out to have been illegal or and thoy profess the profound conviction that Englishmen are not taking any hazardous chances just at present of antagonizing any considerable popular In CHARLES E. PIKE IS Murder Blake executed for Her Mist I Make was hanged on the 27lh inst. for the murder of her Mrs. The execution was Miss who was years walked firmly to the scaffold without assistance the coolest of the She st The crime for which was hanged was the murder id her Mrs. Robert of July I m s t. I lie was found Iv with a bullet hole in her and the girl ease the alarm saying a tramp had murdered Later she was charged with and confessed the and wits no did it because lien and was I lie trial wi of conn Old Time Republican Leader Away in St. St. Charles E. died Dec. residence In this In eaily life he was one ot tho first Free one of the founders of the party in In IS 17, while a member of the Maine he wrote the resolutions according to the custom of brought before the people the name of Taylor for In he removed to and founded the which during the war was a radical supporter of In lie was appointed solicitor of the internal revenue department and assistant general of the United FATHER KIDNAPS A she loved jealous of Mrs. Lane's tie mother's s she elect li all ANOTHER BOSTON Ita liking Mass ltd lids ( lie in II i inkers and 1,1 I The til in is i Its in bond the I Finn I PLAGUE AT Transports Nov in Asiatic San Centennial here late bung the m Hint It the bubonic city of the Hawaiian The details i is understood th. inin Honolulu a I purls ol Chu a and are in charge and that the lie Asiatic ol tic lilting icing in the I lie STRIKERS picas U oi I iih Decision as to Striking in on rendered a- to the ne The at on w j. aid Hi place e Wo u i a Of of the A tin works and w he n I lodges - the linn credit | No aid the of I nl Stall o w caused llis p. give the liabilities MAINE DEAD AT ARLINGTON Hatband of Dos Moines Woman at St. While Mrs. S. E. tlie wife of a lay sick at her on Street Dec. a strange man and woman entered the man held Mrs. Holland while the siezed a 2-year-old adopted baby girl from the bed and carried it The child Is the daughter of Mrs Lillian formerly Miss Lillian Lemon ' and is supposed to have licen kidnaped at tho - instigation of her J Mrs. Hammond is now a for a Chicago wholesale She left tho baby I 200,000 IRISHMEN j IT. B. McVeigh of Dublin Talks ot j tho j W. A secret meeting j of Irishmen was held hero Dec. 28 in the j ' Interest of tho Fenian and the | Doer cause in South T. E. | of who is a candidate for I Michael seat in and ' who has been in tho city a week working mado tho principal In an ho confirmed the report that a Fenian was on and said there were 200,000 Irishmen to a blow at England at any I POPE MAY URGE One Con j | nf j die I train Dec. I of j were here i i tell 1 unit Hollies illicit to The remains of sailors lioin Havana hi arrived hero by and nolo escorted hy i the The o tunl to Is Were ill in. in National V lit be V. II f Is of the le a an on Fee ol Ol ' Sep. nin I ice Hie hank FAMOUS ROCK Spec a p. with of Socking to End Private information has been hero that Popo Leo intends in honor I Of tho holy year attempting to ond the purpose ho will to and In circles thoro js a report that Austrin to Mother and Two Children Samuel for an Installment on 28 to seize tho furniture ill the house of Mary Tho woman attempted and lit tlie that en- j I Mills shot tho woman and her little sou | T all seriously It Is thought j boy is llis wound being | has 1'iRdlcts Bis Gold Col. second in of tho next Canadian contingent to has just returned to froni He says gold output next year very f heavy and that steam thawing apparatus In uso in the gold Abolish Export Tax on Word has been received tlie Mexican government has tho export tax on This to have a considerable effect in me United Statos by increasing tho In men employed M tho and Coal Com- Mny ami tho Silver Brook Coal of an of 2 in their 'The new wago Into effect 1.."'.'. K Job Frye INDIANS HAVE Disease Serious ai Crow Creek and in Indian the In hails in i iim y aiel a. in South ami has immediately niter for an et -e Ol llll Which to out the I foe i e I. r le Hamburg canal pi in this c u in ot lu to i re a a cost of not such station to he hy ail and running into tin Fraudulent 1 so of New tic and a mi the inst. lit com t of using to i 'll iii Iter iii llll Tlie c i natural Lean w as No I as lie alter I a I. - I lo ha jail hi of San on station i and to fed to defraud ami scheme it Hughes Investment in Wall Hile Causes Pa I. agcl He 1 llis iii a i 1 i tec ol a- Hie i the i Cut Lancaster farmer of from hand bv a cat about four did not feel any ill effects until last hen hilly Sunday he was l 11 w g le to came nee eep arm iU and i iim under hi i ' lo in no- io g to No. g. ge io of Miners and yul participating in the jf the Sta io ler He three at the urgent fid pie hv after WW el iii I 71 le ti. to No. Jesse Harden nit of liis killing and John James Mae shot ami Jesse lire well and prominent in The cause nf the light is not President Pardons Jehu S. eight in Slates district eo in lion from his ole p. - f mile on to M si p. o. 71 e. 2 to g. ilge 1.....p. 7 Xo g 27c I to el - to to No. 2 All I ' 1,1 ll 1 to 70, i laws has 0f the rostal in to ten Ne I clever court city for to - 2 title to to 2..e; rye to - to No- 1. No. Wc to le to by Chokes Wife to 11. enAT No. -e to to Ja o- 53.*> to Now to to 40c to 4l*.oa. t of the the l st li - lot only will lie scut In army transports that but it a- im- of the u is upon A hum - liability is of -St CAN USE PICKETS in ' temporary wei In PERISH IN A ' v. he and CHANCE BOSTON BANK the llllll 111 eli their fele lied The Al fro in h torni the wa- wrecked on I ere 11 ud until the life in leaking connection wreck nil would mid boat a breeches t hey were sa i who chose lo risk were and the EARTHQUAKES IN STATE STOLE TOURIST OF THE WEEK CONCISELY Dentil at I Dealt in - of Mody of Frank S. a traveling man in the employ of Meyer of was found dead in bed at the Council after went to Ted and said he was not well and w a quiet room for use two or three person belonging lo the hotel went near the room until about the tunc i when it was wanted for another The door was locked anil il had to tie foiled Webster was found lying in fed The body was cold and he hud ideally been dead In a found on the body was written the name is 1". S. In ease of accident r serious illness notify Mrs. F. S. Wei Third Council I u connect inn with the case the following facts that some furl her mny yd lie A young man the bell asked permission to use tlie call a physician for Mrs. F. S. Third Dr. Maer I i'd -I Op. on till il llllll I i tin In roll en el her el i pi 11.yiiu' who to nils tons net ii hound for 11:iiii-Norioii.. where mount to I l. ii -e prevailed eral ill d the il is had previously lost nd n-d loo close struck the waves ill over and twenty one launched her to lin i he w in ere w s ot the li le sn v iliK s| u- upon the a Si i leW Ihe i tile creWs lost I ii l I hrce I oil ill heavy Nol 111 the lie wild Haines thirty Ihe I. led lo the ship ihe this saved aiel anil an 21, his end wounded capon on and died 1 an hour tic i s made I he s ol I he I llll i -I nt io save the ie several I- land u line the doomed til il iho gun it A line which leached sl landed was by 111,. i -id last lo Ihe and the of tho I out lo the ship Soon seas ll ill slid on ihe life chile wild cheers I mid fall the loan was on the Count liy Heavy nt o'clock n so voce visited Southern California caused extensive At San a town in the shock seemed lo have hud It twelve seconds but was At the Im dinn loll six were by falling two fatally and many seriously Tlie shock was preceded by a roaring sound and ninny just in lime to escape from Ihe doomed The business street was such a wreck tons of debris had to be removed before could be Over Ik at San nml at a small lown near Al the latter place ihe large tourist hotel badly mid also the nt San The rear wall of the Johnston block in Fortunately no person was injured nt either place so fur as is Other places where the shock was severely fell were Sun and no heavy is reported from liny of those In Santa Anil guests of almost rolled from their clocks were slopped mid brick walls of several In i i Ii li ii were badly People roused from their rushed to the some iii their remained up until The shock whs terrific nt but no serious damage was At Ventura houses were and the shock was followed hy a wind and heavy sen. heaviest ever known al It lasted ten seconds and was from houses were emptied mid the were filled wilh shivering A number of buildings were hut no serious was county nt Howers was by The shock shook to There lire but I wo loll in shock lusted one minute a 1111:111. lei rore a up anil asked In go al once to Websler arrival there found Mrs. Websler in an and extremely nervous She t somewhat incoherently and other things has left and 1 In not think he will ever come back to her An of the hotly disclosed no e of Weils XI ii 111 residence of his parents At I lie residence of his parents in in. ibis O. was In marriage to Miss Mabel e ime all the way from San to ine her future The marriage has a good deal of romance connected with it. At the outbreak of the war Mr. enlisted in Company f of the Iowa of his At San Francisco lie a cousin who introduced him lo bis I Operator of Iowa Central Clicked Up in j W. W. night operator of the Iowa Central al was brought to | by William and placed in ' jail to await a hearing on a serious was arrested in Kansas City by of the Topeka I Fc which is operating jointly with the Central in handling California and i Colorado via Kansas alleged crime is tho thoft of worth of these combination tourist i which he took to Kansas City 1 il is disposed of in j It is claimed that was found wilh some of the unsold tickets | on his any rate ho mudo no i complaint at being brought back lo I and did not Insist on requisition j A man named lko it is I was also arrested wilh and is charged wilh being an accomplice In the is 28 years of is quite good looking and dresses The mutter was placed in tlie bands of Solicitor W. Seevers of and Auditor T. I. of i ATTEMPTED TO City Thieves to i What has proved to be one of the hes I laid and smoothest plans at jail ing in the history of Gordo County a i was the officers of that The three persons who planned Ihe ileal and came near currying it into execution F. K. who is at Mason City on a charge of Charles Mitchell and both held on a charge of It would be 11 Ilk i t to Improve on the plans and preparations of the and the man who Invented tho crude looks with which they intended to loie the walls and bars of the jail is certainly an inventive Home was given from the but the un aler part of the tools were the work of Ihe men on the and the collection ii a sight In Just how long tools have been in their possession is not hut they certainly have been at work for some as the holes in the steel lining of tho corridor HELD UP AND last in a ti FORTY I O BE ill The In I tan in inas ' members oi died Dec. en poisoned to to to No. 2 2 2lii: No. 2 2."lc to of Mine Im ot mine is worse morning of was known lo he over lorn wits ami was plainly ai four miles main shall was totally wrecked A hint i. four cup s of hail down lo Mr. ihe mi his fourth went to the bottom with fourteen and gave the signal for the t to when tlie explosion The wiis blown with force lo Ihe top of the and fell back to the blocking across the Timbers were hundreds of the lower ring of work in one shaft was completely mid hud to lie into the mine tit explosion was caused by a miner's miked coining into with gas in a room where no was supposed to The tipple was wrecked tunl the over the fun and engine were shuttered to iron work nl the bottom of the shaft wits in all 1111 telling plainly of Ihe awful force of Ihe Ihe roar of Ihe underground inferno black dump poured mil of ihe pit inviting nml death to those who would gladly have entered and gone to the A cage was ringed up itt air nod rescuers went A ghastly met their Mangled bodies were found oil nil The mine looked like u total The rescuers pushed mi and soon fourteen inen were Some of these were mid nearly nil were horribly broke out in the mid if any of the men still there were alive there was every indication that they would be suffocated hy smoke nml their bodies A company was recently formed for raising reindeer in for tlie purpose of markets with reindeer Thoro is a growing market for this meat In Franco and of the Treasury has Congress for for Improvements of mid 198,000 to complete tho Department fraud New Unking i il WAR NEWS IN live cases of enteric fever are from Russian ami privates continue to join the Moor censored reports sny only 400 wounded at river From lack of horses the Hough force will be cut down to 10,000. the has volunteered for South Cape Town advices sny Ihe ore mussing a great force I French press express sympathy for in his alleged Ford denounces as untrue stories of disloyally among the Irish The in I ii and three Allen Line have been chartered as Victoria on Dec. 2(1, at Windsor the wives and children of soldiers in South The wounded who fell into the nt Stormberg have been removed to ten miles When next army division is completed will have 100,000 men lu the field against the This Includes reserves and A Home pit per says it Is learned thut the troops to will shortly be replaced by lo enable the former to go to Hunt Ii liners excuse themselves for on stretcher bearers by asserting two squads of Hungers took cover under civilian bearers of Hed trouble if Portugal to allow supplies of war material mid foreign volunteers to reach tha Transvaal through A news agency has reports from Washington that the American Intends to invito the European powers to propose mediation to is being mercilessly criticised hy Loudon military experts for his tactics which arc by some called The Common Council of Loudon voted to raise and equip 1,000 volunteers and also appropriated for Hours claim they lost only 18 killed and 411 wounded at They say British prisoners of roach 2,000. Lord reports that the ad ty already tra for 189,QOQ,
