LeMars Semi-Weekly Post (Newspaper) - January 5, 1900, Lemars, Iowa e VOLUME Every Tuesday and EQUAL RIGHTS TO ALL AND SPECIAL PRIVILEGES TO LE JANUARY 5, 1900. NUMBER 6. ELECTRIC NEWS FROM ALL PARTS OF THE SHIP LONG OVERDUE TRANSPORT VICTORIA BELIEVED TO BE from San Francisco for Days n Crew of Fifty nt San big transport Victoria is now seventy-eight days out of this port for Manila nml shipping men are fearful that the vessel lias gone to the Twenty per insurance been paid on the She was spoken by the transport Nov. 14, between and with a broken The Victoria refused expecting to have the broken shaft repaired In a week nt A Tew later a terrible typhoon raged in the of the same storm that nearly sent the to the has been heard of the ship since she was spoken by tbo The ship was owned by J. Ness of and left here for Manila loaded with forage and supplies for the forces in the was in command and carried n crow of fifty-two The ship was ot 1,501 tons net and valued at EXCITEMENT IN SURC TO OPEN Cuban Partisans Declare a Crisis Is Santiago do News of the nt Havana between Gov. Wood and IIm Cuban including Miro of The Europeans and the express great at taken Wood In tlie franchise to Intelligent and responsible and the wealthy bans share in this violent Cuban partisans say a is imminent which wiil decide whether Cuba Is. to be American or but the possibility of any serious trouble Is ridiculed by American officials and by A DECREE Orders All Spanish Liberated The Spanish consul at Manila wired the foreign Jan. 4 from has arrived having on board the bishop ot 117 live and 115 civilians who had berth restored to The consul adds that Aguinaldo has promulgated a decree ordering the liberation of all Spanish prisoners without The consul distrusts motives cm of the attitude of the Filipino he place difficulties in the way of the liberation of tin Another Gorman Is Detained by the The Imperial steamer has been detained at Aden and occupied by British witli the object of searching her Tho General Is by t German Bast African owners of the which was recently captured by tho British off Although tho manifests of the steamer seized at showed there was ho armature on alio was compelled to discharge her strike Thirty Pennsylvania Milium May Quit 1'eporls received Jan. 4 by United Mine Workers from the whore a striko of 80,000 or more men is that over 1,000 men were If tho operators do not make certain concessions there will bo imo of the largest litmus known In several the mine workers italy falls in in Suit of Other Powers to an Open Italy has returned a favorable response lo the note of Jho stato department respecting the open door In Italy Is tho last of the great powers to bo heard This makes the assent of the others Powers of Favorably to Request of U. B. The session of tho cabinet was brief on the 2d but was tho occasion of nn important announcement by Secretary of State Hay that negotiations with tho grout of Europe and Japan to secure a common understanding for a continued policy throughout China has been and that responses have been received from Great Russia nml The only country addressed which has not yel responded is Italy and a favorable is also expected from LEARY FREES Government Tug ' Tho United master's tug Captain T. sunk In harbor Jan. 1 in a collision with tho stool ocean tug of tho Philadelphia & Heading Coal Company's All on board are believed to have been saved except From TJio senate us a high court Jan. 4 condemned Buffet mid to ton was sentenced to Ion confinement in a fortified and Saluces was to ten In C. M. chief of. tho railway has received a terrain from stuting that burglars blew open tho safe at that Jan. i and took the amount not Kills Wire and James aged 05 shot and killed his aged 22 near Jan. 11, then blew his bond Mrs. Moore was the daughter of John who recently killed C 0, Sentenced to Uo Edwin Bay pleaded lo tho charge of murdering at and was to tie 18, Governor of Guam Abolishes nn A naval from Guam brings a proclamation Issued by Capt. naval governor of the decreeing the absolute abolition of slavery or peonage after Feb. 2. The proclamation declared the Spanish system of peonage amounted to and a menace to popular liberty and a violation or privilege guaranteed by the American also deported all Spanish priests for reasons he considered WILL GET MORE MUST CURB TRUSTS ROOSEVELT'S MESSAGE TO NEW Says Great Care Ue Used In Providing a Publicity as a Measure for Culls on of 25,000 Pittsburg Workmen Tho wages of 23,000 men in Pittsburg were on Jan. 2 advanced 5 to 10 per and in some oases even Of these 14,000 wero employed by tho Carnegie 0,000 by Jones & and by the United States and National Glass Union for Good The most important step which the League of American Wheelmen yet taken in its for good roads is about to be President or the League of American Wheelmen has arranged for the early presentation hi congress of a appropriating for the construction of improved highways throughout tho United St. Uses St. As the incandescent lamps in use city were turned off at midnight Jan. 1, owing to the expiration of the contract with the Missouri Edison Electric For first time in tho history ot St. many of public streets were except for a few tallow gas lights oil Adams on a Practice San Information has been received hero from Washington that the training ship Adams will he ordered to sea at the close of the Caplain Goodwin will bo in command and ho will in addition to n regular 1C0 The cruise is to extend to the Islands and possibly Kentucky Attorneys for ami other - contesting - Democratic candidates for stale offices on the 2d served notices on the to take depositions to bo used ns evidence in the pending contest and naming their The list of witnesses includes along array of prominent men in belli Drenks Up Smallpox Sun Tho was established on island on Nov. 18,when the Forty-eighth Infantry went into quarantine was broken up Jan. 8. men or tho Forty-eighth who hud been suffering from smallpox were released from their long Will Mayor Harrison will not ask Gov. Tanner to cull an extra session of tho legislature to authorize the eily lo issue bonds to relieve the financial He has concluded to mandamus County Clerk and take chances on the court compelling to give city more Animal Keeper Killed by Ono of tho animal keepers at tho Vienna zoological garden entered tho lion cage Jan. 2 in a spirit of bravado and six lions rushed upon him and toro him to attendants sought in vain with torches and streams of water to drive tho wild beasts from their Now Gov. in message to the New York legislature treats at considerable length the subject of modern industrial conditions and and expresses large majority of the fortunes that now exist in Ibis country were amassed not by injuring but us nn incident to conferring great on the Ho urges the necessity ot distinguishing between such and aggregations of capital being exercised in a wrongful and oppressive says great care should be exercised in the enactment of remedial legislation lest its effects be lo cause more harm than the evil sought to bo lie holds many of them are tho results of modern industrial and that to absolutely prohibit would ho to stop thu wheels of For regulation of trusts he urges publicity in order lo prevent unscrupulous unfair oppression of wage and an undue advance in HAMNA IS TO BE Cleveland Leader Knyn It I Ins it from of According to the information received by it from a source oud only to President McKinley and Senator 11 is to the effect thai not only will Senator be the chairman of I he next national but will be both temporary and permanent chairman of the Republican national This may perhaps ho explained upon the hypothesis thill such is the expressed wish of President and that the president being the only candidate before the convention for office lie holds the delegates will cheerfully The is made that the only question which lias ever existed as to the of leadership in the coming campaign was that regarding his lie has now announced Ids willingness to the task next year and the president's wish in respect is Id be BIG SHORTAGE County Treasurer to Account for Sensational developments have come in Shelby County with the retirement of County Treasurer Wilson and thu installation of Treasurer Let as his All the books of the for years and six months 10 last June are missing and Mr. Wilson says he does not know what lias become ol Thu corresponding books of the auditor for samu period are and il is nol known what moneys have been received or paid in that The of stale has soul a deputy loser that the interests are I. 11 said is unaccounted GOEBEL IN CHOATE CALLS ON SALISBURY Heady for San Work has so far advanced on the United States Wisconsin thai It will make its trial trip within tho two battery of four guns will * o tho heaviest ever mounted on an American Has Not Hunched Decision as to Ambassador visited Salisbury Jan. 8 for the purpose of making the official representation on the subject of tho Bay Chonto received uo us the premier informed him thu British government had not yet arrived at a decision whether or nol foodstuff was a contraband of But Salisbury assured Cheats the commercial rights of United Stales will be equitably and a decision in this important matter will reached us soon as The Interview was SAID DAVIS WILL Assistant Secretary of Interior Not to His New A Washington special lo the Times Is reported Webster assistant secretary of the will never resume Hie duties of tils office and his resignation Is Ho is ' now in Soul 11 11 Is ] that friction has existed In the for soma time mid leave of absence was mount to make an end ' of Condensed Minneapolis receipts were bushels of wheat in ov more than In any previous calendar Julius Robinson was hanged at for murdering W. M. a in November of the National City bank of Now huve the proposition of to increase tho stock from to During ii light at a turkey shooting match near Jim Noble and were killed and Jerry Noble seriously No The battleship Texas has arrived at where she will bo placed in dry dock to have her bottom repairs mid bo thoroughly Thomas ono of the members of York Produce and a director of Importers and Is York of aged 88 Asa result of family foud Jerome James prominent at Codur Tenn. Jones shot und fatally C. M. a farmer In was shells from a keg of powder when a spark fell into the Tho that followed her father und orlo I of his Patterson Is fatally 1 i Filipino Junta Macs for Hong treasurer of the Kong on behalf of his lias made proposals through uu American ell lo Consul to submit of himself and colleagues to United Previously lie had consulted authorities in Hong Koug as lo Ihc possibility of the entire junta becoming but was informed it would be impossible us they are insurgents against United j San steamer i which has from reports | the death of a while girl al Honolulu on j Dec. 22, and two Chinese were found ' dead in the Chinese quarters on Christmas 1:lay. These fatalities started tho plague | again und every precaution was | being taken to out the disease when boat Tho Australia only brought ono steerage Closed al. St. For the Hist time In many years tho Mississippi Is frozen over A steady cold snap that has existed for a or has formed n shout ol ice thai resists tho river As a result no boats are arriving or departing and the forrins have been compelled to shut No War Von a Bosnian announces thai the proposed war exhibit ut Vans exposition will uu upon the czar's Branches of Kentucky Goebel was elected president pro of senate on the 2d inst. Four Democratic senators who bolted caucus Monday voted for the nominee In the house Seth Trimble received Mie full of the majority for Both houses of the legislature were organized by electing the nominees of tlie Democratic The Republicans of the caucused and nominated of County for Senator Bradley nml others were present and went over with members tho general policy of the Col. C. against whom charges of bribery in the of faction weru brought by in tho telegraphed the state's attorney that he would come to Frankfort and surrender lo To friends he telegraphed denying Harrell's The Goebel leaders promise sensational developments when Ihu case comes to After four years of retirement former Joseph Clay Styles Blackburn was v chosen by the joint caucus of the Democrats of the I he successor of Senator William Lindsay in in the United States Alexander und and stayed out of the Blackburn was placed in nomination by Senator who said that Ihu longest and fight ever fought for senator in tills which four years ago Define defeated about to reach its just Senator Harris ashort seconding speech and was followed by who eulogized Blackburn and congratulated Ihu party on tlie union of all democratic members in returning him to the Villon Steele Yards Hank A scum of cases have been brought by Ihe receiver of the Union Stock Yards bank of Sioux Sew Hampshire stockholders before Ihc Hillsborough County supreme which is In session Tho receiver has sued to recover assessments levied on the stock Tor the purpose of inlying the bank's The suits are being and it is thought one of them will be taken before the supremo court or the stato and made a test Will Ask I'm to Senator Do former minister of justice und now member of the council of former Senator La Fontaine and other leading members of the Universal League of huve convoked | a meeting in favor of appealing to Ihe United States government to offer to mediate in the South African r THE HAWKEYE STATE PARDON FOR LIFE CONVICTS NEWS OF THE WEEK CONCISELY Death Capt. to the Last Hint the Shooting Not Left Leg Richard Croker was about in mount his horse on tlie 2d al the doorstop of tho place moat when tlie animal suddenly shied The ground was Just frosty enough to be fool went out from under him and lie fell breaking to Indict N. The grand Jury reported to Aldrich Jan. 2. No indictment was found Senator charged with violating civil service laws In soliciting subscriptions foi campaign purposes from federal Advance for St. Joseph Painters Journeymen painters of this city who threatened to strike have secured an advance of 20 in wages and nine hours Instead of leu as a day's Fund Still chairman of the Lawton relief announced that subscriptions lo Lawton fund received up to noon Jan. il amounted lo Capt. Marshall died Jan. 3 at Iowa lie gradually grow worse from tho lime of His wife nml daughter arrived from Dos and were at bedside during his dying To the last lie stonily maintained thai the shooting was purely an The body was shipped to Des Moines for Capt. Marshall shot himself Dec. using a The bullet entered his left Just below the took a downward course and passed through his left lung nnd tho upper part ol Ids penetrating the entire body and dropping to tho Tho attending said that Marshall bad suffered hemorrhages of thu lungs and which hastened his Marshall was aiding of the Iowa National Guard for four nnd durine the Spanish war was a staff officer of the Army United States at He was formerly assistant postmaster at Des and was in lown as a representative of Ihe National Accounting Company of He spent an hour Sunday afternoon discussing various methods of suicide with a from ho purchased n harmless Captain Marshall then declared in his uo unless would attempt SMALLPOX STILL Right Thus of Dr. of Worth has reported two fatalities out of half a dozen new eases of smallpox in one family living in Worth He also reports one new case of at Silver Lake Township of the same where there have been several previous In Danville Township of Unit there are eight which were announced a lew days and in A tlie county seat of there is one case of presumably from tlie epidemic in town of northeast of From reports disease is shown In: nut only far from but il Is spreading Dr. Kennedy says the epidemic going the rounds just now is much more than any which has appeared in Iowa for many Out ol eases reported there have been eight while but two deaths resulted from over 2IK)cases last This is an of 1,00(1 pur cent. to Submit Pour Cases to General Gov. Shaw will submit to the legislature Ihe eases of but four life convicts asking for They Thomas sentenced In Lucas Comity in 18WJ; John sentenced in Webster County in 18114; Cornelius sentenced in Dubuque County in 1878; Jasper sentenced In Dallas Con lily In Twelve or fifteen life convicts petitioned for executive anil legislative Among them were tho who were to prison from Marshall and concerning whose expected effort lo secure pardon from the legislature much sensational mailer lias been Wesley was also another He Is the boy who killed his mother and father when he was 11 years These and the oilier except the four Shaw determined not to present lo the JUMPED FROM A Death at Ames Thought it. Have a An unknown man jumped from the Chicago special of the Northwestern Railroad Dec. 110 as il was coming down the grade west of Ames at a rale of and received such Injuries that he died shortly after he was brought to The man as weighing about 200 and was six feet Me had Ihe being a laboring being dressed in a suit and sweater and cap. The conductor nt the train saw Hie man jump and immediately stopped Ihe train and hacked up and to where he was taken care of company's 11 is skull was hud I a ono of his arms was and he never regained consciousness after he was picked There was nothing on his person to Identify H looks as il it was a case of premeditated Frank F. auditor of is dangerously 111 In San and serious fears arc entertained for his He left Iowa two weeks ago on a business Irip lo mid before arriving in ill. lie was soon after Inken to in where he now is. Constant telegraphic communication has been and ho is repotted suffering Willi typhoid Ilis relatives and friends are seriously though be lias wired for his family lo remain in lies He has sent for family physician to come at to with Now Koberl lias been mulched with Jack McCormick for a six round sparring contest on Jan. 20 al PLAY HOUSE One of the Finest Theaters In I State at New Midland theater was opened at Fort Dodge Jan. 2, the opening engagement being Lewis Morrison in Ihe The occasion was the social of Ihe tho house being filled Willi Fori Dodge and out of The new was built by the Midland Life insurance Company of Unit its building being contingent upon Ihe securing of u certain of Insurance In Fort Tills has been secured and the new house was It Is one of theaters in mid has a sealing capacity of over interior furnishings are elegant In the extreme and the large si ige room make Ibis one of thu finest theaters in Ihu RUINED BY CHRISTIAN Druggist Bankrupt on Account of Ilis years ol Christian has ruin to Arthur who for tlie past twenty years has been considered one of tho most prosperous druggists of Mr. Gephart has tiled a petition in bankruptcy In Ihu United district scheduling assets valued at with liabilities amounting to Mr. Gephart about two years ago became a very strong advocate of the and is said to have cost him his MURDER OF Mississippi Legislature Tho Mississippi legislature organized shortly noon Jan. Jud Russell of Lauderdale wan elected MARKET common to to shipping lo fair to to No. ii One to No. 2, to No. lo No. KJc to 55c; choice 25c to 27c; 10c to 18c; 40c to per to choice to common to to 08c to 70e; No. Z flic to 32c; No. 211c lo 27c. St. to to to No. 2, 71c to 73c; No. 2 81c to 32c; No. 2, 2tte to No. 02c to 5-lc. to lo lo No. to 71e; Ulie to 34c; No. 2 25c to 27e; No. 2, QUc to 01c. to to to No. 2, 70c to 71e; No. 31c to 83c; No. 2 20c to 27c; to 58c. No. 2 to 70c; 2 31c to 33c; No. 2 23c to 25c; No. 2, 00c to 57c; clover to No. 2 113c lo 05c; 3, 30e to 32c; No. 2 24e to 2(Jc; No. 1, to 55c; No. 2, 45c to 47c; to goad shipping to common ta to fair to lo common to u New lo to to 8 75c to 70c j No. 2, 40c to 41c; No. 2 80c to 82ci 23v W We w 81* ' ' to find I lie Slightest Clew to the Sioux City police huve thus for been unable run down thu man who murdered John a wilh a hatchet Dec. 21) within half a block of the police They not even slightest clew upon which lo On night of the tragedy the were attending Ihe light al Ihu opera An investigation of tho police department has boon ordered by tho city The Is wrought up over No Fire Fire at nn early hour in Ihe morning at destroyed more than half the business district of lint Involving a loss of about As there was no lire protection tho practically had Us own way and burned out everything east of tho public Might business houses wero was also Willi a Ala muss meeting of people held in Clear Lake Herbert was presented with a line watch and chain in recognition of his services In Tho presentation was made by D. 11 urn on behalf of the Miller was a member of a California regiment of lown Miller of the Latter Day Saints Church and a resident of Is Tho last heard or seen or him was about six weeks when a sou saw him oil on a train nt Kansas City for St. Ills wife Is taking It very Tho railroad is trying to Serious Jens 1*. a Danish and his wife were driving home from his team took fright and ran throwing out and so injuring him that ho the nest Ills wife Is now in a very Win A special election was hold in Ion to fill vacancies in llm offices of assessor and alderman nt and resulted In a Sottler for alderman and ami Herman for lug elected by small Xo Proof of The heirs of N. who Christmas day in Webster are having some in malting proper proof or his death to the Insurance society lo which he lie was ti number of the A. O. W. in good and carried insurance to amount of The rules of Ihe lodge n doctor's certificate us proof of and this the beneficiaries arc unable In as attending physician had been displaced by Christian Scientists a before Mr. Goodrich's It if said the body will have lo lie exhumed in order lo gel tlie necessary Ilig Fire in Kiro in tlie other day destroyed 11 in big wholesale building of Ihe Grocery and caused a complete loss of the The loss on the building was insurance Loss on Tlie intense cold with I work of Ihu who had in the lire to Ihu on Two were slightly The company will I at It one of tho best known in Des The light in Dos Moines is practically The petition has been tiled with about 1,500 more signatures Hum the law The Ministerial claims thul fully 1,500 legal voters refused to sign a petition cither for or and therefore thai the saloon petition is They will Insist on a rigid examination of saloon Killed at ii Frank Davidson and Charles while crossing tho and Railroad tracks in tlie west purl of ten miles east of hud team struck by a westbound When the I ruin was slopped both men were found on tho part of tlie Darlington being dead and Davis fatally Are The man who jumped lo his death from Ihu Northwestern passenger train near Ames has been Identified its John of and his came on took his body to that place lor for Ho was a laboring having been recently employed on the railroad Bishop handed down a decision in Des Moines the other day In the case of the slato G. the milkman who was tried and found guilty of selling adulterated Tlie verdict is reversed and the defendant discharged from all further In tho opinion or tho court the legislature erred when it went farther in the premises than It had power In this ease no element ot fraud says tho and there was nothing Incident to Ihe commodity dealt In which rendered It Injurious to tho public Judge Bishop cannot conceive of any reason why a person who desired lo buy milk containing a slight quantity of acid should not be permitted to do nor can I conceive upon upon what principle the as against the rights reserved lo in tho could Interfere in such a opinion held that the proposition of tbo stato is to protect tho who desire to buy pure milk from milk which has been diluted or There was no fraud intended on tho part of the and inasmuch as tho ingredient used was harmless to those who used tho milk ho was not guilty of any criminal act. nt Should unexpended balances of state appropriations be charged olt or tho beneficiary of tho appropriation bu allowed to question which the bo given u chance to lake known last the state house treasurer has asked the attorney general for an opinion upon this timo past the question lias perplexed only the treasurer's but department und the state hoard of us The departments have not yet been able to agree as lo Ihc interpretation which should be given the existing and the attorney general 1ms been appealed A lo settle the matter for all to everybody's satisfaction may yet be tho tit General says Iowa will gut all Its war claims allowed by the government in duo There is of Tho governor and adjutant general have found from to of this would allowed by I auditor's department at and about would have to be appropriated by sin act of Thoy say there is no doubt Iowa will bo this state's bills being not so heavy as those of some other It Is simply necessary lo have no act of congress upon bills incurred an I paid by tlie to tlie mustering in uf the t t * A telegram from from Ibis say that a large number of Indiana window glass workers will with tholt to Des where u co-operative window glass manufactory will bo Lafe Johnson of is at tho head of articles of incorporation of which will be filled within the ten incorporators being workmen In various industries at where largu window plants are t t i An Ihe report board of which will bu issued in book form In n few relates to tho Home at and thu at At thu former W. K. C. offered to contribute money to tho of some of whom thu women believed were and the board could not permit such Tho board gives Ihu details of the in furnishing the old people's t t t Gov. when asked about the federal judgeship to fill the vacancy caused by Judge Woolson's said Hint lio had hoard ninny rumors concerning tho bul none upon which one could base any only that it Is not likely to bo Hindu for soma weeks t t t Adjutant General has received gomo pictures of line sugar showing development which they lie will ho glad to exhibit them to persons who desire to gain uu idea of Ihu t t t Tho state board of health Is In receipt of Information to the effect that thoro are two additional coses of smallpox Infected and ono in Silver Luke Worth ' The state hoard of control has submitted a report on caro of insane In Dallas The county cares for In- state Iowa Indian Marriage Judge in Dubuque decided the Tama Indian reservation holding Ihu i according to Indian custom I detailed valid and denying tho superintendent's power to keep a married woman In Generous to Carnegie has made an oiler to for a free public library building in Davenport if the eily will furnish u site provide means for the future maintenance of thu Another David engineer on Ihe Chicago and stood in Ihu gangway of his locomotive us it entered n curve near us thu engine swayed he thrown to the ground and lown Implement The annual of thu Iowa Implement was held al Des witli about 300 In A reception was given thu visitors by the local Ily A farmer living near Oils was shot seriously wounded by trumps on thu evening of Jan. 1. Officers are Hud While oiling machinery In mill at Humboldt tho clothing of was caught and unfortunate man was whirled swiftly the Onu log wiis lorn off below the and other was broken so that amputation wus Instantly Henry the in works ut was killed by an explosion of a sleam Uans badly detailed t t t Bear Grovu Creamery Company ot Bremer Delaware capital bus articles of incorporation wilh the of 1 11. G. formerly of Atlantic and now a member of tho supremo court of 1'uerto has been as a candidate fur the t t t The Cunning Company has its capital stock to A Useful The National League has succeeded In Inducing n number of prominent of women's white goods to Adopt a label guaranteeing that the goods that bear It have been made on the premises under sanitary that nil requirements of tho Stato law have been tUat uo overtime has been worked and DO girls umler 10 employed Love Makes Arms Uo Thoy wero seated by side ou the room between thein for tho after a blissful silence extending over a period of soveral afraid must bu very do you think he sho coyly to bo out pf never said around
