LeMars Semi-Weekly Post (Newspaper) - February 16, 1900, Lemars, Iowa Ce Every Tuesday and VOLUME EQUAL RIGHTS TO ALL AND SPECIAL PRIVILEGES TO LE FEBRUARY 16, 1900. AROUND THE EARTH OCCURRENCES THEREIN FOR A NUMBER 18. ALL EYES ON BOBS ENGLISHMEN CONFIDENT HE WILL Believed the Impending Will lie a Decisive One ntul ah don Is Anxiously Waiting for the Intense anxiety afternoon continued dominant in consequence of Lord plan of operations in South as revealed by the dispatches published during was no further news of tho British Into tho Orango Freo Stato or of activity at the Modder but a feeling of quiet confidence prevails that the strong hands of of and the hero of Khartoum are shaping matters towards a much and decisive Tho St. James Gazette with his own lino well and having Utile reason to fear only a defense which would bo deadly and a counter stroke attacking his long line as it swings will bo able to forco tho Boers to fight wider very unfavorable conditions or abandon heavy guns and The fear regarding the Doer attack on Zululand has been somewhat allayed by a special dispatch from which says j a column of colonial after a forced arrived at in splendid lighting They were pursued several times inarch by but succeeded in repulsing TRAIN HELD Express Messenger Makes a Brave A. The New Mexico and passenger train winch left Benson for was held up by masked robbers at twenty miles below Feb. 15. Express Messenger Milton was shot several Milton had just delivered his packages for Fairbanks and was going back into his car when he was commanded to open bis Instead of complying with the request lie grabbed his Winchester and made a brave He succeeded In holding them at bay until help reached him and tho robbers were driven Tho robbers did secure any booty and going in the direction of old JOHN FISHER fugitive from Justice Meets His Death at 131 El Hurry Dunbar and John two local quarreled in the Creamery at o'clock Thursday over winnings made by Dunbar during tho Each drew a pistol and began Fisher shot times at missing and Dunbar fired four times at Fisher hitting him twice and causing Instant Dunbar is In Fisher was found guilty of in Sioux City about two years ago and received n penitentiary sentence Ho lied after his forfeiting his given by Fort Dodgo THE CLASH IS Prison a Pardon Issued by The between tho Democratic and Republican brandies of tho stato government was intensified on 15lh by the prison releasing John S. a Louisville on a pardon issued by Gov. Douglas a Knott County convict recently pardoned by Gov. is still in the prison refusing to nize Taylor as TRIPP MAY BE Being Considered Tor Appointment us Philippine Among the names of persons favorably considered by the president for appointment as ono of tho Philippine commissioners is of South to and Is reason to unless geographical considerations Mr. will be ono of the new FILIPINOS ARE five Thousand Beaton Off by ft Small American An forco 6,000 the garrison in a convent at Daroga In the province of during the night of Feb. 5. They wero they burned much of One nontenant wounded was the only loss sustained by the Amerl Methodist Church Methodist Episcopal 2348-2847 Indiana one of the oldest Methodist buildings in was almost destroyed by Only the walls of the and It Is estimated that tho loss ylil exceed Probably Nevy Tho coal barges Blossom and Alice Tryon off Port ft. on tho 18th with six per allot whom wore probably Filipinos Sail for San The United States transport with 160 horses and 100 Bailed for Manila the Eight destitute Filipinos from the Omaha are also being home on the Britain UreM to the Berlin of The art being executed lav Immense by High Water In New Tho gales of the equinox scarcely over exceeded In forco the storm which has swept over New leaving damage by flood almost Monday and Tuesday a heavy rain brought to a climax the most unseasonable winter New England lias known for many Streams which a lew weeks ago were so low a midwinter drought was threatened have been changed into spring To damage douo to the logging and ice harvesting Interests is added the cost of replacing bridges repairing railway and highway beds torn most damage is along and Dispatches from various sections of Vermont and Maine place rainfall at over three The flood In Fitchburg and vicinity from heavy rain of Monday and Tuesday liad Most of mills were unable to run owing to damage by Tho ice lias gone down and the river water is were twenty-four hours of intense j water was never so high I SUCCEEDS MISS j Mrs. President of Woman's j I The National American Woman's Suffrage Association elected Mrs. Carrie Chapman Call of New York 1 dent of the association to succeed Susan H. who lias been active in the j battle for woman null rage for nearly a and declined a I Willi the exception of ' all of the old officers were as Vice Miss Anna j corresponding j Foster recording | Mrs. Alice j Mrs. Harriet Taylor j Miss Laura Clay and Waugh The retirement of Miss Anthony caused genuine and felt regret among the members of the and when the announcement of the vote naming her successor was made many of them GREAT GIFT FOR | Will More to New It is expected that ul n. dinner to be given at the Hotel Manhattan early next month John D. Rockefeller will a further gift of if the University of making his to al contribution to that institution Mr. it is promised some time ago if other of the university would taise a sum would give friends have done I their and are satisfied that j feller will do the ' WANTS j Milwaukee $ New linso of Milwaukee and former Gov. of Wisconsin are in New York to secure if possible Democratic national convention for Mayor Rose said that Milwaukee had made I an active and lie believed successful to secure the next He said that the people of Milwaukee had j raised a guarantee of Tor that I j RIOTING IS More Plantations Hot on on Isle of Port do A mob of rioters Wednesday at Sallce refused to hear who was favorably disposed toward their Al tho plantations of and were set on News has been received from Paris announcing that garrison will be and that tho cruiser is on her way TWENTY WORKMEN Ono Killed and Two Badly Hurt in Accident at 111.: One workman was two were badly Injured and several slight ly hurt Wednesday by the collapse of the roof covering the east house of Illinois Steel Company's plant Twenty workmen wero burled in the Asks for an with His Andrew Henry Clay filed u inequity on the inst. in tho court of common Allegheny County against Andrew Carnegie mid the Carnegie Steel praying for a that the pretended transfer of bis interests in the company was and is null and that mi injunction issue restraining the defendants from any interference with Ids interest in the said ordering defendants to cancel upon the books of linn any assignment heretofore made or to be made to said association or plaintiff's interest in the In case the defendants shall refuse Hie oilers by the plaintiff and shall refuse to continue to allow him to participate in management and control of the Carnegie Steel in with the couit is asked to allow Hie plaintiff to declare the said firm dissolved and appoint a receiver to take charge of till the business and assets of the said and liquidate its Mr. Frick asks for an accounting Willi Carnegie anil ileal the latter shall I.e. charged with all the expenses and damage he lias caused by his alleged gal and fraudulent and that if j further losses lie incurred in the winding up of lire firm they shall be charged against and that he shall decreed to make good and pay to lie plaintiff the between what bis interest was fairly on 1, and the amount he shall receive through Hie decree of this coin t in final liquidation and of the said The in equity is very and entered into in between the plaintiff and whereby linns of Carnegie and & were consolidated under the name of the Carnegie stool with a of la this according to tho Carnegie has per interest and lias 11 per cent. The earnings of Hie company in show a net of 1100,000. THE HAWKEYE STATE NEWS OF THE WEEK CONCISELY Convicted nt Dos Moines Gets Twenty Then Innocence nnd Curses Court for Heavy LARRABEE WANTED IN holly Caught In San I San Frederick S. formerly an employe of a prominent insurance company in but who left that city about two years when defalcations amounting to about were about to be was by detectives in this city The arrest was kept a secret until when il was learned that Kelly Kfl for Chicago in the custody ol I In- lie was accompanied by his young formerly of Since his departure from Omaha he has traveled much and held a position in but his love for his own country got the better of blui and be Kelly's relatives are wealthy and prominent people of Neb. TO SAVE W. C. T. U. to Mouse Canvass Cor to lie Mmle in t That ihe adherents of the W. C. T. C whose tallying cry has been from the the have not up hope of accomplishing tl original is shown by the fact lhat a house to house canvass of with a to obtaining the necessary purchase will he Mrs. Curse an I her friends are at the head of this new plan to buy the graceful structure as a memorial to lulu Frances The work will under the ] of Miss Mary of New who arrived 111 this city last Why Post muster Wished to lias been ordered discontinued from Feb. This action was taken by the department as a result of representations by postmaster there thai he wished to resign of open threats that he would be Cecil Leslie j New Cecil and of Miller Bal per hits made a long confession to the Evening Leslie Franklin syndicate was a colossal bunco Some of the men Interested lu the concern were formerly managers of Lyons & Co. and the E. S. Dean Company In this which were run on similar Miller must have gathered at least $ 1,000.00V out of the probably Triple Florida Tho bodies of Mrs. a age I 7iS her T. a aged and Miss Jennie a aged 01, whore found at their their heads having been crushed In with an was motive for tho but thorn Is no clew to tho I Confident a Now Bartow S. senior for Roland 11. says that bo feels confident a new trial will be Mr Weeks was asked If steps would bo taken to keop from going to Sing Sing while awaiting the result of the appeal and replied that he know of no way that that could he To Report Pacific Cabin The committee on and foreign commerce by a vote of 8 lo 5, to report a cable along tho lines of Sherman and by 5 to 8, proposition for govern men t Tho steamer M. Stanley struck Kentucky pier of the Ball way and In feet of the on the Kentucky A sensational scene look place in the courtroom Dcs Moines when Judge Scotl Imposed sentence on Frank tried and convicted of The the evidence in the telling lire prisoner that he could liud uo grounds I'm extending n plea of and up by giving prisoner twen y years in the penitentiary at Fort Madison at The face paled at the and upon being called back while Scott informed lhat a motion for a new trial would not be I suppose that is what they have got you here to give an in- man a heavy 1 wish the train would runoff Hie track and kill you before you ger He was roughly handled by the sheriffs and bailiffs at tins w ho bustled him jail amidst the guess 1 made no sihl tins Hie excitement in the court room PECULIAR Young Woman lias Hern Missing lor i Miss bl of ] a good and popular j ill V. has hei ' home in Chester sine Feb. j alter supper oo the d y I s mil at Hie back a slut did I not in a - tune the begun to make an o i was found in an outbuilding an i from il v. as supposed that she am. 111 her clothes u. order to avoid and tiia possibly male attire has been I. There is that she was taken away in a the thai bolb the evening Hails had and she w not have gotten away on the Isl intl. A answering He was seen in Washingt twelve utiles in men's The description of the clothes tallies a suit w hieh I lo the brother of the missing girl and which are hi This discovery makes il that the girl leit home of her own but the parents can assign no reason bo her She was not given to reading light and was too young to have received the attentions of young men to any great Lawmakers Congratulate Him on Ills Service in sessions of both houses of the wore abbreviated by adjournment it 11:30 a.m. Feb. It in order that tho members might call In a body on William who was retired on hat day from chairmanship of the slate board of ending a quarter of century of almost continuous of i he The two houses marched down lo lower of Hie whore were receive 1 by In foe board of control Lieut. Gov. spoke appreciation which people of Iowa led for Ihe services for which ibey indebted lo Gov. and wishing him happiness and success Ibr all his He was followed by Gov Willi much win eh times compelled him to stop in order to control his exp esse I his appreciation of Hie honor done He said ho bad always tried to do duty in every publio love the slate of ho love Its and 1 have as honestly as I knew devoted lo tho people and its I understand learned to appreciate and onor tho men who aro sunt hero to the le 1 le concluded Willi a tribute to his colleagues on the board of Following Ihe talking the bunds with his On with Ins Gov. Larribce will sail for I most of the SHERIFF HAD Cei wirier from a Moving Train and alias Dun w pie nle I guilty in court at r about two weeks ago to br liking and cars at ami u as sentenced to six mouths in made a bold liberty while being taken to the Sheriff MesHo Hie Colorado special at i. was pulling of I tulle Ci due Hiked lo go to the ho locked the the The was running miles an himself around to and Hie I. Nestle saw him as be Hie They were in the rear Tire threw open brass stood on the is moment and then dropped to I le w lis bruised and lie el lo but seriously he gained bis feel Graves no where in hack n track lie discovered bis man hide behind a telegraph He him up at point of it luck lo Belle and to A 11:ir1111.:r with his i n SEEKS TO END WHITE TRIES TO CUT THE Makes on Attempt to Get Out of Saves Army from - Boer Guns Command SALOONS AGAIN PROBABLY A S. 1),: The child of Charles Kudd dierl night from an of drinking half a pint of dinky by MARKET common to to shipping lo fair to to No. - to 117c; No. life to No. 1!, lilic to No. Tele to choice 2-le lo 1'ros.h, 1'Jc lo to per to to 1 common to to No. to No. to No. 12 to St. to to to No. Tie to No. to No. lo No. 2, to to to to No. THe to No. 2 to No. to o to lo lo to No. 72c to 7-le; No. 2 die to on No. 27c in 57c to No. 2 71c to 72c; No. 2 lo No. 2 211c to 2oc; No. 2, lo clover to No. 2 One lo 07c; No. 2, Hie to No. 2 2fic lo 27c; No. 1, fide lo 2, lo 17c; pork to good lo to to fair to lo common to to New to to to So. 2 77c lo 7l)e; No 2, lie to No. SS Hie to 10c to He to 17c. that lo Omaha WtiH A middle axed C. a grocer and butcher of was found sniggering about air Omaha beforo 12, soaked Willi blood from three ugly gashes in his The pockets of his trousers and coat turned inside out told a tale that from loss of blood and the patient imbibing of loo much redeye the victim was unable to tell for Krom bis half mumbling the police Best hail had in Ill's pocket earlier in Hie and that after drinking at several saloons near Ihe be lost all of his money nnd bis net Officers were sent out to look up the but with the meager information were unable to to throw any light upon the Nothing bid a revolver and several letters was found upon his person by the Seek Telephone The Iowa Telephone Company applied to the Gnaw a town council lorn twenty franchise lo put in a local telephone exchange with rates of foi residences and lor houses per parties also applied for Ihe same rates considerably The council w ill likely lo tho of the low r at Ille regular March Violation the Ida Grove man who was arrested Insl summer lor Inking lish with u seine from ihe of Wall has In Id guilly of the lish The case is a peculiar and as Mr. Sears acted in good faith in the matter Uncase was so much lo Mr. who is a to test certain phases of Hie Dr. Ih The chinch Is no place lor com crl and the practice of soloists slopping from their stalls anil facing the congregation will not far tolerated in Grace church al Cedar Such in was the ot D. oi referring lo tho ol ihe vested choir because he rebuked one of the Insl Sunday injured in Eric an of the Iowa 1'lnsior mines at was fatally injured in a powder explosion in the company's occurred in a and Strand was left alone in bis it long until lie was later found by other j Advise Dew Liquor to 8.'iut Their j The saloons ol Dcs Moines are once j more as a result of the action of the j county supervisors In Ihe saloon contest j pel iI ion The board after opening its as lo Ihe of the petition j granted a postponement of days at | Ihe of the saloon men lo give them | lime to secure as t-i Hie genuineness of a large number of signatures The attorneys for Ihe saloon men advised thorn that if they operated in the meantime they would be liable to the penalties of tho prohibitory itm 1 that they bad belter which they Tho drought will al continue until tho board takes on Ihe LEAVES GOV. SHAW AT Waterman on Waterman lias positively declined to accepi the oil the board of Business reasons prevented him from doing so. The governor is al sen as lo what lo He has several men in lull Iras not decided upon appointment lo fear of running lie senatorial gauntlet has some Stabs in Thomas alias Who was slabbed in abdomen early Feb. 11 by his in the old Soudan row tit Sioux died on tho 12lh Tito woman is lu jail charged wild Physician Drops Georgo Turner of a physician of twenty dropped dead Monday of heart He formerly was of and Sudden Death of a Bay Vuu 7 years a pupil In tho public left school apparently well Monday ho was found crying on street and was conveyed where he died within a low His death was from natural Stock Klatt Hampton to twenty mouths lu tho Samuel Kimball to and Samuel Wilson to for wholesale stealing of stock among the tn Sell Morrison and acinic inr rue executive committee of convention of the of lo the G. College y Hi to the city for high school grounds for The bishop explained with Ihe proceeds Ihe debt on St. K il 11 all would be ami us be and some added lu endow men 1.' Inr State A has been made lo the Stale Agricultural Society to hold a bull Ii rbl Ibis al the for lo bring a genuine Mexican bull here and lo pul on si bull Ii the of anything over hi directors are considering the buL it is hardly possible lhat the people of Iowa will permit the exhibition or that the directors will Burglars entered the dry goo Is siore of John Tall it ul Ce Inr and stole world of and and escaped leaving any clew lo their It was evidently work of The robbers look but lire bcsl the to one neither they take any of the Man who was probably man lu was killed by a Milwaukee train al Council Ho was 1UH years of age Iris last He was walking along the track us tho train was backing into being did not hear warning lowu second annual of tho Iowa Betail Association will bo bold at Colar Rapids the last week lu Wilson Will Not Secretary of Agriculture James In Dos Moines the oilier rumors that on account of ill do may soon re from Ho said ho was in and had at no time thought of School House Fire destroyed tho brick school building at Charles City 1-1, fire started In fiom tho $ It was generally believed In London Monday that White was making a desperate effort to escape from and cut through the Boer information regarding the move from the beleaguered town came In n dispatch from the Boer head laager outside nnd a from probably based on the same The accuracy of news emanating from the Dutch has been proved so frequently of bite that little doubt is felt the truth or the latest All experts admit that Hie situation In the besieged town must be ns nol a pound of provisions or n package of ammunition has entered in It Is felt Hint food and war supplies havo been very low for some so that the only alternative would be surrender or n daring attempt to cut n way through the Investing lines nnd join the British forces south of the Tugela those who know him would undoubtedly take the bitter oven though its cost would be That retirement from bin position was timely Is evidenced by the dispatches lust These show that the immense British army wan being led into a trap in winch its annihilation was almost discovered tlie Boers mounting big funs on the hills where they command n delile through which Ihe Imperial forces would have to These while hidden nnd beyond reach of could sweep the whole the only possible mule lo mid massacre the Englishmen as they Bel rent also would have been as the Dutch forces were prepared lo take the in the rear had they to press HARASSED BY American In Albay Upon by Of late ihe insurgents in Albay have adopted harassing tactics against the towns which the Americans have They in hills and maintain n constant tire upon When the troops sally against them they returning when Hie Americans They shoot burning and have thus a large part of the town of most of Ihe larger towns in thai province are descried except .by Ihe Scarcely any of inhabitants return to their They are in the Interior und it is supposed Insurgents prevent thein going It is reported that there Is much suffering among them owing to lack of As a result of those conditions the hemp business In Hint section is seriously hindered and ships going for cargoes are compelled to take gangs coolies to do their Hemp in the Interior is Col. Bell will take two regiments and a buttery through the provinces of North and South going there on Many Insurgents retreated to that part of the Island from Cavile and Another expedition will soon start to garrison towns along the north coast of the island of warfare continues south of Two attempts have been made to ambush the Col. while returning tn Manila with his staff nnd an escort of 100 cavalry from wits by the The latter were but Ihe Americana had live men Lieut. Col. with six companies of the Forty-second bad a two light wild del which attempted to ambush Americans along the trull through Morong province near Here also the insurgents were but the Americans had several among a Col. Bell Is operating southward province with a small expedition is proceeding northward from It is reported thai the insurgent general Alejandro dus recovered from bis wound and has assembled a large force in that Tde plague Might cases were reported last week among the natives and There is no and business and social life lire Smallpox Is prevalent among the natives along the railroad and in the towns on the northern Two of the Thirty-sixth Infantry have died of the disease and ami several soldiers have been ot Current The Illinois State Board of Health recommends a sanitarium for consumptives be The resignation of Joseph W. Ivey as collector of customs nt has been M. will lecture for thirteen weeks in the United Billies next A stamp of the first of British In 1850, sold for St unci ion in New Tomato growers of Indiana liud Kentucky tiro organizing for protection from Hie canning A pun burst al In the pencil killing Hester ami injuring two other The ladies of Mexico City will give a bull light in of I he President Diaz and wife will The 1,800 employes of the Lehigh Uoal have been grunted u 2 per cent in objects to this Government appointing a representative to tile The commission to improve tho southwest pass of the Mississippi estimates tin cost at French manufacturers demanded rejection of the reciprocity treaty the It is reported In Copenhagen that the Danish Went - Indies are to be finally ceded to the United extended the time for ipr tun nt klz 1 Tho on the 12th passed the for a tenth of a mill tax for years for building for tho slate agricultural A similar for thu state university has already passed and both will undoubtedly be passed by tho Representative Warren's giving district power to appoint now appointed by which had passed tho was postponed by the Among tho important bills Introduced In the senato By appropriating Tor Iowa by requiring all life Insurance companies and associations to Issue two by providing for appointment of three deputy dairy commissioners to better laws; by making persons who sell or liquor to minors lo tho penalties of the prohibitory by repealing the law making a person who starts a fire for all the damage that may by consolidating tho state library and historical County treasurers nro to bo subjected to examinations by tho stato examiner appointed by under of Mr. Eaton of Mitchell passed the douse on 12th Inst. The governor is to appoint three nnd every treasurer's Is to bo examined by one of the examiners at least once a and if required by the board of Tdo details of the examination aro very and a system of uniform bookkeeping Is provided for county It is provided that this examination shall not do away with the regular examiners by tde county boards of Among ini bills introduced By that all the supremo shall live In lies and allowing each one a year extra on that by establishing tt state board of plumbing examiners and requiring plumbers to pass and making requirements Of The by a voto of 21 to on the 1!lih passed tho concurrent resolution for Irn il adjournment March 1. 1 immediately tiled a motion to Senator introduced a resolution Larrabee on bis public career and wishing him und and a resolution unanimously passed both houses providing for an adjournment of both houses on the 14th at 1:30 in Ids Senator Ball's requiring administrate ors to pay to county clerk funds In their hand where tde cannot bo found passed thu receiving a bare constitutional A to help out saloon keepers was Introduced by Senator Hubbard of Sioux Tho sumo was introduced in the A lo help tho saloonkeepers out ol their was introduced in bouse by Representative Ayers of The which was also introduced in the by the old mulct petitions good for nn the same as if the code of which supremo court holds Invalidated petitions procured beforo that had not been Tdo by Clarke of Dallas to abolish the office of state printer and binder and to let tho work lo the lowest bidder in was recommended lo pass by the printing Mr. providing that not all thu superintendents of hospitals for tho Insane shall bo of ono school of was discussed all morning and defeated by a vote of 38 to 63. Harrison County Is transferred from tho Fourth to Ibe Fifteenth Judicial district and un additional given to ttio Fifteenth district by a which was favorably reported by house committee on judicial In on tdo the Kiker to exempt personal earnings to tho amount of per week front and to subject all other earnings to was taken Tho ways and means committee had reported it for It was referred baok to Hie for the elimination of objectionable The committee on constitutional reported the joint resolution to amend constitution in favor of woman Blake Introduced a to encourage tho uf beet sugar by exempting sugar plants from In the senate on tho 1-lth the assessment providing fur a system of assessing for tho cost of street wero under discussion nearly tho offered an which provides for tdo appointment of a commission of two supreme judges and district judges to prepare rules to making of all Concurrence of four members of tdo commission shall be necessary to its rules Tho commission shall moot within twenty days after tho passage of the and shall complete Its work within ninety days News grand jury at Clear Lako Is the illegal selling of board of control has reappointed N. N. Jones to the of the Fort Madison Mr. Jones has served throo terms us Thomas Nugent of carbolic acid by thinking II was Ills mouth and throat wore badly but It Is thought do will The retail grocers will hold a convention Cedar Rapids last week In Mrs. Jane was found and in a dying condition on the 3f her homo at Opinion is divided as to whether it Is murder or death natural Judge tho Nebraska litis been assigned to look after court mutters lu the southern district ot Iowa during absence ot in tho south tiid pending the a tdo late havo frequently been kuown to commit by a circle of will to The Size of ao you like your now It's might be It a wide a yard Tho highest Is called Suo Few reach the top save those who watch sharply for ot the fl tho wIj hold upon
