LeMars Semi-Weekly Post (Newspaper) - February 23, 1900, Lemars, Iowa e Ce Mat Every Tuesday VOLUME RIGHTS TO ALL AND SPECIAL PRIVILEGES TO LE FEBRUARY 28, 1900. NUMBER 20. ELECTRIC NEWS FROM ALL PARTS OF THE CRUSHED BY ATTEMPT TO RESCUE CRONJE A Boer Force Under Many Being Killed nnd Wounded - British Was Two Officers and Four CRONJE HAS ESCAPED A special from dated Feb. 21, to relieve There has been severe Botha's force was scattered heavy Too war office lias received the following from dated Feb. 21: afternoon I was satisfied by u careful In force of tbo enemy's that I could not assault It without very heavy I was most anxious to Accordingly 1 decided to bombard bim with artillery and mi ii my attention to the enemy's The result was most Boers were driven off in all losing n good many killed and wounded and about fifty who say they arrived from two days ago by They also any it was our artillery Are which caused them to abandon the kopje they were Our loss was two officers aud four all slightly The Daily News has the from Modder dated Wednesday Feb. 21: Boor forces under Gen. estimated at 8,000 At 12 o'clock he asked an armistice of twenty-four which was Later he sent a messenger to say that he would British general a roply tolling him to come Into Cronje saying there had been a misunderstanding and that he would light lu the MAC RUM IS AN Is the Administration's Opinion of St. Lyman secretary of tho arrived hero Feb. 22 and is stopping at tho lie came to St. Louis to speak beforo tho commercial exchange at its lu an interview which appeared in tho St. Louis Secretary Gage said of the case of ex-Consul and his charges against the English administration thinks of Macrum exactly what every responsible man must that he is an I am convinced his charges aro absolutely without foundation and have been made in spite to embarrass the So far us 1 have been ablo to there is not a particle of to support his I do not believe Hint officials of the English government violate tho secrecy of our communications to our accredited and think the investigation to bo made will show as course if Macrum can substantiate If he can show documents will prove that his mail was tampered that will put the case in another If the investigation should reveal that stale of affairs then the administration will demand an apology for the But I do not believe there is tho slightest possibility of such a crisis arising the caso now Macrum is not troubling the It will nut give him the slightest notice until he proves his THANKS FROM MRS. LAWTON the Wily Hoor Hum A Lord of killed and wounded including two in the engagements up to Sunday causes as in Ihe officer's list neither the losses of 11 to Welsh and nor those of are This Is about the number that fell at whero the ami men brought the total losses to All tho comment in the morning both editorial and critical threaded with the disturbing hard has been ablo to beat and is being reinforced by tail from ami by force on fool aud horseback from the northern as well as the lato beleaguers of SIOUX FALLS Is suggest ion Gen. has A portion of official re- | if port from dated Feb. i 1 18, has been given as morning about while moving our laager near were attacked by the lasted until 7:.!0 in the evenin though on the whole the British were driven they each time renewed the The loss to the British must have been Thus far the Boer loss is 8 killed and 12 Captures National Populist Fusion The populist national committee of the fusion faction on Feb. 20 mimed May as the date for their There three cities in the race for Sioux and It was finally decided the next convention would meet at Sioux feature of the meeting was tbo unanimity with which the members accepted and indorsed the declaration of Senator Allen of Nebraska that Bryan would be the candidate of both tho Populist and Democratic parties and tho coupling with his that of Henry Caldwell of as the logical and most promising vice presidential Senator Allen went so far as to say that he had positive knowledge that THE HAWKEYE STATE NEWS OF THE WEEK CONCISELY Sends nil exhaustive Opinion Upon Operations of and Loan Associations to tho General Burnley sent to tho legislature recently an exhaustive opinion upon the operation of building and loan and insurance in accordance with the resolution parsed by the senate Feb. 7. Mr. criticises the issuance of guarantee stock by building and loan and says I ho executive though concurring in its is powerless to prevent the issuance of such stock because of the re- we light and were nominated by tho The power of the auditor of slato prompt GIVES LIE TO Answer Regarding Made by at The answer of the department to the house resolution culling for information regarding certain charges made by the late Consul was transmitted to ths on the 21st Tho document says the department of stale lias been in regular communication by mail and telegraph with since his entrance upon duties of his that his have been and there was only one instance of complaint in respect to the t mails Tor which was The document that w bile his did not report any instance of violation by the opening of the official by tho British In regard to a secret between United Stales ami Great it says no secret alliance is possible under the MACDONALD Leader of Severely It was reported Tuesday Gen. Hector commander of the Highland had been severely The last news received about MacDonald and the Highlanders was that they were pushing Tho war on Wednesday confirms the report that Gen. had been severely Maj. Hector to Modder Kiver from to assume command of the Highland Brigade when the former Gen. fell in tho battle of as Bryan's running mate he would lie acceptable to the Democrats and fusion national ticket would be Bryan and The issued a lengthy address to public selling forth contentions and denouncing Allen aud the other fusion leaders for deserting the No change was made in the date of the which was called to convene in Cincinnati 0. PHILADELPHIA Municipal League Secures Four of tho Sixteen from Tuesday's election in this cily did mil come in from some of the outlying wards almost daylight Sixteen magistrates were voted for aud the results show decided victory for the candidates by the municipal league in opposition to the regular and Democratic While the elected by reduced pluralities ten only two of six Democratic candidates were the municipal league electing the other THE GOEBEL ASSASSINATION Sheriff Sutton on Bail - Still in J. L. the sheriff Whitley who was recently arrested on a charge of complicity in the was brought here I mm waived examination 20 before County Moran and was admitted to This was the result of an between tho attorneys for the prosecution and Sutton left lor home in company with bis State Inspector N. Harlan who is also charged w ill complicity in the was also I from Louisville aud turned over Id tho local but no steps were taken in his and be is si ill in Lee another is also in jail WANT TO anil Franco Trying to Induce to in war in Africa is lu he the Kleine Journal Il its belief among oilier ihe opinion of its well Fans The govel are silent on the 11 was rumored here on the 2oih that and France are I ringing bear upon j Germany to join them in It. is understood Unit Germany has previously | declined to he a parly lo at i present or to countenance because if it i should do either I would embitter Lngland without gelling compensating advantage from and thing is will not intervene merely to play tbo game of some oilier power or I in the opinion or the attorney general insufficient to prevent or check lions contrary to the spirit of the law and lo public ONAWA LIKELY TO BE Threatens to Liquor A meeting was held in Ottawa Feb. 22, which was attended by sixty or seventy who took the necessary steps to form an A secretary and treasurer wero also an executive committee of seven was The chairman of tho visited the three saloons in town after Ihe notified them that they must close their places of business within twenty-four hours or proceedings would he commenced against The saloons have been paying tho town for the said they would Frank O'Connor said he would and William who runs the largest did not give any definite but it is thought that lie will close and Onawa will be FOUND IN A Aged Man's Body of Dentil a William I an aged gentleman of West was found dead In n cavo and one-half miles east of town and the circumstances of Ills death aro shrouded in who is 05 years of disappeared from ills homo hist Christmas and sinco that time a diligent search lias failed to discover any trace of his w On tho evening prior to his disappearance ho had a slight quarrel with bis over some trifling ami In the morning it was found that lie had It was general opinion that smarting from the effects of real or I wrongs the old gentleman had left the his dead body was discovered in a cave on bis old farm cast of West The body was lying about sixteen feet inside tho of tho cave on a large When found tho body was lying on its back cap and mittens still 011,0110 hand thrown carelessly over tho chest and every indication that death hail come peacefully to tho aged There was no frost in tho cave and the body was not dispels the theory that be had to The body was taken to town and a post mortem examination was but no light was thrown on the circumstances or cause of his There was no indication of foul play und no signs of a violent death from any Taken a The board of health of Salix held n special meeting Hie other day because of the return of Miss Anna Nystrom of that place to her home from She left home for soon after the outbreak of smallpox and the board of health notified her not to return until the danger of contagion had The action of board to request Iter to tithe qu lion PASTOR PLAYS THE QUEENSBURY AN HAVE RIGHT TO Demi General's Acknowledges Receipt of Homo Mrs. Lawton has the following acknowledgment of the receipt of tho homo Dear Gen. kindness as yours can never be and my heart is very full when 1 try to thank Words seem very poor at such a Will you please that I Uo appreciate it nud all my life will find in tho The universal feeling which prompted wonderful generosity from the nation is so to and so my It has relieved one anxious thought Henry would have and I do not know how to thank you or the Believe with kind very C. Two Islands Belong to Upon representations of the Spanish government to tho effect that some of the Islands south of the Philippine archipelago which had been taken of by United States gunboats wero rohly property of authorities of state department have examined tho charts and concluded to the with of our to tho islands of nnd both of which lie without tho boundary lines laid down by tho treaty of Two Miners Two miners were killed and one fatally Injured by an ox plosion of giant powder at their camp near Irish Evicted Tenants Killed Tho house of commons by 833 to 188 the second rend of the Irish tenants Gilbert Is Still Hot Ark. The contest on the 20thbetween Fred Gilbert and J. A.M. Elliott 150 birds each for the cup and lor tuo world's championship as a Gilbert's favor by a score or 188 to Gilbert thus retains ihe championship I ' 11 vim vidian house the gist its * than tor many Labor Win in Circuit Court nt Kansas Kansas Judge in court Feb. declared that labor unions bad the legal right to put in force a peaceful boycott against employers of and had a legal right to try by peaceful and fair persuasive measures to induce customers of a boycotted person or linn to quit that person or linn and patronize employers of union Will Tor Cremation and No j Christian { A to tho will of the Marquis of who died 011 made these my death 1 wish lo ho cremated and direct that my ashes be placed in the earth j to ashes j in any convenient that I hava 1 particularly request that no Christian mummeries or tomfooleries be performed at 1 lie but that 1 he buried us an If il should he a cum fort lo there aro plenty of Mends who would come to say a few words of in Hutchinson twelve miles from was killed by his on tho 21st hist. Tho brothers are unmarried und with their day before they attended the convention at 1'aris and next morning the dead body of Hutchinson was found in The brother went lo Paris after employing surrendered lo the lie refused lo lloy from a Arthur a 15-year-old-Iud, was sentenced to bo banished from tho state for two years in the district court hero Feb. 21, after having pleaded to a charge of forging a Tho lad's father will take him to California to remain with friends until the period of his banishment At ond of two if ho comes hack ho will be put in of a probation Double Ohio At Belle Center night James 1'ergrln, a shot nnd fatally wounded a whisky Ho came here and in his coll ho shot himself aud will Ills wife fainted and is still Tho men have been adversaries in the temperance agitation Young is worth Cuban Autonomist Tho autonomist parly has formally dissolved as a political Its leaders have decided under present it would be foolish lo continue to champion political which apparently belong neither In tho lure nor the Was A. jury dured a William a farmer living near Mount died from ' administered by 11 parly 1111-I loft homo to buy some live I While eating luncheon he ' ill and i Hurled coming down from Jackson's Hole report that a occurred on Teton a few days Two teams were buried and It required Iwo days lo dig them The drivers but some of tho horses wero Kennedy's Lust Hope Jefferson Tho supremo court has a motion lo transfer to Ihe court en bano of John the convicted train This in the last made to obtain his liberation and lie must now serve his in tho Battleship i San The battleship now building at lite Union iron it will probably be ready its trial trip beforo July 1. Guino of During a dispute over a game of craps in a in litis cily George Harp was shot and instantly Lieut. was shot in tho hack and ltd was shot through the It is uncertain who killed Gift lor President Barrows lias announced a gift of for Oberlin College from estate of William K. of who died in Florida ii few weeks lor the endowment of Ihe 402 San transport of importance from Manila will bo the with 11 consignment of HW bodies of soldier The will probably bo kept in strict quarantine until tho bodies can bo There aro moro coining on the transport Duke of to arrive about March of Gold Ouro Dead Los 11, or gold cure died suddenly on the Hist her return to or remain under j believing an ounce of j worth a pound ol I Mini 1)ukh nt | Cornelius 11 10-year-old boy of was bitten by a mad dog The dog was immediately and the buy has as yet shown no serious effects from the The following day another log hit Miss It is not believed that this dog was in order lo anticipate any serious the young woman was taken to Several sther dogs in the town have been suspected of rallies and n general slaughter of canines is going on there S. E. a very prominent young who was living one and one-half miles north of was driving home from town with u bay and as ho was waiting to cross the B. it Q. Ihe team took aud dashed in front of the which struck the wagon in tbo The ears run over bis betel and one killing him Ills sou was with but jumped and Shoo Factory proprietors of the huge shoe factory in Webster have applied to Ihe courts to ho declared voluntary A bonus of was lo have been given them but they have been able lo collect hut or this The liabilities oi Ihe business Is Willi which includes the brick etc. an Henry K. a detective of Sioux has commenced suit for against of John Collins on the ground thai the deceased him to watch ii young and handsome lest she fall in line with a younger j Brunt sal s he performed his duly ill 1 y bonis at an I price of cents an j Hoy Heavy j John a boy of lies j was to six years in Die 1 Kurt Madison for stealing worth of in Ihe night j Wood perjured on Ihe and ' thai was one of the reasons for the of one so a driver of 11 il id States mail wagon at was held up by two masked They took his gold watch and and forced him to up his key to the Ho had Just delivered his mail lo the depot und wagon was 6. Held for In tho preliminary trial of Leslie at the defendant was held to tho grand jury without is the man who Is charged with murdering Jasper N. Sutton ot because the hitter objected of his daughter to A Hold Three team and to the factory In Fort Hodge 011 Feb. is not in und loading all the Iron machinery that could he drove to tho foundry and sold It tor old lOyes Blown William Gleason of Mason a foreman of tho bridge gang on bad a stick of dynamite explode in his ills oyes uro both out nud bis faco is Haliy Tho infant of Mr. nnd Mrs. Henry was found dead in hod at It hud evidently smothered during tho It was months at Dr. Green's Church 1H au Good un Dr. rector of Grace Church at Cedar literally took the bull by the horns during the last notifying Choirmaster Hall that his services at tho church would bo needed no announced that ho would play the organ himself Sunday and invited as many members of tho choir as desired to be in their places In tho Choirmaster Hull bad culled choir together during the week and a number of them decided to remain with But the music in the church Sunday morning and again in the evening was of the same high order which has always the at that Dr. himself an accomplished presided at the big and with many of the former members ot the choir the musical part of tho service moved along without a Thero was not even a ripple of excitement in tho Dr. Green announces that he has secured the services of Dr. Charles It. of Grand who will he 11 curate of tho parish und have charge of the lie will take chargo of bis work the first Sunday in DIDN'T TAKE GIRL TO CHURCH Youngs Man IIIn Leslie a years shot Jasper an aged nud respected citizen of Sunday three bullets penetrating the abdomen causing almost Instant called at Sutton's homo to take his to Her father met at the door and ordered him All altercation ensued and weapons were drawn by both but tho man falling before he could raise his gave himself going into Stilton's home consoling the daughter until an officer Dentil In a Had Mrs. S. Harrington of was found In a condition the Illinois Central depot in Fori died without regaining Tho dentil is 11 particularly sad as Ihe woman is mother of several She left her home in Cherokee and happy to visit her old home in the family knew of her trouble was when notified by the Fort Fatal August 11 repairman in the Illinois Central was thrown under near he was repairing at Foil Dodge 1111 Hie and received injuries thai Bush of business compel Is I he railway to repair ears on the 11 nek while switching is being making il very but is the first Of not lo Dr. Although no record has been mad Ihe mailer ami direct confirmation can ha it is reported 011 what seems authority Hint John Alexander tho author and loader of has been enriched several dollars through the generosity of a disciple in Suicide in a Mrs. Frank Markel committed suicide at Clinton Monday by Jumping into a She win missed in tho forenoon and a searching parly hunted for her all At 7 p. m. hor body was discovered in tho A few years ago her daughter committed suicide by Jumping in the The sessions on Feb. 17 wero devoid ot lu the house ti resolution by Mr. Wilson of Keokuk denouncing Ihe circulars threatening was laid on tho Mr. Wilson ol Washington introduced a resolution congress lo provide for free rural Mr. providing that the shall pay for capturing escaped convicts was The house passe I a lull by Barrett of giving cities the power to require persons handling steam boilers to prove I In tho senate 11 hill appropriating for tbo commission to Incite tho Iowa regiments was Senator introduced a to provide for the establishment of 11 normal school 111 connection with public schools and leges in every county ill tho I The providing for commission lo examine barbers before they are allowed to and charging every barber 11 dollar a year for n with heavy penalties for was passed by the house Feb. 10. The Is intended to prevent the spread of disease by and numerous provisions to that i tenth of a mill lax for the stale for five years for buildings ami so did the by Downing requiring ten notice lo bo published before circulating petitions for mulct Important bills introduced in the house By that the consent of fourths of Ihe stockholders of any eoi tion must be secured for selecting or fixing salaries or by that the supreme court lu reduced j to live judges anil an appellate court be with three lo have jurisdiction over all civil matters not involving more limn except acts ot municipal anil the judges to be appointed by the governor lo organize i for business al. once anil to be I elected this full for four and six-year I term lo lie six years by j that trial judges shall appoint pert witnesses without consultation with I either I In the By increasing tho compensation of Ihe supreme court reporter from to per and giving him power to include a syllabus ol the arguments of with citations of The house passed several bills on the including one by Wilson of amending the military reorganizing the medical department upon a larger and giving the adjutant general a year ill lime of peace and 11 salary of a colonel In the a year in time of and enlarging Ins duties and The slate printer and binder won a victory by the of action on Hie to abolish the offices of state printer and hinder until inst. Tho on printing asked for time in which to make il report on the comparison of Clark ol of ol Audubon aud Malleoli ol Sic tried prevent while Messrs. Dyers of Dunham of Prentiss of asked for the 1111*111. Mr. Dunham an that should by Ihi lime the was taken up and after this was adopted Mr. Blake made repealed efforts lo fix Ihe lime nt un earlier tail was ruled out of II is now that Ihe lo abolish the offices of printer and binder will not The senate was occupied all Ihe session on Ihe b Willi Ihe leading of Attorney General opinion on building and loan Star 01 Lewis introduced a pi hale insane asylums under Ihe inspection and of Ihe board of The senate passed allowing of Ihe class having less than 10,(1110 population lo levy lax for a paid lire on the 21st inst. senate passed a making il a for a man who has nun lied a woman prosecution lor seduction lo desert or live veins ol house 011 Ihe allowing Ihe statu hoard of educational lo graduates of other schools in Iowa Ihe same as graduates ol Ihe stal i normal schools are now issuing them slale w be house also passed 11 by Mr. Wilson of Washington to pay ol Ihe national guard 10 cents per hour for not lo exceed 2D cents per and to lino Ibis Bills were introduced as liy to allow the stale treasurer In deposit funds In Dcs by MeA lo prevent men Iroin ill primaries ol ihe opposite by lo allow medicine 111.Ilillra lo sell iwo weeks in each lown lo introduce Tho and means submitted estimates of the ami expenses the for the biennial perio I ending June 1001. The total lie I available revenue for the period is The expenditures officially me leaving for extraordinary appropriations by this When They The Kaiser rises at 5 swallows a cup of coffee and then begins Tho Emperor Francis Joseph la about at 7 o'clock and on coffee and buttered Tho King of the King of the King of tho the King of the Sultan nnd tho Prince of Bulgaria rise at tho same hour ns ordinary The record for Indolence Is held by tho lie retires to rest nt peep of rises nt midday and takes a long time over his 44 Look Before You If a. dealer attempts to sell you a substitute when you ask for Hood's his only object is to make more profit on the which Is inferior and Therefore be sure to get Scrofula - years I had scrofula sores on my I took many medicines avail and thought I could not be Then I began taking and it entirety cured me. My health is now I am a trained and recommend for all blood J. D. 46 W. Main N. Y. PUIt enf Ilia Knd only to Uka with Honor for Old King According to Anglo Saxon Colchester owes Its nud fame to old King to give him his true From n book compiled by Wilson Marriage nnd two who have taken In hand the building of a new town we learn HiM Colo the Merry is to be honored in glass and sculptured with other ancient and of the Municipalities iu this country too often lose their opportunities of making their municipal storehouses of local history und quaint traditions und Colchester's new town hall Is to he 11 show place us well us 11 work and we It as an example to Venezuela a Hlu The republic of Venezuela contains square It Is larger than any country in except and lo C. N. Agent Big Four Wll Clark for full information as to low rale excursion tickets lo all winter resorts iu the I Jacksonville and cast nnd coasts of Florida as may bo Burned to An child of and Mrs. Henry Bales of was burned The were loft alone for a few und upon the return of Bales baby's clothing was The little ono in sumo manner had tipped over the kerosene saturating its clothing with ' Profits from From the fair hold In Webster City a net profit of 91,600. This will be added to the fund for tho now they will build in A City Man M. Shaw tendered the appointment for the state board of control to L. L. Kellogg of Sioux After giving the matter several Mr. Kellogg decided that his business interests would not permit him to take the and he wired the governor to that Omaha Ten rats in ton seconds was tho remarkable record made by 11 fox terrier owned by Clay Williams or in u rat pit iit Sioux City on thu His was a ti. fox Qui to a sum of money changed hands on the result of this und other professional ami amateur rat Found Charles was found guilty by a Jury at Chariton of and will probably get a ton sentence for attempting to wreck und Quincy last mail train 011 night of Nov. 211 broke out In tho but Ice houses belonging to W. J. Young & Co. at nud Ihe hard work of tho entire flro buildings wero entirely Tim Ice houses wore near the lumbor but tho lire was kept from Tim buildings originally oust several thousand but wero not worth There was no John won a third for mayor of Dcs In Done With Forever ho Is not the kind of bread mother used to his fair young wile said to abolish one Joke from family Is not the kind she used to but It's the kind she makes She brought over 11 this saying she knew you would be so glad to get another tusto Ot have been married for and my wife never falls to meet me at tho 1" shu's afraid 1 might go lu without wiping my what Is a you feel In your Cheerful don't believo Is a woman llv ing that Isn't able to make her do Just as she said tho know dozens of said the nro nil Indianapolis 81(111. When it thinking to bis A Charitable lives In a small but when travels he always registers from largo be Is afraid ho will do thai will discredit on Is How's We oiler reward use of that be cured by Hall's Catarrh & O. Wo the known 1''. Cheney lor the last and helluva perfectly lu all business aud lally to curry nut any by tfi 0. Hall's Cure Is taken Un city upon Die ami of tic pur Bold by nit Testimonials More of It. you looking for a square Pikes - I ain't particular 'bout square I'd have a long to long tint It wild take do Lick teh scope to see de end of it. Wion omen havo boon relieved oi female troubles by and Tho letters of a few are printed regularly In this If any ono doubts tho and character ot Mrs. write for a book sho has recently published contains letters from tho mayor of tho and others of hor who havo mado and who verify all of Mrs. ham's statements and Tho aro
