LeMars Semi-Weekly Post (Newspaper) - March 23, 1900, Lemars, Iowa Every Tuesday and EQUAL TO ALL AND SPECIAL PRIVILEGES TO VOLUME MARCH 23. 1900. NUMBER 28. AROUND THE EARTH f OCCURRENCES THEREIN FOR A JOIN cleveland down THEIR Signs Point to u General Movement on the Part 200,000 Men for a Clash in tn After voting for over four hoars In secret session ut 1,500 of both union and unanimously declared a to go into effect March 22. The strike affects about fifty-five machine shops and The result of the decisive ballot was with President said that now it looked as though Cleveland would be the stamping ground of one of the biggest strikes Inaugurated in the United It is staled about 2,000 men are including union and Should strike continuo a few days several thousand additional men in other trades dependent upon the machinists will become The strikers declaro they out until the demanded nine hour with ten is granted by their O'Connell of the International a nine hour day is not granted by the employers of machinists throughout the country by April 1, there will be a general involving 200,000 and not a wheel will be turned that concession is pears for freight French Lour Overdue at New During the passage of the French liner La from Havre to New York a special lookout was kept for the freighter which Is long overdue on her trip from this port to Bordeaux and There was not much hopes of sighting or learning of the during La Gascogne's for her course lay considerably to the nor Hi of that the freighter would take on her eastward The left this port Feb. 5, under command of Capt. Her crow numbered forty-five all natives of She carried no The only time she was so fur as Is known since leaving port was when the of the White Star Line exchanged signals with her on Feb. 11. The French steamer was then 450 miles southeast of Capo a position slightly north of the New York and Havre While anxiety for the safety of tho has been manifest in shipping circles for more thau one hope bus not been abandoned by the local agents of the One theory on which this hope is based is that the may havo met with a to her and drifted out of the track of the transatlantic During recent trips of liners between Now and Havre the commanders havo been instructed to keep special lookout for the missing alleged assassin a clash is Again Danger of In Ken tucky's A largo consignment ot guns and ammunition was received hero March 22 and stored in buildings adjacent to the Jail where the Whittaker and are This action was ordered the day before when it was said armed bodies of men from the mountain counties might come here to the preliminary The rumors were accompanied by hints that an attempt might be mado to rescue tho pris Beckham issued orders to the various companies of the state guard to report here Thursday for the purpose of pro the court house and jail during the examining Assistant Gen. Murray Is In Lexington and Is said to hove the orders to Capt. Longmire and his men recog nize as orders were issued secretly after a conference with Uen and it is not known Taylor will order the soldiers to go to the court house If he should take similar notion a is A telegram to a local dated from a town in the says many friends of Bowers and who are from that soot are organizing to oome hero to attend the An authorized statement on behalf of David G. Colson was given out Thurs day which stated he knows nothing of the alleged confession of Sergeant F. W. Golden or Berry Ho claimed Colson had been talking secretly with tho prosecution and had been Instru mental In securing information from Berry who is a close price on Kansas Chief of Police Offers Bounty or Kansas H. J. ohlef of the Kansas do has hung up u bounty for the bodies of all highwaymen killed in that while In the act of committing bery or directly Tho price that the chief to give for the body of each the money to bo paid out of is Tho reward is open to members of the police as well as any There have recently been many highway robberies on the Kansas side ot the NETHERLANDS SAYS NO. THE HAWKEYE STATE news of the week concisely Made ot Cedar Rapids for the Placing of Dynamite on Church Saloon Cause of All tho life suddenly cut off. In- Bald to Be a Whose Name Was Divulged by Tho stories growing out of the Sergeant Wharton Golden or the company of state militia and tho attorneys who are managing the investigation of tho assassination of Gov. have caused a sensation throughout the Golden will bo placed on the stand by tho prosecution in the trial of tho persons already arrested for alleged complicity in the but information as to the exact nature of the testimony he is to give is story is published that Golden has divulged to the attorneys tho name ot the person who fired the shots that killed The person named Is a who formerly lived at was prominent In the and is known as a dead Tills man is now supposed to be in tho wilds of one of the mountain Evidence that he was in Frankfort at tiie time of tho assassination was found among papers taken from W. a clerk in auditor's when the latter was ar rested a week or so ago on a warrant charging him with being an accessory to Is Unable to Comply with the Ap peal of the Boor The After deliberation the government the reply to Presidents Steyn and regretting it Is unable to comply with their request for Intervention in the South African after the formal declaration or the British government that Intervention would not be It is that the government of the Netherlands is ready to support stops tending to a restoration of An American Dreyfus and said to have been formerly In the wholesale business in New York and to be undor there on the charge of their creditors out of In a havo been arrested In they left New York they havo been traveling as commercial Not A special from says that who been as the man who shot is not butts Ills barber shop Boy Defends His Georgo a day living In a suburb of was shot and Instantly killed by The elder was intoxicated and was making It murderous Cuba at Pan-American N. The military governor of after a consultation with the secretary of has to have Cuba resented at the Exposition in 1891. on n to South Part of the plan for the pacification of South Africa Is now apparent In the announcement that all British authorities there will make every effort to induce expired volunteers and colonials from abroad to settle thero us soon as war is over by giving them 240 acres of land providing they occupy it for ten Agents in all the colonies and authorities in and tho Chartered company In London arc lending aid to tho Men who do not wish to take up land will bo mado tempting offers to enlist In the chartered company's Hold forco undor It Is declared officially that tho war office will not sanction or encourage transfers from volunteers or to tho regular establishment of tho British Schemer Pined Richard a pleaded guilty in the United States district court to the of having used the mails to defraud country by means of a so-called Judge Kohlsaat imposed a line of and ordered the defendant lo refund money amounting lo nearly ho has received from Ills market Sioux common to 25@j28o; dairy 18020, 22@24. to to shipping to fair to to No. 2 05c to 07c; No. 2, 87c to 88c; 2, 24c to 25c; No. 2, 04c to choice 28c to 25c; 14c to 15c; SOc to 45c per to choice to common to to No. 2, 71c to 72c; No. U 80c to 88c; No. 2 27c to 20c. St. to to to No. 2, 71e to 78c; No. 2-yellow, 80c to 38c; No. 2, 20c to 28c; 2, 65c to SOc. to to to 2, 73c to 74c; No. 2 80c to 40c; No. 2 25c to 27c; No. 2, 01c to 03c. ' to to to No. 2, 72c to 78c; No. 2 38c to 40c; No. 2 27c to 20c; 58c to 00c. No. 2 72c to 78c; No. 2 87c to 38c; 2 24c to 25c; No. 2, 67c to clover to No. 2 05c to 07c; 30e to 88c; No. 2 28c to 27c; No. 1, 67c to No. 2, 42c to 44c; to good shipping to common to to fair to to common to to New to to to No. 2 70c to 81c; No. 2, 44c to 48c; No. 2 81c to 33c; 20c to 26c; 18c to 21c. Albert and Louis Louis Frank Frank William and Mike wore arrested at Cedar on tho 17th on a charge of placing dynamite with Intent to destroy a Tho arrests grew out of placing of a stick of au empty beer keg and some empty whisky and beer bottles on the steps of St. Paul's Methodist Church March 11. is great excitement in tho When the supremo court recently decided that tho petitions of consent under which tho saloons of Iowa were operating n Iowa under the mulct law were invalid the prohibitionists effected a strong organization to prevent if tiie securing of a new petition ot In the liquor advocates also organized their forces and on 7 began tho canvass for the new Many people in the not advocates of the but who believed that the liquor could best be controlled by having tho mulct signed tho petition and it went through with nearly 70 per of thoso who voted nt previous election signing it. The ministers had organized what termed Committee of 200" aud all during tho week they kopt up a hard Numerous communications from their members were published in the they leaving no stono unturned to the But it was all finished up in four March 11, Rev. E. J. pastor of St. Paul's M. E. had a strong argument against the saloon In one of tho local It was conceded to be tho hardest blow that had yet been dealt the saloon Sunday night at midnight an discovered an empty beer keg on tho steps of tho It was surrounded by a number of empty whisky bottles and on top of it was placed a package of into which was running a fuse about two feet to the end of which was attached a detonating cap. The fuse had been but evidently before tho cap had been placed on It. The discovery created a great The Liquor Association held a meeting Immediately and offered a reward of for the arrest and conviction of guilty while the official board of St. Paul's Church offered u reward of for their and Tho police Immediately began work on the case and tho arrests Saturday night From the statements made by tho men under arrest it that they had met in tho lower ond of town on tho the 11th. Albert who is a bartender in his father's invited thorn into the they had a number of It was then that he proposed that they take the empty keg and some empty bottles aud placo them on the church together with a They all agreed and started toward the Al Kuba going ahead to sco that the coast was After placing tho keg and bottles on the steps Kuba camo down by tho and unknown to the others in tho party placed tho dynamite on bcor He that tho fuse was burned before they started from tho The authorities aro of the opinion that all men arrested aro Innocent of any Intentional wrong with the exception of Albert whom it is believed placed dynamite there with tho intention of intimidating the ministers and earnest temperance It is probable that ease him will be pushed but that the others will escape with light Conductor on tho Killed at Tho west bound accommodation train No. 73, on the Milwaukee collided with an engine switching in tho yards at Hull other and the accident resulted In the Instant death of Conductor Miko and the loss of the rigid hand of Chester A coupling had been nnd French was trying lo cut in the when requested him to step aside and let him do it. Ho entered between the e stooping down to couple tho air lubes just as ilio collision His bead was caught between the bumpers and crushed off. French was also and his haul so badly mangle I that it had to be Both engines were injured so that was delayed WILL CONQUER OR DIE this declaration is made by president Compulsory Compulsory vaccination has decreed by tho school board of Iowa and all pupils failing to at the opening oT the spring a of vaccination from a resident will be denied dice to the scho Is. This step Is deemed expedient by board on account of the prevalence of smallpox al numerous points in the south part of the and the step is taken as a jirec against the spread of the dis in Hie event of iis appearance in Fatal Result of nn People going lo Newton on the Des Moines road from west discovered body of Arthur Dingman lying at the sido of the road under an overturned There was in evidence ot Ho undoubtedly drove off end of a culvert at the point where he was found and was thrown out and struck by the wacon when it turned His death was probably at there was no sign of any effort being made to extricate Nine tho Nino young six of whom wore from received white veils and wore admitted Into the mother house of the Sisters of Charity at Dubuque on Inst. Their names Elizabeth Lydla Des Lucy Margaret Kose Margaret Mary Mary Agnes Free Tho government has ordered the inauguration of another rural mail delivery route In Hardin County und service will be commenced in a few The new routo starts from Union in tho southeastern part of the county aud will bo miles iu It will cover thirty-three square miles and render mail servico to at least 600 A. D. Wood of Union has been named as Burlington Man There was great excitement al Burlington over tho disappearance of Ernest a popular young man and u member of the firm of Grocery lie loft homo 17 to hunt at Carthago across the and Intended to come home next It was thought he accidentally shot himself or was A large party left for tho Illinois bottoms Monday lo search for tho missing The remains of woro found in tho J. C. formerly president of the Cass County has returned to I home iu having completed hie sentence iu tho lie main tains his innocence of complicity iu fraud of that institution just as he did Ho will probably remain in though lie lias no plans for future Mr. says bo cherishes no ill will against any Not His Only It is reported that Alfred one ol tho young men arrested on the charge of placing dynamite on tho sieps of St. Paul's Methodist Church at Cedar has confessed to placing an explosive near homo of Attorney Lyon some time ago Kuba was held to the grand Jury in bonds of The remaining defendants woro held on charges of unlawful assemblage u The Platte conference of the Gorman Evangelical Church reported favorable on proposition to establish a denominational college In If the Des Moines which meets this and the northwest which meets at Ackley on April 5, report favorably tho college will bo He No Aid from Other tint Are to Fight to the Arc ill Notwithstanding recent reverses and the general of the Free Suite ns a in the with tiie rumored disheartening liners in eminent uni is lo believe that t resident Kruger is correctly as his pi conquer or ihe si have been rumors of from the Free but from t there has not been the slightest indication that its burghers have ever thought of fullering or of peace unless hitler should lie upon lines lor which the determined citizens of slie South African republic took up President Kruger is by way of as been forced into the the Boers will conquer or 1 expect no aid from oilier but we arc glad and The is willing to make peace at any but we waul no more Only absolute independence is We don't want more but are content with our present if we are permitted to live This is nil wo These statements read strangely enough in connection with the fact that the Free State is an army is on it's way to the relief of aud and Lord Roberts are each at the head of an army ready for the advance upon the As to Dr. Leyds Is Bald to be still looking hopefully toward that in offering its friendly to England the American Government has done all it can do short ot Intervention which would mean Possibly Russia's forthcoming answer to President appeal for intervention may bo moro effective as regards aid to the but unless the continental powers arc prepared for forcible intervention there Is no aid in for Paul and his people outside their own strength and That the sturdy president of the Transvaal contemplates this possibility is From present indications the world is likely to witness u heroic lint pathetic and useless struggle before South African liko the Orange Free has a new capital and n new The British Inhabitants of the whose rights as have hitherto been are now experiencing the hardships of President Kruger has commandeered all able-bodied men iu the no mutter of what The British citizens in Pretoria or elsewhere in the perhaps with the Idea of being on winning no matter what might are beginning to discover of endeavoring to serve two Under penalty of i hey have been ordered proceed lo Slid help to repel the This is interpreted In Loudon to mean that the liners arc in desperate The British say Hint even the unyielding president of the most uncompromising party among the Boers ol Africa Ik beginning to recognize the hopelessness of i he struggle Car Tho Des Moines Hallway Company has put in operation a system for handling Its Thero Is a central telephone station at the central waiting room In of the chief and each branch Hue has telephones from which to report arrivals and etc. This system enables tho company to tho street railway with an order system such as is used by the preliminary examination of McCrystal with killing Contractor John Kobson last at Sioux City was held before Justice The judge hearing both sides of tho case decided the submitted was not sufficient to the man ond he was from There is a possibility of the caso being la It on before tho grand Pardoned on Gov. Shaw lias pardoned Blair of Des who is serving eight for breaking and a but ho ties IU in down with Blair must stay in at lead n bo employed and give an account of himself at least onco a month to tho ohlef executive of tho state as to whore ho is what ho does with his and with whom ho Safo Blowers at Fort & Baloun was robbed at Fort Dodge of in cash and Tho saloon Is right in the business part of tho No olow to tho Identity of the robbers lias bcon Firo at At about 2:20 Sunday morning fire a largo building owned by B. Stouffer aud by 81gnall & extensive In at Tho loss on tho building is estimated at and on the stook is well by How the lire started Is as yet a A servant of tho Hotel Alien at this is a light form of It is tho only case in the city and well There Is no danger of a spread of the New Mill for The committed has in charge the subscription for the of obtaining a new Hour ami grist mill for lias succeeded In obtaining the subscription of and the mill will ho buit this Roosevelt of and T. S. Wallace of aro tho parties who will creot the Firemen While going to n at Davenport a hook and ladder truck was run Into by a street car and three men wens badly Tho David John and Assistant Chief were all thrown to tho pavement violently and two may Iowa Its bank at Decatur Decatur has Its Tho institution Is a private affair with a capital stock of and surplus or 18,000. Tho officers Nathan John vice K. W. Smallpox at Smallpox hits broken out among tho school at where oases aro secretary of tho state board of health visited Hamilton aud two oases to bo Monona County Land There woro somn changes iu County real last Tho total footings for tho week wore mostly farm Monona County lauds aro considered good Lost Child Found In The 4-year-old son of John Reynolds mysteriously disappeared ut Hamburg Searching parties were sent out and ho was found unharmed In an open cesspool behind tho Young Lady Terribly Miss residing In East was run over by a Burlington freight train while attempting to cross tho Both legs were cut off. Famous Turkish General mid Hern ol A A dispatch from Constantinople announces the death of hero of Plevna and greatest Turkish soldier of recent lie was years His defense of Plevna against an overwhelming force in 1H7H gave him enormous By the he caused to be thrown up he arrested lor lour months the advance of the lu three pitched battles he overcame Ihe finest troops of the Czar's Senator Classen called up his to the home matter on tho 17th and it passed tho senate without The permits members of tho who have no dependent to retain their if they are not guilty of drunkenness or other Senator Mullan's requiring a law instead ot two ond a three high school course preparatory for study of passed the It docs not take effect until 1901. Senator Hobart's Increasing tho salaries of state library and Senator Hayward's allowing school districts Bell bonds to purchase school house were The house 1)111 requiring pit foreman and engineers to pass examinations before they are allowed to these duties The by making train robbing or wrecking punishable by life Imprisonment The house did no important business on March 17. but had run with Mr. Wilson of who was called to tho chair during tho consideration of to protect bee trees from The house passed the providing the court shall appoint tho third arbitrator in Tho following bills were passed by tho house March 10: The senate by allowing one-third of the school directors ot a county to call au election for the law now requires half the directors to issue such senato by requiring duplicato returns on sites of real estate under execution to bo made to the where the sale Is and also the land is house by preventing tho owners of national bonk stook from offsetting debts against such stock to escape house by allowing reports of building ami loan associations to be made to tho auditor March 15, instead of January 81; house by that tho directors of privato corporations shall submit a financial report to stock holders In tho senate on March 10 Senator Trew In's requiring all stale officers to mako an Itemized report of expenditures to bo published by the executive was defeated on account of an amendment requiring the publication to be by contract to the lowest Senator Fitzpatrick's to prohibit the solicitation of liquor sales in prohibition counties The ways biuI means committee introduced a prepared by Senator Hoaly curing numerous defects in the collateral inheritance The senate passed the following Making dairy clerk a deputy and raising his salary from to and allowing lilin one additional assistant at same salary to aid Iu inspection and in enforcing the present laws; allowing tho secretary of tho board of educational examiners allowing city councils compensation for acting as hoard of to bu paid by the The only business iu house on March W was the discussion of tho to allow mutual Insurance to reorganize into stipulated premium companies and allowing the organization of stipulated premium companies by other This la the which the Southwestern of n. and others are Interested in. The Cheshire for the taxation of telegraph companies wus takou up in the 20, and Boll's similar lo the ono ho offered on the express wits Senator offered his substitute for the entire proposing the present railway taxation of telegraph aud telephone and was making his argument for the substitute when the Bi bouses adjourned to visit the agricultural collego at Ames In tho The Cheshire to tax telegraph companies on the unit basis was debated all day on March 21 In the The senate adjourned without In the Senator Trowin Introduced a authorizing tho council to reassess and relevy taxes heretofore hold to be Such Is to bu made under any valid law whether in forco at the time such assessment nnd levy were mado or thereafter for tho of preventing telephone and express companies from escaping taxation under tho court decisions holding tho laws taxing i heso companies lo be The house on March lil adopted tho livers to tho stipulated premium all companies to put up real estate mortgages to unpaid Tho house then defeated It only 44 i The hill passed legalizing the mulct i saloon permits scoured prior to October 1, and since that lime up to February 1, 11000. This the holders of 1 permits from prosecution under tho recent supremo court decision for operating saloons during that New he secured lor the operation of saloons slit February 1, 1000, Iu all and counties were procured prior to October 1, 1897. Ali the Turkish to the United has mission to take his lo The minister in v wife to but llm I i. i. ish r AM F. with i some time ago the suicide m Ottoman for twenty He was his wife and who c Being a leave of absence to be present ' s daughter's he i Four widows of revolutionary s are still on the pension hi war of the revolution ended 12') They range lu age from to Seven daughters of revolutionary arc still drawing Of the 01)0,000 has been paid In pensions was by One pensioned survivor ot the war of 1812 He Ib Hiram years and Mb home is in northwestern New The lant pensioned soldier of the revolution did not die until He was 10!) years 0 months aud 8 dayB He lived hi N. Y. Moro widows rhan soldiers of the war of 1812 were In that war 200,916 soldiers served sixty days or The pensioned were 30,-000 soldiers and 85,000 To the ole survivor of the war of 1812 the is now paying a nnd to widows of that war Census taking is not the political picnic that many people Few appreciate tho magnitude of the The eleventh census coat more than and in tho twelfth census au forco of more than 2,000 for about two years and a field force of over 50,000 for from two weeks to a month will be the Hollerith tabulating by which the is counted the returns make census taking a huge industrial process. The census becomes a the director of the census a captain of if he is to be must possess all the directive energy and genius for organization which characterize our most successful manufacturers and railroad Senator receives as large a mall as Senator which 1b saying a great Several times a day the pages distribute the mail in tho and the pile on Mr. desk is almost mountain Ho is not only addressed lu his capacity as Senator by constituents who want but his personal acquaintance is so large and his financial interests so great that his correspondence from these two sources alone would keep his stenographer is very systematic iu disposing of his He does not allow it to und thus It does not become n burden to More Invitations to deliver after-dinner speeches come to Mr. Depew than to any other Serious Firo nt Quito a disastrous firo at consuming entirely a largo auxiliary to tho N. S. Filler and used solely for storage of egg fillers put up in Tho fire Is a Tiie probable loss Is about fully Wheels Passed Over Hla Anton a young farmer living north of was badly hurt by falling from a wagon loaded with The wheels passed over his his ribs and his On July 1, 187(1, he Inflicted u loss of killed ami wounded on his The next battle cost Ihe Russians 170 officers and 7,1!M( and the three stubborn assault of Skoboloff later when the Russian grenadiers got within yards of the but failed to puss tho fatal lire ended in a Russian Iocs of 18,000 to 20,-000 It was resolved to starve out tho army of which originally numbered about nnd an army ot 120,-OOt) Russians completed the At days after the close siege had and 144 days lifter ids arrival lit determined on a attempt to cut his way waa of the fiercest but many hours of bayonet lighting ended In the Turks being driven and the of surrendered with the honors ot tn 1800. The your 181)0 produced 2,447,1588 tons of new Great Britain with 1,703,014 Tho United with 283,004 nnd Germany with 170,285. One of tho remarkable achievements of the your was tho Oceanic ono ot the largest vessels ever Another novelty turbine destroyer which some thirty-five knots tin A striking of the year's record was the increase of tonnage built on tho great Seventy of 72,094 were built on the great On our seaboard 75,31.'I tons of steel steam vessels were the largest output In our Hunted to a Americans don't sufficiently lovo their homo wo had to go to boarding because so ninny relatives our homo life better than thoy did their Mm News of Minor The Stato immigration agent of Washington estimates that 80,000 persons have moved Into that Stato during the past Because of tho rise in price ot European Inquiries aro pouring In from tho West Indies and Mexico for Alabama Henry E. a letter carrier in the is a- ton of who coj it Ho camo to Aih A Society had u queer experience en New Year's is no popular everyone thought ho would he Invited somewhere bo ho invited The One Thins your a success na it drawing nt least he a. There is a movement ou foot for the passage of a law requiring defendants in cases iu United States courts to furnish bail through surety companies rather than While theie is very little ball forfeited iu ihe compared with the State and municipal nevertheless time n always moru or less trouble in tins une it is almost impossible to recover no ' bail bond without legal Th name was found iu on bonds by civil officers ol until the system of suit companies was .No surely company has ever declined to pay a bond except ill one where a depute as to liability The condition or the negro In Washington lias been made the subject of investigation by John W. who for twelve years has been one of the district In the district as clerks and messengers are fifty negroes receiving salaries aggregating There are forty negroes on the police forco in various capacities drawing a while there aro 600 negro men and women in the school system as whose yearly pay Is with the negroes iu various public institutions and the street and sewer bring tho total up to 2,000 drawing an annual compensation ot about Commissioner of Health Reynolds of Chicago bus written a letter to Surgeon General Sternberg at Washington protesting the shipment of the bodies of soldiers from the Philippines to the United States and proposing a conference of the sanitary officers of tho country to consider the bubonic Tho doctor fears tho plague may bo brought into the country in this way and ho asks the surgeon general's assistance to prevent tho bringing home ot bodies the plague has ceased in the Philippine Enumerators for the census in June will be furnished with badges by which aro to bo worn In a conspicuous place so as to bo plainly and which will bo their credentials for gathering their These badges will be made of German one and Inches wide by one and inches shield surmounted with an eagle and bearing the States 1800." ordet boa already been placed for 60,0
