Bloomington Progress, Bloomington, Monroe County, 2 February 1900 — Page 6

WARBENIS EEPULSED

BOERS FORCE BRITONS TO FLEE FROM SPION KOP.

News of the Reverse Slirouds London in Deep Gloom Belief la Expressed that the Burghers Led Buller's Men Into a Death Trap.

England was startled Friday morning to learn that Gen. Warren had abandoned Spiou Kop, the position he had occupied Tuesday night. The news came in a dispatch from Gen. Buller to the Secretary of State for War and was posted at the war office. London was shocked, through and through, by the announcement. The shock was the greater because of the prediction of Buller Thursday which lifted British hope. Extra nnnors carried the news over the city in a few minutes after ttw bulletin was posted at the war office. Knots of men gathered on the street and discussed the disaster. In an hour Gen. Warren fell from a position as England's idol to one of disgrace, though

GEN. WHITE'S HEADQUAKTEBS. many were inclined to await further news before condemning him. Crowds flocked co the war office for further news of the reverses. Military men find a clue as to the cause of Warren's reverse in Buller's dispatch of Wednesday night. He said then that Warren was holding the kop under a most annoying shell fire and that his tosses were severe. This, taken in connection with Warren's easy occupation of the place, leads to the belief that the Boers led the English into a death trap. Artillery was probably placed on the surrounding kopjes with -which the Boers poured a constant and galling fire into Warren's garrison on the kop all day Wednesday, making it so hot for the English that they had to retire under cover of darkness. High military officials refused to discuss the reverse until Cull details were learned, but they admitted that it might again halt the Natal campaign. The situation in the neighborhood of the armies other than around Ladysmith is unchanged, but a forward movement 'by Gen. French is daily expected. The beat is reported as terrific, the thermomeier registering 107 degrees in the shade.. A letter received in London from Pretoria gives the text of a complaint which President Kruger made to President eJteyn regarding the want of co-operation on the part of the Free Staters at Modeler river and also President Steyn's Address to the Free State troops. Mr. Kruger said that he had learned with regret that "only about 1,000 men of the Free State fought in the last battle and that many others remained in their camps while their brothers resisted and even defeated their enemy." These statements appear to give official confirmation to the reports of disagreements between the allies.

China has six smokeless powder manufactories. Tangier is z. city without vehicles. Donkeys are used for transportation. The new glass roof on the Sydenham Crystal Palace in England cost $00,000. Two thousand Hebrew officers are on the active and reserved lists of the Austrian army. Trees and shrubs are being planted along the Suez Canal to keep the sand from drifting. Maori men and women in New Zealand have taken to golf and are developing remarkable skill. The subscription for the Boers opened at St. Petersburg has already reached a total of nearly $23,000. The nucleus of a fund has been collected to transfer the body of Chopin from Paris to Cracow. Publishers in Finland lose from $6,000 to $10,000 a year due to suppression of books by the Government. Tarantulas are being raised in Australia for their webs, which are used in making threads for balloons. Parisian authorities are trying to devise regulations for automobile traffic which will be fair to all parties concerned. Prayers are being offered at the Mohammedan Mosque at Lanore for the success of the British arms in the Transvaal. The chief rabbi of London has ordered special prayers in all the synagogues for the success of the British in South Africa. Tokio, Japan, has twenty-two crematory furnaces. It is estimated that 43 per cent of those who die in Tokio are sremated. The German Government has bought Schllemanu's palace in Athens, at $80,000, for the use of th German Archaeological Society.

TO BUILD A MODERN ZION.

Great Religious City Near Chicago Where All Will Be Pure. A great religious city, where the commerce of the world will venter and where there will be no wickedness, will, if the present plans of the promoters are carried out, soon be built up in the suburbs of Chicago. The leaders of the peculiar sect who are to be founders of the new Zion are so firm in their belief that destruction is soon to overtake Chicago because of the wickedness of its inhabitants that they have bought, or have an option on, (i.000 acres of land near Waukegan, a suburb of Chicago, on the lake shore, and here the future city, where all is to be pure and good, is to rise. John Alexander Dowie and his wife

ROBERTS IN DEFENSE.

JODX ALEXANDER DOWIE. are the leading promoters. Ground is to be broken for a temple early in May, with most impressive ceremonies. The ill are to be healed, Dowie declares, and the world is to receive its first revelation of what a modern Zion is to be. Later, building of two factories, the industrial beginnings of the city, is to begin. One is to be for the making of shoes, and the other is to be a lace factory. Next on the program will be the laying of the corner stone for the Temple

Mormon Makes a Strong: Plea for Justice Before the House. Debate on the lloberts case reports began in the national House Tuesday. Chairman Tayler argued for the majority resolution, which provides for excluding the Utah member. Mr. Littlefield of Maine argued for the minority resolution to permit Roberts to be sworn in and then expel him. Mr. Roberts closed the debate for the day, without exhausting the period allotted to him. He quoted from the findings of the committee, and asked, "Without a violation of the constitution of our country can you deny me the right to appear at the bar of the House, from which I have been improperly turned away, and prevent me from being sworn V" The House, lie continued, was subject to a great temptation at this time to respond to the popular will, without regard to the limitations imposed by the constitution. Other great and proud nations, as much so as the United States, had for violations of this kind gone into decay and naught but ruins marked the places they once occupied. "And so I would warn you of the danger of the departing from the constitution to respond to the clamor of misled people." What was proposed in the House now, Roberts said, was that because in the sanctity of the church men have taken a plurality of wives, one of whom has been elected a Representative in Congress, and the sanctity of the home is threatened, a more lawless act than polygamy shall be done to rebuke the man so elected. Mr. Roberts said, as he had said on the second day of the session, that he did not stand, as the advocate or defender of polygamy. It had been conceded by Luther, to whom more than any other man the people of to-day owe whatever of religious and civil liberty they possess, that polygamy was not prohibited by the scriptures, and that it was a crime merely because it was prohibited by law. The people who believed and practiced polygamy, he said, did so as a part of their religion, which they believed came to tliem direct from God. In that view they had not at first; submitted to the laws against it, hoping for a favorable judgmenc by the court,

and when that failed, for a reversal. But the reversal did not come. Thirteen hundred Mormons in Utah suffered punish-

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of Zion, and then there are to be portents in the heavens, which may be read by all men except those enclosed in the Chicago streets. Later Dowie is to make a triumphal tour to the Holy Land. On the lake front will be situated 320 acres of the tract, and there Dowie promises the commerce of the world is to be centered. Dowie, who calls himself general overseer of the Christian Catholic Church, was born in Scotland about sixty-six years ago. He was educated for the ministry in the Edinburgh Seminary. He appeared in Australia about eighteen years ago and started a grocery store. He was elected to the Common Council

MRS. JOnN ALEXASDEU DOWIE. of Melbourne and then opened a tabernacle. Becoming violent in his language against the Council he was given thirty days to leave, and came to San Francisco, where he opened a church. Going to Chicago the year before the World's Fair, he started a tent service on what later became the Midway Plaisanee. He is now the lessee of a church with a seating capacity of 3,300, and also of a hall where he has a printing establishment, with a perfecting press, three duplex presses and many job presses, 118 stands and a chapel of sixty union printers. The building is also the home of the Zion Bank, a wealthy institution, and the Zion City Land and Investment Association.

ment by the courts, including the Representative from that State. "They need not have suffered," he went on, "if they had but said the word." The laws against plural marriages did not obtain in the States surrounding

Utah, so that many plural wives had been ! Cfinf" iiitrt rKain thn Kn twit iriYi t tr iii rr '

.'V. V . V lill. 411 y V 4-1 11 1 V. llKUUlilQ in Utah and there observing the law against plural marriages. Roberts said it was a mistake to hold that he was the representative of the Mormon church, chosen over the protest of the gentile citizens. He had been elected after a thorough canvass, in which the people knew all about him, by a plurality of 5,005. The right of a constituency to the free choice of its representative ought not be denied or abridged by the action of the House. In conclusion Roberts said he could neither be excluded nor expelled without dangerous action action fh threatened to overthrow the foundation of Government. "And I intend, gentlemen," he continued, his voice rising to its highest pitch, and his whole innnuer intense and dramatic to the last degree, striding up and down the aisle, "to cling so closely to the pillars of liberty that you shall not drag me away unless you pull the pillars down with me." The House resumed the debate on the Roberts case at 11 o'clock Wednesday. The galleries were again well filled, most of the occupants, as on Tuesday, being women. Mr. Powers (Vt.) was the first speaker. He argued in behalf of exclusion of Mr. Roberts. The contention of the minority for expulsion, he said, ran up against the very precedents which were cited in its support. "We are not separating wife from husband," said Mr. Powers, commenting on Mr. Roberts' speech. "Polygamy has never been legal

in Utah, either before or after her ad- j mission into the Union. Polygamy was ! illegal under the common law of England. The moment he took wife No. 2 the marriage was void. Mr. Roberts knew the law. He cannot now plead the I 'baby act' against the law and stern jus- ' tice." Mr. Snodgrass of Tennessee followed

Mr. Powers, supporting the views of the minority in favor of seating and then expelling Mr. Roberts. Mr. Landis (Iud.) argued that Utah had violated her compact with the United States. Mr. Landis went' over the record of the apostles of the Mormon Church to show that most of them were guilty of continued polyg. amous practices. Some o? his statements were sensatioual.

One of the Choice Spots on the Contl nent for Settlement. The following extracts from an In

teresting letter to the Mason City (Iowa) Republican, written by Mrs. S.

A. Brigham, late of that place, but

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ure in presenting same to the attention of our readers : Ross Creek, Alberta, N. W. T., Canada, Aug. 7, 1891). Editor Mason City Republican:

Dear Sir We are located in. the

Beaver Hills, thirty miles from Fort Saskatchewan and fifty miles from Edmonton. To the east of these is a.n immense area of bottom lands, which furnishes abundance of hay for the settlers. It is dotted with small lakes, the largest of which is called Beaver Lake, sixteen miles in length. There is fine shelter for the cattle and horses: now feeding there. The Beaver Hills are covered with small green willows which are easily gotten rid of before breaking up the land. Here and there poplar, birch and tamarack trees abound. Small meadows are numerous. The soil in these hills is much richer than the bottom lands, being a kind of black leaf mold. There is no tough sod to break, and it is very productive. WTheat, oats and barley do finely, and vegetables are the finest that caoi be grown. Potatoes especially are large and eolid, easily producing from 200 to 300 bushels per acre, and best of all, never a "taty bug" to wrestle with. Wild fruit, strawberries, gooseberries, saskatoons (or pine berries), raspberries and cranberries are found in the hills. Small tame fruit does finely, the red and white currants in my garden being as large again as common sized ones. We have long days during the months of June and July; one can see to read many evenings until 10 o'clock in the twilight. Some nights less than three hours of darkness, and the birds

are singing at 2 o'clock. Then agaii, it rains so easily. You kok toward the west and see a little cloud coming up, a gentle shower follows, the sun shines forth again, and in a little while you forget it has rained. Cyclones are unknown here and the thunder and lightning is very light. We had two storms this summer accom-' panied with wind and hail, but nothing to lodge the grain. The average heat

Is about 78 degrees. We had three or four days in July at 90. The nights are always cool. The winter season is one of great activity. All the fencing is gotten out then and logs for the farm buildings. By paying 25 cents you are granted a permit at the land office to cut logs upon vacant lands. The roads are good and smooth, for the snow never drifts, aot even around the buildings, and this is a great saving of time to the farmer. Hay is hauled from the bottom lands all winter long, and a man can work outside every day as far as the weather is concerned. There are cold snaps when it reaches 40 and 48 below zero, but the lack of wind prevents one realzing it and the mountains 150 miles ivest of us are a great protection. Our neighbors are mostly Canadian, Scotch, Swede, and we have a nice iprinkling of people from the Statea. The creek abounds in small fish. We are now in the midst of baymaktog (Aug. 7). Wheat will not be cut iintil early September, this being a little later season than common, but the Drop will be immense. I send you a sample of wheat and barley. Its height s almost even with my shoulders, averige 50 inches. Newcomers lacking binders can hire their grain cut for 75 ;ents per acre. Prairie chickens are aere by the thousands. The water is good. We have a fine well fifteen feet deep. In the creeks the water is soft and of a yellowish ;olor.

Then again we are surrounded with oachelors; we have no less than, eightsen single men in this neighborhood, n matrimony bent. When a feminine gender of any age between 14 and 40 visits these hills we pity her, so great & the demand for her company. Can you aid us? In conclusion, if the remainder of ur loved ones were here with ns, we ihould better enjoy life on Ross Creek, nd unless the unexpected develops, lonsider this will be a pretty fair place fo end our days. MRS. S. A. BRIGHAM.

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