Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 March 1900 — Page 7

IN STEIN’S CAPITAL

BRITISH TROOPS TAKE BLOEMFONTEIN. Lerdßoherta Cables the Loodoa War . Office that General French Has Reached and Occupied the Hand City of the Orange Free State. The British war office received a dispatch Tuesday moraine from Lord Hob. erfa announcing that Gen. French reached Bloemfontein and after a hard fight trith the Boers occupied two hills dose to the railway station and commanding the town. “There are 321 men wounded,” says Roberts’ dispatch, ‘riißl about sixty pr seventy were killed or are n}is*in|j. The' wounds are, as a rule. more sefiohs than usual, owing to the expanding beilptp which are freely used by the -Boera. A brother of President Steynwas made a prisoner." , Bloemfontein is not a naturally strong position and was made the Orange Free State capital without fegard to military importance or defease. It stands on a high plateau, exposed on all Aides and without the shadow.of a natural barrier to the west, whence the British were expected to advance. All around the town the country Is sterile and unfitted for agriculture. The soil is covered with bowlders, tnfty grass and low brush, which alone relieve the otherwise dead monotony of the plain. The booses of the dty are low and white and obscured by the trees, which have grown within the town from sprouted sprouts. Bloemfontein’s principal building is the capltol, which supports a lofty tower. This, together with a few spired churches and a few school buildings, is the only structure that is prominent from a distance. Normally, the population of the capital is only 4,000, a rather small •umber when the large area the town covers is taken into consideration. The only permanent fortifications of Bloemfontein are those on the east. The town is protected on that side by a long ridge, which rises 300 feet above the level of the plain. From this ridge mounts a kopje, or hill, upon which the Free Staters erected a fort several years ago, when they were in constant fear of danger from British aggression. This fort would not have been of moch service without long range gnns, and even these could not prevent the enemy from shelling the town on the west. in the execution of Lord Roberta’ change of plan, whereby the British

GENERAI. FRENCH.

army was concentrated in the west, the Boers decided to remove their government to Winburg. Meanwhile they had constructed several lines of works outside of Bloemfontein to the west. The nature of these works was similar to those tbe Boers used in the long investment of Kimberley.

AMERICA’S AID ASKED.

Kruger and Steyn Request This Government to Communicate with Britain. The first direct effort to aid the Boer republics to secure the services of the United States Government in the direction of bringing about peace in South Africa has been nAde with some degree of success. After endeavoring, apparently. in vain, to induce the continental powers to tender to Great Britain their services as mediators, President Kruger and presumably President Steyn have turned to the American Government with a request of such character that President McKinley and Secretary Hay found that they could comply with It without conflicting with their declarations that the Government would not mediate between the belligerents unless invited to do so by both.

Through Adalbert 8. Hay, the United Btates consul at Pretoria, the Boer governments have asked the Government of the United Btates to place before Great Britain a statement of the terms upon which, the Boers are willing to negotiate a treaty of peace and to ascertain terms which Great Britain may deem it expedient to offer. The United States Government has thus been placed as a channel for the transmission of communications between the two belligerents without being called on to assume the initiative in any phase of the present aspect of the situation. President McKinley directed that' the communication from Pretoria be transmitted to the British Government. The terms which the Boers hare proposed as a preliminary to the arrangement of n peace treaty are regarded as tentative and to serve merely as an entering wedge to securing Great Britain’s consent to discuss a general proposition for n peace arrangement or the selection of n mediator, which is certain to be the United States Government. Aa the war between Great Britain and the Boef republics is regarded aa a purely foreign, matter, the President, bound by the pledge given at The Hague peace , conference, could not, if he desired; take the initiative in steps to bring the war to an end. t -•* . :'<!' ‘ tw. - * --‘. ■ Our pension bureau estimates that, there are 1,032,418 surviving soldiers at the civil war, excluding deserters. About 812,000 of these are unpenaioned. The average age of the survivors is 60 years. Representative C. A. Boutt-lle of Maine has so far recovered from his recent JUaess, which made- it necessary to send him to Boston for treatment, that he has decided to seek re-election. , aa -wv- ,5;-. i- ■ 'f The Russian press was virulent over Oroaje’s surrender and suggested a diversion against Great Britain.

DIFFICULT CAMPAIGING IN SOUTH AMERICA.

The picture shows Coles Kop, or MI. taken tty the British in Cvr Caiog, and the system used in sending up amnumititm for the gum sutionri os t«i- Be distance from the camp to the summit is 1.#6 feet. The illnstrathm -shoves At difficulties experienced in serving the gnns even when they are in -effective -pas*tom.

Side Lights on. the Boer War.

It is said that in MM the Boers save their first order for big guns and that at the tine they expended nearly half a million dollars with Krnpp of Germany, and about the same amount with an Austrian firm for smaller arms. The Krnpp guns were delivered in 1885, and included two of what was then the largest pattern for a pun in the world. These guns are forty-eight feet in length, weigh 120 tons, throw a shell weighing pounds and require 904 pounds of powder for each discharge. One of these guns has been dragged to a hill overlooking Ladysmith. The other is on the fortifications defending Pretoria. In 1985 another order for field guns of long range was placed with Krnpp. It waa in IK9U that the Grcnsot guns, those that have done the most effective fighting, were purchased. Several large orders for guas were placed at later dates. The important part played by carrier pigeons in the South African war is not generally known. At the outbreak of hostilities one of the first to place his pigeons at the disposal of the British Government was B. Lee of Pietermaritzburg. These birds were carried through to Ladysmith on an armored train the day before communication was shut off. They brought the first' news from Ladysmith to the British Govern meat. The Boers realising the advantage gained by the enemy from the nse of pigeons soon established a loft for training the birds in Johannesburg. « Nearly sixty-five yean ago, so the story runs, a party of Boer immigrants from Cape Colony came upon a little plain in the territory north of the Orange river, and as it first burst upon their eyes a woman in the party exclaimed: “It’s a Bloemfontein” (flower garden}. The plain was covered with wild flowers. and presented a glorious appearance to the first white people that had ever looked upon it. Thus was the capital of the Orange Free State founded and named. —jThe question of the employment of native Indian troops in the South African war is bring very generally discussed in India. The Indian native cavalry is one of the finest bodies of horse in the world. An argument for the employment of these troops is that the waste of cavalry will be great before the war is over, and that six months hence Grant Britain will be driven to employ her native cavalry whether she wants to or not. The widow of Gen. Symons, who waa one of the first British officers to fall in the war, has married again. Sir W. P. Symons. K. C. B„ was killed in the battle of Glencoe in October last. The lady's new husband is said to be about half her age. Human sympathy is always with the “under dog *in a fight. Cronje's remarkable stand against the British forces and the valor shown by the Boers in the face of terrible odds have won the Transvaalers praise and admiration the world over. - -2 — 2Boiler and his staff are actually living the life of a private. There has not been even a tent to cover the commanding generals. They eat from their knefes, with their shoulders against rocks. They sleep where they can. and their field work is carried on under a transport wagon. -s Consulting surgeons who have gone to South Africa are paid at the rate of $25,000 a year, with free passage to the acafl of war and return, and London papers are complaining that the sum is exorbitant. The artillery and cavalry horses of the Boers have all been inoculated against the “tsetse fly” and rinderpest, both of which are apt to play havoc with green hones in that district. Some of tKeJtocr^rifies^tahenjby^tlra mof* pattern made over thirty yews ago. The wife at President Btcya of too Orange Free State is the daughter of m English clergyman. >

SHELDON AS NEWS CENSOR.

The fins number of the Topeka Cspi-j til e a •'Chriotiun newspaper.*' unfitrr

REV. SHEI.DON.

entire first page was given up in -this matter and an attack on war and -sc loon?-. The original typograpbicoi -style iff ’the; paper was attend, and srogb-lme heads with two "banks" used in all -so-caltefi top-head stories. Then- was an ovifiean ! desire to tone down everrthing juiß In give no prominence te .-.uyrhinr which; might cause the geink-s; son! ~u> -feel a thrill of undue interest. For six days the Capital runtime*c! after this form with all theatrical nrdinary porting and important ctwiiml news carefully eliminated. Shaker areports of other than active cash qnatuiions were consigned to toe waste -basket, and the subscriber was tor toe period rtf -editor Sheldon's teanAmy compelled to seek his information in another pqper. Advertisements of the eidamr and Christian variety only were permitted to appear, and all these were overlooked by Editor Sheldon before gong to toe foreman of the composing xwom. "How an untrained newspaper until can run a newspaper is a mystery to toe anon of the press." remarked a prom men: journalist. . "As a novelty it ia nil vug well: as a permanent instimtimi A tom Mr. Sheldon e ideas would oat amove a success either financially or Xnun a was point of -view. I always remember -n3ng Charles A. liana tt-rd to -say toot wter ever the Almighty permitted to auotpen he was not ashamed to print."

A VISIT TO PARIS COSTLY.

Paris writes home tegarilnq; toe astptmoe of a visit to toot city. He says: "She same thing every day. Tm -art rite obliged to fee from six to ten people enntinnally. Next Vo the hotels as frwbooters come toe stores, tgarialiy clothing stores, that have put qp their prices that range from S cento to TF rents to] New York. Son Franciseo and las An geies. range from three francs f<W cento) to seven Francs <£l.4<h here—and this to all advanced from 3H lo OH por ecu: ovor colly out of all sight -Of aH grain, of p>a plat off witch hunel to ffiff ante and an

Notes of Current Events.

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RECORD OF THE WEEK

EtnwMruftoT William Edwards has ttaweto mamfeaimt- puueeeiHngs in the SuWmtnin ffibratitf- Company, operating gtem* on Andhraum anti EH ■stood; the JknHKicmi FThni gates Company, operating lin JllESsufim. antfi the American Tin ntfr Chmpanyt;. operating- in Anderson TOttii rthr ttnlhtuu Iter- The State labor t-nnmiimininTi Burs Donated! the permit an bnbt aiHßumftiV.. The- dfemamls of the umalkj?" i lie uGmaoallj? unanimous for a ■wcdil? gap Them ant operarivef Sum stffimi intensely; By the variations -rtf uonyenamm in very evident by the !h oste a—Raw off nullable reports received Tig tile- ittruji Hon<m tiff hniiunn. En the nacfimai pent off the State the average will out eqfndl 9P pec cent of the normal podUL TBit wheat! on high ground has siffitr-E the- miter and a great deal of it wiili -jiit unman the seotff used. Farmers in gmeirdi oaptwc about half a crop in WTkHbjc. JUSaa. Kalb, Steuben. La •Grange. Fritmi. aauE MiHiall. tum has Seen. tHseovecwl in Orattpr maniac. ffiawiiP Bull, at Biruier. tlisoivtnsdi a kwho- mu Bis Cacmi awh. En qnartaiteurng; one., fc is belle veil that when the •enw iit- «cbqßmimß tile find will be of much !toy«iruuii>*.. N*m«- the entrance to the -«awn- im- Butiirai Bietttidyphicsv cut in the "larei. .rtf rtmes, amt! on several Wees is | tie tfipnve tiff a linman Bund pointing to■Kiiril riie- .tame.. The concealed opening «Ttbs--rune* ivete- Smnd: rhmmrh these grthtiiig iunilK. Blie 'Viney Sinks Eim-»tln Memorial A—tieiuttnni met ar the- ♦Governor's office lin Snliitmigoils- and dteidbd to accept the ilirojowtluiu off A. *. Criitec. a Springfield. TIL. tctiirnaitntr., to erect.. Crec of charge. • Tuomiueur onop the- grave of Lincoln's j anwtoer, mate Hinttolh. City. I Jkmrflerr big odee has Been struck at lLuU**o*e*;. Xliiini Wmiity.. tfpeueei-. was fount! jittail lin bed. {Tie Bnfimiui oii tietiE is said to be more ! jirtifilthlie oiip than at any rime- since it wate tfliietavtuntF.. ftn Kdbonn. Cliurit— Fisher- at lineman, was aided be live iviDH while •Si ahst. . ff'iewh Siler.. 2A. sbuffied .d v:thi non limine- off morphine in stomach. T*»t ippucent oanstu «Urrsnipme- Shephertk. Ho. Sttllivau. sevrep Sort; by an. Illinois t'enrrdl 'woti! rsaiin and! killed. ♦Clteslk C.tunny guauiL jury adjourned vritiimc rrtmmihg an. iutlit-rment against •t'bimrv IwHimr ML. E Fhnghom, tßurrpcfl wirhi •bfSdiiarionBn at dhrniken tighr which, occurred ttf—unite sourftoveer off English among at linn heir off wrong: fti raters- several of , -them worn-serrousiy iff nor fatally vrmintfS.union, .emteouii-e at Terre Saute I vae- atrtT ammtb~t! Hy the eirinens. The 1 Ttmuns tiNßffteeed they hove made a -jeeir Drug :ri tfie- past rwo years, hut say ihty flhwil onimuramet. An Snntiit Sr. and JEr» EitWard ißiioir »w«vt- tivv.HieiieiL Bv at loint fcnot-king an ate* .Bmh£. Flat Hitter- answered the •ail! and Smumii at Batter containing a girl •lailwu wßiithi Bod been depoeitad on the tlwisaiff lit tun Biter lit- >lllllll* .mil EC ram Harris -•iv wwnwßff wtomded ao a result of an tmwik am am nnftnowm man. at Cedar ; (Qnae. Ihteir and! Bmat mat the man. wiiui warn wiHL his w.ite. and began ahmr iig Bum. The- nutn. pulled his oewdvev . .Hid itean tinmm • vwnn ihairoß Staighr raain. on the Fhniumbir Ehiitetiff- oonsisdug: at thirty-three tnutefi uatrv was- wtoetedi ac Slgrove.. Fen -tans- worn- telescoped: and the eonitnnt—sugar and gene nil marchn adise — tuMPtnell .dent: Nut liras wane lost, bat • ihe {jntgoßftsr tes » lhcsp»•hwnfl Tamate Uwengv-Biae years old ami •when Bh- watt- aouetetfi wdrih am epileptic WHfHMto unhht flteEt at tbte-

BUSINESS SITUATION.

fMctpi Correspondence: Money has been working a trifle closer lately as a result of the diminishing bank reserves in New York, but general biffdnesa remains at high water mark. Not only is domestic consumption still on ar large scale, but there seems to be an increasing foreign market for aii raw materials as well as for manufactured goods. Europe is taking American Iron, coal and copper in greater quantities, and the expert demand for cotton is such as to be a decided factor in the weakness of sterling exchange. Cotton is higher now than at any time since 1892, and this fact necessarily tends to create optimistic sentiment in the Sooth. * The stock markets, however, continue dull in the face of these trade conditions. Trading is almost entirely of a professional nature, and the price changes are for the most part insignificant. In the case of a few speculative stocks special conditions have operated to bring about decided movements, but, taking tbe list as a whole, the changes as compared with a week ago are smolL In the opinion of experts the situation is not likely to untlergo any material change until something more definite is known regarding the operation of tbe new currency law. Speculative dealings in wheat were on a moderate scale dnring the week, and with iittlo effect on the price of that commodity. The contentions of the opposing parties in the market have come almost face to face for their nsnal spring struggle, and neither side seems willing to yield a foot of gronnd. The enormons crop of Argentina, the coming of which was foretold last November, and which has been in diligent use ever since as a veritable bugbear to frighten bulls, is now being shipped at eve® a heavier rate than was expected. Every week when the export figures to European ports are made known the bears use them as an additional argument for lower prices, without regard to the liberal use previously made. Europe appears, however, to be in sore straits for immediate supplies, which shipments now being made from Argentina arc powerless to alleviate. Chicago being the nearest market from which Liverpool can draw to supply pressing wants, a demand from that port toward the end of the week created a diversion in favor. of the bulls which went a long way toward counterbalancing the effect of heavy Argentine shipments. Corn displayed greater firmness than wheat, its closing price Saturday afternoon showing 1 cent a bushel advance as compared with its value at the end of the previous week. There is plenty of corn coming forward to supply all requirements, but some heavy speculators continue to buy it with such freedom for May and July delivery as to suggest the faith that eonies from knowledge of the ultimate insufficiency of supplies nt present prices for more distant requirements.

INSURRECTION NOT DEAD.

Filipino* Plan Guerrilla Warfare on a Large Scale. That the trouble in tbe Philippines is far from ended seems to be the general opinion among leading army officials and prominent business men in the city of Manila. Reports from trustworthy sources show that there is great activity among the insurgents, who are planning to continue the insurrection with guerrilla warfare on a larger scale when the rainy season begins. Two correspondents of American weeklies who have traveled for a month in Benguet and Ilocos, with letters from insurgent chiefs, going alone fifty miles from garrisons and being everywhere hospitably received, say the people make no secret of their sympathy with the insurrection. Though admitting that the Filipino soldiers abuse them, they still protect these soldiers from the American scouting parties. While many of the insurgent municipal officers were continued in office on taking the oath of allegiance, residents who are acquainted with them hare little faith in their adherence to their promises. All the civil officials of Tarlac, capital of the province of that name, numbering eleven persons, have been arrested and •-harged with plotting, and two insurgent agents have been captured at Maiabon with incriminating papers and 34,000 collected from the natives. While some of the municipal governments appear loyal and efficient, one American general declares he believes that the majority iu bis province are agents of tbe insurrection.

THE SIOUX FALLS AUDITORIUM.

New Hall la Which Political Convention* Will Be Held. The Sioux Falls, S. D., auditorium has a seating capacity of about 5,000. Had it not been for possessing this building, which is the largest of the kind in South Dakota, Sioux Falls would not have been

SIOUX FALLS’ AUDITORIUM.

obfe to rapture the national convention of the Populist party, which will be held May 8t The Sioux Fails auditorium is & nova building. Not until after a delegation of Sioux Falls rustlers, in the fall of 1808, succeeded la captaring the convention of the National Creamery Buttermakers' Association was the construe turn of the building derided upon. The structure is well arranged and is complete la all its details. Twenty-five delegates representing the machinists' anion of Philadelphia and all towns within a radios of thirty miles of nSadeiphia met and decided to make a general demand, on June 1, for a ninehoar work day. They also decided to demaad the abolition, if possible, of piece work in aH shops. A ton. hard pec seed by the hounds during, n boat on Lang Island, ran across a paad covered by a sheet of ice so thin thto when the hounds came oa to it it lank* precipitating them into the water

_ ..V • -A m Public Sales! .Vi' 1 ffV clyne, meAetiooeer. a»'*v ' v 'r; ■-■*»%. •' Having located ft Montfcello, I solicit your patronage. Have made and am now bcoked for some of the largest stock sales in tbe country. I guarantee satisfaction oa my part or no pay. I’ll make you money on small as well as large sales, Terms reasonable. Write for dates before advertising, . V. D. CLYNE. Auctioneer, orrtoc with o-cONHOit * Carr Monticello, Ind. ONOUMO FLOOR. Professional Cards. ATTORNEYS Edward P. Honan, ATTORNEY AT JiAW. , . , ' t Law. Abstracts, Real Estate, Loans. Will practice in all the courts. Office first stairs east of Postoffice. RENSSELAER, INDIANA. Hanley & Hunt, Law, Abstracts, Loans and Real Estate. *. Office up-staire in Leopold’s block, first stairs west of Van Kensselatt street. Jas. W. Douthit, LAWYER, Rensselaer, Indiana. Wm. B. Austin, Lawyer and Investment Broker Attorney For The L. N. A. AC’.Ry, and Rensselaer W. L. A P. Co. £&£Ottice over Chicago Bargain Store. Rensselaer, Indiana.

MA«K BOLTS. C. Q. SPITLIR. HARRY R. KURRIB Foltz, Spitler & Kurrie, (Successors to Thompson A Bro.) Attorneys-at-Law. Law, Estate. Insurance Abstracts and Loans. Only set of Abstract Books in the County. RENSSELAER, IND. Mordecai F. Chilcote, William H. Parkison Notary Public. Notary Public. Chilcote & Parkison, ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW. Law, Real Estate. Insurance, Abstracts and Loans. Attorneys for the Chicago. Indianapolis & Louisville Railway Co. Will practice in all of the courts. Office over Farmers’ Bank, on Washington St.. RENSSELAER. IND. J. F. Warren J. F. Irwin Warren & Irwin, Real Estate, Abstracts. Collections, Farm Loans and Fire Insurance. Office in Odd Fellow’s Block. RENSSELAER, INDIANA. R. S. Dwiggins,COUNCELOR AT LAW, Office in Room 7, Forsythe block. Rensselaer, Ind. Ira W. Yeoman, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW. Remington, - • - Indiana. Law. Real Estate, Collections, Insurance and Farm Loans. Office upstairs iu Durand Block. BANKING. Addison Parkinson. John M. Wasson. President. Vice President. Emmet L. Hollingsworth, Cashier. Commercial State Bank, (North Side of Public Square.) RENSSELAER, IND. The Only State Bank in Jasper Co DIRECTORS. Addison Parkison. G. E. Murray, Jas.T. Randle, John M. Wasson and Emmet L. Hollingsworth. This bank is prepared to transact a general banking business. Interest allowed on time deposits. Money loaned aud good notes bought at current rates of interest. A share of your patronage is solicited. Farm Loans at 5 per Cent. _ _ _ PHYSICIANS^__ I. B. Washburn, Physician & Surgeon. Dr. Washburn will give special attention to Diseases of the Eye, Ear. Nose, Throat and Chronic Diseases, lie also tests eyes for glasses. Oifici TtuPHOHi No. 40. Rssiosmcs Phoki No. 07. Rensselaer, > - Indiana. E. C. English, Physician & Surgeon. Office over Postoffice. Rensselaer, Indiana. Off os Phoms. IT7. Nssiobhos Phoms, lIS. __raNTIST: H. L. BROWN, Dentist Office over F. B. Meyer’s drag store.

y er s's T W W'W V W W V W * * V T V VO ~ ; PATENTS ADVICE AS TO PATENTABILITY ■“■Jd? * Notice in “ Inventive Age ” Bi K■§|i * Book “How toobUla Patent*” f lllsfti « ; CWpM moderate. No fee till patent is seemed. ; ; » *'* ********* * * ******** We sell envelopes and writing paper oheaper than any place in the city. The Democrat.