Semi-weekly news-herald. (Plattsmouth, Nebraska) 1895-1909, December 05, 1899, Image 1
1 - MIW PLATTSMOUTII, NEB.. DECEMBER 5. 1899. VOL. IX, NO. 9. TIIK II KUA Lit, K8taUiH.el April 10. lHCt f Consolidated Jan. 1.1895. LOOK FOR LONG SIEGE. m?mnm?mmmmmmmmnm?mmmmmmmmmmnammmm!mnmmmm I Fire, Fire! I ICiJKli.sh Ar Forced to Admit Smoke Smoke llocrs Can Fiht. NEWS KKl IIikI Nw I rum tli- Cipv Whole Coun try I'ictuml mh Ilt-lug In K-vol t Nut I ve Itulrli IVur Itown uml Trumpln On I'roclMiiiHt Ion InaiMtl lljr leiit-rl Mir '' lttilv-rn Itullrr. London, i c. 4. Tho week opons without a word of nows audi as tho Itril'iMh public is bo anxioaly await ing. With a larger army in tho Hold than tho country over boforo mobil ized, it can only ho Maid that the loas of 3,500 men, entaili d before tho emo rny'n borders havo been ct-OHned, is A serious matter, and while there ia no fooling of despondency nst to I he event ual result of the war, it is regretfully admitted on all bidet) that the strength of tho Boor resistance ha boon woo fully underrated. It la no' Meeu that the attempt to hold a useless pohit on at Mnfcking was a seriom tiielie.il mistake, as was 11I90 tho endo ivor to keep the large civil population in Kimberley. Perhaps the brightest spot for Htig lish readers today is the announce merit that President McKinley has designated tho son of Secretary Hay to succeed Mr. Miictum in Pretoria. The D.iily Telegraph says: "This appointment is a graceful con CMfbion on tho part of tho United Slates government to British feeling. )jr countrymen's interests will bo safe in the hands of the new consul." Mewii Mix Dayn Old. South Afiic:in news is now six days in arrears. Tho censorship does not pet mit details of the Modder river bittlo to be transmitted. Some vaguo statements havo been published in the Capetown papers, and according to those the Boers numbered 8,000 men and were entrenched on both banks of tho stream, although mostly on the northern bank. The British, accord ing to tho papors, drove tho enemy across tho river, compelling them to retreat and established themselves on b.)th banks. These details, however, are too meagre to enable an accurate idea of the engagement to be formed. A dispatch has roacbed London an nouncing that Lord Muthuen is again in the Held, and it is also said that Count Gleichen, who was wounded in tho fighting at Modder river, was struck by. a bullet ia the neck. Serious news comos from the north ern sections of Capo Colony. The whole border district between Coles burg and Burghersdorp has declared for the Boers. In Venterstadt alone more than 2,000 have joined tho rebel lion. The f.irmers have formed a com mandeering committee and talk confi dently of a triumphant march on Cape town. General Buller's proclamation has been torn down and trampled upon, and the loj'alists are bidden to hurry to Capetown to prepare coffee for the rebels. With regard to Natal it is still doubtful whether the bridge over the Tagela at Colenso has been destroyed. There is a report that tho British drove the Boers off while attempting to destroy it, but the probability is that the structure was mined and fired afterwards. According to a dispatch from Fit ters' Kraal, dated Tuesday, November 8. the Boers were then attempting turning movements from Steyn9burg and the district north of Slorkstrom in co-ooeration when the rebels, by way of Alaraisburg and Tarkastad, against General Gatacre's column. The wreck of the troopship Ismore result-'d in the loss of 350 horses. XAMKI) FOK31KS. TIIUUSTON Fund Started For Culun Orphans' Home Named After Senator's First Wire. New Youk, Dec. 3. A movement for the raising of funds for a memorial orphan asylum for Cuban children which shall bear the name of Mrs. Thurston, the first wife of Senator John M. Thurston, and who died dur ing a visit she made to Cuba, was started tonight in the MadisoD Avenue Presbyterian church under the aus pices of the Thurston Memorial asso ciation. The name of the proposed home is to bo "The Thurston Home of Orphans and Homeless Children in Cuba." and General Vandervoort of Nebraska, one of the managers of the Cuban Miil Steamship company, has offered a tract of ground for the insti tution. General Vandervoort and Mrs. G. E. Andrews of Echo Lake, N. J., were the speakers at the meeting tonight. General Vandervoort told of the large number of orphans in Cuba and of the need of some institution to care for them. The home is to be an industrial school, he said, as well as a mission. It is especially fitting, he thought, that this wont be started as a memorial to Mrs. Thurston, whose death, her friends believed, was caused by a broken heart, the result of b,er visit to Cuba and seeing with her own eyes the conditions there. The collection tonight was devoted to the fund and contribution slips were handed around on which a large num ber of members of the church pledged themselves to large amounts. When you want to smoke a 10-cent cigar try Otto WurlV'Silver Wreath" union made you can find n ter on the market. The Great FIRE AND SMOKE SALE is still on. While we have sold a large amount of goods at prices which our customers will testify to as being the cheapest ever offered in Cass county, we still have a great many bargains which none of our com petitors are any ways near able to duplicate. This is a genuine BARGAIN SALE of the largest and best selected line of Men's, Boys' and Children's Suits and Over coats ever offered. The Insurance companies paid us the profit and you are getting the goods at less than manufacturer's cost. Men's All Wool F?g!c-iR now Suits and Overcoat, $ 5.00 $ 3.45 7.50 5.20 10.00 6.95 12.50 8.70 15.00 11.90 18.00 14.20 FORMER PRICE f t Boys' All Wool Suits and Overcoat, $5.00 6.00 7.00 8.50 ( c i I NOW $3.45 4.40 5.20 6.40 Children's All Wool F$&lR NOW Suits and Overcoat, $2.00 $1.38 2.50 1.80 3.00 1.30 4.00 2.90 5.00 3.85 You cannot afford to miss this opportunity of a lifetime in Bargain Prices. 1 FRANK J. nORQAN, The Leading Clothier, j E No. 502 riain Street, Plattsmouth, Nebraska. THE CANVASS OF COUNTIES. Election Commissioners Ilrgln Final Act in the Goebel Taylor Controversy. Frankfort, Ky., Dec. 4. Fifty-one counties were canvassed by the Ken tucky Slate Boad of Election Com missioners today out of a total of 119 in tho elate. Of these fifty-one coun ties five were passed over to be con sidered immediately on conclusion of the work of the canvassing board. The counties canvassed give Goebal a total vote of 74,164 and Taylor, 68, 578. The counties passed over are Christian, Fleming, Green, Harlan and Harrison. The board met at 11:30 o'clock in the office of Secretary of State Finley,all three members, former Justice Pry or of the state supreme court, W. T. Ellis and C. B. Poyntz, having been present. No time was wasted and immediately the board got down to business. It will probably take the board the greater part of tomorrow to canvass the return of the remaining counties, and it will then resolve itself into a contesting board, adjourn to the large hall in which the legislature meets. and for a time vocal fireworks will be in order. The real work that will count for the election of Goebel or Taylor will begin then, and every inch will bo fought fiercely by both sides. The city was very quiet today. A large number of men,most of them re publicans,came in from outlying coun ties, and one enthusiast came in uni form without having been ordered to do so. Among the arrivals were Lieu tenant Sparks and Scoville of the Laurel county militia, but they did not come on orders. They came, ac cording to Adjutant General Collier, as private citizens, to see what was go ing on. There was not a semblance of a row of any kind during the day. Mayor Dehoney swore In sixty extra policemen, but they were as much on account of the crowds drawn by court day and the opening of the congres sional campaign. Telephone Consolidations. New York, Dec. 4 The arrange ment announced in Boston by which the American Bell Telephone company transfers its assets to the American Telephone and Telegraph company will make New York instead of Bos ton the center of the vast Bell tele phone system. The purpose, eo far as can be learned, is to bring about a more complete centralization of con trol and a closer connection between the long distance and local lines oper ated under rights obtained from the Bell company As far as can be as certained no important individual in terest will be affected by the transfer. The American Bell Telephone com can; of Boston, which "is the parent company of the Bell interests, has no wires or system of its own. It is the owner of the Bell patents and has is sued the licenses to all the companies operating under them. Send the News to your friends. LEADER IN TIGHT PLACE Young Hopes to Find Agitinalrio In Mountain Pass. Inhabitants of Santa Cruz and Other Towns Say Agalnaldo and His Kntlre Refugee Army Have Gone Into the Mountains General Young; Shown Let ters From Lieutenant Ollmore. Manila, Dec. 4 11 p. m. An As sociated Press dispatch from Dagupan, containing advices later than those from Santa Cruz, says that General Young hopes to find Aguinaldo in Benguet mountain pass and to capture him there. Both entrances to Ben guet are fortiBed. Two troops of the Third cavalry will reinforce General Young in the pass. Colonel Hood, while reconnoitring near San Miguel, drove a force of in surgents from Ildefonse, killing sev eral. Five Americans were slightly wounded. Manila, Dec. 4. 7:30 p. m. An As sociated Press dispatch from Santa Cruz, province of South TIocos, for warded by courier to Sao Fabian, says that General Young,with three troops of the Third cavalry, and Major Pey ton C. March's battalion of the Thirty third infantry arrived at Santa Cruz today. The Americans left Ilamapa can, province of Union, this morning, expecting to have a hard fight at Tagudin, in South Ilocos province, but they found on arriving there that 600 rebels under General Tino had evac uated thirty-six hours before, desert ing an almost impregnable position. The insurgents had been entrenched at Tagudin on the north side of the river.where 100 well disciplined troops could have slaughtered a whole bri gade crossing the river with the men up to the armpits in water. The residents of Tagudin received the Americans outside the town with a brass band. They had been robbed of almost everything by the insurgents and were glad to welcome friendly and protecting troops. A similar reception awaited General Young at Santa Cruz. Prominent citizens, headed by a band, escorted the American officers to houses, where rest and refreshment were offered. General Young's command was al most without food. The men bad been living on the country, which affords but little, and the horses are com pletely worn out, most of them with out shoes. The inhabitants of Santa Cruz and of other towns through which the Americans passed say Aguinaldo and his entire refugee army have gone Into the mountains eastward since the Oregon, Samar and Callao made the attack on Viguan and landed a force there. In several towns General Yonne was shown letters written by Lieutenant Gilmore, shdwing that he had been kindly treated by the citizens and had been eutertainod by them when he passed through 1 ist May. Reports indicate that all the Ameri can p-isoDors, some twenty-five or thirty, were at one time in B:nguet province, but it is supposed now that they have been removed into Lepanto province. Genernl Young's desire is to pursue the rebels into the mountains. There is no communication between his small command and the army of the other American columns, except indirectly, perhaps, by sighting and signaling United States gunboats bound to or from Manila. Captain Rumbold, with thirty-five men of Company G, Thirty-second in fantry, while escorting the signal corps laying the wire from Porac to Florida Blanco, charged and routed seventy insurgents, killing a captain and several privates. The Americans found on the captain the sword and re volver that were taken from the body of Naval Cadet Welborn C. Wood, who was killed by the insurgents while in command of the gunboat Urdaneta when it was captured in the Orani river. Note From Lieutenant Gilmore. The Spanish secretary, Senor Ben quente, has arrived here with a note from Lieutenant Gilmore to his sister, Mrs. Major Pi ice. He says be ha9 been ill, but is now in fairly good health. The Spaniards befriended him and gave him money and clothes. CONDENSED WIRE NEWS. Catarrh Cannot Be Cured With LOCAL APPLICATIONS, as they cannot reach the sest of disease. Catarrh is a blood or constitutional disease, and in order to cure it you must take internal remedies. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally, and acts directly on the blood and mucous surfaces. Hall's Catarrh Cure is not a quack medicine. It was prescribed by one of the best physicians in this country for years, and is a regular prescription. It is com posed of the best tonics known, combined with the best blood purifiers, acting directly on the mucous surfaces. The perfect combination of the two ingredients is what produces such won derful results In curing catarrh. Send for testi monials, free. F. J. Cheney & Co.. Props., Toledo, O. Sold by Druggists, price 75c. Hall's Family Pills are the best. Iron Giving Flace to Steel. Steel has almost superseded iron in the manufacture of pipe and tubing until it is estimated that almost 75 per cent of the entire produce of the country is now made of steel. Up to a few years ago wrought iron was used almost exclusively. The lapweld joint proved a se.?cua objection, and the change to steel has been rapid and complete. Steel pipe is stronger, Laa longer life and is less liable to corro sion. Steel tubing has enabled the bi cycle Industry to become revolution ized, and pipe forms a leading article In tonnage of the steel industry in this country and foreign markets. m Sit m XX xx ?de Carry a Complete L4ne of (6) Ct- ars 2 Four steamers, from Santos, Brazil, with coffee, are detained at Quaran tine, N. Y., having come from a bu bonic plague port. Private L. D. Merritt, Third artil lery, committed suicide at San Fran cisco by shooting. He enlisted last April at Indianapolis. A national convention of the liberal party of Mexico has been called to assemble at Mexico City February 10 to nominate a candidnte for president. Arthur Gardiner, Earl Kiser and Tom Cooper, the bicyclists, will go to Paris next year. Prizes offered by the exposition company will amount to $5-5,000. Joseph Brown, ex-mayor of St. Louis, died there of a complication of dis eases, aged sixty-six yars. He was well known in spiritualistic circles throughout the country. Sunday the family of Willis Fox of Mitchell, Ind., was poisoned by eating bologna snusage. One child is dead and other members of the family are in a critical condition. Web3ter Davis, assistant secretary of the interior, sails from New York Wednesday for a three months' trip to Sjuth Africa. He wi'l spend a por tion of the time in the Transvaal. The Turnverein is preparing a great Christmas entertainment, which will be eiven during two evenings, Dec. 23 and 25, at the Turner hall. Splendid program in prospect. Details later. Watch for them. Red Hot From the 6un was the ball that hit G. B. Steadman of Newark, Mich., in the Civil War. It caused horrible Ulcers that no treatment helped fer 20 years. Then Bucklen's Arnica Salve cured him. Cures Cuts, Bruises, Burns, Boils, Felons, Corns, Skin Eruptions. Best Pile cure on earth. 25 cents a box. Cure guaranteed. Sold by F. G. Fricke & Co., druggist. Jewelry for Boddha'i Tootu. The solitary tooth of Buddba Is to be contained In what will probably be the most valuable coffer in the world. A Shan chieftain recently sent to Moulmein, in Burmah, an emerald worth, it i3 declared, two lakhs of ru pees, in ofder that the Burmese Bud dhists might include it among the jew els which they are going to send to Ceylon in order to adorn the tooth holding coffer. Jewelry worth 50,000 rupees had been already received from Rangoon and Mandalay, and the Moul mein Buddhists have themselves se 'cured jewelry to the value of 83,000 rupees. Thus the total value of the jew elry adorning the coffer will be about three and a half lakhs ($170,000). There Is a Class of People Who are injured by the use of coffee. Recently there has been placed in all the grocery stores a new preparation called Grain-O, made of pure grains, that takes the place of coffee. The most delicate stomach receives it with out distress, and but few can tell it from coffee. It does not cost over one fourth as much. Children may drink it with great benefit. 15c and 25c per package. Try it. Ask for Grain-O. Wanted Several persons for dis trict office managers in this state to represent me in their own and tyr rounding counties. Willing to pay yearly $600, payable weekly. Desira ble employment with unusual oppor tunities. References exchanged. En close self-addressed stamped envelope. S. A. Park, 320 Caxton Building, Chicago. m and all Smohers' JVIaterials Gering & Co. DRUGGISTS. xx xx xx xx xx m xx XX XX vx XX A BOON TO MANKIND! 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