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CALM MM STORM
England and Transvaal Pre
pare for First Blow
FEAR ATTACK FROM THE BOERS
Not llUrlv to Walt Intll KiirIiiihI Is
Itrnily to Ctllsli Tlinut Mtt limit nt
lolmiiiirslUri llnii lcuclhiK War In Now
Cuuslilrrcd us liiultnllo
London Sopt 21 Despite nil out
ward show of culm Oront Hrituin is in
practically tho same condition today as
was tho United Stntos u fow weeks ho
foro tho opening of tho wnr wit It
Spain Boneutb tho crnst of diplomatic
reserve tho military ollleors uro working
night and day proparing for tho signal
to hegin hostilities whothor that conies
or not
England is not going to bo caught
napping any moro than the Transvaal
While Lord Salisbury is quietly at
homo in Hatfield house Mr Chamber
lain is buried in work at tho colonial
oflleo and double forces at tho royal ar
Kcual and dockyards tiro straining every
nerve to equip and transport tho troops
to the Cape
It may be set down for certain that
Great Britain will do nothing to pre
cipitate mutters mid tho colonial oflleo
is far from admitting that tho caso is
hopeless Tho report that Great Brit
ain has demanded the dismantlement of
tho forts ut Johannesburg together
with a material reduction in tho arma
ment of tho burghers tho colonial oflleo
would neither confirm or deny although
it is much doubted Meanwhile tho
Marquis of Landsdowuo secretary of
state for war who roturncd yesterday
from Dublin has held long conferences
with General lxrd Garnet Wolesloy
field marshal and General Sir Evelyn
Wood udjutant general to the forces
and the activity at headquarters is re
flected in tho contract supply and
transport departments
Jeluuga Sails With Troops
The departure of tho transport Jo
lunga for tho Mediterranean yesterday
with 1100 troops was witnessed by a
large and enthusiastic crowd
At Woolwich activity increases daily
especially in tho ordnance department
where Maxim guns army wagons and
other paraphernalia of modern warfare
are being hurried forward
While rumors of tho reassembling of
parliament are current tho fact is re
called that in tho Afghan war in 1878
Groat Britain declared war first and
then assembled parliament
Last evening tUa ICCrquis of Lans
downo issued a strict order to the staff
of the war office warning all subordi
nates to refrain from giving tho press
any information
The second edition of tho Morning
Post contains a dispatch from Piotcr
maritzburg Natal saying I have
never known tho situation to bo graver
The Boers only await two days rain on
tho veldt bofore beginning hostilities
The aro determined on war and con
sider they can expect nothing olso after
tho last dispatch and aro prepared to
face the consequences
AdviiTH from Capo Town
Advices from Capo Town are to tho
effect that tho Afrikanders decluro the
Transvaal will not yiold further and
that if tho imperial government does
not recede from its present position war
is iuovitablo Tho South African Nows
supports the contention of tho Trans
vaal that tho convention of 1884 abol
ished tho suzerainty
According to other advices the bur
ghers are rapidly going into laager
while tho exodus from Johannesburg
yesterday reached 1000 persons Tho
stock exchange at Johannesburg has re
solved to closo tho moment martial law
is proclaimed but all current contracts
will bo carried out until the proclama
tiou suspending all business In tho
meantime tho merchants aro erecting
barricades in front of their shop win
dows
At Pretoria tho intorest seems to be
centored in tho meeting of tho Orange
Free Stato volksraud today which it is
hoped may somehow suggest a modus
vivendi that would savo tho situation
On tho other hand advices from Bloom
fonteiu announce tho arrival there of a
largo number of members of tho raad
adding that tho report of todays sitting
is already agrcod upon as the Orango
Free Stuto will throw in its lot with tho
Transvaal tho freo burghers being fully
armed and ready to start at a moments
notice
A special dispatoh from Johannes
burg says 450 persons loft by one train
yesterday
War Preparations Complute
London Sept 21 Tho Johannes
Lurg correspondent of tho Morning
Post says Tho Boor preparations aro
as completo as tho govornmont can
hope to iniiko them It is believed that
martial law will bo proclaimed on
Thursday if no roply has been received
from England by that time
It is understood that tho dispatching
of British troops to South Africa will
bo regarded us a casus belli
Tho Boor ollleors aro urging tho gov
ernment to begin hostilities forthwith
It is felt that tho Orango Freo Stuto cun
best bo forced to action by a successful
military demonstration on tho purt of
tho Transvaal
IllotliiK Hemmed ut Algiers
Amiikks Sept 21 Tho rioting was
renewed after midnight in tho Jewish
quarter where there wero collisions no
tweeu the anti Somites and tho police
Several persons wero injured and tho
police made six arrests
BLOODY AFFRAY IN A BANK
Murderously Assnultrit nud Ills
Assailant Iatnll Shot
Ciiipaoo Sept 21 Frederick J Fil
bert tho aged cashier of tho Pnllntino
bank in 1iillittino Ills is lying close to
death as tho result of an attack made on
him by a young man who gives tho
nniiHMif Walter IjuwIou The latter
who is unknown to anybody in Pnlla
tine is in the county hospital suffering
from a bullet wound which will proba
bly prove fatal Henry llaggo 70
years of age a farmer whoso interven
tion prevented the outright murder of
the cashier is at his homo west of tho
village bruised and disabled as a result
of his struggle with Lawtnu whoso
motive for the assault according to his
statements was not robbery but ro
vengo for alienating his wifes affec
tions Tho assault was made with a
tackhammer and tho aged cashier was
struck at least a dozen times loforo
Plaggo interfered William Garms n
farmer was among tho first to reach tho
bank rooms As he pushed open tho
door ho found tho old German farmer
Plaggo bleeding from a number of
wounds but fighting vigorously with a
stalwart young man who lay on the
floor with Plaggo on top of him A
bloody tack hammer and a rovolver
with a broken butt lay on either side of
tho men The young mans clothing
was stained by blood in the region of
tho abdomen Tho crowd which had
gathered rapidly after tho alarm had
been given separated tho two men and
took tlte supKsed robber to tho village
lockup Ho was too severely wounded
to oiler any resistance and this fact
was till that saved him from violence at
tho hands of tho excited crowd that fol
lowed him to jail
DREYFUS DECLARATION
Mukrs a Stnteiiiont to tint Iuhllr That Iln
Will lrovo Ills Innocence
Paius Sept 21 Tito Auroro pub
lishes tho following declaration from
Captain Droyfus Tho govemmont of
tho republic has given mo my liberty
But liberty is nothing to mo without
honor From today I shall continue to
seek roparagement for tho frightful ju
dicial error of which I remain tho vic
tim I wish Franco to know by a defin
itive judgment that I am innocent My
heart will only bo at rest whon there re
mains not a single Frenchman who im
putes to mo tho abominable crimo per
petrated by another
Alfred Dreyfus
Dreyfus at Nantes
Nantes Sopt 21 Droyfus arrived
hero yesterday from Rennos accompa
nied by his brothor tho chiof of theso
crot police M Viguiro and ono police
man Tnquiry was n kdo coucoriug
the Bordeaux train and all four entorod
a first class compartmont in which
thoro wero already othor passongers It
was intended by thus rofraining from
any attempt to secure privacy to avoid
exciting curiosity
Dreyfus Coming to Aiunrlra
Liverpool Sept 21 A quantity of
luggage has arrivefl hero from Ilavro
and Folkestone addressed to Mine
Droyfus and rooms have also boon
taken at a local hotel Tho luggago is
marked for New York and it is sup
posed that Droyfus is going to America
TELEGRAMS TERSELY TOLD
Pig iron 1ms advanced 1 a ton
The Lima O oil market passed tho
dollar mark Wednesday afternoon
Judge W G Pipor lato of Moscow
Ida died at Pnnideuco hospital Seat
tle Wednesday
Elias Hatflold who lulled H E Ellis
last July at Williamson W Va was
Wednesday sentenced to 12 yoars in the
penitentiary
Tho schooner Mary Taylor tho first
of tho sealers to return from Bering
sea arrived at Victoria Wednesday
with a batch of 64 skins
Wall street was troatod to a sensation
Wednesday by tho United States Flour
and Milling shacrs Tho not docliue
for tho duy was 25 points
Tho unidentified body burned in tho
Kansas City wreck proves to havo been
a corpso shipped from Galena Kas on
route to Milwaukee Wis
Tho third day of tho supromo sossion
of tho Independent Order Knights of
Pythias was devoted to reading roports
of the different committees
Tho Association of Iron and Stool
Shcot Manufacturers Wednesday ad
vancod tho price of sheet from 310 to
y25 a ton to take effect at ouco
At Copenhagen Emperor Nicholas and
tho empress brought their visit to an
end Wednesday und ombarked on tho
imperial yacht Polo Star bound for
Kiel
Tho govornmont has taken stops to
secure possession of Mission Bock San
Francisco bay which has been hold by
tho California Dry Dock company since
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John L Ilunna chiof of polico at
Dalton Ga was shot and killed by
throo moonshiners whom ho was try
ing to arrest A posso of 125 mon
started in pursuit of tho murderers
Northern Pacific directors mot Wed
nesday and instructed tho oxocutivu
committee to consider tho advisability
of paying an extra dividend of 1 per
cout ou tho common stock in February
Tho financial program of tho Argen
tina government as rovealod in con
gress moans protection to the people
and industries of Argentina at tho ex
pense of tho foreign capital invested in
tho country
Tho Georgo H Friend Paper com
pany of West Carrollton lias bought
the Fordham mill at Hamilton O und
tho Frankliu mill at Franklin They
proposed to mako writing paper in op
position to tho trust
Tho Canadian bank of Now York lias
just rocoivod word from a trustworthy
iniuo owner that tho yield from tho
Klondike mines this year will bo a
third less than last years output On
that basis the bank expects a yield this
year of about 8000000
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Governors and Attorneys Gen
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TEN STATES ARE REPRESENTED
Cloveiuor Sitjeis of Texas Is lVtiitiinrnl
Cliuli man of Mm St I mil oiileienre
Till lletn eon Shaw anil lours Dlllor
euen of Opinion Auioui Olllrliils
St LotiH Sept 21 Tho governors
of Arkansas Tonmweo Michigan Mis
souri Colorado and Iowa most of them
accompanied by their attorneys gen
eral and the attorneys general and
other representatives of Moutitiin Indi
ana Mississippi and Washington re
sponded to the invitation of Governor
Sayers of Texas to meet in conference
for the purpose of discussing tho trust
question and assembled yesterday at
tho Planters hotel where three ses
sions were hold The conference will
ho concluded today when tho commit
too on resolutions will be ready to re
port
Governor Sayers was present with his
attorney general and was ohoson per
manent chairman of the conference
Most of the day was spent in speech
making and almost every one of those
present was afforded an opportunity to
air his viows on the question under dis
cussion All tho speakers wero listened
to with great attention Thoro were
several tijts between spoakers of oppo
site political faith that gavo spice to tho
proceedings
At the morning session Governor
Stephens of Missouri delivered himself
of a partisan fling at the Republican
national administration criticising its
expansion policy and declaring that
trusts and imperialism go hand in hand
Governor Shaw of Iowa took up tho
gauntlet thrown down by Stephens and
at tho opening of the afternoon session
answered him with a speech that
brought smiles to the faces of most of
those present In turn the governor of
Arkansas put Iowas chief magistrate
ou tho spit and roasted him for using
facetious language at such a gathoriug
Attornoy General Taylor of Indiana
also took occasion to rap tho knuckles
of Missouris governor Thoro seemed
to bo a great dilferenco of opinion as to
tho best method of remodyiug tho so
called trust ovil Some of those present
thought that the stato laws now in
voguo wero sufficient to control the op
erations of tho combinations complained
of whilo others were of tho opinion
that uniform laws should bo onoctod by
tho several states and by congress
Some wero for tho comploto annihila
tion of trusts while others favored thoir
regulation Governors Sayers and Pin
greo in their speoches showed them
selves strongly in favor of tho first idea
ns was also Governor Jones of Arkan
sas Governor Thomas ot Colorado and
Shaw of Iowa favored the enactment of
laws to restrict the combines Thoro
was almost as much difference of opin
ion among tho attorneys general who
wero heard
KlinuV Address
Governor Shaw said in part I re
grot that tho call for this conference
did not include all that is in the mind
oi him who issued it It was evidently
tho purposo to make it not only an anti
trust conference but an anti expansion
and freo trado and freo silvor conven
tion I say evidently the purposo
from tho tone of tho remarks of tho
chairman and from the speech of tho
governor of Missouri I was interested
aud diverted by tho address from tho
governor of Missouri Interested for
ho stated that his stato had triumph
antly exterminated tho octopus I was
diverted as ho told of tho downfall of
Homo caused from ovils such as now
confront us I was mudo to regrot that
in tho expansion polioy of old Rome bho
did not acquiro somo territory as pro
ductive of statesmen as tho Lou
isiana purchase and which might
thou have produced a gover
nor of sufficient foresight a
legislature of sufficient wisdom an
attorney general of sufficient courage
and u supremo court of sufficient erudi
tion and fairness to havo successfully
coped with multi millionaires and bank
ers which it was claimed infested tho
empire to tho great damage of tho com
mon pooplo I prefer a formulated bill
such as I may safely submit to tho gen
eral ashombly of my stato rather than
resolutions I think I am politician
onough to draft a sot of resolutions so
drastic that if hooded all trusts and
combinations would immediately tako
thoir departure from tho common
wealth of which I havo tho honor to bo
chiof oxecutivo bat I am not so confi
dent that I um statesman onough to
draft a bill which will compol their
ovorlasting exit providing they aro de
termined to stay If tho committee
whou appointed shall draft a bill which
seems to mo comprolionsivo and effect
ivo I will very gladly rocommend it so
for I desiro horo aud now to say that I
havo no sympathy with any combiuu
tiou of capital which results in monop
oly
Governor DiiufnJ W Jones of Arkan
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sas being called on arose and in igor
ouh terms scored Governor Shaw for
his facet lousiiess saying tins was no
time and place for remarks not tending
to a furtherance of the business before
tho conference lie then made u
speech against tho monsters termed
trusts he having felt their power among
his people In Ills opinion the trusts
should be annihilated
Nouillhite KriNler for llliln
IlAsriMis Sept 21 The Uepublican
convention of the Tenth judicial district
convened yexteulay morning and bal
loted hteadily until I oclock in the
afternoon when on the 121st ballot
there was a general slunipdo to R U
Keester of Hnrlau and he was declared
I lie unanimous choice of the convention
for disiiut indue
EARTHQUAKE JN ALASKA
Rilenils er Fire Ilumlinil Mllas ami
Continues for a Week
Skattik Sept 21 Tho steamship
City of Topokn arrived from Lynn canal
last evening with news of a terrible
earthquake which began Sept fl and
continued until Sopt 10 Tho steamer
Dora carried tho news to Juneau
The earthquake extended from Lit
uoya bay 150 miles below Yakulat 500
mites northwest into the Cook inlet
country It was the greatest phenomena
witnessed in Alaska since a similar oc
currence in tho Russian days Three
distinct shocks wero felt at Juneau
Buildings wero badly shaken Tim
earthquake was most severe at Yakutat
Kanan island at the entrance to Yaku
tat hay wink 20 foot into the sea At
high tide only the tops of trees are visi
ble Huge llsuros opened in tho earth
GREETINGTO IOWANS
luiniuiir Shaw Cables Them Cioilspeeil on
Their Vujrag Home
Dis Moinks Sept 21 Governor
Shaw cabled Colonel Lppcr of tho Fifty
first Iowa at Manila which sails today
as follows
Greeting to officers and men With
prayers of state you havo honored for
a propitious voyage and u safe return
Shaw
Tho governor officially announced
yesterday that he would bo unable to
be in San Francisco whon tho regiinont
lauds
Plans for a Kefortuutory
Dfs Moinks Sept 21 The quarterly
conference of tho stato board of control
and tho officers of stato institutions
endod yesterday Tho board and super
intendent agreed with Warden Touch in
the proposition that Iowa should pro
vide bomo sort of roformutory between
the industrial schools and penitentiaries
whero offenders botweon tho ages of 18
nud 10 can bo placed Warden Jones
suggested that if one Iowa prison were
made into a reformatory thoro would lie
ample room left in tho other for con
firmed criminals
Set en Years lor Wilson
Falls City Sopt 21 William Wil
son who suffered a severe surgical
operation tit the hands of a mob a few
weeks ago for a criminal assault ou tho
5-year-old daughter of A W Burchard
pleaded guilty and was sentenced to
seven years in the penitentiary The
judge said that he had taken into ac
count the punishment the prisoner hud
already suffered
Iteuiilon of Iowa Veterans
Iowa City Sopt 2 Iowa City has
opened its doors to tho surviving repre
sentatives of the Twenty second Twenty-fourth
rind Twenty eighth Iowa regi
monts and a reunion such as only old
soldiers can havo is in progress Many
of those hero havo not met since their
muster out and many aro meeting for
tho last time on earth
Inauguration of Ireslrlsut Muolran
Iowa City Sept 21 Tho board of
regents and tho faculties of the Stato
university of Iowa havo arranged for
tho inauguration of George Edwin Mac
Lean as president of tho university on
Friday Sopt 2
CONDITION ATZAMBOANGO
Cieuernl Hates Cables KiMills of Serum
Trip Anion Southern Island
Manila Sept 21 Cable roports
from Iloilo concerning tho results of
General Bates second trip among tho
southern islands indicate that only
about 100 rebels at Zamboanga refuse
to recognize American authority Pond
ing the outcome on the island of Luzon
tho city of Zumboangu is practically
deserted The robels aro in camp four
miles in the country The Moros and
Filipinos aro unfriendly and disturb
ances between them aro liable to occur
Jolo is quiet and tho natives continue
friendlv
Fatal ItuimwH at llauihiuK
HamhlKo la Sept 21 John ONoil
an old citizen of this county was killed
last night whilo returning homo by
being thrown from his wagon Ho had
been drinking and the team ran away
Earthquake Kills Hundreds
Smyrna Asia Minor Sept 21 There
was a disastrous cart hquako yesterday
morning at Aidin a town ou the Men
der 81 miles southeast of this place
Hundreds of persons wero killed in tho
valley of Mouderez
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