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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-12-31
AMERICANS AIDING BoERs.
Thousands I'm the Army OF the "United
States Of south Africa"

States Of south Africa"
CINCINNATI, o., Dec. 3o.-At a meeting
Of the Transvaal sympathizers held last
night a toast to the United States
Of South Africa" was proposed by the
chairman. who mentioned the members Of
the future government, Natal Cape Colony,
Orange Free State, Transvaal and Swazi-
land. Mr.. Won Alitow. relative Of Presi-
dent Kruger, arrived from New York In
time to make speech. in the course of
which he said: 1--WE have now 1000 Ameri-
cans well drilled In Pretoria, with 1000 more
on the way. Funds are coming from all
parts of this broad land. We may need
$1,000 men, but We are satisfied that we can
have them in time. even with the English
blockade" Contributions to the amount of
several thousand dollars were made in Sc
cret session. A badge was adopted, with
the motto, UNITED States of South Africa"
in the shape Of Maltese cross. the names
Of the different states inscribed In red, or
ange and blue.
The agents OF the Beers in this city
made District Attorney Bundy another
call to-day. When asked II they were en-
listing men to fight in foreign country
Pierot said he ''only looked the men over
and turned them over to Petit. The dis
trict attorney advised them to desist and
informed them they were running a risk
in violating the neutrality laws. They both
left hastily. Pierot claims that they had
the opinion OF able lawyers on the subject
and that the district attorney was only
bluffing. Bundy says he means business
and will have the two men watched.
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sORTIE FROM MAFEKING.
British Reported to Have Lost Heav-
lily I'm Attacking a Fort.

LOURENZO MARQUES, Dec. 29.-Ad-
vices here from Pretoria, under date OF
Dec. q, say that an official dispatch from
Mafeking announces that in the sortie
which the British made from that place
Dec. %, attacking one of the Boer forts
with cannon. Maxims and an armored
train so persistently that the fighting ragged
up to the walls of the fort. the British lost
100 men killed and wounded. while the
Beers lost only two men killed and seven
wounded. The dispatch adds that Captains
Kirkwood and Grenfell were captured by
Boer scouts near Colenso and were being
sent TO Pretoria.
Ten unloaded shells. inscribed THE sea-
sons greetings" have been fired at Lady
smith
Ten South African medical students
from Edinburgh have arrived at Pretoria
from Delagoa bay with five tons of medical
stores.
A dispatch from the Boer camp at the
Modder river. dated Thursday. Dec 2S, re-
ports an artillery duel lasting an hour. Dec.
n British reconnoitering party made a
sortie. but did not come within the Boer
range. The British, Dec. Is, commenced a
steady bombardment of the Boer posi-
ton.
PRETORIA, Friday. Dec. 2e-Three
British prisoners from Malapo report that
Captains Vernon and Sanford, of Colonel
Baden-Powell's staff. were killed during
the engagement in which Lords Edward
Cecil and Cavendish- Bentinck were
wounded. The object of the sortie was to
capture Boer cannon. The losses of the
British were heavy and severe.
The Long Tom," injured at Ladysmith.
has been repaired and is being replaced
The new contract reducing the price of
dynamite instituted by the Raad In Au-
gust was registered Dec. 2S between the
government and the factory.
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HAD A HIGH OLD TIME.
Chicago Board of Trade Member
Threw Dignity to the Winds.

CHICAGO, Dec s0-Members OF the
Board of Trade to-day made boisterous
farewell to the old year, throwing wheat
and corn, stuffing hay down the backs OF
old gentlemen, who remembered when
wheat came into Chicago in wagons:
smashing each other with inflated bladders.
plastering each other with -four and reduc-
ing to shapeless wrecks various hats Of the
vintage of 1899. All this was in open vio-
lation of the edict of the directory and
came to a close only when the directory
caused the windows to be opened, admit
ting wintry blasts in sufficient force to
overcome the warmth engendered by the
unusual activity of the bulls and bears.
Later in the day the crowd reassembled-
the majority Of them. 1t was noticed. In
new hats-and a minstrel show was given,
the actors being members of the board.
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MILWAUKEE,, Wis, Dec. 30.-Detectives
arrested man tonight giving the name OF
Archibald Allison, on general suspicion
Allison claims to be colonel in the Brit
ish army and to have been delegated to
this country by the British government
for the purpose of purchasing horses to
be used In the campaign against the Beers
in South Africa. He had in his possession
letter Of recommendation to Gen.
harles King. purporting to have been
signed by AuJut4ilt General Corbin, recon-
mending General King TO assist him in his
work. Investigation by the police shows
the letter to be a forgery and Allison is
held He is welt dressed, tall, about fifty
years Of age and wears a gray mustache.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-12-31
Many Anxious to Fight Beers.

WINNIPEG, Manitoba. Dec. So.-Mator
Williams. Of the Royal Canadian Dragons,
stated to-day that he had received no fewer
than epplicet'ssT for enlistment for ac-
tive service with the imperial forces in
South Africa, the majority being from ex-
soldiers and ex-mounted policemen. Eighty
four noncomnissione6 officers and men and
four officers are all allowed from Manitoba.
The local contingent will leave Winnipeg
Jan. to join the Canadian force at Hall
fax. subscription list was opened here
to give the Winnipeg members a substan-
tial send-off.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-12-31
LAST OF THE MAINE DEAD.
Funeral Of Frederick HOlxer, q Vic.
tim Of the Battleship Disaster.

NEW YORK. Dec. 30.-The funeral CT
Frederick Holzer. twenty-five years Of age.
one Of the victims Of the battleship
Maine. took place in this city to-day. The
funeral Services were held in st. Joseph s
Church, a requiem mass being celebrated
by Rev. Father Chadwick, who was the
chaplain Of the Maine. Fifty members Of
the Cecilia Society and forty-eight marines
end sailors from the navy yard, command
ded by Lieutenant Dewey, nephew Of Ad-
miral Dewey, formed the guard OF honor.
A firing party of seventeen marines fired
three volleys at the grave.
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ness and willingness to sell the Portuguese
colonies to I'LL the depleted Golfers Of the
treasury. The Figaro says: king Charles
probably will lose his crown If he acqui-
esces to England's proposal. even under
menace"
An interesting piece Of diplomatic gossip
Is that the Portuguese minister in Lon
don Is great friend OF the Prince Of
Wales and in order to please him practic-
ally assured Lord Salisbury that British
troops would be permitted to pass through
Lourenzo Marques. But, it is added. when
the matter was brought to the attention
of the home government 1t repudiated the
minister's action.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-12-31
Were I'm Khaki Uniforms, and Intend.
ed to Cross Portuguese Territory
Into the Transvaal.
MUCH ILL FEELING AROUSED
PRO-BOERs AT LOURENZO MARQUES
wRoTH OVER THE SEIZURE.
Hamburg Merchants Also Angered,
and Prince Hohenlohe Asked to Pro-
test Against Brftafn's Action.
LoURENzo MARQUEE, Delagoa Bay

LOURENZO MARQUEE. Delagoa Bay,
Dec. So.-The German steamer Bundesrath,
belonging to the German East African line.
has been captured as prize by the Brit
ish warship Magicienne and taken to Dur
ban. The Bundesrath arrived here from
Mozambique. She is of 1919 tons, and
sailed from Hamburg, Nov. 8, for Tanga,
East Africa.
The capture of the Bundesrath has in
creased the already strong anti-British
feeling here among the Hollander and Ger
man section Of the population.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-12-31
KANSAN KILLED HIMSELF.


TOPEKA, Kan. Dec. so.-Former Repre-
sentative Benjamin Glover committed sui
eide at his home near Douglass. Butler
county, to-day by shooting himself. De-
spondency, resulting from sickness and pow.
erty was the cause. Clover formerly repre-
sented the Third district in Congress and
famous Farmers Alliance movement. He
won considerable fame by going to sleer
during the vote on an important measure
I'm the House. but the incident cost him
his place. the Populists refusing to re-
nominate him
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OTTAWA. Dec. CA large number Of
buttons, on which was inscribed the words:
Victory to the Boers." both in French
and In English. were recently seized by
the customs officials IN Toronto and for
warded to the department here. All i'm
portations of the character mentioned are
declared to be seditious under the GUS
toms act. and are therefore prohibited.
The buttons were being sent to Toronto
and Montreal people. They were manu-
factured in New Jersey.
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NEW YEARS GREETING.
Message from the People Of kfmber-
ley to Queen Victoria.

LONDON, Dec. 30.-The War Office has
issued a dispatch dated Cape Town. Fri
day, Dec. 20. evening. saying that Colonel
Kekewich wired. through the general COM
handing at Modder river. Dec. Is. as fol-
lows: II am desired by the mayor and
Council TO forward the following for trans
mission through the proper channel:
TO Her Most Gracious Majesty. the
oueen-The inhabitants OF Kimberley beg
to send your Majesty New Years greet
fngs. The troubles they have passed
through and are stiIl enduring only tend
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-12-31
German Omcers Aboard.

LONDON. Dec, 3o-A representative of
of the Associated Press has learned that
there were three German officers and twen-
ty men, attired in khaki, and intending to
serve the Beers, on board the Bundesrath,
which explains her capture. Regarding
traffic generally on the east coast of Africa
the British Admiralty officials say the gov
ernment desires that all ordinary and legit-
innate trade conducted by foreign vessels
should suffer as little restriction as pos
sible
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-12-31
GOLD AND SILVER.
Production in the United States Dur
ing the Past Year.

WASHINGTON, Dec. SO.-The prelimi-
nary estimate of the production of gold
and silver in the United States during the
calendar year 1899, made by Mr.. Roberts.
director of the mint, shows a total gold
production of S7O.694,17o. an increase over
the production of last year of Sc, ,2S6,610. The
production of silver during the year Is es-
timated at 696. an increase during the
year of s4,OiO.21L The gold production by
States for the years 1899 and 1S9S is given
a below:
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-12-31
Fight Near Victoria West.

CAPE TOWN, Dec. 29.-The troops in the
British camp of Victoria West turned out
last night to repel an attempt Of the Beers
10 cut the railroad near the station. "A
patrol reported early in the evening that
they had sighted the Beers in the neighbor-
hood. At 10 o'clock at night the Beers
opened heavy fire near the station. The
British replied and the Beers retired at
daybreak. their attempt having turned out
q failure.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-12-31
SEIZURE OF AMERICAN FLOUR.
A Fine Point of International Law
Involved in the Caae

LONDON, Dec. 30-The seizures of car
goes OF American -four off Delagoa bay
fail to excite much popular interest in
England. 1t is generally looked upon as a
fine point of International law that will be
amicably settled. So far no official steps
have been taken. owing to the nonar-
rival of the necessary papers from WASH
ington. The military and International law
authorities are almost unanimous In de-
claring that Great Britain should not de-
clare foodstuffs contraband Of war. The
Naval and Military Record, under
this head. says to-day: Fully so
per cent. of our food comes from
America, the colonies and other
countries. We have ceased to make any
effort to be self-supporting. This condition
constitutes a danger only bearable because
of our confidence In the strength Of the
British navy and in the friendship and
self-interest Of the United States. The
States may be counted on to fill our larder
in both peace and war. but SO essential have
American supplies become to our safety
that we must take no step likely to lead
to an interruption Of the enormous supply
of foodstuffs. Our enemies on the continent
would rejoice If we intercepted the food
stuffs now passing into the Transvaal via
DeIagoa bay. A dangerous precedent would
thus be created, which would be used
against England at the first opportunity"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-12-31
RAILWAY CLASSIFICATION COMMIT
TEE Is NOT TRUST.
Ruling by Attorney General Griges
on a Question Submitted by the In
terstate-Commerce Commission.
HE CANNOT AID SHIPPERS
BECAUSE THE ANTITRUST LAW HAS
NOT. BEEN VIOLATED.

The Classification Of Rates, of Wbich
Merchants Complain, IL Not Eject
ed by Means of n Contract.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-12-31

King Charles May Lose His Crown.
PARIS. Dec. 3o-Advices received In dip
lcmatic circles here say the Republicans OF
Portugal have seized on the alleged Anglo
German Portuguese secret treaty as
weapon to attack the monarchy. asserting
that it Is evidence OF the monarch's weak
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-12-31
IotalS ...................SfU .SfU,oS4,liO ~
British Klondike $l6, 4.l50

The estimated production of silver (coin-
ing value) during 1899 and 1S9S is given as
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1899-03-25
Cheering Cable From Otis.

WASHINGTON, March 2O-The War
department has received the following
dispatch from Major-General Otis re-
garding operations against the insur-
gents:
Our improvised gunboats under Cap
tain Grant, Utah artillery, have full
possession of La Guna de Bay; troops,
inhabitants and property on shore of
lake at our mercy. Wheaton brigade
on Pasig river line drove enemy north
east into province of Morong. Last
evening the enemy attacked portion of
his force south of Pasig, killing two
men and wounding twenty of the
Twenty-second infantry. This morn
ing Wheaton moved against this in
surgent force. driving it to the south
fifteen miles, experiencing very slight
loss. Enemy left coo dead on the field.
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1899-03-25

When F. D. Underwood left Mime
apolis to come to Baltimore to take
the position Of general manager of the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad he
brought a straw hat and linen buster
expecting to bask in the baImy south
ern breezes that blow up Chesapeake
Bay sometimes. Within ten days after
he took charge two hundred miles of
the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad were
blocked with snow and Baltimore had
a worse blizzard than any one in the
northwest ever experienced. 1t cost
the road about sixty thousand dollars
a day for four days to get the tracks
in condition to resume traffic, but the
officials are very proud of the fact
that they beat all competitors in get
ting trains through from Pittsburg and
other western points to Baltimore
Philadelphia and New York. All of
the through trains that were DELAYED
by the storm were fortunately tied up
at large towns, SO that none of the
passengers suffered from hunger or
cold.
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1899-03-25
WHARF Cloves Come From.

ghe cloves of commerce are the I'M
expanded flower buds Of Caryophyllus
aromaticus Myrtaceoe, a small ever
green tree indigenous to the Moluccas.
but which is cultivated in several
parts of the East and West Indies Be
fore the expansion of the flowers,
which are borne in branched r4nicles
at the extremities OF the branches. the
buds are either collected by hand or
beaten down upon mats spread under
the trees. They are then cleaned and
dried in the sun, after which a uni
form brown color is impaired to them
by slightly smoking them over wood
Gre.-The Designer.
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Found in the Missouri River.

KANSAS CITY, Mo-. March 2O.-Im-
bedded in the sand and bruised and
battered by long contact with floating
blocks of ice, the body of Anna Muder,
who disappeared from her home in
Sheffield, December II, was found in
the Missouri river by two fishermen
yesterday, two miles below the mouth
of the Blue. The body of this girl,
barely Is years old, had been drifting
about in the waters of the river for
more than eleven weeks.
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1899-03-25
Tn. sick Man of the Eas..-


The Turkish empire has been known
Tor many years as the sick Man of
the East" and this title was first given
TO it by Nicholas, car of Russia. On
the night OF the 9th of January, 1853,
the British minister at the Russian
court, Sir George Hamilton Seymour,
was at party gathering in the palace
OF the Archduchess Helen, when the
Emperor Nicholas approached him and
drew him into a conversation. This
was chiefly with reference to eastern
affairs. and in course of it he made
the following remark as to Turkey
and its position: We have on our
hands very sick man; it will be,
tell you frankly, great misfortune IL
one Of these days he should slip away
from us, especially before all necessary
arrangements are made" On the fol-
lowing goth OF February he expressed
himself again to the British ambassa-
dor in the same strain: 81 repeat to
you that the sick man is dying, and we
can never allow such an event to take
Us by surprise" -I
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1899-03-25
AbOut Amber.

Although amber is not a precious
stone, or anything Of the sort, it is
nevertheless a precious material, one
full of picturesque interest and very
beautiful to boot. Most Of the amber
of the world has been found thrown up
on the shores Of the Baltic sea. and is
supposed to be the residuum of old and
huge forests of period before civiliza-
ton CT the world began. A little is
found in this country, little in Eng
land, a little in the far Orient, little
OF it is mined and the fossil
trees, whose gum it was, are still in
evidence in the strata with the gum
exuding from them, but the most Of
the worlds amber comes from the
Prussian coast
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Idiera and Workers.

I do not know which is most won
derful and most sad-the sight of the
idIers who do nothing, or of the work.
ers who enjoy nothing but working for
themselves Both are enslaved. They
have given their hearts away to the
world, a sordid boon. Both have the
worlds reward-the idler his pleasure
the worker his success, and both have
also the spiritual punishment-loss OF
the true use of life, and the inward
1oylessness which darkens their de-
clining years.-ReN. StopforG Brooke.
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1899-03-25
PATRICK WALSH DEAD.
Was One o. the south,s Most Eminent

Was One OF the south's Most Eminent
Men-EdItor and Politician.
AUGUSTA. Ga, March 2O.-Patrick
Walsh, ex-United States Senator and
mayor of Augusta, died at his resi-
dence yesterday after three months
illness, of nervous prostration. There
was little hope in the community of
his recovery, but his death was not
thought to be so near at hand Mayor
Walsh was one of the most prominent
men in Georgia, and had national rec
ognition as the earnest champion of
Southern development and perhaps the
best authority on the material re-
sources and manufacturing products
of the South.
Mr.. Walsh was born in Ireland and
came to Augusta, Ga. in 1862. and has
since been identified with the press of
the city, for twenty-five years as edi-
tor and proprietor of the Augusta
Chronicle.
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Enlisted Though an Ex-Convtc..

SEDALIA, Mo-, March 20-Lieuten
ant Warren Dean of the Sixth United
States cavalry, who few days ago
enlisted W. j. Hewitt for service in
Porto Rico, has made the discovery
that Hewitt is an ex-convict and a tel
egram has been sent to Fort Leaven-
worth ordering his arrest for fraudu-
lent enlistment Hewitt served a two
years sentence at jefferson City for
an assault.
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1899-03-25

Ruric, a angian chief, appears to
have been the first to establish a
monarchical government in Russia,
about the year S62. His descendants
ruled amid great vicissitudes till
1898. In that year Feodor L, the last
of the race of Ruric, was murdered.
Michael Fedorovitz Of the house Of
Romanoff accepted the throne in 1913.
In 1852 Peter the Great began his reign
and the progress Of the Russian power
under him and Catherine II is uu-
equaled for rapidity in the history of
the world.
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1899-03-25
Spain VII, Paw the Cuban Deb.

LONDON, March 20. The Madrid
correspondent of the Standard says:
Il am able to state that the govern
ment intends, so far as possible, to
execute the national guarantee of the
Cuban debt. 1t is proposed that the
settlement should include e23, 600, 600
of the Cuban per cent bonds, issued
in 1886. and e15. ZOO, 900 of the 5 per
cent bonds issued in 1890. These dc
not include the war debts contracted
since"
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Franz Josef May Remarrv.

LONDON, March 20-The Vienna
correspondent of the London
Daily News says: It is rumored
here that Emperor Francis Joseph,
when the period of mourning for
the late Empress Elizabeth is ended,
will marry Princess Marie Isabelle de
France, sister of the Due d'Orleans.
The emperor is anxious to leave a di-
rect descendant to the Austro- Hun
garian throne. The princess is in her
2lst year.
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1899-03-25
WIN Ch,namea Eat Rats.

The Lahore Qndia) Tribune quotes
q Chinaman's explanation OF the use
of rats for food purposes as follows:
What carrot is to a horses coat a rat
Is to the human hair. Neither fact can
be explained, but every horseman
knows that a regimen of carrots will
make his stud smooth and lustrOuS as
velvet, and the Chinese, especially the
women, know that rats used as food
will stop the falling out Of hair and
make the locks soft, silky and beauti-
full. 1 have seen it tried many times. :"
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Sergeant Buck Taylor.

would take volume to tell you all the
good it has done me. Pe-ru-na is the
best catarrh cure on earth, and 1 know,
for I have tried nearly all of them.
Respectfully, Buck F. Taylor"
Winter weather causes catarrh
Everybody knows this. But everybody
does not stop to think that winter
weather delays the cure OF catarrh. 1t
takes longer to cure a case OF catarrh
in the winter generally, than in the
warm season. Spring is here. Now is
the time favorable to the treatment of
old and especially stubborn cases of
catarrh
Send for book entitled Facts and
Faces" Sent free by The Pe-ru-na
Drug Mfg Co., Columbus, o.
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How Fijiau Clocks Are Made.

The Fipian clock is rather a curtos-
ity; it is made from a followed tree
trunk, something after the shape Of
canoe. This is placed on the ground
in the center of the towns. At IL
o'clock a few sharp strokes upon this
hollow trunk with a wooden club at
tract the attention, then twelve slow,
loud strokes are given. This takes
place every hour. the right number OF
strokes being given. The sound can
be heard from one side of the harbor
to another.
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1899-03-25
Finns VIII Emigrate.

LONDON, March 2o.-In consequence
of the discomfort over the Russian
CONSUMPTION and other hardships in
Finland. representatives of the Fin
nish Political aud Emigration Society
are now in London making inquiries
as to the most suitable territory for
the reception of thousands of Finnish
emigrants- Their choice lies between
the Argentine Republic and Canada.