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The San Francisco call., 1899-10-13
MAFEKING PREPARES
FOR AN ATTACK

CAPE TOWN, Oct. 12.-Advices from
Mafeking say that precaution has been
taken against attack and all the streets
are barricaded. According TO these ad-
vices the Beers intend to shell the town
before delivering their attack. They are
said to possess twelve guns. Every man
in Mafeking is carrying rifle and the
military authorities are confident that
they will he able to repel attack, but they
lack the force necessary to follow a Boer
retreat. The convent sisters and many
la@es have elected TO stay and nurse the
wounded and houses have been converted
into hospitals. The searchlight on the
fort is kept working across the veldt.
Three Boer spies have been arrested in
the town. Railway communication to
the southwark is practically at the mercy
Of the Beers, over 200 miles of the line
being within easy striking distance of
the enterprislng commandos.
Sad scenes occurred at the railway sta
ton on the departure of the women and
children by train. 1t is thought that even
should the main line be blown up at any
point the damage can be repaired within
a few hours
The San Francisco call., 1899-10-13
BADEN-P0WELL'S FORCE
TAKES DEFENSIVE GROUND

LONDON, Oct. PA dispatch from
Mafeking under to-day's date says that
Colonel Baden-Powell has just sent a
strong British force from Mafeking to-
ward the border with field guns and am
balances, presumably with view Of c.
cupying advantageous defensive high
ground.
Dispatches from Duban. Natal. confirm
the report that the Orange Free State
authorities seized the Natal train that
was leaving Ladysmith yesterday morn
ing for Harrismith. They also stopped a
train due to leave Harrismith in the aft
ernoon. All the rolling stock has been
ordered down the country out of reach Of
seizure.
1t is understood that telegraphic com
munication with the Transvaal ceased
punctually at 5 o'clock yesterday after
noon CTransvaal time)
The San Francisco call., 1899-10-13
BIG ADVANCE IN
ATLANTIC FREIGHT RATES

NEW YORK, Oct. 12-According to
ocean freight agents in the Produce Ex-
change, Atlantic freight rates have ad-
vanced on an average of five shillings a
ton. This increase is due to the fact that
the English Government has chartered
more than eighty steamers More than
one-half of these were used in the Allan
tic trade. Agents say that they will not
know what boats have been taken until
the steamships are ready to leave the
other side. Then they will be notified that
the vessels have been taken. Within the
last few weeks ocean freight rates are
said to have advanced % to 80 per cent.
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the Beers IN strong force threaten this
place the situation is so serious that ell
non-combatants have been notified thai
they will be taken away at the expense
Of the imperial Government and housed
at Cape Town. A railroad train carrying
300 women and children was escorted by
detachment Of Colonel Baden-Powell's s
force as far south as Vryburg, where the
Cape railway becomes responsible for the
safety Of the passengers.
LONDON, Oct. 13.-Albertina, which a
dispatch from Durham reported as having
been seized on Thursday by the Beers, IS
a station in the Free State on the Harri-
smith line. Harrismith is equipped and
ofTicered entirely by Natal troops. Dur
ban advices received here say that the
Royal Irish Fusileers have arrived there
and that military headquarters are being
removed to Ladysmith. whittier General
Sir George Stewart White, General Sir
Archibald Hunter and General Symonds
with their staffs, have already gone.
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Department up to the close Of office hours
to-day, nor had the department been in
formed that war had actually been de-
clared. 1t is understood that Consul Ma
crum, stationed at Pretoria. is well
equipped with instructions relative to the
course he shall pursue, both in the mat
ter providing protection for Americans
and in looking after British interests, and
that he will take action Immediately upon
receipt of a direction to make proper rep
resentation to the Kruger government
relative to the assumption by this Govern
ment of the protection Of British inter
ests. Mr.. Macrum cabled the State De-
The San Francisco call., 1899-10-13
WOMEN AND CHILDREN
SENT FROM MkFEKING

CAPE TOWN, Oct 12-At $40 Wednes-
day evening three carriages containing
women and children. but not a single
white man except sick ministers. were
dispatched from Mafeking. The prepara-
tions for the defense of Mafeking are ex-
cellent. 1t is reported by natives at Mafe-
king that they were robbed of money by
the Beers at Malmani.
The news of the uItimatum created no
excitement at Mafeking A transport
rider suspected of carrying details daily
across the border has been arrested there.
The San Francisco call., 1899-10-13

Partment inquiring as to the method to be
pursued In the matter of certification Of
American citizens, and It is presumed
that this inquiry was prompted by a de-
sire to furnish the Boer Government with
list of Americans in the Transvaal
Acting Secretary Adee in reply informed
him that Americans should be registered
In the consulate, and the fact of such reg
fstratfon ought to prevent their getting
involved in any trouble, provided. of
course. that, following the example of
their Government, they remained strictly
neutral.
The San Francisco call., 1899-10-13
STRICT NEUTRALITY
OF THE UNITED STATES

WASHINGTON, Oct 12-Although
urged to tender the mediation of the
United States to aid Great Britain in her
operations against the Beers, and again
TO assist President Kruger's forces in op-
posing the British President Mckinley
has decided to maintain strict neutrality
in the South African war The official
announcement of this as the attitude of
the United States was made by the State
The San Francisco call., 1899-10-13
HALIFAX RESERVES
TO &C TO THE CAPE

HALIFAX, n. s., Oct. 12.-The military
authorities here are active in view of the
Transvaal situation. Lord Seymour has
issued an order for all the reserve men
in and about Halifax to be prepared TO
shoulder guns and go to the Cape If neces-
sary. To-day the whole reserve force
here was notified of the War Depart
The San Francisco call., 1899-10-13
MAKES COMMON CAUSE
WITH THE TRANSVAAL

LONDON, Oct. BIN reply to the for
NAL inquiry of Sir Alfred Miner. Governor
Of Cape Colony and British High Commits
sioner in South Africa, President Steyn of
the Orange Free State announces that
the State will make common cause with
the Transvaal.
CAPE TOWN, Oct Pit Is learned
here that the Free State traders have been
heavily commandeered and have refused
TO import more goods, and 1t is expected
The San Francisco call., 1899-10-13

JOHANNESBURG, Oct. l2.-Wor wos declared
Yesterday. The formal declaration occurred at
10 o'clock this morning.
VRYBURG, Cape CoIoDy Oct IA body Of
Beers have cut the border fepce, odvoDced to
the railway and cut the telegraph wires Two
tbousoDd Beers are now occupying the railroad
line.
The San Francisco call., 1899-10-13

LONDON, s the etexto
imatum N10 AtiDSi iepy
Miner High Commissioner sent 1o.46n
October E -
Majestys Government
pemptory demands of the South African republic convened in
telegram of
South African republic demanded bv the
Government of the South African republic
Government impossible to
The San Francisco call., 1899-10-13

that the Beers will shortly find difficulty
in obtaining coffee and sugar. The tele-
graph wires have Deen cut at Maribogo,
forty miles south of Mafeking.
The San Francisco call., 1899-10-13

| serves was that they may be required to
! go to the Cape. There are several hun
! dred reserves in Halifax. ;
The San Francisco call., 1899-10-13
NON-C0MBRTANTS
MUST LEAVE MAFEKING

MAFEKING, Cape Colony. Oct 1a-As
The San Francisco call., 1899-10-13
Field Cornet Bringing in a Commando.

Froma sechN de or ack adwh whte)
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The San Francisco call., 1899-10-13

ONDON. Oct. 1S.-when the Cabinet
meets at noon to-day 1t is evident
the Boer advance will be in full
swing. Judging from present ap-
! rearances the Beers are preparing
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1899-08-08
KNIGHTS OF HONOR.
The New Supreme Vice Dictator-va-
riOus Notes.

The New Supreme Vice Dictator-va-
rious Notes.
Douglas S. Biggs, recently elected by
the supreme lodge to the Office of supreme
vice dictator, has served for the past two
years as supreme assistant dictator and
has also served upon important commit
tees of that body. He is past grand die
tator of the grand lodge of Massachu-
setts, both by creation and by service,
and is also a well known business man.
His election will give satisfaction to the
membership throughout the state.
The next meeting of the supreme lodge
will be held on the second Tuesday in
June, 1900.
The supreme lodge refused to reduce
the salaries of its officers and travelling
and per diem allowances of representa-
tives.
A motion to change to biennial sessions
of the supreme lodge was disapproved.
The grand lodge of Kentucky will meet
in Louisville Aug. %.
The new scale of rates was unanimous
ly adopted by the supreme lodge.
The new rate is no more than is requir-
ed to pay the death claims arising from
the death rate as it has been for the past
few years.
a dictator who is not already past
dictator cannot be elected representative
or alternative to the grand lodge unless
he has served one full term as dictator.
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1899-08-08
DEWEY'S CHANCE DID COME.
to capture Manila-Approved
Reception Plans.

WASHINGTON. Aug. S.-Chairman
Moses of the committee of 100, having
in charge the reception to Admirai
Dewey i'll Washington and the sword
presentation, received from the admiral
q letter, dated Flagship Olympia,
Trieste, July %, ;" in which he said in
part:
Il note, with pleasure. that it is pro-
posed to make the exercises as simple
as possible. 1t is impossible at this time
to fix the date of my arrival i'll WASH
ington, but will not fail TO give you
the information ON that point as soon as
possible" He said he had already sent
message to the secretary of the navy
that the plans approved by the president
We're agreeable to him.
An interesting historical fact, dating
back to 1873, has come to light in which
Admiral Dewey was the central figure.
Dewey, then u commander, was i'll CON-
mand OF the u S. S. Narragansett, on
the ASlatic station, having taken charge
of the vessel on March /. 1873. The
vessel was on surveying duty when the
Virginius trouble was precipitated aud
q war with Spain seemed imminent.
Commander Dewey wrote to the navy
department requesting that in case war
was declared ne would be assigned to
the duty of capturing Manila.
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1899-08-08
AKRON PEOPLE
Can Always Find the Best of
Proof In Homes TeS-
timOny.

The following public statement
comes from resident, who can be
seen on the street, who can be inter-
viewed at his home, and who will be
only too pleased to give minute par
ticulars to any one who really suffers
from any of the consequences which
inevitably follow weakened or over
excited kidneys.
Is not such evidence Of more value
than published statement for some
citizen of a far away place?
Mr.. Frank Pease, of 204 Russell
ave., engineer, says: II cannot say
too much for Doan's Kidney Pills. 1
felt badly for some time before my
attention was drawn TO them and 1
procured them from Lamparter &
Co.'s drug store. Prior to using
them my back caused me much mis-
cry. I was embarrassed by the ir-
regular action of the kidney
secretion and suffered from
attacks of dull headache when
my kidneys were sluggish.
The secretions from those
organs contained a thick, white de-
posit. l had no energy and was de-
Kidney Pills promptly relieved me
and finally removed the whole trou-
ble."
Doan's Kidney Pills for sale by all
dealers. Prices 30 cents. Mailed by
Foster -Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y.
Sole agents for the U. S. Remem-
Der the name Doan's and take no
substitute.
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1899-08-08
BARRIERS Union.

The BARRIERS union requests that
all members be present at the meet
ing to be held next Monday night, as
important business will be transacted
in reference to Labor Day celebra-
tion at Silver Lake park, September
4. No meeting was held by the
union Monday night. The regular
meeting nights are the second and
fourth Monday evenings of each
month.
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1899-08-08
MODERN WOODMEN.
Occupations Prohibited by the Or
der-Camp Notes.


Section IS of the bylaws was added to
by the head camp by putting on the pro-
hibited list railroad switch tenders, rail
road yard master, railroad yard foreman,
glass blowers, plow grinders in plow fac
tories and steel blasters and adding that
"a person shall be held engaged in any Of
the prohibited occupations when the du-
ties incident to his occupation require him
to perform any of the said prohibited oc-
cupations."
Head Consul Northcott has removed j.
G. johnson from the Office of general at
torney of the order. ]. W. White of Ili-
nois was appointed to succeed him.
Section 43 has been changed to provide
that no change in the benehciaries shall
be effective until the delivery of the new
certificate and until such time the old GER
tifcate shall be held in force.
The Shelbyville Woodmen quartet was
at the head camp and sang many of their
jolly Woodmen songs.
One of the best bylaws passed at the
Kansas City head camp was the one
which prohibits the use by any camp of
any ceremony or appliance in the adop-
tion of candidate which is not provided
in the ritual.
Salaries were advanced as follows:
Head consul, 5000; head clerk, $4,000;
head banker, $1,000; board of directors,
Sl5 day: board of auditors, S12 a day;
law committee, 50 day.
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1899-08-08
YOU KNOW |T IS TRUE,
That Is If 1t Is Told You BY a
Neighb0r.
These Statements Are by Per-
sons Whom we Are Will
ing to Believe.

If person you respect tells you
something, you believe him. You
may not know the person whose
statement we publish in this article,
but you can easily know him, because
we give you his name and address
and he lives right here in Ohio. That
is the way we do, we give you the
names of people living in this State
who have used MOrrow's Kid-ne-oids
for backache and kidney troubles,
because we want you to consult these
people about the good Kid-ne-oids
have done them.
Mr.. Owen Pagan, Wooster St.,
Bowling Green, o., says: II was
greatly troubled with a severe pain
across the small of my back and right
hip. l was not able to attend to my
work. About this time / heard
about Morrow's Kid-ne-oids and de-
cided to give them a trial. 1 took
them according to directions and
Kid-ne-oids cured me in a remark
ably short time"
Morrow's Kid-ne-oids are not pills,
but yellow tablets and sell at fifty
cents box at all drug stores and at
John Lamparter 81 Co.'s drug store.
Mailed on receipt of price. Manu-
factured by John Morrow & Co.,
Chemists, Springfield, Ohio.
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1899-08-08
UNITED WORKMEN.
The Order Has Stood the Test OF
Time-Bench ShaSings.

Long speeches. long letters, long SER
mons, essays and arguments have lost
their days. What is wanted is a concise
proposition and directly to the point. The
Ancient Order United Workman organiz-
alton is no new order with an untried
financial record. We are the oldest, the
largest and safest and therefore the best
of them all, and while this is true it
seems we have been literally asleep for
the past decade, satisfied with being in
the pale of the order and caring little as
to the continuation Of its great and glori-
GUS purposes when we shall have "past
over the river. Protector.
The order was esta ablished in the Mas
sachusetts jurisdiction in 1878. Now
there is membership of 5000.
In Ohio there are over 5000 United
Workmen.
The grand lodges are now privileged to
raise relief funds.
The average age of the membership of
the order has been reduced to about 40
years.
The order has a membership of nearly
100000 and has paid out $50, 100000 in
benefits.
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1899-08-08
Red Men,

Great Chief Donnalley of Pennsylvania
reported membership at the beginning Of
last year, 1896; adopted during the
year, 6,522; reinstated, 1,076; admitted
by card, 416; total, 41,979. During the
year the losses in membership were: By
suspensions, 3,60G; expulsion, 81; with
drawals. 161 deaths, 355; by surrender
of charter, 316; total loss, 4,469. This
leaves the present membership at 81, $40.
The Past Sachems' association of Mas
sachusetts reservation held a ladies' day
at Nahant recently.
The reports of the great council of New
York, degree of Pocahontas, showed a
membership of 6.O09. an increase of 531;
50 councils. with 4S1 past Pocahontases;
1,231 palefaces were adopted and new
councils instituted. The next session will
be in Syracuse.
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1899-08-08

As the true cultivation of the head and
heart go together so should education and
Odd Fellowship go hand in hand.
Jan. 1, 1916, the new work of the five
degrees, adopted Sept. 13, 1916, went in
to effect and remained such until Jan. l,
1881, when the degrees were reduced
from five to three.
The grand lodge of California is to hold
a series of meetings in various parts of
the state to be known as schools of in
struction." At the first meeting recently
held at Denver the grand lodge degree
was conferred on 81.
The secretary of the lodge should be
past grand and should receive reasona
BILE compensation for his services, says
Odd Fellows Siftings.
New Jersey Odd Fellows Orphans
home reports nine inmates-eight boys
and one girl. Receipts last year, 50, 100;
expenditures. 1,50O. There is a debt Of
$1,000 on the property.
Reports show that there are over 700
Odd Fellows in the army and navy
around the Philippines.
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1899-08-08

and wife, two brothers, two sisters or n
brother and sister may take out one bepe-
fit certificate payable to either in the
event of death. A special table of rates
was adopted for this form Of protection,
and it will cost the members about 60
per cent of what two benefits would cost
On the present table of rates.
The fourth and fifth degrees represent
but small percentage of the present
membership, and the plans adopted pro-
vide for the gradual extinguishment of
these degrees. commencing Aug. 1, 1899.
The reports show the order to be in excel
lent condition. with a steady increase in
membership.
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1899-08-08
Southern Camp Meeting,
Boston Ledges, Sunday, Aug. u.
$500 Reward, S1oO.

The reuders of this paper will be pleased
to learn that there is at least one dreaded
disease that science has been able to cure in
al its stages and that is Catarrh. Hall,
Catarrb Cure is the only positive cure now
known to the medical fraternity. Catarrh
being constitutional disease, requires Il
constitutional treatment. Halls Catarrh
Cure is taken internally, acting directly
upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the
system, thereby destroying the foundation
of the disease, and giving the patient
strength by building up the constitution
aud assisting nature In doing its work.
rhe proprietOrs have SO much faith in its
curative powers, that they offer one hun
tred dollars for any case that it fails to
'ure. Send for list of testimonials.
Address +. j. CHENEY d Co., Toledo, o.
sold by druggists zoe.
Halls Family Pills are the best.
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1899-08-08
Friday, August Is, 1899,

and shall be open between the hours of
and s pm.
Said caucuses shall nominate one land ap-
praiser for each ward and township, and Sc
lect one central committeeman for each pre-
cinct.
All electors who voted for Hon. Horace l..
Chapman for Governor, and all other elect
ors who are now in accord with the Demo-
cratic national platform adopted in 1896,
are entitled to take part in the election of
delegates to this convention.
By order of
THE DEMOCRATIC COUNTY EXECU-
TIVE COMMITTEE.
Il. L. ANDREW,
Chairman.
STEPHEN C. MILLER,
Secretary.
THE DEMOCRATIC COUNTY CEN
TRIAL COMMITTEE.
B. F. DAVIS,
l.. H. AMER, Chairman.
Secretary.
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1899-08-08
A Mother Tells How She Saved Her Little
Daughters Life.

am the mother of eight children
and have had great deal of exper-
ience with medicines. Last summer
my little daughter had the dysentery
in its worst form. We thought she
would die. 1 tried everything 1 could
think of, but nothing seemed to do
her any good. I saw by an adver-
tisement in our paper that Chamber
lain's Collie, Cholera and Diarrhoea
Remedy was highly recommended
and sent and got bottle at once. 1t
proved to be one of the very best
medicines we ever had in the house.
1t saved my little daughters life. 1
am anxious for every mother to know
what an excellent medicine it is.
Had known it at first it would have
saved me great deal of anxiety and
my little daughter much suffering.
Yours truly, Mrs. Geo. F. Burdick,
Liberty, R. L. For sale by all drug
gists. e. Steinbacher & Co., whole
sale agents.
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1899-08-08

III MI N~hIi1 1--N T 11If. NU1Ctu 10 IIIt OI-
fee of president of the Rebekah assembly
at its last meeting, has proved her zeal
for the order and ability to manage its
affairs by her previous service in the vari-
Gus offices in the assembly which she has
so acceptably filed. The present year
promises well for California Rebekahs.
A lodge cannot legally use the funds of
the lodge to pay for meals for visiting
members who attend lodge funeral of
deceased member
One of the important things for each
member of the order to consider is that
he is full partner in the concern.
Attendance at lodge meetings is largely
a matter of habit. Once member gets
into habit of going to lodge his seat viii
rarely be vacant
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1899-08-08
MASONIC.
etatistics OF Membership of the Craft.
TrestIeB0ard Designs.

TrestleBOard Designs.
Masonic statistics regarding the mem
bership of the craft in North America,
lately completed, show that on Jan. the
total membership was S1T 900. in which
California stands fourteenth, with 1S,S0S.
The largest membership is New York,
with 9S. $50; the smallest, Arizona, with
61S. The largest number taking the de-
grees the past year was in New York,
with 5.175T; the smallest, Nevada, 15.
Total accessions. 4-,337; total deaths,
12,6S7.
Josiah Drummond Of Maine says that
''the proposition that a profane can be
made a Mason only in a regular lodge
has exceptions; if not. Richard NauX liv-
ed and died a clandestine Mason as well
as many Others who have been every
where recognized as regular
On July occurred the tercentenary of
the Lodge of Scotlsnd (Mary's chapel
No. |, of Edinburgh, which claims TO be
the first and principal Masonic lodge in
Scotland and the oldest in the world.
The event was celebrated by banquet,
ut which was the Prince of Wales.
Plans are prepared and estimates made
for remodeling the second floor of the
Masonic temple at Oakland by converting
it into two stories for offices ut an ex-
pense of about $4,000.
There are 1871 chapters of the Order of
the Eastern Star in Minnesota, with a
total membership Of 1854, gain of 356
The Masonic grand lodge of the state
of Washington recently reversed in part
its action of year ago, admitting TO full
fellowship members of negro lodges de-
irving their authority from the grand
lodge of England.
The cornerstone of the memorial arch
and gateway TO the grounds of the Ma
sonic Widows and Orphans home, at
Decoto, Cal, will be laid by the grand
lodge Oct. 81. The arch is to be built and
donated by the drill corps of California
commandery, No. 1.
In Manitoba business must be done in
the third degree. Lodges doing Canadian
work must regularly open in the first,
second and third degrees and regularly
close down in each degree.
In Delaware any candidate who has
been twice rejected within two years is
Ineligible for initiation.