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Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1899-11-14

IDENTIFY predicted that the majority of
the Boer force will be caught between
two British forces and compelled to
retreat over the difficult Tintwa pass
or Livershook, after abandoning its
guns. However, the Beers have ex-
pressed the intention of capturing
Ladysmith, and then marching on the
capital of Natal, and the fact of their
retaining Tugela bridge intact argues
confidence in their ability to carry out
their plans. Gen. Sohalkburger's flank
ing movement, via Zululand, must
shortly develop, if it is to be effective,
but the experts here scout the sugges-
tion that, with the reenforcements al
ready there and the big naval guns con-
tinually arriving at Pietermaritzburg,
there can be any serious danger.
There is nothing corroborative of the
rumor from Brest of disaster to a Brit
ish troopship. The admiralty has no
knowledge of any such occurrence.
Queen Inspects Troops.
Sunshine so brilliant that it COM
PEELED Queen Victoria to resort to a
sunshade for protection greeted her
maiesty's return to Windsor Saturday
morning when she inspected three de-
tachments of the household cavalry
bound for South Africa. The Royal
horse guards and the Second life
guards had journeyed up from London,
joining the First life guards. Amid
scenes of great enthusiasm the troops
formed in two lines, unmounted, in
Khaki uniform. An immense crowd of
people witnessed the assembly. Brig.
Gen. Trotter, the district commander,
with his full staff, conducted the in
spection.
The Queens Speech.
After the march past, the officers
were ordered to the front and the men
were formed in mass, close to the
royal carriage. Then addressing Col
Neeld, in a voice plainly audible to the
officers, the queen made speech. She
said:
IT have called you here to-day, my sol.
diers, who are always near me, to say fare.
we'll before you cross the seas to distant
part OF my empire to assist your comrades
who are fighting SO bravely for your soy.
ereign and country. I know you will al.
ways do your duty as heretofore, and ]
pray God to bless you and give you safe
return"
After the speech, her majesty beck.
oned to Col. Neeld and when he ad.
vanced the queen shook hands heartily
with him. The colonel assured her
majesty that she could depend on the
guards to uphold the honor of queen
and country. Col. Needs then led
three cheers for the queen and soc
helmets were raised high on the points
of swords and carbines. The cheers
repeated again and again and the
band struck up God Save the Queen
Her majesty drove off amid the cheers
of the spectators and troops present
The government has chartered the
steamers Victorian and Maplemore fol
use as troopships.
Ordered to Proceed to Durham.
1t is officially announced that the
troopships Yorkshire, Lismore Castle
and Aurania have arrived at Cape Town
with 1915 troops. The two steamers
first named Immediately proceeded tic
Durham. 1t is supposed the Aurania's
troops will be landed at Cape Town.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1899-11-14
FORCES CUT DOWN.
Lack of Funds Compels the Discharge
of Men at the League Island
Navy Yard.

Philadelphia, Nov. ia general re-
duction of the force of the department
of construction and repair at the
League Island navy yard has been made
Of the $50 employees 102 have been dis.
charged, and it is believed that more
will follow. The discharged men in.
clude ship-wrights, ship-fitters, paint.
ers. ship-smiths, joiners, plumbers
boat builders and laborers.
Naval Constructor Linnard says the
reason for the cut-down is lack Of
funds to keep all the men employed, al
though there is plenty of work for thu
full force,
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1899-11-14
Passes Another Good Night.

Paterson, N. j., Nov. 13.-Vice Presi-
dent Hobart spent another comfortable
night, and in the morning there was
no material change in his condition.
The vice president sat up in an easy
chair nearly all Friday afternoon. His
condition was SO much improved that
he was allowed to read the papers for
a short time.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1899-11-14
Weather Report.

This October was degrees warmer
on every day than last.
Highest temperature. IS deg, on
the 23rd.
Lowest temperature, % deg, on
the 10Th.
Mean temperature, 55.2 deg.
Water fall, 2.07 inches.
Is days were clear, were cloudy,
and the rest fair.
Prevailing winds, south.
1t is noticeable fact that the
thermometer did not go quite so low
as in September.
Thunder storms on days.
A delightful October.
ARTHUR BELTS,
.. S. Weather Reporter for Ridgeway.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1899-11-14
Wanted for President.

Springfield, ILL.,, Nov. 13.-The trus.
tees of Shurtleff college, Upper Alton,
have extended call to President C. P.
Hatton, of Clairamont female college,
Clairamont, N. c., to be president of
Shurtleff college, but have received no
acceptance as yet. If Mr.. Hatton &C.
cepts, his first duty will be to raise a
$4,000 endowment fund.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1899-11-14

1t will not be a surprise to any who
are at all familiar with the good quail
ties of Chamberlain's Cough Remedy
to know that people everywhere take
pleasure in relating their experience
in the use of that splendid medicine
and telling of the benefit they have
received from it, of bad colds it has
cured, of the threatened attacks of
pneumonia it has ayerted and of the
children it has saved from attacks of
Group and whooping cough. 1t is a
grand. good medicine. For sale by
DR.. VIM. Connolly.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1899-11-14
To Re Sold Mt Auction

Boston, Nov. 13.-It was announced
that the property of the Atlas Tack
company. corporation organized I'M
der the laws of Maine and which has
been in the hands of receivers for some
time, is to be sold under the hammer
in this city ON December 10.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1899-11-14
win Hold His Sent In conere..

Baltimore, Nd, Nov. ia precedent
having established in the case of Gov.
Hill, who for a short time held seat
in the United States senate, as well as
the governorship, John Walter Smith,
the newly elected democratic governor
of Maryland, will, it is said, keep his
seat in congress until his Inauguration
as governor, the second Monday in
.lanuarv next
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1899-11-14
Sails for south Africa.

London, Nov. 13.-Capt. Stephen
L'Hommedieu Slocum, of the Eighth
United States cavalry, and military at
tache at the United States embassy in
Vienna, who has been designated to
watch the operations of the British
troops in South Africa, on behalf of his
government, sailed on board the Brit
ish transport Columbian. The other
foreign attaches sailed on the Bavarian.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1899-11-14

Of Friday. The Times tGoebel, demo-
cratic) Saturday for the first time since
the election omits the publication of
claim that Goebel has received plu-
rality. The Post (anti-Goebel, democrat
icy asserts that Taylor will have plu-
rality of from 5000 to 1000. These fig
ures are about the same as the estimate
made by State Chairman Long.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1899-11-14

Mr. Bryan isn't charging anything
for the speeches he is making in
Nebraska, but that will not prevent
the republicans carrying the state
Lime Springs Sun.
Have you heard that the Democrats
carried the state by over $4,000 ma
jority in spite of Mark Hanna and his
corrupt use of money in that state.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1899-11-14
Transport siehted.

San Francisco, Nov. 13.-The trans
port Indiana, bearing the Tennessee
volunteers, the last of the rturning
volunteer regiments, has been sighted
lust oil port.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1899-11-14
Elected Rector.

London, Nov 13.-Lord Strathcona
and Mount Royal, high commissioner
for Canada, has been elected rector of
Aberdeen university without opposi-
ton.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1899-11-14
In District court, Howard county, Iowa,
Application of Fred b. Lowry, al
Registered Pharmacist to sell Notice.
Intoxicating linllors

Notice is hereby given that Fred b. Lowry a
registered pharmacist, residing in the village
ness under the name 70 the Lowry Drug CO.,
will file in the Office of the clerk Of the district
court, in and for Howard Co, Iowa, ten days
of said court, commencing on the 18th day Of
December 1899, his petition in which he makes
application, as a registered pharmacist to sell
Intoxicating liquors, in the brick build ing
now occupied by him and situated on lot SO,
block a. in the village of Chester, Howard
county, la. And that at the term of the dis
trict court In and for Howard county, Iowa,
appo1nte to be held at the court house in said
county commencing on the 18th day of Decem-
Der 1899, said petition will be presented to the
cUurt, and application will then be made and
proof furnished as by law required. and the
said court will be asked TO issue a permit to
said Fred B. Lowry authorizing him to sell
Intoxicating liquors as registered pharmacist
FRED B. LOWRY, Applicant.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1899-11-14
Transport Sails,

Portland, Ore. Nov. 13.--The trans
port LennoN sailed Friday for Manila
with 500 horses and mules for the
armN
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1899-11-14
Ready to Sail.

San Francisco Nov. 13.-The naval
hospital ship Solace will sail for Ma
Mia via Honolulu and Guam. She has
aboard 80 marines for Guam and 1OC
sailors for the feet at Manila, besides
rs officers. There are also over 1000
tons of supplies for the fleet, She was
ready to leave port Friday night, but
delayed her departure on account of
rough weather.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1899-11-14
}. Knickerbocker" Watch.

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time keeper. Solid
nickel-silyer case, with I@N
ornamental back. A%MNrSNN
Nickel movements, HNH0 NWV
escapem ent fully EVH9 5Hbi
jeweled The famous w,l. s4SvA
"Knickerbocker NS&SI%
watch. 49,
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-08-15
Developing the Country.

Chicago, Aug 15-Secretary of Agri-
torum for few hours yesterday on his
way to Washington from his western
trip. He has been in Iowa, his home
state, and up and down the Pacific coast.
He reports great prosperity everywhere.
He is impressed with the agricultural
sections Of the west, and those which will
require irrigation to develop them. One
of his pet schemes has been tea culture
in the United States. The department has
been developing the plants at Washington
City in great quantities, and it is pro-
osed to distribute to favorabl localities
some Ia 0000 600 shrubs. 1t is the hope of
the secretary that some soils and climates
will be found favorab BILE to the culture of
these plants. Secretary Wilson inspect
ed lands in Washington and Oregon that
have been overgraZed by cattle and ne
elected to such a degree that now they
are pra actically desert. 1T is his desire
to see these regrassed. The department
has two experimental garden spots in
Wash ngton, IN which various grasses,
both foreign and domestic, are being pro-
pagated.
Secretary Wilson learned someth ing of
the agricultural conditions of the Philip
pines while on the coast. He is an en-
thusiastc expansionist He thinks the
islands will supply the United States
with just the sort of tropical area we
need The islands, he considers, are the
richest region in natural resources on
earth. What is needed is the energy and
science of an advanced race to develop
them.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-08-15
LABORI OUT OF DANGER
The ASSasSin'S Bullet Did Not Accom-
plish What 1t Was Intended To
THE LAWYERS POCKETS R|FLED
ieneral Opinion Is That it Was Godsend to
Several High Officers to Have Labori Out of
the Way--The Injured Man Continues to
Discuss Affairs Connected With the Drey-
fus Case--The stimony Weak.

Rennes, Aug. 15.-2:15 p. m.-Labori is
now doing SO we'll the doctors consider
him out of danger He lies on his back,
unable to move, but life is returning to
the leg which yesterday was thought
paralyzed He has no fever, and con-
tinues to discuss the trial. His wife has
remained at his bedside practically ever
since he was wounded
A correspondent of the Associated
Press obtained complete corroboration
of the statement that the pockets of La
boris coat were rifled yesterday while
he was lying on the ground wounded.
Not only were the pockets of his coat
emptied, but an attempt was made to
steal the wallet in which were important
papers referring to the court martial, in.
Guiding his notes for the cross -examina.
ton of General Mercier.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-08-15
Was a Timely Crime.

London, Aug. 15.-The correspondent
of the Times at Rennes, who comments
upon the ''prodigious drama being enact
ed and the loss to the Dreyfus cause
through the disa ablement of Labor, says:
'There is a terribly suggestive timeli-
ness in the crime. If the fates had been
combining against Dreyfus they could
not have armed a more efficient agent
of their designs that the unknown man
who shot Labori just as he was about
to riddle with shot and shatter with in
vective, irony and scorn, the last argu-
ments Of the public accuser, Mercier. 1t
was a master stroke The one indis-
pensible man was thrown hors du COM
bat just at the moment when most was
expected of him. l do not exaggerate
the general impression when affirm that
with Labori absent the bottom seems to
have dropped out of the defense. The
examination of Mercier by NJ. Demange
was one of the weakest exhibitions of
forensic ingenuity and presence of mind
which it is possible to conceive Mercier,
Billot and Caviagnac, with the Others
held the floor just as their predecessors
in the trial of 1894 while the prisoner was
left almost without defense. Doubtless
NJ. Demange lS a great lawyer and he
may we'll have been upset by the terri
BILE event, but his formal and antiquate ted
methods stood him in sad stead today,
and it was today that was most dreaded
by all the adversaries of Dreyfus Then,
to cap all, Mercier called upon Madame
Labori to proffer his sympathy. 1t must
be remembered that LabOri had just re-
covered from the typhoid fever, and his
ardent nervous organism, overstrung
by the tension of this trial, is in bad
condition for combating a fresh shock.
The worst news would surprise nobody.
The event is national calamity"
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-08-15
Their Testimony Weak.

New York, Aug. ia dispatch to the
Tribune from Rennes says: Melodrama
strained to a pitch verging upon hys-
terical prevails both at Rennes and at
Paris. The attempt to murder Maltre
Labori saved witnesses from the search
ing ordeal of incisive questioning which
the attorney had intended to submit to
the court martial in order that they
might be put to them, a method of pro-
cedure which is the nearest approach to
an American cross-examination provided
for by French jurisprudence. This was
to have been "Laborrs day" at the Drey-
fus trial. The brilliant junior counsel
had mastered his facts and primed his
talents with the object of putting the
screws upon Mercier and Cavaignac with
unrelenting force.
From a purely technical point of view,
therefore, the ex-ministers of war who
are upon their defense for Dreyfus' in
iouities have scored a trick, but this is
much more than offset by the moral eff
feet of an attempt at assassina ton
which, happening at critical phase of
General Mercier's testimony, had dealt
the prosecution such telling blow that
in order to attenuate it's effect upon the
public mind, Mercier called upon Madame
Labori as ne left the court room, and as
sured her of his deepest and heartfelt
sympathy"
The testimony Of five ministers
Mercier, Billot, Cavaignac, Zurlinden
and Chanoine-was nothing else but an
elaborate pleading of their own defense;
it was irrelevant to the issue before the
court. The five ministers We're una
BILE to produce any substantial effects
tending to incriminate Dreyfus; they re-
lated vague, REPUTABLE hearsay. stories
which no American court would have ad-
mitted as evidence: they all stood firm
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-08-15
Otis Will Receive a Large
Number of Men.
ROOT IS DETERMINED
That the Fall Campaign Must See the
End of the Filipino InsurrectiOn--
No Politics Will Be Allowed in Ap-
pOintmentS of officers.

New York, Aug. 15.-A special to the
Herald from Washington says: Orders
are expected within few days directing
the organization of five new volunteer
regiments for the Philippines. While a
final decision on the matter of enlisting
still more troops has not yet been made,
the fact that Secretary Root is already
considering the question of officers for
the regiments, indicates the strong prob
ability that they will be organized. The
secretary is extremely anxious to get
good officers, and as he cannot examine
! each individual record, he has decided to
! of the states. Political influence and
| personal or social pull will cut no figure
in the distribution of the commissions in
! these new regiments. Secretary Root
made that point Enthusiastically clear to
Senator Clay of Georgia when the latter
called at the war department to urge the
appointment of several young Georgians,
| who are ambitious to enter the army as
| commissioned officers.
1--WE have heretofore had SO much trou-
BILE over civilian appointments" said Sec
retary Root. that we purpose to make
| the new appointments without the aid of
puiit. ca! or personal influence"
Secretary Root is determined that the
fall campaign shall end the insurrecton,
and that General Otis may have no ex-
cuse for failure to bring it to close, he
purposes giving him as large an army as
conditions may show it necessary. The
proposed new regiments may be sent inn
mediately after the 10 volunteer regi-
ments already enlisted, should the neces-
sity for them be demonstrated. Should
it be apparent when these commands
have been recruited that Otis force is
still insufficient to control the situation,
recruiting will continue until all the vol
unteers authorized by congress have been
enlisted. The recruiting for the 10 new
regiments continues, although they have
their complement of men, and the over
flow may serve as nucleus for the regi-
| ments. 1t is the expectation of the de-
partment that enough men for 18 volun-
| teer regiments VIII be obtained by the
middle of September.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-08-15
MerCier Broke Down.

New York. Aug. ia dispatch to the
Herald from Berlin says: The Berliner
Tageblatt in commenting on the appear
ance of General Mercier at the Rennes
court martial, writes:
The tumult and excitement in which the
exciting end seems to have been inde-
scribab BILE. No one, even the mos. op-
timistic of the Dceyfusards, expected
that Mercier would break down ard
bring forward Enthusiastically moth
ing. The extraordinary confidence with
which he announced his coup and prom
ised to tell everything had prepared the
public mind for some new invention. In
stead of this. what do we find? a long,
tedious kind Of lecture from MERCER,
which only repeats the arguments of the
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-08-15
Are Now Outlaws.

Paris, Aug. 15.-M. Guerin, president
of the Anti-Semite league, who, with
sympathizers has been barricaded since
Saturday in the offices Of the league,
and still holds the fort this morning, is
now regarded as an outlaw in a state of
rebellion. Three inmates attempted to
leave the house this morning and were
promptly arrested. They We're all armed
to the teeth, carrying loaded six-shoot-
ers and hatchets and wearing brass
knuckles. Leading Jews of Europe are
endeavoring to form an international as
soclation for their defense against the
crusade expected against the Jews after
the Dreyfus trial is ended.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-08-15
RECOMMENDATION Impossible

New York, Aug. IA dispatch to the
Journal and Advertiser from Paris quotes
Jean Jaures, the socialist leader as say
ing: 'The socialists have worked for
justice from the first day we realized
there had been an illegal trial. We did
not know then whether Dreyfus was
guilty or innocent. The knowledge that
there had been an illegal trial was
enough for us. Unlike the ant-Drey-
fusard, we do not call foreign interest in
this question impertinent interference,
for we look upon all men as brothers.
The whole world now knows Dreyfus is
innocent. If socialism gains by the ver-
dict it deserves to gain. Re-condemna-
ton is impossible in view Of all the light
thrown on the question"
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-08-15

lecturers cleverer than himself. a Jew
phrases about Germany's threat of war,
about the kaiser who busies himself with
the spy, about 35,000,000 francs sub
scribed in Germany and England for the
Dreyfus campaign. This new sauce was
expected to render the old cuisine more
palatable. Nothing but the most arro-
giant, exaggerated estimate of himself
can explain Mercier's attitude. He
thought he had only to address the judges
to win his case. The long faces of his
friends and the open jubilation of his
opponents have probably convinced him
how he can deceive himself
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-08-15

together and stubbornly affirmed that
Dreyfus, not Esterhazy, wrote the bor-
derau. The testimony of NJ. Honataux
il regarded as skllful bit of diplo-
matte hedging to enable him to re-enter
political life. He admits having de-
clared to General Mercier, when both
were in office, that the evidence of Drey-
fus' guilt did not justify court mar
tlal, but the eX-minister of foreign af-
fairs abstained from expressing his opin-
ion as to the guilt or innocence of the
prisoner. M. HOnatouX, after giving his
testimony, shook hands with General
MERCER in the court room and conversed
earnestly with him for five minutes.
AS the generals, wearing large silver
insignia of the grand officers of the Le-
gion Of Honor. left the Lycee they were
acclaimed in the streets by crowds shout
ing "Vive TArmee! "Vive Mercier!''
Most pathetic of all the dramatic events
Of the Dreyfus affair was Labori, pros
trate and bleeding on the pavement,
with his pale blonde head supported on
his wfe's knee. His eyes We're half
| closed, and as he believed that he was
dying uttered the words: Notify the
court martial to suspend their session.