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The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1899-06-04

The closing exercises of the
Kindergarten school will be given
June 10th. There will be ten
graduates. Diplomas will be Civ
en-. 4-S2t
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1899-06-04

]. A. Schear, OF Sedalia, Mo-. saved
his child from death by Group by
using One Minute Cough Cure. 1t
cures coughs, colds. pneumonia, la
grippe and all throat and lung troub-
les. w. b. Frame.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1899-06-04
Encampment Elect Officers.

AT a regular meeting of Indian
ola Encampment, No. 10, l. Q. 0.
F., held last Friday night, the fol
lowing officers were elected tc
serve during the enusing term:
d. 7. Nisbett, Chief Patriarch.
Chilion Riley, High Priest.
Sam Weeks, Senior Warden.
Walter Ru6isill, Junior Warden
w. A. Payne, Scribe.
Claude Stubblefeld, Treasurer.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1899-06-04
Cemetery Association.

All members OF the Cemetery
Association are urgently requested
to meet at the Christian church
Monday night at s o'clock. Re-
member the hour and date.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1899-06-04
For SaIe-

The StinsOn residence on North
Court street. one of the best lOcat-
ed and arranged dwellings in Ard
more, will be sold at a bargain by
[. n. Stinson or
D. NJ. REDFIELD, Agent.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1899-06-04

Shirt waists worth 81. 81. 80 and
So, your choice for - cents.
Mrs. kLOSKI.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1899-06-04

No flies around Spiegles ice
cream. The electric fan is the
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1899-06-04

Take the most popular route TO St.
Louis and all points East, Kansas
City and all points North and West.
Santa Fe trains make close connec-
tions at Oklahoma City and Wichita
for all points on the Frisco Line.
st. Louis and Kansas City Mail and
Express leaves Oklahoma City g:15
every morning: leaves st. Louis $40
every evening and arrives at Oklaho-
ma City 6:20 the following evening.
Through Recl.hing Chair Cars with
out change. Pullman Palace Sleepers
from Monett to st Louis and Kansas
City. You can secure berths before
leaving Oklahoma.
Further information will be cheer.
fully given by the nearest Agent or
B. F. DUNN. T. +. & p. A.,
Oklahoma City, o. T.
BRYAN SNYDER, G. P. A.
St. Louis, Mo.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1899-06-04

Odin, Kansas.-Beggs Mfg. Co..:
Sirs-I have used your Cherry Cough
Syrup the past week for la grippe
and can cheerfully say, it is a sure
cure for that disease; as it cured me
in a short time, and will cure others
if they will use it faithfully. F.
Shade. Sold at City Drug Store
and T. n. Coleman's.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1899-06-04

The Foreign Mission and Home
Mission societies of Broadway NJ.
E. church, will meet Monday after
noon at 2:30 o'clock with Mrs. T.
X. Kearney. Refreshments will
be served and an admission fee of
10 cents charged. All who are in
terested are respectfully invited to
attend. We want new members.
Large, we'll ventilated, nicely
furnished rooms for rent. Apply
at Bridgman house, West Main
street. 2Stf
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1899-06-04
One Night Only.

Monday evening. June 5, at $50
sharp. Keep your eye open for
the closing exercises of St. Agnes
academy. 1t will be among the
best, if not the best, ever presented
to the Ardmore public. General
admission % cents, reserved seats
35 cents. 1tf
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-05-18

the Jail TIE excitement here is some
what abating.
LONDON, May 17-The Consul of the
Transvaal here has received the fol-
lowing telegram from his Government.
dated Pretoria, May 16:
Richard Nichols, describing himself as
a colonel; George Patterson, a captain;
Edward !. Tromlett, Charles Ellis and
John A. Mitchell and Fries and Hooper
were arrested yesterday morning on the
sworn declaration of three Englishmen
on the charge of high treason in connec-
tion with the alleged object of the en-
rollment of the troops to create a revolu-
ton, seize johannesburg fort and hold
possession of the town until the British
troops from Natal could come to their as
sistanCe.
One of the prisoners alleges that he
was acting under instructions from the
British War Department.
In response to inquiries made on the
subject in Government circles the cCr-
respondent here of the Associated Press
was told to-day that the report that
the men arrested at johannesburg had
acted under instructions from the
British War Office were too absurd
for refutation."
representative of the Associated
Press to-day saw a number of promi-
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-05-18

poleon III to convoke European peace
conference at Paris in 1868, and similar
papers.
The second commission will consider
the declarations of the Congress of
Paris, 1850, and the Geneva convention,
1864, the unratifed clauses of the Ge-
neva convention of 1868 the acts of the
st. Petersburg convention prohibiting
the use of certain projectiles by civil
lied nations, the minutes of the Brus-
sells conference of 1874, the suggestions
of the oxford manual regarding the
laws and ObServanceS of war: the rules
for the bombardment of cities adopted
by the institute of international law in
Venice in 1896, the declarations of
France and Great Britain regarding
the unadopted rules of the Geneva con-
vention, the views of the Amsterdam
Chamber of Commerce, approved by
successive Netherlands foreign minis
ters, urging the adoption of the min
uteS of the Brussels conference of 1874
dealing with the laws and observances
of war which did not lead to the con-
cluSion of any convention, and the cir
cular of the Dutch Minister of Foreign
Affairs in 1871 relating to the adoption
of the principle of inviolability of pri-
vate property and urging clearer def
milton of the term "contraband of wal" !"
the proposals of Lord Clarendon at the
Paris convention in 1856 for the inter
mediation of a friendly state previous
to a recourse to force. the motion of
Signor Mancini in the Italian Chamber
of Deputies in 1875 in favor of arbitra-
ton; the acts of the Berlin and Zurich
conference on compromise and media
ton; David Dudley Fields plan for an
arbitration tribunal: the proposals for
oY-hi ifrof fnf trih oil
Central and South American States.
adopted in Washington in 1890; the
Marquis of Salisbury's letters to Sir Ju-
liam Pauncefote in 1896, relating to the
conclusion of an arbitration treaty be
tween Great Britain and the United
States and the terms of the ratified
treaty and many SIM
liar documents
NJ. de Staal will open the conference
by summarizing the objects of the
gathering and expressing the confidence
of Emperor Nicholas that the powers
will support the beneficent work OF the
conference.
After the appointment Of the commits
sions the conference will adjourn for a
week
The American delegates. it is under
stood, will carefully abstain from mix
ing in purely European questions, but
will take an earnest part in the discus
sion of the application of arbitration
and improvements in the Geneva rules
for the protection of field hospitals
giving also special attention to the
abolition of privateering and the ex-
empIion of all private property from
seizure, except contraband of war. this
policy being the same as that adopted
by Benjamin Franklin in negotiating
the treaty with Frederick the Great.
successfully urged by Presidents James
Monroe, James Buchanan. Benjamin
Harrison and William Mckinley,
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-05-18

II rebels still threaten San Fer
IVI nando in considerable force,
AF4 large numbers of natives, ma
iority of them having families with
their household goods, are moving daily
to the towns inside the American llles'
at Apalit. especially.
Many of the richer F'ilipinos are COM
ing to Manila and laborers are resum-
ing work in the rice fields. The latter
show their respect for American soVer-
eignty bv removing their hats to the
passing trains carrying troops.
Owing to the bad condition of the
wagon roads the work of repairing the
railroad is being actively pushed All
the broken bridges have been trestleo
and only a few excavations remain TO
be filed up. Trains will undoubtedly pe
running through to San Fernando IN
few days. The only natives there are
some Filipinos from Macabebe who are
trading with our soldiers.
At daylight to-day Lieutenant HILL
who, with twenty-five men OIL lne
Fourth Infantry was concealed IN the
trenches near Pasig, was attacked py
force of rebels who evidently imagined
thev could capture one of our outpoSts
because only few shots had been flred
hv the American force. A few volleys
nut the enemy to flight, the rebels los
ing five men killed and number or
wounded.
The army gunboat Napidan has re-
turned here from the lake, having been
disabled by a cannon shot from rebel
,;+io,, naar Santa Cruz which broke
her rudder post.
MANILA. May 1S-Major Kobbes
column reached San Luis, eight miles
I'D the Rio Grande, yesterday, meeting
with but slight opposition. one man
was wounded during brush with the
rebels.
Al daybreak to-day the American
began a further advance toward Can
daba about six miles up the river be-
yond San Luis.
The insurgents along General Mac
Arthurs front evacuated their posi-
tions during the night time, presumably
moving further up the railroad.
The Twenty-third Infantry has sailed
on tbe transport Leon XIII for Jolo ISL
and TO relieve the Spanish garrison
there.
Aguinaldo and his Cabinet are report
cd 10 have met at San Isidro before the
Americans arrived and captured that
place, and decided to send commission
to otis to accept the terms of the
nroclamation. General Lawton was un-
aware of this decision when ne ad-
vanced upon the city. The Filipino
leaders then retired, but a commission
bearing Aguinaldo's submission is ex-
Dected Tomorrow.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-05-18

nent South Africans connected with
the leading concerns of Johannesburg
They declared they had not received
word from their own agents in Cape
Colony, the absence of advices indicat-
ing that the affair was "trumped up"
by the Boer police, and that in any case
the men arrested were irresponsible
melodies with fictitious military titles
affixed by the Beers with the object of
discrediting the British in the eyes of
the Continental powers. 1t is now be-
lieved Tromlett was formerly a cap
tain of volunteers in Cape Colony, and
that he is now a mining agent; Patter-
son is described as butcher and la
Dor agitator; Mitchell is said to be
storekeeper; Cooper is classed as car
penter; Ellis is alleged to be private
detective, and the occupations of Fries
and Nichols are unknown.
A prominent Uitlander said to the
representative Of the Associated Press:
My cwn view is that a few ire
sponsible men met together to discuss
means of defense in case the necessity
for such action arose. Those who are
acquainted with johannesburg know
that such precautions are necessary.
There was the greatest unrest and fer
ment there when l left. But the state
ment that there has been a conspiracy
during the past four months, and that
the South African League was con-
nected with 1t, is untrue. No Uitlander
is allowed to possess a rifle, yet at every
corner are policemen armed with rifles
and revolVerS The feeling of alarm
on the arrival of the Boer artillery can
be conceived.
1T is a significant fact that the
men arrested are practically unknown,
showing that the feeling which in 1895
was limited 10 the capitalistic class has
now gene lower down and has reached
the ordinary working class of shop
keepers of Johannesburg.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-05-18
MONEY FOR
CUBANS TO BE
DISTRIBUTED
Brooke's Latest Decree Is
Satisfactory to General
Gomez.
Special Dispatch to The Call.

HAVANA. May 17.-General Brooke
submitted to General Gomez to-day a
new distribution decree. 1t proved
satisfactory to Gomez Every effort
is being made to avoid another hitch.
Brooke's decree and Gomez's manifesto
will be issued tomorrow simultane-
ously.
Gomez states that he will not take
an active part in the distribution of
the money, which will be made by the
American commissioners from the lists
submitted.
l have had many interviews with
cuban soldiers. All are willing to give
up their arms. The feeling is strong
among both officers and soldiers that
they should be given work bv the
United States. They assert that a large
majority of the offices in Cuba are now
held by men who We're not active in
the war. They think protest will be
made on that ground.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-05-18

80 - . - % >-s->-@'-< -
HRETORIA. Transvaal Republic,
DMay 1.-THE seven alleged revolu-
ionists. who presented the appear
ance of ordinary loafers, were ar
raigned in court to-day, charged with
the capital offense of high treason.
They were remanded for a fortnight.
Sworn affidavits alleged that 2OOO men
have been enrolled for military service.
and that it was intended to arm th@rn
in Natal. to return to the Rand. and.
at a given signal, to seize and hold the
fort of johannesburg for twenty four
hours pending the arrival of British
troops.
The press says the Government re-
CARDS the matter as IAN unfortunate
local incident which will not affect the
general political situation" The Gov
ernment also confirms the report that
the arrangements between President
Kruger and the Governor of Cape Col
ony, High Commissioner OF South Afri-
ca Sir Alfred Miner, for a meeting at
Bloemfontein, capital of the Orange
Free State, are nearly completed. The
Presidents proposed reforms Will be
presented 10 the Volksrad prior to the
meeting.
CAPE TOWN, May 1.-THE expected
conference between President Kruger
of the Transvaal Republic and Sir AL
fred Miner, Governor of Cape Colony,
has not yet been arranged. The presi-
dent of the South African League re-
pudiates any connection with the en-
listment of men for any purpose.
Fries was the only prisoner who did
not appear to-day at the Pretoria court
for arraignment. The streets were
thronged and the prisoners were es-
corted under a strong guard from the
Jail to the court. A remand was grant
ed and the prisoners were returned to
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-05-18

Men Who Will Participate in
the Peace Conference
Ready to Proceed.
Special Dispatch to The Call.

THE HAGUE, May 17.-All the dele
gates to the international Peace Con-
ference have arrived. To-day was
spent in a general exchange of visits.
The permanent president of the con-
ference will be NJ. de Staal, Russian
ambassador to Great Britain and the
head of the Russian delegation. The
honorary chairman, who will open the
proceedings, will be NJ de Bauford,
President of the Council and Minister
of Foreign Affairs Of the Government
of the Netherlands.
The city is brilliantly decorated with
foreign flags denoting the various ma
tional headquarters. This evening M.
Van Karnebook. former Dutch Minister
of Foreign Affairs. gave a dinner to
introduce the foreign delegates.
The reporters will be admitted only
TO hear the inaugural address Of NJ de
Bauford, but will be excluded from the
opening discussion of the Cars pro-
iect. Three commissioners will then be
named to arrange programmes for dis
cussion. The first relates to restrictions
of armament and military expenditure.
The second deals with the laws govern
ing civilized warfare, and the third with
mediation and arbitration.
A great number of diplomatic docu-
,rents will be submitted on these sub
iacts-documents including the memor-
ardum of Prince Metternich of Austria
in 1916 regarding the suggestion of the
Irince Regent of England, supported
- Alexander First of Russia, for an
aternational peace conference; the
opinions of David Dudley Field of the
United States, as to fixing a permanent
limit TO military forces; the argument
of NJ Merignhac in favor of simultane-
GUS disarmament; the proposals Of Ma
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-05-18

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The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-05-18
LAWTON DRIVING THE
ENEMY TO THE MOUNTAINS

WASHINGTON, May 17-That the
insurgents are disintegrated and de-
moralized is perfectly manifest from
the press dispatches and the cable news
from General Otis received to-day
General Lawton, who was pushing the
line of the rebel retreat along the Rio
Grande has flung his advance, which at
last adyices was resting at San Miguel,
northward about twelve miles, has
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-05-18
CHINA LIKELY TO
YIELD TO RUSSIA
Car Declines to Accept Peking's
Refusal to Grant a Railway
Concession!

LONDON, May 1S.-The Peking cor
respondent of the Times says: M. de
Giers. Russian Minister to China. de-
clines to accept the refusal of the Chi
nese Government to grant the railway
concession to connect Peking with Rus
sia's present railroad system In Man
churia. He will insist upon the grant.
Unless supported by some other power
China will yield to Russia. She is sur
rounded by calamities brought upon
her by Italy France and Germany.
while England's hands are tied by the
Anglo Russian convention,
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ANILA, May 17-Little resistance when Gen
MI era Lawtons advance column captured San Isdro
day. Colonel French, leading the Tweny-second In
fantry the Thirteenth Minnesota and the Second Oregon Reg
attacked the early the morning and forced
the place clock with small loss The American
troops afterward drove the enemy far the country
In battle yesterday and half miles from San
Idro General Lawton had forced the Fpnos back the
Notifications of the town.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-05-18

LONDON, May 1.-THE i'm
preston is gaining ground here
that the alleged plot was pre-
pared by President Kruger's
agents to discredit the South
African League.
The officers of the Liverpool
regiment and an artillery regi-
ment, who were to have left to-
morrow under orders to proceed
to the Cape. were stopped at the
last moment.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-11-11

Mr. f. F. Cary of Macon, is the guest
of the Pulaski.
Mr. II. s. We'd of Norfolk, is the guest
of the De Soto.
Mr. H. Horne of Macon. is registered
at the De Soto.
Mr. A. S. Lyons of Mobile, is the guest
of the De Soto.
Mr.. c. K. Lawrence OF Columbia, Ala.
is at the Pulaski.
Mr.. j. V. Kelley Of Reidsville, Is regis
tered at the Screven.
Mr. l.. Kuder of Thomasville is the
guest of the Pulaski.
Mr.. d. P. Averitt of Statesboro, is the
guest of the Pulaski.
Mr. j. NJ. Jones Of Fort Valley is the
guest of the Pulaski.
Mr.. f. p. Teachout of Augusta, Is reg
istered a the Screven.
Mr.. ]. r. Afford Of Bombay, Fla, is reg
istered at the Screyen.
Mr.. A. Z. Dewey Of Punta Gorda Is reg
istered at the De Soto.
Mr. B. F. Mccall Of Fair Banks, Fla,
is the guest of the Pulaski.
Mr.. Charles f. Strauss, Jr., Of Richmond
is registered at the De Soto.
Mr.. w. ". Higgins Of Groveland, rs
amcng the guests Of the Pulaski.
Mr.. L. r. Wright Of Macon, was among
yesterdays arrivals at the Pulaski.
Mr.. c. c. Wolfe of Lakeland was among
the arrivals at the Pulaski yesterday
Mr. f. NJ. Kelley Of Atlanta, was among
the arrivals at the Pulaski yesterday.
Mr.. A. Il. Lees Of Leesburg was in the
city yesterday. the guest Of the Pulaski
Mr. w. G. Lyons of Macon. was In the
city yesterday, and stopped at the De So
to.
Mr.. Samuel Lapham Of Charleston was
among yesterdays arrivals at the De So
to.
Mr.. r. T. Weltell Of Jacksonville was
among the arrivals at the Pulaski yester-
day.
MIR. A. S. Cooley Of Tavares. Fla, was
in the city yesterday and registered at the
Pulaski.
Mr.. c. d. Jordan left for Columbia yes
terday, via the Florida Central and Pc
ninsular.
ar. chas. II. Cook was among the pas
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-11-11
PLANT DAY AT THE FAIR.
Crowd Goes From Savannah to At
tend the Waycross Celebration.

Crowd Goes From Savannah to At
tend the Waycross Celebration.
Plant day was celebrated yesterday at
Waycross. The Waycross people make it
a point to set apart such day whenever
their fairs are in progress, and usually
there are no days that bring larger attend
ance. The Plant System alone sends
many visitors, the road furnishing free
excursions for such of their employees as
can get off for the trip From ali drec-
tons the excursions are run, and several
hundred Plant System visitors are the re-
suit.
A train went down from Savannah yes
terday morning with good crowd of en-
ployes and members of their families. Re
ports Indicate that Waycross has an inter-
esting affair in progress and the visitors
doubtless found much to entertain and
amuse them
The races at Waycross have several Sa-
vannah horses figuring. From Waycross
they Will be taken to Brunswick, where
it is expected that other interesting events
will be had. Jacksonville will be next in
order, the Driving Club of that city hav-
ing offered several handsome prizes for
races that are TO be run during gala week
Mr. c. E. Stults, Mr. j. f. Furlong and
Mr.. Frank M. Butner went 10 Waycrosss
yesterday to see the races. Mr.. Stulis
has a horse entered.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-11-11
ADMINISTRATORS SALE
t VALUABLE PROPERTY AT
AUCTION.
1. ID. LA ROCHE, AuctIoncer.

BY virtue of an order granted by the
Honorable the Court OF Ordinary for
Chatham county. Georgia, l win sell be-
fore the Court House door during the legal
hours of sale on Tuesday, the 5th day Of
December. 1899
Ten an four-hfths 90 40 acres of land.
together with all the improvements, con-
sisting of a two-story dwelling. barn, sta
BILE etc, and three small one-story
dwellings, in the county of Chatham,
state of Georgia, fronting on the Thun-
derbolt road, at or near the toll gate, be-
ing the lot OF land conveyed by John
Bibo TO said Reardon by deed dated
judy 2Sth, 1885, recorded in Office OF clerk
OF Superior Court, book 4A's. folio 196-1s7,
subject to the reservation. as to the fam
lily burial place contained in said deed.
Above Is sold as the property of the late
Dennis Reardon, deceased for distrlbu-
tion amongst the heirs.
Terms cash. Purchaser paying for pa
pers. JORDAN r. BROOKS
Administrator Estate Dennis Reardon.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-11-11
B. I'll. Levy & Bro.

sengers of the Plant System for New York
yesterday.
Mr.. j. r. Bryan of the Atlanta Journal
was in the city yesterday, the guest of
the De Soto.
Miss Fife Bloodworth will return to the
city Monday, after a visit of several
months to Denver.
Messrs. c. E. Stults, j. L. Furlong,
Louis Muhlberg, and Frank Butner, were
among the Savannahians who left for
Waycross yesterday TO attend the fair.
Mr.. NJ. A. Cohen, who has been i'll for
the last few days, was reported last night
to be in a critical condition. Mr.. Cohen
is one of Savannah's best known citizens,
and the hope is widely expressed that he
will be restored to his accustomed health.