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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-05-05
MINING TOWN BURNED.

H ft N
Sandon. in British Columbia. Swept
by Flames S25O,OOO LOSS sus-
1nincd.
Columbia mining town. was all but ces
Columbia Mining town, was all but OBJ
liberated by fire yesterday. The: Big
Reco and Canadian Pacific railroad sta-
ton was among the first buildings to go
down. Famed by a strong wind the
fire climbed UP the hills to the resi-
dence portion of the town.
Sandon, the destroyed town. is situ-.
ated twenty miles from Kaslo. 1t iss
tho terminus of the Nakusp & SLOGAN
railway. and has a population of 1000
people. The big silver mines at San
don are reported 10 have lost their of
Ilices and plants by the fire.
The loss will EXCEED a quarter Of a
million dollars. Among the buildings
burned We're the Harris block. the Echo
Hotel. Goodenough Hotel, the Athetton
Ebleck Bank of British Columb ia, two
ichurches and eighty dwellings,. So mar.
row was the basin which constituted
the town site that only one long, mar
lrow street could be laid ont, and when
1.-The fire started 1t was foregone cons
iclusion that tse entire town would be
/ destroyed. The mines had just started
tup after a nine months strike.
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EVIDENCE IN GoEBEL CASE.
witnesses Testify That tile Shot
Came From the Executive Build

Z r. J.
Frankfort. Ky, May 5.-Hearing of
the evidence in the case of w. H. Gull
ton, charged with completely in the
'Goebel assassination, was resumed yes
'terday. Capt. j. +. Howe, a Barbour
willie military officer. testified that Ca
tleb Powers and John Powers came to
him ten days before the assassination
and tried to get him to bring his COM
pany TO Frankfort disguised as citi-
zens. He declined to do so unless orr
5dered by Governor TAYLOR, and no or
.ders came until after the assassination
OF Goebel on January 30.
Col. Jack Chinn. who was walking
with Goebel when the latter was shot.
stated that he was sure the shot was
fired from the executive building.
Ed Steffe. who was standing on the
portico in front Of the state house, saw
Goebel fall. Immediately after the
shot he looked toward the executive
building and thought he saw the bar
rel of a rifle pointing out of the window
Of the Office of the secretary of state.
The rifle was drawn in and the window
closed. In the cross-examination
Steffe said that after the shot was fired
he thought he saw little smoke rising
above the window from which he saw
the rifle.
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General o,is, Casualty List.

Washington. May 5.The war depart
ment has received the following report
from Gen. Otis:
Manila, May 4.-The April captures
from the enemy We're thirty pieces of
artillery. Los rifles, considerable am
munition and large stores of property.
During the early PARTON of the month
the enemy Vas active in extreme north
ern Luzon and some of the Niscayan
islands. Our reported losses for the
month We're thirteen enlisted men
killed and three officers and twenty
four enlisted men wounded. The ru-
mored recent loss of Samar of nineteen
killed and a number wounded is not ye,
reported. This is due to small detach-
ments scouting in the mountains in the
interior of the island. The encmy's $
losses officially reported We're 1.i2l
killed. wounded and captured. Leading
Filipinos. expressing their opinions
say the war has terminated, and lead
ing insurgents are surrendering.
.l,El OTIS
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THE N. E. CONFERENCE.
Plan to Secure Union OF All HON
3 NIiSRfnna

Plan to Secure Union OF All Home
Missions.
Chicago. May 5.-After an hour Of
active debate among the delegates to
the Methodist general conference today
a committee of fifteen was appointed to
report a plan for the union Of the
Freedman's Aid and Educat tional Soci-
ETY. and the Church Extension Society,
or either of them, with the home de-
partment Of the Missionary Society
into Rne society 70 be known as the
me'Missionary Society of the Metho-
dist Episcopal Church. The committee
was instructed to report next Friday.
| Numerous resolutions and memorials
were presented to the conference and
referred to the proper committees.
Among tenn was a memorial intro
lduced by II. G. jackson and signed by,
twenty laymen providing for importan.
i change of methods governing deacon
lesses. "A resolution Recommending thA1
lin considering any proposed chanse a
i discipline the rules be supplemented to
4 require two-thirds vote OF both or
4 ders present necessary far adoptiun
was referred to the committee on state
i of the church. Adjourned until Mon.
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to get UP and go into the adjoining.
ROOM where he two younger sisters were
sleeping. In that room the fiend at
tempted an assault, but the screams of
the three girls and the struggles of Miss
Hamilton compelled him to seek safety
lin flight. Before he had done so, how
ever, he had dragged Miss Hamilton
back into her own room. One of the
younger sisters was able to give a good
description of the negro, and should he
be caught lynching bee willSoccur. The
young lady Is prostrated with fright
and is badly bruised where she was
beaten in her struggle to defend her
honor 80
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-05-05

Young man He left his large private
interests in 1898 that he might go as
private in the Spanish war. His friends
are very much interested in his sue
cess, so much so that they declined to
give instructions for Senator Gilbertson
for state treasurer in the recent county
convention in Pocahontas county. Rep
resentative Kent introduced resolu-
.tion in the convention endorsing the.
candidacy Of Senator Gilbertson. 1t was
defeated in the interest of Mr.. Alien.
His friends demand to know What is to
e,done for him before they give out the
support of the county for treasurer.
Representative II. G. Clark of Hamilton
county is also reported to be a canaidate
for district delegate.
So.
Hamlin Garland has story in the last
Cosmopolitan about a young farmers
boy coming to Des Ioines and getting
mash ed on the electric lady in the old
Wonderland museum. Laying aside a
number of little inaccuracies of facts in
regard to Des AIoines, the story is like
nearly all of Hamlin Garland's S work, a
SANDER on the farmers of Iowa. He per-
ssistently misrepresents and caricatures
the people of the state in which he once
lived. He makes them appear to those
who do not know them any better as
being a Very low order Of beings who
are subject to the most cruel and hope
less conditions. He would have the
world believe that to be a farmer of
Iowa Is 10 be everlastingly accursed and
Ito feel forever the heavy hand of adj
versitS. The farmers OF Iowa Go not feel
that way. i. is time that some one who
has the ability and opportunity should
put into the form of fiction a true pic
1 turA of farm life in Iowa. showing its
/ bright side, telling of the thousands and
thousands of happy and prosperous
{! homes Inhabited by cultivated people
who are. as they should be, well salts
fled with their Surroundings. for the,
/ are independent, healthy. wealthy ant
i wise. The truth presented in this wa,
would contrast strongly with the dis
torted pictures drawn by Hamlin Gar
IL, .l
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BIG STEAMER WRECKED.
The virginia, a British Craft, ON the
Shoals of Cape Hatteras.

Norfolk, Va, May 5.-The British
steamer Virginia is a wreck, wasting
away on the dreaded Diamond shoals
off Cape Hatteras. OF her crew of
twenty-six men, five, including Capt.
Samuels, are safe ashore, fifteen are in
an open boat at sea in grave peril and
six lost their lives by drowning after a
struggle with death which lasted two
days and nights. The dead are p. st.
George Valley, chief engineer; Samuel
Peck. ships steward; Harris and Olsen,
Ijseamen, and two firemen whose names
are not known at present.
The steamer sailed from Daiquiri,
Cuba. an April 25 with cargo OF iron
ore for Baltimore. On Wednesday last
May 9. while dense fog enveloped
the North Carolina coast and she was
heading for Chesapeake bay, she
steered too close in shore and struck on
1.-The Diamond shoals, from which no
ship that ever struck came free. 1t was
l6 O'clock in the evening when she
scraped the bottom. The shore was
twelve miles distant. Fifteen men were
| in one boat and eleven in the other The
boat in which the fifteen men We're was
i rowed away and has not been heard of
4 9iiSs. III 5tIlS UOuL were SeCOnQ Oulcer
\ Moore, Donkey Engineer Grout. Cook
! Turner, Carpenter Thompson, Donald.
lmessboy; Seamens Christiansen, Jeffren,
Burpill and Blanche, the second stew
ard. four tiremen and an unknown
4 istOwaway.
The boat containing eleven men was
swamped soon after it left the ships
side. Five men swan back to the
/. steamer and climbed aboard her and
We're taken off safely yesterday by the
-llife-savers of Hatteras and Creeds Hill
lstations, who discovered the steamer
Halter.
Those saved are Gait. George Samu-
I!els. First officer Wynness. Second En-
8jgineer Simmons, Third Engineer
Il George Mitchell and Seaman Martin
Rasmussen. The steamer is a tota
4 wreck. and the Merritt wrecking tug
II Cooley, which sailed for the scene OF
the wreck yesterday, will find nothing
q but wreckage, as the Virginia. wher
her captain left her. was fast pounding
to pieces. The steamer was of 1915.
tons net register and was typica
4 tramp. She was owned by the virginis
Steamship Company, limited. OF Lon
don, and was built at Glasgow in 1888.
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London Press & Comment.

London. May 5.-The Times in its edi-
torial leader this morning says:
The protests made by Portsmouth
and Runciman have been met by Lords
Lansdowne and Devonshire. by George
Wyndham and Arthur Balfour in a
manner which we hardly. think will sat
lsfy the public. 1t is admittedly diff
cult to explain the behavior of the war
office and the government in suppress
ting for several weeks the. dispatches of
Lord Roberts on the Spionkop disasters
and then publishing them after that
delay under the circumstances detailed
IN the correspondence laid before par
lament.
What is evidently unreasonable is to
ride off on high horse as the ministe-
rial apologists have done, suggesting
that II is insulting to cast any doubt
on the honor Of the secretary of war,
who is regarded as an English gentle
man.
Nobody challenges this. Surely it is
possible to call In question the proceed
ings for which he is Enthusiastically re-
sponsible without making the smallest
simputation on his Individual character
'.It will be remembered by those
whose political memories go back If
teen or twenty years that the most
doubtful and dangerous parts of Glad.
stones policy in Ireland and Egypt
were sheltered under the indignant pro
test against throwing doubt on the In.
& teErity Of respectable statesman"
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T.-R. BULLE ! IN.
NOTICEABLE new i TODAY.
The weather

The Weather.
Iowa--Fair tonight and Sunday, ex
cept thunder storms in the west; warm
er in the northeast.
Hlinois-Fair ir tonight and Sunday, be
coming unsettled Sunday night; warm
er IN the northwest tonight.
PAGE ONE.
ToDAY's TELEGRAPHIC NEWS:
Roberts Advance in Full Swing.
Beers Hang ON Tenaciously.
ST. Louis Parades for Dewey.
Canal Treaty Time Extension.
Iowa Valued Policy Bill Vetoed.
Capital News and Comment.
PAGE TWO.
TELEGRAPH AND GENERAL:
Warm Debate in Parliament.
Shiyely for Bryan's Running Mate.
News of the Day.
PAGE THREE.
IOWA NEWS:
The Republican Convention.
Cornell Defeats Iowa College.
Essex Acquitted at Charlton.
Short Iowa Specials.
PAGES FOUR AND FIVE.
EDITORIAL:
Some Boer Opinions.
The Electoral Vote.
Free Homes Bill.
Look ker5On's Observations.
Topics and Press Comment.
f Iowa Items and News.
Sunda. Reading.
PAGES SIX AND SEVEN.
LOCAL NEWS:
THE Pixies a Great Success.
Soldiers Receiving Pensions.
Pilgrim Porter Proves Thief.
Highlanders Social Event.
General City News.
PAGE EIGHT.
IOWA AND GENERAL:
Saturdays Markets by Wire.
The Trade Reviews.
General Sporting Events.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-05-05
lOratorlcaIL League.

Madison. Wis. May 5.-Percy L..
Thomas. of the Northwestern Univer-
city, won the northern oratorical league
contest last night. The universities Of
wisconsin. Michigan. Minnesota. Iowa,
Chicago. Northwestern and Oberlin COLI
iese were represented. Clarence E. Nc
|Cartney. OF Wisconsin, was second. and
George w. Masey. Of Michigan. third.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-05-05
strikers Capture a Train.

Washington. Ind. May 5.-One hun
dred and twenty-five striking track
men of the Baltimore & Southwestern
railway yesterday took forcible posses
sion of a freight train and after hold
ing it for several hours the police
forced them to abandon it. The strik-
ers refused to accept the company's
offer of 10-cent raise and insist that
the strike will continue until $3.50 a day
is granted them.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-05-05
ADVANCE IN FULL SWING.
Roberts Marching to Pretoria and
the Relief of Mnfeklnp


London. May 5.--Lord Roberts latest
dispatch reveals both the advance to-
ward Pretoria and the march to the re-
lief of Mafeking In full swing. Brand
fort has been occupied by divisions of
Gems. Pole-Carew and Tucker, while
Gen. Ian Hamilton. With his mounted
troops, has reached the Vet river prob
ably at Its confluence with Oval spruit.
thirty miles north of Thaba N'Chu. The
commander in chief reports that foot
soldiers will march thither today
On the frontier Gen. Hunter has car
ried without opposition the passage cf
the Vaal river at Windsorton. Windsor
ton is thirty miles from Kimberley and
about twenty miles from the Boe.
laager at Four Streams.
There is no longer any doubt that Gen.
Hunter has been commissioned to re-
{ glteve Mafeking, and fighting may short
= ~ be expected to develop on his front.
Lord Methuen. whose troops have long
occupied WarrentOn. doubtless will
take advantage OF the operations west
OF the Vaal to take possession of that
river at an early date. 1t is reasonable
to expect that his force and that of Gen.
Hunter will Join hands for northward
movement to succor Col. Baden-Powell's
famisking garrison.
The war Office shortly before mid
night gave out the following from Lord
Roberts:
sBrandfort, May 4.-The mounted in
fantry has gone on to the Vet river.
The rest of the force will reach there
tomorrow. The railway has been re-
paired to this point. Hunter reports
very satisfactory news-that the pas
sage OF the Vaal has been carried at
Windsorton without opposition.
1t would seem that Lord Roberts In
tends either to ignore the presence OF
the Boers commandos on his right flank
ut Thaba Menu or to throw column
East OF BrandfOrt to intercept their re-
treat. There can be little doubt that
the combined divisions of Generals
Brabant Chermside and Rumble are
fully able to clear away the obstruction
In the Ladybrand and Thaba N,Chu
neighborhoods. 1t is difficult to see
how the Beers can long delay their trek
Eortheastward IL they hope to preserve
their communications with the main
federal army at Winburg and kroon-
stad. Friendly hills offer them shelter
as far north as fAornme, and thence
there is fiat country to Senekal. where
more hills appear. among which rise
tributaries OF the Valsch river. These
screened waterways OFFER the retreat
ing army safe conduct to the main Boer
base.
The South African campaign is again
marked by wide movements that appeal
strongly tothe Imagination OF the Brit
ish public, which is watching the
drama with the most eager interest.
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sus,c Nav Sla,y, wed Again

Indianapolis, Ind, May 5.--Susie May
Rusie secured divorce from her hus-
band, Amos Rusie, the base ball pitcher.
yesterday afternoon. Mrs. Rusie told
the judge that her husband had threat
ened her life and she feared he would
attempt to xii! her. Two patrolmen
guarded Mrs. Rusie the remainder Of
4 Nh trtoi s4af
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-05-05
TINE LINT EXTENDED
hay and Pauncefots Agree to Ex.
tend Time For Canal Treaty
RatifcationA
They Have No Hope Of Securing
Legislation On the Compact
This Session.
House Refuses to Accept Senate
Amendments to the Army
Measure.

Washington, May 5. Secretary Hay
and Lord Pauncefote, British ambassa-
dor today signed a treaty extending for
seven months from Aug. 5 next, the pc
5riod of time allowed for the exchange
of ratifcations of the Hay -Pauncefote
canal treaty. This extension is ar
ranged for in view OF the conviction
that no legislation upon the treaty can
be secured during the present session
of congress. The extension will pro-
long the period allowed for the ex-
change of Publications until the expira-
ton of Mcllinley's term Of Office.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-05-05
suv schr elner Wa. shot Al.

Cape Town, May 5.-,rhe South Afri-
can News says a policeman who was
guarding Premier schreiner's house was
shot. adding that tn. policeman was
smoking q cigar at the time, upon
which fact is based the assertion that
the bullet was evidently intended for
the premier, who Is an inveterate smok-
er. The African bund papers are maxi
ing sensation out of the affair, declar-
Ing an anti-Dutch plot is on foot.
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.B||0[RS ARE TENACIOUS
Gen. Hamilten's Advance Beset BY
Determined But Intellectual At
tacks by the Beers
British Troops Praised For Their
Excellent Behavior in Many
Trying Positions.
Roberts Advance in Full Swing
Toward Pretoria and Relief
Of Mafeking.

London, May 5.-Roberts reports to
the war Office, under date of Brandfort,
yesterday: Hamilton advanced today
70 Nealwelket. He was engaged with
the enemy thruout the march. He
speaks in terms of praise of the behav-
Tor Of the troops. especially Broad
woods brigade of cavalry and mounted
infantry"
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strikers cause Trouble.

Constable Hook, n. j., May 5.-Tiie
strikers at the Standard Oil works
made a determined effort today to pre-
vent men from taking their places.
Every man attempting to enter the
works was assaulted. A number of
shots We're fired by the rioters, but no
one was hit. The police repeatedly
charged the crowd with their clubs.
Two of the ringleaders We're arrested.
One Hungarian was badly beaten.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-05-05
1nzzzlS11g
OTIS STARTS HOME.
The Meade Left Manila With the Ger
eral Aboard Today.

Manila. May 1.-THE United States
transport Meade sailed for the United
States at 55this afternoon. with Otis and
two aides de camp on board. Warships
in the port fired a major generals sa-
lutte as the steamer raised anchor.
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pr,chnra Not a cnndidate.

Washington, May 5.-Senator Pritch-
ard, of North Carolina, whom the re-
publican convention Of his state en-
dorsed as candidate for vice presi-
dent. said today he was in no sense TO
be regarded as a candidate for the
nomination..
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-05-05
Fro.Isin Eastern Ohio.

Columbus, May 5.-Ice formed in
eastern Ohio and killing frosts were
general The damage to fruits and
early crops is heavy.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-05-05
Bank Statement.

New York. May 5.The bank state.
ment: Surplus reserve decreased ST.
095, 900. loans increased $13.221, 400 and
deposits increased $17.O92,S00. The
banks now hold $15.97s, AIS In excess oi
legal requirements.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-05-05
NniI.AIill to Resume.

Pittsburg. May 5.-The employees Of
the Braddock plant of the American
Steel and Wire Company have been no-
tilted that work will be resumed in the
nail mill Monday and the rod mill e.
week later. The plant employees 800
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-05-05
vARNIsH WORKS BURN.
TO the AMOUNT of 100000
nj staten Island FnctOry

New York. May 5.--The Standard
Narnish Works at Elm Park, Slater
Island, were damaged to the extent Of
100000 by fire which started at mid
night and burned untils this morning.
Partially insured.
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llead Nu,nher 2IO.

scofield. Utah, May Five additional
bodies were brought out Of No. this
morning, making the total number ex-
octt,y Osn lseg s5f4g
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Town Rndly burned.

Glasgow, KY, May 5.The business
portion Of this place was swept away
by fire early this morning. LOSS. S15o.-
900.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-05-05
Fighting in Philippines.

Manila, May 5.-Hardinss expedition
recently landed two companies of the
Twenty-ninth Infantry on Island Ma
rinauque The troops have already
taken four towne without opposition,
the few armed insurgents encountered
taken four towns without opposition,
company TO garrison the island. the ex-
'pedition proceeded to Masbete.
The cable to the southern Islands is
broken ard details of the recent fight
ing are not obtanable at present.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-05-05
strike ut Lasalle.

Lasalle, H.. May 5.-six hundred men:
employed in the zinc factory here struck
today for an advance OF wages.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-05-05
1,h.mp t,lark Iscuomtuated

Mexico, Mo-. May 5.-The democratic
Of the Ninth district re-nominated
Congressman Champ Clark.
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ucr.chel .Whittakcr Dca d.

Detroit, Mich, May 5.-Herschel
Whitaker, president of the state fish
commission. IL dead. after long ill.,
neso.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-05-05
THE AKMY BILL,
The House Refuses to Accept Senate
Amendments

Amendments.
Washington, May 5.-The senate
amendments to the army appropriation
bill We're disagreed to by the house to-
day and the bill sent to conference. Hull,
of Iowa, Marsh of Illinois and Jett OF III
:nois. We're appointed conferees. Con-
sideration of the sundry civil appropri-
alton bill was then resumed.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-05-05

Joseph H. Allen. of Pocahontas coun.-
ty, is candidate for district delegate
from the Tenth district. Mr. Allen is a
graduate of the State University, both
the collegiate and law departments. and
. . very popular aud enterDrising
The sun., 1900-02-01
L. 0. R. c. GRAND COUNCIL.
All OF the ceun ellis i'm This Distric,
Reported-to be i'm a Flourish
ing Condition.

The annual session of the Grand Coun-
ell of the Legion of the Red Crops will
he held in Mas mic Hall on Wednesday
February a. The councils here are gen
orally in a good financial condition
Reports from Blue Rock show balance
in the treasury Of over $500, and this
after having paid 1,475 sick benefits
during the year.
One of the relief committee stated that
he had paid lSi visits to the sick during
the past six months. They made col
ecton during the year Of 9S per cent. of
total amount cha'geable as dues. The
conncil will be ten ears did on March
26. when an anniversary celebration will
be held.
Temple Council winds up the wear
with over $500 in the treasury and all
debts paid. Sir Andrew Council has a
snng balance of $3.50 and no debts In
her ranks she claims as a. member the
popular grand commander. For com
mander this term the council has one oil
the pest posted and most successful soci
ETY. men in this State, Charles f. Woods,
grand recorder of the A. 0. U. W.
Eureka Council had two propositions fnl
membership at recent convocatiou.
/ Commercial Council recently entertained
Past Commanders Daubmann. Taylor
Fries, Ackley and Jones, and Past Su-
preme Commander Randall.