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The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-08-30
ALLIES ARE AT OUTS.
Russian Commander Said to Disagree
With Other lnternatiOnals.

Washington, August 27.-The diplo
matte feature of the Chinese situation
has taken precedence over both the
naval and military features. The of
ficials stated that no news of oper.
ations had been received and that the
diplomatic negotiations could not be
made public. The most unsatisfac-
tory development, so far as the pacific
program of this government goes,
was the receipt of dispatch from
Admiral Remey conveying the reports
which had reached him of disagree
ment between the commander of the
Russian forces in Picking and the
other internationals. The text of this
dispatch was not made public, but
it was said on good authority to con-
tam the statement that the Russian
commander had forbidden commune
cation with the Chinese on the ground
that Russia was technically, as well
as practically, at war with China. 1t
may be said, however, that the news
is not taken very seriously by this
government and certainly will not
affect our course in any way until
it has been officially confirmed.
1t was explained that the situation
growing out of the joint occupation
of Picking by the powers was delicate,
although not necessarily to be des-
cribed as serious. The interests of all
the powers there represented were at
least competitive, if not antagonistic,
and an ill-considered move on the part
OF any one government might easily
entail disagreeable Consequences in
which all would be more or less i'm
volved. At the same time, it was
explained, all of the governments rep
resented in China were anxious to
avoid any open clash, if this could be
done without sacrificing what they
considered their rights in the prem
Uses.
In this situation the United States
occupied the position it had held all
through the disturbance, namely, of
being the one power least under sus-
picion by the others of selfish and I'LL
terror motives. This government is
exceedingly anxious to maintain this
vantage ground and retain the conf
ience of the other powers, so that it
is now more than ever cautious as to
the next step to be taken. The situa7
in any way the conditions laid down
in Secretary Adee's note to Ii Hung
Chang on August % as prerequisite
to peace negotiations by the United
States. This communication announc-
ed that, although the powers had been
compelled to rescue their ministers by
force of arms, unaided by the Chinese
government. still the United States sis
ready to welcome any overtures for
truce, and invite the powers to join
when security is established in the
Chinese capital, and the Chinese gov
eminent shows its ability and willing
ness to make on it's part an effective
suspension of hostilities there and
elsewhere" This is the. condition laid
down, which up to date has not been
fulfilled.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-08-30
CUBA GIVEN NEW PLEDGE.
General Wood Says Its Immediate Flu
ture Ia Independence

General Wood Says Its Immediate Flu
ture Ia Independence
Santiago, Cuba. Aug. Ex-Governor
General Wood was officially banquet
ed by the republican and democratic
parties. The civil governor, the arch
bishop of Cuba, the principal judicial
and civil dignitaries and hundred
representative merchants were pres
ent. In the course of an address the
governor general said:
Everybody in the United States
was astonished at the satisfactory
way in which the municipal elections
passed off. President Mckinley per-
sonally asserted to me that he
thought the time for the next step
had come.
Whatever the ultimate destiny of
Cuba may be, it's immediate future is
independence.
'This is no political move on the
part of the United States, but sin
cerc desire to do what is right. There
fore, I beg of you, as a personal IA
vor to me and the United States gov
eminent, to sink your political diff
fecences and passions and send men
to the convention who are renowned
for honor and capacity, so that the
convention may mean more than the
Cubans even now anticipate"
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-08-30
1T LOOKS wARL1KE.
International Troops Are Rushing
60 the Chinese Front.

co the Chinese Front.
Taku, August 27.-Three large Ger
man vessels have arrived and are un-
loading. One regiment is on it's way
to Peking, another bound for Tien
Tsin. Three Russian vessels are in the
harbor. The Fifteenth infantry, the
Third artillery and five hundred ma
rines are encamped at Ten Tsin
awaiting orders. Rations for forty
days are being provided to the Picking
contingent by boat. The foreigners
here desire new expedition to be
sent against Pao Wing Flu to destroy
the city and avenge the massacres OF
foreigners which occurred there.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-08-30
ALLIES DEFEAT REPoRrED.
Said to Have Suffered Heavy Loss in
CITY of Picking.

SAtW 70 AI6Vo SuH0T6u Heavy lO00 IN
City of Picking.
Paris. Aug. 2s.-A special dispatch
to LIE Steele from st. Petersburg, says:
ut is persistently rumored in st.
Petersburg that the Russian govern
ment has received a dispatch assert
ing that, after fierce battle inside
Picking the allies retreated, losing
1,s00 men, mostly Russians. 1t is
further said that the Chinese occupy
the fortified positions, from which
they are bombarding the allies in d
murderous manner.''
London, August 2s.-The allies, re-
Stunning aggressive operations, have
taken the district west of Picking.
This statement, based on Chinese au-
tbority, is cabled from Shanghai.
From the same place comes the fur
/. Their statement that Ii Hung Chang
has wired the empress dowager at
Hsian Flu requesting the arrest of
Prince Tuan and the disarmament of
the Boxers, in order to give him an
opening for negotiations with the
powers. r,s 90
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-08-30
General Dc Wet Esca pes.

krugersdorf, Aug. 2s.-Command-
ant Delarey appeared before Bank
Station with a large force and sum-
moned the garrison commanded by
Lord Albemarle to surrender, which
the garrison refused to do. In the
meantime De Wet took advantage of
this ruse and crossed the river to-
ward the Orange River colony.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-08-30
SAT UP BRAvELY TO BE SHOT.
Lieutenant Cordeu Gives the Word and
the Soldiers XIII Him

London, Aug. 27.-A dispatch from
Pretoria gives details of the execu-
ton of Lieutenant Cordeu of the
Transvaal artillery, convicted by a
court martial, of breaking his parole
in plotting to abduct Roberts and
kill British officers. Cordeu walked
fearlessly to the garden behind the
Jail. At his own request he was not
bound and sat in chair with folded
asms. He told Captain Barchard,
commanding the firing party, he was
ready, and ten bullets struck him.
The body was buried near the spot
where the lieutenant fell.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-08-30
FEARS THE OUTCOME.
Consul Ho You breads Keeping the
Troops In China.

Consul Ho You breads Keeping tho
Troops In China.
Oakland, CAL, August 27.-In lee
ture on Sin in China given here, Con-
sui Ho You, said: Recent advices in
form me that the United States will
keep troops in China. I hope it will
not be SO. There would be great dam
ger in such course. I fear when it
is known that the Chinese capital is
to be in the hands of foreigners. there
will be trouble and uprising all over
China. The Chinese rise in body.
and it will take much money and
many lives to ultimately suppress
them. Would your Christ wish to adj
vance religion at the sacrifice of mil
lions of lives?"
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-08-30
Cable is open once Nor,

Washington, Aug. 25.-Remey ca.
bles the following:
sTaku, Aug. 22.-The cable is now
open to Taku. All troops from the
Hancock landed. The marines have
gone to Tien Tsin. Private Arthur
A. Woods of the marine corps was
accidently drowned at Long Ku.'
London, Aug. 25.-A special dis
patch from Pretoria says Lord
Roberts has confirmed the sentence of
death imposed on Lieutenant Cordeu.
formerly of the Stats artillery, who
was convicted of being ring leader
i'll the plot to abduct Lord Roberts
and kill the British officers.
Ten years ago a stroke of9paralysis
caused the loss of speech to III. L.
Steffey of Rising Fawn, Ga. Since
TINT time until few days ago, he
Continued speechless. AS he was
handling an electric apparatus he ac-
cidentally received shock which re-
stored his voice.
A dentist of Floatsburg, N. Y,
applied cocaine to the, gum OF Henry
SliWson, of SterlingI \ to deaden the
sense of pain, as tt Yer required a
saa 5ss tooth sat lss The talsa
h l,.sa me- 80. q - 2 u
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-08-30
Foreigners Leave Pekin.

Rome, August as.-A dispatch receiv-
ed from Picking. dated August 20, con-
firms the previous reports that con-
voN was formed at Picking to conduct
under a strong escort the allies
wounded and women and children to
Tien Tsin.
'Fhat old fellow coming was car
ried from the railroad accident all
smashed up, and he wouldn't even ac-
knowledge he was hurt" "Must be
Christian scientist" "No. Presi-
dent of the road"
There is one extremely dissatisfied
man in Muscotoh, Kan. He rarely
pays his bills, when he can avoid
payment, and gets tick wherever he
can. Last week something untsual
occurred -he got g1oriously ,fuddled,
and, when drunk, he went down in
quest OF his creditors, and paid his
debts. He was so annoyed on discoy-
ering how foolish he had been that he
determined to. sign ii 6s&1edge.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-08-30

The annual crop of mushrooms in
France is valued at 100000, and 1T
IS said that there are 60 wholesale
hrms in Paris dealing exclusively in
them. In the Department of the Seine
At appears that there are some 5000
caves In which mushrooms are grown,
and about 300 persons are employed in
their culture, and rarely leave these
caves.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-08-30
OlivIer. Roer ,,ener.I. c.n.n+

London, Aug. ss.- The war Office
has received the following from Rob-
erts: "Boers beaten back by Bruce
and Hamilton at Winburg. General
Olivier captured Three of DIVERS
sons were also captured. Olivier was
the moving spirit among the Beers
in the southeastern portion of the
Orange colony during the war.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-08-30

BY continuing Lord Strathcona's
peerage to his daughter Queen VIC
toria has again shown her desire to
honor her own sex and once more in
the person of Canadian woman. Il
may be remembered that on the death
OF the late Sir John Macdonald, the
peerage which had been intended to re-
ward his services as preplier tpf Can
ada was conferred on hi wifA who
was made Baroness MsfdonalN Of
"a gNsali e: 4. her arrh riht.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-08-30

Women physicians have established
themselves all over Russia, and they
have achieved respected position.
Some OF them are employed by the
government, and since last year ara
entitled to pension. Many Of them
occupy positions as country physicians.
school physicians, physicians for the
Door. and as surgeons for the munici-
pal ambulance systems, etc.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-08-30

According to medical authority
there Is now in the United States one
physician to every six hundred people
proportionately twice as many as In
Great Britain, four times as many as
France has, five times as many as Ger.
many has and six times as many a.
Italy has.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-08-30
Thank God for De,iveranc..

Washington. August 2s.-The pres
ident last night received the follow
ing message from Minister Conger:
The President, Washington: All
Americans here thank you for con.
CALCULATIONS and successful efforts fop
our relief and bless God for final de.
liverance. Conger."
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-08-30

Boston has an annual hand organ
recital. On certain day all the hand
organs In the city are gathered at one
one place, and each organ grinder in
xurn plays for the benefit of the censor.
u the music is up to the Boston stand
ard license is granted to the organ
grinder; If it be Of the wheezy, squeaky
variety he gets no license.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-08-30

practical form of summer club
work has been introduced by women
OF Cincinnati, who furnish free trolley
rides Tor convalescents among their
sick poor. In many cases such ride
Affords the single opportunity of the
year to see the open fields, the wide
horizons, and is Of incalculable me-
dicinal value.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-08-30
Beers for Montana.

Helena, Mont, Aug. 25.-A. Worm,
ser, of Helena, has made arrange.
ments for the purchase of large
tract of land in the Yellowstone
valley. He declares that he will bring
a large family of Beers from the
Transvaal, and virtually acknowledges
the futility of the present war
The immigrants will begin moving
shortly
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-08-30

With market basket filled with
pieces Of bank and treasury notes, an
old woman, who said she lived in
Camden, appeared at the sub-treasury
in Washington recently, and said she
wanted the bits Of money redeemed.
It required only hasty examination
for the officials to determine that the
pieces of notes were all from the edges
land corners of bills of various denomi-
nations. The woman refused to say
how she became possessed Of the
pieces, and was bluntly told that the
government would allow her nothing
for the remnants of money, because it
was plainly evident that the pieces
were all clipped from whole notes.
The officials found that though there
were corners and edges of all kinds of
notes, there was not piece of center
in the entire collection. There were
enough bits. however, to equal hun
bred notes in size, and judging from
the paper and style of notes, 1t had
required about 20 years to collect the
pieces.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-08-30
Such a thing as a house

Such a thing as a house to d
canvass. and an enumeration, howsN
meager in actual detail, has never
been known throughout China. To at
tempt it would straightway cause trou-
BILE, every Chinaman thinking it new
scheme to extort money, and conduct
ding himself accordingly. Some outside
authorities estimate the population of
the empire as high as 0,000, O00-oth-
ers as low as 300,00O,O00. Between
these totals may. or may not, be fairly
correct.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-08-30
FITz WINS IN THE SECOND.
Knocks the Sailor out in Fierce, Short
Raff

Knocks the Sailor Out In a Fierce, Short
Battle.
New York, August ,25.-Whipped in
to insensibility in less than two
rounds is the story in brief of Tom
Sharkey's meeting with Bob Fitz-
simmons at the Coney Island Sporting
club last night Fitzsimmons was
the victor, Sharkey the loser. The
-esult' of last nights battle and brew
ty of it proved that Fitzsimmons is
still a great fighter and able to beat
She best of the heavyweghts. Fitz-
simmons was decided favorite in
the betting, owing to his defeat of
Ruhlen and the previous victory of
Rubin over Sharkey.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-08-30

The receipts of gold dust at Seattle
since June 1, from the Klondike, Forty
Mile Creek, Cape Nome and other parts
exceed 81, 100000 to date. The largest
part of it comes from the Klondike.
The receipts for July were $500, 900.
and it is anticipated that August will
show over $4.o0o.01O.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-08-30

Queen Victoria rules over more Mo-
nammedans than the sultan of Turkey,
and more Jews than there are in Pales.
tine, and more negroes than any other
sovereign who is not native OF AT
RIGA.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-08-30
American Flag over the Granary

London, August 24."Today fif-
teen hundred Americans attacked the
imperial palace" says a dispatch to
the Morning Post from Peking, dated
August Is. "and captured four of the
courts. The American flag is flying
over the imperial granary and the i'm
perial bank has been looted.n
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-08-30
THURSDAY AUG, 80, 1900

An officer in the Austrian army In
Vienna has invented balloons whioh
vii hoat both men and horses across q
river. They are to be fastened to tho
belts around the men and the harness
Of the horses.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-08-30
Oma has Populatlon. Less.

Washington, Aug. 25. Omaha is the
first city thus far counted in the
twelfth census to show decrease in
population during the past decade.
The count shows 1O2,555; in 1890
l40,452. This indicates decrease in
ten years off 37,s97, or about 26.9s
per cent
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-08-30

A German surgeon recently cut
a patients second toe and sewed
to the stump of missing finger.
proved very good substitute, and
can be moved by the owner, as an
artificial finger could not be.
An electric boot-blaclsing device is
in use in Paris. In slot you drop
a ten-centime Scoin equal to two
cent?, ands the nachine is ready for
business. ere lare p q comparf
nss t. ess
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-08-30
STATE HAS LOST BUT LITTLE.
Statement of John Cownie Respecting
the John w. stone Case.

UuO OOnn w. STONE case.
Des Moines, August 23.-John Cow
ME of the board Of control returned
to Des Moines yesterday from Mt.
Pleasant, where he was called by the
disclosures IN regard to the sale of
state goods in the industrial depart
ment. Mr.. Cownie is satisfied the
state has lost little and believes Stone
is telling the truth when he says that
the shipment of goods to Des Moines
was his first offense. In this ship
ment there We're 336 pounds of hair
and fifty square feet of leather, valu-
ed at something over $500. Inasmuch
as this has been shipped back to the
hospital the state really loses moth
ing. save the expense incurred in ex-
aiming into the case. On going to
Mt. Pleasant, Mr.. Cownie had long
interview with Stone in the Jail, show
ing him the alleged incrimnating let
tiers. Stone admitted everything and
broke down completely. He said he
was first induced to undertake the
business by Tony Valid of Des Moines,
who assured him that all the state
officers did that sort of thing, that
being the reason they got rich. Stone
said he never thought of detection
until he had shipped the goods to Des
MONIES. Stones accounts show that
everything was all right up to August
1. This fact, aside from Stones own,
statements, convinces the board his
sales have not been large. He en-
phatically denied shipping any goods
to burlington. AS to the burning of
the building, he showed that he lost
$500 worth of personal property in
the fire last winter, and that he could
not reasonably be charged with that
offense.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-08-30

] Germany's expectation of raw sugar
mas always exceeded that Of any other
European country. In the expectation
OF refined sugar, however, it was third
down to 1882. In the eleven years
which have elapsed since 1889 Ger
many's expectation Of raw sugar has
increased from 349,310 metric tons to
1851 metric tons, the amount being
largest in 1897 (6s1.516 metric tons).
when the United States took 367, 301
metric tons before July "a, the date on
which the new customs tariff went
Into force.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-08-30
Castine to Annoy.

Washington, August 2s.The gun
boat Castine, Commander Bowman, is !,
ordered to Annoy, China, to report.
the conditions there. The CastiA
at Shanghai
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-08-30

In the yearlisss there were manu-
featured in <fhe city of Minneapolis
14.2sO,o 900 BARRELS of flour. This would
require oYkr 70,Ooo,Ooo bushels of
lnullln pr Hearty 100000 bushels for
In the year.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-08-30

today but three bands Of
in Florida. So complete
people been disintegrated
I relations now exist
they have no acknowl-
ID chief, md recognize no mans
lority. They number about GOO.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-08-30

IAN English eaxpert declares that he
sshows at least six hundred counter
& fYFits of the old MASTERS which are now
Managing in the private galleries Of the
nifse stat = T e, 81 + ae yas
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-08-30

The state board of health has Issued
10000 copies of circular for general
distribution throughout Iowa, on the
subject of tuberculosis. The bo;rd
goes in detail into the causes aid
transmission of the disease, and tell
how by simple means it may bs
prevented. 1t is felt by the board.
that the subject is one of the. ut
most Importance, it being estimated
that the ravages OF tuberculosis
bring nine persons per day to tho
grave in the state -. As.9a
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-08-30

The work of gathering material for
the new directory has progressed to
such an extent as to indicate what
the population of the city is to be.
From returns made to date Des
Moines is shown to have more than
10000. number considerably larger
than was shown by the returns made
by the federal census remuneration.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-08-30

visit the grave. He left letter in his
valise. but his only request was for his
son Jim to have the revolver with
which he shot himself, bulldog of
SO calibre. No reason is given for the
horrible deed except that the victim
was Respondent over the death of his
wife, which occurred last spring. and
he decided thus to end his troubles.
A disastrous head end collision oc-
CURED at Eldora Junction, by which
William McFadden. brakeman, sin
gle man "a years old, living at Eagle
Grove, had one foot mashed and was
otherwise badly bruised. and two en-
gines were badly demolished and a
number of cars damaged. McFadden's
train was switching on the c., l. q ID.
track, when a train on the c. & n.
w. came in from the east. A curve
prevented McFadden from seeing it
until too late to get ont of the way.
McFadden was taken to Emergency
hospital at Eldora, where one foot
was amputated at the ankle and the
toes taken from the other foot. No
one else was injured.
Richard KEGS, employed in Contrac-
tor Tredway's grading gang, was in
stantly killed at the overhead cross
ing one mile east of Parkersburg.
Prof. Charles Carter, superintendent
of the schools of Corydon, who holds
the position of assistant state enty-
mologist, is travelling over the state
of Iowa inspecting the nurseries FOR
the San Jose scale which is SO destruc-
tive to the orchards. He is acting IN
der the state law governing this pest.
The plan is to exterminate this Scale
and this matter bids fair to become of
national Importance. !
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1900-03-23
LOS WHERE'S
Ejercito Ingles

A fin de dar una idea siqlliera apo
ximada, de los vivtres que IngIa1elra
T. ndra que enviar al teatro de Ia que
rra, para asegurar las suhsistenciaS
del numeroso cOntingtnte qhe ha dr..
cOntinuar la lucha en- ell Africa austral
Sc enumeraD 4 continuation Ia can't.
'ad y la clase de altfcuIOs que pare
cen desde ldegO neeesarios para snb-
yenir q las necesidades mas peiento-
Iias de las ftIerzas britanicas, seg1n
reciente prOyecto dc la Independence
militar inglesa
COnsiste este en- remitir cuantO an
tes, ID milI1nes de libras de carne en-
conserva, 20 milloDes de g:lletas.
500 600 libras de cafe, 25D, 900 de t6.
10000 de azticar, IIn million lie vege
tales prensados, JOO,OOO de sal 600
mil de leche c0udensada.
Ademas una pasta especial hecha
con carne y vegetables, servira de base
para cOmp0nel Ia raci6n de campafia.
que ha de suministrarse en- Iatas man
dandD por lO prontO nn million, Y 81
gtlendO despu6s con un envf0 mensual
de 5OO,OO(
Sc remitiran tambien en- breve pla
~ dos millones de iam6n, 100 900 ga
lones de ron, 100000 botelIas az
Whiskey, $4,000 fiascOs de vino y 100
toneIadas de alulnbre, con obietO DE-
pulifiear 81 aqua de los po ce q rios.
D'chos aftfcnlOs iran 4 snrtir los
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