Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1900-03-29
JOUBERT FELL VICTIM
TO PERITONITIS.
portunity for State Funeral
in the Near Future.

LONDON, March 29.-The Pretoria cor.
respondent of The Daily Mail, telegraph
ing yesterday, says: "The funeral will
take place tomorrow (Thursday.) The
government is pleading with the widow
to allow temporary interment here
with n state funeral. Joubert always
expressed desire to be buried in "a
mausoleum built on his farm.
"His successor in the chief command
will probably be General Louis Botha,
now commanding in Natal"
General Joubert died of peritonitis.
He was born about 6S years ago. He
was descended from an old French
Huguenot family, which settled in
South Africa many years ago. He was
born in Cape Colony, but was taken
by his parents, whenT years old, to the
Orange Free state. OF schooling he
had but little and he never saw news
paper until he was 10 years old. In
spite Of this his ambition prompted him
to read the few books he could obtain
and he succeeded in obtaining fair
knowledge of history and languages.
In consequence Of the acquisition of
Natal by the British his family moved
from Natal and settled in the Transvaal
Soon afterward he became Burgh-
er of the South African republic and a
daring fighter. 1t was claimed in his
behalf that he could lead body of men
more successfully against hostile natives
than any other man in the Transvaal.
He came to be so feared by the natives
that the knowledge that he was at the
head of punitive expedition usually
resulted in their surrender.
He was elected vice president of the
Transvaal in 1896, defeated Sir George
Colley at Majuba Hill in 1881, and acted
ns president of the republic in 1SS3-S4
during Kruger's absence in Europe.
The battle of Majuba Hill resulted in
the practical independence Of the Trans
vaal.
1t was Joubert who organized the
army of the South African republic,
later Oh dividing the county into I'll
military departments and each of these
| departments into smaller divisions, with
coInmandauts, field cornets and heuten-
ants of various ranks in charge. Accord
ing to tho generals plans every man be-
came trained soldier without leaving
his farm and had his equipment ready
at hand. To such point of perfection
was the system carried that within IL
hours after the present war was declared
the Boer nation Was ,mdsr arms.
1t was also due to General Joubert
that the South African republics sue.
ceeded in annssing the immense stores
OF wnr munitions and provisions which
have stood them in such good stead dur
ing che conflict now in progress.
When the Jameson railers wore
locked up in Pretoria Jail, Joubert was
strongly in favor of their immediate
execution. 1t wns not until Joubert
and Kruger had been closeted together
fnr n whole night, that tho more merci-
full oounsels OF Kruger prevailed.
III spite of these characteristics, Joub.
ert, on some occasions, showed consid.
crable regard for the usagcs of ciyili2a'
tion. When tho Beers raided British
territory, Beohuanaland, i'll 1884, Joub-
ert was probably the only prominent
Boer who refused to support the move
ment and his opposition resulted in the
withdrawal of tho Beers from the terri
tory seized,