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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-11-12
NAN PERISH l
The Clifford House 1t Psplar Bl1as VI,
NO., Destroyed BY Fllnss q
Midnigh ht
Forty five Guests Caught Like Rats
in Trap Many Lesp Fron
Windows "
Most Of Those Who Escaped Were
Badly Burned OF Otherwise
Injured

Poplar Bluffs. No., Nov. 12.--Fire. &c II
companied with terrible fatality. occur
red here this morning, resulting in the
destruction Of the Clifford House, a large
three-stor frame. The list Of the known
dead is as follows:
Heck Clark, Doniphan, Mo.
Rebecca Owens
Shelby d. Hart.
Curley Berry, all Of Poplar Bluff.
The fatally injured:
Eta Hargrove Poplar Bluff; Winslov
Stowe, Tennessee.
Missing:
Eugene Dalton, Hot Springs, Ark.
Badly burned or injured: Barney Per-
maud, De Soto, Mo-; ]. A. Smith, Mrs.
Benjamin Shelby, Charles Stradly, Pink
Berry, Elmer Fresher, Charles Up
| church, all of Poular Bluff; an unknown
woman.
About dozen more are slightly burn
| ed. The fire originated at 80 in the
| rear Of the hotel and in a few. minutes
the mammoth building was mass OF
| flames. There were in the neighborhood
of fortyfive guests. The porter was the
| only person awake and he was unable
| to give an alarm, the smoke and flames
| driving him back. The fire department
was on hand early, but 1t was una BILE to
render any assistance. The guests on the
second and third floors fought like rats
in trap. The fire preventing escape
by the stairs, many leaped from the
windows Benjamin Shelby, who es-
Icaped, asserts tha t he saw ten or fifteen
lpersons in the hallway overcome by
smoke. If true, dozen more bodies
may be found in the ruins. Many guests
ihad hairbreadth escapes and ran from
the doomed building clad only in their
night clothes, losing everything they
possessed. It is impossible to tell just
| how many lives We're lost, as quite
number Of guests were not registered.
Every room in the house. forty five In
number, Vas occupied, and it will be
Iseveral days before a complete list is OBJ
tainable. The Clifford house was one OF
i the oldest hotels in southeast Missouri
and had been conslderd a death trap for
"A a. number of wears,
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INCREASE on REGULAR ARMY.
senator Proctor Conlcrs With the
President Regarding Legislation.

senator Proctor Conicrs With the
president Regarding Legislation.
Washington, Nov. 12.-Senator Proc
tor Of th.. senate committee on military
affairs and Adjutant General Corbin Of
the war department. held an informal
conference with the president yesterday
rlatiye to the legislation to be asked of
congress in connection with the pro-
posed increase of the regular army.
Under the existing law" said Sena-
tor Proctor, at the conclusion of the
conference, s.the present strength of the
army, $1,000 regulars and $4,000 rolun-
Eteers, will be reduced on the first day of
next July to 27 900 regulars. This is
an absurdly small number, and con-
gres.s will be asked by the president to
gleorganize the army upon larger
basis. 1t will be impossible to keep any
troops in the Philippines unless the
army Is increased, to say nothing of
the garrisons for the forts in this couE
try.
My own Judgment Is that congress
will provide q regular army of about
IS. 900 or 1000 men, with discretion to
the president to raise the total to 1907
600 if he finds tho larger number neces-
sary. i have no doubt that this lesis-
tion will be enacted at the coming ses-
slon. vs.
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INDIANS TOO WELL FED.
Indian Commisstoncr Points Ou,
EVIL of Too Liberal Allowances.

Indian Commisstoncr Points Out
EVIL of Too Liberal lAilowances.
Washington D. c., Nov. 12-The
commissioner of Indian affairs William
A. Jones. In his annual report recom-
mends that the indiscriminate distribu-
ton of rations among Indians be
stopped at once. The sratuitous issue
of rations except to the old and help
less" he says. is detrimental to the
Indian. II encourages idleness and de-
stroyE labor. It promotes beggary and
suppresses Independence. 1t perpetu-
atss pauperism and STILES industries.
It Is an effectual barrier to the prog
ress of the Indian toward civilizations
Yet objectionable - Ii Is the system
must continue 70 long ~ the present
reservation Ustem continues Until
the Indiat,o are placed In q p0altsou
lWhnp ~ NY - opensd betbsn tAl
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Wise Murder stilla MYSTERY.

st. Paul. MINI. Nov. 12.-James Har-
3dy and Elmer Miller, who have been on
trial at Anoka for the murder Of two
members of the Wise family, were
found not guilty. Mrs. Wise and a.
young son were killed on the night Of
May 2T last by shots fired thru a vim
dow while. they We're seated about a
table in their farm house near Anoka.
William Wise, her husband, and an
older boy We're badly wounded and
have not vet recovered from the effects
sof the wounds.
Eliza Wis, aged IS, made confess
sion, alleging that Miller and Hardy.
who were said to be lovers of herself
and sister, had planned to get rid OF
the old folks IN order that the girls
might inherit the farm and small sum
of money. On the trial of the two Young
man, who are both under age, the Wise.
sisters testified to the alleged con-.
spiracy. and THE state presented in COR
rohoration of their evidence the testi-s
mony of one Allie Preston, who alleged
that Hardy had proposed to him q join
in the crime. The defense rested It's
case upon an alihi and sought TO dis
credit the testimony of the Wise sis
ters and Preston by alleging that they
had been coached by detectives. who
were working for the large reward Of
fered by the state.
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TWO NOTABLE DEATHS
Marcus DAILY Dies at Hotel Neither.
lands In New York From
Bright's Disease.
Made a Great Fortune Ont Of Cop.
per Minss-His Quarrel
With Clark
Henry Willard. the Famous Rail.
Henry Willard. the Famous Rail
road Magnate and Finanoier
Passes Away.

New York, Nov. 12-Marcus DAILY, Of
Montana, died today at hotel Neither
lands. His death has been expected for
weeks. Bright's disease, complicated
with heart weakness was the cause Of
death.
Marcus DAILY was born in Ireland in
1912 and came to the United States early
in life. and since 1876 has been p citizen
of Montana. He became general mana
ger OF the Alice silver mine and later
came into control OF the Anaconda
copper mine. At the time Of his death
he was president Of the Amalgamated
Copper Company. In politics he was a
democrat.
The differences between Daily and w.
A. Clark attracted much attention. The
trouble started year ago over some
water rights near Butte, which DAILY
wanted and which Clark bought, forcing
the other to pay a very high figure.
DAILY had a passion for horses of blood
and speed. He owned the $4,000 colt,
Hamburg, Tammany, Montana, Senator
Grady Gwendoline, Ogden and other fa-
nous winners. He tried to buy the win
ner Of the Derby and Ascot races of 1892,
Galtee Moore, but his offer Of $12500O
was not accepted
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MARsHAILTowN. IOWA. MONDAY. NOVEMBER 1a,

to support themselves they must be I
aseisted. Az method Of aiding the de-
serving while they are learning the art
OF Seif-support the ration system is
That is it's aim and OBJ
ject. The great evil lies In the gratui-
tous distribution to all alike. With the
necessities OF life assured without ef-
fort the incentive to labor disappears,
and Incidence, with It's painful inf1u-
ence, reigns supreme.
1t Is difficult to point out q COM
plete remedy for the evils described
but as beginning the indiscriminate
issue Of rations should stop at once, a
somewhat difficult thing to accomplish
as long as tribes are, herded on reser-
vations receiving everything in COM
mon. The old and helpless sould be
provided for, but with respect to the
able bodied the policy OF reducing ra-
tions and issuing them only for labor
should be strictly enforced while those
who have been educated in Indian
schools should be made to depend en-
tirely upon their own resources"
The commissioner also recommends
THE passage of a. compulsory education
act. He urges that his bureau be given
authority to compel Indian children to
attend school when their parents OBJ
ject.
BIG SUMS PAID TO INDIANS.
The total expenditure by the govern
ment on account of the Indian service
from March 4, 1888, up to and includ-
ing July 80, 1900, has been 1868, $685. ,217.
The expenditures for the fiscal year
ended last July amounted to $10,175.107.l
nnn
devoted to the cause of Indian educa-
ltion. The Indian population of the
Hunted States is about 2e7900, OF which
1920 receive a daily ration. The ra-
tfon issued and It's value vary accord
Ling to the tribe. Nearly two-fifths OF
the number receiving rations belong to
| the great Sioux nation. Annuities dis
tributed last year aggregated $1,0o7 .543,
the per capita ranging from $3.50 down
Ito so cents. There Is now insthe treas
Jury to the credit OF the Indian tribes
$33, 81 5 1855 .09, drawing interest at the
rate OF 4 and per cent. the annual in
terest amounting To $685. 1885 Be-
sides this, several OF the tribes have
4 large incomes from leasing and other
sources.
RED MEN ARE STILL NUMEROUS.
The report controverts the commonly
accepted theory that by constant con-
tact with the white men the extinction
|of the Indian is only mater of time
4 1t says it can be stated with a gerat
4 degree OF confidence that the Indian
A population OF the United States has
been very little diminished since the
4 days of Columbus, Raleigh, Capt. John
Il Smith and other early explorers. The
first reliable Indian census was in 1870
and certainly since then the India1
SIspopulation has been nearly stationary
i whatever decrease there is being at
A ltributable to Indians becoming citizens
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-11-12
Faith Healer Heavily Fined.

Cleveland, o., Nov. 12.-Mrs Lydia s.
stone. wealthy faith healer, who pray
ed over a boy suffering from diphtheria
until he died, was fined $50 and costs in
the police court for failure to notify the
health office of the case. The Public
prosecutor said Mrs Stones action was
close to murder for woman of her in
telligence. Judge Fielder said in passing
sentence:
There is more in this case than the
mere violation of an ordinance, and the
sooner we get rid Of these faith-cure
people the better it will be for society IN
general am going to impose heavy
fine in order to deter others from prac-
ticing doctrine without medicine
which is absolutely necessary
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T.-R. BULLETIN.
NOTICEABLE NEWS OF I lA|Y
Tho weather. :
For Iowa-Fair tonight a .esday;
cooler in the north and Ger .onight.
For Illinois-Fair tonigf 3 Tues
day; continued cool.

PACE ONE.
TELEGRAPHIC NEWS:
Fire in Hotel Kills Many.
Death of Marcus DAILY.
Henry Willard, Financier, Dead.
Morocco Refuses to Pay Indemnity.
The Situation in China.
Birthplace of Republican Party.
PAGE TWO.
GENERAL NEWS:
rGladstone's Pessimistic Predictions.
The Politics of Europe.
Another Dreyfus Case for France.
PAGE THREE.
IOWA NEWS.
The Final Count in Iowa.
NIcKinley's Plurality over $4,000.
The MeBride Damage Case
Iowa Falls Votes Railway Tax.
PAGES FOUR And FIVE.
EDITORIAL:
Now For Beet Sugar Development.
Business at Leading Points.
Four Years More.
Topics and Press Comment.
Iowa Items and News.
PAGES SIX AND SEVEN.
CITY NEWS:
Jubilee Participants Own the Town.
Grand Jury Concludes Its Work.
High School Wins at Football.
Local Miscellany.
PAGE EIGHT.
IOWA AND GENERAL:
Special Grain Letter by Wire.
Today's Market Quotations.
Review of Football Games
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santiago to Close Nov. 15.

Santiago de Cuba, Nov. 12.-Col.
Whitsside received orders from the war
department, fixing Nov. Il as the date
for closing the department. of Santiago.
de Cuba. This date will be a fortnight
earlier than he had expected. and there
.is considerable uneasineess among the
officers, who are not certain how the.
change will affect them personally. The
general opinion, however, is that there
Will be few changes beyond calling San.
tiago a district hereafter instead OF a
headquarters.
Gen. Wood is expected to arrive here
next Tuesday. The Cubans severely
|criticise the war departments action.
They have always been jealous of Ha-
vana. and nov they say that the Amer
leans, following the Spanish customs.
Iare robbing Santiago for the benefit of
a >-op
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-11-12
OF THE EXPO
The Big show at Paris Ends With NJ
Illumination This Evening.

Paris, Nov. 12.-The exposition closes
today with am evening illumination.
Five tickets are charged for one admis-
sion. There were few tickets in the
daytime. tickets lacking purchasers at
a sou each. The work of removing the
exhibits can begin after midnight. No
vestige will be left Of the great exposi-
tion except the immense hot houses on
the north bank of the Seine and the art
palaces. The closing days Of the expo
sition have been marked by wholesale
bailiff seizures of properties of a num-
jber Of concession holders, chiefly res
taurant Keepers and proprietors of side
shows who have failed to meet financial
obligations.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-11-12
small wreck In 1,olorado. ~

salina, Kas, Nov. 2rhe Missouri
Pacific east bound passenger train, due
here at $3.50 O'clock yesterday. ran into
an open switch at Sugar City. Col,
crashing into an engine and caboose o1 q
work train on a siding. The enginee of
both trains and the baggage car of the
asenger were olished. The emf
gineers and fremen Of both traln1 and
several passengers were injured No
one was killed. The in5ured resuyn1 e.
4uablo.
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,,cds rhrcnten7 7to 1l1li Women.

Wichita, Kas Nov, 12.-The snake
Creek Indians, who live on the reserva-
ton in the Creek Indian nation, have
been drinking firewater and holding
medicine dances fer the last two weeks.
and az a result they are now OH the
brink of an uprising for fancied wrongs
the whites have done them. They have
also threatened number of their own
tribe, whom they accuse Of playing
traitor Chief Porter Of the Creek In
dians says that he fears they Will rebel
any day and kill hundreds of innocent
women and children, so he has adag
dressed letter to the United States
marshal asking him to quell the riot be-
fore 1t becomes uncontrolla Bile. About
300 Indians are in revolt against the
United States government.
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sK1RM1sHEs WITH BoERs.
Lord Roberts Reports Number o
Minor EnRaUements.

LORD Hoberto Reports Numbor OF
Minor Engagements.
j London. Nov. 12.The war Office has
the following from Roberts:
Johannesburg, Nov. 10. - Methuen
surprised CommandaIDts Snyman and
yermass, near Lichtsnburg. yesterday.
Three dead Beers were found and thir-
ty prisoners and several wagons were
captured. No casualties among the
British.
.Keltey-Ke reports Mai. Mackin-
tosh occupied Philippolis on the Sth.
The Beers fed In all directions Three
of the wounded We're brought to our
hospital Surgeon Hartley and seven
men were wounded.
.Lyutleton reports that Kitchener
successfully surprised the Beers during
the night of the 7th. A mounted party
of the Nineteenth Hussars and the
Manchester Mounted Infantry, under
Capt Chetwode, managed to pass a
sBoer outpost and while the latter en-
sgaged the enemy'S picket the HuEsars
charged the Beers In the moonlight sa- :
sbertng many. In the morning the ar
sttllery and infantry Joined Chetwode's IS
force and completed the Boer rout, who
are said to have lost heavily.
3 Smith Dorien's wounded. who re-
turned from the Boer camp, report that
sComnlandant Prinslco and Gen. Fource
were killed and Gem Grcbelar wounded
In the recent fighting"
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May cnll Kruger as witness.

burg to determine whether the South
African gold recently confiseated by the
Hamburg authorities TO safeguard the
Interests of local insurance companies
was owned by the shippers or by the
Transvaal government, motion was
made to call Mr., Kruger and f. w.
Reitz. state secretary of the late South
African republic. as witnesses. Decision
was reversed
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-11-12
Many POISONED in a school.

st. Petersburg, Nov. 1.-TWO hundred
and fifty girls. pupils OF the Smolny in
istitute, boarding school patronized ex-
clusiyely by the nobility, We're taken
sick with evident symptoms of poison
after dinner Friday evening. 1t is re-
ported that two have died, but that the
others have recovered. The poison is
attributed to faulty metallic cooking
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Moore TROOPS for Manila,

Columbus, o.. Nov 12.-Detachments
of the Sixteenth, Seventeenth, Nine
steenth and Twenty-third infantry and
the Fourth cavalry left Columbus bar
racks kor Manila today. going; via New
York. There were ~ meA In al.
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wrcck Of the An.elo.

London. Nov l2.Tlie Wilson Line
steamer Angelo, bound from Christian
ia, Norway. for Hull, is ashore on the
coast of Yorkshire. The coast guards
men landed eighty -four passengers by
means of the breeches buoy apparatus.
Nn{ s1nsS Gnf Iif..
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WALDERsEE's REPORT.
Progress of the Allied Troops II
Campaign Against Boxers.

Progress OF the iAAl1eO troops Al
Campaign Against Boxers.
Berlin, Nov. 12.-The following re-
port was received from Field Marshal
Won Waldersee:
Maj. Graham. with two companies
of the First East Asiatic infantry, Sec
ond squardon and Second battery, pro-
ceeded from Tien Tsin via Chung Ying,
sixty kilometers north on the left bank
of the Pei Ho, where he had slight
encounter with mounted Boxers, and
has arrived at Tung Pa, Atwelye.- lsilo-
meters east of Pekin. The Russian
troops successfully encountered 5000
Boxers north of Shan Ia Kuan, losing
four killed and sixty-one injured. The
British columns returned from Pao
Ting Flu to Pekin and Tien Tsin. The
latter column destroyed several Boxer
ca rnps
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Death Of Mrs. LUCINDA Allison.

Special to Times Republican.
Clinton, Nov. 12.-Sunday at her home
here occurred the death of Mrs. Lucin-
da Allison, who was stricken with pa
ralysis on Nov. 2. She lived alone and
lay in a bed IN an unconscious state un-
iii Nov. s, when neighbors broke open
the door and found her cold and very
feeble. She was u years old and came
10 Clinton in 1854
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LIVE UP.1o MIXERS, TERMS
omcinl at Hazleton. Pa. says Hs
KNOWS of No second Sfrtk e. .ss

> =
Knows Of No Second strtk e.
Hazleton, Pa. Nov. 12.When asked
yesterday about the story published to-
the effect that there would likely be an
other strike at the colieries of the Lee
high Valley Coal Company because of
the alleged refusal to grant a reduction
in the price of dynamite and that
President Mitchell. of the United Nine
Workers, and President Gonnpers, Of
the American Federation of Labor.
would meet in Scranton to talk over the
situation, Division Superintendent zer-
by. who has charge of ali The Lehigh
Valley eollieries in the Hazleton dis
.trict, said:
II know nothing Of any dissa.isfae-
ton and the agreement entered into
With our men is being carried out. L
am not able, however, to speak for my
superlors. i know of no dlfficulty.''
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fnz21la.1Q
BOTH ARMS AMPUTATED.
Accident lselalI. chiffon p

TCFF1DIc ACCtUeHt tSc1H11s S'111tOA1 = y y
terson ut Council Bluffs.
Council Bluffs, Nov. 12.-clifton Peter
son, living at 313 Curtis street, suffered
the amputation OF his right arm at the
shoulder and his left arm between the
wrist and the elbow last evening at the
Women's Christian Association hospital
as the result of being run over by mo-
tor car on the bridge yesterday after
noon. The attending physicians expect
ed that he would survive the shock Of
the operation. tssSs & s &
+ Peterson and . companion were driv-
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Between the Envoys in
Pekin Proceed Favorably.
Berlin, Nov. 12The following is the
full text OF the statement. evidently in-i
splred, in the Cologne Gazette of Satur..
day. as to the understanding reached
by the representatives of the powers in
Pekin regarding the Chinese settle;
ment:
"Pcurparlers between the envoys in
Pekin for the purpose OF agreeing upon
the fundamentals for peace negotia-H
itions with the Chinese plenipot
proceed favorably in the whole, series OF
Important points
"An agreement has been reached be-
tween the powers particularly regard
ing the punishment of the main cul-
prts, the mandarins and princes; also
regarding the witnessing of the execu-
stion of such punishments by represent
atives of the powers: also regarding
the principle of paying damages to the
several governments for the cost OF the
China expeditions, and for damages
sustained by private persons and mis-
sions; also regarding the permanent
stauoning of sufficient guards for the
Pekin legations; also regarding the raz-
ing of the Taku forts; and, finally, re-
garding the maintenance OF secure and
regular communication between Pekin
and the seashore.
about q number Of other demands,
| put forth by. separate powers. negotia-
Itions are still pending.
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Buller In London.

London, Nov. 12.-Gen. Butler, accom-
panied by his wife and daughter, ar
rived today and reported at the war Of
fee. Large crowds cheered the general.
q Copenhagen, Nov. IA syndicate of
Danish and Swedish bankers have be-
gun negotiations with American bank
eTs for fifteen million loan for Copen-
hagen municipality.
London, Nov. 12.-The Delagoa bay
railroad award was finally setued to-
gday