Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-08-04
IGNORED Old GLORY
Boers Wreck q Train Carrying Con-
sui General Stowe in South
Africa.
Forty Britishers on the Train Cap.
tursd But Released at Amer.
leans Request.
Lively Debate in the Commons on
the War With the
Beers.

London, Aug. 4.-Roberts teiegraphs
to the war office that Gen. Hunter re-
ports that 3.34S men have surrendered to
him altogether.
Roberts adds that Gen. Hamilton is
continuing the movement towards Rus
tenberg, and engaged the Beers in the
Hagaliesberg range Thursday. Lieut..
Col. Rhoades was among the forty-one
British wounded. The Beers left two.
dead and several badly wounded.
Thursday night a train was deraiied
twenty miles south of Kroonstad. -Four
men were killed and three wounded.
Lord Aigernon Lennon and forty men
We're made prisoners and then released
at the request of the American consul
general who was on the train.
A dispatch from Pretoria to a news
agency says: 1T isreported Gen. Chris
ltion pewet is dead from a shell wound
lUnconfirmed."
Boenafontein, Aug. "A train, on
board of which was United States Con-
sui Stowe, and flying the stars and
stripes, has been derailed and burned at
IHonig spruit by patrol OF Beers. No
jprisoners We're taken.
| London, Aug. 4-In response to sgues-
ltions, the secretary for the colonies,
Joseph Chamberlain, said yesterday in
1.-THE house of commons that the Boer
governments, in fleeing from Bloemfon-
1tein and Pretoria, left masses of private
| correspondence among the archives,
which the authorities on the spot We're
Examining He had received install
ments of this spondence by the last
! two mails and he had been informed
tha more Was TO come.
| The portions he had seen We're written
I previous to the War and We're chiefly
letters of British subjects of the Cape
A and of the two republics
4 There We're, however. copies of two
letters that purported to have been
i written by an English member of the
4 house of commons, and also letters a nc
ran extract from :. letter written ID : tWt
j other mem bers of the house of common:
1.-two days before the outbreak OF tnt
war; couched in the form of open criti-
Ecialn, asking for Information regarding
martial law and suggesting that t,fesal'
sldent Kruger make temporary eoilesa'
4 sions and await a reaction III England.
In his opinion the letters Mere no
4 treasona Bile, tho certainly improper
4 while her majesty was engaged in difh
lcuit negotiations. He proposed TO sem
II the sitt tters to the writer's and ask II the!
desired to explain. and he would avail
Ia reply before deciding whether to pub
liSh them ornot.
a The und ers secretary for the colonies
4 the Earl of Selborne, was quss toned IL
1.-THE house OF lords concerning alleget
II fraspnabltA corr espoEdence, and in repl,
Ireat, the explanation which MIR Cham
lbrlaill had made In the houss. OF CON
8 lrnons.
a Another breeze blew up in the hous
& Eof lords as the outcome of the debate o.
FRIDAY last regarding the. allegation
Ithat England was not inNulnerabi
s. aEagainst an attempted INVASION. l.stf'
.glIicssbery somewhat testify resented tn
. secretary of state for war, the Marqui
alof l4ansdowne taking him - task 70
Suggesting that the commander 81 ~
forces, Lord Wolseley, ought TO come I
!, the house and give his authority to tn
governments military plans
Lore: Rosebery said hedid not prppos
Ito be snubbed in the discharge of wha
lhe considred a public duty. The Mar
louis OF Lanslowne, he said, must b
4 ldiaabused of the idea that there eNisss
lin the country blind yenerating con
iidence In the war office.
The Marquis of Lansdowne, repiyin
: said the war secretary was responsible
to parliament and the commander
!. chief was responsible to the war secre
tary.
Other peers having spoken, the pre-
!, mier. Lord Salisbury, said he under
: stood Lord Rosabery's contention wa
i that the nation would be much MOI
!. satisfied If Lord Wolseley would con-
( 10 the house and express his approx;
of Lord Lanadowne 8 plans. 1t was oil
!. vious that if Lord Wolseley could /
I called upon to do that he was also Ell
4 titled TO express disapproval. Lord Sa
I isbury said he could not see how thu
was possible. There was much force !
I what Lord Rosebery had said, but
was of an abstract kind.
SEEKING "A LOST SON.