Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1900-03-29
JOUBERT FELL VICTIM
TO PERITONITIS.
Burghers beg His Widow to Allow OPP
portunity for State Funeral
in the Near Future.

LONDON, March 29.-The Pretoria COR
respondent of The Daily Mail telegraph
ing yesterday, says; 1.-The funeral will
take place tomorrow (Thursday.) The
government is pleading with the widow
to allow temporary interment here
with state funeral. Joubert always
expressed desire to be buried i'll a
mausoleum built on his farm.
"Iis successor i'll the chief command
will probably be General Louis Botha,
now commanding in Natal. y
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, when T years old, to the
Orange Free state. OF schooling he
had but little and he never saw a 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 i'll obtaining fair
knowledge of history and languages.
In consequence of the acquisition of
Natal by the British his family moved
from Natal and settled i'll the 1'ransvaal
Soon afterward he became a Burgh-
er of the South African republic and
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 a punitive expedition usually
resulted III their surrender.
He was elected vice president of the
Transvaal i'll 1885, defeated Sir George
Colley at Majuba Hill i'll 1881, and acted
as president of the republic in 1SS3-84
during Kruger's absence in Europe
The battle of Majuba Hill resulted i'll
the practical independence of the Trans
vaal.
1t was Joubert who organized the
army of the South African republic,
later ON dividing the country into III
military departments and each of these
departments into smaller divisions, with
commandants, field comets and heuten-
ants Of various ranks III charge. Accord
ing to the generals plans every man be-
came a trained soldier without leaving
his farm and had his equipment ready
at hand. To such point of perfection
WAS tlt eN Sttlu tttiIlSNl llltil AilIiln II
hours after the present war was declared
the Boer nation was under arms.
1t was also due to General Joubert
that the South African republics sue
ceeded in amasSing the immense stores
of war munitions and provisions which
have stood them in such good stead dur
ing the conflict now in progress.
When the Jameson raiders We're
locked up IN Pretoria jail, Joubert was
strongly in favor of their immediate
execution. 1t was not until Joubert
and Kruger had been closeted together
/ for a whole night, that the more merci-
/ ful counsels Of Kruger prevailed.
/ In spite Of these characteristics, Joub-
/ ert, ON some occasions, showed consid-
cradle regard for the usages of civiliza-
| ton. When the Beers raided British
/ territory, Bechuanaland, in 1884, Joub-
ert was probably the only prominent
Boer who refused to support the move
ment and his opposition resulted in the
| withdrawal of the Beers from the terri
] tplsV seized