Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1900-05-24

London. May 22-Displayed in the
most conspicuous style in the Dahy
EXPRESS is the dominant war news
Of the morning:
We have the best OF authority Tor
stating that in the last twenty-four
hours a telegram has been received AT
the forei!7 office addressed PERSONAL
IN 10 the prime minister from Presl-
dent Kruger. proposing terms of peace.
The exact terms Of the message can.
not be stated. but we believe il is
couched in an extremely humble
strain
II is inconceivable. OF course. that
Lord Salisbury can have sent any re-
ply except the one that stands ready
on the lips of every Briton-uncondi-
tional surrender.
The demonstrative rejoicings over
the news from Mafeking have given
place to riots in London, Aberdeen
and Belfast and elsewhere in the
United Kingdom. In the Finchley
district of suburban London a mob
stoned the railway station, store house
AID
Smashed the Windows
of a diapers shop. setting the building
on fire also. whether by accident or
design, is as vet unknown. The
house of a Boer sympathizer at Harl-
! eston was attacked by a large crowd
! and the windows were shattered. The
police charged the mob and was
greeted with a shower of decayed
eggs. Numerous arrests We're made
and the police reserves were called
out. Rioting took place in Aberdeen
from Z TO 10 O'Clock Saturday ven
ing around a hall where a stop the
war meeting WIS being addressed by
Mr.. Cronwright-Schreiner husband Of
OF We schreiner. A crowd OF students
and others tried to storm the hall and
to break down the doors. The foot
police Were unable to cope with the
disturbers and sent for the mounted
| police, who made some Roadway with
their charges. hut free fights between
the supporters of the meeting and the
crowd continued and the royal infirm-
AIRY rear by was kept busy dressing
wounds of combattants caused by
stones, proiectiles and clubs. a num-
Der Of arrests We're made and finally
the chief magistrate
Ordered the Chief
constable to call out the military. The
Gordon H~ighlanders. from the castle
barracks. then cleared the streets. The
special prayers OF thanksgiving were
offered yesterday in the churches of
the United Kingdom. The lord bishop
of London. DIR. Creighton. who
preached before the queen at Windsor,
alluded TO the relief OF Mafeking, and
Clergymen generally found in the
event their topic of the day. Details
of the relief are still wanting, the Brit
ish military authorities being without
dispatches. Lord Roberts wires that
he knows of the relief only through a
press agency. Lord Lansdowne. how
ever. announces that the war office ex-
poets direct news to-day. The situa-
ton in the field has changed bur little
since Friday. Lord Roberts troops
are in fine form and abundantly sup
piled. Indications seem 70 point to an
early movement. His cavalry. riding
over several hundred square miles i'm
a semi-circle beyond Kroonstad, have
received the submission of hundreds
OF Free Staters. 1t now appears that
the Dewet who
fered to Surrender
with 1.a0o men was not the wen
known Gen. Dewet. but Commandant
newet. He stipulated that his men
should be- allowed 10 return TO their
farms. Lcrd Roberts replied that the
surrender must be unconditional. The
Botha who was captured the other
day was Philip Botha. Those sur
rendering are solemnly warned that if
they break the oath of neutrality their
houses will be burned and their farms
confiscated. Such as yield ask for pro-
lection. Correspondents following
Lord Roberts tell of the discourage
ment of the Beers and willingness
v OF the Transvaalers TO give ND
their arms. President Steyn is report
ed as having lost his head several
times lately. he was last reported
as leaving Pretoria after a consulta-
ton with the Transyaal government.
and has again gone 10 the front. The
Daily Telegraph is advised that a plot
has been discovered at Pretoria to
Depose President Kruger
and to surrender the Transvaal during
the present Lionth. Prominent Dutch
men n members of the judiciary are
asserted 10 have been parties TO the
movement. A Cape Town correspond
en- reasserts that the Irish-American
ambulance corps from Chicago suf-
fered heavily during the fighting at
Kroonst;,d. and that United States
Consul Hay has protested vainly 70
President Kruger against using the
corps on the fighting line. Gen. Butler
is in front of Langs Mex, hesitatinr TO
attack positions OF enormous natural
strength. The reports that Roers
have blown up portions of the tunnel
are confirmed. Although everywhere
else they are reported as retiring. out.
fronted. they have ecected their re-
treat without losing their or
guns or prisoners to any extent. Were
they d~isorganized they would stravv