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Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1900-10-03

Oct. l, 1900.
tFrom our regular correspondent
Plenty of wet weather during the
past week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Dan Price were De
corah visitors last Friday.
Albert Van Vliet was a pleasant
caller in town last Sunday evening.
Geo. Emery, who has been reported
dangerously ill, is somewhat better
now.
John Pulver, of Harmony, passed
through town last Friday on his way
home from DEBORAH.
Geo. Morrison and Clayton Reed
transacted business in DEBORAH last
Saturday.
Mrs. Kimball and daughter Gladys,
of DEBORAH, are visiting friends and
relatives in Burr Oak at the present
time.
Miss Mary Rollins, Miss Inez Hislop
and S. f. Brickner We're business
callers in DEBORAH between stages Sat
urday last.
William Marsh, of Mabel, Mimi, an
old resident of Burr Oak, has been
renewing acquaintance about town
for few days.
Miss Minnie Wohlford and Miss
Minnie Seeley went to Hesper last
Saturday on business. We understand
Miss Seeley will teach the intermediate
department in the school of that
place.
Frank Cratsenberg and Jacob Head
fngton went to DEBORAH last Saturday
to meet their wives who returned from
an extensive visit to their old home at
New Hampton, and other places i'm
Missouri.
Fred Akers, of DEBORAH, was with
us over night last Friday. He is sell
ing Dakota land and defending repub-
lican principles. 1t was nip and
tuck" between him and r.. S. VOL
fenberger for the last word.
Our quiet village was awakened
about IL o'clock one night last week
by team running through town at a
break-neck speed, going northward.
AT five o'clock the next morning a
man, somewhat the worse looking for
a walk in the mud, knocked for adj
mittance at the hotel, saying that on
his way to DEBORAH his team got away
from him somewhere up the road.
Surprising his team had gone home he
boarded the stage and followed. A
day or two later he got telephone
message from Prosper, that his team
was found in some ones barnyard there
the next morning.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1900-10-03

Harris addition seems to be the
favorite place for our townspeople to
go walking Sunday p. m. 1t presents
al attractive appearance.
Chas. Miller has moved to Frank
vile.
J. A. Ennor's Photographic car will
be at Castalia three days next week,
Oct. S-9-10.
j. l.. Windell arrived in Seattle
from Cape Nome last week but will
remain there for some time before
coming home.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-03-12
KENTUCKY'S POLITICAL WAR
TAGlIN 1ISSUM rs A AYERYTHREAT-
ENING ASPECT.
Democrats Form the Nucleus of Their
State Guard and Two Armed Factions
Now Confront Each Other-Demo-
cratic Troops Posted to Protect Gov.
Reckham and Prevent His Arrest.

Frankfort, Ky, March 1.-THE DEM
ocrats and republicans in Kentucky
are to-day for the first time since the
present political complications assumed
acute form, divided into two armed and
organized factions. Surrounding the
capitol and the state executive build
ing and camped in the grounds around
Governor Taylor's home are nearly
two hundred state militia well provided
with ammunition, while in the corrl-
doris of the capitol hotel, in which the
democratic state executive officers are
located, and in the streets adjacent to
that building are sixty officers and the
men and boys of militia company
that was organized in Frankfort to-day
as the nucleus of Governor Beckham's S
state guard, beside scores of more
heavily armed citizens, partlsans or
the democratic claimant.
Rumors reached the democratic lead
ers to-day that an attempt was to be
made by the. state militia to take Gov
ernor Beckham into custody and inside
of an hour after the report was circu-
lated, petition had been circulated
and signed by the requisite number OF
men necessary TO form IL nlllltld CoIli-
pany The men will guard the Capital
hotel all night against any possible at
tempt to arrest Governor Beckham.
Only two days more remain for the leg
islature to remain in session, but the
developments of these two days are
looked forward to with apprehension Ky
the leaders of both side.
The democratic partisans say that
should the militia attempt to interfere
with the session of the Legislature, per-
sistent rumors of which have been in
circulation all day, it will be next to i'm
possible to avert bloodshed. The repub-
lican officials, however, deny that such
action has been contemplated and that
the Legislature will not be molested in
any way. That the report is believed in
democratic circles, however, is shown by
the fact that the advisability of hold
the session in some other place than the
state house has been under advisement
and even at a late hour tonight the
question had not been fully settled Sew
eral republican members Of the legisa-
ture left the city to-day presumably for
their homes.
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LORD ROBERTS INDIGNANT.
Charges Gross Abuse of White Fling
Warns Boer Presidents.

London, March 1.-THE war office
has received the following advices from
Lord Roberts, dated Driefontein, Sun
day, March IL, 9:45 a. M:
THE following telegram has been ad-
dressed by me to their honors, state
presidents Of the Orange Free state
and the South African Republic:
1" Another instance having occurred
of gross abuse of the white flag and of
the signal of holding up hands. in token
of surrender, it is my duty to inform
you that, if such abuse occurs again,
shall most reluctantly be compelled to
order my troops to disregard the white
flag entirely
1.-THE instance occurred on a kopje
east Of Driefontein Farm yesterday
evening and was witnessed by several
of my own staff officers as well as by
myself, and resulted in the wounding
of several of my officers and men.
ga large quantity of explosive bull
lets of three different kinds was found
in Commandant Cronje's laager, and
this has been the case after every en-
gagement with your honors troops.
Such breaches of the recognized usages
of war and of the Geneva convention
are a disgrace to any civilized power.
A copy of this telegram has been sent
to my government with the request that
it may be communicated to all neutral
powers.
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". u. YERlfILYE DEAD.
Manager of the Goodyear Rubber Conn
pnny in NIiddletown.

Middletown, March 1.-William j.
Vermiye, who had been treasurer of
the Goodyear Rubber company for a
number of years and for the last ten
years manager of their plant in this
city, died at his home to-day from
pneumonia, aged fifty-eight He is sur
vived by d widow, three daughters and
two sons. He had resided in Newark,
N j., for the greater part of his life.
The deceased was a son of the late
Jacob D. Vermilye, who was at one
time president of the Merchants Ma
tional bank of New York city, and
since his entrance into ther ubber trade
has been markedly successful. 1t was
plainly evidenced in his management of
the local factory, which employs up
wards Of $50 hands, and has been run
overtime to get out orders while other
factories were lying idle. The widow is
daughter of the late II. A. Rowland
of Newark and sister Of Professor Row.
land of Johns Hopkins university. The
three daughters reside at home, while
the sons, William and HI. Rowland,
make their home at Englewood, N j.,
where they have business interests
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Hd dRTFORD MI MS NlRROJY ESCAPE
His Wagon Coilisied with a Trolley Car

1
| A. V. Parker, a Hartford man, had a
very narrow escape about o'clock last
night from being killed at the corner Of
Court and State streets. Mr.. Parker
had hired a horse and runabout wagon
from local livery stable and was Just
| returning the rig to the stable when
the accident occurred. He was driving
UP Court street, and on the railroad
bridge, just below state street, the
horse became frightened and started to
run. Mr.. Parker took a firm, close
grip on the reins and tried to quiet the
beast, but could not do so. The horse
dashed down the incline from the bridge
to State street. At the same time ear
106 of the Fair Haven and Westville
railroad was coming down State street.
and reach the crossing of Court street
about the same time that the runaway
rig did
The car was going Al an ordinary rate
of speed. but so rapidly did the horse
come down the incline to the track that
Motorman Michael Creehan had only
time to turn off the power and put on
brakes, but not time to stop the car
before the inevitable collision occur
red. The horse seeing the car about
to strike him jumped with redoubled
energy and as he did not jerked up
from the wagon seat Mr.. Parker, who
had tight grip on the lines This cir
cUmstance probably saved Mr.. sParkers
life, for just after he had been ierked
forward from his seat the ear struck
the wagon at the middle just where the
seat war, and demolished the seat and
the middle part of the vehicle Just as
the horse cleared the track Mr.. Parker
jumped and alighted safely on the
pavement. The horse, with the re-
mainder of the wagon attached, dashed
wildly up Court street. Opposite police
headquarters the horse ran close to the
curb, and the wagon struck against a
telegraph pole and the harness break
ing the horse was released from the
runabout. Keeping straight on up
Court street the horse ran across
Church street, leaped the iron fence at
the green, doing a steeple chase, jump
that would do credit 10 an English
hunter.
The liveryman who owns the horse
was informed of the affair and at once
instituted a search for the horse, which
had not yet been found at / o'clock this
After jumping the fence at
the green the horse made for the Tenn
pie street gate of the green at Chapel |
street, and wheeling he bolted out |
Temple street towards Elm street That |
was the last trace of him that. the own
er could get last night, and the livery
man was specializing at midnight as
to how far the animal could run before |
he was exhausted. The brute may be |
running yet. The conductor in charge !
of the car which collided with the rig |
is John ]. O'Brlen. No blame for the |
accident attaches to the men in charge |
Of the car.
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The Fight Much Involved.

London, March 12.-The Morning
Posts correspondent at Driefontein,
telegraphing Sunday says; THE fight
throughout was much involved. The
enemy evacuated and reoccupied posi-
tions, subtley concealing their inten-
tions, and only Withdrawing their guns
few minutes prior to their impending
capture. Their guns Outranged ours
the naval brigade not arriving in time.
Our cavalry horses We're completely
tired by the repeated Withdrawals The
turning movement was begun too late.
The enemy attempted with heliograph
to locate our position from the kopje
which they held, but detecting the de-
ception we returned"
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A Smaller Eirr.
LOSS OF Il BRITISH STEAMER.
Cuvier Rnmmcd and Sunk Off Dover
Thirty Lives Lost.

London, March 11-It is now learned
that the British steamer Cuvier, COM
manded by Captain Quinton, which was
reported Friday last sunk by an un-
known steamer, was run down in the
Straits of Dover the morning of the 9th
by a steamer whose identity Is not
known. The three survivors, who We're
landed at Calais, France, shortly after
the disaster, say that great hole was
torn in the Cuvier, sinking her in less
than five minutes. They further state
that the thirty men comprising the crew
were below at the time of the collision
and were unable to reach the decks and
man the boats, so quickly did the ram
med vessel go down, and that the collid-
ing vessel paid no heed to the cries for
assistance shouted to those on board and
steamed away.
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WH1T 4 NEWSPAPER SHOULD BE.
Author of"In His steps, Begins To-day
TO Demonstrate His Ideh.

| Topeka, Kan, March 11.-Rev.
| Charles M. Sheldon, author of ''In His
Steps and other religious stories will
tomorrow begin the actual work of
demonstrating his idea Of what a news
paper should be. The first edition of
the Topeka Capital, under the direction
of the preacher-novelist, will appear
Tuesday morning. The Capital pub
fishes no Monday morning edition and
for this reason the question of Sunday
work will not come up at the beginning
of Rev. Mr. Sheldons newspaper week
The members of the Capital staff, at
the request of Rev. Mr. Sheldon, attend
ed services to-day at his church, the
Central Congregational. Most of the
newspaper correspondents who have
arrived in the city to report the Incl
dents in the week of Rev. Mr.. Sheldons
experience in newspaper making also
attended the services.
Tomorrow the work of getting out
the newspaper will begin. All of the
Capitals regular staff of editors and
reporters will be retained, with the sin
gle exception of General Hudson. edi-
tor-in- chief, who will take week off.
Very many religious enthusiasts have
offered their services to Rev. Mr.. Shell
don as reporters, but all of these Of
fers have been declined, he believing
that the regular staff can be moulded
to his purpose easier than raw recruits
could be trained In newspaper work for
"a single weeks effort.
Three nights last week the minister
remained in the Capital office all night,
familarizing himself with the details Of
newspaper making and tomorrow he
will take charge with a good idea of
the work before him. AS to the make
up of the paper he has ideas of his own
and these will be carried into effect.
All scare" news will be at a dis
count and little or no news will appear
on the first page, which will be de-
voted to special articles on the science
of government, the need of reforms in
city, state and national affairs and kin
dred topics. Many persons of promi-
nence win contribute to this page. State
Temperance agtators, it is said, are to
be given a free hand and something of
q shaking up of politicians is predicted.
All advertising in any way objectiona-
BILE according to the minister's views
has been refused.
Rev. Sheldon. who resides in the out
skirts of Topeka, has rented room
down town and says he hardly expects
to be at his home a single time during
the week He will take his meals at
a restaurant near the Capital office
During the week Rev. Mr.. Sheldon says
ba will renair1 in tha Capital offica all
night until each edition shall have gone
to press. There will be the usual Sun
day morning edition of the Capital, but
it will be printed early Saturday night
so that all the work even to the circu-
lation by the carriers may be finished
before the beginning of Sunday.
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Lexington, KY, March 11.--The Sab
bath brought a hopeful and encourag-
ing calm to the storm which for three
hours on Saturday night threatened to
burst with terrible fury over Lexington.
Impulsive action, under perhaps mis-
guided Impressions, came near precipi-
tating bloodshed which would not have
ended with the threatened riot at the
depot, when Secretary of State Powers
and Captain Davis were arrested by the
Lexiegton officials. Time was ripe, un-
der misleading reports, that mountain
men were preparing to rescue the pris-
oners from jail last night, for desperate
resistance on the part of the local Off
GERS, who are mostly Goebel men. Had
an attempt been made to take prisoners
from the jail the result Is unpleasant to
contemplate
The adopting of such disguise by Da-
vic and Powers in order to get out of
Frankfort puts an ugly phase on the
matter for the prisoners, in the opinion
of some of their friends here, although
they explain that they did so merely to
get away from the local Goebel infu-
ences, which, they allege, would work
to their detriment in securing a fair tri-
al. Both tacitly admit now that in this
they may have made mistakes, as both
strongly urge their ienocence of any
connection with the murder of Goebel
and insist that they have no fear what
ever as to the outcome
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LONDON RETIEW or SITUA7ION.
The White Flag Incident Regarded ns
Very ImpOrfans,

| London, March 12-4:45 a. m.-The
war office maps show group of kopjes
and large water pan at Dreifontein, a
position which has apparently consider
able defensive advantages. The Beers
who retreated to Abraham'e Kraal from
Poplar Grove must have moved SOUTH
ward or else a fresh force must have
come from Bloemfontein or the Orange
river
The opposition met at Dreifontein was
somewhat unexpected, the idea being
that if there We're any resistance it
would be at Petrusberg. Profiting by
their experience, the Beers were prepar-
ed for British flanking movement, but
in extending their position in order to
avoid being outfanked they bly,
weakened their center, thus making it
possible for the British infantry to car
ry this with a bayonet charge.
Lord Roberts dignified protest
against the abuse of the white iiag is
regarded as the most important fact of
the situation. According to the ac-
counts supplied by the correspondents,
the instance appears to have been most
fragrant and there is no doubt that
Lord Roberts will carry his threat into
execution.
The dispatch from Durham as to the
engagement near Pomeroy seems to eX-
plain the Boer accounts of skirmishing
in the Helpmakaar district, and al
though Colonel Bethunes force num-
bered only a few hundred, the news
shows that the Beers are in considera-
BILE numbers on the Biggarsberg. There
is no confirmation of the rumors of the
raising of the siege of Mafeking, con-
cerning which the gravest anxiety con-
tinues to be felt The British casualties
up to this date are as follows: Killed
2.41S, wounded S,474, died of disease L.,
029, missing 3,4S3; total 1857.
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REBELS LAYING DOWN ARMS,
Large Number in Serious Sfraits-H "Gvy
Fight Reported.

Cape Town, Sunday, March 11.-News
from Lady Grey Herschel and Aliwal
North show that the rebels are laying
that the Beers all along the border are
in serious straits. The rebels assert that
the Beers are subsisting on bread and
water, and so-called coffee, made from
rye Other rebels are leaving to fight
in the Free State. British rule has
been restored at Lady Grey, where
hig 6eht is reported to have occurred
many rebels being killed. 1t is report
ed that thousands OF rebels contam-
plate surrendering to General Brabant.
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THE PHILIPPINE CAMPAIGN
STRONG FORCES OF REBELS ARE
ACXIVE IN P4N4Y.
This the Only Province Which tho
Americans Do Not Occupy-COlOncl
Houston's Troops Retnforeed-Loses
Seven Men In tho Fighttng-I5O TnSa-
logs Surrender mt -CapfZ.

Manila, March Noon.-Thousands
of organized insurgents are resisting
Nineteenth regiment at Tantique, prov
ince of Panay. which is the only prov
The Americans lost seven killed. A
battalion OF the Fortyfourth, from ilo-
hundred and fifty Tagalogs, armed with
rifles, have surrendered at capiz and
have been transferred to Luzon. Six
Americans We're killed in an ambush
recently laid by the Filipinos at Aperri.
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Nn~v Harvard Boat Club.

Cambridge, Mass, March 1.-THE
Harvard, 10 replace the one burned
down last Christmas, will begin in
about week. 1t was first planned to
rebuild it of brick and the New York
graduates subscribed $1,000 for that
purpose. But this sum was not suffi-
cient and the boat house, therefore, will
be built almost exactly like the old one
The new launch which will replace the
Frank Thompson is completed except
for the machinery. 1t was first thought
that the machinery of the old launch
could be used for the new one, but that
was found to be impossible.
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COULD NOT DISLODGE BOERS.
Lively Fight in Nntai--Burghers Said to
Have Lost Heavily.

Durham, March 1.-THE Natal Mer-
curry has the following despatch from
Greytown, dated to-day: "A force
composed of Bethune's Mounted Infan-
try, the Umvoti Mounted Rifles and the
Natal police with three Maxms, under
Colonel Bethune, reached Pomeroy
Thursday, March s. The following
morning the Boer pickets opened fire.
A general engagement soon ensued, the
Beers using pompoms and two big
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BOERS IN STRONG POSITION.
Were Found Uhexpectediy-How. the
Fighting Commenced.

Driefontein, Orange Free State,
March 11.-6:35 a. m.-Broadwoods cav
airy brigade advancing on Bloemfon-
tein, unexpectedly found the Beers in
a strong position in the Dreifonten
kopies yesterday. General Killy-Ken-
ny's division arriving, severe fighting
ensued. The Beers resisted stubbornly,
but were driven from their center po-
sition, leaving number of dead and
forty prisoners The British force is
moving forward to-day. During the
fighting, in which five regiments took
part, with artillery, the Beers, though
forced from their center position, clung
tenaciously to the other kopjes she'll
ing the British freely with three guns
and two Vickers- -Maxims. The British
cavalry began to turn the Boer posi-
ton. but night fell before the movement
was completed. The Beers retired dur
ing the night.
A LARGE number of Australians We're
engaged yesterday. The First Austria
liam Horse brigade, with the Scots
Greys, advanced without 500 yards of
the Beers under heavy fire. The New
South Wales mounted infantry Joined
in the pursuit of the Beers northWard,
All of yesterday was occupied in light
ing. The Beers maintained a stubborn
rear guard action along running front
Of twelve miles on very difficult
ground The British were advancing in
three columns. General Tucker, to the
southwark, occupied Petrusberg unop-
posed General Kelly-Kenny, after fol-
lowing the river bank, moved in the d1-
A Il al
At Dreifontein, about eight miles
south of Abraham's Kraal, the Beers
were found posted in considerable
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Saw IT Through a Telescope.

London, March 11.-A despatch to
the Daily Mail from Asvogal Kop,
dated Sunday, March II. says: 'The
white flag treachery was personally
witnessed at Driefontein by Lord Rob-
erts who was looking through a tele-
scope when the Welsh were charging
and saw the Beers hold up their hands.
show the flag and drop their guns. He
saw an English officer advance to re-
ceive their surrender, whereupon a Boer
voIley was fired and the officer fell"
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RED Ash MINE DISASTER.
Forfy-sevem Bodies Recoyered-Others
KNOWN to he Burned.

Thurmond, w. Va, March 11.-Twelve
more bodies were taken from the Red
Ash mine during last hight as follows:
Edward Collins, Ernest Ling, Moses
Naniel, Thomas Long, Carl Downey,
Thomas Johnson, William Word James
Long, J. I. Wood, Arthur Haut Edward
Harvey and one unidentified man.
This makes total of forty-seven dead
bodies taken out and at least two more
are known to be In the mine.
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STTUATION AT III MAFEKING.
Reports About Town's Re-
Iiefand Fall.

London, March IA correspondent
of the Daily Mail at Lorenzo Marquee
telegraphing Saturday says: accord
ing to Boer reports, the fall of Mafeking
is certain. There has been heavy fight
ing this week, and the Beers have been
shellng the town from all the outlying
forts which they have captured. Col
onel Baden-Powell cleared all the ma
tives out Of the town. but the Beers
drove them back. The Beers are pre-
pairing for final assault, with the idea
that the capture of Mafeking will raise
the dropping spirits of the burghers."
A despatch to the Daily Mail from
its correspondents with Lord Roberts
army says: "One of the Boer prisoners
says the siege of Mafeking has been
raised"