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Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1900-03-22
EDITOR NAGLE Is ILL.
Has Dangerous Attack OF Typhoid
Fever--Dr. Sem Called.

Manitowoc, Wis. March 20.-Editor
John Maggie Of this city Is dangerously
III with typhoid fever at Holy Name
hospital. He contracted the disease
during his recent trip south. Yester-
day his temperature was 1903 degrees
II is not quite so high today. DR..
John +. Prltchard. Mr.. Nagle's physi-
clan, is also very III. DR.. Sem OF Chi
cago has been sent for.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1900-03-22
FRANK POOLER IS DEAD.

La Crosse, Wis, March 90 Frank
Pooler, capitalist, Tumberman and poll
tician OF Onalaska who was stricken
with paralysis Saturday at Savanna,
H., died there Sunday night The re-
mains arrived here this morning for
interment He was born in Maine In
1S47, coming to Onalaska IN 1865
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1900-03-22
TRANSPORT OF BoERs DELAYED

Capetown, March 1S-The departure
OF transports with boer prisoners for
st. Helena, has been delayed on ac-
count Of the fact that 70 beers have
been sick, including many infectious
cases. The transports will probably
sail Wednesday
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1900-03-22
BAUMGAERrNER WINS EASILY.
Nominated for Mayor of Milwaukee
without Opposition in Convention.

Milwaukee, March 20,-Henry j.
Eaumgaertner was named by the re-
Publican convention Monday afternoon
for mayor. Mr. Richardson's name
did not go before the convention, he
having withdrawn in Baumgaertner' S
favor. William II, Stevens received
the nomination for city treasurer and
o. l.. Renning for comptroller. Mr..
Baumgaertner is pronounced La Fol
Iette man, and his easy victory in the
convention is said to have signiti-
can't bearing upon republican politics
I'm the state
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1900-03-22
JEFF DAVIS CAPTOR
DIES on p\Elt MONlA Ar ms
ROME IN MADISON
REMARKABLE CAREER

The Apprehension ot the Confederate
Ehiettan but On, incident in Ills
Adventurous lIfe Wounded Many
Times NuvnG the WAr IN rhlNlltuG
Episodes Galore.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1900-03-22

John g. Woolley, the great PROFIT
hilton lecturer who visited this city
accept the nomination on tho prohl-
hltion ticket for president of tho Unit
ed states IN speaking of tho party
and its possibilities Mr. Woolloy says
that the prohibition party promises
'N make such a show Of strength In
the next few years az To compel ono
of the old parties to take up the cause
of prohibition
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1900-03-22
REVOLUTION IN SOUTH AMERICA

London, March 16.--Aocn~ding % a
t,s-ltca from Buenos Ayres a revolu-
ton has broken out in Entire RIOS
Tb4 insurgents have occupied three Of
mo principal towns OF the province.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1900-03-22
Beers NOT INACTIVE
FREE SKATERS REPORTED NOT
ENTIRELY SuBBDUED.
MARKINGS FATE IN DOUBT

Beers Reported Concentrating at
Kroonstadt-Gen. Butler Expected
to Do the Next Fighting With Gen,
Botha's Force at Biggarsberg-Bi
British Force at Sea.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1900-03-22
PERSONALITIES.

Landscape gardening in the eyes Of
Miss RcatrN Jones has attractions
superior to those of society She has
adopted II seriously Ms a profession.
Miss Jones Is daughter of Mrs. Cad
walladcr Jones and belongs to the
zoe IN New York
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1900-03-22
AT THE PARIS EXPO.
VARSITY BOY lMPARTS HIS M
P1,ESSIONS
MANY, BUILDINGS NOT DONE

Countess Castallaue Seemingly not
overload of Her French Bril-a- Brac
OF a ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Steam
ship Gossip strike
Hotels in Need of Improvement.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1900-03-22

The house is likely to take up the
Porto Rican government bill this week.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1900-03-22

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Isaac Gordon the greatest usufer in
England. died worth s., 900 900
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-06-17

making power in another branch OF the Govern
ment yet this is just what was done by the Trans
Yaal Nolksraad after the outbreak of the war
The First Nolksraad by its resolution Article l4bA
dated September rs, 1899 granted authority to the
Government during the recess to make resolutions
and issue Instructions which may be FOUND neceS-
sary for the interests of the country, and when
instructions and resolutions shall have the force
Of law until they can afterward be dealt with by
the honorable the First NOlksTaad." In accordance
with that general power of authority. the Gov
the Executive Council being entirely subserVent 10
him. levied by proclamation a special tax upon
the gross gold production, which amounted to 30
and in some to 90 per cent. BY the same
authority The Government also imposed a tax OF
e q hundroI morgen about two hundred acresl
on ali land of absentee owners, and performed
many similar acts. ~.
AS an illustration of what sort OF people enlist
with the Beers 1t may be of interest to tell what
became of ambulance outfit recently sent 10 the
Transvaal by the generosity of Chicago people
The expedition consisted of some threescore men,
nearly all Of whom l told. were of Irish eX-
traction. they were passed into the IransYaal by
the American Consul at Lourenco MARQUES MI
Hollis known to be pro-Boer in his sympathies.
Met by the Boer officials, they were asked whether
they wanted a red cross or q Mauser, and all put
one chose the latter and duly Joined the Boer
ranks leaving the ambulance outfit TO look out
itself
We passed several trainoads of troops yesterday
on their way north. One Erimy lot had been on
the cars four days, but they were as merry as
grigs We caught up just as ratons We're pelnS
served out for the evening meal, and as we drew
I'D alongside they burst out into very tuneful song
Tommy certainly does not take his troubles hard
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-06-17

the market. I offered per cent interest and
tnousht she would be proud to assist in so Iaud-
able enterprise
You have lost your own earnings and now Won
want to lose mine" was the reply You and the
old tub are well mated. Not penny of mine shall
you have"
Some one has said that "a good kick may start
stone rolling. when otherwise it rests on noun
tam side for a generation" THE unexpected
cruelty Of that refusal" said Miss Neal while II
nearly broke my heart, the kick that sent the
portable bath tub round the world" Too proud TO
acknowledge defeat and to turn to nursing a sec
ond time she borrowed this crisis g. Invested
It in material and set 10 work to make two bath
were finished so great was her joy that the first
water that went into the tub the tears of the
lemma. She recalled shop in Broadway where
she had often admired unique things for children
and throwing over herself a long cloak, made for
the shop. The hoorwalker handed her over to the
Cor two layettes. and If she had the tubs she
might find sale for them Mt once.
to them" Like domino at a mask ball, of
fell the Disgusting cloak TO reveal tub dangling
either ARM
And you made them yoursef?" said the buyer.
What do you want for them?'
Their money value had not occurred to the in
was told to bring more More material was bought
and more tubs were made the long cloak serving
to protect her for she continued TOT carry them TO
good form for the inventor and manufacturer TO de-
liver goods in person. When business slackened
she tarned to nursing But the tub was readily
recognized by old families. and 1t made steady in
road into the best shops Fashioned OF pure white
odorless rubber strong drilling cloth prepared
specially for the purpose, the tub folds a
pretty wood frame-mitation Of bamboo, ash an
the bath for a water outlet is faucet OF smooth.
hard rubber. AT the ends of the frame rubber
baby's clothes, thus forming the complete bath and
basket combined. That II can be folded up Ike a
OF the chief beauties OF this unique pretty little
sanitary apparatus. The frame ls inches thieh
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-06-17
BRIDGE BUILDING IN WAR
ACHIEVEMENT OF MAJOR SEYMOUR. WHO
HAS JUST MET HIS DEATH IN
SOUTH AFRICA.

When the Beers retreated from Cape Colony
across the Orange River they destroyed three
spans Of the NoryaTs Pont Bridge and at the
same time wrecked five spans Of the Bethulie
Bridge These were necessary links Of Lord
Roberts's transportation service, being parts OF
the railroad line from Port Elizabeth and East
London TO Bloemfontein. and so on TO Johannes
burg and Pretoria. Except the line from Cape
Town to Hope Town and Kimberley. they were
his only lines Of transport
Major Louis I. Seymour, the American con-
sulting mining engineer, who was killed last
Thursday placed in charge Of the work of
reconstruction. At Norvars Pont he began by
laying a low level bridge and putting up an
aerial tram over the broken spans arranging to
rebuild the broken parts. The piers are forty
feet above water. and the old stuff had TO be
moved cut of the way The illustration shows
the serial tram with a four ton casting sus-
pended. One pier was wrecked. The bridge
has now been completed and is said TO be the
largest military engineering work known. II
viii be observed th-t the car is hauled by
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-06-17

cable worked from the shore. At first both
horses and men We're conveyed across in this
way. The Railway Pioneer Regiment. which
he organized, is at the Vaal River on sim
liar work.
The aerial tram is the precursor Of telpherage.
which, according TO Professor Fleming Jenkin,
who invented the word, is the transmission of
vehicles by electricity to a distance indepen-
IDENTIFY Of control from the vehicle" The Elec-
trical World and Engineer" quoting Professor
John Perry who has devoted much time TO the
scientific development Of telpherage, shows its
great possibilities and says that the commercial
success of telpherage depends upon the convey
ing Of light loads and the subdivision Of ma
terial Telpherage is not a competitor Of exist
Ing railways for passengers or for bulky or
heavy traffic. Tr,r9
MAYOR SeynouTs enormous expansion OF the
aerial tram, thus demonstrated to be an accept
able rival OF railway bridge transmission in
difficult places, Is said to have taken. from the
NorVaIs Pont structure, a permanent place in
military engineering.
Colonel Gtrouard, the director of railways in
the South African military operations Is an ex-
tremely clever man He president Of the
Egyptian State Railways under Lord Cromer
was raised from lieutenant, to a lieutenant
colonel in an incredibly Short time and is close
friend Of Lord Kitchener.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-06-17

when closed 81 inches long and 10 inches wide,
while the rubber bath receptacle is II or II inche
deep. When not used as bath the receptaGiite
pllowed makes in emergency an admlrable crlp.
With such perfection attained in its manufacture
ii seemed that all struggle must be over Tor
the inventor Alas it had only begun.
The trials inseparable from inventors did not
escape the tub maker. The schemes concocted by
wealthy and powerful manufacturers to crush her
this not age of trusts. Firms that refused to
grant her interview, to look at the patent, the
who laughed to scorn her proposition that
they should make the tub and put IL on the mar
their efforts prevent its acceptance by the trade
AT length, forced the wall she unwittngly signed
followed to recover her rights a serial story
that would have vanquished the soul OF less
valiant woman.
Bath Tub would never have made It's way into the
nursery of Mrs. Grover Cleveland the grandchil-
families and crossed the to Lady Curzon, who
took it TO India In this quaint little shop was
made not long ago a beautiful white enamel ana
gold tub, which the Gould family sent to the
When the war broke out Miss Neal made small
portable bath tub for the comfort and convenience
of soldiers in the hospitals. The surgeons staff.
General Arthur and Major Brown, was delighted
with the model
It's the very thing we need" they declared, and
order given for forty tubs. When the TUBS
were made the Commissary Department wrote that
to their regret the Government refused the appro
priation: They considered the tubs too great a
luxury for the soldiers.
II asked only the price of the material" said the
made Of gold, I wrote the surgeons, they would
not be too good for sick and suffering soldiers
and II the great Government of the United states
can't pay for them, I will present them "
The forty tubs were divided between the Missouri
the Breakwater and the hospitals at MOntauk.
And God knows" said the cheerful giver, Il
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-06-17
CHINA MUST BE COERCED.
THE OPINION OF A FORMER SECRETARY
OF LEGATION AT PEKING+THE GOV
EMINENT ABLE TO SUP
PRESS DISORDERS
William w Rockhin in Golfers Weekly.

William w. Rockhin in Golfers Weekly.
Christianity to nine-tenths Of the Chinese is the
It was to avense the death Of Christian 9 missi t9
ARES ares mat nat part OF the province OF Shan-Tnng
was seized by Germany; France had seized ter
n1riar Of one Of & mi riee ga oI,9
the Empire endless executions had taken place for
attacks made on foreign teachers of Christianity
Sc it is that the belief has grown up among the
people. as well as among the official class and the
gentry of the country, that not only the integrity
OF China bur It's very existence as a nation de-
secret societies. the Boxers and the Big Sword,
property that they were able to secure the sym
pathy, might say nearly the active cooperation,
Pekina,: their da"iared object to- the ayeTae China
man distinctly a patriotic The policy
that they proposed pursuing not bad one.
for the native converts can only be projected to
limited extent by the Treaty Powers under the
general provisions of our treaties with China:
1858, citizens Of the United States or Chinese con-
verts, who, according to these tenets. peaceably
shall in no case be interfered with molested."
How far under the above provisions this Govern
ment, or that of any other country. would be will
ing to go to secure redress or Naturalization for
Although the foreign Protestant missionaries
have not heretofore as strenuousy defended before
their focks as have the Catholics pnevestheleSs
Christians feel that they We're upheld by
cessfuiy resist the petty exactions and vexatIons
common from time immemorial to all Asiatic gov
ernments.
This will help explain why the anti-foregn feel
ing is general in China, and why the present
riots have been allowed TO spread unopposed to the
very gates of Picking.
The Chinese Government at the present day is
well able to deal with instruction within
its borders at any time within the last fifty
years, and evidence of this is found in the sum-
mary manner in which it dealt with the Mahom-
etan insurrection which four or nye years ago
spread over the greater part Of Northwestern
China. 1t is only in cases of anti-foreign rioJs
that the Chinese Government becomes unable to
This is fresh proof, If sucn necessary,
that pressure by the foreign Powers China is.
and will remain absolutely necessary for securing
to us the rights which have acquired in the
country. The pressure must be in every case so
strong that China cannot escape the strict and
honest performance of all her duties. If such a
course be pursued for term OF years. IT is
believed that for foreigners may dawn
in China; if not new guarantees will, without a
doubt, promptly be required by the Powers, and
there is little doubt that these guarantees will be
in the of fresh cessions of territory. pos
sibly the occupation of some important city
in the Empire.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-06-17

word as to the fiction that the TransVaaI Gov
public is not in the habit of investing the law
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-06-17
european Aopernsements.

EUROPEANS AND TRAVEL
LERS will find the London Office of The
Tribune, 149 Fleet Street, a convenient
place to leave their advertisements and
subscriptions for The Tribune.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-06-17
BUTCHERS AT THE FRONT.

The native Boer is little in evidence at any time
Mhlcl makes one realize what the demand is for
AD!e-DOoled burghers at the front. The town Is
never very busy business being CONSTRUCTED within
narrow limits owing 10 the lack Of supplies due in
turn 10 the monopoly OF the railway by the army.
Dom Paul depends for the carving out of his
designs upon lies and religious ferVOr can
have some sympathy for the up-country Boer be-
cause ne does not know what he is fighting for. He
thinks II IS his hearthstone and his right "a life
liberty and the pursuit Of happiness As a matter
OF TACT he Is being used TO Dcrpetuate the abso-
tutlsm % Kruger and his clique. with which goes
their ability 10 line their pockets stn further with
the proceeds Of the sale Of valuable concessions
has started This solely the object Of steal
ing their valuable territory. Yet has for wears
been schemlng. with the assistance OF the Az
rIkanoeT Bond. for a Dutch South African Cavern
having footing the coast to enable her
70 ward of other Powers from the Dutch nosses-
sions There is doubt about this members 81
me BOND having declared this Is their burmese
time and again In public speech and print
II vas clear 70 Kruger that If English and Ameri
can immigration were allowed TO go on unchecked
In0uern IDEAS and customs would become pre6om-
inant ana the ignorance of his simple but cannv
puFBhers ana their content with conditions thar
prevailed two centuries could not endure tba
competition. He tried TO prevent being overvhelroaS
" me toe OF modern progress. and his has been
3 nght against civilization from the first II being
ms loea 10 keep new theories from gaining the
supremacy II would be il he pronounced
nimsef willing 10 grant the franchise TO the out
4hnoefs An eXamination Of his much exploited
Oners OF the franchise after a certain term OF
years, fourteen or seven five. shows that they
were utterly ninsy and insincere so hedged bout
20 grant the Executive Council. which IS entirely
Dominated by him. the decide fpafIT,
whether or not an Outlander. though satisfying an
Legal conditions. should be granted the franchise.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-06-17

"Aeh OSCdSlOn required
MISLEADING BoER SOLDIERS.
One method whereby Dom Paul prevails upon his
credulous burghers TO continue fighting ls worth
noting They told the exact truth OF
anywhere near it, as to their losses in battle At
the end of a fight when the search is mace Ior the
dead only the Hollanders and the foreigners gen
recorded Bodies OF burghers are made away Win
and the OF their death never reaches Ineir
people, unless some relative happens TO be on the
spot Il. the other hand, the losses OF
the British always magn1ed on an average
the latter are multiplied by ten, and the losses OF
the Beers divided by the same tgufe; AGAIN, me
Beers told that Russia has declared war against
England and is already marching troops INTO lhdla
And so the propagation of lies goes on, and many
good people in England, well as in America are
represents all chat is just and holy, ana that Eng
land stands only for rapacty ana greed -.
Cape Town itself furnishes proof enough OF What
Dutch rule means The Parliament there mas
Dutch majority and the Dutch influence is pre-
dominant The result is that although Cape Town
comparable only TO a third-rate American village
in the sparsely settled West or Northwest us
sanitary ARRANGEMENTS hardly better than those
Of Havana, save in private houses OF the Detter
class. The hotels in the city are indescrloaoy
dirty and the food in the public places is far from
good Even the eggs sent from Madeira, the
Dutch being too lazy to keep hens One is tempted,
noting such conditions, to translate Dutch into
dirt as perverted in South Africa. All That Will
necessarily be changed when England secures com
the Boer Republic only be imagined
THE TRANsVAAL REPUBLIC"
A word as TO the fiction that the Transvaal Gov
eminent is a republican government. A true re-
public is in the habit of investing the law
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-06-17
HOTELS IN ENGLAND.
The International Palace Hotels,

The International Palace Hotels,
The Riviera Palace. Monte Carlo.
The Riviera Palace,
Shepherds Hotel and
The Ghezireh Palace, ESSpt.
The In PLACE, a The Royal Palace.
OSIEND belgium.
Chateau Royal,
ARDENNES .Belrfum
Pavilion de bellevue,
BELLEVUE. Paris. France
Hotel StepkanIe,
AHiZIA ...............AustrIa
The Cd. Hotel International,
The AVenida Palace,
LiSbON Portugal.
The summer Palace,
=
The Pern Palace.
CoNSTANTINOPLE Turkey.
terminus Hotel 30 e
For information tickets points and TO rssar,,o
accommodations apply International Co.'S Odces
CoekspuI-st London, or Place de TOpera, Paris.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-06-17
A PROMINENT CITIZEN.

From The Denver Post
Wash wilkins. OF Oathe, Kan. is twenty-five
years old, is feet inches tall, and weighs more
than five hundred pounds. He stands very high In
the estimation Of his neighbors. and is a man OF
great weight in his community.