The Bemidji pioneer., 1900-05-24

Retoicfngs over the Relief o
srafeking Tlrn Into Riots 4
i some Places PLOT discovered Il
Depose Kruger. s
1 London, May % Displayed in th'
i most conspicuous style III the Dali,
Express is the dominant war news
4 of the morning: IA
1--WE have the best Of authority fol
\ stating tIat ID the last twenty -foul
4 hours ii telegram has been received q
the foreign office addressed personal
ly to the prime minister from Presl
4 dent Kruger, proposing terms OF peace
The exact terms Of the message can
A not be stated. but we believe " q
4 couched iii an extremely humble ps
! strain.
5s 1t Is ificonceiyable. of course, thai
] Lord Salisbury can have sent any re
ply except the one that stands ready
on the lips of every Briton- q condi
/ tional surrender.
/ The delnonstratiye rejoicings over
tile 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
and
Smashed the windows II
Of n draper's shop. setting the building
on fire also. whether by accident or
design, is as yet unknown. The
house Of 4 sBoer syinpathizer at Harl-
eston was attacked by a large crowd
ana the windows were shattered. The
police charged the mob and was
greeted with shower Of decayed
eggs Numerous arrests were made
and the police reserves were called
out. Rioting took place in Aberdeen
from Il to 10 o'clock Saturday even
ing around a hall where a stop the
war; meeting was being addressed by
ME- OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES, husband Of
/ Olive sclreincr. 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
disturbcrs and sent for the mounted
police, who made some headWay with
their charges. but free fights between
the supporters of the meeting and the
crowd continued and the royal infirm-
nry pcar BY was kept busy dressing
wounds OF eonbattan caused by
stones. proiectiles and clubs A NUM-
ber OF arrests were made and finally
the chief mngistrate
4 Ordered the chief
constable to call out the military. The
Gordon Higblanders, from the castle
bargacks. then cleared the streets. Ile
sspetial bfsyy'effs 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 q
press agency. Lord Lansdowne. how
ever, announces that the war office ex-
poets direct news to-day. The situa-
tion In the field has changed but little.
since Friday. Lord Roberts troops
are III fine form and abundantly sup
piled Indications seem to point to an
early movement. His cavalry, riding
over several hundred square miles in
d semi-circle beyond Kroonstad. have
received the Submission of hundreds
of Free Staters. 1t now appears that
the Dewet who
ofTered to Surrender
with 1000 men was not the well
known ten. Dewet, but CommandantS
Dewet. He stipulated that his men
should be allowed to 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-
tection. Correspondents following
Lord Roberts tell of the discourage
lnent of the Beers and willingness
even Of the Transvaalers to give up
their arms. President Steyn is report
ell as having lost his head several
times lately. He was last reported
MS leaving Pretoria after d consulta-
tion with the Transvaal government.
and has again gone TO the front The
Daily Telegraph is advised that a plot
has been discovered at Pretoria to
ncpose President Kruger
and to surrender the Transvaai during
the present Ilonth. Prominent Dutch
men and members of the judiciary are
asserted to have been parties to the
A Cape Town correspond
ent reasserts that the Irish-American
ambulance corps from Chicago suf-
fered heavily during the fighting at
Kroonstad. and that United States
Consul Hay has protested vainly to
President Kruger against using the /
corps on the fighting line, Gen. Butler
is in front of Langs Mex. hesitating to
attack positions of enormous natural
strength. The reports that Beers
l,ox-a 1a1pxvrr, III, nnrtinns 0f thp tunnel