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The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-07-25

Captain Smiley, of the Fifteenth
regiment, U. S. A., returned recently
from the Philippines. where he was on
the stan OF General ]. G. Bates, was
recently telling Of his visit to the sui
tan OF the sulus at his island capital
The sultan, the day saw him." said
the captain, wore dress suit with
out collar or cuffs. For headgear, he
had skull cap, on the front Of which
was set an enormous diamond. He
Is little man. with a no more strik-
Ing personality than is given him by
his costume. When standing he hard
1y comes above the elbow of the aver
age American"
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-07-25

Prince gu Loewenstein, president Of
the German Catholic Union, has un-
dertaken systematic campaign
against duelling. He has therefore
drawn up statement, to which be
has obtained lib signatures among his
own friends and acquaintances. The
prince declares that the number of sig
natures would already be incompar-
ably larger II officers OF the active
army thought they could publish their
real views without imperilling their
military position.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-07-25

Science has proved that moonlight
IS more fatal to the complexion than
the sun in his splendor, and thew ara
now selling In Paris little moonshades
made OF double thickness of NOUS
seine DE sole with light fringe, the
handles OF which fold back like those
of the marquises Of our grandmothers,
time.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-07-25
Gov. whitmarsh Exonerated.

Manila, July 23.-H. Phelps Whit
marsh, civil governor of Benguet
province, Luzon, has been exonerated
of the charges against him by the
civil commission. On account of the
impossibility of their continuing to-
gether, the resignation of Mr..
scheerer, secretary to Gov. Whit
marsh, has been accepted. Whit
marsh was censured by the commits
sion for violence against Scheerer
upon the occasion IF public meet
ing of the Igorrote tribesmen, when
Scheerer declined to act as secretary
on account of alleged interference
in the meeting by the American au-
thorities.
The commission accepted Governor
Whitmarsh's denials to the charges
against the latter that he had mis-
appropriated native stock, worked
convicts and other natives upon his
farm, and had utilized his official
position to further his private inter-
ests. The commission further decid-
ed that the burning of few native
huts during Governor Whitmarsh's
expedition against the head-hunting
1gorrotes had been warranted by the
eXigencies of the situation.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-07-25
RUSSIAN ARMY is GROWING.
Ministry Of War Is strengthening til
Force in Every Direction.

Ministry of War Is strengthening the
Force in Every Direction.
st. Petersburg. July est has
now been definitely ascertained that
the recruiting for the Russian army
this year will add 100000 men to its
strength, as compared with $4,000
in 1899. These figures include enlisted
men drawn from all parts of Russia's
European and Asiatic dominions. The
ministry o. war is actively engaged in
increasing the efficiency of the army
and its armament in, every direction.
This year'sSautumn maneuvers have
been planned on an unprecedentedly
large scale. The men in the field will
be nearly double the number that
took part in the maneuvers in 1898.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-07-25
Death of Mrs. Kruger:

Panis,. July %. "A dispatch from
Brussels says former President Kru-
ger has been notified by cable that
his wife died Saturday at Pretoria.
Some of the big steamships use
electric windlasses to load and dis
charge cargoes.
The strikes that have occurred in
the United States last year cost the
country, it is said, between 100000
600 and $5OO,OO0000.
The number of retail liquor deal
ers in the United States at the close
of last year was 100000. The total
vote of the prohibition party>fn the
election of the same year was $4,000.
New York has the largest number of
liquor dealers, Illinois is second and
Ohio third. Pennsylvania has the
largest number of prohibitionists.
New York is second and Illinois third.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-07-25

According to a Cairo correspondent
the directors of the great French COM
pany enjoying the practical monopoly
of the Egyptian sugar and molasses
industry have just completed arrange
ments by which they become conces-
sionaires for number of years of
some 10000 acres of land in the vicin-
'ity Of their. gran Ear1dn - Tag
AZ hadi. ~ Us
wall be devoted principally to tfs cul-
tufA Of beetroot. The company al
ready possesses extensive fields of
canes. Egypt is now not only able to
cater for herself as far as sugar is
concerned, but has begun to success
fully compete with French and Aus
trian sugar in the Levant markets.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-07-25

The coal mines In Japan now yield
some 100000 tons annually. Of which
more than three-fourths hail from the
mines at the island Of Kiau-siu. In
,the year 1899 the exports Of coal from
Japan amounted to 2.600. 900 tons. the
rest being consumed at home TOR rail-
ways, steamers and factories. Private
individuals hardly use coal at all IN
Japan. From the harbors Of Kiau-siu
che exports during 1899 were about
double what they had been four years
previously. Most Of the Goals go to
China and Hong Kong.
Though Mrs. Grover Cleveland is
seeldom heard Of nowadays, she does
Kreat deal Of charity work. Not long
1eo she quietly made a tour Of the
downtown part Of New York city to
personally observe the workings of
relief society in which she is actively
interested.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-07-25

, = In India IL you see quantity of
strings tied from side to side Of the
!, street, with three-cornered pieces of
Ilpepsr fastened to them, you may know
lrthday is being celebrated in
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-07-25

The death of his wife will doubt
less prove a severe blow to Paul
Kruger, for they were devoted to
each other, and it is said that the
former Transvaal president followed
the advice of his wife in preference
to that of any of his associates.
She was the ideal of a helpmate ac-
cording to the philosophy of the
Beers. She was highly accomplished
in all the arts of domesticity, but
she knew little or cared little for ac-
complishments that would shine in
the salon.
When Paul courted her he was plain
Paulus Kruger and she Miss Du
Plessis. she had in full the quail
fication for Boer wife. She could
bake, she could sew, she could sweep,
she could scrub. But after her hus-
bands rise to power she showed that
she could also save, for it is said
that the former president of the
South African Republic is worth
about $25,OOo,OoO.
Nine. Kruger did not care for show.
With fortune like that she could
have lived in oriental splendor, but
there is not well-to-do burgher in
the Transvaal who has not as preten-
tious residence as Dom Paul and his
wife. The presidents salary was
$4,000 a year and yet madame sup
erintended her own kitchen. Her
dresses We're simple in the extreme.
a gown of plain black was the most
gorgeous raiment she possessed. If
Nine. Kruger was not the best house.
vie in all South Africa she was GER
tainly very near to that enviable dis
tinction.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-07-25
TO OVERTHROW FRENCH REPUBLIC
Conspiracy to Make Louis Napoleon EN-
Deror Ia Unearthed.

London, July 2o.-The Pail Mall Ga
zette yesterday published commun-
ication from it's Paris correspondent,
giving circumstantial details of an
alleged republic to overthrow the
French republic and install Prince
Louis Napoleon as emperor. The cor
respondent is assured that September
IA, upon which date the car intends
to promote Prince Louis to full
generalshlp in the Russian army, has
been selected as the occasion for
demonstration to support the claims
of this prince, who is such close
friend of their Russian ally, by all
the elements opposed to the present
regime. The names of M. De Roulede,
the Marquis de Lur Saluces and M.
Mariel-Habert are mentioned as the
leading spirits of the movement, and
several high functionaries of the
present government are alleged to be
assisting the movement with funds.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-07-25
Alleged AnarchIst. Arrested,

London, July GA special dis
patch from Rome says man named
Narceeso Motif has been arrested
on the charge of being concerned in
an anarchist plot to kill King Eman-
uel. He was betrayed by letter to
his sweetheart breaking off their en-
gagement of marriage on the score
that he had received an order to kill
the king from society of which he
wac a memha1.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-07-25
South Australia holds the best honey
records OF the colonies. nearly $50 600
pounds being produced In one year
alone.

The asbestos mines OF the province
OF Quebec supply nine-tenths Of the
asbestos produced in the world. The
mines were discovered in 1878
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-07-25
Capt. Botha Killed.

London, July 19.-Lord Kitchener,
commanding the British forces in
South Africa, reports to the war
office as follows:
"Elandsfontein, July 1s.-Captain
Charles Botha, son of Philip Botha,
and field Comets Human and Olive
have been killed in the Orange River
COLONY"
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-07-25
MRS. KRUGER is DEAD.
Wife of President of Transvaal Re
public Passes AWAY.

Pretoria, July 22.-Mrs. Kruger,
wife of former President Kruger of
the South African Republic, died Sat-
urday afternoon of pneumonia, after
an illness of three days. She was
81 years old.
Mrs. Kruger's long separation from
her husband, combined with the
death of her favorite daughter, Mrs.
Smith, last week, had completely
broken her spirit.
Mr.. Eloff and many other members
OF the Kruger family were at her bed
side when she passed away.
London, July 22.-"Owing to the
Sunday telegraph hours in Holland"
says dispatch to the Daily Mail from
Hilversum, MIR. Kruger was not in
formed of his wife's death until the
evening. The news was broken to
him by DR.. Heymans and Secretary
Boeshoten. Mr.. Kruger, who had just
returned from Hilversum church,
alone. He exclaimed:
She was good wife. We quar-
relied onAy once, and that was six
months after we were married.
He prayed for long time, and is
now calmly sleeping, his Bible beside
his bed.
'"The Transvaal and Orange Free
State flags flying above the white
villa were draped and half-masted.
Shortly before the news came a
crowd of country girls had been sing
ing a folksong outside the villa"
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-07-25
Leyds Ordered to The Hague.

New York, July ga dispatch
from Paris says DR.. Leyds, the repre-
sentative of the Transvaal, has been
summoned in haste to The Hague,
in consequence of the divulgement of
the Peitz-Steyn letters, which were
captured by General Broadwood at
Reitz, in the Orange river colony.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-07-25
South African War.

Durham, Natal, July 22.-Tn conse-
and the support given the raiders by
the republicans the military authori-
ties have ordered all white men, with
their live stock, food stuffs, and cloth
ing to evacuate all farms between the
Tagela and Sundeas rivers. Any
white man remaining in this section
of the country after July 81, will be
mbiect to martial law.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-07-25
Americans win Be Held.

Washington, July 22.-In response
to the representations to the state
department, the British government
have declined to release any of the
AMERICANS who were captured while
serving in the Boer army. The only
exception will be in the case of pris-
oners whose health is such as to
make their confinement dangerous.
Early to bed and early to rise
makes man know when the baby
cries.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-07-25
Mrs. Nation Again In jail.

Topeka, Kan, July 23.-Mrs. Car
RE Nation was fined 500 and given
80 days Jail sentence by Judge Ha-
zen in the district court for disturb
ing the peace and dignity of the city
by a Sunday joint raid last March.
There was no appeal and Mrs. Ma.
ton must serve her term in prison.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-07-25
South African Casualties.

London. July 22.-The casualty
lists received at the war office indi-
cate that party of South African
constabulary was ambushed near
Petersburg, July 16, that two mem
bers of the party were killed, one was
dangerously wounded, and seventeen
are missing and are believed no have
been taken prisoners by the Beers.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-07-25
Bryan Scores the Boiters in OHIO.

Cleveland, o., July 23.-1n a letter
to G. A. Groot, prominent in the
Bryan bolt" in Ohio, w. j. Bryan
has thrown cold water on the. en-
tire movement. He informs the bolt
ers that they can expect no sympa-
thy from him.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-07-25
Mongolia Under Russian Control.

MouSoiAt Onuec ANubsan SOnCrOls
London, July mongolia is now
Russian" says dispatch to the
Daily Express from ct. Petersburg.
!'Urga, Chinese frontier on the road
to Picking, about 200 miles south of
Kikhta, has been fortified and garri-
soned by Russian infantry and Co.'S
sacks. Surveying parties, escorted by
troops, have penetrated as far as the
edge of the great desert to determine
the route of railway to Picking
across the desert, and the point
where it will join the mid-Siberian
railway extension, now being con-
structed around the south end OF
Lake Baikal."
Paul Revere, the famous revolution.
airy hero, was an inventor, and was
the first in this country to refine and
roll copper. The concern he founded
in 1901, the Revere Copper company,
still exists at Canton, Mass.
George j. Gould, like his father, is
silent man. He divides his secrets
with no one. Taught in practical
school, he has the ability, the wealth
and the experience to develop his
plays on scale of great magnitude.
1t is predicted he will make a greater
reputat ton as master financier than
his father left, and that he will ac-
emulate, if he has not done so al
-eady, a much larger fortune.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-07-25

"Who is the smartest boy in your
class, Bobby?" asked his uncle. "I'l
like to tell you, uncle" answered
Bobby, rnodestly, "only papa says I
mustn't boast.''
John L. Pingree, the late ex-gov-
ernor's brother, lives at Hopkinton,
Mass. Like his famous brother, he
is shoe manufacturer, with fact
tory at Ashland, twenty miles from
Boston. "He would never do for
politician" said one who knew IN
well. 'He's too honest. He r
harmed hair of mans head =
life" John L. has exceedingly 3
views as to wine, tobacco am u
,musarko
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-07-25

Turkish Order Against Christianity.
Constantinople, July 20.-Following
the graduation of the first Turkish
girl at the American Girls college.
the Turkish government has issued
an edict prohibiting Turkish children
from attending foreign schools, the
employment of Christian teachers in
Turkish households, or the appears
ance of Turkish ladies in publlc ac-
companied by Christian women COM
panions. This edict deprives hun-l
dreds of foreign governesses of the
means of subsistence. 1t is intended
to prevent the disseminat ton of libl
eral ideas.
Most of the worlds supply of furs
comes from the Russian empire. The
hunters of Russia and Siberia annual,
ly capture 100000 ermines, 10000 COO
marmots and 25,Ooo,00O squirrels.
Mrs. Lucinda Powers, who died the
other day in Georgetown, o., was said
to be the sweetheart of General
Grants boyhood, and when Grant be-
came president he made her post
mistress of Georgetown.
Chinese women are waking up. Tel
egrams assure us that Chinese girl
made most effective speech on the
present position i'll her country's pol
itics to a large and influential meet
ing of Cinnamon recently.
r. - u
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1901-11-04
WALSH'S COMMITTEE
LOOKS FOR VICTORY

About 30 members of the committee
that is looking after the campaign of
David l. Walsh, Democratic candidate
for senator in the second Worcester
district, met last night at the Bay
State House and tried to figure out
how Mr. Walsh is to secure an election
tomorrow Members of the committee
hope to see their candidate win out
by a small majority but a narrow
margin is the strongest prediction they
can make. The Democratic city COM
mittee has had comparatively little to,
do with the engineering of the cam
paign in Worcester, but tomorrow its
members will be allowed to take
charge of getting out the voters in the
three Worcester wards.
1t was announced after the meeting
last night that the committee has en-
gagged all the workers and hacks that
will be needed on election day. Com
mittees have been appointed to see to
1t that voters in the shops go to the
polls tomorrow. One thousand car
tickets have been given out for dis
tribution in the shops of Wards one,
two and three.
The following committees will at
tend to the work of getting out a full
Democratic vote in the wards: Ward
one Charles Mccain, John Reid, Chas.
H. Writer, and James F. McGovern;
Ward two, Charles E. Scott, NJ. ]. P.
McCafferty, J. ]. Cook and P. ]. Judge;
Ward three, John H. Meagher, John
H Connolly, William I. Mclaughlin,
Edward O'Brien, Peter F. Sullivan and
James P. Higgins.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1901-11-04
DEATHS

this city, Nov. Sd, Alexander
Forbes IA yrs mos. days.
Funeral services at his late residence, Is
Kilby Street, Tuesday at 2.30 p. m.
Relatives and friends are invited to at
tend.
GATES-In this city, Nov. Sd, Mary R.,
widow of Nathaniel p Gates, 81 yrs. 8
mos.
Relatives and friends are invited to at
her daughter, Mrs. L. G. Joslin, 50
Woodland Street, Wednesday, at 2 p. m.
Burial private.
DART-In this city, Nov. I'd, Catherine
L. Dart, 70 yrs. % days.
Relatives and friends are invited to at
tend funeral services at her late resi-
dence, No. II Forbes Street, Monday, at
II a. m.
FAY-In this city, Nov. Sd, Henry Clinton
Fay, n yrs % days.
Funeral Wednesday, Nov. 9Th, at p.
m, from the residence of his daughter,
"a Benefit Street. Relatives and friends
invited to attend without further no
tice.
WARD - In this city, Nov. Sd, Agnes
Ethel infant daughter of Frank and
Elizabeth (McDade) Ward, 8 mos. %
days.
Funeral from parents residence, 5 Ly-
man Street, this (Monday) afternoon at
230 o'clock. Relatives and friends are
invited to attend.
NUGENT-In this city, Nov. Sd, Rose
Nugent, daughter of Bridget Oogan)
and the late James J. Nugent yrs.
Funeral from her mothers home, rear
of 144 Prescott Street, this (Monday)
afternoon at 2.30 o'clock. Relatives and
friends are invited to attend.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1901-11-04
Jeremiah J. Crowley the ExCom-
municated Roman Catholic
Priest, Was Publicly Inundated
While Attending Service
HAD ENTERED THE
CHURCH UN0BSERVED
When He Refused to Leave the
Solemn High Mass Was at
Once Suspended-SayS He
Will Continue to Attend Ser
vices of Catholic Church

Chicago Nov. 3.-There was an in
tensely dramatic scene in Holy Name
Cathedral today, when, in the presence
of fully 1000 parishioners, jeremiah j.
Crowley, the communicated Roman
Catholic priest, was publicly Inundated
by order Of the authorities of the
church.
Father Crowley had entered the
church unobserved, passing up the CEN
tire aisle and had taken a seat almost
under the pulpit. Solemn high mass
was being celebrated at the time. When
the presence of Father Crowley became
known Rev. Francis j. Barry, chancellor
of the archdiocese of Chicago was hur
riedly sent for. Upon entering the
cathedral he went straight to the seat
where the communicated clergyman
was kneeling and ordered him to leave
the church. Father Crowley refused
to go, saying: Put me out if you dare"
The strain was intense and one wom-
an in the congregation tainted. There
was no resort to force, however.
Chancellor Barry sgnalled to a man
in the choir loft and the sound of the
organ ceased and the singing of the
choir hushed. The priests on the altar
stopped the solemn service at the end
of the Gloria" and walked to the
benches and laid aside their vestments.
The altar boys marched out of the
sanctuary through d sue uOOi anu lllG
priests, clad in their cassOcks, followed
The next moment the hundreds of in
candescent lights in the vaulted arches
were eXtinguished and the candle lights
on the altar We're put out.
The strain was broken when Chan
cellor Barry appeared in the pulpit and
said: owing to the presence in this
sacred edifice of an communicated
priest the solemn high mass has been
suspended. We will proceed with
low mass"
No sermon was delivered, however,
and the mass was at an end before the
congregation was calm again. The par
ishoners fingered around the cathedral
and watched the deposed priest as he
hurried away. None spoke to him.
In a statement issued tonight Father
Crowley insisted that it had been his
desire to avoid involving any of his
brother priests in contesting the order
depriving him of the privilege Of wor-
shipping in Catholic churches and that,
accordingly he had attended the church
of Archbishop Feehan's own parish,
which is the cathedral. He announced
that he should continue to attend the
services of the Roman Catholic church
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1901-11-04
And When 1t is All Told the Most
Famous Poisoning Case Ever
Heard in Court of This State
Will Sink Into InSignificanCe
so SAYS GEN. WHITNEY
OF THE T0PPAN CASE
The Nurse Would Probably Not
Have Been Arrested as Soon
as She Was Had Not Officers
Feared She Might Commit Sui
eide

Boston, Nov. 3.-"When we have told
all we know to support the charge we
have made against Miss Jane Toppan
the Robinson poisoning case, the most
famous that has ever been heard in
a Massachusetts court, will sink into
insignificance,"
This statement will say tomorrow,
was made Sunday by Gen. Whitney of
the State Police, who reached his home
in Medford Sunday morning from New
Hampshire.
The Herald will say further: Miss
Toppan probably would not have been
arrested when she was, had not District
Attorney Holmes and officer Whitney
feared she might commit suicide. Off
Ger Whitney remembered that a short
time before Miss Toppan had made two
attempts to end her own life.
"a long time before she was arrested
the police had been trying to confirm
suspicious they had that a patient she
had nursed in Lowell had died from
poison. In January, 1900, DR.. Herbert
B. Mcintyre of Cambridge was salts
fed a patient of his, Mrs Myra S.
Connors who was nursed by Miss
Toppan died under suspicious circum-
stances"
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1901-11-04
Weather Indications

Washington, Nov. 3.-The cold wave has
now reached the western upper lake re-
giOn, the upper Mississippi and lower
Ohio valleys, and has also extended south
ward into Texas. The temporary fall has
ranged from 20 to 40 degrees, and the line
of freezing temperature extends into
northern Illinois
The tropical storm was still apparently
central near Bermuda this morning, with
a considerable increase in intensity and
northerly gales will continue over the
north Atlantic.
The cold wave will continue its east
ward and southeastward movement, and
will extend Monday into the lower lake
regions, the upper Ohio and lower Mis-
sissippi valleys. and by Tuesday into New
England and the northern portion of the
middle Atlantic states.
On the New England and middle At
lanuc coasts winds will become variable.
and shift Monday night to northwest with
increasing force.
Steamers which depart Monday for Eu-
ropean ports will have brisk to high
northerly winds and partly cloudy weather
to the Grand Banks. Forecast:
New England-Rain in western, increas-
ing cloudiness in eastern portion Monday.
Tuesday much colder and generally fair,
except probably rain or snow in eastern
Maine; fresh northerly winds becoming
variable al shifting TO northwesterly
Monday night with increasing force
Eastern New York-Rain Monday; rap
idly falling temperature at night. Tues
day fair and much colder; easterly winds,
shifting to northwesterly Monday night
and increasing.