The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1902-06-05

British and the Beers at o'clock Mon
dhy morning.
"The king has received the welcome
news of the cessation of hostilitles In
South Africa with infinite satisfaction
and his majesty trusts that peace may
speedily be followed by the restoration
of prosperity in his new dominions, and
that the feelings necessarily engendered
by war will give place to earnest CO.
operation on the part Of his majesty
South African subjects in promoting
the welfare of their common country.
Peace in South Africa Was officially
announced by the London War ONCE
Monday. The declaration followed the
receipt of cablegram from LORD
Kitchener at Pretoria the former capt.
tai of the South African republic,
which related that terms of peace had
been signed by all the representatives
of the fighting Beers and by Lords
Kitchener and Miner for Great Britain
Following is the exact text Of Lord
Kitchener's cablegram:
Pretoria MAY 81, Ills p. ma docu-
ment containing terms of surrender
was signed here this evening at 1880
o'clock by all of the Boer representa-,
tives, rs well rs by Lord Miner ana
myself. krIchENEh
Lord Alfred E. Miller is the British
high commissioner in South Africa and
Lord Kitchener is the commander In
chief of the British army in the field
The treaty which they have negotiated
is the result of the conferences that
have been held since April Z, when Act
ing President Schalk burger and Secre-
tary of State Reitz, for the Transvaal'
and President Steyn for the Orange
Free State, began systematic effort TO
obtain plebicite of the Beers in arms
with reference to cessation of the
conflict.
The terms of peace as announced by
Mr.. Balxour in the House OF Commons
are as follows:
The burgher forces lay down their
arms and hand over all their rifles guns
and munitions of war in their possession
or under their control.
All prisoners are to be brought back
80 soon as possible to South Africa
without loss of liberty or property
No action to be taken against prison
ers, except where they are guilty of
breaches of the rules of war.
Dutch is to be taught in the schools
if desired by the parents, and used IN
the court, if necessary.
Rifles are allowed for protection.
Military occupation is to be with
drawn as soon as possible, and self
government substituted. There Is to
be no tax on the Transvaal to pay the
cost of the war.
The sum of e3 900, 600 is to be pro-
vided for restocking the Beers farms.
Rebels are liable to trail, according
to the law of the colony to which they
belong. The rank and file will be dis
franchised for life. The death penalty
will not be inflicted.
The Colima, Mex, volcano is greatly
increasing in activity and serious conse-
auences are feared, owing to its threat
ening aspect. Work on the extension
of the Mexican Central railroad between
Guadalaiara and Manzanillo has been
suspended. Several houses have been
DESTROYED an ! numbers of sheep killed.
Police Justice MARSHALL of Mount Yer
non, N. Y, last Saturday sentenced
Alice Myers, young woman OF that
place, to sixty days in the county Jail
for flirting with builder of Port Ches-
ter, by telephone. Several months ago
the builder met Miss Myers. She look
ed up his telephone number aud was,
his wife alleged, continually ringing up
his house and asking him to meet her.
Usually the telephone was answered by
his wife, who exhausted every effort
to find out her husbands admirer 5
name, Miss Myers attorneys secured
her release on writ of habeas corpus.
The beginning of the second week of
the strike of the transfers of the big
Chicago packing establishments found
the packers with little the better of
the situation. After the coup of ysster-
day whereby the packers replenished
their meat stations about the city with
the exception of Fulton market. the
strikers we're somewhat perplexed as to
the next move to make. This morning
early non-union men continued the
work of yesterday and carted consider
able quantities of meat under heavy
police protection. The strikers in turn
are expecting the ice and coal drivers
to come to their assistance.
Although strongly opposed to any