The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-06-04
Wives and Mothers of Fighting
Burghers wept with Joy when
They Learned War Was Over.
THANKS FROM KING EDWARD
MINER AND KITCHENER CONGRAT-
ULATED BY HIS MAJESTY.
Commander of the Army in south
Africa to Receive n Title and
Reward of Probably 100000.

LONDON, July 3.-Advices from Pretoria
say there was great rejoicing in all the
concentration camps on the news that
peace had been concluded. The occupants
assembled in the open spaces and cnanted
psalms. the women weeping with joy. Ar
rangements are being made at Pretoria
British army in South Africa to participate
in the coronation festivities in London.
The signing of the peace agreement al
Pretoria last Saturday night was car
ried out with the least possible cere-
mony. Lord Kitchener and Lord Mil
ner and General De Wet and others repre-
senting the Orange Free State and General
Schalkburger and others of the Transvaal
government quietly met in the dining room
of the residence occupied by the burgher
delegates, adjoining Lord Kitchener
house. The document lay on a table ready
Amid profound silence the Boer leaders
took pen in order of precedence and af-
fixed their signatures, thus surrendering
the independence for which they had SO
CALAMITY struggled. The document was
then intrusted TO Colonel Hamilton, Lord
Kitchener's military secretary, and Cap
tain Marker, an aid-de-camp, who left
Pretoria on Monday night to deliver ii 10
King Edward.
Lord Kitchener, accompanied by mis-
brother, General Kitchener, visited the
camp at Vereeniging last Monday and
greeted the delegates to the Boer confer
ence there. He also expressed his hope
that in the future Boer and Briton would
live in amity.
dispatch from Cape Town says the
premier of the colony, Sir John Gordon
Sprigg during the course Of his two hours
speech at a meeting yesterday announced
that the colonial secretary, Joseph Cham
berlain, had informed him that the i'm
perial government did not contemplate the
suspension of the Constitution of Cane
Colony. The premier further declared that
the disfranchisement of the rebels of Cape
Colony will defeat our enemies in the
House as effectually they have been
beaten in the field" Discussing the finan-
cial situation the premier said he intended.
at the colonial conference to be held in
London al the time of the coronation fes-
tivities, to uphold free trade within the
empire. Considerable opposition to the rre-
mferS views developed among the audi
ence, while the crowd outside the hall was
so actively hostile that some of the win
dows were broken with stones
Kind Edward will attend a peace thanks
giving service in st. Pauls Cathedral on
Sunday, June g. The lord mayor Sir Jo-
seph Dinsdale, and the members of the
corporation will be present in state.
Replying to a question in the House of
Commons to-day the war secretary, Mr..
Broderick said the total number of Boer
prisoners in South Africa and elsewhere
was 25,565, of which 1888 were under sixteen
and 1,025 over sixty years of age.
Joseph Chamberlain, the colonial secre-
tary was received by King Edward at
Buckingham Palace to-day. Mr.. Chamber
lain's residence at Birmingham is nightly
the scene of patriotic demonstrations and
ovations.
A dispatch to the Times from Pretoria
dated Sunday, June l, says that although
the speeches of the Boer delegates at the
Vereenfging conferences were mostly hos
tile, the motion to accept the peace condi-
lions was carried almost unanimously