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mule liislouuui SodttJ, Ctairaote Bain By Volume VIII FRIDAY. CHANUTE, KANSAS, FEBRUARY 23, 1900 FRIDAY. Whole Numbeb 2469 KANSAS CITY GETS IT. 'PUERTO RICAN BILL. llllspfeNi il mmm iMMimJm.

CRONJE DYING HARD. T-he Boer General Hemmed in and His Camp Shelled. 5 HAVE THIS 20 OPENED MORNING R5 Styles I Curtains ill. MaM 1 I (. Of Sash Curtain Goods.

Prices range from 10 to 30 cents per yard. An exquisite assortment of these increasingly popular goods. Several. 111 I i Curtain IS! mm New TMnisrs sr sap I Swisses. I Some very pretty ones at $2.25, $4.00 and $5.00 per pair.

I CALL 'IP 111 I'D) ail B. AND SEE TM EM. i KE1FER jfi The National Democratic Convention Will Be Held at the City at the Month of the Kaw on July 4. Washington, Feb. 23.

The next na tional democratic convention will be held at Kansas jCity, July 4. This was the decision of the democratic national committee which met at the Hotel Kaleigh yesterday to fix the time and place of holding the con vention. Milwaukee was the only city which competed for the honor of entertaining the convention and the poor showing-she made when the vote was taken (the result being Kan sas City 40, Milwaukee 9), caused gen eral surprise. The claims of the rival cities as to hotel accommodations, railroad and telegraphic facilities were presented in open session by representatives of each city, arid subsequently in executive session. Gov.

W. J. Stone, on behalf of Kansas City, and National Committeeman E. C. Wall, on behalf of Milwaukee, explained the financial inducements which the city he represented was willing to make.

Each offered the committee $50,000, but in addition Kansas City was willing to furnish hotel accommodations for the members of the committee and the hall with decorations and music free of expense to the committee. SITUATION AT FRANKFORT. Mauy Soldiers Allowed to Return Some The legislature Not In Sesalon on Account of Washington's liirthday. Frankfort, Feb. 23.

The state capitol was guarded by fewer than it has been at any time since the assassination of the late Gov. Goe-bel. Adjt. Gen. Collier yesterday, acting under directions from Gov.

Taylor, summoned all of the soldiers before him and told them that such of them as did not desire to remain in the service longer might return to their homes. About 150 went home, leaving probably 100 still here. The weather during the greatest part of the time the soldiers have been here has been of the most tr'ing character, but the per centage of illness has not been large. Gov. Taylor spent the day in conference with his attorneys, Judge W.

H. Yost and Capt. W. H. Sweeney, in regard to the agreed; case which is being prepared foi; submission to the court.

The legislature was not in session, having adjourned pis account. of Washington's birthday, and it is doubtful df either house will have a working attendance to-day. THE SON TESTIFIES. C. W.

Clark Appears Refore the Committee Investigating; the Alleged Senatorial Bribery Case. Washington, Feb. 23. C. W.

Clark, son of Senator Clark, of Montana, told the senate committee on elections yesterday that he had an independent income of $250,000 a year and that he was in business for himself. With the exception of a brief interval given to the testimony of Rev. A. B. Martin, Mr.

Clark occupied the entire day before the committee in the investigation being conducted into the methods pursued in the election of the young man's father to the United States senate. He denied in detail the assertions of such witnesses as Mr. Hewitt. State Senator Meyers and others. Mr.

Clark submitted what he said was a detailed statement of his receipts and expenditures for political purposes during the Montana campaign. The aggregate tooted up $118,000. Dr. Martin testi-iicd concerning his interview with ice Brantley, producing a letter written him by Mr. Clark in the Wellcome case.

ITEMS OF NEWS FROM JAPAN. Out ot Svxnty of IMgue Only One lroB Survived A rlc of 11 urtiera Yokohama, Feb. 7. via San Francisco, l-Vb. 20.

The filial stamping out ol the plague has been officially announced and all quarantine measures arc suspended. Of the 70 cases of plague reported from all quarters only one person survived. A series of murders have recent Jy ocurred at Yokohama. Last week a madman ran amuck and killed six people. Snatching a sword from a policeman, he entered the famous shrine at Miogi and killed the chief priest aud three attendants.

The maniac then attacked the large crowd that was atracted to the scene and killed three before he was dispatched. Last Sunday-night a family quarrel resulted in a quadruple killing. Crazed by fancied cruel treatment, a Japanese murdered his nephew, the wife and daughter of the latter and a boy servant. Tablet to Dead Soldiers. Buffalo, X.

Feb. 23 In the presence of 6,000 people and the Sixty-fifth regiment Gov. Roosevelt last night unveiled a tablet to the memory of the 22 members of the organization who died during and subsequent to service in the Spanish-American war. Union League Ilanqaet. Chicago, Feb.

23. At the club house of the Union league the annual Washington day banquet of the club was held yesterday with more than usual success. The House Debates the Measure at Both Day and Night Sessions. WASHINGTON'S FAREWELL ADDRESS. Senator Foraker Beads It In the Senate Brief Parliamentary Squabble Over the Quay Case The Matter to Be Considered To-Day.

Washington, Feb. 23. The debate on the Puerto Itican tariff bill brought out several notable speeches in the house yesterday, including one by Mr. Grovenor, of Ohio, who answered a number of, questions as to the attitude of the president; anefcher by Mr. McCall, of Massachusetts, therepub-15 can member of the ways and means committee, who dissented from the majority report, and Mr.

Moody, another Massachusetts republican, who sharply criticised the position of his colleague. Mr. McClellan, of New-York, and Mr. Brantley, of Georgia, also spoke against the bill, and Mr. Parker, of New Jersey, in support of it.

At the night session speeches were made by Messrs. Wilson, of South Carolina; Lewis, of Georgia, and Spight, of Mississippi, in opposition to the bill. The session was entirely without noteworthy incidents and at nine p. m. the house adjourned.

Fitzgerald, of Massachusetts, introduced a bill limiting the charges on sleeping cars to 50 cents per 100 miles for a lower berth and 25 cents per 100 miles for an upper berth. A proviso permits a total charge of $1.25 for a lower berth and $1 for an upper berth. Mr. Kichardson, of Tennessee, the democratic floor leader, introduced a resolution in regard to tin plate trusts, similar to those recently intro duced in relation to trusts in sugar and paper. The resolution states that whereas recent advances in the prices of tin plate indicates that trusts or combinations exist for the purpose of destroying competition, the products manufactured by the American Tin Plate company and other manu facturers of tin plate shall, after six months from the passage of the resolution, be prohibited by the interstate commerce commission from be ing transported in what-? soever from one state to another nn-f til the committee is satisfied that such products offered for transportation have not yielded a profit to the manufacturers of more than four per cent.

Mr. Wheelock, of Kentucky, intro duced a resolution instructing the committee on foreign affairs to in vestigate the truth or falsity of the charges made by Charles E. Macrum, late consul of the United States at Pretoria, that his official or personal mail was opened, read, suppressed or detained by the censor of the British government at Durban or that a telegram sent by him to the war department of state was delayed by a British censor for several weeks. The committee, by the provisions of the resolution, shall also ascertain whether the British authorities are acquainted with. the secret cipher of code used by the state department.

The house committee on library favorably reported a bill making an appropriation of $5,000 for the preparation of plans or designs for a memorial or statue of Gen. Grant to be erected at Washington. WMshlrictonU Farewell AdtlreiH ttead- Washington, Feb. 23. In accordance with a tacit agreement with the senators who were unable, on account of the meeting of the democratic national committee, to attend yesterday's session, Senator Penrose, of Pennsylvania, refrained from calling up the Quay case as he had previously announced he would do.

When he announced, however, his intention, to call it up to-day, a brief parliamentary squabble ensued as to the rights by which the case could come before the senate. No conclusion was reached, the questions involved being postponed for consideration until to-day. Senator Foraker called attention to the notice of his intention to move consideration of the Puerto Iiican bill after the Hawaiian government meas- ure had been disposed of, but added that he in no manner would oppose the suggestion of Senator Penrose. Close attention was paid to Senator Foraker's reading of Washington's farewell address, which was a fine bit of elocution. At the conclusion of the reading he was congratulated by his colleagues and at 1:05 p.

the senate adjourned. Suffocated by Powder Smoke. Lesal, S. Feb. 23.

Henry Wald-schmidt and Walter Morensic were suffocated by smoke from black powder while tunneling in lime rock. They -were dead when found. Contractor Ed Hanschke was rendered unconscious and mar die. Conference or isr. Philadelphia, Feb.

23 A conference of anti-imperialists began here yesterday. It is said by Tts promoters to be a step in a movement to bring the war in the Philippires to an end. J. S. Xordyke.

the oldest sit preacher in is. dead at I 82 REQUEST FOR ARMISTICE REFUSED. Later De Sent a Messenger to Say Ho Would UTader and Still Later He Said He Would Fight to the Death The Military Situation Reviewed. Loudon, Feb. 23.

Gen. Cronje is seemingly-making his last stand. He British infantry, and with shells from fiO guns falling into his camp. On the third clay of the fight the Boer chief asked for an armistice to bury -his Ij': der unconditionally" was Lord Kitchener's' reply. Gen.

Cronje immediately sent back word that his request for a truce had been misunderstood and that his determination then, as before, was to fight to the death. The battle, went on. This was the situation of Gen. Cronje Tuesday evening, as sketched in the scanty telegrams that have emerged from the semi-si Ience of South Africa. Officially, Lord Roberts wires that lie has the advance commandoes of the reinforcements that were striving to reach Gen.

Cronje and it seems that Gen. Cronje is in a had, and even a desperate situation, and that the British are pressing their advantage. While the attack on Gen. Cronje proceeds there is a race for concentra- tion between the Boers and the British. The ens-aerement with Gen.

Cronje's 5,000 to entrenched men is likely to become an incident in a battle between the masses. The sep arate fractions of the Boer power are rapidly drawing together to attack Lord Roberts. Will Gen. Cronje be -able to hold out until the Boer masses appear, or if he does, will they be able to succor him? The British are facing the Boers on ground where the arms, tactics and training of the British are expected to give them the advantage. lleqaest for an Armistice Refused.

London, Feb. 23. The Daily News has the following dispatch from Mod-der river, dated Wednesday afternoon. February 'The Boer forces uu-rfer Gen.l Cronfev are jBsiiraated jit meriT At 12 o'clock he asked an armistice of 24 hours, which was refused. Later he sent a messenger to say that he would surrender.

The Uritish general sent a reply telling him to come into camp. Cronje refused, saying there had been a misunderstanding and that he would fight to the death. The bombardment was then reopened and our lyddite shells set tire to the Boer wagons. We continued shelling the laager through the night and in the morning we resumed with Maxims and rifles, principally from the north side. "On Sunday there was much waste of life.

in attacking and the same result wiil be achieved without it. Darin Alondav night seven Boers made an attempt to break through oui lir.es. but ey were captu red a nd thei was killed. Four were carrying- lettrrs. It is believed that there was one other who got through.

"Other prisoners say that (Jen. Cron jo marched from Magersfontein hyre without outspanning, a distance ot miles. Had he sueeeeeded in escaping it would have been one of the tinest nerformnuees i the annals of The -Military Sit nation Reviewed London, Feb. 23. Mr.

Spenser Wilkinson, reviewing the military situation in the Morning Post, says: "Lord Koberts, who was onee an artillery officer, will take care that the artillery five is properly concentrated. Prolonged shelling will compel the Boers either to hurl themselves at the British infantry in the hope of forcing their way out or to surrender. The best chance for Gen. Cronje would be to make a night attack, but the bayonet will serve the British at night well as by day. There are, of course, in war all sorts of chances.

A party of Hoers'from the or the south might conceivably fall b' surprise on some point of the investing ring thus gain a chance to for the beleaguered Boers, but Tin probabilities are that Gen. Croiy? will be compelled to surrender, and thus, at I'aardeberg will be effect ed the destruction of the first fraction tf the -Boer arm. Tli ftritisti L.otfts. London, Feb. 2'A.

The war office, for the first time, has given out an compilation of the British losses. The total is 11,203 to February 17. This does not include, therefore, Lord Roberts recent losses, nor the Wiltshire prisoners. The Press association learns that the British losses at Koodoo's rand were 700. Missouri Grand Lodge A.

O. U. YV. Sedalia, Feb. 23.

The third day of the biennial meeting of the grand lodge, A. O. U. W. was devoted almost exclusively to the revision of laws of the order and the election of the following officers: W.

H. Miller, St. Louis, grand master work-tt Smith. Palmvra, errand guide; C. W.

Burrill, Kansas City, rand medical examiner. 9 between realestate agents as there is between doctors and lawyers. In every city there is one concern that gives better service than all others. It lia bigger and better lists from which to make selections by those who want to either sell, buy, or rent real estate. We will give you better terms than anybody else.

McClellamd Wright Newi Abont Agnlnaldo. New York, Feb. 23. A special from Hong Kong, British China, to the Evening World, says: "United States Consul Wildman has information that three members of the Filipino junta, Luban, Ponce and Agoncillo, "brother of the envoy, left recently for Japan to meet Aguinaldo. This gives credence to the story that Aguinaldo escaped from the island of Luzon to Formosa when hunted by Gen.

Law-ton's expedition through the northern part of the island. Suffocated by Gas. Decatur, 111., Feb. D. Vance, manager of the Union elevator, died of gas suffocation yesterday in an unsuccessful attempt to save the life of Irvine G.

Edgar. Edgar was discovered in the bottom of a big tank in a helpless condition. Vance went in the tank to rescue the man and was immediately suffocated by Arthblohop Heiieey Condition. l5ubuque, Feb. 25.

Archbishop Hennessey's condition was such last night that hopes of his recover' were abandoned. The physicians expect death within a day or two at longest A HIST Flouring 11111 Burned. Carthage, Feb. 23. One of the largest flouring mills in Jasper county was burned in this city last night.

It was known as the (J love flouring mills. The loss is amount unknown. Cause of fire unknown. Black Plague in Hawaiian Islands. San Francisco, Feb.

23. The steamer American Maru, from Honolulu, brings advices that the black plague has broken out in other cities of the Hawaiian group. Seven cases are reported at Kakuli and one at Hilo. The situation at Honolulu is better. Xo new cases hav developed.

Explosion Giant Powder. Monongahela, Feb. 23. Two miners were killed and one fatally injured by an explosion of giant powder at their camp near here The three victims were burned nhnost beyond recognition. It is thought the powder was ignited by a spark from one of the miners" pipes.

Bryan at Columbu, Ga. Columbus. Feb. 23. William J.

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