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VOLUME EIGHT. NUMBER 231
BATTLE
Along the Tugela.
England In Fever of
Excitement
Over News Roceived Today
From the Front.
Report That Warren Crossed
Tugela Discredited.
juller's Advance to Relief of Lady
smith Begins.
London, Jan 15. (Spl) Thoio Is
every reason to believe that the great
est battle of tho Boei war Is raging
today along tho Tugela IUver for moie
than 25 miles.
Colenso Is the center of tho line, rot
glelcrs drift at the west Ir the oxtienio
left, and Weonen or Inhlnwes mouii
tain at the cast In the light of the lino
of battle.
Buller U nt Potgleters ihltt lighting
to turn tho Boers' flauk there and lush
on to Lndysraltb.
Clery Is nt Colenso engaging tho
Boeis there and keening tbeui fioiu ic
Inforclng their Hanks.
Warren In at lnhlnwc 01 YVceuen,
more likely the former, whero tho
Boers are entioncbed north and south
-w t -of
tbo Tugela, He Is piobably striv
ing to capture this posltlou, solzo tho
ford over tlitTiupeliVfen" miles north
of Woeucn, nnd.tliru the enemy's left
.flank.
London Is In a foer of oveltenient.
but the war oftlte 1ms no news or
holds back -what It lias.
Gen. Itobeits lepjits: "So ihangc
In the situation," but this Is looked up
on either as diplomatic or as Indicat
ing that Bulloi and his generals ate too
busy to send dispatches
Warreu started eastward fioui
Treio on Thursday with a fljlng col
umn of 1J.O0O men In the illieitlou of
Weenen, lie wns equipped with luge
supplies aud full mcins of tiauspoitn-
tlon ready for a long ninich
All tbo colonial and luegilii t.cops
have been placed under Gwicinl War
lcn's command
Scouts found no signs of the enemy
ut Grobler's Kloof, while CoV'nbo was
deserted. It Is assumed that White's
success at Indysmlth has biokcu Uiq
Boers' neurit and that the ncny Is
falling bne'r.
A dispatch fipn LnilvMuitli .dated
Thursday, .Tan. 11, by hcllgraph, by
way of YVccihii, sajs:
"Tho Iloers aro toitlfylug positions
north and west of Lad) smith, doubt
less with a low of securing a safe line
of retreat should opposition to General
Bullci's advance fall. They still sui
round Lad) smith In large numbers
"It Is known that they are grcntly
dcpiossed by tliclt heay Iosi.es
'Trior to Saturday tho Boeis were
perfectly confident of their abllltj to
defeat the gairlson and to take posses
sion of tho town."
New Voi k, Jan. 15 -(Spl ) The Jour
nal publishes tho following special dis
patch: "London, Jan. 15, 'Ihlity-flvc thou
sand men are now helng hurled against
the Boer armj guarding 25 miles of tho
Tugela river.
"Warren's division Is reported from
Capetown todav to have crossed the
Tugela near Weenan, east of Coleuso,
the left wing of the Boer army,
' Clery Is In command of d cll Iklou
marching toward Colenso
"Each of these generals has a force
big enough to cope with nny part of
the Boer army that can be concentrat
ed at any one point.
"It Is tho general belief that a big
battie is raging now along 25 miles
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Largest Exoluslvo Dry
Goods Store
January
....Clearance Sale....
Great Reductions
Throughout the
Store
CHOICE JACKETS
at Half Price
Capes, Furs, Suits,
Skirts, Waists, etc.,
at Big Reductions
of the river front.and for tho tlrst time
since tho defeat of Buller at Colenso,
Just a month ago todaj, theie Is a geu
eial hopo In both official and unofficial
circles that at last tho cordon of troops
guarding the rher will be broken.
"The news that Wnuen hnd crossed
the Tugela has nroused all England to
a fieii7j of enthusiasm and vast
rrowds beslego the wai olllce huugiy
for ofliehil news of the battle."
London, Jan 15 (Spl) A dlspatih
to the Cential ,"ews agency says that
Gen. Warreu has crossed the Tugela
river. The report of the move Is not
ciedlted. The leport that Geueial
Wood hns Invaded the enemj's coun
try Is also discredited.
Dm ban, Jan 'la-dJelBjcd In trans-mIssjou)-(Spl
Ail conipiohcnslv e
combtncd-advaneo-by-Bullfr'B entile
ami) Is now In piogicss.
The lldc'r trenches" nt Giublei s
Kloof nic rcpoitol by Mouts to hao
been muuiateil
It Is belief eil the lioeis nio con-
contintlng faither north.
l'leteimniiuburg, Jan. 15 (Spl)
Hellographlng Ins been going on nit
dav between 1'ieto and l.iul)Miilth
Mcrch nits hcio hue been icccivlne;
otdets hoio to send food stuffs This
Is taken to mean that movement for
the icllef of Ladyoinlth Is expected
to beslu nt once. It Is believed that
ths movement will begin on tho even
In,; of Januaiy 15 Tho foiclgn nilll
tu) nttaehmeuts have, gone to Cape
Town to Join Gcncinl Kllchcuei.
Loudon, Jan 13 (Spl) A dispatch
from tbo Boor headquarters at Ludy
sinlth, says:
The Boeis, havo sentenced a de
serter named Di. Caldwell to four
)ears' Imprisonment nt hnid labor.'
Cape Town, Jan. 15 (Spl) The
test tieusou case of the alleged Doug'
las lebtl Gert Vmiren has been nd
Journed for a week,
London, Jan, 13 (Spl ) A dispatch
f loin Dmban, Natal, says that a Boer
day's uiuich of thp si a. It Is believed
baaus eountiy, Zululandi within a
da)'s tmiicli pf the sea. It Is. beleved
to be waiting for supplies and am
munition secretly lauded neai St
Lucia bay.
The Boers have looted all tho stores
and mines In the Swaziland territory
ami tho ruined (nnttves ale completing
tho destiuctlon. j
Lnteuzo, Mjiiquez, Jan, 12. (Spl)
A Boer version of tho attack on La-
d.vsinlth on January u, dated Boer
headquaitem, Lnd)tuilth, Jauuaiy T,
speaks of the Uibboin icelstauco and
conspicuous bfnvery on either side,
but tho buigliejs' ivgio anally com-
r
pelled to retires from most of the
ground the) uajl occupied.
Tho Boei losses' are placed at 54
killed. Including one Transvaal and
three I'reo Sta(o Held toincts. Ninety-
six were wqilndfd.
rim wuATrtEii-
Threatening 'Jolghff rq(n Tuesday.
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AKRON. OHIO,
WILL BUILD
Hundred New Houses.
Akron Realty Company
Incorporated Today.
Successorto N. R.Steiner
& Company.
Real
Estate Business on a
Large Scale.
Charter Issued to the Granite
Company.
Clay
Head Will Build
Columbus, O, Jan. 15 (Spl) Tho
Akiou Realty Compau) with a capital
stock of $150,000 was Incoiporated
Monday,
The Incorporators are N. B. Stelncr,
II. T. Wlllson. W. W. Mcintosh, Geo.
C. Berry nnd II. V. Hourlet,
The new couipnii) Is the. first lucor
poiated leal estate company In the
city and will vhluall) succeed Steluer
&. Co, who have tarried on n leal cs-
tat ebuslness foi eight )eais.
Jo less than 100 houses w 111 be built
In South Akron, the coin nig season by
the new Inemporatlon.
The Granlto Clay Company was al
so Incorporated with $100,000 capital.
C. H.ralmer, Gcoige T. Whltmorc,
Prank II. Waters, J, B Campbell and
IL 0. banford aro tho Incorporators.
SPAIN'S CENSUS
of Cuba Nearly Half
Million Too High.
Uncle Sam Finds Total Population to
be $1,200,000.
Now loik, Jan 15 (Spl) C. II,
Olmstead, tho Assistant Dliector of
the Cuban census, lauded here fiom
tho Tianspoit Mcl'heison with fom
statisticians and supervisor who had
been working for tho last several
months In Cuba. They biought with
them 24 boxes of iccords, nil of which
will bo ent to Washington today,
Manuel Itaseo, who was the supcrvJS'
or of Hnvann province, did not nC'
company his colleagues to Washing-
ton. He said that 1,550 enumerators
had been appointed, all of whom were
Cubans Many women were allowed
to act as cnumcrntois, niul Senor Bos-
co said they wcic much better than
the men.
The icsiilt of tho work Indicates
that tho Spanish census Inking In
18S7 will probably have to be reduced
by about 400,000 , Thus, tho present
population of Cuba will be about
1,200,000. Tho cost to tho government
of taking tho census will bo betweeu
SoOO.OOO and $400,000.
WALL STREET
Stocks Were Irregular Today Some
Quotations.
New York, Jan 15 (Spl ) Stocks
opened luegular todn), with sugar af
foidiug tho feature of trading It open
ed 34 hlghei ut 117, declining to 1JBV4.
Tederal steel was lower and nt 5J,
declining to 50
Metropolitan was i lower nt 104.
Northern l'aclllc was up to 51$;
Amcilcnn Ice up 1 to un'S, and l'aclno
Mall up to 4455
Lorenzo, Marques, Jan. 15 (Spl V
A Boer dispatch dated January 10
says: "Mafeklng Is being continually
bombaidcd. Tho ri spouse fiom the
British Is weak. Tho natives aro dp.
sorting tho town and It Is reported
that tho Katun aro stnivlug."
MONDAY EVENING. JANUARY 15. 1900.
DOBSON
Because a Youngstown Paper Compli
ments n the Democrat.
According to Dobson the Democrat Has Grabbed
Every Bribe Insight But It Didn't Take
Dobson's; That Tells the Whole Story.
Tlio Iiobsou papei showed an un
usually bad temper Saturday night
because the Youngstown 4 lelegrnm
had complliiHMiled the Demount upon
the up to date equitment Mint has
been Installed lu the Democrat's
plant. Tho Bencou ssildil
The Akiou Democrat has found
Itself euJo)lug such n muisure of
McKlnley piosperlty that It his
decided to put In .1 Goss press and
llnot)pe machines.. Vy the
Democrat continue to b o over
whelmed b) prosperlt) that It
will publicly mkuowlulgoMts foi
nni fiee sliver oi tors' .and will
mend Its political wtijs. Youngs
town Telegiam.
Bvldently otu Youngstown
friend is laboring under u mlsap
piehenslou r"Kaidlug tjte source
of Its Akron coniemporarj's pros
pei It). "MtKlnlej 'ptosperlt),"
which Is holiest and teal, has had
nnthlug to do with tho Dtmo
ciat's "piosperltj."
The Democrat's ' prosperity,"
Brother Tolegtnm, Is due to black
mall, levied without shame, on
about oveiy public proposition
twit has come before a eouuell
having a mnjorltv representing
the Democrat's political procliv
ities Their Hist taste of blackmail
amounted to $000, and was levied
on one of Akron's telephone com
panies. Then "blood" Jiioue) from an
other public corporation, nnd
moio "blood," uione) or blackmail
from other public corporations.
B en thing was plundered that
cimc, In (heir wav. (I'
.Buty-flno'ln Aki-niiogmemoors
tho sudden "fldp;' made, by" tli4.'
Demociat wlicntthe loVal street
rnllwav coiApnnv was asking fn
vots of a Demberatlc city council,
and the cause of the change haSj
been i u open scciet.
'limn uot satisfied with selling
out to one telephone, curpui.itlon,
It levied tilbutn upon the uthei,
to an extent onl) tho lobbei and
the lobbed know, and how- tho
owueishlp of the piper has pass
ed fiom its nomluil stockholders,
and Is lepicsented b) encitin
luaueps, owned b) an oigaulza
tlou of Akiou and foreign capital
ists, the fuiihfianto and )uotet
tlou of whose lutuests demand
that the) oli ill hive "Inllueiiee"
iv llh the,1 Democinllc ptiblle otll
clals and Dtmociatlc "bosses"
whq have robbetl Akion luto bank
ruptcy hi the jeniK the) have
been In povvn, and who, notwith
standing theii gllteilng piouilsis
nnd rtotests to pioteet tho dun
people, have robbed, nnd gven
uwu) lu thei time, moio vnltinblo
feauchlses than vveie given away
jn all tho pievlous )ears of Ak
ion's hlstoi).
This leaves out of lonsldera
tlou, tho tvvotlincs blackmail lev
ied upon the Dcmociatle ' boss' of
Ohio, John It McLean, who In
1807 and ngiln In lb')8, paid luto
thp Democrat's tieasury enough
money to keep It afloat several
mouths
"Prosperity" and "blackmail '
aie R)uou)uious terms with tho
Demociat, neighbor Telegram, aud
In tic name of newspaper deccnc)
geneialll), tho facts ought to bo
niiulo know n
1 iirdlunriiy"'tho Democrat pa)s no
atteutlon to attacks mado upon It by
Mr. Dobson's newspaper, for hero nt
homo tho peoplo kuovv how much of
cicdeiice to place In nil) thing tint
paper has to sn), but as tho Telegiam
has no means of knowing tint tho
Beacon's onl) Justification for the at
tack Is an aggiavated caso of what
nowspaper men cill "sour grapes,"
tho Democrat wants Its readers to
pardon this one dlgiesslou fiom cus
tom that It may pay Its icspccts to
Ml. Dobson foi tho benefit of tho
Telegram.
It would be lidlculous for the Dem
ociat' to place Itself upon the witness
sfuud eveiy time Its envious contein
poiaiy wakes, such absurd charges
against It as the foregoiug. Akion's
citizens will recall the time, and not
so vciy long ago elthei, when the
Dobson paper, and olhei paid agents
of tho local franchise Interests were,
by lunuendo or sneeilug suggestion,
making piactlcally tho samo charges
pf Insincerity and corrupton against
son of the honorable members of
Akron's1 Citizens' Commltteo of Fifty.
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RAGES
Who has not heard Senator J. Park
Alexander, Chairman of tho Commit
tee, and leader of the cltlrens' fight
for protection of the public Interests,
openly mallgued, his hononble mo
tives Impugned aud his posltou mls
icpresented to tho people because of
his connection with the Citizens'
movement? These malignant slurs
that hnvc been exhausted upon tho
Citizens' Committee, tonstltuto the
pennlt) which public-spirited citizens
liavc had to pay for their devotion to
the public Interests. Sinister Imputa
tions arc the last weapons with which
privilege seeking monopoly attempts
to break down honoiable opposition
lo Its put poses
Senator Alexander, tho chairman
of the Citizens' Committee, and Mr.
It L. Dodge, Its secretary, and others
of Its members, including Judge
Stuart, the chairman of the local Be
publican Executive Committee, know
something of the offeis that were
mado tho Democrat, and the influ
ences that were brought to beai, to
have this paper quit Its cooperation
with tho citizens to protect public
lights at a time when they were most
In need of piotettlou. But the Dem
ocrat did not quit, with thp result
that It has won tho good will of Ak
ron'H business men, has enjojed the
favor of their patrohage, ahej has thus
been able to giro them aud the cltl
zens a paper upon which the) could
rely foi sonic recognition of their
rights
It Is right herp that the shoe Ins
pinched Neighbor Dobson, whose at
titude of favoritism to the franchise
Interests" as agnlust thu Intciesls of
tho peoplo has been notorious. Ills
coiuso has lesiiltcd In a deresvtl for
feiture of a gicater amount of legiti
mate iidvcrtslng patronage than has
como to hint ftom n policy of truck
ling to the franchise Inteiests.
The Demociat knows that It Is pre
sinning up tho Indulgeuco of the peo
pie, but they will paidon an explana
tion foi Mi, Dobt-cm's benefit of how
It tomes that tho Demociat has been
able to equip Its olllce with about
$12,000 woith of Anil Dobson machin
eiy, without tho help of tho franchise
Interests, something that cen tho
thilfty Mr. Dobson, by Implication,
confesses his Inability to do.
Uhree years ago, when tbo Dobsons,
then publishers of the Democrat, be
tra)ed their paity by selling out their
Influeuco to tho nepubllcan candidate
for Ma) or, upon conditions that were
nppiient to most people at the time,
hiding the selfish motive for their act
under a cloak of pretended dlsllko for
their own party' candidate, tho Dem
ocrats of Summit county lcsolved
forthwith to rid their local organiza
tion of tho Dobsons "thenccfoitb and
forever," as one of them expressed
It nt tho time.
To bring about tho desired change
It wns neccsary to pay the Dobsons
an extravagant price for tho worn out
equipment and demoralized business
of their newspaper, but tbo following
contract of purchase, an exact copy
of tho original prepared by Attorney
Geo. W. Slober tells tho stor):
This agieenient made between
Wm B Dobson and Rujse)) T, Dob
' son, first party,and, Edward S. liar-
ter and Fled W. Gayoi, second
party, is as follows;
(1) rirst party hereby transfer
and sell all their capital stock
in Tho Akron Democrat Corn
pan), which they hereb) guar
antee Is not less than STiQ
shares, faco value ,f J000 per share,
Continued on fouitu page.
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Our Plantation Sextette Xew- Songs Xew Music,
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H ADMISSION IS OCNTG 9
BETTER WAGES
be Demanded at the Miners'
Will
Convention.
Indianapolis, Ind , Jan. 15 (Spl)
Over BOO delegates to tbo convention
of tho United Mine workers were
present at the first session this, morn
ng at Masonic hall. The first meeting
was open to the public. Tho dele
gates will not go Into executive ses
sion until the senlequeftjon.eousld
erod. Most of tho delegates arrived
on Sunday" nnd nearly oveiy State, Is
represented An advance In wages
will be demanded nt tho conference
with the operatois, which will begin
on Tuesday of next weik to fix the
scale for year Iieglnnlng April 1st.
Xenrlv overyassoelatlonof Mluc Own
ers will be repiesented at the confer
ence. The ludlanu miners will Join
In tho demand and tho Illinois deffer
entlal of seven cents for inachlue
mining will bo demanded by Indiana
men.
IT WAS THE FALK.
Identity of the Wrecked Steamer Has
Been Learned.
Halifax, N. S Jan. IB-(Spl)-Tbo
Halifax agent of tho Dlick Diamond
lino is convinced that tbo vessel
wucked In St. Mir)'s bay was his
coinpaiij's steamer, the Talk.
He sn)S tho lepent that she sailed
from Philadelphia to Havana was an
error and Instead sbo sailed foi S)d
ney with a quantity of material for
the Dominion "Steel eoinpauy, aud
would have been due off St. Mary's
ba) about the tlmo of the wretk.
Captain Buggo commanded the
Talk, which had a crew of SR men.
ALTGELD
May Lose His Fortune Chicago Fore
closure Proceedings.
Chicago, Jan. 15 (Spl)-Gov, Alt
geld Is making a haid fight to savo his
fortuno which Is tied up In the big
Unity ltultdlng. I'oieclosuro pioceed
Ings have btcu begun, Interest on
bonds having been defaulted. Gov,
Altgeld tiled an answer yesterday ask
lug that the bill be dismissed for want
of equity and asserting that tho fore
closure proceeding Is slniply nil effort
to get the title to the Uplty block at
less than one half Its value
Gov. Altgeld Is altogether In hard
luck, Ills health has been critical and
Mrs Altgeld has been an invalid tor
somo time. , if
Same In Akron.
Scranton, Pa, Jan. 15. iSpl ) Five
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Cooking; Lectures Every Afternoon,
two story buildings In the center of
the town of Itawley were totally de
stroyed by fire last night. Loss ?30,
000 Scranton Is poorly equipped wltll
fire apparatus, which caused the loss.
SENSATIONAL
Incident In a Trial at Salt Lake
City
Wife Confesses.
Salt Lake, Utah, Jan. 15 The trial
of Captain I'recl J. Mills of tho Idaho
Company of"fSe"lTnlted SttItes-Volun
teer Engineers tor the inurder of John
C. Omclveney, Chief L'ngineer of tho
Oregon short Hue railroad who Is Jn
prison in this city ,has been productive
of some sensational developments.
Mills and Omelvlney had been clost
friends for years and without warning
of any kind on the afternoon of Octo.
ber 3, Mills walked into Omclveney'
private office In tho Oregon short llu
tiulldlug In this city and without uttet
Ing a word shot Omelveney througT
three times lu the head, causing IS.
slant death. Mills then walked ouf.
nnd gave himself up to the pollco an(,
has remained In Jail ever since.
At the tilal a statement by Mrs. MUU
was Introduced as follows: "I was ln
tlmatc with J. C. Omelveney several
times last year. Up to th it tlmo I wa
a virtuous woman, and that he Is re
sponsible In addition to my own weak
ness for my disgrace and shame. X
can see now bow he planned to do
this"
Temporary Insanity Is Mills' defensa
to the murder.
Mills Is of a very good family and so
is his wife, and both they and tho
Omelveneys w ere prominent In society,
Mills wns at one tlmo LItitenant Gov
ernor of Idaho and also State Engineer
of Idaho. They have two children, 0
and 8 years of age. Omelveney hnd a
family of four young children. Mrs.
Omelveney Is In dallr attendance at
the trial which is expected to last foe
several days.
A new ear will be put on the West
Exchange street cni line tho first of the
week.
Baking Powder
Made from pure
cream of tartar.
Safeguards the food
against alum.
Alum taking powders are the greatest
menaccn to health of tho present day.
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