St. Louis Post-Dispatch
April 26, 1900

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Retreat From De Wet’s Dorp and Make a Rear Guard Fightin Falling Backon -. © Ladybrand. Sunday Circulation for March. ....161,112., 2 etl = 7 -_—--—----- LEONHARDT GIRL |WOMAN BURNED STILL “MISSING.” BY GASOLINE, -— _ ae Facts Seemingly Point to a/Mrs. Carrie Wendt Probably Fatally Hurt. Delegation to. Push World’s Plain Conclusion. Fair. > OUTLOOK {S BRIGHT. AN ANALYSIS OF THE CASE.'O0/L EXPLODED IN STOVE.) THE — | CHILD SEEN BY THREE PERSONS |LIITLE CHILDREN SAW THEIR FRIDAY THE HOUSE COMMITTEE NEAR MOTHER’S HOME. MOTHER IN FLAMES. | WILL HEAR THE DELEGATES. = i Much Depends on Mobility of Lord Roberts’ Cavalry and Rescuers Arrived Late and the Fire Gov. Prancis Explains the Plan of | RAY WwW) WA as Y Mounted Infantry. art ; yi “: — f ——— ~ r | | Was Not Extinguished Until Proceedure That Will Be Fol- . Se) as | st poe? 4” HIS FIRST PLAN FAILED. ~—- = ae + Dr. and Mrs. Dausman Declare They | Don’t Know Where She Is and : | | | It Had Done Serious lowed at the Capitol. Damage. Say They Believe She Is Safe. ——— -.— ed THE BOERS MOVE SWIFTLY AND SO FAR HAVE LOST NO GUNS IN THEIR RETREAT. Special to the Post-Dispatch. WASHINGTON, April 26.—The Louisiana Purchase World’s Fair delegation reached Washington at 1:06 this afternoon. The members were taken immed:ately to the Hotel Gordua, where 25 rooms had been made ready for the party. After luncheon the members of the delegution held an in- formal conference in the hotel parlors and out the work that is ahead of Oarrie Werdt, 35 years of age, was | probabiy fatally burned in the kitchen or | her home, 4°41 Margaretta avenue, about 10 | o'clock Thursday morning, ironing and ner clothing caught how her dress became ig- known, though it thought at al Mre. dis- arrived of the Dr. Herry L. Dausman has definite appearance Leonhardt. He said Thursday that he was convinced She had taken refuge at the home of some of his many friends. WHERE FLORENCE WAS SEEN LAST SATURDAY. Cote :-BRILUANTE Ave theory in of explanation stepelaughter, his Florence She fire. nited was exactly is not Destruction of the Pretoria Arsenal by Explosion, Killing Ten Men and Injuring Many Others. is mapped them. Gov. Francis dalvided up his proceeded to outline the plan for the hear- House and Senate com- forces and The stars indicate the net which Lord Roberts spread south of Bloemfontein to catch the Boers. > ; > 8 . e Boers are now retreating north. from te- DE WET’S DORP, April 26.—Gen. French dorp to Thabanchu and Ledybrand. They have entered this town with two cavalry ' forces at Brundfort and Winburg. brigades. He found the Boers holding the | ~~" hills. These were shelled, and the Boers retreated. The cavalry pushed around the position of the Boers above the town, where they were halding Gen. Rundle in check, but the Boers, numbering 6000, man- aged to retreat towards Ladybrand. Gens. French and Rundle joined hands east of De Wet’s Dorp this morning. Gen. Rundle is pursuing the Boers In forced marches, MAFEKING HOLDING OUT News at Bloemfontein Up to April 10 Shows That Baden-Powell Was Doing Well. ings before the MmItltlees. Until the house informed of what Louis and in the Louisiana Puréhase expect gress at the senate committee will not hear the delegation. As soon, however, as the House committees has been made fullv acquainted with the provisions of the pending world’s fair bill and has given all the data by Gov Francis and his colleagues from the dlif- ferent states the Senate committee will be asked for time in which to present tNe matter while the members of the delegation are here, Gov. Francis has arranged the programme up to Saturday in this way: .To-morrow morning at 10 o'cloek the dglegation will wait on Chairman Tawney and Representa- tives Steele’ of Indiana, Sherman ef New York, Joy of Missouri, Fletcher of Minne- sata, Corless of Michigan, Burke of North Dakota. Williams of Mississippi, and Bart- lett of Georgia of the world’s fair special committee of the House. The House hearing will last from 10 to - Si A Ai nS sttietietie cites camm ttee Mas been Tully © @ PLE orf CINDERS Si. the states anahs amount of damage. They clung to their positions as jong as it was safe to do so, and they have now slipped off to hold the next commanding ridge through a broken country admirably sulted for a rear guard * defense. . . Dispatches from Aliwal North under date of Wednesday, April 25, say the Boers left . Wepener so hurriedly that many of the deal were left in the trenches unburied. Much depends on the progress of Gen. French's cavalry brigade, but they are en- tering a very difficult, billy and practl- cally unknown country. The cavalry has already had a long march over heavy and sandy roads, and nothing is known regard- ing the condition of the horses. The slowness of the recent movements of the British infantrty and the previous ex- perience of the ability of the Boers to move rapidly, with guns and baggage, over thelr cwn country, leal to a belief thet Loud Roberts’ enveloping operations will fail © of Con- this session, be asked to been ANS NOL) NAgq BRITISH LION—“ That Fellow Kruger Is Up to His Old Tricks Again!” - 12 o’clock and from 8 to 5 to-morrow. N 7 SPRING TIME. It will be continued Saturday from 10 to GRAIN HEALERS 12, when the Governor expects to have completed the presentation of the argu- 4 OOKY Co, A V/A . ‘My ty I F ments of all the Senators in the Louisiana He woke up mn the morning Purchase for the prompt passage of the Wie a dy and dusty throat, et Ti “bub n Why Gulf Ports Exporters Seek Self- Protection. Lows LuckY «st. LONDON, April &., 1:3 p. m.—The War Office has received the following message from Lord Roberts: BLOEMFONTEIN, April 2%.—@ood news = a . Continuous line shows path followed by the girl whom the Christmans saw. Geneon — : - . ‘4 pending bill apprepriating $5,000,u00. Then With a feeling quite as rocks | Uj : the delegation will proceed to the Senate As a Rocky Mountain goat. 7 © r bute Neo side of the capitol, where it will make the He felt so awful rocky that I VA same pleas for prompt and favorabie ac- He longed to go to slee tion. And have somebody rock Everything appears favorable to the pas- The cradle of the. deep. sage of the bill at an early date. Representatives Shackleford, Bartholdt, Rodgenberger and others met the delega- tion at the siation. They reported all de- tails of the hearimg completed and told Gov. Francis that the Huouse committee would give all the time wanted, if it re- quired three davs. “We have €éo said Gov. Francis, “] think she is smart enoug) to plan this disappearance herself and that she has placed herself under the protection of some one she knows, hoping thereby thwart her father's design get possession of her.’ Dr. Dausmean admitted, when the sugzes- tion was made, that this theory was weak because of the riek that any one would run in consenting to frotect andj conceal Flor ence in defiance of the court's order. Hie and Mrs. Dausman [ndignantly deny insinuations which they say have been made that they know where Florence is. Dr. Dausman has changed h'‘s view of thé Christman story somewhat. He now ad- mits that it was possible for the Christ- mans to have seen Floreree Gaturday after- | _ noon, “But if the child was so near ouy home that day.” he said, ‘“‘why did she not come to see us. My wife and I were at home all day ami we vaw nothing of her.” im in io ANNIE HEISER. to ee, a A ee ges Ree er ee te Clara Morris, the emoticnal actress, who WEA used to thrill St. Louis audiences as they — Yf Ze have seldom been thrilled, has written a ; wa “iy 4, a My ficticn story called “The Shadow of the Temple.’ It has been obtained by the Post- Dispatch, and will be published exclusively by commencing next Sunday, and continuing daily until completed. This 4 / . | f ‘ Py __,/ST. LOUIS MEN ARE~ OFFICERS. arranged our hearings, “that when we. get through we will have shown to the com- mittee and Congress the entire Louisiana Purchase ‘s for the exposition and that it is to be the greatest one ever held. ‘“l have with me gentlemen who represent the strong sentiment of their states and localities. We expect to remain ae un- til we have fuily presente’ the plans to | : Congress, and hav made it plain to every- |Incorporation Articles Have Been 'hody that tne regqvest that we make of: ° . on "tale es Filed and a Permanent Organiza- | Congress is a fair and reasonable one and / ol } as *> earnest and sincere sup- . }one that a ihe earnest an e | tion Will Soon Be Effected in St. Louis. PO tm EASTON ANE. of y ld WoutH . 4 “a > Sas pw x . Pon a Mil OR this paper, 7 74: 4 UNIFORM COMMERCIAL AND MARITIME USAGES DESIRED. 2s . story wiil be found of rare interest. Mme. Yacco, a celebrated Japanese act- in criticizes the on ee ress, now this country, dress of American women from a Japanese standpoint, and incidentally gives swme 1n- i that there was an explosion in the gasoline eiove that stood close to the ironing board. When the accident occurred. Mrs. Wendt aml only the two youngest of her seven children were in the house. The other chil- | dren were at school and her husband was at work. The neighbors heard Mrs. Wendt’'s shrieks and saw her rush to the back porch, qa pil- lar flame. All the women of the neighborhood has- tened to her aid. They found the front door of the Wendt bui'ding locked and they were unabie to get in the back wee | Lwpor Commissioner Rixey of Missouri : because of the smoke the furniture having said: ‘There is only one sentime nt in aur of Hal! & Robinson, Kansas t ity, president: ‘aught fire ; state and in ail the states of the pur-} Fred C. Orthwein of the William D. Orth- yb Pestng is ‘chase. Everybody is for the fair and all) wen Grain Co. secretary and treasurer; They finallv managed to get blankets want to see the bill now pending passed ait . ‘ ePlag: . are ‘dM ‘ . . / = & we from head to foot. He did what he could ret lg i Baayp nn pa lenonad por gee. ‘ho | ‘Lhe principal membeysh.p, at present, to relieve her sufferings and sent for an presenting the claims of the fair bill to: no up of yg rey ett ie ee anc ig ambulance. members of the Hovse from states not in Fe on gg ge gy Saree j , the purchase | i mardson Grain A Oo. and the Wiliam i ap ’ ‘on ebphs 4 There will be work for all to do, and the | "To this cnaebebahio will be added all th ler sent to Muitllanpny . ; t intend to lose an ime. See pr ag > Sonne |S hy pitas Reda the teenie governor does not intend to lose any t principal exporting tirms of Kansas City. Ors ; a / recovery are very slight. Mrs. Weod:’s two ema!) children rushed from the house when they first reaiized New Orleans, Chicago and Galvestan. their mother’s danger and escaped the tui ONT | William R. Kennett, president of the i Merchants’ Exchange and secretary of the > o night at orrangements for a Market b.@ $344 North for the parade. move Sout west to —— THE BRAZOS RISING. —— The parade will, in addition to the route ubdlished, thence will disband. Lieut. Murray issued an order Wednesday night calling on all members of battery to assemble Tuesday night at for the purpose of completing all arrange- ments for the Dewey parade to it on Seventeenth Beaumont, where A the armory Crops in the River Lowland in a Bad Condition. v ~ - y DALLAS, Tex., April %.—Rallroad is again badly interrupted by The Brazos River is rising and crops in the lowlands are in a deplorable condition. Heavy wind and hall storms have done sale 3 damage at various pointa traffic washouts. big | Weunes- | in | has charge of the | te ! take advantage of the sijightest flaw in their contracts or bills and sometimes cause great loss to the ex- porter, who has acted in good faith, in making his sh'pment. It is to forestail camm-ssion of such errors In contracts on | the part of the maritime of lading agents and secure a uniformity of rules regarding ship- ments from all ports, that the association was formed. wrt I yet complete Although the ar- l incorporation were filled some time ago, the organization was not juntil recently A meeting is to next week, when a permanent organization will be effected.’ The articles of ‘ é * > * he El . iol : : > ce Ba ee —_ tla i, oe toe * aE ee technical | the | 2 | to | in | sue will be the following: A great churchman in whom all St. Lou- isans are particularly interested at Lme, A great political leader in whom all Mis- ‘ sourians are particularly ‘nterested at this | ' time, completed | held | A young man of high birth tn whom all Germans are particulerly interested at this time; A women beautiful are particularly young wotran interested ar time. FAIR AND WARM FOR A TIME That’s the Most That Dr. Hyatt Can Say of the Weather Just at Present. Dr. R. J. Hyatt, weather prognosticator, was in a quandary Thureday morning. Conditions are so unsetticd, he says, that he is reluc:cant to predict Just what meteor- ological conditions will prevail tn St. Louls in the next 24 hours. “and it may bring rain. Then again it may be only cloudy, but I hardly think we w have more than an ordmary spring show if there is rain at all. “It is a trifie warm certainty there will not Os change Thursday ies: Vet ees ™ oe _ - . _——— — te Sos hero ee eee ~ . ee 2 s* om we és ; ee “ women aah we A .