Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 25, 1893, Page 1

A A PART ONE. L e PAGES |+, s v ESTABI ISHED JUNE MOURNING FOR TRYON England 8hows Her Great Appreciation of the Terrible Loss at Tripoli. HOW HIS WIFE RECEIVED THE NEWS Bhe Was Entertaining Guests at the Time Her Husband Was Drowned, NONE OF THE DETAILS KNOWN AS YET Only Meager Information Concerning the Nature and Onuse of the Disester. MUCH SPECULATION RIFE IN LONDON Newspapers Indulge Many Guesscs and Pub- I1sh Many Absurd Statements—Wirat Expert Naval Officers Thivk of the Sad Affur, Copyrighted 1893 by JamesGordon Bennstt.\ Lmumx, Juno 24.—(New York Herald Cable—Special to Tue Bee.]—Turning to what I may term the minor incidents, one of the most painful connccted with the loss of Admiral Tryon was at the time at which he must have been lying entombed in his own ship in eighty fathoms of water, his wife, Lady Tryon, was holding at their residence, in Katon Place, the first reception of the scason. She was indeed still resting from the fatigucs of entertaining an hundred Ruests when the news was broken to her by her son and brother, Lord Ancaster, the latter himself not being acquainted with the sad circumstances until 10 yesterday morning. Ancaster lost no time in taking y Wellington barracks, where he fuuml Sir George's only son, George Clement Tryon, lieutenant in the Third Grenadier guards. Accompanied by his uncle, the now father- less son immediately took his way to his mother's house and broke the news to her. Callers at Lady Tyron's house today have been v numerous, and have included a large number of naval ofticers, who strive thus to show their esteem and regard for one of the most popular of aamirals in the servico. Lady Tyron also received the fol- lowing telegram from the German emperor, which reached her through the German am- bassador here: Sympathy from Royalty. Kixr, June Lady Tyron, London: As an admirer and friend of 8ir George, I hasten to express my warmest and most heartfelt sympathy at thoe terrible loss which has be- fallen you. England has lost one of her noblest sons. My navy fecls and deplores with mo tho untimely end of such a brilliant life. Wemourn him as it he were one of ours. May God comfort you. WiLLiAy 11, Admiral of the Fleot. Inquiries were made this morning by the queen regarding Lady Tyron’s health, She also received, through the post, a most sympathetic letter from Prince Louis of Battenberg. Captain Richard Tryon, R. A., brother of the drowned admiral, is in town staying with his widowed sister-in-law. In the course of an interview last night he depri cated any attempt to make positive asser- tions as to the cause of the collision, and pointed out the fact that the great donth at which the sunken vessel lies, will, most probably, prevent the exact nature of the damage sustained by her ever becoming known. He inclines to the belief, which is now becoming wencral among experts, that the entry of the huge volume of water through the terrible rent caused by the Cam- perdown’s ram must at once have sealed the fate of every soul below the decks at the time of the accident. Lmperfect List, it is unfortunate that although what pur- ported to be a full list of the officers and seamen saved, arrived at the Admiralty this morning and was given out to the public at noon, it should, as a matter of fact, be far from trustworthy. Such errors ns are due to the difficulties of transmission over the wires and other causes wero so apparent that for some time the authorities hesitated as to whether they should give out the list ornot. Bvery pains was taken by a special staff of clerkis to verify the numbers and “so forth, and they checked the list with the greatest cave. It was finally decided, however, to issue the list, even though it might be imperfect. I,as well as the majority of those who visited the Admiralty today on business, could not avoid being struck by the absence of any crowd of relatives of thesubordinate ofticers, who might naturally have been expected to throng the gates i order to learn the news of husbands and fathers. Not even the usual crowd of sightseers was present. The fact is London is too lurge a city for an event of this magnitude to seriously affect its usual current of life. As to the seamen’s relatives, they are, in all probabilities, to be chiefly found at Portsmouth or Chathani, Theorles Concernlng the Wreck, As regards theories and opinions concern- ang the exact nature of the accident, it is noticcable in some of the afternoon papers that the suggestions of various experts of more or less prominence incline to the opinion, the expression of which appeared alone in today’s Horald, to the effect that the ships were probably performing what is termed the *'gridiron” evolution when they came into collision, I learn that the flag officer who is re- garded as most likely to succeed Tryon in command of the Mediterrancan fleet is Vice Admiral John O. Hovkins, now commanding the North American station, who recently wvisited New York in the flagship Blake for the naval review, Attention now centers on watertight com- partments, aud wonder is expressed that these did not keop her afloat. As explained, however, in the same former dispatehes, the possession of these compartments proved, curlously enough, a source of weakness rather than strength, As one naval ofticer PuLit 1o we, sho was really capsized by her watertight compartments. The fact of so large a proportion of midshipmen having Dbeen drowned, togethier with Chaplain Mor- ris, who was also naval instructor, points to the fact that they were at schooi on the lawer deck when the collision took place, otherwise the majority of the lads would have been on deck, and the probability is that us all could m like ducks, most ull would ucve been Given nn fample of London Enterp The impossibility of getting details from Byria about the loss of tho Victoria has driven Londou papers aud news agents Lo nvent particulurs of the situation like this: “Betwecn 4 and 7 Thursday morning the Victoria, flagshipof the British Modi- teryancan ficot, commander Vice Admiral Tyron, was rammed by the battleship Camperdown, flagship second in command, 19, 1871 OMAHA, SUNDAY MOR G, JUNE 25, — 1893 SIXTEEN PAGES, Rear Admiral Markham. The blow struck the Victoria's starboard side forward of the turret, In fifteen minutes she turned over and sank, drowning all aboard except thirty-four officers and 261 enlisted, over 400, including Tryon. The Camperdown was so seriously injured as to make it necessary for her to be docked, Friday morning Admiral Markham telegraphed from Tripoli, Syria the foregoing facts to the Admira adding he should sead the survivors to Malta at once to await instructions. Since then he has telegraphed the names of all the saved persons from the Victoria,” Can't Get News. No other news has been received from any one at the scene of the disaster. The fore- going contains all the facts about the col- lision, but the public naturally wants to know more, which thereis no way of getting, except that somebody at Tripoli goes over- land and telegraphs up the Syrian coast. There is novody to send any news, conse- quently the question of telegraph facilities cuts no figure, If pacticulars of the way the collision happened could be had, £10a word would be reckoned cheap by any London paper to pay foran exclusivestory. Possibly such an account may be had on Monday next, but no important London newspaper is pub- lished on Sunday and the ouly news agencies, which circulate whatever reports may come tonight, belicve that no dispateh except from Markham himself, can be sent from Tripoli. Markham knows the whole circumstances of the disaster must soon be investigated, and serious punmishment will be awarded to any one found culpably negli- gent. He will, therefore, be careful not to send an account by wire himself, lest in transmission something may be omitted or red to the prejudice of any oficers in- volved. Equally he would see t no officer or man wys allowad to telegraph anything about the accident, It is therefore impos- sible for anything further than contained in the dispatches tonight to be learned from that point, Suys the Detalis Trickle In, 1 wish to emphasize the foregoing facts to prevent the Herald being misled by dis- patches invented in London and Malta. One afternoon newspaper says the details of the calamity are trickling in, and most of the drowned, it appears were lost by be- ing sucked down with the sinking ship. 1t scems Tryon w aboard the Edinburgh and will be seen with the fleet, which is ex- pected at Malta on Monday. It is impossivble for details to trickle in until some vessels of the fleet reach Malta, about 1,100 or 1,200 miles away. This may be great enlightenment to the public. Not till then, unless Admiral Markham remains in Tripoli and telegraphs in extenso partic: ulars of the collision, a thing not likely. Meanwhile the inventive geniuses have been working to account for the collision, and the rapidity with which theVictoria sunk. Solong as these productions arc given as theory no harm is done, but some of the inventors are anxious to make people think their imagina- tive ideas are facts. So much by way of warning. Facts from the Signal Book. An officer of high rank in the British navy told me this afternoon that the signal book provided for six evolutions in‘which there were but two having the possibility of such accidents happening and only two. One was thegridiron movement, changing the columns as described in the dispatches this morning; the other was the countermarch in single column. In the latter a collision could occur ouly if the leading ship iu turning should completely yaw out of her coursc just as one of the others, going in the opvosite direc- tion, should also sheer out of line, It scems likkely that the two ships met when steering in exactly opposite courses, and the ram of the Camperdown would then have caught the unarmored part of the Victoria's hull and torn it through for a considerable dis- tance, rippin, wide gash below the water- tight compartments, The rush of water through such a hole would drown every one in the forward part of the ship on the star- board side, and the injury to the Victoria's stability would turn her over before many of the remajning number of the crew could get out. Comparing the Classes. In view of this illustration of vulnerability by the enormous weight of armor and guns avove the center of gravity, 1 visited today half a dozen leading na men in London to get their opinions relative to the merits of big ships like the Victoria and Camperdown, compared with swift vessels of great maneuvering ability like our own New York or Brooklyn. Tord Charles Beres- ford, Admiral Lucas G. R. Bethell, Captain Sir Lambton Louraine and O. H. Arnold Foster, M. P., were all visited unsuccessfully, There being no session of Parliament, it was impossible to find one of these distinguished experts. I met Commander Charles N. Robinson, R, N., associate editor of the Army and Navy Ga- zette, however. He said no general auswer to the question could be given. Different natious might have different needs. For the United States' Needs. “For Gireat Britain regarded battleships of the largest and most powerful tygo abso- lutely essential, The United States are dif- ferently placed from England,” Commander Robinson said, *“and perhaps for the present does not noed the heaviest class of battle- ships. So long as she has no large amount of commerce, they might get along with coust defense ships and fast cruisers, but whenever they would build a merchant ma- rine, it might become necessary to have battleships to protect it. Even without a large commerce the need of sea fighters of the front rank might become imperative. If an enemy could only be kept from capturing the seaports, the United States might be in continual danger of being harrassed by an aggressive naval power. Her own protec- tion might demand that the attack be re- turned on an enemy’s main coast.” An American naval officer of command and rank 1n London, who did not wish his name quoted, said he thought we had gone fur enough in the dirvection of size in our battleships of the Massachusetts class, but he did not admit that we could afford to stop building them yet. Our cruisers, par- ticularly of the New York type, would make other nations hesitate a long time before they went to war with us, but unless we kept pace with other oations to a certain extent in battleships, their power would be- come 80 much superior to usas to make thew indifferent to our cruisers, Some Minor Bumo; The report published in London that the body of Sir George Tryon hus been recoy- ered, says Reuter's telegram from Malta, so far s is knowa there, is devoid of founda- tion. Reuter's Constavtinople dispateh reports that the sultan sends o telegram of sympa- tny to the queen at the loss of the Victoria. The widows of the married seamen and mothers of unmarried seamen who perished will expect to reccive o full year's pay. The oficers’ widows will receive an annual pen- sion and tho children ul the lughor grade [conminy KD ¢ ux SECO NOBODY KNOWS YET Germany's Internal Sitnation is in a Very Much Confused Condition, ALL PARTIES STRUGGLING FOR POWER By-Elections Absorbing the Attention of the Energotio and Anxions Politicians, EXPRESSIONS FROM WATCHFUL DELEGATES Members of the Reichstag Tndnlge Guarded Opiuions Gonocerning the Ountcoma, PLANS OF CAPRIVI FOR THE SESSION After the Army BIll Is Passed Will Como the Russinn Treaty—Members of the Ceater Mold the Key to the Situation Agaln, [Copyrighted 1893 by Ja. BegLiy, Juac 24.—[New York Herald Cable —Special to Tue Bee.]—Contusion, rank confusion, reigns here in the political world. To prophesy how the whole thing will turn outis taking a great risk. Newspapers here are giving one opinion on one page snd another on the next. The various parties are mancuvering, haggling and huckstering one with another, trving to get another turn at the electoral wheel. Experienced poli- ticians shrug their shoulders when you ask questions about the situation and reply that they have never known such a condition of affairs before. ‘The general opinion, how- ever, is thav the military bill will be pushed through by a small majority. Thut is the opinion of the independent deputies I have seen. “However," said one, “we must always take account of the chances which might suddenly change the entire scene. The center does not yet know what todo. Its press organs are waging o fierce war, one against the other, and are bringing their heaviest artillery td bear against Caprivi- No lan- guage could be more bitter than theirs. Germania, for instance, calls its former friend, Count Matuscka, einen ungezogenen Jjungen patron because he declared for the military bill, and vituperates the deserters from the party. The provincial Catholic press is no less bitter. But behind all this we scent new intrigues. We niust remem- ber always that the center strongly desires the retention of Caprivi, and will strive to find a modus vivendi for his project. More Trouble for the Chancellor. As for Caprivi himself, heis not nearly out of the woods, for even if he gets the military bill through he will meet fierce opposition to his much desired Russian treaty from a large number of representatives of the agriculturists who have been clected to the new Keichstag. It is prohable the cen- ter will now show itself bon enfant. To this last statement I roceived absolute negative. My informant strougly insists the center will not give way a fraction of an inch, and will remain faithful and not deceive the electors, Adeputy of the right said: *““The whole thing hangs on a thread. Caprivi’s chances are slim and a delusion is by uo means impos- sible. We must beware of the center. Its clectois insist on no surrender. To paralyze this opposition concessions are needed, where are they to come from? The Jesuit law no longer suflices. Practically the Jesuits are now allowed entrance to the country, although their presence has not received oficial sanction, and for so small a thing the center will not risk a conflict with its electors. So do not indulge too much optimism.” Caprivl Delights the Emporor. When I asked this deputy what the em peror thought, he replied: *“He is enchanted with the tactics of Count von Caprivi, who enjoys his entire confidence. The kaiser overwhelms him with attentions and identi- fies himself with the chancellor in every way. The kaiser himself feels tired. That is why he has gone to Kiel to get a change of air and rest. The socialists have in no way disturbed him, Ie considers it a de- lusive movement. Nevertheless they have gained over a million votes in the last six years, and I think tho party will number fifty in the next session. Thoey are seconded 4 by the radical anti-Semites, who defy all au- thority. These latter may obtain twelve to fitteen seats, and will often be seen march- ing hand in hand with the folloveers of Bebel,” Gordon Bennett.| Bpecoh from the Kalser. 1 hear from a very reliable source that the speech from the throne, for which the kaiser will return at the end of this month, will be of capital importance. ‘I'he emperor himseli dictates the points, and a well known func- vionary of vhe foreign ofice 18 charged with editing the text, which the kaiser will look through and correct, according to the man- ner in which he views the situation, The iscourse will treat firstly of the military question, but also of the soclal danger, which 15 the result of the recent elections. The reading will take place with special solemnity, What this special solemnity is, Ican scarcely imagine, for beyond having the usual body guard and court ofticials in full uniform, it would seem dificult in the given space, which is the “white roow" of the palace, to do more, The soclalists will not attend. It is sald that the specch will afterwards be distributed and posted up throughout the country. This is the first time since 1878 that a speech fiom the throne has been pronounced in the summer, The kaiser will specially identify himself with the policy of the chancellor, whose ac- tion he will laud. 1o the autumn the federal delegates will assemble to consider the question of taxes necess: for the military ludy, Dickering for Seats, Almost the entire serious press is in- veighing against the immoral bartering for seats. Tosavea fow seats the most gro- tesque concessions are made. Weo find, for instance, the Israelite Alexander, mayor at Halle, imploring the friends of Ahlwardt to belp him, promising thom everything in re- turn. In Berlin the conservatives votg for the revolutionary candidate in order to vent their spleen on Prof. Virchow, the fr candidate. The center we find treating with the socialists, whom they affect to regard as persons from the infernal regiots. Iu fact, we are witnessing @ hideous political spec. tacle where the absence of convictions and abuse of priviloges prevail. Among the lat- ter perhaps the most edifying is the virulent attack wade by the Statsburger Zeitung, organ of the anti-Semites, against Stoecker, fager of the anti-Semite movement. In- vective snd versonalities seem to have re- placed argument. These elections seem to the German people aro!unveliable, and that we are approaching a grave ana decisive crisis, Threatened with Famine, Meantime, in the midst of all this politi- cal turmoil the government has under con- sideration the question of what can be dona to relieve the #erriblo distress existing amongst the ageltuliurists whose crops in many parts are dried up and whose live stock is wasting for want of pasturage. 1 have before me theofficial statistics of the condition ot the empire which give anything but a cheery outlook. E: where there 18 great struggle against the drouth, which is the worst jn fifty years. There is no hay, and the farmers are forced to sell cattle at nominal pric In places like Hesse the herds of cattle are decimated by these forced sales. This sad condition of affairs has not been overlooked in tho political arena, where, for instance, the conservative candidates issued a fiy sheet which said the drouth came upon them because of the wickedness of voting for the socialists. On the other hand, the prevailing miscry has given many votes to the socialists, who by the way still hope to have fifty fivo seuts in the coming Reichstag. Internal Rows In Plenty. T heay the rumblings of still further dis- sensions in the center party. Tho center may have gained a quantity, but it has lost in the quality of its talent. It has lost Scorlemir. Dr. Porsch, Hucae, Comte Balies- trom and Baron Hertling. We seo in return no budding Windhorst. None but mediocritics romain, ‘A dissension might come on the Russlan commercial treaty question, and the dictatorial Dr. Licber might share the fate of the autocratic Richter. The latter rotorts to the attacks upon him and says whatever may be the cause of the fall of his party, it was not a question of the military bill, because those of the party who voted for the bill have been equally routed, which is quite true. Asoucof his party has stated, it is more than likely to have been the intimidation of tho rural voters, the too abstract party progr the desertion of the financiers pion Richter stantial support. Russia appears resolved to discount the military biil by a hostile comme She will shortly publish. a maximum which specially hits Germany. If report bo true, the government here sces small hope of its commercial treaty] materializing, Caused by His Politics, The suicide of Judge Curtins, son of the famous historian, has made much talk, and will probably be made the subject of ques- tion by the Reichstag.: MThe judge was tho young father of a family, and rich, but his tendencies were auti-Semite. When the anti- Semite Xanten case came up he animad- verted severely upon| Public Prosecutor Baumgard and Judge Brixnis, saying thoey had not done their duty. He presided at the Oberwinder triak and afterwards recommended the amnegty of Simming, tho editor. Nexthe presided at the case of Baron Brandt, Germlan ambassador at Peking, against Pdach, tho anti-Semite. Here again he showed!his anti-Semite ten- dencies. On this his position was taken from himand ho was transferred to the civil court. His disgmcp caused him to take his e Ask Helle Plame, Ia, Inhabitants of the sorely stricken town of Schmiedemuhl would be glad to know of an American engineer who can save them from their terrible trouble. They wanted an artesian well, but after they had bored some depth they struck a pocket of water which spouted up so that the whole town is now submerged to the depth of fivo toseven feot. The water still continues flowing, notwithstanding all efforts to stop it, and the houses are falling inone after the other. The kaiser has been disporting himselr at Kiel, racing his crack cutter Meteor against his brother Henry's Siren. The Meteor naturally won easily. = After a genoral re- union the family left on Thursday for Ems, Mr. and Mrs. Haskins, the ministor's son- in-law and wife huve gone to Carlsbad, Licutenant Raymond Rogers of the Paris embassy has pussed through enroute to St. Petersburg. Riohter's Sensatfonal Disappearance. The total and totally unexpected collapse of the Richter party seems to bo thoe key to the situation. When the last Reichstag dissolved Richter had some sixty followers, and thero seemed no reason why he should not maintain that number, all of which counted as votes against the bill. Richter now returns with a party which probably will not exceed twelva. Even his ownseat is in jeopardy, His fall even yet scems unexplainable,as one of the most remarkable collapses of a politi- cal leader and varty ever known, The government has been exceed- ingly lucky, for there is no doubt but that the will of the people is against the bill, but the government has managed to win a large number of elections by vory small majorities, whereus its opponents had very large ones in the constituencies where they have won, Should the army bill not pass, an improba- bility, eventually the Reichstag will be again dissolvea and new olections will not take place till the utmost limit prescribed by law, so as not to interfere with har- vesting. The government feels jubilunt over the prospects of victory, Seeing yesterda, turns by large majorities in Fraukfort-on- main, Elberfeld and/ Solingen, Minister Miquel droppea his ' woting paper incog. in Wein Niederwalstrasse, At 11 o'clock Ca- rivi walked over from the chancellery to Kaiserhoff, voting paper in hand. He was in uniform, with & mijitary cloak. All the ofcals rose and saluted Caprivi, who gave no name, saluted quistly, and walked out. Both hie and Miquel' voted in the First i tridt. Soon after came Minister of Jus- tice Sheclinggraff, who voted in Hohouthal, Berlln Soclalists A¥e tn High Feather, Ono of tha highesb: functionaries stated late this cvening that the government was much surprised at the apathy shown by the bourgeoisie in contrast’ with the socialists, who displayed great) zeal in fighting their victories. ‘This evening the minister of the interior, by orders of the kaiser, organized a telegraphic service to Kiel giving his majesty the results all through the night. Itis feaved the socjalists may get sixty seats. Amoug the features up to dateis that certain rural districts like Tellow, hitherto represented by the ultra conser: tive, Prince Hanjerry, a friend of the em- peror, were wrested from him by the social- ists. The royal town of Koenigsburg, repre- sented by the late Marshal Moltke, has gone to Soclulist Schultz, Bebel-Socialist Beader bas captured Strasburg. Another feature has becn the extraordivary energy of the so- clalist women in making their men go to the polls. Hamburg, where the Ewpress Fred- erick resides, guve s large socialist majorit against a natiomal Hooral Tonight the talk of clubs and cafes is thut & unew dissolution | 1ay be neccssary, but it seeis uulikel und it is impossible to ealculate until Tu ay, 48 50 mapy elections are to be held on Prove that politics spoil the character that ‘ Nundny. GOVERNMENT GAINS Advocates of the German Army Bill Win in the Reballoting, THEIR STRENGTH IN THE NEW REICHSTAG With a Bare Majority Adherents of the . Government Are Content. SOCIALISTS WERE MUCH TOO SANGUINE Their Vote Falls Short of the Number Pre- dicted by Official Organs. CHANCELLOR CAPRIVI SETS AN EXAMPLE e Glves His Support to an Opponent of the Army Blll Rather Than Seo n Soclallst Returned—News of the Election, 24.—The progress of today's by-elections appears to support the govern- ment’s calculation that the reballoting will give it sixty-nine seats. Taking the adher- ants of the army bill, the government will have in the new Reichstag 160 out of 837, A are majority of one vote is not much to re- joice over, yet the governmentorgans ex- press content with the result of the voting. In Berlin tod nonal quiet pre vailed in the Sq ond ballot was voted for Virchow, the candidate of the radical people’s party, and the united strength of the other three parties was not suflicicnt to defect him, Owing to the voting servatives in the First district, wher a reballot was also mnecessary, Dr. Lengerhaus, Richterite, was first to succeed. Dr. Lengerhaus vpolied 8,743 votes, against 6,455 cast for Herr Tacterow, who stood in the interests of the social democrats. Dr. Langerhaus' election was partly due to support given him by the national liberals and centrists. where the social democrats are polling the! last man. A feature of the campaign is the number of socialists who are ussisting the canvass. The freisinnige party is making a strong effort to obtain the ascendancy. Fell Short of Thelr Calculations, Caleulations from the most reliable data, show that the aggregate socialist vote will fall short of the 2,000,000 predicted by the Vorwaerts and the Cologne Gazette. It is estimated that the vote will show an in- crease over t polled in 1890. The anti- Semitic vote is calculated at 500,000. Both sections of the freisinnige party cast a voto of 940,000, a loss of 214,300 votes since 1800, The enormous iucrease in the anti-Semites accouiits for the failure of the socialists to _reach the figure they expected and the anti- Semites drawing a large proportion of their ns from parties which would have other- wise voted differently. Chancellor von Caprivi, also when speak- ing at the last session of the Reichstag, said that both the anti-Semites and socialists successes came from common sources. The Vorwaerts says the anti-Semitic increase ought to be placed to the credit of socialism. In an interview today a prominent man aid that the government ncither anti pated a further dissolution of the Reichsts nor any encroachment on the suffrage, On the contrary, he hoped that an entende be- tween the political groups would be ef- fected and the army bill speedily passed. How Capfivi Voted. Caprivi, Dr. Miquel and other political notables voted for Langernaus today. With this decisive example before them of minis- ters actually supporting an opponent of the bill, rather than allow a socialist to return, adhesion by electors to governmenut candi- dates, where they are opposed by socialists, has become secured, All the ministers voted in the forenoon so as to allow the voters on the second bullot m the country to note their position. In some districts an exchange of centrist and socialist votes was encompassed. The Tageblatt and other organs demand the resignation of Virchow. Personally Herr Richter gives no sign of defeat. He is energetic and confident of the early reconstruction of the freisinnige party. William Wil View the Regatta, The emperor and empress will attend the Cowes regatta in August. The emperor has written to tho prince of Wales regret- ting that the opening of the Reichstag will provent him from being present v the marriage of the duke of York and Princess May. It is now stated that tho engagement of Princess Alice to the czarewich is definitely settled., The municipal authorities of Metz have voted the sum of 500,000 marks for the ex- pense of the reception of the emperor at the autumn mancuvers. The national liberals part of the con- LATEST RETURNS, How They Voted on the Second Ballot the Germap Elections, Beruiy, June 24.—Second ballots were taken generally today in those Prussian and Saxon districts where no choice of candi- dates was made on June 15, These returns have been received: Berlin, Fist division—Dr, Richterist, elected to succeed Moraur. He received 8,743 votes. Compared with the second ballot in 1500 the result shows a social democratic gain of 3,147, Langerhaus is the first Richterist elected, Berlin, Second division—Richard Fischer, social democrat, elected over I Richter i for this constituency. defllocrats. Berlin, Third division—Alderman social democrat, elected over A social democratic gain, Berlin, Fifth division social democrat, elected over a Richterist, Offesbur--Maxiwilian Reichert, clerical, elected over Freihe von Schaumburg, na- tional liveral. Reichert, who was the last deputy, received 9,122 votes. au - Mayor Stroh,conservative, elected over Editor Poerch, social democrat. The last deputy was & conservative. Tilsit — Herr Kaeswurn, counservative, lected over Herr von Reidnitz, radical. duitz, who was the lst deputy, voted against the army bill. Hawburg-Nussau- -Herr #ruehm, social democrat, elected over Herr Westernacher, natioual liberal. last deputy was Karl Funck, radical, wbo voted against tne bill, One for the il Dauzig City—Helurich Rickert, radical lunlunm.. elocted over Hers Jochew, social Langerhaus, Dr. Alex A gain for the social Volger, o Michterist. Robert Schnall, Ous affair, J SINGLE (‘OI’Y I‘IVE CENTS. THE BEE BULLETIN. Weather for Omaha and Vicinity— Generally Fair; Cooler; Variable Winds, Page 1. Discnssing the Terribla Tripoll Aceldent. Germany’s Muddied Polities. Government Galns in the By-Elections. Wakefield's Lumber Yard scorched, Boundless Wins the Derby. Progress of tho Lutheran Misslonarles, . Washington News and Gossip. Shooting Affray at Red Cloud. Last Week in Loenl Soctety, South Carollna’s Liguor Experiment. Lincoln and Nebraska Nows, Counnell Blu el News. Affiirs at South Omah Barber Repalr Bl Rejected, Roynl Areanum Plenl Judge Scott Makes a Promise, . Om A When It Was Found, Wakeman on Lond Clubs, . Echoes from the Anto Reom. Highways of Seotland—Second Paper, Woman's Widening World, Comment, Smongerfest Next Month, Fourth of July in 1703, . Omahn's Trade Review, Commoerelal and . Griswold's Weekly Grist. democrat. Rickert was the last deputy. As he voted against the bill and now favors it. Thls is & government gain, Strasburg City—August Bebel, democrat, elected over Dr. Peters, Koenigsburg City—Karl Schultz, social democrat, clected over Dr. Kraus, national liberal. Shultz was the last deputy. Mannheim—Lawyer Basserman, liberal, elected over Aug. democrat, Woelfenbuettel —Herr Schwerdefer, agrar- ian, elected over Herr Wentzel, social demo- crat. Holzminden—Director Kruewer, iiberal and conservative cartel, elected over Dr. Cardwell, social democrat. Nnumberg—Julius ~ Guenther, national liberal, elected over Herr Hoffman, social democrat. Guenther was the last depu Speir—Dr. Clemm, national liberal, clected over Herr Erhart, social democrat. Bunzlau—Phillip Schneider, Richteri clected over Herr Leupold, conservative, Heidelburg—Consul ~ Weber, uational liberal, elected over Dr. Max Guerge, con- servative, Richter Sure of HIi% Seat. Hagen—Eugene Richter, leader of the op- position radicals clected to succeed himself. Tetlow—Herr Zeibel, social democrat, elected over Herr Reibel, conservative. Kurtzruhe—Max Pflouger, Richertist, elected over Carl Reinau, liberal. Posen—Stepan Cegilski, Pole and last deputy, ('lmlml over Herr Hoffmeyer, con- social national Dreibach, social national wden—Rudolph Kopp, national lib- cled over Lawyer Schenck, Richter- Schenck was the last acputy. A gov- ernment gain, Duisburg—Dr. Hammacher, national lib- eral, elected over Herr Euler, clerical work. Dusseldorf—Earl Vendors, free conserva- tive, and last deputy, elected over Herr Grimp, social democrat, Constans—Frederich Hughes, social demo- crat, elected over Herr Heilig, national liberal. Duarmstadt-*Dr, Osann, national liberal, and last deputy, elected over B. Conner, social democrat. Stettin—F Herbert, social democrat, elected over Max Broem, one of the few deputies who voted for the bill. Results 50 Far s Known. 1t of sccond ballots in seventy-five ies were known at midnight. \\‘uh these additions to the list of candi- dates electea on June 15, the strength of the parties, so far as known, was: Cle 4 social democrats, 44; conservatives al rians, 53; national liberals, H unionists, 11; Poles, 13; freo & 14; government cle; democrats, 6: cals, 12 1; Bavarian Pcasants league, 1: Bavarian particularists, 1. Of these deputies 148 are counted with the opposition and 189 with the government. The main features of yesterday’s election were the wresting of Essen for tie clericals by “Cannon King” Krupp; the retirement of Prof. Rudolph Virchow to have the life at the end of his thirteenth year in the Reichstag; the defeat of Max Broemel, the leader of the disinterested radicals, by the socialists in Stettin; the victory in Halle of Dr. Alexander Meyer, also a dissident radical leader, over the social democrat who held the seat in the last Reichstag, and the election in Hangen of Eugeno Richter, the leader of the remnants of tho opposition radiggl party. radical nservatiy 1e8, SERIOUS POLITICAL AFFAIRS, Cocarde's Scusation Not Likely to \ly Settled, [Copyrtahted 1893 by James Gordon Bennett.) Panis, June 24.—[New York Herald Cable ~Special to Tue Bee.]—Public attention is at present entively concentrated on the Mil- oye-Clemenceau affuir, which is now as- suming more and more the aspect of friction rather tuan of anactual event. Norton, the negro who is under arrest, confessed yester- day that ho forged the documents, all of which ave false, but he asserts that M. Du- cret, director of the Cocarde, who is also under arrest, was his accomplice in the fraud, It may, however, po questioned whether Dugcret was acting alone or whether he wi not acting In obedience to the political insti: gations coming from the extreme radicals. M. Henri Rochefort Lhus lost no time in as- serting that it was a preconcerted plot ar- ranged by M. Constans, Oie Suspicious Circumstance, This accusation is ridiculous and yet it has Be been shown that Norton passed the whole of | day before yesterday, while the debate ou the affairs was going on in the Chamber, at the house of & man named Decarti, who is noturiously an agent in the service of M. Constans. M. Mille: and his friends now admit that they were duped, but they declare that they foll into a trap prepared by agents of the British government which, as they are known to be bitter enemies of England, wished to discredit them by mak- ing them appear ridiculous. The Justice, M. Clemenceau's organ, cx- presscs the opinion that Norton is nothing more than a very skilliful thief, who has de- ceived ull those who have had angthiug to do with him. It is ceriain, however, that ! the incident will have a political result, as it | has cutirely changed the political situation in France. The most volsy of the person- ages in public life has lost prestige by reas son of i, and if it proved that the friends of M. Constans have played a role in the affuir with his approval he will lose all that he gained by bis famous speech at Toulouse, Auother thing 18 also certain, and that is that the relations of France with England bave not been ameliorated by this scandal- Jacques 51, Ceus, FED ON DRY PINE J. A, Wakefisld's Lumber Yard a Scething: Mass of Flames, LOSS ONE HUNDRED, THOUSAND DOLLARS: Several Loaded Box Cars Consumed in the Oonflagration, REESE' S COTTAGE WENT WITH THE REST Ono of the Hottest Fires in the History of Otnaha, CROWDS OF CITIZENS WATCH THE BLAZE. Nurrow Escape of a Night Watchman from. the Fury of the Fire—Gatlant Work of the Firemen Saves Muoh Proporty, The lumber yard of John A. Wakefleld, at Bighteenth aud Pierco streets, togethet- with a number of adjacent bulldings was. totally destroyed by fire at 1 o'clock this. morning. The loss will be upwards of §100, 000 most of which is covered by Insurance. The fire was discovered by Oficer Edge- nill, who turned in an alarm from Sixteenth and Leavenworth streets. The first alarm. was heard at exactly 1o'clock. A general alarm followed. The flames spread through the inflammablo mate with marvelous rapidity and the entire yard was burning by the time the first lines of hose were playing on the flames, The blaze burned fiercely for an hour, but. at the end of that time was under control. At one time it was feared that the wooden buildings on the west side of Kighteonth street would all go, but only two of them. were seriously damaged. SomeHomos Burned, The residence at 1036 South Eighteenth street, belonging to Mrs. Augusta Glaubitt. and occupied by her daughter, Mrs. Rmsham, was partially burned, and th furniture was nearly all ruined. The un. occupied two-story building at 1088- South Eighteenth street was entirely destroyed. It was the property of Johm« Reese. Mrs. Glaubitt's residence at 1034, caught fire on the roof, but was extinguichea. without damage. Mrs, Glauber was insured. on her buildings, but the insurance on hes- furniture had run out the day before the fire. She estimates her loss at $1,000 abova: insurance. Mr. Charles L. Gyger, cashler for Mr, ‘Wakefleld, said that the stock on hand wag' worth very near 875,000, and that the builde ings were valued at 25,000 additional. Both. were insured for about 75 per cent of theia. value, Burned a Bull Dog. No one is able to account for the origin bj the fire. It was tho prevalent opinion that it had burned under cover ot the building for some time be- fore 1t was discovered. Page Beckett, the night watchman, was asleep in the office when the fire broke out, and narrowly escaped being burned, so rapd was the progress of the flames. Mr. Wakefleld's pet bulldog was alsoin the office and was burned. Its pitiful whine could be heard above the sound of the flames, and severa) attempts were made to rescue the animal, but without success. The fire was short lived but was hot while it lasted. The firemen's faces were blise teved and several lengths of hose were bursh by the intense heat. Four box cars which were standing on the lumber yard switch were burned. A switch engine made an ate tempt to pull them out but the scorching fiames drove them back, ho Pianing MilL The planing mill of S. M. Gunsaul at 1081 1033 South Eighteenth strect haa a narrow escapo, but hard work by the firemen saved it from seriousdamage. Some stables in the rear were burned, but the contents, includs ing three horses, were saved, The alley west of Lighteenth street was piled high with household goods whick were tumbled out with more hasto tha: care. One woman tearfully berated the men who were trying to help her to save her furniture, claiming that she would rather have it burned than to have % broken to pieces, Noneof the fixtures in the lumbor yard office were saved with the exception of & couple of desks. Much of the furniture thas was taken from the neighboring houses wi afterward carried back somewhat the worse for the rough handling it had received, The Sixteenth street viaduet was crowded with spectators and an officer was sent to move the crowd off, us it was feared that the im. mense weight combined with the heat from the burning lumber might cause a collapse of one of the spans. Saved e — M’GLYNN AND THE POPE, Warmly Recoives the Inde pondent Prefate from New York, [Copyrighted 1693 by James Gordon Bennett.) Roxe, June 24.—[New York Herald Cable special to Tue Bee |—Dr. McGlyna should reach w York tomorrow moras ing on the Werra, by which he came ous, While in Rome the doctor was most prus dent in speech and conduct, He arrived ine cogmta June 8, at Hotel de Pails, The same evening he paid a visit to Cardinal Rampolla, who received him kindly and ine formed the pope of his preseuce. The pope . requested Dr. McGlynn to call on the propas ganda, where on June 10 he had a pleasans greeting from Cardinal Ledochowski, Three days later he was granted a private audi. ence with the pope, who gave him a welcome affectionate and cordial, S0 you came at lust, figlio mio,” said the pove, as the doctor did obeisance. The pope asked about his reconciliation with the church, brought about by Satolli, and exs pressed regret when he heard that D, MeGlynn thought of leaving for Genoa thas night. During the audience the doctor kuelt close to the pope with his urms restiog on the pas pal chair. The holy father inquired if the | doctor dia not wish some provision made for ‘ bim, suggesting he might like to resume his | priestly life. The visitor replied he had | | er ceased Lo live a priestly life through | the six years of excommunication, and clared he wished nothing but the right to accept what bis fricuds offer and to be ab peace. With the exception of the pope and the two cardinals, Dr. McGlyonn saw nothing of the Komun hierarchy and went away ree freshed und cowforied.