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o i ) = @ ) PAGES 1 TO 8. s 19, 1871, SUNDAY OMAHA, [ORNING, FEBRUARY 1895—~TWENTY PAGE SINGLE COPY FIVE CEN PUSHED WITH VIGOR| Japanese Army of the North Puisues Its Oampaign Most Energetically, JUNCTION OF THE FORCES IS PERFECTED Dashing Operations Remova the Obstacles to Complete Military Communication. GINERAL SUNG'S ARMY TW.CZ REFULSED Chinese Assumed the Aggressive but Wera Quickly Routed by the Enemy. ACTIVITY DUZ TO FOSTER'S APPROACH Coming of the American Has Instilied New Life Into tho Celestial Loaders and an Effort at Kesistance Is Expected. {Copyrigiited 1895 by Tress Publishing Company.) TOKIO, Japan, Jan. 18.—(Via San Fran- elsco, Feb. 2.)—New York World Correspond- ent—Speclal Telegram.)—The stories of victo- ries on the Deaotong peninsula toward the end of last year diverted public opinion from the situation further north, which has re- cently been changed by the unexpected activ- ity of the new Chinese leader, Sung. The ad- vance of that officer from New Chwang to the neighborhood of Haicheng compelled Marshal Oyama to extend his lines beyond Choofow, and communicate directly with the extreme western division of Licutenant eral Nozu's army. The main strength of this division is centered at Haicheng, under the control of General Katsura, a commander of whom little has been heard until within the last few weeks. Although his division took part in the fight at Ping Yang, it was distributed at various points of attack, and ouly ‘the names of his subordinates became prominent. In the earlier engagements in Manchuria his two brigades were scattered and were not reunited until after the occupa- tion of one important town on the road from New Chwang to Lao Yang. Here Katsura re- sumed command under circumstances requir- ing extreme watchfuln A considerable portion of his division was guarding the line from General Nozu's headquarters, and not more than 5,000 men were available for im- medlate service, CHINA TOOK THE AGGRESSIVE. A heavy, though undisciplined Chinese force maintained a threatening attitude at and near Lao Yang, and the newly gathered army at New Chwang had so increased in numbers that its general, Sung, was tempted to depart from the Chinese policy of prudence and try the effect of a siege. His plans were badly deranged by the impetuosity of Katsura, who, without waiting to be surrounded, sent four or five regiments to meet the approaching force, and, by a few well directed blows, shat- tered it. The braves retreated in various di- rections, but were presently brought together at a point about twenty miles west. As they never had any proper formation, their defeat left them in no worse condition than before, and it was soon apparent that, relying on their vast numerical superlority and the chance of co-operation from allies at Lao Yang, they were preparing for renewal of the enterprise, It was then decided to establish connection between Katsura’s army and the Japanese army at Lao Yang. Until the end of Decem- ber Yama's troops had been resting at Kin- chow in expectation of being called on to take part in the capture of Wel-Hai-Wel. A brigade under Major General Nogi was put in marching order and started January 1 from Kinchow to capture Kal Ping, the only Chinese stronghold Intervening between the two armies of invasion. EFFECTED THE JUNCTION. General Nogl found the enemy encamped January 10 south of Kai Ping, 7,000 strong. He attacked at dawn, and at 9:30 the de- fenders were flying. A body of cavalry sent in pursuit nearly captured the Chinese Gen- eral Nieh, notorious for his adventures in Corea. He was wounded and his horse killed, The Japanese advanced to Hal-Shan-Sal, on the New Chwang road, which they still hold, ‘Their loss in the fight was about fifty killed and wounded. The number of Chinese killed is sald to be 200. One hundred and fifty prisoners were taken. At noon a small de- tachment from General Katsura entered Kal Ping, and the junction of the armies was effected. The cxposed position of the Third division is no longer a cause of apprehension. Whetber General Nogi shall or shall not be sent against Sung, is a question still under consideration. A winter campaign is not re- garded as judicious, unless great advantage may be expected from it, and for present purposes the contemplated operations at Wei- Hal-Wel may be all that s required. For this undertaking it 1s supposed that the First Toklo division, under General Yamaji, will be again employed, In the advance on Port Arthur a brigade of the Sixth division was added to the First, the combined body being led by Marshal Oyama. This brigade is now serying s the garrison of Port Arthur and will prob- ably not be disturbed for a while. A brigade of the Second division has been sent from Japan to Talien to be united with the First in the assault on the naval station, ONLY HALF HER FORCE EMPLOYED. No one here knows who will be appointed chiet of the new corps, but in my case the leadership will be nominal. Not one of the officers holding the highest rank has any com- prehension of the principles of modern mil- itary sclence. The lieutenant generals or their subordinates do the work and the mar- shals get the credit if they can. It will be & surprise to most foreigners to learn that only half of the army of Japan has yet been called on for active duty in the fleld. Of the seven divisions of which it is composed three and & half have doue all the fighting thus far, It 1s not improbable that the first departure from the sluggishness with which the Chi- mese preparations have been conducted was caused by the announcement of Mr, Foster's departure from America. Until then Chang had been drowsily lingering in Peking, but on hearing that his advisor was on the way, he posted to Shanghal with speed, reaching there on January 14, with a comfortable reginue of fifty-elght attendants. It is a sceret open here that he has expressed no little anxiety lest Mr. Foster be subjected to the corrupt- ing influences of the Japanese, and that his chief incentive in husteniug his journey was to guard the ingenlous American from evil communications in Toklo or Hiroshima. By colncidence, which, though doubtless accl- denta), has an ominjous aspect, the taotai of Shanghal, simultaneously with Chang's ar- rival, decorated the city with a brand new placard, repeating the offers made by the other magistrates, guaranteelng a reward for every Japanese head brought to the local au- Shorities. The destroyer of a Japanese boat Gen- | containing ten or more men is promised 1,000 taels, and any Chinaman or foreigner ingenfous enough to find a way of killing several thousand Japanese at a blow may expect 1,000,000 taels. HOW THE FORT WAS TAKEN, Japs Had a Well Arranged Plan and Carried it Out In Detail. HIROSHIMA, Feb. 2.—The officlal dise patches recelved here show that the capture of the forts at Wei-Hai-Wel was due to the skillful combined movements of the Japanese. It is added that the defense of the place, in view of the strength of it, was feeble. The chief forts at Pal Chi Hyaiso were taken after a few hours of fighting; but gome others were stubbornly defended. The Japanese sixth division was arms at 2 o'clock In the morning and the dvanco was immediately ordered. The as- #ault on the Chinese de began at day- I'ght. At 9 o'clock the outlying trenches under were almost taken. In the meantime the second army corps was assaulting the Pai Chl Hyalso forts on the south. These de- fenses were of great strength and had pre- cipitous sides 100 feet high. The attack was made under cover of a furlous bombardment from the Japanese fleet. Here was the main polnt of the Chinese resistance. After the fighting had proceeded some hours, the Sixth division having driven back the enemy, made a detour and, advancing behind Mount Ku, which hid the Japanese troops, made a strong attack from that side on the Pai Chi Hyaiso forts, which were cap- tured by 12:30 p. m. The Japanese flect then, by preconcerted arrangement, proceeded to take possession of tho outer entrance of the harbor and by 3 p. m. all the forts about Pai Chi Hyaiso to the southwest were captured, and the Chinese were retreating toward Fung L'n Chu. At 4:30 p. m., when these dispatches were sent, the battle was still raging. The Chin- ese fleet and Forts Yatao, Tsamao and Wang | a0 were furiously replying to the Japanese whose ships were maneuvering so as to block the entrances of the harbor YOUN FROM CHINA. Says the Japs Have Too Long a March to Reach Poking by Land. NEW YORK, Feb. 2.—Charles Denby, jr., secretary of the United States legation at Peking, arrived here today on board the Paris from Southampton. He has been away from Peking on leave for the last three months. To a reporter of the Associated press Mr. Denby sald: “The overwhelming defeat of the Chinese armies is a great surprise. However, 1 do not think the prospects of the Japanese army reaching Peking are very bright. It the troops went by land it would be a long march of 200 or 300 miles around the gulf of Pe-Chi-Li from their present situation, and it would take elghteen or twenty hours steaming for the transports to reach Taku, the seaport of Peking. And to take Taku would be a serious underaking, for it is very strongly fortified. This is the post where the British troops met with a revesre on one of their invasions of the country.” Mr. Denby thought the prospects of for- eigners getting away lfrom Peking in case of a sudden attack was not very bright. He sald there was no distinction made in the midns of the Chinese between nationalities. All foreign residents came under the same head with them. Mr. Denby was asked if he thought the United States was well repre- sented by war ships In Chinese waters. He sald: “There are more United States men- of-war oh the station now that there have been for years. The Moncancy Is there, the Baltimore, Charleston and Concord are on the station, and so is the Petrel, though the lat- ter vessel is frozen up at New Chwang, where she will likely stay until March. The Detrolt is also bound for China. I saw her at Port Said when I was there."” Mr. Denby declined to discuss the probable effect of the war in China and Japan. CHINESE STORY OF TH I ONSLAUGHT. One Jupanese Gunboat Sald to Have Been Sunk—Weather Is Severe, CHE-FOO, Feb. 2.—The western forts of Wei-Hai-Wel were taken by the Japanese on January 30 in spite of the good resistance made by the Chinese. One Japanese gunboat was sunk after having been badly damaged. A shell burst in the magazine of one of the Chinese forts and the whole store of powder blew up and is believed to have caused great mortality. The eastern forts were bombarded hours by the Japanese cruisers Naniwa, Akitsushima and Katsura, The Japanese fire was well directed and dismounted several guns north of the eastern forts of Wei-Hal- Wel which were captured. The authorities of Che-Foo are seizing and beheading Chinese soldiers who ran away from Wei-Hal-Wei, Further operations are impossible for the moment, owing to the severity of the weather. for Chineso Fleet Still in the Gulf. YOKOHAMA, Feb. 2.—Officlal advices from the seat of war are to the effect that the enemy’s ships are still in the gulf. There has been severe fighting with heavy loss on both sides. At Shanghal it is reported that one of the Chinese warships was disabled and two torpedo boats sunk by the forts in Linkung Ton, The Chinese fleet is still i at Wel-Hal-Wel, China Buylug Cannon from Krupp. BERLIN, Feb. 2.—It Is reported here that China has bought guns and war material to the value of 6,000,000 marks from Herr Krupp. The crews of the steamers that will convey this materlal to China are to recelve triple wages on account of the dan- ger. Japs Waut to Cupture the Fleet, LONDON, Feb. 2—A dispatch from Che- Foo says that the bombardment of the island of Lul-Kung-Tau, off Wei-Hai-Wel, has been resumed. The Chinese are replying steadily. The Japanese appear to avold firing at the Chinese fleet, with & view to capturing it undamaged. China Advised to Make Terms. SHANGHAI, Feb. 2.—It is stated on good authority that the British, French and Rus- slan ministers at Tokio and at Peking have received instructions from their governments to advise Japan and China to arrange terms of peace. de the harbor ——— Two Hundred Passengers In Danger. COLON, Feb, 2.—The general transatlantic steamer Amerique from St. Nazaire for way ports and Colon, reported as having stranded off Cape Agousta, near Savanilla, department of Bolivar, Colombia, remains in a bad posi- ton, and it is expected she will become a total wreck, There are 200 persons on board of her and they are In & position of great perll. Two steamers have gone to the scene of the wreck to render assistance, e Death of u Bavarian Prinee BERLIN, Feb. 2.—Prince Wolfgang of Ba- vara, fourth son of Prince Louls, eldest son of the king regent of Bavaria, is dead. Prince Wolfgang was born in 1879, Spanish Budget Shows a Dole't, MADRID, Feb. 2.—The Spanish budget for 1894 and 1895 shows a deficit of 6,979,650 pesetas, STORY IS TWO-SIDED Associated Press Oorrespondent Investigates Armenian Outrages, REPORTS OF THE BUTCHERIES ARE TRUE Evidence of Their Extent Buried Beneath the Deep Snows, BROUCHT ON BY REVOLUTIONARY INTRIGUE Turks Were Exasperated by Ornelties Prac- ticed by the Arm nians, AS USUAL THE INNOCINT SUFFERID Stories as to the Numbor of Vietims May Be Exaggerated, but There Can Be No Doubt of the Commission of Horrible Atrocities. (Copyrighted, 1895, by the Assoclated Press.) LONDON, Feb. 2—A letter has been re- coived here from the special correspondent of the Assoclated press who was sent from London to investigate the reported Armenian atrocities, and who is at present in Armenia. For reasons that will be readily understood the name of this correspondent is withheld, but he is a newspaper man well known in America, and was instructed to make an im- partial investigation of the stories told of Turkish cruelty. The Associated press corre- spondent spent a week or more in Constanti- nople before starting for Aremnia, during which time he investigated the reports cur- rent there, and continued his journey. His first letter has just reached here, after being posted by a trusted messenger at Tiflis, Rus- sia. It contains the first authentic news from Armenia direct, and says: Whatever secrets may lie under the snow on the Armenian mountains, it seems beyond dispute from what I have heard from many lips that the published stories of feroclous butchery and red horror in the Sassoun vil- lages have at least a reasonable foundation of truth, and that any change authorized by further investigation will deal more with numbers than with the degree of horror.” But, from what the correspondent of the Assoclated press says in.a later part of his letter, there are two sides to the Armenian story, as he remar “But no matter what light we throw upon the spasmodic wickedness of the Turk, or upon the ingenious deviltry of the revolutionary conspirators, we find that it Is still the innocent that suffer most. The Turk declares that the Armenians have inflicted shocking outrages upon Turkish men and women, and from what is already known of conspiracy methods it Is quite likely that the assertion s true. EXCITING TURKS TO FRENZY. “For instance, it is reported that as a means of exciting the Turks to commit out- tages that will bring down upon them the wrath of a clvilized world, Armenians have thrust gun cartridges into the bodies of living Turkish men and women and have exploded them, and that in the case of one man a hole was made just below the bones of the chest for the insertion of a quantity of gun- powder, which was then ignited as a sort of bomb. These facts are known at the em- bassies in Constantinople, and possibly they have been transmitted to the various govern- ments.” The correspondent also remarks: “The fm- partial truth of the Sassoun massacra will probably never be known, for the dead tell no tales. A careful sifting of all the facts obtatnable from trdstworthy sources in Con- stantinople, Sassoun, Kerisund, Trebizonds and Bittlis indicates titat thio is what happened Certain Armenian peasants, to the number of several thousand, were tending their herds and flocks In their summer pastures in the Sassoun mountains, along the borders of Kur- distan. They were living in mere temporary villages, which they inhabited during the sum- mer pasture season, their winter homes being far down the valleys. They vera unier contract to defend them against cattle stealers and Kurdish bands. A short time before the vil- lagers were ready to return to their homes in the valleys with their fattened cattle a band of Kurdish bandits, industriously search- ing for a winter's supply of provisions, raided the'r stock. The villagers and their Kurdish protectors made a vigorous defense., They would have won the fight and driven off the thieves, and that would have ended it, but before the fighting was over the Turkish government came into the affair, and then the real trouble began. Some of them tele- graphed that a conspiracy was in progress among the Armenians in the mountain vil- lages, and the .order came straight from the palace: ‘Punish the villagers to the utmost ex- tremity.’ NEVER INVESTIGATED THE CHARGE “The palace had not paused to inqu're into the truth of the rumor, and the officers en- trusted with the execution of the order pauszd not to investigate the facts when the troops arrived on *he ground, The Kurdish bandits Joined forces with the Turkish regulars, and even the Kurds who had been defending the Armenians turned straight over and swelled the numbers of the government troops. The poor Armenian peasants were then Ieft at the mercy of a force of Turkish regulars and two bands of Kurds. Then the massacre be gan, For the Armenians it was a fight with- out hope, but st'll they fought as only men can fight who defend thelr wives and chil- dren from outrage and death. They took re- fuge in their houses and barricaded them- s:lves In, but the Kurdish cannon made short work of these, and when they ran In ter- ror from their hiding places they were slain without mercy, man, woman and child. The assaulting of Armenian women by the Turks in that part of the country Is so common a th'ng, even in times of absolwe quiet, that there can be no doubt that this massacre was attended with outrage and atrocity too hor- rible to think of. “The Armenlians In Athens and Constanti- nople assert that forty-two villages were de- stroyed, and nearly 10,000 persons massacred, but more impartial and equally well inforined persons put the number at twenty-five vil- lages and from 1,000 to 3,000 persons killed. The exact namber will never be known. “As for the Turkish commisison, it is such a fraud that it is a waste of breath to talk about It. This assertion may seem to be of the nature of hanging a man before he is tried, but in Constantinople no Buropean of ordinary intelligence has any other view of it. In the forelgn embassies there 15, of course, a disposition to give the Turks a chance to show what the commisison will do, with the hope that the European dele gates will have & good effect toward creating at least a semblance of an investigation, but s the foreign delegates have no power to direct in the course of the inquiry, and are to little more than ordinafy spectators, there is not much hope that anything of consequence will be done. What the Butopean residents of Constantinople are really looking forward to with confidence is’ the investigation of the whole affair by a Buropean commission. They beliove that the Turkish commission will bring In such an’unsatisfactory report that the Christian nations will appoint a commission and make an investigation whether the Turks like {t or not. PLANS OF THE RBVOLUTIONISTS. “The sultan's promise of reform will not be binding -upon the Armenian revolutionary agents, no matter what may come, and until the revolutionary agifation is provided for one way or another by the Christian powers of the world there will be no end to the disturbances in Armenia. This is the revo- lutionary party's opportunity, and it will make the most of it. If Christianity does not step in and put an end to the question once for all crimes, massacres and the name- less atrocities will continue until it does. It is, of course, impossible to say to wh extent radical ideas prevail among the revo- lutionary propagandists, but the plans of some of the leaders are shocking in the ex- treme, In brief, their plans are to commit atrocities upon Turks in order that the in- furiated Turks shall shock the Christian world by the fiendish outrages of their re taliation. When remonstrated with in re- gard to these unchristian plans the men who are responsible for them merely say: ‘It may seem to you cruel and barbarous, but we know what we are doing and why we are doing it The financial methods of these men are almost as ingenious as their plans of political agitation. Certain Armenians of a lower grade of mentality are required to furnish o many thousand plastres to the committee and the means of obtaining the money are plainly mapped out. Here is a case in point: “A wealthy Turk in the service of the BOv- ernment at Constantinople recelved a letter the other morning stating that unless he de- posited 12,000 piastres in a certain place within twenty-four hours he would be killed. An investigation led to the discovery of the fact that the letter was written by an Ar- menian who had been in his employ as a trusted servant for several years. The serv- ant confessed his guilt, but asserted in self- defense that the revolutionary agitators had compelled him to write the letter under pen- alty of death. It was & case of choice of evils, and the poor wretch saved his life at the expense of a long term of imprisonment. “It is believed that a great deal of money is raised in this way, but whether or not this money gets beyond the pockets of the revolutionary agitators no man pretends to know. There is a theory that this money is sed in the purchase of rifles and ammuni- tion, but this is a matter known only to the leaders themselves, FACTS SENT TO WASHINGTON. “I have the highest authority for saying that all of the facts, kiiown to be facts, in the case of the Sassoun massacre have been sent to the State department at Washington. Not only are innocent women and children made to suffer hideous cruelty and unspeak- able outrage as a result of the Armenian plots and Turkish retallatiom, but the revo- lutionary agitation and disturbed condition ‘ot the country are used by W& wicked and un- scrupulous to oppress the poor and satisty the thirst for petty vengeance. “Here fs an fllustration picked up at ran- dom from a mass of storles of false arrests, unjust fmprisonments and other petty persecu- tlons: “An aged Armenian has been in prison in the city of Trebizonde for several months, and is there yet unless he has been released within the past four days, on a charge of being concerned in a revolutionary con- spiracy. The specific charge is that he was acting as a messenger for the leaders of the conspiracy. Common sense should have told the Turks that a man 85 years old was not likely to be employed as a messenger, but the Turkish officials seem to be singu- larly free from common sense. At this trial, after a most wretched imprisonment, the old man proved his fnnocence by con- clusively establishing an alibi, and four days ago the indications were that he would be released unless there | was some newly trumped up charges ageinst him. It was shown at the trial that the charge against the old man was a piece of religious spite, not of Moslem against Christian, but of Presbyterlan against Baptist. There had been a denominational dispute of some sort or other, and this was the way in which it was settled. The man In prison is Gar- ribl Dumbilyan, His aceuser is Solomon Papadzyan, HORRIBLE TALES OF DEPRAVITY. “Not only should the Sassoun massacre be probed to the bottom, but all the attending circumstances should be carefully considered. For one thing, the state of morals in Ar- menia, and especially along the Kurdish frontier, should receive the closest scrutiny. The facts that are now and then told as merest matters of course are most appalling in the depth of their depravity. When an Armenian girl is to be married she Is taken from her home and assaulted by bands of Turks and Kurds, and any member of her family who 1ifts a hand in defense of her honor Is shot down. On the Kurdish fron- tier these brutes do not even wait for the approach of a girl's wedding, but they seize her when she has reached a certain age and carry her off to the mountains, where she 1s most shamefully treated. In a few days she is allowed to return to her home. ““This infamous pragice is so common that it is declared there 15 'not a young Armenian woman living along the Kurdish frontier who has not been a victimf of it. Even children of tender years are mot exempt and some have actually died in the most frightful agony. Any attempt of; the Armenians to combat this custom or to punish the perpe- trators of the outrggés is met by severe measures. “The Turkish commissfon will not investi- gate such cases, and yet the state of society which makes these things possible s re sponsible not only for the Sassoun massacre, but for the hundreds of isolated cases of outrage, murder and false imprisonment which the outside world knows nothing of. It Is a significant fact that assaults are never perpetrated by Turks upom other Turks or by Kurds upon their fellow tribesmen. 1t is always upon the Armenian Christian that the Turk and Kurd let looge their depravity. It is the difference of religion that is the basis of all the injury, oppression and wrong. WHAT WILL CHRISTIAN NATIONS DO “What will the practical Christianity of England and America do about it. Will it help the Armenian revolutionist party to form an independent state in order that the innoc:nt women and children way be pro- tected agalnst outrage and death? Will it give Armenia to Christian Russia, where al- ready many thousands of Armenians are liv- ing in peace and prosperity? Will it drive the Turks from power and divide their em pire umong the nations of Europe? Whatever practical Christianity decides to do, it will not do as a result of the report of the Turk- ish commission of inquiry. Already the (Continued on Second Page.) KAISER IS GRATIFIED People of Lowestoft to Be Remembered for Their Kindness, INQUIRY INTO ELBZ WRECK PRUGRZESING Notable Increase in Voluntary Decorations on William's Birthday, PENALTY FOR DIVULGING STATE SECRETS Prof. Pfleiderer Congratulated by the Emperor for His Inaugural Address, FRENCH AGITATION IN ALSACE-LORRAINE Forty Thousand People In the Conquered Provinces k grated to France Dur- Ing the Pust nperor. Saves a Man's Life. Yoar— (Copyrighted, 1865, the Assoclated Press.) BERLIN, Feb, 2.—The loss of the Elbe, with such a terrible sacrifice of life, h created great sorrow in Germany. The re: cued members of the crew of the Eibe ar- rived at Bremen today, and their examina- tion by the proper authoritics was fmme- diately commenced in the offices of the North German Lloyd and is proceeding there. A committee has been formed under the presi- dency of the secretary of state to provide a means of relief for the families of the poor people who were drowned. Emperor Willlam has given repeated proofs of his sympathy with the sufferers. On Thursday his majesty sent an aide-de-camp to the office of the North German Lloyd company to express his condolence, and both he and the empress have sent a telegram of sympathy to the directors of the com- pany at Bremen. It is understood that he will also give practical testimony of his appreciation of the kindness the survivors received at Lowestoft. The emperor, in a letter published in the Reichs Anzeiger, thanks the nation for the proofs of sympathy and devotion furnished him on his birthday. It is a notable fact in connection with the emperor's birthday anniversary that there was a considerable decrease in the extent of the voluntary il- luminations and feasting, which were mostly of an official character. Some of the Ber- lin newspapers, commenting on this, spoke sharply against what they termed ‘“‘increased Byzantism,” and advised the emperor to rely on the good will of the nation rather than on the number of bayonets. FINE FOR DIVULGING STATE SECRETS. In view of the recent disclosures of official secrets by means of private circulars which have fallen into the hands of the Vorwaerts, the socialist organ, and which have been pub- lished by that paper, an amendment to the Dpenal code has been introduced in the Reich: tag by Count von Boon and other: conserva- tivés, to make It a felony for any govern- ment or public officer to give information without permission upon any official mat- ters, the penalty to be imprisonment and a fine up to 5,000 marks. Emperor William warmly congratulated the new rector of the Berlin university, Prof. Pfleiderer, upon his address last Sunday, in which he spoke of Catholicism and socialism as the two great national dangers to Ger- many. The quarrel between Baron von Stumm and Prof. Wagner has occupied public attention during the week. The baron made offensive remarks about the professor before the Chris- tian society in a recent speech in the Relchs- tag. Prof. Wagner took him up and branded his statements as willful slanders. Stumm thereupon challenged Wagner, who oftered to submit the matter to a court of honor, which the baron refused to do. Since then both sides have continued the fight in the newspa- pers, and the district attorney of Berlin has been requested to proceed against the baron for feloniously lssuing a challenge. This has caused much interest, as Stumm Is an in- timate friend of the emperor. ALSACZ-LORRAINE STILL AGITATED. During the discussion of the question of the governorship of the Reichsland in the Reichstag, Prince von Hohenlohe and Dr. von Putkamer, the secretary of state for Alsace- Lorraine, made interesting statements, which tended to show that the attempt to foster agl- tation among the inhabitants of the two provinces s still kept under by a number of anti-German societies of France, It is estl- mated that 30,000 men and 17,000 women were induced to emigrate into France in 1894 by cne soclety alone, which spent 3,000,000 francs in the work, Moreover, Hohenlohe announced that the Ligue des Patriotes was reorganized in Parls a week ago, and the speaker urged that it was impossible to abandon the dictator- ship. Under the protection of the emperor, a company has been formed to erect a large theater in Berlin, in which classic dramas and first-class concerts will be given at popular prices. It will be called the Deutches Volkes theater, The emperor a few days ago saved a man from being frczen to death, He picked him up while out eleighing at Charlottenburg, ly- ing insensible by the roadside, and he took uim into his sleigh and delivered him at the nearest police station, where the man was restored, According to advices from St. Petersburg, the Russian finance department will shortly promote a Russian steamship line between the Russian ports on the Baltic and the Black sca and New York and Balt'more, to further direct connections with Russia and the United States, by WHITEWAY WILL BE PREMIER, Outcome of the Deadlock In land in Sight. ST. JOHNS, N. Feb. 2.—The political deadlock was broken in the house when Sir William Whiteway secured a commission ap- pointing him to a seat in the executive coun- cil. At noon Hon. D. G. Green, prime min- ster, and his executive colleagues tendered their resignations to the governor. The governor called In Sir Willlam Whiteway, who will undoubtediy attempt to form a min- istry. The following Is a forecast of the new ministry: Newfound- Prime minister, Sir Willlam Whiteway; ieader of the leglslative councll, Hon, A. W. Harvey; without portfolio, E. P. Morris; re ceiver general, Jam Henry Woods; Boled, Frontier Surveyor Starts for Amer et GUATEMALA, Feb. 2.—Mliles Rock, civil eng who surveyed the frontier for this country, and over survey the trouble Guatemala occurred, fs reported L lett bere for the United States, Kox; surveyor general, colonial secretary, Robert the 1cer line line whose limit Mexico as baving between THE BEE BULLETIN, Wenther Foroeast for Nobraska Fair; Slightly Colder; Northerly Winds. Page. 1. Japan's Active Winter Campaigning. Another Side of the Armenian Story. Germany Sorrows for Fibe's Vietin ¥ Recommits the Rollly il Appropsintion Wills in the Senate, Whisky Trust Matters in Court. Details of Tuylor's Criminal Condu Ex-0il Inspector Hilton 85,000 Short, Needy People Suffer from Delay. Elevator ot Umaha Banks aro Hoaraing Gold Last Week in the Soclal World, Musio Amo What Happens at the Theaters, 1 Blufts Local M lowa Lady Teacher In Queen Lil Broaks nto Affairs at Sout France Lhreatened by Socialism, Northern Pncific Fliea the Trac oming of the Wnal B'rith Meeting. se of & New Politic Weei'y Grist of sporting Gossip, Sweeplng Streets in Groat Cities, Antwerp's Exhibition on the Wane. Copenhingen as n Free Vort, Editorlal and Comment, Cunningham R. Scott's Careor, What the Church People Are Dolng. en Barrows' Tale of the Sea. Condition of Omaha's Jobbing Trade, Commerelal and Finuncial News. Features of the Live Stock Market. Petty Potentates of Corea. Story of Brave Marshal Ney. +' und Girls' Dopartment. Woman: Her Ways and Her World “ hronicles of tount Antonlo"—11. Coul 10, 11 12, 13, 14, 15, DECLARATIO! or WAR EXPECTED. Pry dent Dinz Will Mako Mexico's Answe Pablic Monday. CITY OF MEXICO (Via Laredo), Feb. 2. President Diaz will give out Monday. February 4, what Is expected to be Mexico' final ultimatum in the dispute with Guate- | mala, on It current rumors and the state of | public feeling are to be believed, it will be a declaration of war. It is stated tonight, upon what is believed to be good authorit that the Mexican cabinet will from its original policy. not deviate The cabinet held a lengthy session this afternoon, at which most of the diplomatic corps was present, and another session is being held in private. The sentiment of the people seems to be strongly against any receding by Mexico from the original contention. It is rumored that Guatemala will not recede or accede to Mexico’s demand. The senti- ment among the American colony here seems to be unanimously in favor of Pr Diaz' course. Guatemala has 13,700 troops on the frontier, and 5,000 more started from Guatemala City. A report is current here, but, of course, not substantiated, that the Rothschilds have agreed to loan the Central American country £1,000,000. tonight CLARENCE WILL NOT ACCEPT AMNESTY Lnte Chlef of the Mosquitos Enjoys His Exile at England's Expens (Copyrighted 1895 by Press Publishing Company.) KINGSTON, Jamalca, Feb. 2.—(New York World Cablegram—Special Telegram.)—Clar- ence, the deposed chief of the Mosquito In- dians, has been officially directed to formally decline amnesty under the conditions im- posed by Nicaragua. The proffered amnesty depends on his confessing that he was in rebellion and waiving all his claims to chief- taincy of the Indians or to anything else on the reservation. British support is promised him. Clarence was brought here on a British war ship when Bluefields got too hot for him, and has-been maintained in luxurious laziness ever since on a liberal pension pro- vided by the British government. Italian Officer Wont Insane. ROME, Feb. 2.—Major 0ddi of the genera! staff of the army became suddenly insane He was in the war office when he suddenly cried in a loud voice that he saw murderers and thieves at a window. With his face dis- torted with fear he rushed out of the rooms and ran to the Quirinal. He passed the sentinels without difficulty and proeeeded to the department of police, where King Hum- bert was recelving the provincial prefects. As he opened the door and entered the room Major Oddi cried “Thieves! Murderers!" The king started with surprise as he heard the cry and saw the wild look upon the face of the unfortunate officer. The attendants seized Major Oddi and took him from the room and summoned physicians to attend him, All Swear They Saw Nothing, ROTTERDAM, Feb. 2—Captain Gordon, master of the Crathie, the steamer which is alleged to have sunk the Elbe, the man who was at the wheel of the first named steamer when the collision occurred, and the members of the crew of that vessel, whose watch on decl it was at the time of the collision, have been examined judiclally and they have all afirmed that they did not see the vessel with which the Crathie collided. They add that they did not see a vessel sink and that they aid not hear any cries of distress, Rochefort Keturoing to Parls, LONDON, Feb. 2—M. Henrl Rochefort, proprictor of the Intransigeant of Paris, who has been exlled from France since he left that country for England with the late Gen- eral Boulanger In 1889, has left London for Parls, the amnesty bill having been passed by both the Senate and the Chamber of Deputies. M. Rochefort has arranged {o arrive at the French capital tomorrow. He will be ac- corded an enthusiastic reception by his friends, Hovas Attack Ewily Ropulsed, PARIS, Feb, 2.—A dispatch recelved here Tamatave, Madagascar, via Zanzibar, announces that the Hovas recently commenced to bombard Tamatave, which has for some time past been occup'ed by the French troops. The sbell fire from the French cruiser Papin and the fire of the French land battery, how- ever, silenced and dismantled the Hovas' gus from Eoclulists tcore Another Point, BERLIN, Feb, The committee of the Relchstag, to which was referred the anti- revolution bill, has adopted, by a majority of one, a clause making glorification of dueling punishable. The radicals and socialists sup- ported the amendment as a protest against class privilege in dueling. Fled Without Firing n Shot, RIO DE JANEIRO, Feb. 2.—General Pego, commander-in-chief in Parana, who was re- cently court-martialed and acquitted, has fled with the governor of the state of Vicente Michado, without firing a shot, leaving arms, ammunition, provisions and everything 1o the cnemy. Oniy One Warship at Colon, COLON, Feb. 2.—The American crulser Atlanta 1s the culy warship bere, | charged) was adopted. SENT THE BILL BACK Opponents of the Funding Mcasurs Soore a Decided Trinmph, RIILLY SCHEME MUST BE MODIFIED By a Vote of 178 to 106 the Houss fays the Present One is Not Satisfactory, DEBATE UNDER THE FIVE MINUTE RULE California Members Bitterly Aseail the Pending Measure, COVERNMENT DEBT IS NOT SECURED slmply Opor ted s n Reloase to Hanilngs ton, the Stanford Estate and Othors Composing the Original Corporation. WASHINGTON, Feb. 2.—The Pacific raile rond funding bill was recommitted 1o the come mittee on Pacific rallroads late this afternoon by a vote of 177 to 108, showing an unex= pectedly large majority against the measure, Although the drift has been agalnst the bilk from the inception of the debate, its advocutes were not without hope, even today. Th: ex- tent of thelr defeat was a great surprise to both sides. The debate today of a brisk and lively character. Only three of the eighe teen sections of the bill had been read when the hour for taking the vote arrived. But the substantial amendment (to prevent the payment of dividends on the stock wniil the government debt should have bean fully dls- Mr. Boatuer's substi- tute to foreclose the government's mortgage in case of default was cut out by u parlias mentary maneuver, so that when the voting began in the house he moved to recoinmit the bill, a motlon equivalent to its divect des feat. A proposition submitted as an wwend= ment to compromise the debt (agyrezating $130,000,000) for 000,000 was defeatod, and, as stated above, the bill was sent to its doom by an overwhelming majority. The opponents of the measure signalized the victory with shouts of jubilation. A bill called up by Mr Outhwaite, demo- crat of Ohio, temporarily, to create the rank of lieutenant general of the army, met with some opposition from Mr. Gillette, repubs lican of Massachusetts, but it was passed. The purpose of the bill Is to authorize the promotion of Major General Schofield to that rank. TOOK UP THE FUNDING BILL. The house then proceeded in committee of the whole under the special order to resume the consideration of the Pacific railroads fund= ing bill. An attempt was made to secure an agreement to continue general debate until 8 o'clock, but it failed and the bill was read for amendment under the five-minute rule. Mr. Boatner, democrat of Louisiana, de- clared that some of the section of the bill were faulty, and In his opinion if the com- nanies filed thelr written acceptance of its conditions the hands of the government would be tied for fifty years. Mr. Hepburn, republican of Towa, contested this, pointing out the language of the stipula- tion and the compulsory payments the bill conjoined on the companies. An amendment was adopted making the debt due the United States bear 3 per cent interest. Mr. Maguire, democrat of California, chal- lenged the statements of Mr. Kyle, demo- crat of Mississippl, that the bill authorized the government to retain in its treasury all moneys due for mail transportation and apply, them to the extinguishment of the debt. Mr. Grosvenor, republican of Ohio, pald a high tribute to the late Senator Stanford, one of the men being constantly denounced. in connection with these roads, but admit- ting fraud in the past, he contended that it was now the duty of the government to adjust this debt so that it could realize as much as possible. DENOUNCED BY MAGUIRE. Mr, Maguire deriounced bitterly the method pursued in this debate, which had excluded from participation, except under the five- minute rule, the members from the Pacifio coast, who had given more attention to the matter than any other. He contended that the pending bill contained no provision for the payment of the debt, but it did discharge all the debts of the “incorporated pirates' who had raided the treasury of the roads during the last thirty years. A long controversy followed over the, ques tion as to whether the bill would extinguish the debt In fifty years. Mr. Reflly, who was standing close to Mr. Breckinridge, was s0 emphatic In his gesticulations that some of the members crowded about and the gallerles craned thelr necks thinking they were to witness a repetition of the Heard-Breckin= ridge row of yesterday. At this point an attempt was made to stop debate until Mon= duy or Tuesday. The leaders on both sides agreed that it was necessary to the intelll~ gent understanding of the bill, but Mr, Lane, democrat of Illinois, objected, and Mr. Locks wood, democrat of New York, demanded the regular order. Mr. Maguire accordingly procecded, devots ing most of his time to the discussion of the alleged frauds by which he claimed Huntings ton, Crocker, Stanford and Hopkins, as directors, turned over to themselves, as stocks holders, $62,000,000 of profits. The time was at hand when the men o estates could be reached, Fifteen millions of Huntington's money and $15,000,000 of the estate of Leland Stanford could be secured. Fifteen millions of the estate of Stanford was now tied up to satisfy the statutory, obligation. The main objects of this bill wi to release that property by operation of law. / Mr. Weadock, democrat of Michigan, in reply reiterated the assertion made previously: in the debate that the bill reserved all the rights and remedies against the ““Big Four.* The bill, he said, presented a reasonable and business-like method of collecting the debt due from roads, Mr. Terry of Arkansas offered an amends ment requiring the holders of the first morte guge bonds to walve their priority in favor of the United States, when the compani made provision for the payment of the firsy mortgage bonds, as required before the coms panics shall have the benefit of the act, Mr. Reilly denied the assertion that the amount of the payments by the Relily bild aid not equal the interest on the debt fon fifty years at b per cent RELEASED THE CORPORATIONS, Mr. Beltshoover of Pennsylvania replied that the effect of the bill was to extend the debt for fifty years at 6 per cent and releass | the corporations from paying the principle. {The governm:ul's selfishness as a creditos the

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