Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 22, 1895, Page 1

o+ {/ e STABLISHED JUNE 19, 1871. e EEBRUARY 00 22, 1895. SUSTAINED THE ~ NINISTRY Recult of the Voting in the House of Com- mons a furpriss, GOSCHEN'S ATTITUDE H_LPED THEM OUT Beveral Liberal-Unlonists Abstalned from Votlng—Indian Markets Declared to Bo Essential to the perity of Laneashire, I'ros- LONDON, Feb. 21.—Lord Rosebery's ad- ministration has passed successfully through & storm which its opponents thought would overwhelm it and which many believed would require the most skillful statesmanship to weather. Despite the pre- dictions of the conservative papers and. the more or less badly disguised fears of the liberal organs, the government cawe out of the contest with flying colors and a majority that surprised even those who would at no time admit there was a chance of defeat. The question that precipitated thg dangerous situation was made by Sir Henry James, formerly attorney general in Mr. Gladstone's cabinet, but who abandoned the liberal party on the bringing forward of the Irish home rule scheme. By standing order No. 17 of the House of Commons a member may move for the ad- Journment of the house for the purpose of discussing a matter of public importance. Taking advantage of this order, Sir Henry today moved the adjournment in order to call attention to the import duties on cotton recently decided upon by the government of India. It s claimed by many of the manu- facturers of Manchester and other cotton centers In Lancashire that the imposition of these duties has had a most serious effect on thelr business and they desired the im- perfal government to intervene for their abolition. The cotton intere strongly represented in the house, and when the no tice of the motion was given it was con- Jectured by not only many conservative pa- pers, but by some of the staunch liberal organs, that the government, which was bound to oppose the desired change, would be overthrown by the Lancashire party in com- bination with the conservatives and liberals interested in the cotton trade The Parnell- ites, too, were expected to cast their votes against the government, but the result did not bear cut the hopes or fears of the poli- tical parties, for, by a majority of 195, the Rosebery ministry triumphantly repelled the attacks of Its assailants. GOSCHEN SAVED THE MINISTRY. This result was In a measure due to the attitude of Mr. Goschen, who, though a lib- eral-unionist, dealt with the question in a spirit of great fairness toward the govern- ment. He suggested the holding of a confer- ence in order to remedy the deficit in India, for which purp: the cotton tmport duty and the exclse duty on cotton were laid. ‘When the division came to be taken on the motion it was found that a large number of conservatives and liberal-unionists, and also several members representing Lancashire d! tricts, went Into the governiment camp in a boly. Among those who voted against the government was the Rt. Hon. Joseph Cham- berlain, who it is said was responsible for tho pushing of the motion. Baron de Roths- child and several other liberal-unionists ab- stained from voting. After the preliminary business of the day had been cleared away the discussion began upon the motion of Sir Henry James for an adjournment of the house in order to call attention to the Indian import duties on cot- ton. It was 5:12 o'clock when Sir Henry ob- talned leave to submit his motion. The house was then crowded, and great excitement pre- wvailed in the lobbles. On beginning his re- marks Sir Henry called attention to the re- cent imposition of cotton duties in India. Sir Donald MacFarlane, liberal, asked whether the motion was one contemplated by the standing orders, the subject being of no more Importance than a week ago. The speaker ruled that the motion was within the spirit of the standing orders, inasmuch as it referred to tho imposition of duties in India, which, it was alleged, called for an instant remedy. The decision of the speaker was greeted with loud conservatwe cheers. In his speech Sir Henry said India was the greatest market Lancashire has for her cot- ton and textile goods. The prosperity of Lancashire depended upon that of India. = The cotton industry in India was flourishing and had largely supplanted the tiade of Lan- cashire with China af® Japan, LANCASHIRE INDUSTRY DECREASING. The Industry in Lancashire consequently was decreasing. No profits were made by the cotton master, and working ‘people were thrown out of employment by the stoppage of mills or the curtailment of production. He charged that the secretary of state for India had listened to the appeals of agitators in India while he had neglected to consult the manufacturers in Manchester, *Tlow could the government In the future urge upon Ger- many and France and the Bnglish colonics the advantages of free trade when it itself had sanctioned the imposition of import duties in India. (Cheers.) The proposed duty would fall on British manufucturers. Twenty thousand Jooms in the mills of Great Britain, on which 7,000 working people were em- ployed, have' stopped running and their peo- ple are idle, Henry Fowler, secretary of state for India, emphatically denied the existence of any agi tation or conspiracy on behalf of any class of persons on this subject. He had not lis tened to the views of agitators, but ha taken counsel with the highest and most dis- tinguished servants of the crown in India Sir Henry James had charged him with sac rificing the interests of England, but he had failed to give the slightest proof in support of that accusation. Dutles had previously existed In India from the time that country was handed over to the crown until they were abolished, because they were consid- ered protective. The House of Commons had by a resolution In 1877 declared in favor of their repeal as soon as the financlal condi tion of the country would allow. The duties were repealed In 1882, Last year, however, the Indian government was confronted with ® deficit of 3,000,000 tens of rupees and pro- posed to meet it by the imposition of fm- port duties on cotton. The home government at first refused to consent (o the suggestion, and the result was that the famine ap- propriation fund and the provincial grants were suspended, and there was ultimately a defieit in the budget of £300,000. DUTIES WERE NOT PROTECTIVE, Mr. Fowler then quoted a statement made in the House of Lords by Lord Cross, while he was Indian secretary in the last adminis- tration of Lord Salisbury, that the reimposi tion of the duties was no party question, but must be decided by the government of the day and with regard to the state of Indian finances. That was the last statement made on the subject by one of the opposition leaders. (Liberal cheers) The proposed du- ties were to be levied on the bigher class of £90ds, in which there is practically no con titlon, In regard to the question of free mport and protective dutles, they are not the same thing. What we have recommend:d to foreign countries was not the abolition cf mport duties, but of protective dutles. There no protection when a customs duty is accompanied by an equivalent excise duty. The dutles on cotton would be paid by the people of India, as the tea duty was paig by the people of Great Britaln. He did not believe that the former would reduce the consumption of cotton in Indiw, Mr. Fow- ler declarcd he had tried to do his duty as seeretary of state for India and had not neglected the Interests of Lancashire. The house knew what the consequences were if it refused to sanction the administrative acty of the government, which did not shrink from accepting tho consequences if censure was Inflicted, but it must not be forgotien that if the government was responsible to the house the latter was respousible to the people of Iadia. (Cheers) If it Ahown that the rate of excise duty imposed effoet Lhe goveru- of its friends | government with a view to prevent such an effect. Mr. Goshen, chancellor of the exchequer in Lord Salisbury's last administration, admit- ted that the question was a very large one. There was much to be =ald on both sides and the feelings of the Indian people ought to be taken into account. Members of the House of Lords ought to range themselves boldly on the side of the executive. The question ought to be arranged by a confer- ence with a view to remedying the deficit in the Indian budget. Surely it was not beyond statesmanship to find an_alternative to these import duties. He urged the government to endeavor to bring India and Manchester into harmony. Sir Wil m Vernon Harcourt said he rec- ognized the lofty spirit of Mr. Goshen's re- marks, The government had fully foreseen the difficulties of the question, but had not hesitated a single moment in taking a de- cision that it believed was necessary for the interests of India. If defeated the govern- ment wquld have the faction that it could not have fallen in a more worthy cause Dadahahad Maoroji, an East Indian, who represents the central division of Finsbury In the liberal interests, warned the opposi- tion that if the motion were adopted the first nail would be driven into the coffin of British rule in India. A division was then taken on the motion, and it was defeated by a large majority, the ote standing 304 against to 109 in favor of it. BLACKMAILERS SENTENCED. French Newspaper Men fent to Jall and Ordered t 'ay Heavy Fines. PARIS, Feb. 21.—The trial has been con- cluded of M. Raoul Caniveta, director of the Paris, and other representatives of the press of this city, who were charged with black- mail, and sentences upon those convicted were pronounced today. M. de Clere, of the staft of the Nineteenth Century, was con demned to fifteen months' imprisonment and to pay a fine of 200 francs; M. Girard, the manager of the Nineteenth Century, and M. Heftler, to two years in prison and 1,000 rancs fine each; M. Camille Dreifus, a for- mer member of the Chamber of Deputies and late political director of the Nation, to one year in prison and 500 francs fine, and M. Portalis, formerly director of the netcenth Century, who fled to Antwerp when the blackmail ng became known, to five years' imprisonment and 3,000 franes fine., The sentence of M. Portalis was by default, M. Caniva and M. Trceard were acquitted of the charges made against them. The arrest and conviction of these men grew out of the uncarthing of a gigantic scheme of levying blackmail upon the managers of all the casinos and gambling clubs of France. Tt s also understood that really important finan- cial institutions and other sound corporaticns long submiited to blackmalling operations in order to prevent the publication of articles of an unfavorable character. The stopping of the publication of social scandals is alsy sald to have been a fruitful source of in- come. De Clerc and Heftler were the go- betweens for the purpose of securing the hushing of threatened newspaper disclosures in regard to the gambling clubs and for ex- torting money from their proprietors. HAVE CONCLUDED NOT TO FIGHT. Guatemala and Mexico Have Arrivea at a Peaceful Agreement, GUATEMALA, Feb. 21.—Reliable informa- tion received at the Foreign and War depart- nents says that it is certain that some sort of a settlement has been reached in the Mexican-Guatemala negotiations, and, though the conference between Mariscall and De Leon continues in thé City of Mexico, they are only discussing minor details. It cannot be learned upon what basis a settlement has been reached, though several high officials assured the press correspondent that it is a positive fact that there will be no war just now. QUEZTZALTENANGO, Guatemala, Feb, 21.—General Miron, commanding the Guate- malan forces on the frontier, has just re- turned from the capital, where he was called by order of the minister of war to confer with the president. He says there is now every reason to believe a pacific settlement has already been reached. Everything is quiet along the border and the discipline among the troops on_ both sides of the fron- tier is excellent and there is no reason to fear that any act of imprudence by the soldiers of either army may provoke a conflict. Gen- eral Miron denies the report that the Guate- malan government Intends sending more troops here for the present. HAWAIIAN EXILES DESTITUTE, Left All Thelr Property Bobind and One of Them 1s Now Shoveling Dirt. VANCOUVER, B. C., Feb. 21.—The de- ported Hawalian royalists, Cranstoun, John- ston and Muller, are still here. Muller, who was a prosperous merchant in Honolulu, has been given work by the city shoveling dirt on the streets to enable him to live, John- ston's friends have come to his relief. The American, Cranstoun, is a guest of United States Consul Peterson, The men fear that all their property in Honolulu has been seizad by the Hawalian government. Japs Successes Officiaily Reported. WASHINGTON, Feb. 21.—Mr. Kurino, the Japanese minister, received a cablegram from the home office at Tokio announcing that a dispateh had been reccived from Admiral Ito, in command of the naval forces of the em- pire, stating that on the 20th the Japanese fleet entered the harbor of Wei-Hai-Wei and took possession of the forts and the torpedo station on the island of Liu Kung. The Japanese captured ten Chinese vessels, ex- ivo of those sunk. The captured vessels include the ironclad battleship Chen Yuen, two cruisers, one of them the largest and best in the Chinese fleet, and six dispatch boats, these latter being gunboats named ac cording to the Greek alphabet and having an armament of one large and several small gung, One of the gunboats was disarmed id glven to the Chinese for the transporta tion of the body YOKOHAMA, Feb. 21.—An official dispatch states that the Chinese attacked the Japa- nese forees at Kumochang, Manchurla, on Sun- day last, but were repulsed with the loss of thirty killed. The Japanese sustained no loss, Prisoners who were taken by the Japanese state a force of 8,000 foot soldlers with eight guns and 800 horsemen under General Sheung were sent from Lieu Yang to attack Kumochang. The assailants were the van- guard of (h's force. They numbered 1,000 foot soldiers and 300 horsemen. TIEN-TSIN, Feb. 21.—An imparial decree nas been lssued that Kung, ex-Tato of Port Arthur, and General Yeh Chi Cio, who wera tried by the Board of Punishment, will b condemned to prison until autumn, when they are to be executed for losing Port Arthur to the Japauese, Honored the COLON, Feb. and his staff, on Monday, W letorious Genora) General Rafael Reyas who arrived at Carthagena S glven a most enthusiastic veception by the officials and citizens of that town. General Reyas, who has been in the field against the rebels, left Cartha- gena after the reception and procecded for the interior. There is a floti] at Ba ranquila. Some of 'the r amboats have been disarmed, showing Bovern- ment belleves the rebellion at an end. st the to be lan Priest Dead, Feb. 21.—Hassan Shirazi the Shiah clergy, who at the of the year 1891 issued an edict the use of tobacco, which resulted in the withdrawal of the imperial tobacco mo- nopoly, 15 dead. He was aged 84 years. As A mark of respect to the dead priest the bazars in all the cities of Persla will be closed for five days and there will be gen- eral mourning. Noted TEHERA head of the end against could be | 'wfl:fihn&ntu mum.nl aenzs Attucks the Nobility, LONDON, Feb. 2L.—A. J. Balfour, th of Dunrayen, the marquis of Granby, Sir Herbert Maxwell, and & uumber of other roniinent politiclans are suffcrlug from lo- nense earl | sent out from London to | ment of the excitement prevaliing oy DIEFICULT TO SECURE FACTS Authorities Declara a Oholera Quaran‘ine to Keep Out Armenian Investigators, REPMRTS OF FURTH :R OUTRAGES RECEIVED Desire of the Armenians to Tell a Good Story to Throw Odium on the Tark Largely Discredits Their Testimony. (Copyrighted, 15 LONDON, Feb, spondent of the by the A 21.—The oclated Press.) special corre- Assoclated press who was Armenia to investi gate as to the atrocities sald to have been perpetrated upon the Armenians, and whose first report, in a letter sent from Tiflls, Rus- sla, was received here on the 2d instant and cabled to the United States that day, has made a second report. This, like the first one, was posted at Tiflis. It is dated January 18, 1In it the correspondent gays: “In the letter T wrote ten days ago giving the result of some preliminary inquiries I had made at Constantinople, Sassoun, Kera- sund, Trebizonde and Tifiis, concerning the alleged atrocities and the state of affairs generally in Armenia, 1 endeavored to con- vey some idea of the difficulties that would be encountered in prosecuting any sort of an Investigation or getting at the real facts of the case. That I did not exaggerate these dificulties 'Will be apparent from further in- formation on the point, which I am now in position to supply. Take, to begin with, the cholera quarantine which is being enforced in various portions of the sultan's dominions in such a manner as to draw a net around the districts of Armenia in which the atroci- ties are alleged to have occurred and to keep away from the scene of the outrages all in- dependent investigators. It is announced that cholera exists in Van, Bittlis and Moosh and that strict quarantine regulation must therefore be enforced. Now, it certainly Is a peculiar circumstances that cholera should have happened to break out at this season of the year in the region of the Sassoun massacres and nowhere else in Asia Minor, Who is to prove or disprove the statement that the diseaso Is raging in those snoweclad and practically inaccessible mountain fast- nesses. Even in Constantinople and Stam- boul little or nothing is known by the public or by newspaper correspondents concerning the cholera outbreaks officially reported from time to time in these cities. PREMIUM FOR CHOLERA CASES. “In the Turkish capital a medical officer reporting a case of cholera recelves double pay until a clean bill of health is returned from the affected district, and in a country like Turkey it is not surprising if doctors find symptoms of cholera in everything from croup to typhoid fever. It is pretty thor- oughly understood that the quarantine law is the highest/law on health and that even in- ternational courts must bow to it. So, when we are told, as we have been here during the past few days, that an cpidemic of cholera has suddenly made its appearance in the region of the Sassoun massacre, even a blind man can see that it is meant to delay and obstruct the work of the Turkish com- mission of Inquiry, It is believed here that the Turks, forced to the wall by the protest of the foreign delegates on the commission, threw up the last obstruction and hoisted the yellow flag upon it. Even a foreign dele- gation could not ignore & cholera quarantine or find means to evade it. “It is argued that if the Turks have suc- ceeded In repairing the damages to tle Sas- soun villages there is no reason why the committee should not be allowed fo visit the scene of the massacre and flounder about in ten feet of snow if it cared for that sort of thing, but the refusal of the Turks to allow any one to travel through the Sassoun coun- try and the timely quarantine suggests that the money sent to rebuild the destroyed villages has been stclen, or that the snow was so deep before the money arrived that nothing could be done. In that case the bodies of the butchered Christians are lying under the snow. The Turks will take good care that they reach the scene first in the spring and clear away all traces of fhe n as- sacre before indignant Chirstianity insists upon sending in an independent investigat- ing comm'ttee. BEven without the cholera quarantine it would be practically impos- sible for” the committee to make any real headway until spring, owing to the intense cold and the great amount of enow in Ars menia. OUTRAGES HAVE NOT ENDED. ““Tales of oppression, outrage and murder in other parts of Armenian Turkey continue to come out here, and along the southern coast of the Black sea. If the detailed, facts of the Sassoun massacre are ever estab- lished it must be independent of Armenian testimony, or their value may be seriously questioned. In the first place, every Ar- merian with whom it has been my lot to come into contact seems to have a very vague idea of the value of accuracy and truth. In the second place, in his anxiety to make out a case against the Turk, he is willing to publish as fact any grotesque rumor that he may chance to fall over in the street. In the third place, he does not really know what actually took place In the Sas- soun mountains, but his vanity will not per- mit bim to acknowledge it, and so, to be up with the times and to help along the cause of his people, he embellishes the rumors he hears, and frequently says that he is in secret_communication” with friends in Moosh and Bittlis, who are harboring Sassoun ref- ugees, In 'this way, while meaning to do g0od to the cause of his people, he really does harm, for he effectually destroys his own value as a witness, The fact s greatly to be regretted, but the average Armerian cannot be believed on oath, An Armenian lately said: ‘Seventeen hundred Armenians have Just now been massacred by Turks.' ‘How do you know? I asked. A refugee has just come in.’ You wish me to publish that as a fact?' “*Yes, Why not? The people of England and America wish to know these things.' *‘Very well, bring the refugee to me that I may write down his story.’ “The so-called refugee was not a refugee at all, but simply a laborer from Erevan in search of work. His story amounted to this In Erevan he had heard a man say that an- other in Btehmedsein had said that 1,700 people had been killed in the Sassoun massa- cre. Another Armenian was willing to swear to me on the bible that 5,000 persons had been killed in the Sassoun district. In proof of this he sald that o many persons were living In the Sassoun mountains before the massacre took place, and that an esti- mated number of thousands had escaped; hence the missing, who numbered 5,000, had been killed. But this man was moderatc and rational. “Some place the number at 10,000, argu- ing that only a few persons escaped from the mountains. What Is the patient investigator to do with such people? To such an extent has the fear of the revolutionary movement taken hold of the officlals of Turkey that Americans and Englishmen find it next to impossible to trade in any part of Armenia, however remote from the village of Bittlis. To an American citizen of Armenian birth i is simply impossiblo to get into the country at all. no matter on what pretext.” Churchill's Son Enters the Army, LONDON, Feb. 2l.—Winston Churchill, eldest son of Lord Churchill, has entered the army. He has just been appointed a lieutenant in the Fourth hussars, one of the crack cavalry regiments. The Fourth hussare are now stationed at Aldershot Lieutenant Churchill is in his 21st year. Lady Churchill b to Parls, where she will remain several months - spects of a Lynching. Feb. 2l.—There is no abate- th Wallace to exterminate the Bowlby family. Lawrence Lyman, the hired m can scarcely survive another day. His death will be the signal for an atiack on the jail in which Wallace is co flued for the purpose of lynching him. i PEKIN, 1l attempt of Albert Wallace {s under a strong guard of deter- mined men armed with Winehesters. Mr. and Mrs, Bowlby are in great sagony and may not recover. MINISTER GRAY'S REMAINS, Were Plnced Ina New Coffin at Indianapolis and Sent on to Unlon City, INDIANAPOLIS Feb, 21.—The body of Isaac P. Gray, late United States minister to Mexico and formerly goverfict of Thdiana, ar- rived in the unfon station at 8 o'clock this morning on a special train over the Monon from Chicago. As the train came to a halt a minister's salute of seventeen guns was fired. The train consisted of a baggage car and a Pullman sleeper. In the center of the baggage car, in the coffin, enclosed in a rude box, rested the body of the dead minister. Mrs. Gray and Bayard Gray, her son, ar- rived In the sleeper. Fully. 1,000 people crowded up to the iron railings north of the tracks and eyed the train curlously. Inside the railing were train and railroad officlals and the officers of the Indlanapolis Artillery. As soon as the traln came to a halt it was taken in charge by the light artillery and_a_watch was placed on the funeral car.' There was no attempt to decorate or drape the car. In the middle of th car, between the two side doors, rested the box containing the cofin. It was almost entirely covered with wreaths and flowers, all giving out a strong puvgent odor, and all dead and withered. The body was later removed to Union City, Ind., for in- terment. The state capitol is elaborately draped in mourning emblems, and many business and private houses.throughout the city are also draped. The body of the late minister was not in geod condition. The head was thrown back in an unnatural position and the face was 0 black as to be alnost unrecognizables A few former friends of Mr. Gray said that they would not have known him. A cofin was brought down and tne body trans- ferred to it. It was a black cloth covered cedarwood coffin, with long bar handles af oxidized plate, and Is known as a state coffin The remains arrived in Chicago over the Atchison at 10 o'clock last night. A committee of the local society of the Sons of Indiana met the train bearing the remains at Jolist, and at the depot In Chicago the train was met by United States District At- torney Frank B. Burke of Tndianapolis, who went to Chicago to take charge of the re- mains. Mrs. Gray, her son Bayard, Frank Dennison of Chicago and William Starbuck of Indianapolis, both relatives of the famil were on the train. In addition to the military, bodies will participate in monies at Union City tomerrow. The hovorary pall bearers are: Clgude Matthews, governor of Indiana; James' Murdock, L fayette; Harry B. Smith, Hartford City; Eli Brown, Frankfort; Charles L. Jewett, New Albany; Mayor C. S. Demny, Indianapolis; W. A. Ketcham, attorney general of Indiana; L. J. Hackney, Shelbyville, judge of the supreme court; L. J. Monks, ‘Winchester, judge of the supreme court, and R. E. Purcell, Vincennes passCaR IO BAD WORK AT MARE ISLAND, many civie the funeral cere- Naval Vessels Repaired There Show Faulty Workmanship and Muterial. SAN FRANCISCO, Feb, 21.~The Evening Bulletin gives publicity to a scandal that is said to be agitating the naval officers at Mare Island. The Bulletin asserts that charges have been made against the con- structlon._and repair department at - the navy yards, and that an mvestigating corn- mittee has been ordered here by the secre- tary of the navy. A repork recently made by Admiral Beardslee is gaid to e thHE" cause of the investigation,' Th& admiral's report has not been made! public, Tt is hinted that poor and cheag material and poor” workmanship have chhracterized re- cent repairs made at Maré Island. The cruiser Philadelphla, the gunboats York- town and Bennington and the cruiser Bos- ton, all of which are reported disabled, were very recently overhauled at Mare Island. The Bennington. which in eproute from San Diego to Colombia, Is crippled and will be held at Acapulco for repairs. The Yorktown, which i on the China sta- tion, 1s algo crippled. The Boston Is again back at Mare Island undergoing repairs. The Philadelphia, on which over $50,000 was expended In repiirs at Mare Island, broke down on_her first cruise after leaving the yards. She was badly beaten on her cruise to Honolulu by the steamer Australia. Her starboard engine was disabléd and her port engine badly strained. - Admiral Beardslee reported these facts to Washington, the Bulletin asserts, and accompanying his re- ports were severe strictures on the methods prevailing at Mare Island —— Police Think They flaye’'a Murderer. BROOKLYN, Feb. 21.—The police are al- most certain they have cleared up the mys- tery surrounding the deaths pf Henry Knoop and John Semas, the two young men who were found dead in bed last Sunday at Miller's hotel on Braadway, and who were at first thought to have been asphyxiated by escaping gas. This morning John Boha- mann, & young bricklayer, was ‘arrested in Floboken.” He corresponded with the de- seription of the companion of Knoop and Semas, who accompanied them to the hotel, but left several hours before thelr bodies were discovered, The police say the cir- mstantial evidence against Bohamann is very strong. Bohamann' has been out of employment for some time, but the police found’ $210 concealed under the carpet in his room. ——— National Lead Company Kleots OMcers, JERSEY CITY, N. J., Feb. 21.—The an- nual meeting of the stockholders of the National Lead company was held here thi afternoon. The attendance represented 203, 639 shares of stock. The following directors were re-elected: President, W. P. Thomp- son of New York; L. A. Cole of New York, F. W. Rockwell of Chicags, A. T. Goshorn of Cincinnati, D, B. Shipman’ of Chicago. They are to serve until the third Tuesday in February, 1888, The annual report of the president_was aceepted. showed a plus of $§72172.28 on December 81 It stated at the meeting that when the sur. plus reached $1,012,000 a dividend would be declared, —————— Ocean Passenger Kates at Vedr SAN FRANCISCO, Feb; 21.—The rate war ween the Pacific Coast Steamship com- pany and the opposition steamship line, arallone, has reduced frefght and passen- vates'to an unheard of figure. Today the Pacific Coast compiny announces that after March 1 the rate for-cabin passage to Victoria and Puget sound ports would be $: steerage passage, $250, and the freight rate, $1 per ton, Hefere the cutting began cabin passage was $%. The Faral- lone company has not yet met the cu. he company I8 adherimg to its passenger rate of $10° and AR unprecedented steamship passenger trafiie 18 the result of the cut, AR iy Modern Woodmen of America V'rospering. SPRINGFIELD, II§ ‘Feb* 2L—At the meeting of the natiopal board of dire of the Modern Woodmen of America, just concluded, very flattering Teports were made, showing a large growth in membe ship and decrease In the priee of Insurance. January 1, 1895, the omler had $237,000.000 insurance in force, the average cost being $1.95 per annum, and the snnual cost of management only 65 cents @ member, the lowest ever known, Th# ameunt paid bene- ficiaries in 1804 was $.280000. The death rate was less than for fivg years, S e = herokeo Tl Convietog of lobbory. FORT SMITH, Ark, Feb. 2l.—Crawford Goldsby, allas Cherokee Blll, was canvicted this morning of robhing the postoffice at Watova and Donaldsen's store at the same place on October 22 last. There were four men in the parly, only onefof whom was masked, thought (o have been Jim French. This makes five comvictions against Cher- okee Bill, and several robbery indictments pending. ' His murder trial goes over until tomorrow. — - Substitat ew Yors Exchange CHICA The First National bank of this city has perfected a .plan to transfer money among interior cities with- out having to have recourse o “New York exchange.” The eorrespondents of the bank will receive and cash all drafts drawn by the First National. Praetically the plan s the substitution of “Chicago exchange' for w York exchange.”’ aramour ¢ eld, DETROIT, Feb. 21.--Mrs. Horace Pope and William Brosseau, her accomplice, were both held for trial today for the murder of Dr. Pope, the husband of the former, Light | | I HARRY SAYS ADRY State Excluded Mo t Questions Concerning Their Personal Relations, GIVING EVIDENCE IN HIS OWN DZFENSE LIED t Prisoner Tells the Jury How His Brother Met Miss Ging and of His Own Friendship and Love—~The ast Witness, MINNEAPOLIS, Feb. 21.—County Attor- ney Nye resumed his cross-examination this morning of W. W. Hayward, father of the young man accused of murdering Catherine Ging. He was quite unablo to shake the old | ¢ gontleman’s story in any essential particular, although he demonstrated tnat the witness' memory as to dates and happenings at about the time of the occurrences he described was not of the best. It is a remarkable fact that thus far in the case, although both Nye and Erwin are adept questioners, neither has been able to shake the testimony of any of the witnesses on cross-examination. Mr. Nye tried to establish by the senior Hayward that on December 6, three days after the murder, Elder Stewart had told him the story that Adry had told Stewart three days before the murder. Hayward, ¢r., was unable to remem- ber when this conversation had taken place, except that It was after the murder. William Yale, a gunsmith, and Weed, a jeweler, testified to kinds of cartridges, the of ete. Mr. Erwin succeeded In establishing that the fatal bullet was of the same weight as | one taken from a 38 short cartridge. Blixt had testified that when Harry gave him the cartridges he had declared them to be 88 long. Mr. Nye strenuously, but in vain, ob- Jected to this evidence, and Mr. Erwin was Jubilant at his succes At last Mr. Erwin said he had no other witnesses to present except the defendant himself. ““Call Harry Hayward!" heyadded. With his arms folded and ‘a set expression on his face, Harry Hayward took the stand to_battle for his own life. He said in answer to the usual preliminary questions that he was born in Macoupin county, Illinois, twenty-nine years ago, and had lived in Minneapolis for Lwenty-five years, Robert various bullets, as welight BLIXT AND ADRY LIED. “Now,” said Erwin, “Mr. Blixt has. testi- fed against you and Mr. Aary Hayward has testified against you. Have they testified correctly ?"” “They have not,” setting his teeth, “‘Has the testimony of Adry Hayward given here on the stand been true or false “Almost wholly false.” :Do you know any resson why?” “Explain It to the jury.” “I object,” sald Mr. Nye. Sustained,” rejoined the judge, suppose this is for impeachment.” ““Oh, no, your honor; I am not trying this whole case on the word ‘impeachment.’ 1 want the jury to know the feelings of fear which m'ght induce Adry Hayward to testify falsely against his brother. I want them to know the truth.” ~=#You can call his attention to the particular Instance and answer It you ohoose,” said Judge Smith. “I offer to prove, then—" began Brwin. “Put it in writing,” said the court, and Brwin was obliged to make his offer in the presence of the stenographer and the attor- neys without the jury knowing what It was. Mr. Nye objected on the ground of incom- petency and the objection was sustained. The court, however, added that part of it was compstent if proper foundation were laid, “You have heard your father's, mother's and brother's testimony,” sald Erwin, finally, after a consultation with his colleagues, “re. gard'ng the discrepancy in your brother's ac- counts.” DId you have any trouble with him about what lie sald to your mother? An_objection to this was sustained, and :any Srwin asked: “Dd your broter have ear of you for the reascn that m make disclosures about him 2 e “Yes, sir,” responded Harry before Ny, could obiect, but (he answer was ruton out. ADRIA MET MISS GING. ‘Now, you have heard Adry say that he had vever se:n M'ss Ging. Did he ever sce her?’ “He aid. 1t was on a narrow, dark road between Nicollet and Lake Calhoun. He ould not see her very feel of her all rights? o Pub be could “Was he alone with her?" “Ho was not,” ““Who was with him?” “I would rather not tell unless ft's neces- sary. The young lady was here in the city.” “What Is her name? It will be necessary Miss Veddar. They were both with him.” Mr. Nye obfected strenuously to anything further in this line, and was sustained by the court. “I tell you," sald Judge Smith, “It's an Insult to this court, when you khow what you are proposing to show has been ruled out by the court, that you try to bring it in in another way.” “I think the court does not understand me,” sald Erwin, “I mean no disrespect and [ do not think I deserve the reproof. 1 in- tend to abide by the orders of the court, but I propose to show by this witness that Adry Hayward saw Miss Ging under circumstances that he could not forget. Now,” turning to the witness on the stand, “I will ask you about all your relations with Miss Ging. State them fully to the jury “Well,” said Harry in a reminiscent mood, “I was introduced to Miss Ging, I think, in January, 1594, by Mr. Speaker, at the boarding house. I met her at first, perhaps, us often as once a week. After a while I met her as often as twice a week. Then you might say we began to b getting falrly |t well acquainted. Things went on in that way during April. We kept getting better and better acquainted all the time; more and more intimate, From July and August on through to December we were what you might call lovers, 1 suppose.” I “Now, I'll ask you if at any time while you were lovers there were any improper relations existing between you of any sort.” This was objected to by Mr. Nye, but was insisted on, and the court permitted the answer to be given, “No, sir)' was the answer, glven more feeling than had yet been shown any of the witness' answers. “She was true and noble girl to the best of my be both toward me and toward everybody else “Now, did you go riding with her? De- scribe to the jury your intimacy with her.” Well, I've been cvery place with her. Wae've been just like any other young man and young lady. I've taken her driving; we've gone lo the theater, to suppers and |8 I've taken her to church. I've been calling with her and we have walked together on the streets and everywhere. I guess we've becn every place together. T've taken her | f riding dozens of times and to the theater. It would be impossible to mention all the places where we have been." MBLED EVERYWHERE. ow, I'll ask you about yourself at this point and about your habit of gambling and ard playin Explain yourself fully. State everything, “Well, 1 suppose It's all 0. I've gambled and gambled a pile. I've gambled high and lots of it. 1 acknowledge I tried to keep it from the public, but I did not try to dis- guie it from any young lady or young man who knew me intimately. Everybody who knew me well knew of it and every youug lady who knew me well knew it, too. It was no surprise to any one who knew me well.” “What games did you play “Faro and rouletie Now, at whet points did you gamble?* “Almost every city in the United States. that s, ln eyery large city, and many of the small clties. responded the witness, with St. San at at bin the and way. attention arrived intents of Green, was paid date tho best cnough 1s in sight 1o keep the present reduc- tion plants of the company In constant opera- tion for twenty years o come. of er “Th enough betting on faro “Oh, “Now,"” s putting the c “Yes Erwl he ga asked gambling “Yes, t is sald Panl Diego, Colorado Spring: Denver, Omaha, Kansas City Superior, Buffalo, Syracuse Seattle, Los Al M Pueblo, Che Toledo, C lask Angeles, yenne Chicago, veland, as he got to this point Harry stopped to inquire, “Would you count in tho horse races?" San neinito, riton, Glenwood Springs, Ni ow Duluth Buffalo Franc Mex., Orleans, no not replied Erwin, “‘you would, probably, but I won't “Well Long New Branch, * eaid Erwin How many re perhaps, That's righ " nodded the witness Erwin's game, “that's right.” this with a description concluded most apparent n me. oIt followed in extenso is held me in exie when to be the m , sir the York City. Monmouth yea six or seven.' Brwin, “the game of ards all in a box, pulled out losing, and the card on top in the box wins, “1 gue the elu park, t, Is it not?" amiliarity As be tence ost game hones he th b houses Glonces- s you've named | have you been the first looking amused with the ot he honest fsn't 12" respectable, You have known a great many men inter- te “Yes “Now in the game?" ; a_great many pla; . T want to ask you if yonr gambling has ever led tc or been conne pilfering or cheating.” ted with rob- o, sir; I,believe the squarest people in the world are first class gamblers Have you made much by your betting?" ‘Sometimes I n “Dur “well, tended to h I only had ing when a de, and sometimes 1 lost." our play, state whether you often had largs sums of money.” 1 started out i ve a large amount with me. 0 or $400, 1f T lost it would be gone, but if 1 had $1,000 1 could get it back. I had better chances of getting it back in- 1t Iways “Now, where did you carry your money?" “I had two places of carrying it. 1 Did s .y ‘Did she ever take part in your gambling he, with another young lady, myself, meal. another restaurant pare it. We knew went out for a while. ber whether Miss Ging or not, and if she was there I don't remem- ber whether she went in or not, but one of the young ladies did think it was Iy T had it.” Katherine Ging know that you . she did.” “Dia’ she know it by remark or did she| actually know i Do you mean before she was in it she knew it could who was not there. as much No, not alwa as 1 usually carrled a large wad in my pocket and I al-| ways had a money belt. but gam- any one MISS GING GAMBLED. TOO. sir. gentleman and It w th I told her and that T had quite a wad of monew referred to about other nights. to go in and had $75 in her pocketbook. put_that in.” “What do you mean by ‘put it in?' that a gambling term?” and ordered the first which. went It was an | elaborate meal and it tock some time to pre- right near a gambling house. voung ladies real well, so we into a 1 don't exactly remem- there that night and were We we she put in anything. there she knew of it though.” “When was into a faro gamo that you know “The first day was one noon or morning. can't_remember boarding house and town. all did. 1 I time tha were don't f she she went 1 at _the going down all_the others knew It was She wanted She Is “Well, as a natural consequence, she would It means that if she put it in with | would would put in $175. $250. tenths. was a loss, then there was nothing. a winner she would take three-tenths and I or, on_the other hand, if she in a half, as she frequently would get a half of what we made,” seven-tenthe, put me. put in_ $75 the chances are That means.a.capital of that 1 1f she did that she would have three- 1 would go and play. Well, i it U 1 was did, she ‘State the history of your gambling.” vell, I think there was $75 the first time. all right? 1 next I got scary. and pape The next time she went in we won, and then we lost and she got interested. 1 knew that a great many people were fascinated by the game. I had not been so myself; I had, as time I “What paper.’ “That $375 paper.’ Harry then described the various winnings for Miss Ging. losings While in explained he had Chicago he you might say, a grip on myself. about it when I thought she was getting fas- cinated, but she said, ‘Never you mind! did not want her to lose, and played played a very careful game. I come out 0 she would be even. near even and then I drew out. Tha some folks make their money to her but she istake, for wanted I told her It's her I to 1 got pretty 1 s where took the anted to play again. made had lost $1,630. the telegram he had sent from Chicago at length and while in the midst of Jis explanations a recess was taken for din- ner. — TRIED TO KILL HIS WIFE, Drex: She wanted me to play for her, that was the time she gave me that He Murderous Designs of a Coloreit Employe of iHotel Thwarted. At 11:30 last night Chase Green, a colored throat with 1204 Dodge street, has been married about three months, but that has been long enough for him to become extremely jealous, returned home and soon afterward began abusing his wife, and finally ended up by drawing a attempting to cut her throat. sister, Katie Lainer, was at the hou they succeeded in partly keeping out of his Theirescreams of murder attracted th to kill his a razor. last of Office time 8 in man and an employe of the Drexel hotel, at- tempted wife by cutting her Green, who lives at Clar to prevent and the night about 11 Mrs, ¥ He o'clock or and Green's se, and who murderous Mrs, Green and Katle Lainer had a hard rived, and o the DEADWOOD, Feb, 21. —The Holy Terror, nside ceed the Holy ' as bad as a good sized “stampe hilla, made of $20,000, which 15 when in | o made daily In the district, and if reports can be belleved and the assays of the relied upon, some of the finds will even e ‘error in richness, weather the Mrs. police station locked up, Ho! yesterday, number ration. New the ¢ struggle with Green before the officers ar- Green was severely cut on the hand by the razor which Green was try- ing to carve her with. A hurry call was sent three were and the situated at npington county, made another wonderful give is discoverles there toward the southern record breaking run as a gold producer, clean up of the taken Special Telegram.) Keystone, A batteries and plates of its five stamp mills after only a run of five days a gross most extraordinary run of stamps product into are being res found Bven now, las started The regular monthly dividend of the Home- take ruary 25, or thi is TECUMSEH, Neb., Feb. gram)—Tonlght the one-story fram: ccoum The bullding was empty, Délebar having moved | outo a farm today ance and waste early arrival, § Mining company office of the company in New York €ity Feb- This will be dividend No. 199 by the company, and the 5 purpose, in dividends $5,400,000. deyeloped by in 321,250, the The compan Black Traced 10a Firo Bug. Delebar in Ea T 550, were st Te lotal A Jug with kerosen found in the — Students’ Qu. ters COLUMBUS, 0., Feb. 21 will paid at amount disbursed he total amount con Buri n lose, $800; drugs in it | bullding by an | 1y up 1o s mines are 1ills, and 21.—(8pecial Teles insur Early this morn ing the students’ quarters of the All versity for colored people were burned, occupants all escaped safely. The T've gambled in Minneapol's, | buliding of the university unt- The wmain 8 unlnjured, West | BRAND CONVICT MADE G0ODS | Livoly Dobate in the Senate Practioally Decides the Matter that Way. EFFCRTS TO POSTFONE UNSUCCiSSFUL Omaha Central Labor Unlon Defeat -1l Re Capltal from Lincoln to ¥ Ings Introduced. min e Saved from to the LINCOLN, Feb, 21.—(Special Telegram.)— The this forenoon indulged in a red hot discussion over an attempt to indefinitely postpone the bill demanded by the Central Labor union of Omaha and requiring conviet made goods to be stamped as such, Smith of Douglas led the fight to eave the bill and | succeeded after a warm and “somewhat acrimonious debate. Several bills wers passed, among them being the one repealing the state depository law. senate The discussion on the labor bill was en= tirely unexpected. Secretary Sedgwick was crooning over a Job lot of reports from standing committees and the recommenda- tions were belng adopted by the perfunctory votes of three or four senators who alone were listening. Matters were progressing in this manner until Black, chair- man of the state prison committee, pre. sented a report on House Roll 84, recome mending that it be indefinitely postponed. This bill was Introduced in the | house by Representative Jenness of county and it provides goods and manufactured articles conviet labor at the state peni- tentiary shall be plainly stamped as being convict made, An inquiry from Dale as to the nature of the bill directed general attention to tae report Smith started the discussion by protesting against the indefinite postponement of the bill. It was a_measure, he said, that for years had been demanded by the laboring interest of Nebraska. The laboring men for years had been compelled to compete with conviet labor in the state, and, although they had endeavored time and again to induce previou legislatures to pass the bill, they had never succeeded. The laboring men, he said, had just'as much right to ask that conviet made &oods should be branded as the butter makers had to insist that oleomargarine be branded. Wright of Lancaster sald that 1f the bill became a law Nebraska would be compelled to keep her convicts idle In thelir cells. No contractor would make goods at the penitentiary if he had to brand his goods as belng convict made. If the scnators wanted the convicts to become lunatcs, they should vote for the bill, STATE TAKES THE CONTRACT. Smith retorted that the quicker Ne- braska takes charge of her own penitentiary and runs it herself the better it will be for the taxpayers. Graham sald that if the bill became a law the state would have to do one of two things—either close its factories at the penl- tentlary and keep the convicts In golitary confinement, or put the goods on the market at greatly reduced prices. The resort to the latter alter- native would work a greater injury to the in- torests-ofthe laboring men than dogs the present system. In Virginia, he sald, a sim- flar law had been enacted, and as a result from 40 to 50 per cent of the convicts had gone insane. Hitchcock believed that the bill should be placed on file for discussion as a matter of courtesy to the house. The senator said they could not afford to fgnore the action of the house In so important a meas- ure. The state was perpetrating a fraud against honest labor by permitting convict- made goods to compete In the market with the product of honest toil. Wright sald: “This s a bill we want to pass. It doesn't need any sion."" Sloan thought g0 to the general courtesy to the house. Black, who had reported the bill, was not opposed, he said, to tending the bill to the general file. The only motive be- hind the demand for a general discussion was the desire on the part of a fow senators to mako buncomb speeches. “Well, if that's the program,” sail Wright, “I withdraw my objection. Hahn procceded to pump caloric into the discussion. He there was always a lot of fel- lows howling about the Tights of the laboring man. He would like to hear some- body get up an say a few words for the taxe payers. Sloan moved the previous question, which was ordered, On motlon of Dale bill then placed on general file, TO MOVE THE CAPITAL. A bill was introduced this mornng pro- viding for the submisslon of a proposition to remove the state capitol from Lincoln to Hastings, Smith threw this bomb the camp of the Lincoln people by ine troducing the bill. The bill pro- vides that at the general election in 1896 the following proposition shall b submitted: “Shall the seat of government be relocated and located at the city of Hastings,” It further provides that If, after a canvass of the returns it shall be found that the propo- sition has been assented to by a majority of all the people voting at tne el tion, the leglslature shall fuke no further action on any matter in its jurisdic- tiou, but shall immediately adjourn o Hast- ings and continue the work of the session until final adjournment. The bill still further provides for the removal of all state property and records to Hastings. While the Lincoln people affect to believe that the fntroduction Is a bluff, it is still to be noticed that they are not a little worried over the prosp There has been a constant ream of visitors to the secretary's office to inspect the bill and coples are being made from it in large numbers. The bill s the sensation of the day. Smith also Introduced & joint reso- lution proposing a constitutional ‘amendment that will enable the city of Omala to form county government independent of Dougl county. Reports from & number of standing come mittees were recelved and adopied, Noy sent to the sceretary’s desk the fcllowing resolution: Whereas, | Douglas that all made by don't discus- that file the as bill should a matter of a little #ald the was into The morning (ele announce th th of Hon. 1 lusis, one of nost ucters of his ang vancement from the humble walks of slav- ery to positions of eminence umong the most distinguished nations of the earth entitled him to the respect of all, there- fore, be it Resolyed, That this senate recognizes the sterling quality of the man, the power of his oratory, the sincerity of his 1ife's work, which has so largely contributed to the upbuilding of a bonded race, whose matchs less. progress In mind maris one of the achievements of the nineleenth century, The resolution was adopted by unanimous vote. hic reports rick Doug- distinguished chars @ n whose ad- PASSED THRER Three bills were read the third time and sed, No. 76, repealing the state depository No. 88, for the protection of Mongollan ants, and No. 62, providing that patients who are to be commnlitied to the nsane asy= | lums shall be taken from the county in which | they reside to the Institution by one of the attendants of the asylum, insteid of by the Th tendent insane asylum, and 48 looked upon as one of the best laws so far passed during the present session. It not only saves (wo-thirds of the present expense in transferring patients, but places the pa- tients in charge of experienced attendants, Just before the noon recess Senator Teftt moved that when the senate adjourn it be until Monday at 10 o'clock. There was cons slderable oppoeition, but the motion fually BILL W sherif, as the law at present provide | s the bil recommended by Super Little of the Norfolk