Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, April 14, 1895, Page 1

& % %, PART L A S Ot ESTABLISHED JUNE 19, 1871, OMAHA, SUNDAY MOR G, APRIL 14, 1895—TWENTY PAGES SIN(}IAE COoryY FIVE CEN SUITS ONLY ENGLAND Japan's Demands ou China May Complicate the European Situation, GREAT BRITAIN IS WELL SATISFIED Both Parties Endorse the Terms on Which Peace is Offcred, GERMANY AND RUSSIA HAVE OBJZCTED Must Have fome Concessions from the Chinese for Their Navies, FRANCE WILL SUPPORT FU_SIA'S CLAIMS Paris Gov ent Understood to Have As- ori sured St. Petersburg of Its Read to Back U Oriental Course. © Czar in His and as a result warning In his newspaper organ at Birming- ham, for which city he has been one of the he has sounded a note of representatives in Parliament There 1s no doubt that are becoming alarmed at since 187§ the liberal-unionists the leanings of cer- taln prominent members of the conservative party toward what s known here as ‘fair trade,”” The Birmingham Post the other day discussing this feature of the conservative policy declared: “It fair trade is to be put in the against an Irish nationalist Parlfament, then we say that the latter will be an infinitely lesser evil than a return to protection. AMERICAN HORSES IN Those who are American horse balance NGLAND. in charge of the string of belonging to Mr. Croker and Mr. Dwyer of New York which are now in active training at Newmarket for a number of Important events of the racing season here, are reticent concerning the date of their first appearance in public. But the Amerie can horses are being looked upon with more spect than when they first landed in Eng- land at the end of January last, Conse quently the chances of Stonenell, Dobbins, Don Alonzo, Banquet, Harry Reed, Montauk and others are being quietly discussed by the sporting fraternity. The Newmarket correspondent, “The Man _— of the World,” in the mid-weckly edition of (Copyrighted, 1595, by Press Publishing Company.) | the Sporting Times, considered by some peo- LONDON, April 13.—(New York World| Ple to be the leading sporting paper in Bng Cablegram slal Telegram.)—The London | land, referring to the prospects of the Amer! press Is practically unanimous so far in ap- | Can horses, says: ““The Americans are gradu- proving the reported Japanese terms of peace, both conservative and liberal organs ex- pressing the opinion that the conquerors are not asking too much. Even the re- ported demard for the cession of the Lia Tung peninsula has evoked no vigorous Bag- lish protest anywhere, The tone of the Ber- lin official however, would indicate a disposition the part of the German government to act with Russia in resisting this demand. The point is made, both in Berlin and Vienna, and it is understood that representation to such effect has been made to the English government, that Japan can- not lowed to have a line of harbors from Fomnosa to Port Arthur, unless other maritime powers also have important con- cesslons to their navies in the east 1t is stated, apparently on authority, in Paris today that the French government has given Russia perfect assurance of her intention to support Russian resistance to any ce of territory in the mainland. BOCIAL BOYCOTT AGAINST HOUGHTON A report is current in semi-official circles in London that Lord Houghton is about tc resign as viceroy of Ireland, wearied with the continued and bitter social boycott of the landed gentry. He young man, a press, on be made 1s a widower, who recently became very rich on the death of his uncle, Lord Crewe, and is connected with many leading families, both in England and Ircland, is of irreproachable private character, and has much native abil fty. He seemed an ideal representative of the queen, but because he Is also represent- ing a liberal government, his official func tions in Dublin Castle have been rigorously boyeotted by practically all the gentry of the tslund. The late duchess of Leinster was his cousin, yet when it was reported that the duke and duchess intended to attend the first drawing room, at which prescntations would have the same validity as if made by the queen, they felt it incumbent upon them to send an indignant deuial to the press. It is significant of the social feeling here and in Ireland against the liberal party that high government functionaries in Ire- 1and, and even supposed non-partisan judges there, cuously absent themselves from the castle, without rebuke from Buckingham palace, All this may seem a small matter to us of America, but this tactless course of royalty is another argument among the cons, masses against the continuance of the mon- archy, OTHERS IMPLICATED WITH WILDE. There s good authority for the statement that the witnesses against Wilde also ten- dered evidence against many other notable persons, but as in the case of the Cleveland street infamy of a few years ago, police and prosecution authoritics desire to confine the scandal In the smallest possible limits. Probably Wilde would never have been prose- cuted except for his almost inexcusable folly in bringing the suit against Queensberry. The police know the extent and frightful nature of these offenses in the west end of London, but the home secretary is under- stood to take the ground that the public morality will not be served by exposing them by prosecution. Notices have been quietly given some of the offenders to leave the country, and the United States has already recelved some of the exiles. A curlous re- sult of the Wilde trial is the libel suit brought at Paris yesterday by Robert Sher- rard, the English journalist there, who has re- cently published a life of Zola, against Mr. McCarthy of the English consulate, who, it 1s alleged, on two sundry public occasions accused the plaintift of being not an as clate of Wilde, but guilty of the offenses with which the latter stands charged Maltre Darzela, counsel for the plaintiff, asked that the case might be heard at once, but it was postponed until after Easter. LAMINGTON WILL ALSO WE Lord Lamington, who sailed on the Majestic to act as best man at George Curzon's mar- rlage to Miss Lelter, has just announced his own engagement here. He and the other prospective bridegroom both have been con sidered confirmed bachelors and both are measurably sure of positions under the next government if the tories win. Among Crame of New York. 0 (HAMBERLAI v nd. (Copyrighted, 158, by the Assoclated Press.) LONDON, April 13.~There was a general exodus from London on Thursday last, every body who could do 80 hurrying away to the country or seatlde for the Easter holidays, The fashionable houses of the metropolis are as a rule closed for the present and Brighton and other seastde resorts are packed with holiday makers. The princess of Wales has abandoned her contemplated journey to Denmark, where she was to visit her parents, and instead a family party, including the duke and duchess of York and the duke and duchess of Fife, has assembled at Sandringham for the holidays. Parliament will not again meet until April 22, which may give time for & change in the political atmosphere, The situation is now charged with electricity and a rupture be- tween the conservatives and the liberal union. ists is predicted. There are growiug differ- ences In policy between Rt. Hon, A. J. Bal- ster four, the conservative leader in the House of Commons, and Rt. Hon. Joseph Chamber- lain, the leader of the liberal-unionis latter is known to bitterly resent the recent oriticlsms upon his conduct which bave ap- peared in different comservative newspapers, L Ayt o3 the [ ¢ other passengers was ex-Dock Commisisoner The ally coming in favor at trials progress, They looking lot and there veral good judges who think give trouble. If our handicap horses are bad Ston: nell may cut us up as easily as Parole and Foxhall did a few ago." ‘At any e I have seen enough to make me regard them as extremely dangerous.” Newmarket as their fine are certainly a already s they n are years The English newspapers announce Miss Consuelo Vanderbilt, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. K. Vanderbilt, and Miss Gertrude Vanderbilt, daughter of Mr. and Mrs, Cor- nelius Vanderbilt, will both be presented to the queen at the drawing room, which her majesty is expected to hold in April. DISTRIBUTED THE QUEEN'S BOUNT There wa a picturesque scene in West- minster abbay on Thursday, when, in the presence of a long congregation, ‘‘Royal Maundy" was distributed to seventy-six poor men and to seventy-six poor women selected from the various parishes to receive the queen’s bounty. Each woman received {1 15 shillings and each man received 2. In addition, both the men and the women were presented specially coined silver pennies, as well as with specially coined twopenny, threepenny and fourpenny blts, he Criterion theater is announced to r open with Ozcar Wilde's **An Ideal Husband," which has been transferred there from ine Haymarket theater, An American soclety has formed in London on the lines of the Ohio soclety of New York. The Inaugural dinner takes place next week. The United States ambassador, Mr, Bayard the United States gencral, General P. A. Colling, the attaches of the United States cmbassy and a number of well known resi- dent Americans are on the committee, The fezling of alarm which was caused in the woolen manufacturing district by the announcemnt that an American firm had sold to a Bradford house a quantity of woolen g00ds at a price comparing favorably with anything Bradford could offer, continues, and is widely commented on. The Pall Mall Gazette has Investigated the matter and tries to quiet the alarm, saying the shipment is not likely to be repeated and explaining the American house had a quantity of stuff which it could not dispose of In America and con- sequently offered it to Yorkshire at a great sacrifice, REVIVED THE The Armenian celved a fresh ARMENIAN QUESTION agitation has re- impetus by & let- ter from Mr. Gladstone, written to Mr. Atkin. The conservative news- papers pronounce the letter “another indis- cretion” upon the part of the great English- man, In the letter Gladstone says: ‘“The snare lylng ahead is that we may be tempted to abandon all useful action by promises of reform. Mere words from the Turks are not worth the breath spent in speaking them.” Mr. Gladstone today received at Hawarden three Armenian refugees, who are being exhibited in London as a means of exciting sympathy. The refugees were persuaded to leave Bitlis by an Armenian named Hoyad- janz, who ‘arrived there recently from America. The Armenians of Bitlis are in- dignant at the action of Hoyadjanz, and say the refugees were virtually kidnaped and that they wanted to return to their own villages. é The fight arranged for tonight between Frank Cralg, the Harlem “Coffee Cooler," and Ted Pritchard has been abandoned, owing to the latter's illness. Pritchard pays forfeit and Craig thereby becomes the mid- dleweight champlon of England, which title he declares he will defend against all comers, John O'Brien, who was defeated by the ffee Cooler” a few months ago, will meet the latter tonight at catch weights. Cralg is s00n to visit the United States, pre- vious to settling permanently in England. fmall Detachment of Rebels Defeatod. HAVANA, April 13 Bonestra while on his way at the head of a detach- ment of Spanish troops to the assistance of Songo, a village of Santiago de Cuba, which was threatened by the rebels, came across some bands of insurgents at Socorro and at- ked them. After an engagement which lasted half an hour the rebels were defeated and compelled to disperse, leaving four men dead on the field. .The Spanish troops sus- tained no losses and captured one prisoner. They followed in pursuit of the insurgents. Captain T'ovas Deferted by the French. BERLIN, April 13.—The Tageblatt learns that the French expeditionary force operating in Madagascar has defeated the Hovas at Maevermo, in the western part of the island It is added the French are now advancing into the interior, Austrian Village Burned Dow ., VIENNA, April 13.—The Austrian of Toplitz has been almost destroy The burned village is situated in the Duchy of Carniola, Austro-Hungary. It is not the celebrated Bohemlan resort of the same name. village 1 by fire Report of Spunish Victories, MADRID, April 13.—An official received here from Havana says that th, General Maceo, has again been de- feated by the Spanish froops and that he is now surrounded by the latter. leader, Relensed the British Prsoners, CALCUTTA, April 13.—A dispatch from Simla says that Umra Kban has released Lieutenant Ward, one of the two British ofticers recently taken prisoners by his force, Giving Ketarning Troops an Ovatlon. COLON, April 13.—A fete has been pre- pared at Baranquilla for the troops now re- turning from Santander, the rebellion belug practically at an end, dispateh | bel | ONE DAY T0 ANSWER | If China Wants Peace She Must Move Faster Than Her Wont, TERMS PRESENTED TO LI HUNG CHANG | Japan Makes Some Concessions from Con- ditions Originally Proposed, REDUCED THE AMOUNT 07 INDEMNITY Demands Concerning Cession of Territory Also Modified, PEACE PARTY 15 WILLING TO ACCEPT Hunan Party Holding Ouat, Presumably in the Hope that Russin Will Interfere to ¥ Acquiring Territory In Manchuria. event Jupan SHANGHAL, April 13.—The Mercury today | reports that the Japanese have presented an ultimatum to Li Hung Chang, the Chinese | peace commissioner, demanding that China | acc or refuse the terms offered by Japan | no later than tomorrow. The paper adds | that Japan has reduced her claim for a ! money indemnity by the sum of 100,000,000 | yen, and that she is also satisfied with the cession of the Shing King peninsula, on which Port Arthur stands, and will not demand ad- ditional territory. It is reported that the peace party is willing to accept these terms but that the Hunan party is holding out. LONDON, April 13.—A dispatch to the Times from Kobe says that hopes are enter- tained of an early settlement of peace with regard to the prospective revision of the Japanese-Chin-se comme: c al treaty. R-sponsi- ble Japanese statesmen claim that Japan will be placed on an equal footing with the western powers, possibly with further trad- ing facilities, but she will not seck exclusive facilities, A private telegram has been received here from a Chinese official now at Hiroshima porting that the terms of peace between China and Japan were definitely fixed yester- day. NO CON re- RMATION OF T ACE NEWs, Chi ese Diplomats in Washingte the Reports Prematuro. WASHINGTON, April 13.—The Chinese legation has received no confirmation of the advices from Japan that an understanding has been reached, and there is a strong dis position on the part of the Chinese to re- gard the report as premature. An ominous lull has occurred since the first brief dis- patch came from Japan that an understanding had been reached. The concessions lealing to the agreement have not been reported, and it is stated they will not be made known for a week or ten days. As the conclusion of peace negotiations are drawing to a climax, the eyes of European powers are naturally drawn to the rich territory in the east and a sharp game of diplomacy is on in which the European nations are becoming involved, to galn something from the treaty proceeding. There is no doubt China has appealed to Russia and other European nations against the terms Japan originally proposed. An interesting question arises as to whether tho unmistakable threats of Russia and the appeal of that natlon for intervention by the powers was antecedent or subsequent to the peace understanding reported yesterday be- tween Japan and China. The view of the State department officials is that advices from Russia are really based upon the status of the peace negotlations several days ago, and that since then the Japanese conditions have been materially modified, and are now as suming such shape as to make them more agreeable ‘to Russia and the other great European powers. As ‘officially «tated In the Assocfated press dispatches, among the orig- inal Japanese demands was one for the abso- lute cession of Port Arthur. Although not specifically stated, it Is probable this included a cesslon of a considerable tract of country in the vicinity of the port. As Port Arthur Ja within the limits of the preat province of Manchurla, this demand, it persisted in, would conflict with the Russian ulttmatum delivered at the very beginning of hostilitfes, and re- peated more than once since in a semi-official manuer, to-wit: That she could not permit the acquisition by Japan of any portion of Manchuria. Officials of the State department are confi- dent that within the last few days the Japa- nese demand on this point has been modified £0 as (0 permit only the temporary occupation of Port Arthur, perhaps only so long as the war indemnity shall remain unpaid. To such a stipulation, it is =2id, no reasonable objection could be made, as it would be based upon the precedent set by Germany in impos- ing terms of peace upon France when she retained the great French fortress of Belfort until the indemnity was paid. The practical effect of this in that case was to cause the French to pay th rmous war indemnity in a svace of time far shorter than was lowed by the treaty in order to escape ihe humiliation of forelgn occupancy of French territory. Of course if Japan follows a simi- lar course in respect to Port Arthur, the Rus- sian government will make sure that she has amplo guarantee that the occupied port will be evacuated within a fixed period of time It is also pointed out that Japan may justly make such a demand for the temporary pos- session of Port Arthur as a means of in- suring herself against a retaliatory war by China until the feeling of resentment may have worn away, for by the occupancy of this strategic position, the Chinese would find it almost impossible to keep their com- munication open between Peking and the | sea in case of a renewal of hostilities. On the whole, the officials here (assuming that Japan pursues a policy of moderation), see nothing in this news from Russia calculated to pre- vent the consummation of peace, unless it should perhaps encourage the Chinese to en- deavor to recede from the terms already practically agreed upon, in the hope of s curing better treatment from Japan while the latter nation Is under apprehension of Russlan intervention At the Chinese legation is was said tonight that no news had been recelved regarding the report cabled from Shanghai that Japan had given China one day in which to accept or refuse the terms of peace. Consider Easter Celebrations in Mexico, CITY OF MEXICO, April 13.—Good Frilay was observed in various manners in different parts of the city snd suburbs by renditions of the scenes of the crucifixion, including the famous Passion play. In the churches the must somber settings were given to the day and its memories, At Tacubayas, Santa Anita, Ixtlacalco and other smaller towns in the valley the Passion play was enacted in ‘nprennllllon of the trial, crucifixion and sufferings of the Christ. On aceount of the laws of the reformation forbidding public religlous demonstrations and proceedings, the play was confined to the Ifmits of the church yards, —— YOUNG LEVERTON GOT AWAY Was In City Jail and Had Implicated Him- self and Others in Menling. Previous to March 23 certain merchants of this city had been missing boxes, cases and bundles which had been deposited outside their stores. Of these firms might be men- tioned Hayden Bros., Falconer, the Boston Meyer & Raapke and the Willlams- Hayward Shoe company, and others. Meyer & Raapke and the shoe company were es- pecially bothered by these thefts, and after the former had missed a number of cases and boxes a shipping clerk employed in the store, house watched for the thieves. At noon on March 22 he saw a wagen driven by a boy stop in the rear of the building occupled by the Pacific Express company at the corner of Fourteenth and Harney streets, The boy alighted from the wagon and put into it a case containing bottles, He was about to put another case on the wagon when he - denly dropped and drove away it, jumped upon the wagon The shipping clerk consti- tuted himself a detective and tracked the wagon to Tenth and Dodge atreets. He learned that the boy's name was Ben Leverton. The matter was reported to the police de- artment and the case was put into the hands of Detective Hudson. A warrant was issued charging Levertcn with grand larceny and he was placed under arrest by the detective. Shortly after being brought into the station ho put into the sweatbox, and belng promised immunity from punishment, he con- e ¢ system of robbery that he and his companions had been working for some time. In the presence of Chief Detective Haze, Henry Harte of the Williams-Hayward Shoe company and Louts Ruapke of Meyer & Raapke, he also disclosed the names of his companions. They were R. Schafter and Oscar Schaffer, father and son. HOW THE GANG WORKED. Their operations were quite novel, One of the younger men was the driver of the wagon and the old man acted as a watchman The three would pick fome store which promised to yleld booty. Schaffer, sr., would see that the coast was cledr, and if so would signal to the driver of the wagon. The latter would then drive up and load upon the wagon any boxes or cases’that were about and then drive off. The noon hour was uzi- ally chosen, when few employes were about It is thought that young Leverton dropped the case so suddenly at the Pacific Express company's building because Schaffer signaled to him that the shipping clerk was watching him, The goods obtained in this way would be concealed in the building at Tenth and Dodge streets, and whenever convenient would be old. Hundreds of dollars worth of goods were stolen in this way. As only a few boxes or cases were stolen at any one place the robbed merchants, who handle great amounts of goods, did not notice the thefts, but in the contessions the thieves told of all the places they had worked in this way. As soon as Leverton made the confession warrants were sworn out ‘for the arrest of the two Schaffers and wefe served. When they were brought into the station they were put into the sweatbox separately and made separate accusing each was confessions, other. Then the three were confronted, and the statements made previously were con- firmed. These confessions were made in the presence of Chief Detective Haze, Harte and Raapke, and some of them while De- tective Hudson was in the room. The state- ments were put in writing by Detective Haze. The sweatbox process was 10 o'clock Monday morning, March 25, and the two Schaffers were placed in a cell Leverton, who had turned state's evidence, was held as a witness, and was not put into a cell, but into the boys’ room of the jail. The case of the men was set for 2 o'clock Some time between 11 in the morning and 2 at completed in the afternoon Leverton managed to get out of the room and escape from the jail unnotice. When next heard from he was in Iowa. PROSECUTOR ADVISED DISMISSAL. At 2 o'clock, when the case was to be called, Harte and Raapke were at the police court. They engaged in conversation with City Pros- ecutor Shoemaker and he told them that there Was no use in prosecutlng the men, as the principal witness had escaped from custody. Harte and Raapke were telling him of the confessions when Judge Berka ealled the case, He went up to the judge's desk and without speaking further with the compainants, who were perfectly willing and anxious to push the case, and had abundant evidence to in- sure conviction, he said that there was no evidence against the accused and recom- mended that they b discharged discharged them. Whether or not Detective Haze, who had the written confessions, turned them over to Mr. Shoemaker could not be ascertained. Messrs. Raapke and Harte charge the detec- tivo with neglect of duty in the matter. As vet no inquiry has been rhade into the state of things that resulted in the escape of Leverton, Judge Berka e e « ARRIVES AT PORTO RICO, nros Five Thousand Additional Reeruits for the Revolutionary Cause. NEW YORK, April-13.—It is announced in Cuban circles in New York that General Martinez Campos, whom the Spanish govern- ment sent to Cuba to put down the insurrec- tion, has arrived at Porto Rico. A cablegram received at Cuban revolution- ary headquarters in ghig city reports that 5,000 men at Camaguay, a town in eastern Cuba, had taken up grms against Spain and sworn allegiance to the cause of the revolu- tion, The fifteen Cuban revolutionary clubs of this city in joint conclave, have passed resolu- tions approving the course of the leaders thus far. It was voted to confer with the local leaders upon the advisability of calling a mass meeting to raise funds. It was also suggested that influenee might be brought to bear upon the United States in favor of rec- ognizing the revolutiomary movement as bel- ligerent, thus removing. the barricrs to openly forwarding arms, ammunition, recruits and armed vessels from this country. Cho'era Killlng Uff the Japs. LONDON, April 13.—~The Pall Mall Ga- zette publishes a dispatch from Hioga, Japan saying that the Japanese forces are still at the Pescadore islands awaiting reinforce- ments, and that over 800 deaths from cholera have occurred among troops. The epidemic, it is added, Is now abating. Composer Voo Sappe ¢ ritically 1L, LONDON, April 13.—Von Suppe, the com- is critically 111, ———— Movements of Ocewn Stewmers, April 13, At New York—Arrived—Puris, from South- ampton. At San Francisco—Departed—Peru, Hong Kong and Yokohama. po; for COLD AND CHEERLESS Easter Weather a Sore Disappointment to the People of Berlin, STORMS HAVE FOLLOWED THE SUNSHINE North German Rivers Overflow Their Banks and Inundate Villages, WATERS ARE NOW RECEDING SLOWLY Von Kotze Starts Out to Avenge Himself on His Enemies, WOUNDZD IN HIS FIRST ENCOUNTER Money Flowing for the Erection of a Bls- marck Monument—Will in All Prob- ability Be Erected on the of a Mountain, op (Copyrighted, 189, by the Assoclated Press.) BERLIN, April 13.—The spell of spring- like weather which marked the opening d of the week compensated Berliners and Ger- mans generally for the lack of In political matters which, since excitement the Bis marck celebrations, remain in a state of torpor. The bright, warm sunshine gave every promise of an agreeable Baster tide and the dispiriting weather prophecies of Prof. Falb were met with bantering skepti- cisms. Excursions to the Grunewald and other suburban resorts were widely planned by Berliners for Good Friday, but the pro- fessor's predictions were unfortunately ful- filled by a return of a cold, northern wind and clouds, and the day was generally cheer- less. Therefore, the Loliday makers mostly preferred to remain in Berlin rather than risk the Inclement weather in the countr; Tho fact announced here that the planets occupied on Good Friday exactly the same position as on the day Christ was crucified, aroused a great deal of curiosity among re- ligious and scientific folk, who, howeve were disappointed in the observations, owing to the fact that the heavens overcast. Tho sky today was somewlat brighter and hopes of a pleasant Easter are reviving. The sudden advent of warm weather led to a rapid rise of the rivers Eibe and Oder, resulting in the inundation of large districts, The whole region around Berlin is under water, owing to the overflow of the rivers Spree and Havel. The people at Spandau are using boats to reach their churches and schools. In Dresden, the waters of the Elbe are receding slowly af or doing much damage and attaining a greater depth than for twelve years past. The dykes broke near Wynse, in spite of the exertions of the military engi- neers, and seventeen villages of Vierlande were inundated. Vegetation in northern Germany is a month behind and the excessive moisture retards agricutture still further. VON KOTZE INJURED IN A DUEL. Herr von Kotze, the court marshal, whose acquittal by the court on the charge of writ- ing anonymous and insulting letters to the highest personages has been confirmed by Emperor William, ha. 1ot allowed the matter to rest there, He has determined to flercely vindicate hfs honor, and he and his family are trying not only the real culprit, but who cast suspicion upon him. already sent three challeng duel came off today with Baron von Rel chach, the chamberlain. Pistols were the weapons used, and von Kotze received a bul- let in his hip. It is understood Barons von Reischach and von Shrader, whose indiscre- tions are alleged to have caused injury to von Kotze, will be dismissed. Von Kotze, after settling his duels, will retire perma- nently to his estates, where his wife already preceded him. His wound is not a serious one, and he s expectel to recover shortly. The conditions of the duel required an exchange of shots until one of the combat- ants were disabled. Emperor William, when informed of the acquittal of Von Kotze by the military court, sent his adjutant, Von Schotick, to congratu- late him. WHAT WILLIAM IS DOING. The emperor will remove to the new palace at Potsdam next week. Emperor William is going on an eastern tour of Thurings, upper Hesse and Baden in order to enjoy some shooting. Emperor William is not writing a military work, as reported, but is preparing a number of essays upon the campaigns of Frederick the Great, into which hitherto unpublished matter will be iutroduced. The military in- structor of the crown prince is drawing a number of plans of battles for these essays. The emperor will read the essays to an audi- ence at the War academy this spring or sum- mer. Toward the end of the month his majesty goes grouse shooting in Alsace-Lor- raine and will stay a few days at his chateau @'Arville in Lorraine, A laborer, 72 years of age, has walked from Gumbinnen, a town of East Prussia, to Berlin, taking twenty-nine days to make the Journey, and arriving here on Wednesday last in order to see the emperor and implore his majesty to grant him an old age pension. The old man obtained an audience with the emperor, who read his papers, and promised to inquire into the case, MONEY FOR A BISMARCK MONUMENT. The committee charged with the arrange- ments to erect a national monument to Prince Blsmarck has received over 260,000 marks in subscriptions, and intends to erect the monu- ment outside of Berlin on account of the recent hostile exhibition of the municipal council of the city. This site will be chosen on the summit of a mountain, probably the Zeugspits, A curious case of the punishment of a de- serter from the army has attracted a great deal of attention. A trooper belonging to the Fourth regiment of Uhlands deserted during the siege of Paris and fled to China, where he served with the Chinese for four- teen years. He lately returned to Germany and acted overseer in a manufacturing plant, was discovered and arrested, tried by court martial and sentenced to five imprisonment in & fortress. Mr. John B. Jackson, secretary of the United States embassy here, and Mrs. Jack son sall for the United States on Tuesday next Mr. Jackson Is on lxave of absence. He and his wife will return on July 1. They gave a farewell dinner tonight to the United States ambassador, Theodore Runyon, and Mrs. Run yun and the personnel of the United States were, those Von Kotze has s, and the first has as years embassy, and to the United States consul general, Mr. Charles de Kay, and Mrs, de Kay. Dr. Nuttal, the young American hygienist of the Berlin university, is to be married tomorrow to Fraulein von Oertzen of the Mecklenburg nobility, THE BEE BULLETIN, Wehther Forecast for Ne Partly Cloudy; Warmer E rly Winds, Page. 1. braska ast; Cooler West; fouth pan's Demands Exelte Europe. Chinn Must Give an Answer Today. Easter Weather in Germany s Cold. Carleton’s Death Sentence Commuted. 2. Rellef Warrants Slow Salo, Vigluntes at Work ho Reservation. Unton Pacific fnco x Delayod. 3. Tuquiry Into the Price of Beef. Thurston Tells His Position Again. Murder o San Francisco Sanctunry. Last Week in 1 Soeloty. Theatrical Notes and Gossi Colored Women Have i Club. Commisstoners and the Canal Scheme. Boauty of the Late Raim Storms, Pushing Work on the Postofiie Memorinl Day Plans Started. Council Blufts Local Matters. Woodbury County Warrants Held by St Joseph. Among Secret Soclot Tilinois State House Fartly Burneds ramway 1hroogh the In Wizard Tesln's Workshop. Womnn: Her Ways and Hor World, Editorial and Commoent. Epitome of New Nebraskn Laws. Where Women May Ie Useful, Conaition of Omaha's Jobbing merctal wnd Flnnncinl Now Features of the Live Stock Market. Recollections of Abrata i 7. Omaha Lick ntry. Trade, Lincoln, es on the St dison on Ocean T mmon Vices in Boston Schools. 18, Weekly Grist of Sporting Gossip. 0. “Men of the Moss Hags"— 1L OIL TOUCHED TWO DOLLARS MARK. Predictions Made Early in the Week Are Fulfilled to the Letter, PITTSBURG, April 13.-0il continued on its upward course today and seemed to be fulfilling the prediction of those who said that it would go to $2 before the week was out At the opening the Standard put its price cents to $1.75. 5 bid and the first advance of 26 cents May options opened at ales were at $1.95, an over the closing quota- tion on Thursday. From $1.95 it broke to $1.92 and at 10:30 o'clock $1.92% was bid In the first five minutes of trading 19,000 barrels of May options were sold and there was some trading in cash oil at $1.91%. Al- though there is great interest in the up- ward trend of oil here there is little excite ment for the reason that nobody has the cer- tificates on which to trade, The new producers association, as a com- petitor of the Standard in refining interests, is having a rather hard row to hoe at pr ent. They are obliged to buy crude ofl at high prices and sell the refined product at low prices. A meeting of anti-Standard pro- ducers was held here yesterday and discussed the matter, but the result is not known. This solution of the present movement may de- velop the future course of the refined market. OIL CITY, Pa, April 13.—The ad- vance of 25 cents in Lima and Indiana of! yesterday was followed this morning by a notice from the Seep Pur- chasing agency that it would pay $1.76 a barrel for Pennsylvania oil credit balances. This is an advance of about 25 cents from Thursday's prices and had a prompt effect on the speculative market. The long period of stagnation preceding the present advance of nearly $1.05 per barrel for the commodity had driven the majority of the brokers and speculators into other businesses and to other portions of the country, but the half-hundred of the old guard that have stood the specu- lative battles and storms of speculative ad- versity from 1870 until wonderful harvest of this is the only ofl ex once established at now are reaping a od round dollars, as change left of the many ew York, Pittsburg, Bradford, Petrolia, Parker, Warren and Titus- ville, From all over the country orders aro coming from would-be speculators attracted by the unprecedented steady and great in- crease In prices. The limited number of cer- tificates, about 760 in all. prevents dealing in extensive lots, but the width of the fluctu ations more than makes up any discrepancy in the excitement and uncertainty of the business. On Monday of this week the market closed at $1.30 and at 11:15 today was selling at $1.96, an advance of 66 cents, more than 10 conts a day. Although there was some realiz- ing of profits on Thursday and today, the ma- Jority of the buying today was for speculative Investment. It opened excited and strong, with sales at $1.90, or 21 cents higher than on the eve of Good Friday. In less than ten minutes after the opening sales had been made at $1.95, and at $1.92% there was a fair volume of trading and no signs of a break in the bull movement. At 11:30 prices ad- vanced to $1.96% and at 11:50 a. m. 15,000 barrels were sold at $2. The close with sales at $1.99 bid. Up to the close the market was steady Just before the close 7,000 barrels of May options were sold at $2 and the prediction of many oil men was fulfilled. It then reacted to $1.98%, and closed at $1.99 bid. The net advance for the day was 31 cents and for the week, 82 cents. The Atlantic Refining company, which Is the refining end of the Standard company, today advanced the price of refined 1 cent per gallon, or 50 cents per barrel. This advance was made on the basis of $1.50 for crude oil, and as the Standard today put the price of crude up 25 cents, there will no doubt be another jump In the price of refined ofl on Monday. LIMA, O., April 13.—There was no change in the Lima ofl market. The Standard pipe lines are being taxed to their utmost running oll which producers have holding In anticlpation of a rise. Manufacturers of drilling tools here have more work than they can do, and have had since the first increase in price last week, but now that the market has gone beyond the dollar mark, telegraphic orders are coming in from all points in th oil flelds, which cannot be filled. Excitement over the big rise Is greater today. B Rocruits for the Revolationls FORT WORTH, Tex., April 13.—A number of able-bodied men recently disappeared from their usual haunts in this city without in- timating to any ouc their intention. For two or three wecks previous a man of Spanish orlgin had been in the clty and was fre- quently seen in company with the men who disappeared. A letter Las been recelved, post- marked Tampa, Fla., from one of the men named Flaherty, conveying the information that the men who disappeared from this city, twenty In number, had enlisted 'n the Cuban army and were then on the eve of departure for the island. They were recruited In this city by the agent of the insurgents, i —— Umra Khan Ready to Quit. LONDON, April 13.—~The Indian office has a dispatch from India stating that rumors are current that Umra Khan of Jandol, against whom & strong British force s operating, has asked the ameer of Afghanistan to grant him ylume was been T0 PRISON FOR LIFE Oharley Carleton Will Not Be Hanged ad Fremont for Murder, GOVERNOR HOLCOMB SHOWS MERCY Executive Olemenoy Successfully Invoked in Behalf of the Condemned, SENTENCE COMMUTED YESTERDAY HI5 Mandate Ordering the Change Tseued to the Supremo Court Clerk. FOR GOOD AND SUFFICIENT REASON Thousands of Fremont and [ Ige County Citizens Ask that the Be Withdraw Court Jo Denth Penalty 1 the Supreme 18 In A Body. LINCOLN, April 13.—(Speclal Telegram.)— Governor Holecomb today commuted the sen= tence of Charles C. Carleton, the Fremont murderer, to imprisonment for fife at hard labor. Carleton was to have been hanged on the 26th inst. Although the supreme court on technical grounds sustained the finding of the jury in the lower court, as & body It recommended the prisoner to the mercy of the governor. Aside from numer- ous petitions which have been presented to the governor in behalf of Carleton preme court in a body tive and the su- walted on the execus recommended the od mur- derer to mercy. When the court reviewed the ¢ al it said, in substance, that it could not reverse the verdict of the jury which tried the case in the district court. Following Is the mandate of the governor: STATE O1I' NEBRASKA, EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT-To the clerk of the su- preme court, the sheriff of Dodge county, and to all to whom these presents shall come, greeting: Whereas, It appears that at the Septem- ber, A, D. 1863, term of the district court of the Sixth judicial district, held within and for Dodge county, Nebraska, Charles C. Carleton was convicted of the crime of anvi murder n the first degree, and was by Hon. Willlam Marshall, jud, of sald court, sentenced to be hanged by the neck until dead; and Whereas, The sald Charles €. Carleton, by his attorneys, prosecuted error to the sus preme court of 1ska, which sald su- preme court affirmed the judgment of the sald district court of Dodge county, and thereupon caused 1l rk of said supreme court, on the 30th day of March, 1895, to issue a death warrant to the sheriff of Dod ebraska, which sald death warrant mands the said gheriff of Dodge county to carry into effect ‘and execute the sald death sentence on the 2ith day of April, A. D. 1595; and Whereas, It has been made to appear to me that the A Charles C. Carleton 18 & fit and proper subject for executive clems ency, Now therefors, under and by virtue of the authority in me vested by law, I, Silas A, Holcomb, governor of the state of Nebraska, nd deliver the same for good and suflicient reasons unto me atisfactory, do hereby commute the sens tence of the sald Charles C. Carleton from the death p state Tabor ty to imprisonment in the penitentiary of Nebraska, at hard for the period of his natural life, In witness whercof I have hereunto set my hand and afiixed the great seal of the state of Nebraska, Done at Lincoln, this the year of our I year of the stat th day of April, In rd 1895, the twenty-ninth . and of the independence of the United States the 119th, SILAS A, HOLCOMB, By the Governor Governor, J. A. PIPER, Secretary of State, ARLETON'S CRIME, Carleton murdered August Gothman fn Dodge county in June, 1893, and was found guilty of murder and sentenced to be hanged. He appealed his case to the supreme court, but the judgment of the lower court was affirmed and the date of the execution was fixed for April 26, 1895. In 1892 August n, the murdered man, lived in Shelby Towa, and in November of that year he married Minnie Orsulak, a girl 18 years of age. At the time of his marriage Goth- man was a widower with four children. In 1893 early he moved to Plerce county, Nes braska, taking his entire famlly with him, In May, 1893, the Gothman family left Plerce county. Gothman left first, and his young wife, the four children and his wife's father followed in the afternoon of the same day. Some time after the departure of the Goths man family, Mrs, Gothman, her father and the children arrived at the residence of Charles Carleton, five miles west of Fres mont, on what is known as the Military road, Mrs. Gothman and her family stopped tems porarily at Carleton’s house, while her huse band was supposed to have gone to South Omaha. Mrs. Gothman was habitually ade dressed by her stepchildren as ‘“Minne," and it is quite clear that for some time the Carleton household supposed she was an elder sister of the children. Between her and Carleton, who was & young man 24 years of age, & sudden attache ment sprung up, and on the Monday follow= ing her arrival she and Carleton left toe gether, Carleton testified that he took hep at her own request and started toward Fre= mont. On the way she asked him to find her a place to board, and he took her to the house of a man named Van Ness, six or elght miles northeast of Carleton's. He are ranged for her to stay there a week. On hig return home he told the other members of the Gothman family that Minnie had gone to Stoux City and would not come back. It developed afterward that while taking Minnie Gothman to the Van Ness home Carles ton proposed marriage to her and she ace cepted. A week later Carleton and Mrs, Gothman went to North Bend, and she told him that sie was not the sister of the Gothe man children, and that ber name was Minnle Orsulak, and further that her parents wanted her to marry Gothman, but she did not want to do so. They went to the office of the county judge at Schuyler, procured a licens and were married. They then returned to Carleton's home and announced their mare riage. STORY TOLD BY THE MURDERER. On the night of June 7 Gothman reappeared at a hotel In Fremont, remalning there ovel night, and departed the next morning. On that night Gothman was killed, and Carleton went to Fremont and gave himself up to the authorities. Gothman's body was found at the Carleton house, with three bullet wounds, Carleton clalmed In his evidence that Gothe man came to his house, and, after an ap- parently friendly conversation, told Carle that Minnle was really Mrs. Gothman apd attacked him with a revolver. A struggle en< sued, in which the gun in Golhman's was discharged by accldent several th the fatal wounds being inflicted by nol%