Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 9, 1895, Page 1

R PART 1L w1 THE OMAHA SUNDAY ESTABLIS HED JUN OMAHA, SUNDAY MORNING, JUNE 9, 18 'WENTY PAGES )5— SINGLE COPY FIVE CENT Laaalo ool oo PAGES 1 TO 8. e b it LONDON IS SPORTY Al Bociety Turns to Ascot Heath the Com- ing Week. ROYALTY WILL BE THERE IN FULL FORCE Usual Row Over Tickets to the Royal Enclosure, WZEKLY BREECH OF PROMISE BULLETIN Confusion of Names Causes a Ridiculous Mistake, RICH AMERICAN AFTER A LAND D ESTATE Latest Gossip from the Theaters Whero Sarah Mernhardt and Elinor Duse Appear in the Same Play but in Differen (Copyrighted, 1895, by the Assoclated Press) LONDON, June 8.—Owing to the Whitsun- day holidays those who could do so flitted to the country or flew to the seaside and the “town” has been comparatively deserted by those who furrish food for the gossip of the millions. But they are now flitting back to London, doubtless refreshed by their trips, and are again plunging into the swirl of metropolitan life. The rumors so persistently circulated re cently of the probability of an early dissolu- tion of Parliament are gradually dying out, as the moving spirits of both the conserva. tive and lberal parties admit that it 18 to their Interests to avoid a dissolution during the season. Many aristocrat parties have al ready been made up for the racing at Ascot Heath, which will begin on Tuesday nexi and last until Friday, inclusive. There will be assembled Britain's noblest and richest, and small fortunes will change hands daily take fn the wholesale betting which will place almost within sight of Windsor cs Al will be out in force, and no doubt rulla Khan, the Afghan prince, who has been feted and petted until the very mention of his name to the sober-minded citizens is al- most nauseating, will be there in all his half- gavage glory. There Is the usual row about tickets of admission to the royal enclosure The conservatives assert that Ascot suffers terribly in its former exclusiveness on ac- count of the liberals being in power, as th master of the buck hounds, Lord Ribble: dale, who has charge of such matters, is obliged, It is claimed, to admit the wives and families of his radical supporters. These conditions, of which a ticket of ad- mission to the grand stand or enclosure at Ascot Heath contains the following clause: “It the holder s in default in respect of stakes, forfeits, or bets upon horse racing, or has been guilty of any fraudulent practice on the turf, or any matters connected with it, or shall display and make use of any stool, color, hat or number, badge or name, or other dovice for the purpose of betting or take money in advance for bets, or make bets ‘past the post,’ his ticket will be forfeited and he will be expelled from the stand and enclosure, without having any claim to the return of the money paid for his ticket.” But there are people who do not look upon being present at Ascot as a great honor. Vanity Fair, for instance, considers it to be “no compliment to be one of such a mixed and {ll-dressed crowd.” Last year, it says, the lawn was swarming with people who had never seen royalty before, and who stood staring straight at the royal box. TENNIS CHAMPION WILL RETIRE. It is announced that Dr. Pim, the English lawn tennis champion, who has for the third time just captured the Irish championship and won outright the Fitzwilllams cup, has decidad to retire from the tenis fleld, owing 1o his growing practice as a doctor. Tt s considered likely, however, that Dr. Pim wil once more defend the championship at Wim- bledon in July. It is expected that Viscount Gough, the first secretary of the British embassy at ‘Washington, who, by the recent death of his father, succeeded to the title and family es- tates at Lough Castle, County Galway, ana St.“Helens, County Dublin, will soon return to Ireland from Washington. As cabled to the Assoclated press yester- day, Mr. Arthur George Van Sittart, secre- tary of the British legation at Munich, has been gazetted British consul at Chicago, in succession to Mr. J. H. Saddler. Mr. Van Sittart has been in the diplomatic service for twenty years, and his transfer from the latter service to the consular service is a very rare departure. But promotion in the British diplomatie service is slow, and the consular post at Chicago is worth £1,200 yearly. Mr. Marshal Fleld, jr., has taken Earl Russell's beautiful little place, Amberly cottage, at Maidenhead. The earl, whose troubles with his erratic wife have brought him much betore the public in an unenviable light, has lately been delivering addresses at Newlington and other places on marriage morals. Some confusion was caused here and else- where in regard to & coming breach o promise sult which is sure to attract at- tention unless it is settled out of court, It was announced during the week in the newspapers that Mrs. Gore, formerly an opera bouffe actress, had brought an action for breach of promise of marriage against Lord Sudeley and it was asserted that she had retired from the stage on becoming en- ged to his lordship. It happened that Lord Sudeley Is an eminently respectable elderly man, and a married man with grown children, with weakness for speculation in stock, which made him well known through- out the city, He was born in 1840 and was captain of the honorable gentlemen at arms. Mis friends, therefore, were terribly shocked until it was explained that a mistake had been made In the name and the charming actress s sulng Viscount Sudeley, a dashing young man and a lieutenant in the Royal Horse guards, and a member of White's, the Bachelors, the Turf and the Raneleigh clubs, all very aristocratic institutions. The young viscount is the only son of the earl of Arran, who sits in the House of Lords, and in the confusion of names the sult has been discussed in smart circles, as Viscount Sudeley 18 @ well known figure about town He s 27 years old. AFTER AN ENGLISH ESTATE. Some curiosity has been aroused here over an advertisement which has just appeared in the newspapers of this city over the signature of a prominent real estate firm. It says: “A wealthy American wishes to pur- chase a Distorical residential estate with a “Tudor or Elizabethian mansion,’ having twenty bedrooms, five reception rooms and 800 to 1,000 acres of land. Would pay about £60,000." A representative of the Associated press ques the real estate ageut as to the ide: ity Of this wealthy -American desir- ous of purchasing a Great Britain. He referred to was at present in London, but that his client did not wish identity to be revealed under any circumstances. Care- ful investigation far failed identity him. Large and historical that in estate in said the American has thus to fashionable crowds assembled at the Raneleigh club the of the thering first dog show of the Ladies Kennel associa- tion. Among the visitors were the princ and princess of Wales, the princess being one of the exhibitors, showing a borlois which she fmported from Russia. The United States Thomas F. Bayard, of people yesterday being the occaslon ambassador, Hon, 18 to lay the foundation sto of the Memorial church at Gains- borough In the autumn, to John Robinson, one of the founders of independence in Eng- land. He was born in 1575 and died in 1625. number of leading non-conformists are expected to attend. Mr. Bayard, in ac- cepting the invitation to lay the foundation stone, wrote: “I glad to join in com- so devoted a minister of A large am memoration of God." Lady Arthur Butler, nee Stager, has been entertaining the duchess of St. Albans at Sandelford priory, Newberry. Lord and Lady William Beresford (the latter better known as the beautiful American duchess of Marl- borough) have been visiting the marquis of Waterford in Ireland Many disconsolate Americans returned from Manchester last night and this morning, having lost heavily on Mr. M. F. Dwyer's Banquet, in the for the Manchester cup, by the prince of Wales' Florizel 1L, and they are not consoled in any degree by the knowledge that Mr. Richard Croker, who was looked upon to back the Dwyer horse, won on the prince’s entry. The book makers and others were astonished at the way Messrs. Croker, Dwyer and other Ameri- race won ns bet. They are averse to taking bets from Americans, who, they say, have no regard for the value of mon Mr. Dwyer has engaged Mr. Miller, formerly purser of the American line steamship Paris, as his general manager here. Mr. Croker is de- voting much of his time to society. He gives numerous dinner parties and has boxes at the opera. Mr. and Mrs. Croker left for Ireland, where the former is to complete the purchase of an estate. LEUVILLE AFTER Mrs. Frank Leslie of New York is in the city and her veteran admirer, the marquis de Leuville, is again in constant attendance upon her. The marquis i es that he is once more engaged to be married to Mrs. Leslie. Francis Wilson the prestige of Cleveland, he through the whom the introduction, The principal event of the weck, so far as the theater is concerned, has been the ap- pearance on the London boards of the two great emotional actresses, Sarah Bernhardt and Elinor Duse, the latter appearing only four times a week. It is rumored that she is suffering from consumption and that her permanent retirement from the stage is only a matter of a short time. Next week London theater goers will have the op- portunity of contrasting the widely different methods of these two great artists in the same parts. Mme. Bernhardt is to present o French version and Stgnora Duse an Italian adaptation of Steimat, which in both in- stances has been rechristened ‘‘Himat There has been no novelty presented dur- FRANK LESLIE. is in the the city, and, friendship of may gain soclal United States popular actor with President favor here ambassador, to has a letter of ing the week at the opera. M. Maurel and Vignas have been added to the already strong company and the former will make bis reappearance on Monday in Falstaft, Great interest is taken here in Adelina Patti’s first appearance of the season, next week. Seats are already fetching & Carmencita, in spite of the fact that a prominent theatrical paper declares that there is not a dancer on the stage to whom she could not give points, and who ‘“kept the Hudson in a blaze for five years,” has not been successful in London. She has recently been giving a series of matinees at St. James hall and has varled her usual entertainment by singing Spanish songs, ac- companied by a quartet of American players. Amongst the prominent players who registered at Low's exchange during the past week were Mrs. Leslie Osgood and family of Boston and F. R. Prentiss of Cleveland. Prof. White of the Cornell university iy greatly pleased with the success of the Cornell crew now training at Henlry-on-the- Thames for the race for the grand visitors' challenge cup. He has arranged to have the Cornell Glee club make its first appearance in England at the reception which the United States ambassador is to give on the Fourth of July. STILL THE CENTER OF ATTRACTION. The ameer's son, Shah Zada Nazrulla Khan, s still the center of attraction in the busy social world. chester house, where he and his suite are quartered, continues to be thronged with eager crowds of curlosity seekers, to whom the unaccustomed spectacle affords much amusement. The attendants of the Afghan prince resort at stated hours to the gardens The vicinity of Dor- of Dorchester house and, with faces turned toward Mecca, prostrate themselves on the carpets in prayer. This has afforded an unusual subject for the amateur photogra- phers, who fill the windows of the houses commanding the dens and kodak the kneellng orientals at their devotions. On these bright, sunny afternoons to stand on the magnificent palm-decked marble stalr case and watch the movements of the Afghan officials and the English staff in their bril- liant uniforms is to witness a scene of oriental splendor but seldom met with out- side of eastern lands. Everything connected with the royal visitor's progress is now going splendidly, but Nazrulla Khan Is a difficult young man to handle. The fact that he, a comparatively insignificant prince as compared with his brother, Habi Bulah Khan, the heir to the Afghan throne, should have been sent to the land of “The Great Queen-Empress” as a representative of his father seems to have turned his head. Dur- ing the voyage from India to Clive he gave a good deal of trouble. They were not too fond of soap, and to see some of his body- guard, attired in splendid native uniforms, with a railway inspector’s old overcoat or a postman’s coat over them, was a sight to remember, WANTED HIS OWN WAY But the little friction of the voyage was nothing to that encountered when the In- dlan office officials went out to Spithead to meet the ship and presented to the prince the program of his subsequent movements. For apparently no reason but sheer perversity he refused to do this, that and the other; declined to be shown over the dock yards; refused to attend a luncheon at the govern- ment house, sald he would not land at ihe hour arranged, and, in fact, made himself very disagreeable. The officials were at their wit's end. Everything, troops, royal car- ringes and processions had been arranged and the details settled, and it was only after (Continued oy Becond Page.) CAAL IS ALL READY Big Steamer Soraped the Bottom a Little in Making the Passage, HCHENLOHE NARROWLY MISSED A DUCKING Marblehead Will Repreeent This Country in the Trip Through the Canal, HEADING OFF THE FRENCHMEN'S SCHEME Specch of the Emperor -at the Banquet Awaited with Interest, IMPERIAL MINISTER TO CALL ON BISMARCK Prossian Minister of Education Takes Ad vanced Ground on the Higher Edus ot cation Women—: tudent s’ Monument to Bismarck, (Copyrighted, BERLI the Baltic and 1895, by the Assoclated Press.) North Sea canal, made thi week by the imperial yacht Hohenzollern and | in with the chancellor, Prince Hohenlohe, the Prus- the Hamburg-American steamer Pala ia, slan minister for the interior, Herr Von Koel ler, the imperial cecrctary of state for the in- erfor, Dr. Von Boetticher, and the ministe of foreign affairs, Baron Marshal Bieberstein, on board, showed that the canal is in condi tion for the passage of a small fleet on Jun 19 and 20. The Palatia just between Rendsburg and Holtenau, but it wa: nothing than th more serious stirring up June 8.—The trial trips through touched bottom ments of torture applied to the patients were produced in court. After a woek's hearing of the case the accused were moquitted, as the publ'c prosecutor admitted that the al- legations were justified, The newspapers all blame the parties con- cerned for hestowing the Order of Merit on Herbert Spencer without asking whether he would accept it. His refusal, coupled with Pasteur’s refusal to accept the highest sclentific distinction in Germany, has caused a great deal of heartburning. Aecording to one account the emperor is responsible for the Pasteur affair. It is said that his majesty did not consult the authorities of the academy, but on his own Initiative instructed the German embassy at Paris to certain Pasteur's views. The matter was to be kept strictly private, and the conduct of the distinguished French chemist In giving pub- Neity to hie refusal is regarded as a breach of confidence and has greatly annoyed the emperor. Herr Zoellener, the leader of the New York Liederkranz, has had his “Dual War Opera,”” the theme being taken from the Franco-German war, accepted by the manage- ment of the Royal opera house at Munich. Manager Conrad of New York has just en- gaged a new German company for America and Maria Reisenhofer for a tour of the United States. Mr. Richard Watson Gilder, editor of the Century Magazine, passed a few days here during the week while on his way to Venice, s | in order to attend the wedding of his sister- aw, who is the sister of the United States consul general, Mr. DeKay. She is to be married to an Italian nobleman. CURTAILING WOMEN'S RIGHTS. Another question affecting the political of women has Just been decided against them. An antiquated law still exists - | which prohibits woman scholars and apprens tices from joining a political society. A few women recently formed in Berlin a woman's s | agitation committee, having for its object to o | obtain for women equal political rights with to r | rights e | mud. 1t transpires that when landing from | men. The leaders of this movement were ar- the Palatia at Holtenau Prince Hohenlohe | raigned by the public prosecutor and the had a narrow escape. He slipped and would | magistrate before whom they were brought have fallen overboard but for Herr Von Koel- | sentenced the women to fincs ranging from ler, who caught hold of him and succeeded in pulling him on deck. According to the program the Kaiser-/ with Emperor Wiiliam on board, will heal dler, 30 to 40 marks, and ordered the society to be dissolved. The postal authoriti a | Main have of Frankfort-on-the- decided that the government need procession of sixteen German and foreign | N0t pay damages for the loss of the registered vessels which will pass through the canal [letters which were lost on the Elbe, the during the evening of June 19. The Marble- | United Statcs not having joined in the inter head will represent the United States during | "ational postal regulations of 1891, bearing the passage of the Elbe from Hamburg t Brunsbuttel, and the canal will be closed t traffic until after the ceremonies are over. COST OF WORK. The great canal, which Joins the Baltic s to the German ocean, cost about $38,500,00 and has been eight years in building. It tersects the peninsula of Schleswig-Holst from Brunsbuttel, near the mouth of the ri Elbe, to Holtenau on Kiel bay and opposit the city of Kiel, a distance of about fifty-nin miles. The entrances at both terminals hav in been provided with dock gates, each of which is twenty- ven and a half yards wide. Th lowest possible depth at the Brunsbuttel end | JeWe is five fathoms, and at Holtenau the a trifle deeper. The dock gates are by hydraulic power, and the whole lighted by electricity. Steam tugs water i operate: canal 1 will b o stationed at each main gate of the canal in order to a in the passage of vessels. A several points the canal is crossed by larg bridges, which, when opened, leave a fre space of fifty-four and a quarter yards. Ther are also a number of ferries and two finely constructed permanent railway bridges. The military advantage of the canal is in the fact that henceforth in time of war th German navy may be divided and the pro- north visioning of either the tic or the shore cannct be interrupted or rendered im possible. The agitation in France in favor of th French warships at Kiel hoisting the Ger man imperial flag bearing the sinister dat “1870" has induced the emperor to declin to visit any foreign warships during th opening of the canal, as, if he visited any of on that question, § 5 me exceptions have been o | made voluntarily. The anti-semites party, of which Ahlwardt and Boeckel are the leaders, adopted their A platform at a meeting this week. The chief o | Plank naturally is a propaganda to exclude Jews from all public offices and honors, and o | @150 from the press, law and medicine. In ad- dition separate schools for Jews under state o | supervision and control are demanded. The o | meeting resolved that every person Is to be regardel as a Jew if his or her ancestors of the past three generations include one person of Jewish blood. Persons who have married ses are included in the same category « [ In view of the quantity of Jews among the 4 | members of the aristocracy and in banking s |and commercial circles, the ‘achievement of this program would cause”copsiderable incon- venience. ¢| A case of perjury, which wad” pending o | against the Countess Perpolcher, nee Dross, the American lady whose troubles have so long been before the public, has been stricken off the lists, the court having been convinced that the evidence against her was false. The countess is the wife of Count Perpolcher, eon of the ex-chief court marshal of Emperor Willlam 1. The count early in last April de posited the sum of 120,000 marks as bail for his wife, who had been arrested on the charge of perjury and intimacy with Dr. Bruno Voigt who was being sued for divorce by his wife. The countess wee marrlel in the United States in December, 1893 She will now sue her chief traducer, a teacher named Wiegandt in Muelhauson, for slander. VANDERBILT’S o e e e A W, K. MAGNAN MITY them, he would be compelled to visit the o Hoche, the French flagship, which would | PATislan Friends Throw a Glamour of Chiv- thereby be bound to hoist this standard. [ *IF¥ Over Ilis Lialson with the Actress. The cause of the French excitement about | (gPYTIEWt 18, by Frem Publishing Company.) this matter appears to be due to the fact ARIS, June 8-—(New Yogk World Cable- that Prince Bismarck, during the course of | Srm.——Special Telegram)—1 have the au- a speech which he made in reply to the ad dress of a deputation in April last, said tha the canal had been proposed by him in 1867, but that nobody would listen to him until the French war indemnity ga withal ve him where: to carry out the scheme. The speech which Emperor Willlam is to make at the Holtenau banquet on June 2 is awaited with curiosity. The French ad miral, Monard, Is to sit on his right hand and the Russian admiral, Skryd. left, is to sit on h's left hand. Thus it be difficult for the emperor to avoid specia majesty's will thority of Mr. William K. Vanderbilt's friends for stating that his connection with a certain person in Paris, which forced the occasfon for his wife's divorce suit, and be- cause of which Judge Barrett gave her a decree, with the husband's consent, has been definintely and finally terminated by Mr. Vanderbilt himself. In fact, I am informed that this separation was insisted upon by Mr. Vanderbilt immediately after the decree was granted, and the inference Is freely drawn by those cognizant of the facts that the connec- tion was originally formed with the deliberate intention of giving ground for divorce, for t 1 1 allusion to France as the most honored | the reason that the marrlage relation, for guest, sufficient reasons, had become unbearable, STUDENT MONUMENT TO BISMARCK. |and that The foundation stone of the big Bismarck monument to be erected by the German stu. dent corps was lald on the summit of the Rudelsborg last Sunday. In spite of the fact that known to be aggrieved at some of the re utterances of Prince Bismarck to a deputa the emperor is ent the Parls connection was therefore peremptorily ended as soon as this purpose was accomplished, The facts stated in Mr. Vanderbilt's behalt would prove conclusively that not only was he forced to the action which thus ended In the dicorce, but in legally making himselt the guilty party he acted with really chival- tion of Schleswig-Holsteiners, because they | rous consideration. It is proper to add that reflected upon the father of the empress, the | the statements published in the World imme- late Duke Frederick of Schleswig-Holstein- | dately after the decree as to the circum- Sanderburg-Augustenburg. Dr. Miguel, the | stances preecding it were made on the au- minister of finance, with his majesty’s ap- | thority of Mrs. Vanderbilt. proval, is to visit Prince Bismarck next week, and Count ven Rantzau, the ex-chan cellor's son-in-law, will at the expiration of his six months' leave pointed Prussian of absence minister at be ap Hamburg, as to enable him to be near his father-in- to law. The latter's health continues good, and a visit to Kirsingen in orc take the waters will not be required this year, The Prussian minister of education, Dr. Bo:sse, has just sanctioned the admission of 50 be to % INHABITANTS HAD NO WARNING, Mountain Streams Kose 5o Rapidly People Had No Time to Esenpe. LONDON, June 8.—A d'spatch to the Stand- ard from Vienna gives additional particulars of the flooding of Kobelrsdosf, the summer resort in the mountains, Sa sudden was the rise of the freshet that it was not realized until the bodies of thefdead peasants, lum- ber and pieces of the gottages came floating into the lower part of the towm. One of the t a daughter of a Silesian ecclesiastic to the | remarkable Incidents of the fleed was related Arbituristein examination ac the Prussian | by some of the persoms who escaped to the gymnasium. This examination enables the | mountains, successful ones to enter the universities or obtain certain privileges in other professions The minister overruled the decision of the provincial board of pedagogues, who refused the necessary permission. Dr. Bosse's de cision has caused great rejoicing among the It was the story of the manner in which a cradle containing a sleeping child - | was forced down the gorges by the rushing waters. The child was reseded with difficulty by those In the lower part of the village. Owing to the damage to the wires it is im- possible to ascertain the exact loss of life, Prussian advocates of the higher education | but it is feared that the whole town has beer of women. destroyed. It is known that twelve bodie The Berlin city council has ratified the|of (he inhabitants of this one village have contract for the construction of an electric elevated oty railroad. CRUEL TREATMENT OF LUNATIC A sensation hes been created by the reve lations regarding the barbarous treatment of lunatic inmates of the Monastery of Maria berg, made during the trial of a suit slander brought against Herr Melage, an inn keeper of Scharre, and Warnatzesch, a news paper man who published a brochure expose of the methods of the monks, whose method: became known on the escape of the Scotch priest, Father Forbes, whose escape was fa cliitated by Melage. The evidence that the monks are illiterate men, totally un fitted to be attendants in an asylum. inflicted cruel personal punishment, some times immersing the patient's head In ice- The chalns and other instry- cold water, for hows They already been recovered. A dispatch to the Daily News from Vienna says that the reports from Kobeirsdorf make it evident that 100 persons are missing at that place as a result of the mountain floods. Elghteen bolies have been recovered. ( rien for Proofs. , June 8.—Wllliam O'Brien, M. P., in bis recent speeches at Cork insinuated that $ | Tim Healy had conspiréd with ex-Commoner Patrick Chace to bring about & bank- - | ruptey action in order to drive O'Brien from Parliament. Healy hag now written O'Brien challenging him to submit proofs of these as- sections and agreelng on his honor to pay €250 it the charges can be proven, O'Brien to forfeit a like amount if the statements are shown to be true - Henly Anks -| LONDO; WOLF AT THE DOOR from Grant County, Oklahsma. HAVE RAISED NOTHING Exhausted, Month Pension, Have Not E: Out of the Country—Food, Clotulug and Seed Needod at Once, settlers in parts of Ok ahoma have not belleved. paper correspondents of the territory a dull season, and official denials of reported instances lent color to this theory. Rev. P, Shane and Judge T. B. Nash of Grant county, Oklahoma, reached this city today with a story of the act the settlers there that is graphic in its pic- ture of desolation and want. committee sent out by the people of Grant county to solicit aid for the destitute and hungry. They have letters from Thomas J Lowe, territorial secretary; Governor E. N. Morrill of Kansas and others equally well known, vouching for them. They declare that Grant county is one of desperate want. Gaunt hunger is their constant companion and the situation is such that only instant aid will actual starvation among those are trying to hold the claims which they s cured in the Cherokee Strip opening Sep ber 16, 1893, Owing to the drouths which have prevailed since the opening, no crops have been raised. As a result the settlers are in actual want They have no resources to exist on there, and to make the situation more desperate they cannot get away. The destitution fs so great and widespread that the county government can furnish no assistance and the territorial government has no money for such purposes. Slowly but surely the settlers exhausted their resources, prevent m- of Prairip township held a meeting, resulted in the county sending Rev. of Kansas and Missouri and to beseech aid. draws a pension of $14 a story: ilies have been existing on my pen: It would do, in ordinary circums month, on money. ances, meant. Last Monday T drew $42 for my last quarter. I pald the grocery bill, which had accumulated during the quarter and then had $1.75. Just be- fore leaving on this trip I asked credit for a sack of flour, but was refused it. had to face immediate want. It stomary for the merc! ting the money. last resource was cut off. My son-in-law and his wife started away in their wagon Tues day without a cent and without provisions. They said they might as well beg and starve on the road as to stay there and starve. I have not heard from them s'nce.” The Kansas City Live Stock exchange has appropriated 850 and a movement has been started in the city to send immediate relief to the destitute. WICHITA, Kan., June 8.—An appeal for aid has been received here from Medford, OKL It is signed by four of its foremost citizens, who are vouched for by W. J. Mart- indale of this city, Wichita district, Southwest dist Eplscopal conference. that scction of the country are in a wretched condition so far as food and concerned, and pray for relief immediately. The appeal closes as follows: In the name of suffering humanity we appeal to you for such food and other things as you can spare to help the destitute, and that as soon as you possibly can, to appease the hunger of crying children. Ship to the Lamont Township Aid association, care Mrs. Emma Beacock. The Rock Island carrles supplies free of cost.” Kansas Metho- e Many VMurders Grew Out of the Election LONDON, June §.—Advices recéived by the Chronicle from Rome state that murders occurred in the recent Italy. Two partisans of numerous election in Signor Felice- A magis- Minerveno, in southern Sicily, was also assassinated, Many murders were com- mitted at Massina, Carrara, Nicra, Crapau and Naples. Giuffrida were killed at Catania, at trate e Turkish Govervment Stands Firm. LONDON, June 8.—The Exchange Tele- graph company says it is semi-officlally in- formed that the Turkish government is very firm and intends to remain so because the sultan belleves that the, whole Armenian question is merely a huge insurrection sup- ported and encouraged by the nonconfor- mist ministers of Great Britain and America. B Ecaudorean Suspects Closely Watched. NEW YORK, June 8.—A special from Panama says: Ecuadoreans who sympathize with the revolution are being closely watched by government ships. Three forelgn war- ships are now at Guayaquil. It Is reported that the traitor Maldonado has been shot by order of General Bowen. Alfaro has left Corinto for Ecuador. —— Twelve Out of sixteen Drowned. LONDON, June 8.—A special dispatch re- ceived from Riga, capital of the province of Livinia, Russia, says that a saillng vessel has been capsized on the Stint lake and that twelve out of sixteen on board were drowned. A woman, who was among those saved, lost five children through the accident. e Entire Village Destroyed by Fire. BERNE, June 8.—The village of Salins, in the canton of Vilals, has been destroyed by fire. Heartrending Stories of Destitution Come IN TWO YEARS Oredit of the Couuty and of Individuals is COMMITTEE SENT CUT TO SOLICIT AID Three Families Live on a Fourteen Dollar a UBSCRIPTIONS RAISED FOR SUFFERERS ven the Means Left of Gotting KANSAS CITY, June 8.—For some time re- ports of destitution and suffering among the reached the public, but for the most part they were It was thought that the news- were using the subject as a means of tiding over al condition of affairs among They come as a the condition of affairs among the settlers of who With actual starvation in sight, the people which Mr. Shane and Judge Nash to tell the story of their extreme want to the charitable people They want provisions, flour, seed, clothing— anything, in fact, that will cover nakedness and fight off hunger. The storles the two messengers tell of the destitution is affect- ing in the extreme. Rev. Mr. Shane, who tells this “For the last three months four fam- for the bare wants of my immediate family, but with four families you can imagine what it Then we had been ants to credit those who had pensions, for they were sure of get- But with credit denied the presiding elder of the The citizens of clothing are THE BEE BULLETIN, ather Forecast fo Showers; ¢ W Omaha and Vieinity ler; Clearing by Evening. Page. 1. London Devoted to Current Sports. Germany's Marino Canal Opened Starvation Stalks fo Oklahomn. Fort O ha to e a Training School. 2. Dorgan's Plant Absorbs the Money. State University Co encement, Sugar leet Lrop Growing Finely, 3. Tariff Law Interpretat . Colimn Survivors Complain. Short Line aring at Salt Lake. 4. Weddings of the Last Week. Dr. Bactens on Harmony. 5. Canal Mandamus D Harper Admits His G 6. Councll Hiuffs Local Matters. 7. Omahn Defeats St. Joseph Again, Close of the Tennls Tourney. Edghill Wins the six-Day Ruce. University Club Again a Victor. 8. County's Creditors Are Kager. 10. Lincoln and the Negro Uprising. Bicycle and Social Evolution, 11. Boys' and Girla' Department. ditorial and Com Cost of Fire Insurance. Passing of the Bad Ma, Commercial and Financlal. Growth of the Summer Scho Copenhagen’s Great Museum. At the Municipal League Convention. 18. Woman: iter Ways and Her World. 19° Men of the Moss Hags. 20. Weekly Grist of Sporting Gossip. 13, 15. 16. 17 HORRIBLY TORTURED BY ROBBERS se Trader Hlas n Rough Ex- perlence In Missour), ST. JOSEPH, June 8.—George R a horse trader, whose home is at Red Ouk ¥ Morris, Red Oak, Ta., was frightfully tortured by two masked men at an early hour this morning a short this city, distance from and after being robbed of $63, his watch, chain and revolver, he was tied to a tree and left. He was on his way to this city in a wagon, and while passing thick growth of was confronted by two masked men, who, at through a timber the point of a revolver, forced him to march to a tree, to which he was tied. Then the men pulled off his shoes, and after lighting a fire burned the bottom of Morris' feet and finally tell had his in the Then they took his watch and pis- struck him a stunning blow on the head and left. to a crisp, forced him to where he money concealed wagon. tol Morris' condition i dangerous. TUKRKEY IS SOMEWHAT U ) Awalting the Answer of Earopean Powers with Considerable Anxlety. CONSTANTINOPLE, June 8.—The deci- sion of the powers respecting the unfavor of able answer of the Turkish government the note presented to the Porte by the rep sentative powers regarding the reforms pro- posed for Armenia is expected next week There are indications that the Turkish gov ernment is uneasy at the silence of the pow- ers and a high official has been sent to three embassies, those of Great Britain, France and Russia, to confer with the ambassadors regarding Armenia and representing to them that the Porte's reply was only a semi-offi- cial comunication. The ambassadors of the powers mentioned, however, refused to dis- cuss the quest'on, declaring that they regarded the reply as official and final. Advices recelved here from Bitlis show that great distress prevails among the Sas- soun refugees It is stated that some of them have died of starvation and that many others are famishing. A local relief com mittee has left Moosh to distribute bread and to construct huts. The inhabitants ask for seeds and for the restoration of their stolen cattle in order to prevent a famine. It is also feared that the approaching passage of the nomad Kurds across this district will lead to renewed raids, EXPEDITION SAL FOR CUBA, Strong Detachmont of Filibusters Leaves the United States KEY WEST, Fla., June 8.—The rumor that has been circulated here for the last twenty- four hours that a filibustering expedition has left this vicinity for Cuba has been con- firmed. A small vessel came in from the gulf around the eastern end of this fsland and anchored close to the beach. Shortly afterward a small boat was sent ashore with messages for the leaders, who had been walting instructions for several days. Their messengers were quietly sent in every direc- tion to summon those enrolled for the ex- pedition and within a short time the inhabi- tants of that section of the island were sur- prised to see bands of Cubans heavily armed and with accountrements strapped on their backs going in the direction of the beach, getting into small boats and being taken aboard the vessel where she made her anchorage. Several small boats are missing from their moorings and several well known revolution- ists have also disappeared, among them Gen erals Roloff and Sanchez. . The impression prevails that several ve sels will meet at Bahia Honda, Cuba, where other contingents from Tampa and Jackson- ville will join them, making a formidable expedition. Secrecy is maintained by the Cuban leaders about the affair. It is thought not less than 175 Cubans have gone from here. Proposed Increase of Credit Justified. VIENNA, June 8.—Emperor Francls Jo- seph, replying today to the address of the president of the Hungarian delegation, dwelt upon the satisfactory character of the rela- tions of Austria-Hungary with the foreign powers and justified the Incrcased credit asked for military purposes by the necessity of further developing the organization of the army and navy. Count Andrassy, in behalf of the Hungarian delegation, said that the latter would direct its efforts to preserve the monarchy and Hungary the means of tranquil development and the blessings of peace. Hungary, he added, owed the permanent peace which pre- vailed to the emperor's solicitude and he looked to the future without anxiety, con- vinced that his majesty would safeguard the position of the monarchy as a great power. Chitral Tribe Agaln Aggressive. CALCUTTA, June 8.—Dispatches received here from Simla say that the tribesmen of Chitral are again threatening to take the British troops. A body of §00 tribesmen is collected in the vicinity of Dargal and the British are preparing for an attack. Later dispatches from Simla say that a body of Shirannisnhas surprised a village twenty miles from Fort Sandeman fn the Zhobio country and killed a British lieutenant and seven men, Postmen 3trike ln Buda Pesth. BUDA PESTH, June 8.—Twelve hundred postment have struck for an increase In wages. No letters were delivered today on the right side of the river Danube and only & few on the left side — 'USE FOR FORT OMAHA Ex-Senator Manderson Proposes that it Be Made a Cadet Training School. OMAHA'S VALUE AS A MILITARY CENTER General Sheridan's Opinion of the Lecation from a Strategio Standpoint, FORT CROOK AN IMP.RTANT STATION (eneral fohofield Tmpressed with Its Ade vantage as a Distributing Point, WEST POINT WORK TO BE SUPPLEMENTED Establishment of a Preparatory School for ¢ dets at the Post Soon to Be Abane doned a Flan Strongly Urged on Congress, The recent visit of Lieutenant General John M. Schofield to the Department of the Platte and his hasty Inspection of Forts Omaha and Crook has revived fnterest in a military training school for boys preparas tory to their entrance into West Point or Annapolls. For several years, or rather since the determination to change the locas tion of the present Fort Omaha, The Bee has urged upon the people of this community the necssity of acquiring from the governs ment title to the old garrison and its sure roundings, that the school might be estab lisked which would fit young men for the higher military training to be obtained at West Point and Annapolis. Senator Man- derson, when asked to give his views upon this question, well any suggestions he had heard General Schofield make on his last visit here concerning the establishe ment of such a school, said: as as “To give you a full report of the motives that induced the construction of the new fort at Omaha and the history of its erec- tion would take more space than your paper would probably like to give. Years ago when General Skeridan was in command of the army and Robert T. Lincoln was sece retary of war, I sought to have the then dis lapidated Fort Omaha bettered and en- larged. 1 called the attention of the War department to the fact that the eighty acres upon which the garrison is built was dos nated by the citizens of Omaha, and the condition of the buildings erected many years ago was such that they were scarcely inhabitable. General Sheridan, in frequent interviews and in response to my persistent urging, said he would never recommend the expenditure of another dollar on Fort Omaha; that he simply wished to keep the post so that it would be in the hope that a larger garrison could be erected. He insisted that he wanted a new post farther removed from the town and containing no less than 500 acres of land, PROPER LOCATION FOR A POST “He said that Omaha, by reason of its cens tral position, its commercial importance and cheapness for the supply of troops, was one of the best locations In the country for a large garrison. He sald that he considered the Department of the Platte one of the most important in the country, not only on account of the Indian situation, a formid- able band of Irdians known as the Siouxs, numbering about 20,000, being on the northe ern boundary of Nebraska, but because it was a natural distributing point along the main line of settlement and emigration, and uld be maintained and everything should done to make the headquarters of the department at Omaha a permanent one. His Idea the building of a com= modious quartermaster depot and ordnance station, the ercction of a full regimental gar- rison and the building of department head- quarters. Seeing that it was impossible to do anything in the way of improving old Fort Omaba, I took the necessary steps and the result ultimately the purchase of about 600 acres of land most admirably se. lected by General John R. Brooke, that now constitute Fort Crook. “The new garrison is now ready for the occupancy of four companies of Infantry, and the buildings now under erection will accom- modate eight companies, or a full regiment under our present objectionable organization, I hope to see the three battalion organization adopted by the United States, and when this is done a regiment will consist of twelve companies, and Fort Crook will be capable of holding a full infantry regiment, “General Schofield, on his late visit to the post, was charmed with its situation and es- pecially delighted with the character of the buildings. The cost of Fort Crook thus far has been, including cost of ground, over $500,- 000, and before I went out of congress I had additional appropriations providing for the exe penditure in all of $750,000. This sum when expended will almost complete an eight com= pany post, but the ultimate expenditure to make Fort Crook what it must be, will be bes $1,250,000 and $1,500,000. SCHOFIELD'S IMPRESSIO) “In conversation with General Schofield on his late visit he said that he was particularly impressed with the situation of Omaha as a istributing center for troops when an emers gency should arlse, and realized that for speedy distribution of men and the material of war to any point in the center of the coun: try no place afforded such advantages as Omaha. Its situation, joined to the presence of the new fort, the large and well-equipped corral, and the present postofice and custom house bullding, which, on completion of the new postoffice, 18 to be turned over to the War department as headquarters for the De= partment of the Platte, all induced him to look with favor upon the enlargement of the department by taking In some of thé country naturally tributary to us. He sald that he expected to visit for the first time Forts Ni- obrara and Robinson in this state, and Fort Meade in South Dakota, and it was almost like a new revelation to him that all the Black Hills country was tributary to Omaha by the two railroads known as the Elkhorn and Burlington. “In 1886 and again in 1891, being a member of the committee on military affairs of the senate, I was on the board of visitors to the West Point Military academy. In the report of the committee in 1886, the Board of Visls tors recommended to congress an increase in the number of cadets to be educated at the Military academy. The board says In its res port with reference to the fostering care of congress ““The country recelyes back many times its cost In the valuable service of a body of men distinguished for intellectual ability, strong conservatism, & keen sense of honos and unimpeachable personal integrity, PLAN FOR TRAINING CADETS, “In this report nothing is suggested as to the manner of incr in the number of cadets, but in 1891, when I bad the lu_«l L] barely inhabitable, was tween