Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, September 15, 1895, Page 1

PART ONE. THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE. — ESTABLISHED JUNE DUNRAVEN'S DEFENSE Bmalley Takes Up the Oudgel in Bebelf of the English Yachtsman, ALL THE BAD FEATURES OF THE AFFAIR Points Which May Not Prove Palatable to Patriotio Americans, UNBENDING ATTITUDE OF THE COMMITTEE Rulings that Might Have Been More Elas- tio or Liberal, HURTS THE INTERNATIONAL FEELING ‘Withdrawal of Dunraven from the Contest for Amerien’'s Cup Will Leave Great Bitterness HBehind and Increase Wrangling, AEW YORK, Sept. 14.—(Special Te'egram.) —There fs but one International topic to which anybody can be expected to pay atten- tion today, and that is the international yacht race. That I8 a subject on which there is great need of an Impartial statement, and I will try to make one. I know very well the dangers attending such an attempt, still [ think it worth making, and especlally so to an audience some distance from New York. This city, like other cities, is very apt to be governed by local feelings and influencas, The New York Yacht club, moreover, Is a very powerful body soclally, with very wide-reach- ing connections, and the reputation of the New York Yacht club is very deeply con- cerned in this business. There s the jingo sentiment also—a sentiment very accurately expressed In the cld motto, “Our country, right or wrong.” 1If you adopt that the whole question becomes very simple. You no longer wish to find out who Is right or who is wrong. Mr. Iselin {s an American, Lord Dun- raven is an Englishman, so down with the Englishman. I do not be'leve that to be good American- ism nor to represent the best American feel- ing, nor the fe:ling of the majority. To clear the ground still further, let us make a supposition. Let us suppose all the acts of the New York Yacht club committee and of the America’s cup committee to be technically defensible. Suppose they were right on all the contested points and Lord Dunraven wrong. Are we satisfied with the result? Do we take much pride or pleasure in keeping the America’s cup in this way? Does our success add to our reputation abroad? WHEREIN AMERICA SUFFERS. 1 fear it must be admitted that it does not. The judgment against us may be harsh or wrong, but it is a judgment, and it is no answer to say that all the fault is Lord Dun- raven's. Lord Dunraven is not the keeper of the honor or reputation of the United States. Nothing that he has done or omitted to do could compromise it or us. 1If we are compromiged we shall have to admit, ultl- mately, if not today, that for the acts which have brought reproach upon us. we and no forelgner are responsible. I will put the matter broadly. We hold the America’s cup. Lord Dunraven challenged for it, bullt a yacht to compete for it, crossed the seas to race for it, and then withdrew on the express ground that a falr race could not be had on account of the excursion steamers. Is there anything in that state- ment which can be denicd? If there is mot, can we wonder that the reputation of the country abroad suffers. The only point in the statement which anybody will pretend to contest (s the assertion that a fain race could not be had on account of the excur- slonl steamers. That, however, does not rest on Lord Dunraven's authority. The testimony of the New York press was unanimous. They have denounced the conduct of these steamboat captains ever since last Saturday n the most energetic language. They have admitted and asserted that both yachts were interfered with. They now blame Lord Dun- raven for acting on the views they them- selves have expressed. CLEAR COURSE IMPOSSIBLE. Nobody can say that there was any guaran- tee, whatever, that the course would be kept clear last Thursday. It was crowded at the start. The committee postponed the start to get the steamers out of the way. They suc- ceeded. Does anybody believe they could have kept It clear during the race? Nobody professes they could. They do not them- selves ray they could. Inasmuch, then, as Lord Dunraven had notified the committee he would not again sail over an obstructed course, can he be blamed for acting on his notice? I assume all through that both sides are acting in good faith. There is no evi- dence of bad faith on either side. There are, however, papers which suggest that Lord Dunraven had a base wotive for withdiawing. They say he knew he should be beaten. One New York paper of large circulation head- lines its report on Friday with the words “Dunraven Flunks.”” There could not be a more offensive instlt nor a charge less founded. The fact Is that Lord Dunraven still believes Valkyrie faster than Defender. Ho lost the first race partly by the hauling of the wind to the southward. That is his view, and it is also the view of a good many com- petent American yachtsmen who were there. The wash of the steamers did the rest. The second race, on which the foul occurred at starting, was won by Valkyrle by forty- even seconds. Lord Dunraven is confident he should have won by five or six minutes wmore if the steamers would have let him. He may be right or wrong. All I mean to say is that such is his belief. COMMITTEE. ALWAYS WRONG. That disposss of the suggestion, which ought never to have been made, that he with- drew on Thursday because he knew he should be beaten, It is equally well disposed of by his propoal to the committes to sull the race somewhere else, or at an hour when the steamers could pot gt at the yachts, or that the committee should declare the race void if there was terference. The committee de- qiined these proposals, and why? They have mever explained why. They simply say It ‘was impossible, which is no answer and no explanaticn. They said it was ‘lmpossibl to order Tuesday’s raco to ba resailed. It is now admitted that they had the power. They take too limited & view of thelr powe:s. Th's carries us back to thelr original refusal to #all the cup races at Marblehead, as Lord Dunraven wished. They sald that was impos- sible, Why? There is no answer. There 18 nothing in the deed of gift whioh makes it impossible. They knew what had happened at previous races. The excursion steamers then, as now, had been an intolerable nuisance and mischief. The committee knew they could not control them, Why should they not v 4D open course away from ) 19, 1871, OMAHA, SUNDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 15, 1895—TWENTY-FOUR I,J{G.Eé- New York? Did they fes! bound to provide a spectacle for thelr New York friends? Was the club fesling paramount? Did roc'al in- fluences and comradeship and local intereste welgh with th: committee more than the obligation to secura e'ear waters In which to sail this great Internat'onal contest? I am far from afirming that. The true motive, however, has never, o far as I know, bien avowed, azd I think it quite time that it should be. CONDITIONS NOT THE SAME. But, says one New York paper, which dls- tiaguished Itself by unadulte'ated Jingolsm, Lord Dunraven had accapted the coaditions and ought to have salled the last raco at any risk. The answer is that the danger had in- creased. The coniitons were not the rame and Lord Dunraven has frankly caid that he did not think he had a right to risk his yacht and the lives of his erew In circumstanc:a which had bécome of imminent and vi ible peril, To say that Defender ran the ‘same risk is only to say that the contest was a gamble, Can we really desire to put the queations of International superiority in yachting to mere hazard? 1Is It to depend on luck? Are we content to keep or lose the cup at the caprice of an excursion steamboat captain? Should we be satisfied if Valkyrie was swamred or impeded? Should we be satisfied if Defender lost the race for similar reasons? If not, I think we might cease chiding Lord Dunraven for not ecaring to accept the very chances which we should reject. It is no answer to say that Defender was ready to accept these posesibilities. her by her own friends, and reject them she could not. I think, too, we ought to remem- ber that in all these matters the repre- sentatives of on2 of the parties interested are deciding for both. The committee are all Americans. They have done their best, I repeat, to be impartial, but, after all, they are not only Americans, but human. Why should we never have thought of giving the Englishmen a voice on the committee? It Is hard to explain the ferocity of the attacks on Lord Dunraven in certain papers except on one theory. The writers in those Journals feel that the Englishman has com- mitted the inexpiable crime of putting them in the wrong, and their only way out of it is to revile the man guilty of this offense. OUTRAGES INTERNATIONAL FEELING. Having said this much, I add that although I consider that Lord Dunraven, as a yachts- man, was justified in withdrawing his boat, I none the less think that as a representa- tive of England he made a deplorable mis- take. This had become an fssue of something more than yacht racing. It had stirred na- tional and international feelings. Good re- lations between England and America are a thousand times more important to both coun- tries than the America’s cup. This dispute has to some extent embittered them. Hard things are sald on both sides. It is firmly believed abroad that a fair race cannot be had oft Sandy Hook. We know what is said here. A portion of the English press, though not the best portion, has printed some shame- ful criticisms. The sporting papers write after their kind. They think of nothing but #port, and expect everybody to accept Engiish views of sport, and upbraid us it we prefer to have views of our own, Among the non-sporting papers the rad- lcals are, as usual, by far the most anti- American and fling out imputations with true radical recklessness. We are etung into replying and so the wrangle goes on. Lord Dunraven might well have taken these inter- national considerations into account. I heart- ily wish he had, even at much risk to his yacht. But he, a yachtsman, did not feel warranted in taking other than a yachting view. We, too, base our condemnation of him on yachting views, and there I wish it might end. It will 5o end in one sense, for the prospect of another international yacht race in American waters and under the jurisdic- tion of the New York Yacht club is re- mote in the extreme, GEORGE W. SMALLEY. NOTES FROM THE MEXICAN CAPITAL Important Gold Discoverles Attracts ing the Attention of Capitalists. CITY OF MEXICO, Sept. 14.—It Is believed the Icache Indians, long friendly to Mexico, while bitter foes of the Chan, a Santa Cruz tribe, and also of the British colonists In Belize, will renew more intimate commerclal relationship with the people here. The Mex- fcan government will guarantee them peace- ful possession of their lands where they cut mahogany and other precious woods and hunt deer. - An important mining company for working gold properties has been formed in London with a capital of £160,000. Gold discoveries in the state of Guerrero, where 180 claims have been taken up, at- tract great attention. Dr. Miguel Silva has been appointed by President Diaz a delegate on the part of the state of Michoacan to the hygienic convention at Denver. The wife of President Diaz has opened a popular subseription for the victims of the cyclone at Matamoras. Colonel Brastus H. Hawks, president of the International Sweeping Machine company of the United States, has arrived, having sold the machines to the new company which has undertaken the work of cleaning the city. MEXICO'S PROMISED PAPAL ENVOY, Coming Viewed in Different Lights by Lending Papers. CITY OF MEXICO, Sept. 14.—Partido, lib- eral, today says the papal envoy can only be recelved here in his ecclestastical and not in any diplomatic capacity. He will be made much of by the ignorant clericals who dis- play most astounding inability to comprehend that modern Mexico s not the Mexico of the Romanist domination, El Democrat, also a liberal paper, thinks the clericals have been entirely shorn of thelr power to harm and that the government acts wisely in employing the church to build up and conserve the soclal fabric, for the great danger of the country is its real and funda- mental lack of religious unity, the people in power being amongst the lower class of In- dians and fetich worshipers. Thus It is im- portant for Mexico that Catholicism should be made the bond of national unity. Relnforcements Came in Time. HAVANA, Sept. 14.—Sections of the Span- ish Infantry and cavalry were surrounded by 400 insurgents near Puerto Principe. The government troops broke through the circle, and just at the opportune moment reinforce- ments arrived. The insurgents broke up Into small scouting parties and hurried away, leaving six kiiled and twelve wounded. Two of the Spaniards were killed and six wounded, The insurgents have burned the plantation of Yndio Sagua and the small villages of Medias, Maria, Rodrigue and Potrerillo. The loss at Potrerillo alone is estimated at $415,000. Steerage Rates Go Up Monday. BERLIN, Sept. 14.—The Hamburg Boer- entalle announces that all of the transat- lantic companies whioh joined the pool an- nounced two days ago by the Associated press have decided to ralse steerage rates 25 per cent after Monday:- They had been provided for | NO MEEKNESS THERE British Publio Finds it Impoasible to Rest Easy Under Defeat. MANY RANCOROUS EXPRESSIONS OF WRATH America and American Methods Damned High and Low in England, TONE OF THE PRESS NOT A CRITERION Editorial Utterances, However Virulent, Do Not Express Popular Feeling, PRIDE AND PURSE BOTH TOUCHED John Bull Hard Hit in His Most Vul- nerable Spots m and Unable to Do More n Squirm and eal. (Copyrighted, 1895, by Press Publishing Company.) LONDON, Sept. 14.—(New York World Cable—Special Telegram.)—Not a single English newspaper daily or sporting, that I have seen, has maintained that Valkyrie was {a better boat than Defender. Wherever any authority has discussed this point it has been fnvariably admitted from the facts at hand that Defender clearly showed her su- periority. The Saturday Review today, a historlcally unfriendly critic of all things American, says: ““The account of the first race was depressing in the extreme to all who had hoped Valkyrie might hold her own with the best American sloop. Captain Haff scemed to have outmaneuvered Captain Cranfleld at the start, and Defender outsailed Valkyrie, both in going to windward and in the run home. In fact the superiority of Defender over Valkyrie appeared to be even more marked than the superiority of Vigilant over Valkyrie II. We cannot see that the second race altered this inference in the slightest. To say nothing about the foul, all are agreed that Defender lost a couple of minutes at the start and was only beaten by forty-seven seconds in spite of the fact that she could never carry her large topsail. If we discuss the foul we have at once to acknowledge that so far as our Information goes Americans have given us an example of the sportsman- like conduct which we preached to them after Hanley. IT WAS OF THE SAME PIECE, “The English press was unanimous in con- demning the Cornell crew for rowing over the course and scoring a win when ticir op- ponents through a mistake were left at the post. Now a British yacht gets an udvantage in the start and instead of returning erd sailing the race over again goes on and tries to score a win. Under these circumstances we should have expected all the English papers to condemn Lord Dunraven for un- sportsmanlike conduct, but, far from Colng this, they have tried to condemn the commit- tee of the New York Yacht club. The Times, we are glad to see, is fairer than others, but even that paper, while loyally accepting the decision, says: ‘So far as we can gather from telegraphic accounts, Defender manuevered to put Valkyrie into a difficult position ard succeeded in doing 0.’ This is undoubtedly true, but it did not need to be stated, for it is what every yacht skipper tries to do on every such occasion. The Chronicle asserts that there is no equity in the decision to give the race to the loser, but the dear old Chron- icle evidently knows more about the dictates of the nonconformist conscience than it does about the equities of yacht racing. The Pall Mall Gazette, as was to be expected, parrots the Chronicle with an added shade of v reason in It. The decision is hardly equl ble, bu. it s the rule of the game.” DEFENDER THE BETTER FORM. The article, I understand, was written by a noted yachting expert, who adds: “The measurements of the two yachts disclose the difference which may well be the true cause of the superiority of Defender. Her mast, wo hear, is stepped some five feet and a half further forward than that of Valkyrie, which shows that the point of greatest breadth in her must be four or flve feet nearer the bows than it is in Valkyrie, and thus Defender has a much longer run than Valkyrie. The importance of this can be gauged from the fact known to every sallor that if in a row- boat you seek to tow a mast it is better to tow it with the thick end near your boat. A bluft bow and a long run are better than a fine entrance and a bad run. It looks as if the long run on Defender is the chief outward sign of Mr. Herreschoft's superlority as a yacht builder.” Only a few leading English yachtsmen are avallable in or around London, the rest being scattered just now at country houses all over England or at resorts on the con- tinent, and it has been possible to reach only a few of these by telegram or letter sinc: the unfortunate result of the international con- test. To requests for an opinion on the merits of the decision of the New York re- gatta committe and Lord Dunraven's final action, the un’form answer has been that until further detalls were received they must decline to give thelr names to public ex- presslons of their views. FAITH IN THE COMMITTEE. One of the leading yachtsmen sald today, however, that he was personally acquainted with the members of the committee and-he feels sure they would be inclined to give the verdict to the English visitor if it had been In any way possible under the rules. An- other yachtsman said: “If as reported here Valkyrie was to windward at the time of the collision, any saflor would laugh at the con- tention that she could not have avoided fouling, even if the committee boat was, as claimed, close aboard on her weather bow or ahead. The least touch of her helm at the last moment would have cleared her end.” I am bound to add that among experienced yachtsmen the opinion has several thmes been expreseed to me that Lord Dunraven s a man of such quick and obstinate temper that his good judgment at a critical moment is by no means to be relled upon, JOHNNY BULL FEELS SORE. These favorable expressions to the Ameri- cans are, however, exceptional. The fority of opinions at clubs and plac public resort are brutally denunciatory of our committee, of the Defender syndicate and the American public. The generally im- partial editorlals in the newspapers do not in the least express the prevalent public opinion. In fact, ome hears the London Times and other newspapers almost as often denounced for “their cowardly time-serving articles,” as in Amerlca for alleged unsports- manlike conduct. An American resident in London for thirty-five years said today his temper had not been so sorely tried at so- clal gatherings, his clubs or even in railway carriages, since Mason and Slidell were taken off the Trent, so bitter and unreasoning is ‘bis almost universal sentiment, that the ap- fea would seem to be only on the surface and trat underlying it there is real hatred of us, possibly for our success in na- tional progress, In manufactures and enter- prise generally when in competition with British interests. When that success is shown in sporting contests the intolerant hatred is iIntensified. However, it may be as between Englishmen and Englishmen, the Briton fs not a good loser when the success- ful competitor is an alien, even if one of his own colonists. When It scemed likely the All-Australia eleven would beat All-England last year, there were laughably virulent ex- pressions of opinion agslust the entipodean brethren. When Vigilant came in first at the speclal match with Britannia last season at Cowes not a single salute was given her by attendant steamers, or even by private yachts gathered in numbers at the finish, ALWAYS LEAVE BITTERNE! The bald statement may indeed be made that all international contests between Eng- land and the United States, with perhaps the singlo exception of Licutenant Heun's visit, and including boating, Intercollegiate and other athletic encounters, have left the blt- terest memories behind them. These have not always found their way into public press, but it the World is able to secure the frank statcment of their experiences from surviving members of the Harverd crew of 1869 from Lon Myers, the once champlon American_sprinter, from Royal Carroll of the Navahoe, from members of the Yale team and the Cornell crew, and George Gould as to last scason’s racing in British waters, the result would no more conduce to in- ternational amity than the upshot of the present contest. The suggestion is made in | the Yachting World and several London pa- pers today that future contests for America’s cup seeming now hopeless an American yacht or yaclts shall challenge for the royal Victoria gold cup next year, or for the cup won in American waters by Genesta, and now held by Britannia. “Then,” says even our most generous critic in the English press, “we wlill see whether racing yachts can be designed in America to successfully brave Atlantic storms.” Thls is the stock argu- ment over here, the fact never being alluded to that both Navahoe and Vigilant crossed the ocean without the least injury from straining. WINNERS OF THE YEAR. Little, by tbe way, has been said in the English press, about the great success of Howard Gould's Niagara, but from officlal records of this season's racing published to- day it appears she crossed the line twenty- six times first out of fifty starts, second six times, third twice and had five sails over. She has won stakes to the value of £593, be- sides two cups and the gold medal. The next successful competitor in the same class was the Inyoni with sixteen wins and twelve sec- onds out of forty starts, with stakes to the amount of £320 and two cups. Lord Dun- raven's twenty-rater Audrey comes next with sixteen wins out of thirty-five starts, He won £307 in stakes and three cups. The prince of Wales' Britannia of the big vachts won thirty-two firsts, one second and seven sails over out of fifty starts, £2,000 in stakes and a variety of cups and Herreschoff's fif- teen-rater Dakotah leads her class with fif- teen firsts, seven seconds dut of thirty starts, and £740 in stakes. Mr. Clarke, the prince of Wales' foremost competitor last year, has sold Satanita in disgust because “pilled” for membership In the Royal Yacht squadron, the fate also meted out this year to Andrew Walker, the owner of Allsa, He Is the son of a brewer, and Clarke's fortune also came from trade. The London Times today claims the English West Coast line still holds the record for speed. A correspondent says: “Taking the times of stoppages included In the West Coast's 540 miles in 512 minutes it was only 510 minutes to the ticket platform, where the journey practically ended. This is frac- tionally superior to the New York Central 4361 mliles in 414% minutes. The further claim of the latter:company that the Empire express Is the fastest régular passenger train in the world as today cabled by Reuter, Is less capable of support. The West Coast now runs to Perth in eight hours and forty minutes. Curiously enough this Is the ex- act time taken by the Bmpire State express in completing its course of 440 miles, but Perth is ® journey of 450 miles. The cor- responding east coast train from King's Cross to Dundee, 452 miles in eight hours, forty- seven minutes, also eclipses the American train, BALLARD SMITH ALWAYS LED YACHT BUILDING. English Authorities Admit Brother Jonnth Superfority. (Copyrighted, 1895, by the Asroclated Press.) LONDON, Sept. 14.—The newspapers have not ceased to comment upon the flasco of the races for the America’s cup. The press is practically unanimous in the expression of the opinion that there will be nc more ch lenges to sall for the famous trophy during the present genmeration at least. The Na- tional Observer says that the topic has be- come a disgusting rather than an interesting one. The Spectator's article dwelt at consid- erable length on the manner in which Amer- ica has always led the way in yacht building and compliments what it characterizes as the astonishing abllity of the Herreschoffs in the building of yachts, which, it is added, is all the more noteworthy, because one of the brothers has lost his sight. The Spectator thinks that the public is tiring of the system which requires that expensive boats shall be bullt yearly for the speclal purpose of com- peting for the Ameriga's cup, and predicts that the small raters wilf kogn be restorcd to favor, unless there shall be some radicai change in yacht designipg which will insure undoubted superiority, Criticlsm of Vigilant's career in English waters and of the right of her owner, Mr. George J. Gould, to be comsidered a true sportsman, has been rewjved here by the De- fender-Valkyrie flasco, Vanify Fair says that it does not think Mr, Gquld &t the Cowes Te- gatta reached the highest stgndard of sports- manship and the story ia retgld of how, when the prince of Wales was introduced to Mrs. Gould on the club lawn at Cowes, she did not arise from her seat, 4s under the rules she should have done when conversing with a royal personage, Nothing is known by the Royal Yacht or Southampton Yacht squadren concerning a challenge from Dunraven to Defender to race in Mediterranean water: DEFENDER INVITED TO ENGLAND, May Challenge Valkyrie to a Race for a British Cup. LONDON, Sept. 14.~The Pall Mall Ga- zette this afternoon contains an article on the subject of international yacht racing, in the course of which it is observed that if the rules prevented the New York commit- tee from declaring vold the race of last Tuesday between Valkyrie and Defender, it is high time thet the rules should be re- vised. In the same article the owners of Defender are reminded that there is an in- ternational cup offered by the Royal Victoria club of Ryde awaiting a challenger, and it s suggested that if ‘the Americans have any fault to find with the conditions under which competition for that trophy is to be con- ducted, they would better state the objec- tion without delay. i SINGLE COPY FIVE CENTS Demonstrated the German Army is Ready for Active Work at Any Time, COUNT OF TURIN RECEIVED COLDLY Emperor Displeased that the Crown Prince Was Not Sent to Stettin, SOCIALIST PAPERS SUPPRESSED DAILY Chancellor May Resign if More Repressive Measures Are Adopted, COUNT WALDERSEE MADE FIELD MARSHAL Generally Conceded to Be the Ablest Pupil of Von Moltke—ilis Corps Shows Up Well in the Re- cent Maneuvers. (Copyrighted, 1505, by Assoclated Press.) BERLIN, Sept. 14.—According to military experts the army maneuvers In the vicinity of Stettin this week have been a great suc- cess, and have demonstrated amply the excel- lent discipline, and showing it to be ready for the initiative of their commanders. It has also been shown, according to the same authorities, that the days of the usefulness of cavalry are by no means ended, as has been asserted in some quarters. Both Ger- man and foreign experts are loud in the! praises of the skill displayed by Emperor William fu handling the troops in Thursday’s action, which followed the plan which he had personally designated. A new system of fleld telegraphy, which was introduced In this engagement, proved most satisfactory. Perhaps the only thing in connection with the army maneuvers which has left any ill feeling is the fact that the count of Turin, nephew of King Humbert of Italy, was treated with declded coolness at Stettin. It Is alleged Emperor William was greatly an- noyed that the count, instead of Crown Prince Victor, was delegated to represent Italy among the royal guests at the maneuvers. 1t is understood King Humbert did not send the crown prince to Germany for fear that by so doing he would give offense to France. The squadron of evolution maneuvering at sea oft Dantzic put Into the roads today accompanied by the royal yacht Hohenzollern, with Emperor William on board. NEWEPAPER SUPPRESSIONS COMMON. Since the emperor's denunciation of so- lalists the selzure of soclalist papers and the arrest of their editors have been incidents of almost daily occurrence. Among the papers subjected to this treatment are the Magdeburg Volkstimme, the Breslau Volks- wacht, the Hanover Volks Wille, the Eisen Arbelter Zeitung and the Kiel Volks Zei- tung, whilst the seizure of presses at Leipsic, Furth, Nuremburg and other places prove the Saxon and Bavarlan governments are prepared in the anti-soclalist campalgn, The Voss- Ische Zeltung of this city warns the govern- ment against fll-advised attacks upon the liberty of the press. The ministers are all taking thelr holidays and it is impossible that any decided anti-socialist measure will ba adopted at once. It is known, however, that Count Von Eulenburg, who is credited with having great influence with Emperor William, has been strongly advising his soverelgn toward more rigorous repressive en- 2ctments, A Hamburg newspaper declares the Im- perial chancellor, Prince Hohenlohe, will re- sign his office if the emperor should insist upon the introduction of any' such measure. Seeing the lengths to which the local authorities will go, mow that the emperor has given the word, the press is becoming much more guarded in its comments., Many Journals counsel the government to seek the causes of discontent which feed the soclalist flame rather than hastily endeavor to sup- press agitation, persecution having only served to increase the zeal of its prop- agandists, VON MOLTKE'S ABLEST PUPIL. The promotion of Count Von Waldersee to be a field marshal has directed attentlon anew to a man who is destined to play a leading part in the next great war in which Germany is engaged. Von Waldersze is re- garded as Von Moltke's ablest pupll. His handling of the Ninth army corps at the Stettin maneuvers proved him to be a capable strategist, while his corps was shown to b one of the best drilled in the Prusslan army. It Is now admitted at the foreign office that the visit of Prizce Hohenlohe, the im- perial chancellor, to St. Petersburg, has a semi-official character. Prince Hohenlohe went in the first place to seek a private favor at the hand of the czar, namely, that his wife might retain possession of the vast estates in Russia which she inherited a few years ago from her brother, Say-Wittgen- stein, but he Had a further mission, which was to confer with Prince Lobanoff, the Russian minister of foreign affairs, with regard to the Russo-German entente In the event of turther troubles in the far east and to effect a general understanding on the political situation. It s underetood the official mis- sion of Prince Hohenlohe was measurably successful, the czar readily granting Princess Hohenlohe permission to retain her Russlan estats, which are said to bo worth 50,000, 000 marks. The late czar rigorously enforced the law which forbids foreigners to own land in Russia, and it he had lived Princess Hohenlohe would have been obliged to sell her estates for whatever they would fetch, 1t 1s not improbable one of the youngest sons of Prince Hohenlohe will remove to Russla to reside permanently, and so qualify himselt for the Wittgenstein estates. ATTACKS MET WITH VIGOR. The conservatives are meeting the attacks of Baron Von Hammerstein, impugning thelr political integrity, with characteristic vigor. A committee representing the Kreuz Zeltung publishes a statement today, which is signed by Count Von Finckensteln, to the effect that Baron Von Hammersteln was suspended from the position of chief editor of that paper on July 4, and that since then facts have been brought to light which have com- pelled the committee to finally break off all relations with the baron, and that the matter has been placed In the hands of the public prosecutor. In addition, the Kreuz Zeltung states that It is Informed upon competent authority that Von Hammerstein resigned his seat in the Reichstag and Unterhaus on the 11th inst, A caterpillar plague Is destroying all the green crops In the viclnlty of Berlin and in Sllest The first Berlin electric car line opened for busiuess on Tuesday last. Julla Bulkley of the University of Chicago bas obtained the degree of doctor of phil- osophy at the University of Zurich, A great exhibition of southern Californla was THE BEE BULLETIN. Weather Forecast for Nebraska— Cooler; Probable Showers; Northerly Winds, Page. 1. Dunraven's Course Defended. Feeling In England Very Bitter, German Army Ready for War, Liberals Run Short of Funds, Demands of Several Saturday Co New Track Kecord at Co Another Yacht Situati aplained, Ranchman Murdered by Squatters, Promise to Produce Hillmon, Spain Round to Crush Cuba, Last Week In Local Soclety, Beethoven's Last Musical Work, Reform Movement G # In Omaha. Council Blufrs al Matters, Towa Methodists Favor Women, Parades for the Coming Week. Attractions for Visitors to the City. fay Be Another Bond Issue. n Claim Fioally Settl Tdaho and Tts Resources, In the Yield of Electricity, Trolley Power in Danger. ditorlal and Con: . Prehist Man i Notes and Gossip, . Commercinl and Financial, L “In a Hollow of the Hills" Woman: Her Ways and ¥ Weekly Grist of Sporting 'Round the World on Whe 22, Epldemic of Suicide Discussed. it er World, n the Ante Rooms. ireat Drainage Canal, atenation of Caterwaulers, + Chleago's Coming Co fruit will be opened next week in the old Refchstag building, under the management of Joseph Schurts, Prof. S. G. Brow, Mr. and Mrs. T. Proctor of Williamston, Mass., Rev. J. T. Nichols of Connecticut, Mrs, Ames and daughters of San ancisco and Colonel Richard Henry Savage are here, THEATRICAL GOSSIP IN LONDON. inancial DifMicul~ r of Henry Ir 5. 895, by the Assoclated Press.) Sept. 14.—The rumor has in theatrical circles for some time that Augustin Daly was in danger of losing his London theater. The past season has been extremely dis- astrous from a financial standpoint, and the rent of the theater, $25,000, is a large ona for the limited season in which it is oc- cupied by Daly's company. However, George Edwards has arranged to take the house in Leicester square oft Mr. Daly's hands for a portion of the season and will revive the successful play, “The Artist's Model,” with most of the original cast. Wilfred Clarke was obliged to discontinue the run of the “New York Divorce” on th: 11th inst. When the season began August 11 it was scarcely believed the run would be long. Mr. Clarke has been so successful in his venture that he will probably soon again embark in London management. During his American tour Sir Henry Irving will produce a little fairy tale of Christmas time, . which has beon translated from a French play by his youngest son, Laurence Irving. After a long and diligent search Weedon Grosmith has at last found a play which he considers suitable for himself and the public. The new farce will be placed in re- hearsal at once and produced as soon as possible at the Vaudeville, The resumption by Mr. Grosmith of managerlal functions at this theater involves the departure of his present tenant, Fred Kerr, who, however, has made arrangements for taking “The Strange Adventures of Miss Brown" to Terry's theater at the conclusion of “The Prude’'s Progress,” now running there, The Trafalgar theater, rechristened the “Duke of York's,” will respen on Thursday evening under the managem nt of Charles Cartwright and Henry Dana. The play will be a new comedy by Walter Frith, eatitled “The Advceate.” Sir Avgistus Har.Is has made one {mj ortant engagament for the opera seison of 1896, Ha has arranged that Mme. Albinl ehall be th: Izold2 to Jein de Reszke's Tristan when the opera of “Tristan and Tso'de” is first produced in German at Covent Gard:n, Charles Coghlan has bezn busy during the past three weeks assisting Forbes Robertson in the rehearsals of “Romeo anl Ju'let,” which will have its first production one week from tonight. Dr. Joachim has jJust decl'nsd an offer from an American manager for a tcur in the United States this winter. He has alreidy eccepted arrangements for Germany in the autumn and for Engiand and Scotland in the spring and he will not break them, Cissy Loftus' engagement at the Palace closed tonight, and Mr. Morton, the maneger, has arrangsd for a matince to give a sead-off to the celebrated mimic of the day on her de- parture for the provin Lottie Co'lins still remains at the Palace and has been extremely popular In her new tongs, ““Gerty, the Galety Girl,” “The Liit'e Wilow ' and “I Went to Paris With Papa,” LONDON, been current DIE BY SCOURG n Moors and a Bat- vo re. (Copyright, 1865, by Press Publishing Company.) TANGIER, Morocco, Sept. 14.—(New York World Cable—Special Telegram.)—Ten deaths from cholera are reported today. The Riflans made a gréat fight today at Socco, Tanglers. Three men were killed and two wounded. Comments Sumner's Case. SOUTHAMPTON, Sept. 14.—Captaln Shep- ard of the flagship San Francisco, in the course of an Interview today with a repre- sentative of the Assoclated press, sald the in- juries recelved by the cruiser Columblia in the docks of the London and Southwestern com- pany, where she was placed on July 18, were due to the culpable neglect of the company, and that Captain Sumner was in no way blamable therefor, The dock company, af cording to Captain Shepard, had plans of the dock, showing the blocks, and that Cap- tain Sumner was unable to examine the blocks, as they were submerged. The error of Captain Sumner, Captain Shepard says, was in paying the dock company after the injury to the cruiser had been done. AND SWORD. Cholera Takes Arrested an American Cltizen, CONSTANTINOPLE, Sept. 14.—Muradian, a naturalized citizen of the United State was arrested upon his arrival here on rus picion of being connected with a revolu- tionary movement. Mr. Alexander W. Ter- rell, United States minister to Turkey, de- manded and has obtained the relvase of Muradian upon the condition that the latter consent to be expelled from Turkey. Says Waller's Case in Lost. PARIS, Rept. 14.—The Slecle says that the United States has recelved a complete ex- planation from the French authorities in the case of ex-Consul Waller, who is Imprisoned under sentence of twenty years for baving been, as alleged, In correspondence with ene- mies of France in Madagascar, aud that bis cause is irretplevably lost, FUNDS ARE SCARC Former Contributors to Liberal Campaiga Expenses Abandon Them, MUST SEEK OTHER SOURCES OF SUPPLY Scientific Association Disappointed at Lopd. Salisbury's Absence, SIR EDWARD MALET REFUSES A PEERAGE: Acceptance Would Have Entailed Loss o‘ Rank to His Wife, TROUBLE ON BCARD THE ST. Louis German ctio Resent the Intpos Klsbmen—Hot Wenther Detracts fr Intere du estin Theatrical Matters. (Copyrighted, 1 by tne Assoclated Press) LONDON, Sept. 14.—With the advent of & cool northwesterly wind, succeeding the tore rid weather which prevalled the earlier part of the week, political questions have begun to attract attention again in London. Just now the difficult problems of the ralsing of party funds and the perfection of party ore ganizations are troubling the leaders of thy liberal party. Most of the old fashloned an@ wealthy liberals, who had been acustomed ta support the party, have been driven Into the ranks of the liberal-unionists by the veering of the party toward extreme radicalism, As a result the rad'cals are only able to look to successful tradesmen and others of that class who are willing to take peerages and other honors In return for money required to dee fray the necessary party expenses, The British Scientific assoclation, the ane nual session of which began at Ipswich om Wednesday, was greatly disappointed at the absence of Lord Sallsbury, the retiring prosjs dent of the association, who had been ege pected to attend, but whose physician forbade him to participate in the sitting of the soe clety. There was much interest in a paper, which was read by Mr. Borchgrevink, glve ing on account of his recent visit to the Ante arcitic, but neither the paper nor the dige cussion, which followed, in which the veterap explorer, Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker, particle pated, carried the question much further. Dr. Haviland Field of New York described the arrangements, which he said are nearly, completed, for the establishment of an inters national bibliograptical bureau at Zurich. There was a rather academic discussion of the bimetailists' proposition. Mr. George Bell, secretary of the Gold Standard Dafense assoclation, spoke for the monometallists and read to the assoclation the letter from Mn Gladstone, which was cabled cxelusively to the Assoclated press on Thursday, in whioh the venerable statesman declared his ade herence to the opinion which he cxpressed in Parliament two and a half years ago, ang predicted that the bimetallist agitaton woul§ be short lived. Little interest was #hown i the discussion, The members of the assoclation are devote ing themselves to excursions and pleasury seeking. 1 DECLINED A PEERAGE. Sir Edward Malet, the retiring ambassae dor to Germany, has declined a peerage bew cause his wife would lose rank by his eles vation. The wife of this diplomat now takes precederce of countesses by virtue of being the daughter of a duke, (Bedford), but if her husband should become a peer she would rank as his wite. The belief scems to be generally accepted that the earl of Dufferin will soon retire from the position of Dritish ambassador at Parlj and speculation as to who his successor will be is active. Opinlon is divided between Sip Jullan Pauncefote, the British ambassador ay Washington, and Lord Cremer, the ministen to Egypt, but at the foreign office a_represen| ative of the Assoclated press was assure that there was no question of Sir Jullan' leaving a% present, Mr. Waldort Astor has evidently been shalkd Ing up the editors of the Pall Mall Gazette) as the antl-American sentiment which has hitherto distinguished that paper has been succeeded by universal praise of Americans, and especially in its comments on the ine ternational yacht races. Mr. Astor's peculiar office buflding on the Thames embankment has just been co pleted. It Is surrounded with a wrought u-ln palisade of intricate workmanship and ith internal fittings are still more lavish, make ing It the most sumptucus place of businesy in London, There are rumors of the marrlage of the marquis of Worcester. Should ‘they prove true the event might have a vital bearing on the fortunes of the son of Lady Henry Some erset, the nephew of the marquis of Wore cester, who, In view of the celibacy of his uncle up to this time, had come to be ree garded as the future duke of Bedford. The news of the death of Mr. William Henry, Hurlburt, formerly of New York and latep of London, was received with surprise by his friends here. The papers generally have been printing stories of the great ability of the American journalist and of his formey great popularity. Truth says Mr. Hurlburg was assisted to leave England by his friendy a late premier of Great Britain, ' GERMAN FIREMEN BECOME JEALOUS, The German firemen on board the Amery fean line steamship St. Louls were in a cone dition of semi-mutiny during the time the vessel was at Southampton this week. Thy are a mogley and dangerous lot and for the most part unable to speak English. The appear to be jealous of the presence of En;i lishmen among them. They engaged In & general fight on Wednesday, in the course 1 which an English trimmer was stabbed an thrown overboard, the German firomen threatening to kill him if he should returm, The trimmer appealed to the local maglistrate for release from bis engagement, but the ship's agent refused to diseharge him, an instead warned the engineers of the St. Loul that they would be held responsible for hi safety. Hot weather has doubtlgss done Its sha in subdulug public interest in the drama in England thus far In the season. London bas seen the success of one new play and the fallure of another this week and professes td find more occaslon for cheerfulness than fe disheartenment, The general prediction is thi the threatrical season will be a prosperol one. Reports of large business come from the various companies touring in the provincel There is particular interest displayed in Beere bobm Tree's venture with Paul Potter' drama “Triiby,"” which has been recelvs with great favor at Manchester, The will of the soclalist, Fred En leaves the bulk of his property, valued of $125,000, to his two daughters,