Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, September 22, 1895, Page 2

TRAINING INDIAN CHILDREN New Methods by Which the Department Hopes for Improvements. GIVING THE GRADUATES EMPLOYMENT ce at the Varfous Institu- Young Tencher Bloomer Costu WASHINGTON, Sept. 21.—(Special)—"T think the prospects for a very successful year for the Indian schools are exceedingiy bright now,” says Joslah H. Dortch, the chief of the education division of the Indian office. *‘Most of the schools opened on the 4 inst., having been delayed slightly by the fact that the first day of the month occurred on Sunday and the day following was a legal holiday, Labor day. From recent reports It is ob- served that the Lndlans are becoming more interested in the work and we find that it does not require so much persuasion now to get the children to accept cducation. Of cours: we have to contend with the objec- tlons of the parents, but we find that a large number of the Indian children desir: to go to school and do attend In spite of the opposi- tion of the older members of the tribes. We are much encouraged, ther:fore, by the bright outlook for a successful year. “The attendance ac Indian schools gen- erally has increased during the last few years, The attendance for the fis ending June 30 last was at least 1, than for the year preceding. We now have in our schools about 50 per cent of the Indian children of the country. It is estimated that there are about 50,000 Indian children and we have about half that number in at- tendanco at the various schools. The three institutes which were recently held for the benefit of the sehool teachers were productive of much good, and we anticipate that great benefit will be derived by the pupils dur- ing the coming year. The first institute was held at Sioux City, Ia, and there was also one held at Tacoma, Wash., and one at El Reno, Okl. The varfous methods of teach- ing the Indians were thoroughly discussed at the institutes, and we think the teachers obtained much valuable information for use in their work. NEW POLICY INAUGURATED. “One of the policies of the administration of the Indlan office under the ent com- miesloner is that of furnishing the Indians, who have been graudated from the schools, with positions as teachers and assistants in the other Indian schools. We put in Indian graduates wherever it is possible, and always give them the preference in making appoint- ments. This has the effect of encouraging the Indians in their educational work. “A gentleman had what 1 considered a rather remarkable picture in my office the other day. He was the superintendent of ir tigation in the territory of Arizona. He breught with him a photograph of -an Indian girl who is a teacher in one of the Arizona schools, and It showed her attired in a fuil bloomer costume ready for bicycle riding. This surely shows that the Indians of today are not behind the times.” One of the most gentlemanly colored men employed in the executive departments is Ed Atkinson, the speclal messenger to the sec- Tetary of the navy. He Is popular at the department on account of his p easant disposi- tion, and he makes it his business to furnish visiting strangers with ail information de- sired within the bounds of propriety. He has an_extensive acquaintance with public men and possesses to a remarkable degree the ability to remember faces and names. He ‘was appointed to his present position by Sec- retary of the Navy Chandler, and has made himselt so valuable to the officia’s of the secretary’s office that each new secretary has been constrained to retain him in his posi- tlon, Atkinson is a very large colored man. He has a handsome and inte'ligent face. His complexion is very light and his hair has been turned gray by the inexorable ravages of time. His reminiscences are interesting. STORY OF SECRETARY WHITNEY. To lllustrate how austere Secretary Whit- ney was he says: “It was my usual custom to carry the afternoon mail over to the sec- retary’s home about 3 o'clock on the days when the secretary did not come down to his office. Ona afterncon I had just returned from one of my trips and was entering the secretary's office at the Navy department when Admiral Walker handed me an official letter, which he sald was important that the secretary should sign immediately in order that it might go off that evening. I rather felt then that it was useless to go back on a second trip, because I knew the secretary intended to take a drive that afternoon with his family and of course would not want to be interrupted. But out of respect to the admiral 1 went back to the secretary’s home I had been requested. T found the carriage in front of the door and the secretary standing beside it. I banded him the letter and delivered the mes- sage, otary Whitney examined the paper carefully and handing it back to me sald ‘Just lay that letter upon my desk at the department.’ It was several days before that cowmunication was sent off ‘in the mail. It was @ lesson to me and I told the officlals ‘when I went back that it was useless to try to direct the secretary how to run his de- pertment. That communication was, 1 have said, a very important oue and the sec- retary wanted to give it consideration o he was determined not to send it off until he had it before him in his own time.” NEW ARMY COOK BOOK. The army Is soon to have a new cook book. The publication is now before Secretary Lamont and It is expected that it will be fssued in a short time. The first edition of the army cook book was published in 1879 and the only subsequent edition was pub- lished in 1883 as a revision of the first edi- tlon. The new. edition was authorized by the last congress. It will be more complete than the former ones, as It will contain, be- sides the regular edition, which has been revised, a second part, which will be devoted to a discussion of the methods of cooking now in vogue in the fleld. The first section con- tains the rules and regulations for cooking at the various posts and stations. It Is not Intended that the second part shall be re- garded as a set of stringent rules or regula- tions by which soldiers are to be arbitrarily guided, but they are valuable suggestions for field cooking, and it is intended that they shall he used merely as a help for cooks serving in the fleld. The sug jestions have be:n compt'ed from re. ports collected from time to time from so'di-rs interested in the work who have submitted the results of thelr experiesnces. It is said that this little book will prove of great value to the army, as the suggestions contained in it are not the opinions of theo~'sts, but prae- tical sugg:s ions coming from tho:e who have tested their methods and know the advantiges of them. The publication will coanta'n about forty rages more than the former editio), the extra number being contained in the second section. The edition of 1883 has been exhausted, and it was necessary to have an- other issue, and the offici1s of the subsisten department took advantage of the naw p.| cation and decided to add the new part de- voted to fleld cooking. CRUISE OF THE DOLPHIN. One of the passengers on the dispatch boat Dolphin during the recent cruise of “Inspection of the secretary of the navy was Hllary A. Herbert, jr., the son of the genial socretary. Young Hilary is a very bright, intelligent boy. He is a fine conversational- ist, an excellent companion for the secre- tary, and is quite popular with the officers on duty in the Navy department. He is 18 years of age, but is of slight figure and does not look as old as he 1s. He says he erjoys life on board the cruisers, and fs able to stand rough and stormy weather very well ‘When asked whal he expects to make of himself when he attals his majority, Hilary said he would like very much to enter the navy. He s well informed concerning current naval affairs and ‘will it himselt for entrance in the Naval academy at Annapolis It his fother will con- sent to his choice of a profession. It is un- derstood, however, that Secretary Herbert ‘wants the lad to remain on land and study ‘law, but he is a strong willed little fellow ‘and it might be better to let him go his own way and follow his own bent in the matter. He bas much more than ordinary ability, and ‘18 apparently not puffed wp because of the eminent position occupled by his father, ‘Weatern Postmasters Appolnte WASHINGTON, Sept. 21.—(Special Tel gram.)—J. Lewis Gilbert was today commis- sloned postmaster at Forestville, Ta., and H, T. Bllenson at Hooker, 8. D, M. M. Payne was appointed postmastor at Payne, Fremont county, vice ¥. C. Woods, resigned, CARLIS Visit W CLEVELAND, ve No Reference to Ane ol Inwne of Bond WASHINGTON, Swpt. 21.—Secretary and Mrs, Carlisle left here at 10 o'clock morning for Marlon, Mass., where they will be the guests of the family of Assistant Soc- retary Hamlin, with whom they spent some time the early part of the summer. The sec- retary while away unloubtedly will see the president, whose summer home is only a rhort distance from Marfon, but It s au'horitatively stated at the Treasury ce partment that the meeting will have noth- ing to do with bond lssues. The further statement Is made that no f rher boad fssve is in contemplation and non: (xp-cied within the near future at least. This last state- ment is emphasized at the Treasury depari- ment, which desires to sct at rest all talk of a forthcoming issue of bonls, S:cretary irlisle will Be away from five to on days, their length of stay being depend- ent on Mrs, Carlisle’s health, News for the Army. WASHINGTON, Sept. 21.—(Special Tele- —A board of officers s apopinted to meet at the call of the president thereof at Omaha for examination for promotion of Cap- tain Frank E. Nye, commissary of subsist- ence. Detail for the board: Colonel John C. , Second infantry; Colonel Dallas Bache, slztant surgeon general; Lieutenant Theo- dore Schwan, assistant adjutant general; Major V. Lauderdale, surgeon; Major Charles Humphrey, quartermaster; First Lieuten- H. Benham, quartermaster Second in- ¥, recorder. The board, convened at Omaha by special orders of January 31 and February 23, is dis- solyed. Captain Frederick G. Hodgson, quartermaster, is granted leave month and fifteen days; Captain A. P. Hat- fleld, Fourth cavairy, two months; First Lieu- tenant Robert T. Watkins, two months, ex- tended. ant fa asslistant for one ADJOURNS, quarters Will Be Pee- n t Daltimore. ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., Sept. 21.—The sovereign grand lodge Independent Order of 0dd Fellows adjourned at 12 o'clock today to meet in Dallas X., on the third Monday of sptember, 1896. The closing session of the grand lodge began at 9:30 this morning. M Richards Muckle of Pennsylvania, the newly clected grand treasurer, was duly installed. Colonel Muckle was presented to the grand sire, who obligated him by Representatives Wright of Pennsylvania and Cable of Ohio. The matter of purchasing property in Bal- timore for the use of the national officers cam2 up. The specizl committee reported that it had made a thorough Investigation and found that the property has a city valu- ation of $22,031, and the owners will sell the property to the grand lodge for $28,750. It was voted to purchase the property. This settles the fight of many years standing as to whether soverelgn grand lodge officers should have their headquarters in Baltimore or Washington. The Fargo case, one of the most important questions of session, came up and was settled. The committee to which the matter was referred reported that the report of the grand sire upon the Fargo difficulty was un- hesitatingly endorsed. The committee also considered the report of the special commit- tee of this body made last year and fully endorsed all of the report as being clear. was made clear that the items of $1,500. $8,000 and $737.29 were not used or required for legitimate expenses, or the rellef of des- titute brothers and sisters, and it was recom- mended the total amount of $11,037.29 be re- turned to the lodges in the different states from which it was received. On motion a resolution to reduce the nrice of traveling cards to 10 cents eark (o grand lodges, and to all others a+ an advance of 25 per cent, to take effect January 1, 1896, was indefinitely. pustponed. After a hard struggle the proposition to #hvo the grand lodge power to order subordi- nate or Rebekah lodges to pay benefits was lost. The finance committee reported that the estimated expense for next year was $69,668.29, and that amount was appropriated. It was raised by per capita tax, levied on the various grand bodies. A proposition to require the committee on printing supplies to contract for the supplies required for all branches of the order, ex- cept the Patriachs Militant, was 180 adopted. The most important subject acted upon was the proposition to repeal the por- tion of the Rebekah code of laws which makes eligible to membership all married white women of good moral character, 18 years of age and upward. An amendment to that effect was presented and referred to the proper committee, which committee re- ported it inexpedient to act on the proposi- tion. Upon consideration of the report of the committee by the lodge, the proposed amendment was renewed and some strong speeches pro and con were made. Upon a vote belng taken, the amendment was de- feated and the report of the committee adopted. This leaves the law precisely as heretofore. Hereafter, whenever it can be certified that any member has been in con- tinuous good standing in the order for fifty years without an interruption exceed'ng four years, and that only while the grand lodge of the state did no work, and thereby de- prived the subordinate lodges of the regular means of work, that such members of the order shall be entitled to re- celve and wear the honored veteran jewel. This is supposed to make available the special members who were cut off from continued membership in the order by reason of the war. i WAS OARRYING TOO HEAVY A LOAD, Kansas City Times nt Last Into & Recelver's Handw, KANSAS CITY, Sept. 21.—The Kansas City Times Publishing company was today placed in the hands of Wiley O. Cox, a local banker, as recelver. The appointment was made upon the application of the Remington Paper com- pany of Watertown, N. Y. Mr. Witten Me- Dorald has been manager and editor of the Times_since Dr. Morrison Munford stepped out about three years ago. He assumed charge of the property under protest, not de- siring to enter the newspaper fleld, The frture intentions of Mr. McDonald are un- known. Several of his friends had already urged him to reorganize the company and It 1s understood that Receiver Cox is personally favorable to him AR R el Calvin Brice Visits Ohlo. CLEVELAND, Sept. 2L.—The private car of Senator Calvin S. Brice, enroute from New York to southern Oblo, was sidetrack:d at the union station for a brist tme to’ay while the senator held a consultition with Revenue Collector Ohliger and ex-Mayor Far- ley of this city. To a reporter Mr. Biice said: “My principal business in Ohlo s to look after my political and business interests. I do not care to divulge the nature of my talk with Mr, Farley and Mr. Ohliger. I am going to see ex-Governor Campbell and be- fore 1 return to New York I shull make a personal inspeotion of several railroads in which I am {nterested s Murdered at a Ball Game. PITTSBURG, Sept. 21.—The Marions and the Baldwins, two amateur ball clubs, wound up their championship season today in a gamo which resulted in a murder. The Baldwins had a crowd of rooters with them and when the game seemed to be going against them they blamed the umpire and made & rush to punish him. John Martin, in his cffort to protect the umpire, picked up a bat and swung it viciously, hitting John Jor- dan and splitting his skull Passes Couldn’'t Cross in a Little Boat. NEW YORK, Sept. 21.—A Mexican cable dispatch to the Herald from Buenos Ayres, Argentina, via Galveston, Tex., states that Robert B. McCallum, who left this port In a niceteen-foot sloop on June 13 to cross the Atlantic, bas ben resoued by the Dritlsis ship Stalwart. He was rving d crazy when sighted by the ship and was taken on board with his little boat. ————— Brickmakers Go on u Strike. GALESBURG, Sept. 21.—The brickmak of the Purington Paving Brick compiny, Galesburg Brick and Terracolta company and Galesburg Paving Brick company sruck today because the companies refused to rec ognize the brickmakers' union and be:au one of the members of the unlon was dis- charged. About 300 men are affected, e g ooty i S this | DURRANT MERRY AS A LARK Foels Confident of an Acquittal of the Terrible Charge Against Him, HIS DEFENSE IS STILL A SECRET In Attorneys Insist that They Wil ase Made by the SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 2i.—The main case against Theodore Durrant is in. There are some odds and ends of evidence to prop the carefully built structure of clrcumstances, but to all intents and purposes the prosecu- tion has had its day. After Oppenheim, the pawnbroker, had told how Durrant came to him to pawn one of Blanche Lamont's rigs, after Sademan, the Japitor, had sald that the gas fixtures which Durrant asserted he had been fixing on that fatal day needed no fixing whatever; after the long line of witnesses had taken the prisoner right up to the church door; after the prosecution had done its best to hang the man it considers the criminal of the century; that man’s attorney’s were as merry as larks and as confident as assertive men can be. They were also silent as rocks as to what evidence they proposed to offer to break down an apparently invulnerable case against their client. “Next week you will be just as much with us as you are now against us,” said Al- torney Duprey. “Next week you will be with us, but we are forced to silence now." General Dickinson and Detective Morse are cqually confident, equally cheerful, It was their manner more than what they said that gave listeners the impression that they ex- pected to blow away all the structure of the prosecution as if it were a house of cards or a castle of the air. If they were acting their counterfeit of joyous certainty it was not to be distinguished from the genuine article, This confidence is what now keeps those who have followed the case on the tip toe of expectancy. All are looking forward to the day, not far distant, when Bugene Duprey shall tell to the jury and to the world in his opening statement of the defense Just exactly how he expects to save the neck of Theodore Durrant from the San Quentin noose. There has been no period of the case awaited with such anxiety. If the defense can make its confidence good there will be nothing more dramatic in the annals of the law. Conviction on circumstantial evidence would be an impossibility in the California courts after such a denouement, for this young man Durrant has been considored guilty by ninety-nine women and men out of every 100 for months past. To have his in- nocence proven beyond a doubt in a few days by a few bold strokes of evidence would make him the hero of the hour. He would be petted with favors and pelted with adulation. And this is just the position in which those two ckilled attorneys of his and his famous detective insist they will place him. When the trial is resumed on Monday Pawnbroker Oppenheim, whose cross-exam- ination was uncompleted yesterday, will be the first witness, He will be followed by Phillips, a cigar maker, who says he saw Durrant coming out of Oppenheim's store after the pawnbroker said he had declined to buy Blanche Lamont’s ring. That will be practically all of the case of the nrozecution, although some of Durrant’s fellow students at Cooper Meiza collere may be placed on the-~and to show that the body of the dead &rl was laid out in the belfry of Emanuel church in the manner customary in dissecting rooms. Nothing has been learned from authentic sources regarding the defense which will be offered. The prisoner’s attorneys assert their confidence in the acquittal of their client and express surprise that the case against him is not so strong as they had been led to believe by the prosecution. They say the defense will be put in within ten days, as none of the witnesses have long stories to tell. It is intimated that the defense will try to prove that two men other than Dur- rant lured Blanche Lamont to Emanuel church and there took her life. e PASSED HIMSELF FOR A STOCKMAN. James Dyer Convicted of the Dluck- stone Traln Robbery, FORT SMITH, Ark., Sept. 21.—The trial of the Blackstone train robbers, Buz Lucky and James Dyer, In the United States court here has resulted in their conviction. The conviction of Dyer gives great satisfaction to the court officials, for he is the man who for four years has passed among his neigh- bors as an honest stock raiser; yet during all that time he was an organizer of outlaw bands and planned more successful train and bank robberies than any man in America. The Chaney boys, Buck Waitman, Henry Starr and" many others were carefully secreted in his house when pursued by the officers and all of the larger jobs of the Starr and Chaney gangs had their organization in Dyer's brain, The Bentonyille bank robbery, the Caney, Kan., bank robbery, the Missouri, Kansas & Texas robberies at Pryor Creek and Blackstone and the K. A. & A. V. train robbery at Coweta were some of his work. He not only participated in the robberies, but shared in the booty. Four men were in the Blackstone holdup and two of them, Tom Root and Nat Reed, gave Dyer away and were the principal witnesses agalnst him. There were nearly 300 witnesses on the stand during the trial. Dyer's chances are good for forty-five years in the penitentiary. SR R FIGHT AMONG WOMEN Moutrose, S. D., the Scene of a Very Sensational Escapade, SIOUX FALLS, 8. D., Sept. 21.—(Specia'.)— A sensation bigger than the town is the cause of much commotion at the town of Montrose, twenty miles west of here. For some t'm» past Hon. Frank Smith, member of the re- cent legislature from McCook county, and a prominent hardware deiler at Montrose has attracted considerable attention by his actions toward Mrs. Bowman, wife of the editor of the Moatrose Herald. Wednesday these two were seen by Smith's brother-in- law to enter a vacant building, having but one door, and that fastened by a padlock. The brother-in-law slipped up and locked the door and went and summoned Smith's wifo ani Mrs. Bowman's husband. The meeting in the ‘building was a lively one from all report It s said that the fury of the men was so in- significant, compared with that of the women, that the men stood aside and watched the furious women fight. They got to c'awing each other so vigorously that they were at last separated. Lawyers were telegraphed for from this city and there Is every probability that divorce and damage sui's will result. 03 LIVELY THREE KI AN EXPLOSION, Fire in Paint Works Attended by Fatal Results, PITTSBURG, Sept. 21.—Three men lost their lives and property was damaged to the extent of $40,000 today as the result of an explosion of benzine at the Atlas Paint works of W. K. Freed & Co., Aleghany, Pa. The dead are: Joseph Lasowic, aged 21, single; Henry Turner, 56, wife and five children; George Tule. The last named was burned beyond recognition, while the others were o0 terribly burned that they died shortly after reaching the hospital. The cause of the explosion s not definitely known. Freed & Co.'s loss Is $36,000, and Lutz Bros., pickle: lose $5,000. Three Deaths on the Belgie, SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 21.—The Board of Health today ordered that all steam vessels from infected ports be sterilized and fumi- gated with steam. Dr. Godfrey of the gov- ernment hospital service stated that three deaths on the steamer Belgic from the orlent had resulted from cholera, and not from pneumonia, as at first stated. The bodies were burled on the shore at Honolulu. The tides carried the remains out to sea, where they were devoured by crabs. A woman ate a crab caught near by and died from cholera in twenty-four hours. The Bel- glc landed 100 Chinese here who had been in the steerage with the men who died. They l;l nDI: at various points in the interior of the stal TS FA T A T A b £ 5 N AR RS £ 11 S 8, T A AR A oA e SR Bxposition CHy ¥illed with Veterans of the Novth wnd Sor ATLANTA, Ga., $ept. 21—Chattanooga peo- ple voured into Alabifa by the thousands from Chickamauga, and today this city is swarm- ing with visitors who come to see the expo- sition and take 'part In or witness the Blue | and Gray day eXérbises. The rallway offi- | clals estimate fhat, above 20,000 had been | transferred from the historic battlefield near | Lockout mountuin to the no less historic | fleld around Atlania by the trains of yester- | day, and every fraln arriving swells the crowd. From the Chickamauga celebration alone 30,000 to 40,000 will be here before the day is over, and this by no means represents the total number of strangers the day will add to the throng of exposition visitors al- ready within Atlanta’s gate arrivals up to noon were Governor Morton, | Governor McKinley and several other gov- ernors with or without presidential boom at- tachments. John Jacob Astor accompanies Governor/ rion as a member of his staff and so does Speaker Hamilton Fish of the New York | assembly and Charles W. Templeman, who finds a particularly warm weicome here be- | cause it was he who introduced the bill to | appropriate §26,000 for New York's exhibit at | the expositio Governors Wertz of New | Jersey and Woodbury of Vermont also ar- rived by last night's trains, Perhaps Atlanta, though ventions, expositions and reunions—in short a common point of rendezvous, never held a greater number of notables, or saw £o many representatives of the armies of the blue and | gray as are now here. Several prominent men who were expected to take part in today's exercises disappointed the local veterans and the exposition com- mittee. Governor Upham of Wisconsin | broke a leg while attending the Chicka- mauga exercises; Governor Greenhalge of Massachusetts was called home by special business and J. B. Gordon of the confederate veterans had made an engagement to lecture at Henderson, Ky., tonight before he knew that he was expected to participate in the exercises here. The absence of these distin- guished men was a cause of general regret. Six_governors have arrived—Morton of New York, Woodbury of Vermont, McKinley of Ohio, Wertz of New Jersey, McIntyre of Colorado and Holcomb of Nebraska. = Gen- erals Schofield and Dodge are also here, with General Howard, Horaco Porter and J. A. Wil- liamson. Most of the visiting governors ar- rived in thelr private cars. This afternoon between 1 and 4 o'clock they were served an informal luncheon at the Piedmont Driving club at the exposition grounds. The speech- making was general, but brief. The visitors and their entertainers then went to the Au- ditorium, where tho exercises were arranged to be held. Brief speeches were the order of the day. After an address of welcome by Captain W. E. Howell of this city, Captain W. B. Bllis of Atlanta spoke for the con- | federate ve General J. R. Lewls, recently republican postmaster of Atianta, re- sponded on the part of the Grand Army of the Republic. Just after he began Governor Among the | a town of con- | September heat, Morton and staff, escorted by ex-Governor Bullock of Georgia, came into the hall. Quite a commotion was produced by the governor's appearance, but-iitiwas Impossible to tell vhether the burst of applause that followed | was brought forth by the excitement inc dent to a sight of & presidential candidate or by the remarks of the speaker. At the conciusion of Genoral Lewls' address, N tor of Ceremonies Wy A. Hemphill introduz. i General James Longstreet, and theu followed cheers which might haye kacn prolonged in- definitely had_net the band struck up and drowncd tnem out. As is well known, Gen- | eral Longstreet’s hearing is far from good, and he spoke too 10w to be heard continually. But whenever ho, was heard the feathers fairly flew. He, couciuded with the assertion that he would not undertake to say who was wrong or who was right in the recent strug- gle, “but,”” he afided,‘turning to the old wear- ers of the blue, “your motto shall be my motto.” In response to the sentiment “Th2 empire state of the sonth, greets the empire state of the north,”” Gavegnor Morwon came to.the front of the platform ‘and tha whole house rose to its feet. It looked like a Morton ovation, At the conclusion of his brlef remarks there was another demonstration and then McKinley arose and was quite as warmly grezted. He alluded to the rupture of the past and present unity in the hearts of the people which could never be broken. “‘North" and “south” should henceforth be geograph- ical divisions and nothing else. “I am glad to come again to your hospitable state. I come here to bring to Georgia the good will of the great state'which I have the honor to represent. What we need is to get closer together. There has been no unpleasantness since the war betwe:n wearers of gray and blue. It has all been between people who fought on neither side and were quite ready to get on either side.” At the conclusion of McKinley's speech he was greeted by th® most tremendous applause. et FRENCH TROOPS SUFFER GREATLY, Ma ¥ in the Hospitals with Poor Pro- visions f. r Care. PARIS, Sept. 21.—Mail advices received fram Madagascar reveal a deplorable condition of affairs in that Island. In hospitals cal- culated for the accomodation of 200 men are crowded with 600 sick French sold- diers, lying upon improvised bunks and nsufficiently attended by doc- tors and nurzes. In each hospital hundreds of patients are lying groaning upon the bare ground and suffering for lack of medicine and food, while the filthiness that prevails everywhere about them is in- describable. The doctors are doing the best they can for the alleviation of the suffering of the sick and the mcrtality is surprisingly small when the existing conditions are taken into consideration. Very few of the patients, however, rccover completely, most of those attacked with sickness being £o reduced by anemia and so subjected to strange hallucini- tions as to be quite incapacitated for further service in tie fleld. The Somali coolies have proved lazy malign- ers. The other coolies are willing, but are debllitated from lack of food and are the vie- tims of brutality at the hands of the subal- terns. In many cases the bodies of French soldiers have bsen devourel by dogs Lefore they could be buried. In a letter to the min- ister of war, General Duche open'y. zdmits that the hardships of the marches and the bad commissary service have sent 3,000 sold- fers to the hospital, and that the bad climate is prostrating the troops, PASSING ON AN IMPORTANT POINT. i) Right of State Courts to Demand Rev~ enue Baoks to He Tested. WICHITA, Kan., Sept. 21.—Today Henry Huttman, deputy internal revenue collector, was taken out of the county jail on a writ of habeas corpus i$sued by United States Judge Willlams. ; Ho, bad been placed in jail by Judge Reed iof :fhe county district court for refusing to obey-a subpoena to bring the books of the infernal revenue department into court to be used as evidence against Jack Davidson, ghasged with the violathn of the prohibitory law. After Huttman was in the hands of thelnited States court the officers of the state court made two attempts to take him intp_custody again, but United States Marshal Neely stood them off. The final hearing of,the,case will be taken up Tuesday in the federal court and the decision will be of natiopul 4mportance, as a ruling on the question has never been made by a federal court, e e Meat Inspector Under Arrest. Willlam Holmes, & meat inspector of South Omaha, got into trouble last night through his badge, He accosted Mrs. Ball of 523 South Fourteenth street on the street and threatened to arrest her, she claims, and frightened her by flashing 'the badge. He accompanied the woman home and while there she charges that he made Indecent proposals to her. Mrs. Ball resented the in- sults and managed to leave the room and lock the door behind ber, She kept Holmes imprisoned until she hunted up a policeman and had him placed under arrest. e — Robbed in a W Room, E. T, Peterson of 506 South Sixteenth street went into a wine room of a saloon on North Sixteenth street with two women and while there was “plucked” of a diamond pin. He did not discover bis loss until the women had left him, e oot e et it SNOW COOLING THE WINDS | Breeses that Travel Through Omaha Are from White Fields, FALL OF TEMPERATURE IN NORTHWEST 1 Go Down Fast ter Wen Northwestern Nehraska. After twenty-one tae promises a change came up last e the wind blew vs of unprecedented local weather bureau this morning. Clouds ening and promised rain, but them eastward and left a clear sky until neariy midnight. But cool breczes came from the south and west and telegraphic reports showed that those from the west came off snow. It was reported that it was snowing yester- day in Wyoming, southern Dikota and north- western Nebraska. If any of the winds that cooled the streets of Omaha late last evening traveled from as far west as Rawlins, Wyo., taey came oft nine inches of snow and bore it shing breath of a 30 degrees tem- | perature from Cheyenne, for the report was that Wyoming's copital had snow all day, with a thermometer one degree below the freezing point. At Rapid City, 8. D., at 7 o'clock last e ing it was snowing, and the mercury was 36, with a plain determination to go stili fur- ther down. The cornfields of northwestern’ Nebiaska were turned gray at the same time, while the pastures and stubble fields were spread over with a mantle of white, snow being reported from Chadron, Rushviile and Alli- ance. Every barometer In the northwest is high and a marked fall in temperature is wired in and the prediction is that Omaha will get the fall today. SNOW n- FAL DAKOTA, Several Inches ready Down and LEAD, S. D, Sept. 21.—(Special Tele- gram.)—Rain commenced falling here at 6 o'clock last night, which turned to snow within two hours. The ground was covered ul AL re Coming. | with several inches of snow this morning and at noon today it is snowing heavily. with no signs of abating. The storm, although out of date, proves very valuable as it extin- guished the forest fires which have been rag- ing for the past two weeks, destroying mil lions of feet of valuable timber on the Lime- stone range some fifteen milos from here. 1t is growing colder and a blizzard will likely follow. DEADWOOD, Sept. 21.—(Special Teloegram.) st night a heavy snow storm set in and this morning the Black Hills was covered to the depth in some places of six inches. It has n snowing all day with prospects of continuing through the night LARAMIE, W storm of the sex d here early today. The temperature has fallen twenty-five de- grees. ciuce midnight, with a cold east wind blowing. Snow is réported falling at Rock Creelk, fifty miles west of Laramie. RAWLINS, Wyo., Sept. 21.—(Special Tele- gram.)—A heavy northeast snow storm began at a nearly hour this morning. Snow is eight inclies Cecp on the level and 't is sii'l s .owing Thera are some fears for sheep, as they arc still_on the mountain ranges. Should the weather turn cold there will undoubtedly be heavy losses. DENVER, Sept. 21.—For a week Colorado has been sweltering under heat unusual for September, but today there came a sudden ahange, a chilling wind from the northeast sending down the temperature like a_shot. Tonight, after an hour of rain, snow began falling and. the prospects are favorable for fts continuing all night. This is the earliest snow this vicinity has witnessed for many years and is the first of the season. Re- ports from throughout the northern half of the state tell a similar tale. In the moun tains the snowfall is very heavy. SALT LAKE, Sept. 21.—Climatic condi- tions took a sudden change last night and this evening this city was visited by a heavy rain and afterward by a snow storm, which broke the drouth that has prevailed since June. The water supply of the city, which comes from mountain streams, was very low and farmers had been unable to do any fall plowing. The storm has been worth many thousands to the farmers. Overcoats were brought into general use. The storm began north of Ogden and extendsd generally over the valley for more than 100 miles routh, The first street car to Iort Douglass today carried a snow plow to clear the snow Telegraphic communication was interrupted and the sunshine this afternoon melted most of the snow in the valley, but the mountains surrounding the clty are’still covered. The weather is chilly tonight, with indications of frost DENVER, Sept. 21.—A special to the News from Leadyille, Colo., says: A heavy storm is raging. The thermometer is considerably below freezing. There will be several inches of snow by morning. Leadville had the last snow storm July 15. first snow IN NEDRASKA, plendid Col for Fall Plowing, DUNCAN, Neb, Sept. 21.—(Special)—A heavy rain fell here last night. Beginning at 6:30 and continuing one hour, it came down in torrents, thoroughly soaking the ground and breaking two weeks of hot weather. Corn s all out of the way of frost and the ground is now in fine shape for fall plowing and seeding, RANDOLPH, Neb., Sept. 21.—(Speclal Telegram.)—It rained heavily here last night, and drizzled all the afternoon and is pouring down tonight. Water is running through the streets and over sidewalks, mak- ing it difficult to mavigate the streets, The wind is blowing furiously LYONS, Neb., Sept. 21.—(Special Telegram.) —The weather the past ten days has been the most oppressive ever experienced In this part of the state. For fourteen days the thermometer rose from 98 to 105 degrees, with a strong wind blowing from the south There has been no rest day or night and people are almost worn out. The hot weather was broken last night by a heavy rain over this part of the state. The rain will do a great deal of good. YORK, Neb., Sept. 21.—(Speclal Telegram.) —The last week has been almost unpre- cedented in the history of York county Hot winds prevalled. A good rain visited the county this afternoon. About two inches fell. GRESHAM, Neb., Sept. 21.—(Speclal Tele- gram.)—The hot weather of the past two weeks has been excessive, but this morning from 8 until 4 o'clock 3 heavy downpour cooled the atmosphere. Precipitation, two Inches: SHELBY, Neb., Sept. gram.)—The rain’ today and this evening has soaked the ground several inches. A wind and hail storm passed north of here last night along the Platte river. Frost can do no injury to corn as it has been sufficiently dried by the hot winds. ELM CREEK, Neb., Sept. 21.—(Speclal Telegram.)—A heavy storm of wind and hail passed southeast of this place about 4 o'clock s evening, tearing down and demolishing small bulldings and trees, and leveled six telegraph poles. About three inches of water tell. HEAVY RAINS Ground Put in dition 21.—(Speclal Tele- Storm in lowa. SIOUX CITY, Sept. 21.—(Special Telegram.) —A heavy elgetrical storm occurred here this morning, during which several houses were struck, telephone service and street rallway traffic paralyzed and much minor damage done, Elizabeth Grimm was partlally para- Iyzed by a bolt falling near her. The rain still continues, over two inches having fallen today. CHEROKEE, Ia., Sept. 21.—(Special Tele- gram.)—The hardest rain and wind storm of the season swept over northwestern lowa last night and to Fully eight inches of water fell in the past twenty-four hours, and the rain Is still pouring down. The streets and ravines are flooded and the Little Sioux river 18 higher than at any time this summer, Some stock fis reported killed and other Qdamage done by lightning. SPENCER, Ia, Sept. 21.—(Sps gram.)—A barn belonging to George Solhlan, & wealthy farmer living twelve miles from here, was struck by lightning last night and ten horses killed. Three elevators at Huil T R A A Considerable damage was done in this vieinity by the storm. MARSHALLTOWN, Ta., Sept. 21.—Thero 1s no material abatement ‘In the terrific hot spell here. 1t is unsurpassed in the state's history for September. Corn s dead ripe and_will probably be ready to crib the first of October. The second crop of oats Is headed out. Two weeks of warm weather will mature it HEAT WAS SEVERE ON INFANTS, Part Country Getting neh #id Wenther, CHICAGO," Sept. 421.—This was the sixth day of Intense heat, the mercury in the gov- ernment office régistering 90 degrees, one de- gree lower than the highest point registered yesterday. On the street the temperature was from three to five degrees higher. The worst feature of the heated term is the mor- tality among infants, the number of deaths of children under & years of age having mors n doubled this week. About per cent he total deaths this week have been in- tants. NEW YORK, Sept. 21.—According to the offictal record foday was the hottest day of the year, the thermometer touching 7 de- grees. The heat surpasses the record for many years, cxcept on July 9, 1876, when it registered 99, and September 7, 1891, when it reached 100 dcgrees. SPRINGFIELD, Mass., Sept mometer registered 105 degrees here today, BRATTLERORO, Vt., Sept. 21.—The ther- mometer registored 105 here today PITTSBURG, Sept. 21. [h> past week ha been the hotfest September weather he for twenty years. Yesterday 94 was reached and today was but two d-g cooler. No fatal prostrations have resulted. 21,—~The ther. Snow CHEYENNE —A sevel (Special Telegram.) raging In south- ming tonight. Several inches of snow have fallen, and the thermometer is at freezing point. No loss to stock is an- ticipated. now storm i i ORGANI ABOR IN RUSSIA, Trades Unlonis Final Rooted the Domain of the Czar, So little is known about conditions of life in Russia that fact of the existence of labor organizations on a large scale has gen- erally been overlooked, says the Buffalo Ex- press These assoclations or artels form an important part of the industrial o and are almost entirely free from government ccntrol. It is doubtless to this that so lLitile has been sald about them. Some refergnce, however, was made to them in a report 1s- sued by the British foreign office in 1 and now a fuller account is given In a report made by Mr. Carnegie of the British bassy in Petersburg. From report it s learned that the syetem had its origin as back as the tenth century, when organizi- Uons were effected for hunting, fishing and trading purposes. From these carly begin- nings the gyst has been so r extended that there are W occupations or trades in Russia in which artels are not or have not been forme ro are s carpen- ters, painters, blacksmiths, , porters, bargees, waiters, workmen are employed in making pott cheese, percuss| s, boots, gun carriages and ropes, and there are even artels of beggars, traveling musicians and horse stealers. They are, it seems, generally guided by the o oms and regulations which have been handed down for generations. .The whole system is based upon the following funda- mental principles: (1) Bach member of the association has an equal share in the duties and w 2) each member receives an equal share of the profits, and (3) all the members are mutually responsible for the work conduct of each. As a rule, women are not admitted to the artels of the men, but they have a number of their own, such engaged in the cul- tivation of in the province of Tchernigoff. There is another artel conrposed of women employed in loading ships with grain at Archangel, the members speaking a kind of polyglot language, which can be understood by the captains of any foreign ship visiting that port. Mr. Carnegle thinks that the.artel system undoubtedly leads to better work hecause it *3 for the ‘interest of the membors that all verform their full share and are punctual and sober. The whole system seems to be very similar to the mediacval guilds, therein ciffering from the labor unions of today in that more mattars of detail are attendad to. ‘Trades unions occupy themselves with many matters, but individualism has grown to so great an extent that the multitudinous rules of the guilds are not tolerated. e LR VEST HAS NO ANGED HIS VIEWS hoi [ em- this artel mason ete.; artels of u) nd Still as Mu avor of Free Coln- A special to a lecal paper from Washington. D. C., sayl: Senator Vest of Missouri today gave out the following interview respecting his position on the silver question: “I have not changed my opinions in the slightest degree as to r, and must protest against being called upon to explain imaginary statements I never made, and for which I am not responsible, 1 stand upon the platform of the Missourl democrats, made In August last at Pertle Springs, fully and unreservedly, and have never wavered in my position, “When the question of repealing the pur- chasing clause of the Sherman act was under consideration, 1 reported from the finance committee on behalf of my colleagues on the committee who favored free coinage and myself, a bill for the coinage of s'lver dollars at’ the ratio of 20 to 1, and I afterward voted with the friends of silver in bcth houses, first for the ratio of 16 to 1, then 17 to 1, then 18 to 1, then 19 to 1, then 20 to 1, and finally for the re-enactment of the Bland- Allison act. We were willing to compromise on any of the ratios named, although we preferred the old ratio of 16 to 1. The largest vote, 136, was cast for the Bland- Aliison law, the next, 125, for the 16 to L ratio, and the next, 122, for the 20 to 1 ratio. If called upon again to vote upon the question, 1 should endeavor to secure free coinage for silver as standard redemp- tion money at the ratio of 16 to 1, and ff that could not be had at some other ratio which would secure the requisite majority.” Senator Vest says that the story about his changing his position on the questions had no Zfoundation. e The 'Gator Was Hungry, A large fitteen-foot aliigator, brought to West Chester, Pa., last week to form one of the attractions at the county fair, made an entertainment not on the program. During the night he made an attack upon the show hogs, saveral of which he injured to some ex- tent. He also tried to get into the poultry show and dog kennels, but was prevented by reason of the strong timb rs. On» mo:il g he attacked two men, but as they fled in stantly no harm was done. Not unil after 10 o'clock was he recaptured and placed in bonduge. - Brazil Will Not Give In. (Copyrighted, by Press Publishing Compa COLON, Panama, Sapt. 21.—(New York World Cable—Special to The Bee)—A Quito dispatch says that General Trevino and Dr. Caicen have been arrested for conspirac A Rio dispatch says that the Britisn pro- posals to surrender all claim to Trinidad it Brazil will allow a cable to land cn the 1sland, is not accepted. 1f Great Britaln per- sists in landing a cable the British mivister will receive a passport. ot TR Worked Him om Change. Johp G. Agenstein, the restaurant keeper at 606 North Sixteenth street, was taken in to the extent of $9 last night by a dapper stranger on the old envelope trick. The stranger came in and requested change for a $10 bill, which he showed in an envelope. Agenstein handed over $10 worth of change, Lut when he opened the envelope he found that Be had received only a $1 bill. By this time, however, the stranger had disap- peared. Were No Fatalities In the Game. DANVILLE, Ky, Bept. 21.—The dis- patches saying that W. O. Goodloe, an attor- ney of this city, and two other men pamed Swope of this county had beon killed during o poker game st a distillery in Pulaski county, were untrue, All are alive. far | CHINA'S ~ FEARFUL ~ PLIGHT Soourge More Terrible Than War Now De- vastating the Empire. CHOLERA AND DEATH WALK HAND-IN-HAND Willlam E. Curtis Describes Clties of the Celentinl Empire o the Pest Breeding Centers of the U ' SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 2L—Willlam B, Curtis, who is the Washington correspondent of the Chicago Record, was a passenger on the steamer Gaelle, which arrived from the Orfent yesterday. He went to Japan in May last to study the eommerclal and industrial | opportunities extended to Americans in that country and lately he has been in China, which he describes as the pest breeding cen- ter of the universe The cholera has attained fearful propore tions in China,” said Mr. Curtls. “Chinese are dying by thousands. I passed through the streets of Peking, Shanghai, Tien Tsin, and saw cholera victims dead and dylng on every hand. It Is no uncommon sight to ses the dead bodies of cholera victims lying on the street in one block and in the next a lot of Chinese gorging themselves with raw cucumbers and melons. The chole at- tributable to the filthy habits of the Chinese and the weather. The summer was quite cool untll August. Then a spell of exces- sively hot weather came on and with it the cholera, “In Peking they lave a plan of issuiug per~ mits for the removal ot vodies outside the walls. As is probably well known, no bodies are Interred within the walls. To cure permission for the removal of the re mains of a scd mortal outside the walls of the city a cash is dropped in a box. A cash is a small brass coin worth one- twentieth of a cent. At night the cash re- ceptacle {8 full. It coutains from 2,000 to 000 pieces of coin and when it is consid- ered that nearly all of these deaths result from cholera, the enormous extent of the disease can bo readily judged. The disease is as bad at Shanghai and Tien Tsin and is mowing down the Chineze by hundreds in the infected country,” Mr. Curtis said that the cholera Is fined almost exclusively to the native Chines In Peking, where few foreigners lived, he had heard of no deaths among the whites. In Tien Tsin only one death among the for- eign population had been reported up to the Nour he left China. In Shanghai, where the cholera is raging at an awful rate, the fataii- ies among the foreigners have been much greater. Mr. Curtis said he had been ad- vised of eightzen deaths. Speaking on the subject which Mr. Curtis went to Japan to investigate, the commer- ~ial and industrial fi re of Japan, he sald he has returned to America convincad that America has no market in the mikado's realm for manufactured goods, “The Japanese make almost everything they want,” ho sald. “They are stealing our patents and copying our inventions and are | almost ready now to export their wares and thersby enter into ruinous competition with other nations, There is, however, a/splendid market for machinery, as well as for cotton, iron and other raw materials, cotton particus larly. The Japanese are now using cotton very largely, and here is a polnter for Ameri- can cotton producers. While a great deal of American cotton fs used in the Orient, it goos through English hands before It reaches the Japanese and tho American grower ls de- prived of the commissions which go into the pocket of the English middleman in Liver- pool. Our cotton ought to be shipped direct to Japan. For that purpose we need the Nicaragua canal; wo need the completion of the Guatemala rallway and open harbors at the two termini of the Tehuantepec raflway. “‘America cun sell a lot of cotton in Japan. In two or three years Janin will control the cotton trade of the Orient.” e FINISHED 1 A HIGH | WIND, Bleycle Races at Mn ngo Close, but Not Very Fast. MARENGO, Ia, Sept. 21.—(Special Tele- pram)-The second annual meeting of the Marengo Eicycle club closed today with a very successful list of events. Cummings, the local champlon, was too swift for the vigitors. Summaries: , only two men finished Charles J. Bell, Cedar Rapids, first; 1. H. Streeter, Cedar Rapids second. Time: 2:33 Half mile, handicap: . C. B. F. Jackson, € . A. Park, ar Rap- Marengo, third. Ingraham, Dixon, Ulrich ummings L., and and Deems, 8 Bell, Marengo, third. Time: mile, open: Cummings T. Jackson, Ceda Heker, Chica . one mile, cou won by J. A. Khepper, The one mile open tween Cummings, Chicago, and was'p . This was the prett ngo, Cummings & punctured mpionship, , In 2:36. tie be- Blckeor, tha Coyle of handicap: cker, Chicago, pper, 310 yards, 2,000. Track excel- st time. Cedar Rap- *h, second v ids, first; third J A Ko 13:82 A lent, endance was about but too windy for Wranglng Over a Referce. NEW YORK, Sept No r @ has yet been selected for the Corbett-Fitzs'mmons fight. W. A. Brady, v enting Corbett, Martin Jullan for Fitzslmmons and Joe Vendlg for the Florida Atnle today and after three hours of wrangling decided upon nothing. Brady wanted referee decided upon’ at onee, or at one week before the fight. Julian sa e would not have a named until the day prec the batt ndig im- plored both ntatives to come to a decision. *No," sald Julian, “I have named the day we want, and that settles it." “Oh, no it don't,” sald Brady, ‘‘we something to say t that, and 1 think the club ought 3 K Brady refused to ac k" Sullly saving that Sull 1 insul letters to Corbett everal other names were suggested, among them Phil Dwyer and Herman Oelrichs, but Jullan refused to consider them. There war a great deal of further talk, but nothing resulted. v ropres have Cedar Raplds to Have Grounds. CE! @ RAPIDS, la., Sept. 21 pecial Telegram.)—-Work ‘was commenced here (o= | day on what will be the finest athletic park in the state of Towa. A syn iicate has leased en acres of lan nd will put in bieycle track similar to the one Denver and a bare ball diamond. The grounds will also be prepared for the holding of all kinds of athletic sports. Two fine amphitheaters will be erected, and the appointments through- out ‘will be the best and finest. About $8,000 will be expended in the improvement. - BOND SYNDICATE ) auim, the Govern No Needs Itn Assista NEW YORK, Sept. 21.—The managers of the government bond syndicate have taken action which is regarded as a formal dis- solution of the syndicate, the Rovernment having no longer any need of its services, The managers sent out chec which were recelved by the members of the syndicate this morning, giving them the profits of the operations of the syndicate, the members having already received the prineipal which they had placed in the hands of the man- agers. The exact percentage of proft is not at present obtainable, but It is understood that after allowing futerest on the money for the period during which it was in the bands of the managers the profits are & trifle below 6 per cent. Finished Its Business Sessl CHATTANOOGA, Tenn., Sept. 21.—With the business meeting of the Society of the Army of the Cumberland this morning, which was held at tho elrenit court rooms, events of dedicationeweek eame to a close. The crowds are loaving the city as fast as special trains can carry them. At the session thi morning General J, D, Morgan of Llinois presided, Tho oficers who had served for the post year were ocontinued for another Says Longer e term. Treasurer Fullerton reported and the waclely selected Rookford, Ill., &% the next place of mecting, Chickamaugs week as the time, and sdjourned.