Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, September 23, 1895, Page 1

THE OMAHA DalLy B A ISTABLISHED JUNE 19, 1871. OMAHA, MONDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 23, 1895. GLE co — NTS. PY FIVE CE T00 MANY SOLDIERS 1N CUB Oampos Tells Spanish Authorities that He Has All the Men Required, MORE TRAINING AND LESS NUMBERS This ix the Idea of the Genern Suppressing the Insurgenis— Small Skirmishes Reported from Day to Day. LONDON, Sept. 22.—The Havana corre- #pondent of the Times telegraphs that paper as follows, under date of September 18: Un- der the heading, *“Abogodos del Diablo,” the conservative newspaper, the Union Institu- tlonal, publishes another bitter article, taunt- ing other leading newspap:rs because they refuse to recommend a policy of greater verity toward the insurgents, preferring to advocate liberal reforms In the Spanish method of administration. It is officiaily re- ported that a skirmish occurred near Guan- tanimo on Monday, in which the Spaulards dislodged the insurgents from a strong posi- tlon, killing eight of them. rhe Spanish loss 18 reported as three woudned. The Insurgents in the province of Santa Clara say ths object of destroying villages and settlements is to prevent the troops from obtaining shelter. Private letters received from Santa Clara state that the military organization is ex- tremely faulty. General Campos has not properly seconded the troops, which moved aimlessly from point to point, with prac- tically no intelligence and no definite plan of campaign. A correspondent in Santiago de Cuba writes, referring to the recent fight at 8ao del Indisco, that Colonel Canellas says he does not claim a decided victory. The In- surgents held a strong position at this period and pressed the troops hard and nearly cap- tured a Spanish gun, when Can:llas ordered the artillery to change its position. An officer of the artillery named Gomez, reported mortally wounded, Is recovering in the hos- pital at Santiago. The correspondent says further than Canellas and 1,900 men have left Guantanimo for the purpose of again attacking the Insurgents. General Navarro and 1,800 men, now in the vicinity of San- tlago de Cuba, are to co-operate, REINFORCEMENTS LANDED. Recently reinforcements of 2,000 infantry and 400 cavalry have land>d at Santiago de Cuba, 2,000 infantry and 200 cavalry at Guantanimo, 1,000 infantry at Manzanillo, 3,600 Infantry at Neuvitas and the remainder in_the province of Santa Clara, It is stated in official circles that an ener- getle campaign in the province of Santa Clara begins immediately. A number of persons have jofned the insurrection fin the last few days, Including a lawyer named Espinosa from Remedios, and also Senor Jimenez, secretary of the Vueltas municipal court. Last week twenty soldiers, when cutting forage outside the town of Santiago de Cuba, were surprised by the insurgents and two Killed and efghteen taken prisoners. These, after the delivery of their arms and am- munition, were released and returned to San- tiagn. Saturday last the harbor police of Havana, while watehing a suspicious boat alongside the Amerlcan steamer Mascotte, saw a sack dropped into a boat. Upon arresting the boatman they opened the sack and found it full of rifle cartridges. They boarded the steamer and the master immediately granted permission to search the vessel. It was discovered that the Spanish fireman was the person who dropped the sack. He was arrested and today, with the boat- man, was tried by court martial and found guilty of supplylng ammunition to the in- surgents and sentenced to penal servitude for life, It is stated the Insurgents regularly recelve supplies of cartridges by similar mezns. DO NOT WANT MORE TROOPS. Lengthy telegrams from Madrid, published yesterday, state positively that Spain will| MRS, J. A, FORD IS INDIGNANT. send 25,000 In October and an equal number in January, and if necessary they ninl of ¥ Family are prepared to increase the army to 200,000 ibles from Paris. Campos Is right in saying that he does not Sept. 22.—Relative to a dispatch e el Lot Clearly I8 oecet | from San Francisco dated June 9 concern- sary Is that the soldiers have more training | P o and the army more method of organiza- | N6 the will of J. A. Ford, Mrs. Ford and tion and above all more competent direction | her son, Edward, have called upon Vice it a satisfactory result is wished. Consul General Schropshire here and have La Discussion (newspaper) last week pub- lished an account of a fifteen days’ march by General Mella and 3,000 men throfgh the province of Puerto Principe, for the purpose of attacking Maximo Gomez. The only re- ult was a few unlwportant skirmishes. The account reads like the story of Don Quixote rather than a serious warilke action, captains and yellow fever in the Cerona regiment sta- tioned at Mueritas. A train guard, composed of a corporal and twelve men, last Wednesday were attacked near San Miguel, province of Puerto Principe, by a group of eighty Insurgents, in five soldlers being killed and the corporal and several others being captured. eral Campos Is reported at Manzanillo and proceeding toward Santiago. CHICAGO MINISTER ON CUB. the Has Come rotest. 22.—Rev. Mr. Declares that for A CHICAGO, Sept. caused somewhat of a sensation this morning by declaring from his pulpit that the time has come for America to say that the op- pression of Cuba by Spain must come to an end. There was a large attendance of the best people In the city, and the speaker was frequently Interrupted by outbursts of ap- plause. Dr. Thomas said in part: “Among the modern nations of the earth Spain is old. She was once in the foreground ono of the greatest and proudest and most prosperous of nations. But she was always on the side of royalty and ecclesiasticism. She belonged to the old order of government and religlon. Other countries have ad yanes inspiration of a new light, while S| stood still, has gone backward. She has not absorbed other people and caught iuspira- tion from them. Her religion is Roman Catholie, and is supported by the state; no fault can be found with that. She has a right to her religion, great wings or powers of the church. The Protestant religion is tolerated, but worship must be in secret and no notice of meetings may be glven. There are 60,000 Protestants in the country, and an attendance at worship of 8,000 in a population of less than 16,000,000; there are 5,000,000 men and 7,800,000 women who cannot read and write, flourishes in England, Germany, France and Italy, and I therefore argue that Spain—this moribund nation that has failed to get into Iine with the practice of this great age—has forfelted the right to be a dictator, much less It a ruler among the nations of the earth. has the right (o exist in ignorance and super stition, and to manage its own affairs, not the right to cruelly oppress its own’ sub- Ject an end, and that very soon. leans are on the sid: of freedom. Russia sent her war ships to cruite off New York. Can we simply stand still and let Spain crush the life out of these struggling They are patriots? 1 don't call them rebels. patriots, as brave as men ever were, and are struggling for the rights of mem as we once struggled. (Applause). Governments moye slowly, but there is no need to delay the ox- pression of our sympathy. It s fitting that the volce of the pulpit, the press and the people of this city, the center of the great republic, should be heard first,” Seusutlonnl Story Dented. ST. JOHN, N. F., Sept. 2 ~—~A sensational report ls current today, set afloat by the crew of the Peary steamer Kite, to the effect they ere bringing home the bones of one of the Greeley party from Cape Sabine, where nearly hed from starvation. At the time General Two three lleutenants are dead of resulting Gen- Thomas have heard the call and caught the pain has which Is one of the Education but he time has come for America to say that this oppression of Cuba must come to All true Amer- When we struggled France held out a helping hand and Greeley was rescued, twelve bodles were | found of the twenty who died and no traces of the others were found then. The place has never been revisited since until the Kite landed men there in August, who made an ex- ploration around the site of the camps. Lieutenant Peary and his friends deny that they have any such relics aboard. STORY OF A TORPEDO'S W K, the Cuban Sinking of the Spanish Crulser. PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 22.—An entirely different egplanation of the sinking of the Spanish crufser Barstegul and the loss of forty-six lives in the harbor of Havana on last Wednesday night is made in letters recelved In this city today by a distinguished | member of the revolutionary party. Accord- | ing to the news telpgraphed from Havana the | day after, the catastrophe was due to| collision between the crulser and a merchant | steamer. It {s now stated as an abzo'ute | fact that the cruiser was struck by a floating torpedo la | Cuban: | hed by an adventurous party of | The Cuban leader who received the | leticr sal | “The Spanish goverament knows full well | we sunk thelr best ccu'ser and sent to thelr | deaths Admiral Delgado Perejo, in commanl | of the Spanish navy in Cuban waters, five officers and thirty-four men. We know here | that bafora the dispatch rcliting to the sceilent is t out. | e little party on tho steam launch had | received these torpedo lausches only a week before. Captain tque celectel a pont | about 200 yards from tho wharf from which to launch ‘the torpedo. It was siipped out | and as soon as it was gone Captain Enrique | gave orders to steam away as rapidly as pos- sible. The wcrk of the torpedo was even more spe:dy than was anticipatol. Not five minutes elapsed before it exploded with a re- port that was heard several miles away. From what those on the boat say, it must havo gone oft ebout fifty feet away from the cruiser and struck her in the starboard side. It is true the merchant steamer Mor- tera was near the vessel at the time and that sho too suffered damsge, buf it was not seri- ous by any means, and if the men on board | of her had kept their heads they might have saved some of lives of those on board the Spanish cruiser.' CLEANED OUT THE HO' Authorities nt Guests and Proprietors. TAMPA, Fla., Sept. 22.—John Repko, for fiteen years proprietor of the Roma Grand Continental hotel at Havana, arrived here to- night. He I8 a Hungarian by birth, but be- came an Amer:can citizen ten years ago. The kitchen and warehouse connected with his hotel were built upon a government lot, for which he paid it rental. On July 19, at midnight, he and his family, consisting of his wife and six children, the oldest but 9 years, were forcibly ejected from their property. Mrs. Repko was prostrated with nervousness. She was sent direct to New York. The eject- ment continued until morning, when the boarders were forced to leave the breakfast table. Every vestige of furniture was re- moved and ‘the entire property confiscated. All this was occasfoned by a debt of $500, which Repko owed the government for rent on the lot. Repko was then taken sick and remained so several weeks, He has placed his case under the management of F. R. Switt, editor of the Bridgeport, Conn., Herald, to whom all papers pertaining to it have been forwarded. The damages clalmed are $50,000. Repko will remain here several days and then proceed to Washington, whero he will ask the government to recognize his claim and re- quest damages, a Fa v Bjeet made an emphatic denlal of the accusations advanced. The widow says that the state- ments are outrageously false in every re- spect, and declares that she is determiped to contest the will and fight for her rights. When these are established she proposes to give her son the whole of the foriune. BEd- ward Ford supports his mother, and he de- clares that he will aid) her in setting herself right in the eyes of her family and the world. 45 ~ SURPRISED A HOVA ARMY, Genernl Satd to Have Routed Six Thousand, PARIS, Sept. 22.—Advices from Monjanga | Hill NEW YORK DEMOCRATS" WAR Convention Today Will Be a Very Lively Affair, TAMMANY HOWLING FOR EVERYTHING Not Willing to Permit Other Factions to Have n Conslderable Share of Represent; tion. SYRACUSE, N. Y., Sept. 22.—Where one weok ago today the republicans at Siratoga had practically settled all differences of their convention, with the single exception of the excise plank, here in this city, forty-eight hours prior to the meeting of the demo- cratic convention, no details have been set- tled and those few delegates who have ar- rived are absolutely at sea as to what will be the ticket and the platform. There does not seem to be any anxlety in the matter, exccpt over two points—that of the disposition of the excise matter and the sett'ement of dis- was sent it was carefully edited by the pre:s | putes betweon tho factioas. Even In th's censor. The advices which I have recelved | jarter the anxlely seams to relate to New say that on Monday night a party of ten| o 'yooy glone and the contests for minor Cubans under command of Capta'n Carlis Enrique*left Guantanimo in a steam launch | counties are merely looked upon as tem- | which was the recent invention of an Ameri- [ porary matters which will be settled prior can. The torpedo was an ingenious device, | to the meeting of the convention. Perhaps | 8o constructed that it couid bo Juunched Some |y most curlous feature of this com'ng distance away from the objest aimed to be i vy T g destroyed, and then by a plecs of clockwork | democratic convention Is the fact that none exploded in about fifteen minutes af'er It |Of the leaders havoarrived in this city. Head- quarters, which were engaged weeks ago, are unoceup'ed and even the rcoms engaged by the emaller fish that bob and float about the leaders are still unoccupied. Senator is supposed to be in Albany, Senator Murphy, Richard Croker and Willlam F. Sheehan ara in Saratoga, and Willam R. Grace, Charles R. Fairchill and E. Ellery Anderson are still in New York. None of the Kings county men are here and the Erie county men, who have harmonized their dif- ferences and elected a mixed delegation, will probably not be here until tomorrow after- noon. The only band heard on the streets today was that of the Salvation army. Hotel cor- ridors contain only. nowspaper men &nd the general population. Tomorrow aft:rnoon Tammany, 500 strong, will arrive, with the state democracy people, 250 in number, upon the'r heels, and thera is likely to be music. HARMONIZING FACTIONS. First of all In the work to be accom- plished prior to the opening of the convention is settling the difference among the factions of the party from those counties that have elected two sets of delegates. There are small contests in Wayne and Oswego coun- ties, which may be settled by threats rather than moral suasion. It is pretty well agreed, s0 far as Kings county goes, that arrange- ments entered into by the arbitration com- mittee of the democratic state committee will be agreed to by both factions. This report gives to the regular organization two- thirds of a vote apisce and to the contestants, known as the Shepardites, one-third of a vote. This seems to be satisfactory, upon the ground that the third of a vote given to the Shepard men fully represents their strength in Kings county. The general sentiment among the leaders and even among the rank and file Is that the New York contest should be settled in the same manner. But Tammany repre- sentatives are here and are loud in their assertions that the vote controlled by the state democracy in New York by no means en- titled them to a one-third representation, and it they were given a ome-fourth repre- sentation they would have, even then, more than their quota. There is also a sentiment among some of the state democracy men that Tammany should not be granted any concessions. Not that it would particularly antagonize them, but that it would be a confession on the part of the machine organization that would be discreditable to Tammany and the state machine alike. So far as can be learned tonight, the state democracy will tomorrow meet the Tammanyites and demand repre- sentation of one-half. The Tammany leaders will refuse this proposition and the matter will be referred to the state committee for scttlement. Hinckley's committee will make the politic offer of a representation of one- third, which is in the nature of a com- promise, SLATES WILL BE SMASHED. 1t there is a slate of candidates In ex- Istence it Is in some one's pocket and is likely to be smashed. The matter of can- didates will have some effect upon the con- tests, for if the leaders of the state democracy find the state is distiactly against their fac- tion they will insist upon e large repre- sentation, while if they feel that they are properly in this matter they will agree to concessions. From the list of candiates the following may be picked out tonight as the most likely to compose the ticket: For secretary of state, General Horatio say that General Duchesane has surprised 6,000 Hovas in the Tsmalnoidry defile. The Hovas were routed and eighty of them killed. Selzed for 'Unlawful Scaling. VICTORIA, B. C., Sept. 22.—The Sallie B. Martin arrived this morning under seizure under orders from H. M. 8. Pheasant, to re- port to the naval and customs authorities. She was selzed by the U. 8. S. Rush, 100 miles west of St. Paul’s island. The crew of the Rush examined her ecatch, 1,000 skins, and found one ekin showing a bullet hole, That was taken as evidence that she had been using fire arms, and Captain Hooper seized her, sent her to Unalaska In charge of a prize crew and there turned her over to the Pheas ant. She reports the seizure of the American schooner Olsen at the same time by the same vessel e Olsen was caught inside the sixty-mile zone. New Evidence in the Maybrick Case. LONDON, Sept. 22—The baroness de Roquem, mother of Mrs. Florence Maybrick, who Is now at Roussack, is sald to have com- municated with ber solicitors iu regard to new and Important evidence in the Maybrick case, which will be submitted to the home secretary, Sir Matthew White Ridley, who has promised to review the case. normous Da ke by Flood, ST. PETERSBURG, Sept. 22.—Enormous losses have been caused in eastern Siberia by torrential rains, lasting several days. Vil- lages were flooded and most of the houses were carricd off. The crops and stock were destroyed and immense damage resulted to B0 TRHWAY, & s i oy Cuban Iusurgents Routed. HAVANA, Sept. 22.—Officlal advices re- ceived here say a column of troops near Santo Domingo fought a band of insurgents, inflicting a loss of seven killed, four wounded and four prisoners taken. The troops also took six saddle horses and a number of arms. Cholera o LONDON, Sept, 22.—The Standard’s Con- stantinople correspondent says: Cholera is increasing here and in the vicinity of Brossa, about fifty-seven miles southeast of here, it is raging violently, Demonstration VIENNA, Sept. 22.—At a demonstration by 5,000 workmen in favor of universal suffrage, held here today, seriows collisions occurred C. King of Kings; attornéy general, D. C. Griffin of _Jefferson; comptroller, Augustus Scheu of Erfe; state treasurer, D. L. Dow of Schoharle; state engineer, George Clinken- wald, Onelda; judge of the court of appeals, Edward 8. Rapollo of New York. The only objection to this.slate that car be argued Is that New York City does not get the places on the ticket that she has asked for. Her candidates so far are Theo- dore Myers for comptroller, Juhn A. Mason for state treasurer, Judge Rapollo for the court of appeals. From a purely lucrative standpoint, the position accorded them on the above slate, that of the court of appeals, is the best of the lot, but it is devold of political Influence. AS TO SUNDAY SALOONS. It is the general consensus of opinion here tonight that a majority of the d:legates to the convention will favor a local option clause in the platform as to Sunday opening of saloons. A prominent delegate said to- night: "It has been proposed to adopt last year's plank and modify it. It shall read about as follows: ‘We oppose all sumptuary legislation which ne:dlessly interferes with the personal liberty or reasonable customs of the people. We believe In equitable excise legislution, which carefully regulates the sale of intoxicating liquors, prescribes just fees for licenses and pieserves all needed re- striction for the maintenance of order and the good of soclety. We protest against a sumptuary law which is arbitrary and of bur- densome provisions, is in needless restraint of individual liberty and is opposed to public sentiment and liberal public policy. We ad- vocate such modifications by the legislature of th: present law_as will admit of proper observance of the Sabbath day, and yet not put neediess restrictions upon the ‘people, and that the residents of different localities be allowed local options as to the sale of liquors on Sunday.' " TAMMANY'S PROPOSITION. Senator Charles Guy said tonight that some of the Tammany people had a new proposition to present regarding the exciso question. He sald: “Under the new constitution the cities of the state are dividel into threa classes, which the constitutional convention designed should be governed by different chagters and might have special state laws to govern them. The demand for a change in the exc'se laws, 5o far as Suaday is concerned, comes entirely from cities of the first c'ass, three in number—New York, Brooklyn and Buffalo. It 4s belleved if a local option plank is in- serted in the platform it shou'd upon the legislature to pass laws allowing the queation of local option to be voted upon by people lving In cities of the first class. If there is any demand later by cities of the second and third class, that can be attended to in turn, with the police and (wenty-six arrests were wade, s Arms far (he Span: Army. MADRID, Sept. 22.~The government has ordered 6,000 Mauser rifles In Germany for the use of the army fn Cuba, Fifteen Houses B ed. BERLIN, Sept. 22.—Fifteen houses have been destroyed by fire la village of Bm- ming. Baden. o n | but the demand now Is entirely from ecities of the first class and so the legislature should attend to their wants only. People of the cities of the first class are evideatly ! satisficd.” —_— - Deuth of & Veter: okmaker, ROCHESTER, N. Y., Sept. 22.—A dispatch from Detroit tonight announced the death of Bd Kioney, aged about 40 years, one of the best known bookmakers in the United States, AFFAIRS AT THE CITY OF MEXICO. Cuban Sympnthizers Trying to Create Feellng Against Spain CITY OF MEXICO, Sept. 22.—International susceptibilities are being harshly ruffied these days. Some Mexicans and Cubans hired a coach, put a hand orgam by the side of the driver and went about erying: “Viva Cuba libre" and “Death to the Spaniards,” creat- Ing disturbances, Corres Espano, the organ of the resident Spanish colony, asks the government to pre- vent any further insults to Spain, and inti- mates that demonstrations on the part of the populace against Spain might end the present cordial relations of the two countrie A Frenchman, hearing that Bismarck was dead, which had been current here, drank toasts in which he Insulted the German peo- ple and the ex-chancellor, and was roughly handled by the Germans. The ~ American minister, Mr. Ran- som, und Consul General Crittenden will request the Protestant missionaries to not issuo a dally paper attacking the adoration of the virgin of Guadeloupe, it having been the intention of the missionaries to circulate a paper broadeast during the coming corona- tion of the virgin festivities. The United States authorities fear the popular outbreak against missionaries, and say that in such an event the United States government would be placed In an awkward position, as the missionaries would be guilty of having aroused the popular passions against them. The missionaries have been receiving anony- mous letters threatening them with death, There has been a drop in another dividend paying mine, shares in Sinco Sonores having failen suddenly. Manuel Iturbe, the Mexican minister to Germany, has returncd on leave of absence. Greatly reduced timo to the United States via the Mexican Central and International railways will begin in October, and it s ex- pected that the Central will place four first- class Pullman cars in service between here and Tampico, which §s rapidly becoming a business port. Complaint is made that the Pullman company sends its back number cars to Mexico, and the Mexican people have begun to criticise tais policy of discrimination. They want the best. Yellow fever is rampant in Acapulco, Had an Incontrolinble Desire to Shoot GUADALAJARA, Mex., Sept. 22.—The mur- dor of the mayor of Yahualica by a priest was due to the fact that the former had procured the dismissal of the priest from eccleslastical duties in the parish on account of his strange manla for firing pistol shots into the public plaza. The mayor remoasirated with the senior parish priest, who removel his assistant. The latter immediately went out and deliberately killad the mayor. The police have been unable to find the mur- derer, — ON ARMY LEAD SAL FA SR EXPIRES, Mrs. Willinm Eadie Gives Her Life for Her Rellglo NEW YORK, Sept. 22—Mrs. Willam Eadle, wife of Colonel Willam Eadie, second in command of the Salvation army of the United States, died at her home in Jersey City this morning of consumption. When General Booth was in Brooklyn, nearly a year ago, Mrs. Eadie caught cold at one of the meetings, which developed into con- sumption, but she continped in her work until compelled to succumb. She had been in the army about fifteen’ years, serving in Great Britain, Canada and the United States She was born in England, and came to this country in May, 1894, with her husband, to take the position of chlef secretary in the United States, in connection with the national headquarters of the Salvation army in New York. The faneral will take place on Tues- day from Scudder's tabernacle, Jersey City. The services will be conducted by Commander and Mrs. Ballington Booth, arsisted by the staft officers. L Vi FIVE DROWNED AT CHICAGO, Young Men ing in L CHICAGO, Sept. t Death While Bath- ke Michigan, —Flve persons were drowned while bathing fn Lake Michigan today, Three young men lost their lives while in the water at the foot of Lawrence avenue and two boys were drowned off Barry avenue. The drowned are: ROBERT BECKER, 19 years old, body re- covered and taken to an undertaker's. GEORGE ENGEL, 11 years old. WILLIAM ELLIOTT, 11 years old OSCAR HUBER, 21 years 0'd, body not re- covere OTTO SCHWEIG recovered. Becker, Huber and Schwelger went out in a boat with three other young men. All went in bathing, and before any one had no- ticed it the boat had drifted away from them. The three who were drowned were unable to swim the distance to the boat. e L DOWNSHIRE LOST ER, 20 years old, body not LORD AT S Underwriters’ Think that the Vessel with Which Prince Oxsar Collided, PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 22.—It is now gen- erally conceded that the unknown four masted steel ship with which the British Prince Ossar collided July 13 last In latitude 93 south, longitude 28.20 west, sinking her with all hands, is the Lord Downshire of Belfast, which was commanded by Gaptain J. C. Mc- Murray, well known at this port. This ship was known to have been in the locality of the collision at the time, homeward bound from Caleto Bueno, from where she sailed in May for Hamburg, loaded with nitrate. So positive are the underwriters of this, owing to her tallying to such an extent with the ship that Captain Anderson describes, that a premium of 80 to 85 guintas is now being paid for her reinsurance, The Lord Down- shire is owned by what is known as the Irish Shipowners association of Belfast, of which Messrs. Thomas Dixon & Sons are managers. ———— SQUADRON STRENGTHEN Wo Vesse For; WHI By Adaitie comes Most ble NEW YORK, Sept Phe five ships of the White squadron of ‘the North Atlantic will sail for Hampton Roads tomorrow. The squadron will be joined at Hampton Roads by the battleship Texas, lately commissioned at the Norfolk navy yard, and the double turreted monitor Amphitrite. The armored cruiser, Maine, just commissioned at the New York yards, will noy take part in the sea drills {n October. . The squadron will by the addition of theye vessels take rank as a fleet, the most fopmidable ever gathered under one flag, according tp naval experts, e IRISH DELEGATES AT CHICAGO, One Thousand Expeeted to Be Present Monday Night. CHICAGO, Sept. 22.—A spectal train over the Baltimore & Ohlo, which arrived at 9 o'clock tonight, brougit 100 delegates from Philadelphia to the Irish national convention, which will be called to order In this city Tues- day morning. It is sald that there are now 500 delegates in the city and the managsment of the convention say that by tomorrow night there will be not less than 1,000, delegates here. The western states represented tonight are Texas, Californla, lowa, Missouri, Ne- braska and Kansas, i e e L Funeral of Joseph C. Wilson, TOPEKA, Sept. 22,—The body of the late Joseph C. Wilson was buried in the Topeka cemetery today. Notwithstanding the cold northwest wind and drizzling rain the funeral was one of the largest in the history of Shaw- nee county. There were 1,500 employes of the Santa Fe rallroad In the procession. Two-thirds of them were shopmen. The others were general office employes and trainmen. They marched In department The procession was headed by Marshall's Military band, The railroad men came next; the hearse and carriages with the family fol- lowed and then a line of citizens in all man- uer of vehicles and the lodge of Ancient Order of United Workmen, to which the deceased belonged. The Interment took place at noon. { OVERCOAT DAY YESTERDAY Temperature Falls Fifty Degrees in Twenty-Four Hours, SOME FINE SNOW COMES WITH THE RAIN People Required Quick to Pat welves In Winter Fashion—¥ro Predicted This Morning, Though Mercury is Rising. It appears outwitted the that was in close. The that the state falr managers weather in one regard and fixing the date for the fair to weather without conguliting the managers made arrangements for a num- ber of “days" of its own for the fair and kept its program going as long as the show lasted. It had Wind day, Lawn Dress d Dust day, Shirt Sleeves day, Gust day and Disgust day, and seems then not to have ts schedule. Not to be balked by closing of the state fair, it terday carried out the impressive exer- of Umbrella and Overcoat day. The features had been arranged up in the moun- tains, where all the paraphernalin was se- cured, and the occasion was a big hit The people of Omaha in the twenty-four hours from 4 o'clock Saturday to the same hour yesterdey had the novel experience of running the long gamut between a maxi- mum temperature of 93 2-10 and a minimum of a fraction over 44. The journey was pleasant enough for a time, but when a cer- | tain point was reached they would have been | exhausted | the | however, cises glad to halt. The rainfall was abundant and the water seemed as if it had just rolled | oft an fceberg, and was in fact at times mingled with fine snow while the drops were driven against window panes, sideboarding and man and beast by a strong wind just a | few hours, off a flell of snow that covered Wyoming and parts of South Dakota, Colo- rado and Nebraska that varied in depth from one inch at North Platte to six and nine inches at Cheyenne and Rawli AlL closets in the city were ransacked for | winter clothing yesterday morning, and the smoking tcbacco, camphor and cedar wood shaken out of fur garments and woolen wraps. Not the least distressing thing it to some people was thut the prece arm weather had so fried, boiled shrunk them up that their winter w would not fit and they had to keep close company with fire until the clouds and the cold wave rolled by or they might get to a store or a tallor. Straw hats vanished like morning gloriés in a frost; alpa quickly thickened Into ulsters and shirt walsts gave way to jackets. There was some element in the atmosphere that proved to be a powerful soda water cure, and not a penny was dropped into the slot of a Women’s Christian Temperance union cherry phosphate foun- tain. Many people who without poking thelr noses out of doors first went unsuspect- ingly away from home in summer garb soon buttoned their apparel closly about them and returnzd with red noses and blue lips. There was enough lack of piety to cause tho setting up of a hundred parlor stoves and in devout homes families forsook the sitting room for the kitchen. But the spirit that caused the changs is not without the quality of accommodation. People Saturday were wishing a change, and they got it. Yesterday they wanted a change and they began to get it last evening. At 7 0" the thermgmetar.had gone up about three degrees and the weather bureau says it will continue for a tims at this business, but will not hurry to get up as it hurried to get down. Rising temperature is reported throughout the northwest. Frost, however, is predicted this morning. CHILDREN T RISH IN THE oRM. Two Boys Missing Since S Morning from Near Rawlins, RAWLINS, Wyo., Sept. Special Tele- gram.)—Frank Nevin, a ranchman, who lives six miles southwest of town, yesterday morn- ing about 9 o'clock, sent his two little boy: aged 11 and 13 years, out after their cow which were to be about a mile «way up a guleh. The boys not returning Nevin this morning eame in and alarmed the town. Some horsemen immediately responded. all returned exce two without finding any trace of the miss- ing boys, who undoubtedly perished in yes- terday’s storm. They report the snow in the hills two feet deep. The stage from Snake river last night at 10 o'clock, nine miles south of town, picked up one of Taylor & Hogg's sheep herders turday supposed | snow able. Almost every vestige of vegetation was dried to a crisp, but Saturday brought a glorious shower, which has done much toward reviving the spirits of the people at east YORK, Neb, Sept. 22.—(Speclal)—The good rain which fell at this place yesterday 19 a blessing to history has such county the last the county. ver in its weather as has visited this week been known at this Hot winds prevailed from and the hot weather caused a deal of sickness, As a result of the rain the weather at present i cool and eshing. Some weeks ago an early frost greatly feared, but all apprehensions on this line have been dispensed with, owing to the fact that what corn there is in the county is bey HOLDREGE, Neb., Sept. (Special)— It began to rain here about 4 o'clock yester- day and lasted until after dark. This has put th> ground in good condition for fall plowing and seeding. CHEROKEE, Ia., Sept. 22.—(Special Tele gram.)—The heavy rain of the past fort ight hours was followed by a cold wa from the northwest. Sinca noon today the mercury has dropped fifteen degrees, and it is still getting colder. Pedestrians are out in_overcoats. MARSHALLTOWN, Ta., Sept. 22.—The pro tracted sisge of intenge hot weatlier was sud- denly broken this afternoon by raln and a cold wave, the temperature falling nearly 40 degrees in two hours, DENVER, Sept arly the entire state of Colo: s covered by a mantle of Snow, although s sunshine made great inrosds time of the year, Monday on, great fine ond all danger of frost oda upon it on the plains and in the valleys. Tho storm was a record breaker, fuch a dopth of snow never having been scen so early in the At Greeley, fitty miles north of Denve the snow was fourtesn inches deep, while in Deaver neariy eight fnches fell. In the mountains it exceeded a foot in miny places. The southern limit of snow was Pueblo, 150 miles south of Denver, although in the mountains in the southwestern corner of the state it extendsd ncarly or quite to the New Mexican line. In Denver, Boulder, Greeley and other clties Immenso damag) was done to shade and fruit trees, The foliage had not been touched by frosts and the great welght of wet was more than the limbs could resist The people were kept awake by the crashing of branches torn from trees. Hardly a sngle shade tree in this portion of the state es- caped damage moro on less severa and many thousands are utterly ruin S dawalks were completely blockel by the broken branches. Much loss was alzo sustained by the telephone and electric wir Grand Junction, Montrose and Canon Cit the best fruit growing reglons of tho state, escaped s damage from the snow, al- though the night's sharp frost may create great havoc. In the mountain valleys much late grain ready for the harvest was nearly all ruined. COOL WEATHER L SID Predictions from Washington as to Duration of Present € itions, WASHINGTON, Sept. 22.—Willis L. Moore, chief of the weather burcau, gave out today the following weather bulletin: The hot wave will be broken some time tomorrow, possibly in the afternoon, probably in St Louis and in the states of the upper Mis- slssippi valley, central Mississippl valley, upper lake region, Texas, Arkansas and west portions of Tennessee and Kentucky and eastern Minnesota. A decided and sudden fall in temperature of mot less than 30 de- es will be ushered in by heavy thunder torms and raln, followed by several days ot cool weather, CHICAGO, Sept. Relisf from the sweltering weather of the past week reached this city tonight shortly after § o'clock, when a cold wave, accompanied by a driving, chill- ing rain, which sent pedestrians hurrying for their homes, arrived. At midnight the thermometer stands at 66, having dropved from 86 at 7 p. m., and the indicatlons are that it will continue to drop until morning. The barometer indicates storms, which will be welcome visitors after tha scorching days through which the city has just passed. To- day was excessively hot, and the wind seemed laden with heat and only added to the general sufferings, At 7 o'clock there was no indic tion of the change which came an hour later. The past seven days broke all records for heat for September in this city and throughout the northwest. There were ten deaths from numerous prostrations. Dispatches to the Asscoiated press from many points in Il- Unois and Wisconsin report a decrease in the temperature to nearly the same figures. At nearly all points which have been heard from the change ushered in_ by a violent wind storm, which at some points did cousiderable minor damage. In northe Wisconsin the wind was accompanied by a yery heavy rain, some points reporting a fall of from haif to an inch in less than an hour. Telegraphic communication with the northwest was eriously crippled by the the heat and named Gray, who was lying near the road completely exhausted and slightly frozen. When he heard the stage approaching he fired his pistol to attract the driver's atten- tion, When the stage stopped he was so numbed with the cold he was unable to reach it without assistance. INDIANOLA, Neb, Sept. 22.—(Speclal Telegram.)—A cold wave struck this place at 4 o'clock a. m. yesterday. Rain set in at 5. About four inches of water fell last night. 1t is still cold and rainy, PLATTSMOUTH, Neb., Sept. 22.—(Special Telegram.)—Commencing at an early hour this morning the rain commenced to fail, and hes fallen almost incéssantly all day. Fron 6 last night to 6 this morning the mercury fell over fifty degrees. At 8 a. m. today it registered forty-seven above zero, The wind in the last three days did injury to the apple crop by blowing fruit from the trees, CHAPPELL, Neb., Sept. 22.—(8j gram.)—The past week has been breaker fof weather. The fore tho warmest weather this scason, mometer touching 114 in the shade. day it during the night snow _on_the a part the Ye turned very cold and began snowing inch of re was ther- ter There is now one und and still fall BIG SPRIN Neb., Sept. Telegram.)—Snow began falling night about 8 o'clock and continued until nearly noon today. It is estimated that about an Inch of snow fell. The thermometer nas stood at 40 degrees all day. Indications ar that a heavy frost will visit this region. to night HEMINGFORD, Telegram.)—Yesterday zling rain set in here. Last night it turne to a driving snow storm, which contin until midaight. Today Box Butte county is covered with snow. WATERLOO, Neb., Sept. A cold rain began falling here and continued nearly all day. ST. PAUL, Neb., Sept. 22.—(Special.)— The extraordinary hot weather for the last two weeks was followed by a heavy thunder storm, with rain and hail during the storm. Between 4 and 5:30 one and fifty-nine-hun dredths inches of rain fell. While too late to do any good for corn, it has helped to cool the atmosphere, and will also enable farmers to resume their fall plowing. DAVID CITY, Sept. —(Special.)—A splendid thunder storm began at 3 p. m. yes- terady and came as a great blessing, as the heat and hot weather of the past four days had nearly exhausted man and beast and filled every nook and crevice with dust. b, Sept. Spectal morning a cold, dri 2 Speclal.)— this morning NEBRASKA CITY, Sept. 22.—(Speclal.)— The unusual sight of seeing men on the street in thelr shirt sleves one day and the next wearing overcoats, has been witnessed hero in the last two days, the thermometer having dropped from 100 degrees to about fifty degrees in twenty-four hours. Yester- day was extremely hot and dusty, but In th night a cold rain commenced faliing, contin- uing up to noon today, resulting in the big drop in the temperature, FREMONT, Sept. 22.—(Special)—The kot weather of last week was followed by heavy showers Saturday and Sunday forencon. The ground s thoroughly soaked and in fine con- ditian for fall plowing. Considerable corn s being cut for fodder, the experiment of feed- ing it last year having been generally suc- cessful. EXETER, Neb., Sept. 22.—(Special.)—Fri- day night closed the fourteenth day of the most disagreeable weather ever experienced by even the oldest resident of Fillmore county. The thermometer never failed to reach 100 to 104 any day, and the hot south winds and terrible dust were almost unendur- storm, and at a late hour tonight the wires are still in bad condition. The southwest gale which started in at daylight this morning blew furiously on all BIG CASES TO BE DECIDED Litigations to Come Before the United States Supreme Court, FLOURNOY LEASES TO BE PASSED UPON It Occuples an Advan Position on the Docket—=Other Tme portant Matters to He Adjudient WASHINGTON, Sopt. 22.—The United States supreme court will meet Monday, October 14. On that day, after assembling, the justices will call on the president. The business of the court will commence on the 14th. The first week will be devoted to mid« cellancous business. The important cases that pending at the last sesslon were set for early hearing and will be called October 21, Among them are the following: The Unitel States, appellant, against Benjamin Hesley, involving the price of desert lands. The court of claims held that $1.25 per acre was the price under the act of March 8, 1877, but the government acceptel $2.50 per acré because the lands were within a raliroad land grant. decisions will have an important bearing on all desert land entries inside of a railroad land grant. The Cleveland, Cinefnnati, Chicago & St. Louls Rallroad company against Villard B. Brown, relating in the responsibility of a corporation for an accident to an employe while he was acting under instructions from a foreman and had an opportunity to know the danger he ine curced; the United States against the state of Texas, In tho well known Greer county case, involves the question of title to the lands of Greer county; Santiago Alnea, ade ministrator of the will of Frank Fiy, against the Unjted States, an appeal from the court of Las Nogales de Ellas, Mexican land grant, embracing 25,889 acres. 'Many other cases be- fore the court of private land claims depsnds upon the decision in this case, CALIFORNIA IRRIGATION LAW. Willlam Treaga against the board of di- rectors of tho Medesto irrigation district, from the supreme court of California, ree lating to frrigation corporations and testing the legality of the Wright irrigation law and confirmation act of the California legislas ture. The federal questions involved are that tho defendant was deniel “due process of law and equal protection of the laws,” and that the judgment of the court amounts to g private property for private purposes. Much property is involved in the case. The Flournoy Live Stock company against William H. Beck. This is a cise where the company filed a bill In equity against Captain Beck, U. 8. A., acting Indian agent of the Omaha and Winnebago Irditn reservations in Nebraska, asking an injunction to prevent Beck from Interfering with the possessiom by the company and its lessees of certain reservation lands which the company had obtained from the Indians. The circuit court of appeals decided against the Flournoy com= were | pany. Benjamin H. Johnson, Alvin M. Leighton and Samuel Marks against the United States, threa cases involving the act of March 3, 1891, for the adjudication of In- dian depredation claims. The court cf claims® decided against the claimants and they ap- pealed, About 11,000 cases have Leen filid and perhaps some of them depenl upon the principles raised in these cases beforo the supreme court. The Steamship Delaware, Thomas Thomas, against Charles H. Winnett and others, involves a construction of the act of February 13, 1893, relating to naviga= tion of vessels and bills of lading. INTENTION OF THE ACT. The act was intended to protect shippers and compel vessel owners transporting mer- chandise from the United States to exercisa due diligence to make the vessel seaworthy and to be properly manned and supplied. In the present case a colliston occurred while the vessel was in charge of a duly licensed pilot. The question ariscs whether the owners are not in such cases exempt from any damage which may occur. Many similar cases are in the lower courts awalting a de= cision in this case. Thera are also a large number of criminal cases in which federal questions are involved set for the 21st. A number of these came from th: Indian ter- ritory, which always furnishes more than its hare. One of the important cases which will be called early in the term s the case of Lawrence P. Miller against W. Briggs Green, known as the South Carolina registra- tion case. In this Chief Justice Fuller sat as a circuft judge, and upon request As- sociate Justice Harlan allowed en appeal to be made from the decision of the court. Among some of the important cases which have been filed since the adjournment, and tho upper lakes. On Lakes Michigan and Huron the wind was southwest, and Lake Superior southerly, and on Lake Erie south- casterly. Strong southeasterly winds have prevailed for so long that it is not thought by merive men that any schooners were out in the heavy blow. They were forced to seek shelter at the lower end of the lake. On this account it is probable that few dis- asters will_be reported on the lakes from the gale. Twelve craft, all steamers, were reported as arriving in port from § in_the morning until the same time at night. They nad been delayed by the heavy winds con- siderabl! ST. LOUIS, Sept. A decided change in the temperature took place here today. All day long the weather was almost unbearably hot, made more so by a hot south wind that prevailed. At 3 o'clock the highest point (93 in the shade) was reached by the mer- cury, and there was not much change until sundown, when the weather became cooler. By midnight a drop of more than 30 de grees was registered and the unprecedented hot spell that has prevailed for more than a week was broken, MILWAUKEE, Wis.,, Sept. 22.—A terrific storm swept over the city tonight, the wi reaching a velocity of fifty miles an hour No serious damage was done. In the state a number of fatal accidents are reported and more will probably be heard from tomorrow Many telegraph wires are down, LACROSSE, Wis., Sept. 22.—The long spell of heat ended this afterncon with a furious rain, in which nearly half an fell 'in twenty minutes. The raix companied by heavy winds. The st littered with brauches, and many large trees were blown down. Several plate glass win dows were blown in. The temperature was 94 just before the storm, and this evening it s 5 MERILAN, Wis., Sept. 22.—The hardest wind and rain storm for several years visited this vicinity today, tearing down trees, fences and telegraph wires. MADISON, Wis., Sept. 22.—A strong wind swept over the northern portion of Dane county this afternoon, uprooting trees, blow- ing down buildings and overturning every- tuing in its way. The path of the storm ran through a little station named Dane on the Northwestern road. A passenger train bound for Clilcago barely escaped. The engineer saw the storm approaching and threw open the throttle. By this means he outstripped the wind SPRINGFIELD, 111, Sept. 22.—The terrible heat for the past week was broken at 6:30 to- night, when a co!d wave swooped down from the northwest, the thermometer falling 26 degrees in an hour, DALLAS, Tex., Sept. 22.—A brisk norther reached here this afternoon, causing a fall in temperature of 25 degrees in two hours At 12 o'clock the thermometer registered 66 degrees. SPECIAL inch of water was ac WASHINGTON BULLETIN, Warning of the Change Sent Broadeast in Advance, WASHINGTON, Sept. 22.—Willis L. Moore, chief of the weather bureau, prepared the following special bulletin: At this writing the temperature at Chicago is 84 degrees, and the maximum temperature during the day was 90 degrees, and for tomorrow morning | Preslde (Continued on Second Page. which will probably receive attention during the coming term, are the following: The Western Union Telegraph company, against the state of North Carolina; the United States against Elverton R. Chapman, one of the sugar witness cases; the Northern Pacifig railroad agalnst Narrisse Perler; the Central Railrond company of Georgla and H. M. Comer and R. Somers, recelvers of the same, against Willlam W. Wright, comptroller geng eral of the state of Georgia; the United States against the Oregon & California and the Cal ifornia & Oregon Rallway companles; the United States against the Unlon Pacific Ralle road company and Henry Gay, M. J. Welling= ton_and Willlam Hoard; the United States gainst_the Union Pacific Rallway company, \d William Dalrymple; Charles D. Long agalst Willlam Lochren, commissioner of pens sions, i American Citizen Imprisoned. WASHINGTON, Sept. 22.—John Sowers, an American sugar planter at Sagua, Cuba, who was imprisoned by, General Campos and subsequently ordered to summarily leave Cuba, passed through Washington last night on his way to his old home at Warrentown, Va. He will return to Washington In few days to present his case to the State de- partment. Sowers says that he was in no wise identified with the insurgents, but was nevertheless imprisoned by Campos' ordes for ten days and subjected to many indign ties. When released he was forced to leave Cuba on twenty-four hou.s' notice. The brief time allowed did not glve him an ops portunity to arrange for the departure of his wife and children, who are still in Cuba. Sowers will ask tho State department to demand a heavy indemnity for interfering with the rights of law-abiding Amerlcan citizens. Sowers says he belleves the Cubans will be successful In achieving thelr indee pendence. hey are fighting,” said he, “not so_much against the Spanish as to throw off the yoke of a government which they regard as oppressive and destructive to their interests.’ Has a Clatm for False Imprisonment, WASHINGTON, Sept. 22.—Gustavo Riches lleu, who clalms to be a citizen of the United States, has arrived here with the intention of bringing to the attention of the State departe ment a clalm agalnst the Spanish authorities in Cuba, According to bis story, he and his partner went to Cuba In a sloop intending to fish for turtles. He was arrested while there on suspicion of litending to ald the insurgents and was thrown In jall. He w kept in confinement for sixty-two days. When he was released the Spanish authorities in- formed him that they had discovered nothing against him, Board of Geographic ) % Reports. WASHINGTON, Sept. ~The United States board of geographic names, a body charged with the duty of prescribing the proper method of spelling the names of places throughout the globe, has just com: pleted Its second report. This comprises @ Itst of 600 names, making the number of names passed upon by the board since ity creation in 1891 5,364, l— Banker Hull of Chicago Dead, CHICAGO, Sept. 22.—Morton B. Hull, vice nt of the National Bank of America, | died at 12 o'clock Saturday night. The end was hastened by the hot weather,