Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, November 13, 1900, Page 1

ESTABLISHED J1 WANTSTOBESPANKED Morocco Pursuing Course that May End in War, . DARING DEFIANCE TO THE UNITED STATES Indemnity for the Murder of Essagin, an American Oitizen, Refused, CONSUL GUMMERE PETITIONS IN VAIN| Moors Beek Exemption Under Terms of Convention with Spain. WASHINGTON REFUSES TO ACCEPT PLEA the Ne Anothe Next Step in utions in Likely to B mand by Yankee Delegnte from Warship's Deck. Formal De- WASHINGTON, Nov The government | ®f Morocco has again declined to meet the | claims of the United States for the payment of an indemnity on account of the killing by & mob of Murcus Essagin, a naturalized American citizen. The last request was made by United States Consul Gummere, and the | latest declination of the goverument of | Morocco was accompanied by an intimation of its freedom from licbility under the| terms of the convention between Morocco and Spain. The State department has come to thu conclusion that the consul's repre sentations will be more effective If he 18 supported morally by the presence in Moroc- can waters of a United States war ship and | 1t is probable he will make his vislt to Fez to again pr ase as & passenger on | a veesel to be selected by the Navy depart- ment for that purpose WASHINGTON, Nov. 12.—The rrived at Alglers today. The sailed from Alglers for Bezita. NO PORTO RICO DEPARTMENT | o Rico and Adjmcent Islunds (o e Attached to Department of the Bast. Kentucky Dixie has WASHINGTON, Nov. 12—The following order was made public at the War depart- ment today: WAR DEPARTMENT, Washington, Nov 9, 19%0.—By direction of the president. ke Department of Porto Rico will be dis:o tinued on December 15, 190, and the iwiand of Porto Rixo and the islands and keys| acent thereto, will be attached to the | partment of the East, and designated the district of Porto Rico A The colonel, lleutenant colonei, hend- quarters, nd one battalion’ of the sventh | and the squadron of (he th cavalry now serving in Porio Rico, will be relleved duty therein as oot as practicable and sent th New 3 whence they will proceed as may be designated hereafte Brigadier General George W. Davis V., now in command of the Department Porto Rico, will, upon the Jiscontinuan of that department, repalr to Manila, Phil- ippine islands. and ‘report to the command- ing general, division of the Philippines, for asslgnment 1o duty as Inspector generil of that division BLIHU ROOT, Secretary of Wir. By Command of Licutenant Genera’ Milas H. . CORBIN, Adjutant General This order was issued after a full cable consultation with Governor Allen of Porto Rico, and after General Davis, who late has been in command, had made his rec- ommendations. It was the opinion of Gov ernor Allen that she reduction of the force | in Porto Rico would be eminently satls- tactory to the people of the island and that the force to be retained would be ample | for all present purposes. This order leaves | in Porto Rico the native regiment, con- | sisting of 850 men, a battalion of the| Eleventh infantry and Batteries I and G| of the Fifth artillery. These troops will| be under the command of Licutenant | Colonel James A. Buchanan, who is now | in command of the native regiment. It is quite probable that the troops which are ordered from Porto Rico may In time be sent to the Philippines. PAYS VISIT TO WHITE HOUSE | Admiral Richard aund Staff of French Navy Call on Press fdent MeKinte WASHINGTON, ~ Nov. 12 — Admiral | Richard, commanding the French squadron now in American waters, and his staff, ac companied by M. Thiebaut, the ¥rench churge d'affaires, called at the Navy de- partment today to Secretary Long. They also made short calls upon the other cabinet officials in the bullding and later were escorted to the White House by Sec- retary Hay. All of the French officers were in full uniform of the French naval service, re- splendent with beavy gold tlettes and braid, with many decorations of honor. Admiral Richard will entertain Cardinal Gibbons at luncheon tomorrow on board the | Cocille and has asked the members of the embassy to meet his eminence. The ad miral expresses himselt as infinitely pleased with the many courtesies shown him, his ofcers and crews during their stay In American waters. The squadron will sall probably on Wednesday for Hamp ton Roads to coal and then for Martinique. Atter the official calls at the White House and elsewhere Admiral Richard and his of flcors were entertained at luncheon by Captain Vignal of the French embassy tho members of the embassy ing guests. seo staft also be- Ambassador Takes Vo Con WASHINGTON, Nov. 12T ambagsador has thus far glven recognition to the publication that an ngent of the War department has placed at the disposal of the board of fortifications the | secrets of the French field gun. It can he stated postively that the French cha d'affaires, M. Thiebaut, will take no initia- tive In the matter. The publication has | come to his attention unofficlally, but it is not usual to take cognizance of such pub- lications, beyond forwarding them a matter of information to the proper authori ties. Naturally, however, this particular | publication has aroused great interest and not a little surprise, although the French oficlals are careful to refrain from the | slightest expression of their personal views ou the subject lzance. French no official | | | nral Free Del WASHINGTON, Nov. 12— (Special Tele- gram.)—Rural free delivery will be estab- | Mshed at Forest City, Winnebago Ia., on November 15. Service will embrace 121 square miles, with a population of 2,638, J. F. Howard, J. M. McClain apd © R. Halvorsen are appolvted carriers Service will also be established at Par- nell, lowa county, Ia. on the same date. It will cover an area of thirty-four square | miles, with a population of 570, J. H. Tier- | pan was appointed carrier | The First National bank of Chicago was | today approved as reserve agent for the Cltizens' National bank of Davenport, la Also the First Natioual bank of Minneapolls for the Stoux Falls, S. D, National bank. | ory. county, | NE *w,, THe OMAHA DAILY BEE. Methaen & LOND( ro berts JOHANNESBURG BUrprised mass ne dead 3o and wags casualt Kelly-Kenn Kinlosh pled Ph direction o our seven m Litt fully of Nov Nineteer mounted manage while pleket, the " moc and sev haved Hussars heavily t te t {nfant fantry | [leted th okt h Smith from the Pri T ant Killed in the Arrived surpris it ock o, N, Nov. 12 1" Comn ar W ons W s among the reports of the Hloppolis 8, Thre h il en were wounde rts that the The wor n re nbe \th infantr 1o pais JAtter he Hu: nilght eral 1 with great we h been supporte In the oined Chetwode he Boer rd it Dorrlen's w oer camp heloo and K ecent fighting, K T Lychtenburg - o th i vd Surge od Ki ering n-commigsion al y . unded, port enernl eneral Grobelar ner TS REPORTS 'SUCCESS| Surprise The War office elved the following dispatch from Lord idants Siyman and yesterday found and thirty prisoners 1red Britieh, Ty at Seaforth Highlande 1w n 1 tehe the \ptain [ onto bid by Tor who ar W ¥ London Saturday to Te has 10.—Methuen Ver- Three here W Major s ocei- fled In all ere brought lartley and ner muccess- Boers during the night mounted g and arty of the Manchester hetwode, ntpost, ¥ he Hoers' in hetwod offcers he- bt th iy muftered round, had the mounted | morning artillery and in- and com- sald to have ho i returned Comand- Jurle wers was wounded | RETURNING COWBOYS ARE MAD | the Hardships They Endured on Britis LOND( and mul, went to transpor Mu N, Nov eteers to the » South Africa ts, arrived in American number of 140 on London i e Transport. cowhoys “ho British mule Saturday They are loud in the denunclation of their treatment on the home journey and intend to tormally complain to the Board of Trade. They declare the rations served had to be they thrown s for ext overboard, that ra rations an d boothed over horse stalls, and odor were unbearable, BULLER REPORTS IN LONDON Large Crowds Asscmble at the Ruil- way Station to Cheer LONI( compant rived here toda office at cheered IN ed oy by the general that would have ed had they not paid exorbitant rates they were where the heat General Buller, ac- his wife and d and reported to the War Large crowds which had assembled the Waterloo station and | ughter, ar- n Pall Mall ENORMOUS COST OF BOER WAR gemble o Parliament Parliament , to vote the expenses n December oon Asxewn- e 85600,000,000 to tw. will as- of the war in South Africa, which are now fully £100,000,000. expected Before Christmas an adjournment to amount to will be taken until the end of January. Final LONDON, Nov WINDUPOFDELAGOA BAY CASE Sottlement o t Railroad Award is Made in —The Delagoa bay rall- road award was finally settled today. eners LONDC al Baden. N, Nov. ell General Powell, according to the Capetown ghtly 11, Baden- corre- spondent of the Daily Mail, has contracted ente serious. fever, but his condition 1s not TWO BODIES ARE RECOVERED Giving HALIL bodies Hilton body fo yesterda First bod: can ha: be lives lost a widow Arrangements for made being held tor cellaneous articles composing the steamer's | fittings were cast beach and were looted by the crowds that | Cargo a scoured from Wreel * Nei Yarmouth, the o and ind at to Plenie ¥ be Capta Officer Newells s not yet been ascertained is thirty-foul and family and morrow. they Great nd the shore the 5 in fo! t r. 12.~Two Monticello, Chebuge Point, are those of Purser E. Baggagemaster Wilson. Polnt a Harding's, Captain Harding's | und, otal Another victim | whore name was not before published Samuel Durrette of Yarmouth, who leaves | e Victims of the Monti ar more found at B The supposed was As far @ number of the funerals are now probably will quantities of mis- up on the Rexcued Elghty-Four Passengers. LONDC r way, N, Nov Angelo, for Hull 12 bound i ashote near Withern- The f rom . on the coast of Yorkshire. Buardsm | who were on board b: | buoy apparatus. The steamer Angelo was built at Hull 1874, i en 'y elghty-four means of the broeches | There was no loss of life Wilson line Christiana, The coast passengers in § tons net, 258 feet eight inches | long, thirty-three feet six inches beam and has a depth of eighteen The ves & Co. of sel Hull 1s owned by T 1. two inches Wilson's Sons | r Another Boat Is Wreeked, YARM hogany has bee Comeau Plequa,’ be: me eraft have The only here is acun & New lod E f York genera vista di pleted, indicate the election of Mr. Moriue, | and his colleag: Chaplin, 700, as against vious election the oppe Mossr jorities celved i | counts have yet | give Morine four sevente win KINGSTON, J Picke the ere lawn, n teloscop tions of ber and Cope COPENHAC Danish $ pality. OUTH, N sternboard picked up Hill and sides of n o it is f the City t with disaster. o stewmer rom Sicily Ele ¥, ion return: with hal strict bsition leader, Blaniford and of about u the pr n 1 w n Obsery maica tion of car an ob andeville, 1 the p will inet EN, Nov. No! r n eth 1 It po en and a the a owned by t York Steamship | According to shipping records this steamer October from the the Planet Nov. for 12 agen Wants a -A ~The large coast 2, ma. boat near here, bearing the name that of Monticello another may vessel named Picqua known of be Mediter- | company. 9 for New Return The colontal the count com ues, by ma- 1,700 re No other 1. emier Boud Frow. 12.—Prof. ng of Harvard university has begun ervatory at his Wood- colossal hopes to to take observa- | 08 early subsequently servations of the moon and Mars. | tant results are expected in Decem- undertake ob- Tmpor- nn. ndicate of and Swedish bankers has begun negotiations with American bankers for a 000,000 loan for the Copenhazenr mualci- be | Bona- | This will | OMAHA, TUESDAY Great FParis Exposition Closes Its Gates for Good. | | MORE THAN £0,000,000 PEOPLE SAW SHOW Strange to Relate Germany Forn a the Largest Numb of Visitoes from Any Forelgn Country, lowed by England. PARIS he booming of a can- non from t st story of the Eiffel tower anncunced that the exposition of 1900 bad ceased to exist. It ended in a blaze o illumination, the final evening beiug cele- brated by a night fete. The atten however, was small, visitors belug away by a cold, drizzling rainfall The wisdom of the authorities in refusing to prolong the exposition further, which was warmly urged in many quarters a 1ttlo tlne sgo, wans vindieated today by an examination of ‘he buildings. Many | were found to be in a lamentable | tien, even the official structure much of the original etucco and paint, while several foreign pavilions, chiefly of | plaster comstruction, demonstrate the fimsy character of work that fs unequal to battling with autumn winds and midity nothing of winter storms The idea of their permanent retention is absurd. Official statistics tion was a gigantic of attendance, the exposition passed the exposition of 1600 closed this ev thau 50,000,000 persons had passed through The Dritish and Belgians headed the list in 1889 in point of numbers the Germans were first and the Belgians | second, with the British far behind. Ameri- cans also formed a very noticeable contin- gent Indeed, they were immeasurably more numerous than at the previous ex- position. The record paying day this year broughi out more than 600,000 visitors, as compared with a maximum of 335,377 in 1880, Thie evening tickets which had brought a sou 1a the afternoon were told at the rate of five for a sou. A curlous sceno was witnessed at the exposition gates shortly before § o'clock, when the author- ized ticket bureaus, which carlier in the day had been selling tickets for two sous, reduced the price to one. The street havk- ers, indignant at this, attached cards to their conts Inscribed, “Give you a ticke! for nothing.” For a time collisions be- tween the street hawkers and the em- ployes of the exposition scemed likely to resuit, but the police intervened andaverted trouble. M. Hanotaux, former minister of foreign affairs, in an article entitled “The Balance Sheet of the Exposition,” “France expended 200,100,000 or 300,000,000 francs to erect the exposition. She has recovered themeasily in the increase of the treasury receipts, which for this year alone 18 nearly 100,000,000 francs, in the surplus of Parisian octroi duties, in the monuments rematning to the state or the city and in the quays, bridges and fmproved trans- portatton facilitive bequeathed by the ex- position. Moreover, there has been a gen- eral tollette of the city, which has con- tributed to its brillfance and beauty.” pt to say show that the exposi- success from the polnt which double that of of 18 when ning more AMERICAN STEEL IN ENGL.AND Industries ition from ates. LONDON, Nov. 12.—~At a meeting of the Swansea harbor trust today Sir John Jen- kins, chairman of the Swansea Metal ex- change, said that the importation of Amer- fcan steel has threatencd the extinction of the local steel industry and that the trust would lose the large revenue now derived from the importation of iron ore. Threatened the United oy | They Sall Together for New York to L r United States In New Roles, Nov. 12.—Mme. Sarah Bernhart Coquelin left here at 7 o'clock this on their way fo New York. A | gathering of fricnds heartily bid them farewell and some friends accompanied | them to Havre. PARIS, and M morning Gritn Duties BERLIN, Nov. 12--The Commercial Treaty league, which was organized yes- | terday, 1s much discussed by the press this evening. The Berliner Post and the Neueste Nachrichten attack the organization on the assumption that it will oppose any In- crease In the grain duties. The Freissig- | nige Zeltung takes the same stand hecause | the league has not declared specifically against increase. The Tagliche Rundschau says (hat Count | von Buelow, the imperial chancellor, has declared himself against maximum or mini- | mum duties and that Count Posadowsky- Wehner, secretary of state for the in terior, has abandoned the same In defer- ence to Count von Buelow's standpoint, in Germany. Smallpox in Paris, PARIS, Nov. 12.—There have been some isalated cases of smallpox reported in the various districts of Paris and the prefect of police has issued a notice advising the in- habitants to be vaccinated { carly in the year and later it was under. stood to have been entirely stamped out The authorities now admit while the dis- ease still prevails the number of cases i diminishing and there is no fear of an epidemie. The fssuance of the notice of the prefect of police was held back by the authorities during the exposition in order not to frighten away visitors. I isned Nov, 12.—Lord Salisbury, the ansdowne and other cabinet arrived at Windsor this after- N, the ministers retiring or changing ces surrendered the seals to the new ofMclals and igsed hands." After the function they lunched at the castle, re- | turning to London by special train. Surrendere, LONDON, Sealn a | ministers, wh Nuval OMcer Caught Smoggling. ATHENS, Nov. 12.—A great scandal has been caused In the Greek navy by the detection of the officers of a war ship from Crete in the act of landing smuggled goods Athens, No B n of Treaty DERLIN, Nov. 12.—The German Foreign ofice emphatically denles a statement cebled from London that negotfaticns for an extension of the Anglo-German treaty are in nrogress Fifty PORT LOUIS, Island of Mauritius, 12.~Fifty fresh cases of bubonic Nov plague disease. condi- | Iacking | hu- | When the gates of the | but this year | | BERNHARDT AND M. COQUELIN| The existence of smallpox was announced | in o dezerted part of Piraeus, the port of | have occurred on the island last week and | thirty-four deaths have resulted from the | MORNI Citizens of Havana Taking Keen In- terest in Convention Now 1ting. | | HAVANA, Nov. 12.—The Cuban consti | tutlonal convention mot at 2 o'clock this afternoon after adjournment from the | second day’ session In the Marti theater. ts for the delegates had been arranged smaller area mear the platform, the curtaln of the stage had been lowered and the windows hung with heavy draperies thus shutting out the noise of the street and wmaking it possible for the delegates |to speak 1n ordinary volce | The upper galleries were crowded, ne | groes predominating. They are taking an | inteuse interest in the proceedings. On the | frst and second days the boxes did not con- tain many spectators, but today veral | prominent tamilies were present The committee on credentials reportcd as [to all the provinces except Havana | report sald that although many mistakes had been made, there Was no reason (o |throw out votes or unseat delegates aud | that where names had been written on a [ ballot which was not marked with a cross in the case of the province of Pinar Del Rio, the votes should be counted. The committee, however, reported that no final decision could be reached as to Havami province until Wednesday. | Havana is the only province where a | contest has been talked of, the opponents of Senor Zayas wishing to seat Senor Plerra in his place. The report was lald | on the table and a discussion followed as to whother the convention was legally con- stituted aimed that order of the government of intervention summoning the convention had made :t | legal. Senor Jerriel argued, on the other band, that it would not be legally con stituted until the report of the committee on credentials had been accepted. The delegates took this view and so voted An attempt to discuss the question of lolding secret sessions was voted down, the matter being left to the committee on rules. An adjournment was then taken un- til Thursday, when, it 18 understood, both committees will report finally. General Castillo, civil governor of San- tiago province, gave notice to the con- vention that he had resigned his member- ship and had appointed Senor Ferrera as un alternate delegate. In & communication to the convention covering such a possi- bility General Wood had sald that alter- nates could only act in the event of the death or resignation of regularly elected delegates. HONOLULU GRANTS NOTLEGAL Attorney Genel &« Holds that Territorial Leases and Sales of blic Lands Are Vold, HONOLULU, Nov. 6.—(Via San Francisco, Nov. 12)—The Honolulu Republican will say tomorrow: ‘Every lease and sale of public land in Hawail since September 28, 1899, is illegal and void. That is the positfon taken by Attorney General Griggs of the United States and sults wiil be instituted at once In the United States district eeurt for the dis- trict of Hawall to set aside every such leass and sale riade by ‘he docal govern- ment of the Hawallan iwmuds. Congress oxpresaly ratified and confirmed all sales, granta lcases and other disposi- tions of the public domain granted by the Hawailan government in conformity with the laws of Hawall betwoen July 7, 1895, and September 28, 1899, But any sales, leases or grants since the last named date, the attorney genernl holds, are illegal and vold and he has Instructed United States Attorney Baird to Institute suits at once in the United States courts to set aside all these grants, sales, franchises and leases. Attorney General Griggs believes that the granting of lands and franchises in Hawail by the territory officfals previous to the organization of the territory is illegal. He demands that the territorial government be instructed to at once furnish to the United States attorney general a complete list of every piece of land sold, leased or granted and every water franchise or lease rold or given away, that suit may be instituted to set aside each and ey ome of such transfers. VAN HORNE ARRIVES IN CUBA Preaident of Big Development Com- pany ngaged in Inspecting Newly Acquired Property. in | as is SANTIAGO DE CUBA, Nov. 12.—8ir Wil- liam Van Horne of the Canadian Pacific Rallway company, accompanied by his son and Percival Farqhar and Dr. Shepard of the Cuban compuny, arrived this morning on the fruiter Admiral Sampson from Philadelphia. The tug Admiral Dewey met the Admiral Sampson outside EI Moro and brought {he visitors to the city. Sir William will inspect the lands, rail- ronds and other properties recently pur- chased by the company, Including hun- dreds of thousands of acres of sugar and fruit lands along the Gayuto river and mear Nipe bay, which will be developed as 5000 a8 the necessary rallway communi- cation, now actively progressing, is com- | pleted The officials say that the report published by the Havana papers representing the company as planning to import American negro laborers is false. On the contrary, in the case of experts, | available here who will not be It is possible that the com- pany may be compelled to import laborers from Spain, but no negroes will be brought possibility of the importation of more negroes has caused a bitter feeling gainst the company among the Cubang The Americans and English here gave r William Van Horne an enthusiastic we come and he was voted an honorary mem- of the Cosmopolitan club, a compli | ment hitherto paid to General Wood alone. YELLOW FEVER IN HAVANA x in pert Guiteras Expects Dreat ense to Be Stamped Out the Courne of n Few Years, JACKSONVILLE, Fla, Nov. 12—Dr, I Guiteras of Havana arrived in the city to- day. He is a professor in the medical uni versity of Havana end holds an appoint ment under Governor General Wood as a vellow fever expert. In an interview with the Associated Press tonlght he sald There s no more yellow fever in Havana this year than In former years. More has been heard of it on account of the number ¢t Americans who are in Havana. There were 24000 Spanish emigrants landed in Havana last winter and it has been among them that the fever has spread this sum- mer. Three hundred have arrived from Spain this winter, but we huve not al lowed them to enter Huvara, havi erected barracks outside the city, where thev are kent until they are sent to the interfor of the Island belleve that the yellow fever will be stamped out in Ha ni in the course of the next two or three years, There s no reason r it to exiel now It proper precautlons are exerclwad Thure was !0 fever in Matanzas or £on. tago this summer aid only @ mild form in Havana. Ivery house in Havane will | be tumigated this winter, The | the | { by | the company will use Cuban labor, except | MHabilities | TEN PAGES. 13, 1900 ENDS AMID BOOM OF CANNON|CONSTITUTION FOR GUBA| pART WITH THEIR HEADS Chinese Telegraph Operators Beheaded by Order of Dowager Empress. ACCEPT FATAL MESSAGE FROM KWANG SU Emperor Attempts to Inform von Waldersee that He is Held Cannot Ne- BERLIN, Nov. 12.—The Lokal publishes the following from its Shanghat correspondents “Natives from Hankow say that the em press beheaded a number of telegraph of ficlals who accepted a secret message from Emperor Kwang Su to Count von W dersee informing him that he (the em peror) was being kept a prisoner and was ubable to return to Pekin. They also say that other executions occurred ia connec- tion with the matter The National Liberal executive commit- tee has adopted a resolution endorsing the government's plan of police pectally its decision to protect German in- terests The Cologne Volks Zeitung today points out that there “are growing indications of sharp opposition to the government's China policy Herr Maximilian Harden, in the Zukuntt, ridicules the imperial chancellor, Count von Ruelow, as “the kaiser's active man- ager” and calls upon the Reichstag to “‘re- galn the lost confidence of the German p plo through an energetic opposition to the China policy of the government.' PEKIN AUTHORITIES AROUSED Are Surprised t Li Should Occur Dur of Peace Nep WASHINGTON, Nov. 12.—It s under- stood that the Chinese authorities at Pekin have beeu profoundly aroused by some of the executions of Chiuese officials which have taken place recently and that th have made known in an official surprise and regret that this should be done while the peace negotiations are go- ing on. It appears that the execution of the acting viceroy of Chih Li fs looked upon as peculiarly repressive. This acting viecroy served during the absence of Li Hung Chang at Pekin, occupying his yamen, and in all ways executing Earl Li's func tions while he was conducting the peace mission. His headquarters were estab- lished at Pao Ting Fu, whence the allied forces under the German commander re cently directed their expedition. It is said that the acting viceroy ma no opposi- tion to the advance of the German and other allied troops, although he had an army capable of resisting. He is said to have come out from the city to meet the allies and to have turned over his yamen to them. From the Chinese standpoint, Chinn is herself proceeding to punish gullty officials, and the question of punishments s also being considered in the negotiations now progressing. Chinese officlals wains tain, therofore, that this summary execu- tlon of one of the highest officlals. while e is sald to have been mon-combatant and peaceful, is extraordinary and calculated to stir up animosity smong the Chineso people which there is every desire to avold. The Chinese minister made a call on ecretary Hay today mainly for the purpose of getting news on the progress of affairs, When asked as to the execution of the act- ing viceroy of Chih Li, he would make no statement, although it {8 understood that he is fully advised of the feeling of deep concern which prevails among the Chinese at Pekin, g Progress ptintio | WALDERSEE GIVES A REPORT Field Marshal Sends Word to Berlin of Military Maneuver in the Land of the Boxcrs. BERLIN, Nov. 12.—The followiug report, dated November 8, has been received here from Ileld Marshal von Waldersee “Major Graham, with two companies of the First East Asiatic infantry, the Second squadron and Second battery, proceeded from Tien Teln via Chung Ying, kilomoters north, on the left bank of the Pel Ho, where he had a slight encounter with mounted Boxers, and has arrived at Tung Pa, twelve kilometers east of Pekin. “Russian troops have successfully en- countered 6,000 Boxers north of Shan Hal Kuan, losing four killed and sixty-ene wounded. ““British columns have returned from Pao Ting Fu to Pekin and Tlen Tsin. The latter column destroyed several Boxer camps.” DOES NOT PLEASE RUSSIANS| Preas Discusses the of Premier il Friday Speech isbury in ndon. ST. PETERSBURG, Nov. 12.—Discussing Lord Salisbury's speech at the lord mayor's banquet in London on Friday evening the Rossija and the Novosti appear to be dis- contented over the prospective adjournment of the Chinese question. The Rossija do- clares that the “ostrich policy” will be rulnous, for Russia will gain its demands independent action. The Novosti discovers in the speech in- Qications of a future conflict between Great Britain and France and asserts that they owe it to themselves and to Europe to prepare accordingly. The Novoe Vremya thinks Lord Salisbury did not describe Great Britain's weakness resulting from the South African war in sufficlently strong terms, ARLEY KING IS DEBT-FREE Henry J. O'Nel Speculator, 000 n Relfeved in Liabil v. 12.—“Barley King" O'Nelll, who gained fame through the dis almost us Chicago of #300,- ew, CHICAGO, Henry J his daring speculations in barley in cereal markets of the world, was charged of debts amounting to $500,000 by order of Judge Kohlsaat United States district court today. Of the scheduled by Mr. O'Nelll about $50 were listed as having been contrac jointly with his wite In addition to Mr. O'Neill more than 100 other were discharged. Among the names was that of John Vance Cheney librartan of the Newberry library and a well-known literary man. bankrupts Movements of ¢ At New York Rotterdam: Cufle, from Tacoma an Vessels, Nov. Arrived—Maasdam, from from Liverpool; Olympia for Hong Kong At Manila, Nov. 11—Arrived from Reattle, via Hiogo At Hamburg—Arrived—Abydos Francisco, et At Queenstown—Arrived—Laka Buperior, trom Montreul, for Liverpooi At Liverpool, Nov, 11—Arrived—Sylvanta, from Boston, At_Gibraitar—Satled -Aller, and Naplos, for Nev. York At Hayvré-—Sallad—L Aquitatne, York. Port Albert, from San from Genoa for New Anzeiger | and es- | way thelr | sixty | | dlana would mean an advance of at least | KENTUCKIANS ARE HOPEFUL | of the republican campaign committes to- in the | INGLE COPrY FIV CENTS. CONDITION OF THE WEATHER EAT] [\ [0TEL FIRE Forecast for Nebraska Snow; Colder Winds Northerly ratore At Omaha yesterday: Guests of Gifford House at Poplar Bluffs Meet & Horrible Fate, L 67 | 68 | 54 55 L a3 o1 61 WORK BANK FOR THOUSANDS Individual Bookkeeper in Nashyl Concern and Depositor F berzle R14L,000, Tenn., Nov. 12.—The arrest of T. I" Brady upon a federal warrant | aworn out by F. O. Watts, cashier of the First National bank, has caused a tensa- lon here. The firm of Connor & Brady, | composed of J. H. Connor and T. P. Brady, wholesale grocers and liquor deal made an assignment today and the arrest of Brady followed. In this connection the dis- appearance last July of W. W. Lea, an‘in dividual bookkeeper of the First National bank, is explained. The two are charged with collusion ofrauding the bauk out |of $44.000. Bookkeeper Lea left on his vaca- tion July 1 last and at the expiration of his two weeks' rest falled to return to his | | desk. Lea had been a trusted employe of the institution for over twenty-two years and his failure to return upon the date set | caused little concern among the bank oM cinls, but the days rolled on without | tidings from the missing bookkeeper, they began an investigation of his bank affairs. It was discovered that the account of Connor & Brady was wrong and experts were put to work. 1t is charged that false entrles aggregating $56,000 had been made by the bookkeeper in the accounts of this firm, extending over a period of five years; | that over $23,000 of this amount had been | fraudulently obtalned since May 1, 198, up to the date of Lea's departure and that the work was carried on by by fn- creasing the amounts of the firm's de- powits on the journals of the insttution and decreasing the amount of checks drawn by the firm against the baak, following this transaction with false balances r of Operntions. It is further alleged the bookkeeper would, upon a certaln date, make an entry through which the bank would be de- fraudel of a certain sum of money and lated on make such alterations, always through the accounts of the firm, as would reduce the shortage, By operating this scheme the two men drew from the bank $56,000 in cash, but through the system of en- tries bad paid back, through the firm's ac- count, the sum of $)2,000 leaviug a met shortage to the baok of, $44,000. The bank officials held a consultation with Connor & Brady. It is sald that Brady acknowledged the crooked transac- tions, teking all the responsibility upon himself, stating that he had put the money into the firm's business, with the excep- tlon of a small amount, which he said he used as an individual account. The mem- bers of the firm, after the facts were talked aver, figured out that Brady had securcd something lke $25,000 and agreed to reim- burase the bank to this extent. Meanwhile the guaranty company, which was on the bond of Lea, pushed the matter, with the result that a deed of assignment by Connor & Brady was filed yesterday with the Unlon | Bank and Trust company as trustee. In the instrument an overdraft of the First Na- tional bank for the sum of $25,714 was meu- covering the part of the $44,000 claims to have received unknown to his partner INDIANA MINERS ON STRIKE| 00 Men Drop Tools Out of Sympathy with Demanda of 1 FLAMES BREAK OUT AT THE DEAD OF NIGHT Stifling Smoke Prevents the Porter from Raising Alarm, FOUR ARE BURNED OR OTHERWISE KILLED Soveral Receive Injurios Which Are Likely to Prove Fatal, STRUCTURE " SHVILLE THREE-STORY DESTROYED Heports Are (o the Bffsot Hodies of at Vied Are st he Rulns, the Doren in ST. LOUIS,, Nov. 12.—A speclal Post-Dispatch from Poplar Bluft. Mo., says A fire, accompauied by a terrible fatality, oceurred here this morning, resulting in the total destruction of the Gifford house, a large three-story frame building. The list of known dead is as follows HECK CLARK, Doniphan, Mo REBECCA OWENS, Poplar Bluff, Mo. SHELBY DE HART, Poplar Bluft CURLY BERRY, Poplar Blufr, Fatally injured Etta Hargrove, Poplar Stowe, inessee. Misslng: Eu Ark. The following we buraed or in Jured in jumping from windows T. A. Smith, Poplar BIuff, terribly burned about the face and hands; Barney Pernaud, De Soto, Mo., hands and face burn Charles Stradley, Poplar Bluff, bruised and burned; Mrs. Ucnjamin Shelby, Poplar BIufl, back finjured, burned and bruised Piok Berry, Elwer Freshear and James Upchurch, Poplar Bluff, severely burned. An unknown woman is also thought to e fatally injured and about u dozen mors were slightly burned or received bruises in tEYIug to escape from the building. Orig of the Flie, Tho fire originated about 12:30 o'clock this morning in the rear of the hotel and io u few minutes the mammoth building, which was entirely of wood, was a mass of flames There were in the neighborhood of forty-five guests in the building and the porter, the ouly person awake in the hotel, was unable to glve an alarm, the smoke and flames driving him back. The fire department was on hand early, but they were unable to render any assist- anco to the Inmates. The guests ou the sec- ond and third floors were caught like rats In a trap. the fire preventing their escape by the stairs and they leaped from the sec- ond and third-story windows. One of thesa, Heck Clark, jumped and broke his back; Etta Hargrave leaped from a third-story window and suffered broken limbs and 1n- ternal fojuries, which will cause her death. Others were also internally injured. One guest, Benjamiu Shelby, forced his wife to leap from a second story window and thereby saved het life, but lost everything they pos- sessed. Mr. Shelby tried to escape by the airway, but the smoke and flames drove him back. He asserts that he saw ten or fifteen persons in the hallway overcome by smoke. If (his is the case, a dozen or more bodles may be found in the rulns. Many of the guests had hairbreadth escapes and ran from the docmed building clad only in their night clothes, losing everything they possessed in the world Thelr hair and eyebrows viere singed by the flamer. Numerous feats of herolsm are recorded and if some of the male guests had not aided ‘he wenker sex the death llst would be larger. As yet, it s impossible to tell just how many lives were lost. Quite a number of the guests not registered and their names are unknown. Every room in the house, forty-five in number, was occupied Men are now at work on the ruins, but it will probably be several days befere the complete list of the deaths will be obtain- able. The Gifford house was one of the oldest hotels in southeast Missourl and it has been considered a death trap for a num ber of years. W. P. Norrid was the proprietor. He and his wile escaped, but lost everything. RESUME THE GAYNOR HEARING to the Bluft; Winslow ene Dalton, Mot Springs, re badly it is alleged, TERRE HAUTE, Ind, 12— More than 200 hoisting engineers and 7,000 miners will be idle tomorrow as a result of the fallure of the Indlana block and bitumin- ous operators to sign the scale presented to them today by the engineers. A con- ference was held in this city today at | which the leading operators of the state were present and also the executive officers of the Nattonal Brotherhood of Holsting Engineers. The scale submitted is the one now paid in Illinols by the operators of that state. The operators were willlng to pay the present scalo in Indiana until the conventior of the United Mine Workers of America at Indlanapolls In January, at which time the question of paying the Il- linois scale to Indiana miners was to hav been cousidered. When the operators at tonight's conference announced their in- tention of refusing to sign the scale until the matter could be decided at the In- dianapolls convention, Secretary Jenkins and Chief Taylor of the Holsting Engineers brotherhood wired the officials of the dif- ferent mining districts declaring a strike The adoption of the Ilinols scale in In- ov. were Broker Flags and Contractor Testify Before Commi Shields In Conspiracy ¢ NEW YORK, Nov. 2.-—Hearing in the Gaynor conspiracy case was continued to day before United States Commissioner Shields W. H. Flagg, formerly of the firm of Reld & Flagg, stockbrokers, through whom Robert F. Westcott is said to have had certaln stock transactions In connectlion with his won-in-law, Captain Oberlin M Carter, was the first witness. Mr. Flagg de nied practically all the statements made by Westeott in bis examination concerning the transactions. ). Sanford Roes, & contractor of Newark, J., who sald he knew Captain Carter very well and had durlng the past year done wmuch contract work In the Savannah harbor, was called, Mr. Ross sald he bld on & contract lot in August, 1884. Ho also bid on other contracts in later years, all of which were let to the Gaynor company. He identified several con- tracts and dealared that all bids put in by him were bona fide and that there was no collusion or conepiracy botween himself and Willlam T. or John F. Gaynor. CASE OF MAYOR VAN WYCK Gove 20 per cent Chairman Combs Says Elcetion Re- turns Are Wholly Encouraging to Republicans Ther LOUISVILLE, Nov. 12.—After a meeting day Chairman Leslie Combs gave out a statement in which, after reiterating bis charges of wholesale fraud on the part of the democrats, he sald The result of this election ougly considered, is full of hope & it discouragemont. As long as we can show a substantial growth of strength in behalf of the great principles for ~which we are contending we may look forward with abiding faith in the power of the people to govern themselves. the con test which is just over there was no large sllent vote which has to figured upon for the f and there was no third ticket, with a large vote, whose future action must be taken into consideration, but in an open, face to face confiict, with « full expression of the entire vote of the Ktate, our plurality in Kentucky is estab lghed There will he atorial vote ich we car impartial hea It {8 not within the province of this com- mittee 1o declde for the party or congre onal candldates what I8 adyis with regards to contests the ele vote ar congresssional sc IS NOT COMPETENT WITNESS 4 Woman Against Her usban when thor- with or Roosevelt's Decislon in lce Trast Matter to Be Made Known Today, ALBANY N. Nov. 12. Roosevelt, accompanied by Mrs. Roosevelt arrived here from New York City this even ing. The governor was met at the station by Calonel Treadwell, his military secre tary, and & number of newspaper men Asked when he would take up the ica trust matter relative to Mayor Van Wyck's | wlleged holdings of stock in the American Ice company, the governor sald he would confer tonight with Attorney General Davis | at the executive mansion concerning the | charge and would probably make known his decision tomorrow no contest over the gub- fhere 18 no tribunal to wppeal with any hope of an 1 Governor entify REON CITY, Mo, Nov Gantt, in an opinion in Division No. 2 of the supreme court today, ruled that a divorced woman is not a competent wit- | ness against her former husband The Justice reversed ard remanded the case of | Adolt Kodat, coniicted in St. Louls of as- sault to Kill Mys. Josephine Kretsch, be- | cause the defencant was convicted on testi- | mony of his divorced wite. 12.—Chiet | wish Home for Consumptives, | CINCINNATI, O, Nov. 12.-The trustees | Justice of th tional Jewlsh Home for (on. sumptives #t Denver concluded their es today by electing the following ard of managers: Alfred Mueller Villfam 8. Friedman, David Ma L Gutman, Willlam Well, L. Levi wll of Der ver, It w decided to establish an Institu | tlon In each large efty, so that applications | for admission can be facilitated. ' here b | sion local Rabbi