Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, November 16, 1900, Page 1

ABLISHED MAY BE POISONED:™ Btartling Rumor in Rome Ooncerning the Tllness of the Czar, ALLEGED ATTEMPT ON LIFE OF EMPEROR | Official Telegram Conveying Particula Reported as Recsived at Vatican, KING OF ITALY WIRES FOR FACTS IN CASE Bulletin from Bt Petersburg Adds to the | Doubt Attending ffair, LONDON IS INCLINED TO BE PESSIMISTIC Hyglenle Conditions and Water Sup- Iy at dia Are Reported to Be None of the Best and & ducive to [ ROME, Nov. 15.~A rumor is curreut ; Romo that the illness of the czar fs duc to poisoning, and it Is asserted that cipher | telegrams have been received at the vat-| flcan waying that an attempt made poison both the emperor and empress that the latter was affected, story, however, 1s not belleved King Victor telegraphed for | definite information and got a quick reply | that the czar was as well as could be ex- | pected LONDON fu most wa 0 | but not This | Emanuel Nov ropean 16, Impression exists that the fllness of Emperor Nicholas Is more serious than it is reported to bLe, but this is probably | based upon knowledge that the czar's con- stitution is not strong, and is little likely to resist a serious attack. In Copenhagen the iliness fs attributed to overwork in connection with the Chinese crisls, and there Is also u suspicion that | the hyglenle conditious and water supply at Lividia may be faulty The dowager czarina recelves news by courler twice cach day. Her departure | from Fredens Ivm‘ had been ofty ly fixe ’ for November parations have sinc | been made for her to leave at any IIIHHH'HL“ wnd the fact that she has not in- | Aicates that there is no immediato danger. It | 1s feared, however, that even if no corapll ensue the attack may be of long | duration. There is no nows from St. Peters- burg on the subject beyond the official bul-| letins, which Indicate that the attack is| only slight, nc high temperature having yet | been reported Berlin, Nov, 15.—The Nicholas I8 commented us an extremely serious matter. The Vou- sisshe Zeltung pojuts out that, if the czar ile, thero will be a long regency, while noth- | ng definite is known regarding the czar's brother and Duke Michael. WASHINGTON, Nov. 15,—Ambassador Tower at St. Petersburg bas informed the | 3tate department that the czar is ill from whotd fever, but hig coudition is not re- irded as critical IRISH BACK FROM AFRICA| Ambulan Corps Nent Out from Chi- KO to ANt Roers Arrives ut New York, “a { Nov. 15.—The following is wembers of the Chicago Irish- | nee corps sent to ald the Africa who arrived tonight steamer Trave, from rry, Patrick Canole, apital started catlong illness of Empe upon by the pres o NEW YORK & list of the American ambul Boers in South at quarantfe on the Bremen: Richard [ Willlam Dwyer, mes Duff, Lieutenant Michuel Enright,’ P, Grifin, Dr. James T Slattery, Willlam Hurley, James Pickard, PThomas Murrav, Captain Patrick 0'Connor, P. McHugh, Hubert O'Hara, H. B. Ryau, Edward Frauk Boelen, Thomas Cas- hill, Jame Coyne, Dan Daly Nicholas Dimitrieff, . Fitzpatrick, J. Herlihy, Dan Kennedy, Thomas Herlihy, J. Murphy, H McTigue, John O'Brien, John Quinn, John Rogers, Thomas Tierney, John Walsh, G Brown, John Kesslein, € Varley, James Hall and John McRey. The foregolng men were sent out to South Africa by the United Irish Socteties of Chicago. They arrived in South Africa about April 20 last and left the Boer army in the vicinity of Lourenzo Marquez, from whence they salled for Trieste and thenc to Bremen A delegation of members of Irish societies will meet them ot the pier bere and rt them to the Vanderbilt hotel, where they will be tendered a ban- quet A delegation headed by General O'Betine, Vice President Buckley, ex-Min- ister Patrick Bgan, Dr. R. P. O'Neill and | P. J. Judge, the organizer of the movement, | will board the steamer at Quarantine this | morning. | PLAGUE Bubonic Terror Breaks Out Among Natives Near King Willlumns- tow osc IN SOUTH AFRICA | CAPETOWN, Nov. 1i.--An outbreak nr‘ bubonic plague is reported among the na- tives of Szinyoka, vear King Willlamstown Precautions are being taken to prevent the spread of the disease among the whites. Boers Attack British CAPETOWN, Nov A corr of the Cape Times reports that are besleging British garri; regulars Schwelzerrenck in western Transvaal, aud that Lord Methuen and | Colonel Settle are believed to be going to | the garrison's relief Gurrison. spondent 1,200 Boers a n of Ziu | ut Kruger Salls Today, AID, Nov. 15.~The Dulch cruiser Gelderland, with ex-President Kruger of the Transvaal on board, will leave this Afternoon. The destination of the crulser is unkuown. Ex-President Kruger refuses to be interviewed PORT § DIVORCE MUCH TOO COMMON Bishop MucLaren of Chicugo New Canons posed by Episcopal Ch CHICAGO, MacLaren —Rev. William bishop of the Episcopal diocese of Chicago, declared tonight that the rapldiy increasing evils of absolute divorce | had so lowered the tone of public morality that ecclesi al legislation was a ueces sity. Bishop MacLaren announced himself 8 favoring the adoption of the canon pro- | posed by Episcopalian authorities, which forbids rectors from performing the mar- riage ceremony when cither of the contract- ing parties 1s a divorce. He also considers opportune the ganon excluding from com- munfon such persons as are divorced for causes arlsing wfter marriage and marry | again during the lifetime of the other party, Bishop MacLaren says he will work for their endorsement by the church at its aext wsscwmbly. E JUNE | Geor | | at | conduct examinations fo the provinces. ances | gan | tenberg, | binea THE OMAHA DAILY BEE. 19, 1871, VANCOUVER sanction United ommand 15.~Under the approval the ana the ofiicer an troops In Pekin g ’ bas been, pre »--'.'mgl inquiri t terms and arranging in- demnit villages around Lung Chou y's report, according to Ortental ays his fnvestigation | brought crueltles of the most | barbarous n as practiced upou the native coucerts of that neighborhood by the Boxer of the Christion 1 all their relativ ud connections ehared in tever | iment was meted out Some were b others were burned | the stake cthors were first satur- 1 with and then set on fir lhm.n priest had strips of it limbs and the holes which was then ig- the nister Ameri, and with of wha k Catt with kerosene horrifying a des brought by the steamer Emp and 1s glven by Rev. ¢ Tlader of the Swedish Protestant of the murder of Rev. G McConnell, their little b Burton and & King, Rey Mr \vv,u. and a native servant i Nan the little party, f jelr Hives, were OveFt ken 1 and a mob of coolice. The soldiers the missionaries to pleces with the women being forcod murder mutilation of bat The bodies were thr road and were still in the % after the murder al reform war fs said to be Japan and various channels of have been closed as a result rity crusade which has been waged sult of the floods in Caleutta, the unprec dly heavy rains, in the native quarter have been of water and cven in th Eurspean quarter communication was pos- sible only by boats. Large fish have been caught in the Calcutta streets. Five hun- dred and dinety houses collapsed, twenty- | three persons were killed and sixty-seven il d The launch Kong Hol of Hong Kong was recently held up by pirates on the West river and all the passengers looted of money, clothing and jewelry. The pirates alko secured fourtcen boxes of specie of the value of !'(l‘mr” WANT TO SEE VON WALDERSEE & and 111 a description wa of " mission McConnell, Mrs the Misses E John Young and s China ¥ fleeing twenty oldier hacked heir ¥ look at th men and into th n day A mo) o immorality of the the wn dust and pread caused by the strect under four feet Prince Chi ng Chang Ask o Grant Interview. 16.—The Daily News pub- following from Pekin, dated LONDON, Nov lishes the November 12: “It is reported here that Prince Ching and Li Hung Chang have requested an interview with Count von Waldersee, which probably will be granted. The fleld mar- tlal ntends to make an excursion to Nan Kuu pass and the Ming Tombs, as Prince Henry of Prussia did in 1898.” Dr. Morrison, wiring to the Times from Pekin Tuesday, say “The Tartar general commanding In the province of Szo Chuan has been named for governor general of Manchuria, in deference to Russia's invitation to China to resume the governmenl of that terri- tory under Russiun protection. “The Chinese peace commissioners have received aw telegram from the empress dowager, dated November 10, censuring their failure to prevent the dispatch of for- elgn punitive expeditions ioto the fnte rior. The empress dowager continues issuc orders appointing officials 1o offic She is unable to realize her position and as even appointed literary chancellors to to | Trustworthy Chwang ussert that despite their assur- they will not loot the rallway the Russians are transferring materlal from the Shan Hai Kwan line across the river at Niu Chwang to the Russian Manchurian ruilway.” dispatches from Nin PRAISES CHINESE GOVERNOR 'y ‘ells of Noble f Notorious Prince s Brother, The Rev. Evan Mor- the last forelguer to leavo Slan Fu, has arrived here. His life and the llves of the other missionaries in Shen S| prov- ince were saved by Governor Tuan, & kinsman of the muotorious Prince Tuan. Governor Tuan, when he received a decree from Pekin (o kil all the foreigners, warned Mr. Morgan and his colleagues and gave | them an cscort Mr. Morgan describes the BOVErnor as “a brave, friendly and noble | man, who, at the risk of his life, saved us. The only foreiguers left in Shen 8I are twenty priests, mostly Italians, and twelve nuns, who cuplog sort of fort near | Slan Fu, defended by machine guus.” It is thought probable that Father Hughes of Loudon is in the fort and, pos- sibly, it 15 to relleve this party that Count Walderseo's force, under Colonel von War- has gone from Pekin. The Ger- move towards Kalgan and the com- march down the Grand Canal in- dicate, the Rev. Morgan says, a movement of the allled troops on Sian Fu. CHINESE COURT MAY MOVE Romors Sti the 1 LONDON, Noy man Rife That Kwang Su and npress Dowager May Go to Cheng Tu, SHANGHAL Nov. 15 tinued rumors of the projected transfer the Chinese court to Cheng Tu, but it Is sald that the viceroy of the province of Sze Chuan objects to such an arrangemont. It also rumored that a rebellion has broken out in the province of Kan Su, ng Chi Tung, the Wen Chwang viceroy, 15 sald to be raising 100,000 troops and to havo proposed to the they should combine thelr forces to of pose the allles, making the Yang Tse their | base for operations against Shem Si. SAY IT WAS NOTHING SERIOUS | Berlin OMcials Shanghai Little There are con- 5 Nanking viceroy that | ixplain That Recent Affray Was Merely a en House Row, BERLIN 15.—~An official version of the recent afiray between German and | British soldiers at Shanghui Bays two Ger- mans had a row with the landlord of “ tea and a British police patrol arr ermans. At the guard house the Ger- mans resisted. Oune of them was shot l\l‘ the shculder and the other was otherwise | wounded. It is sdmitted that the conduet of the Germans caused the affray, but it is | also asserted that the Hritish exceeded | their pcwers. The British authorities have suspended a sergeant and are dealing with the matter in a spirit of fairuess, | wre I brain attack, | built by Dennys of Dunbarton on the Clyde, | extras. NOVEMBER OMAIIA, RILLED WHILE AT SlPNR FRIDAY MORNING, TELLS CONFLICTING STORY f!rll‘ s Statement Ime- | & Flood and Then Reaflirms 1t | 0o te Thirteen Occupants of French Dining Car Dasted Down to Death, - MIRA, N Nov. 15.~Announcermnes been made that Cathe Loonie ‘(hr- county jall under sentence Auburn | PERUVIAN MINISTER TO FRANCE A VICTIM | | prison for four years and nine months, has |made another statement. This timoe she has mad affidavit to the effect that the statement made by her in her confession and in her evidence to Recorder implicating Mayor Frank H. Floc and that she wished to take ba | statements and exonerate completely mayor from being implicated I any er forgerics v Bodies Wh (he Wrel by h Have Heen Taken from k Are Horribly Mangled the Force of the Impuet, 15.~The South- in | ern express was derailed at noon today _ it ; between George's and Saubusse, noar | .\uml\;‘ H. N. Babeo K”n.n.-wr et Dax, about thirty-three miles east of Bay- | DAve called there to see a client that he had | in the jail. As ho passed the door of the | onne | The restaurant car was precipitated over »"““ ll " }.-v(xv‘llA~ m:: that :h“ wanted him | an embankment. Thirteen s were |10 00 her @ fuvar.” Ehe wanted Lim to tuko killed and twenty others seven | (00 I' o "‘) ‘V . “'_‘” seriously. Five passengers arc missing, | Mayor Flood. - After talking to her for a The list of killed includes Senor J. F, | *hilo sho said to Attorney Bubeock that she to make a statement. Attorney Canevaro, Peruvian minister to France, (LA | oy VAR A n¢ ttache o Peruvian legatic abcock Is a notary public, He took a state- and an attache of the Peruvian legation [ ment from her in’ which Sbe {ook. be "I at Madrid jevery statement that she had made connec The section of the line where the acel- |{UFY Mulement that who had (N:'"‘W“"mf‘. dent occurred 18 under repair and the do- ()8 A0 Flood wHh Ber forg railment is atiributed to the great speed (0 TU'Y Batoodt 1"17%‘! s of the ex; | ove Attorney ‘Rostassiik The enginecer says that the ground gave | {1oF 'fm;l'”""("»"m “';:;‘:"“;_“"" way under the locomotive, which sank fnto | /gt attorncy in od Mios the ballast b TESIAUPRKLL ORY: ORIW MIVG |opy uil. Datore s oAl i 3 terrific collislon with the tender and alone | .0 H siveral ‘i"”:‘ abouit her case and rolled down the embankment | ihe statsmunt, that sk Bt mado 1 Siounly It was luncheon hour and out of thirty. A the one she hed SEER Pevok! & tho tour passengers in the train thirty were |\ (oo 14 that (§'98 Tepresented Lle, H 3 her od prostrated and The bodies were terribly would suicide unless sie retracted of the butlers of the her confession After Attorae |5} o's | Was slightly injured, became suddenly in. | iy “iho cirt refused to talk, | sane and walked to and fro amlid the| Miss Loonloe wa afterward kage singing at the top of his volce. | Attorney J. Hassett for the The engineer and stoker, who were | having expressed esire '::‘v‘:" ioto & fleld, had miraculous afidavit retracting her retraction, saylng i | that bad made it under misap- WANT ROSEBERY TO LEAD prehension. He found her in a urbed Str BAYONNE, France, Noy way St to| statemont is Mayor Loonie at! rl talked She that Dr commit e to wa mangled bye restaurant One r, who ! Visited prosecution, she make an by 0 to she a di state of min1 because of the day's develop- !ments and concluded to wait until today be- | fore taking her deposition. He says he fs | not depending upon Miss Loonte's evidence {alone to make out case, but has an {abundance of other evidence and proposes | to probe to the bottom the matter of her last | retraction Dundee | nne hes of eecn at an Expresses ihernls in Dundee. o LONDON, Nov. 18.—8ir Henry Campbell- Baonerman, the liberal leader in the House of Commons, epeaking ut today, sald he hoped Lord It sebery would | return to the leadership of the nverats, ANCIENT RUINS OF SONORA adding that I he did ho must be chiet of | the whole party. He had never under-|Unexpected Colo stood why Lord Rosebery retired in 1896 ¢ Discove The liberals would all welcome him back the again, Given (o Theor of America Chinexse, ¥ Nov EXPEDITION TO NORTH POLE Explorer Baldwin Outfitting for the Start Which He Wil Make Next Summer, MONTE Mex., 15 that American officers have ancient records in Pekin showing that the Chinese discovered America 1,500 year ago, aud erected temples in Mexico, has aroused the greatest Interest umoug the | scientlfic men of Monterey and throughout this county The Chinese temples alluded to are in the state of Sonora, ou the P cific The ruin of onn of the tem- | ples was discovered near tho town of Urcs | in that state about two years ago. | One of the lar one, tablets found i the ruins was redy with carved | Chinese characters, which \J(. partly (lc-’ | ciphered by u learned Chinaniadlarho visitod - wibui i | the ruins at the request of he Moxican | , | government. The Chinaman mado the SWEDEN'S KING 18 VERY JLL | forsrmcns, The Chimmés mede the ra. of His M . et ! able t Tho repo! unearthed ST. JOHNS, ov. 15.—Evelyn B. Baldwin, who, member of the Well man expedition spent the winter of 189899 in Franz Josef Land, and who was a mem- ber of the Peary exnedition of 1593-94, ar- rived here today in search of steamers, men, dogs and other requisites for his pro- Jocted Nortii Pole venture nex: summe bagked by the purse of William Zeigler. as a coast ck Deprived Him ory—Scems Une Recuperate, statement was not received with credence. 1t has long that the In dians of the state of Sonora are descend ants of these early Chine: settler They ! possess many traditions and characterlsti of the Chine It the report of the find ing of these records in Pekin is verified an_expedition will go from here to explorc | further the ancicnt of the temples | | of Sonora | CIGARMAKERS RIOT AT TAMPA Aguin Expresses His Solteltude —_— | for the Welfare of the Inlands and Internationals Clash and | United States. Gunshots Are Exchanged—Every Factory is Closed. PAMPA, Fla, 15 the Inland Resistfancia mukers began here today onzales, Mora & Co. of Tampa and Chi- go. This firm was working a full force | of Resisttancla men, numbering about 300, The Iuternationals marched to the factory | REMOVES PRESS CENSORSH""'“‘"' demanded that these men come out. | This was refused and the Internationals de clared they would put them out. The prem- | ises are enclosed and n International | { man started to enter the gate the Italian | | doorkeeper fired upon him. This was | quickly followed by an exchange of several hundred shots. The front and side of the building were riddled with bullets, but no one has been reported injured. Police ofi- | cers dispersed the mob - Every factory closed down at noon for Will Buila s ockt the day. The mayor has sworn in 100 extra 100 by Press Publishing Co.) | policemen and the sherift has added nu- DON, Nov. 1 W York World [ merous deputies to his force. ram—Special - Telegram.)--It The mayor issued a proclamation forbid- tonight that Shamrock 1T will ding torchlight processions and demonstra- | d | tions of the rival trades unions planned | for tonignt The Internationals have about 8§00 mem- bers here, while the Resistancia members | number over 3,000 TO KEEP UP FIGHT ONMOLDERS | PARIS, Nov. 15. —Private but most trust- worthy information has been received he to the effect that King Oscar of Sweden | in a very low state of health. His recent it is added, deprived him of Lis memory and he se unable to cuperate. The facts are being suppr d. HIS PRAYERS FOR AMERICA by Press Publishing Co.) (New York World C: blegram — Special Telegram.) — Yeste the pope granted speclal audience (o Bishop Burke of St. Joseph. Tho po agaln expressed liope that God would grant prayers for American prosperity. (Copyrighted, 190, ROME, Nov. 15 Rioting between unions of cigar the factory of Corresponden ree to Cable What- | ever They Wish from the Philipp! nes. MANILA, Nov The censorship was removed today. General MacArthur, how- ever, has Issued directions to the cable com- panies ordering them to furnish him with @ copy of all press dispatches, Who (Copvright was | ated be but as Hendersons of Meadowside are also proparing to down a big yacht, the statement {8 extiemely doubtful, except in the not unlikely « that the German emperor 1s bullding again. Dennys have never built a racing yacht, while Hendersons have built the two Valkyries, Britannia and Meteor. Sycamore, who was here lately, visited Henderson, which fs sig- nificant. The new boat will be launched early in April, Big Sulary for Waldersee, BERLLIN, Nov. 15.—The Reichstag bill providing for a third supplementary cred on account of the China expedition fixes th salary of Field Marshal Count von Walder- see at 150,000 marks annually, with large National Fou cldes Not v ra' Association De- Compromise the and Dificulty, NEW YORK, Nov convention of the Natic which has been in session for sev- at the Murray Hill ad fourned today after ¢ ng officers for the ensulng year. One question which the con The division commanders will re- | vention had to der was the strike 5,000 marks and extras and the |among the molders in the foundries at Cleye lower officers will be paid proportionately, | land, which has beon on since last May, g The above aro five times the rates of the | decided continue the tght against the salaries peld at home. Cleveland Molders' union at any cost. The money needed to pay the bouus in Cleveland, which the assoclation Is doing, to be made up by assessments levied on the found- ers in other cities The officers elected by the assoclation as follows: President, H. W. Hoyt of Chi cago; vice president, A. (. Pressano, Phil- | adelphia; treasurer, John R De- troit; secretary, John A. Penton, Seven distriet committees also elected. The duty of these committees s to | wdjust labor troubles in their district It pos- from | sible o] TENDER BRYAN A RETAINER w The third Founde annual asso ceive ported Wire, BERLIN, Noy The wire syndicato has voted to give a bounty of 20 marks o ton on exported wi Vensels N rived—Siate of braska, from Glasgow: Fuerst Bismar from Hamburg: | Trave, from Brem Safled—Auguste 'Victorfa ' for Hamburg, y Plymouth and Cherbourg; La Champaigne, | for Havre. At _Glbraltar— Arrived—Columbla, Naples und_(ienoa New York, for AU _Liverpool-Arrived - Teutonic New York. salled—Belgenland, for delphia At Cherbourg-—Arrived—Deutschland New Yok, for Hamburg. Sal ed Wilhelm der Grossc, from Bremen an Southampton, for New York | Tammany Police At Queenstown — Salled — Oceanie, from Defen Liverpool, for New York: Belgenel, from | L Liverpool Philadelnhia At Dun Head—Passe w York, for Christiana AL Glasgow—Arrived New York AL London—Satled Arrived 15, At 3 Russell Detroit from Him Hection rd—} 1d Cog Sardinia from e from for NEW YORK. | association, the Tamma tion of the Eighth formally voted to handsome fee to take charge of the legal trict captaing of the Elghth a triet, Indicted for alle eclections law, N The Martin En, s Minneapolis district, m J. Br York of the di embly di d violations of the i has York A York At Hamburg—Arrived—Deutschland, New York, via Plymouth and Cherbiurg At Rotterdam—Arrived—Spaarndam, from ew York. via Boulog Salled—Sta tens dum, for Boulogne and New York, an alc Bremen Lahn, from come and m I(}rm of Binking Norwegian Bark Keeps | bark ex mouth of the Ohio. ernment dams be bullt, making the firs Just old Eros through the telescope shot 1900 TWELVE NAN PUMPS FOR FIVE DAYS Afloat with Diffioulty, EXHAUSTED WHEN RESCUE REACHES THEM Waterlogged Derclict in Set Afire by the Ca Orde; ropping ie Horizon u Muss of Flame and Smoke, PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 15,~After floating on the ocean in a helpless condition on a sinking vessel for five days, Captain Anderson and his crew of thirteen hands [BODY* SNATCHERS AT WORI( SINGLE FIVE Cl CONDITION OF THE WEATHER BI( TASK BEF ORE IT Forecast for Nobraska Fair; Warm emperature at Hour. Deg. " 1" " 1 “ 0] 2 20 cory v Oma Nour, Southerly Wind Yesterlay: [i Anglo-American Commission Preparing to Resume Its Labors, OTTAWA AND WASHINGTON PASS NOTES ». ». » ». I v | Eteps Taken to Avoid Ineffectual Results of Last Bitting, ALASKA LEFT OUT OF CONSIDERATION Little Village of An Torn Up by Dis Violated Grave Springhrook very of | Queetion Which Blocked Former Negotia- of the Norwegian bark Highfiver arrived bere today, having been rescued by the Hritish amer Georglan Prince, Captain Flott, from Hull. During the five days the crow was at the mercy of the waves. They ouly saw two eteamers. The first one, acce 1g to Captain Anderson, came within half a mile of bis vessel, but steamed away without giving any aid. The second #hip sighted was the Georgian Prince. The Highflyer salled from Camgbellton, . 3 for Newport, Wales, on October 19, with 1 cargo of lumber even days ou the ountered a severe gale, which tore ler salls and straine v el she sprang a leak of nine inche All hands were kept busy at the 0 that the bark could be kept atoat pasving vessel could reuder us Four duy ed, and on the morning of the fifth day a trans-Atlantic liner passed near, but only answered the distrossed vessel's signal by raising a flag. Captain Flett of the Georgian Prince made a report of the rescue, fn which he sai “At 4 p.m., November &, sighted the Nor- wegian bark Highflyer of Christiana ing signals of distress and on coming near | found that the captain and crew wished to abandon the ship, as she had sprung a leak and in a sinking condition. I then ordered m ats to be got read to take them on board my vessel. The cap- taln rejorted to me that the whole crew hud been continuously working at the pumps for five days and nights and that the crew were exLausted, a fact [ could when they came on board, as they were scarcely able to get on the Georgian Prince without help. After consulting witi: the captain, who said the derclict would be waterlogged beforo morning, as the water was gaining nine inches an hour and lylng in tho direct track of steamers, both cest and west b . 1 decided to destroy he and sent the boat back with my first and ird officers and a crew and set fire to the 1 could see her burn- | hours after 1 steamed | ) that an ho « until sistance show- was t bark in two places. ing high for two away. HEAVY SNOWON LOWEH LAKES[ | Rallway Trafic by Storm hat Obstructed Tracks with Huge Drifts. | passenger agent CLEVELAND, Nov. 15.—A8 a result of the heavy snow storm that raged through- out the lower lako region today raflway | traMg was badly delayed on the lines run- | I'ning east from this eity, A high west Mn-l. caused tho snow to drift in huge piles along | the tracks in muny places. The westhound | Lake Shore limited arrived here nearly two | hours late. According to the local weather !forccaster, the storm will continue through- out the day BUFFALO, 14 possibly tonight | T ¢ Nov. 15.-~Ten finches now fell in South Buffalo during the night and continued this forenoon. East Anrora and Dunkirk report elghteen Inches and Orchard Park two feet. Rallroad traf- | fic is greatly impy | The greatest amount of snow accompany- | ing the storm has fallen in a belt extending | from West Seneca to Silver Creek, along | the Lake Shore, and for many miles inland, | The suow at Farnham and Angela was threo | feet on the level ut noon today and tha | tracks of the Nickel Plate and Pennsyl- | vania railroads were blocked. | NEW YORK, Nov. 1i.-There was a dis- | tinet flurry of snow here this evening. It/ came in small, wet flakes and melted as | soon as it touched the ground. It fell at intervals from 7 to 9 o'clock. OHIO RIVER MAY BE DAMMED | . | Government Asked to Make Tmprove- ment to Make Stream Navigable at All Seasons, CINCINNATI, Nov. 15.-The Ohio l(l\:-r! Improvement association today recemmended | that the government survey be continued | from the mouth of the Big Miami to the Another recommenda- order In which gov- one the second below Big Kanawha and the next three below the mouths of the Little Kanawha, the Big Sandy and the Seioto | rivers. Congress is asked to have the wing dam at the Loulsville Falls heightened so as to afford six feet of water, also to jucrease | the stage of water at the head of the river by combining Pittsburg pools No. 1 and 2, iredging the channel and loweriug the Davis island dam sill. A dam is asked for near Evansville, and one below Halt river mouth to make that river navigable, 1 LINSEED OIL IN BAD SHAPE Company Passes Usnal Dividend and Cuts Chief Prod tion referred to the west of Cincinnati, the mouth of the Quarterly rice of Its Nov, 15.—The directors of | the American Linsced Ofl company have passed the quarterly dividend on the pre- | ferred stock Previous pavments have | been made at the rate of 1% per cent quarterly, the last disbursement being in Septemher of this year. CHICAGO, Nov, 15.—Simultaneously with tho passing of the preferred stock dividend by the directors of the American Linseed Oll company today the company announced | 4 cut of 10 cents a gallon on oil. In spite | of this copjunction of unfavorable factors | there was enough buying of the shares to effect & fractlonal advance, This was gen- erally accepted as further proof that the ock has been manipulative from first to NEW YORK, . rap " lis Astronomer Photographs etoid ax It Blinks Unseen 14,000,000 Miles Away, Mion,, cavenworth photo MINNEAPOLIS P Nov. 15.—Prof. hed the aster- at the State | last evenlng. Con- | liminutive planet is said miles it was a long or that the planet with the naked eye or By a cl ascertatned sitive plate hough It was P iniversity 18 that 4,000,0 The profe ould not be hrough the tel caleula ation and cven observatory der the be away a sald he mathe ton the caught beyond 1 human keu. | g | assay offic | M | adelphia | children | tonight | butla KALAMA rities ot a horrit which cemetery )0, Mich., Nov. 1 the city were fnfor f wholesale body tovk place in the in Newaygo county dence points to the fact that the work was de days ago, as the ecarth re moved from the graves was frozen and the Larren graves were half flled with snow Nine budies, %0 far as known at present humed and all but cne were those | ns who had died within the last | follow Mrs Carlotta Eldredge, | o au todu snateh iugbrook The tions is Temporarily Bettled, th of GREAT PROBLEMS ARE TO BE PASSED UPON ne several Matters ot rafle, Com- Reciproeity, Mint Noundary, n, Salyvage and Seal Fishe erles to e Cousidered. per year, a old, both Charles Ja ton, a middle 1i-year-old and WASHINGTON, Now. 1 taken for resuming the of the Anglo-American committee made up of re ntives of the United States, Britain and Canada and considera | tton of the subject now in progress probably | Wil determine within @ few duys what |courso will bo pursued. Correspondence has passed recently between Ottawa and Washington relative to resumiug the work and now that the elections on both sides of the border are over there is felt to bo | moro t and opportunity to devote | the serious questions Involved Lefore this ommission. It {s understood that the American commissioners desiro to remove the possibility of such ineffectual results s occurred at their last sitting. The indi re that this will be done through | the co-operation of the State department by omitting the Alaskan bouudary question from those to bo considered, thus remoy ing the chief obstacle to progress. On the Alaska question the commission was practi cally deadlocked and it 10 report on the progr 8 to other uestions becauso of inability to include this question. Sinco | then, however, a modus vivendi on Alaska bas been agreed upon, aud while this lacks | Permanency it is felt that the question can MILLIONS IN GOLD COME IN [ moneory it e fet it the aetion con | bo best thus permitting tho Steps have been lmportant werk her daughter, Mildred, 9 of whom died of typhoid fever; 108, rs old; Henry Hous- | ged man; Clarence Cole Don and Bertl George Daile ) ye boy b, infants Mrs ol¢ The ninth victln, which fs supposed have been Mra. Henry Knowles, although the body is in such a stage of decomposi tion as 0 be unrecogunizable, was discov a hedge fouce about a quarter of a mile from the cemetery., She died about five The come is an fsolate to Wednesday the had not there for nearly three weeks. It was when Isanc Dunton, the sexton, went to dig a grave vesterday that the discovery w mad The remnants of the cuskets, which seemed to have been knocked apart with X, were strewn about the graveyard. sherill of Nowaygo county was here | today and was met by two strange men from Grand Rapids, supposed to be Pin kerton detectives, who are to work on the mysterlous case. Tho three men left to night fer Hastings in w [ weeks age vy pot and uy been a burial cations nade the two governments | commission to proceed with the many other | important questions What ar | rangement can be wade in this particular will depend upon the conferences now RO~ ing on. The purpose of the commission is to frame & new trealy between the United o Gre Dritain, covering tho various questions arising along the Cana- | dian border, and thus disposing of & wido rango of controversy. ive he Bullion 0 Oregon 0l ot Dust and Aluska Take o8 involves 0,000,000, CHICAGO, Nov. 15.—More than $20,000,000 n gold dust and bulllon came out of| Aluska, British Colum Northwest Ter- | ritory, Washington, 1daho and Orezon be- | tween January 1 and October 24 this year H. (. Cherrler, tho Chicago agent of the ircat Northern railroad, today recelved | from R. C. Stevens, tho gencral western of that line, a report of | in charge of the United States at Seattle. Tho report showed that 6,028 deposits, | aggreguting 1,243,163 owmices of gold dust and - bukilon bad beon handled i tho assay | office between thowe two dates, the value | of the gold being $20,166,657. 1t a thut $16,374,488 worth of the yellc camo from the Klondike region from the Capo Nomo district, $462,893 from other Alaskan districts, $193,115 from the Atlin district in Britfah Columbia and $125, 762 from Washington, Idalio and Oregon. Mr. Stevens secured this statement show that the reports of comparatively small ylelds in tho gold districts in the on ended October 24 were manufac- tured by prospectors with hard luck stories to tell when they returned to this country, SENATOR DAVIS NOT SO WELL Patient is Subject t Wandering When He from Slum ST. PAUL, Minn., Nov. 15 t Questions to Te Consldered. questions before the commission are leng etanding aud include the cstab- lishment of the houndury tetween Alaski avd British Columbla; the {ssues over Bering sea and the catch of fur seals; the ucmarked Loundavy Between' Caands and the United States, dear. Pdsamaquoddy bay in Malne »ud at points between Wis- consin and Minne end Canada; the nustheast fisher 1estion, tuvolving the rights of Lishing in the North Atlantie oft Newfoundland and other points; the regu- lation of the fishing rights the great lakes; alicn labor immigration across the Canadian-American border; commerclal reciprovity between the two countries; the | regulation of the bondiug system by which Koods are carried in bood across the fron tier and also the regulation of trafic by international railways and canals of the two countries; veciprocal mining privileges in the Klondike, British North Amerlca and other points; wrecking and salvage on the oceun and great lakes in coasting waters, and the modification of the treaty angement under which only ono war I can be weintained on the great Nha naw iba , with o view to allowing warships ture in the case of United States Senator |10 be bullt on the lakes and then floated Cushman K. Davis i3 the slight delirjum Ut to the ocean. on first awakening. This indicates the men- | Progress has been wade on some of thesy tal as well as physical strain under which tlons and a practical agreement the patient s suffering, and is one of the hed on several of them. But in each stages of the kidney trouble which 1s now tho settlement was dopendent on a the most serious dilculty with which he |isposal of all of them. With the pros- senator has to contend. The immediats bect8 of omitting Alaska from the points family Is prepared for the worst, although | INVolved the chances of reaching a treaty hopeful of a possible turn for the better, | AEreement on the other poluts will be Davis now scarcely leaves her hus- |terlally improved. bard's bedside, save for a few hours of | Personnel of Commission. necessary slee | The personnel of the commis:ion is an Messages conveying hope for the senma- |unusually notuble one. The British gov- tor's speedy recovery have been recelved [crnment was represented by the late Lord from Senator M. A. Hanna and Secretary |Herschel, former chancellor of the ex- of State John Hay. chequer, but his death shortly after the At 0:80 tonight the following bulletin |last adjournment leaves a vacancy and, al- was lssued by 8 or Davis' physicians ‘I)mm’ll no appointment has been made, the « senator had n comfortable day and |vame of Lerd Alverstone, better known ing casily. His tewperature is 100 |as Sir Richard Webster, is being men- and pulse 110. An examination made to- [tioned. Sir Wilfrid Laurler, premier of shows a slight improvement in the | Cunada, heads the Canadlan representa- inflammation of the kidney |tion, with Louls Davies, mlnlster of m.lrlllfl u e ries, and the premler of SAY NAME WAS OFFENSIVE|: : fish sen- .-“rmuunmnl ationg his associates, air- Daughters of Confederacy Explain W. Fairbanks of Indlana is c! !mnn PP iy representation, with Why Word National ix Ex- punged from Title, | ex-Secretary John W. Foster, Reciprocity | Commissioner John A. Kassou, ex-Senator oo s Charles J. Faulkner of West Virginia, T, MONTGOMERY, Ala., Nov. 15.—The con- |Jefferson Coolidge of Boston wnd Sereno vention of the United Daughters of the Confederacy was opened here today. | E. Payne, chalrman of the ways and means A motion of Mrs. O'Brien of Virginia that - R ira {GOTHAM BUILDERS TESTIFY committee, s assoclates, the organization be not epoken of as “na- tional,” but merely as “United Daughters of the Confederacy,” was adopted Contract Harding Charges New In gunouncing the motion as carrled| York I r Unlon with Control President Mrs. Weed sald the word “na lng Legislation by Blackmall tlonal” was offensive to the Daughters - Mrs. Wecd then delivered the president’s| WASHINGTON, Nov, annual sald there are now | commission devoted its 20,000 members and over 400 chapters, “the | today to hearing testimc result of the falthful work of the women |of the New York Bu | witness belng J. P. of the south, “There are chapters in New York, Phil- league. One of the Indlana, Indlan Territory and Ok- | ing, sald the labor unlons controlled stato lahoma," she continued, “and as long as |leglslation by means of a black lst. Mr. time endures southern women will Leo's testimony dealt mainly with methods first in their devotion to the cause | of settling disputes in the differcnt branches south and the glorious past | of the building trade. Mr. Leo said his Mrs. Weed elicited appla when league bad never, in ca a strike, called called upon those present to educate thelr | in the ald of the State Board of Arbitration a5 true southerners in the full | belloving the best way to reach an under- knowledge of the war and the causes that | standing to meet directly & commit- led to ft. he sald: “They should be taught | tee of the strikers. The state board had beon accused, he sald, of partiality. Loufs why their father: gave up everything, even life itself, for the privciples involved.” | Harding, & member of the board of maua- gers of the New York Builders' league, speaking of labor legislation, said the labor | organizations kept the men at Albany dur- Ing sessions of the state legislature and that members of that body who did not support the measures pressed by these representatives were marked for opposition at the next election ‘“The legislators are | atraia ot union,” he said, “and they don't to say so." Ho expressed the oplulon | the laws enacted in the statc | tew sears had worked injury to the labor | Ing men themselves, Also, he asserted, | that the high price of labor in New York |and the short hours observed were hawing the effect of driving certaln classes work out of the state. Mr. Leo, who re- the assayer of 52 on Spelln of Mental Awake . r 15.~The industrial forenoon sessic y from members s’ league, the first . president of the witnesses, Louls Hard- address. She stand of the was Carneg PITTSBURG by W rd of direc irew of 5 of the Cary Androw Carnegle, Mayor { other prominent cltizene wn offer to the city of schnfcal school, fn conn the Carnegle institate, and endow $1.000.000. "The tone Mr. Carneg iress would indicate that, as i the the institute, his contribition would be fn- creasied later to meet the needs of the pro Physician Con CHICAGO, Nov w out his brains today i the Men's Christian Assoclation hotel #ponder aue 10 being stranded wirar , 13 thought to have be the tnstitute W Die Mr. Carneg Plitsburg (o | ton with b 0 made that most ot the past