Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 5, 1900, Page 1

EST ABL]SHEI) J( THE OMAHA DAILY BEE. F 19, 1871.~ OMAHA, WEDNESDAY CEMBER MORNING, D 5, 1900-TWELVE PAGES. Hl\ G LF (‘()l’\’ — ey FIVE CENT OVER IN FEW MONTHS| American Consul Btowe Deolares that Bosrs Have No Chance to Win. SPEEDY BRITISH VICTGRY Lord Kitohener Will Follow General Plans of Lord Roberts, GREAT PART OF BURGHERS CRY FOR PEACE Btories Obarging British with Ruthless Burning of Farms is Discredited. TALK OF SEDITION IN CAPE COLONY FALSE IS ASSURED United States Likely to Get a Big Part of an Immense Trade from South Africa So Soon as W s at an End. LONDON Dec. 4.—James G. Stowe, the United Stutes consul general at Capetown, landed at Southampton today. Mr. Stowe, who is taking a long delayed leave of absence and who will sail for the United States on December 15 in the St. Louls, sald today: “I give the war In South Africa four months to come to an end. In my opinion 1t 18 bound to be snuffed during that period. I do not belleve Lord Kitchener will do much more then any other general. The general plan of the British campaign I8 bound to bring about the result. More- over, there are 16,000 Boer prisomers in Ceylon, St. Helena and Capetown, all of whom are anxlous to have an end of hos- thlities. “Shortly before 1 left Christian Botha, a cousin of Louls Botha, got up a petition among his fellow prisoners at Capetown, urging the commandant general to make peace. A majority slgned the petition, which undoubtedly represented the aggre- gate opinion of the Boer prisoners. Boer Farms Not Burned. “All this talk about burning farms is bun- combe. The only farms which are de- stroyed are farms from which shots are fired at the British, or those which are obviously used to shelter the Boers.” Mr. Stowe went on to relate several In- stances where the British had good excuse for burning farms, but refrained. He sald he did not believe the rumors of sedition in Cape Colony would result in much. ‘Splendid commercial opportunities are being opened up in South Africa, ald Mr. Stowe, “‘of which the United Stat re only beginning to take advantage. As soon ag the fighting is over South Africa will be one of the best markets in the world, a market where the British themselves admit that we aro already outstripping them," Referring to the service of Adelbert 8. Hay, United States consul at Pretoria, who 18 expected to return to the United States in lle course of a few weeks, Mr. Stowe Hay has won golden opinions on both sices, although for a time some un- tness existed In his relations with owing to the assertion that he was a British spy. Position of Webater Davis, He expressed himself as unable to un- derstand the attitude of Webster Davis, former assistant secretary of interlor of the United States, ‘‘considering the fact that Mr. Davis made pro-British speeches while being entertained in Cape Colony.” In Mr. Stowe's opinion Sir Alfred Milner ‘will eventually become governor general of & great South African federation includ- ing the Hoer Tepublics and Rhodes “Mllner,” he sald, “is the man of the hour, a man who In power and resourcefulness might be compared to Grant," KRUGER CROWDS IN COLOGNE r Sympathizers Gather in Frout of British Consulate, but A Dispersed by Police. COLOGNE, Dec. 4.—An anglophobe dem- onstration took place today in front of the British consulate here. Mounted police dis- persed the rloters and arrested the lead- ers. Serenades and ovations of Mr. Kru- ger, planned by varlous societies, have been forbldden in the interests of public satoty. Knox-Dewet Forces Fought All Day. LONDON, Dec. 4.—~General Kitchener re- ports from South Africa that the mounted troops of General Knox were engaged a!l day long Sunday with part of General De- ‘wet's forces north of Bethulle. The Boers, he added, were headed off and retired In a northeasterly direction. Transport K riok at Port Sa PORT SAID, Dee. 4.—The United States transport Kilpatrick, which salled from New York, November 13, for Maaila, in command of Captain D, M. Arnold, carry- ing 900 enlisted men for the regiments in the Philippines, has arrived here. SAID TO BE FROM OMAHA Man Calling Himself George Malthy Shoots Himself in New York Hotel. NEW YORK, Dec. 4.—A man who reg- tstered as George Maltby, Omaha, Neb., shot himselt behind the right ear in a rocm in the Grand Union hotel, Forty- sccond street, carly this (Wednesday) morning. He was taken to Bellovue hos- pital and will dle. The police found §0 cents, a pint of whitky and three unsigned letters in his pockets. At the hotel it was sald the man had registered there on Monday. Tho le ters were nddressed to his wife and other relatives and plainly indicated that the man committed suicide. The letter to his wite was addresced to Mrs. George Maltby, 17 Mortou street, New York City. The pight clerk at the hotel sald that the man ceme here on Monduy night and engage’ a room. Two months ago he was at the ho- tel with his wife, who was pretty and stylishly dressed. Maltby then had plenty of money and spent it lavishly. The elerk sald that Maltby 1s well connected, but re- fused to give further iuformation. He does not belleve that Maltby comes from Omaha, but thinks he is a New Yorker. * Zella May Keep Wil 's Wateh, LIMA, O, Dec. 4.~Willlam Bigelow, who had his sweetheart, Zella Manahan, ar- rested on the charge of alleged pocket- {cking, becatise of hor refusal to sufrender s watch, which she had won on an elec- tlon 'wager, toduy withdrow. the charge and the case was dismissed. Bigelow had re- ceolved letters from all parts of the coun- iy eriticising him for b1y action. K MID) s in Kentuoky Mountaine. LESBORO, Ky, Dec. 4-At Ar- nmr ‘enn., loday, James Johnson, aged shot Curry Hatfleld, aged 11 "years. Panason Siaimsed that it was accldental, later acknowledged hin guilt. Hatfleld i shot near the heart with a mll bore X ENVOYS MEET Forelgn Representativeds Tokin Assemble, but Are Unabi Do Any Business. a PEKIN, Dec. 4.—As was expected the meeting of the forelgn envoys today did not result In any definite conclusion owing to the fact that not all of the governments have notified thelr representatives as to the form of the preliminary note to the Chinese plenipotentiaries. Mr. Conger, the United States minister, sald after the meeting: “Apparently it 18 the desire of all to arrive at a satisfactory conclusion. I believe the next meeting will be the final one, but will not be called until every minister has recelved instructions covering the matters. Personally I am satisfled with the results of the proceed- ings today.” LONDON, Des. 5.—The Shanghal corre pondent of the Morning Post, who believes | that the powers will withdraw their forces from Pekin in order to enable the court | to return says: “The policy of scuttle once begun every | power would endeavor to be the first to concillate the Chinese. Europe has already lost her face so utterly that no further ylelding could make her degradation worse." “Native papers report,” says the Shang- hal correspondent of the Times, “that the court has decided to issue an edict order- Ing the decapitation of Prince Tuan and General Tung Fu Hsiang." Dr. Morrison, wirlng to the Times on Monday from Pekin, says: “Evidence has been produced proving that Captain Watte Jones was murdered after four days' In- human torture, elght marches beyond Kal- gan. “The statement that ihe customs revenue 1s being remitted to Slan Fu is erroneous. The only money remitted to the court has been the provinclal silver contributions to the central government CHINESE AVOIDING A FIGHT Kalgnn Expedition Largely a Fallure on This Account—Disturb- ces in Interior, LONDON, Dec. 4—A special dispatch from Hankow Pass, dated November 30, says the Kalgan expedition was ineffective, the Chinese evading all attempts to engage them. The towns enroute were occupied unopposed and some tolls of skins and ellver were levied. The cavalry captured the baggage of the retreating Chinese force at Swen Hwa Fu, killed thirty of its guards and secured 30,000 taels. Three mandarins, who were Instigators of the massacre of converts at Swen Hwa Fu, and twenty-three Boxers were kille but the Germans generally ignored evi- dences of anti-foreign actlvity. There ure continuous disturbances in the interior, where, the dispatch adds, a bad impression has been made by the excessive withdrawal of foreign troops and the com- placence of the allies. The missionaries anticipate a recurrence of the outrages, The Westminster Gazette says it hopes Great Britain will not drift apart from the United States’ sensible China policy, owing to the supposed necessity for supporting Germany's forward policy. WILL PROTECT BISHOP ANZER to Conference. BERLIN, Dec. 4.—During the debate in the Reichstag today on the supplementary credit of China, Baron von Richthofen, sec- retary of forelgn affairs, informed Herr Bebel, the soclalist leader, that the China expedition was not regarded exactly as an act of war, but as armed intervention against an anarchistic condition of af- fairs not permitting continuance of a cer- tain amount of intercourse between Ger- meny and the lawful government of Chi The minister of war, General von Go: declared that while epidemics were rife among the troops in China, the deaths were only one-third of 1 per cent of the entire expeditionary corps Dr. Mumm von Schwartzenstein, the Ger- man minister to China, cables that he has recelved a concillatory dispatch from Yuan Shi Kal (the military governor of the province of Shan Tung) assuming full responsibility for the safety of Bishop Anzer, who Is about to proceed to Tsl Nan Gu to conter with Yunn Shi Kal. VICEROYS SATISFY SEYMOUR Masters of Situation in C Make Guaranties for the Futur SHANGHAI, Dec. 4.—The Yangtse vice- roys, who are masters of the situation, gave Vice Admiral Seymour satisfactory assur- ances of their future policy on the occasion of his recent visit to these ofMcials. Germans Ki d by Boxe SHANGHAI, Dec. 4.—It is reported In Tien Tsin that the Germans lost twenty killed and many wounded west of Pao Ting Fu, where they were attacked by 2,500 Boxers. A quantity of loose powder exploded in the last arsenal occupied by the Russians. It 1s supposed the explosion was caused by two Chinese smoking. Both Chinamen were killed. The shock was felt at Tien Tsin, four miles away. st Rewula BERLIN, Den 4.—A dispatch from Fleld Marshal Count von Waldersee, dated Pekin, Monday, December 3, says: A considerable force of Chinese regulars has taken up a position at Bang Chou, ninety-five kilo- meters southward ot Tien Tein, and two detachments of troops from Tien Tsin, commanded by Colonel Lohrscheldt and Major Falkenhayn, are proceeding against these Chinese. About to Lose His Head. TIEN TSIN, Monday, Dec. 3.—Tang Weng Huan, the author of the outrages upon the Pao Ting Fu missionaries, arrived today and was paraded through the Victoria road In a cart under a strong German guard previous to being handed over to the pro- visional government for decapitation. MANCHESTER OUT OF OFFICE Action of Hankrupt Court Prevents Him Sitting In e Houne of Lords, LONDON, Dec. 4.—The House of Com- mons, after a visit to the House of Lords today, where royal approval of the re-elec- tion of \‘ll\ speaker, Mr. Willlam Court Cully, was signified, proceeded to swear in the mewmbers of the House of Commons. The only interesting feature in the House of Lords was the lord chancellor's an- nouncement of the recelpt of certificates showing the duke of Manchester and Baron Sudelsy had been adjudicated bankrupts, precluding their sitting, ower Rates for Seaboard Irom. NEW YORK, Dec. 4—A reduction of SHIP SUBSIDY BILL TAKEN UP Benator Frye Yields Gavel and Takes Floor for His Favorite Project. ARGUMENTS FOR MEASURE ARE PILED UP Statisties Offered Showing That it Costs More to Operate Vessels Under the American Filag Than Under Others. WASHINGTON, Dec. 4.—The program of (he senate leaders for a business session was taken up In earnest today and ma- terial progress was made. What is pop- ularly known as the ship subsidy bill was made the unfinished business of the senate instead of the Spooner Philippine measure, | The discussion was opened by Mr. Frye ot Maine, chairman of the committee on com- merce, from which the subsidy measure was reported. He addressed the senate for more than an hour and a half. Recog- nized by his colleagues as an authority vpon the subject, he was accorded close at- tention. He had not concluded when the senate adjourned. The great crowds of yesterday were ab- sent and business on the floor proceeded during the day precisely as it would in midsession. As soon as the session opened the cre- dentlals of Senator-elect Dolliver o f lowa a8 presented and he was sworn in. Mr. Dillingham, the now member from Ver- mont, was assigned membership on the fol- lowing committee: Civil service, en- grossed bills, territories, transportation routes to the seaboard, additional accom- mcdations for the library of congress and Indian depredations, and Mr. Dolliver to Pacific rallroads, agriculture, education and labor, interstate commerce, postof- fices and postroads and improvements of the Mississippl river. Calendar Bills Passed. Bills on the calendar were passed as follows: To authorize the depositions be- fcre naval courts in certain cases with an amendment restricting its operation to dep- ositions taken at the Instance of the a cused; to authorize Captain N. M. Brooks, superintendent of foreign mialls, to accept the decoration of the Red le of the third class from the emperor of Germany; to authorize Hon. George D. Melklejohn to accept a decoration of chevaller of the first class from the government of Sweden and Norway; to encourage the holding of an Interstate and West Indiam exposition in Charleston, 8. C., in 1901. The measure appropriates $260,000 and admits exhibits free of duty. The resolution offered by Mr. Chandler on May 25 last to refer the credentials of Willlam A. Clark amd Martin Maginnls, appointed senators from Montana, to the ccmmittee on privileges amd elections was called up by Mr. Carter of Montana, but went over until tomorrow. si Subsidy Mensure. When the unfinished business, known as the Spooner Philippines bill, was lald be- fore the senate at 2 o'clock, Mr. Frye, hav- ing previously ylelded the gavel to Senator Gallinger, moved that the senate proceed to the consideration of the bill “to pro- mote the cemmerce and Increase tho for- elgn trade of the United States and to provide auxiliary cruisers, transports and scamen for government use when neces- sory,”” or, as better known, the ship sub- sidy blll. The effect of the motion was to make the ship subsidy bill the unfinished business. Mr. Jones (Ark.) demanded the yeas and nays. The motion prevalled, thirty-elght to twenty, follow: Yeas— Aldrich, Allison, Baker, Bard, Beveridge, Carter, Clark, Cullom Dolliver, Elkins, Foraker, Foster, Frye, Gallinger, Penrose, Perkins, Hllmn‘ Platt (Conn.), Hanebrough, Hawley, Quarles, Hoar, Scott, Sewell, Shoup, Stewart, Thurston, Wetmore, MeMillan, ' Wolcott—38. Mason, Heltfleld, Jones lArk ) Bacon, Berry, Butler, Clay, Cockrell, 3 Culbertson, Pettigrew, ngton—20. Harris, Pettus, Mr. Frye, the sponsor for the bill, ad- dressed the senate in explanation of It. His statement was elaborate and at times eloquent. This great maritime nation, he sald, was placed in a position humiliating beyond expression by the present condition of our merchant marine. With a boundless seacoast, unparalleled and unapproachable natfonal resources, shipbullders the equal of any In the world, the gzeatest exports in the world and every other argument in our favor, the United States had permitted its commercial rivals to seize the pathways of commerce and to hold them practically to the exclusion of this country. Senator Frye Furnishes Statiatios, Last year, of all the enormous expokts and imports of the United States, only 9 per cent was carried In United States bot- toms and the United States paid to for- eign nations $500,000 a day for doing car- rylng trade work for this country. He pointed out that during the war with Spatn the United States was forced to search the seas over for auxillary crulsers and trans- ports because we had sacrificed our carry- ing ships. “The world,” sald Mr. Frye, “has entered upon & flerce commerclal war and it is to be a long and strenuous conflict, Each nation s seeking the advantage of itn rivals in this conflict and is pressing for- ward to gain that advantage. Most of the foreign nations are looking for commercinl advantage In the east. Russia, for instance, Great Britain, Italy and Germany are pay- ing an aggregate of $5,000,000 a year in sub- sidies for the carrying ships of the eastern trade.” He pointed out that under present con- Qitions it cost the United States from 40 to 80 per cent more, principally In wages and food, to operate its ships that it costs Great Britain and about 80 per cent more than it costs Norway and yet the United States {s forced to compete under such a handicap with the encouraged and protected ships of forelgn countries. Mr. Frye discussed at some length the question of export bounties and diseriminat- ing dutles, maintaining that export houn- ties were impractable and that in the matter of dlscriminating duties the United States would encounter no less than thirty-one Qifferent treatles. These would have to bo abrogated if discriminating duties are enforced. The abrogation of these treaties would be an offense to every nation in- volved. “Our relations with Buropean countries today,” sald he “are most amicable, Do you think It wise to disturb these relations at this time."” Costs to Operate American Craft, Mr. Frye said he could see no reason why any man should favor free ships as a Sulltvan, Tallaferro, Teller, Tillman, Ves! w about 40 cents 'will Fe made on January 1 in freight rates on pig iron and billets from Pittsburg to .he seaboard. 1t is likely that concesslons will also be made in othor manufacturing centers, remedy In this connection me referred to the -hlpyll'dl of the United Hllt.l nd (Continued on Fifth Page.) |scHEMES oF G Delegates to Caban O aged VERNMENT nvention En- in Formuiafing Plans for the Fature. HAVANA, Dec. 4.—The Cuban constitu- tional convention resumed its sittings today with an alr of business. The first thing done was to defeat overwhelmingly the motion of Senor Gualberto Gomerz to dis- cuss General Wood's address at the open- ing of the convention. This action probably will close the incident. Three complete constitutions weroe sub- mitted by General Rivera, Senor Quesada and the negro General, Mora, respectively. These will be printed and distributed among the delegates, who will discuss them later. General Rivera’'s proposed constitution provides for a president, a senate, a house of representatives, a governor for each of the six provinces, a leglslative body for each province and for ome member of the house of representatives for every 30,000 Inhabitants, with election by popular vote His scheme calls also for the election of three electors in each munieipal district, whose duty It shall be to elect a legisla- tive body of eleven for the province im which they reside. This legislative body shall elect the governor and four members of the senate. Finally the six legislatures #hall meet and choose the president, who must be a native Cuban. Candidates for senatorial honors must have Incomes of at least $1,600 a year. General Rivera’s idea fs to have the ‘power invested in the ceniral government and the convention virtually pledged itselt to ono state government at yesterday's secret session. Senor de Quesada’s proposal will cemtra- lize the government in a president, senate and house of representatives elected by the people, suffrage being restricted to edu- cational qualifications. General Mora offered for approval the constitution of the United States, with the exception that anyone who fought in the war might be chosen president. His pro- posal leaves the question of an army and navy to be decided by congress. Senor Zayas offered a clause providing that a judiclal body higher than the su- preme court should be elected by popular vote und providing that any official re- moved from office should bave the right ot appeal to this body. Senor Ferrara submitted a general edu- cational scheme. AFFAIRS IN PORTO RICO Govermor Allen, in Hix Message to House of Delegates, Commen Upon Marked Progress. SAN JUAN, P. R, Dec. 4-The Porto Rican house of delegates, which was har- monlously organized yesterday, Senor Man- uel F. Rossy being elected speaker, met today in joint session with the executive council, the two bodies adopting a resolu- tion to cable greetings to President Mc- Kinley. Governor Allen's message was well recelved. It points out that the finances of the island are in a satisfactory condition, showing a balance of $1,583,496. The re- celpts from May to October, inclusive, were $1,041,69. The sum of $209,668, the bal- ance due from the custome, will be used to refund the chief revenue customs which cease in 1902, The governor recommends ag equitable system of taxation, fnolad Ase, In- heritanco tax and a direct § ' 'Upon real estate, together with a genbil valuation of all property and the abolition of mu- nicipal taxes. He announces (hat there are now 800 schools in the island, an increase of 184 during the last year. The reorganization of the judiclary sys- tem {8 recommended and an argument is made in favor of simpler forms of munici- pal government. The house of delegates submitted to the governor a petition for the pardon of all persons Imprisoned on political charges since the beginning of the American occu- pation. The executive council has decided not to grant a subsidy to the French rail- vay company, but it has granted a fran- chise for the construction of a pler at Ponce to J. D. Luce. BREAKS OUT OF BEDLAM John Armstrong Chanler, Former Husband of the Strenucus Amelie Rives, Eludes His Keepers. NEW YORK, Dec. 4.—John Armstrong Chanler, former husband of Amelia Rives, and who has been confined in Bloomingda asylum at White Plains, has escaped and 18 supposed to be wandering about the coun- try in Westchester county. Mr. Chanler has been confined in Bloom- ingdale asylum since February, 1897. He bad the free run of the grounds and could come and go at will, as he was looked upon as & harmless patient. Dr. Lyon, the su- perintendent of the institution, said today that a careful search was being made for the missing man and that he had no doubt but that he would be found within twenty- four hours. He was last seen walking toward Hamroneck. Chanler was well known in this country and Europo as the first husband of the Princess Troubetzkol, formerly Miss Amelia Rives, the authoress. Overcome by anxlety, harassed by business annoyance, to which he was unaccustomed, and disappointed be- cause of his wife's second marriage, his mind broke down. It became 80 enfeebled that his friends decided to place him in the asylum, where he could have absolute qulet. For more tham a year previous to the time he entered the asylum Mr. Chanler had been eccentric. His cbief delusion seemed to bo that he was a sort of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Constable's Friends Are Fur! T WORTH, Tex., Dec. 4 r and James W, Chapman, accused murdering Constable Peter Blaln in Dallas by saturating his clothes with turpentine and then firinj were brought here today by a strong herift's. guard And ladged. i oy narrowly escaped being lynches s ofssre Bore are apprehensive that an effort may be made to take the men from Jall. The’excitement {8 intense and threats are made that the men wil! be burned at the stake If they fall into the hands of the filends of the dead constable. The prison- ers refuse to make any statement. . 4.—From mo- tions ‘and affidayits filed in the court of ap- peals today it is evident that -Governor Bradley and other attorneys will try to bring the former judgment of the courts in the contest cases over minor s‘llh‘ offices up for review by the court of appeals after its reorganization In January, when Judge O'Rear (republican) goes on the bench, sy ing the republicans a majority In the court. Booming St. Louis' Big Falr, ST. LOUIS, Dec. 4.—A largely attended meeting of the varlois committees of the sisiana Purchase tennial Exposition was held at the Mercantile club tonight. In addition to local speakers Governor Barnes of 'Oklahoma spoke on the im- of the fair to help exploit the re- territory, New subscriptions d and a further Movement At N Glasgow. Salled—Cymric, for At~ Queenstown—Arrived—O 3 New York, for Liverpool; Ultonid, Boston, for 1 I\A'r]\uul At Glbraltar—Sailed—Kaiser Wilhelm 11, from Genoa s for New York. At the Li; Dec. 5, 2:10 &, m.— Pretorta, from New York, for Hamburg, At Liverpool—Arrived—Livonian, from Montreal, MRS. CASTLE'S DYING OATH Solemn Final Assertion of the Dead Woman Produced in Oourt, WORDS WRITTEN IN PENCIL ON TABLET Me amatic Scene In Court When Witness HBrumback Tells of Scenes Attending Deathbed Statement. ELDORADO, Kan,, Dec. 4.—Today in the Jessie Morrison murder trial the time was cpent in an effort on the part of the pros- ccution to prove the nuthenticity of a deathbed statement of Mrs. Castle, which it desired to introduce as evidence. Two physiclans, Mrs. Castle's pastor, Rev. Mr. Wharton, ‘his wife's daughter, and Austin Brumback, brother of the prosecuting at- torney In the rase, depicted the scene at the bedside of the dylng woman. They told how she, unable to speak because of the wounds in her throat, nodded assent as questions pertaining to the affair with Miss Morrison were put to her and how, finally, she signed her name to the state- ment and wrote the words: “By my God, it 18 true.” The statement declared that Jessie Morri- son had provoked the quarrel with the dead woman and then slashed her with a razor. A thrilling scene occurred during the cross-examination of Brumback. He had been requested totell what questions he had asked and what answers he had re- ceived while he was taking Mrs. Castle's tatement. To answer the question Brum- back related the statements made by the wounded woman; described the approach of Jessie Morrison to Mrs. Castle’s home and told of the preliminary conversation between the two women. Witneas Becomes Melodramatie. As Brumback proceeded his voice grew loud and his speech enphatic. His right arm went out in decisive gestures until reached the polnt where he said that Jessle Morrison handed Mrs. Castle a let- ter to be read and that while the latter perused the prisoner “took out her razor and cut her throat.” As he sald this Brum- bask sprang to his feet and dramatically passed his hand through the air as it he clutched a razor. Mrs. Wiley, mother of the murdered wo- man, put her handkerchiet over her face, f to hide the picture, and Olin Castle's mother covered her eyes with her handker- chief. Every head in the court room was immovable with all eyes straining for- ward. Jessle Morrison never flinched. She looked straight in front of her and, aside from the fact that her cheeks grew a lit- tle whiter and she closed her eyes for a minute as Brumback concluded, her ox- pression did not change. Olin Castle was not in the court room. The jury was excused and Dr. G. F. Am- brose was called to the stand. He de- scribed the manner in which the state- ment was made. Grouped around Mrs. Castle's bed were witness, Austin Brum- back, Dr. Noogler and Mrs. Wharton, wite of the dying woman's pastor. Mr. Brum- ‘back told Mrs. Castle to make a state- ment, an? then as” he awked questions whe wrote down the answers on a tablet of paper held by Mrs. Whurton. As she wrote the answers, Dr. Ambrose read them aloud, and as each answer was read Mrs. Castle, unable to utter a word, would nod her head in assent. This performance lasted many minutes and during that time it was fre- quently necessary to wipe the blood from the patient’s throat to prevent strangula- tion. Challenges the Statement. Ambrose two days later had agaln showed Mrs. Castle the statement. She nodded that she recognized the paper, signed it and wrote: “Before my God, it 1s true."" The defense objected to the admlission of this last sentence, saying that the prose- cution when ordered by the judge some time since to turn over all Mrs. Castle's writings to the defense, had not surren- dered the slip of paper containing these words. The objection was sustained. The cross-examination of Dr. Ambrose was directed against seven lines of .the dying statement that had been written by Dr. Ambrose himself, and added to the other statements made by Clara Castle and copled by Brumback. The lines in ques- tion were these: “I had just finished sweeping when I first saw Jessie at the gate. Before sweep- ing, 1 took the rugs to the board walk, whero I cleaned and left them. I do not know who fastened the screen, but I pre- sume I did, as I usually kept it closed. I make this as my dying statement Mrs. Castle had not sald these words to him, witness admitted, but she had glven the information to others, and she assented to it before she signed the statement. At the afternoon eession Austin Brum- back, Miss Edna Wharton and Rev. Mr. Wharton testified, corroborating Ambrose's testimony that Mrs. Castle had not ex- pected to get well and that she believed she was making her dying statement, WILL WIND UP ITS AFFAIRS International Packing Company at Meeting of Stockholders Decides on Liquidation, CHICAGO, Dee. 4.—Liquidation of the International Packing company was or- dered today at a meeting of the stock- holders and tomorrow Chairman John C. Hately will announce a committee of three (o represent the shares In this process. The bondholders will name a similar com- mittee of three to look after thelr In- terests and plan will be arranged if pos- sible to discharge the first mortgage llen and leave something for the preference shares. Whether the common stock will get anything is doubtful and the assets must be handled with great skill to sat- isfy prior licns. The downfall of the com- pany is said to have been caused by too close competition, in which the packing companies known as the Big Three were ar- rayed against the International. The International Packing company was organized In 1896 to mcquire the old In- ternational Packing company, T. E. Wells company, Allerton Packing ompany, J. . Hately, Hately Bros. and Jones & Stiles, 1" succeeded the British corporation known as the International Packing and Provision company. The other preferred and common stocks and the first mortgage bonds were exchanged for new stocks of new classes and debenture bonds. pr. Mru. Stod rd Sues for Divorce, BOSTON, Dec. Mrs. Mury J. Stoddard has filed a 'pot at the Middlesex county court for a divorce from her husband, John he well known lecturer.” ‘Mrs. desertion, 8he asks for d just alimony, ootin EXCELSIOR SPRINGS. Mo, Dec. 4— Thomas MeMullen shot and fatally woundel hiy stepdaughters husband A F. Cham. bers, on the treet here. The shooting was tha ‘culmination o( [ % family quarrel and was witnessed alf dozen people. Both men are vromlnont in business, Forecast for Nebraska and Thursday; North to I alr Wednesday st Winds, Temperature 5 t Omuha yesterday: Deg. a2 CEEREE~="F PARDONED OUT BY PINGREE Men Convicted of Groas Frauds Upon the State Receive xecutive Clemency. DETROIT, Mich., Dec. 4.—Governor Pin- gree, at 10 o'clock tonight, announced that he had pardoned both W. L. White, ex- quartermaster general, and A. F. Marsh, ex- inspector general of the Michigan National Gua who were convicted of complicity in the state military clothing frauds, upon the payment of a $5,000 fine by each. One thousand dollars of the fine is to be paid on January 1, 1901, and & like sum on the 18t of January, 1902, 1603, 1904 and 1905, White was committed to Jackson prison today to begin the ten-year sentence im- posed on him yesterday by Judge W and Marsh is under bonds pending the re- sult of an appeal of his case to the supreme | court. Governor Pingree's announcement of the pardon says: These men entered Into a consplracy with the Henderson-Ames company, a corpor tion composed of prominent and {nfiuentinl citizens of Kalamazoo, (o defraud the state of a large amount of money in connection with the sale and rep ase ot military clothing. One Byckerstaff, who was the agent for the Henderson-Ames company, was, according to his testimony, active in engineering the fraud, The cireult Judge and the prosecuting attorney of Ingham county, who had control of the procecdings before the grand jury, made no effort to have the grand jury bring all the gullty parties to Justice, but permitted the seven members of ‘the Henderson-Ames company and their agent, Byckerstaff, to go free. This ineffectual and one-sided kind of jus. tice 18 not consistent with my ideas of right | and wrong, and has had great weight In determining my action In these cases. Restitution has been made to the state b the Henderson-Ames company and Mars and White and the amount which the state lost the orlginal transaction has been returned with interest. Restitution having been made my Impulse i8 to place all the | guilty ones on the same footing, and I therefore “grant William L. White " and Arthur F. Marsh a pardon upon thelr pay- ing into ‘the treasury of Ingham county 5,000 each. COMETOGETHER IN DENSEFOG | Collision of Work and Frelght Tra in California Results in Eight Deaths. SACRAMENTO, Cal, Dec. 4.—Shortly after § o'clock this morning a work train, carrylng its crew of between fifteen and thirty track repairers, backed into frolght train No. 201, a few miles east of Sulsun, and in the wreck which followed elght men were killed and some twenty more injured, many of them serlously. From the meager reports received it appears that the freight train had the right of way and was run- ning at full speed in order to meet and pass another freight at Sulsun. The work- tratn should have been on a aiding and ‘was making for it ut a goud rate of speed when 1t collided with the freight. At the time there was a heavy fog prevailing and it was possible to discern objects for only a short dlstance, so the shock of the col- 1iding trains was terrific. All the casualties are reported to be amongst the men of the worktrain, as the engineers and fire- men jumped and saved themselves. Over 200 feot of track was torn up and the cars were smashed and piled up on each other in every concelvable shape. A wreck- ing train is on the scene of the disaster. WILL NOT APPOINT DEMOCRAT Governor Lind Still Persints censor of the Late Senator Davis Re a Republican. ST. PAUL, Minn., Dec. 4—Governor Lind 18 still finding diffculty to find a republican who will accept the appointment to the United States senate. He was called on today by many members of his own party who are nclined to protest at his decision not to appoint a democrat, claiming that some leader of the party should be given the honor, even though the term would ex- pire within six weeks or two months, when tho legislature acts. L. L. Brown of Winona, recently democrat candidate for congress in the First district, 18 being urged and former Congressman C. A. Towne, is not altogether out of the case. Such re- ports as have seemed most reliable today have been to the effect that the governor was anxious to appolnt some good repub- lican, whose appolntment would meet with the endorsement of the republicans in the legislature. These latter, however, are in town In force, and the opinion is generally expressed among them that any republican who accepts an appointment from a demo- cratic governor need ask no favors of them. MANY CATTLEMEN ARE THERE CHICAGO, Dec. 4.—Immense crowds were present today when the judging of the vari- ous classes of blooded animals on exhibition at the International Live Stock exposition at Doxter Park pavillon was continued. Tho exhibitions ct the agricultural colleges of Wisconsin, Michigan, Minnesota and lowa are regarded as one of the most important features of the exposition and the animals bred and raised by the students of those institutions, about 100 in number, were ex- amined with great interest by stock raisers, In & number of classes 8o far judged they have received first, second and third prizes, something never attained by agricultural colleges before. Exhibits of cattle are made by Michigan and Wisconsin and numerous breeds of sheep and swine are shown by all tour colleges. The sale of stock of the Hereford Breed- ers' association started today and hundreds ot prominent stockmen from all over the country were present to bid for the various grades of blooded cattle FORTY CASES OF SMALLPOX Health Offie Tof New York Dia- couraged at Fallure to Confine Disease to One Block. the one NEW YORK, Dec. 4.—Forty cases In pesthouse on North Brothers' island, new case in the infected district on the west side and two deaths to date, was the condition of the smallpox outbreak today as revorted by the Board of Health, None of the officlals took any comfort from the fact that but one new case developed to- day, as agalnst elght on Monday, for the smallpox has overleaped the bounds to which they had tried to confine it in the pelghborhood of “All Natlons' Block” in West Sixty-ninth street, where It started. They are now satisfied that they will have many more cases to deal with. | day. General Mercier Talks inFr (noh Benate of Descent Upon England. INVASION DECLARED TO BE FAIRLY EASY Scheme Much More Practicable Than It Was in the Days of Napoleon, NAVY PREPARED TO ACT AT ANY MOMENT Demand is Made for Provisions for Speedy Mobilization of Army, GREAT BRITAIN'S STRENGTH NOT SO GREAT Government Refuses to Con on Embracing Speaker's d Motion s Declared Out of Order. PARIS, Dec, 4.—General Mercler caused a deep sensation in the senate today dur- ing the debate on the naval bill by point- ing out the ease by which Enpgland could be invaded. He demanded that the gov- etnment introduce into the plans for the moblization of the army, the navy methods for the rapid embarkation and debarka- tion of an expeditionary corps. The president, M. Falleries, interfered, declaring that such proposals were out of order. In the course of an extraordinary speech General Mercler sald: “In view of the possibility of war with Great Britain the use of the army Is not sufficiently taken into account. The times aro not the same as they were 100 years ago. Steam, the navy, the telegraph and rallroad have rendered the problem of the invasion of England much easler of solu- tion. Moreover, England herself s no longer the same. The Transvaal war has shown that the British army, although brave, {8 not equal to the task which Eng- land expected it to perform. The British navy Is powerful, but it has many coasts to defend. “France, therefore, {8 numerically Eng- land’s equal at certaln points and is even her superior in the instruments of de- struction. History furnishes many in- stances of mutiny in the English navy at the moment of battle. A landing in Eng- land is, therefore, not beyond realization. “This 1s not only my opinion, but also that of high naval officials. The British premier recently expressed significant fears and if the principle of landing Is admitted the practical means of execution may be discussed. “Iventure to think that the work I pre- pared while commanding an army corps could serve as a basls for such a project, which would not be expensive. At this point protests were raised and M. Falleries asked General Mercier not to enter into the details of the scheme. Gen- Mercier replied that the scheme could be “held over the head of England like the swora of Damocles” and he reported a res- olution that the government would be In- vited to complete immediate preparations for the mobilization of the army and>navy by preparing everything necessary to em- bark and disembark as rapidly as poesible an expeditionary corps. Protests were ralsed from varlous bencher and M. De Lenessan, minister of marine, followed the president's ruling that the motion was out of order in tho present debate, declaring, amid cheers, that the government could not possibly accept it. Iden Worthy of the M LONDON, Dec. &.—~The Morning Post selzes the occaslon of General Mercler's speech in the Freuch senate yesterday to criticise the weakness of Britlsh defenses, which, it says, must be attrbuted to red tape, but the papers generally treat Mer- cler's outburst in a spirit of banter. t is an idea worthy of the courageous soldier who perjured Dreyfus into a llving grave and who, as minister of war, sat shivering with terror during a whole night at the Elysee lest Germany should declare war agalnst France,' the Dally Chron- icle, and miost of the morning papers com- ment in a similar strain, The Daily Graphic says: “We trust that General Mercler's harangue will awaken sober public opinion in France to the dan- gers tho public is courting by allowing na tionalist fircbrands so much license.” The Standard says: *The incident s rather encouraging to Englishmen who es- teem and respect France because it proves that responsible Frenchmen are not dls- posed to deal equivocally with proposals having a tendency to disturb the good re- lations between the power: GLOBE IS ON THE WARPATH Jingo Organ Voices the Sent the Extreme Section in Eng! ent of LONDON, Dec. 4. ercifully,” says the Pall Mall Gazette, “not even the con- clentious Reuter has cabled the full fitteen columns of President McKinley's message. This was wise, since no English paper could possibly have printed it, to the neces- sary exclusion from its pages of Boer and other things that really do stir the great heart of the people. The most interesting section, however, China, is given tully, but 1t cannot be sald that its length s squiva- lent to its strength.” The Globe airs the ultra-jingolstio opinions, of which it has almost & monopoly. Taking for 1is text the reference to the isthmian canal it declares that Washington 1s “not entitled to override our treaty- secured rights in any part of Central America, except with the consent of our government. The Hay-Pauncefote compro- mise goes farthest In extreme conciliation and represents this country's very last word, and the United States must either accept the proposal as It stands or abide by the ruling of the Clayton-Bulwer treaty, however embarrassing its provisions may be to American imperialism.” Liner Knocked Over by Hammer Blow PARIS, Dec. 4.—Owing to a misdirected hammer blow by one of a number of men working near the keel of L'Aquitaine at Havre yesterday the liner sprung a leak and the water entered her machine rooms, causing her to heel over. Her moorings broke and the stage connecting the quay with the vessel fell, precipitating three men Into the water. The men were quickly rescued and measures were immediately taken to pump out the leakage. Caar Able to 8it Up. LIVADIA, European Russia, Dec. 4.—The physiclans of the czar issued the following bulletin today: The czar passe hours very sitlafa ing his temperatu the last twenty-four torily. Vl-Mlul‘dur even- o was 100.6 and his pul 8. This morning his temperature = w $6.6; pulse, 66 Hin general condition B good. His majesty is now able to it i an‘ivalid chalr at intervals during the