Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 31, 1900, Page 1

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE. MONDAY SINGLE COPrY FIVE CENTS FOREIGN ENVOYS OFFICIALLY NOTIFi. Emperor Instrocts His Plenipotantiaries wr Get the Best Terma Possible. LIMITATION OF LEGATION GUARDS ASKED Disarmament of Forts Instead of Their Destruction is to Be Demanded. COURT TO RETURN TO PEKIN IN FEBRUARY Hang € Very Bad and It in Be- mt He Will He Com- pelled to Give Way. PEKIN, Dec. 30.—The Chinese plenipo- tentiaries have been unexpectedly ordere to sign the preliminary joint note and have notified the forelgn envoys to that effect. The Chinese themselves were greatly ac tonished at receiving the lmperial instruc | tions. Neither Li Hung Chang nor Prince Ching had expected success in persuading the court under ten days The emperor's instructions are to agree fully to the note, but to endeavor to get the best terms possible, particularly in the matter of limiting the number of the lega tion guards and also as to the these are to be located. The tiaries are Instructed to endeavor to limit the number of army posts along the line of rallway to as few as possible and finally to require the powers not to destroy the forts, but to merely disarm them. | LI Hupg Chang's health s bad and it is | doubtful whether he will be able to do more than aflix his signature to an inscru- | ment delegating his powers to Prince Ching | until another plenipotentiary has been ap- | pointed. He was dressed this morning and | carridd in a chalr to the residence of Prince Ching, with whom ie held a long consulta tion. Prince Ching then called upon the doyen of the diplomatic corps, the Spanish | minister, Senor de Cologan, and requested | him to notify the other envoys that in- structions had been received from the em- peror to sign the note. Emperor Yearns for Pekin, PARIS, Dec. 30.—Prince Ching and 7.i Hung Chang, accordiug to another dispatch to the Havas agency, say that Emperor Kwang Su has expressed a desire that the court should return to Pekin at the end of February. The Havas agency has received the fol- lowing dicpatch from Pekin: “Prince Ching and LI Hung Chang have communicated to the forelgn envoys an im- perfal edict in which the emperor declarcs that China accepts the jolnt note and authorizes Prince Ching and Li Hung Chang to negotiate and ask for a suspension of hostilities.” WASHINGTON, Dec. 30.—The report that the Chitese plenipotentiaries Lad been di- rected to sign the joint note is a dource of satisfaction to officlals here as indicating a disposition. on the part of the Chinese government to hced the desire of the powers that negotiations shall be entered on at once and the present unsatisfactory condition of affairs terminated. The em- peror, it was expected, would instruct his agents to obtain the best terms possible. One of the principal objections said to have been made by tthe Chinese to the lo- cation of any great number of legations guards in Pekin is that these guards would be a menace to the existing Chinese gov- ernment. Ounly Dismantle the F As has patches, does not tn. already been stated in these dis the United States government desire the absolute demolition of the Taku forts, but simply their dismantle- | ment, 8o that ready access to the Chinese capital of a forelgn forco would not be prevented. The demand of the powers in the joint note, however, was for the de- struction of the forts. Inquirles sald to havo beer made by the Chinese goversment of the envoys, of which Inquiries, however, no officlal Intimation has been received from Mr. Conger, have been regarded by the offclals of this government as reason- able and because of this more delay than has occurred was expected in the court's direction for the signature of the pote. Nothiog has como from Mr. Conger regard- ing the status of the note since a cable ram from him some duys ago announciug | that it had been presented to the Chinese. | Mr. Wu, the Chinese minister, Is some- what puzzled as 10 just what construction to place o1 the Pekin dispatch Al along | he has regarded ghe demands conveyed in tho joint note as harsh and severo and the statement that it has been signed cau him surprice. He {3 fnclined to belic that in all probability what the emperor has directed is that the Chinese plenipo- tentiarles proceed to discuss in a friendly manner with the envoys the terms of tho | Agreement with a view, as stated in the Pekin dispateh, to obtain the best terms poesible along certain specified lines and also In others not coutained In tho cablo- i STAND IN FEAR Chin Anxious I sagement Re OF GERMANY PEKIN, Saturday, Dec. 29.—The Germans killed forty Chinese troops near Man Che ng, northwest of Pao Ting F Th had no casualties. Among the npatlves a feeliug of great mistrust Is Leing caused, ap parently, by the high-handed action of the Germans, as the Chinese suspect them of an intentlon to force a serious engagement with the Chinese troops. r—— NEW TRIAL FOR STERNBERG Berlin HBanker Convieted of ai fenne Agninst Morality Make Successful Appeal, BERLIN, Dec. 30.—The Lokal Anzeiger | announces that the uppeal in the case of the | banker, Sternberg, convicted of an offense | agalnst morality, will result in a new trial, owing to u legal flaw. It also asserted that proceedings have been begun agalost Dr. Selle, the leading counse] for Sternberg, and his junior coyn- #0l, for collusion to secure the acquittal of Sternberg. —— Yanger Wants to ¥ CHICAGO, Deg. 30.~Benny Yanger, th *“Tivton Blasher." through his lager (o- night deposited a torfeil of $1.000 wit1 George Sller and Issued a challenge to fight Terry MeGovern at 12 pounds, ringside before the eclub offerin ments. As these are t asked by MeGovern's manager it is almost e tainty the match” will bo made It the over | my | of joints because of my work, and no one | will deny 1t | yesterday and some will be held today. n meet 1t will be for the featherwelght champlonship of the world, Saloon-Smasher Refuses Bond, but Wants Money with Which to ¥ Fine. WICHITA, arrie Nation, the Woman's Christian Temperance union “joint” wrecker, has refused bail cured by her co-workers. She now says under 1o circumstances will she step f jall until cleared of the charge st her, and the Woman's Christian nperance unlon committee which had taken up the matter has practicaily aban- doned its efforts to secure her release. | The county attorney, It is said, s se- riously considering a suggestion made by the saloon men to withdraw the charge of malicious destruction of property and pre- ferring one of insanity against her. Thero is doubt in their minds that they can hold her upon the prosent charge, and they are bound to punish the woman in some form for the mischief she has done. Whon spoken to on this matter, Nation laughed and sald 1 expect they will resort to this as a last means to make me abandon my crusade against the liquor dealers, but 1 will appeal to every liberal-minded person and let them judge it any argument with me and by my conversation whether or not I am crazy. As 1 sit alone in this cell and think of how many boys are going to the dogs he- cause of this vile traffic in lguor T am | ready to endure anything for the cause Whe ave this prison I will not be con- | quered, 1 ) on to other citiex and there d t 1 have done in Wichita. Ther ands of joints and open saloons taking the money and manhood from our young men and officers stand by | nd take ‘fines and bribes to allow such awful work to continue. 1 appeal to the peoplo in the east to stop such abuses of | the law. 1 admit that my method of wreck- ing waloons has been rather out of the bounds of the general custom, but some- thing desperate is necessary. 1f the ble of the cast, who are for temperance, will lend me their 1 port and influence, with the few working temperance women of Kansas, we will be able to get rid of the foints in Kansas, and 1 do not think they would ever | come back. Al I want is people to help | me out of these scrapes when I wreck sa- loons. T need mon pay my fines, so can get out and go at i again, instead of Iying in jall. True, I can now get out on bond anil go to smashing up saloons again, and I may yet declde to do such work, but 1 want to make a_clean sweop as | ‘o, und not have fines hanging over | | Mrs, head. Quick aid 18 what in needed. Money with which to prosecute this work must "be forthcoming immediately. 1 will the saloon men sorry and in threo will not be one joint in the with pride to what work 1 pmplished n Medicine Both towns are devold A movement has been started by the local Woman's Christian Temperance union tp impanel a speclal grand jury to investigate the conduct of the city and county officlals in permitting the sale of liquors in Wichita. To day the county jall was placarded with a quarantine sign and no visitors were altowed to enter. It 1s baid that this was @ ruse of the jail officlals to keep out Mrs, | Natlon's friends, who have daily visited her in great numbers. HE OBJECTS TO WALDERSEE British Correspondent Bxcited Over the Way the Germans Are Con- ducting Things in Chin, LONDON, Dee. 31—Wiring to-the-Times from Pekin yesterday, Dr. Mofrison says: The Chinese have accepted all the con- ditions of the jolnt note. They are send- Ing formal acceptance by a foreign envoy, and ask that negotiations shall commence forthwith and that military operations cense. Li Hung Chang is much better, although greatly shaken. Five expeditions are now operating. Every report tells of increasing unrest. The policy of depriving the Chinese of all power to exercise authority is spread- | ing disorder broadcast and foreing peaceul Chinese into opposition. In a dispatch dated December 28 Dr. Morrison sends a long protest against Ger- man harshness, which he says is creating | Instead of checking disorder. He accuses | the Germans of harryiog the country and | punishing the innocent and the gullty in- | discriminately in order to levy fines for de- fraying thelr own military expenses and to form an excuse for continued occunation. He also charges Count von Waldersee with a breach of falth on the ground that he gave Li Hung Chang a map deflning the area of the occupation in the province of Chi Li and indicating the district beyond which the allies would not operate, and yet allowed the German troops to inflict severe punishment upon the Chinese at Tsang Chau and Yung Ching, both of which are outside the area. Repeating his state- ment that the Germans are preparing for an_expedition to Sian Fu in the spring and also fomenting trouble in the Yang Tse valley, Dr. Morrison says: “The question arises whether the oc- caston should not be selzed to separate the British troops from Count von Waldersee's command." TAKES Are PESSIMISTIC VIEW Fordice Frinr of Wen minster Abbey Sees Trouble for England. LONDON, Dec. 31.—All the religious de- nominations urranged for “end of the cen- tury services,” some of which were held At Westminster abbey Archdeacon Fordico Friar, preaching yesterday, took a gloomy view of the future. Ho safd he thought it by no means improbable that early in the coming century England would have to meet u combination of European powers. Refer- ring to the “serious trade competition of Germany and the United States,” he ap- pealed to England to rouse herself. Allud- iog o the national curse of Intemperance, he sald that Rev. Charles Sheldon of To- peka, Kan., said he had seen more drunk- enness In England fn a year than in his own country in a lifetime. REBELLION IN COLOMBIA Ncting Repo Concerning the Status in South American Repul lie Come to Hand, Ahen CARACAS, Venezuela. Dec. 30.—General Uribe, the chief of the Colomblan revolu- tion, who was recently defeated at Corazel, in the province of Bolivar, has arrived at Maracaibo. This is regarded as a deathblow to the revolutionary movement. KINGSTON, Jamaica, Dec. 30.—The Brit- ish stecamer Orinceo, which arrived here today from Colon, Colombla, reports con- siderable r activity in nearly all the provinces. The Colombia rallway and tne Magdalena river service are disorganized and busivess is at & standstill in every sec- tion except Colon. The Colombian government, according to the same advices, has been making unsuc- cessful attempts to corner the rebel bands. ere—— by Elevators. 0. Dec, 30.—Two fright- ful elevator aceldents occurred here toduy within_five minutes in bulldings oniy a distance from each other, F)‘«(fl-'\’ mm of London, Ontarlo, stepped into an open shaft ‘and fell six wtories and Raloh Spellman, aged 19 fell nine stories. Both were Instantly killed, K CLEVELAND, I SUFFER HEAVY LOSS OF LIFE Lord Kitohener Reports Eritish Loss as Fifty Killed and Wounded. LIST OF CAPTURED WILL REACH 200 elvetin After Cap- d Are Now Belng Fol- lowed by a Strong De- tachment. LONDON, Dec. 31.—The War office has received the following dispatch from Lord Kitchener: “Pretorla, Dec. 30, 7:60 a. m.—General Lytleton reports that our post at Helvetia was captured yesterday morning by the Boers. About fifty were killed and wounded and 200 taken prisoners. neral Kitchener reports that he s fol- lowing with a small force in the track of the enemy, Helvetia belug reoccupled by Reeves, who has been reinforced from Bel- tast. Helvetla was a very strong position on the Machadorp-Lydenburg railway and was beld by a detachment of the Liverpool regiment. Am asking for further Informa- tion. " While Lord Kitchener sends bad news for England on the closing day of the year, the press continues to take a surprisingly hope- ful view of a grave situation and of revela- tions of an enormously wide fleld of Boer ac- tivity. General Dewet ls still at large. Kim- berley is lsolated. The Boers are in force enough to have captured a strong position at Helvetla, in the Leydenburg district, while, Judging from Lord Kitchener's very recent advices no progress is belng made against the Boer {nvaders In Cape Colony. According to further telegrams received yesterday Zeerust is practically besieged, but has provisions sufficient for five months. The garrison at Ottoshoop has been with- drawn to Lichtenbury A dispatch from Carnarvon dated yester- day reports that the Boers, who have becn threatening that point, have been driven off and are being pursued. “It s evident,” says a belated message from Krugersdorp, dated December 23, “that the Boer commissarfat in the di- rection of Magaliesburg is well supplied and that untll the country between here and the Magallesburg is properly cleared of Boers they will continue to concentrate there, the ground being particularly adapted to their methods of warfar Boers Admit Heavy Loss. The Boers admit that in their fight with General Clements at Nooitgedacht they lost 130 men. “It Is understood that Lord Kitchener cannot ask the colonies officlally to send troops,” says a Durban dispatch dated De- cember 29, but he desires it to be known in Australia and Canada that Australians and Canadians arriving in Natal will be eligible for immediate enlistment in the irregular corps, which is proceeding to Johannesburg for five months' servic To emphasize Lord Kitchener's covert admission that no progress Is being made against the iInvasion of Cape Colony, a correspondent at Burghersdorp, wiring on Saturday, reports as follows: “Two fresh commandoes are entering the colony. One has already crossed ncar Knappdaar and the arrival of another is momentarily expected in the Steynsburg district. The Boers are sald to have two or three horses each, though in bad condition. They have no guns or transports, but are well supplied with Lee-Metford rifles and ammunition. Captured Boers say that the intention of these commandoes {8 to roam about and wait until General Dewet ap- pears upon the scene.” Cape Colony Dutch Are Quiet, All dispatches arriving in London agree that the Cape Dutch show no inclination to rise, but on the contrary, appear to be tired of the war and desirous of peace Many refuse to supply the Boers with food. Details of the Greylingstad affair show that wh'le Colville's column was pursuing the Boers a second force of 400 of the enemy was seen moving toward the camp where the British transport was enspanned. The British force made a plucky stand until reinforcements arrived with artillery and, after a severe fight, the Boers were defeated. The British losses altogether were nine killod and sixty-three wounded and missing. The Boers are sald to have thirty-one killed, Lord Kitchener, wiring from Pretoria on Saturday, December 29, says: There is not much change in the situation in Cape Colony. The eastern force of the enemy appears to have broken up in small parties at Utrecht and to be moving about rapldly in the same district, evidently wait- ing for support from the narth he last report states that the western force s moving to Carnarvon. De Lisle and Thornycroft are in close pursuit. French has occupied Ventersdorp, ments reports that he 18 opposed on the road to Rustenburg. The eastern line was blown up near Pan and a train was held up on the Staaderton line near the Vaal. White's column has arrived at Senekal. Knox's column an Boye's brigade are holding Dewet from breaking south. “A warrant has been issued against Dr. Rewater, a member of the late Schreiner cabinet, who 18 under arrest on a chargo of delivering a seditious speech at Graaf Reinet, inciting to rebellion in connection with the recent Boer invasion of the col- ony, and this,” says the Capetown corre- spondent of the Dally Telegraph, “Is the commencement of a series of arrests, her- alding a wide extension of martial law.” LONDON, Dee. 31.—The Dally Malil calls on the government to send out at least 50,- 000 more mounted men. MAORIS ARE NOT WANTED Chamberiain Credited with Declining res of Brown-Skinned War- riors of New Ze: d. LONDON, Dec. 31.—Mr. Chamberlain, cording tc a dispatch from Welllngton, New Zealand, has declined the services of Maorls for South Afric CABINET CRISIS AT MADRID Senor Sagasta, Former Premlier, De- 'hat & Change of Ministry is Inevitable, Cle- MADRID, Dec. 30.—Rumors of a cabinet crisis increase. Senor Sagasta, former pre- mier, has broken silence aund declares that @ change of mwinistry Is inevitable on ac- count of the difference in the cabinet itself, as well as in the ranks of its supporters. Many ministeriallsts assert that the Az carraga government will continue. Should it fall its only possible successor would be a Silvela ministry. MOUNTAIN CLI Ger Tourist Mount Schw Guides and MBERS KILLED Attempt to Ascend ubergen Without 1l Into Abyss. LONDON, Dec. 31.—Two German tourists, Loiner and Kindlinger, ascended Mount Schwarzenbergen without guides, according to a dispatch to the Daily Express from Vienna, and fell into an abyss and wer killed. . CONDITION OF THE WEATHER recast for Nebraska—Fafr and Warmer Monday; Winds Becoming Northerly ure at Omahn Yesterday: De Tempe ppines Go Way. CHICAGO, Dec. 30.—Prof. M. M. Manga- sarian, a well known Chicago Congrega- tional clergyman, delivered a lecture on “The Close of the Century” at the Grand opera house tonight. He sald n part Let the American peoplo celebrate the birth of the twentioth century by a mem- orable act—glve liberty to the Filipinos. Victor Hugo used to say that no festival or colebration was complete which did not bring amnesty or pardon to some people. Let us pardon the Filipinos for rebelling | against our sovereignty, it that 18 the crime with which we charge them. Lot us con- fer upon them liberty. Let America es- tablish this precedent—that of giving freely and without price to a people who prefer liberty to life. Liberty has hitherto been wrested from rulers at the point of a bay- onet. Let us have liberty in the twentieth century without the bayomet. Our exam- ple, 1 am hopetul, will beeome a noble epidemic. Russia, Turkey aud Great Brit- ain will go and do likewise, and Polund, Armenia and South Africa will once wore know the sweets of liberty. Such an act on our part will deal the deathblow to war, which a great American has called ‘hell,’ and will usher in the thousand years of pence. “Let us baptize the twentieth century in the name of peace, liberty and progress. Let us christen her the people’s century. Let ug ask of the new century a religion without superstition, polities without war, art and the sciences without materialism and wealth without misery ar wrong." — TAX RECEIVER IN TROUBLE James H. McCullough of Altoona, Pa., Leaves Town After Confessing to Shortage of $20,000. ALTOONA, Pa., Dec. 30.—James H. Mc- Cullough, former receiver of state and county taxes for Altoona, has disappeared and is sald to be over $20,000 short in his accounts. McCullough had held the office of receiver since 1894, but the county com- missoners did not reappoint him last spring because he had not squared his duplicates for the past several years. He was under bond in the sum of $50,000. The county commissioners had a secret examination made of the accounts and a shortage of $10,000 was quickly discovered. County Commissioner Hughes went to Mec- Cullough for an explanation. McCullough confessed he was over $20,000 short. He said that he began buylug stocks in New York three years ago, and” when his first venture failed he doubled to retrieve him- self, and lost every time. _ "I could not win even at poker,” he ad- mitted, “and the more chances 1 took the further I went toward ruin.” McCullough's home is mortgaged, but he deeded it to his bondsmen, and on Thurs- day night he left the city. McCullough was short in 1807, the shortage amounting to some $20,000. It is sald he used the col- lections of 1868 and 1899, to square this amount. McCullough is about 50 yeais old and was looked upon as a solid business man. There has been no effort to arrest him as yet. TRIBUTE TO AMERICAN MAN Hall Sayw Hig m o Caine Position of is Country ix Partly Other Sex. CHILLICOTHE, Mo., Dec, 30.—Hall Caine, writing to the Sorosis, a local woman's club, under date of Grecha Castle, Isle of Man, December §, says: When one considers what woman was, even in the most civilized countries, as recently as 100 years ago, in.d how higl' @ pluce gho has 10w won for her- #elf, not only in the statute books of na- tlong, but in the republic of art, one can- not but feel that the change I8 even mora remarkable than some of ‘the great ma- terfal developments which have distin- gulghed the century Speaking as who has seen the con- ditions In many countries, I feel that it §< within the truth to say thai the position of woman is higher in America than in any other part of the world, F this re- suft American women have. no doubt, o thank their own natural et great independence of mind, but they i 1 think, to be grateful to the chivalry in the other sex, which fs nowhe more_conspicuous than in the best ype of American gentlemen. HALL "CAINE, STATEHOOD FOR ARIZONA Governor Murphy on Hix Wa: Washingt » Continue forts in rvitory's Bel NEW YORK, Dec. 30.—Governor Nathan €. Murphy of Arizona Is at the Holland house and will go to Washington Tuesday to continue his efforts to have that territory admitted as a state, “We have a hard fight on our hands,” he said today, “but we purpose keeping it up until success crowns our efforts. Our peo- ple want self-government and the advan- tages of statehood. Freedom is the underly- ing sentiment which urges us on. We be- lleve it entirely wrong for a people to be taxed directly or indirectly without repre- sentation. We are tired of territorial vas- salage. “Arizona has a population of more than 122,000, having increased over 100 per cent in the last decade. We have more people and more money than twenty-three of the states had when they were admitted.” QUAY WILL CONTROL SENATE Populist Senator Was noances That He Will Hereafter Act with the Republ Woman in Due the position of HARRISBURG, Pa., Dec. 80.—State Sena- tor Washburn of Crawford county, who was elected two years ago os a populist with democratic and prohibition endorse- ment, lssued a formal statement tonight announcing that he allied himself with the republican party and will participate in its councils and organization, Mr. Wash- burn voted with the democrats at the last sesslon for George A. Jenks for United States senator and took part in their coun- clls and voted for all party measures. Mr. Washburn's declaration created much surprise, as he was counted on by the dem- ocrats to vote with them on the organiza- tion of the senate and for the party nom inee for United States senator. His deser- tlon gives the friends of Mr. Quay control of the senate and practically insures the election of Willlam P, Snyder of Chester president pro tem. I I ‘ to E. A. Cudahy: dhy: alone, If y i | | | | ! ! ! | PEOPLE HOWL WITH DESPAIR Believe They Are Burely Lost. After Battling with the Elements for Over Two Days the Vessel Man- en to Make Queenstown, Her Last Port of Sailing. ~The British Captain Taylor, QUEENSTOWN, Dee. steamer Lake Megantic, from Liverpool on December 25, and Queenstown on December 26, for St. John, returned to Queenstown harbor yesterday (Sunday) morning, after a terrible experi- ence in the gale. The vessel left Queens- town on Wednesday, carrying the Canadian mails, forty-five saloon and fifty cabin pas gengers and about 500 steerage passengers, principally foreigners, with many Jews among them. It had reached a point about 400 miles west on Thursday night, when it encountered a merciless gale. Behaviug splendidly, the steamer would have got through had mot the steering gear become damaged badly, placing it In a dangerous position. The crew worked bravely and rigged handgear and the vessel was again brought under control. Unfortunately the handgear also became damaged. The gale lasted twenty hours and an immense sea broke over the ves- scl, smashing the booby hatch and flooding it between decks, where the steerage pas- sengers were located. It also washed away a greater portion of the fittings and did considerable deck damage. Three lifeboats were smashed. Some of the crew were seriously injured and one seaman was killed on deck. Wheu the storu inoderated, Centatn Tay- lor declded to return to Queenstown. It was difficult work to steer the big ship, but it managed to anchor here without as- sistance. Its officers and men were ex- hausted To everybody's surprise the Beaver com- | pany dirceted Captain Taylor to take the | Lake Megantic to Liverpool and it pro- ceeded there with all its passengers and malls, to be transferred to the Lake Su- perior, which will leave the Mersey on | Tuesday. The company ordered a tug to accompany the vessel, but none was available here. | Tugs will be sent from Liverpool to ment it. There will be considerable anxiety as to the vessel's safety in its present dis- abled condition, ally as the weathor has again broken in a high northwest gale. It was impossible to interview any of the Lake Megantic's crew and the agents are reticent, but it is understood there were indescribable scenes among the phssengers, who were said to have howled in despair, expecting that the steamer would founder at any moment. MYSTERY AS DEEP AS EVER Prosecution ax Vet Unable to Real Clue to Murderer of Frank Richardson. espes ST. JOSEPH, Mo., Dec. 30.~The bellet is rapidly gaining ground that the murderer of the millionaire merchant, Frank Rich- ardson of this city and Savannah, will never be known. The prosecution has run down almost every theory that has come to the | attenton of the officers and all have van- ished into air. Ex-Congressman Charles Booher, who is the prosecuting attorney of Andrew county, said tonight that he probably would be able to got hold of the domestic servant of the Richardson home some time this week. | She is visiting in northern Missouri some- | where, but the officers have been unable to locate her since the night of the tragedy | A traveling man, whose name has been | incidentally mentioned in connection with |‘th case, has disappearcd and detectives | are endeavoring to locate him. Mrs. Richardson Is still confined to her | bed with nervous prostration and the at- | tending physicians tonight did not think she would be able to go to the courtroom tomorrow. SCRANTON STRIKE SETTLED en and Company Agre to a Com- promise Which Ends Trouble Begun One Week Ago. Pa., Dec. 830.—At m., the street car strike, was begun a week ago, was called oft. President Clark, General Mana- ger Silliman and Directors John and Tim- othy Burke of the street car company came to the strikers' hall after the vote to com- promise was carried and were recelved with tumultuous cheers. The men demanded what was an equivalent to an advance of 3 cents an hour. They were allowed conts. The old rates of wages were 121 cents for the first six months, 13% cents for the second six months, 14 cents for the second year, 15 cents for the third year and 15 57-100 for the fourth year. The new rates are 4, 15, 16, 17% and 19 cents. The men are also allowed a ten-hour day. Three hundred and twenty-five men were affected SALE OF DANISH ANTILLES High Oficial of Den k Declares That Germany is Not Negotiat- ing for Purchase of Islands COPENHAGAN, Dec. 30.--In Danish offi- cial eircles the report that Germany is ne- gotlating to purchase the Danish Antilles 18 denied. “It the Islands are to be sold.” sald a high official today, “'the purchaser will be the United States and nb other power. All will | be sold or none.” SCRANTON, 12:45 a. which Here is the Text of the Misspelled Note Sent by Mail to the Cudahy Household, Following is the exact text of the second threatening letter sent If you value the hoy's life at the price of a bulet you will withdraw the reward at once and let well anough ot don't do this we will finish the If any man whether gilty or inocent is ever arested a bulet will close the boy's mouth. 0000000000000000000000 0000000000000 0s00ce soosososs eeesstessesssssctetsssstttecsssosrtsscsectsssesctoscs Passengers on Board Steamer Lake Mogantio [ STEERING APPARATUS GOES DURING STORM | 2000000000000 00000000000000 0000000ttt tsssssctsssnn -, S L TN EECIESLSECEITrVIVEPON e VeSS EXACT COPY OF SECOND LETTER i b with a bulet. You will think of this eeccscsscssssscscssccssces I@ecsccsccscoscscsccscssssossone [ o0 {TO WORTHY POOR OF ASHLAND | M. B, Rowewnier Contributes the Fund Which the ple of that Vieinity Raine. | ASHLAND, Neb., Dec. 30.—(Speciai,)—W Becker, ir., editor of the Ashland Ga- | zette, has received back from E. Rose | water the check for $21.50, which was for warded to him as a contribution from the | peopie of Ashland and vicinity towards the | payment of the fine imposed upon him by the supreme court. Mr. Rosewater made the check payable to Rov. C. P. Hackney, who, | was authorized to distribute the proccedt |as a hollday gift to the worthy poor of Ashland. In his letter to Mr. Becker Mr. Rosewater expresses to the subscribers of the fund his heartfelt appreciation of their sympathy. BLIZZARD IS NOT SERIOUS Sweeps Down Upon Omain from the Northwest, but $nowfall v Light. A blizzard swept down upon Omaha yes- terday from the northwest, but the storm was not general in nature. Advices show that the storm is slight and that the fali of snow has not been great outsida of Colc rado. At Pueblo 3.6 inches of snow were reported and other points in the state had | | & lighter fall. Dodge City, Kan., reported | | one-half-inch of precipitation, and the | amount decreased for points further east. South and east of Omaha the storm was very light and many points reported no | precipitation whatever. The temperature | west was falling rapidly. At Cheyenne it | was six below zero at 7 o'clock last even- ing and the temperature was still falling. | At the local weather station the state- | ment was made last night that the storm | was comparatively light over the limited area it covered and that there was no reason to expect any great fall of snow. Snow Storm at St. Joweph, ST. JOSEPH, Mo, Dec. 30.—A severe suowstorm set in late this afternoon with a constantly lowering temperature. Tele- graphic reports from all sections of K'n sas, Nebraska, lowa and northern Missouri show the fall to be heavy. Winter wheat in many sections of these states, as well as throughout the west generally, has been greatly in need of a heavy blanket of snow, which will afford ample molsture as well as protection to the grain from severe freezing. i | Cold in Colorado, DENVER, Colo., Dec. 30.—A blizzard vis- ited Colorado last night and has continued with varied strength throughout the state today. The temperature is falling tonight in most sections and at several places the fall of snow has been quite heavy. Rail- road traffic, though not serlously affected, has been interrupted and trains are all ar- riving late. No great damage to live stock | has been reported, SIx Below Zero in Trenton. TRENTON, Neb., Dec. 30.—(Special Tele- gram.)--At an early hour this morning it commenced snowing and has continued throughout the day, accompanied by a light wind. Temperature, 6 degrees below zero. This is the first moleture for several weeks Storm Strikes Southwest, KANSAS CITY, Mo, Dec. 30.—A snow storm, driven by a strong north wind, pre- vailed hero tonight. The storm Is general in the southwest. No reports of damage or delay of trains have been received CARD GAME ENDS IN MURDER Dead at Abb un the Reault of n Refu, or One Man's Stake. ABBEVILLE, §. 0., Dec. 0. Kennedy of this cousty, William Ky Massachusetts, who has been superintead- ing the bullding of a cotton mill here, and John Dansby, a United States marshal, are dead as the result of a shooting at a card game nd an attempt to arrest the men who did the shooting. Several persons were playing cards last pight, when Dansby threw §2 on the table afd sald: *Play for this.” “The men at tho table refused and u “altercation ensued. Dansby suddenly drew a pictol and shot Kyle in the ab- domen. e then backed out of the room, declaring that he would shoot anyone whe attompted to stop him. Ho was followed by two policemen, but ho held them at bay untll Sherlft Kennedy and a number of | citizens arrived. The sheriff called to Dansby to come out of the house of his father, whither he had fled, and surrender Dansby ecrme out and, with the remark “Well, we'll all go to hell together," be- gan firlng. Dansby was shot twico in the | leg and one in the chest and the sherifr | was struck near the heart and fell. Dansby | walked fifty steps and was reloading hix pistol when he was shot again by the dying sherlff. The sherift and Dansby died within | 4 fow mirutes of eack other. Kyle lingered until 2 o'clock today S NO REORGANIZATION LIKELY res That Nat mmittee Will Not Changed. KANSAS CITY, Dec. 80.-Judge J Johnson, chairman of the executive com mittee of the national democratio commit- tee, who passed through Kansas City en- routo from Chicago to his home In Kansas, sald “I am not In a position to say what will be done toward maintaining the Qemoeratic organization perfected during the last cam- paign, but I will say that there will be no reorganization of the national committee. The committeo |s organized untii 1904 and | will remain practically as it s until that | time. 1 believe that the present precinct | organization can be maintalned and made Ienlh‘vly well supporting, | cetvea communication. | when it s to late. | refuses to discuss it. BULLET IS NOW THE KIDNAPERS’ THREAT They Grow More Brutal and Reckless Toward the Oudaby Family, SECOND LETTER STIRS ALL OMAHA Other Parents Feel Keenly the New Danger That Seems Imminent. SOCIETY WOMAN EXPRESSES ANGUISH BShe Herself is a Mother and Appreciates the Grave Bituation, FIELD'S VERSE EUGENE IS APPLIED Chief of Police and Hix Men Are Silent Regarding the Latest Phase of the Insolent Bandits’ Ontrage. E. A. Cudaby, the millionaire packer, hav- ing thought better of his resolution of Sun- duy that he would not reveal to the publie the contents of the second letter he re- from the bandits The Bee is now permitted to publish a verbatim copy of that Here i the letter “Cudhy: If you value the boy's life at the price of a bulet you will withdraw the reward at once and let well anough alon It you don't do this we will finish the job with a bulet “If any man whether gilty or inocent is ever arested a bulet will close the boy's mouth. You will think of this warning This letter, which was unsigned, was sent through the mails, and was addressed as follows “E. D, Clty.” It was postmarked “Omaha, Dee 8 u. m.," and was delivered at the Cudahy home at 11 a. m. by a postman. The paper used was ordinary white note paper, and the matter was printed in capital letters with black ink The second letter received by Mr. Cud- ahy from the Kidnapers, published exclu- sively in The Sunday Bee, renewed inter- est in the case and was the principal topic of conversation yesterduy on street cars, in shops and wherever people congregated. An impression generally expressed was that the bandits have become foolhardy. Flushod with success they have gloated over the ease with which they evade arrest and could no longer restrain the impulse to taunt the police and further impress M Cudahy with a sense of his helplessness in their hands. Others held directly the opposite—that the kiduapers were 8o close pressed by the detectives that they were fearful of being caught and that the second letter comes as a cry of distress, They want the re- ward withdrawp in order that man-hunting may be less profitable and zealous. Brutality is Cold Blooded There is no means of learning how the chief of police construes this letter, as ho All agree, however, the outlaws manifest a cold-bloodnd brutality, which is most revolting, end many a mother with children of tender vears has shuddered as she thought of her own dear ones in the hands of these thugs. Mrs. Cudahy has the sympathy of every mother who has heard of the cruel threats to take a her little girls “There is excellent matter in this for a sermon on the theme of ‘Contentment,’ ** sald a well known soclety woman, herselt & mother of three children. “I dare say there are many families in moderate clr- cumstances who are better satisfied with their lot in life now than they were before this affair came up. It serves to drive home the lesson that money can’t buy happiness. “DId you ever try to put yourself in the place of that poor mother in the Cudahy mansion? With all her wealth she Is among the most wretched of mortals. I can picture her, with over-wrought nerves, startled at every sound, secfng cause for alarm in every shadow and in every strango footfall a menace. When those rufans threaten to steal away one of her little girls they struck at the very cldadel ot her affections. Picture the helplessness of that little one in the hands of the outlaws and the thoughts that mother's brain would conjure un of the unspeakable fate which might befall it! Mother in Constant Fear, “Every moment of the day the fear of Kkidnapers must be uppermost in her mind, She docsn't dare trust thoso two 1ttle girls to the care of a governess, lest the governess by some chance be in league with the out- law gang. She cau scarcely trust herself. I can see her now, frozen with horror, as she sees one of them alone in the yard, and gasps the question: ‘Where s your sister? “As I thought of this case, the lines of that poem by Eugene Field have been run- ning through my mind: Cudhy, 518 South 37th street, “All day long they come and go— Pittypat and Tippytoe; Footprints up and down the hall Playthings scattered on the floor, along the wall, Telltale streaks upon the door— By these presents you shall Know Pittypat and Tippytoe “But when comes this thought to me, Bome there ure that childiess be, Stealing to their little beds, With a love I cannot speik Tenderly I stroke their heads, Vondly kiss each velvet ch Gad help those who do not kn A Pittypat or Tippytoe! “And the children themselvos are to be pitied. They certalnly can't have the free- dom that other children enjoy. They pan't romp in the fields und parks and come and g0 with that independence which 15 the very soul of a happy, buoyant child- hood. To them the woods are peopled with dreaded foes; behind every tree 18 n ban dit and every shadow harbors a terror in human shape. 1 tell you that until the younger members of that household grow up its peace of mind Is blighted.” SAYS SHE ISN'T LIZZIE BURNS Who Signed ¢ Writes aud as It She Knew the In- 1 the Kidnapiug Case, carcless CINCI The Enquirer hus received the second sirangely significent letter from “Elols T.,” who now signs her- selt “Elolse V, Tarrcll.” In this letter the writer says that conjectures as to her identity on the part of the Omaha corro- spondent are wrong—that she is not Lizele Burns, und that the correspondents are ot at all likely to fathom the mystery of her identity gives reasons for her offer to clear up the Cudahy mystery, “Hell hath no fury like a weman scorned.’ the quotation 'hat she uses to/explain her position The last agalu the also er is dated December 20. And woman—if the writer be a p'