Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 5, 1901, Page 1

FABLISHHED BOBS New Commander of British Army Working on Full Time at War Office, NO NEWS COMES FROM LORD KITCHENER ovement to Raise Volunteers Progressing Favorably at Oapetown, DEWET LEADS PURSUERS A MERRY CHASE Englieh Population Doserts Ficksburg Which the Boers Promptly Loot. GENERAL BRABANT REACHES GRAFF REINET il t Movement Originnting nt Montrea Mave St Wilfrid Bouth Afrie Well ¥ Lanrier Go v in ax nvoy elved London. « of Kanda- immersed n War office is no fur LONDON, Jan. 4. har and Pretoria s bis arduous n He will take no holiday. The ther from Lord Kitchener, who, cording to & Capetown dispatch, s calling for 5,000 men to gnard the Rund mines Enlisting o Cape Colony continues acti and will leave Capetown for the morth within the nex Information regarding scanty. Colonel Willlams attacked the eastern in vaders on January 1 near Middleburg, but falled to dislodge them. He has since been Joined by Lieutenant Colonel Grenfel, aud the Boers bhave retired. Advices from Mazeru, dated yesterday, at three separate columns are still p jeneral Dewet, but with no success beyond taking twenty ght prisoners. Cannon firing Is continually heard General Brabant Reinet Al the taking their Earl Rob already the news ac 500 men t invasion s has arrived at Graff English have deserted Ficksburg, stocks of grain the border, and the Boers have looted the town. According to the Daily Mall's correspon- dent ac The Hague the directorate of the Netherlends South African railway has ap- plied to the Amsterdam courts for a sus- pension of payments The Daily Chronicle advises that favor- sble attention should be glven to a m ment reported by Its Montreal correspon dent to induce Sir Wilfrid Laurier, colonial office to proceed South Africa as a commissloner to inter- veue, with power to cause the restoration of peace. across consents, KRUGER COMING TO AMERICA Stead Authority for the State- —February Set for the Vinit. NEW VORK, Jan. 4.—A dispatch to the Journal and Advertiser from London says: It is almost certainly decided that Mr. Kruger will go to America in February, probably accompanied by W. T, Stead, who will make a ringing campaign in behalf of | war. Al correspondent saw Mr. Steal just before he left for Paris In company with John B. Milholland, who bore an in- vitation from prominent New Yorkers to Mr. Kruger to visit America. While in ris they will see the lcaders of the ar bitration movement in BEurope and decide definitely on plans. Mr. Stead said “The time has come for President Kru ger to play his trump card and boldly declare his intention to visit McKinley in order to plead with cause of the independence the African republics. Kruger looked askance in Germany and Austrla because he i the president of a republic, but b thinks this will not be regarded as a di gualification for his recoption by the presi- 1t of the greatest republic in the world does not belleve the American gov- ernment 1s {ndifferent to the war the Boers are waging against the British monarchy, It he goes to America he will go as president to visit a president. He will probably arrive in New York in the middle of February. The state of his health is not regarded us likely to deter him from crossing the Atlantic. He had belleved the voyage would take a fortnight and is much pleased to hear he could make it in seven duys. His h stopping the The Jour m the South at movements somewhat depend the health of the czar, who is now well and had intended to return to Petersburg on January 23, but the infly has broken out on the Neva and it dangerous malady for those just recovering from typhold. The ¢ will probably go to Tsarkoe Selo. 1f President Kruger went to Russia he would have a superb recep tion, and at every station in Germany bo tween the Dutch and Russian frontiers he would receive ovations.” NEW GOVERNOR OF TRANSVAAL Sir Alfred Milner Nai ficer of Late Republie Kruger Was on n, s ns Chief Of- { Which resident, [l appointments LONDON, Jan office The following Colonial were announced this Milner ansvaal and British high commissioner. Sir Walter Francis Hely-Hutehinson (gov ernor of Natal and Zululand since 1893), to be governor of Cape Colony Lieutenant Colenel Sir Henry Bdward Me Callum (governor Newfoundland since 1868 and aide-de-camp to the 1900), to bo governor of Natal Major Hamilton John Goede- Adams (resi- dent commissioner of the Bechuanaland protectorate), to be lieutenant governor of the Orange River colony BOERS GOING NORTH AGAIN ot queen since Army 4 Killed CAPETOWN bave recrossod north. The trowsk and fighting at 4 the Russian Duplocy Utreeht ‘Two hundred Boers Orapge r, going commandants, Pe- were killed in the December 25, INNOCENT CHILDREN BURNED Stepmother Charged Fire in Which Lives We Jan, 4 with ¥o e La Setting a v Youug 8 SAN JOSE, Cal the home of Conrad was burned and four of Ruff’s children perished in the flames. On the complaint of Carl Ruff, brother of tho bereaved father, Mrs, Conrad Ruff wus arrested today on charges of murder and arson. Mrs. Ruft was the stepmother of the children, Mrs Ruff denles the charge, Two weeks ago Ruff, near this eity if the | President | ! moned and a big fight ensued, barricading eteecscesttttetttcettttttesttttttttettttt ettt tsettrtereteresee et eeccssesesssssssrssssssccsrsssssctertercsressoses census, Crown ¢ company. change of and will permit his own name to be given to one of the greyhounds being constructed for the company Stettin. Abyani Somal One § wound sador fote treaty amendments to the secretary of state for quite | v a | state for foreign affairs | | | | | | to be governor of the | United States | striki Science, THE OMAHA JUNE RUNS THINGS | for President Ransom E schoolboy as Every in Nebraska k cupyl seat in the Nebraska leg plied and express understanding t tate the public corporations in the fusion senators have been faithful for them in the campnign. sight the oy an, have gon know that tliey were bought betrayed the people who elected th Howell (and six others), world as traltors, 1 own political faith, sor 1l It 1s not pl but duty de Edgar Howard in Papil On the first day of the legislati tors Ransom and Howell as the 1 gent in that body. The pleking w our part, for, indeed, any mian wl worthies in recent years could an did. Speaking of Rausof and H been to the free silver forces which every schen ainst the sharp shafts of bills to passage. Shame's crown traitors bear the democratic name. of @eccsccsescscscscocsce veeccsssssssssssccsos SWANS FROZEN IN THE SPREE lled Upon .o rtment ¢ Ampht Birds. BERLIN, Jan. 4.—It is zero weather here. The Spree was frozen over so suddenly that the ice enclosed thirteen of the city’s swans and the fire department was called out to release them The Bavarlan government s issulng 4 per cent loan of 100,000,000 marks, redeemable bLefore 1906, The population of Bavs census, 18 6,150,000 31,000 upon the 4 non rding to | se of previous ria, or an inc figures of the William has conferred the second-class, on Director Bal- Hamburg-American Steamship | Emperor ter, lin of the Emperor Willlam has of the name Kaiser Wilhelm II the New York-Genoa division of the North German Lloyd line to Hohenzollern consented to a | at the Vulcan yards at FORCED TO WORK IN CHAINS Nomalis Overpowered Made to G Mines. fnns an e an Rhodesian by BEIRA, On the Portuguese, East Africa, Jan, 4 arrival of the German steamer Hertzog at Beira with 136 Abyssinians and for the Rhodeslan mines, the | boy they are called, were Informed | by the foremen that they would be com pelled to work in chains. Thereupon they refused to go ashore police and tr Portuguese s were sum- | the ‘‘boys' Victory rested the police te an hour's fighting. omall was killed nd & number | d. Nine of the police were wounded, Subsequently it was found t there wel only fifty “boys'’ on the steamer, the re- mainder having jumped overboard. PRESENTS THE AMENDMENTS the foredeck with LONDON, Jan. 4. Choate, presented United States Ambas- the Hay-Paunce- foreign the marquis of | Lansdowne, today. No discussion occurred and the nature of | Lord Lansdowne's answer is not given. Mr. | Choate simply notified the secretary of | that he had sent document forwarded by the State An answer probably will not the cabinet discusses the affalrs, him a department be sent until matter fully The interview between Mr. Choate and Lord Lansdowne was chiefly devoted to an expression of the latter's view on China's to the demands of the powers, | | MERELY CASE OF TIT FOR TAT| e a Taste of Abrogation of reaty. answe ngland Merely Its Own ey i Clayton-Bulwer | nze Zeltung | the | Jan, 4. he Kr its discussion of the vote in senate on the Hay-Paunce- | [ fote treaty, American Im\l‘ been trying for years to abrogate the Clayton-Bulw treaty, but the senate now does 80 at one stroke. This is the same as if the assemblee nationale of Bordeaux | to adopt the Frankfort treaty after | & out the clause ceding Alsace- | alne. If, however, Johan Bull of Uncle perfidy it can be answered asure for measure. GETS NEW GRIP ON FAT JOB sed Minister stated by It BERLIN resuming says statesmen | wero complains | reasonably LONDON, Jan, 4.—"Ali Ferrouh who ontly displaced as Turkish minty “t Washington In fevor of Mustafa Bey, has says the Constantinople pondent of the Times, “for fear that | he migit join the Young Turkey party. He will recelve £10000 as commiseion for new Ottoman to be built by Cramps of Philadelphia was rec been reinstated,’ cruiser the CONSTANTINOPLE, Jan. 4—In the of a serious affray wnear Ishtib, originating iu an attempt to arrest a num ber of Bulgarians suspected of being emissaries of the Macedonian committee, cight soldiers wero killed. The troubles continue { Eight Soldiers Killed. | | | course a Ambassador White, BERL 4.~Andrew D. White, the United States ambassador here, has been | elected & member of the Berlin Academy of What an Ufi;;reiudiced Fusionist Says About the Man the Fusionists Have Honored by Their Votes gar Howard In Papillion Times, March We do know that These men deserve to be advertised to Ransom in Iis True Colors. to aid in corporation publie eriticism while pushing gamble | lishing T { of California and opposed by John M ().\IAHA. ) \Tl RDAY of the Senate. a Traitor. nows that eve fusionist now islature was chosen with the hat he would favor laws to r state. A great majority of to the pledges made by and of them, perjuring themselves in e over the We don't ruthlessly are Ran- o0 to nemy. they have hem. The eight traitors enkanut for us to denounce men of smands it. lion Times, April 1, ve session the Times picked of the lon contin 15 1ot an evidence of smartness on 1o has watched the course of those 1 would have done us well swell, what a disgrace the pair has Hand in hand in to back to fight 1807, ona. lers o corpor ceeessesestecssesssstestssetsssssstessssssesereoetesesel we elected them, robhery, back for shame is the fact that these e +eeccccstsccssscscscs son eeeseccsecscoccccsscesesen LIVESTOCK MENAT SALTLAI\L Comprebew 1ive Program is Arranged for the Coming Mesting, ARID LANDS WILL RECEIVE CONSIDERATION Adter the w Con 1 Hoar, and ¢ entlon wo Spee the nl Delegntes SALT LAKE, Utah, Jan. 4.—The prog for the fourth annual convention of the Na- tional Live Stock assoclation was made pub lic today. The mecting will convene in As- sembly hall on January 15 for a session of | by | four days and will be participated in many of the leading authorities of the na- tion on live stock matters, The committee appointed by authority of the Fort Worth convention to draft a bill dealing with the disposition of the arid lands of the west will meet at the Kuuts- ford hotel on January 13 to draft its report. The exccutive commitee will meet at the same place on the day following. Tuesday the first day of the convention, will be de- | voted to the address of welcome ernor Heber Wells of Utah, the association’s response by R. M. Allen of Nebraska, the annual - address of President John W. Springer, reports of standing committees and five-minute addresses by members of the ex- ecutive committee on live stock conditions in the states ihey represent. The following are some of the speakers and their by Gov- Herds and Horxes, rs, chief statisticlan for agri 1sus’ department, “Our National ive St nick, of L. G culture, ¢ Wealth in Abrah; 8y camore, s of Cattle, B. Doud, lilinols, “American Live and Dressed Meat's Tixport Trade 1 John B. Castleran, Loulfavill he American Saddle Horse and th Assessment Classification of Live Stock George H. Maxwell, Chicago, *'Rela of_lrrigation to the Live Stock Industry.,” R Huidekoper, " Washington, D, ceessitivs Required tn Army He A, J. Knollin, Kunsas Clty, “Pj Handling Large Sheep Interbsts Marvin Hughitt, president Chicago Northwestern railway, * portation Charles H Trade Ky tab. ovi ok lems in & Frye, Seattle, “Alaskan Moot and I(s Requirements, B. Van Norma., “Ilinols Stock Ixchanges and Theit Relation to Producer. Salt Lake City, “What the . C. Goodwin, ss Hus Doneé for the Live Stock Indus- ive The subjects which will greatest attention are “The BIlL" This will be opposed by John F. Hobbs of New York and favored by D. W. Wilson of Elgin, 11l “Should the Government Lease the Pub- lic Domain?" Supported by John P, Irish Carey recelve the ut of Wyoming. “An Annual Classified Census of Stock.” €. W. Pugh of Arizon Charles Gresswell of Colorado and Towers of Mon The entertdinments will be extensive. grand reception at Live Dr coB i A the Knutsford hotel on Tuesday evening by the governor of Utah, assisted by the women of the city, Wednesday evening, a concert by 500 voices in the famous Mormon tabernacle Thursday evening, illustrated lecture in assembly hall by B. C. Judson of Portland, Ore by some of the leading musical talent of the state. “The Plece de Resistance” on the last night will be a stockman's smoker, given under the ausplees of the Independent Or der of Elks aturday assisted morning visitors will go for the Pacific states trains. The indi vention will largest attend held. Arra to care for 1 the delegates and an excursion through upying two epecial are that this con be the important and d the association has eve ements have been complete 300 delegates and 5,000 visitors. RACKED FATHER IS ANXIOUS ation most NEW row will YORK say Jan. 4.—The World tomor. General Edward Molin has decided to appeal to the legislature ascertain the cau; the case of his son murder in the fir; to of the delay in settling Roland, convicted degree. He will ask n at committee be appointed to conduct an investigation and that a bill enicted limiting the time given trial judge within which he must case where the question w in the first degree, Molineaux wa convicted February 10 1900. On July the district attorney com pleted his case and the following duy the papors were submitted to Recorder Goff. Shortly after that the recorder went on a three-month vucation. He returned to the bench on November 1, but it was not until December § (hat be took up the Molineaux papers, essary, a be s on A of murder \l()ll\l\h,\ J \\l ARY sub- | Ivolution in Truns- | ot | it AGUINALDO 1S DEAD AGAIN President Wheeler Californin 1 Informati University the of NEW YORK, Jan. 4 | Wheeler, president of the California, who is now staying Waldorf-Astoria hotel, has formation from secret sources in the Phil ippines to the effect that Aguinaldo is dead and that his death oceurred not less than six weeks The has been kept | secret by Aguinaldo’s followers, it is said for the purpose of prolonging the rebellion since it is believed that news of his death would such discouragement and |alarm that an utter capitulation would rosult. President Wheeler ned this news through several Filipino children who been placed in hi thelr parents. Two are sons of Buencamino, wealthy eftizen of Manfla, who. advent of the Americans in the Philippines had been an active leader of the rebellion against the Spanish. President also has In his charge the children Miel, the governor of Mindanao, and several other whose parents of the wealthy class. In speaking of the reported death of the chief insurrectionist President | Wheeler said: “These boy 1 may call them, receive frequen cations from their parents and friends at home. The information which was obtained | concerning the death of Aguinaldo, T under- stand, ¢ from secret and trustworthy sources and {s probably truet’ Fortiath Time He ix Killed, CHICAGO, Jan, 4.—"This ieth time Aguinaldo b ed Senor Lopez, the Filipinos envoy, when shown the report to that the insurgent leader was dead which had come through President Wheeler of the University of California, and was based upon the statement Filipino stu | dents in his charge LRt it Benjamin University of the received in: 20 news have care | boys ™ of mine commun! is about the been killed he was day would be very foollsh to at tach any importance to the prattle of these students,” continued Mr. Lopez. “I know the Buencamino family In Manila, and I am certain they are not in a position to be intrusted great secrets by the Filipinos “Before was very became a with the Americans came Buencamino loyal to the Spanish. Then he a Filipino leader for a short time and now is an American “Do you think it is likely he could get information of this kind so long before it came to the ears of General MacArthur? All that T can say definitely about ter Is that Aguinaldo wus alive when pcelved my last advices it the death of Aguinaldo would really | not make so very much difference In carry | ing on the palgn. There are other generals in the field who are just as ca pable as Aguinaldo and if he i the war would go right on just the same “Indeed, there is a very strong element among the aristocracy of the Filipinos who wouid prefer to have a leader of their own class. Aguinaldo was not u member of the aristocracy, bu ervices have been so great that no very strong oppesition has been made to him on that account. If he could be succecded by a member W the aristocracy, however, It would give satls- faction in a great many quariei, * Mr. Looes thought the war iudly 0 con- tinue indefinitely unless some terms of settlement could be agreed upon. He de- | scribed the organization of the Filipinos as very strong and their det i win independence as unchang GOVERNOR OF TARLAC TAKEN to we chon, u Pilipino N by the A MANILA, Jan, 4.—Generals Wheaton and | Bates report many small captures, the de struction of insurgent camps and the seiz ure of supplies, animals and other ne cessities. Among the captures in Smith's district was Colonel Techon, the insurgent gove of Tarluc General Grent is personally in command of a mounted expedition in the mountains of southern Pampangas, which, he says, is | the only locality where the insurgents are in force in his district Insurgents entered Gapan and San Isidro, lin inston’s district, during the night and burned a score of houses. Their firing was ineffective, General MacArthur has commuted sev eral death sentences of military courts to fmprisonment. Judge Taft's written Jose college « was considered and en dorsed by the Philippine commission this morning. 1t will be made public tomorrow. The enactment of the school bill has been deferred, owing to the desire of the Fili- pinos to be heard on the bill as completed It difters radically from the one prepared srintendent Atkinson and al MacArthur. The la 1 $1,630,000 outright to be disbursed through Mr. Atkinson under the supervi- sion of General MacArthur. The com- pleted bill appropriates directly only $10,000 rves plans for schools and also Mr, Atkinson to report to hoth Gen- 1 MacArthur and the commission The commission has authorized the de- partment of public instruction to proceed with the business entrusted to its admin- istration. Many Inquiries have frem the provinces regarding the federal party. The organizers are establishing a dally newspaper and three weeklies to bo published in Spanish galog in the province of Pampanga Colon, of t n, Cap! ericans, ired opinion of the San ter appro. priat received here in and of FOURTH INFANTRY'S CAPTURE Remey ¥ nking Whole By stn' Officers and n WASHINGTON, Jan. 4.—The following dispatch was recelved at the Navy depart ment this afternoon from Admiral Remey MANILA, J f.—Hurean Navigation Waushingic ittack on the morning « the 3d by Fourth infantry, murines and n AU Cavite Viejo, resulted in the cap | turé of one leutenant colone!, two majors five captains leutenant, forty-elght private insurrectiontsts and foar ladrones. RIMEY ‘MAKES LlGNlTES HARD T0 GET Strike nu ¥ Wentern 1 Miners Re- Dearth DENVER, enne, Wyo on the south, tha closed owing to labor | mines in northern down and the supply of lignite is entirely cut off The the wdors fr not do nything to melic in Denver To agzrava the Colorado Jan Reports in the north, from Hup, Che to all th difficulties. orado st All bitumincus opers mines that they m Nebraska and Kansas and cas the ure so situated tors say re rate ondition » the troub! Fuel und Iron npany Gallup, N. M., threaten to strike in erder to force the Colorado Fuel and Iron com piny to recognize thelr union and Increase thelr wages. the | L Dy 1de | fore the | Wheeler | the | inent Leader | endorsed behind in{ miners of | 'l\\]l\l‘ l'\(-l IMMENSE ~ RAILROAD 1901 Reported Consolidation of Great Northern, Northern Pacifio and Milwauke HILL SAID TO HAVE CANADIAN BACKING Sum Approsimating wed to Hav Ne New York Bank of th 26,000,000 Al- Deposited in rtherance Project, ST. PAUL, Minn firmation could Ltive of Jan. 4.—While no con- be obtained here from a source of the reported the Northern Pacific, and Chicago, Milw & Paul companies, it is the general bel in well-informed rafiroad circ that, nof omplished fact, it {8 in progress mmation President James J disinclined to lication, but ho had this to I have made no loan in Montreal It not stand to reason that if 1 needed money 1 can get it without going to Canada deal by which we get control of any line has be mated say, however, that some of the big by getting together to reduce working expen Any movement foot by the railroads is simply purpose of economizing Mr. Hill does not state that deal under way. The made semi-officlally formation did not come from a New source that the big deal, by which Hill-Morgan-Rockefeller interests were to of the Northern Pacific and is practically consummated of a month the one. | authord | bination Northern com ireat Hill was west- ern will lnes yet consi hope now for on announcement and the was today in- Paul roads that inside be in effe £0 the tained a loan from $28,000,000, and it this money went Northern and St. of the Great Northern treasurer, it is stated, repose the deposit slips showing that this immense sum was placed to the | credit of President Hill in the Chemical National bank of New York The depositors, were it is Willlam VanHorne, president dian Pacific, R. B. Angus, multi-miilionaire and dircetor of the Bank of Montreal and ord Mount Steplien of Montreal Pre it HilL will for Now next week and It is stated that the of visit is to put the u the most gigantl 1 in recent years. and | winl t | story goes, President Hill ob added for the Paul shares. 1s that much of purchase of In the vaults assc rted, of the Cana- ve York sole object of his touches upon railroad Sells Co CHICAGO, Jan row will say ling of the Chic trol of Milwaukee., —The Chronicle tomor- President Albert J. Bar- 0, Milwaukee & St. Panl railway yesterday sold his 20,000 share of stock iv the road. The line has passed | into the control of J. J. Hill, J. Pierpont Morgan and John D. Rockefeller. Today Mr. Earling enjoys the distinetion of being president and general mapager of a company in which he does not own a single share of stock. He has made a profit of $840,000 on his stock and does not know whether he is to be retained in an official capacity by the new mauagement James J. Hill will enter the directory of the Ch'cago, Milwaukee & St. Paul road in a few days and within a month it will be part of 4 continuous line under one control from New York to Seattle. The Baltimore & Ohio road may be the eastern link. Th purchases made by Hill and his supporters did not figure in the market transactions. They were maue outside the exchanges and in direet dealings with the holde Earling | was not the only big Chicagoan to part with !bis stock. Marshall Field is reported to | have disposed of his stock, amounting to 000,000. The Alexander Mitchell estate arted with §2,000,000 and the heirs of the ecrge T. Smith are said to have dis- posed of $5.000,000 mare, the sale having been mbde through Alexander Geddes, who | represents the estate on the directory of the board. Earling's stock was sold for $3,040,- 000, going off at $152 a share. The other purchases are said to bave been at the ame pr Earling bought his stock at $110 a share two years ago. The total purchases made yesterday by the Hill interests ure reputed to have been in excess of $15,000,000. The Milwaukee line will pass over to the Great Northern, under a lease, it Is said, whereby the pre- ferred stockholders will be guaranteed § cent mmon ek, 6 per cent for rs and 4 p it thercafter. The general officers of the Great Northern will direct the line from Chicago to St. Paul and what changes will take place in the consolidated management are impossible to predict: HOAR PROPOSES ARMISTICE 1 to Ar Vikit of United WASHIL TON, Jan. 4.—Senator Hoar today offered an amendment to the army Vil in the shape of a general proviso, as follows ““Provided, That no further military force shall be used in the Philippine islands ex- cept such as may be necessary to keep order in places there now actually under the peaceable control of the United States and protect persons or property to whom, in of the pr nt, protection from the United States unti! the president shall have first proclaimed amnesty for all political offenses com- | mitted against the United States in the Philippines and, if in his power, shall have ogreed upon an armistice with persons | in hostility to the United States and shall ave tried such number, not less t n ten, as he shall think desirable, of the leaders or representatives of the persons now hos- tile to the United St the United States and state their wishes and the condition, character and wishes of the people of the Philippine islands to the | executive and congress and shall have of- secure to them safe conduct to “m“. abide and return and shall have pro- vided at the public charge for the expenses of thelr tiansportation both ways and their {Stay In this country for s resonable and | sufficient time for such purpose.’” | {DU BUSINESS AT OLD STAND | Pacs 8 nin ip States. ro for o viding « to the judgment may be due W | tered to the | closed | CITY, Jan. 4 motorman of a Rosedale " taken from their car robbed by four armed men | reached the Rosedale te and was waiting there when four men prang of the dorkness and flasaing revolvers in the faces of the trainmen com | pelled them leave the car with them and submit to being robbed. They secured about §3 in money and a watch. The scehe | of the robbery is a lonely pluce, No ar- | rests have been made The conductor electric car tonight and The | maNsas | and out anadian capitalists of | sir | es there to come to | | it paturally | York, alk on the subject for pub- | diers to Spain, in the course of an interview | of Ik Does | by any ? No | foreign the | | there is no | York | #hip companies the | rates systems | About three weeks | that they would be shipped home in Span | 1sh | | | | | | car had | minus of the line | | Chicago, | stat DAILY BEE SINGL Forecast Cold Fair Nor for Nebraska 1 East Portion; Brisk iy Fuir rates ¥ Jan. 4 o by Governor ssage that ex-Sc the claims of the gre Interests with representative in the shipping of the Sp was responsible the opposition to him, the ! tonight that there were no American lne. General There elght bids entere b companies, a and all were All asked to Spain und position ROIT, mad augural m ignoring boat Discu: Ping ing ox were steamsh panish bid in every porting the lar tr provision the officer ed men was in enli American line bids, ae the War department of all their large ships at the t fuct of all the bids received being led the department that there was a combine among t to prevent the Therefore, the Spanish b was $37 for officers and $20 fo men and employes, was accepted 1sh officer, name 1 have told me aiterwards that the empl in every steamers had not a little in suri It relieved the fe brutally treated by many of them feared. ing the bids to the own. “About this time the New Yoi seemed o redouble their attack; Whether this had anything to d, 1 do not know Vice Presiden of the International Navigation had to make any in relation to this matter, as his entered no bids at all.” influenced the endering. r that they the Amer| The ide Spanish firn occasion | THREE MEN BLOWN TO finishing | Explosion in owder Ho n PHILADELPHIA, Jan, 4.—A fri plosion of powder occurred in th machine house of the Repauno company, whose works are Ic Thompson's Point, N. I, a spot on the Delaware river, below this city, twe tary at Alger s exactly [)};\L|CONDITION OF THE WEATHEH gaturday th Winds erdny s Der. 0 " | " 1~ " Mingree's the state in his in Alger's steam % in New nish sol for much wocretary bids made i 1, all by from simi 1 $110 for n and $55 No submit to had control | Th the same to believe he steam utting bid, which ime enlisted | A for knowledge niards would be lcans, as of award- ) was my rk papers on me with it Wright company Atements com it ATOMS Kitls Workmen, ghtful ex- he powder Chemical oeated at thinly-settled slve miles The building wes anni- hilated and the three workmen fa it at the time were blown to atoms. WALT JOHN KIRBY, Several workmen in other build hurt by the force of the exple none serfously. The men killed were in a frame and were engaged in loading paper shells with dynamite blasting. It is thought the be over $5,000. fa | ARMED GUARDS ON THE Sadd to Have at et Wyoming. RAWLINS, Wyo., Jan. 4.—(Spc gram.)—The Unlon Pacific feare tempt would be made to hold up last night, and the guards wero doubled at Cheyenne. on loss Steel They were: OLIVER M'ILVAIN, Gibbgtown, ER WHITE, Gibbstewn, N. J. Thoroughtrre, N. J. Jo ings were osion, but e building eight-inch or use in will not FLYER| enr clal - an the Ove {land fiyer in the vicinity of Fort Steele this train A gang of raen hung around the express car when the flyer stopped at Fort Steele, armed guards they made no a interference. It is aszerted, that ized gang 18 kecping tab on mo: ments on the Union Pacifie, wit tention of robbing one of the but se | trains. |NO SMALLPOX AT HARVARD celng the ttempt at an organ- ney ship- h Overland College Medical Adviser Says All the Talk ix Due Var CAMBRIDGE, Mase., Jan stpdents at Harvard, bridge from the Christmas vaca taken sick with a mild case of Thero have been many rumor aboul cases of small Dr. M. H. Bailey, th visor, denies all these. Th that of €. O. Carpenter, jr., of Mo., and ho was taken to a Bosto immediately after he was he has not been in Cambridge for weeks and has been entirely isol the other students, there i# not t est particle of danger felt to Mild X college m breaking out, @ single taken One of the on returning to Cam- tiol v clr wa oloid ulated but a o 18 St. Louls, n hospital il As over two ated from he slight- edical BOY DIES OF HYDROPHOBIA Pastear Institute Patien As ZANESVILLE, 0., Jan Stuller, aged 12, died at den today of hydrophobia, resulti bite of a rabid’ dog several w mangling, his face and arms. He mediately taken to Pasteur where he underwent a ri of treatment and was discharged The boy was attacked by rables 1 his hom institute y. Ralph G in Dres ng from a ecks ago, im in gid course as cured two days was ago and lingered in horrible agony until his death today DEATH PENALTY IS WANTED Legislatur [ e St Capital 1 DENVER, Jan. 4 duced In the legl the restoration of capi is & result of Three executed within a yea Another bill requests congress convention to frame a constitution ment for the election of senators vote Among the L e today w al punishn the recent lynchin men have been a bills intro as one for ment. Thix | ngs in the summarily | to call a il am, by popular Movements of Ocenn Vessels At New Yorl Naples. Salled ports; Patriu Nitplen AL Liverpool—-Arrived, Jan. & from St. John. I At Auckland—Arrive from San Franc AL Eirisbane ney, N. B couver AL Queenstown Arrived Alsint! Hesp for Me tor vious! Halled W, f Aorangl Honoluli « Arrived—-Camy New York, for Livggool, and proc ria, from iterrancan Montfort, i x ania, from cded, cory of | at- b the in- | FIVE CEN1 COMMENCE THE COUNT Leg CONTEST OPENED IN SECOND STAGE Ballots Taken to Lincoln and Turned Over Under Legislature's Order, | CASE STATED BY REDICK AND SMITH Attorneys Make a Showing of What They [ Expect to Prove. CONTESTANTS PRCMISE TO SHOW FRAUD eneral Natare of the Blection Held h Omaba s Outlined and me of the Corruption is | | | | | in Detail, Iven LINCOLN, and hous elections tenant consider Jan. 4.~ (Special)—The senate committeos on privileges and met in joint session in the lleu governor's office today and began tion of the election contest cases | from Douglas county. The four cases wero | combined and will be tried jolntly before | both committees. During the morning se | lon Willlam A. Redick of Omaha made the opening statement for the contestants and | this afternoon Edward P. Smith performed | similar duty for the contestees According to the plan agreed upon by the committees and the attorneys the ballots in the South Omaka voting districts will be counted befure any testimony or evi- dence s produced At the conc'usion of Mr. Smith's statement this afternoon the ballots cast In the Second district of the ward were opened and the count It is the intention of the commit- to push the hearing of the Douglay county cases as rapldly as possible and with this object in view night sessions will prohably be held next week. In substance Mr. Redick's statement was as follows “In the first place an inspection of the registers shows that gearcely any of the provisions of the law relating to registra- tion have been complied with in South Omah in five out of the nine districts no attempt was made to separate the registra- tion of the different days by a red line and the signature of the judges—in others the red line was drawn on some pages and on others the names were all run together; a great number of cases, where several per sons registered from the same place, neither numbe of room nor the floor of the house was take The result of this, to say the least, negligent violation of the law 18 that it is impossible to determine from the registers whether or not the persons regis- tered ns legal voters and also impossible by thorough investigation to find any trace of a yery large percentage of the persons registered and voting. Minsing Votes hy ¥ Tho evidenh et i + whowl that on November 16, 1900, nine days after election, a careful house to house investigation was commenced, and that of 300 or more In- vestigated some 165 were not to be found at the addresses they gave when reglstered. Of this last number 128 sogistered as demo- crats and thirty-five as republicans, and all voted. It is true that a number of par- ties, forty in all, were brought in by the contestees, who swore that they were the persons intended (o be registered, but in almost every Instance it was discovered that there was an error in the register or that the party has moved away from the address given, a few days after election, and | we venture to say that out of the number examinod in this caso—there never was a imilar one where such wholesale removals [ were shown within sa short a time—a large number of these parties under investigation had been away from the county until a | short time before election, varying from thirty to sixty days. “It thus appears that nearly 4 per cent of the total vote in South Omaha was cast by persons who could not be found within three weeks after election, and after a thorough search. Not only was this search by the testants, but counsel for contestees have cxercised the utmost have failed to produce mors than one-fourth of these voters. while the average as stated was it 4 per cent in some precincts it ex- ceeded that ratio. For example, it will be noted from the table here that in the Firs precinet of the First ward it is .03 plus, in the First precinct of the Second ward .093 plus, in the First precinct in the Third ward .046 plus and in the Fourth ward .G plus. Registrars W cast Second o Negligent, “A voter is not entitled to reglster from | @ number of a certain street where he does not reside, even though he 15 a qualified voter of the precinet in which he applies and a registrar who admits him to register from a certain number, knowing him to re- side elsewhere, is gullty of registering a person not entitled to register under tha laws. “Again, on election day, the law requires that when a person votes the judges shalt write opposite his name on the registers tho words ‘voted’ and ‘yes' and at the close of the polls the word ‘no’ after all who have not voted This provision was not com plied with, though the registers furnish some evidence In this particular, and from them, together with the evidence in the case, we find quite large discrepancies be- tween the number of cast and the number voting. “The evidence further shows that sixiy- nine votes were sworn in on election day, only twenty-two of which appear the registration books, and this may account for some of the discrepancies between the ballots and the books, but every one of these sixty-nine ballots were illegal and' should not have been recelved, and must now be rejecte The law makes it incumbent upon person desiring to vote, not being regls- tered, to muke an affidavit and sign it, set | ting forth the facts necessary to be shown upon the reglster as to his age, nativity | place of residence, etc, and also to fur nish the afMdavit of two freeholders who | know him to be a qualified voter of the | precinet in which he desires to vote. The | applicant must also in his afdavit set forth | the reasons why he did not reglster and it is provided by law that no vote shall be received until these requisites have beem I complied with, Votes Not “There were in all sixty-nine votes sworn at the election and of these only twenty- were the register. The record shows that sixty-four had taken two freeholders to the city clerk and had them sworn to their qualifications. It does not app that the other five did any act which entitle them to vote, not being registered, b it does appear that none of them mad and subscribed to an afdavit showing t ts necessary to be votes the tered riy. entered on ar would t