Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 20, 1901, Page 1

] PART L. L o6 A o b o Al e re o b o o o o ESTABLISHED JU NOBLES 1N WAITING Celebrated Oculist Takes His Time in Attending to Their Wants, | COMES TO LONDON TO TREAT ROYALTY | Oommission Eusy with the Work of Re [ organizing the British Army. | NO RADICAL UPHEAVAL CONTEMPLATED | Result to Be Accomplished Through the | Coming Generation of Office: ACTUAL MANEUVERS ARE A NECESSITY Yask of Secnring Suficlent Ground Not Easy—Week Witnesses ng of Two Notn- o the Pa Ble Characters, Royalty has been hav- | 4. For that impor- | tant duty a celebrated oculist, Prof. Her- | man Pagenstrecher, M. D., director of the opthalmic hoxpital at Welsbaden, was sum- | moned to London Wednesday. He went {o} Osborne to examine the eyes of the queen. A lengthy interview resulted, in which the apecialist s understood to have given her majesty new instructions in additlon to glasses, with the object of preserving her failing sight, though, it fs said, he found only a slight deterioration of vision since his last examination. Thence Prof. Pagen- strecher went to Marlborough house, w the prince of Wales underwent the ordeal of submitting nis lately adopted eyeglasses to the critieism of the great professor. It was only to the queen and the prince of Wales that Prof. Pagenstrecher would con- sent to go. All the others had to come to | him. The duke of Cambridge and other | notabilities flocked to his hotel, humbly walting in the corridor until Prof. Pagen- strecher was ready to see them. In a few moments the duke of Cambridge was so | benefited that he went to his old cronies and {nsisted on thelr visiting the eye healer. Following his advice, they crowded to Pagenstrecher on Fridny. At last the specialist flew out of the hotel, declaring ho would not see another soul that day, be | ho king or commoner. The professor goes to the continent to inspect the eyes of the | king of the Belgians Sunday and befo he returns to Weisbaden he will probably | continue his journey to several other royal palaces. LONDON, Jan. 19 ing ite eyes overhau Reform for the Army. British army reform, the Assoclated Press learns, will consist chiefly in an endeavor to improve the existing methods of general milMary training, rather than in any at- tempt to eradicate any Individual defects. With a more fully developed home army the administration believes many of the draw- backs existing at present will gradually Alsappens, whoreas ruthless reform would only result in disorganization. With this view the maneuvers bill will bo introduced, giving the government plenary power to | select large tracts of country, especially i Treland and Scotland, where the home army | will have the opportunity of maneuvering | in considerable numbers over a rough and | unknown country, where the generals will | have the opportunity of learning to handle divisio In the opinion of the secretary for war, Willlam St. John Broderick, it is futile to criticise officers and men who | have never boen handled or who have never co-operated except in the restricted con- fines of Aldershot, and some not even there, where every inch of ground 1s known | to almost every officer in the service. The barracks bullding on Salisbury plain will, it 18 believed, ald this plan, but it has become generally recognized by the War ofMce that it 18 absolutely essential to have rough country and a good 1 of it at the | disposal of the forces. Many difficulties | lie In the way of securing this. The moors of Ireland and Scotland are al- most all the private property of aristocratic land owners, who either use them or let them for shooting purposes. One season’s maneuvers over these estates would proba- bly ruin the game. Hence large compensa- | ton must be pald. This, Mr. Broderick hopes to get appropriated in spite of the present heavy taxation, believing It would be an Investment which would save the country milllons in case of another war, Many other changes are likely to come in | force in due urse of time. The board of reorganization 1s sitting in and day out, deallug with the Immense problem, but | the cardinal point of delibel lons on which public opinion is unanimous, is the neceesity for the new maneuvers bill. To use the | words of Lord Raglan: “You might as well | eriticise the admiral who is always obliged | to keep his fleet In harbor as to criticise the army, for which the country provides | no maneuvering facilities.” Secure English Patents. Messrs. Wickes, president of the American Sheet Steel company, and Huber of the Pittsburg Steel company, returned to New York this week, after exhaustive tests of the English process of constructing steel tubes. These coming up to the require- ments, negotlations were closed for trans- | ferring the Amerfean patent rights to the | Philadelphia combine, of which W. W. Gibbs 1s the moving spirit. 1t is understood the steel makers will now proceed with thelr | $50,000,000 combination | News of the most remarkable llon fight | record comes from a correspondent of | Assoclated Press in northern Rhodesta. | Mr. Johnstone, a collector of the customs n the employ of the British Chartered South Africa company, was out hunting and shot a buck. As the buck fell, from the | long grass sprang out five lions, who com- | menced to eat the buck. Mr. Johustone, not | to be robbed of his dinner, went into action with his magazine rifle, killed one llon and wounded another. The remalning three | fled. The wounded llon, enraged, attacked the hunter, whose magazine was empty. He | called for another gun, but his native lul~‘ lowers had gone, The police with him fired & wild volley and retreated. Mr. John- stone sought a near-by tree and was nearly out of reach when the lion caught him and | pulled him down. Mr. Johnstone put his lett arm down the lion's mouth and gave & sledge hammer blow with his right on the animal's head. Surprised at the resistance, the llon relinquished his attack. Propping himselt agalust the tree, Mr. Johnstone, in spite of his mauled arm, pulled out a eartridge, fired and took the lion right be tween the eyes, killing him. Three weeks Inter Mr. Johustone died of blood polsoning from his mangled arm ot removed on the 0 Notables, Death two remarkable person alities from the metropolis this week—the bishop of London, Right Rev. Mandell Creighton, and the money lender, “Sam’ Lewls, known far and wide for very differ- ing qualitles. Both possessed two things in common-humor and a broad insight into (Continued on Second Page.) | BARONESS 0'HAGAN A WINNER | public NE CONFUSED WITH SOUBRETTE of MY malre | Who Leaves o Charity. Press Publishing Co.) an. 19 New York World | Cablegram-Special Telegram.)—Mre. Joseph formerly the soubrette, Fanny Ward, | been confused with Mrs. Ada lewlis, ot the multi-millionaire money lender | Ada Lewis Is a sister of Mme. Messager, known as A song writer under her Hope Temple, and wife of sager, Maurico Grau's successor wer of the Cavent Garden opera Ada Lew who is about 48, extremely attractive and, though rather of the opulent type of beauty, s #till a handsome woman. Her husband left all of his $5.000.000 of benefactions to be | b athed in her name. She s an ac- | complished whip and drives a pair of mag nificent regularly in Hyde park Her dazzling costumes and jewels were one of the sights of (he opcra, where she al ways had a box The catholicity of her husband's charities Is exciting general admiration, as well the wisdom shown in selecting the most deserving of all kinds and creeds. Much pharisaical speculation is indulged In by the press as to whether the legacies should be accepte it there were t slightest doubt of it AMERICAN PAVILION UNSAFE No Doabt of 1t, Now that Demolition v Lewls, has widow maiden name, Andre M as house. wa now horses Inr Work, | (Copyright, PARIS “ablegram a8 Bt American pavilion was States commission made off-hand denials, venting much indignation, but afforded no opportunity for investigation of the allega tion. Workmen are now beginning the demolition of the structure. This fact has facilitated a caretul inspection of the build ing. The inspection proves that the as- sertions were literally true. Barring a small area on the river side, the entire cellar space wag taken up with a serles of props, braces and transverse jolsts, palpably Introduced when the bullding was finished Rafters supplemented the original masonry | foundations. The general appearance of | the structure was that of a railway trestle hastily improvised. 1001 Jan. 19 Spectal 1 during the exposition that by Press Publishing ¢ (New York World Telegram.)—~When it | the | United unsafe the on She 0ldw the Gavel Over the Burnly ol Honrd After a Warm | Election | It O'Hagan has been elected chairman of the Burnley school board after a brisk cam paign. She is widow of a former Irish lord high chancellor and is descended from the Townleys, the ground landlords of Burnley and the oldest Catholic family in Lancashire. Threc years ago she became | a Unitarian, with her children, and married | a daughter, aged 17, to Henry Klein, Alsatlan priest, who had heen her son's tutor, Her son, Lord O'Hagan, died of enteric fever while with his reglment at | Pretoria. He returnad to the Catholic falth | a month previously | (Copyright, 191, by Press Publishing Co.) LONDON, Jan. 19.—(New York World | Cablegram—~Special Telegram.)—Baroness | | an MRS. MACKAY SAVES A CHURCH he Edifice Pays 1901, by Press Publishing Co.) PARIS, Jan. 1%.-—(New ork World Cablegram—Special Telegram.)—Mrs. John Mackay has come to the rescue of Joseph's, a church for English-speaking Catholles in Avenue Hoche. It was about | to be seized by the sheriff in default of| $4,000 taxes. Mrs. Mackay's son was ac- | cldentally killed in Parls u few years ago | and was buried from St. Joseph's. This | ndeared the edifice to Mrs. Mackay, who | pald the sum in full as a memorlal CLUB FOR DIVORCED WIVES Vienna Women Want All Home Com- forts Without the Nulsance of Hubby. (Copyright, | (Copyright, 1901, by Press Publishing Co.) | VIENNA, Jan. 19.—(New York World | Cablegram—Special Telegram.)—A club has | been established here to provide women | who divorced their husbands with home comforts. Legal ald will be given to in tended divorcees, and a movement has been started to secure a repeal of the law unde which uncontrollable sympathy is a valid | ground for divorce. The founders of the | club are twelve women whose divorces ase tonished Viennese society AS OLD AS WAR Centu ITSELF an Institation fes Ahenad of Dicky Davi (Copyright, 1901, by Press Publishing Co.) LONDON, Jan. 19.-—~(New York World | Cablegram—Special Telegram.)—An ani mated controversy as to whether Sir Wil llam Russell was the first war correspond ent has been determined by the discovery that regular correspondents were with both arm during the English civil wars, while in 1638 the Revue de France had aceredited correspondents in the wars with Germany and Poland | War JAIL FOR PUBLIC KISSING Russian Judge Decides Restaurant Osculation ts Shameless Behavior, (Copyright, 191, by Pross Publishing Co.) ST. PETERSBURG, Jan. 19.—(New York Speclal Telegram.)—Two World Cablegram young unmarrled couples appealed against the sentence of imprisonment for Kissing ch other in a restaurant, which the judge stigmatized as “shameless behavior in a pla Counsel argued that kissing was & permissible expression of feeling, but | the judge upheld the decision of the lower court BRET HARTE'S BIOGRAPHY E. Pemberton I'r-:re- and the Great Story Writer Pens an Introduction, (Copyright, 1901, by Press Publishing (‘o) LONDON, Jan. 10.—(New York World | Cablegram—Special Telegram.)—A blogra- | phy of Bret Harte. with an introduction by | himself, is announced by E. Pemberton | Harte lives a retired life in a big resi- | dential hotel at Lancaster Gate. He rarely | goes into of any kind and never Teaves London. His sole recreation is walk- infl in Kensington gardens. soclety | addea | Thursday OMAHA, SUNDAY MORNING, JANUARY 20, Observance of Prussia’'s Bicentenary G eral Ameng All Olasses, POOR AS WELL AS RICH TOOK EAGER PART r Bpeaks of the Army as the Best Echool for Monarchio Bentiment. RUSSIA TO HAVE FREE HAND IN MANCHURIA Germany 8till Pursues Eoheme of Laying Oables to All Parts of the World. BAVARIAN PRINCE'S DIGNITY RUFFLED Heavy Mortality Among Rats on Just Arrived from Smyrnn Gives Rise to the Suspicion ot BERLIN, Jan. 15.—The Prussian bicen tenary celebrations drove out for a time almost completely, public Interest for any thing e The socialist and part of the ultra-radical press made an attempt to #how fthat the fetes were purely in the wealthier sections, but this is not true. The flagging and decorating throughout Berlin, even Ir proved throngs 1 the flags the ( ted largely, the the quarters of the poorest laborers the contrary, as did the Immense crowding the streets until midnight rman tri-color pre- Prussian white and k being orly seen occasionally. The uzzeltung, which is narrowly Prussian, deplores this saying: “In a similar fete in Saxony or Bavaria the Saxon or Bavarian flags would appear in the majority.” About the emperor's address of Thursday to the officers, the correspondent of the As- soclated Press hears from an official who was present that his majesty emphasized that during the 200 years of their existence the Prussian kings had often been forced to draw the sword to become what they are tocay. The Prussian officers’ corps, hs had a large share in this long com- bat for Prussia’s greatness and power; but, now, when Germany's and Prussia’s main tasks are the maintenanc it has become the prineipal duty for the Prussian officers’ corps to develop the army which braces the soul aud body. The army, was also the best school for and a strict fulfill- of peace, he continued, monarchic sentiment ment of duty Army and Navy Reseripts Criticised Part of the press today criticises Em. peror William's resctipts to the navy and army, the Vorwaerts (leading soclulist or- gan) pointing out that in spite of his majesty’s clalm that the army is the best support of the state, there was a time when the army and state miserably foundered. Anent, the navy rescript, the Vorwaerts sa; “Since the emperor now openly ac- knowladges he wants 10 make \he uovy as ormidable a weapon as the army, the em- peror must have another, farther reaching, program for ravy expansion.” 1t became known today that Emperor (villiam yesterday afternoon while driving in the Thiergarten ran into a heavy cart belonging to a casketmaker named Welth, injuring « lad, Herman Linde, who was | driving, and springing the whiffetree, the emperor's carriage remaining intact. Al though the fault lay with the driver of the cart, his majesty sent him a handsome present United Sta Ambassador and Mrs. White gave a musicale tonight. There were 12 ing Princ von Ostensacken and Baroness von dorff, Mr. persous present, among them be- s8 Anton von Radziwill, Countess Gers- and Mrs. White give a dinner next in honor of the new Spanish am- bassador, Senor De Ruata. Among those jnvited are the leading diplomats, Count von Posadowsky-Wehner and Count and Countess De Perigord-Talleyrand. Major John B. Kerr, the United States military attache, and Mrs, Kerr gave a din- ner this evening to their newly-made Ber- lin friends at the Reischoff. Free Hand for Ruws in Mancharia, From an unexceptional source the corre- spondent of the Associated Press learns that Germany, neither in the past mor in the future, has interposed or will offer any obstacle to Russia’s clalms upon Man- churla. Count von Buelow has given the Ruesian ambassador, Count von Osten- sacken, repeated assurances since the be- gioning of the Chinese troubles and quite recently again that Maochuria lies out of Germany's interest or commercial sphere and that It is in no wise touched on by the Anglo-German agreement. The project of a net of cables to cover the world is being diligently pursued by Germany and is most actively furthered by the emperor, who made some significent utterances on the subject to Privy Postal Counsellor Strefker recently. The latest shape of the project, so far as the far east {8 concerned, 18 as follows: Germany and the Netherlands to jointly lay a cable which will go through the Dutch Indfes, touching at the Natunas islands, Billiton, Palem- bang, Batavia, Maccasar, German New Guipea and the Carolinas, with a central point at Shanghal, then branching from Kiso Chou, easterly to America. The Dutch government will lay the cable through its own colonfes and Germany will do the rest, The financing of this project is about con stituted. In principle, the plan of General von Podbielski, the imperial postmaster general, for gradually raising the annual appropria tions to a maximum of 6,000,000 marks in 1920, has been approved by Emperor Wil- liam, but If private companies with a state subvention will eral von Podb undertake the work elski will not object Breaches of OMcial Etiquette, Another misunderstanding has arisen with Bavaria. Prince Alphonse, nephew of the prince regent, who attended the funeral of the grand duke of Saxe-Weimar (who died January §), elalms he was snubbed by th emperor’s representatives, General von Wil lich and Prince Regent Albrecht, etiquette and questions of precedence being involyed, On returning to Bavarfa Prince Alphonse resigned command of the First Bavarlan Cavairy brigade, with the approval of the prince regent, who conferred on him a higher rank and also bestowed on him the highest disposable decoration. Foreign officlals here know nothing of the alleged telegram from Emperor Kwan Su to the ambassadors regarding the occupation of the Taku forts, etc.. but they say the Chinese commissioners have written to the ambassadors, expressing certain wishos which will be discussed during the peace negotiations. The foreign office here dis credits the statement that fresh German roops are about to be sent to China for the reliet of the sick, wounded and returned soldiers. Only supplies for the troops will be sent hercafter. No plans exist for th withdrawal of the German troops or the v turn of Ficld Marshal Von Waldersee, Gen- in all | O\E Bl(; LO\E FEAST | PROBABLY PASS AWAY ASLEEP | Prince of Wales Su 1 Before 1 " See Her comes Permanent, (Copyright, 1901, by Press Publishing Co.) COWES, Jan. 19 p. m.~(New York World Cablegram—Special Telegram.)--1 have just seen an important court officlal who said: “The queen s undoubtedly dying. She will probably pass away in her sieep. She Is having of semi-consciousness and is falling into A comatose state. That Was the reason why the prince of Wales was urgently summoned today, so he may sce her before | unconsciousness sets in permanently. Sir James Reid remains with her majesty day and was relieved for a few night (o hours this g by Sir Douglas Powell and Dr, % Hoffmelster of Cowes. bouse sugl \@&Ho the queen. For three days the/ i remained in bed and for some tig ore that she was constantly falling b and the princesses or lady in wall Rept talking to keep her awake Theslt " ptoms haye becomo greatly ag- grag today, and the doctors sider thy may linger for only a few days, afs o the dormant condition into which CKIESAND PRAYS CONSTANTLY Name of Queen Victorin May e Ad | o South African ¢n 1 spyright, 1901, by Press Publishing Co.) INDON, Jan. 19.—(New York World Cablegram — Speclal Telegram.)-~A deop scnsation was created by the serlous news from Osborne. The worst is generally teared, owing to the queen’n advanced age and the cumulative effect of her sorrows lately endured. 1t s stated on the best au- | thority that during the last fortnignt there | was a paralyzing of the left side of the | bady, rendering the queen practically help less, and it 1s understood xhe had n slight additional stroke in her sleep. Her time has been passed since in crying and pray- ing. Especially since Chamberlain's anl Roberts' successive visits she has been in- consolable. The name of Queen Victoria may in fact be added w'th perfect justice to the South African casualty list. STEAM MOTORS BARRED OUT Paris Remembers How American Antomohiles Win Prizes and Pars Them. (Copyright, 1901, by Press Publishing Co.) PARIS, Jan. 19.—(New York World Cable- gram — Speclal Telegram.) — The Grand Palals, the magnificent edifice, housing | paintings and statuary from every part of | the world at the recent exposition, |18 now serving a different pur- | pose. The vast rotunda and upper galleries are crowded with auto- | mobiles and bicycles for the annual exhibi- | tion which will open Monday. Five hundred | and fifty firms are represented. American | bicyeles are promipent, but the only American automobile manufacturers desir- ing to exhibit wesg ruled out because the police prefect sel to permit a steam motor in the Pu 1 ets, covsidering it dangerous. In vict .t i%e.pr ey obtatped at previous Paris competitions by American | steam automoblles the Americans here hint that the discrimination was the result of jealousy. TAKES COLD AT HOTEL FIRE | | But Nenrietta Rozenro Sa Her | Life by Muscular Work | on a Rope, (Copyright, 11, by Press Publishing Co.) PARIS, Jan. 19.—(New York World Cable- gram—Special Telegram.)—Mrs. Henrietta Rozenro of California, who escaped from the third story of an apartment in Square de 1'Opera, destroyed by fire last turday, by climbing down a rope in her night clothes, 18 earning the plaudits of Parls and the enthuslastic admiration of cool-headed women. She was il at the hotel and her light | attire and the bitter night causéd a severe cold, which the physicians think is develop- ing into pneumonia. TOO RIGOROUS FOR SOCIETY Lady Curzon Finds Solled Reputa- tlons Bound to FPreva in Indta. (Copyright, 1901, by Press Publishing ('o.) LONDON, Jan. 19.—(New York World Cablegram — Special Telegram.) — Despite denials, it 18 persistently reported that Lady Curzon of Kedlestons, who was Mary Lelter, | will return from India in April. She will | merely precede her husband, who inten | to resign the vice royalty to Earl Cadogan, | who will relinquish the Irish vice royalty in June, probably to the earl of Dudley. Lady Curzon's rigorous maintenance of | Cablegram—Special Telegram.)—A writer | In Vanity Fair thus describes the luxurious effeminacy among the British officers | “Some ot our golden youths were above borrowing women's whalebones able thelr West End tailors to fit their khadi tunics without creases or wrinkles, | “In one of the sumptuous war kits were | snugly packed dainty brocade corsets of the most approved manly torso shapes, cun- | ningly wrought with devices of unfadable | flowers and laced with a bright, stay of gally dyed silks.” not strong DIDN'T KNOW IT WAS LOADED | American Dentint Asks Divorce After | Marringe That He Supposed Was a Mock One, | PARIS, Jan. 19.In the first chamber of the civil tribunal yesterday Maitre Decorl asked the court to nullify the marriage of | M. George Roussel, secretary of the Soclety | of American Dentists In Parls, and Mrs | Harrison, a widow and daughter of an Hng- lish admiral. M. Roussel is a Frenchman and a graduate in dental surgery of Paris and New York, with a large American clien- tele. Counsel asserted that his thought it was a mock marriage | DANISH MAIL STEAMER SINKS Together | r Goes client COPENHAGEN, Jan. 191 Danish mail steamers Gfion and Hyeen were in col liston and the former sank. The latter put into Malwo in a leaky condition. The pas sengers, crew and wails were saved, long intervals | the | | quette decree that she is never {ll, and so, creasing years, have brought upon her. court etlquette aud resolute refusal to|pye against the ruthless hand of nature receive any one of solled reputation has |aven the imperfal resolve of the ruler of caused endless friction in Simla and Cal- |4po great empire proved futile and with a cutta, where officlal soclety Is moted for | piijrul realization of the inevitable she Its easy-golng laxity. shut herself off from her eotourage, For TOMMY ATKINE_M CORS| two nights she dined alone and never ETS |stirrea from the apartments she occupied - at Osborne. Humbly, for this woman Vanity Falr Exposes the Lexurious |pyjes her court with no uncertain hand, Effeminacy of the Men her court officials fmplored her to seek | Whom Boers Rout, medical advice. These messages she stead- \ 4 - fastly ignored and, though tonight her | (Copyright, 191, by Press Publishing Co) | condition is admitted to be most serlous, | LONDON, Jan. 19.—(New York World to | | (OUEEN NEAR THE EXD| Bulleting from the Bedside of England's Bovereign Indicate a Collapse, | PRINCE OF WALES SUMMONED TO 0SBORNE | Ramor that He Will at Once Assume the Regency of the Empire, | OTHER ROYAL PERSONAGES ARE COMING | William and Duke of Connaught. | DOCTORS GIVE OUT BRIEF STATEMENTS Taken in Connection with the Hure ried Summons of Members of the | Royal Family Interpreted to Menn the Bnd. LONDON, to the Cowes says Jan. 20.-8:05 &, m.—A dispatch hange Telegraph company from “It 18 learned unoficlally tnis moraing that the queen was alive at 7:15 o'clock. Her condition is extremely grave and hopes are growing faluter.” i COWES, Isle of Wight, Jan. 19.—The |queen passed @ good night and Is much | better this morning OSHORNE, Isle of Wight, Jan. 19.~Noon: | The following bulletin has just been issued The queen 1s suffering ¢ feal prostration, which cause anxiety There was no change in her majesty's condition at 5:20 p. m. According to local understanding and report the prince .of Wales comes to Osborn with the object of practically assuming the regency. He will take over the powers of signing state docu- ments and is expected to return to London, the center of state business, until his return here s necessitate by the possible course of eyents. 6 p. m.—~The following official bulletin bas Just been fssued The quecn's strength has been fairly taaintained throughout the day and there are | indications of a slight improvement In the | symptoms this evening. “JAMES REID. wecompar “R. DOUGLAS 'POWELL. COWES, Isle of Wight, Jan. 10.—Mid- | night.—The queen of England lies at death's | door. She was stricken with paralysis to- night. Reuter's Telegraph company under- stands that the prince of Wales has recelved | authority to act in ber majesty’s stead, and | thus has been created a practical, though not constitutional, regency. LONDON, Jan. 20.-12:30 a. m.—It is an- nounced that, though there is some slight improvement, her majesty's condition is| | mest grave, Mr. C. T. Ritchie, secretary of state for the Home department, will arrive at Os- | borne today and it is expected Lord Salls bury will accompany him. | The princess ot Wales has arrived at Os- | borne. COWES, Isle of Wight, Jan. 15.—(Mid- |night.)—A local rumor, purveyed by Os- | borne, declares that the queen cannot live | until Monday, but this receives no official | corfirmation, though it is admitted that it is scarcely even likely that the queen, If she recovers at all, will regain the use of | thore vigorous faculties which have dis- {tinguished her among the women of all time, Gatherers at the Bedsid Gatherers at the bedside are the prince and princess of Wales, Princess Louise and other members of the royal family, while | Mr. Ritchie, the secretary of state for home |affairs, officially represents the cabinet. Lord Salisbury 18 in constant telephonic communication with Osborne house and it | was rumored that he had arrived at Os | borne house, but this does not appear tc be true. The arrival of Emperor William and | other members of the royal family s anx- | lously awaited. | For three days the queen has been |strictly to herself. The last time she drove out in Cow the rain beat down heavily upon her. Even the natives, who have grown to look upon her majesty as ‘un ordinary, have noticed that she looked | more delicate and shrunken than ever—a | mere shadow of her former selt—yet, with | feminine persistence, the queen forbade {those around her to say that she was il The Queen Victorian tradition and etls with dogged determination, she fought off the ges that worry over the Boer war, | the deaths in her own family and her In- there are only in attendance Doctors Powell |and Reld. Doubtless the prince of Wales will tomorrow secure additional medical | talent pless and Almost Speechle Her majesty lies helpless and almost speechless in her bed in Osborne house, sur- rounded by every comfort. Fruits, flowers, | fce and all the accessories of modern med| | cine are at hand. Osborne house is burled amid a gloomy park of firs. It is brightly lit | outside. The wind comes up from the channel and surges through the trees like a death dirge. A mile away stands the lodge. Beyond its portals none but the household can pass. On them, without the soverelgn's knowledge, are posted bulletins announcing her condition. Beyond the bul- letins nothing official s obtainable; but not a soul connected 1n any way with Osborne house seems to believe that her majesty can survive this attack. In fact, locally, the announcement of her death is awaited with something approaching equanimity. Never in the memory of her subjects has the queen been i1l before, und now that at her advanced age she hus been stricken It seems | to those who have lived around her that i | is tmpossible for her to recover. The vil lage wiseacres, who. have her from girlhood, wag their heads today and say it is a sad day for Engla seen Seems to Be Faralysis, The oficial bulletins may safely be de- | | describing the queen’s allment may be ac cepted as merely oficial evasions of the | facts. The information obtained by Reu ter's Telegraph company to the effect that it s ysis from which the queen is suf- fering 18 based upon the highest possible (Continued on Second Page.) THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE. THE BEE BULLETIN. Forecast Teday or Nebraska - Falr and Cooler utherly Winds; Monday Fair. e 1 Royalty Has Its Eyes Mended. Prussin's Great Love Fenst. Queen Vietorin Sinks Fast Knlser After English Throne. 2 Protect Americans in Venezneln, American Hase Ball Agreement. West nt Abandons Hazing. 3 Bxtravagance with State Funds, 4 Indian Approprintion Bill Ready. Tributes to Senat . B City Wina Again Telegrama Co Rendy Vrinted, ha Society. Brawl Results @ 8 Council hite Liben raes of Human Intelligence wht Over Life 1 12 Womnn: Her Ways and W 1 Amusements 14 Editorial an 15 Stop Theft of Plum Capltalists to Size Up Omaha, Cubn n Puzzle to Congren 16 “Norman Holt. 17 ¢ ercinl a inancinl New 1 Echoes from Local Anterooms. Tempernture nt Hour. e Saom..... Gonom.. sl Yesterd . [ e Maoeee EAGER CROWDS AWAIT NEWS fletin Toards at Clabs o Inces Anxi W ' usly Ul Late W LONDON, Jan. 20.-4 a. m.—The official bulleting rogarding the queen, posted at the Mansion house and Marlborough house on Saturday, were read with evident auxiety and cagerly discussed by the large crowds vonstantly surrounding them until a late hour of the right. At the clubs the last bulletin saying thero was a “slight improve- ment,” was received with some lncredulity as more than one telegram shown expressing t unfavorable vlew of the proj majesty's ill- nesy Among the private the mo 58 of he was ominous items of news of last evening was the statement that the Rt. Rev, Randall Thomas Davidson, D. D., bishop of Winchester, had been summoned and had reached Osborne late last night Some of the newspapers fssued edltions as late as 11 o'clock and these were eagerly bought. They contained, however, nothing to satisfy the pained interest with which they were perused. The duke of York was at York house late in the evening, when it was announced that he was not golng to Osborne until today. Papers Reflect Nation's Fears. Besides giving coiumns filled with ihe latest scraps of information concerning her majesty’s condition the movements of mem- bers of the roval family and persons con- nected with ihe court all this morning's newspapers reflect the fears of the nation of a fatal termination of the illness which has 8o unexpectedly stricken down the aged monarch. They dwell al length on the deep love and reverence which they cherlsh for the sovereign who so iong has guided the ship of state. The Sunday Times says 'he news from Osborne house in the last few hours has nt a thrill of anxiety n cnly throughout these realms, but wherey the electric wire has flashed the intellf gence. There will be keen suspense and anxiety among the queen’s subjects until it is known that she is out of danger. Queen Victoria is only revered by her people, but without exception is the most universally beloved living monarch. Even the countr present enemy, Kruger, the consequences of fatal ultimatum caused no small part of her majesty's suf- rings, has frequently spoken admiringly of her Whatever may be thought on the continent about our countrymen the queen 15 an object of veneration and respect, and it would exclte universal sorrow were her t7 now to pass away. Sunday Sun says: “There never was a time when the queen was more belovel. Never has she been so near her people in the course of her long reign as during the course of the war which has knit the empire together. It is Impossible for any- one seriously to consider England and the English without the august presence of one who has endeared herself to her peo- ple In a pecullar manner unattainable by the sovereign of any other land." Worth The Sunday circumstances the nation may mourn for the soverelgn they have lost, but surely the soverelgn is as happy in her death as not whose of Noblest E itaph, Special says: ““Undoer the in life, nor has there ever been a ruler more worthy of the epitaph Sir Henry Lawrence wished to be his, the noblest a man or woman can d her duty.' Lloyd's Weekly London Newspaper says {istory will proclaim, In the words of the sire: ‘She tried to do poet, ‘She wrought her people lasting good.' ‘There can be no galnsaying the fact that the people in return love the queen as no soverelgn was ever loved be- fore.” The Observer says: *“The temporary de- privation of her majesty’s guldance and counsel in the present circumstances must be a serfous blow to the government. It 18 well known that she has personally exerclsed a profound influence on the policy of the country, both internal and external It her health should, unhappily, necessi- tate & temporary relinquishment of the cares and exhausting routine of the state we way console ourselves that she has marked out the path of duty which her representative will only have to follow to achleve assured success.' ALL THE MAJESTY IS GONE Stmply Victorfa s an 0ld Woman Sleeping Away Her Last nyw. yright, 181, by Press Publishing Co.) COWES, Jan, 19— (New York World Ca blegram—Special Telogram.)—A professional gentleman employed at Oshorne house, when SINGLE COPY FIVE C own | and to a degreo | 4 PAGES 1 TO 10. B B e T o KAISER OF ENGLAND To Fmperor William Are Imputed Designs Upon the Throne of Great Britain, GROUNDS FOR THE EXTRAORDINARY CLAIM Germany’s Ruler is Eldest Bon of Queen Viotoria's Eldest Ohild, MAY CONTEST THE CROWN WITH WALES He is Expected to Arrive at Oowes Tod and Orisis is Anticipated. ENGLISH MONARCH NEVER LEGALLY DIES On of Soverelgn the Title Passes to Successor Without Any Ceremony or Installatic Deing Nece ry. (Copyright, 1991, by Press Publishing Co.) | LONDON, Jan. i0.—(New York World Ca- | blegram=Special Telegram.)—The ar nouncement that the kaiser is expected in | Cowes tomorrow gives rise to the extra- |ordinary rumor that !t has teen frequently mputed to the that he, as the Idest son of the queen's eldest child, re gards himself as a rightful successor to the British throne and it is apparently sur- ser [miged in some quarters that his journey {to the Osborne house has some relation {to that imaginary claim Late tonight it was claimed that orders had been sent to the Forelgn office and | Cotonial ofce to have a special staff of clerks on duty tomorrow (Sunday). This 18 interpreted in those departments as in- dicating an expression that tidings of the queen’s death will have to be sent tomor= {Tow to the colonles and foreign powers. In England the monarch legally vever dies, for immediately upon the death of tha relgning soverelgn the soverelgnty passes o his successor. No ceremony or install- ation s required, the successor becoming monarch by the act of the law itself. i of Wales, der is the law of supposing even a possibility of his death that his natural dis- solution is generally called his demise, an expression which signifies merely a transfer of property. When the queen dies the prince of Wales becomes king, and will on the earliest convenlent opportunity, prob- ably in the course of the same day, recelva the premier, home secretary and other im- portant ministers, representing the privy council, who will congratulate him for ally on his succession. Tormerly the death of ‘a soverelgn of itself dissolved Parlin- ment and the ministry. By the reform bill of 1885 this law was ropealed and now the existing Parllament and ministry are un- affected by the demise of the crown. The death of the queen will be proclalmed by new King in the Gazette, und & #ép- arate copy of the proclamation will be posted ot the Mansion house. Thus the British empire will be counstitutionally not!- fled of the ccession of a new soverelgn. The corol lon will probably not take place | for a year. The queen ucceded June 20, | 1837, but was not crowned until June 25, 1538, although then no such bar to royal festivities existed as the Houth African embroglio now furnishes. 1t is generally understood that W, will elect to relgn as Edward VIII, for although the queen was always desirous that ho should be Al- bert I, the prince disapproves of bringing | & German name | the British sover- | elgnty. There are six months' mourning fol- | lowing a sovereign's death, and it will seri- ously affect the approaching London se on, while the duke of York's antipodean tour 18 almost certain to be postponed. * The princo of Wal as king may within the constitu- tion materlally affect the course of British politics. He has always had liberal lean- ‘Iu;.w. He detested Beaconsfleld and felt a warm admiration for Gladstone. His most intimate friend among the leading polit! fans is Ros , and it s believed the prince will work for Rosebery's premfer- #hip. When Gladstone adopted home rule the prince said to the late Mahlow Sands of | New York, who told the present writer at | the time, “Personally, I could find no ob- | jection were satisfied It to home rule it 1 did not mean home rule Wales Gives Parnell a Hearing. ore that Lord Randolph Churchill, at | the prince’s suggestion, arranged that Par- | nell should meet him at luncheon at the | Junlor Constitutional club. Parnell never spoke of what passed at this meeting, but a couple of years afterward, when a demand was made on Parliament for a further al- lowance for the prince’s family, Gladstone was enabled to carry it by the vote of the Irish party. He has prominently himself with the ¢ identified rts to solve such prob lems as housing the poor and technical ed- ucation, and his accession will undoubtedly advance those movements. Privately his closest intimate s Reuben Sassoon, who has squandered a large fortune in entertaining bim. Reuben Sassoon fs & votary of pleas- ure and spori, possessed of a certaln eclev- erness. He was banker at the famous Tran~ bycroft baccarat game, but the prince is too shrewd to allow his soclal cronles to in- fluence his public action. The princess of Wales, as queen, too, will fill a large space in the public eye and her rigid rules of court etiquette will preclude cven the king from giving prominent recognition to mem | bers ot the Mariborough house merely his companions in frivolity COWES, Jan, 20,-2:10 a. m.- The prince of Wales will go to London this morning where, with the duke of York he will ! meet Emperor Willlam. Whether the em | peror will proceed to Osborne | the results of this interview GRAVITY OF SYMPTOMS GROWS set. who are depends upon All Efforis to Bring Q ed Debility cen Out of Ex- rove Un- avalling. (Copyright, 1901, by Press Publishing ¢o.) COWES, Jan. 197 p. m.—(New York World Cablegram-—Special Telegram.) | The prince of Wales arrived here at 6:30 and was recelved by Dr. Hoffmelste ith whom he drove off rapldly to Osborne | The duchess of Fife and other members of asked what was the latest news from the [the royal family have been urgently tele royal sick room, sald: “All the majesty is |graphed for, also two doctors from Lon gone. She is simply an old woman sleep- [don, belleved to be Sir Willlam Broadhest Ing away the last remaining days of a long and another. Private news from the Os- life. The w has hastened her end. Since |borne house says the gravity of the Earl Roberts was here at the beginning of | queen's symptoms are steadily Increaging. the weck she has scarcely recognized any- | All the efforts of the doctors to bring about or o rally from her extreme debility have One of the queen's gillies heing ap- | falled. The clerk of the privy councll re proached and pressed to say what was the | ceived Instructions this aftern to have condition of his royal mistress, sald eau- (all preparations completed for summoning tiously in broad Scotch: “Ah, mon, she just [ the privy counctl, which announces the s« ehbs and flows; the day abed, the morrow |cession 1o the new sovere very prep aboot: but she verra old {aration has in fact been made, in view of Asked bluntly, is it the end? he answered: |the imminent danger of the demlse of the ‘Mou, wha can tell, but I'm sore afraid.” |crown.