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NEIKLEJORN UP A BIT Eis Column of Voters Rises Apparently a the Expense of Currie, ockie | reaction on - o 1 t de STILL BZLOW HIS HIGH WATER MARK B " ate. con. | servative parliamefics There I8 now | the National associations and Rumor Puthing Him in Caucas DoesNot ot torm - Materialize Trade unions educate the minds of employers and employes concerning the grave respon- with them in respect means to maot to send joint deputa tions of capital and labor abroad to inquire into the conditions of other countries and | provide a federation where and employes may meet on the same plane.” EXPECTATION OF MANAGERS IS NOT MET | sibilities whic o Hritlsh trade foreign competition Oaly Bixty-One Members Are Present at Night Session, FIVE BALLOTS SHOW LITTLE CHANGE an endowment $60,000 to carry on the work proposed A representative of the Accomplished and understands Then Taken Voting is Quickly Adjournment | for Twenty-¥ conservative 18 interest in the scheme in the hope that it may form the means of solving a problem which they conslder, soone to embarrasss the govern- The chief difficulty Mr. Lockle finds is to solve the problem of making the new federation entirely unpolitical CARES LITTLE FOR IRISH House of leaders are Accused of SHgh Publishing Co.) Meiklejohn Thomas 0'Donnell teresting scene today by attempting to ad dress the House of Commons in Irish uttered only a few words when the speaker called him to order, whereupon John created an in- speak In the tongue with which he himselt constituents The speaker rejoined that it would require rule to permit after further argument O'Donnell bowed to the speaker's order, but refused to address the House in English, as be had been pre- vented from doing o in Irish following, said that five House of Commons convinced him that It cared as little for the Irish people as for the Irish language CANADA TALKS RETALIATION Member of House of Action aws ' .~ (Special Telegram. ) The only feature of the ballot for United Btates senator in joint session today was the rise of the Meiklejohn column appar- ently at the expense of Currie. speeches, and 18 only one of his high-water mark reached by John Murphy, ays in the B other side Currie water mark 1s to be explained partly by the absence of at least two of his support- Those who left him today were Van Hoskirk, who went to Kinkaid, Meiklejohn. candldates exhibited no substantial ommons Takes oty In Cauel aucus held a short ses- | took five ballots, which af adjournment was taken to to- Previous to the caucus effort would Tha republican tonight and OTTAWA, Ont., Feb. 19.—In the House of Commona Mr. MacLean of Bast York called the attention of the government to a St. Potersburg dispatch announcing the impo- sitlon of a retaliatory United States. morrow night. was rife that an run Melklejohn up, but the ex- s of hls managers were not met. Only sixty-one members were pres vote In caucus was: tarifft against MacLean argued that Canada should follow the example set b Russia aud have a sliding scale tariff which favor our friends and who were not friendly. sald that Canada was the best outside tomer the United Stat an we were folls enough (o doing at phesent Canada would never get the United States Canada should touch the American pocket If Canada did so the Alaska boundary question and other unset tied matters between both countries would The government made | Thompson . ounreRnd had, and so lovg fair treatment Most of the bills effect. the vigorous anti-corporation planks of the last popullst state platform have already met their fate, apparently without from the fusion members of These bills covered chiefly the linmt on the amount recoverable for the death of employes and the employer's la- injury among workingmen re- negligence of fellow work- One bill remaivs yet on employers’ 1lability, introduced by Mr. Sprecher, which is supposed to volce the most modest de- mands of the fuslonists. to tralnmen employed way corporations and imposes complete lfa- through the tariff. soon be disposed of. even protest the leglslature. THERON WILLING FOR PEACE Prestdent of Afrikander Bu t Not Ca-Operate with Dewet, sulting from Mr. Theron, prosi- 1t practically re- has decided | the Africander bund, that it is impossible for him to co-operate | with Plet Dewet's peace has offered cemmittee, but he the constituted authoritles his services to promote the restoration of peace on terms honorable to both sides. SERVIN'S QUEEN A MOTHER vet the Birth ived in the o ation of the trains, cut- ting out shopmen and construction gangs. The fusionists are figuring on making a stand on this measure and insisting on a counting of noses on the record when it comes up, with a view to making political capltal for coming campalgns. also several maximum rate bills to be dis- posed of, which will opportunity for several fusion statesmen to distinguish themselves as great corporation wo Viennn I'n of n Son—0th doubtless afford reio Presse and an- + announce that the queen | of Servia has given birth to n son Reuter's Vienna other hand, sa Vienna says the other Vienna pa nen Who Li In the neighborhood of a thousand young women are limping around the State univer- sity campus just now, the emphasis on the lmp: varying with the degree with which the operation toolk. produced by the stringent enforcement of the rule requiring all university students not vaceinated within (hé year to protect themselves against cine process representative, that according to his in- formation this announcement Is incorrect. RAID AT NEWMAN SUCCESSFUL This result Little Hatehets, ¢ smallpox by the The original notice posted re- quired compliance with the order by Monday of this week, subject to the penalty of ex- the university KANSAS CIT Times from A special to the cluston from grounds and time was granted till the coming Friday. The young women students, naturally the great majority, preferred to keep their arms Immaculate of scars in anticipation ot Juntor proms and senior socials, which are the great society events in the colleglate Hence the limps Prot. Bdward A hatchets and axes, on a jolnt he made an effectiva rald toliny. Some of the crusaders Perty and Thompsonville. building was locked and the jointist forbade ntrance of ke reform oke iu the door rs, who there Toey completely Ross is continuing’ his lecture courses at the university just the sume as it the Board of Regents had not Fejected the report of the executive commit~ teo with reference (o his engagement. The action of the committee will unquestionably be ratified when a full attendance of the regents s had, becaus# it is understood that the four fusion members will stand by i, but In the meanwhile the professor is ocou- PYIng a rather delicate position Many Absentees in Senate, Feb. 10.—(Spec In jolnt session Currie to Melklejohn down to 13, to which result absentees also contributed glass mirror and other fixtures. not much liquor in the place, but it was de- A friend of the jointist tried to protect the property with a shotgun ders named Gorrell, in trying to get posses- sion of the with it and seriously injured LIQUOR GOES INTO GUTTER One of the crus Recaloltrant | Telegram )— the chief loser the former -A special to the Journal from Gower, Mo., says saloons here today and demanded that they 13| Molklejohn his place was turned into the street other keeper thereupon closed his place and agreed 10 go out of business. Gower is a village in Clinton county near Thompson, D, Fhompson, W, Vote in De The republigan vote wiis: | REAR ADMIRAL SAMPSON ILL mpson, Melklejohn. 1 Thompson, Metklejohn. Melklejohn, Melklejohn. Hinshaw, Meikiefohn, Broderick—Hinshaw, Meiklejohn, urnas—D! E. Thompsor, Meikle- Brown of Otoe—Hainer, Crounse. Buresh—Hinshaw. Rosewater. Meiklejokn, Corneer—Martin. Rozewaier. Crissey—Thompson, Melklejohn artan, Currle, Kinkaid, Craunse. Edgar—D. E. Thom) Evans—Hainer Maikle, . K. Tuomosson, ows—D, K. T nds--Hinshaw, € BOSTON, Feb. Rear Admiral William commandant of the Charlestown navy yard, is 1}l at his home at the yard. Captain Barclay is acting commandant, Ocean Vesnel Friesland, from Ant- Bantiago—-Arriy n Vietoria Luise, Plymouth—Salled—Patriola, from Hamburg, son, Currie. n. Melklejohn. k via ports. | Arrived—Previously, (Continued on Third F noma, San Franclsco, via Sydney, N. 8. W. OMAHA, WEDNESDAY MORNING, Trade Lead | Qorrespondent Tells of Gigantic Combine to | Monopolize Empire's Commerce, BELGIAN KING IS THE PROMOTER Lending Finuncinl Houses of Burope United States Snid to Re Inter- ed—General Mannger Ale ready Appoint LONDON, Feb, 20.—The Brussels cor raspondent of the Duily Mail describes a trust formed by leading financial houses In Europe and the United States by the instrumentality of Colonel Thius, with a | view of controlling all the commerce of China. He declares that the king of the | Belgians fs the secret promoter of this | gigantic undertaking, the International Company of the Bast “‘Belglan interests intend to play a prom- inent part in China in the future,” says the correspondent ‘M. Francqai, former Bel- glan consul at Shanghal, leaves tomorrow for Chink. He has been appointed general manager of the International company at a ar of £4,000 a vear He will be accompanied by railroad and mining_en gineers and other officiale. The company ‘ar fetes and receptions will be given with a view of enlisting the sympathies of man- darins and Chinese traders ¥The construction or acquisition of rail- roads in China, @s well as the control of lines of steamers, forms a part of the company's program. Advocates of this great monopoly consider that the fact of the financiers of all countries being interested in China NEBRASKA CATTLE INCLUDED Rivers Contril utes to Big Hereford Sale in Kansas Clty, KA AS CITY, Feb. 19— Asale of im- from the Funkhouser began here today, with cattle- me nfrom many parts of the country pres- ent. Ninetecn cows and bulls were sold today at an average of $304 a head. Among the sales were Lady Wilton 77th and heifer calf, dam 4 years old, owned by the Riverside Cattle pany., sold T. Hewltt, Leaven- worth, Kan., foj Saint Cupid Kirk B. Armour, Mo, for $6i0, u Artist, year'ing bull, owned by 1 B. Watis & Bon, Fayette, Mo., Sold to George Hussey, Glasgo, Kan., for $110. Baucy, helfer, owned by the Riverside Hereford Cattle company, Ashland, Neb., s0ld to W. T. Hewitt for $400. Brampton Sunflower, imported 3-year-old cow, owned by K. B. Armour, sold to I. B, Wafts & Son, Fayette, Mo., for $10 This sale will be followed by u sale of Bates' bred Shorthorns from the Staked Plains herds of B. B. m and M, T, Groom of Pan-Handle, T JOINS THE BIG COMBINE & North- » Pafty (o Den | cow, owned by o H. B. Watts, Fay- X the Morgn W YORK, Feb. morrow will say: “Arrangements wer perfected today by which the Lake Su now being organized in New York by J. I Mor, The Lake Superior Consolidated Mining company is capitalized at §30.000,000 and it represents the interests of John D. Rocke- runs from Duluth to Iron Mountain in the Mesaba range. This road is the connect- Mesaba rango and the luke. Interest at- taches to the transaction because jt indi- cates that the Rockefeller iron and steel properties In the country of the Great Lakes have gome into the transaction, GOULD MUST COME TO COURT in ty Serves he Summons. NEW ORLEANS, Feb. 19.—Edwin Gould was served today with a summons in chancery. An amended bill was filled in the United States clreuit court yesterday, in the case of the United States against the bers of the Gould family, including the roid amonded bill and papers were served this | morning. Mr. Gould had not yet mrisen when the summons. He will have to remain in the city ur filed the suit BIG SUGAR CORPORATION | Chicngo Capitalists Organize Com. | pany to Compete with Trust in Producing Sugar. CHICAGO, Feb. 19.—-The Post today says: Chicago capltalists have organized a $1,000,000 corporation known us the Central Sugar company, to compete with the huge by the newly organized company for the | erection of a beet sugar factory at Shelby, Ind. Ten thousand acres of land have been purchased by the company, and switches are being put in by the railroads at the factory site. Work will be pushed, and the factory will be in full operation in time for this year's crop. The factory at first will be able to cut 600 tons of beeta and produce 130,000 pounds of sugar daily, em- ploying from 200 to 300 men. The charter of incorporatien was granted in New Jersey a few days ago | THREADMAKERS TO COMBINE ! idution of Bl Manu- with Contes | Reported Com CHICAGO, Feb. 19.—The Record tomor- row will say; All of the big silk thread manufacturing concorns in the United States | are to be consolidated. The object of the syndicate is to minimize expenses and place the business upon & more paying basis. The money {8 to be furnished by the | Coates Thread company, an English cor poration, backed by & capital stock of $68,- 000,000. The deal will be closed within & tew days and the transfer of property is expected to be made by March 1. Accord- 10g to a Chicago manufacturer it will be a cash trausaction and the capitallzation of ihe syndicate will be $12,000,000 The resuit of the proposed consolidation, 1t 15 sald, will be the abolition of many oMces aud brauch houses. which will be called | | Dortland, Heath and $tove vpposed the has bought at Shanghai a large hotel, where | | board of charities; amendiug laws, making closed se and limiting a d will form a valuable guaranty of peace | dedicate certain propert ported and American bred Hereford cattle | erds of K. B. Armour and James | Schull of Wat senate engrossing force. The senate com- posed by 19.~The Herald to- | perior Consolidated Tron Mining company | andits afliated interests will enter the | great fron and steal combination which is | feller in the Lake Superior regions. This | company practically controls the interest | in the Duluth & Northern railroad, which | g Hnk between the rich iron mines of the | Texas & Pacific railroad and all the mem- | Countess de Castellane. A number of rail- | d settlers having become aware of | the presenco of Mr. Gould here, filed the | i deputy knocked at the door and served the | spa {1 a hearing has been fixed for the | gone out of date case, The United States district attorney | | trust, Contracts have already been closed | CHANGE COUNTY BOUNDARIES th akotn Legisintare Baanys (0 Remedy rors of Early Survey PIERRE, € D., Veb. 19.-~(Special Tele gram.)-In the house today the bills in- troduced were to change the boundary be tween Meade county and Lawrence and Bennington counties. The chango cuts off A swall strip which {s not on section line on account of the fact that the first bound ary was fixed on a meridian line, and when the survey was made the gection lines wer several hundred feet away from the county line, and it fs with a deslgn to correct this thut the bill 18 Introduced Other bills introduced: Changing the es- tray laws allowing publication in focal papers: appropriating $15,000 for the girls' dormitory at the deaf and dumb school; providing for a Men for rent, making ciop and tools liable The favorable committee report on the senate bill known as the unlform negoti- able paper bill called ont a fight in which measure and the ommittee report was in- definitely postponed by & vote of 44 to 20. Governor Herroid returned his veto on | the bill to allow the use of abbroviations o tax lists for Thursday. On third reading the house passed house bills. to require guardrails on town and nd it W made speclal order county bridges; providing for regulatfons | for sinte board of denial examin. placing children's homes under control ot on for killing ducks April 15 ‘s bag to twel The house passed semate bills requiring directors in state banks to hold five shares of stock; legalizing the incorporation of ovillo, Grant county, and a joint resolu- tion confirming the Hateh wud Morrill funds to the State Agricultural college. Sennte Bills Introduced, Senate bills introduced _today were to Mn Dell Raplds for street purposes; governing taxation of range cattle; providing for rding wills probated in other states; providing for eaching physical culture in public schools; providing that where fees of registers of deeds do not reach $400 that amount shall be made up from the county general fund & county local optlon bill. Winiired Men: of Madison snd H. J own were appointed on the proi ise wolf bounty bill was up gain |and Sweet made another effort to kill it by Indefinite postpocement, but was op- tewart, and the effort was d feated, 27 10 6 Senate pa for the destfuction of telegiaph and tele phone lines by steam th¥eshers and pen. alties for tampering with or tapping tele- graph wires; empowerigg town: with population to maintaingwaterworks, espe clally benefiting town ebiMellette, kerbill again had to | run the guantlet of the senate, having come back from the house amended to pro- hibit the use of crackers, and Sweet again put up a fight on-ghe ineasure and de- feated the concurreme, but notice of re- | consid 30 The cannon fivec ation had beeh gyyen and the mat- or will come up again {tmorrow. M. L. Wilson and €. ' Burrington were appointed wup 1he hous§ (Uneing forca today RANGE CATTLE ARE SCARCE her of Stockers In oE Was Ne aller, RAPID CITY, 8. D., Feb. 19.—(Special.)~ ek Hills 0 i A prominent cattleman of this clty, re-| cently returned from a stock-buying trip to T spring the stock growers of those two states have the big en have as many herds of cattle as usual, but their pr few northern many of the Black Hills, Montana and Wy- oming cattle in Texas, have gone there and tried to malke deals, but could not. This cattleman states that the scarcity of good stock | cattle in the United A few of old steers on the western ranges, wh were turned off when occasion demandod it, and the average age of beef cattle was placed at throe years. Now practi of the old animals have been cléaned up from the ranges and the average age has been reduced to two vears. The number | of stock cattle on the Black Hills ming ranges was never smaller than at the present time. The owners of ranges do not feel like buying southern stock cattle at the present prices. xas and Kansas, states that this of the bargain. They cen are so high that as yet very en have bought. A good en, who have always bought tes s alarming. ears ago there were any amount h nd Wyo There seems to be a tendency on the Black Hills ranges this season to buy a better class of stock. Usuall have been scarce and prices high wester cattlemen have taken any kind of un ani- mal, quantity rather than quality being the thing wanted. It is a fact that a much better gr. when cattle de of stock now roams the Hills anges than ever before. The practice of ing beifers on the ranges has almost hases willl be made by rl, Grieving and Orip- pled, Struggles with a Negro Uni hausted, KANSAS CITY, Feb. 19.—While kueeling at her father's grave at Elmwood ceme- tery today, Dora Dezell, 19 years old, was assaulted by a negro. She suffered a sc vere sprain of her ankle a week ago that necessitates the use of crutches. Notwith- standing her lameness she fought her as- sallant desperately, the two struggling for hearly a half hour. The negro was fiually frightened away by the aproach of a white man. When the man reached Miss Dezell she was in & dead faint. Tonight she is In a serious condition. The negro escaped. HAMILTON JURY STILL oOUT No Indications During Midui t Hours of Progre v Towaurd a diet. MINNEAPOLIS, Feb. 19.—At midnight the jury in the Hamilton murder case had becn unable to reach an agreement and has re- tired. A verdict will not be resched carlier than tomorrow Hamlilton vetains his composure remark- ably well. He 1s confident of acquittal. 1901 -TWELVE COory IFIVE CENT secsecsscsscsscosssscsosssscce 4esecesscterscsctcsstcsscccssccscesssscsssssscassone sessssiessorsccnncns e James Callahan, who s inthe city fail on the charge of complie ity in the Cudaby Kidnaping, and who has been ldentiied by Eddie Cudahy, the vietim, I& soon to have company in his dilemma Through investigation made by The Bee yesterdany afternoon an other suspect has been located, He will be arrested early this morn ing, and while he may not be held for participation in the crime it fs expected that he will at least give information which will lead to substantial ar It Is practically a certainty, the police say the man who is to be arrested this morning has a guilty knowledge of the kidnaping, oven though he may not have taken The identitication of Callahan seems to be positive. Chief Donn hue expresses the belief that beyond all doubt the prisoner s one of the Kidnapers, et essessecssssssscsssccssscssal ceccccsccccsesscsessstsssesosssoceses Callahan maintaing that he knows nothing about the Kidnaping, but admits a close friendship with agninst me,” he says, Formal charges will be filed against Calla han today, B R R sesesssssccsscne 1INA DECIDES T0 COMPLY cssecsssee CONDITIO cssssssscse Colder. | Imperial Court Telagraphs Ohing and Oh & Nominal Acquietoence. « 1o | FIENG traek, 17, Wires are tracing Pat 10 10 [ 14| Developments i the Cu f Threatened Ex- Prince Ching | Hung Chang have received a telegram which | VANCOUVER, virtually means that the Chinese will com- from Cumberland, B information to absolute com pliance by Thursday a Prince Ching and | beeen greatly their fellow 8 who perished in Hung Chang worrled by the preparations | jour bodies have so far body found a Scotch miner who recently came Cumberland Japanese helper. been recovered. Duncan | sped bilis to provide penalties | yisia, pointing out that otherwise berment of the empire was probable. !mew year by calling upon Li Hung Chang, ho seemed to be in much better health, 15 now asserted that the Gecmans will the English at | There are no marks | of burning and the conclusion therefore is They that they were suffocated by firedamp. had evidently thelr work when overcome. Owing to thi the ratlroad the cnd of the month The Reuter Telegram company has ceived the following from fts Pekin corre- he German, ¢ legations notified the | the nllies were prepuring an | expedition toward Stan Fu in the event of the court peristing in its present unsatis factory attitude regarding the punishments ‘Wineew Jlenipyfoniaries counseling Jm- diffeulty of working in the atmosphere of the pit, after the discovery bodles were n identified. was several af | of British and Japan Chinese that These bave not They were mangled almost beyond recogni The work of endeavoring to recover the bodies is proceeding from both ereupon the wired urgently to Sian Fn mediate compliance and pointing out that | many more bodies will be recovered before | =yt nding an investigation of the probable |cause of the dlsasier many theories have One is that an exception- the | death of only a fow ing such a persons really desery while the advance of the allies would mean the death o | besides causing the powers to tr with greater harshness than if a ¢ | been advanced heavy blast | white miners are disposed to blame m'-l Chinese for the disaster ER SEARS REP or Oleson Are Shown - | done to an innoc “Five thousand British troops have been UDIATES | kept tho arrest « resumption of 1ng to the Times from Pekin, says: The Chi nese declare that the threat of the Waldoer fssued a decree complying with the demands of the envoys in the question of punishment. ments require corroboration, but | generally believed here. Sears has given out wing seif-explanaiory These state- Andrew | ir your | Senator from Seventh Distrini World-Herald interview of last sire to say that there is no foundation for | | the statements therein made. British, | been no telephone or other connection b | tween the caucus room | have inquired as to charges and found them to be equelly falsc A special dispateh | The governor has not from Pekin says Fleld Marshal Count see's expedition to Sian Fu will com- { EXPEDITION TO BE LARGE ONE | has | Rovernor's other | iy, | 1y all SHANGHAL room'* vou | for any candidate or interested himself for Part of the matter yeu com- plain of I know to be without foundatio It is understood that it the |1 take it that you have given credence Lo expedition starts it will act as a guard of | honor to the emperor on his way back to ! any candidate. {and Italians. rumors without to the state, the party and yourself to make It is rumored that the allles will |a retraction of these charges of equal pub Yang Tse |licity with the interview in question. Very investigation. simultaneously Kiang valley. LUMBARD MAKES nssrouse‘imss kn for Delegates at Convention n | MANLEY IS WILLING Omahn Mn the Buttermake sponds to Her Lover's Request for ‘The national conven- of buttermakers opened today and several hundred delegates are in To marry the man she nursed back to health four years ago. niece of Joseph chairman of the republican slipped away in Menominee, She is now the wife of Dr. of Nashville, tlemen are breeding | everything they can right on the range. This cattleman states that, in his opinion. it will be ten years before the supply of cattle will be equal to the demand. Te asserts that the demand is increasing faster than the Increase in the herds. Not only is mora beot eaten in the United States than for soveral years past, but a vast amount more fs shipped out of the country entirel Unless the prices of stock cattle in Tex | come*down quite a bit it is sate to ses that very few pure South Dakota, Wyoming and Montana cat- tlemen this spring. The prices are now as high ns they were at any time last year. ASSAULTED AT GRAVESIDE Kansas City Miss Mabel vention the exhibition of buttermaking ma- chinery 18 the largest ever brought together, The judges fintshed their work and scored tubs yesterday winners will be announced Thursday even- from and came The the was the de- On learning two Planters hotel. Dr. Borland slgner of the elopement wecks ago that business would bring him | Louls this week, he wrote Miss Man- for | which no date bad been decided, be delayed The young woman consented by The parade, which was the feature of the ay, was formed at Rice park shortly after and marched The convention was there formally opened by the president of the National Creamery ociation, George B. Buttermakers' as of Lincoln, opening addr LMEN FOR THE TWENTY-NINTH The Commer- 3 Otin to Tustruct Swmith on behalf of the city, eial club through its president, Mr xtended the welcome of the club, and Lumbard of Omaha responded, hall was open from men at Once, evening Machinery | o'clock until 10 o'clock. ANOTHER ROCKEFELLER GIFT rter of a Milllo CHICAGO, Feb. 19.—Orders will be {ssued Major General. Otls tomorrow to all| commanders Department of oting the immedlate enlistment | of men for the new Twenty-ninth regular infantry reglment, Fort Sherldan. en n Second Q 1o Brown Un New York, which will The new regiment 1s de- | signed for service in the Philippines and | | will be sent there in battallons as rapidly | noon 1n a downtown saloon and brought a3 they are organized | Wil be commande | A. W. Corliss of the Second infantry. ON A CHARGE OF BRIBERY Resignation Demanded of Denver ¢ -A contribution of Rockefeller to The new regiment utenant Colonel | jng heavily and was too drunk for me (o 0,000 by John D). university wus Alumni society of New York, held at the University club, university, made the announcement. Faunce sald: announcing Rockefeller, who gave $250,000 last year (o has now offered to crease that amount to $500,000 it we will geant and Patrolm DENVER, Feb. 19. board, after a | charges of recelving bribes frém eriminals today demanded the resignation of all ~The fire and polico investigation trom $1,000,000 to $2,000,000. His second offer makes his total subscription, contingent or | Brown larger than his gifts to any other American university, with the exception of the one founded by blmself in Chic Arthur | It 18 und Martyn, Police Sergeant Michael Mahouey |Proutt has looked up the statutes in this and Patrolman 8. Goorge Sanders, James Oallahan is Identified as Cne of Eddie's Abduotors., ANOTHER ARREST TO BE MADE TODAY John Murtie, Oorchman, Belioved to Have Guilty Knowledge. | RANSOMED YOUTH SIZES UP CALLAHAN Viotim of the Bandits £ays He is Positive of Identity. | PRISONER DECLARES HE 1S NOT THE MAN | Rapid and Interesting Series of Dee vel nix in the Case—tCalla- han's Sister Comes to ) cee® - N OF THE WEATHER| " s Callahan in the oty Jali n thvely ddentified by Eddie | Caant a. rrest to oveanr { certain he ix we. und for Kidnaping. ahy Kidnaping o crowding one upon the other with {n teresting rapidity Ono man behind the bars and another to be arrested early this morning is the pres ent status of the case. Tho noxt ‘wenty four hours promises to be the most ovent ful glnce the night of December 18, whean Feb, 10.-A spectal | Bdie Cuduby, son of E. A. Cudahy, the Six bundred the ground and over 1,000 yards| beld for ransom of the shaft No, & a gang of men wore working this evening In miilionaire packer, was carrled away to be suspect who is to be taken in custody this morning is cmployed as coachman by J. N, H. Patrick. 18 pame is John Mur tie. Indications denote that he was not an active participant in the kidnaping, but that he 15 the possessor of guilty knowledge, and through him the police cxpect to gain in- formation which will enable them to lay his | bands upon one of the men who helped (o These two were lying on | SPITit the Cudaby lad away. their backs close together with their hands | Cal up to their foreheads. an ident ed. mes Callalan, now a prisoner in (he v Juil, has been identified by Eddie Cud ahy, the victim, s the man who stood guard over him while he was held for ran som in the Melrose Hill rendezvous. He is also tald to be the «manm who ac 1 young Cudaby on the street the evenlug the abduction and represented himsell to be the sheriff of Sarpy county Callahan, ex-convict, Is the ne'er-do-well of a comparatively rich and . respectable family. Callahan was talien in ousthily lago St urday afternoon in « downtowi saloc arrest was made Ly Detectives Dwyer and Dueberr. They took their prisoner direct to the office of the chief, where a private inquiry was conducted, an was then taken to the city fal, where ho has since been held pending fur- ther investigation | Apprehensive that an injustice might be nt wan, Chlef Donahue t. The positive iden- tification which has now been made by the Cudaby lad seems to verify the chaln of | elrcumstances which led the police depart- | ment to suspect Callatan In addition to the fdentification made by Eddie Cudahy, the prisoner has also been identified by others. date ey In itive. Eddle Cudaby’s identification of the sus- pect was most positive. Chief Donahue Blves the following description of ft: “Satur- day afternoon 1 telephoned for Mr. Cudahy to bring the boy down to my office, and about & o'clock in the evening they came I had Callahan here walting for thei. Callahan talked freely and looked the boy Alght in the eye without a tremor. When ever the conversation would lag I would put in a word to help it along. After about half hour I had Callahan taken away, and then voung Cudahy declared without any hesitation that this was the man who haa impersonated the sherifl from Sarpy county and who had remained in the reom fo wat.l {him while he was in the privon house at | Melrose Hill. | ‘I would never forget that voice,' ‘s boy sald, ‘and I also remember very di - tinetly bis peculfar manner of pronoun certaln words. In his present talk he us these same words and pronounced them (hy same. As I had several good looks at the man while he was guarding me, I can be pretty sure that this Is the man wanted.' Alibl Made to Order. “Another thing that is a sirong point against Callaban,” the chief continued, “‘is the fact that he has already gone to the trouble to fix up an alibl. An inuocent {man would hardly have dene this. When | he was asked If he knew anything about | the kidnaping he answered that he didn't, and said he could prove it. ‘I was at home |on the night it took place, he said, ‘and | there are half a dozen people who can swear to it “Dwyer and Dueberry are both new men on tho force, and both are old acquaini- ances of Callabhan. Dwyer, I believe, went to school with him. During the last month | or 80 they have been playing in with Callu ban pretty strong. They could do this on account of their long acquaintance with bim without exciting suspiclon, so when they were off duty and in citizens’ clothes ders 10 | they cultivated him thoroughly and Lecams rather confidential. They would come to mu and tell me all that he said. After a while I began to fear from thelr reports that ha was planuing to leave the city, so I thought I bed better close in on him rather thas run the risk of letting him get away. H} would be & harder man to catch than P§ Crowe it he ever got out of town, as he VOUus | not so well known as Crowe. Then I told them to bring him io. ““They arresied him Saturday shortly afier him here to this office. He bad been drink talk with him to any advantage, so I had him taken down to the station and locked ‘pr. During the evening I went down and had a consultation with him. Of course he - | denied complicity in the abduction, but ad- mitted an acquaintance with Pat Crowe. | Formal charges will befiled against Cal- lahan today in order to warrant the police in holding him in jail. Just what form thesc charges will take Is not known at present, but this point will be decided this morn- ing, when Chief Donahue has bis confer ence with General John C. Cowin and 1) county attorney. tood that Attorn | cowe and has found a law under which Cal-

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