Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 25, 1901, Page 1

STABLISHED JUNE OMAHA, MONDA Y MORNING, FEBRUARY 1901, 25, ALL EAGER T ELECT Anxicus to End Deadleok on Renatorial Question, CAUCUS WILL RESUME SIY“N_'G TONIGHT Not Likely to Have Attends. N to Decide on' Oandidates™, - . OFFER OF ARBITRATION IS RECEIVED i.e.ntj “ | Vice Ohairman Payne of the National Com- mittes Tenders His Servioes. CONCERT OF ACTION HARD TO SECURE Thompson Will Not Retire and resent Cauncus is Probably Only One that Can He Ar- nged For, the LINCOLN, Feb. 24.—(Special Telegram.) While the hotel corridors and lobbies are deserted and most of the members of the legislature away on visits to their homes there is still a suMcient number of sena- torful candidates and strategists on the ground preparatory to the resumption of the maneuvers on the senatorial battlefield The approach of March 4, when the seat of Senator Thurston becomes vacant, naturally intensifies the anxiety on the part of re- publicans o end the deadlock by the nom! mation and election of two senators, How this 18 to be accomplished and whether it can be done under existing conditions is the puzzle. It is recognized on all bands that o chofce can be made I the caucus un- less wome of the candidatss give way vol- untarily or are forced off (he track. Noth- Ing may be expected in this direction un- less the members themselves get together and concentrate upon two men. Although the .republican caucus is to reconvene (o- morrow night, it is not ex ted that a sufficient number of members will be in at- tendance before Tuesday night, inasmuch | a8 the legislature adjourned until 11 a, . | Tuesday Offer of Arbiteation, In the meantime speculation Is rite as to tho probable effect of the offer of ar bitration on the part of Vice Chairman Payne of ‘the national committee, who has addressed himsolf by letter to Speaker Bears and Senator Steele, president pro term of the senate. The object aimed at 18 explained by Mr. Payne in an interview in the Chicago Tribune in the following ITanguage: Naturally the national committes tukes a deep interest in the situation in Neb By extraordinary work on the purt committee the republicans won o greut vic- tory in thut state and we feel thit we are entitled (o the fruits of our victory. Th committee did everything that could be done 1o win und we feel that the repub- licans of that ktate owe u duty to us as well an o themsalyes, We aro entitled to two senators from that state and wo do not fecl thut we are fin- pertbient du offering our services in- yview of the wld we gave them during the cam pulgn. Contests of this king, if jong dra out, cannot fail to engender bad blood and if the republican majority in the legisiatire cannot elect the two senators to which the republican party is o it simply meuns that the contest will 0 be fought out re the people. With “the factional | strife in the party rily follow such a pro- republicans cannot hope to | dslature that wil again give the “opportunity which they ‘may | throw away at this tine. We feel that we | pertectly justified in offering our good I overcoming the difficulty, We do | not_proy to dictute whom the repub- | licans In the legislature shall elect, but we | merely ask to be allowed (o suggest how | the nuch-to-be-desired result nay brought about that the party may have In the 1 ates senate the two | members from tate to which the | party is entitled How Mr. Paynoe's suggestions will be re. | ceived by the caucus, to which his letters will doubtless be preserted and what effect it will have on the seceding members for whose benefit they are made, fs problematic While it 18 true Nebraska has been clalmed from populism through the assis ance of the national committee, it would | be unprecedented for the committee to rule | anybody out of the race, and, especlally those without whose labors the national committee would have been Impotent. St More Serlous Independent of all these the greatest difficulty to be encountered Is the conciliation of the men who have se- ceded frum the caucus, because they would decline to be bound by its action, should D. E. Thompson happen to be one of the nominees. If it were proposed to dissolve the present caucus, it 18 doubtful whether slxty-seven signatures could be secured to | uny other caucus agreement It is not likely from present appearances that Mr. | Thompson will retire or make way for any other South Platte candidate, matter | what the natfonal committee suggest | or recommend. Manifestly, therefore, the coming week will witness a renewal of the contest both inside and outside the cav 1 may be taken for granted that the members will show a dispositign In caucus to end the deadlack before March What the Fusio All reports of Impending tween fusionists and wildest pipe dreams. A well known demo- crat, high In fusion councils, expressed | himself in this fashion on (he senatorial | situation from the fusion standpoint | “Don't put any faith In any of this talk about the fusionists Jumping in te help elect two republicans to the United States senate. One or two of our people way occasionally take a shot at a repub lican just for the fun of it have done once or twice In joint session, byt whatever the fusion members might do would be as @ party and only as the re- | sult of & caucus by which all would stand together. I have no doubt that a proposi- tion to give us one of the would secure immediate and serlous con sideration If it should ever be mado in good faith. It would be foolish for our people to throw away such a chance should | it present, but it would be more fooltsh | and in fact, sulcldal, to entertain any plan to glve to the republicans both s when by holding out for a deadlock Ing the seats vacant, we would be almost cortaln to get them ourselves s soon as he next legislature convenes. The fusion- | Ists are not going to overlook any chances | that point In their direction.” | It is reported that a number of fuslon- (sts have luid a plan to repudiate their irs Tueday just to annoy the republicans, | but nothing is likely to come of it PEASANT LASS JILTS PRINCE| And that e. considerations may Are Doing. alllances be- republicans are the the, as senatorships | enators | leay- | the Sprig of Gentliity Has | Promptly Squared Matiers by Killing Himselr, I LONDON, Feb. 25.—The Vienna corre- spondent of the Morning Leader says Prince Karl of Croy has committed suldide because | e was Jilted by & peasaut girl. | manization of WILL RUN TEN DAYS r Says Legislature, Fight ts Ended, Limit Licutenant Govern Unless Sennte Will Exe Lieutenant E. I'. Savage, was at the Merchants yesterday, sald Unless torial contest is settled onc session of the leglslature will ten days over the sixty days members allowed pay up to its work, despite the but the house, which of business, is fall- would be to the advantage concerned—the people of have the senatorial © $losed. 1 have no doubt that AeRGTER will be broken and that two re publlelin senators will be elected but just bow soon this will occur I am unable to say. I am hoping that we will not have any more adjournments over Saturday and Mon- day, as I think the legisl ought to finish its work as soon s possible. These adjournments are unfalr to the membs who live tn remote parts of the stat cause they are unab'e to get to their hou and back again, and must waft in Lincoln without pay for several days each week while the members who live at convenient polnts go Lhome and attend to their private business affairs. Aside from the adjourn- the time.” Governor who the ser he least at run at for which the The senate is senatorial campalgn has a greater amount 4ug behind. It ¥l parties Matire state are to ure b s we senate is losing n MR. SIMERAL'S EXPLANATION Ac Y ston rney Setw Vo of Mr. Crane « wen. His Ver- E. W. Simeral, agalnst whom Herbert Crane made a charge of subornation of perjury in Judge Dickinson's court Satur- day, says that the charge grows out an innocent error that he committed and that the newspaper reports of the case have been unt “The charge is made in the case bage agalnst Ferree, in which I am the attorney for the defendant,” said Mr. Sim- eral. “This case began in 1593, and in that year a decree issued from the district court foreclosing a mortgage on the property in Valley owned by Joseph B. Ferree. No or- der of sale was taken out until last year nd the property was not sold until vember 5, 1500, At the time of the con- firmation of the sale, on behalt of my client, J. B. Ferrce, 1 prepared to take the case to the supreme court on ap- peal, the district court, by Judge Key- sor, ordering a supersedeas bond in th sum of $300. On November 14, 1900, a few days after the sale was confirmed, J. B Ferree brought his son, John R. Ferree, inte my office and informed me that be John R., would go upon the boud. I asked the young man if he had property and if so, how much. He informed me that he owned between $400 and $500 worth of personal property, but no real estate. As ho was a single man and not the head of a family he could not claim any exemptions, and 1 therefore considered him good for the amount of the bond— $300. I then accompanied them to the clerk of the district court, where the bond was signed. 1 informed Mr. Steere, the deputy clerk, that the young man wanted to go on his father's bond and that he hud personal properiy valued hotween $460 and $500. He signed the bond, together with bis father, and Mr. Steere handed me a closely printed form.-a justification of surety. u e of He Hurriedly Inserts Amoun “Without reading the printed form I hur- riedly marked in the sum of $300 in the blank space allowed for specifying the amount of real es thinking that 1t was the placo to insert the amount of the bond which was required to be glven Then In two other blank spaces I filled in the amount of the surety's property, belng in all $500, neglecting in one place to scratch the word ‘real' where the printed forw reads ‘real’ and per- ronal property “1 heard nothing more of the until about the middle of this mopth, when J. R. Ferree came into mv office in com- with a deputy sheriff and informed that he had been arre charge being that he had sworn that be owned real estate. I told him that thought there must be a mistake, because 1 then remembered, | had caused to justify only for personal property investigation 1 found that I had made mistake by inserting in the blank real property the figure of $300, thinking that I was puiting in the amount tond. matter as all the blame on discharged. “Herbert Craue, the attorney for plaintift, swore to the complaint to young Ferree arrested. It is well known that Crans has very hostile feelings toward me. On Saturday morning the motion to myself, and Ferree was the strike the bond from the files ip the Ferree |slde Dickinson. | all Catholics to use every means toward of | getting the declaration removed from the before Judge read a came up o proceeded aMdavits in reference to what had taiem place before the justice of the neace in the Ferree case. The aMdavits were filed late Thursday afternoon and I had no opportunity them and didn't know they were on file until they were produced in court. After he had read one or two of them T requested the court to give me an opportunity to reply to them before the motion was ruled upon, and Judge Dickinson said that I ought to have such an_opportunity. Nothing was sald by the Judge or anyone else as to an investiga tion or as to citing me to appear in court to purge myself of suspiclon of suborna- tion of perjury. 1 invite the fullest in- vestigation by any tribunal. I have noth- ing to be ashamed of. I did nothing un- professional.” o to number to see | NEGROES PRAISE NEWSPAPERS Are Glad Editors Rebuke the Ly enworth, KANSAS CITY, Feb, itors throughout the mended today at a meeting here of Kansax and Missourl negroes for their comme the lynching of Alexunder at Leaven- worth January 15, The following resolu tlons were adopted That the members of the Twin Business Men's assoctation, un _or- \ negro business men’ of Kan- Clty Mo, and Kansas City, Kan., aking for themsclves and it is hoped for v Intelligent and ambitious negro in the United Btates, beg to convey through the Assoclated Press their uppreciation to every newspaper editor who condemned the uniawful mobbing of the negro, Alexander und the horrible crime committed agains him by burning him alive for 4 crime of which his accusation was the sole evidence and also for the just discrimination made between the law-ablding. aspiring men of the race who are honestly striving to elevate themselves to relieve their race of the odium placed upon it 1 the lawless elements of the me ——— raole Company Quits. 18, Feb, The Olga Nethersol cloged 1ts ‘season With the pe of “Sapho' at the Olympic thens t night and the entire troupe depar ted ew York today. The illness of Miss Netl) and h rture . f was the immediate cause of the ture winding up of the season, Newspaper ed- ntry were com- ts Resolved, City Nus 8 oy 8T, company forma ter fa prema- the | of | No- | personal | | (Copyriant tad for [n'r]llv',\.i Cablegram—Specia 1| Vaughan left for | stantiation of the | 1 s0 testified in the preliminary fa- | vestigation before Justice Baldwin, taking | tion, | | | thirty-eight | one of the | rep OVER| )N THE FIFTY-THIRD BALLOT John H. Mitohell Eleoted to Buoosed M Bride as Oregon's Benator, BROUGHT OUT UNTIL LAST HOUR text Ending/ Afte night—=Has Served Three limes Befo SALEM, Ore, Feb. 24.--John H. Mitchell was elected United States semator at 12:30 this morning to succeed George W. Me- Bride, whose term expires on March 4 next His election was accomplished by a combination of thirty-five republicans with eleven democrats, making forty-six votes, a majority of the legislature. The result réached on the twenty- fifth ballot of the day and the fifty-third of the session At noon Saturday the joint assembly met and took one ballot for sena« tor and then adjourned until § p. m., when balloting was resumed. Both houses had decided to adjourn die at midnight Suaturday and the prospect of an exciting close brought thousands of people to the pitol Voting pra for twen was sine eded without material change allots, Just as the assembly was about to tuke the twenty-first bal- State Senator Brownell arose and pres sented the name of John H. Mitehell, which was received with tremendous applause. The twenty-first ballot gave H. W. Corbett J. H. Mitchell thirty five and Hennett (dem.), nineteen Three more ballots were taken, hut with few changes. The hands of the clock had already poluted to midnight and the clerks were engaged in checking up the rollcall for the twenty-ifth ballot. There was great excitement and loud calls of the name of Mitchell from the lobby. The first deserter from the Corbett ranks was Hem- inway Lane. On the previous rollcall Mitchell had had 34 votes and Corbett 36, When his name was reached, Heminwa in the last rollcall, without explanation, responded, “J. H. Mitchel! Mite and Corbett Tied, The call procesled to the end and Mitchell and Corbett were then exactly tied, having 3 votes each hen McQueene of Lane arose and with a brief speech changed to Mitchell, put ting him in the lead. Nine others changed to Mitchell, giving him 45 votes, within goal. There was a_brief wait and then the name of Mattoon of Dougl ted with gr many parts of the hall and a crowd of the Douglas county man’s filends got around him and talked to him excitedly. He seemed to be successfully withstanding them, and soon there rose cries of “dead- lock,” “adjourn,” “adjourn,” but Mattoon finally yiclded and changed his vote to Mitchell. This was all A that was needed, and the crowd knew it. Pandemonium reigned for many seconds and the chair made little effort to check it. The clerks then com- ploted the roll and passed it up to Presi- dent Fulton, who announced that Mr. Cor- beit had “recelved 26 votes, Mr. Mitchell 16 and Mr. Bennett 16" The erowd went wild again, fairly jumping up and down in their joy. Mr. Mitchell had been in the lobby all evening watching the progress of the voting. He was hurried forward through the crowd to the platform, where he stood for a minute until order was re- tored, then expressed thanks to the audi- encs Mr. Mitchell has served three full terms in the United States senate from Oregon, having been elected the first time in 187 when H. W. Corbett was his chief oppon- ent FOR INSULT TO RELIGION Vaughan Orders Spec| % Concerning 1901 Press Publishing Co.) (New York World Telegram.) —Cardinal has ordered special reparation services to be held next Sunday in all the LONDON, Fab him |churches of the archdiocese of Westminster Upon | for the fnsult offered to the Catholle rc- a|ligion In the declaration against transub- sworn to by the opening of Parliament. The cardinal says he wrote to the king protesting beforehand against this declara- which says that the doctrine of transubstantiation and prayers to the virgin are superstitious and idolatrous, warning the king that the terms of the declaratio: king at the bave |@re offensive not only to 12,000,000 of b own subjects, but to three-fourths of the whole Christian population of the globe. The cardinal's action has excited con- ble feellng, as he calls earnestly upon | statute books. h- | other hymns | stay EDWARD TRAVELS MODESTLY Takes on to Divert Present Visit to Cronburg of All OMcial Chara LONDON, Feb. 24.—King Edward left Flushing for Cronburg at 6 o'clock this evening. Owing to his desire to divest hiy visit of any official character, he has de clined Emperor Willlam's Invitation to at Homburg castle and will be his slster's guest at Friedrichshoff schloss, His majesty will arrive at Frankfort at 9 o'clock tomorrow morning and will jooceed direct to Cronburg, where Emperor William will meet him, Princess Beatrice will leave Windsor tomorrow (Monday for Cronberg. A8 the royal yacht entered Flushing har- bor with King Bdward a crowd of boys and girls sang the Volkssliede and They were dispersed by the police. The British minister and the court chamberlain of Quesn Wilhelmina went on board the yacht to greet the king. NOT THIS YEAR, SAYS EDWARD King Informs Earl Cado « nt Come to Soon, LONDON, Feb King Edward has in- formed Earl Cadogan, lord lieutenant of Ireland, that, owing to deep mourning, he finds it impossible to visit Ireland this vear, as he had wished to do, but that ho hopes to make the visit next year PHYSICIAN SMASHES SKULL ¥ Dashed ter of St. Joseph o Earth by Run- away Team, ST. JOSEPH, Mo, Feb. 24—Dr. T. B Potter recelved injuries in a runaway to- day that will, cause death. Dr. Pot- ter was making & professional call when the coachmun lost controi of his tewm and the cab was dasbed agalnst a telegraph pole. The physiclan's skull was crushed Dr. Potter was one of the most nraminent physiclaus of the state, \ at vehemance came, irom | fisher | BIG STEEL DEAL ARRANGED Combination of Morgan, gie, Federal Compnny and Other Interests Assnred. Glgant Ca NEW YORK, Feb. 24.~The Herald to- morrow will say: J. P. Morgan has just completed the project by which anothes and | the greatest consolidation of capital | added to the notable list of the last ten years The steel combination plan wa consummated at a conterence in his office late Saturday afternoon and Sunday the news was the topic of half the conversation ih the corridors of some of the uptown hotels. n official announcement may be expected Monday from the office of J. P. Morgan & Co. to the effect that the Carnegle com- pany, the Federal Steel company, the Na- | tional Tube company, the American Steel | and Wire company, the American Tin Plate |company, the National Steel company, the American Steel Hoop mpany and the American Sheet Steel company are to be combined in one concern, which is to lssue its stock in return for theirs, the valua- tion having been determined upon the #ets and the earning power of the respi tive corporations thus merged This new combination, it is understood, will be called the United Btates Consoli- | dated Steel company. It whl have a total | capitalization of $1,100,000,000. Of this | $200,000,000 will be per cent n'IAI“ mortgage bonds, $400,000,000 will be 7 per | cent stock and $400,000,000 will be common stock. The charter of the company, which has been prepared under the specizl guid ance of Willlam Nelson Cromwell, who pro- moted the National Tube cgmpany, will be | filed, it is sald, at Trenton, N. J., Monday ocks of the companiex to be merged | wil be taken In at high figures and yes terday afternoon the Waldorf-Astoria came a sort of minfature and subdued #tock exchange, where John W tes and his frieuds bid well above the market pric for the securities of the corporations which the United States Consolldated company 1s expected to acquire Legal details of the project have been In the hands of a law committee con- slsting of Willlam Nelson Cromwell, a di- recter in the National Tube company; Francls Lynde Stetson, Mr. Morgan's per- | sonal counsel; Judge Elbert H. Gary, presi- | dent of the Federal Steel company; Max | Pam of Chicago, director and counsel for the American Steel and Wire company, and Victor Morawetz These five men repre- sent Mr. Morgan's interests in the matter, They and Mr. Morgan, H. C. Frick and President Charles M. Schwab of the Car- negie company, Chairman John W. Gates of the American Steel and Wire directory Judge Willlam H. Moore of Chicago, who has promoted a number of large steel com- | panies, and President E. C. Converse of | the National Tube company met Saturday in Mr. Morgan's private office and ofter a prolonged conference agreed to final de- tails. They all consented to the figures Mr. Morgan named and the representatives | of the several interests proceeded (o recom- mend to their respective stockholders the acceptance of the terms then decided on The American Bridge company, which is known as a Morgan concrn and has au- | thorized capital of 333,000,000 preferred | and $35,000,000 common stock, is, con- trary to general expectation, left out of the corsol'dat'on, although ite whserption was! contemplated in the orlginal plan. The Teason given was that the stock is listed in London and that it might not be easy 1o acquire it. The Lake Superfor consoli- duted iron mines, the Rockefeller iron ore properties, including the Mesaba range, which passed a few days ago, it is under- stood, to the Morgan combination, will not go immediately into the new United States .Consolidated Steel company. It is thought quite likely that the Lake Superior concern may be turned over to the great combination at a later date, All of the persons directly interested in the Carnegle-Morgan steel deal seemed greatly pleased tonight over the success- ful termination of their labors IS SURE DEWET HAS FAILED Kitchener Reports Captures Casualties and Concludes Antagonist is Bafed, Feb. The War office hus following dispatch from Lord is be- LONDON recelved t Kitchener “MIDDLEBURG, Ansvaal Fr reports from Plet Retlef, February that the result of the columns sweeping the country east is that the Boers are re- treating, In scattered and disorganized tles, to the number of some 5,000 in front of hir “Amsterdam and Plet Retlef have been occupled and troops are on the Swazl fron- tler. French will push on, but is much hampered by the continuous heavy rains. “Summary total losses Infiicted upon the enemy up to February 16: Two hundred | and ninety-two Boers Known to have been Killed In action, twenty-six tak 185 surrender fifteen- 62 rifles, s ¢ tion, 6,500 horses mu 0 trek oxen, 18,700 cattle, 15,400 sheep and 1,070 wagons and carts captured “Our casua’ties: Five officers and forty- one men killed and four officers and 108 men wounded. 1 regret to say that Major How- ard, a very gallant officer of the Canadian scouts was killed February 17. Plumer re- ports “Colonel Owen cap pounder and pomp as 150 prisoners and tlon. We retreat Feb, .~ W prisoner, | ounder gan, small ammuni- one 160,000 o seventy "D ed Dewet's fifteen- n February 13, as well quantity of ammuni- had no casualties; enemy In full and belng fully pursued. Dewet's attempt to invade Cape Colony has evi- dently completely failed."” | A correspondent of the Daily Mall, with niker's, wiring, Saturday says Dewet was routed yesterday by Colonel Plumer, with whom were Colonels Henniker, Draddock, Jeffries and Grabbo, This was' preceded by ‘n serles of desperat attempts on the part of ‘the Boery to escape. General Dewet, after unsuccessfully at- tempting to cross the Brak at Kilp arift and the Orange at Reads drift and Marks drift, moved along the bank of the Ors | with'one gun and one pompom and lange opposite Kammel drift. At dawn Color Plumer left Welgevordon, twenty-two miles from the Boer camp. and moved east, Af Zuurgal he attacked the enemy, taking forty prisoners. The pursult was continued dur- ing the afternoon, the Boers moving toward Hopetown oward evening the leadin troop sighted the enemy, who had luagered beyond range. Colonel Owen charged the spot where the Hoer artillery waa supposed to be and captured the whole of it. The enemy fled, leaving their horses ready sad- dled and their cooking pots full. According to the latest reports only 4% B crossed to the north side of the river, The Orange is greatly swollen. TAKE FIFTY BOERS AND A GUN Colonel Flumer's Men Scatter De- wet's Forces and Make Some aptures CAPETOWN, Feb, 2.—Colonel Plumer engaged General Dewei yesterday near Dis- selfonteln, on the south bank of the Orange river, capturing @ gun and a pompom and taking fifty prisoners. The Hoers were scattered and are being pursued by Colonel Plumer. It I8 reported that General Dewet escaped to the opposite bank in a boat and 18 now fieeing with a handful of followers, It s reported from a Boer source at rust that General Delarey has been cap- tared, (UBA'S INDEPENDENCE DAY Celebrated in Havana with a Mass Meeting and Demonstration, SPEECHES AMICABLE AND OTHERWISE Capote € States, nweln ¢ but Znyn § hnies a of War, HAVAN celebrated rejoleings parade of Cuban flags fnent Cubans were showered passed. Senor Capote, who WAK DOVer more ne The United A, Feb. 24.—Independence day was by mass meetings and general This afternoon there was 10,000 school children, bearing They were reviewed by prom General and Mrs. Wood with flowers when they presided, said there than now (o be quiet was the only country that had helped Cuba In her time of trouble and he did not believe that (he Washington government was now decelving | the Cubans. The work of intervention was long and difficult, but in his opinion evers- thing would be setiled satisfactorily to the people of the Island Senor Zayus gave a revolutionury to his remarks by asserting that the pres- nt Cuban leaders should imitate the mar tyrs of the past. He declared that the trick which the Americans have been playing upon the Cubans is the of the non-development of the island.” He predicted that the end of all would be dis ates cause | satisfaction, adding that independence could only b erators. “Cuba,” he exclaimed, “should be served for the glories of the Latin rac A obtained by the machetes of 1ib pre- Spenk Senor Guan the advocates to the country in independence pow and the United States could not rob the country of peace, unless with a force of 500,000 men. Speaking of future relations between Cuba and the United States he sald this matter was only a mere detail; that all the principles were embodied in the constitution, and that despite the recent declarations he believed everything would be settled in conformity for Cuba's inde- pendence in the near future. At the meeting of the national party the speakers were Senor Bravo, Semor Lacret and Senor Alfredo Zayas, the last-named opposing the proposal to grant the United States naval stations in Cuba WASHINGTON, Feb. 24.—Governor Gen- eral Wood at Havana has telegraphed the War department that he had been furnished with a copy of the Cuban comstitution, just finished by the convention. The general is having the document translated into Eng- lish. 1t is not improbable that General | Wood will awalt the report of the speclal committee of the convention on relations with the Uniied States before forwarding the constitution to the War department. SHIP OFFICER FOUND ALIVE Holland of the Rio de Jai No Lomger Counted with the Dend. FRANCISCO, Feb. 2.—J. C. Hol- land, third ofMicer of th R de Janeiro, who on the day of the wreck was among the missing, to the surprise and de- light of his friends, been found unharmed. | 1t is not known how he became numbered | with the dead, further than after the b m‘ sank he did not report his escape to &ny of the officers of the steamship company He was on the wharf and around the beach when the disaste urred, but his p ence was not noted. | After the Rio struck upon the reef Hol- 1and assisted Captain Ward In getting thie passengers into the lifeboats. He and the captain walked aft together on the star- board side and just as they reached the sa'oon the boat gave a lurch and disap- peared beneath the water. Holland was carrfed down by‘the suction, bat managed to secure hold of a life preserver, which as- sisted him to rise to the su but not until he had been wlmost str 1 by the salt water. Being an expert swimmer he succeeded in keeping afloat until picked up | by an Itallan fisherman. Holland has rela- tives residing in New York. Agalnst ant Gualberto Gomez arraigned of annexation as traitors He sald he had more faith than he had in 1893 | c. rio SAN oc GRANDMOTHER OF WILDMAN Aged Blair Realdent is Not Yet Told of Her Kinsman's Distre tug Fate, BLAIR, Neb, Feb. 24.—(Special Tele- gram.)—Mrs A. Wildman, who is the | grandmotlier by marriage of Consul Gen- eral R. Wildman, lives in this city with her daughter, Mre. George A. Dailey. Mrs Wildman married Mr. Wildman's grand- | father after the death of his first wife at | Whitesville, N. Y., and after his death nine years ago came to Blalr to make her home. Consul Wildman made his home with his grandparents several years Mrs. Wildman 1s slowly recovering from | a severe attack of grip and has not been informed of the fate of her kinsman, who went down with the steamship Rio de Janeliro. Wildman is Mourned. LONDON, Feb. 25.—'The news of the loss of the Pacific mail steamer Rlo de Janeiro caused a profound sensation here,” says the Hong Kong correspondent of the Daily Mail, “and the sad fate of Consul Wildman and his family was mourned.” TRENTON WRECK INQUIRY Coroner's Jury & the Matter with Patient roughne No Arrests Yet. TRENTON, N. Coroner Bower will tomorrow swear in the coroner's jury that 18 to acquire into the collision on the Amboy division of the Pennsylvania rail- road at Hordentown, in which thirteen per sons lost thelr lives and a large number were injured. The jury will visit the scene of the wreek, and will view the bodies of the dead at the morgue, and will adjourn for two or three weeks, In order to give time for (he injured persons In the hospitals in this city and Camden to recover from their in- Juries osecutor Crossley says he will cause sts to be made until the coroner's jury fixes the responsibility for the accident There ara still four bodles at tke morgue, one of a woman, that have not been ident!- fled SHIP'S MASTS SWEPT AWAY Crippled Otto Geldermeist Overdue, SAN DIEGO, Cal, Feb. 24.—The long overdue ship Otto Geldemelster was towed in here entirely dismasted this moruing by tbe steamer Nome City, | torney | ver Dotson orecast for Nebraska—Fair; Warmer. rature at Omnaha Yesterdny i Dew KAW TOWN'S CHINESE PUZZLE Clty Attorney to Arbitrate in (he Mate | ter of Collecting Fa Tan Taxes. KANSAS CITY, Feb. 24.—~Sam Moy of Chicago's Chinatown, who cently tw o mayor ame here re- on_out difficulties existing be- the Jocal Chinese factions, has found a task beyond his diplomacy and has called | in City Attorney Frank Gordon as ar- bitrator. Both factions have agreed to abide by ‘the deciston of Mr. Gordon and the final hearing 1s scheduled for tomor reement has heen reached touching certain phases of the condition. Dr. Wong gainst whom one faction has been | warring, Is to leave Kansas City. That is agreed upon by both factio Fan-tan games are to be taxed and lottery gam: will pay tribute for the support of Chinese Masonie society. The problem yet to be solved involves the method of col lection. Twenty-five cents is to be collected from the winnet of each game of fan-tan and 10 cents {8 the contribution levied for ch lottery drawing. But the contention omes in the solection of the person who | 18 to receive and handle the money for the soclety—~who i to be the go-between be tween the gamblers and the officers of the society. This is the question Mr. Gordon Is to solve, and its solution promis: to be attended with many difficulties. Heretofore the Chinamen have fought each other through the police courts, caus Ing an endless wrangle. The police are willing to let the Chinamen alone if the Chinamen cease to bother them. WANTS HIM TO QUIT FOOLING Mrs, n Invites Ceane Hix Te lease Judge Has win and Re- Her. TOPEKA, Kan.. Feb. 34.-Mrs. Carric Natlon, tiring of jail life, has written Judge | Hazen a letter demanding release. “1 want you o quit your fooling,” she writes, “‘ani let me out of here. If you cause me miss my engagements, I won't feel like a ministering avgel to you. It is time for you to recover yourself before the devil, your master, makes a clean sweep with you into hell. You know you are persecuting one of God's children, who loves you for Jesus sake. Ler mo out that I may go about miy business of saving such poor devils as you. Write, or come 10 spe me right off. Judge Hazen has iguored the letter, plac- Ing it in the waste basket with dozens of others reccived on the subject from dif- ferent parts of the country. Some of these letters (hreaten the judge. One from Bunker Hill, Kan., says a committee of fitty will odmintsier a coat of tar and feathers to the official, if Mrs. Nation fs not relensed by February 27, and another from a woman In Douglass, Mich., says: *“We now propose If Mrs. Nation fs held | longer, (o ralse the greatest army of wom the world has cver known and wipe man out of existence, It {s our intention to be- gin with you.' WICHITA NEEDS ITS SALOONS WICHITA, Kan., b. 24.—A public mass meeting of citizens of Wickita, under the ausplees of the ministerial association, was held her today and a resolution passed | demanding the enforcement of the prohibi- | tory law, but no specified time was set | for the Jointlsts to close their slaces and the meeting was surprisingly tempernte, the 3,000 people who attended, feeling dis- appointed at its tameness. The resolutions will be préseuted to the mayor, county at- and sheriff tomorrow. 1t is said that no effort will be made by those officers to change the present system of allowing #aloons to run for city revenue, CONFIRM THEORY OF MURDER Sheriff and Deputy Sheriff Investignto Captaln Dotson's Death and Accept Previous Bellef, HELENA, Mont., Feb. 24.—Captain onl- | whose body was found in his | cab n in Washington gulch, was undoubtedly murdered. Sherift McMahon of Powell | county and Deputy Sheriff Robinson of Deer Lodge county, who have been investigat- g the are here today. They say that Dotson was murdered and that the | confession purporting to come from him in which he was made to declare his son and grandson innocent of the murder of Eugene Cullinane was a forgery. There i every reason to belleve that the murder was committed by an ex-conviet, who, it is asserted, had conspired with Clinton Dotson, Captain Dotson's son, now | serving ninety-nine years in the peni- tentlary, to kill the old man with the expectation of securing the son and grandson's pardon by fraudulent confes- sion. This ex-convict and Captain Dotson were fogether in the smallpox hospital at Helena until two weeks ago, when they were discharged The former, it is belleved, went to Dot~ son’'s cabin, arriving there before the old man, whom he killed within a few minutes after his return. The officers had heen in- formed of the conspiracy, but did not be- Heve it would be carrled out LEAPS FROM DANGERTO DEATH Michael Rellly, Killed in I ing from case, Theologicnl Student, Spring- a Car, DENVER, Feb, 24.--Michael Relily, a theological student of Holyoke, Mass., was run over by a freight train and received injuries from which he died within a short time. An electric car on which he was a pussenger had barely cleared the rallroad track in front of the moving train, the danger of a collision causing a panle among the passengers. A number of the passengers jumped, but Reilly's foot slipped and he fell across the track. He got up. but stumbled and fell again, his legs across the track. The train rolled him over, crushing both legs. He died in the hos- pital, attended by Father Brockbank, a priest and personal friend For Monument to Verdl. BERLIN, Feb. 24.--An appeal has been {1ssued here for funds to assist in the erection of the projected Verdi monument at Milan o Cardinal The rumor that Mgr. | and a couple | Salsbury | mattress T0 PUSH INDICTMENT Btate's Attorney Deneen Determined t4 Bring Barton Oase into Court, MONEY OFFERED BUT NOT YET PASSED Long Conference Results in Its Btaying in Ealisbary's Hands, ATTORNEY IS PRACTICALLY UNDER ARREST His Lawyer Boasts of Willingn Tnvestigation, for Logal SAYS OMAHA MAN W ILL HAVE LON G FIGHT I Law Takes Ity ave Hard T Anything—farton Detulls Intimntes e That e May Recovering mises Full GO, Feb, 24.—(Special Telegrai.) ~Guy C. Barton of Omaha declined to cept, under the conditious proposed, $60,000 offered him this morning by Lant Sulsbury, city attorney of Grand Rap- ids, Mich., and indications polnt to a stift fight before the money is nctually and the fncident closed. Attorney Willlam 8, Forrest was retained by Mr. Salsbury slortly aftér his arrival this morning und it secms he Is making a hard fight to sc- cure advantageous terms for his elient. However the negotiations between Barton and Salsbury may result, Salsbury s now practically, a and if he ls not locked up tomorrow morning by the private detectives who brought him here in the interest of Mr. Barton he is lkely to be ar- re by Sherift Magerstadt Four rooms st the CGrand Pacific were occupied all day by the parties to the case and the corridors were at times crowded with officers. Mr. Barton and his son and Lawyer Crofoot of Omaha were in omo apartment. Mr. Salsbury, Lawyer Forrest of detectives occupled another rcom. Clgars and refreshments were within easy reach in the third apartment, whils a number of Omaha people, Superintendent McGuire of the detective agency and halt a dozen sleuths flitted about the remaining room and made mysterious visits to the other apartments of the suite. The long conference ended just where it began, with the money In Mr. Salsbury's possession, and Mr. Barton exceedingly anxious to ex- act his own terms for transferring it to his own pocket. Finally the Salsbury party grew deflant, refused to pay the Barton con- tingent a cent and intimated that the Omaha man would have an extremely hard time re- covering anything Lot of Ma Barton i .old enough remarked Lawyer Forrest. “Mr. 18 here and 15 now practically under arrest. We will be delighted to have this case pushed and people will find when it comes to trial that the whole thing is a lot of moonshine. Wo will ask for res lease in $230 ball and 1 belfeve we will get it My client will report to Mr. Deneen in person at 10 o'clock tomorrow morning and we will see what a terrible thing this affair really is When the lights went ments late tonight and Attorney Forrest went home to bed, two detectives curled themselves up in the room where Sals- bury was sleeping with a sack sald to con. tain the $50,000 safely tucked under his Notwithstanding the expressed desire of both sides to push the case, the conferences show that all parties desire a quiet settlement. It is also belleved that Omaha party could lay its hands on 0,000 without Incurring the publicity trial 't would gladly do so. Vigorous Prosccutio State's Attorney Deneen, however, s de termined fo follow up the indictment with a vigorous prosecution “The indictment was found,” he sald to- night, “on what the grand fury certalnly considered was good and truthful testi- Witnesses from Omaha told their story and I need hardly y must have pre sented something ke a primu facie cage.” This statement disposes of the hints con- cerning a quashing of the indictment. Thero wore hints also that threatened exposure of an alleged unproper fund would be used as @ club to bring about a settlement, but in answer to this it was declared that it thero had heen anything of the kind to fear, publiclty would have hardly been rivked by a demand for indictment of Sal- bury. Two storles are in which Salsbur the $30,000, alleg CHIC the K passed prisone hine, “Mr to do as be please out In the apart- told as to the manner came into possession of $ 1 belong to Barton. The detectives declare that the prosecution will at‘empt to prove that Salsbury had the key to the hox, but that when he visited the vaults with Barton and his friends, he took the bills away a few minutes after it was believed by the others that they had been deposited and that they had never really been placed in the box at all. This is said to havg been the testimony pre- sented to the grand jury. Information had been received that Salsbury had placed the money in another safe deposit vault under the name “Willlam Wood,” hence the al- leged allas was included in the indictment, U anant Disclosures Threatened, As to the story that Salsbury has the full 50,000 with him, one of the detectives who accompanied him from Grand Raplds, says Salsbury really brought only a few thou- and dollars in small bills, which he bor rowed from friends yesterday in order to make Barton believe he had the full amount while the missing $50,000, the de- tective says, remains In the unknown safety vault subject to the order of ““Wil liam Wood.” Salsbury’s friends, howover, say this 18 untrue, and threats to make un- pleasant disclosures, if the prosecution presses the case too hard, were flung about recklessly to both parties and ecach was attempting to front the other down with- out much apparent & 5 The water works fund story is probably a phase of the case that will he handled warlly enough it matters are forced into the courts A story was circulated tonlght by some of the officers engaged on the case to the offect that when Harton found that instead of having $50.000 in the vault of the Illinols Trust and Savings bank, he had an empty box, he jumped to the concluslon that Sals- bury, instead of being city attorney of Grand Raplds, was a confidence man. The detectives say this was the reason why, unifl Barton saw him face to face this morning, he was not mure that the right party had been taken into custody. FOR. HIS SELF PROTECTION Friends Say That isx Why Sallabury Put Cash In Another Vault, to sU CHICAGO, Feh, saction, of which 4. —Tho myste the indicti rious tran- Martinelli will be coutirwed, created a cardinal 18 nt of the ) (Coutinued on Socoud Pa i