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

LESTABLISHED JU EMPEROR H*S FEARS ", Nicolas Convenes Ministe Troubled Btate of Afl UNIVERSITY WILL REVISE STAT. Decide to Remove Bome Pressure from Recalcitrant Btudents. MORE DEMONSTRATIONS -ARE EXPECTED | Monday to Be Marked by Renewed Outburst ot Bt. Petersburg, ASSASSIN IS TOLSTOI'S DISCIPLE Councillor's Life Heen Made to Count's Marsh rrivy nve Attempt Sata Avenge on tment. 8T PETERSBURG, March 24.—The politl cal situation s so serious that Emperor Nicholas held a meeting of the ministers yesterday to consider the state of public affairs, Threatening letters have been re- cefved by Lieutenant General Kouropatkin, minister of war; M. N. V. Muravieff, minis- ter of Justice, and M. Zipyagin, minister of the fnterfor. The czar presided at the council, which ‘was convened at the Tsarskoe-Sele palace. It was decided not to eholish the for drafting recaleitrant students into the army, but for the present to refrain from applying the law. It was also resolved to revise the university statute, The decision | of the council of ministers is regarded as & step in the right direction, because it 1s an attempt at a partial rgmedy of the grievances of the students Renewed demonstrations on a great scalc are expected tomcerow. 1t is reported that Prince Viazemsky, has been disgraced for petitioning the czar to consider the griev ances of the student Lagowsky, the provincial official, who last Friday at- tempted to assassinate Privy Councillor Yobedonostzeff, procurator general of the Holy synod, is a disciple of Count Leo Tolstol, and he has asserted that the act was one of rgvenge for the excommunica- tion of Tolstol According to a special dispatch to the Rossila, the governor general of Kieff, Gen- eral Gragomieroff, has published a riot or- dinance similar to that published by Gen- eral Klejgels in St. Petersburg and declar- ing that the military will be called out unless the ordinance fs strictly obeyed The day passed quietly in St. Petersbur~, Bome 40,000 perscns promenaded about noon along the Nevekol prospekt, particularly in front of the cathedral of our Lady of Kazan. The crowd dwindled to normal pr portions when 1t became apparent th nothing would happen. The promenaders wern for the greater part curiosity scekers. HIS LOT 1S TO KILL CZAR law Straw in Student Lottery. Mail LONDON, Maich The Daily publishes the flowing, dated Ma from its S(. Petersburg correspondent “Yesterday (Saturday! 500 workmen from the Obuchower Metal works paraded on the Nevskol prospekt. On the way thither they | demolished the state brandy booths. Eight hundred Cossacks, with drawn swords, me: the workmlen and a sanguinary encounter ensued. The number killed and wounded however, 18 kept quiet “The police have discovered sgainst the lifo of the czar. It that w group of students drew that the fatal ciolce fell to the son of a prominent geueral. This student told his father and the lat er informed the czar, {m- ploriog him to leave St. Petersburg.” The St. Petersburg correspondent of the Daily Expross says: “'n the last encounter at Narva gate 100 workmen are reported to have been killed or wounded by the Cos- sacks.” COREA'S ACTION IS PROTESTED Britieh Govern the Ziwminsnl of 1 crnl of Cust YOKOHAMA, Marah 24.—Advices from Seoul anuodnce that the Corean government has dismixsed from office Mr. MecLeavy Brown, director generul of Corean customs, and that Great Britain is protesting against his dismissal LONDON, March 24.—The Mr. McLeavy Brown from the post gf di rector general of Corean customs i re garded (n London as another score for Rus #la. I 1805, and again in 1898, Russian pressure wus exerted to secure his removal In the latter case he was only reinstated after a British squadron had moved to Chemulpo. As recently as a few months ago Russia strongly opposed an attempt by Mr. Brown to ralse money for the Corean government to purchase shares in the rail- way from Seoul to Fusan. As a result the negotfation for the loan fafled The St. Petersburg correspondent of the Daily Mall asserts that M. Pavioff, Russian nminister ul, has protested against Corea taking forelgn into the govern ment service with the exception of Rus- slans, and demanded the appolntment of the latter, but seemed determined with the help of the powers, to defend her integrity. DAILY AVERAGE OF SIX CASES a plot appears lots and exn't Approve rec at nile Plague SO1 Spreads at Capes ctima Are ra CAPETOWN, March plagua contines fo spread he an average of six fresh cases ported daily order persons. KRUGER MAY YET COME HERE Geneva ( Start bubonic There is oMeially Mokt of the victims are col ent Says He May It Health LONDON, March spondent of the Daily ported there that Mr. permits, will visit month. ANOTHER © ieneva corre- Mall says it is ro- Kruger, if his he the United States next SEVERE FIGHT town Sends Word of British and Boers Auain Meeting in Conttie CAPETOWN, March 24 occurred Friday, March between the British and Boers at Hartebeestfontein east of Klerksdorp, Transvaal, Severe fighting dismissal of | th | THE OMAHA NE 19, 1871, YERKES TALKS LESS OF PLAN Devotes His Time to Smoothing Down the Englis Caplinlisty’ (Copyright, 1901 LONDON, ‘ese Publishing Co.) March 24.—(New York World “ablegram—Special Telegram.)--Charles T kes I¢ not talking much to the news- wpers about his project for Americdn control of the London underground system. In fuct, it was intimated to Yerkes on his arrival that Baptisto, who precedsd him here, had been talking too much, and the English financiers do not like preliminary splurging in print. As a result, Yerkes has spent recent days smoothing the ruffled susceptibilities of the men with whom h was In negotlation, with success inevitabl with %0 accomplished a commercial diplo- mat as Yerkes. Mrs. Yerkes and Mrs, are Nving at Claridges, is done at the Hotel Yerkes has an extensive of apart ments, and where First Licutenant James R. Chapman, with his wife and daughter, are living until they find a house to suit them. It is understood, however, that the matter is in such shape that Yerkes may taks over the district rallway at any mo- ment. IS A WONDERFUL AUTOMOBILE Artint Has ¢ ext Machine, Vanderbilt's, Charles Yerkes, | but all busi- Cecll, where r. ness sulte nstest and 1t (Copyright, 181, by Press Publishing ¢ PARIS, March 24.-~(New York World blegram--8pecial Telegram.)—W. T. Dannat, a famous American artist, Is now enjoying the distinction of owning the mort power- ful and costliest automobile yet made. It wus bullt specially by a firm in Germany. It is one of the same type as the famous automobile named Mercedes, which cre ated such a str (wo monthe ago when Lor- raipe Barrow entered at the Pau races. Howev Dannat's is still faster, being capable of makiug 150 kilometers an hour, equal to ninety-three miles This terrific pace s feasible only on a good straight road and cannot he mafn- tuined safely over ten minutes, as the m chinery would tear apart. But seventy five miles may be sustained for half an hour and seventy indefinitely. Dannat's automobile is like a formidable engine of destruction. It Is built low and very long Its horse-poWwer is fifty-two. Vanderbilt's new machine, now being buflt at the Par- tsian branch of the same firm, will be an exact duplication er, GIRL'S FAST TROTTING COWS Ueautiful Brazillan Heire ishen the Fastidious ¥ (Copyright, 1901, by Press Publishing Co. PARIS, March 24.—(New York World Ca- blegram—Special Telegram.)—A beautiful girl, 16 years old, Laura Rienzo, who comes from Babla and Is sald to be the greatest helress in Brazil, for three days past Was driven through the streets a fash- lonable pair of fast trotting cows, har- nessed in tandem. The pretty cart ani- mals are smail, black and flers. but obey the reins perfectly. The police at first were puzzled to know whether the law permitted the driving of such a strange team. The inspector called &t the Rienzo residence, where he was assured that the trotting cows were perfectly gentle and were trained at Rio de Janeiro by order of Senhor Rienzo especially for his daugh- ter's umusement The team reached France a week ago ye terday. The owner of the Nouveau cirqu offered $10,000 for the team, but the offer was declined VAST LOTTERY FOR THE BOERS ' Dollars Bxpected for South Afrien . I [ to (Copyright a8 PARIS, Cablegram 1901, Publishing Co.) March (New York World Special Telegram.)—Rochefort, the renowned politician and editor of L'In- transigeant, has returned from Holland, where he had several lengthy conferences with Kruger and his staff. Rochefort's scheme for & huge international loitery for the benefit of the Boers received Kruger's endorsement and meets with enthislastic approval here, Five hundred million tickets will be issued at 20 cents each. Hesides | there will be several large money prizes. | Almost every prominent artist in France, Germany, Holland and the United States is | expected to donate a work af art g pleture or a statue. Jewelry, crockery and dry gocds firms will also contribute important prizes for the sake of the advertisement The scheme is expected to clear $80,000,000, which will be employed to rebuild and re- stock Boer farme TRAGIC END OF A ROMANCE ¢ a Belde in Spic [l of Op Specdily (Copyright, 1901, by Press Publishing Co) BRU March 24.—(New York World Cablegram—Special Telegram.)—Rose Bou- {dinot_came with her motber to Europe a ( | few months ago. She met in Hrussels at the home of Mme. Borlee, 47 Rue Boulain- villers, Gaschassin Lafite, Mme. Borlee's nephew. The couple became engaged. | Philadelphia relatives, who were much op- | posed to the mateh, did their best to pre- vent It through friends at Brussels. Their efforts wero of aviil. Miss Boudinot was small and frall and spoken of as possessing strange manner. The | couple were married at Brussels, the firs or civil ceremony being performed March 18 and the religious ceremony at the Church Croiz Ixelles, Brussels, the following y at 10 a. m. They left on their honey- noon at 1 o'clock the same day for Paris Before the next morning the bride died of a heart attack in Paris {USELESS SOCIETY SLUMMERS | no very a 1901, by March Sp (Copyright LONDON Cublegram volied Daught | brilliant of Oscar jof the success Press 2 Te by Publishing Co.) (New York World gram.)—"The Re- Israel Zangwill, s of conversation as any was tried at the matinee Comedy theater ‘with immedlate 1t deals with the disillusionment of a beautiful and wealthy girl who, having certain vague ideas about “the higher lif goes to work among the lowliest at the, east end. The play begins when this ex- perience has broken her down, and Zang- | will's flashing, biting wit is exercised® in | cxposing the insinceritles, affectations and uselessness of soclety slummers Charleg Wyndham's next production will be a new play, “The Mammy and the Hum mingbird,” by Richa:d Henderson of New cinl “ medy Wild, | York, whose wite is Hildegarde Oelrichs, | ron, | April | Aprit OMAHA, MO Orders Equadrons to Cores and Uonvenes Fort Commanders. IS NOW THE TOPIC HOME DEFENSE Feeling of Conntry lutensely An inet ix Uneasy and ~Russian, but Cab- Not Come mitted. LONDON, March 25 Japanese squad- Admiral Tsubhim commandirg, left Nagasaki Saturday for Corea,’ s the Yokohama correspondent of the Daily Mall “The general opinion here is that the situation Is serious. Urgent instructions have been issued by the minister of war, General Katsoura, to the commanders of forts to attend a conference in Toklo to consider questions of home defense ‘“The war rumors are causing a fall in prices on the varlous bourses. The feel- Ing of the country is uneasy and intensely anti-Russlan, but the cabinet shows no indication of its policy.” REBELS GET AN EXTENSION Philippines Commission Now Gives Until May 1 for Them to Be- come Do A e. MANILA, March 25.—The municipal code provides that anyoue in rebellion after 1 shall be ineligible henceforth to vote aud hold office. Upon the report of ieneral Trias, who Is winding up rem- nants of the insurrection, the Philippines commission has extended the date to Ma The Philippines commission has sailed from Iloilo to Jolo to make a three days visic and to endeavor to come o an ami- cable understanding with the sultan re- garding various measures. There will be 10 legislation. According to treaty the sul- tan's government controls the Sulu group. PROTESTANTISM IS SPREADING of Pampanga renders ™ Natives in the Provine Adopt It=More Ni Are Made. MANILA, March 24.—In the province of Cavite four insurgent officers and ffty-three men, with fifty-six rifles, have surrendered to Lieutenant Colonel Frank D. Baldwin of the Fourth United States infantry, and one Insurgent officer and (welve men, with six- teen rifies, to Colonel 8. Schuyler of the Forty-sixth volunteer infantry. The attendance at the services evangelical church in Manila is not dimin- ished. Protestantism is spreading rapidly in the province of Pampanga. AUSTRIA IS ABOUT BURIED Snowfall Blocks Causing Rivers Overflow. March 25.—~Austria is exper- fencing another heavy snowfall, the third of the seagon. In some places it has been #nowing for thirty-six hours, with serions Interruption to rallway communication. BSeveral rivers in Bohemia have overflowed and flooded the villages and further floods are feared when the heavy snows on the mountains melt PREMIER COMMITS SUICIDE ottenstein, Who Recen drew from Cabinet, Kills Himself in U Baron S W BERLIN, March 24.—A dispatch Lokal Anzeiger from Stuttgart announces that Baron Schott von Schottenstein, the Wurtemberg premier, whose sudden with- drawal from the cabinet owing to his being tmplicated in a pending trial, created a sensation, has committed suicide in Ulm. WALDERSEE I$ TO SETTLE IT Sald to MHave 0 Arbitrate Tien Dispute. LONDON, March According to the St. Potersburg correspondent of the Times, wiring Saturday, Count Lamsdorff, the Rus- slan minister of foreign affairs, has agreed with Great Britain to submit the Tien Tsin rallway dispute to the arbitration and set- tlement of Count von Waldersee. NORTHERN PACIFIC WANTS IT ine's to the German Commander Been Chonen Tain MINNEAPOLIS, March 24.—A specinl to the Times from Tacoma, Wash., says 1t 1s currently reported here and is gen- erally believed in railroad circles, that the Northern Pacific is negotlating for the pur- chase of the Southern Pacific line from ‘ortland to San Francisco. It Is sald the purchase of that portion of the line within the state of Oregon is assured. 1t is known that a representative of the Northern Pa cific has been over the entire line within a few days on a tour of inspection and much depends on the report he will make to the hLoard of directors. Negotfations bave been hanging fire for more than a | year and the matter has been kept very quiet. FLORIDA SEASON IS LONGER Fast Bookings. Ga., March 24.—Although fast trains put on by the roads wte the winter resort travel 1 Georgia will be discontinued 4 and 6, rallroad officials here have been given to understand that the hotel people desire the continuance of the fast schedules two weeks from that time owing | to the heavy bookings. The Floridu season will close two weeks later than usual It is understood that the Southern, At- lantic Coast line and Seaboard Air line have agreed to run their fast traius from the east to Florida points three days of the week, instead of daily after April 6. SUNDAY AFTERNOON CONCERT Barvitone ATLANTA. many of the to accommo to Florida a NEW YORK, March 24.—Twelve hundred persons listened to David Bispham at a con cort given at Carnegie Music hall tonight The recital was of the nature of an ex periment, the management being desirion of finding out whether a New York audience could be attracted on Sunday afternoon by An arrangement of popular prices. Tho. In charge profess to be more than satisfied with the result. David Bispham gave o number of haritone selections, chiefly trom Schubert, Schumann and American compos- ers like McDowell and Walter Damrosch, Lt of the | NDAY MORN ape from Deluge [ March 26.<A river of flam- down upon the little village of Glen Gardner, N. J., while inbab- itants were asleep this moroing and re duced eleven buildings, stores and resi- | dences to ashes. The conflagration was ex traordipary in character and origin The village is in a valley along the line of the Ceatral road. An immense freight train coming east at 6:30 a m. It was composed of & string of coal cars and eighteen tank cars. High above the village the tracks of the railroad run | along the side of a mountain. They de- 1 approach the village, but even at the station are considerably above | the main street, which runs up fo the | depot at a steep incline. | A few miles west of the village, while coming down the incline #round the moun tain, the train parted. The engineer on the forward part pulled open the throttls of the englue and tried to race away from the section which was Inereasing its speed every second. He managed to keep clea | of the racing cars until he got opposite the depot at Glen Gardner, when the pcond tion smashed into the first. The first | section, composed of the coal cars, w | folted off the track. The forward car, one of the tanks of the runaway tlon, was hurled sidewise across the tr and the oiltank cars behind It were up on top of it in every way. ! The first crash caused the oil in | the tanks to explode and iguite and the ter- | rific heat caused the other ears to explode, one after the other. The fucline running from the depot down to the maln street acted as a slulce for the burning ofl and poured into the chief thoroughfare of the village, setting firo to everything it | touched. Houses, fences, trees, shrubbery | and barns were reduced to ashes in an in credibly sbhort time. Villag awakened | by the explosions rushed from the on-com- ing oll, carrying children in their arms. Some risked their lives (o free horses, cows and dogs in outbuildings, but other unfor- | tunate animals could not be reached in time and were burned Within five minutes after the first ex- plosion the flowing river of ofl had reached the Masonic temple in the heart of the vil- | lage and ten minutes later that structure was enveloped in flames. Then building after building took fire as the ofl reached them and within half an hour an area 500 | teet square was a mass of flame. From the wrecked cars tho oll also flowed down the incline of the railroad track, making long line of fire that de- ed the ties and twisted the tracks loss is estimated at from $60,000 to NEW YORK ing oil swept its Jersey was scend as they | | | piled one of ONE GIGANTIC STEEL PLANT Promoters of Blast Farnace Combine Plan for Its Erection Nearest Supply Center, PITTSBURG, Pa. March 24.—The Com- mercial Gazette tomorrow will suy: The plan to form a new combine of the leading blast furnace interests of the valleys, Pitts- burg and Cleveland, with & probable capi- tal of $25,000,000, is to be garried out or abandoned by May 1. This is the tentative scheme of the promoters, although options already taken on most of the twenty-four merchant furnace plants wanted for the new consolidation have a much longer life than the time named. Some of the inter- | ts to be taken over will turn in their leases on property and coke works will be included and the new company will not beye to ko far outside of its own organiza- tioh for its raw material. As now planned the ded! will stop with the pig fron pro- ducers, taking over no steel plants. Tollowing the cempletion of the deal, it successful, there is an ultimate plan to | build nearest tLe center of supplies a gi- gantic steel plant, possibly large enough to convert most of the pig metal produced running upward of 4,275 tons a day. Head- quarters of the combine will be in Plits- burg in WOMAN DISSECTS HERSELF Mra. Rrunschneider Scismors to In Wo ot rrible TOLEDO, 0., March 24.--Mrs. G. Brun- schne whose bome Is near the city limits, last evening with & pair of scissors cut oft all the toes of her left foot, both her ears, close to the head, and about an inch of her no: She then cut out a por tion of her right cheek, inflicted five gashe i tie left cheek and removed every vestig of skin of her left forearm, laying bar the muscles. She also lacerated the right arm in a horrible manner. Nothing’ was | known of the affalr until her husband, who | was absent during the night, returned home this morning and found her in bed in a semi-conscious condition A surgeon was | called at once and she was taken to St. | | Vincent's hospital. Her recovery Is doubt ful | The women is about 50 years of age. It {15 thought she was temporarily insane on account of domestic troubles. KIDNAPERS AND DYNAMITERS They Demnnd Thelr Money Be Left in a Park ( ot | NASHVILLE, Tenn., March 24.- nupers and dynamiters” is the signature to o letter recelved by Joseph Schneider of this city Friday. The contents informed Mr. Schoeider that unless he placed $300 at @ certain spot in Cumberland park by Saturday afternoon one of his children would be kidnaped or his house blown up by dynamite. No harm has yet come to the Schneider home, although the demands were not complied with. The police at work on the case POISON CASE TAKES NEW TURN Itois N n Jones W Charged with Fosburgh Murder. are Now MIDDLESBURY, Vt., March 24—Nelson Jones, a young man of Shoreham, was lodged in Jail this morning on a warrant charging him with the murder of Miss Ida Fosburgh, at Shoreham, on March 12, with poison sent through the mail. Nelson Jones is the son of Minor Jones, for whom Miss Fosburgh worked domestic at the time of her death. | WIFE'S DEATH KILLS WRIGHT | pires Few Hours After Jrw. Wright in Called, March 24, — Frank B. publisher of Chick, and connected Cinclnnati papers for twenty years, died suddenly today, aged 42 His wife died of pneumonia at § o'clock this worning. He had been worried about her while aficted with pneumonia himself and dicd 1B a few bours after his wife expired. CINCINNATI Wright with yeurs MARCH | night DAILY BEE. 25, 1901, FOUR TRAINS IN A DRIFT Union Pacific Traffio is Tied Up Between North Platte and Julesbur, GIANT SNOWPLOW IS STUCK INA CUT Three ptives Fail to Hudge It and the Worst Blizsard of the Season is Increasing in Severity, OGALALLA, Neb, March 24 Telegram.)—Ogalalla is the storm center of the worst blizzard it has had for more than ten years. All trains are tied up on the Union Pacific between North Platte and Julesburg. Four westbound passenger traing are sidetracked at this place Train . the Californta express, has been lying here since 2:30 this morning A snowplow with three locomotives tached is stuck in a cut one and a miles west. Snowdrifts are ten feet In town at 6 o'clock this evening (Spectal at halt high The | storm is Increasing in severity. MAIN LINES ARE BLOCKED| Burlington a Sufferer With Unton Pa- cific in the Matter of Heing Snowbound. LINCOLN, March 25.—Reports from Al- Hance and Ogallala early this (Monday) morning indicate that the Union Pacific and Burlington main lines are blocked with snow. Three passenger trains are held at Ogallala and drifts west of there bave not been raised after hard work with snowplows. The Burlington line to the northwest is tied up west and east of Al Hance and all trains are held The storm in western Nebraska the worst In years and will cause great damage to stock interests, Snow is reported from four to twelve inches deep, with a strong wind blowing. Eastern Nebraska is drenched with rain Reports from Long Pine, Neb., &éhow that the Elkhorn road is blocked and all trains are tied up. is SNOWING AND BLOWING A GALE Stdney L Trains ntes Three Unfon Pac talled in Drifts and Loses Sight of & Fourth, SIDNEY, Neb., March gram.). that bas prevailed in years started last night and all day it has been snowiug and blowing a perfect gale. All the trains on the Union Pacific are tied up along the road. Passenger train No. 3, due here at 4 this morning, is in a heavy snowdift near Big Springs. No. 2 s at Julesburg. No. § is at North Platte, and No. 4 is in- definitely late. Prospects are that the storm will continue all night. No suffer- ing is yet reported from the country. Cltizens of Sidney are spending the day indoors. At 8 o'clock tonight the storm 4.—(Special Tele- was %0 severe that merely to walk along | the street was difficult, even dangerous, aud some uneasiness is felt. WYOMING WINTER'S WORST President Burt nnd Other Union Pa- cific Ofcials Are Held Up by Drifs CHEYENNE, Wyo., March 24.—(Speclal Telegram.)—The worst storm of the win- ter and the only one that has interfered with railroad traffic in this section pre- vailed throughout southern and eastern Wyoming, northeastern Colorado and west- ern Nebraska last night and today. For fitteen hours snow continued to fall and the storm was accompanied by falling tem- perature and a high wind. Snowplows were kept going between Grand Island and Lara- all night and today, but the wind, h frequently reached the height of a filled the cuts almost as fast as the drifts we broken and trains were de- layed on the Wyoming division. The worst weather was in the vicinity of Sher- man, where huge drifts of snow were plied on the track and where No 4, the Atlantle express, was snowbound five hours Pres- ident Burt, Superintendent McConnell and other high officials were in their spectal cars on this train From Cheyenne ea sale, t the storm was most sovere, especially hetween Sidney and North Platte, and despite the efforts of the nlows the road is blockaded there. At Ogalalla this merning Nos. 3 and 5 and to- uight Nos, 1 and 101 are stuck in the snow and the fudications are they must remaln there all night. A snowplow Just arrived here from Sidney and President Burt and party will go as far esst as that point to- Snow has stopped falling and, al- though the wind is blowing, the officials be- leve the worst of the trouble is over. 8tock losses will be normal, as had prepared for storm DRIVES COLORADO CATTLE the Western rain Service Is owners VER March 24.—A storm has pre- valled all over Colorado today, In some places reaching the proportions of a bliz- zard. Snow has fallen to a depth of from three to ten inches. The storm countinues tonight with severity on the mountains, blocking railroads and trafc generally. Already cattlemen have suffered losses and fears are entertained that the loss will greatiy increased b the storm is ended All trains from the east are delayed in western Kansas. Regular trains on the Colorado & Southern here and Leadville have been abandoned, as the cuts are filled with snow. On the western slope the fall of snow has been heaviest. In some places it Is ten inches on the level and much deeper on the mountains, Re- ports from Lamar, Colo., that the storm 1s driving the cattle along with it and undoubtedly many will die from posure. Reports from the vicinity of ¢ per, Wyo., show similar weather tions there BLACK HILLS ARE NOW WHITE Feet of Rangers a Express between come ox- - condi- now Make 1e | Mining (n ratitude, DEADWOOD. D., March 24.—(Speclal Telegram.)—Two feet of snow has fallen in the last twenty-four hours and will be of inestimable value to the cattle ranges and mining iuterests. The storm reaches all parts of the Black Hills, Shows Signs of Abating. M'COOK, Neb., March 24.—(Special Tele- gram.)—The worst blizzard for years has been raging southwestern Nebraska and eastern Colorado the list twenty-four hours. Railroad traMic is being seriously delayed and trains are moving only with great difculty Enowplows being run ove The severest snow and wind storm | | g NGLE CONDITION OF THE WEATHER for Nebraska Rising Temperature Northerly Winds i Tuesduy Fair Forecast nday Generally Fair in Western Becoming are at Omnhn Yesterdny: Dew Il 2 TRAINS ¥ the STORM TIES UP Omaha the Weather (o We The sleet and rain which made it so dis- agreeable in Omaha yesterday came as the fagend of a snow storm (hat raged iu | the western part the stato Saturday | night. The storm was particularly severe along the line of the Union Pacific of Ogallaia. The only train (o reach Omaha | on that line yesterday was No. 4, due at | 6:50 9. m., and it was late. The other roads had less trouble with the storm [ but all trains from the west were delayed Union Pacific passenger train No. 8, which | 161t here Saturday afterncon, was snow bhound for nearly twelve hours. The train was due at Ogallala, 240 miles west of | here, at 1:18 o'clock Sunday morning. It ran out of that station about on time and ploughed into such drifts of heavy, wet snow that it gave up and pulled back into the yards t Ogallala. The rotary snow plough was called from North Platte, but it did not reach No. 3 untll the middle of Sunduy afternoon and then plunged into the heavy drifts to the west. It wa expected that it would be able to fight through the thirty miles to Julesburg in a | few hours. West of the drifts all of the eastbound trains vere snowbound and w smpelled to await the opening of the track by the plough The storm appears to have extended from North Platte to Sidney on the Union Pa- | cific, though the most severe part of it was | from Ogallala to Julesburg. 1t began aturday evening with rain. This turned into sleet, which was followed by snow The wind was blowing a terrific gale and | this plied the wet, heavy snow up in the cuts and ravines. Mixed with the snow was the dust and sand from the prairies and to buck these drifts with the pilot of an engiue was an utter impossibility In Wyoming there was a heavy fall of snow during Saturday night, but so far as | could be learned here, the traffic was not delayed. The Burlington and the Rock Island roads were touched by the storm, but the trains of the former, except on the Billiugs line, were on time. Trains on the Billings line of the Bur- lington are reported tied up by the storm. One of the passenger trains is laid up at Ardmore, 8. D. ve of west of Stock Feared. HY b., March 24.—(Special Tel- egrom.)—Heginning at noon yestcrday a continuous storm has raged from central yoming on through western and central Nebraska, most of the time a blinding bii «ard, but not very cold. There will some 1088 of stock where not close herded, as very young calves can not live through It. This is among the worst storms ever seen in the sand hills Some Lo Pierre Prairies Well Sonked. PIERRE, 8. D, March 24.—(Special Tel- cgram.)~The rainstorm which begun here yesterday noon has changed to a driving snowstorm, which is drifting badly. The conditions are such as to make the storm unpleasant to stock, but the prairie is be- ing well soaked. Tmmense Value J CHAMBERLAIN, 8. I cial Telegram.)—~The he of the season is now prevailing. It began yesterday in a heavy rain, which later turned to snow. So far three inches of moisture has fallen. It was badly needed and will be of immense valy to farmers ‘mrmers, March 24. viest (Sp snowstorm VESSELS HOLD OFF FOR FOGS Several Ocean L s Are n Day in Docking at New York. NEW YORK, March 24.—The Cunard liner Eiruria, which was due here from Liv- crpool Saturday night, was not reported from Fire Island until this evening. The mist, when the Etrurla passed iz at a lit- tle after 5 o'clock, soon turned Into a dense fog and the steamer was unable to make quarantine in time to be passed by the health officer of the port. Friends of the passengers who expected the vessel to doc tonight upon reaching the pier were in- formed that the liner would not dock until tomorrow morning. The Anchor liner Britannia, from Medi- terranean points, which pas Bandy Hook Just ahead of the Btruria, made quarantine all right, but her commander, as the fog thickened, thought it better to remain there for the night, The French liner La Gascolgne, which was due here today from Havre, had not been reported tonight. She is probably fogbound off Sandy Hook. MITCHELL TO SEE MORGAN President of United Mine Workers Wants to Avert a Strike it NEW chell YORK, March 24.—President Mit- of the United Mine Workers' union is In this city with the Intention of see ing J. P. Morgan and the heads of the Important coal companies to consult about the situation In the coal fields, for the pur- pose, i possible, of averting strike. Mr Mitchell has so far been unable to Mr Morgan, a8 the latter only arrived from Washington late tonight When seen at his hotel President Mit chell said that nothing yet had been done. NOBLEMAN'S MODEST DEATH snld to Be of Titled Fam- pires Suddenly of Al- coholie Polsoning. e Kentuckin LEXINGTON Ky, March 24-—W, P, Evans, a rolling mill proprietor of Ver- sailles, Ky., today was found etretched on | floor of his room at the Palace hotel, | dead. His nose was broken. The coroner pronounced the Injury due to a fall. Evans was aged 60 and came from Wales in 158, He was wealthy and was reputed to be con- nected 1o a titled family, Alcoholic poison- 18 ascribed as the cause of death STRIKE AT FLORENCE ENDS 1 Miners' Grievances Adjusted S Infnctorlly=1,500 Men Resume Work April 1, FLORENCE, Colo., Murch 24.—The strike of coal miners of the Fremont county dis triet has beeu ended by an agreement satis- factory to hoth sldes, and work will be in all directions. At this time, 10 p. w., the slorm shows some sigus of abating. resumed April 1 About 1,600 men are af focted. ‘ be | cory | | | Which was on the point of dissolution. | | bers who are IVl END DUE THIS WEEK | Close of the Legislature and Possibly of Benatorial Contest. MUCH PROGRESS THE PAST SEVEN DAYS More Real Headway Th of the Bession, in All the Re | PROTEST AGAINST MEIKLEJOHN'S TALK embers Rebuke Him for the Attitude in His Intervi LAST MAN TO SEEK PERMANENT BLOCKADE Oregon Falve Assumpti Work Madiy Desperate Sttuntl Parallcl ix Dased on & ~Hin Manngers v Concenl Iis LINCOLN, March 24.—(Special Telegram.) The coming week fs expected to see the close of the leglslative session and ought to bring (he culmination of the senatorial contest Mare progress has been made during the last seven days than from the very be- giuning up to that time. At the outset of the week were contronted with four for a caucus to take the the members differont calls place of that One Wilkinson call n of these was the original for an open ballot, forty-six to nominate. Another conformed more strictly to the sug- gestions of National © Committeeman hneider, with forty-eight to nominate on open 1ol call, voting for the long-term senatorship first. A third, which secured the signatures only of the Meiklajohn men, included the secret ballot, and contempated a caucus to nominate only the North Platte man, leaving the South Platte candidat entirely out of the question the modified Wilkingon call, five to pominate and an open ballot, caucus to aln in session until nominations were effected, This last call, appealing as a sort of compromise measure, seemed to find more favor than any of the others, and it was finally rapidly slgned up to the required number Tuesday atternoon and the an- nouncement made for its meeting that same evening the tvo Storm Without and Within, The caucus convened in the Lindell hotel, with a raging storm without, which soon found a counterpart inside the caucus chamber. On the eighth ballot D, E. Thompson received more thav the neces- sary forty-five vctes (o nomiuate, as tho candidate for the short term. When the session closed that evening Rosewater led for the long term with twenty-nine votes, which on succeeding sessions has been raised to a maximum of thirty-four votes. In the open session partieipants in the cuucus nave alt failen in for 1. E. Thomp- son, while the ballot reflects almost the exact vote in the caucus on the North Platte candidates. The caucus has taken a recess until Menday night, when it will resume balléting in an effort (o complete its work. The interview which Mr. MeikleJohn has had published in today's World-Herald has called forth u vigorous protest among mem- re. In this interview, which suys was sought by Mr the former assistant secretar; akes to deny that he is on the verge of withdrawing by asserting that he will be in it to the end without weaken- Ing or compron He goes on to say that there is no danger of Mr. Rosewater re- celving the cancus nomination even though he recelves forty-four votes, Intimating that he has fourteen tied up to stay with Meiklejohn steadfastly. “You will find.”" he is quoted, “that when the last night of the caucus comes and the s Tuns into the morning hours If there 18 to bo any realignment at all 1t would be in my favor and not in Mr. Rose- water's. And If there is any realign ment, remember that the Oregon deadlock was broken on the last day of the session, not in caucug, but on the floor of the jolne convention Last Man to Attempt Blockade, How this kind of talk is taken may be gathered from the following expression from & member who has not yet voted for Rose- water ““Meiklejohu should be the last man of all to talk about blocking the caucus until the last night of the session and to say that he must be elected or both senatorships re- maln vacant. Mr. Meiklejohn has been very Kindly cared for by the republicans of Nebragka. Ho has been in lucrative public office 101 m fifteen yours The ladulgence of the administration toward him could not Lo better illustrated than in submitting to his absence from his post of duty to attend to bis campaign here for three months while keeping bim on the pay roll as ussistant secretary of war. As a matter of fact, whatever claims he eyer had on the republicans of this state have long been fully liquidated. Ho made a few speeches in-the campaign, It 1s true, but he made no converts, aud if it had rested upon him it is doubtful whether the legislature would have been republican. “The character of the Meiklejobn cam paign here, too hardly such as would Justify him in threatening to deadlock the election. His capital has consisied almost entirely of promises Impossiblo of fulfiil ment, supplemented, as your paper has shown, by gold brick schemes and a lavish xpenditure of money . by disinterested friends lke the late departed Colonel Dean, returning favors supposed to have been ex tended by Mr. Meiklejohn in his officlal ca pacity in the past Conditic ifferent in Oregon, “Mr. Meiklcjohn refers to Oregon, where the election was held off until the last hour of the last night of the session, but Oregon presents a different In Oregon the republicans had no at all, having been unable to unite on any caucus agree ment, and the blockade was due to the in- ability of the republicans to get together in cau The declaration of Mr. Bryan that no republican can count on any fuslon votes means that the senatorships In N braska must fillcd by the republicans and that the votes of the latter must be centered by caucus action, Mr. Meiklejohn wistakes the temper of this leginlature if he thinks ho has a call to stand in the way of any solution of tho deadlock. The sur- prising thing s that so many men have stood by him so long, when it is notorlous that he is not ideo%ifled with the state in auything; he has never owned a foot of ground, never buillt even a cottage and never pald dollar in taxes, #o far as any- body knows. Why Nebraska should be left unrepresented in the senate and the party sacrificed because he Is out of u job s beyond comprehension." Realizing the desperate conditlon of thelp the reporter Meiklejohn of war und sion cnso caucusy be