Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 7, 1901, Page 1

ESTABLISHED JUNE 19, ‘lN‘“.i MAY STIR LABORERS ‘House of Commons Adopts Coal Tax Despite Federation's Warnin| 1S DENIED | Reported Proposal to Mancharia Turns Out to alne. A ropresentative was officially in- statement of the of the Times that owers, suggest- huria to the 1 that replies received from Ju,an, the Unitel States and Great Britain, is lncorrect China has not approached the powers in regard 1o a general opening of Manchurla What actually occurred is that a high Chi- nese official threw out such a*suggestion, and after some slight diplomatic mention the matter ended there, It i realized in Downing street that any step towards securing the opening up of Manchuria would construed at St Petersburg as direct opposition to Russia’s desires. The Bfitish Forelgn office has not the clightest intention of smbarking upou such a fruitless task as the cne indicated by the Timas' correspondent, and belleves the United States and Japan fully concur with that view. It {8 now fearcd in spite of the protest of the United States and Great Britain the Chinese maritime customs will be raised considerably above the i cent increase to which Great Britain consented in order to help China meet the indemnity. That such action will principally hurt American and British trade Is keenly appreciated in Downling street. But it appears it cannot be avolded without the British and Ameri- can withdrawal from the concert, which | are chiefly an exposition of the views held step Lord Lansdowne does not contem- | by United States senators as to the essen shilliag per ton on export coal was adopted | plate for a moment. tal features which should be included In a by a majority of 106, These figures, appar- | o official news has been received here | treaty. While this is not a profier of a | ently, do not represent the feeling of the| of Germans having fired on the British | treaty. it conveys to the British authorities members of the House, but the government | flag. that which essential by the made the Issue stricily a party one and se —_— senators who control the ratification of any RECEIVE A ROYAL WELCOME cured the record attendance for this Parlia- treaty which will be made. E JACKSONVILLE —‘l{ REVIVING Distre De, SUGGESTION ESSENTIAL IN CANAL TREATY STANDS BY L. K. SALISBURY | ONE DEAD IN WRECK Open 4 City Negin Helping 1ts W Counting Its wry and Iding Itwelt, Fla, May 6.—The work Jacksonville 18 progressing sys- | The relief assoclation ay | committee of nine to fifteen financial committee onstitution and made the rary organization permanent ' ’ b et of Which Omn M. Shirley and Wife of Omaha Are Out resident The following are the dead so far as re- aire Complai and Bruived, covered - HARRY D. BONATHEAU, white, e , WILLIAM CLARK, whitgt . CUDAHY SALESMAN'S HAND CRUSHED UNENOWN N RO, found in today at the foot of Market street. Life Lost is That of Engineer Sid Brown of the Flye MRS, CORNELIA THOMPSON, widow of the late General Waddy Thompson, bones STICKS TO POST AND DEATH IS INSTANT Wedne Northerly U ska=1air T Warmer In Eastern F Wi Becoming Variabl Fauncefots Given Memorandum of Features Benaters Require, NO FURTHER NEGOTIATIONS AT PRESENT Ambassador Will Make When He Reaches Grand Rapids Conncil Reappointe Him City Attorney. Burlington Passenger Train Craskes Inte Freight at Th Towa. a ot o JACKSONVILLE of relict it ematically nereased appoint adopted a MAN WHOM GUY BARTON ACCUSED SPEAKERS ARE WARM AND CAUSTIC Assail Each Other with Epithe Forcible than Beautiful. FIFTY-TWO PERSONS ON INJURED LIST China has appte ing a complete open. enterprise of all countrs have be tem with C. ¥ Parrott vice | British 10 Nest Move Londo t He Asked works Deal Million- Grand Jury Is Still to obe Alleged Wate BALFOUR'S DEFENSE OPENLY RIDICULED | Adherents Admit He Doesn's Know Wh He's Talking Abont. LONDON, May 6.—The Associated has been officially notifie Pauncefote has received from the draft of a new Nicaragua canal treaty It is understood that it advises neutrality WASHINGTON, May 6.—It learned from an authoratitive source that before Secretary Hay left here for the west he had several conferences with Lord Paunce fote relative to the basis for another isth- mian canal treaty and that unoffct written memorandum also submitted to Lord Pauncefote on the subject. The ambassador has made known the general results of these conversations and of the memorandum to the authorities in London | | and it is doubtless to this that allusion is made in the London dispatches It Is said, however, that the negotiations are so tentative and informal that they are not regarded as an official exchange or proposition. What they embody is not made known here, though it ie understood they Press Lord GRAND RAPIDS, Mich, May 6.—The new city council tonight re-elected L. K. Salls bury city attoiney. It was a great surprise in view of Sallsbury's arrest on an indict ment secured in Chicago last February by Guy Barton, millionaire contractor of Omaba, charging Salisbury the lar- of $50 000 from a vault of the Illinois Trust and Savings bank of Chicago It authoritatively stated tonight that a call for a grand jury will within the river keeper Wo WALTHAM, Mass., May 6.1t was & in watch manufecturing circles here today | that a syndicate making an effort | absorb the American Waltham company's plant here, and the factory of the Elgin company, at Igin, 111 Prestdent Fitch the next few days to probe into the alleged | of the American Waltham company left waterwerks scandal, The Omaha capitalist | for New York today, where there s to be was seeking the waterworks contract and [ a conference conoversing affairs in the charged Salisbury with the larceny of money [ watchmaking line which he claimed he had given Salisbury [ The syndicate has been given on to aid him In securing the contract. the O'Haraial company and the American Watch Tool company’'s works, and it has AUTHOR OF BREAD WINNERS purchesed the United States Watch factory 1 found in ruins ot Old Ladles' Home, Union and Laoura stroets MARTHA HAGEN, a negro woman, fousd yesterday at Ocean and State stroets. One other unknown negro is reported found in the river, but the report is not confirmed Bonatheau was &4 years old and a prom- inent real estate man. He leaves a widow and one child. He, with @lark, was cut off by the flames at the Market street wharf. SIxX thousand destitute were fed today by the relief assoclation. Governor Jeanings has perfected the military government of the city by a general order placing Colonel Lovell in command and making Major Max well provost marshal. The receipts by the relief association and other agencles approximate $50,000 tonight Ten catloads of supplies were today from Charlestown and one lanta, as well as many other small lots Perfect order prevails. The work of re- building has commenced. Insurance adjus ters continue to arrive, but no concerte plan of loss settlements has been arranged. [ President of the First National bank of n official statoment was fesucd at 10:30 | that city. At the time the book was pub- o'clock tonight, addressed to the people of | llshed many of the reviewers asserted that the United States, in which the committee | 90hn Hay wrote the book. Some attributed recltes the circumstances attending the | It to W. D. Howells and it was credited fire and says to half a dozen other well known novelists. “The fire spread with such rapidity that | Finally it to be the general bellef our citizens had great dificulty in leaving | tBat the present secretary of state was the their homes and places of business. 1In|8uthor. The cataloguers never accepted many cases they barely escaped with their | thi%, however, and labelled the book unony- lives, We regret to say that a mous. No one suspected that woman, were burned to death or drowned much less the unknown woeman in a com- | attoma: to " encaps: tremARe paratively obscure Hlinols town, was re- number at this time we have been unable to | SPOnsible for its being, and as a conse- with GENERAL STRIKE SEEMS PROBABLE ceny is to s Lahor Members Intim mkle May Pe ¥ Between Thelr Organisa- tion and Parllament, e that Great an L.l Many lowsa People Are in Coaches that Are Dashed Down Embaunk- ment=Victims from Other recipitated Northwent options LONDON, May 6.—There was unusual ani- mation and attendance in the House of Commons today when the last Installment of the coal tax resolution debate was opened by Sir Edward Grey (liberal), who defined the measare as harch and oppressive. The House adopted the coal tax by a vote | of 333 Consequently the tax of a| CRESTON, I, May 6.—(Special Tele gram.)—One man was killed and fty-two injured In a wreck on the rallway at Thayer today. The here It is stated that the new trols the Philadelphia Watch Riverside, J., and has been negotiating with the Standard Watch Case company of Jersey Cit the Keystone Watch Case company of Philadelphia, and the Bates and Bacon Watch Case company of Attle borough The capital of the syndicate Is said to bave been placed at $i5,000,000 CONGER LABELS WU A HERO Suys the Chinese persons Burlington dead siD in Burlington The 0. E bruised Major about Colonel injured George burt M. Shirley and wife, Omaha. Mr. Shirley cut about face and head, neck bruised. Mrs. Shirley bruised W. A. Scott, Chicago, back injured, right leg and foot bruised Albert Brown, right arm and leg bruised. Mrs. Ellis Pixley, West Salem, Ill, lo- ternal injuries; serious. J. T. McCune, Ottumwa, hurt and breast, Clarence Wolne, Grinnell, scalp 1imbs injured, brulsed about back. T. M. Gallup, Wyoming, enroute to Ran- were Mins company con e works, at of Chamy Now Credited with Waork., BROWN, Ia list of the injured is as follows Garrett, Murray, In, head and body 2 enginser home May The Tribune tomor- will claim it to be an established fact that the author of ““The Bread Winner the sensational novel published anony- mously in 1883, was Miss Ida Harris of | Champaign, 111, daughter of B. F. Harrl passenger, CHICAGO row receive from At- se is considered nose, T. Hume, left eye Olmstead, Des Moines, and right arm. Des Molnes, bruised ment and by vigirous efforts polled within It i< also learned indirectly from senatore a score of the normal majority. The gal- who have been consulted that among the lerles were packed to overflowing chiet features in the negotiations are a The principal fight during the last days neutralizing of the canal, the United States ot the discussion of the coal tax was chiefly alone undertaking to guarantee this neu within the liberal ranke. =ir Edward Grey, trality and the admlission of all shipping H. H. Asquith, William Abraham (liberal) on an equal basis with that of the United and Mr. Charles Fenwick all assalled the | States tax eloquently, the last two speaking with Although, as no little pathos and a broad accent on be- and the written memorandum have been half of the miners in whose station of life exchanged, it s not expected that there they wofked before coming to Westminster. | will be any further negotfations prior to Perhaps the most futeresting feature was Lord Pauncefote's lln“p’:n'ln.rr\l for Il,r“:d‘:y:_ the spcech of Hon. Frederick Lambton, | which n::h\lnhnnH. :m vhn:“- u“nlv;r r‘m\\:v\;‘ ascertain, although five bodies have been | GU°Nce the criticisms were tempered brother of the earl of Durham, who, stand- e e ey e "ambassador | taken from the ruins and from 10,000 to 15,- | ¥!tB any degree of allowance ing amid the conservative members, de- to Newport soon as the ambassador | oo, yaople are homeless. Miss Harris, who died ten days ago, was nounced the government as a ‘“pack of leaves. 40 years old severely borate Heception of Duchess of York Melbourne MELBOURNE, May 6.-—The duke and duchess of Cornwall and York landed from the steamer Ophir at 2 o'clock this after- noon. They were received at the plerhead by Lord Hopetoun, governor general, and the state and federal ministers. After the ministers had been presented the party passed down & quarter of a mile of car- peted pler and entered carriages surrounded by a guard of honor composed of Victoria troops just returned from South Africa and Duke and at Minister Is Entitle Vonbehrn, Citize Chariton, right side me CHICAGO, May 6.—"Minister Wu hero and is entitled to the lasting g tude of every American citizen. The stat ment now being circulated that I ever challenged his truthtul of {ntention Is aby ¥ In these words Major H. Conger, United States minister China, disposes of the charge that he is at enmity with Wu Ting Fang. Mr. Conger arrived here from his home stated, these conferences number i in their flames The b in stomach ot v wound, riotous hounds after a ewe lamb,” by which he referred to the coal industry. He de- clared that the chancellor of the exchequer had represented the colllers as liars and forgers and maintained that they were ‘“‘as honorable a set of men as ever sat on the government benches."" Sir Michael Hicks-Beach attempted to ex- plain, but Mr. Lambton paid litle heed ‘The sleepy people who had come in to hear the final stages of the debate blinked vigor- ously ae they heard the right of miners to strike procialmed by an aristocrat who de- cleared that the miners were “as good as many a man who has won the Victorla cross. American ¢ Hin Fear, Another supporter of the government, John Wilson, bitterly objected to the tax bringing up the question of American com petition and contending that the duty would give the United States a chance to cut out British coal. This started the ball rolling and for some timo the House gave itself up to a discus- #ion of the relativh merits of *“Pocahontas’” and “Smokeless Welsh,” with frequent ref- erences to America’s growing merchant marine and the advantage of coal Mr. Balfour, in a rambling style, summed up the debate, basing his argument on the question that such a great Industry as the export of coal could not be seriously af- fected by the imposiiion of a tax of a shil- 1ng a ton. He dismissed as highly improb- able the theory that American coal would ever be able to compete with English In the division which followed there was much cross voting. Mr. John Morley voted with the government. Several liberals ab- stained from voting, while almost all the conservatives represemting coal counties foined the opposition During Mr. Balfour's summing up one of Bs own adherents remarked audibly, “It is a wretched speech, but of course Balfour foes not know what he is talking about.” This was a verdict which seemed to meet with the approval of other government eupporters nearby. Indeed, if the most urgent whips had not been present and if 1t had mot been feared that the govern- ment was likely to be defeated many min- tsterlalists who voted in favor of the tax would either havo abstained from voting or would have voted against it. What the Miners' federation will do re- mains to be seen. Judging from the speeches of the labor members during the last stages of the debate, the federation is quite likely to declare a general strike. thus precipitating a struggle between or- ganized labor and Parliament. Such a col- lslon, as was sald frequently during the discussion, might prove ruinous to the coal industry and highly injurious to the country. NEW CABINET FOR PRUSSIA Publie Announcement Mem s Who ¥ Mintatry, of the New ter the BERLIN, May 6.—The new ministry is gazetted as follows Baron Rheinbaben, minister of finance. General Bodblelski, minister of agricul- ture. Baron von Hammerstein, dent of Metz, takes the interior. Herr Moller, minister of commerce. Herr Kractke, director of the imperial postoffice becomes secretary of state of that department district presi- portfollo of the SOUTH AFRICAN WAR TOTA omcially A i ng unces Deathe ritish Ranks Dur- the Campaign. LONDON, May 6.—The War office today ofMclally gave out the total number of deaths In the South African war as 714 ofi- cers and 14,264 men. Four officers and 314 men kave been invalided home and subse- quently died. Two thousand four hundred aud pinety-three non-commissioned oficers and men have left the service unfit for duty. HOLDS AMERICAN PRISONERS British Government will Detain Those Captured Until Boer War is Over, LONDON, May 6.—Replylug to a question in the House of Commons today Mr. Brod- erick, the War secretary, said that among tho prisoners captured in South Africa were twenty-six Americans, besides thirteen others claiming to be burghers. There was 1o intention of releasing any of (he prisoners until the war s over proceeded a distance of seven miles through brilliantly decorated streets bordered with almost continuous lines of people. The entire route was lined with demonstrative crowds and the decorations, arches, vene- tian masts and columns along the line of march were very effective. Opposite the town the procession passed beneath the queen’s arch, canopled with the royal colors and sheltering a golden statue of Queen Victoria. Twelve thousand troops were in line. There are §0,000 visitors in Mel- bourne. The drive terminated at Govern- ment house. ITALIAN PEASANTS REVOLT Much Misery P In in Sicily and Southern End of Penin- PARIS, May 6.—The Patrie today pub- lishes dispatches from Palermo, Naples and Foggla reporting an alarming situation in Sfcily and south Italy. The peasants in the provinces of Messina, Catanin and Syra- cuse are in revolt and sanguinary conflicts with the police occur almost daily. The region in which the sulphur mines are situated 1s agitated and a general strike is threatened Misery prevails in the province of Pouilles (Puglia?) The flelds and gardens are laid waste, the municipality has suspended pay- ment and the syndic has gone to Rome to confer with the premler. Strikes are ex- tending everywhere in south Italy. DELAREY'S FORCE DIVIDING s Toward Whom arrying Seps Four Thousand [ British Were 1 KBLERKSDORP, Trans f.—General Delarey's force of 4,000 Boers, which has been in the hills around Hartebeostfontoin, is &plitting up. Some of { the men arc moving to the southwest, while others zre going north. Delarey himself is moving south SAVINGS BANK IS CLOSED Cleveland fnstitution Suspends Pay- ment Owing to Abscnce of the President. CLEVELAND, 0., May 6.—The doors of the Cuyahoga Savings and Banking com pany, at 1461 Woodland avenue, were not opened for business today. The following notice was posted on the window “On account of the continued absence of R. N. Pollock, the president, the directors have concluded to suspend payment until such time as they can make an examina- tlon of thelr affairs. It is expected that every depositer will be paid in full Hundreds of depositers, mostly working people, gathtred about the bank soon after | the notice was displayed, clamoring for their money. The last statement publishel by the bank indicated that the individual deposits amounted to $314,966, loans on real estate, discounts, etc., $322,061. President Pollock left the city ten days ago, ostensibly for New York. Since that time nothing has been heard from him. Experts were put to work on the bank's books today emem— YOUNGER BROTHERS' PAROLE | Anclent Effort to Secure Release of | Minnesota's Notorious Crimi- nals May Yet Succeed. ST. PAUL, May 6.—The Board of State Prison managers meet tomorrow and it 's believed that Cole Younger and Jawes Younger, serving life sentences in connec tlon with the Nortkfield bank robbery and murder, committed twenty-five years ago will be granted paroles under the of the law just enacted by the leg'slature. Before the parole becomes effective it must be approved in writing by all of th racmbers of the Board of Pardons, Governor Van Sant, Attorney General Douglas snd | Chiet Justice C. M. Start, VALET JONES HAS DYSPEPSI Rice EW YORK, May 6.—Charies F. Jones, valet to the late millionaire Willam Marsh Rice, and who with Attoruey Patrick is charged with the murder of Mr. Rice. at the house of detention. tion of the district attorney to have him removed to a hospital tomorrow. Jones is suffering from an attack of acute aysp psla It is the inten- terms | 1s il | SHE WON'T GIVE UP THE FLAG Cornwallis-West res De- T to the Ma LONION, May 6.—A dispute has arlsen as to the ownership of the flag which Queen Victoria presented to the hospital ship Maine. Mrs. George Cornwallis-West (Lady Randolph Churchill) asserts that it belonss to her and Mr. Bernard Baker, owner of the vessel, declares that it is his property. The flag is now in Lady Randolph's possession. It seems that while the Maine was still in service as a hospital ship Mr. Baker gave orders that the flag should be surrendered to no one without an order from himself The officer in charge of the ship a few days later sent it to Lady” Randolph wpon her written request. He was dismissed for dis- obedience and Mr. Baker requested Lady Randolph to return the flag to him, which she, in spite of more importune requests and demands, has failed to do. Lady Randolph claims the flag as her own, but has intimated her willingness to send it to the United States government to be placed as a relic In some national museum. DEATH CALLS PRADO OF PERU mer Dictator, in PARIS, May 6.—Mariano Ignacio Prado, former president of Peru, is dead. Mariano Ignacio Prado was born in 1826, He partici- pated in General Castilla’s revolution against Echenique’s government in 1854, e marched against Lima in 1856 and entered the capital November 6 at the head of a vic- torious army. On November he declared himself dictator and was subsequently elected constitutional president by the Peruvian congress. He was again elected president in 1876, ONLY GIANTS NEED APPLY Twenty Thousand Dollars Await Larg- ent Brid r at Ronen—Race Regeneration Wanted, PARIS, May 6.—The late Count St. Ouen do Plerrecourt, whose family dates back to William the Conqueror, bequeathed to the city of Rouen his fortune of 10,000,000 trancs on the novel condition that the city annually give a marriage giit of 100,000 francs to a couple of giants, in order to regemerate the human species. The candi- dates are to be medically examined and the healthiest couple will be chosen, SULTAN SHOOTS HIS DOCTOR Massage Artist Abdal Ad of Tweaks Hisx Ear and inters a Pill Lead. LONDON, May 7.—"It is rumored," the correspondent at Constantinople of 1he Daily Express, “that the sultan shot dead a physiclan, who while attending him fcr ear complaint and massaging him, unwit- tingly causea his majesty intense pain. Th chamberlain rushed into the room and th sultan. who supposed there was an attemnt on his lite, fired again, wounding the cham berlain." GERMAN Lie: KILLS RUSSIAN nkovaky of the Gunboat Attacks Wrong Man with His Dirk, ant T Bol TIEN TSIN, Ma tenant, Telakoveky, Bobr, was shot dead during a fracas on the Taku German fired in self-defe Telakovsky having attacked dirk. 6.-~The Russian from the by & Gern leu- gunbo an soldier road. The Lieuterant him with his nse, Wholes : ST. PETERSBURG, May 6.—During the last few days there have been wholesale arrests and selzures in connection with th alleged revolutiorary movement. 1t fs ¢ ported that persons of high position and reputation a involy Several hunored persons have been rested during tne last forty-eight hours, cluding & number of prominent men Arrests. ar n- Sultan Cuts Down CONSTANTINOPLE, May 6.—An official circular bas been issued notifying the members of the diplomatic corps that in | future only distinguished visitors uc- companied by a diplomatist will be a | witted Lo the selamlik, Visiting, | Chey “The burnt mile bracing all clas rich and poor. them homes, buildings busine proper 000,000, AN save of association gram.) public today Incre Allerton, Butfalo, Lake, rectionville re Center, ol with master at county. In Charles E Justus A. Mille mitted to practi partment Ice, Ma pany H cific Man commission will taking of continue for questions that tion relate to tw ing witnesses a roe, Union burcau Admiral Re WASHINGTO? many take place in Aslatic station, formed the Nay not feel able nila long enoug of the New his visit After having that effect the changed its plan Remey should n from Presid Ha WASHIN | mado no officialily promis The Joe JOSE Works by the ST Publi crented clared | in the circuit e of class legislat area about two miles and north &nd south vary- ing from one-half to three-quarters of a In this area was situated the oldest and most populous portion of the city T! churches and al ne section was also consumed. vy loss aggregates $12,000,000 to $17 contributions of money should sent to A. M. Ives, treasurer, and all sup- plies should be sent to Jacksonville Relief WASHINGTON, The Postoffico some of the change postmasters' salaries in lowa will be given out from day to day. se, $100 Each Audubon, Columbus o) Increase, $200 Each—Bellevue Decrease, $100 Each (1a.) publi S| WASHINGTON, resume testimony will the the tariff and transportation. e expected to testify some | time during May, but their dates have not | been definitely fixed: J vice president of the road company, San Franclsco: J Pacific raflway, Omaha; | Trickett, commissioner, Kansas City freight y Return to Ma changes of importan: the Admiral y to absent h and M mad dey N | the State department that the pre statement usual channels to the effect refuse to receive Kruger officially or un- government us to the character of his reception [ 1t he should decide to come here H, Mo. of Is inconstitutional by extends east and west em- of people, high and low, he flames carried before the public More than half of the The be CHANGE IN POSTAL SALARIES Some lowa Officinis Ave Ryised in Pay While Others' Are ered, ¢ Muy 6.-(Special Tele- department makes in presidential The changes Those Adair, Afton, Alden, Aurelia, Bloomfield, herokee, Clarinda, Clear Junetion, Corning, Cor- n and Cresco. and Cor- Anita and Belmond Benedict has been appointed post- Grand Center, Monona Davis of Deadwood, . D., and f Cherokee before Ia., were ad the Interior de | A postoffice has been established at Clara nne county, Neb., with Phiiip 1 gins as postmaster. The following contracts for supplies for | the Stoux City next fiscal year were let today Hilger: miscellaneous, Baker Novelty Manufacturing com- pany and the Oreutt Co. MUNROE OF OMAHA TO APPEAR Industrial Commis Hig- building for the coal, Brown Coal com- nright & Meyers Co., Has Union Pa- ed with Other Witneases for May. May 6.~The TIndustrial its sitting for the tomorrow, and wi'l weeks or mobe. The recelve espectal atten- Industrial commission, The follow- ©. Stubble: outhern Pacifi A. third Rail- Mun- W. P, WILL NOT VISIT AUCKLAND ta to bourne. May 6.~Owing e now American fleet Remey has in- department that he does himself from Ma- to accept the invitation to about on the the felbourne Auckland he announcement to rtment this after nd decided that Admiral 0 there. to SAYS NOTHING ABOUT KRUGER Statement ally May ~It is learned a lent hus of the he would through any that has made no utional, 6.~The Bourd eity, which legisluture, was Judge Woodson t here today on grounds The city Is without an May this 15t de- | gineering department. | 000, | ana to She had been almost a re- cluse a score of years and would have nothing to do with her family. Her eccen tricities were well known, although there was universal respect for her mental at tainments In the sealed envelope containing her will, which has not been opened, is said to be the key to the secret that has heen so well kept for seventeen years and it is claimed that when the will is opened her executor will make official announcement of the fact that Miss Harris wrote the book. One woman in Chicago, Mrs. John €. Aldrich, who was a school chum of Miss Harris, says she knows that Miss Harris published a book ahout the time “The Bread Winners" came out and that it brought her much money “1 bad no intention of saying anything about it until the will was opened,” sal. Mrs. Aldrich, “but it Is a fact that she wrote the story. She published a work at that time, of which nobody knew the name, and she certainly recelved large financial returns from It. Later she told me that she had written ‘The Bread Winners.' There is no doubt of the matter at all and it will be proved beyond dispute in @ short time." Mrs. banker, writer, time. HEARS MONTANA MINES CASE Chancellor Argnme me: also s Farson, wife of a Chicago that Miss Harris was the She says she has known it a long Vice Pitney Listens f Amnlgamated 0 Co NEW YORK, May Vice Pitney gave a hearing tonight chambers in Jersey City on a rule to cause why the Amalgamated Copper com pany hould not be enjoined from absorh- ing the Boston & Montana and Butte & Boston Mining companies of Montana. The petitioner alleges that the valuation at which it is proposed to take in the com- panies ramed is excessive. The friends of Henry H. Rogers, vice president of the Amalgamated Copper company and since the death of Marcus Daly the act- ing president, admitted that the purchase of the Boston & Montana company at $345 a share would involve an expenditure of $36,250,000, but denied that such an expen- diture would be excessive, he answer further sets forth that the market value of the Boston & Montana | stock Is greater than $375; that the stock is now selling at $430 per share and that it is | legally dealt in, particularly in Beston. In | 1890 the company paid dividends amounting | to $6,10,000 and in 1900 dividends of $,430 - on k vy 20, 1901, a quarterly divi- | dend of £1,600,000 was putd. The answer | says that the physical property and assets of the company, leaving out the goodwill intangible assets, are worth at least 0,260,000, The Butte & Montana company, which was the successor of the Butte & Boston Mining company, the answer says, was or- ganized when the Butte & Boston company went into the hands of a receiver in 1807 The properties of the latter company, now owned by the Butte & Montana company, were bought for §1,000,000, but have enor mously increased In valle and are now worth $18.600,000. The stock is now worth $115 ou a par value of $100. In January, 1901, the highest price $110 and the lowest $65. The answer denles that $18,- 500,000 is an excessive price for the com- pany’s properties. Similar afidavits were presented from | Chancellor in chance was wthorities to extend | | w wa | A Willlam €. Rockefeller, vice president of | the Amalgamated Copper company, that it is an investment company and that $75,000 worth of stock was issued in acquiring cop- | per companies. The policy of the compa | is quire copper companfes when it seems clearly for the benefit of the entire | body of shareholders to do so. The Amal- gamated Copper company already owns 10, 000 shares of the Boston & Montana com- which it acquired in 1900, aflidavits were presented from B. Addicks, as treasurer of the Butte & Boston; Godfrey Hymns, general manager of the Boston & Montana com- pany; Clarence King, geologlst and mining engincer, and Robert Winsor of Kidder Peabody & Co. of Boston. C. M. Venner of Boston, holding 100 shares of the Amal- gamated Copper company, is assoclated with Mr. Geer in the action. Hinois Miners Resume. LD, 1. May 6.—-The miners at the ¢ and_Fairmount mines in the Danvlile rict, who struck because t re dissatistied with the declsion of al’_President Mitchell of the Uni Workers Amerlca_and Comm sloner Justi of the inois Coal Operator association, the arbitrators of the “dend work’ dispute, have returned to work on recommendation of State President \W, R Rusgell of the United Mine Workers. pany Stmilar Frederick SPRID { M1 | gated | tes sign of any infection from th | United Sta on his way to Washington, where he is go- ing (0 report to the State department. Mr. Conger will remain in Washington two weeks and will then return lowa to spend the remainder of his months’ vacation Mr, Conger said natlon for mediately come home to two “If 1 receive the nomi- governor 1 shall of course im- resign my post in China and for the campaign.” GARTRELL AND SON INDICTED \ Held for Trinl on Charge Murdering n Colorado Miner. Are ot KANSAS CITY, May 6.—A special to the Star from Butler, Mo., says: The special grand jury indicted Dr. J. L. Gartrell and his son, W. R_Gartrell. for murder in the fivst degree. They were arraigned, pleaded not guilty, and trial was set for the June term. Dr. Gartrell brained D. B. Donegan, a Victor, C‘olo,, miner, near here on March 19, and he and his son deposited the body in Mulberry creck. The men were arrested in Kansas City, after having disposed of Donegan’s borse and wagon, and con- fessed, LESS SINCE CANTEEN DAYS Minister's ort Untrae at Soldier Drunk- nerease, CHICAGO, May 6 mittee of ministers The report of the com- who recently investi- charges that the abolition of the teen at Fort Sheridan had resulted in increased drunkenness among the soldiers made its report today. The report embodies statements by many persons living in tighwood and other places near the fort and that the charges of greater disorder were untrue. For the threo months preceding the abolition of nteen the percentage of arrests was for the three months following, 4.9. NEBRASKA'S PLAGUE PATIENT Charles Benjn Hare of City Has Wenk He honie shows awnee ANN ARBOR, Mich., May 6.—Charles Benjamin Hare of Pawnee City, Neb., the student who was taken with bubonic plagu: April 4, was released today as permanently cured, and Cumming, the friend who nursed him through his sickness, was releascd with him. The university pesthouse, where they were confined, has been thoroughly disintected. There has not been the slight- disease The only bad after effect that Hare suffers is that of a weak heart. AS SHYLOCK AND PORTIA Nat Goodwin' New Role xine Elllott Try Considernble Succes. SYRACUSE, N. Y., May 6.—N. C. Good- win and Maxine Elliott made a success as Shylock and Portla in “The Merchant of Venico' in the Weiting opera house in this city tonizht, appearing in this classical comedy for the first time. Klaw & Erlanger have given it claborate monnting. The company numbers sixty people. In the | scene Miss Elliott displayed histrionic bility not heretofore credited to her. This may also be said of Mr. Goodwin CUDAHY VERDICT SUSTAINED f Appenls | | §T. PAUL, May 6.—(Special Telegram.) The United States circuit court of appeals | today denied a petition for a rehearing n the case of the Cudahy Packing company of Omaha against Frank Marceau. Marceau originally got a verdict for pnal injury against the company, but Judge Sanborn reversed the judgrent, and this ruling sus- tains his opinion ST. JOSEPH TALKS OF A HALL ! 1 ia Masw Meeting Re: One a Cost About B100,00 ST, JOSEPH, Mo, May 6.~A mammoth convention hall will be constructed in this cily this summer. A mass meeting of citizen, held at the Commercial club rooms tonight, at which definite action was taken for the tion of the buildiug. The Cltizen cosy will be about §100,000, dolph, Ia., scalp wound, right knee and left wrist injured E. G. Carter, F. I Flag, serious. Chariton, p cut Chicago, internally injured; Cudaby Sulesman Hurt. J. L. Farthing, Creston, traveling sales- man for Cudahy, Omaha, right hand badly bruised William W. Bond J. D. Johnston, Chi C. M. Buchanan, shaken up. P. E. Bates, Chicago, porter, crushed and chest injured seriousl: Mrs. F. A, Bell, Fairfleld, bruiscd. Willlam Treffel, Burlington, head brake- man, passenger train, genmeral bruises. A. C. Sweeney, Keokuk, hrutsed E. L. Gardiner, Chariton, head, shoulders and lips bruised and cut. D. 0. Campbell, Cleveland, head, shoul- ders and legs bruised. S. D. Reed, Osceola, slightly wounded. Walter Crowley, Woodbine, legs badly in- jured J. L. shocked. Dr. Averill, Afton, back injured. T. J. Burk and wife, Jacksonville, Fla., wife badly cut on forehead, back hurt; Burk's injuries slight Mary Cherry, Leroy, la., chest and head hurt, serious internal injurtes. Clyde Wilson, Hopeville, collarbono broken, head and legs bruised and cut R. B. Mitchell, Weldon, nead and face badly cut. G. B. Millner, Clarinda, slightly injured both head and arms. Willlam Elder, Ottumw loeated, head cut. Rosice Mownan, shocked Clarence Whitlock, Osceol internal injuries, S. E. Reem, Osceola, cut over eye, severe brulses. Fireman Mtke Canney, Ottumwa, badly bruised and cut, left arm broken twice; may result fatally. K. Loneland, Chicago, leg and three ribs broken. Will Harper, Ottumwa, head and hands cut. Mrs. sprained. M. O'Connor, conductor, Burlington; back badly injured. N. Anderson, Albla, Ia. W. M. Beehre, Chariton; back injured. Effie Ellls, Murray, Ia W. A, Hart, Emerson, la. Hugh Doran, Ottumwa; slight. Willlam Romers, Chicago. W. N. Pifley, New Salem, 11l W. R. Rund, Chicago Cause of Wreek. ago, brulsed. Fairfield, severely back slightly Farquhar, Gallion, 0., badly shoulder dis- Talmage, severely arm broken, Will Harper, Otiumwa, back The wreck was due to the presence of a freight engine on the main line when pas- senger tiain No. 3 came along at a rate of forty miles an hour. Immediately after colliding the two cngines separated, one going on the south side of the embankment and the other on the north side. The bag- gage car, express car, smoker, day coach and two chalr cars rolled down the forty- foot embankment, but, marvelous to relate, not a fatality to passengers occurred. En- gineer §id Brown of the passenger train, whose home ‘s in Burlington, was killed He was buried under his engine. The crew of the freight locomotive jumped, The re lief trains brought the injured to Crestcn and they were conveyed to Cottage hospi tal. Surgeons from Creston, Chariton and Afton were sent to the scene of the wreck Thayer is situated eighteen miles east of Creston, in the hed of a deep ravip and on either side of the statlon the track curves sharply. Neither engineer could e the other's train until they within 200 fect of the other, but the engineer of the freight train heard the passenger train coming and madc the ntmost endeavor to back his heavy train the sidetrack. He succeeded 1n getting 1 but the engine on the slding when the crash came. gineer Sticks to His As the passenger train rounded the curvo Engineer Brown saw his peril, but he stuck to his post, reversed his engine, threw on the alr brake to the emergency notch plied the sand and walted the crash At the moment the men on the freight cngine jumped and eseaped serious injury The impact was terrific. The freight engine was thrown across the tracks and the passenger engine hurled down the embaukment, followed by the baggage car, the express car, the day ch and two chair The agent at Thayer and ses- eral hangers-on around the depot witnessed the wreck and rendered such aid to tha were onto ap last | wounded as was possible before the arrival