Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, July 2, 1901, Page 1

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE. ESTABLISHED JUNE 19, 1871. OMAHA, TUESDAY MORNING, S JUIY 2, 1901-TEN PAG SINGLE COPY FIVE CENTS, WILLPURSUEMALVAR Weneral Ohaffos Propares te Make Osptive’ of Insurgens Ohlef, 'CAPTATN GROTE HUTCHESON HAS A PLACE (Prespective Oommander Wante Him as His Military Becretary, (NEW-ARRANGEMENT IN EFFECT THURSDAY Tsauguntion sad Genensl Moving Day, ISOME MORE BOLOMEN TAKE THE OATH Ansurgeont OfMcers and 350 of the Primitive Warriors Volantarily Pledge Allegiance~Farewell to MacArthur. Fly 4 toBe MANILA, July 1.—General preparing to push Malvar, chief of southern Luzon. He has ordered the transfer of the Fifth infantry from morthern Luzon to Batangas province. Tha Chaffes 1s the insurgent &eneral has been informed that Malva principal headquarters are in a mountain town in northern Tayabas, whose Inhabl- tants are contributing to his support. General Chaffee’s staff appointees are as follows: Adjutant general, Colonel Wil- Ham P, Hall; quartermaster, General Charles F. Humphrey; Inspector general, Lieutenant Colonel Joseph P. Sanger; mil- itary secretary, Captain Grote Hutcheson; Bixth cavalry. Thursday next, July 4, will be inaugu- ration day for the civil government and moving day for the military headquarters, which wilil be transferred to the former Spanish headquarters outside the walled city. The place will be occupled exclu- sively by the civil government. General Chaffee, who assumes command Thuraday, will occupy Judge Taft's residence and Judge Taft Wil remove to tne Malacanan palac Bills have been passed establishing a Board of Health for the Philippines and providing for laboratories in connection therewith. The salary of the health com- missioner will be $6,000. General Hughes Holds On. General Chaffco has not formulated plans for the occupation of the tsland of Min- dinoro. General Hughes, at his request, Wil be permitted to continue In command of the Visaya fsland¢ until the Samar campalgn is completed. Subsequently Gen- ral Davis will continue, temporarily, to e provost marshal at Manila. The United States crulser Albany sailed today for the Medlterranean. Several insurgent officers and 350 bolo- faen bave voluntarily taken the oath of Kl glance at Cuino, province of Bataan. Captalp Adams, with ten men, scouting 4n Albay province, has killed ten Insurgents Anq, canturad. a_Filinime me-sst A detachment of the Fourth infantry, scouting on a voleanic island, In Lake Taal, has captured Gonzales, an losurgent leader, his adjutant and several others. Another de- tachment of the same regiment has bad a running engagement at Baneas and de- stroyed a Filipino stronghold. Sergeant Brown and Privates Rigsby and Gatfield of the coast artillery were wounded. The English club will give a reception to General MacArthur tonight Four Amerlcan prisoners, who escaped from Calupan, Mindinoro, June 25, in a sall- boat, have been recaptured. Six others are reported to be iu southern Mindinoro. TAFT'S COMMISSION SIGNED Preaident McKinley Makea Him Civil Governor of the Philippl Inlands. WASHINGTON, JULY 1.—The president today slgned the following commissions War—Willlam H. Taft, Ohto; civil gov- ernor of the Philippine islands; Joseph T. Davidson, quartermaster, rank of captain. Interfor—Edward 8. Wigglus, recelver of public moneys at Woodward, Okl; David C. Fleming, register of the land office, at Sterling, Colo. (reappointment); Charles B. Tiwberlake, receiver of public moneys, at Sterliug, Colo. (reappointment); Perry Hobkirk, receiver of public moneys, at Del Norte, Colo. Judge Taft was notified some time ago when instructions were sent him relative to the Inauguration of civil government in the fslands, July 4, the he would be ap- pointed clvil governer. While the appoint- ment of clvil governor is credited to the ‘War department, this does not mean neces- sarily that the president is proceeding en- tirely under his war power in setting up civil government in the Phillppines. He 15 not differentiating the source of his au- thority. He is acting, %o it i authorita- tively stated, under all the powers he has in the premises WESTERN POSTAL CHANGES Al Free Dellvery Flgures tn Ex- tensive Develo ent tn lowa and Nebraska. WASHINGTON, July 1.—(Special Tele- sram.)—J. H. Bolie, 18 appointed post- master at Virgll, Beadle couuty 8. D Rural free delivery service will lshed August 1 at the following places Nebraska—lradshaw, York county; route o astab embraces seventy-lwo square miles and containg & population of 1,02 E. G. Co- burn and F. G. Swith appointed ecarriers. lowa—Cresco, Howard county; area cov- ered, thirty square miles; population sorved, 675; W. H. Bean ppointed carrier Postoftices at Kendallville ana Plymouth Rock are to be supplied by rural carrier. Carl F. Fay, lotter carrier at Deadwood, and John H. Herring at Boone, each been promoted from $600 positions. Civil servico examination will be held August 15, for elevators conductors n the Dubuque, Ia., public building The new reveune collection district bracing North and South Dakota, was es- tablished today, with Herman Ellermand as collector. The office is at Aberdeen, 8.D. la,, to have #8500 em- Movements of Ocean Vessels, July 1, At New York—Arrived—Steamer A'l'r, from Genoa, Naples and Gibraltar; Georgla, from Napl Nomadle, from Tivery Zealandia, from Antwerp; Marquette, from London. At Antwerp-Arrived—Teenkal, from Ta- coma, via Manila At ' Liverpool—Arrived—Tunislan, from Montreal At asgow—Arrived—Bardintan, from New York. At T ~Arrived—-Grosser Kurfuerst, trom New York, via Cherbourg. At Southampton Arrived - Steamer Kalser Wilhelm der Grosse, from New York, via Cherbourg, and proceeded for Bremen, 1 NEWS TO BERLIN OFFICIALS ROASTS FOR RECREANT BOARD Citisens Express Opinis Germans Have No Advice Saying Chi- ne apital Will Be Changed. of the Ceunty " Oommissieners’ Cemduot BERLIN, July 1.—Nothing is known In — German officfal circles regarding the news trom Shanghal to the eftect that Kat Fong | EQUAUZATION THAT EQUALIZES NOT Fu, in the province ot Ho Nan, 18 to become —_— the Chiness capital. The latest reports re- | copnoration Assessment Aronsen celved here from Pekin reiterate the state- Mach ment that it is the court's intention to| Much Resentment Among the return to Pekin. The German government has not been in- tormed touching the plans of Prince Chuan, turther than that he {s coming to Berlin to apologize for Baron von Kettler's murder It Princo Chuan means also to visit other Buropean courts and Washington the Berlin authorities have not been fnformed. In relation to the present status of Pekin diplomatic negotiations the rcpresentative of | Assoclated Press learns upon reliable o " rity that the question of guarantees Property Owners Who Pay the Bulk of Taxes. There s considerable public indignation over the failure of the county commission- ers to increase the valuations on corpora- tlon property to the level of the general assessment Citizens who are owners are outspoke. interested in in their condemnation tween Great. Britain and Russian still exist- | ing. Russia’s proposition ls to ralse the sea tolls from 5 to 10 per cent, but only it the junk and salt taxes with 5 per cent of sea tolls sball not yleld sufficent results. Great Britaln's objections to the Russian proposition are belfeved to ha dictated less dreds of men of small or moderate means from investing thelr savings in homes. Some citizens, Including former Mayor Bemis and former Judge Doane, suggest that it {s time for the small property own- ers to make an organized protest against by practical reasous, since the above taxes | the inequitable assessment approved by would most probably suffice, than by the | the county board. An indignation meet- popular sentiment in Great Britaln and | ing is proposed by them. Parllament. The Berlin authorities belleve " . al6o, Iike the other powers, that Russia's TCRRE SES TRepe Wy proposition is not likely to go into effect. | Here is the way some of the people Hence Germany confidently expects a final | 181¥ agreement upon the above question. George P. Bemis—I think that the com missioners have certainly not The matter of the renewal and modifica- their constituencies. They tion of commercial treaties with China is blame the sessors for having placed the low assess- as meanwhile being taken up jointly by the | Pekin diplomatists, sinco this, Iike the in- | 6818 uPOn the S, ks demnities matter, ls expected to be settled | o o € TG0 10 B NG duty o the | In unison, at least in its general features. | (GUEIVEONIS & (8 CAUGTHS - taation | Germany, With (he other Chinese tradif | pigny and it 1a their duty to make the cor- | powers, advocates the principle of the | oraiiong pay as much proportionately as | vopen door,® the opening of additional| ihe ymall home owner is required to pay. harbors and the greatest possible cOm- | [ would geem to me that there ought to kind of an indignation meeting held for the condemnation of the commis- sloners and for the purposs of effecting an organization which would make it its business to see that whenever another county commissioner is elected the people will know just where he stands on this question. The people have got to adopt some radical steps if they would bring about an equalization of these taxes and make the corporations bear thelr equitable share of the public burdens. B. J. Cornish—I haven't given the as- sessment question much attention. On | general principles, however, I belleve that active capltal glving employment to large numbers of men and thus benefiting so- mercial liberty. Well informed circles here | po gome | believe Russia does not oppose the above | on principle, though it may object to cer- taln detalls when the treaty negotiations are more advanced. SUSPEND LAW IN CAPE COLONY British Government Sets Aside Con- stitation and Reverts to Absolutism, LONDON, July 1.—The Daily News prints an articlo by its parllamentary coir. spondent on the political situation in C Colony in view of the prorogation of the | | [ Capo Parllament, the writer saying that | clety, ought to be dealt with as leniently an fssue of the gravest moment, namely, | 8% the law will permit; not, however, to the suspension of the constitution of Cape | the extent of violating the law. I am not Oolony, is involved, Ha addst tamiliar with the facts in this particular From the night ot June 30, for an in- | Case. definite period, the king's subjects in Henry George Theory. Cape Colony will be deprived of the pro- [ C. S Elgutter—When the county com- tection of law and will be governed con- trary to Its express picvisions. Taxes will be applied under warrant of the go ernor without appropriation by Parlia- ment, which bas been prorogued until August 27, - ly e 'J} CATA) Thin lllegal mot aa%fl‘ffinflfi“ by the government and ministry doubtle at the instigation of Lord Milner and Coloplal Secretary Chamberlain. In a word, the imperial government has abro- gated every article of the compact under which a free people ows allegiance to their rulers. Liberty Is dead, so far as our dutious subjects are concerned. Tho crisls calls for the authoritative in- tervention of the liberal party, in which missioners are evidently owned and con- trolled by the corporations you cannot ex- pect them to do anything to hurt the cor- porations. Their election depends upon corporation Influences. Henry George's th o7 ‘s bom_sarried into effect here in fenths of the ta Nl ing, Dine- our city and county Is not 60 much politi- cal, 50 far as taxpayers are concerned, as it is a question whether the corporations or the people shall control the ralsing and expendituro of public funds. That ought to be the recognized issue in future cam- palgns in this community. The present county commissioners should be Impeached for malfeasance and nonfeasance in the administration of the trust Imposed in there 18 a feellng in favor of summoning | them. & great popular conference to consider the | Dr. W. H. Hanchett—It fs such affairs situation. as this refusal of the commissioners to e enforce a just proportion of taxation upon LOOTERS GET INTO TROUBLE |the corporations that are menacing this P ) country. It makes me tremble when I Captured by Chinese Troops ana |think of it. T am not antagonistic to cor- porations, but I think that the man who h: his all tled up In a little home should be taxed just as carefully as any big corpora- tion. It 18 such Instances as this now being experienced in Omaha that breed discontent among the small taxpayers and antagonism to the corporations, which are sure sooner or later to lead to serious trouble. It is bullding up a distinction between the cor- porations and the common people which the latter are bound to recognize. John W. Cooper—I think the county com- missloners, to be charitable, a set of cowards. They are just the kind of men who ought to be left at home to rock the babies. They haven't nerve enough for men who are called upon for the perform- ance of a public duty or the administration of @ public trust, Finds o George W. Doane—When one compares the assessments of the corporations with 4 e | the assessments of the individuals he finds LONDON, July J.~The Mark Lane EX-| g groat discrepancy which can only be ex- press In lts weckly review of the crop | 4 { plained by the inference that the mem- : p | stuation, eays today: The official report | Piaines by the tntersict Tt S meme | giving the full yield of the Indian wheat | A ualizs crop as 20,626,000 quarters should mean that | falled to perform their duty. When I read a couple of weeks ago that the majority nearly 6,000,000 will be available for ex- | Port, but as the granaries are completely | Of the board was in favor of and ready to assess corporation the Turned Over to the Ameri- can Minister, PEKIN, July 1.—Five men calling them- selves Americans were captured by Chinese troops in a town fitty miles from Pekin and wero today turned over to Major E. Robert- son, commander of the United States guard here. The men, who were armed, de- manded 5,000 taels from the keeper of a pawn shop and got 500. They filled five carts with plunder and then began shoot- ing, not knowing that the town was occu- | picd by 100 Chinese troops. The United | States legation was notified and the quin- tette was brought in. All parts of Pekin occupied by the British tor police purposes were turned over today to the Chinese authorities, rent Discrepancy. The forelgn ministers wlll meet July 3. B Mark Lane Crop Review, of the work of the commissioners, be & @ bonds securing the indemnities 19| oy4q they realize that the evasion of | stlll .1 solved, a difference of opinion be- | o by the rich corporations shifts the | burden upon real estate and prevents hun- | represented | South Dakota Lawmnker Pines Away At His Home in Abre deen, ABERDEEN, & D., July 1.—#nator Kyle died this afternoon at 6:05 Senator Kyle was stricken &t his home at Aberdeen about tem day ago. His trouble was of malarlal orin and re | sulted in & functional affecon of the | beart, which caused the greate alarm. A consultation of physiclans ws held and his case soon took a turn fd the better, the heart action growing stroger and the general conditfon much mof encourag- ing. One of the latest bulleds from his | The senator had a similar ttack in the | recurrence of the trouble. Hj health hus | 1873 to enter Oberlin college was gradu- ated from the classical courscin 1578, pre- pared for admission to the hr, but after ward entered the Western Thelogical Semi | nary at Allegheny, Pa., gradmting In 1882 |and became pastor of (ongregational churches at Echo City and 81t Lake City, | Utah, from 1852 to 1535 &inc. then he had resided at Ipswich and Abercen, 8. D. He became financial secrotary of Yankton col- lege and was electod to the atate senate s an independent in 1800; was elected as an independent to the Tnited States senate to succeed Gideon C.Moody; took his seat March 4, 1801; was re-elected in 1847. He usually acted with thy republicans. His term of service would have expired March 3, 1903, ATLANTIC EXPRESS WRECKED Betwee Sk Fifteen Tweaty Persons ¥ Injured and Travel Long Blocked, CHEYENNE, Wvyo,, Telegram.)—Eastbound Atlantle express No. 6 on the Unlon Pacific ran into the rear end of a frelght train at Rock Springs last night, Between fifteen and twenty per- sous, all but two of the possengers ou the eastbound train, were slightly injured Traflic was delayed nearly fourteen hours The passengers have gone cast and thelr July 1.—(Speclal names are not known here. Their In- Juries consist of slight cuts on the face and hands from broken glass. The only person for whom concern 18 entertained is a woman, whose condition is such that the nervous shock may prove serious. Tho flyer was due here at 1:30 this morn- Ing. It was wrecked at Rock Springs, 250 miles v.est of here by crashing into the rear end of a freight train which was loading upon a siding. A tourist sleeper, chair car, two locomotives and several frelght cars were ditched. g snasnr nrpnl-‘- TR paraar Shippers Complain that Dangerous Bar is Forming About the nraised Battleship, HAVANA, July 1—Although three months have expired since the government completed the contract to raise the hull of the battleship Maine from Havana har- bor no work to this end has yet been done, nor have the contractors, N. F. Chamber- lain & Co., filed the necessary bond of $25,000, This work of ralsing the wreck was to have been completed July 1, but a provision was Inserted in the contract to the effect that if theye occurred unavoid- able delay In the work, the time for Its completion would be extended to March 1, 1002, Captain of the Port Young says Cham- berlain has sent him word that he is sick. Captain Young is considering whether sick- ness comes under the head of unavoidable dclay. It is belleved here that the con- tractors cannot undertake thle work ac- cording to their agreement, pamely to ralse the wreck without remuneration and glve the government three per cent of what is derived from the sale of the ship's metal, ete. The ergineers' department has estimated the cost of the wreck's removal at several hundred dollars and the cost of cutting up the hulk is estimated as equal to that of the building of another battleship. Shipping Interests here are urging the government to remove thls wreck as soon as possible, as a dangerous bar s forming about it. MANY OUT, BUT NOT TO STAY Talk of Settlement of Steel Workers Strike is Already Heard in Some Quarters, | . 52 - property at the same gove b i e ok porieg, Mt MO OB | GiCunage AG Which brivate’ property fa| - PITTSBURG, Pa., July 1.—The end of the Summarizing the continental position, | Assessed I was pleased and 1 jumped to | first Ay of xlh- str t‘-';rmhlen between the Mark Lane Express says it expects | the conclusion that at least some of our | the Amalgamated Assoclatlon of Iron, Steel over the average wheat vleld in Russia, | PUDllc officlals were disposed to protect | and Tin Workers on one side and tho | Spain and Servia, an average yleld in Italy, | the Interests which haee been entrusted | Amerlcan Sheet Steel company and Amer- Austria-Huigary, Roumnania and The Neth. | to thelr care. Then when I heard that | ican Steel Hoop company, constituent com- | ¥lands. and below. the average yield in | the board had only made slight and im- | panics of the United States Steel corpo- . 5 and and Scandinavia material changes in the corporation as- | ration, on the other, finds sll of the union of the maize trade continues | Bessments 1 was simply dlsgusted. We | plants idle and many workers from open {0 be the spirited competition of Roumanin, | héve already given away valuable fran-|mills who are members of the Amalga- Bulgaria and Turkey with the United | chises to these corporations—given them | mated assoclation on strik es and nting, the right to use the public streets without | The assoclation officlals say they are sat- | exacting a dollar of compensation—and | isfied with the situation and claim that | BODY OF PINGREE ARRIVES they have no right to expect us on top of | they will be able to control between 35,000 - all this to pay thelr taxes for them. I |and 40,000 men In the two companies. No Relntives nt New York Take Charge | think ft 8 time for the individual property | move was made today on the part of elther % owners to get together and put an end to | side to the controversy and it is doubt- of Remaing ‘ot Foriasr the fnequitable and unjust assessments | ful it anything declsive will be done for at Governor, that are being made In this city and county | least a week. Much quiet talking is being every year. As a proposition in law, a|done, the trend of which ads to the be NEW YORK, July 1.—The body of former | Property owper cannot be forced to pay | liet that before the usuil summer shut- Governor Hazen S arrived today Plogree of on the steamship taxes when he can show that the assessing | Michigan | or equalizing hoard has willtully omitted landia. | With the body came Hazen 8. Pingr taxing some other property. When an who accompanied his father to En equalizing board assesses a property worth The body will be taken from the ship to- [ $1.000.000 at $100,000, it seems to me that | morrow. Frank Pingree, a brother of the | 18 Just as much an omission as if the prop- | late governor; Mayor Willlam G. Maybury | ety had not been assessed at all. It s | of Detroit and R olomon of Newark, | \mpossible for the board to make a per- representing the leathe ommittee, | fectly equitable assessment of all property, Wara st the A50k 10 T landia, || but - that 1s no excuse for its fatlure to | raise valuations on corporation property which has been pointed out to it as having HELP COMBAT THE WAITERS been unreasonably favored by the ward as- San Francisco Nutchers' Assoclation | 5€380r8 The members of the county board r Will Furnish No More Meat are men of suficlent intelligence to know that the assessments they have made against the corporations are unreasonable and unfair. and they should be held strictly accountable to the public for thelr cul- pable failure to protect the Interests they wore elected to protect. T want to say right to Unlon Restaurants, SAN FRANCISCO, July 1.—The strike of | cooks aud walters in this city has assumed & new phase. The joint executive commit- tee of the butchers' association and the|here that county commissioners are not retall and jobbing butchers tonight sent| elected to serve the corporations out notices to all restaurants in the city Green 1s Disgusted. to the effect that no more meat would be furnished to restaurants displaying the union card. It is understood that the W. H. Green, President Omaha Real Estate Exchange—If the county commis- down of the mills has expired a settlement will have been reached. REID IS ADMITTED TO BAIL South in Cattienia Hopes Su- Court Will Abolish State Law, DENVER, July 1L—(Sp:cial Telegram.)— Judge Halletr of the United States d trict court this morning refused the ap- plication of Ed H. Rell, South Omaha cattleman, for a writ «f habeas corpus. The prisoner was admitted to ball in $500, signed by Colonel W. E Hughes, pending an appeal to the Unitel States supreme court. The case !s now left in the exact position desired by the defense. It Mr. Reld had been dlsmissed the defense could not have gone any furthér as far as Col- orado s concerned. The United States su- preme court, it Is belleved by the stock- men, will abolish the tax. This bellef is based on the fact that the Department of sloners do not know tha b wholesale dealers intend to take similar| monors 40 ROt know that they have as action, (Continued on Second Page.) Agriculture hse announcid that the state tax is unconstitutional, | bedside last week was to tH effect that | he had passed the danger pdit and that | | his recovery would be cerin, though | slow. home | east some time ago and wa liable to a | | not | not been robust for a year oiso. His re- lapse today was not expecte, however. | He leaves a wife and tw children, a daughter, Ethelyn, aged 15 years, and a baby boy. James Henderson Kyle wa born near Xenia, 0., February 24, 1854 entered the | University of Ilinois In 187, but left in | | m | in Jacksonville, Fla., to 1.24 inch | .68 inch and Davenport, la., 34 of an fnch Some of the other high temperatures re- | corded during the day by the weather | bureau were: Atlanta, 90; Atlantic | City, N. 90; Boston, Chi Cincionati, 96; Davenport, la Des Molnes, 2; Indlanapolis, 42; Jacksonville, asbingten Burean Tells of Its Start Frogress IS VARIED IN AMOUNT MONDAY'S RAIN Distribution of the Needed Wetness Quite General, bat Heavy in Only Few Places—=What the Thers reil. WASHINGTON, July 1.—~The hot weather continued here today with unabated fierce- ness. The climax came when the record | for this early in the season was brok the weather bureau (hermomeier regisier ing 102. Fortunately there was not much humidity, There were fifty cases of heat prostration reported and two resulted fatally, Lewis | Achton, a negro laborer 46 years of | age, dying not long after he reached the | hospital. John Farrell, a laborer, was the other victim. | At 8 p. m. the thermometer had fallen to 90 with every probability that it would fall greatly below that during the night and that tomorrow would be a scorcher. There seems to be no prospect | for any relief for the next forty-eight hours for this vicinity. Beyond that | length of time the weather bureau officials | make no predictions. The present hot wave started In the west June 20 and today the weather bureau | officlals report that high temperatures arv | recorded in most sections east of the Rocky | untains and many places west of them. Rauins, most of them in moderate amount, | have fallen in many places. The precipita- | tion has been very great in a few plac In Chicago the fAll amounted to 156 {nchy , Omah Thunderstorms have occurred in West Virginia, lTowa and the lower luke region By tomorrow relief is promised in the | middle Mississippi valley, the lower Mis- | sourl valley, the upper lnke region and | by Wednesday in the Oblo valley and pos sibly the western part of the lower lake region. For the next forty-eight hours along the northeastern coust the pros- peets favor more hot weather. In New York City the probabilities seem to favor | a continuation of existing conditions with no Immediate prospect of relfef. In the latter city the temperature today was ain the highest previous records for at viclnity In many years being 99 94; Kansas Clty, Mo., 100; Little Rock. Ark., $0; Memphls, New Orleans, New York, 98; Omaha, 94; Pittsburg, 98; Salt Lake City, 92; St. Louls, 100; St. Paul, 90; Springfield, 98; Vicksburg, 90. TALES OF DEATH ARE MANY Hent So Intense in Citics Enst and South that Men and Beasts L DTap fe s ST. JOSEPH, Mo., July 1.—The long drouth and heated spell was broken tonight by a heavy rain and a rapid drop in tem- perature. There were twenty heat pros- trations here today, only one of which proved fatal. Ex-Policeman T. J. Dowdon was overcame at Fifth and Charles streets and before he could be fully restored he drank a glass of ice water. Within five minutes he was dead, The thermometer registered 105, CHICAGO, July 1.—Five persons dropped dead on the streets today from the effects | of excessive heat and fifteen others had to be removed to hospitals. Several of the | prostrated are in a serlous condition and may die. At noon the temperature in the weather bureau in the Auditorfum tower was 93 and in the streets over 100. A s vere thunderstorm at 1 o'clock brought re- let and the mercury dropped 20 degrees. Dead: PETER BADJIK. BESSIE POOL. JOHN SMITH. JOSEPH SOBEZEK. THOMAS WALSH. SPRINGFIELD, 111, July 1.—The monthly report of the Springfleld station of the | weather bureau, issued today, states that | the month just ended has been the hottest June in Springfleld since the station was | established here, twenty-two years ago. The mean temperature for the month was 76 degrees. New York's Day of Suffering. NEW YORK, July 2.—At 2 o'clock this (Tuesday) morning the death record for the twenty-four hours ending at that time in Greater New York was elghty-seven, the | prostrations 183. For the last five days, covering the present heated term, the total deaths in the same territory were 136, Yesterday was the hottest July 1 on rec- ord. At 3:10 p. m. the thermometer at the weather office reached 98 degrees, one de- greo hotter than yesterday. The records | show that in the thirty years preceding on | only two days In all that perlod has a higher | temperature been reached. These were July 9, 1876, and July 3, 1898, on which daye | the thermometer reached 99 degrees. The percentage of humidity today was onmly 48. After 3:10 p. m. a decline began, until at 9 p. m. the thermometer reglstered 92 In the early morning hours there was what might be termed a light breeze blow- ing, but during the early part of the after- noon the breeze died away and the city was baking. The suffering was most intense, | As the day grew the deaths and prostr tions Increased, and although provision was made in all the hospitals for this emergeney the authoritles were scarcely able to cope | with the great tax made on their resour Moving Vans as Thera w ances. @ 50 many ambulance calls that the police were called upon to supply patrol wagons and every ambulance did double duty in responding to calls. Many patients were carried to the hospitals in cabs and | carriages and several went to Bellevue hos- | pital in moving vaus. The prevalence of the grip among the horses of the city tended to militate against the work Al- though the weather bureau shows the max- imum was 98, this does not indlcate the heat on the street. Many thermometers reglstered 108 at 3 p. m. and all of them over | 100. | It the heat was killing on mankind it was worse on the horses. They dropped rlght and left. At one time there were elght dead horses lying on Broadway be- twean Twenty-third and Forty-second streets. Thera were fourteen horses pros- trated In the vicinlty of Madison square alone. The rush of crowds to the parks and to the nearby seashore resorts tonight was unprecedented in the history of the city. It was noted at the Brooklyn bridge that the number of men who boarded the | gram.)- | Laporte Authoritics Hold L. A, DEATH OF SENATO KYLE|[[[STORY OF THE HOT \AVE HOT WAVE'S BACKBONE BROKEN | re ture Tumbles to Sixty-Fight @ Wind Gallops Swirt | nad Cool | - | I ast for Nebraska—Ge ¥ sduy and Weanesday; v | erature nt Omalin Yesterdny Dew ¥ 1 ur. u nom o1 6o c ol . | a T () 6 7 L oas 70 73 .00 s n ™ 0 o The weather man eaye the backbone of the hot wave has been broken H With temperature down to 68 and the wind | galloping over the country t(wenty miles per hour, why shouldn't it break? | This atmospheris’ condition existed at & o'clock last might, and it falr fndox | to the entire night and a part of the after- | noon yesterday | It rained some yesterday | Precipitation started at 2 o'clock and kept up, with the exception of brief ritts iu | the overhanging clouds, until 7 o'clock or | later. Seventy-one hundredths of an inch of water had fallen up to 9 o'clock last night Then tho weather man quit counting and went to bed | The hot weather of the ten days topped off with yesterday's has been a wonderful tonic for Nebraska and lowa corn crops. The ground, so expert agri ulturists say, was in excellent condition | to withstand the torrid weather, but an fn- | definite continuation would, of course, have resulted In damage So the rain ca yesterday just | | right. Couldn’t have been more timely Crop statistics gathered by the weather bureau and the raflroads tell a story of bright prospects for the Nebraska farmer And when the farmer ls prosperous, some | of it Is hound to rub off on the entire popu- | lation | As the farmer thrives, so thrives the | country. The rain was general throughout Ne- braska, with the exception of some limited | districts fn the extreme west. It also struck Towa very uicely. Shortly after | nightfall the wind eantered across country | at a merry pace—twenty miles an hour it was gofng at 9 o'clock. In some localities outside of Omaha it was much stronger. From 100 to 68 degrees l& a wide jump, but that's what the weather has done in | Omaha within the last few days, and all | records for June have been chopped finto fragments. BIG WIND SWEEPS IOWA TOWN Cambridge Loxes Several Small Bulld- ings and Raflrond Tank i Overthrown. DES MOIN July 1.—(Spectal Tele- gram.)—A heavy windstorm struck Cam- bridge, Story county, this afternoon. Sev- eral small buildings were blown down and the Chicago, Milwaukeo & St. Paul water tank overturned. Telegraph poles were prostrated, interruptiug Cnmmunication. The Mitwuukes wlearapl lnes se dar West as Porry suffered severely and poles are down between Madrid and Perry. Shower at West Point. WEST POINT, Neb., July 1.—(Spectal.)— The weather was hotter Sunday and to- | day than on any preceding day during the last week. The thermometer registered 101 degrees both Sunday and today, but the heat was modified in the forencon by a thunder shower. Corn is standing the hot weather remarkably well. Small grain s fn fine shape, the wet weather and heat not having affected it unfavorably. The yield of wheat, oats and potatoes will be good. Hick: Gets Good Shower. HICKMAN, Neb,, July 1.— Special Tele- Rain began falling here at 4 o'clock | this afternoon and continued until 7 o'cloclk | tonight. Tho rain gauge measured 1.2 inches, Never was rain more welcome in | this community than now. The intense heat is gone and the atmosphere is cool Crop conditions are favorable. Wheat will soon be in shock. The oats crop is light| and late. Breaks Thirty-Two-Year Record. LAWRENCE, Kan., July 1.—The weather report fssued today by the State university shows that the month of June was hot- ter by 2 degrees than any preceding June in Kunsas for the thirty-two years that a record has been kept. The mean temper- ature for the month was 79.14 degrees, nearly 6 degrees above the June average for the state, Rain and Wind at Hastings. HASTINGS, Neb., July 1.—(Special Tele- gram.)—Adams county was refreshed this afternoon by an inch of rain, accompanied by & heavy wind. Considerable damage was done by the wind to telephone poles. Several plate glass windows were smashed, large trees were broken down and several vehicles were blown over. TRUCKMEN WANT MORE PAY Nearly Four Hundred E in Depotn nt | t St. Louis Quit Handling 1 Frelght, | PIER IS A DEATHTRAP Eleven Lives Destroyed When Lightaing Bolt Wrecks the ftruoture. ONE BOY SURVIVES THE AWFUL ORDEAL His Companiens, Bathers and Fi Are Burned and Bhriveled TRAGEDY IS NEAR CHICAGO WATER WORKS Viotims Beeking Shelter from £term in Zino-Lined Shanty. ONLY SURVIVOR TELLS TALE AND FAINTS Thunderbolt is One of the Hardest Ever Known in the Clty=Percy Keane Makes a rave Rescae, CHICAGO a little zine-lined shore pler, ten old man met ning today They had left thelr fish lines and sought shelter from the flerce thunderstorm that deluged the northern part of the city about 1 o'clock. Ten miny later their bodies lay, with twisted and tangled limbs, “like July 1.~Crowded ehanty, and fnstant together in r a north young men and death by lght- boys one @ nest of sn as the men who found | them said. Ther were twelve who sought shelter and just one escaped. Twelve-year-old Willle Anderson was ninjured, but b many minutes i he could be drawn out from under the heap of dead bodies The dead are all from the families of comparatively poor people and comprised a party of men who were fishing and seek ing rellef from the heat of the day, joived by w number of boys who had come to | wade and swim on the beach. This {s the list of the dead GEORGE BRABINAT, 11 years o MEYER JACOBS, 45 years old JRGE PERIBS, 12 years of age. FRANK COOLSEY, 11 years of age. CARL KRUSE, 18 years of age. BEDWARD BOCH, 13 years, UNKNOWN MAN, supposed to be Brod tek NKNOWN MAN THREE UNKNOWN BOYS, Scene of the Tragedy, The scene of the tragedy was a pici just south of Marquette Terrace and a few hundred feet from the water works pumping statfon at the foot of Montrose boulevard. The storm was as violent a visitation as has been experfenced in Chi cago. The skies were filled with the flash- ing glare of the lightning and the air rumbled steadily with thunder. Half a dozen houees, outbulldings and trees in the vicinity were struck and almost all of the telephone wires burs - Thera. \uagm'nn‘m g on the pler at the tinfe. 4#‘?.1:-1:*1« the only available shelter and crowded them- selves in through the little trap door in the top of the cabin till they were packed almost to a suffocating point. Then came the thunderbolt. worst of the storm. Watchers in the pumping stati n saw zigzag lightning strike the water, as they thought. They did not know of its fearful work. There was one small boy, however, who ‘saw the bolt and whose senses were all alert, despite his excitement. But for him the dead might have lald where they were for hours and little Willle Anderson might have been suffocated under thelr bodies. Percy Keane, clad in bathing trunks and watching from the water station, thought he heard a scream as the bolt struck. Mindless of the storm, he rushed across the beach. At the pler he heard a cry: “Help—get me out.” He looked into the cabin and In dismay saw the twisted bod- jes. Young Percy, crying, pulled at the dead men's arms and legs to get them away. He saw Willle Anderson's head and part of his body, but he could not pull him out, nor could he pull the heavy bodles from on top of him. Then young Keane telephoned to the police, who suc- ceeded, after a great deal of diffculty, in resculng young Anderson and recovering the dead bodies of the others, STORM STRIKES FORT CROOK Portion of Roof urlington De| Blown Off and Wires Burn Out. It was the FORT CROOK, Neb., July 1.—(Speclal Tel- egram.)—A heavy wind and electrical storm, followed by a downpour of hall and rain, visited this section this afternoon. A large portion of the root on the Burlington depot was blown off and telephone and telegraph wires were burned out. ST. LOUIS, July 1.—Between 350 and wfl} treight handlers employed 1n and about the warehousts of the different railroads | entering Eust St. Louls, Ill, are out on a | strike today for an advance in waj to| 15 cents an hour for regular truckers on | the platform and 16 cents per hour for pickers, the men who sort the merchandise Practically all the work of transferring frelght from oue road to another is at a standstil], but it Is bellevea that the difter- | ent rallroad companies will accede to the | deruands of r men and that work will be | resumed as usual 10rTOW | ARREST ERYAN CAMPAIGNERS | Bonz | of Mixsourt o Chavge of Horsestenling, | | | LAPORTE, Ind., July 1.—L. A. Boaz, who stumped Missouri for Bryan dur the | last presid 1 campalgn, {8 under arrest here, charged with stealing a valuable race | horse from Barrett & Schacfer of South Bend and attempting to sell the animal to Michael Sullivan of Wanatah, Laporte county Strilers Are De ed. | NEWPORT NEWS, Vi, July 1—The | atriking machinists at e hipyard are adhering (0 their determination to hold for their d Strike {5 now in 1ta | fifth w, s’ no nenre settl ment than on the day of 118 inag The machinists claim they have 9 D cars for Coney island and other places (Continued on Second Page.) of the number solid for a contint the strike. The shipyard employed men before the present trouble about 3,000 are employed. General § tendent Post stales that no concessl will be made. Southeast Nebraska Well Wet. LINCOLN, Neb., July 1.—Lincoln got an inch and a quarter of rain between tho bours of & and 5 this afternoon, breaking an almost uninterrupted drouth exls since the third of June and causing a fall of temperature of nearly forty Adegree All of southeastern Nebraska rece a good wetting and there was a heavy down- pour along the main line of the Durling ton a hundred miles west, three iuch falllng in eome towns. The rain i3 of inestimable value to growing coin Helps th Frankln Co NKLIN, Neb, July 1 al Telegram.)—A good rain fell hl; afternool kL raln was ba ne ed by yet it | not hurt and rospects jever hetter. The wheat arvest rushed and will be over iu anothe Far $ think the qual y of wheat was uever better. The a ago and number bushels per acre will b fully 3 per cent iarger than Jast vear. Al- talfa is in fine shape and s neurly ready for the second cutting Indications are strong that more rain will fall during the nigh Winslde Gets Sonking Hain, WINSIDE, Neb, July 1 al.) Wayne county visited this morning by a soaking rain th was needed. Small grain s heading c and needs the molsture to fill out the grains of wheat and oats Corn has been cultivated, much of it for the third time and Is growing fast There has never been a r when more trees were set out here and more tame grass seed sown than this one and there could not h heen more favorable weather for thelr growth. Many flelds of timothy have grass three feet high le Rock Is Dumpened TABLE ROC feb., July 1.—(Spectal.) A slight rain fell here at 1 p. m. today, the first for many days. At 2 p. m. more rain looked likely. The wheat harvest s progressing and there Is an excellent crop,