Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, October 1, 1901, Page 1

k] TABLISHED JU NE M JRNING, OCTOBER 1, 1901 FIGHTING BOB HEARD) Lommander Evans of Battleship Iowa Testi fiss in Bohley Inquiry. SAYS HE WAS WITHIN RANGZ BUT IDLE His Four-Inch Guns Could Have Reached Works at Olenfuegos. DESCRIBES THE SUBSEQUENT BATTLE Details Manouvers of Brook nd Other Ships Exgaged. DOESN'T KNOW WHY THEY TURNED BACK Bays Retrograde Movement is Mys- ery to Him—Merrimac's Com- mander Another of the Day's Witnewse: ASHINGTON, Sept. 30.—News was re eelved here tonight of the death by burning | of a sister of Captain Lemly, judge advo- cate of the Schley court of inquiry, in North Carolina today. Immediately on receipt of the news, Admiral Schley and his counsel sent word to Captain Lemley, offering to move the court (o adjourn tomorrow, but the captain had retired and could not be seen, WASHINGTON, Sept. 30.—An interesting feature of the Schley court of inquiry was ntroduced today immediately after the noon recess: Rear Admiral Evans, who as cap- tain commanded .ae battleship lowa dur- ing the battle of Santlago, was called to the witness stand. Ho stated that he had firat joined the fiylng squadron off Cien- fuegos on May 22 at 1 p. m., when he took the dispatches from Admiral Sampson to Commodore Schley. These dispatches he aent to Commodore Schley by his executive Mcer, Commander Rogers, ho not seeing the commodore himself. As the dispatches were sealed he did not know their contents. Witness said the squadron had done nothing to find out certainly it Cervera was In Clenfuegos harbor. “What, If anything, within your knowl- edge was done toward destroving or pre- venting the further completion of the enemy's batterles in the vielaity of Clen- fuegos “On Sunday afternoon, I am quite sure 1t was, Commedore Schley formed his squad- ron in columns and stood in to a range of about a mile and a half from shore, made @ turn and stood out again. That is the only thing 1 knew." “Was any attack made upon at that time?” the enemy “No, they all got up and stood on the breastworks and looked at us. We steamed | out again. There was no firing.” “Were you within range of the batteries with the heavier guns of your ship?" “I did not see aay batteries. There was a work they were completing there.” lown Was Within Range. “Were yoil within range of this with the four-inch guns of low “1 should think so, yes." “Did lowa coal ship while in Clenfuegos and, it so, how much did it take?" (Ve took on 250 tons of coal on the 23d." Admiral Evans sald that be had coaled Towa from Merrimac on May 23 while off Cientuegos and that he had no diculty in dolng so Speaking of the report of the condition | of the weather made by lowa on May 24 | and 25, the witness sald on the evening | of the 24th it was squally; that on the morning of the 25 the sky was overcast and that the weather was again squally; in the afternoon it was worse, there being | considerable rain with,a long sea. He said | that after leaving Clonfuegos the ves: had steamed to a point about thirty miles | th of Santlago, arrived there on the ning of the 26th and that at that time | fenadron was heading to the east. The | Weather at that time, he said, was not | such as to prevent the coaling of ships at | that date. lown at that time had about 825 tons of coal mboard, or sufficlent for steaming 8,000 miles. On blockade the ship used thirty or forty tons of coal a day. Doean't Know Why They Backed Up. “Why was the retrograde movement’ made?” asked Judge Advocate Lemly. “1 do not know,” was the reply. The witnoss said he could have coaled at soa on the 24th, as the sea was smooth. ‘Was any offort made by the fiylng squadron on May 24, 25 or 30 to communi- cate with the insurgents on shore near Santiago?" None to my knowledge, Testiylag that he had first seen Colon on May 20, Admiral Evans said that sel was not inside the harbor at all, but was about 200 yards inside the Morro. He then detatled the particulars of the bom- bardment of Colon on May 31, saying that on the forenoon of that day Commodore Schley had signaled to transfer the flag to Massachusetts, that he was going in to engage Colon and in describing that en- gagemont ne said ““About five minutes to 1 o'clock I saw the first shot trom Massachusetts fall sbort a long distance aid, supposing it was firing At 7,000 yards, 1 gave the range to my guns 8,000 yards. I saw these shots fall short wnd increased the range to 9,300 vards. Aftor Massachusetts had passed the entrance to the harbor it turned with | port helm and steamed back, New Orleans and lowa following. On the run back across the harbor 1 again fired at 10,000 yards. These shots still fell short and, as Massgchusetts and Now Orleaus slowed down and stopped afier they got across, | slowed down my engines, then increased the range to 11,000 yards. I saw that it fell short. Lieutenant Hill had the other | gun in that turret and I gave him the range at 11,500 yards and he fired and that | shot struck very near the stern of Colon. Both twelve-inch guns were disabled by ' the fire from that extreme elevation. After | that we steod @ mile and » half, possibly two miles, to our bleoknding station agaln That was all I saw done to injure Colon escrihes the Blockade, was then asked about the blockude off Santiago under Commodore Schley. He said the squadron stood seven or eight mliles out during the daytime and a little farther out at night, with Vixen and Marblehead on the inside at night The judge advocate asked the witness con- cerning a statement by a lieutenant of the Spanieh navy printed by the Navy depart- ment o the effect that at dark the Amer- iean ships withdrew to the southward, dis appearing. The Introduciion of this book was objectem. to and Admiral Dewey sai The wiiness has already told what di tance Wwas oalntained by the fleet. W ves- The witness | Grimths, don’t care for that kind of Information. Page) | - (Continued on Secon i ARE DYING FOR LACK OF AIR SIght and Possibly More Me Now Cnught tn Extenston Mines, Ablaze, vicTor ) Dunsmulr, pre, Hlety commpany, MU ing diepatch from . ager of the extension pany, situation near Lady. Fire occurred in No. 2 & ' No. 28 level, which made such headw that in half an hour it was half way up the slope spreading to the alr ways and workings of No. 2 and No. 3 mines. I was obliged to stop both of the mines after two explo slons. Have Jost some men; cannot say how many.” A special “No, Sept. 0. —Premier +he Wellington Col- ajved the follow- Bridon, man- that com- dispatch from Nanalmo says 2 slope at Extension fire and dense clouds of black smoke can be seen from here. Full particulars are not tainable, but a late report says that eight to fliteen men are in danger lost, It is said it was impossible got air to them and they are probably dead. The fire broke out this evening. The cause is not yet known The management has sent for hose and fire apparatus to all points in this vicinity. Miners supposed to o lost are: MacCallus, Reeves, Watson, “Tony,’ an_Itallan, mame unknown, David Blakely, David Mottishaw, Mike Several others unaccounted from it not to Dolan. for.” CUBANS AGREE WITH WO0OD Sanction His Plan for Two Elections Have and Commission t Charge. HAVANA, Sept The convention held a private and considered a letter from Governor General Wood advising the appointment of a commission of five members to have charge of the forthcoming elections and also advising that two elections be held tnstead of four. The attandance did not amount to a quorum, but General Wood's sugkestions were approved by all present Another session will be held tomorrow for the purpose of appointing the committee and making the necessary change in the election law. A manifesto has been issued by prom- tnent revolutionists approving the recent letter of T. Estrada Palma as the program for the future republic and strongly roc- ommending his election to the presidency. REVOLUTION ILF_ATMLY AFFAIR ¥yl Are AN tendly a constitutional session today Seven Men Arrested In of Une Family, to Fouc KINGSTON, Jamaica, advices from Hayti report of the revolution at Keremi there are now reported to have been con- flued to one family, which was working in the interest of M. Fouchard, the former Haytian minister of finance. It is said on good authority that Fouchard was recently advised by & party of Haytians, who were making a landing, to join the revolutionary torce in the south of Haytl, where he exceedingly strong. He, however, declined to do 80 and expressed his willingness 10 awalt developments here or walt until election time. The Haytlan officlals bere say there is no truth in the reports that the revolutionary movement has been suppressed. 20.—OMctal supression Sept the HEAVY LOSS FOR THE BRITISH w Boer Attack, Cost in Killed and Wounded Meavy. but DURBAN, Natal, Sept A force of 1,600 Boers, commanded by General Botha, made an attack, which lasted all day long, September 26, on Portitala, on the of Zululand, The burghers were finally re- pulsed, but at a heavy cost to the garrison, whose losses were an officer and eleven men killed and five officers and thirty-eight men wounded. In addition sixty-three men are missing, of which number many are be- lleved to have been The Boer commandant, an, Opperman, and | nineteen burghers, are known to have been | Kitled KRUGER'S CAPTIVE SON DEAD Cable from Pretorin Says He Made Hi Last Surrender After Attack nens. PRETORIA, Sept. 30 ~Tiardt Kruger, a son of the former president, who recently eurrendered to the British, has just died, after a short iliness. BROTHER CONFESSES MURDER Greenhill of DeSoto Tells Mra. Metoy Died, How Uren and John KANSAS CITY, Mo, Sept. 80.—A spectal to the Times from Desoto, Mo., says: After belng sweated efght hours Willlam Green- Bl tonight made a confession to Prosecut- Ing Attorney Williams, in which he save his brother, Daniel Greenhill, killed their sister, Mrs. Sadie Uren and her sultor, John Meloy. The confession does not implicate Andrews, but it implies that ho was a wit- ness to the murder. SOUTH DAKOTA INDIAN ROW Redskina of Lower Brule Reservation Take Prisoner Away from rol WASHINGTON, Sept from Agent Somers of the Lower Brula Indian reservation in South Dakota an- nounces that the Indians there overpow- ered the police Saturday and took an Indian prisoner from the guard house. The dis patch gives no details. An Indian inspector sent to the scene is Now investigating. SUNDAY SHOWS IN KANSAS A 20.—A dispatch Managers of Wichita Theater d for Putting Them ¢ but Proceed Anyhow WICHITA, Kan, Sept. 30.—Colonel H. G. Toler and E, L. Martiing, managers ot an opera house, were arrested last night for openlng their houses to Sunday night plays. They gave bonds and the plays were glven ua mdvertised. Ex-Captain Neall Convieted. AN FRANCISCO, Sept, 30.—Former Captain John M. Neall, In}’merly Ie\' :fllm- mant of Troop ‘D, Fourth ['nited Siates cavalry, wis convicted today in the United Statec” distriet court of forglng the name of F. M Coxe. United States paymaster, t0 & ‘veucher for 4, (he Droperly of PRC vate Johi Cranson of hia troop, The arrests border | killed or wounded. | His First Visit te Omaba Bincs He Re- turned from Philippines TALKS FREELY OF WHAT HE OBSERVED | Senntor Stops at Samar and Has Con- with General Hughes, Commander of the Ands— Senator Millard at Home, ference Senator Dietrich arrived in the city from Lincoln Sunday evening and remained un- til last night. He spent the day con- ferring with friends, whom he had not seen since bis return from the Philippine islands ‘L visited Samar on my recent trip to the tslands,” said the senator, “and while | there had a conversation with General Hughes, the commander of that island. | The so-called fnsurgents on the island of | Samar consist in the main of bandits andl criminals, who, knowing that they are wanted for crimes ot which they are gullty, refuse to surrender. The majority of them came from the {sland of Luzon. When tho American forces occupled that island they | drove these bandite before them until they were driven Into the narrow neck ot land in the southern part of the island Intermit ““There about 200 of them, well equipped, succeeded in embarking in boats and reach- ing Samar, which Is the island nearcst to Luzon at that point. Arriving on tho {sland of Samar, they went into the fin- terior, where they waged intermittent war tare upon the Americans and pacificos. On account of the condition of the country and the mode of warfare, it was the policy of the American troops not wage a formal campaign agalnst these bands. They landed on the island and established posts along the coast. Then expeditlons are | sent Into the interior to drive the bands to | the coast, where they are captured. “From what I can understand, the squad captured by the bandits was one which was occupying @ post on the coast. The baud of natives evidently surprised them and then made off into the interior.” Continuing the senator said: “I have no special legislation for the Philippines in view, as 1 did not go there for that | purpose. My object was to see the condi- tions there su that I may vote intelll gently when bills dealing with the islands | come up before congress this winter. Civil government s a success The govern- ments which have been formed with natives at the head are giving satisfaction. This | is especially true in Luzon, where the re- bellion has been crushed.” senator Millard at Home. nt War. Senator J. H. Millard returned from the | | east yesterday morning. Speaking of his trip | | he sala verything in tho east is in good condi- tion. 1 was in Washington and had two | visits with the president and at each of theso 1 was well received and am much {mpresscd with Mr. Roosevelt. Wa all mourn the loss of the late president, but there Is a universal feeling that the mantle of McKinley hus fallen upon worthy shoulders. On every hand the new presi- dent has the good will and confidence of the people and all predict a successful ad- ministration.’” Senator Dietrich and Senator Millard met yesterday and conferred for an hour ur more on matters regarding Nebraska and Nebraskans in thelr relations to the gen- eral government. BROOKE FAVORS SEVERITY | WASHINGTON, Sept. 30.—A most unusual case has been reported to the War depart- ment. It is that of private Peter J. De vine, Troop H, Eleventh cavalry, who was | | tried by a general court-martial at Fort | Ethan Allen, Vermont, on the charge of | | “Using distespecttul words against the | president of the United States,” in violation the nineteenth article of war. | 1t appears from the evidence that when | the news of the shooting of President Mc | Kinley was received at Fort Allen, Devina expressed great satisfaction over the crime. His comrades roughly handled him before he could be secured in the guard house. He was found gullty of the charge by the | court and sentenced to be Mishonorably dis- | charged from the service, forfeiting all pay and allowance due him and to be con fined at hard labor for one vear. The record of the case having been referred to | Major General Brooke at New York, com- manding the Department of the East, he | indorsed it as follows ‘It is the opinion of the review authority that the punishment is not a suficient pen- alty for the flagitious act the prisoner was | found to have committed. It fs not within the power of the reviewing authority to increase the puniskment, but In order that the prisoner may not wholly escape punish ment, the sentence {s approved and will be duly executed at Fort Columhus, N. Y., to which place the prisoner will be sent under proper guard." General Brooke's action in the case final and the record simply has b to the War department for filing PARENTS AFTER WEED VENDERS They Is "0 sent Get Crawfordsville Hold Court of Smi Mayor nauiry for 1 Boys, to CORAWFORDSVILLE, Ind., Sept. 30.—-On Saturday Mayor Emmore of this city held a court of inquiry, examining over fifty small boys from 10 to 15 years of age, who had been reported as becoming users of tobacco. The youngsters without reserve divulged | the names of the dealers from whom they had made their purchases and the mayor {turned the information over to the prosecut- | | ing attorney. Warrants were at once lssued for the dealers. Nearly every dealer in the clty was caught. The Investigation was set {on foot by the parents of some of ths | children who had become addicted to the tobacco habit. QUEEN OF DENVER CARNIVAL Miss Mary Malone | Fesatival of Moun: | three or four Bulgarian teachers, Mr Pla VER, Sept. 30.—The city is crowded with visitors from all over Colorado and adjoining & who have come to par- ticlpate in the festivities attendaut upon the annual Festival of Mountain and Plain. Tonight Miss Mary Malone, daughter of Judge H. Malone of the district court, was crowned queen, in the presence of an im- mense concourse of peopie and surrounded by maids of honor from every county In the state. The carnival will coatinue three days, Y . pnary's € tare by Brigands, ) of Miss Ellen M. ary, by brigands in Tur- key has heen received in a letter from Miss A, C. Haskell of Samokov, Bulgaria, to a relative here Her letter says Miss Stone had been hold- ing her usual summer schas! for bib workers in Bansko, Macedonia. On Sep tember 3 a party, consisting of six s ent from the collegiate institute at Samokov and Mrs. Tsllka, Mrs. Ooshera and Miss Stone, started for Djumia, twelve hours' travel From there they were to g0 to their dif- ferent howes. At about 4:30 o'elock that afternoon as they were resting in the moun taine, Miss Stone and Mrs. Tsilka being on horseback and the reat on foot, they were surrounded by thirty or forty armed men. They were dressed. in_Turkish « tume, but were either masked or black- ened. They ordered the party to march and drove them up the steep mountainside. Miss Stone told the boys they were taking KANSAS CITY, Sept count of capture Stone, the missio them away from the road to rob and per- | haps kill them. She did not speak of cap- ture, as 1t 1s almost unhegrd of for bri- gands to take women After golng an hour's dlstance the bri gands stopped and demanded thefr money. They took what gold they had. but r turned the silver. When this was over some of them sald to Miss Stone: ““We want you' and ordered her and Mrs. Tollka to go with them. $he faade no remonstrance. Mr. Teilka made a move to follow his wife, but they forced him back. A part of the brigands %ept watch on those who remained to keep them from burrying to inform the gowernment, ‘but next morning let them go. fThe brigands murdered of the men Bt the par: before the eyes of the captifles to get his borse. They took this anim@l as well as the horses ridden by Miss Sfone and Mrs. Tsilka. The students came to Samokov and wired Dr. House at Sulonica, Miss fione's statlon. He immediately went to the American consul and also telegraphod neul General Dickinson, who knew Miss Stone. The news spread aver Bulgaria ko a flash, for Miss Sione was widely known and greatly beloved, WASHINGTON, Sept. 30.--The State de- partment has concluded from its last ad- vices that there 1s reasonable doubt a# to the nationality of the brigands who kid- naped Miss Ellen Stone. The representatives of the mission board have not acquainted the department with the present plans of the brigands, if that be known to them. The officials of the State department do not care to disctss the affair publicly at this time, belioving that such discussion would roduce the chances of success in the attempt to reseue the woman, OIL GUSHER IS ON RAMPAGE Throws Ro one ks Hundreds of Feet Into Air and Tears OF Der- rick Top. WELCH, Calcasiev Pa ~The oil well three mile was the scene of perhaps eruption ever witnessed in the country, Beaumont not morning. The well was ecapped night and work was suspended morning. The cap was blown about 400 feet from the well. Rocks, water, gas and oil were thrown 230 feet in the air and for a lateral distance of a quarter of a mile The rotary, which welghs was thrown 200 feet and derrick was completely will be resumed as can be repaired and the ceases. The well fs now BEAUMONT, Tex ber of ofl wells brought month of September is gust record was twenty ber brought in twenty, making a gushers at the close place atest et of this Saturday until rom this the g this p excopte w 0 pounds, of the off. Work he derrick action of the gas but 200 feet deep The num In during the twenty. The Au three and the num prior to August 1 total of sixty of this the torn top s00n was three JAY COOKE IS UNCONSCIOUS Philadelphian, Famous for ¥ nancing in War Times, Has Congesti of the Brain, n TOLEDO, 0., Sept Hon. Jay Cooke, a Philadelphia banker and wartime finan- cler, Is eritically 11l at his summer home on Gibraltar, near Put-in-Bay. Mr. Cooke went to Gibraltar a few days ago for bass fishing and was apparently in robust health despite his eighty years, His servants, who had been instructed to call him this morn- ing, found him unconscious. The physician summoned says the trouble is congestion of the brain, and that there is hope of his recovery, he having regained consciousness this evening. Mr. Cooke is a national character, having become famous for nego- tiating war loans in the sixties RURAL FREE DELIVERY COSTS | Postmaster Genernl Will Have to Ask for Millfons Maintain It, More o WASHINGTON, Sept. 30, timates for the fises 1, 1901, which Postmaster General Smith will submit to congress, call for an age gregate of $8,210,000 for rural free delivery service throughout the country. This is an Increase of $2,750,000 over the expense that growing servl for the current year The total for the free delivery service, proper, which is that operated in cities, is $18,745,000, an increase of 9 per cont. The grand aggregate for the entire postal free dellvery service Is $23,079,000, DEATH INSTEAD OF LUXURY Northwestern Railroad Man Ki Eve Quitting With a Pen The offictal es year begiuning July to of Service on. BELVIDERE, 111, Sept. 30.—On the last day of his forty years' service as se tion foreman for the Northwestern railway and within a few hours of the time ne had set to quit work and retire on a pension George W. Davey was killed by being struck by a train. KILLS JUDGE LEMLY’S SISTER Burns Received fr Kitchen Stove Fatal to the Judge Advo- cate's Relative. CHARLESTON Laura Lemly, 4 ars of age, sister of Judge Advecate Lemly of the navy, was burned to death in her home in Salem, N C., today. Her glothing caught fire trom a Kkitchen stove and she was 50 hadlv burned that she died in & few hours. Sept. 80.—Miss A detailed ac- this | of | preme Court, { CAPITAL NATIONAL BANK COMES UP AGAIN Maximam Freight Law Presents It- selt in Another Phase—D ment Matters Affecting Western States, art- (From n 8taff Correspondent.) WASHINUGTON, Sept. 30.—(Special Tele- gram.)—~Two weeks from today the ®u- preme court of the United States will meet in some room in the capitol, its own room not being ready for occupancy. ‘Just where the court will meet is pefplexing tie officers of that august tribubal. The District of Columbia's committee room of the senate, which is one of the largest rooms in the capitol, will be occupied by Sonator McMillan, its chairman, and the only really available place seems to be the consultation room of the court fn the basement of the capitol. Under the law the court must meet in Washington and in the capitol buflding. It devolves, there fore, on the court officlals to secure some place for the meetings until the supreme court room is ready and from present ap- pe nees it will take months before the chamber is completed. The docket of the October term of the supreme court review shows a larger num- ber of cases coming from the supremo court of Nebraska than in a number of vears, Among the original actions begun since the court adjourned 18 one concern- ing the boundary lines between Missourl and Nebraska, which will hardly reach final determination before the October term of 1502, es that will be argued during this October term, coming either from the circuit court of appeals of the Eighth cir- cuit or the supreme court of Nebraska. in which Nebraskans are interested are: Chi- cago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway com- pany against Webster Easton, adminis- | trator of John R. Mathews, deceased; | Northern Assurance company of London against Grand View’ Building association This case was set for argument last term, but was not reached owing to lack of time. Charles J. Greene and R. W. Breck- enridge appear for the petitioner and J. R Webster and Halleck R. Ross. for the de- fendant. apital Natlonal Up Again, Once more the ghost of the defunct Cap- ital National bank of Lincoln rwill through corridors of the capitol and oceupy a place at the long table that fronts the bench of the supreme court of United States. 'This time the shade be represented by John W. McDonald, re celver of the bank, instead of Kent K. Hayden, whose name has appearcd in many of the suits growing out of the Capital National failure and who was recelver of the bank until his death. The suit is against Hon. D. E. Thompson of Lincoln, now traveling in Burope. After the fallure of the will the bank i nd the appointment of a recoiver | oy or stockholders e iDeh comptraidor der was Issued calling on the ot the bank for an assessment to the amount of the par value of the shares, payable within a specified time. In due time suit ought against D, B Thompson shareholder to recover the amount upon his stock, default having been made, The bill of the plaintiff in the court be- low alleged that Thompson, in tion of the failure of the bank, had fraud ulently transferred his shares to persons financlally irresponsible for the purpose of ese his hability a stockholder. The defendant demurred to the bill and to an amended bill which the plaintift sub. sequently filed the ground that the cause of action was barred by the statute of iimitations, The court sustained the | domurrer. Appeal was taken to the cir | cait of appeals, where the judgm o lower was affirmed and ts were on the receiver. of Lincoln, attorney | John w1 MeDonald, seeks to have the judgment | revarsed. a was h ns assessed anticipa- as upon 10 court the it court taxed the Now for of nies the cireuit court | Other Nebraska Ca Other cas | tereste s in which Nebraskans are in are: Grand lIsland & Wyoming Railroad company against Thomas Mary A. Walters against Chi cago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad com- | pany; Thomas P. Kennard against State of | Nebraska: Frank Prout, attorney gen eral, against James €. Starr and others, 4 August § of this year. This is a trans- portation case and grows out of the max | imum freight rate law passed by the Ne braska legislature in 1893 and later held to be unconstitutional. It is simply another phase of that law and fts application to aflroad companies, in this particular case concerning the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific railroad Central weeney; Department Notes, Rural free delivery has been ordered es- tablished in lowa December 2 as follows Blairstown, Benton county—Route em- braces thirty-six square miles, containing a population of 500; W. H. Wood appolnted carger. Decorah, Winneshiek county, ad | it squal 1 service-~Area covered, twenty-nine miles; population served, 630; W. A Blakeman appointed carrior, Clyde E. Parl, u letter carrier [ tumwa, In.; Anton J. Trenderion, Harry W. Hughes and W. P., Stubbs at Iies Moines, and W. R. McChesney t Burling- toa, Ta., were today promoted from $600 to 50 each, 5 y Postmasters appointed: K Nebraska—Amelia, Holt coufity, lIsaac Moss, vice D. A. Clausen, resigned. Tewa—Clive, Polk county, James McKean; Talmage, Unlon county, Myrtle Day; Zear- ing, Story county, H. E. Burkhart. The Commercial National bank of Charles City, Ta., has been authorized to hegin bus- iness with 350,000 capital. Charles W. Burdick of Cheyenne, Wyo., was today ndmitted to practice before the Interior department. The postofice at Willow Creek, Clay county, lowa, has been ordered discontinued and mall sont to Rossle. Herman & Savage of Sioux City | been awarded a contract to erect capes on the Sioux City public FOR THE PRESIDENT'S SALARY Amounts at Ot ave fire cs building Warrants Drawn for Both Willlam MeKinley and Theadore Rooseyelt WASHINGTON, Sept. 30.—Warrants were drawn at the Treasury department in set tlement of the salary due the late presi dent at the tirae of his death. The amount was $1,856.88, Warrants also were drawn covering Mr Roosevelt's salary to October 1, or sev- leoteen days, and aggregating $2,300.78, | | | [ stalk | CONDITION OF THE WEATHER Wednesday; « r Variable Winds pernture in Omahn Yesterday: Dew Hour Do, " Lo " s " st [ v I | o 1 ». 2 m. . Gra vinl ts 1 plant Pre Preside plected to Su € Stractare Sin t Chose 16 PITTSBURG, Sept. 30.—The executive committeo of the Home Mission board of the Reformed Church in America. laid the plans at tho opening session of its quarterly | meegiug In the Monongahala hawise for a | néW church at Washington to replace Grace church, In which President Roosevelt ships. All the synode in this country be asked to contribute to the new hou worship and gecording the plans presidgnt will be worshiping i church before snow flies next year The project has been under consideration tor some tima, but the fact that President Roosevelt has chosen Grace church as hi place of worship hastened The Washington congregation is is not self-sustaining, the home con- tributing several hundred its support. The present prepared by a Washington provide for a handsome brick stru cost $30,000 on the present property teenth street near Avenue O, but it probable provision will be made for larger and more costly edifice since Graco church has become the president’s church. It s hoped to raise more than §30,000. The new church will be called Grace Memorial church. The plan will wor- will e ot he new to in matters small and ard A year to been ns ture to Fit i be presented to the five English synods of the church in America with the request that each synod raise much ag possible by voluntary subscription, no stated assessment being made. Th ony mittee has in hand a fund of §9,000 already raised. WIND TOYS WITH THE SHIP Reattneks Ir Attacks and wols, Leaving s n Sorry nele. NEW YORK lipper ship Iroquol from Francisco consfderable da age about the docks, caused by the encounter with a hurricane in the north Atlantic. Captain Thompson reported | that on 19, in latitud, 18 the weather became accompanied by hurri w. m., the ship by a terrific squall, which carried the mizzenmast about twenmty feet the ok The falling spars carried away the main topmast head and spars and the rigging tumbling down n the deck, smashing the port lifeboat, the port slie and rafl of the after hovse and doing tujured to, when eptember hu two ¢ The arrived ir Hsmaste American port today and eptember 0 W threatening qualls. At cun u was struck away from came None of The vessel cleared of wreckag All went well until ship ran into a with great fury f Thompson was again obliged to heave to for thirty-elght b and lost b mein lower Al and il On the 27th the shin resumed the voyage, Carrylng a s(rong | breeze up to Barnes M’KINLEY'S WILL IS PROBATED the crew was hove a the decks proceeded. when the ane, blowing was violen | intrators, Give Hu | sand Dollar | CANTON. 0., Sept. 20.—The will of Pres {dent McKinley was admitted to probate the conclusion of the formal hearing today by Probate Maurice E. Aungst | pursuance of the wishes of Mra. McKinley her signed reccommendation ed Judge Willlam R. Day and Recretaty George B. Cortelyou administra tors of the estate A joint administrators’ bond of $100,000 was flad. | In thelr appiications for letters testa- mentary Judge Day Secretary Cortel- you say that the amount of personal prop erty left by t late president will be about $140.000, and of 1 estate about $70,000, aggregating about $210,000, [ Mrs. McKinley remains in about the same | condition. She had her usual outing today GEORGE M. PULLMAN MARRIES Pe Snrah Brazel, | and upon court appo the and | | Carson Justice » Mra. g nites Alno tm Divore CARSON, Nev., Sept Pullman and Mrs. Rrazel Arlington hotel Peace Stone. The marriage was by the bride’s mother and I, IR both of San Francisco. The departed for San rancisco tonight SAN FRANCI ) 20.—~Mrs. zel is ¢ beautiful Br | sisters of this city. Since George M. Pull | man has been visiting his brother at Red i | 0. —George M. were married at today by of wit 0'Don party the Tistice | the ness Sept one three wood City he has been constantly with Mrs Brazel, who recently got a divorce from her husband, Colonel Jobn Brazel, famous a8 a stock broker in Bonanza days and now mining BREWERIES CAN COMBINE NOW Phoenix Parchase of | Thought ¢ Company ared Way | for Louisville Men, | Have € LOUISVILLE, Ky, Sept. 30.~The pur { chase today of the Phoenlx Brewing com | pany property at a court sale for $202,000 | removes, it is believed, the principal ob- | stacte in the way of combining xix princ {pal Loulsville nreweries into a corporation {10 be formed under New Jersey The | Phio brewery is belleved to have been purchused by representatives of the pro- jocted combine, the interests of which are \In. the hands of Hamliton & Durand of New York HARRIMAN | New Prestdent | Wil Be (h Ny laws SUCCEEDS HAYS { Sonthern Pacific Head of the cute, NEW YORK ! that E. H. Harriman ha tdent of the Southern Pacific to succeed Charles M. Hays, resikned. He has been chairman of the executive committee of the Southern Pacific. He will direct the affairs ol Lhe company from this city, It is announced heen elected pres NEW CHURCH FOR ROOSEVELT| t and | af A8 with | Captain | at | PUZZLES THE GUARD ihoz ont at Fresident McKin Btill Oloaked in Mystery, ;DEPR[ND'S NERVES BELIEVED AFFECTED | Captain Biddle Thinks | Surronadings | | ANOTHER OFFICER CALLS IT MALICE ks There Was an Attack Prompted by ussedness,” SOBER AND | | SOLDIER IN GOOD FAITH Rigld Investigntion Reveals That the 1 Was at Least Tell- ing What He to eleved Be True, The offcers and the Fourteentn duty at West rosting place worked diligently strange story ot happened Sunday « . Sept men of Company C of | United States tufantry, on Lawn cemetery, guarding the of President McKinley | today investigating the | Private Deprend, which | ! 0 night The military regulations which prevented th, A men from making detatled statements concerning the incident las night were as rigidly observed today. The | representative of the Associated Press saw | all of the commissioned officers, several | non-commissioned officers and a number | of privates and gleaned the following All of the commissioned officers and tho members of the company in general last night pted tully the story related by Private Deprend and really belleved that | the prowlers were about the vault, with | no goot purpose. Today ouly one of the commisaloned officers adhered to the be- Iief that an attempt had been made on the sentinel for ghoulish purposes. He sald “It was the real thing. It was prompted by the pure cussedness of some people who thought to bring reproach upon the na- tion by doing damage to the resting place of the dead president.” Believe Deprend All ssed At Least Honest. the men who were seen today ex- pr the belief that Private Deprend acted in good faith and that he related only what he believed to be the real circum- stances With the captain and over tho details of the whole affair at lenst @ dozen times and, it Is said, never varied in a matter of importance. Partic ular inquiry made as to his sobriety at the time and it 15 said that it is estab- lished beyond all reasonable doubt that he | had not arinking and that he was | in his normal condition. | The most common belief {s that the senti- | nel was overwrought by the*loneliness of his positton; thet his nerves were over- taxed and that Imeginction conteibute some of the detrils related In good faith The post was regarded by all as particularly isolated and depressing to the man guarding | it at night, and it is understood that more { sentinels will be stationed at the point In to others he went was been | the future. Captain Bidd 'r Captain Biddle thanked the reporters for what he called the fair manuer in which the incident bhad been described in th { morniug reports, saying they gave a full {and complete statement of facts, as far { as revealed last night. He was fully con- vinced last night of the truth of the story as related, but after invesiigation enter- tained doubis of the sincerity of Pri- vate Deprend, but of the correctness of the conclusions. Captain Biddle authorized this statement: “I think the sentinel de- celved himself on the occurrence. 1 do not think an actual attack as related by him { occurred. When daylight came there was evidence found of a struggle The mi has been reported in full to General Otis at Chicago, commanding the department to which the guard is at- | tached, Whether there will pe a formal inquiry into the matter remains for General Otis to determine. Officers at the ceme- tery expressed the hope that inasmuch as no harm had been done no formal action | would be taken. Cook ory. { na ter aplaine Criticisms, i Sergeant Cook heard remarks { visitors, further who was reported to have Sunday afternoon among explained as follows: I was on duty at the guard tent near the vault S8unday afternoon. There were three | funerals at the cemetery and many people | passing all the time. Three men, represen- tative looking men, &uch as come by the every day. spoke to me One man sald he did not see the use of all this fuse; that no one would (ry to do any harm now. | The third man said he was mistaken; that there were lots of people who would like to see the whole thing blown up. No, | had o then nor have I now any suspicion that any of these men would have any intarest in or would sympathize with any act of violence. 1 think they were speaking of the disposition of other classes who might be prompted to such The usual guard and patrol was on duty today Last night, after Deprend, the force addition of ten men Liecutenant Ware arrived | Wayn Mich,, today and relle ant’ Avery, who went 1 Ha BOSTON, i In this the affair at ley at “The body 1s safe until the mowdment are to build s finished. When I return to Cleveland the various committees will be ited who will collect the contributions for tue building of au appropriate monument aud tomb, When it finished and the re- mains of William McKinley are encasod in the tomb there will be no fear of anyona breaking tnto it Movement of Ocenn Veanel: At New Arrlved—Trave, Genoa; La Champagne, from Havre; nicka, ' from Ha Rotterdam Rottérdam; Minneapolls, frora London. At Bremen -Arrived-Koenlgen Lulse, trom New York, via Southampton At_Cherhourg - Arrived-—Kalser de> Grosse, from New York toy and Bremer At St. Johns At Liverpor Lake Champl At Gibraltar york, for Nay Hohengollern, for At Auckland Francis AL Glasgow-—Salled veal Al _London 1 New vork. the story of was increased Private by the from Fort ed Lieuten- back to the fort, safe. Sept city the Canton 40.—Senator Hanna, who said today in regard to tomb of President McKin soldie % will guard it Sept, 80, trom Phoe- from Wilhelm for Southump= N. F.-Arrived r Halitax Arrived - Huenos from Montreal Arrived--Aller o8 and Genoa New York Salled—Sonom: Grecinn, Ayres and i from New Satled for dan Samaritan, for Mpnte Asropy®-Miunchatia, from d