Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, October 14, 1901, Page 1

( ;- i— EST ABLISHED JU THE OMAHA DaAILY BEE. NE Former Commandar of Department of Mis- | souri Urges Oonttant Praotios MAKES OTHER RECOMMENDATIONS ALSO Repert Ko Filed in Washington Tells What He Would Advise. OTIS ON NEEDS OF DEPARTMENT OF LAKES Bags First Noad is of Greater Q isenars, rters for GUARD HOUSES WILL' NOT HOLD THEM ALL Tucrease of Reward Reanlts in Arrest of More Deserters nnd There is Hardly n Place to Pat The WASHINGTON, Oct. 13.—~In hie capacity of commander of the Department of the Missourl General Henry €. Merriam has made an annual report to the War depart- ment. He devotes particular attention to the necessity of hetter drill work by the woldiors caused by the income of many troops. General Merriam says there is a motion too often prevalent in the army, es- pecially among the older officers, that a #oldler who has once learned the details of the drill, regulations, the mechanism of tactical and calesthenic exercises, may be excused from drill without detriment, for- getting that bodies of men can maintain the power of collective action only by fre- quent collective practice even in the slmplest exercisos. General Merriam strongly indorses the recommendation of Captain Michie of the Twelfth cavalry for & change in the cavalry drill. He says that even with the recent improvement which bas rendered the bit less severe upon the mounts of young horses there is still a considerable percentage of horses made vie- tima by undue severity in the use of the hit. He believes a return to the double rein is fully justified for at least half of each troop. Other recommendations are that the oalibre of the cavalry revolver he enlarged and that a knapsack or pack be supplied to the infantry soldier in place of the blanket bag. oo Much for the Boys. A slgnificant statement by Chief Sur- geon Callibo is that, with comparatively Pew oxceptions, youths under 20 years of Rge are not able to bear up under the hard- ships and privations of an active cam- palgn. Surprising progress toward the goal of self-support by the Apache prisoners of war is recorded in an appendix by Captain Sayre, in charge of those prisoners. He shows that they now have on hand 2,734 head of cattle of their own ralsing; that they have built many miles of new fences and repaired as much more of the old and that no clothing was fssued to them during the year. On the other hand these Indians bre suffering severely from tuberculosis aud there were thirteen more deaths than births among them. They are declared to be generally a moral, industrious, truthtul, honest and docile people. Otin Asks More Room Major General Otis, in his apnual re- port for the Department of the Lakes, says that all bulldings in the department have been maintained in a fair condition, al- though many have been without occupancy wnd show disintegration from the climate. General Otis says that a decided want in &is department is greater accommodations for genoral and garrison prisoners. The post guardhouses have become over- orowded. With the recent rapld recruiting @eserters appear to be increasing, and at the date of the general's report—August 7— there were considerably over 100 such pris- oners confined In the guardhouses of the | cpartment, The central states, front which & large portion of the United States army 1s drawn, General Otis says, seem (o glve great advantages in the way of conceal- ment and occupation to the absconding sol- dlor, and hence the post guardhouses of the Department of the Lakes contalns rep- resentatives of many military organizations stated above the limite of that depart- nent. The enlarged reward, however, which Is now paid for the arrest and de- MNvery of deserters has greatly deoreased thelr former comparative Immunity from punishment. + Up to August of this year all the post rrisons In the department had labored under a searcity in officers, but this scarcity of ofcers began to be made up in August General Otls calls attention to the fact Shat the very large money expenditure, as shown by the supply officers’ reports, was pald out for the most part on contracts executed in Chicago, Kansas City and other points for the delivery of clothing, equip- e and subsistence shipped to troops in our island possessions, and not for the wxpenses of the department proper. LORENZO SNOW PUT TO REST Fhousands and Ge f His Friends, Mormon e, Follow the Body to the Grave. SALT LAKE CITY, Oct. 13.=The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, com- monly known as the Mormon church, today pald its Iast tribute to its late president, Lorenzo Snow. The great popularity and olerical eminence of the deceased drew to the city Mormons. from every corner of the state, as well as many gentiles who bad known and respected the dead leader. From & a. m. to 10 a. m. it is stated that more than 2000 persons, including prac- tically all the venerable leaders of the church, viewed the body at the Snow resi- dence, Promptly at 10 o'clock the casket was rafsed by the twelve apostles and borne to the tabernacle, where not less than 20,000 people had gathered to witness the funeral ceremonies. The service was one of impressive simplicity, the absence of ritual and the beauty of the floral oifer- fogs and dbcorations of white drapery, trimmed with pale green leaves combining in & solemn scene. The tabernacle and temple ohoive consisting of over 500 volces, vendered several numbers between the ad- dresses. At 12:30 p. m. the tabernacie serv- ice ended and the procession started to the Oregon Short Line depot, where the funeral party started for Brigham City, which for many years was the home of the decensed. At Brigham City the chureh or- ganizations marched behind the casket from the railway depot to the cemetery, where the casket was placed (n a specially con- structed vault on the Smow burial ground with appropriate ceremony. After the dedication of the grave the fumeral party returned to Salt Lake City and the las rites connected with the interment of the Mead preaident were at an end. < nanrEent Bulacan Vroy MANILA, Oct. 1 ftiex bave received word that gucl Malvar, the insurgent leads leved to have left the province of gAs, Luzon, and to he planning an o} tlor in the province of Bulacan, who. insurgent conscription has been progre Ing recently. The country there is moun- talnous and well adapted to guerrilla war- fare Captain Pitcher has practically stamped out insurrection in the island of Mindoro The pollce force at Banana, province Batangas, ha Atsarmed and the chief of police and seve others have been placed under arrest on charges of bhelonging to an insurgent society and using their The m. offices to obtain information for the insur- | gents Major Braganza, the insurgent officer ordered the execution of 108 Spanieh pris- oners and personally superintended the carrying out of the order, has heen sen- tenced to be hanged There i« Intense feeling tives in San Fernando, province of Pam panga, over the killing of a native by soldier. Strong patrols are out in both San Fernando and Bacolor o provent a hostlle demonstration. There i consid erable critlelsm here of the recent state ments of Congressman Edgar 8. Weeks of Michigan regarding Filipino character The members of the commission refor to his remarks as “too sweeping” and “‘hased on too short an experience.” The native press unstintingly condemns the conclu- slons of Mr. Weeks as “unjust and vi- ciously false." among the na- ROYALTY'S WORSHIP PRIVATE Duke and Duchess Disappoint Ningarn Populace by Holding Servic at Their Hotel. NIAGARA-ON-THE-LA ont., Oct ~The duke and duchess of York passed o qulet Sunday at the Queen's Royal hotel to- day. This morning some disappointment was caused among the citizens here who understood that their royal highnesses would attend divine service. Instead this, however, the duke and duchess at- tended a spectal church service held at their hotel, over which the Rev. Canon Dalton, chaplain with the royal suite, pre sided After this service was concluded the duke and duchess, accompanied by several members of the royal suite, were driven to the pier, where they went aboard the steamer Corona and proceeded to Queens- ton. At this point the royal party boarded special electric car of the Niagara Falls Park & River railway, handsomely fitted up, and they were taken up past the whirl- pool raplds to Niagara Falls. The duke seemed keonly interested in the splendid scenery along the line of the route. The reception was very quiet and there was no cheering. A second car containing several members of the suite followed closely pftor the royal car. Luncheon was partaken of at the TLo- refto convent. After Juncheou the party returned to the Queen's Royal hotel, where dinner was served. A quiet evening at the hotel concluded the day. The royal train leaves Ningara-on-the-Lake at o'clock tomorrow for St. Catharines and other points, ABDUL'S OWN TROUBLE-MAKER Turkish OMcers Dix Comminnio; overed to to Spur Arahs to Warfare, PARIS, Oct. 13.—Le Francais publishes a dispatch from Susa ‘Tunis announciog that a Turkish officer was recently arrested there on a charge of swindling and that an Investigation disclosed the fact that he had received Instructions from the Ottoman minister of war to organize an of the Arabs in South Algeria, in the event of the rupture of diplomatic tween Frar d Turkey E resulting declaration of war. It n these instructions. According to the same advices the in- criminated officer is only one of several who were entrusted with the same mis- sion. The French vice consul In Monastir, Eu- ropean Turkey, was recently attacked Turkish soldiers, according to a dispatch from Salonika. His assallants were ar- rested and the military commandant apolo- gized for the outrage. SOME ORATIONS IN LATIN Prof. Virchow 'IT'”‘:I Party Addressed by Other Wine Men. BERLIN, Oct. 13.—The celebration fn honor of the eightieth birthday of Prof Virchow came to an end at 1 o'clock this morning with a reception following the banquet in the lobby of the lower house of tha Prussian Diet. The octogenarian savant declared that he was not fatigued. Among the last addresses presented was ono from the Chicago Medical society. The affair will never he forgotten by those who participated. It was unique and deeply im- pressive. Many of those present were in uniform and all wore full dress, the women appearing in very claborate tollettes Speeches in numerous languages were made by learned men and some spoke very eloquently in classic Latin At 10 o'clock today the guests were con- Aucted to the Muscum of Ethnology and at noon they visited the Kuiser Friedrisch hospital for childr KAISER'S NERVES ARE G0OD in Paper Denies That Willinm's System in Need of a Toning Up. BERLIN, Oct. 13.~With reference to the assertions of French and’ British papers that Emperor William is suffering from ex treme nervousness the Berliner Neuste Nachtrichten says: ““We have reliable In formation that there is no foundation for these rumors, and the hunting excursions of the emperor are the best proofs that he | 18 in good health.” WEYLER TRYING TO SETTLE Anks S for More Money Which to Patch Uncle Sam's Damoges, with MADRID, Oct. 13.~In the forthcoming budget, according to Bl Emparelal, General Weyler, minister of war, will ask an in crease of expenditure exceeding 2,000,000 pesetas for the payment of pen<ions and military rewards in connection with the wai wilh the United Btatess of | who | of | iprising | relations be- | was conclusively ‘ proved that his presence there was due to by | OMAHA, MONDAY MORNIN G, OCTOBER 1 t, 1901-TEN PAGES. NGLE € PY FIVE CENTS BALLOON ACROSS THE SEA Daring Eaterpriss of Ceunt Heary do la Vaux of Paris. 'ITRIAL TRIP OVER THE MEDITERRANEAN st to Prove Pra anering the tenbility of Cone Atlantle — Steamer Stghts the Airship Travels Ing Well, (Copyright 1901, by Press Publishing Co.) MARSEILLES, Oct. 14.—(M 5 ?m )<INew York World Cabl gram--Special | Telegram.)—A steamer which has arrived re reports having sighted the balloon of cunt Henry de la Vaux ye lay (Sunday) wbont 0. The balloon was about fifty | miles from Marseilles and shaping its for Algeria The car was about | sixty feet above the sea Count de la Vaux | signalled that all was wel) Comte de la Vaux left Toulon, Inst night on a | acrosa the Medtterranean, {of testing the possibility loons between France te | conrse Sabblettes balloon near voyage with a view of using bal Corsica and Algeria { In time of war. The success of the experi ment has been endangered of late by hitches in the arrangements. Comte de la Vaux has received semi-ofcial port in the shape of subscriptions from tho ministers of marine and war. The for mer had promised a cruiser as a convoy and also lent the inflating apparatus. A fort- night ago, however, M. de Lanessan de cided that the season was not propitious for tho experiment and withdrew the cruiser and the apparatus, Comte de la Vaux with dificulty replaced the appara- tus. Then a portion of the balloon shed collapsed in a gale and tore the balloon. Th nage was repaired, but a few days ago another accident delayed his departure. Gooa Finally the Weather and frequently sup- ek nt Lot acronaut’s luck changed wind lmproved and at the last moment M. de Lanessan reconsidered his order, and the French second-class cruiser Du Challa was ordered to convoy the balloon, which fs also convoyed by a { privaie yacht. The aeronaut other neronauty He expects to reach Algeria night or Thursday morniug. him ceventy-five carrier pigeons to be re- [ leased in three batches daily. The balloon, which is decorated with the tricolor, car | ries accumulators for electric is accompanied and a naval by two lieutenant Wednesday signal lamps for ballast whenever immersed in the sea. Comte de Ia Vaux by a system of floats intonds to keep about forty feet above the necessary by tubes Count de Ia Vaux achieved fame fust a year ugo by a trip in his balloon from P to @ place in Russia beyond Kieff, a rec aerinl voyage for distance, the citfes being more than 1,000 miles apart. The balloon's average speed was eighty-five miles an hour, and he said he conld have gone to the Ural mountains tad he not heen anx- fous to return to Paris for @ competition. Sluce then the count has been styled the champlon French balloonist. He has de- clared his bellef that it is practical to cross the Atlantic in a balloon and expressed a hope that he may prove that belief, promising to undertake the trin as soon as he can. This present voyage may be deemed a preliminary experiment. A dispatch from Toulon says a carrier plgeon arrived there at 5 p. m. yesterday from the balloon of Comte de la Vaux, bear- ing the report that the balloon was being driven by a northeast wind and going at a fair speed, the weather being very fine and all well. MARRIES POOR LIEUTENANT Ellzabeth Forces peror and Other Folkn (o See Things Her Way, BERLIN, Oct. 13.—~The consent of Em- peror Francls Joseph having been ob- ained, announcement was made today of the betrothal of Archduchess Elizabeth, daughter of the late Crown Prince Rudolf, to Prince Otto Windisch-Graetz His majesty, whose permissiua was only secured after much persuasion, will for- mally announce the engagement | At a family dinner at Schoenbruun, Prince Otto Is a lleutenant of Uplans He belongs to an anclent but poor family, and while the marriage will not be regarded as morganatlc, the archduchess will cer- teinly wed beneath her. Their acquaint- ance was made at a court ball two years ago. It I8 quite a love match. duchess, who has refused to marry any but the man of her own choice, is beautiful and is 18 years of age. Prince Otto Is ten years older. ARE NO FRIENDS OF STEAD'S nilinh Any Writer Arises to DI ntimacy with Mime, and nnd, . Oct. 14.—Willlam T. Stead writes to the papers today an indignant protest agninst being described as a friend of Mme. Horos (Ann O'Delia Diss de Bar) by a South African paper. He savs that the woman leged husband called upon him last year without Introduction and subsequently had letters addressed to his office for them- selves without his consent, but that he knows nothing of them and had thelr lei- ters returned to the postoffice. ARE ARMED AS ASSASSINS LONT and her al- an Two Itallans Avres nt Rio Jaw of Plotting to Salles, Suspected Kin PARIS, Oct. 13.—The Lishon correspond- ent of La Patrie says telegram hus been receized at the Portuguese capital from Rlo Jaueiro asserting that two Itallans were arrested Friday evening last in the corridor of the presidential palace by uu officer of the guard. Both were armed with revolvers and daggers. In Rlo Janeiro it s belleved they are anarchists and in- assassinate President Campos Russinn A Punixh W Armenians, 'elln AL derers of the CONSTANTINOPLE, Oct. 14.-M vieff, Russian ambassador to Turkey an audience with the sultan Friday conversation dealt chiefly with the plorable situation in the the persecution and murder of Armeniuns The ambassador insisted that Turkey sbould punish the gullty partics, Xino- had Th He took with | and an electric pump to draw up sea water | has | | mot been seen since, shipping men agreeing tomarrow | The arch- | Mush district and | SUGGESTIVE OF JOHNSTOWN Reservoir Empties Ten Mile Water T Burated Hon Gallons « Hast rough erpool’s Streets, EAST LIVERPOOL, 0., Oct. 13.—-A largs containing 10,000,000 gallons of burst today and eaused great dam No lives wero lost, but a score of | people had narrow es wm money loss 18 oWBed by the city will reach probably § The reservoir, whic and which was completed only a few days ago, was filed this morning for the firs: | time. it was taxed to Its fullest capacity | when the break occurred. A gang of labor- | ers were laying pipes in a ditch near the wall which gave way and miraculously es- caped. The basin is located 500 foet ahe the pumping statfon on the highest hill in the eity A number of houses arc located on the hillside between the reservoir and | | the city proper. When the wall gave way | the water shot down the incline with « | mighty roar; the noise made warned the oc- | cupants of the endangered houses, who | rushed to a place of safety in time to save themselves. A party of children rond directly in the path of the torrent and though caught by a portion of the rushing water were rescued before drowned Dozens of large trees were torn from their roots and carried down the hillside with | lightning rapidity, being jammed with ter- rific force against the walls of the Harker Pottery company plant. The main build ing, with several smaller structures badly wrecked. Two large kilns and sheds were dashed to pieces and M worth of ware 1uined. The tracks of the Cleveland & Pittsburg railrond were covered with tons of debris and trafic is blocked. The street car line, running parallel with the rallroad, suffered severely and traffic on a half-mile of track has been abandoned. Tho | pumjing station was in the direct path ot the flood and filled with wrackage which so dumaged the engines that they cannot be used. Several houses were moved from their fcundations. The loss is estimated at $100,000 to $150,000. |PASSENGERS AWAIT RESCUE er Mating m Rocks and Abourd Are Ca Ixtand, reservoir water age, were playing in a | Ject of the meeting, but whatever de | but | tort CONSULTATION WITH GOOLD Obairman Lindeay aod Seoretary Mallal Investigate Charges, RESULT MAY BE ANNOUNCED TODAY Lineoln Man Suflers Heavily at Hands Robhers — Oliver & Sands, Bank Cashier, Hangs imae a Staff Correspondent.) NCOLN, Oct. 13.—(Spectal)—H. L. Goold of Ogallala arrived in Lincoln this morniog and during the day held two cx- tended conferencos with Chairman Lindsay and Secretary Mallalien of the republican state central committee. The charges re cently made by fusion newspapers t Mr. Goold was an abettor to the embezzle ment of Joseph H. Bartley formed the sub- ision agreement was reached, it any, will be withheld from the public until tomorrow Mr. Goold refused to discuss the matter with representatives of the press, but in- timated that something might be given out Monday “We have been considering the matter have nothing to say for publication, sald Chairman Lindsay. “We will take it up again tomorrow and expect to arrive at some satistactory and definite decision, and 1t will then be given to the public Held and hbed. | two feet in d at | | brother CONDITION OF THE WEATHER cast for Nebraska—Fair Monday and Warmer; Westerly Wi re at Omaha Y Dew. " an “ {PROVES THEIR DEATH TRAP | Deserted Alr Shatt #10 Fatal o Wi His Sons, n Threa only 13 shaft ELLSVILLE. lives went out in a ameter Pa.. Oct lttle air and twenty but filled with black damps, at the { of the Juninta Coal company, near Juniata- | ville, today. The dead JOHN GILLETAND, years, ar1 his two sons, JAMES AND WINFIELD aged 11 and 15 respectively All three bodies were rescued, but in the effort John Nicholson and John Baker, miners, were serfously overcome by black damp. Near the home of the Gilletands (s a deserted air shaft. Today the hoys were playing around the shaft, which is boarded up for about two feet from the ground James climbed to the top, shouting to his Then he leaned over the the sbaft. A sudden gust of the mines a miner, aged 50 GILLETAND, death ' While walking homeward L. Aronson of | 113 South Ninth street was held up at 11:30 | last night and robbed of $286 and a gold | watch valued at $60. He was passing | through an alley when attacked by the two thieves, who are belleved to have followed | him from a saloon nearby. He made an ef- | to escape, but the men overpowered | him aud succeeded in relieving him of his possessions Former Cashier a Suicide, Oliver 8. Sands of University Place, untit recently cashier of the Windom bank at that place, committed suicide last night by hanging himself with a rope. A letter on hia person, directed to a friend in Indlana indicated that he had been worrying ove financial matters, v as known his ac VANCOUVER, B, C., Oct. 13. | k. the Canadian Pacific steamer Hating, | from Skagway to Vancouver, went ashore vesterday afternoon at Tucker bay, Jarvis island, and is now hard and fast cn the | rocks. Hating had on board 170 passenger: , | of whom 130 were first-class and forty second cabin. There was no panic when | the steamer struck and the passengers were soon made aware that no danger was to bo apprehended. The enllier Maude has been sent to take them off. | Hating's passengers will probably reach here tomorrow morning. Hating is a par tleularly good hoat, having been brought from Hong Kong for the northern trade about efght months ago. Its estimated | vilue is $240,000. The steamer Willapa left this cvening to go to Hating. Hating belongs (o the Oanadian Pacifie company. iMich ccontly lost the steamer Islander and whose steamer Amur had a narrow escape a short ime ago. The latest reports from stgamer Hating are to the effect that a big holo | has been discovered in the steamer's bot- tom. It Is stated that at high tide the stern fs unde of water. The | passengers have been landed on ad- Jacent islands, In a dense | the a all TRACES OF LOST OIL BOAT| Wreckage Disclo, Place of M » Probable Sinking nehester and Awfal Fate of Crew. TACOMA, Wash., O 13.~-The steamship Glenroy brings news from Hong Kong that | wreekage has been found on Bikar island, | a small, uninhabited atoll off the Marshall group, which proves that the British ship Manchester came to grief the Manchester, Captain . Clemens, left New York loaded with kerosene shipped by the Standard Oil company just one year ago. Its destination was Yokohama, but the ship has hat it must have been lost in a typhoon Footprints and marks with two boats in | the sand make 1t certain that Captain Clem- % his wife, two children and crew had been on the faland and, unable to find water, | had pushed off again. Plainly marked In the sand were footprints of a woman and child- ren. The body of one sallor was found in scrubby growth of trees near shore. There | were also found bodies of birds which had | been sucked for their blocd. As no sign has | inco been seen of Captain Clemens and his | amily it is suppesed they died of thipst ! before reaching inhabited islands | nchester carried a crew of twenty-five men, mosi of them British sailors, Tho | value of the ship and cargo was nearly | $600,000. | WATERS HOLD THEM CAPTIVE Captain, Wife and Crew | of Wrecked Montebunk Nearvly Die of Schoone osure, AMPERSTBERG, Ont., Oct, 13,—The schooner Montebank, coal laden, sprung a leak on Lake Erie in last night's gale and went down, about two miles from Bar Point, The water is not deep where it sank and the crew saved themselves by climbing the rigging and were able to keep out of the high seas which roared beneath them. They were rescued by the tug Chey- bogan this morning and brought here. They were worn out from exposure and Mrs. Dolan, the captain's wife, who was cook of the vessel, ix seriously 111, She les in the cabin of Cheyborgan and has not heen moved on account of her condition. Had she not been rescued this morning she would have perished from exposure. The Montebank loaded its coal cargo at Toledo and was bound for Port Huron in tow of the tug Gladiator. —_— WILL ORGANIZE_PORTO RICO rican Federation of Labhor Sends with (he exsary Papers, 1glening, N a Cuban, WASHINGTON, Oct. 13.~The American Federation of Labor, having decided to make an effort to secure the proper and thorough organization of the working peo- ple of Porto Rico, President Gompers has appointed Santlago de Iglesias, a Cuban who has lived in Porto Rico a number of vears, to take charge of the work, He will leave New York for Porto Rico in a day or two. He has full commission as the representative of the American labor move- ment and takes with him the frst charter dor the organized warkers of Porto Ricos | | | | counts with the hank are in good condition The man's brother in Kirksville, Mo, He was married and his wife and two children live in University WILL BE BUFFALO'S OWN DAY | American Expostti Be Decidedly rrid Ocension, Satarday o " BUFFALO, Oct. Duriug the present week the Pan-American exposition will af- | ford music lovers a rich treat. Clarence Eddy of New York, Clarence E. Foulh of Toronto and Henry Rome Shelley of New York will preside at the organ reclials and | in addition to the organ music the Innes band and Vietor Herbert, with his Pitts- burg orchestrs, will give daily concerts in the Temple of Music. Special daye at the exposition will be numerous. Tuesday the Merchants' asso- clation of New York will ba here, Wednes- day will be doubly celebrated by New ey In the morning and Detroit in the aft- ernoon. On Thursday the University of Buffalo foot ball team will play Oberlin In the Stadium. The Bottlers' Association of Amerfca will celebrate on Friday The climax of all exposition days will come on Saturday, Buffalo day, which is expected to eclipse all other special days. Thousards of workmen have already pur- chased tickets for that day. Employers have volunteered a half-holiday and great cuthusiasm prevaile. On this occasion a foot ball game between the Cornell and Carligle teams will he played. The horse show will continue for another week. FIVE MILLIONS IN COAL DEAL Morgan Wi Trouble in Combinatic COLUMBUS, 0., Oct. 13 Journal tomorrow will say: The combination of the bituminous coal interests in the state field 1= rapldly being consummated. Already Indiana and 111i- nois have entered it and the mines of Ohio are rapidly being optloned by the men who are promoting the new trust. The Iatest Ohio fleld in which optlons have been secured Is that of Jackson & Wells. ton, one of the largest In the state, The options expire December 11. W, H. Tethart of Chicago secured them. He was acting for New York men, who will financ the deal. The Interests behind the comi- hination are those of J. Plerpont Morgan. [t will take not less than $5,000,000 to finance the deal, and it 15 said that the money will boe ready before the options expire. JUST AS GUSHING AS EVER Beaumont 011 Reglon Puts Plenty of ire In Three New whe ~The Ohio Stata Pre; BEAUMONT, Tex., Oct. 13.—Three new gushers have been added to the Yist of wells ou Spindle Top. The Hogg-Swayne syndi- cate’s No. 4 came in lato last night. The German-American Ofl company's second well on Spindle Top came in at 10 o'clock this morning, spouting a steady siream of) oil from the first. The Houston-Beaumont Ol company brought in a gusher late this afterzoon. The flow of oil, which was al- lownd to escape through a horizontal pipe, was tremendous, tearing loose one jolnt of the horizontal pipe and throwing it aside. The actlon of this well showed con- clusively that the pressure beneath the surface is not weakened. According to what may be termed an officlal count there are now sixty-nine gushers on Spindle Top. COME TO STUDY RAILROADS Manager and of Lines Reach New York ixamining Tour, NEW YORK, Oct. 13.—0n the White Star liner Celtic, which arrived today, was w party of English railroad men, who come here to spend a month studylng American rallroad methods and inspecting systems. They are George S. Gibb, general man- ager of the Northeastern railroad; Norman D. McDonald, T. M. Newell and Wilson Worsdell, directors of the line. Speaking of their plans Mr, Gibb sald ‘We intend to inspect American rallroads and will go as far west as Chicago. We will study the handling of freight and the system of signals. Of course until we have been about and seen things I cannot state whether we will adopt of the features of the American system,' | hurrieq Judge A. C. Sands, lives | fumes struck him and with a scream h fell forward into the pit. His brothe rushed to the top of the shaft and slid down a rickety ladder. From the home, not many yards away, the | elder Gilletand saw his boys go down the shaft. Realizing thelr danger, he rushed to the pit and. regardless of his own safety hurried down the hole. By this time a number of other inmates of (he house to the shaft They w to the top and peered in, but onuly faint groans were heard. About half way down little <haft the body of lodged. His white face and glassy oye were turned upward. The light und air told that the gas had done its work quickly The news of the tragedy spread over Dun bar and Franklin townships and in a few hours the whole countryside had flocked to the scene of the deaths. The difficult problem of how to clear the death trap to | recover the bodies finally solved by John Nicholson, who rigged up a farmer's windmill, used for cleaning wheat, in such a way as to fan pure air into the hole. Nicholson and John Baker, who had for worked beside Gilletaud, were then | lowered into the shaft. Gilletand's body was soon hoisted to the top, and at the hottom were found the bodies of the two boys, eniwined in a death embrace. After the dead came the rescuers to the sur- facc and as soon as they reached the pure air hoth falnted. Late tonight physicians say the men are in a serious condition. Gilletand leaves a wife and several chil- dren, BLOCK TRACK AND STONE CARS Scranton Strikers or Thelr Sympa- thizers Hurt Mes. n was Joves and Trackman SCRANTON, Pa., Oct. 12.—Another oceurred today in connection with strect car strike, but again there were no very serious results. A big crowd as- sombled at the lower end of the South Stde line during the afternoon and hegan piling obstructions on the track. As cars came along and halted they were greeted with a fusilade of stones A passenger, Mrs. riot samuel Jones, and an Ttalian trackman employed by the com- pany were cut by flying glass. The ar- rival of a squad of police put the mob to | Might. Out of regard for the Sabbath the | company nade no further attempt to op- erate tho cars. The Lafayette strect line, on which the riot occurred yesterday, was also closed today. Both will be reopened tomorrow, the company offictals say. tonight, appealing to thelr sympathizers to refrain from all acts of violence and content themselves with keeping cars. There were few people abroad today and consequently few patrons of the cars Most of the cars ran empty all day. OMAHA BUTTONS CONSPICUOUS They Indicnte Nest vely Contest to Se- cure Convention of Christian Misstonari MINNEAPOLIS, Oct. 13.-(Speclal.)~The Omaha delegates to the Christian mission- ary conventlon In this city are waging an active campaign for the convention to be | held in that eity in 1902, T is con- siderable opposition, some alleging that the locatlon 18 too far wesi, others that the west has had the convention now for twe years, but cessfully meeting all objections and s confident of success. San Francisco, Pitts- burg and Washington have withdrawn from the contest Dr. Tyler of Denver, K. D. Power of Washington, W. T. Llamon of Pittsburg, B. & Denny of lowa and other prominent delegates to the convention favor Omaha and hundreds of people are wearing Omaha bhuttons. The convention will continue until October 17, KILLS A BOY, WOUNDS OTHERS Near Leadville Uses Shotgn Youths Supposed to Be Ponching, SALT LAKE CKTY, Oct. 13.—A special to the Tribune from Leudville, Colo., says: The town 18 excited over the killing today of onc boy and the fatally wounding of two others by Jesse Sherman, a ranchman living near Leadville. Sherman caught the boys supposedly poaching upon his rabbit preserve and atarted after them with a shotgun. Ed Dorrington, 16 years of age, was Iilled instantly. Earl King, wa shot through the right lung and fatally wounded and James Considine, 14, was shot through the back and hips. Sherman took the three boys to town and gave himself up. He asserts the gune was accidentally Qischarged while he was running. He was cbarged with murder, Sherman, with his family, are among the most respected peo- ple in this part of the country Movements of ( Vessels At New York—Arrived: Steamer Bohem- tan, from Liverpool; Celtle, from Liver- pool; La Bretagne, from Havre; Statendam, from Rotterdam. ' Safled: Marquette, for London. At Portland, Me.—Salled: couver, for Liverpool. Arriy from_Liverpaol At Moville—Arrived: treal and Quebec, fi ceeded At € and N Jense Shermn Bteamer Van- Dominion, Tunistan, Liverp: from Mon- L and pro Sailed: _ Aller, New York At Queensto! Balled: Stear from Liverpool, for New York At Eouthampon_Sajled; Blegmer Zeo- land, from Antwerp, for New York, bre- men, from Bremen, for New York, braltar from Genoa by " Etraria foot deep. | top of | the | the father had | the | The strikers issued a letter to the public | off the | the Omaha committee is suc- | REWARD COMES DOWYN Chief Denahue Recommends Withdrawal of Prics Hanging Over Pat Crows, | ALLEGED KIDNAPER WANTS TO SURRENDER | Awverts Foar That Money Coensideration May Inflnence a Conviction, HIS TERMS ARE STATED IN A LETTER Usclo of the Fugitive Writes te the Omaha Police Department, ANOTHER COMMUNICATION ALSO AT HAND | - ward Cudaby, Futher of the Stolen d, Concurs w Chief Donahue in Wisdom of Revoking the ] Reward Proposition i - | The $50,000 roward for the arrest and | conviction of Pat Crowe, the alleged kid nuper of Kddie Cudahy, will be withdrawn, This action is to he taken pursuant to s letter roceived Sunday morning by Chiet Dovahue from an uncle of Crowe living in Manchestor, 1a., whose name the chief | desires withheld. This letter, which is brief and to the point, reads as follows MANCHEST 1901, ~Chier Donahue of $50.000 hanging over the 0 Pat Crowe, he’ wishes to state to | L the poliet of Omaha that if the rewa « withdrawn he will surrender himself stand a fair trial in the courts of On ward to be withdrawn on or b mber 1 W1 From -, Uncle of Pat Crowe, said: "1 am personally acquainted with the writ of the fore going letter and know him to be a sube stantial business man, who would say noth- | ing that he does not mean. 1 am satisfied | also that he has been authorlzed by Pat | Crowe, his nephew, to name these terms. | Tomorrow I shall comply with his request | and recommend the rewards be withdrawn | “I understand that Mr. Cudahy is also in favor of withdrawing the rewards, an in- terview with him to that effect having | appeared in The Bee, and 1 dou't doubt but that the city council will do as we wish, since It scems that the rewards de. feat now the very purpose for which they were originally offered. Chief Donahue Reason in Crowe's Method. 18 not difficuit to understand why Pat Crowe should want to remain In hiding as long as the rewards are outstanding against him. He is afraid he will be ‘jobbed,’ and the fear is not without reason. Fifty thou sand dollars is a large sum of money and there are thousands of unscrupulous mem In the country who would be tempted by it to perjure themselvos in order to se- cure Crowe's conviction. The messenger who came to me from Urowe a few days ago, asreported in The Beo on Saturday, sald | Crowe wasn't afraid of me, or of Shields, Power or any of the rest of the ecity or county officers, but he was afraid of certain other men. ‘These fellows,’ the messenger sald, ‘couldn’t make $50.000 easier than hy | etting on the stand and swearlng to a lie | 1t Is more money than Is usually paid for | perjured testimony.’” So I think the cheap- est, best and quickest way to close this | Incident i to ‘pull down the rewards,’ as | Crowe suggests, and nave him come in to | be placed on trial.” Anoiher letter, which purports to have heen written by Crowe himself, has been brought to the attention of Chief Donuhue within the last twenty-four hours. It was printed in a local newspaper Sunday morn- Ing. where it occupied something over a column of gpace. A rambling, disjointed composition, sprinkled with metrical quut tions and touching upon a variety of topics, it dealt with the bible as an Inspired wor with the hardships of the Boers in South Africa, with the Jeffersonian perio United States history, and incidentally had | something to say on the subject of the terms upon which the alleged author would surrender himself, These terms are the samoe as have reached the chief through two other sources during the last ten days— they demand the withdrawal of the reward. Chief Donatue says he thinks Pat Crowe wrote this letter, though he has nothing better on which to base his judgment than the fact that certaln cant phrases used are the same as those used in a typewritten letter by Crowe to Edward Cudahy last spring, which was published in all the Omaha newspapers at the time. In both letters a reference is made to a “kangaroo court,” te “Jeffersonlan principles of gov ernment” and to “the legend of anclent tradition.”” The chief has no specimens of Pat Crowe's handwriting more recent than thirteen years ago, and these have virtually no features in common with the chirography of the letter published Sunday morning However, the chief Is positive the letter iy genuine, Chief Mas the Letter, This communication {5 now fn the chiet's possession. It comprises fourteen manuscript pages, written in lead peneil upon cheap ruled writing paper such us comes in tablets for school use. It is with- out a date-line and the name of the town where it was written does not appear. The Inrge envelope in which 1t was mailed was addressed 1o an Omaha newspaper, but the Inclosure was addressed to *J. J. Donahue, Chief of Police.” The postmark, which might be expected 1o give the name of the town where it was mailed, is not legible, it is understood, though this cannot be con- firmed, as the envelope thus far has not found its way Into the chief's hands, heing retained by the newspaper, In this letter Crowe is represented as saving that he can furnish a $500 bond, but no more, and this he wants permission to give. He doesn't want to be locked up until a jury has found him gullty. “Your answer to this,” the writer adds, “must bear the signatures of Edward Cudahy, Governor Savage, Sheriff John Power, Attorney Shields, Chief J. Donahue and the judge that fixes the hond. Let me know your decision through the newspapers.' “If Crowe comos in and gives himself up," sald tho chlef, “‘a charge of robbery will probably be filed against him, and then he will be permitted to give the $500 bonds. 1 think we will have no trouble in complying with his terms BOND FOR INDEMNITY S SENT Chinese Pleninote h Thelr Work of Negotinte i Settlement. tinvles Get Through PEKIN, ( 13~ The Chinese plenipo- tontiaries today performed their last off « ct and forwarded (o the Spanish win ister, who is the dean of the diplomatia corps, a boud for the indemuity of 400~ 000,000 taclas