Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, November 12, 1901, Page 1

B ( [———— ESTABLISHED JUNE s 1901-TEN PAGE ’ ldier Eeoknto Exjoy Doad o loges While Btill Alive, VICTIM OF FIRE I8 NOT YET IDENTIFIFIED Rathbun Gays the Pody is That of His Abettor in the Plet. TENEYKE DIES AT AN OPPORTUNE MOMENT uocumbe st Mement When Comspiriters Are in Noed of Eody. FAMILY IS SAID NOT TO BE INVOLVED % Under Another Naw w Appare Him ns ¥ Government's Service, LOUISVILLE, K Rathoun, wbo wus tn a Jdeffersonyille day, was cordin, ahipg bun polic tion 1 co he in Nov. H.-Newell ( sipposed to have died Ind., hotel lasi Thurs- arrested in Leuisville today. Ac to Rathbun, the corpse which was A to Little Rock for burlal as Rath hody of W. L. Teneyke. Rathbun has confessed (o deser the army and to forming a plan £4,000 rance on his lite, but denfes having killed the man who died the Jeffersonyille hotel Rathbun rrestod about 11 o'clock this forenoon at the United States recruft ing station in Loulsville. He Is held as a fugitive from justice. The arrest was ma on information from Sergeant Skinner of the United States recruitiug station. Rath- bun enlisted under the name of “Lou Rool, Detroit.” Sergoant Skinner had read the Jdeffersonville case and #tances connected with the @roused his suspicions. One of these was the fact that the man had on a government muit of underwear. He sald he had bought the garments from a soldler friend. An other clreumstance was his knowledge of army affairs about Little Rock. On Satur- day he passed the examipation and enlisted. Rathbun was put under the sweating pro- cess and made the following statement, ac- cording to his inquisitors: wus the ray the story of the circum new recruit Con “My name is Howell €. Rathbun and my home i in Little Rock, Ark. Several months ago | deserted from the army post wt Platisburg, N. Y., fn company with an- other recruit, by the name of W. H. Ellls, 1 soon lost sight of him and went on to Little Rock. ‘There I was married and after- ward took out the insurance policies. “I came to Louisvillo about ten days ago and formed a plan to make the insurance company think 1 was dead, 50 I could collect the insurance money. [ fell in with & man, who said his name was W, L. Teneyke, 4n front of the Salvation Army headguarters < LAY, and told Him of miy plan and he agreed to help me. Our plan was to obiain & corpse from some place, put it in & hotel In Jeffersonville and then set fire to the hotel “While we were in Jeffersonville we took # number of drinks and Teneyke got drunk 1 think his death was caused by drinkin 1 put the letters addressed to me in his ket and left. 1 did not kill him. 1 ame to Louisyille and went to the recruit- ing oMce and enlisted. My real home Is in Detroit, Man. The polica are trying to establish the Adentits of the dead man. One of their theorfes 1s that he was a tramp whom Rathbun had fallen in with. The police havo telegraphed to the Little Rock au thorities to hold the corpse. A gold watch caring the name “W. H. Ellis,” was found on Rathbun. He refuses to say where he got it. The police say the handwriting of “Lou Root," the recruit, was very sim- tlar to the signature “W. L. Tencyke" on the Jeffersonville hotel register. Coroner Coots of Jefforsonville states that he examined the stomach of tho dead man and found traces of enough laudanum to kill two men. Soldiers Hatch a ¥ Rathbun said tonight, in an interview, that at Plattsburg barracks, New York, he and a corporal fixed up the plan to collect $1.000 insurance. He said: ““The plan was “to slip a stiff' into some hotel, them set fire to the huilding, after having left papers of mine in the pockets of the stiff's clothes. Of covrse, when the hotel burned we ex- pected the stiff to be burned up too, or at Jeast so scorched that no one could recog nize him." e says the corporal came to Loulsville and under their agreement the corporal was to secure the “stiff.” Rathbun hints that the corporal drugged the vietim it he wan drugged He says he does not know where the corporal s now Rathbun, who enlisted here as Lou Root, gave his birthplace as Detroit, his nearest slative as J. Brown of Debray, Mich., his trade s a printer and his age as 21 The Louisville detectives (hink that the man found dead in the vile hotel on Thursday was Charles Good- man of Evansviile, Ind. Goodman left the vatlon Army headquarters in Loutsville Wednesday night, saying he wes going to Indiana, and has never refurned. It s waid the description of Goodman and that of the man found dead tally LITTLE ROCK, Ark., Nov. The sup- posed hody of Newell C'. Rathbun was today turned over to the coroner and placed in A vault to awalt an autopsy. Attorney Monry M. Armistead, who bas heen repre- senting the interests of the family, visited the residence where the body was lying today and states that Mrs. Rathbun is so hysterfcal nervous thet she hardiy knows what she said. She declares that she has seen the hody only once and that since (hat time she has been too nearly prostrated to again undergo the or- denl. Ho doclures that there is mot the remotest vvidence of collusion on the part of any member of the family in the per- petration of ang fraud. He further declares that the family has been frightened into making certain statements attributed them FINED FOR GIVING OUT TIPS Two Men Alleged to Have Helped Chi- o Police Candidates Penatized. identity of Dead tonight Jefterson Ave CHICAGO. and B. W Nov. 1l—-Samuel C. Kanter Loveless, charged with furnish- g civil service examination questions to police candidates in advance, were fined $1.000 each by Judge Neoly todav. A new trial was granted David B. Weber, the other alicged comspirator. The | [KILLS 10WA SFORTING MAN | Shoots Jenks vIY nee's Ol W Fatally ¢ Gnrde CLINTON Ta Nov )-Jenks Dillon, a was shot [ word [ expr aimost instan immediately arresied Dillon in self defense discredited, as both shots took effect back, just as Dillon wa# leaving the house Persons near heard five shots fired in rapid | succession and hurrsing to the back found Dillon lying on his face Sta over him was Anna Crawford smoking pistol in her hand Dillon a number of years pugllist and later fighters. At one tim trainer of Oscar yenrs ago was m Towa champlon here Thi= is not the first the Crawford woman has been in trouble About year ago #he was arrested at Davenport with her husband, J. Mecum, whom she had married but a few days the charge of horse stealing. wheriff of this county followed Mecum Avna Crawford many southern and after several months arrestied and brought them here for trial The 2 was acquitted, but Mecum was sen the penitentiary During the long trip they represented them. iselves to be husband an wife, Al | Mecum's conviction his wife secured a di- voree. It the mes from well-to-do and parents. BONESTELL CUT IN PIECES Whote | Member of First Nebraska | Regiment at Whith 1. (8pecial porting ma this afternoon the The and However, twice by and a woman of town, woman tes she shot his § in Aing ag a mansger of be was manager and conple Croake saloon ardner and a of nag ¥ He conducted a time before, o The and states them over fa said highly woman « respected Teain Passes Over Supposed | ONAWA, Nov n gram.)—No. 10, the fast stock freight on the Sioux City & Pacific ratlrond, | over a man at Whiting. Ta., late last night, } mangling him beyond recognition. Ife had tried to climb onto the head car of the train and fell heneath the wheels, the en tire train passing over him, distributing the body along the track. Papfrs found indi cated that his name was Bonestell and that he wasx a soldier of the Spanish war and served in Company 1 of the First Ne- braska regiment. His body was lterally ground te pleces, lils home is supposed be near Lincoln Company T roster of neither of the Ne- braska regiments contains the name Bone- | stell. In Tele- PRIEST SUED FOR SLANDER Member Wis Church that Rev. Phelan of lowa Detamed Him, ot Allegen SIOUX CITY, Ta., Nov. 11.—(Spectal Tel gram.)—-Rev. John Phelan of Rock Valley, la., one of the best known priests in north- western lowa, is the defendant in a $5,000 slander suit brought by J. H. Lynch, a member of hi§ church. It is alleged that the priest denounced Lynch from the pu pit. agement of the cheurch, Lynch, as a trus- tee, disagreeing with the priest. Rev. Father Phelan formerly edited the North- western Catholic here. Rev. J. H. Stromberg, a German Cath- olic pastor at Granville, Ia., is being sued for $25,000 by Dominick Berg, a saloon- keeper who belongs to his church. Berg alleges the priest made damaging state- ments trom his pulpit. SUPREME COURT SAYS WHEN Advane: noun Captain Carter's Caxe, An- ® the Hearlug for December WASHINGTON, Nov. 11.—The United States supreme court today advanced the habeas corpus case of Captain Oberlin M. Carter on ite docket and announced that it would be heard on the 2d of Decem- ber next SAVANNAH, Ga., Nov. 1l.—In the United States court today former Captain Oberlin M. Carter of the corps of en- gineers, U. 8. A, filed an answer to the proceedings of the government to recover with a | train | The trouble was over financial man- | HGLESIAS SEIZED ON SIGHT| | Labor Leader Ventares Back to Perio Rice | to His Borrow, GOMPERS SEEKS TO SECURE HIS RELEASE Roosevelt | Inaniry s Intercated | Has Case and Neen Sent (o Governor Hunt for Fure | ther Particulars. SAN | 1glesin JUAN, P. R was arrested landing from t *nilndelphia, Captain Furst, which arrivel that New York, His detention was A non-appearance after hav ummone the local case agalnst him and in July of last year s changed persunded to | santingo | Thursday here last Red line | ' trom ! to his ng thrice | courts to appear in a | seven others brought when the At that Federation been by currency he Labor to Ko on gold at irae of organizations | were patd | sitver—master Jocal tabor | atrike they | the rate as | workmen $3 journeymen § and ordinary laborers $1.50. These ratee | were not accepted by the employers and a | Reneral strike, which companicd by violence, follewed Iglostas, with other members of the mittes, was charged with the eases were set down for t A 19, 1990, When Tglesias, who was | cognizance, did the order all unless in <ame com and temhe reached on his own re not put in An appearance and the trial was adjourned. As he did appear on the ourned day, further { ndfon nment was taken to May 2, 1601, when an order for his arrest was issued, he being then in New York City He fs now in Jail awaiting trial in fault of $2.000 hail. Today he sent a p tion to Governor Hunt, asking leazed on hix own recognizance, explaining that he made a similar appeal when he was first summoned, but that the case wus postponed and no notice of the hearing on May 5 was ever served on him The public prosecutor sentonced to a term of Imprisonment the ground that he & a dangerous labor agitator and is continvally causing unrest. | that at large date was [ not to be re asks that he be on Gompers Makes Protest. A Nov. 11 amuel Gomy | ers. esident of the American Federation | of Labor, today saw the president, to pro= | test against the arrest of Santiago Iglesias who was sent to Porto Rico by the federa tion to organize the workingmen of the teland Before Mr. Igles ! Mr. Gompers explained the purpose of his visit and asked that Governor Hunt be notifled that his mission was mot to stir up strife, but simply to organize labor along legitimate lnes. At that time he told the president that Mr Iglesias daring the ) dancy had opposed the Spanish regime and been imprisoned, having been liberated when the American troops reached San Juan. By the president's direction Secretary Cort you wrote to Governor Hunt concerning Mr. glesias’ mission” That letter was dated October 19, Last Saturday Mr. Gompers wax surprised to receive the following cable- gram from Mr. Iglesias “Am arrested when stepped ashore. warrant wias shown. Ignored (ignorant) charges. Remain in jail.” This message Mr. Gompers showed to the president and the president immediately ent an inquiry to Governor Hunt as to| the cause of the arvest During Mr. Gompers' interview today, he spoke to the president about the Chinese exclusion act, the extension of the eight hour labor law, the alien contract labor law and the convict labor law Mr. Gompers was anxious that the presi- dent should recommend the re-enactment of the Chinese exclusion law and he camo away impressed with the belief that the president would do so. s left the United States to the president | | {ONE WAY OUT OF DILEMMA Two Proprietary Companies May he Formed to Arrange for North- ern Pacific Settlemen NFW YORK, Nov. 11 The ¢elay n the 2nnounc of the Northern Pa- settlement, it was learned today, was The Mail and ¥ ment cific { Journs | said at man of the committee | tlons in Wyomin | have been striking oil in our | vine | Da | satary [ | money now in possession of the ex-captain | | and his friends because, it is alleged, it belongs to the United States government. | | He states that the money Is his and that | | he has defrauded no one. He contengs | that his disbursements were passed upon br those higher in authority thau himselt when they were made and that the govern- ment cannot proceed against him in the manner 1t has to take his money. CHICAGO, Nov., 11.—Another step to further the proceedings brought by the goy- ernment against the property of Oherlin M. Carter was taken In the United States | etreuit court today. Attorney Horace G. | Stone, representing the convicted army of- cer, and his relatives carrled out part of the agreement recently signed by turning| g yinoion should be Ananced jover ahout §71.000 worth of property. The |y " ynexpocted difficuities, although it { property consists of 360000 In railroad i . "o re0q by both sides, it is said, that bonds, a note for $11,000 and $700 in cash. | " opriotary company should be organized | These will be kept in possession of Re- | PTOREIC e e g b e ceiver Max Whitoey, pending a settlement | o 1% 1 e T A mdpaR e of the controversy in the federal court. | i i SaRpanE, Jor Grea¢ Norihers sa This makes the total amount received up | Northers Pactfic to date ahout $400,000, Anather portion s | Thire was a disposition on the part of Atill to be transferred to the recelver and | ti® Northern Pacific o surrender its North- this will bring the total to almost $500,000, | ;::‘”‘ e ‘“:“‘I“I'""“ HESUINLG B phy 010 rletary company, but me; of the ICEBERG DISABLES A STEAMER | rimon syndicate objected to paying a larke s amount of cash for a one-half interest in of Topekn Has Encounter Rond North in Whieh 1t € the Burlington Off Second Best due to the irability so far to ngree upon the detalls for the cortrol of the Burling- ton and the surrender of Northern Pacific preferred siock owned by the Union Va- ciflc Thia is the ground for the current rcport that there had been a hitch in the deal and it caused considerable selling of Union Pacific stock. When it was announced that the main pofnts of the agreement bad been settled reference was made only to the decigion of Messrs. Hill and Morgan to glve up a half Interest in the Burlingtun to the Union Pacific and to permit (he retirement of Northern Pacific preferred stock In thelr efforts how the they met to determine City on The price of $200 a share was thought to be too large and if all cash was paid for the Burlington it would mean an outlay of $200,000,000, which was entirely different from what the Harriman people had in mind. It was sald today that the most likely way out of the difficulty would he the surrender of the Union Pacific hold ings of the Northern Pacific in exchange for an interest in the Burlington. Th. former ure about $77,000,000, par value and are sald to have cost something more than that figure But if the Northern Pacific and Great Northern accepted the change the Northern Pacific would be buying its own stock. It I8 believed that the two proprietary eom panies will afford a method of getting out of this dilemma, but at the moment things | | are not progressing very rapldly Four Doll " e mex SEATTLE, W Nov. 11.—The Lynn canal steamer Cliy of Topeka steamed slowly Into the harbor this morning with out passeagers or cargo and with its stem I hent and a gaping hole near the load line. | | The steamer collided with a sunken iceberk | in Taku bay on the up trip on the night | of November 2. A blinding snowstorm was vaging i the time and when the shock came some of the passengers, thinking the | ship was going down, made frantic at- tempts to get into the lifeboats. It was found that there was no immediate danger |CREW MAY BE UNDER WATER Lite Savers at Chatham Go to Look | for Men of Sunken % GREENSBURG, Pa., Nov. 1l.—Burglars Coal Boat, dynamited the vault of the Smithton Na- | | tfonal bank last night, but we. A & u | CHATHAM ard. Mass, Nav. 11,In the heavy | avomiad. Thts oty mecursd b The o { gale which had been sweeping over the caps | cussfon vartialiy wrecked the huiliing since yesterday an unknown three-masted ——— e hooner sank off here during the night Asphalt Sold 10 Germau It is thought the vewsel was coal laden and | GUTHRIF, Okl Nov. 11 sprung o leak while at wachor. The phalt mines at Ravia Monomoy life saving station has gone to|jstve recelved mn order o the wreck to look for traces of the crew, | Tea, for expore y for 4 at Galveston. CHAIRMANSHIP _ FOR oIETRICH | TW( (ULPRITS CONVICTED | Nehraska Sonmtor Would Like to Mend rlgnt the n bt Avid 1 Commities an Ire Bohes! Osurt-Martial Comes Down Two Pilferass ndw. WASHINGTON gram.) Washington plans, theve some Nov. 11 Dietrich Tele 15 to in 1o his present | congress ad next has his and he At Senator arrive CADETS PASS SENTENCE ON OFFENDERS riday to re time after from Nebraska several chairma the stute effort to secure stances favor to secure the tes on lands I a Simon, tee it 18 thought pecordi ain unt | Roxa Fou Thetr « Gullty of Stealing from Wil e Provided by sonator eye mrndes a0 bel make an um upon | ips Poniuhment \ he in how present he is chatrmanship of the irrigation and tamation which Senator Stmon of present chairm: ver, s ves Jury of Schoolmates, anxio commit of arid of Oreon Unless Senatc ow A better commit Die have something else, It ures er Senator eh wil ks content with the copiiol asked Senator Spooner of W v rule behalf of that Sena Diotrich msin, chalr to look ont his intere irrigation the ¢ for on he committee Dietrich irrigation Is nc Just why Scnator desires mmittoc gotion known. All general mensurens for the ¥ beto mation of arid and semi-arid land will handed down Monday referred to the commi public lande, | aftornoon by perhaps the youngest jury thut | of which Senator Hansbrough of North Da- | over in this or other city. It was | kota s chairman. Thi cus of nine of the High tom in the past Senutor Hansbrough | school rious grades by expects it to continue. Should this ho the | pry thres of their the on Irrigation would | peer he st | continus be 4 committee sussion W only, and it did not have half n bills | o during the sesslon of the Fifty-sixth | congre snuider, 1ot alone As Semator Dietrich requir look upon him from Nebraska he bility be accord where he will go Wyom on the regiment finding was up selecte ipal Wa made students and { from the v house to cas committee ot harge the to in name | held yes do wo were disposed of. Another when the third case High school faculty has ap foregojng dec the that it 1 Was ¥ wes will held e, | b - TH RS GORe ove h as the se mr”'r A will in all prob- | 1 a chairmanship, but j « aneation | ntive be today will be s to pal will see Wiy enator i prin. | { { | st | The body is unique tly o court | sense, nor yet a ol he | by | might be ex the | o | ety of luncheon ticles in its formation. 1t martiul militury in civil elements of both. It orial board. Its sary by repeated | chool. Bleyeles and other with aggravating to the principal to i, | to do. The 1 open secret not exa 1 the the nk Senwtor Opti Senator city, but to New Warren of Wyoming s for a few days York and thence to Cheyenne be for return Washington for winter. Speaking upon the question of ir- | rigation he said: “It is one of the vital | problems with which congress is to deal and it is probably the most vital question | with which the west has de Jus what bill will be reported from the com mittee on public ot prognosti- cate, 1 many interests to be therefore there should b legislation. The cond! are most favorable, ate in many omh the only as he goe! called an inguis mad riog in garments dieappeared regularity. It cloar thint must be but the question what jdentity of the pilferers was The evidence against The police might be called in, but this would br ng odium upon the school. The oftenders might suspended, but th would Le no punishment at all, being I places and as the railroud facilitios are in- | MOSt cases just what they wanted. It wa trensing 1 look for an ofl output from our | the old, old question of how to punish state second to none in the country.” pupil. Flagelation being proscribed and Al other forms of chastisement inexpe | dient, the principal hit upon the “court Rural free delivery letter carriers were | martial” fden olnted today as follows | A temporary board was formed by ap Nebraska—Humboldt, E. A. Clift; Lin- | pointment, follows: Arthur Kelkenney, coln, 0. O. Tulley; Blair, James L. Don- ! jjeutensnt colonel of High school regiment; nelly; Ponca, James E. Meyers; Spriog- | pawrence Sidwell, major; Will Coryell, fleld Allen T. Jarmer senfor captain: Stanley Rosewater, sol sk e SR 0 geant; Albert Fairbrother, first lieutenant ALERN et R in charge of band; Bdmund Rasmussen, pri Campbetl, paulina, NotiREE vate; Ray Stoetzel, signal corps; Richard L L Rl Patterson, private; Frank Minden, private. Parew . Abrahkn Bltroni This tribural :ng‘.\;m-‘nlw 20 |.',. I\\ \|;m. 4 N day afternoon by the election of Arthu Hobby; Knoxville, T Tenzeling: Barlham, | o onpoy as judge advocate and Lawrence Cuivin L. Francis; Aurgn tohn T. Hen- | g4\ ng clork The accused were then et e bt arralnged. bofore. themh and the evidence Postmasters appointed ; 4 Gtbrts Though the inquisition was conducted be- s oo g hind closed doors it is understood that the pta—Date, Chateau county ¥Frank Hagin and Thomas J. Fitzgerald, | Proceeding entirely dignified, partaking Sote B of the character of & kangaroo carriers In South Omaha postoffice, today promoted from $600 to $850 each, | court. These postotlices will become presidential offices January 1 New London, Radelirr,’] $1,100; Flegin, Essex, Preston, Whit- ing and West H d, $1.000 each. The postofiices at Ariosa Wyo., fiscont Che Charles B il he to the books ar have was something to arose lands T ¢ there onsidered no hasty them was conelusive know are hem nelusi at Department Notes Charles. F. Adams, Albert G, Young: Du Anamosa, George | Charles Wilson Towa City, W. R fown Henry C. | ty. South Jasper Roth Nnmes Ave Withheld. The evidence heard pertained to the theft of two bicycles. As Principal Waterhouse | requested that the names of the offenders Laramie county, | be withheld from publication, these will ued; mail do very well in place of the real ones: The indictment contained the names Dick Tur- | pin, Bill Sykes and George Barnwell. S and Barnwell are small boys, { cused only of being after the Reserve agents approved: Towa National | fact. They received the wheels from Dick of Des Moines for Farme National of | Tyrpin, an older lad, who went bodly into Hamburg, la National of New | the High school and took them York for t of Castlewood, | fyom their racks. Turpin's case will be 8. D, taken up today Henry M. Lint of Falls City Principal Waterhouse expresses himselt W. Ogg of Newton, la. and Marshall E. g fully satisfied with the finding of the Humphrey of Winona, Mlon.. were ioday|poapq and thinks it possible from present APEOINIed tagger the bureau of animal | jpgications that the ‘“court-martial” may industry at Bouth Omaha become a fixed institution of the school, or oy s at least that it may continue %o long as CIVIL CLAIM IS APPROVED | there is any occasion for its existence. Ho thinks he sees in it the discouragement of Bonrd of Visitors W mendati ni order to Mitchel! Moun D., was today oppointed messenger in office of the Bismarck (N. D) surveyor. Vernon, he and were o Hanover National corridor Neb., Charles | in Recom- | further predatory raids upon cloakroom and corridor or mittee," lesson . T & O1ld Contro- | reason for my appoluting this com- said he, “was to teach the students = a in self-reliance and self-govern- WASHINGTON, Nov, 11.-A contest be- | ment, They will have o face these thing: tween the scientizts of the country on one | when they o out into life, and I would like side and the naval line officers on the other have them feel that they bhave a little which has been waged for years past and in public up here in which all may take volves the rich prize of the contral of the | pride.” naval observatory, has brought to critical point by the presentation to retary Long of the report of the Board of Visitors to the observatory, in which the versy at Nuval Observatory, been pekers for the Puplils. As school buflding we “oon move Into the High will have a remedy fo thieving students thats will prob ax we among | tor a | Tavlor and Finley issue 1s drawn sharply in faver of civil con Jly be the hest solution possible for the trol. The board is composed of Charles A : . difficulty under the circumstances,” said Young, Charles I°. Chandler, Asaph Hall | principal Waterhouse yesterday. “This will jr. E. V. Pickering, Prof. Ormond Stoue | .oniict of 4 complete locker system and and Willlam R. Harper, all men of national { o oaoon o0 or that plan over the pres reputation in scientifie research. The par-| oo Goheme of wide-open cloak rooms ticular bone of contention of late has been ! 00 S0 TR T ARG e # vacancy in the office of astronomical di- | oot Lt D1 At e aataiiia’ant fun rector and the bosrd makes the followlng | JE0 ™ ok individual pupll with & lo¢ "””,‘“‘;', bk et g B L I‘"‘f‘ but they will be assigned to pairs of stu- SRl CHCA B 05 JoRA I riant places 1 donta, two using one. The lockers will be “It is recommended that no astronomical | TSN 1 ol no ing :;m.‘n.wv; I:,n] “"\“II 4 | headship has been found unsatise | {up to a point some six feet from the floor. | factortly and under the exlstiug luw the ap- | UV (0 # polut some six § ¥ A * be ay 1 do not know whether combination loc V(ll any s o ker o work yointment of an astronomer as sole director 5,, the obesrvatory, which the board consid | or keys will be used, but I favor the former, g 4% that systom would undoubtedly ors the proper solution of the question, is | L i ; impracticable. Vacancies should not he | Breat deal of trouble with lost koys new assignments are made each filiel among assistant astronomers nor among professors of mathematles In | lockers the combinations may be « tho navy without examination for each va-|bY @ slight manipulation of the tumbl cancy occurring. No distinction should be | 50 that no universal knowledge of the n made between employes of obserya- | 5ary sequence of figures will prevail tory and other applicant As things are now | might stand right Applying these principles to pr in the doorway of a cloakroom all day and board declines to nam son sl have a of hats or garments | YROAD¢ o na ko aaritiaiy aomer stolen right before my eyes, for 1 would | observatory and instead have no way of knowing that the article the appointment be | beionged to other than the assu jce examination under | Ing commission — Coming 1o the more fwporant subject of SALARY TOO SMALL FOR WU | the actual head of the observatory, which involves the issue between the sclentists and the line oficers, the board sars The institution should be related to the Navy department if continued under s | ontrol, in some such way as the Royal ob- | servatory Greenwich 18 related to the | British admiralty. 1t should he put under | the control of the secretary of the navy and not through a bureau as at present.’ In conclusion the board finds abjection to | the the manner in which appropriations have been made in support of the observatory, saying that it 1s not easy to determine what portion of the expenditures pertains prop- | erly 1o astronomical work, what portion te | the naval work and what portion to the im provement and care of the grounds as a part. The cost of maintenance for the last fiscal year was $108.428, of Which amount $:1,205 was expended in salaries, save When year to lee th seore ~commends that after a civil sery auspices of the made person the possession Chinese Diplomat Conld 11 Aford to rship at NEW YORK, Nov. 11 Columbla university said no truth in the report | minister, Wu Tingfang, had been offere: chair of Chinese language and lite ture and said the matter had not come be fore the board of trustees in any way. Fran- cis S. Bangs, one of the hoard, sald it not within the range of probability that the Chinese wminister would accept, | in the first place, he would have to expatriate himself and the salary of the pro- fessorship (probably not more than $4,000) would hardly be acceptable to a man url at Trustees of today o that the Chinese second Mr, Wu's station. SINGLE ¢ CONDITION OF THE WEATHER Aay and Recoming At Omaha Vesterdayi Dew ~ " " ' 1 of Columbia Diex nt Healnning M Year's Vaention. NEW YORK. Nov. 11.--Richard nith, a professor of political economy at slumbia was killed tonight b + window of his study on the of his residence on West Sev eventh street to the stone flagging In ar. 8o far as the police have Investi 1 the « hat the fa Prof Mayo illing e they conclude Mayo-Smith u short time ago | which Colum he faculty after th He had been il not sick enongh alarm. This evening who was in the study with year's vacation to men have served seven tow ora of vears months, hut the fam told his wife causc he vday afternoon. Whei | i - that he felt tired and would lie down | for a tme. She Very atter the study, saw the f of a wau going out of the window. He thought it was a burglar and ran down atairs to inform Mrs. Smith thing made the wife think {t might b hushund and on running out to the rear saw the hody of the professor. A < called satd death must instantaneon Prof. Mayo-8mith loaves had been a professor of economy at Columbia since 1883 was born in Obfo and graduated from college in 1875, He was an honor ary fellow of the Royal Statistical of Great Britain and a mem tional Academy of Scicnce. on cconomiic subjects and the author of |5 n and [mmigration.” “Sociology and Statistics,” “Statistics and Economics hese works were published in 1590, and 1869 respectively hor loft him soon in passing the o fetan been ides hi r children. 1 political who w Ambers ety v of the Na He was a writer 1805 |DENVER DEMANDS A FAVOR Capitnl 4 No Asxeris Rate fro Exeeed that uri Rive DENVER, Nov 11.—-C. A seph Fifer, members of the morce Prouty and lo Interstate Com ommission opened an inquiry at the federal courtroom in this city today on the charge of discrimination against Denver in freight rates from the Pacific coast. About a year ago the Interstate Commerce com- mission decided that the railroads should not charge more for froight from the Pacifl to Denver than from the Pacific to Missouri river points on any commodity except sugar. Notwithstanding this the railways in thelr schedules of eastbound tariffs from the coast made the rate to Denver from 100 to 00 per cent higher on 130 artieles than the rote to Omaha or Kansas City. The pre ceedings today are on an order jssued by the commission against the Southern Pa- cific and Santa Fe companies to show cause why they have not put the equal rates ‘nto effect on all article W. B. Harrison, attorney for the Denver Chamber of Comme conducted the in- quiry for the claimants, George J. Kindel and others. Henry A, Dobbs appeared for the Santa Fe and W. R. Kelly for the Union Pacific. esented for its but nee. by counsel, sent nonappear: BECKHAM FREES HIS MIND Ar- an apology for Refusing R FRANKFORT. Ky Nov. 11 Beckham tonight addressed Durbin of Indiana a letter replying to the criticism by that e: utive of the courts nd officials of Kentucky in his recent let- ter refusing to honor the requisition for 1o Governor plicity in the ascassination Goebel. He severely arraigns Governor Durbin for his refusal, charging that in do- ing #o he violated his oath of office to sup- port the constitution of the United States of Governor | and that he became “a party after the fact to the most Infamous erime in the history of this state, the cold-blooded and dast- ardly murder of an eminent and distin- guished citizen of Kentucky.' ROANOKE SIGHTED AT SEA Tardy Mer High Rates Ob Excellent on Which Chance, SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 11 ship Roanoke, on which reinsurance for several weels past has boen quoted at 50 per ¢ was sighted on September § In latitude 54 south, longitude 84 west The Roanoke is out 152 days from Norfolk with @ cargo of Goal consigned to the Mare island navy yard. On receipt of the news the vates for reinsurance dropped from 30 to & per cent Three other ships of the overdue flect advanced & per cent today in the reinsur- Glencaird now stands at per cent, Aglia at 30 per cent and La Tour d'Auvergne at 25 per cent. Glenbreck, which, like Roanoke, hus a cargo of Poca- hontas coal, remains at 90 per cent rein- surance. It The overdue nt, ance market days Glenbreck will be posted as missiug. SEVENTH NATIONAL TO OPEN Government Comptrol York ¢ Bank Can Notifies New enring House that Todny. W YORK, Nov Currency Ridgley 11.—Comptroller of the notified the New York learing house this aftornoon that the con- tion of the reorganized Seventh National ban} satistactory to the government, that its affairs were in the condition where it could pay all its obligations and reopen with promising prospects and that the re- had been discharged. The bank in effect, In the hands of iis officers from the time (hat the statement was made and 1t will be opened offictally tomorrow, cetver was Nov. 11, At New York—Arrived Bovle, from Li - Arrived: Br Faderland, from erpool men, from New Quecns Arrived on, for ol Norwegian, for ¥ Numidian hn, N, R Giibraltar-Bafled: ~ Fuerst Blsmarck, cuva aud Naples, for New York, saxonis, from tor Al from The Southern Pacific was mot rep- | wanted for alleged com- | is probable that within a few | wY FIVE [GET THE RINGLEADER = | CENTS, Officers Oaptare Frank Thompso Desperade, After a Straggl |fUGITlVE SLIGHTLY WOUNDED IN HEAD Posse Inoensed at Previous Failure E: Tteelf More Zealowsly. WHITE BOY IS SHOT THROUGH THE LUNG Lawrence Lewis Rofuses to Surrender When Hope 1t Gene. | HE IS THOUGHT TO BE FATALLY INJURED hree Gangs of Convicts Are Reported In Nelghhorhood of Topekn and Horde of OMciale on Thetr Trall, TOPEKA Nov. 11 i i*rank Thompeon. the lo eral penitentiary Thursday, fourteen of the tive convicts have heen retaken Thompson was captured Coun { Grove tonight by Deputy United & Mar | shal Prescott and a posse of farmers. I showed fight, but was brought a load of buckshot. Thompson fe zerously wounded and will be returned to the penitentiary tomorrow | The convicts are yot at large and much fear among the inhabitants untry districts. Tonight oficers | work in a dozen differcnt counties and as | some report that they have groups of cq {victs rounded up. more captures will be | mude before morning From Council Grove | was eaptured, tonight statted (o Cottonwood 1all holdin Ing far connt Kar With negro 1 it ador of las twenty-six fug mutiny near ate down not dar nepiring of the where ‘Thompso conviets have and are treely up and robbing peaple and plund all along, Many had en with the men and people along *| the route are afrafd to venture out of their houses tonight i Patrol Roads, Lyon citize are pat n county | ficers rmed and approaches to the town. as the probably pass that way. Threc { convices were seen hoarding a frefght train in Ottawa tonight and they are expecte | drop off near Emporia, where there | heavy fimber suitable for hiding Near Osage City, Deputy Warden Lemon | with fourteen officers is closely fn touch | with three conviets, whom he expects (o | capture before morning. | The sheriff at Oswego is in pursuit of convict who held up some men there toda { The sherift at Alma reports that he has two suspected convicts surrounded The convicts and of Mling the mvicts witl suspected are seemingly becomir | bolder_and invading towns. In the { Unon Pacific yards at Wamego tonight two of the runaways held up a man anl com | pelled him at the point of a_revolyer to give them $92. They then boarded a froight | tratn and went west without any attempt being made to capture them. Fight wit TOPEKA, Kan., Nov. 1 | son, the negro leader of th | tederal prison at Leavenworth, which re sulted in the escape last Thursday of | tventy-xix prison was captured eight | miles north of Council Grove this evening | by a posse under command of Depuiy United States Marshal E. A, Prescot Thompson would not surrender, but wa taken after a hard fight with the officer in which he was shot in the head, hut | severly injured. No member of posso was hurt, Deputy are Frank Thomp mutiny at the not th Marshal Prescott has been Counctl Grove ever since Saturday morning on the watch for excaped prisoners, There were a pumber of them in this vicinity wud several depredations on property have re sulted from their presence ‘This morning Deputy Prescott heard the presence of the negro convict i miles north of town and immediat out to make the capture, assisted by iff Michel and some other officers | The officers had just emerged wooded tract when they saw Thompson running across the open He was ordered to halt, but he answered by wheeling around and doing some rapid firiog with a 44 | caliber revolver. The officers then fived | and Thompson dropped. He was stunp and was easily secured. Thompson will | be taken back to the penitentiary tomorrow of Lewis. Nov. 11.—Another to the lst of escapel Fort Leavenworth convicts captured, that of Lawrence Lowis, who was mortally wounded this morning near Quenemo, Kan while making a dash through a cordon of armed deputies. Now there are but thir teen prisoners at large Lewis is & white boy, 20 years of age who was sent up in October, 1300, to un dergo a five years' sentence for larceny He was tracked to a wooded place neas Quenemo by the city marshal of that place (which Is situated forty miles southwest from Fort Leavenworth) and a dozen men bearing rifles. An order to surrender was met with deflance and Lowie, unarmed, anl although practically surrounded, darted for the nearest opening He had gone sc 100 yards when a bullet from & rifle in the hands of one of his pursuers pierced his lung from behind and brought him to the ground. Bleedink and fatally wounded, Lewls was taken the marshal's ofice and cared for whils Warden McClaughry wae notified Three distinct gangs of conviets ha been reported at points within fitteen miles around Topeka since last night and al though & horde of penitentlary guards deputy sheriffs and farmers have been on the go all doy, night fell with capture, that of Lewls, reported From the descriptions received McClaughry believes that the | of Bheriff Cook of Topekn Hewitt, white, and Lon Sentherland, pa Indian. Hewitt, with Frank Thompson, « negro, were ring leaders in the outbreak apd the warden today increased the reward for their capture. Hewitt and Southerland were both serving five r sentence larceny. Hewitt | years old Southerland is but 15 om of fow ly set Sher from a KANSAS CIT has added one mor: ur reely only ono Warden two captors were Arthur for while Inln Ave Zealous. At 6:30 this evening a message received at the penitentfary noted that Thompson, with three other convicts, had been traced to near Council Grove this afternoon and was belug followed. The oficers ut Topeku both and city, filled with revenga ut belng folled at Pauline, are hending every euergy to overhaul these partioular convicts, who they profess to helieve are 1n biding within thirty miles of the scenn whers yesterday's eas\tng eplsode was laid. county