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

ESTABLIS HED WAITING ON STUEFER Wot Vory Woll Ratisfied with tion of Bond Deals. Explane- /, ', "y, REYL Ty " "APERS CALL FOR MORE LIGHT ’e POSITION OF BEE GENERALLY APPROVED No Reason Why fchool Fand Should Be Used for Private Gain. OUTSPOKEN VIEWS OF THE STATE PRESS Wh eople Are Saying Ahont the Shady Trananctions by Which Patrimony of the Schaols Has Reen Milked, That the explanations of the shady school fund bond deals offered by and for Treas- urer Stusfer are not regarded as satistac- tory by the people and more especially by yepublicans is plain froi the general tenor ©of the rcpublican press of the state. Tho papers that were at first reluctant to ex press opinjons, ln the expectation that all Jmputations of mismanagement would be Fepeliod by an explicit statement by the treasurer, show signs of impatience with the effort to cover up the school fund manipulations by ignoring the whole mat ter. A few of the comments passed by the republican newspapers of Nebraska during the Inst week are here glven Explanations Un, ctory. Grand Wrea island Independent (rep.):. State er Stuefer would, it was promised, explain the Cuming county deal, in which The Bee stated Stuefer's business assoclate had hought $50,000 worth of refunding bonds chiefly with the old bonds, which were the property of the state achool fund and which his associate, Mr. Neligh, had no right to have in his possession. As charged by The Beo, Neligh cleared a bit over $2,000 on the deal. State Treasurer Stuefer has not expluined this and it his explanation s made, and it 18 no better than the explana- tion of the Burt county affalr, it will leave @ better taste in the mouth it he does not even attempt an “explanation.” Governor Savage, too, Is apparently mot taking the people into his confidence. Per- baps he does not know that any charges Mavo been made against Stuefer? 1t he has, is he doing enything to find out If they are true? And if he finds they are true 18 he content, as the executive of the state, o let matters run on regardless of the de- mand that at least the charges be officially investigated? However, manipulation with charges of such gross ws have been made by The Bes, answered by an “explanation” that will be unsatistactory o everyone Wwho weads carefully the disclosures made, 18 the wepublican™state adwinistration content to JeL matters drift on, and not even set atoot # thorbugh inquiry into the matter? And are the taxpayers of the state who have been flacced to 4 nicety by Bartley and who have suffered from manipulations by Me- serve, going to refrain from & vigorous protest, unless prompt action Is taken to ferret the matter to the bottom and if the charges are true agalust Stuefer, he is com- pelled to resign, or s impenched? We don't belleve they will. The rank and file of the republican party, even though some of its leading politicians seem to bave a cowardly fear to atir up the mess down there, and find out whethor it s really as putrld as surface conditions indicate, want A state treasurer who will be straight with the people. 1f Stuefer is a lamentable fall- ure of thelr ideal they want him out. Afd the sooner the better. Explain or Res| Central City Nonpareil (rep.): To put 4t charitably, there is something that looks very shady about State Treasurer Stuefer's methods of converting the state school funds into hond investments. The recent exposures have placed Mr. Stuefer's name under a cloud. Hin explanations have been wory unsatistactory and have falled to clear the recent Burt and Cuming county bond deals of the appearance of jobbery which they bear upon their face. The re- publicans of Nebraska have reposed a golemn trust In Mr. Stuefer. When Joe Bartley betrayed his trust the republican party suffered for it, and not unjustly, for ® party must stand sponsor, for the men it elevates to high places. A public ofi- clal is not alone the custodian of the pub- Bic welfare and his own conscience, but of his party's honor as well. The man who betrays them all for a few paltry thousands of dollars is worse than the thief who breaks in at night and robs at the expense only of his own consclence and Bis vietim's purse, and deserves punish- ment more severe. William Stuefer owes 1t to his state, to his party and to his own good name to explaln away these charges that bave been made against him. If he gan’t do this he owes it to common de- tency to resign an office he has disgraced. Rohes Ave Not Clean, O'Nelll Frontier (rep.): Trea Stue- fer's explanation does not exactly wash his robes of suspicion in connection with those hond deals. He should either questionadly clear himselt or for apother treasurer. Pltitully Weak Excuse. St. Paul Republicen: Corruption in high places deserves the prompt condemnation of every republican newspaper, no matter by whom committed nor by whom exposed There 15 too much of an inclination shown to defend Stuefer because he is accused by Rosewater. The republican newspapers of this state, which have buen tried by fire 0 the past, ought to be too big for such a petty policy. The evidence which The Omaha Hee has Introduced against Mr. Stuefer s unlmpeachable. Tt is to the effect that the state treasurer permitted weveral issues of county bonds to pass un- necessarily through the hands of stock jobbers, who clipped interest coupons ag- gregating thousands of dollars before de- positing them in the state treasury as an {avestment for the permanent school fund. Mr. Stuefer's published explanation is so pititully weak as to amount to a practical confession of collusion at the very ap- parent fraud. He says the reason he falled to make a direct offer for the various Is- Aues of bonds was because he is prevented by the constitution from offering a pre- mium, yet in the next breath he admits Paying a premium on state warrants. He makes o bad matter worse by comparing Ms record to those of his predecessors, one of whom fs in the penitentiury and the other 0 a bank which he was enabled to art with funds accumulated during hi ol Kontinued on Third Page.) un« make room JUNE WILHELMINA STAYS MARRIED OMelnl Assurance Intention of Gettl from Her Unpol At She Has a Divoree ar Consort No teht THE HAC Cablegram -8 respondent s {very highest rumor that Que etting a thi 1901 E by P Publishing (¢ Dec, 1.—(New York World olegram.)—Yonr cc spectally requested by ™ authority to contradict n Wilhelmina contemplates and tell the people the story is without foundation, as are also all statements that thére ha a rupture of relations between the band and wife with the queen’s mother debts and all the kindred gossip about. The story that a duel, resulting from the alleged differences between the queen and her consort, has been fought and that the queen's aide-de-camp, Major Van Tet, was wounded, is denled by Major Van Tet's brother, who says the aide-de- camp is suffering from peritonitis. There certaloly have been little differences about the prince’s debts, but they are said to be now o a fair way to settlement. The whole secret of these reports, it is al- leged. lies in Prince Henry's extreme un- popularity ong the lower classes At the theater the biograph pictures of the queen are tumultuously cheered nightly, while those of Prince Henry are loudly hissed. Tn the ten months of his married | life the prince hae only increased the un- favorable impression of him which was formed when he first arrived in this coun- try to stay. The queen's illness was due to premature maternity. That fact natur- ally gt abroad, as it was understood at one time that her condition was critical The court clrcular gave oul that queen was suffering from a slight but, the real trouble being known | lower classes began scandalous whisp that the prince was the cause of his wife's Hliness. Tales then passed from mouth to mouth about his debts and his mean way of treating the queen’'s horses for his own pleasure and his love of shooting. | Unfortunately, the court chamberlain's {11 ness prevented offielal contradictions and the :eporis continued to grow. Another reason for the prince’s unpopularity is his small interest in Holland. He never Koes to see the museum’s treasures, liglously hoarded at great trouble and ex- pense. He even went hunting in the be- gioning of the queen’s illness, although he knew Court Physiclan Pott had sent a telegram to Dr. Albersdera, a great specialist in woman's diseases, and also had wired to Amsterdam for a nurse, Miss Catherina Tusschenbroek. Another hos- pital nurse was also called to the palace and the queen’s mother was telegraphed 10 g0 to her daughter's side Monday morn- ing, November 11. Yet that very morning the prince left to shoot on Baron Van Tuylle's estate near Haarlem. He was tele- graphed for that same afternoon and ar- rived at Apeldoorn a faw moments before Queen Emma did. The queen s conva- lescent mow, but the incident left a deep impression upon the Dutch people, who worship their young sovereign. The false rumors are partly due to the Dutch pross, which takes no trouble to contradict them. SEEK TO REFORM DRESS Scientints of Paris Enlist the Ald of Soclety Leaders in War- fare Againat Sta divorce to hue- the cold, the re- (Copyright, 1901, by Press Publishing Co.) PARIS, Dec. L—(New York World C: blegram—Spectal Telegram.)—War upon the corset is being waged with more earnestness than ever. As the society leaders are fast joining In the campaign, It is said something really is golng to he acomplished. Dr. Phillippe Marechal, sclentist ot distnction, revived (he anti- corsat feeling in @ serios of lectures, which drew packed audiences of the smart set, By means of stereopticon views he showed how corset pressure distresses and permu- nently injures the body. “The modern woman has degenerated appallingly,” Dr. Marechal snid. “Stays render her an &y prey to diseases of the lungs, heart, lver and spine. Heavy skirte have gradually shortened her legs and given her the duck walk pecullar to soclety women and general among them A woman i, tights walking gracefully is never seen. Heavy headgear ha LI [ duced the braln capacity of the modern civillzed woman from the type of three centuries ago that today only the Poly- nesian race show a smaller cranium.” Such assertions, backed with sclentife claims, made a profound impression. Al- though there Is no likelihood of fts ever pussing, several deputies intend to support a drastic bill proposed by Dr. Marechal, calculating that the debate will have an excellent eftect on the population. The Dill forblds women under % years to wear corsets or similur appliances under a pen- alty of three months in prison STUDIES PARIS FROM ABOVE Rrazilian Statesman City In the Atrship of » Prince by Press Publishing Co.) (New York World Ca- blegram-—-8pecial Telegram.)—Princess Le- titla, an aunt of the king of Italy and mother of the duke of Abruzzi, loaned her balloon yesterday to Senor Severo, a Bra- slllan statesman, who came here with an afrship, with which he intends to outshine his compatriot, Santos Dumont. The princess managed today's ascension her- self. Senor Severo desired to study the topography of Parls from above before cruising with his motor airship. In the balloon, besides Princess Letitia and Benor Severo, were M. Lachambre, the noted balloon manufacturer, Mme. Lachambre, herself a naut, will sail this week branch manufactories in States. Santos Dumont has returned from Lon- don. He expresses the keenest apprecia- tion of the cordiality shown to him English military ballooning school, he thinks, s fully equal to the French school in methods and knowledge, but in abundance of equipment. DEPRIVE SOLDIERS OF VOTE Propo (Copyright, 1901, PARIS, Dec great arco 1o establish the United fon to Deny Amer! ers Right of Fr Manil MANILA, Dec. 1.—The commission on municipal laws and regulations is about to change the terms of office for municipal counsellors. 1t has decided that members of the United States army and navy can- not vote In the approaching elections at Panay Jsland, there are four candidates for the mayorality and fifty-seven candidates to fill six vacancies among the city Imen. In these elections the candidates probably #0lid American vote, American the | been | all tales of family scenes | over the prince's | floating | and wite. | The | inferior coun- | | tion he may will be elected by mul OMAHA, MONDAY MORNING, DECEMBER FIRST DAY WILL BE BRIEF Ehortly After Cenvening Senate Will Listen te MoKinley Memerial. PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE FOLLOWS TUESDAY Senator Foraker or Hanna Wil Ine trodace Resolution Honor ot Late Chief Magistrate in Upper House. 1.—One of the first measures of national interest which will be introduced in the senate at the ses- slon which begins tomorrow will be a resc lution looking to public action concerning the death of President McKinley., This will be presented on Tuesday either by Senator Foraker or by Senator Hanna, probably the former, and after its introduction the sennte will adjourn as a mark of respect to the memory of the dead president The annual message of President Roose- velt will not be received until Tuesday and on this account the session on Monday will be exceedingly brief. It {s not now ex- pected that anything will be done on that day beyond the announcement of the death of Senator Kyle, following which the senate, in accordance with custom, will adjourn for the day. On Tuesday the president's message will be read and, after its read ing, the announcement of the death of President McKinley will follow at once, whereupon under the precedent established when Presidents Lincoln and Garfield died resolutions providing for the appointment of a committes to act with a similar com mittes of the housc of representatives to take appropriate action relative to the matter and then calling for immediate ad- journment for the day will be adopted Heretofore committeos have been appoin to arrange the detalls of public and it is understood that plan will be pur sued in this instance and that later in the WASHINGTON, Dec wession some public man of distinction will | bo invited to deliver a eulogy in the capitol First Bills on Wednesdny. Wednesday and Thursday will bo devated to the introduction of new bills and, as usual, there will be a flood of them. Among the first bills of importance to be preacnted Wil be the ship subsidy bill, which wil be introluced by Senator Pry. and the Nicaraguan canal biil, which Senator Mor- ®an will present. Senator Frye has not entirely completed his bill, but he said to- day that It would be different In many de- taile from the old il of last session. That measure was framed by former Senator E munds. Senator Frye himself i the author of the new bill. Semator Morgan's canal bUl will be n duplicate of Representative Hepburn's bill on the canal question. Other early bills of fmportance will be one looking to the construction of a sub- marine cable from the western coast to Hawail and another providing for the es- tablishment of a new executive department to be known as the Department of Com- merce. On Thursday the senate will ad- journ until the following Monday. The gen- eral opinion among senators ix that very little real work will be done before the Christmas holidays. Conslder Reciproecity Flest, The first subject demanding attention is reciprocity. Varlous treaties are now pend- ing in the senate looking to commercial agreements between the United States and other countries. Senator Aldrich will re- new his efforts to have these treaties, which have already been reported from the com- mittee on foreign affairs, committed to the committen on finance, on the ground that they doal with tariff questions The friends of the treaties will oppos: this demand and the preliminary skirmish expected to ensue probably will serve to develop some interesting featurcs. The early days of the session will be marked by the rearganization of the senate com mittees, =0 far as may be necessary, and a caucus of the republican members will be held tomorrow for the purpose of con- sidering the question of appointing a com- mittee to suggest names for the vacances The most important place to be filled 1s that of chairman of the committee on for- eign relations. It is generally conceded that Sepator Cullom, who is the senior republican member of that committee, will succeed to the chairmanship, Program in the Hounse. WASHINGTON, Dee. 1.—The program for the opening day in the house tomorrow, al- though it will follow rigidly route prece- dents, will be Interesting and to a certaln oxtent ploturcsque. Admission to the gal- leries will be by card, of which two have beea tssued to each member, and they will be crowded to their full capacity. The desks of the popular members will be laden with flowers. The clerk of the house will call the members to order at noo praver by the chaplain the roll will ba called by states. The speaker will be formally elected and escorted to the chair by a committee. General Henderson speaker s assured, whose re-election as Will then address the house, after which Mr. Bingham of Penn- sylvania, “The Father of the House,' & titular honor bestowed upon the oldest member in point of continuous service, will administer the oath to him. The speaker in turn will administer the oath to the members-elect. The old oficers of (he house who were rechosen by the repub lcan caucus then will be re-elected and sworn in. Following this resolutions will be adopted to appoint committees to in- form the president and the sepate that the house has olected Goneral Henderson speaker and Mr. McDowell clerk. By resolution Speaker Honderson then will appoint a committee of three to join a similar committee from the senate to in form the president that a quorum of the two houkes has assembled and that grees is ready to receive any communica have to make. Resolutfons to adopt t ily the rules of the last house and to fix the daily hour of meeting also will precede the event of the opening day, the annual seat-drawing Measnge Withheld Till Tuesdny. The president's message will be with held vntll Tucsday. Geeral Grosvenor of Obio probably will make the sad announce ment to the house of the death of the late President McKinley and offer the resolu tions upon which the house will act. On Tuesday that portion of tho president's message referring to the death of Mr. Me- Kinley probably will be referred to a select committee to arrapge a program of eulogles Tt is rather a remarkable colncidence that Mr. McKinley was chairman of the com- mittee that arcanged the program whe President Garfleld died. Blaine pronounced the eulogy on that occasion. Mr, Wash burn was chairman when Lincoln died After Tuesday the house probably will ad. journ three days st a time until cangress recess for the Christmas holidays. Speaker Henderson will occupy this time preparing his commitiee which will he nounced as woon as the house after the holidays. Practically no business will be transacted before the holidaye. con lists an exercises | and after | convencs | HOME AGAIN FROM MANILA Teansport Buford Lands & with Nine Soldier New York Hundred NEW YORK, Doc. 1.—The United | transport Buford arrived today from Manila | | with eight compantes of the Twenty-third | {United States infantry, companies A to H 801 enlisted men, noncommissioned staft and band and (hirty-sever officers, under | command ot Colonel J. Milton Thompson. There were also 115 discharged soldiers and government employes on board. The men are a fine, robust lot, in good spirits and glad to get home. Among those who are on Colonel J. Milton Thompson, Majors James | and Hodges, Captains W. A. Nicholls, Wil- llam H. Sage, R. R. Stevens R. (. Creston, | Samuel Seay, r.. J. L. Hines and H. L. Laubach, Lieutenants G. 8. Goodale, A. T.| Ovenshine, H. E. Bonnecastle, L. A. Saxton, | W. T. Merry, Willlam A. Kent, W. W, Mc Cammon, jr., Arthur P, Watts, W. K. Arm- strong. John W. Norwood, George A. Mer- | bert and J. A. Moore and Chaplain J. H Sutherland, all of the Twenty-third United SBtates infantry; Surgeon Major' H. 8. T. Harris; Captain E. M. Semple, Fourteenth United States cavalry; Captain = T, Stritz- inger, Twenty-seventh United Eintes infun- 1 Captain 0. H ‘aham, pay department; Licutenant, H. B. Ferguson, engineer corps; 8. F. Bottoms, artillery corps; L. S. . Rucker, Jr.. Sixteenth infantry; Harrison | Hall, artillery corps; Fltzhugh Lee, |Jr. Twelfth cavalry; Grayson V. Heidl, Third cavalry; A Cowan, Fourteenth intantry, and a number of civilians, wives and families of various officers Tomorrow the Twenty-third regiment will {be sent by special train to Plattsburg, N. Y., its headquarters. The men say that as thelr services consisted Mimply of po- {Ncing the Sulu archipelago they had an | | easy time of it, the natives being peace | ably inclined. Colonel Thompson safd the | sultan of Sulu ix a jolly man and they got long well together. 8till, while the na- tives are quict, the chiefs, he says, pos- sess autocratic power and their rule is rigid in the extreme. Stat board are: ! | iWHDNG DAY IS SELECTED 1t of West Tndian ¥ | tlon Omits to Note the | Calendnr, | Manag o CHARLESTON, ., Dee. 1—Impre sive religlous exercises intended as a pre- lude to tomorrow's opening ®f the South Carolina Interstate and West Indlan expo- sitlon were held at the exposition grounds this afiernoon. The naming of December 1 as the opening day of the exposition was without consulting the calendar and the fact that December 1 was Sunday was dis- covered only a short time ago.dIt was then decided that a proper way @ fulfill the promise made in the resolutién as to the opening was to hold exercisefappropriate to the day. Itison Capers, Episcopal bislop of South Carolina, made the invocation® A dedica- tion ode by George Herbert Sans of Charles- ton: and set to musio by TS Sau! was sung by a large chorus, @coempanied by the First Artillers band: Addresses were made by ters and the bepediction W pronounced by Mgr. Quigley. The exposition will be tormally opened tomorrow afternoon. Tha | ceremonies at the the Ivory City will be | preceded by a parade composed of marines, | naval reserves, cadets, state volunteere and various clvic societics, under command of Licutenant Colonel Charles Morris, U, S A. The city is handsomely decorated and there were many arrivals at the hotels during the day. Hon. Chauncey M. Depew, United States | senator from New York, who is to deliver | the dedication speech, arrived in Charles- ton this morning and is being entertained at Summerville by F. W. Wagner, president of the exposition company Governor McSweeney and staff arrived to- | night to participate in tomorrow's exercises. {RAISE FUND FOR INDENMITY poses Method of Meet. ing Obligation al minis- | Prince Chin P PORT TOWNSEND, Wash., Dec. 1.—~Ac- cording to mail advices from the Orient, Chinese officidls are resorting to all kinds of means to raise money to assist in paying the indemnity agreed on by the powers. Be- sides @ glgantic scheme in which more than $100,000,000 are involved, half of whici will go into the indemnity fund and half | be given away in prizes, which scheme has received the sanction of the court, It is now proposed by Prince Ching to impose a head tax on all Chinese, whether residing within the limits of the empire or in for- elgn countries. Prince Ching's plan, as submitted to the court, is to send commissioners to all for- eign countries to collect the tax from Chi nese residents, claiming that as they do not become citizens of other countries they should assist In paying the fndemnit Prince Ching's plan has created considerable | Qissatisfaction in the southern provinces of | the Chinese empire and is liable to result | in serious dieturbances. It is claimed that residents of the northern provinces were | alone responsible for the Boxer movement and that they should be called upon to benr any expense caused by thelr action. ChY- ness of the southern provinces were friends of the forelgners and as most of the mer- chants in foreign countries are from the southern provinces the movement on foot to resist the taxation for indemnity is rap- fdly gaining ground and it is eald Chinese abroad will refuse to pay the proposed tux. |WILSON OPPOSES BUREAU | | Secretary of Agriculture Ohje Cabinet x Now J Agent for Stockmen Live stock men from Secretary | Agriculture Wilson in thelr plan to huve ongress create u federal Hve stock com misxloner to, rank an second assistant se retary of agriculture. Mr. Wilkon, w was sald by some of the delegates to the convention of the National Live Stock soclation be in favor of the proposi tion, arrived bere today and announced his opposition to the plan. “We have a bureau of antmal now.” sald the secretary, “and [ tirely competent to look after the | stock interests of the country. There .Ih‘J 1,000 men under the direction of the llhl'l‘.A\I‘{ CHICAGO, expect Dec. 1 need no assistance oi industry it is en- lve which is headed by Dr. Balmon, who is thoroughly versed in all matters pertain- ing to the cattle-raising industry. I my- self am a live stock man and In sympathy with alms and objects of the live stock as new ofce the department and f bas sald otherwise o mistake made. 1 not see that the stock interes aln of the mu ner In which besn (reated by 1 the tederul & has | o lve | can comp! they have vernment," | Father Comm | tronay t o 10 BUILD NEW TRUNK LINE Senater Olark and Thomas F. Walsh Oen- neoted with Important Deal. PLAN FOR TRANSCONTINENTAL RAILROAD port Says Rock Island is ested and Will Get New R to Caltfornin it Scheme Inters ute es Throush, DENVER, Dec. 1 tor Willlam A. Clark of Montana and Thomas F. Walsh of Colorado have, it rumored, joined issues in railroad construce tion and will bulld practically a new trans continental railroad. « Tho Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific 15 sald to be fn with Sena- tor Clark and Mr. Walsh The new transcontinental lino would give Senator Clark an outlet for his Los Angeles & Salt Lako City road, which has been loft without one through the absorption of the two Colorado mountain lnes by George Gould. The Rock Island would get a new and short route to California Mr. Waleh some time ago incorporated & rallroad to be built from Ouray via Gun- nison to Pueblo. If his alliance with Sena- tor Clark Is perfected he would bulld on probably to Liberal, Kan., where he would connect his road with the Rock Island It Is said that Bepator Clark and Mr. Walsh will meet this in Washington there complete the deal whereby they will scome partners in rallroad constructing. WILL FIGHT WHISKY TRUST The Post says: Sena- week Spirits Action | States tanning Convention, CINCINNATI, Dec. 1 ken in the weeting her United States Spirfts assoclation. It 1s ex pected that war against the trust will be made. The United States Spirits associa tion is the distributing agent of spirits aul alcohol, and is under contract with Standard Distilling company, one of the concerns composing the distilling companies of America, “The Whisky Trust,” to take its entire output. The Spirits assoclation 18 an independent organization, but mutual Great interest this week of the interests mako it desirable that they work | in unison. They have been doing so for several years. The Spirits associntion meets annually with representatives of the Standard Distilling company to agree upoa a price and contract for the output of the latter company The first trouble with the United States Spirits assoctation came seven months ago when the trust advanced spirits and alcohol in price 1 cent a gallon to §1.31. The second rufle came several days ago when the trust added another cent, maktug the price $1 it gave as its reason tho ad- vance n the price of corn. The latest increase, the Spirits associa- tion says, was unwarranted and many mem- hers say that they cannot stand by the pric and will seek the articles outside of the st markets. The output of the Standard Distilling_company amounts to about 40.- 000,000 gallons « year. The recent advance represents $800,000. The distributors claim that the rise in corn was not sufficient to Justity the advance, TWENTY YEARS FOR MURDER » Prison tence for Killing of Dr. Barnes. NVILLE, TIl., Dec i the ¢ of Willlam charged with the murder Harnes of Monticello by Central 1lospital for the Insane at Jack- sonville last May, at the alleged Instiga- tion of Mrs, Mamie Barnes Quiney, the doctor's wife, and Mrs. McWilliams, mother of Mrs. Barnes, returned a ve: dict early today, after being out en hours, finding Ferguson guilty of murder and fixing the term of punishment at twenty years in the penlesntiary SHOE FACTORY IS BURNED Costly Fire Engineman is Over- come by Smoke and Serfously Injared. JACKRO! 1~The jury Webb Ferguson, of Dr. J. L. poisonine fn the a ST. LOUIS, Dec. 1.—Fire bullding occupled by the Mueler-Bayless Shoe and Glove company, 907-909 South Twenty-seventh street, caused a damage of $40,000 to the stock and $10,000 to the ma- chinery and building. The loss is covered by insurance. Frank 0'Donnelf, foreman of an engine company, was overcome by smoke while fighting the blaze from a ladder and fell to the ground, a distance of thirty-five feet, receiving seri- ous injuries. NEVADA JUDGE SCORES JURY today in the Twelve Go rectly Violate His ¥ Instrueti Trae" Dnors MODENA, Utab, Dec. 1.—Yesterday jury at Ploche, Nev., returned a of assault and battery against seven the persons aceused of participating the recent hanging of the negro Ellis Fay, Nev. Judge Talbot, in his charge to the jury, instructed it to either return a verdict of guilty af assault with intent to kill or one of acquittal. When the ver- dlet was read in court the judge scored the jury for returning such a verdict. The men will be sentenced Monday STABS WIFE AND HIMSELF the verdict ot n at s Murder and Suicide While in a drunken Flory, a clerk the employ of the Graubner Ice company, stabbed his wife, Lena, three times in t breast with a huge hunting knife and then cut his own throat, both Aying instantly, Plory and his wife had a quarrel earlier n the day about money matters and this led to the tragedy. Willle, & 10-year-old son of the couple, was a horriiled witness of the affalr, DISASTROUS FIRE IN MINE Seventy-Five ny Worth of perty a Total Destruction. ST. LOUIS, D tonight Joseph Inrs All th Madisor Routh fire, « ST. LOUIS, mine No Glen ¢ 1il., were destroyed b had & capacity ployed 250 men. 2 of t top works of Coal company Jdwardsviile wing at arbon n loss dng the The e dally and cme statement reg abtained of 1,20 mine and | the | R Monday, and Winds CONDITION OF THE WEATHE! ¥ ist for bubly Nebrask Tuesday; Vi “alr nt Omnaha Yesterday: Hour. [ 1 " . " " m m Temperatn SHOT BY ANOTHER PAT CROWE Wounded, Prisoner A ¥ Town Man hut Pollce Say ed is Not «© GREAT FALLS, Mont., Dec. 1.—(Special Telegram.)—Fred Dalkins, aged 24, son of wealthy parents at Mapleton, Ia.. who has working near Cascade, this county, he was shot this morning by Pat Crowe. Dalkine had been seeking the al leged assailant’'s arrest several days and Saturday night engaged the man in conver sation and bought him whisky, while Dal- king drank cold tea he had previously sup plied to the hartender. About midnight the men separated At 5 . m. today Dalkins aroused a doo tor and showed a wicked wound just be- low his heart. Dalkins said Crowe had shot him. A posse was organized and cap- tured the supposed Crowe sleeping in A barn with a companion. Both surrendered without parley and both professed {gnor- ance of the shooting. claiming to have baen sleeping weveral hours. The wounded man and both captured men were brought here this afternoon, the first named to go fo the hospital. where his condition Is consid ered serious, The supposed Crowe is Harry MoBride, released a the county fuil after serving sentence for larceny by convertion. While drunk he blew in his partner's money. The offcers belleve he is fnnocent of the shooting, though Dalkins ideutifios him as the as- sailant. McBride is being held ponding further investigation. Officors claim ho has no resemblance to the real Pat Crowe. MUELLER IS UNDER BOND been anys rocognized as Man Whoe Said Roosevelt Share McKinley's Fate Nefu Talk, Should en to PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 1—A. H. Muel- 1e the man arrested at Broad and Chest- nut streots Saturday for deciaring that President Roosevelt should be served t same as President MeKinley, was for district in $500 ball. The on nothing to say, declaring he was not vesponsible on Baturday using the words imputed to him. e stated that he had been machinist in Wiimington, Del. Mueller was arrestod on complaint of ¥. T. Tobin, who claimed to have heard him use the threatening language. Tobin said today that the re- made fn the Hotel Lafayette at the president was looking at the ball game in West Philadelphia. At ller's boarding place 1t was stateq he had always conducted himself In a quiet and orderly menner. He is sald to have been out of employment for some time. PROVES NO GENUINE COMET held prix that for had enomenon Viewed from Chicago. SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 1.--Director Campbell of the Lick observatory has made a thorough search of the heavens for the phenomenon witnessed at Chicago a few nights since. Prof. Camphell failed to find the slightest trace of a comel. He ex- plains the phenomenon witnessed in Chi- cago In two ways, saying: “What the people saw may have been the bright trail left by & meteor. I myself have watched such trails for as much as twenty minutes before they wholly disap- peared. It is more probable, though, that what they saw was the constellation known the Plelades. It so happens that the Pleiades are now in exactly the location in the heavens described In the dispatches, and when obscured by a thin mist the con- stellation looks so much like & comet that it has been mistaken for it before.” CHINAMEN READY TO FIGHT Celestinis Will Use Money t of Exclusion Act, Prevent e PITTSBURG, Dec. 1.—Chinamen of Pitts- burg and surrounding towns will make every effort to prevent the re-emactment at the next session of congress of the Chinese ex- clusion act. Que We Quong of San Fran cisco, a representative of the Six Compan- ies, who has been in the city se | tended by over 400 Chinamen After the meeting a leading Chinaman said kis countrymen in this district would con tribute $20,000 to the cause. In about ten | days meetings will be held all over the dis trict by 8ix Companies’ representatives with the object of having every Chinaman con- tribute $50 to the fund BEHALF OF MRS. MAYBRICK Canadian par Resldents Said to He Pre- & Appenl to King Edward, CLEVELAND, 0., Dec. 1.—Former Cana dian residents in American cities are again aActive in their efforts to have Mrs, Florence Maybrick released from her English prison. A petition s being drawn up by a Cleve- land lawyer and copies of it will be sent along the cities bordering on the Great Lakes; copies will also be sent to the mayors of Montreal and Toronto The petition will finally go to the king { of England and the English premier. The present is considered opportune for an ap peal to his majesty for clemency by Canadians because of the gallant Oanadian soldlers durlug the Boer war. {BOY SHOOTS AGED FATHER ima His ¥ Drunk and Him, nt Ca Ahused Ind., Dee. 1 years, a Greenfleld, wounde GRE Glasscock, tarmer 1iving near and probably fatally year-old boy. The boy was father « home abusing d other family and after the him with a broomstick he tending to frighten him off on other occasions when 4 assaulted blm TELD, aged 70 “Robert prominent was shot by his 17- arrested. e intoxicated claims his and began members of the had siruck d at him, in % he had done the father bad 1o him ther fir week ago from | eral days, | presided at a meating today which was at- | work of | he A l‘mrlng company, between $50,000 a | | | | | | |in a HOT FIRE S00N OUT Confined to Ureamery Package Manufacture g Company's Building LOSS ESTIMATED AT NEARLY $100,000 Blase Under Difficultion THREE MEN HURT WHILE DOING BATTLE One of Them, George Trexler, is Hor Reseued from Death lly FALLING WALL PINS THE HOSEMAN FA! Comrades Snatch Him from Death Trap at Risk of Their Own Lives ~Lieutenant Coft Has Dones Hroken, The four-story brick bullding at 1007 %e 11 Jones street, occupied by the Creamery Package Manufacturing company and (he Lewls Supply company, was destroyed by fire between 9 and 10 o'clock last night entailing & loss estimated at nearly $100, 000. Threo firemen, while fighting the flames, were (nfured Lieutenant M. J. Cuff of engine No two ribs broken and shoulder dislocated Frank Greenman, truck No. 1, face and hands burned. George Trexler, hoseman of engine No. palnfully brutsed under falling wall All were sent to the poi'ce station, whera the police surgeon and bis assistant dressed thelr injuries, after which they were taken to thefr homes. 1t Is believed none of the threa is serfously hurt The fire was extremely difficult to com bat, being hemmed in on the east by the Tonth streot viaduct and on the west by the Eleventh street viaduct. Both north and south was a series of sidetracks, on several of which atood lines of box and flat cars. Firemen first to arrive said the blaze seemod to have heen burnfug fully twenty minutes. It had gained fearful headway. List of the Losses. The loss 18 apportioned approximately as follows: Stock of the Creamery Package Manufac- d $60,000; Lewls Supply company, $6,000 the bullding, about $80,000. The creamery company's insurance ls about 320,000 and the loss to the building and to the Lewis Supply company Is virtually covered by in- surance. The building, which was quite old, was the property of Count John A. Creigh ton. The first alarm given the fire department was telephoned by Charley Long at the storage houge of W. M. Bushman, 101315 Leavenworth street The alarm was turned {n a few minutes hefore § o'clock and this was followed al- most immediately by a general alarm. Tt was sald that the flames were first appars ent on the first floor, in the northeast cor- ner of the structure. No one aeems Lo know the cause. When the first equipment arrived the entire interior of the building was aglow and the firemen experienced great dificulty in getting water upon it, as all the windows and doors were protected by sheetiron casing Fall of Roof Releases ¥ At 9:10 a portion of tho roof fell away, which gave the flames air, and they shot through the aperture to a spectacular height, lighting up the district for blocke around. For the next thirty minutes It looked as though several buildings fn the immediate vicinity were doomed. The fins new brick bullding of the Northwall lm plement company, which abuts it on the enst, was In special danger, but thanks to a firewall which separated the two and tc the excellent generalship of the fire de partment neither this structure nor its con tents was in any way injured By 0:15 crowds began to arrive from ever direction and fu twenty minutes both the Eleventh street and the Tenth street via- ducts were black with humanity. A better amphitheater from which (o view the spee tacle could not have been desired, but hun dreds, not content with keeping this safe distance, swarmed among (he sidetracks below and crowded the fire lines, where « cordon of policemen kept them from rush- ing too close (o the tottering walls. For- tunately the wind was In the north, so that most of the sparks and cinders blew into the rallroad yards to the south, doing nu dumage Burning Brands Seatter Cr The walls of Paxton & building and of the Deere Plow compal building, across the viaduct to the east, became very hot, but al no time were these In serious danger. Several times brands of burning wood fell upon the flon of the Tenth street viaduct, causing the planks to burst iuto flames and exciting number of instances small panics amoug the throngs of spectators, but these tncipient fires were menynl\ extinguished Among the first of the fire equipment to arrive was engine No. 1, which took 1t position in the great volumes af smok: and sparks under the south wall, Lieuten ant M. J. Cuff bullt a platform of ladders to enable him to thrust the mozzle of hi hose through a window. Mounting this, he called for water. A fow seconds elapsed and then, when the hose stiffened and straightened out under the pressure from the engine, he was bowled off hig pre perch and fell the ground, a distance of nearly twelve feet. He sum tained two broken a dislocatod shoulddr. 1 wouldn't minded getting hur %0 much,” he said a fow minutes later “If i1 had ouly happened after the fire wa under control, but 1 hated to get out at that stage of the proceeding stock of the mes. an. the Gallagher to ribs and Kuocked irilling Reacue of Trexler The most thrilling incident of the fir was the herolc rescue of Hoseman Georze Trexler of engine No. & He, with several other firemen, was in the thickest of ih fray, playing the hote upon A mess of seethiug butter tubs on the fivst floor, The had entered what appeared to be a death- trap, and whic proved, lacked little of being such. Suddenly one of the interior walls fell, pinning Trexler under it. A great mass of debris lay upon hin legs and chest, only his head and being free The interior 0 thoroughly thousands of the police cordon clearly place. G h, as events of the building had been lighted by fire that fhe epectators who crowded upon 11 that of horro the aw tior 100l ouns and exclam, the fouy from the crowd n they siw who heap ¢ were with rubblsh, and a fowv were heard down the for an effort which seemed Mcanwbile the brave frcmea en madly at the half-hearted cheers line. They we hopeless. him tearing