Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 10, 1901, Page 1

3 { ( — ESTABLISHHED SCENE 15 DRAMATIC Exoiting Epitode Between Senthern Btates- ‘ men in the Hena | TILLMAN AND M'LAURIN, SOUTH CAROLINA Former Defiantly Challenges His Colleag te Resign Again, 'LAURIN SCORNFULLY IGNORES BANTER Dec'ares He is the Objeot of Partisan Malavolence, HOAR THINKS BOTH SEATS NOW VACANT | Entire Membership Listens Intently of Upper the Riva Thetr nn Statesmen Re o mp Antmosities. | | WASHINGTON, 9.~The wenate | chamber was of a highly dra matie eplsode today, when Senator THiman of Bouth Carolina challenged his colleague, Benator McLaurin tgn with him on the In order, to uss his own lane guAge, that they might be able “to wash thelr dirty linen at home Mr. McLaurin did not take up the chal lenge. The ineident today the direct sequel of the very Ligter controversy which | arose botween the senators in South Caro- lna last apring Mr. McLaugin arose to a question of per sonal privilege today and proceeded to exs | plain that the charge was a conspiracy to | discredit him in his own state for acts and views which did not meet the approval ot certain democratic leaders. He declared that he was being humiliated and, accord ng to public prints, was to be excluded from the democratic caucus because he had meted upon certain public lssues in a v\.ny; which he considered was for the best in terests of the country and the people of his state Dec to re apot was i He announced himeelf a bellever in the | old democracy and wsfter denouncing the | new democracy leaders, who, he sald, had | brought destruction upon the party, clared that could not be driven from | his old allegiance into a party with which he did not care to aMiliate. Senator Jones, chairman cratie national committee had any “ulterfor motives” in not inviting | Mr. McLaurin to enter the caucus | Mr. Tillman reviewed the whole con- troversy | + Mr. Hoar took occasion to express the opinfon that it was very doubtful whether both the South Carolina seats in the sen- #te were not In reality He con- tended that when (he resignations were offered last epring to the governor they could not be withdrawn thereafter, having become fmmediately operative. The climax came when Senator Tilman challenged Mr. McLaurin to join with him o preparing their joint resignations and handing them to the presiding officer of the senate. This challenge Mr. McLaurin did not accept and the episode was brought 10 an abrupt close by Senator Lodge mov- 0g an executive session 3 ne of the demo- denied that he vacant Select Annrchist Inland, Mr. Hoar of Massachusetts offered a reso- Jution to authorize the president to enter fnto negotfations with other eivilized coun- tries for the purpose of selecting some fis- Jand or other suitable territory to which might be transported and confined per- sons instigating or counseling the destruc tlon of all government, or those attempt- Ing the lives of chief magistrates. The reso- | Jutlon was referred to the committee on foreign relations. Mr. Stewart of Nevada, president’s recommendation on the sub- ject of irrigation, called the attention of $he judiclary committee to what he said wa & defect in the jurisdiction of the United | States aud presented a joint resolution for & constitutional amendment to cure the de- | tects i The presentation of the resolution pro- voked some discussion and Mr. Teller of Colorado expressed the opinion that no con- stitutional amendment was necessary. A joint resolution was passed appropriat- fog $76,000 in aid of the South Carolina 1 terstate and West Indian exposition at Charleston, The appropriation is required to be used for the transportation and in- stallation of a government exhibit at Charleston. M A stir in the chamber followed when Mr McLaurin of South Carolina arose to a question of personal privilege. He had be- fore him a huge pile of manuscript. “I arise to a question of personal priv- tlege in connection with the publication of the statement that 1 have been excluded from participation in the democratic party,” ho announced. With evidence of consider able emotion he proceeded to explain that | it such was the case and If he were to be | without assignment upon committees the Fights of his state, which he In part rep- Fesented in the senate, would suffer, The only notice he had, he sald, that he was 1o be excluded from the democratic eaucus came last spring before the adjourn- ment of the senate, when the chairman of the democratic national committee in the cloakroom asked him why he no longer at- tended the democratic He had replied (hat In view of his opinion of the questions growing out of the Spanish war he tMought his presence might be embar cansing. The democratic chairman had re- plied: “Then, perhaps, it would be less em barrassing to you not to be lnvited to the raucuses?’ Mr. McLaurin sald he had replied, * talnly.” Calmination of Co apropos of the re urin Renews the Fight, caucuses er- piracy. | Former Bookkeep | Goudie, | pugilist | Major [ the « \ | ury THE OMAHA DAILY BEE. JUNE GOUDIE FORGERIES of Bank of wes Charges, but ADMITS fvers Amount, LONDON, De former bookk Dick” Bur T. Kelly arraigned Street pollce court today in connection with the Liverpool bank frauds. Prosecution counsel announced that Goudie admitted that he had forged checks, but disputed the aggregate amount. The statement of counsel was a relteration of facts already known. The most interesting point was the announcement made by counsel that he would be able to prove that after Kelly had “milked” Goudie to the extent of £72,000 Burge got the situation and, in conjunction with Laurfe Marks, the American bookmaker, who is sald to bave ommitted sulcide by Jumping from a channel & and J a “onkmaker well known on Thon Peterson the Bank English o of How the Liverpool and F. r the hokm: he Bradford the mostly wind of mer es Mances, the American Goudie in the then dispatched Mth the re iy, Wy ! St e £01,000, of which Burge re e, Mances one-third and Marks one-et dh. FACT OF PRINCE HENRY'S DUEL Now the Yablic K (Copyright THE HAGUE, Cablegram 1901 Publishing (New York World legram.)—The fol- lowing are the real circumstances of Prince Henry's duel, which, despite offictal denials, actually took place s a result of a scens at table. Although the prince the challenge he insisted on cholce of weapons and decided on pistols, he better shot than a swordsman. A shooting party was speclally arranged to cover the meeting and to afford pretext for going away from the palace. The queen suspected the intention and implored the prince to decline to fight but he brusquely refused, and it was while await- ing the result of the duel that the queen actually fell il Van Tets was wounded int stomach. The ball was located an operation was v and it s led The Van Tets hopeful last LOCATE THE HIDING PLACE Brings Captured Minnlo the dinner was actually making the being a cessary condition of night suc- was Ma fan sitlve News of A ry. erican SOFIA, Bulgaria, Dec. According information recelved from Salonica, Miss Ellen M. Stone and Madame Tsllka, her companion, are concealed in the vicinity of Rilo, about five miles south of Dubnitza, in Bulgarian territory. The news was brought by a Macedonian, who left there December 1 and who turnished precise information re- garding the hiding places and the names of the agents supplying food for the brigands and thelr captives. The information is con- sldered rellable enough to justify the American officlals in Turkey . dispatching [ to emissaries to treat with the bandlts, and | arrangements have been made with the Turkish government fob free passage across the Turkish frontier, which Is vigilantly guarded by troops stationed at every 100 yards RUSSIA IN THE ASCENDANT Corenn Minis Are Dinminss [ sove TACOMA, Wash., De. Advices from the Orlent state that al pro-Chinese members of the Corean ministry were re- contly removed. Chief among them was neral Pok, minister of forelgn affairs, who was absent in Japan attending the mikado's army maneuvers. His undoing was brought about by Li Youngik, leader of Russlan-French party, who pointed out that Pok was espousing Japan's cause too warmly, as was shown by his granting Japan a large ground concession at Ma sampo and his withdrawal of the veto on grain exportation at Japan's behest. Min- ister of Agriculture Kwon was also dis- missed as being too pro-Japanese. Pok Is to be succeeded as forelgn minister by Li, now minister at St. Petersburg. ANSWERS CRITICS OF BUDGET Inux, French Minister of Fi- nance, Replies to Pessimistic redictions. M. Cn PARIS, Dec. 9.—In the Chamber of Dep- uties today the minister of finance, M. Call- laux, replied to criticisms of the budget proposals and to the pessimistic predic tions of the adversaries of the republic. The minister said the year 1901 will develop a net deficit of 59,000,000 francs, but when the preceding surpluses are taken into con sideration it will be found that ent legislature produced a surplus of 275, 500,000 francs, which no legislature had ever done before. Tho finance minister also sald a general crisis existed in consequence of the South African war, which bad an un- favorable influence ou the French budget the pres- | In this regard France bad suffered less than | other countri SICK AT AN ()inRTUNE TIME | While, BERLIN, Dec. 9.—Dr. Hasse, the Pan man leader in the Reichstag, has been defeated, at least temporarily, in his pur pose of bringing the Edinburgh speech of the British colonial secretary, Mr. Cham- | berlain, before the Refchstag by the sud- den and possibly diplomatic {llness of Dr Von Thielmann, the secretary of the trea; It was Dr. Hasse's intention to start | a discussion on Mr. Chamberlain's remarks This incident, Mr. McLaurin declared, was the culmination of a long series of events in a contest waged by an element of (he democratic party against him. The entire senate by (his time had become Interested, Several republicans crossed the political alsle to the democratic side the better to listen to what Mr. McLaurin bad to sy Continuing Mr. McLaurin said he would be silent did he not fear that the move against him was one to keep alive section- alism. For many years the people of the south had realized that they had not ob- tained their fair share of the national ben efits. Mr. McLaurin recalled the fact that | tion is postponed by the announcement that | ment | Nie | during an interpellation today on the sub- ject of veterans' pensions. An exciting ses- sion I8 expected, but the promised sensa- Dr. Von Thielmann, who was to have replied to the interpellation, is suffering from in- fluenza. AGREES TO PERPETUAL LEASE agun Rents Section of Govern- to United States for Canal, Territory MANGUA, Nicaragua, Dec. 9.—Dr. Fer- although Samuel J. Randall had advocated a | Dando Sanchez, Nicaraguan minister of for- protective tariff he had been voted for in | eign affairs, and Willlam L. Merry Hau- | States cock, although he declared the tarift was a | treaty today by which Nicaragua agrees to [the Wa a democratic convention for president local de issue. t, and had been nominated for presi- David B. Hill, although he op- (Continued on Second Page.) United minister to Niceragua, signed a lease a miles wid ction of Nicaragua territory six which includes the route of the Nicaragua canal, to the United States per | b petually, overboard | | congress otherwise acted OMAHA, (ENDOWS THE GOVERNMEMT TUESDAY MORNING, DECEMBER IOWA CLERGYMAN Rev, 0. A, Johnson Hattie N IS SHOT Vietim of Makes t Who . on, Andrew Carnegie Propeses @ift of Te | Million Dellars. | O0SKALOOSA gram.)—Rev. 0. A. Johnson | NATIONAL UNIVERSITY AT WASHINGTON | tor Wesley chapel, was ! s evening in his pulpit and seriousiy by a colored girl, 20 years of named Hattle Nelson. The shooting occurred the opening of the evening service the singing of a hymn. The girl walked to the church bullding, had a wrap thrown over her shoulder and under (he folds of this concealed a 38-calibre revolver. She walked well forward toward pulpit, where the minister was standing, pulled out the gun and fired Re dodged 1a., Dec. 9.—(Spocial Tele colored, pas Sunday wounded » Made by Letter to President Roosevelt, Who May Present Mat- ter to Congre | ofter | during WASHINGTON, Dees Post tomorrow will say President Roosevelt has recelved a letter from Andrew Carnegte in which the latter offers to make a donation of $10,000,000 to | the United States.. The letter will be ferred to congress by the president in Mr. Carnegle’s gift i& for the purpose of | blishing in Washington a university for r education. As far as his idea ha n developed It proposes a gift after the manner of the bequest of James Smithson, the Bnglishman, who gave $1,000,000 for the catabiishment and maintenance of what now known as the Smithsonian inetitution Smithson desired the institution founded by | the residence of her mother near the city him to be factor in “the diffusion of | She bas little to say. The girl is held for sclentific knowledge. Mr. Carnegie pro- | district Johneon is & single man, 46 poses that the university which he is to en- of age. dow shall be the greatest institution in the | At the time of the birth of the girl's child, world for the development of higher educa- | September 1, rumor connected the pastor tion with it and a church committee was ap- pointed to invest) the seandal. Johnson the girl exonerated him before this committee. He also claims her mother ex onerates him. The girl was a bright stu dent and was aided in her studies by the minister. Thelr relation in this connection was largely the foundation for the rumor to the child's parentage. FOR KILLING A WHITE MAN Dick Willinms, Ne Charge of Sho 9.~The Washington Johuson saw the girl's behind the pulpit, but in time pe the ball. The bullet entered his left shoulder and made a painful but not & serious wound. The girl atterapted to fire a second shot, but was bindered by the ken- eral confusion of the congrogation following the pistol shot. No attempt was made to follow the girl out of the ehapel. The minis- ter was removed Apartne near the church and the wound was dressed. The girl claims the minister is the father of her child. The minister professes Innocen The girl rested late thie evening at futent and not to s 18 w court, Plan is ¥ Inr One, e claims Johns ley of former has consulted President Gilman of Hopkins university, President Had Yale, President Ellot Harvard President White of Cornell and all the leading educators of the country. Thay heartily endorse his plans. The proposed university will not interfere in the least with the educational fnstitutions already established, but will supplement them, for, according to the present plan, its doors will be open only a post-g wants the in original o0, Arrested ting Willlam Sharpless. on to those who desire to take up course. Mr. Carnegie university to take the lead reh that the United States can eventually stand side by side with Germany, if not excell that nation in sclentific development Mr, Carnegle’s plan does not propose national university in a sense that an ap propriation will asked or needed. The government is simply asked to be the trus tee of the magnificent endowment just as it administers the fund bequeathed by Smithson. It I8 expected that a board of regents will be appointed as in the case of the Smithsonian institution, or it may be that the government will be represented on the board of directors, which it is contem plated shall consist of men of national rep- utatlon. aduate also new OSKALOOSA, Ia., De gram.)—Dick Willlams, killed Willlam Sharples ton, Sunday afternoon about o'clock. Sharpless died almost instantly, The shooting occurred at Reuben Gaines' shack sort near Buxton in Mahaska county The murderer cscaped With a team be- longing to an employe. Willlams owed Sharpless money. Sharpless had asked him for it. At the time of the shooting there was no open quarrel. It is said the mur- delibera The charge struck Sharpless in the back of the head, pene- trating the brain OTTUMWA, la., Dee. ~(Speelal Tel gram.)— Buck,”” or Dick Willlams, a col- ored miner at Buxton, a small mining camp near Albia, thirty miles west of this city, 1s charged with shooting and instantly Kkilling Willlam Sharpless, a white team- ster employed at Buxton. The trisedy oc- curred at 5 o'clock Sunday affr uoon in | trout of a resort operated by Ines, in Mahaska county, near Buxton, was tho result of a short quarrel. Wil'lkms sho Sharpless with a shotgun, and the wounded man died instantly. The negro climbed into !'a buggy standing near and drove rapidly away. He was caught in this city this aft- erncon and lodged in jail. He admits his identity, but refuses to talk UNITE CATHOLIC ';n Bring 0.—(Special Tele- colored, shot and . white, near Bux- a a der was Asks for No Free Site. Mr. Carnegle has kept the proposed en- dowment a ot until he could definitely arrange the plan and scope of the new uni- versity. Even yet all these detalls have pot been arranged, so that little more than the outline of his gift can be published. It 1s known, however, that he does not pro- pose to ask from congress a single foot | of lend upon which the university bulldings | will be construc The entire expense is | to be borne out of his endowment. No sito has yet been selected It will necessarily be very large, as it is proposed to erect a of magnificent structur: The amount of money to be given by Mr. Carnegle equals the sum of the present en- dowment fund of Harvard and is considera- ble more than the invested sum of Yale. With the Catholic university, the Methodist university and the proposed Carnegie uni- versity, Washington will be the educational center of the country PHILIPPINE TARIFF MEASURES | Root | series SOCIETIES Whi Them Convention at neinnati in Bxpected CINCINNATI, Dec. Much interest was taken L today among the officers and such delegates as have arrived for the con- vention tomorrow of the American Federa- tion of Catholic Societies. The permanent organization of a central commission of all the Catholic socleties s regarded as one of the most Im} ortant steps that has ever been taken fo. the church in America. The lead- rs say it is not proposed to interfere with the autonomy of the Hibernians, the Knights of St. John, the American Catholic union, German Catholic verein, the thole Knights of America or any other atholic socleties, but to form a federation in which they will all be represented for a ommon purpose. There were important conferences today, mostly devoted to the preparation of re. ports thal are to be submitted to the con- vention Tuvesday. STATE CLOSES ITS EVIDENCE -1 stify Agn ey Sullivan 9. tor win Pay Su und Secretary nit Bills Meet Recent Decls to pns. Dee. 9.—Chairman Payne of the ways and means committee today pre sented to his republican colleagues of the committee 3 revenue tarift bill for the Philippines, which he had drawn to meet the conditions of the recent gupreme court ecision. The republican members of the | ( committee met at 10:30 o'clock to NmHHwa‘ the discussion of the general subject. The | meeting was executive and was preliminary to a full meeting of the committee tomor- row morning, when a Philippine tarift measure will be submitted to the demo- cratic members and be voted upon. The Payne bill is quite brief, with two main features, viz.: Applying the Dingley law as againet Philippine exports to this country, and applying the Philippine com- mission's tarifl schedule to goods entering | the Philippines. A further section grants | a rebate of customs taxes on goods which have paid an internal revenue tax in this country. There is no proviso in the measure that it shall be temporary, that the rat it imposed would be applicable until WASHINGTON, the U James at Ate ynch tor) CHICAGO, Dec With ot Mrs. Josephine Gordon, sister to ex- Balliff James Lynch, the state its case against Alex. Sullivan, the well known Chicago lawyer, who is charged with hav- ing conspired to Keep Lynch out of the | state to avoid being tried for jury bribing. Mrs. Gordon's testimony and cross-exam- ination brought out little new evidence in the case and conslsted mainly of the story of visite to attorneys in Lynch's behalf and of Lynch's return to Chicago. will open ite case with an address to the jury by Attorney P. H. O'Donnell. To- morrow Alexander Sulllvan, the defendant, is scheduled to take the stand in his own defense, STONE _RECEIVES 9. the testimony closes dincussion ix Ex As soon as the committee assembled Mr. Payne offered his bill and it opened an ex tended discussion on the several features involved. The meeting lasted until noon, at which time no final action had been taken and the committee adjourned until 2 p. m. to hear Secretary Root on the requirements of the situation. During the morning discussion | it developed that Mr. Russell of Connecti cut and some other republican members strongly favored proviso the bill | offered by Mr by which the tariff rates would be down from 15 to 20 per on goods passing between th United States and the Philipp This was urged pn the ground that Great Britain | now bad 40 cent of the trade of the Philippines and Germany and other Euro- pean countries held a eonsiderable percent ge, while the United States had but 8 per cent of the trade. For this reason it was urged by Mr. Russell that the United States should have come concessions against | forelgn countries, in order to gain a falr | rercentage of the Philippines’ trade for | | American goods Secretary Root, with his advisers in the War department, s preparing a bill, which be expects Lo submit to congress in a day 1...» two, fixing duties for the Philippines to meet the supreme court's decision. The latest phase requiring consideration is the | application of the drawback laws to trade | between the Philippines dnd the United | States. It is expected that any tariff ar ranged would include a provision made for the drawback for any goods imported the United States and exported to t lands. It the purpose to provide | tor the remission of internal revenue taxes | on goods liable to such tax, but exported {to the Philippines. The ofclal opinion at department |5 strongly advers places the proposition which has been broached | ¢ by some republican members of congress to frame a new tarlff schedule for the Philip- plae lsland JUDGMENT ¥y Dumage and Mixmannge- T ayne nk Director Must ¥ Negl scal fo cent nes. m 8T Dec In the St. Louls dis- trict today Judge Douglas handed down a decision against the direc defunct Mullanphy Savings bank, in the filed agalnst them for damages by the bank receiver, ex-Governor William J Stone. Judge Douglas ordered Judgment entered against the following directors: J. P. Rothmann, $57,665; Henry Klages, $ Joseph Marks, § J. P. Johanning, 98; Jasper Gestring, $3,566; Conrad Kel- $2,506, and Charles Schumacher, The suit charges the defendant di- with neglect of duty and misman per LOUIS court | ult | sul | 5,3 lermann, | 83 rectors agement HEAVY FIRE LOSS AT GOBLES rtion of Michigan s Destroyed Fla KALAMAZOO, Mich., Dec The entire bus portion of the village of Gobles. twenty miles west of Kalamazoo, was de- siroyed by fire day. Sixteen busined burned and the total be about $100,000. The in small. The of the fire, started in a butcher shop, is um There was 2o loss of it ex to were loss | timated to be surance is which known. cause | at | The defense | s of the | 10, 1901-TE? WESTERY LEAGUE MAKES RAY Cures & Goed Orop in the Bunthine of Baa John | MILWAUKEE SURELY IN THE CIRCUIT | American Awnocintion Strikes out There—=Indianapolis Omitted and St Paul Worry List, reeres on the CHICAGO, Dec. 0.—(Spectal Telegram.) As a result of the conference between Presi dent James Whitfield of the Western leagie President Ban Johngon of the American league, held here today, there will be no warfare between those two organizations Rach will respect the territory and playing contracts of the other. The conference practically resulted in an agreement be tweon the two leagues as binding as the old | National agreement. It was also | announced that Milwaukee will | Western league next year. The anndunce- | ment was made after Prosident Whitfield had been closeted for an hour with W. B Gross of that city President Whitfleld secured a lease on the old American league grounds, the only base ball park in Milwaukee, from Fred ¢ who retires from base ball. Teday's | shuts out Harry Quin of the American as woclation, unless he can secure other grounds, Soon after President Whitfield's arrival in Chicago he hastened to the office of Ban Johnson. The two were together nearly all day. The best of feeling existed between | the two men during the conference anid averything that Mr. Whitfleld asked for his leugue was granted. In return the Western league officinl conceded overything Ban Johnson asked While the present unsettled state of af fairs in the base ball world was carefully gone over, both men declared that in their opinfon pext year would be one of the best weasons from a financial point of view in the history of the national game. as o8 move ne After the conference President Whitfield announced that his organization would make no effort to place a team in Indian- apolis as long as John T. Brush was in con | trol in that city. to Willlam T. Watkins, but, he sald, the Westorn wants nothing of Brush and his tactics, St. Paul will be dropped to make room for Milwaukee, unless St. Paul buys out Des Moines. It was announced that the meeting of the Westorn leagne would be held in Kansas City the second Tuesday in January. It i3 probable that the makeup Likely to Drop St also next until that time “Kid" Nichols arrivéd in Chicago on the same train with President Whitfield, Nich ols in quest of players for the Kansas City team. He disappearcd from the hotel soon after he arrived. It was reported tonight that he had been lin econference with Charlos Comiskey of {the Clicago American league team and that he was negotlating for some of the eurplus players of the White Stockings. Among the players sought are understood to be Hoy and McFarland, outfielders; Shu- gart, shortstop, and one or two others. Now for National Agreement, Both Whitfield and Nichols leave for New York tomorrow morning. President Whit- fleld will make an effort to secure the agreement with the National leagus he obtained from the American league. Nichols will scout for players, and is con fident that Manning and he will get a good team together before many weeks. Nichols will go to secure his release from Boston, but will also look for players Nelther Ban Johngon nor Whitfleld would lscuss Hickey, “There is no use kicking a man who 1s down,” sald Whitfleld. Both | Johnson and Whitfield look for peace in the | base ball world within the next few months. The Western association will put teams in | Toledo and Columbus to help the Western | teague fight Hickey's outfit. |STRIKERS RESIST OFFICERS Serfous Riot in Which Three ¥ pants Are Badly Wounded. rtici- SCRANTON, Pa., Dec. 9.—The most seri- ous of the many riots which have occurred today. Spectal Officer Frank Schofield, accom- panted by Detective Cosgrove, whose head was cut in Sunday night's riot, went to the scene of Sunday night's disturbance to ap- prehend anyone the detective might be able to identify as having been among his as- sailant They attempted to arrest a man in a saloon, but no sooner was the warrant {shown than a crowd of miners attacked {them with drills, clubs and botties. They | rotreatea backward. protecting themselves with drawn revolvers, when some one in the mob fired two shots. The officers and a nonunion motorman who accompanied them emptied their revolvers, thereby scattering the mob, and then ran. The mob Kept up a steady fire from places of alment Schofleld 18 a striking conductc sorving as a special officer in Magistrate Miller's court to fill fn time until the strike shall have been settled Magistrate Miller says that he will have the warrant served If he has to send the whole police force to back up his office. STRIKING SWHCHMEN MEET Prestd 1y Mo with Leading Particlp ds Confe s in PITTSBURG dent of the Dec ?. T. Holly, presi- witchmen's unlon, s hold- ng conferences today with the leading switchmen of this district, who are on a strike. Since early morning he has been | meeting the men in his rooms in the Union hotel. He refused to discuss the strike All the railroads recently affected report | the blockade ralsed and trafic moving as promptly as before the trouble. The ma- jority of the plants which were closed last week on account of having no coal opencd today on full turn, now having plenty | eoal and raw material on band COLONEL JOHN_D(_JNIFH—AN DEAD of the Missourt Va ST. JOSEPH, Dec, 9.—Colonel John Doni- phan, hero of the Mexican and civil and for fifty years prominent in the of Missouri, died at hi; this morning Colonel n Ohio in 1826, H iational prominence ident of the Kansas Council Biuffs ratiroad, affair at home in thi Donipha city was horn of L pres- & and was the Clty, St Fellow fir Joseph | No objections were made { of next year's cireult will not be completed | Ji here during the street car strike happened | He is | ot | CONDITION OF THE WEATHER| MRS. DALE PROVED INNOCENT Coroner's child of the Lotel lated seream inquiring sl Nort NEW cnst for Nel Ratn ¢ Wednesd \westerly >rob: erature ury Aceld str by YORK ry into the Ell 1 tonigh abeth W Snyw Chi INGLE yraska—Cloudy T in Western I’ 1\ Snow and C nt au a4 tnlly Enting Dale, was held Hy cldental poisoning, T ¥ r T to get i he he witness who Billings, a ¢ wnted a the night how he of a child aftor he iy, you had room hortly Have he 1 grew q croam again exclted and 11 B Did you eat child fiually that candy T he Jury at or » cleared Mrs. Dal nmerclal traveler wdjoining Mrs. Dale's cory Tuesday, | T lder; Aha Yesterday: Dew. 1l 4 1 Met Denth | The coroner's in teath of Emmeline Dale, th and resulted in a verdiot of wa He t the child died and re heard the in the next room heard a 1 a bad uiet, Soon after it bega 14 the won llings heard her ask any of those tablets?" v sald: 1 odt what's the ma ream? wome e found that moans and woraan's volee i n seemed to the Emmeline died after having accldentally eaten strych i M N tablets Mra. Dale was t, not being frs. Dale's b at would at once ask Dale on bail pen grand jury in the x with construction train on the Cincinnati, mond two miles east and ment man, s minor inj |tho car P and hi of choulder North Judson, Ind., had his right knee dis- located. All of the injured were brought ¥ a’ Nevada "ERU, Ind., workmen ab, & Muncic ot rolled resulting in inju to t me car, a s The of the ry Landers of pinuing him recovery. the wheels Peterson and ribs Thomas had both arms North Judson, dislocat downed not it bl present the | to leave sald that release action torneys for the diug the natter. t Mr ot -A boxcar cad of the engine of this city u fifteen-foot the fatal injury iIry to two others wenty other occupan n fell in a heap in a redhot stov North Judson b down. He wa and both of Fremont, 0., had 0. Laughton of Ur broken. Frank , Ind., had his 1 Villlam Bates to the hospltal in this city. BELIEVE MISS CROPSIE ALIVE ELIZABETH member of th charge whos night ho belic that th A which Chalrman vigllanc saying were funds, who it understanding that young Wile the last person seen with Miss Cropsie, was | T zens Collect to Co Two Hundred ntinue the Search, cr of the that v would & mass over 1,000 H T committe they belfe lows and rain assured woul Mhey $2 knows all evoked loud referred to. MAKES FAVORABLE REPORT Sennto today s elgn rels | tion on th treaty, would ask | session for repeating sonato should The due WASHINGTON, PHILADELPHIA, D today returned | McGuire, g | United charge presen fon the rep and gave the cor the reqy ot v ort of tomorrow ", an neral s berhoo 1 of of fraudul $10,000 by used tion DETROIT, | Brotherhood of tors gites to tion a delegate Moy » Mich. of Pi e 1 e Omanh now Bell in Omahi, A C. B, Le Lewls of to the A A of rk—/ ntx t New Y erdam Yokohama—8§ York Iy from 8 e \ Bremen-8a k. AT York Franci Porim—Passe via HI0go, etey search meeting could go no however, as tions had been exhausted. sulted in about its progress a remark, about s Chat embezzlement. N TY, C., Dec. for Nell the important state, said ucceed in finding her, was held tonight people were enleat of o of five ved that bows they after last a cle further without me the previous subseri 00 being ralsed. “Let’s make the this affalr applause, the % Treaty Dec, 9.--Senator notice that tomorrow netderation of the tre jest each day until 1pon it Carpenters' i 9.—The indictment retary-tr of Carpenter Mr. M converting the a against P, on uire lently to clonging to et non Delegnte, Dee. 9.~The Amerl iperhangers and Decd the lowlng as rat f Lahor n Scraniton G, Hrambridg jard, Cinelnnati Chicago was elected itional B Pa.: W an Ve Arrived—Maasdam, illed—Bruemar, for ed—Laurentian, for Barbarossa, for N 1 Lulse, fro Arrived Vi € Glenlock rnet, Monte —Yans Tse, from Sea the hospital they the {BOXCAR ROLLS FIFTEEN FEET Others Serl- londed Rich railroad, jumped the track this afternoon | embank- of one and s of one catehing 1 and slight hopes are entertained for Walters of Wabash, Ind., brake- | man of the construction train, inder Charles | shoulder located, 1 0. was thrown legs severed a tractured and hip dis- ana, Tonard right ot Ilars A ommittee of five which has Cropsie, mysterlous disappearance has created ensation throughout he expected ! ments within forty-eight hours, adding that d the girl had been kidnaped and to- develop- at present the special made a speech chasing had | brought to light a tangible clue which they r up the mystery » The meeting re During one, disclose audience who was an Presents Lodge to the senate in executive rt of the committee on for- fons recommending favorable ac- Hay-Pauncefote Isthmian canal I the senate to go Into executive '3 the the committee on judiciary recommending the confirmation of Attorney General Knox was submitted, but went over until CHARGE IS EMBEZZLEMENT grand jury 7. | and urer of the the his a x Minne ilding Trades | Dee. 9, from | « Sent New w | over vi EXPANSION AT OMAHA Demands Upon Nataral Channel of Travel Oall for Wider Gateway, FIv 5 ' SENATOR MILLARD NOTIFIES CONGRESS Intreduces o Bill te Previde far New Bridge and Dikes. INCREASING TONNAGE Coming of the Great Wester: Responsible. LINCOLN ASKS ROOM FOR Part ADDITION TO POSTOFFICE Congressman Burkett Hopes to Se- A Quarter-Millton Appro- priation—Soutl Are A car Dakotans Alert, (From a WASHING Staft Correspo ON, Dec (Special Tele gram.)—Among the other bills which Sena- tor Millard introduced today was one to amend the charter authorizing the construe- tion of a raflroad, street rallway, wagon and pedestrian bridge Missourl river near Council Omaha. The bill is ned ve the Omaha Bridge and Terminal ny en larged powers &0 far as the bridge which spans the Missourl river at East Omaha is concerned, According to the the Omaha Bridge the success and Street motor the and across Blufts to & f comy provisions of the bil and Terminal company of the Interstate Bridge Railway company, Is given tha right to construct a new bridge, virtually with two spans, and to build dikes and abutments to keep the water of the Mis sourl within fts proper channel The present structure i not satisfactory to the company operating the bridge, and a8 the Chicago-Great Western railroad ¢ pects to use the new bridge in conjunction with the 1llinois Central it has become nec essary on the part of the Omaba Terminal company to permission build a structure in keeping’ with the increased tonna While the main provisions of the old charter are re-enacted, the bill which Sen ator Millard introduced today provides only | for the passage flway trains, stroe raflway cars and motor cars, which are te be permitted to cross the structure at rea sonable rates of toll Foot A secure to of 1 passengers horses will not be as 1t 1s designated bridge exclusively. The plans and specifi cations must be approved by the secrotary of war, as in former and the bill provides that the drawspans shall he watched night and day, with lights dis played at night in keeping with the regula- tions of the lighthouse hoard Senator Millard introduced a number of private pension bills, which have been threading thelr way through congress for years past. Missourt Attorney ( or vehicles drawn by allowed on the bridge, make It a rallway to [ Agninst Nebraskn, sneral F. N. Prout of Ne- braska appeared before the supreme court today and filed a stipulation and named Alfred Hartzel of Beatrice and John W. Hollinburton of Missouri as commissioners to take testimony in the boundary case of the State of Missour! against the State of Nebraska, The nomination of Richard North Carolina, which went today, to be consul at Genoa, Italy, some- what disconcerted the lown delegation in congress, as they had hoped to be able to secure the place for another lowan. James Fletcher, former consul to Genoa, and who died recently at his post, was a resident of Waverly, la. The lowa delegation, bellev- ing they could hold the appointment ccted Major 8. M. H. Byers of Des Moines Fletcher's successor. Secretary Hay, however, desired to take care of ox-Con- gressman Pearson, and as an opening in the way of the Genoa consulship presented, the secretary of state selected Pearson for tha place. A. Tucker of Humboldt 1s on his way Washington to help Senators Dietrich Millard and Congressman Burkett so Judicial appointment for himself. Judge Tucker's papers are on file with At- torney General Knox, who has agreed to look them over carefully, and said he be- leved Tucker is the proper man for a ju- | diclal position. He may possibly be sent to the Philippines or Porto Rico Pearson of to the senate as to and cure ee Dellvery Ro LN Rural fri delivery routes are to he es- tablished at Palmyra, Unadilla, Ramsud and Syracuse, in Congressman Burkott's dis It is Mr Burkett’s intention to in @ a bill providing for an addition to the present Lincoln postoff) which totally inadequate for its present usage, and has asked Supervising Architect Taylor to | prepare est for a bullding commen surate with the needs of Lincoln It s thought Mr. Taylor will recommend a bill for $250,000 Senator Dietrich has recommended Miss Ida Coats postmistress at Stockham, Neb., to succeed her father. Scnator Gamble had a long conference with General Superintendent Machen of tha rural free delivery service, looking to the detail of a speclal agent or securing such | an agent for South Dakota. Seventy rout | have been petitioned for in the state, but | the department has been unable to report on these routes, owing to lack of eapable men to send into the flold from South 1 The senlor | also ur upon Assistant Postmas | the tmportance ter General of establishing a star route between Platte Mix The Wheeler, Charle | railrond has gone into that section and the | people clamoring for mall service | necting the two points M bill was Gamble which b couragement of 1 18 as senntor Dakota Second Shallenberger county. offered today by Senator s for its purpose the en ing in the United Statc It provides that a mining experiment sta tlon shall be established in each sta | territory. The detalls of the bill follow closely the idea put Into effect | ago in the creation of agricultu | ment stattons, and a bill of thi 5 | fered in the house two years ago Gamble was reported favorably | Mr. Nat Brown of Omaba is ton. riment Sta | g ' of some yo: kind of by M 1\ Washing ference on of the to consider Irelgntion congress an irrigation bill the dlscussion wi brough. The Warren bill provides for reclamation fund sale land the arid the Interlor te roports from states having At men tor meetir tonight he bill a wostern nt congre prepared nator roduc enator of the the | Btates, secretary “leall tor