Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 15, 1901, Page 1

FRANCE IS RUSHED Oongross Has Hands Full Trying to Olear Up Business MUCH TO DO BEFORE THE ELECTIONS Discussions of Serieus Measures On Much Delay. THREE STAR ORATORS ARE DEVELOPED Leap Into Fame by Making Statistios Beautifu SEARCHLIGHT ON AMERICAN METHIDS Btudents Yankee Busl Tdeas May Seek Panama United 0 Uni 1 Upon the Stutes, ihe (Copyright, 191, by PARIS, Dec. 14 Press Publishing Co.) (New York World Ca- blegram—Special Telegram.)—The French Congress, which has wasted much time in purely partisan wrangling, is working night and day rushing through national and | business which should d. nd the coole deliberation. Still, with long discussions ahead on merchant marine subsidies, a new law of reform for colicges, penstons for aged worklogmen and the coul miners' de mands, and with the wiole budget to b gone over, it is hard to seo how Congress can possibly clear the ground before the elections The wessions of the last week were malnly remarkable for three important speeches, which will rank with the most brilllant efforts of Webster and Gambetta Alexandre Ribot, a bitter enemy cof Premier Waldeck-Roussean, occupied ono whole sitting with a flerce and able de- punclation of the present minlstry's finan- clal record. Minister Calllaux's answer, oc- cupylng two days, was fully equal to Ribot's attack. M. Caillaux leaped into great fame with his single speech. Camille Pelletan, a veteran radical leader, also scored a personal triumph, speaking for two days In support ot the budget com- | mittee's resolution that all state appoint- ments for public worship be stricken out These three men, as Gladstone used to do, trausformed dry budget questions iuto beautiful, lofty symphonies of figures. To Study American Commerce, Lazare Wellller, one of the most pro- gressive business men of France, ealed tor New York today aboard the steamship La Shovier, accompanled by Baron Lagotel- lerle, also a pushing young fnancier. Both are sent by Minister of Commerce Millerand to study the state and federal financial methods, the tax aystem, the civil service and those trusts which are lkely to affect French trade in such things as steel, pe- troleum and sugar. Since the misslon was announced M. Welller has refused to divulge the exact nature of the government's purpose until today, when he sald to the World corre- spondent: “There I8 nothing mysterious about our trip. The elementary business principle is to study a successful people. You Americans are successful. We are go- g to study you. The French government bas Instructed me to report anything which may advantageously be adapted to our pub- lic 1ife or private Industry and to recom- mend any nicasure of tariff modification Wkely to promote commerce between Amer- Jea and France. As the government's en- voy 1 expect to find the best sources of in- tormation opened to me. Besides, Amb wador Porter has kindly volunteered to fa- silitate things with the government at Washington."” It is rumored, though mot admitted, that one purpose of M. Weiller's mission 1s to wee what can be done to save the Panama capal. It is felt here that M. Hutin tried to conduct negotiations overcraftily and thus jeopardized the interest intrusted to bim. M. Weiller is magnetically stralght- forward. It is sald that by simply relying oo the force of his acts he may yet save the daw. ROSE, SHAMROCK AND THISTLE All Three Embrotldered on King Ed- ward's Underjacket for Coronation, (Copyright, 1901, by Press Publishing Co.) LONDON, Dec. 14.—(New York World Ca- blegram—Special Telegram.)—Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed as King Ed- ward will be at the coronation. A part ot his costume is now officially disclosed. He will wear a cloth-of-gold underjacket, em- broldered with palm branches, the, rose, shamrock and thistle in Jewels. He will also wear a stole with the cross ot St. George, the royal crown and the floral emblems woven lu gold thread. His cape will be dazzlingly magnificent, dec- orated with silver eagles, fleur de lis and roses. The fleur de lis refers to England's former rule over France, Braln specialists declare that there is no prospect of the beautiful Helen Vanderbilt Wackerman recovering her reason. She bas now suffered from acute mania forty days Mra. Wackerman ealls at the United States embassy and consulate, but the officials there cannot understand what she wants. 1t she would guurantee to take her daughter home to America, Secretary White informed Miss Helen, he could get her released by the lunacy commissioners, but the mother has done nothing to carry out that suggestion. It would take two nurses and a medical man to see the unhappy girl safely across the Atlantic. CHARGES AGAINST SIR REID is still making dally ates nden Imputa- tion of Bad Faith in Reveal- ing Matters, (Copyright, 1901, by Press Publishing Co.) LONDON, Dec. 14.—(New York World ram—=8pecial Telegram.)—8ir We- Reld writes to the Times, In- dignantly repudiating its New York cor- Fesepondont’s relterated imputation of bad faith in revealing the tenor of the conver- sations Reld recently had with minister and other praminent public men in Wash- ngton relative to the South African war. ‘The Times correspondent plainly indlcate that he has been authorized by the minis- ters whom Reld wmet, to accuse Reld of breach of falth in publishing, though with- out names, the substance of confidential conversations and of wisrepresenting what a8 sald. Wemyss Reid's personal reputa- tlon Is 80 high here that these charges have cAused amazewments o | | | | | «opyright bty o the undertaking, NATIONALISTS ARE HOPEFUL Hearty Reception of Red Invigorates Their Fo. nd, in fe (Copyright, 191 & Publishing Co.) DUBLIN, Dec. 14--(New York World Cablegram—Special Telegram.)~The man- ner in which John Redmond and the other irish delegates have been received in the United States has invigorated the British govern- | a much more serious view of tuation in Ireland than it took before nationalists and raused the ment to tak th Irish Secretary Wyndham s reviving clon prosecutions in order to check the rapidly growing influence of the United Irish league. Two members of Parlia- ment, Connor O'Kelly and John Hayden, to- gether with several other leaguers, have ady been summoned before the coercion urts for making speeches in which they advieed thelr constituents to boycott men who have taken the farms from which the tenants have been evicted The tribunal consists of two resident maglstrates, who may be dismiseed without notice by the viceroy If the sentences they lmpose are not severe enough. Experience has shown that these maglstrates almost invariably impose the utmost term within thelr power—eix months’ imprisonment with bard labor. O'Kelly and Hayden have re- peated the offending speeches since they wers summoned The United Irish le most formidable organ confronted Dublin castle the gue s one of the tions that has ever All portents indicate a stormy winter in Ireland. The farmers have stopped hunt- ing in Roscommon as & reprisal on the | landlords In Limerick the tenants who were evicted | from the O'Grady estate twenty years ago nd have since been supported by the Irish tionalists' organization have just been relnstated in their holdings at half the back rents they were evicted for being unable to pay. There Is no agrarlan crime in the country, the policy of the leaguc being passive resistance to the unjust exac- tions of the landlords. GOVERNMENT AS PAWNBROKER to Cn Are ned Part e f a Lord's Publishing Co.) (New York World Telegram.)—The old Plete, the government n, has been resus decorated with | imperial eagle, and of the place has Count Fi 1901, Dec Spectal de institut citated in a splendid palace VIE A, Cablegram Vienna Mont pawnbroking an alre been enormous copper dy a deposit worihy recelved in its cellars. cls Falkenhaim, lately vice president of | the Austrian House of Lords, had to finel %0 much money for a brother, who was a binet minister for twenty years, and a spendthrift son that his three fine properties, Walpensdorf, Ritterschlag and Ottedorf, were sequestered. The lord’s debts were o large that even the valuables in the castle of Walpensdort were scized and deposited in the Mont de Piete, where they are to be sold singly to the highest bidder The objects are so interesting that there | will be lively competition for them, They an OMAHA, SUNDAY MORN 5, ING, DECEMBER 1 Lord Rosebery's Attitude T, ENIGMA TO ENCLAND[YveTre susscars wor by Sbarpest Wits, COUNTRY WAITS HIS MONDAY SPEECH Theusaads Will Swarm to Leara Views of War. POSSIBLY HE MAY FAVOR Even at That He Finde Arms Open. GENERAL BELIEF IN HIS Distracted by the Desper: of the People Turn to Former mier for Salvat (Copyright, 1901, by Press Publishing Co.) LONDON. Dec. 14.—(New York World Ca- Telegram.)—Lord bery's reappearance in the political arena Monday is awalited by blegram—Special at Chesterfield next the whole country with denteq Interest ering of #hed al Derbyshire has been Iberal prepared to Rosebery has preserved the present sentiment regarding such complete success that on tiptoe of expectation, anxiety. beginning of a campaign prises, it s possible he ma lot with Sir in a war of extermination. . capacity for Is phenomenal. own couns has result Country's Fortune: THE BOF the P PATRIOTISM the re- ton, Rose most unprece He s to speak at a gath- A rallway accommodate 5,000 people und proviston has been made | for an overflow meeting of 3,000 more. s Lord secret the devold of throw preserving his This reticence in placing the local organizers NEW oipherable N § Hisl ¢ S e Outlook of his | ¥ war with | all parties are not It 15 not even known whether this 1s to be a single spasm of activity or the to reconstitute the liberal party and regain its leadership. The earl's jingo tendencies in the past seem to point inevitably to his embracing liberal | imperialism, but, being by temperament an opportunist and addicted to dramatic sur- in his Henry Campbell Bannerman | and the bulk of the liberal party, who are more courageously advocating conciliation | and appealing with increasing for humanity of the nation against persevering ¢ to the Matinee Girl Mar: They Live es Stage Hero and Unhappily After. (Copyright. PARIS, De 1001 " by Press Publishing Co.) ~(New York World Cable- Sneclal Telegram.)—The literary A of the hour has been caused by v #‘ /uncement that a movel by Yvette is abcut to be published. The correspondent has secured the main of the graphlc story, which deals with ntatuation of a lovable but ill-balanced ince girl for a stage hero. After a fod of photograph worshlp and admiring tters begging autographs, the actor, who s not a bad sort of a fellow, meets the heiress at her splendid residence. He ts naturally staggered at the elght of unex- pected luxury He had begun to make fun among his stage assoclates of the girl's love, but now he discovers In himself a taste for refinement. The parents oppose a marriage and an elopement follows. In two years the girl's money Is squandered, and the actor, indulging his vanity, has filled the house with queer parasites, mostly connected with the stage A child is born at this junc- ture. Both idolize the babe. Want soon drives the father and mother upon the stage. First they play legitimate roles, but as the years roll by the couple gradually -|fall to the lowest variety halls The author vividly depicts the woetul de- tails of life spent in fear of landiords’ evic- - | tion, pawnshops and unspeakable boarding houses. There {s a harrowing scene at the death of the child. The boy, b years old, lies upon a billiard table in a cafe, where the wandering couple are giving an enter- tainment. The wife, in decollette dress, is seing a plate ns the boy passes away, crying “Mamma, take me home." “There & no home, the mother sobs, ¢ | while tears melt the paint on the faces of husbaud and wite. \ The book ends with a dremal chapter showing the crazed parents still in the gaudy dress of their performance, alter- nately carrying the dead boy In their arms at night In strange towns, unwilling to go to the morgue, and without a sou to give them a resting place. Paul Bourget, after reading an advance copy, wrote to Yvette Guilbert: “Your first effort places you among the literary artists of the first rank. I have not read such significant, grapble fiction nce De Maupassant's death.” Mlie. Guilbert has utilized her American experiences and the scenes in three chap- ters are in the United States. FASHION IN VIOLINS se S of the Chesterfield meeting In an extraor- | vinraging Mechanism Designed to dinary predicament. Being absolutely in to Pl the dark as to the line he proposes to Lol K i ol take, they have been unable to draft any A | resolutions for him to speak pealed to Mr. Asquith, the liberal imperials’ leader, for guidance, but he confessed that, a visit earl of Rosebery, he was entirely unable to advise them what kind of resolution would although he recently paid suit him, The liberal side of the fence, to. to imperialists of Parliament are going to the meeting in a body tu the hope that the earl may come down on their But they would pot be surprised if he disappeared over the other They ap- the (Copyright, 1901, by Press Publishing Co.) LONDON, Dec. 14.—~(New York World Cablegram—8pecial Telegram.)--A new type of violin was introduced te & large audience recently by J. B. Muddock, who describes it thus “The vibratiory of the strings are conducted by means . * an ordinary violin bridge, which rdsts®upon a rocking lever, to the dfaphragm and resonator. Tha | lever supporting the bridpe oociilates later- g | ally upon the body of the instrument, the tnclude old Vienna and Sevres porcelain, {eide. This instabllity of purpose would | end being attached to u dlaphragm of alum- Gobelin tapestry, Chinese vases, Greek|pot indicate that Lord Rosebery 18 the|inum by a small connecting lnk. The pottery, ivory carvings, porphyry Jars, the table silver which many brides of noble descent brought into the family, a col-| lection of historical relics, amoug them | the pen .with which the holy alliance was slgned, a collection of arms, another of coins and medals, ancient and modern jewels and 200 valuable pletures. JILTED FOR A MILLIONAIRE om s Young Army Kills Himself on Getting ging Girvl's Ultimatum, (Copyright, 191, by Press Publishing Co.) ROME, Dec. 14.—New York World Ca- blegram—Spedal Telegram.)—Glorglo Sini- galia, an Italian officer of 22,'has blown his brains out because a singing girl in & Ro- man theater would have nothing to say to him. Fraulein Denys fs a golden-baired daugh- ter of Vienna of extraordinary beauty Sinigalia spent @ fortune on jewelry for ber, only to find she was already engaged | to & Romau millionalre, Sinigalla engaged | a room in a house opposite her lodging | and spent a day watching her and writing poems on her beauty. Then he sent her an ultimatum. She returned his letters with a few cutting remarks. Then he killed himself. The people of Rome got to know about the tragic affair and howled with | rage before the girl's rooms. The police advised her not to appear again until the popular feeling against her had subsided. | DETAILS OF THE POPE'S WILL His Nephews Expect to Claim His Accumulated Milllo (Copyright, 1901, by Press Publishing Co.) PARIS, Dec. 14.—(New York World Cable- gram—Special Telegram.)—Some details of | the pope's will are given by the Rome cor- | respondent of the Figaro, who has had long | and intimate relations with the vatican. The pope’s nephews, it is said, expected | to claim the accumulated millions which | the Itallan government allows annually to | the pope—that is to say, the $600,000 a year which is placed at his disposal, but which Is | withdrawn at the end of every five years | under proscription. The pope has decided that nothing of his allowance shall be touched. His small per- sonal fortune goes in equal distribution to his five nephews of the Peccl family. The fortune he leaves as pontiff Is placed under the trusteeship of three cardinals, of whom Cardinal Rampolla is chief, BRIDGE ACROSS BERING SEA Island ns fro * Thirty- ve Miles, Project for Steel Sp to (Copyright, 1901, by Press Publishing Co.) ST. PETERSBURG, Dec. 14.—(New York | World Cablegram—Spectal Telegram.)—A | company of American, Russian and French | capitalists has been formed, according to | Siberian newspapers, to span Bering sea with a steel bridge, to connect the Siberian railway with an American system. 1t the project is realized a person may | travel by direct train from New York to St. Petorsburg, Berlin, Vienna, Rome, Paris or Madrid. The strait, which is thirty-five miles wide, 1s dotted with lslands, which might serve as supports for the bridge. Russia's minister of ways and communica~ tion, Prince Khikoff, who is looking into the matter, is in active correspondence with American engineers regardiug the !zmmhl | ease. stamp of man fitted to lead the country | diaphragm l& held in position between two at this momentous crisis In its fortunes, |indin rubber cushions by means of a but the truth is the people are so thor-|spectally designed holder fixed upon the oughly disheartened by the present minis- [ body of the violin by two brackets. At- try's arms despite his failure cause he s not on the committed Grentest Oppor: an opportunity Rosebe: and uncertain. His friends capable of any sustained effo Physically he has deteriorated far more rapidly than his years warrant. ness has de He nights in perpetually making aimless rarely sleeps terlous visits to Vienna, manner of unlikely places, sooner arrive question of war and deep-rooted popular bellef in his patriotism. | unity of Yenr No public man in England has had such | in fifty years. s life has been one long oppor- | tunity and bis grasp has ever been feeble that nis nervous system has been so shattered of late years that now less than ever is he tnaptitude and are so distracted by the desperate outlook that they are willing | to throw themselves into Lord Rosebery's | as premier, be- to either side there But declare ort. successly He journeys ment'ls the greatest puzzle of the day, Diaple house of the regulation rol % the Peeressen. The exhibition at the duke of Norfolk's approved | by the king and queen, to be worn by the | peers and the peeresses at the coronation, | bes, Is al Lord | Restless- eloped in his case into a dis- three any one of his houses. 1s up and down the country, rushing off en mys- Naples and all where he no than he leaves again. His character is a puzzle, his ambition is a puzzle and his present political attach- tached to this holder is resonator, “The body, or main support of the in- strument, Is in no way employed for sound purposes. It simply holds the various parts of the violin together and sustains the cnormous pressure of the strings when tuned. The discord dlaphragm is perfectly to vibrate, the result being that when trings are set in motion by the bow the bridge and rocking lever vibrate ac- cordingly, and thus every vibration f{s transmitted to the dlaphragm. The dlaphragm sets in motion the air contained in the resonator, the resonator augmenting and distributing the same to the surround- ing atmosphere. “The rich, mellow tones supposed to come only after at least a century's playlng of a violin require mno forcing. The slightest contact of the bow will bring them forth and make the player imagine himself a better player than he really is." BRITISH WIRES DEMORALIZED All Inland Communication Completely Broken Down for Tweo Days (Copyright, 1901 by Press Publishing Co.) LONDON, Dee. 14.—(New York World Ca- blegram—Special Telegram.)—All inland telegraphic communication in the British Isles has been completely broken down the trumpet or Lus been followed by a storm of protests|for two days, owing to storm. The mid- from the peeresses. They are preparing|japds, the north of Britain and Ireland, & petition to the queen asking her con- | sent to a modification of their coronation | costumes in at least two particulars, They aver that the drees, as designed, is figure because utterly destructive the thickness of the velvet waiat. They also object to pelled to wear ermine of and most derstand unbecoming. bow the queen next regarding it as rulnous to the complexion They around belng the threat, cannot they won't adopt it in any way. The peers have not compl are few to wear examples in the their red velvet, robes and silver-gllt tinction, corone FAMOUS BEAUTIES ABROAD One of Them Mare In Likely Some Day, by e, 14 (Copyright, 1901 LONDON, I Cablegram famous beautitul (New women in lalned so far, | though it needs an Apollo, of whom there House ermine-trimmed of Lord, ts with dis to wx of Ormonde Press Publishing Co.) York World peclal Telegram.)—Among the high of | the com- un- ever sanctioned such an “unsmart” costume and they vow Become society who are attracting notice at this time are were altogether cut off for forty-eight hours and the Atlantic cable companies are unable to accept messages, except on the understanding that there would be a delay practically indefinite. The telegraph wire which chiefly run alongside the rallways, were down everywhere. Such breakdowns .| are not intrequent, but the postal depart- ment's excuse for not laying wires under- ground is that the development of wireless telegraphy may system antiquated. .| RAILWAY TO CROSS SAHARA Important Nitrate of ¥ Caleuluted to Swe! Trame osphate Beds the 1901, by Publishing Co.) 14.—(New York World Ca- pecial Telegram.)—Interest in (Copyright, PARIS, L blegram the discovery of important nitrate of phos- phate beds beyond the Touhat oasls. The government experts are inclined to think the beds extensive enough to supply fer- tlizers for the whole World, If so, the problem, “How lines between Algeria and 5 Congo could be made to pay,” is solved Lady Arthur Butler, an American, Lady'rhe colonial government, which has been :‘\elvu Ward, Lady Mabel Crichton and | gudying the bullding of a sirateglc narrow Mrs. Harry Aspinwall. Lady Artbur, who|gauge road would subsidize heavily the before her marriage was Mis, (daughter of General s Ellen tager | Anson Stager of Chi- proposed commercial railway. cago), may become marchion of y helr presumptive. $ho 3 devoted (0 1ro- | Ameriean Beide of Frenchman s and. Lady Evelyn Ward and Lady Mabel Forced to Adopt it to Sup» Crichton are sisters, the handsome daugh- port Him. soon render tho existing | the French project to build a rallway across | the desert of Sahara has been revived by | | | | | ters of the countess of Erne. They, too, — are very fond of Ireland, but unlike Lady | (Copyright, 11, by Press Publishing Co) Arthur Butler, they are Irish girls by| PARIS, Dec. 14.—(New York World Ca birth. Lady Mabel was the prettiest of the | blegram—Special Telegram.)—Mary Lev- | bridemalds at the wedding of her cousin, | esque, whose malden name was Mitcholl, Lella Crichton, another Irish beauty, when [a native of Boston, was sentenced yester- the latter became the wife of Sir John|day at Bordeaux to five years in prison for | Milbank. Lady n Ward married one [ shoplifting. Eight years ago she mar of Lord Dudley’s brothers, Gerald Ward,|ried a Frenchman who taught her t two years ago. a few days before he started | business and compelled bher Lo support for the war lu South Africa, 2 lhlm. - ,\_l 1901 —-THIRTY-TWO PAGES. Board of Review Makes Its Fimal Returns on Asessmonts, FIGURES FOR FRANCHISED CORPORATIONS Tuoresses Are Made in All of the Five Campanies. PAY ON $250,000 MORE THAN LAST YEAR Ovar & Mill Dellars Less Than Fleming's Estimate. HE REFUSES TO JOIN IN COMPROMISE Batt Ll and Zabriskie #4810 More Than ¢ win Admit, Raise Only panies Were Asnen: ents of Franchised Corpora- tions of Omaha. Omaha_Water Co.$ Street R, R. Co Omaha Gas C Thomson - Houston Co v Teld Neb 380,000 110,000 5,000 81,7 Co to make by the Board corporations of 000 worth than they Unless the clty councll sees fit A cut in assessments made of Review, the franchised Omaha will pay taxes upon § more pereonal property in paid on during the present year. An in- crease has been made in the assessment of every ono of the five companies. The r turns of the Board of Review are $10 less than the sum at which the assessn of the five companies were fixed by tax commissioner ¥ ming Refases (o Compromise, Tax Commissioner Willlam ming might as vell have remained away from last night's session of the Board of Review ¥ announced that he would stand on the assessments originally made on the fran chised corporations in the city of Omaha and refused to make any compromise. The other two members of the board, John W, Battin and E. Zabriskie, took turn in making and seconding motions and when the session ended at the stroke of twelve the asses: of the five franchised companies having in- terests in Omaha were fixed at sums ag- gregating only $143,810 more than the amount the companies returned in the showing made to the tax commissioner City Attorney Connell was present at the meeting and was called upon to express his opinion concerning the right of a cor- poration to deduct its indebtedness from the valuation returned for the purpose of taxation. He stated that the ruling of the supreme court concerning the tax commis- about gloner of the eity of Lincoln showed ibat' the tax commissioner holds his office legally and is authorized to assess taxes by a different plan than that set forth in the revenue laws of the state. Mr. Connell did not make a pesitive statement concern- ing the exemption of a corporation’s in- debtedness from taxation. Differ About Indebtedness, After Mr. Connell's statement Mr. Flem- ing declared that he believed the indebted- ness of corporations should be assessed and the other two members of the board inti- mated that they thought otherwise. The first corporation whose assessment was considered was the New Omaha Thomson Houston Electric Light company. Mr. briskie amended that the company's assess- ment be fixed at $110,000. He finally moved that it be increased to $115,000 and upon motlon of Mr. Battin the sum was fixed at $117,500 Next came the assessment of the Ne- braska Telephone company. Upon motion of Mr. Zabriskie the sum upon which the company is to pay taxes was fixed at $100,312, After a brief discupsion, the as- sessment of the Omaha Gas company was fixed at $400,000, or $20,000 more than the Beird of Review agieed upon before the Real Estate exchange walted upon it. The assessment of the Omaha Street Railway company was advanced from $476,000 to $550,000, upon motion of Mr. Zabriskle. The water company's assessment was (he last under consideration. Mr. Fleming refused to approve of an assess- ment of less than $1,000,000 for the com- pany. At five minutes until 12 o'clock Mr. Battin moved that the sum upon which the company shall pay taxes be fixed at $575,000. Mr. Zabriskie seconded the motion and the Board of Review had ended its work. Table of Comparisons. The following table shows the assess- ments which Mr. Fleming returned for 19 the assessments which the companies asked to have made on their property and the assessments which the Board of Review agreed upon: Reduction Board's Fleming. Sought. Action Omaha Water Co.$10w.00 § 450,000 § Omaha Street Ry o Omaha Gas C 000 Thomson-Houston Co. i Neb, Tele. Co... Total .. The following 7,000 $1,508, 000 $1 shows the table ments made by the tax commissioner. Board of Review and the Board of Equali- zation on the personal properties of the five franchised companies for the year 1901 assess- the Board of Tax Com- Board of Equali- misstoner. Review. zation Omaha Water Co..$1.000,00 § 0§ 430,000 Omaha 8 Ry 1,000,000 ) 475,000 Omaha Gas 750,000 ) 850,000 Thomson-H o, 15,00 10,00 110,000 Neb, Tele. Co! 1000 55,000 85,000 Totals .... $3,025,000 81, 560,000 §1,500, 000 Protests from Smaller Corporation Early in the evenlng a number of protests from smaller corporations were considered and the Board of Review discussed the taxation of sugar in transit Assessments varying from $50,000 to $125,000 were re- turned ageinst the American Sugar and Refining company, the Standard Beet Sugar company and the American Beet Sugar com- pany. There was considerable doubt ex- pressed by the members of the board as to the right of the city to collect on sugar brought here for distribution and all three of the members agreed to have an assess- ment of $10,000 made upon each of the three companles The following changes were made in the assessments on personal property of mer- cantlle institutions Reduction Board's Fleming. 8o Action den Bros 00 g 5.0y on Store Bost 0,000 M. E. Smith & Co 120,000 Byrne Hammer Co... 80,00 7,600 | ments on the personal properties ed wit femn to of 1 as B is a ¢ ool W N nes Are De mtand. Cold Wave Tretgutio Councit Wiufs Des Mol Trade Autd Urmes Su e COry FIVE CENTS, er Camps asienl Notes and Commen the Iste of Nemro Mils nw v Munt Mot R in the Drllling High se w nn: Her Wass n Chief of ¢ “No Other Wa Unele San Physienl Passing Walter Besant a Ma e Burginrs Minsisnippt * in Omaha. a1 Mat of [SENATOR SEWELL IS SINKING | New | tesman Has Relap nd Is Momentarily Ixpected. Dec. 14.—United States | who is {1l at his bome here, CAMDEN, N. J Senator Sewell Sewell's death was momentarily expected. SIGNALS OVER THE OCEAN * Marcont Extablishes Comm ST. JOHNS, N. F., Dec. 14.—8ig. Marconi announced today that he had recelved elec- tric signals across the Atlantic ocean from his station In Cornwall, England. He ex- | plains that before leaving England he had { made plans for accomplishing this result, | for while his primary object was to com- | munjcate with ocean liners in midocean, he | hoped also to succeed in attaining the won- achlevement of wirele: the Atlantle. conl's station in Cornwall | derful sclentific telegraphy acro Signor M most powerful. He possesses an electr force ger 1 there n hundred times greater than at his ordinary stations. Be- fore he left England he arranged that the electrician in charge of the station, which is located at Poldhu, should begin sending sig- nals dally after a certain date which Signor reonl wauld cable him after having per- fected his arrangements here. In view of suc the s attending these Signor Marconi will, for the present, d the matter of communicating with transatlantic steamers. He will re- turn to England next week and will conduct | the experiments from Poldhu himself. He explains that the great electrical power | there will enable him to send more effec- tive sig s CHICAGO, Dec. 14.—"The similarity in the signals recefved by Marcon! and those Tesla asserted he vecelved from Mars strikes one as singular,” sald D. C. Grant, a Chicago electriclan. ““The letter 'S’ in the Marconi code is the same as that of the Morse alphabet. It consists of three dots “When Tesla recelved what he believed to be a message from Mars it came in the | form of the letter ‘S, which he was pleased to compare to the trinity. It strikes me Marconi may bave recelved his message from the same source. I have little doubt, Lowever, that it came in some way from bis men in England if he says it did.” ADOPT COMMON CODE OF RULES omelnls Amer of Western Ronds ‘an Ratlway Asso- lution's System, Take SALT LAKE CITY, Dec. 14.—A confer- ence of the leading operating officials of the Union Pacific, Oregon Short Line and | Oregon Railroad and Navigation companies was held in this city today for the purpose | of adopting a new set of rules for the three | roads. Those who took part In the con- ference were General Manager Dickinson and Superintendent of Transportation Buckingham of the Union Pacific, General Manager Bancroft of the Oregon Short Line and Superintendent O'Brien and Assistant Superintendent Bulkley of the Oregon Rall- road and Navigation company. It was de- cided to adopt, with some changes, the American Rallway assoclation’s code of rules. This will cause a number of changes to be made In the present rules of the | roads CONCLUDES Presbyterian Submits ITS n SESSIONS vislon Committee tative Staten of New Creed, Dec. 14, on creed WASHINGTON, terian committee cluded its “The Preshy- revision con- sessions here this afternoon. | Williston and adjournment the committes | Betore the tentative statement of the | finished o re- | At Liverpool—Satled—Campania, for New York. PAGES 1 TO 12 E . B G GRTR T Ta e ag Ri FROST KING'S FURY OMAHA GETS UNUSUAL POSE OF COLD Meroury Drops to Very Near Lowest Re- serded for Decrm LARGE AREA COVERED BY THE COLD WAVE Extent Almost Renohe At Beverity in It shing Results. BETTER THINGS ARE IN STORE FOR US Forecaster Wel Promises ¢ Omaha Will Get Warmn Within nt Wenther Next Twenty * Nebraska—Fair Sunday nys Varie And Monday; Warl er Mon Temperature at 0 Mo 5 " 10 The cold wave rolled at its highe rather at its lowest, yesterday, and today Omaha hopes to begin emerging The deluge of frigid weather is not all past, but the east must breast the worst of it for Omaha has the promis ety LRl L. A. Welsh that locally there sh ‘i”‘"“ i |m“ Inl'll;lllnmil‘ "!Ml s | only the tapering end of it from now on, 1 ow considered | precarious. | with the temperature at 5 or 6 degrees Sin return froj 4 0 o N o ¥ Aua1 bl Pt from Asheville, N. C.|polow this morning and a gradual rise e A been improving until | (hrough the day and Monday. 4 onight he Is resting quietly and bis | A¢ 7 4 m. and at 8 4. m. yesterday the physiclans say be 1s in no fmmediate dan- | reading was a triflo more than 16 degrees | N. J.. D 16.—Short] m below, which made the day the coldest in N. J., Dec. 15.—Shortly after | any Irec siboe the Bures " midnight it was stated that Benator||ined e cn s oeile hureau was ¢ lishod, thirty-one years ago, with two ex- ceptions recorded in 1879 and 1884, At no hour yesterday did the mercury get up to the cipher, its nearest approach ing at 4 o'clock, when it was still 3 do- grees below. The first reading at 6 a. m. found it hovering at the 11 mark, at 7 it went down to its extreme and then began its gradual upward climb agaln. After the 4 o'clock maximum the course was down- ward again and by 7 p. m. It was 6 de- grees below. Through the night the fall continued, 1f the sensations of the people are a correct criterion, but official con- firmation of this could not be abtained, as no readings are given out by the bureau after 7 p. m. Saturdays. Reports from Other Stations. The readings taken at 7 p. m fully bear out the promise of Forecaster Welsh that the wave, which had its origin far up n the northwest, would travel a well-defined course to the Atlantic and gulf coasts Cheyenne reported 8 above and clear; St. Louls reported zero and clear; Grand Jun. tion, Colo., reported 22 above and clea Chicago reported 6 below and clear; Helen, Mont., reported 20 above and .4 of an inch of snow, melted measurement; Kansas City reported zero and clear. Other wostern temperatures were: North Platte, 12 be- low; Valentine, 18 below; Lander, 4 be- low; Rapid City, 12 below; Pueblo, 4 abov Dodge City, Kan., 2 above and clear. The lowest eastern reading reported was 1% below at Detroft, where there had alse been a fraction of an inch of snow. Sault Ste. Marie reported 2 above and quite cloudy and St. Paul 14 below and clear. In lowa, Davenport, § below and clea Dubuque, 10 below and clear, and Des Moines, 6 below and clear. Omaha tem- perature had its nearcst counterpart at Bismarck, N. D. both of which reported 16 below and clear. Huron was four degrees warmer. In Texas was 38 above and clear at El Paso above and clear at Amarilla. There was no precipitation to speak of, except at De- troit and Helena, and there 1t was hardly worthy of the title, Cold Bothers Rafilronds. Rallroads are thus scen to have had nothing to contend with but the wind and the extreme cold, but that was sufefent to delay the trains on lines both west and east and at the Omaha postofiice the force had a double burden In rehandling mail which had missed regular connections, As for the city of Omaha, it displayed its usual fortitude and made the best of somewhat unexpected and bad job. The needs of the poor were glven hasty atten- tion and the coal man had calls to make at bins large and small. For a while in the afternoon the stores had a fair business, but not anything like what had been ex | pected for a Saturday so near Christmas and it 1s the unanimous sentiment of the business element that less cold and more snow 18 imperatively needed. Mr, Welsh, however, declines to promise this doesired precipitation at any immediate or definite date, FINDS NEBRASKA PREPARED 1d Wave Has Little Terror for the Stockmen, Who Have Good dnnt Fay, KIMBALL, Neb., ! 14.—(Speclal T gram.)—Snow has been falling in this part of the state for several days and the prairie s covered to a depth of elght Inches The temperature has been falling and reg istered 26 below zero this morning. NORTH LOUP, Neb., Dec. 14.—(Special.) —Severe cold weather struck here Thurs- day night. The temperature fell to 10 be low zero and at no time Friday did it rise above 8 below. Last pight it fell to 22 { vislon by declaratory and appointed a sub- | below. | committe d of Judge Edward §.| VALENTINE, Neb., Dec, | Humphrey S. Nichols, Rey. D. M. | This part of the state 1s ¥rnes W. McKibbin and Dr.|Sn0W to the depth of from four to wix Moffatt, to whom was referred the sub.|iBches. The weather has been warm and ject of textual revision. The subcommittee | 88 there is scarcely any wind the snow was qirected to submit its report at the |d0es mot drift. Most of the ranches aro meeting of the full committee to be held | Provided with plenty of hay and good In Philadelphia on February 5, 1902, sheds. The ranges belng coverod with = snow, the stockmen are compelled to feed n Vemsels Dee. 14, | hay, of which they have an ample supply ‘ : Vel Pratosiy ATKINSON, Neb., Dec. 14.—(Speclal.) nre alled—Lncunia, for Tierirom ( A" gectsive and sudden chango In the neylvania, for Hamburg: for | weather struck this place Thursday night fisnos_snd Naples: M The ground had been covered with about men; Manitou, for London. | four inchen of snow and at 7 a. in. Fridey oston—Arrived—Ultonla, from Liver- | the t ermometer reglstered 20 below zero | P8t Hull—Arrived—Glamorgan from | A cold morthwest wind has boen Ulowing Portlund, Ore and cattlemen entertain fear for the At Havre—Salled—La Savol, for New y ey r New |stock SUPERIOR, Neb., Dec. 14.—(Speclal.) The governwent therwometer horo showed