Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 29, 1901, Page 1

UPSETS K Queen Alexandra ngs Said to Be Not Due to Illaws. EDWARD'S CONDUCT AN ANNOYANCE ING'S PLANS Debt Bardens. ROSEBERY GOES BACK INTO HIS SHELL Piag Poag Overwhe!me Everything E! st Kool Craze, DEWET'S REAPPEARANCE IS APPALLING | Britons Fear N The Another Opening v r Will Pro- Cataw the ment In January, n (Copyright 3 LONDON Cablegram—spe exandra’s alle fJect of the most Christmas fire by Press Publishing Co.) (New York World al Telogram.)—Queen Al- in has been the sub- |t imated gossip at the | ex of “emart society [ is asserted that the queen has not been Hl | &t all The story that she | tensely annoyed at the public fuss the king | ! made over the christening of Mrs, George Keppel's nephew, and, as a somewhat in- consequent but at the same time effectual method of “gettiug even King idward's Christmas arrangements | At all events, the king was unexpectedly | stranded in Lond with all his friends |" away, and he consoled himself as best he | could by lunching Christias y with the| Keppels in Portman square and by pro- posing himself for dinner with the duke| and duchess of Connaught in the evening. | The original trouble was aggravated, it 1s | ° #ald, by the fact that the king gave a certain womay an extremely costly preseat, although the royal purse has been found unequal to providing the queen with a per- | sonal royal crown as distinguished from the unbecoming officlal crown Jewels - The king much strained financlally, owlng to the drain of paying off his debts, @8 the expenses of his present position do not allow for the savings he had expeeted The queen, toa extravagant and of an extraordinary, determined, not to say stinate, disposition. So the king has his | hands full one and another and the family affairs appear to have reached an untimely crisis at Christmas. " ey AN in Shell The earl of Rosebery has seemingly re- tirod Into his shell again. Al efforts to draw him into further public engagements have fulled. He says bis next appearance will be fn the House of Lords. He keepg wloof from both the anti-war and the im- periallst sections of the iiberal party and each clalms him as In the main the ex- ponent of its particular viewe, The ministerialists view the prospect of Bis continued activity with keen appre- hension, ae they consider him the only Hberal who can win the country from fits alleglance to the jingo government. Mr. Chamberlain says, privately, that Lord |( Rosebery is not to be counted with as a serious Influence in publie life. “Don’t trouble about Rosebery; he will end up by becoming president of the Ping Pong assoclation,” is the sarcastic ob- servation Attributed to the colonial secre- tary On the other hand, Roseberry 1s reported to have bitingly declared: “Chamberlain is merely a tradesman speculating in reac- tion.” ¥ upset all I | v way |e t Ping Pong the Social Craze. Ping pong, or table teunis, which ob- tained a certain vogue last winter, has de- veloped this r into soclal craze of overwhelmingly dimensions. It is played everywhere In Pockham as absorbingly as at Park Lane. It not only is fascinating, but cheap, and s practicable on any table of reasonable dimensions. One London firm has sold a miliion sets, it is sald, in three mouths. A ping pong association has been formed under distingulsbed patronage to make rules and arrange champlonships. suburbia had a largely attended and ex- clting tournament at the Royal Aquarium last week, lasting six days. This week Belgravia had its more select competition in Queen's hall. Some women have at- tuined extraordinary proficlency. At the Aquarium toursament oue rally lasted oighty-seven strokes, Walking along any qulet thoroughfare in the West End or the suburbs any evening one is bound to hear the ping pong of the collulold balls parchment rackets o alm overy othe Bridge cards have been lald aside, mot ng | 18 neglected, the theaters are abandoned Dbooks deserted, even the war 1s forgotten 1a the wild delights of this new fad, a st house. Dewet's Dram | tie reak. Dewel's appalling reappearance at Zee- teln Christmas eve has Toughly shaken the optimism that had begun to pre- | vail respecting affairs of Kitchener's cam- paign. Dewet undoubtedly arrangos these affalrs with to dramatic effect Every England has been arranging rejoleing he or Botha makes some astound- | ing coup Dewet's Christ- | m British, It is thought | morally he will provide an- | other catastrophe for the opening of Par- lament, Junuary 18 3 The War office hax adopted a policy of trylog to minimize the calamities by glv ing out information in driblets. But the public has adept in reading b tween the lines of the War office dispatches, w0 the withholding of the full facts only arouses the wore alarm, Take it T it is firmly belleved here that the Boer geuerals are wholly beyond coutrol of the ser leaders at The Hague. Morbover Dutch Premier Kuyper's statement has aroused suspicion that BEuropean mediation or intervention is nearer than it ever hay been. But the Boer generals have no il- lusions on that ecore, and despite England's implacable determiuation to subdue or ex- terminate them they express perfect confi- dence in their ultimate triumph The War office this week lssued a call for 5,000 more imperial yeomanry. Simul- tancously It promulgated u new scheme of tralning for the home volunteers, which kes o heavy demand on the time aud | the resources of the men that they are warmly protesting. It changes the whole wakeup of the volunteer force The strain of the war continues to in- crease in all ite most damaging and trylng aspects, while enthusiasm has departed and is replaced by a sullen conviction that the war must be carried ou at all costs, belng esseutial (0 the salvation of the Britsb cwplrg | on an eye tme 2| for the ertair tein was present become Boer Generals ) am anxious not to let public interest abate through instilling persistence in this fascinating problem in all we may hope for rapid improvement It mission would start and to which Public interest in America Is such that an Iimmense sum of money could be ralsed to $3,000,000, would erect making and experimenting upon all mitted and it it velop having several ascensions dally Me tollow n | Santos-Dumont Everything has be mous influx of pe promised mont will not make his first ascension be- fore the end of January, nor his effort to reach Corsica before two weeks later. faster yacht under convey and assist him in his attempts to Wo gradually miraculous pictorial representations, but not before the abbot and several monks had | objects. | | from all parts of the empire and that anclent its miraculow® well have been re-cstablished cess Victori | position, { appeared from War | ty | ish trade outlook. THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE. AIRSHIPS IN UNITED STATES “Dumont of i Likel & the Chief Amers fenn Citles. annen Tourl (Copyright, 1%1, by Press Publishing Co. PARIS, Dec. 28.—(New York World Ca blegram — Special Telegram.) — M. Santos Dumont sald to the World's corresponden today: “I am not averse to going th United States. | may even announce posi tively that I intend to go next summer recelved overtures lately from a com of wealthy Americans for a tour most important American cities, different airships a dozen times 1 am willing to do that mitte of th sailing in because is only minds thal doing my best, but perhops I shall not b the man who will solve the problem, after “One clause of the American proposition referred to will draw me there Irresistibly. committeo to the thinks of charging $1 ad enclosure from which ndow nautics, Iream an international institute of aero which has long been my This institute, endowed with buildings and a ga factory and provide the best possible prac- balloon commission ical equipment of all kinds for A all countries of navigable balloons sub finds @ promising one th tor should be invited to come and de his idea under the best advico and ot experts from plans should pas n with all facilities given him. or sixty in “It we «hould gather ffty yorts, working ately or ax commnon, instead o practica ne in awhile nodels would b nwhile th the once 1 am sure dally progress of the experl ing o correspondent asked: “Would blish the institute in the United State or i Burope?” “In America, ertainly,” anewered was endowed wit American money M. Santos-Dumont January 2 elegraphed goes to Monte Carl The prince of Monaco has jus to him: “Am pleased to In | form you that today I visited the Aero- | autical park. |n Building erected. Working nen are busy installing the hydrogen plant n done according to you: directions. When may we ex sure of your arrival?" Monaco authorities report an enor ntelligent pect. the ple The experiments, but M. Santos-Du Both the prince of Monaco's M. Santos-Dumont’s sole orders, t ross the Mediterranean sea. MIRACLES OF AN OLD WELL Holy Siwws Appear u Blocks Monastery Kulikoo, lee at ot 191, by Press Publishing Co. TERSBURG, Dec. 28.—(New Yorl Cablegram—Special « 8 ght, P 1d it. During a severe col water, cut out the ice. When the ic hey were amazed to find imbedded In it, an. clearly pictured, an icon of the patron saint the word | of the monastery, a chalice and repent” In anclent Slavonic. The e melted: fn the air and with it th estified that they had seen The abbot reported the m; the ter to the syno and to the newspapers, with the result that pilgrims are setting out to the monaster th reputation an of the mouastery Grand Duke Serglus and his wife, th czarovitch, will represent the Russian court at duchess’ the coronation next June of the gran uncle, The grand duchess, a sister of th {ua, is regarded by many as the mos beautiful of Queen Victorta's granddaugh tors. She is the daughter of Victoria's daughter Alico and the late grand duke of Hesse. The present grand duke of He her brother, has just divor another of Victorla's granddaughter; Melite of Saxe-Coburg Grand Duchess Sergius might have bee empress of Germany but for Blsmarck's op for the present cmperor one time much attached to her, when sh was Princoss Elizabeth of Hesse ral Marlatoff, who mysteriously aw three.years ag becn discovered in the eitadel, been d fron was e . ba where b | has been undergoing a preliminary exam- ination of suspicion of complicity in the sale | of the plans of the Warsaw, political prison to the French government for $450,000, five v was DESPONDENT Altred Narmsworth twen Mariaton’s alleged shar will be court-martialed Ars AKO. 000, He OVER spresses Luck o Hope Co Britixh o cerning ook 11, by Press Publishi Dec. 28.—(New York Cab Speciul Telegram.) Alfre Harmsworth in a signed stutement mani grent despondency regarding the Brit Oue way waking up England would be to insist upo the members of the cabinet occasionall leaving their own country to see for them (Copyrig LONDON Worl selves what 18 being done by our commer- clal encmies. Those who, like Roseber: Carnegle, Lipton and Furness, have the trouble of Investigating matters appea well aware that this country is beiug hope lessly defeated in almost every branch of | industry. “The optimiste are confined to the peop! like my friend Mr. Balfour, beyond tho four-mile tensive. “One week in the United States woul radius are not ex vot fail to bring home the mos. unpleas- the ant fact that at the individual Amerlcan present momeut is a great deal mor: efficlent and industrious than the individual Briton. “When we were captains of the world' industries the traveling Englishman was notable figure in both hemi:pheres. I these days the traveling Englishman ha glven way to the traveling American an German. Our prominence has been d stroyed by stay-at-bome self-complacency,’ vod each 1am would return. fond devised within three years public would be allowed to you M. ple, drawn there by the yacht, | Princess Alice, and James Gorden Bennett's Lysistrata, have been placed Telegram.)—In e village of Kullkoo is a monastery with a well of water which long had a reputa tion of working miraculous cures, but lately had been losing #pell the well froze hard and the monks, to gt was conveyed to the surface of the ground King Edward VII of Eng- vrin- at dis- TRADE of taken whose travels OMAHA, SUNDAY MOR | Si tion to YANKEES AS MODEL Germany Now Pays Especial Af ) American Motheds, GOVERNMENT PROVIDES SPECIAL COURSE t 1 Young Men for Censular and Diplematio Nervios the Gainens, INTERNATIONAL COMMERCE A SPECIALTY | ® t | Mothods Eeught for @reater Trade with Chins and Japan. EXCLUSIVENESS OF STATE BROKEN AT LAST 1 Ambition of Daughters to Learn Use- ful Occupations Puts an End to 014 World N ous Socinl R fons of Rigor- triction hy ¥ 28.—( (Copyright, 191, s Publishing Co.) BERLIN, Ded w York World Ca- blegram—Special Telegram.)—In the four commercial universities at Aachen, Cologne, Letpsic and Frankfort-on-the-Main the jerman government has determined to pro- vide a special course for young men in- ding to enter the diplomatic, especially the consular, service. Instruction will be | glven on legal and pmmercial q u-vlnn,‘ arleing out of International intercourse and special attention will be directed to Ameri- can methods of doing business, especially methods of extending trade in China and Japan. It is no longer exceptional for a pushing German manufacturer or merchaat to send his son to an American commercial city to study American business customs. Several large firms in this ecity, in Leipsic, Ham- | burg and Frankfort have their eyes fixed | on the United States as thelr model, and are represented in America by youthful | members of the firm who, after a year or two, return to the fatherland, ardent ad- | vocates of American push and thorough- ness. t 1 b o t New Age Breaks U The exclusiveness clusiveness. of German ministers of state is becoming a thing of the past They begin fo feel the breath of the new age. In former years a minister's family Kkept aloof from all the world except a small coterle. Thelr sons were educated severely alone for the service of the state, thelr daughters were brought up with rigor to be heads of great houses. The lists for the new winter session at the Berlin univer- sity show that a daughter of Count Von Posadewskl, imperial administer of the in- terior, entered in the philosophical school; another, a daughter of another minister, 13 studying church history; a Bavarian min- ister's daughter is fitting herself to be a school mistress, and a daughter of oue of his colleagues is training for midwlifery. In Wurtemburg two nieces of one of the ministers are giving kindergarten lessons, while his daughter designs fashion plates. After a Record in Diplomns. ) o Dr. George Eitel of Chanhassen, Carver county, Mion., who has just taken his | medical degree at Berlin university, al- ready had diplomas from the universities of Minnesota, Oregon, California, Pennsyl- vania, Washington, Idaho and Montana, probably the record in the medical profes- sion. The Berlin press good-naturedly banters him, hoping that before long he will | be able to celebrate a silver jubllee com- memorating his twenty-fifth passing of ex- aminations. Eitel is 43 years old. He began his medical studies sixteen years ago, after having spent ten years in his father's factory, ) k a0 o o e ]ECLIPSE OF COSTLY JEWELS | Bernhardt Des World with Her Great Sho of Gems. a (Copyright, 191, by Press Publishing Co.) PARIS, Dec. 28,—(New York World Ca- blegram—Spectal Telegram.)—Sarah Bern- bardt's extraordinary mnotion ot eclipsing anything cver scen In the way of display of costly Jewels is the absorbing thewe in conversation in Parls. This new hobby was suggested by the revival of Sardou's “Thoedora,” following “L'Aiglon’s” last performance tonight. Bernhardt has grown tired of “L'Alglon” and now loathes a| mascuifne part. But being unable to find | suitable new play she has decided to fall | back on an old success, producing it with an aceuracy a magnificence unparal- leled anywhere. According to rumor, one Aress has cost $20,000. On the subject ¢ jewelry especially, Sardou, whose thrifty tendencie well kuown, dlsapproves of Sarah's lavis , and unhesitatingly de- clared that bas She 13 emvloying special Jowel artists the whole time reproduce In real gold and gems authentic oriental designs found by experts in the national library. In one seene she will wear stimated to be worth $1,000,000, partly new, partly cumulation of fifty year The dramatie critfes unanimously ridicule the playing saylng that etforts of actors fowadays create @ sensation at any price distract attention from the merits of the play The Ameriegn celebrated Christ mas Joyfully, though the family p were strictly adhered to. Almost no ations sent out and ¢ lese were PLAY FOR HIGH STAKES y | o d o d o a n n , noE gone crazy three an ac- colony tie ¢l vi fow accepted ) d | | ) Count Loses Eig Dollars, but ¢ Heavily. ¢ Hun (Copyright, J%1, by Press Publishing Co.) VIENNA, " Dec York ' World Cablegram—Special Telegram.)—Count Jo- soph Potacki’s loss of about $800,000 In four hours of baccarat play at the Jockey | club here has directed attention again to the scandalous gambling there, which is de- liberately winked at by the police. The stakes were § 00 A time, A Hungarian deputy, Herr von Szemere, | won $300,000. He never could have pald that sum had he lost, 0 it 15 assumed that he intended to shoot himself If fortune proved a reverse. Prince Francis Braxanza, who won $240,- 000, s on years old, yet has already had @ cerious financial crisis owing to his gambling. His aunt is sister-in-law of Em- peror Francis Joseph Potock! has undertaken to pay his debts | in installments by next May. His fortune s | 18 estimated at $35,000,000. Being maluly in a | land, it takes time to sell it. The Potockls n | really are Russians of a famous aud ancient a | lineage. Count Joseph is not married. The a | emperor will order him to travel abroad for « | & tew years in order to get bhim away from " | the gambling set. n | y | ol | MANCHESTER MENAGF AMUSES | Wilhelmina Neruda, and | Stockholm, | became | Christmas | Leila Pa | Cablegram NING, DECEMBER Young Duke a Cipher While % Supplies Cash own House, " by Press Publishing Co.) LONDON, Dec. 25, —~(New York World Ca- blegram—Speclal T y )=M'ich amuse« ment exists in K ) the Arrauge- ments for the & v menage. The young duke wee; oS o a clpher 1o hbis | own house aiy gh all his expenses aid he given a sixpence to epend by father-in-law or his wite. Thy has an aliowance, course, , has anythiug but a free hand, cheir bills, even small house keep Gnts, are paid by Zimmerman checke Mr. clled (Copyright, 191 are s s " of Zimmerman is by o means recon to his daughter's marriage, but he has settied a large sum of woney on her first child and, contrary to the expects tions and to the wish of the different mem bers of the Manchester family, he is pre- pared to consider It as the eldest child in- stead of reserving hie money to bestow on a possible future son and beir People are wonderiug if the duke would have felt inclined to marry an helress um- der these conditions had bLe known his mother was coming into & large sum of money Among the beautiful society women in the United Kingdom is the wife of Captaln E. D. Miller, who Is bringiug out edition of his book on polo. Mrs. like her husband, is devoted to outdos eports and is a good horsewoman. Tb lunches and dinners at Ranelagh were one of the features of last season, the duke and duchess of Teck being frequently their guests T. P. O'Connor, M. P., has appearcd in the ranks of temperance advocates, giving this as his solemn, matured opinion: ‘I belleve that in a half a century m now | to a new Mil | no man will rise to the heights of any pro- fession, in the fleld, in the forum or at the desk, who is not a teetotallar.” Lady Hamilton, whose busband, Sir lan, recently aseumed the responsibilities of chief of staff to Lord Kitchener in Soutn Africa, is celebrated In English soclety for taste in dress. One of the charming daugh- ters of Sir John Muir, she contrives to bw alwaye in the fashion, yet everything he wears has an individuality peculiarly its | own. Both the general and Lady Hamilton are interested in literary pursults, though Lady Hamilton has not published anything. A special spoudent of the London Times, summing up a careful comparison of English and Amerfcan railwuy trains in regard to speed, maintaiug ‘Britain s well In front of America as regards the volume and average speed of its express traffic. Apart from brilliant exceptions, such as the Empire State ex- press, or the wonderful performance on the Philadelphia & Reading rallway, which Is running fifty-six and one-half miles be- tween Camden and Atlantic City in o0 minutes, American service s much slower than that in Great Britain.” Ralph Hall Caloe, son of Hall Caine, the novelist, & the youngest editor in London. At tho age of 173 vears he Is editing Dickens' old paper, Household Words, which his father bought to test him. The son has already commisioned his father to write an article for his periodical. Lady Halle, who has been apointed vio- linist to Queen Alexandra, 8 popular with English lovers of music, and invariably is | greeted with enthusiasm whenever she ap- pears in public. Her maiden name was she was born in began to give con- rs of age. In 1861 | court conductor at Sweden, and after he died she the wife of Sir Charles Halle, a Qistinguished planist and conductor ot London. The English regard her as the finest of all women viollnists, | The duke and duchess of Marlborough i1 not pass Christmas at Blenheim, but at Gopsall Park, with the duke's aunt, | Countess Howe. It was the countess' first in the Howe family maasion since her husband succeeded to the title of earl. The duke and duchess had invited to Blenhcim the usual family party, includ- ing the duke’s mother and sisters, the Corn- wallls Wests and Winton Spencer Churchill But at the invitation of Countess Howe they all went to Gopsall instead, cor express Bruun, Austria. She certs when only 6 ye she married L. Norman, flMERlCANS‘iflT THE RESORTS | Genernl Arthur H. Paget and Daugh- ter Arrive at Villa at (Copyright, 1091 NICE, Dee. gram-—-Special H. Paget ha bondy, Canne got by Press Publishing Co.) —(New York World Cable- Telegram.)—General Arthur just arrived at Villa Garl- with his daughter, Miss on a visit to his mother, Lady | Mrs. Arthur Paget, whose delicate, will come later, will to Cairo for the Alfred health General winter, Mrs, McClel Eplendide, Nice, She i Mr. and Mrs. L. taken the beautiful Cannes, Mr. Thorne has just bought power antomabile for King Edward has sent spect . Chateau wnlficent villa near been ered to him k will not come untll March, 1t at all. Chateau Thore was where Gladstone spent his last days before his return to England to die of dise o which 1 terrible Edward aget sl Paget n 18 ylog at Hotel in good health Mortimer-Thors Monticello, dent motorist, twelve-horse have villa at na splendid $6,000. courior Lord to in Rendel's which h Thoren of g a 5 a bugbear to SWIMMING IN ARCTIC WATER| n for Prizes M f Octoher Until April, Outdoors by Press Publishing (o) . —(New York World Special Telegram.)—Christmas is celebrated In mauy odd ways, but the Swimming club, 1 hich holds 1w annual competition between' 6 and 8 a. m. on Christmas ( the Serpeatine In Hyde pagi. has about the¢ oddest -leLration of all. The competitioll takes j regardless of weather. Often the fce as to be broken in order to bring off #% 100-yard race. Last Wednesday thirty-seven competitors stripped on the bapk in the raw, biting cold midwister dawn, nine of them being be- tween 50 and 60 years old. Membership In the club is obtalued by bathing in the Serpentine every morning from October to April in any given year. The winner of the race receives a gold medal, the second and third get silver medals and every competitor who coms« pletes the distance ls given u bronze star. On going ashore they get a warming mix- ture of hot coffee and Scotch whisky. The devotees of this shivering entertainment stoutly maintain that winter swimming in the open water Is the most healibful exer cise possible, Dec. (Copyright, LONDOD 9, 1901 | episcopal commission to subn | 18 said at the | Father \'of satnt | guests of Count | thus WENTY PAGES. AMERICA'S NEW SEES Episcopal Commission is to Bubmit List te the Pepe. CARDINAL GIBBINS HEADS THE PLAN | Grewth of the Cathelie Community Re- quires Changes. LEO PREPARES NEW YEAR'S ENCYCLICAL Ubristian Democracy Ideas te Oheck Italian JOAN OF ARC IS NEXT TO BE CANONIZED Pontifft Expresses Hog Famous 1} the Church's List of Sai the Coming Yenr. (Copyright, 1901, by ROME, Dec ( blegram—Special Telegram.) bons is to be appointed th Press Publighing Co.) ew York World Ca Cardinal Gib t to the be created in order to keep pace with growth of the Catholic community, it This fs the reason, the recent pope a st in t United the of new tates sees to vatican it 18 asserted, for spondence on the subject pope purposes to lssue in the ar an encyclical on Christian democ- designed to check the threatening dis- putes which have arisen lately in the Italian Catholic party The pontiff withstood the fatigue of the Christmas ceremonies perfoctly, although he insisted upon complying with the custom of saying three masses on Christmas day, one a midday mase. The winter always agrees with him. It Is the exhausting heat of midsummer and autumn that reduces his strength Bishop Touchet of Orleans, who was re- celved by the pope in private audience this week, was the bearer of a fifth volume concerning the trial and death of Joan of Arc, compiled by a learned Dominican friar, Ayrolles. Me contends that Joan deserves the palm for martyrdom and title This view is shared by the pope, who expressed the intention of canonizing Joan of Arc during the year 1¢ early Wy a [CHRISTMAS OF CASTELLANES Children Are Ro night fo wed Soon After Mid- Visit of Santa Clauw, (Copyright, 191, by Press Publishing Co.) PARIS, Dec. (New York World ( blegram—Special Telegram )—All the mem- bers of the Castellane family were the Boni at Christmas. The town mansicn was deserted, the whole vaca- tlon belng spent at Chateau Du Marals, The marquis and the marquise, Count Bonl's | father and mother, took the children to the country themselv Bonl, belonging to a committee of Parllament, stayed in town until adjournment, to complete a report. At 4 o'clock on Christmas eve the | countess rode to the Palais Bourbon (Cham- ber of Deputies) drove around to some “smart’ toy and con- fectionery shops and bought pretty much everything tn sight, though a previously heen shipped to th te, after which both castle Count Boni was in his happlest and most | lavish mood. “Dear, why do The children already have two.' glve away what they do not want,” Count Bont would avswer, laughingly, and con- tinue to order till the carriage was too full, when the footman was sent to the station to take part of the load. The count and countess reached the chateau by the 8 o'clock train. For once they dined in day dress After ainner their children, together with a lot of nephews and nieces, hung up their stockings before going to bed and placed thelr shoes under the great chimney mantel in the old mediaeval dining hall for St Nicholas to put presents in. The grown folks then arranged ome of the most sumptuous Christmas trees ever seen, a robust fir tree eighteen feet high. Boni spent two hours on a stepladder hanging decorative trinkets, At midnight he Douran, the nearest followed In various family attending the venerable marquls rounded by their threc and Stanislaus, with beautiful picture Upon the return tional French of, after which tho children wer mation the chimney clad in their en. A great warm The countess would ou buy this magle lantern? “They'll say drove his mother to village, and the rest vehicles, the whole midnight mass. The and marquise, sur I sons, Bonl, Jean thetr wives, made a at the tradi- partaken night the tree: was lighted awakened w Nicholas had The ones Jightgowns, rubbing log fire was keeplug Afier an hour 1 delighted cries the tots Count Boni safd them h the inf Aow a their littio troo, place and bed ghier were put to again. make the coming dead fairy-like That them roused at that hour Chr ladie ing and usefu the out Connt ot this forge! ensatior ot night why I cone stmas day the listributing res whil [ kneeling poor ¥ to Inspect the Boni, who, peasan the men me preserve trolled except on the carpet spent the afternoon showing tho children how to operate their mechanical toy The Christmas dinner was a gala affair, Twenty-two sat at the table. The only toast was offered by Count Boni, master of the house, who arose and said in a tone of serlous respect Let thank God our proud family, numerous, united and happy. Let us drink the health of our revered father and mother. The celebration was a typical among the old aristocracy us Noel day of France, ROSEBERY NOT READY TO ACT ines to Join Hix Fortunes with Liberal Party Under P ent ( it LONDON, De 1t s aseerted apparently good authority that ader, Sir Heory Campbell-Bannerman, written'a letter to Lord Rosebery in the hope of restoring unity among the 1ih- erals, but that Lord Rosebery declines tc join his fortunes to those of the in the pre circumstances this statement prove to be be a further proof of Sir Henry's sincere ef torts for party union and will give him new claim to the loyalty of the liberals and thue strengthen his position as leader aud the effectivencss of the opposition. upon the liberal party Should it owill ent to rrect president of an | artload had | the | “Nothing will | wanted | it Sunday r " f the Brit erns Af s for the Uni t Grows in Vencrueln Shaw's At ates n Vaster \ Objects to the vy A Na of e Nell O YR Towan iUl Amnin Suffer Heavy | Dickering Last Week | Woman's Club nud Charity B wnd Tt Afaies. 3. by Wal emperature | | | MILWAUKE Rause, allas O. W, Lloyds, alias Mrs. O. H. Saun- ders, Is under arrest here on the charge of using the United States malls to defraud. Rause accused of masquerading some. times as a tramp, sometimee as a business man, at other times as #tylishly dressed woman, and again a& a hunch-backed boy. The officers who made the arrest do not know whether thefr prisoner He was arrested backed On his head cap, which, when removed cap such as a woman we Under this fnner cap soft, silken blonde might be proud Rau when arrested denfed that he fs a woman. Dressed as a man he is a slen- der, smooth-faced youth Behind his arrest there is allogod to be a far-reaching scheme to defraud jewelers in all parts of the country Co., of Chicago sent $1,000 worth to Rause, but the postoflice inspectors have recovered the valuables. Four thousand dollars worth sent by ether firms has also been recov The arrest was made at Randolph, by Postoffice Inspector Ralph Bird. SIX MEN KILLED IN COAL MINE Props to Bottom o haft from Cage Which Jumps Guiding is a woman, as a hunch- was a stocking showed another « when bathing. was colled a roll of air, of which any woman Wis., KANSAS CITY, Dec. 28.—A special to the Star from Hartshorn, I. T., says: At shaft | No. 1 of the McAlester Coal company here | today while the cage was ascending with Inmlll men it jumped {ts guldings about 100 fect from the bottom of the shaft. Six out of the elght men were killed. They were caught between the ca {and their bodies dropp the shaft The names of three of the killed, so far as could be learned, are ALEXANDER ROMANCHOK. MICHA PERTKE. | M. KETCHOK All killed were Russians. | two others who held to the cage. were only slightly injured. The killed whose names are not known here recently from Pennsylvania d to the bottom of There were They others came INEW GOVERNOR SWORN | Henry « | e IN MeBri 1 Of- i e Takes Onth & Late John Rogers ed! " | | OLYMPIA, Wash, Dec. 25.—Henry G. | McBride, Iteutenant governor, was sworn |in today as governor of Washington. Th onth was administered by Chief Justice | Reavis in the chambers of the supreme court | Private the home here T funeral services will i the late € day. The body Tacoma Wednesday neral will be held sent to Puyailup interment | INDIAN CHARGED WITH DEED snid be held at verner Rogers will be taken to where a military fu and the remains the governor's home, for o Be Murdever of Ln | Matthre wit SPRINGVIEW, Neb,, Dec received hero tonight of the lam Belliole, a man Indian ne Boucher I of Jack ofic ha Word was Killing of Wil by @ hif-breed The shooting Libolt, thirty have loft whi med Jo ceurred at the ran g b tured SAVES COURT THE TROUBLE Moh Lynches Newro While His Teial in Belng Areanged by Governor, N. €., Dec. 28.—While was signing an order Northampton to try Mitchel, a negro, for assaultiog Mrs. Lu- cinda Hill, » white woman, a telegram came saying that citizens bad taken Miteh ¢l from the Jall at Jackson and lynched him. RAL ernor 1GH Aycock clal cou Gove for a at Poter Movements of Oceal Vessels Dec, At York—Arrived—Phoencia, Hamburg; Minnehat from Statendam, from Rotterdam Hohenzollern, from Genoa: Glasgow. Bailled—Campania At London—Arrived Francisco and Guiyaqul! AL Yokohama—Arrived=Dorlc, from Franeisco. via Honolulu, for Hong hiu Maru, from Sea(tle; Glenogle. ma, for Iong Kong Apanese Port — A from Tacoma, for Hong AU Calcutta—salled Franch At Havre—Sailed At Antwerp rk At York At coma AU Queenstown—Arrived—Etruria, New York. for Liverpool, 28, from Hamburg via Boulogne; Victoria, from for Livarpool rapil, ~from via Havre Vow San Kong from rived nis Kirkdale, for Linix, for New York Friesland, for N San Balle W ¥ Liverpool=Salled—Saxona New for Hong Kong—8alled—Victoria, for Ta- trom s a man or | Rich, Allen & | and the buntings | then | San | Glenogle, | B T PAGES 1 TO 10. G S ULl T Pepulace Carries Opperition te Castro te Full-Fledged Revelution, DECISIVE CONFLICT IS EXPECTED SO00N astro's Gevermment Euspends Use o Railreads. STATIONS ARE OCCUPIED BY TROOPS German Legatlon Enters Strong Proe this Act y the Americn teat to South n Belly, erents, WILLEMSTAD, Island (Via Haytien Cable.)—Advices recelved trom Venezuela, say that the revolution against President Castro is gaining ground daily. Noarly the whola of the republic s in revolt and bands of are scourlng the country. ( n ate of and Barquisimeto, in state of ticularly are fn the utlon of Curacon, Dee here today Caracas meu | the Faleon, the Lara possession of the rey Cable communieation Carupano and Bareelona s interrupted and the government Is without news from the state of Bermudez (in which these ports ars located), which leads to the beliof that it also has been induced to revolt by General Domingo Monegus General Luclano Mendoza (the prosident elect of the state of Carabobo, who rebel against President marched on 1 | Victorla and was reported to have been de feated), has escaped from the pursuit ot the government troops and s now in the neighborhood of San Juan de Los Moros | Autonto Fernandez and thirty chiefs of the state of Carabobo were not willing to en- guge the government forces before the revolution was quite ripe Ject to W ro, tween Cuman Castr 3 we Hons. Venezuela s sald to be on the verge of even more serious complications. Tho tele- graph lines in the interior of the country have all been cut The arrival in Venezuela of Senor Matos, the reputed head of the revolutionary move- ment, with the steamer Ban Righ, loaded with munitions of war, is awaited daily. A decistve conflict will koon take place. The Venczuclan government bolieves that Ban Righ is in the vicinity of the feland of Margarita (an island in the Caribbean scn belonglng to Venezuela), where the Venezuelan fleot has been concentrated. Reports received here from Caracas today say the relations between Germony and Venezuela become more strafned every day. The Venezuelan government suspended trafic on the Germany railroad, because ot the threats of the Insurgents; the com- pany refused to transport troops unless the government guaranteed it mgainst losses, which might b sustained by the destruction of its road and equipment. The stations are occupled by troops. The German legation at Caracas has en- tered an energetic protest against the goy- crument’s action in this connection [ALBAN MAKES ACCUSATION plombinn Genernl Says President of Salvador Awsis o e Reve n. COLON, Colombia, Dec. 28.—(Via Galves. ton.)—The following dispatch has been re- celved from Panama iencral Alban says that he had con- clusive proof that the president of Salvador has been assisting the revolutionists. Fif- teen bhundred of the latter from Tumaco under Benjamin Herrera, landed on the peninsula of Tonosl, near Santigao de Vera- gua, (@ town of Colombia, 135 miles south- west of Panama, near the coast). The smail Karrison fought for five hours, but when the rebels landed at several points it did not assiet In the attack. The government has concentrated all its forces under General Castro and is sending more troops to his ald. A battle 1s expected to take place shortly. But as reiuforcements are coming | trom Barranquilla, General Alban has no fear of the ultimate success of the army in defending the republic “General Alban confirnis the report from Bogota: that fighting has taken place dur- ing the week at Fusagasuga and Cumaoua; that many were killed, und that the gov- | rnment troops victorious. wers \DOWIE WILL OFFER TERMS Zionist " Decldes to Nettle here WOt or Conrt. CHICAGO, e Dowie has decided elalm of hin brother | son, the English lace | Thursday, the time set | handing down | win Logan today recelved Puackard, Dowle | Dowle was ready tlement AL the closs that in-law John he Alexander will settls tho Samuol Steven maker, before next by Judge Tuley for ¢ decision in the case 1l Stevenson's lotter lawyer Reeves attorne w tha trom Samuel to the efiect to make a reasonabl of the a private conference Dowl thelr | reported to have cage was settled out of court point a re the tries. Stevenson him out clares that | be conside WRECKS ON ROCK One Freight 71 trinl Judge Tuley held with Stevenson and in which he i intimated that unless th he would ap Zion luce indus | uttorneys a recelver for Dowle his att clatmed $150,000, no amount detrauded e wil ot rney legs than that ed Iu settlement ISLAND % Irack, Two pilide and Several 5 A | w | TOPEKA, Kan, Dec | rear-end collision between a Rock Island freight today caused the d named McLeod of was asleep in the when the wreek | burned to death. E: | Jumping from his engis ANADARKO, Ark., De freight train No. 136 twelve miles south of Robinson, aged « Hurt, 25.—A Qlsastrous two sections of train at Hoyt early of a bollermaker Kan. McLeod of the first urred and Armstrong broke a leg Rock Istand Jumped the track Anadark Frank tramp carpenter of Lincoln, Mo., was killed instantly and H L. Blair, M. D. Willlams «nd Frank Burs tramps, were iojured, th Horton caboose Be w tion o 8 1ginder in