Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 13, 1902, Page 1

LISHED JU CROPS IN NEBRASKA tate Bureen Compiles First Complete Re- ports for the Past Y ACREAGE OF CORN STEADILY DECREASING Bavthe Showing of that ('sveal s Greater Than Drenth P. , .* N "'m ESTAB BETTER PRICES MAKE UP SOME N ":E d Wheat Rapidly Spreads Over State Aids in Presperity. LORN CROPS COMPARED FOR FOUR YEARS Arranging the Counties in Five D tricts Shows Douglas and Its Nelghhors in Thick of the Most Productive Belt, (From a Staff Correspondent.) { LINCOLN, Jan. 12.—(Special)—A report | bas been compiled by the State Bureau of | Labor and Industrial Statistics, giving for | the first time what are said to be prac. | tically accurate crop statistics for the year 1901, It s shown that 58 acres were planted with corn, yleldlng 72, bushels, as against an acreage of 6,261,050 | #ud & yleld of 143,650,317 bushels the year | previous. The wheat crop last year was | 50,227,484 bus! as agafost 37,748,245 | bushels in 1900, and the increase in acre- ege was about 30 per cent. The figures presented by the department | show that the acreage of corn has been | gradually decreasing siuce 1599, while the @creage of wheat has boen rapidly increas- f#ng. With corn smaller acreage and smaller yleld in 1901 made better prices for the farmers, so that the total value of the rop does not fall many millions below t of 1900. Taking 32 cents a bushel as the average rico for corn pald to farmers in 1900, it estimated that the value of the crop ©f that year was $45,008,101.44. Conceding $hat the average price for corn in 1901 was oaly 46 cents a bushel the value of last goar's crop may be sald to be at least $32,- 900,852, Ot course, all corn was not sold during the year in which it was raised, so that the figures just given are merely esti- mates of the value of the crops. ( Wheat Acreage. It is estimated that the acreage of winter wheat sown last fall exceeds that of the rovious year by 37 per cent. Reports from o various soctions of the state indicate that the condition of wheat is about 2 per gent better than at the corresponding time he year previous. ‘The figures presented by the department @re sald to be ws nearly accurate as can be obtained, Deputy Labor Commissioner Watson and Chief Clerk Hodge have de- woted considerable time to the work of guthering the statistics, and for the pur- Pose af se the most reliable inform: tion possible i WL §rwra dealers in all communities, taking the messors’ returns and other grain and crop yeports ms & basis upon which to make their calculations. The federal report cred- fted Nebraska with a corn crop of approxi- mately 100,000,000 bushels. The state au- thoritios have been unable to verify this etimate. The figures Great Increase | given by the department are not merely estimates, but are taken from sctual reports of various authorities. In September a statement was given to the public estimating a yleld of 65,000,000 ‘buehels of corn. The figures theroin con- tatned have been revised and corrected from the original or supplementary re- Comparisons of Corn Crops. Following s a comparison of the corn the four years ending with 1001: il : Average Total "No. Bu. Acreage. Per A. :.N. 1.0 2.1 6,436,918 23 . 6,077,021 28 Yield of wheat and oats in the years 1000 and 1901 was as follows 4 Total Yield. Bu. 901 72,446,207 17 6,641 829 m‘a?l'ku a1, m’éu Dateetpurt: St Ba For the purpose of facilitating the work of calculation the department has divided the state into five districts. The first dis. trict comprises the countles of Ci Johnson, Nemaha, Richardson, Gage, Lancaster, Saunders, Butler, Seward, Saline and Jefferson, and in it the condl- ¢lons are given as follow Corn—The acreage as originally sown was 1,476,096 acres, or about 94 per cent of the previous year's acreage. Of this there wai claimed to be gathered S0 per cent, or corn gathered on 1,189,733 acres, which ylelded twenty-two bushels per acre, or a yleld for the division of 26,203,099 busl ‘Wheat—The fall acreage of wheat, as compared with the previous year, 18 19 per oent greater. Reports from the va rious counties indicate that the condition of the crop s about the same as at the gorresponding tlme the previous year. York and Its Nelghbors. In the second division are placed the eounties of Polk, York, Fillmore, Thayer, Hamilton, Clay, Nuckolls, Adams, Webster, Kearney and Franklin, and the conditions therein are summarized as follows: Corn—The acreage a8 originally sown was 1,044,063 acres, upon only 66 per cent of which was corn gathered, or about 589,890 scres. The average yleld per acre was ten ‘bushels, or a yleld for the division of 5,916, 518 bushels. ‘Wheat—The fall acreage of wheat is estl- mated at 19 per cent greater than the previous year, with the condition of the crop about the same as at the correspond- ing time the year before. In the third division are the count of Phelps, Harlan, Gosper, Furnas, Frontier, Red Willow, Hayes, Hiteheoe Perkins, Chase and Dundy. The summary for the section s: Corn—The acreage originally sown was 621,142 acres. Of this only 42 per cent wi gathered, or 265,227 acres. The average yleld per acre was about five bushels, or a yleld for the division of 1,326,000 bushel Wheat—The fall acreage of wheat as compared with the previous year is 242 per eent, or almost two and one-half times as great In 1900. The condition generally is about 12 per cent better than at the same time a year previous. Richeat W ot of the The fourth division includes the counties of Sarpy, Doug Washington, Burt, Thurston, Dakota, Dixon, Wayne, Cumings, Dodge, Colfax, Stanton, Cedar, Knox, Plerce, Madison, Platte, Merrick, Nance, Boone NE SINGLE €O PEACE IN CENTRAL AMERIC Presidents, Other Cabinet OMcials Joarney for Conventl Members and MANAGUA, Nicaragua, Jan. 12.—(Via Galveston.)—President Zelaya, the minis- ters of his cabinet and several other Nicar- aguan officials have left here for the port of Coroninto, on the Pacific, where they will meet and confer with the presidents of the other states of Central America who will assemble there upon the invita- tion of President Zelaya. General Terenclo Sierra, president of Honduras, and General Tomas Regalado of Salvador are already on their way to Cor- sainto. The presidents of the other re- * ‘s, or their representatives, are re- " s intending to go to Coroninto Ta The object of these meetings I8 decln.ed to be the preservation of peace. The meetings will be January 15 and 17. SEIZES THE VESSEL FOR WAR 1 Alban App ntaro and Mounts Guas on Its Decks. Gen printes Steamer COLON, Colombla, Jan. 12.—(Via Galves- ton.)—The South American Steamship com- pany, having refused to charter its steamer Lantaro to the Colomblan government to be used by the latter as a gunboat, General Alban, military commander of this district, issued a decree appropriating the vessel He has taken possession of it and has de- posited a sum of moncy equal to its value with Senor Errman of Havana The captain of the vessel will remain in the service of the Colomblan government. Cannon are being mounted on it and the vessel will probably sall tomorrow to at- tack the fleet of the Colomblan liberals. The United States cruiser Philadelphia, which left Panama January 9 for Las Panas, has not returned. TO NEGOTIATE WITH BANDITS Dragoman and Treaanrer of M| ary Soclety Go to Meet Minss Stone's Captors LONDON, Jan. 13.—The Constantinople correspondent of the Dally Mail, writing January 11, says that negotiations for the release of the American captive, Miss Stone, and her companion, Mme. Tsilka, have not yet been opened by the brigands. M. Gar- gulll, the dragoman of the American lega- tion, and W. W. Peet, tr urer of the Mis- sionary soclety in Constantinople, who have left Salonica for the interior to meet Miss Stone’s captors, have been instructed, ac- cording to the correspondent, to negotlate only with persons bringing letters from Mies Stone, without which it would be Im- possible to be certain that the prieoners were still alive, CANADIAN MINISTER KILLED Hon. Richard Reid Dobell D Ing, » Inflicted by Fractious Horne. FOLKESTONE, Ja 12.—Hon. Richard Reld Dobell, the Canadian minister without e”yeslitn Dobell arrived here a week ago, and were joined by Major Hull, their son-in-law, and his tamily. Mr. Dobell and Major Hull rode together to Hythe, Saturday, attended by a groom. They were returning in the atternoon and had reached the foot of Shorncliffe cam when Mr. Dobell's horse was startled by a motor car and threw his rider, who fell on his head. Mr. Dobell never regained consclousness. LOUBET TO VISIT THE CZAR Battleship Massena President of F Peteraburg. Convey e to St. PARIS, Jan. 13.—~According to La Presse the battieship Massena Is outfitting at Brest to take President Loubet to St. Petersburg to return the visit of the Ru slan czar to France. La Presse says M sena will sall at the end of March or the beginning of April, escorted by three crul and that it will remain at St. Peters. burg three days, returning before the gen- eral elections CHILEANCONGRESS VOTES LOAN South American ment thorizes Raising Money, Pos- sibly for War. Gove Au- VALPARAISO, Jan. 12.—The Chilean con- gress has authorized a loan of £2,500,000. Newspapers here, commenting on the offi- cial reports of the Pan-American congress i Mexico, point out that the attltude of the United States and Chile alone prevented the congress from being u fallure, ICELAND MORE INDEPENDENT King Oscar Plans to Give the Co try an Independent Resi- dent Ministry. COPENHAGEN, Jan. 12—King Oscar and the government have decided to present a bill to the Parllament permitting Ice- land to have an independent ministry, with headquarters at Relkavik, its capital. Up to the present the Icelandic minister has lived here. USURPS COREAN TERRITORY Russia Pushes Telegraph Li Toomen River Without Permission, Across YOKOHAMA, Jan. 12.—-A report has been received here from Sequl to the effect that fa, without walting for Corea's per- n, bas pushed its telegraph line across the Toomen river into Corean terri- tory, BRITISH CAPTURE LAAGER Forty-Two Boers Are Taken Prisoner, Including Major Wol- maran PRETORIA, Jan. 12.—The British forces have surprised and captured a Boer laager twenty miles northwest of Ermelo. Forty- two Boers were taken, including Major Wolmarans. SLOOP OF WAR IS OVERDUE Condor, Bound for Honolulu, Has Not Heen Spoken Si December 2, and Antelope. Calculations for the district show the following results Corn—The acreage originally sown wi (Continued on Third Page.) VICTORIA, B. C., Jan. 12.—The sloop of war Condor is reported late and there is grave auxiety for its safety, It left Es- Quimeult December 3 for Hoaolulue oY IR, B R | and Pifeh, OPPOSES BURKETT'S BILL £tark Objeets te What He Oalls Wermfence Acroms Nebraske. SAYS PLAN FAVORS LINCOLN LAWYERS | Proposes an Altogether Different Di« on of State Into Two Judie Districtu—Beet Sugar Men V orous Against Cuba. (From a Staff Correspondent.) WASHINGTON, Jan. 12.—(8pecial.)—Con- gressman Stark of the Fourth district is outspoken in opposition to Representative Burkett’s bill creating two judiclal dis- tricts in Nebraska. Stark says that Bur- Kett's bill, it passed, would make wouthern diistrict look like a wormfence, as it starts along the Platte river, then takes a shoot up to Hall county, then down, and then up to the extreme northerly tler of countles, finishing on the Wyoming line. He charges that the bill was drawn in be- half of Lincoln lawyers and it passed would legislate George Thummel out of office, as he resides in Hall county, and in Burkett's bill Hall county is included in the southern district Stark has prepared some Interesting figures in relation to Burkett's bill, which makes the southern district include the | First, Fourth and Fifth congressional dis- tricts, In Stark's bill, however, Hall county is put in the northern district, upon the theory that it lles morth of the Platte river, which is taken as the real boundary line in making the division. Congressman Stark, in talking of his bill, sald: “The census for 1900 shows the total population of the state of Nebraska to be 1,088,530; the population of the First con- gressional district to be 165,986; the Fourth district, 188,466; the Fifth district, 165,148; a total of 519,600. “The Second district, 162,756; the Third dlstrict, 214.019; the Sixth district, 172,164; a total of 548,939, or, according to the cen- sus returns, 20,339 more people in the northern dlstrict than {n the southern. It is a matter of common knowledge in the state of Nebraska that the census of the Thira congressional district was the most caretully and diligently taken. Census Errors in Fourth, “In the Fourth congressional district, over half of the counties of the district were shown by the last census to have decreased in population. in the last ten years, when every observing person knows that the contrary Is true. “In the Third congressional district, in the year 1000, there were cast 45,408 votes, or one for every 4.71 persons in that dis- triet, showing a population of 213,871. “In the Second district, same year, there were cast 31,460 votes, showing a popula- tion of 146,129, “In the Sixth district, same year, there were cast 25,888 votes, showing a popula- tion of 169,032, making a total on this b of 531,082, “In the First district, same year, there were cast 36,646 votes, showing a popul tion of Y’ 02. “In the Fourth district, same year, there “In the Fifth district, same ye 35,842 votes, showing & popul tion of 168,815, making a total on this basis of 540,023, Proposes Equality of Population. “According to this basls, there are 8991 more people In the last three named con- gressional districts than in the first named, and as the larger part of Hall county, in- cluding the city of Grand Island, is in the North Platte country, 1 have placed that in the northern district, which makes about an equal number of people in the two dis- tricts as proposed in my bill. “Hall county has, according to the cen- sus, 17,206, and, divided by 4.71, gives us 8,653 voters: Platte district, leaves 111,002 voters, and by the ratlo gives us 522,819 population In the South Platte district. Adding same to the North Platte district, gives us 538,230 population in that district. “In the election In Nebraska In 1901 there were 11,953 voters who did not vote for supreme judg “The following number of votes were cast for supreme judge in the election of 1901 in the state of Nebraska, by con- gressional districts: “‘First, 27,520; Fourth, 35,942; Fifth, 29, 792; a total of 93,254, 'Second, 20,881; Third, 38,365; Sixth, 31,- $19; a total of 90,665, ‘Taken as a ratio, 4.71, this shows the total population in the First, Fourth and Fifth districts of 439,126, and in the Second, Third and Sixth, 426,571. With the Hall county vote of 2,051 taken out of the south- ern district and put Into the northern dis- trict, shows the total In the First, Fourth at the ratlo of 471 425,327, and In the Second, Third and Sixth to be 430,460, which, In my mind, would make a much more equal division of the state than in Mr. Burkett's bill." Nebraska McKinley Contribut| At a meoting of the Nebraska association Saturday *evening & committee w pointed consisting of one employe from’ of the several departments of the govern- ment to solicit funds for the McKinley Memorial soclation. After the Nebras- kans In the capltal who are members of the association have been canvassed, the entire amount collected will be sent to the Nebraska branch of the McKinley Memorfal assoclation as the ussociation’s offering, the same to be sent to the mational h quarters of the asociation at Canten. Both sides of the controversy over the Cuban commercial relations with the United States have started in the fight with a great deal of vigor. Mr. Havemeyer, pre dent of the Sugar trust, at the meeting of that corporation on Wednesday last, sald that the people of the United States were paying $85,000,000 more a year for their sugar than there is any necessity for. Mr. Havemeyer in advocating the admission of raw sugars free of duty s not talking for his health or from any philanthropic desire to bemefit the common people. The American Sugar Refining company wants r free of duty and a good heavy protection on the refined article. The beet Sugar men, on the other hand, headed by Henry Oxnard and the sugar planters of Loulsiana, insist that the ad- mission of raw sugar from Cuba without a duty would bring about disaster to their Interests. Havemeyer claims that with frea raw sugar, the cost of the refined ar- ticle to the consumer would be reduced 2 cents a pound. Havemeyer Is backed by the advocates of closer commercial rela- tions with Cuba, and he will have their strong support In his efforts to secure raw sugar free from all the interests ask- ing for an open door policy betwwen the new republic and this nation But on the other hand Nebraska, Michi- &an, New York, Utah and California are “(Contlaued on Third Page) L A the | taking that from the South ( , would be | PHILIPPINE INSURGENTS FLEE Deatroy D Hamiets and Take Amounnt of Rat Amerieans acks and 12.~The news teceived The | MANILA, Jan. from Batangas province is cheerful. expedition to Liboo in Batangas has been a complete success. The columos under | Colonels Wint and Wells havedestroyed a number of barracks and hamlets, and enough ratlons to keep 20,000 Filipinos for | six months. There was not a single Ameri- can casualty during the entire exjedition. | The enemy fled before the Americius, many | of them were killed and seviral murren- dered. Major Henry Allen, formerly so ernor of the island of Leyte, and now ¢hi( of the insular constabulary, who has brew making a tour of Inspection through the lslands of Leyte and Mindanao, has re. Manila and reports that the 9 stanbulary 18 fully able to contwl tlon in the province of Misamis ! Mindanao, where he thinks th has been much exaggerated. ports concerning this province erals Davis and Wade to requs returned from civil to mill With the exception of the ehursh the ‘-:.m-e town of Quinque, in Bulue rovince, Luzon, has burned to the .rw-“q Aind thou- sands of Filipinos have been' rendered homeless. | NEWS SERIVCE FOR ISLANDS Subscription Taken to Sernre Ameri- can Information Datly by Cable, e con- orthern sltuation ous re- ed Gen- that it be control. MANILA, Jan. 12.—Medical nuthorities breaking down among AmerlcaR, residents of the Philippine islands is due to home- slckness. The newspapers of Manila afe urging the United States Philippine commission to make an appropriation for a daily cabled news service from the United States, thus bringing Americans here into loser touch with their home lite. A majority of the local papers, several army officials, civil officers andl others have promised subscriptions to help meet the cable tolls for a three moaths' news service of 100 words a day. #An amount sufficient to cover the tolld" for seventy words a day has already beeli subscribed. It 18 hoped that this news seryice can be inaugurated January 15, It will be de- voted to American news exclusively. The government has offered to send mews bul- leting free to all points on the military wires. URGES THE ENGLISH TONGUE Commissioner Says Wealthy Fillpinos Make Mistske in Sending Chil dren to Spanish Schools. MANILA, Jan. 12.—Commissioner Bernard Moses, head of the departgent of public ipstruction for the islands, has delivered an address to the teachers, of Manila, In which he urges tho continged instruction of Fillpino children in English. He sald the members of the wealthy Filipino cla were making & great ofr_children_to ‘Spanfkh would injure thelr in the islands, which Wbuld tmevitably and indlssolubly become a portion of the Amer- fcan nation. FIND REMEDY FOR HORSES mjection of Solution of Arsenic Into Antmals Affiicted with Su Proves Beneficial MANILA, Jan. 12.—Veterinarians belleve they have found a remedy for surra, a horse disease which is increasing here, and from which many animals dle. The injec- tion of a solution of arsenic {ato the veins of the affected animals has proven benme- fictal, CONSIDER CHINESE EXCLUSION Western Senators and Congressmen Hear Views of Labor Men and Californians. WASHINGTON, Jan. 12.—A seseion to- day of the special committees of western senators and representatives in congress engaged .n the consideration of Chinese leglslation. Mr. Newlands of Nevada acted as chair- man. The meeting was held for the pur- pose of hearing arguments on the subject from Messrs. Livernash, Bate and Sufreth, representing the Californls commission now bere, and Mr. Gustad and other repre- sentatives of the American Federation of Labor. | The members of these tvo bodies had | prepared an exclusion bill which they be- lieved would form the basls of legislation atistactory to the Interesis they represent, and it formed the feature of the discussion by the congressmen and their visitors, This bill ve-enacts various exclusion laws now In force and adds certain provisions designed to prevent the migration of the Chinese between tho United States and its insular possessions or vice versa. Its provisions are described as liberal in the treatment of what is known as the exemot classes, Including merchunts, students, travelers and offic The purpose in view, the speakers de- clared, was to prevent the Industrial com- petition of the Chinese as laborers. Thelr wish was to promote commerclal relatio with the Chinese and not to harrass any | of those who had a right to be here. The measure also had other features designed to secure the proper and certain administra- tlon of the excluston act and otherwiso strengthen the hands of the Treasury de- partment in the enforcement of the law. Mr. Dunn, representing the immigration bureau of the Treasury department, in an- swer to Inquiries, explainsd the attitude of the bureau, whose desire, he sald, was to perfect the administration of the law, ned to | jo situa- | HUDDLE CLOSE 1IN DEATA Mother, Father and Five Children in One Obarred Weap. {EACH PARENT CLASPS A LITTLE ONE ire Family Perishes in Flames Whone Cause in Susplelous Enongh to Warrant the Arrest nee Beneficinries, wife and five children, ranging in age from 114 to 22 years, were burned to death early today in a fire that destroyed & two-story | trame building. Joseph Supowski, who owned the bulld- ing, and Karl Bracki, have been arrested, pending an investiga- tion. Supowski carried an | $9.000 on the building and its contents. The Pearlstelns and another family lived In the rooms above a shoe store and were | asieep when the fire started A few min- | utes after the fire begun there was a loud explosion that street. Plateglass windows on the oppo- site side of Broadway were shattered and blocks away. Flames enveloped the build- ing in a short time, The family living in the rear flat barely escaped with their lives. were awakened, but before they could reach the fire bad undermined the floor down Into a mass of flames. after the firemen had extinguished flames. the together, the little one tightly clasped in its mother's arms close to that of his wife. one of the children bodies of the three found huddled togethe body. Chicago M CHICAGO, Jan. Ho also held in his arms. The other Ing Plant Ablaze, ot the American Malting company's bulld- ing near the Pan Handlo shops, threatens the dostruction of the entire plant. elevator already has been destroyed, the contents, 300,000 Tho loss, it is sald, will be near $500,000, The plant before Its absorption by trust, was controlled by J. F. Weil. elevator in which the fire started with great disadvantage St. Louis Buildings Destroyed origin today caused damage estimated at North Maln street, occupled by the E. F. W. Meier China and Glassware company. valued at $30,000, was gutted oled. L35 the ateek, whigh wan vAINed . Guest Cremated in Mo BRINKLEY, Ark., Jan. 18.52Fré"Hua" stroyed several bulldings here, the Arlington hotel, entailing a loss esti- mated at $50,000 to $75,000. Charles Star- key of Stuttgart, Ark. perished hotel. DEATH LIST NOW SEVENTEEN Two More Dead and Another Dying as Result of Wreck in New York Tunnel. NEW YORK, Jan! 12.—The death list caused by the New York Central tunnel ac- cldent was today swelled to seventeen. Win- fleld Slutze, who had submitted to the am- putation of one of his legs, dled today at Flower hospital. He lived at New Rochelle. Richard Molineaux, another New Rochelle man, who is at the same hospital, is re- ported to be in a precarious condition. George T. Willlams of New Rochelle, one of the victims of the accident, died last night at Flower hospital. More than 1,000 men and women as- sembled in mass meeting at New Rochelle last evening to glve expression of public opinion as to the tunnel disaster. Many resolutions condemning the railroad were offered and then referred to a committee for action. Another committee was ap- pointed to ralse a fund to aid such of the sufferers as need assistance. District At- torney Jerome of New York City sent a telegram in which he said: “I shall wel- come your co-operation in devising ways to prevent similar accidents In the future and in fixing the responsibility.” DEPEW ON THE TUNNEL WRECK Stays Away from Washington to Con- fer with New York Cens tral’s Directo) NEW YORK, Jan. 12.—Senator Chauncey M. Depew will not go to Washington to- morrow, as plamned, but will stay over until Tuesday, to have a conference with President Newman, Willlam K. Vanderbilt, H. McK. Twombley and other managers and directors of the New York Central rall- road, regarding the accident in the tunnmel last week. If electricity i& to solve the underground problem, the senator seems inclined to pin his falth to a powerful motor. “We all thought,”” sald he, “that with the use of electricity the chances of acci- dents would be reduced to a minimum, but Liverpool tunnel. Then there was some- thing wrong with the third rail. In an iestant the train was on fire and twenty- six people were killed. That shows what may happen With a third rall. I am golng to the central office tomorrow, feeling that leaving it to congress to shape such new legislation as was necessary to meet condl- tions that had arisen. The special commission will meet Wednesday to consider further the exclu- sion acts. In the meantime there will be & conference of the Callfornia commission, the labor Interests, the emigration off- clals and the officlals of the attorney gen- eral's office, at which an efort will be made to reach a common undersfnding for legis- lation on the exclusion ETRURIA’S STORNY VOYAGE Cunarder Shows mense W romenande NEW YORK, Jan. 12 steamship Etrurla of the Cunard lindcame to its dock today, showing many siged of a rough voy- age. Most of the forwfrd rail on the promenade deck was &pe, having been washed away by an imm wave, could T solve this tunnel question in any way, I would give up everything else, even the United States senate, and devote myself to 18" CORRECT THE BOUNDARY LINE Pennaylvania and Mary Employ Surveyors 1o Re-Establish Mason-Dizon Line, HANOVER, Pa., Jan. 12.—The surveyors employed jointly by the states of Pennsyl- vania and Maryland to correct the boundary line as first established by Mason and Dixon have procecded with their work as far as Germany towuship, Adams county, Pennsylvania. They report that many of the stones are displaced. The surveyors found one used as a doorsill In a dwelling. another in a church foundation and others at a distance from their original locations. These stones will be secured and placed in their proper places. BUFFALO, Jan. 12.—~Henry Pearlstein, his | his brother-in-law, | insurance of blew out the front of the store and hurled some of the contenta| | o the show windows to the middle of the | the report of the explosion was heard two The Pearlsteins the only stairway leading from their rooms in the assert that a considerable poption of the | hallway and it collapsed and carried them Thelr charred bodies were found at 8 o'clock, four hours The bodies of the mother and baby were Pearlsteln's body was children were close to the father's 13.—Fire which broke out about 1:30 this morning in the elevator The bushels of barley. the The as over 150 feet high and in their efforts to cope with the flames the firemen worked to a ST. LOUIS, Jan. 12.—Fire of mysterious $130,000 in the bullding at 511 and 513 The bullding, a four-story brick structure, President Meler sald that $26,000 insurance was car- Including in the we have read of the recent accldent in the | CONDITION OF THE WEATHER Forecast for Nebraska—Fair Monday and uesday; Eastecly to Southerly Winde. Omnaha Yesterdny: Mour, Dew. Temperature Hour e, arzEiei »om.. 21 STATEMENT BY MRS. DENNIS Declares She Was Asleep When At- tack Was Made and P Are More Mystified, WASHINGTON, Jan. 12—Mrs. Ada Gil bert Dennis, the dressmaker who was mur- | derously assaulted the night of December 8, was able for the first time today to make a etatement. The police had hoped what she would say would throw light on the motive for the crime or lead to the dis- covery of the perpetrator, but Mrs. Dennls' statement contains nothing that gives any clew In elther direction. She enys she remembers nothing Imme- dlately preceding the attack upon her, but that the blow was struck while she was asleep. Nor had she the remotest idea who committed the assault, nor the motive for it. Mrs. Dennis says ahe had not been out of the house the night of the assault, and that before retiring she had locked the front and back doors. One feature of Mrs, Dennis' statement that puzzles the police is that she said her revolver and her money were under her pillow when she retired. When the crime was discovered next morning the revolver wag In a drawer of a secretary nearby and the money was In a pocketbook In a box on & table near the bed. The police are more than ever mystified over the affair. Mrs. Dennls' condition today was much improved and the attending physician be- lieves she will recover. MISS ALICE MORTON ENGAGED Ex-Governor Announces Her Be- throthal to Winthrop Rutherford, NEW YORK, Jan. 12.—Ex-Governor and Mrs. Levl P. Morton today announced the engagement of their fourth daughter, Miss Alice Morton, to Winthrop Rutherford of this eity. Miss Allce Morton recently re- turned with the family from Europe, where this autumn Miss Helen Morton married the Count Talleyrand Perigord. Winthrop Rutherford comes from the old Rutherford family. He is related to the Stuyvesants, who descended from Peter Stuyvesant, to the Bayards and to nearly all the old Knickerbocker families in New York. He is wealthy, and with his brother, Louls, recently deceased, owned the famous Rutherford kennels in New Jersey. He has & country seat and farm in that state. His sister married Henry White of the Amer- ican embassy in London. NEBRASKAN IS CONFIRMED Wi Ta; , NETive Ut Weeps Ing Watev, cificr ot Agric ture at 8t. Louts Fair. " n ST. LOUIS, Jan. 12.—Announcement was made today 1d's fair headquarters that Frederic fiym’- appointment to the positions of chlef of agriculture and acting chiet of horticulture of the Louisiana Purchase exposition had been confirmed by | the executive committee. Mr. Taylor has | had charge of the two departments sinoe | early 1o November, which was as soon as he could get away from Buffalo, where he had served the Pan-American exposition as director of concesslons and director algo of the exhibits departments of hor- tieulture, fore and foods and their ac- cessories. Mr. Taylor was born at Weep- ing Water, Neb., in 1860. CROWDS EAGER TO SEE SCHLEY Savanna g Throng Churches Which the Admiral SAVANNAH, Ga, Jan. 12.—Admiral Schley passed a qulet day at the home of General W. W. Gordon, where he is visiting. He attended religlous services this moraing at Christ church, Episcopal, and this evening at the Independent Pre byterian church. Each house was crowded with attendants upon the services. Tho streets were lined with people before and after the services. Men ralsed thelr hats to the distinguished visitor and’ women bowed to him, but there was no cheering nor hand-clapping. TELEPHONE GIANTS MERGED Michigan and Other Concerms Con- trolled by the Erie Become Part of Bell System, 12.—~The Free Press to- | morrow will say: The Michigan Telephone company, With the other telephone éon- cerns controlled by the Erle, has formally passed into the control of the big Bell combination, known as the American Tele- graph and Telephone company. It is an- nounced that the achome of reorganization of the Erle has been carrled through by means of which the $9,000,000 of indebted- ness which has been carried alng for a year will be wiped out. FIGHTS PLATE GLASS TRUST Great Weatern Company Incorporates to Enter the Field Independ- ent of the Co-0p DETROIT, Jan, ratives, CHICAGO, Jan. 12—The Great Western Glass company, incorporated at Springfield on Saturday with an authorized capital of $1,000,000, 18 sald to be backed by Chicago and western capitalists who will enter the | plate and window glass trade independent of the so-called trust or the co-operatives. Though the names of the capitalists are withheld, the statement {s made that the company will erect its plants in Illinois and that work will begln within four weeks, Movements of Venneln Jan, 12, At New York—Arrived: Etrurla, from Liverpool and_Queenstown; fa Gascogne, from Havre: Palatia, from Hamburg and Boulogne; Auguste Victorla, from Ham. burk AU Buez—Arrived: Moyune, from Seatile and Tacoma via Yokohama, Manila, Co- lombo, ete., for England At Queenstown—Halled: New Eng from Tiverpool, for Boston; Iverna, Liverpool, for New York At Dover—Passed: Darmstadt, from N York, for Bromen At Gibraltar—Arrivgd from New York, for Algter cecded Bivmarck, L and pro’ — — PY FIVE CENTS, NORDICA IN WRECK Fameus Binger Badly Wrenohed in e ora Railway Collision, THROWN FROM BED IN PRIVATE .C Sovere Sirain on Shoulder and Neok, but Veios Nos Affected, ACCOMPANIST SIMMONS ALSO I8 HURT Engineer at Fault for the fmach is In. stantly Killed, PRESUMES ON EXTRA BEING REGULAR to Wtop to Verlfy Orders and Involves Specin Hilde Car Brunne ROME, Ga., Jan. 12.-~As a result of a cols lision between a passenger train and a froight on the Southern railway at an early hour this morning near Reeves Station, twenty miles north of Rome, Mme, Lil- lian Nordica, the singer, was Injured, her accompanist, Romaine Simmous, sus- tained a bruised bund, an engineer was killed, and three other employes of the road were injured \ Dead. FRANK TRACEY engineer, Injure, Atlanta. Mme. Nordica. Guy Comle ngineer, freight. George I'lorence, conductor. Bd Lorence, fireman, colored. The train, to which Mme. Nordica's pri- vate car, Brunne Hilde, was attached, was a mixed passenger and frelght and left Atlanta at 11:30 last night for Chattanooga. It arrived at 3:30 a. m. at Reeves Station, where it had orders to meet freight No. 65. A frelght train, which proved to be an extra, was on the siding at Reeves when the pussenger train arrived, and the en- gineer of the passenger, cvidently assum. ing that it was No. 45, did not stop, but continued his run toward Chattanooga. Crushed Between omotives. A mile north of Reeves, while going at & rapid rate, the passenger met the freight on a sharp curve. The two engines crashed into each otber. Engineer Tracey, in at- tempting to jump, was caught betwoen the two locomotives and crushed to death. Mme. Nordica's car was attached to the rear of the passenger train. She sang in Atlanta Baturday night and was on her way to Nashville, where she is booked to fill an engagement Monday night. When the collision occurred Mme. Nordica wus asleep In the bed of the private stateroom of the car. The sudden jar threw the siuger from her bed to the floor. She sustained bad bruises on the shoulder and the muscles of ber neck are sald to have been stew Toe, Company’'s Physician Hopeful, Dr. Garlington, the Southern rallway sur- geon here, was immediately summoned and atlended the singer. Dr. Garlington said tonight that Mme. Nordlca was not badly hurt and that in his opinion she would be able to 1l her engagement tomorrow night. Mr. Blmmons, her accompanist, sustained injuries to his right hand. The exact con- dition of the Injured member was not ns- certained here, but It is sald by ofcials of the company that he will be able to play tomorrow night, Mme. Nordica’s car was returned to Rome and sent over the Nashville, Chattanooga & Bt. Louls railway to Nashville, where the singer and her party are expected to arrive early Monday morning. Both engines were badly wrecked and twelve cars, it is sald, were burned. The engineer and tireman of the frelght escaped by jumping, but were both badly bruised. The tracks were cleared by night and traflc was resumed. PLOWS THROUGH DINING CAR Pennaylvania Express Crashes Into Rear of Another at Crossing in Chicago, CHICAGO, Jan. 12.—A fast Pennsylvania passenger train from New York crashed into the rear of another express from Cin- clnnatl on the same system tonight at the Baltimore & Ohfo railroad crossing near Forty-elghth street and Wentworth ave- nue. Two men, both train attaches, were perhaps fatally injured. Although the pas- sengers on both trains were severely shaken up, no serlous injuries were suffered among them. Possibly large loss of life was prevented by the fact that at the rear of the forward traln was the empty dining car Delmonico, The locomotive of the rear train plowed its way balf way the length of this car. The cook, Albert Hatchen, was caught in the wreck and was terribly burned by the fire, which caught from the overturned stove In the kitchen. The other Injured man was John Tuberly, who jumped from the rear engine. He badly cut and recelved internal in- Willlam Wallace, engineer, jumped and escaped with slight bruis No reason is given for Wallace's fatlure to stop his traln o time to avold the ac- cident. ACCOMMODATION IS WRECKED Two ¥ by Collision on Oue Passenger o Badly 1 ennsylvania, VALPARAISO, Ind., Jan. 12.—The ac- commodation train ruuning between Wan- nath and Chicago on the Pennsylvanla rall- road ran into a stalled freight traln near here today. J. B. Kelty, a passenger from Valparaieo, and Engineer Charles M. Cogan and Fireman George O. Welger, both of Valparalso, were serlously injured. BRIDGE BREAKS WITH TRAIN Collapse of Snapension Structore Re- wults in Death of Several ROME, Jan. 12.--While a traln carrying workmen to repair a suspension bridge near Brindisl was passing over It the bridge collapsed and the train was precipitated into the river. Several men were killed and many injured Twelve Burned 10 Death, YOKOHAMA, Jan. 12.~Fire In a wooden At London—Arrived: York, for Antwerp. At Liverpool—8atled: York. Hereford, from New Canadian, Lar New house here resulted In the death of twelve persons and the severe burning of twenty more.