Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, April 17, 1902, Page 1

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE. ESTABLISHED JUNE 19, OMAHA, THU TRSDAY MORNI — | ( Ty APRIL 17, 1902—TEN PAGES. SINGLE COPY FIV: INSURGENTS GIVE UP Malvar Burrenders His Foroes of Laguna and Batangas to General Bell. MANILA DELIGHTED OVER THE RESULT RBebel Commander Orders Submission of Every Man Undér His Oharge. JFATAL BLOW TO THE INSURRECTION 'Wheaton Says Armed Resistence in His Department is at an End, COMMENDS GENERAL BELL'S CONDUCT Latter Reports H to Suppress F in Tayabas Cavite, uwence SufMeclent mment of Rebel- MANILA, April 16.—General Malvar has unconditionally surrendered to Brigadier General Bell nt Lipa, Batangas province, with the entire Insurgent force of the provinces of Laguna and Batangas. Gen- eral Bell says his (Bell's) influence is suffi- clent to quell the insurrectionary move- ments in Tayabas and Cavite provinces and eapture all those in the field who have not yet surrendered, but Malvar has ordered the complete eurrender of every insurgent to the nearest American force. General Wheaton, reporting to the divi- slon headquarters, says that all resistance in his department has ended and that the surrenders just announced mean that the ports will be opened and that the Fillpinos in the detention camps can be allowed to return to their homes In time to plant the crops. General Wheaton Is especially pleased with General Bell's care of the na- tives confined in the camps. The officers in charge are held personally responsible for the quality and quantity of the food served out and for the general welfare of the occupants of the camps. After scouring the mountain passes General Bell employed volunteer bolomen for pro- tection against ladronism. Grateful to Amerieans, Numbers of Filipinos volunteered and ex- pressed the livellest satisfaction at the treatment accorded themselves and their families who were In the concentratlon camp jeneral Wheaton glves General Bell great credit for his Indefatigability in con- ducting the campaign. He was afleld on horseback day and night, personally super- intending the most arduous operations. ‘The people of Manila are delighted at the prospect of a resumption of trade with the pacified provinces and are anxious to show Generals Chaffee, Wheaton and Bell their @ppreciation of the fact that the Insurrec- tion s really over. About 3,300 rifles have been receivea by the American officers In Batangas and La- guna provinces during the last four months, General Malvar persgnally requested an iIn- terview with General Bell in order to make his complots spbmisglon. The lack of news from the Island of Samar 18 due to a defective cable. It in believed, however, that the American com- mander recelved yesterday, the surrender of all the insurgents in Samar, unless the planned proceedings were altered. Tart Says R War is Over. ST. LOUIS, April 16.—Governor General ‘W. H. Taft of the Philippines, who is here today for a conference with the world's fair officials, speaking of the situation In the islands, sald: The roal war in the islands Is over when thirty provinces are pacified and only three remain to be brought under civil control. And I do not expect to see these three provinces in rebellion very long. Civil government Is a succe and the whole archipelago will soon offer a fleld for American enterprise, There are some delicate questions that must be adjusted. The church and the crown of Spain were closely assoclated in ms, and when Spain trans- d soverelgnty and crown property to the United States an® the church property and religious functions were retained by the church a number of interesting ques- tlons were presented which probably can betier be settled by a conference than hy any other way. For we must bring about that Indispensable condition In the islands the complete severance of church and state. Here we have a country where, b our wishes and our custom, the chure and the government are in no way allied. This condition will be brought about In the Philippines, I have no doubt, ia a munner most amicable. ——— BULLION IS IN DANGER Fire In the Gover: Assay Office in New York. Flerce ent NEW YORK, April 16.—Thirty-one mil- lion doll in siiver bullion in the assay office at 30 Wall street has been in danger of belug melted by a fire which burned in one of the basements for two hours. None but the employes knew of the fire and they fina)ly overcame it without assistancs Next door to the assay office is the sub- treasury, where the government usually bas from $100,000,000 to $200,000,000 stored. In some way fire In the silver smelting Toom was communicated to a barrel of lard mixture used In the smelting proce: There were twenty-three barrels of this inflammable mixture in the room and like @ flash they were enveloped in a sheet of flame so Intense In heat that it was feared the great treasure In a vault of the room would be melted. There w: no time to close the steel doors of the vault and the flames from the barrels were so close that it was impossible for any one to approach vear enough to shut them. The employes in the bagement, thoroughly drilled for such an emergency, were quickly at work, despite the dense smoke. All windows and scuttles were ciosed to pre- vent giving the alarm to the public and when, after two hours' work, the last vestige of the fire had disappeared, win- dows opening at the rear were used to carry out the smoke, MAKES PLEA OF SELF-DEFENSE e He Killed Mis HENRIETTA, 1. T, April 16—-W. H. Means, the Lexington (Mo.) fi r who surrendered yesterday after killing Miss Lydia Means, his nie made a statsment today. Means sald that his niece had per- suaded him to come to the territory and lnvest his momey. At her solicitation be deeded his property over to her. Then. he sald, she demanded a check for $1.000. He refused and she locked bim in the house and attempted to kill him, using a butcher kolfe and a block of wood. She broke his arm, he says, and the shot her in self- defense. The woman came originally from Indiana, . ACTIVE FOR PAPAL HONORS « nals iring to the Pontificate Solicitous Over Condition of the Pope. ROME, April 16.—The recent signs of the increased feebleness of the pope, which led, at the end of last week, to alarming reports of his sudden death, bave caused a marked recrudescence of activity among the cardinals aspiring to the pontificate. The campaign preparatory to the next conclave proceeds incessantly, the sacred college being divided into two distinct forces, headed respectively by Cardinal Rampolla, the papal secretary of state, and Cardinal Vannuttelll. The latter and Cardinal Gottl now constitute the w g probable successors to Leo XIIL Those who are not now considered dangerous candidates are fond, however, pointing out that almost 150 cardi have been burled during the pontificate of Leo XIII, and that the prolongation of the life of his holiness for a few years is liable to cool through death many more ambitious calculators. Archbisihop Falconi, the papal delegate, in Canada, has been definitely selected to succeed Cardinal Martinelll, the papal dele- gate to the United States. This appoint- ment will not be officlally announced, how- ever, until the meeting of the comsistory next October. It was felt that Archbishop Falconl's experience in Canada, his learn- ing, his command of the English language and his diplomatic abilities especially fitted him for the Washington post. REBELS BECOME MORE BOLD nt Ultimatums to Colom- blan Commanders Increasing Gravity of Situation. Issue De COLON, Colombla, April 16.—A launch belonging to the Panama Canal company returned here today from Bocae del Toro, bringing reports that the situation there is growing more serlous. The liberal troops under General Buendia, have reached Old Bank, a settlement on an island, near the entrance to Bocas del Toro. General Buendia notified the government com- mander at Bocas yesterday that fourteen hours would be given him In which to sur- render the town and that his noncompli- ance with this ultimatum would result in {mmediate attack. The commander of the government forces declined the terms of- fered by the revolutionary general. The canal company's launch left for Colon be- fore the fourteen hours had expired. The revolutionists at Bocas have already selzed steam launches and barges belong- ing to the United Fruit company, which are indispensable to the banana business of that town. Bocas del Toro is entirely devoted to the banana business and Ameri- can interests there are almost supreme. The seizure of the property of the United Frult company is receiving the attention of the United States gunboat Machias, which is now the orly warship at Boc: USE OF WIRELESS SYSTEM May Ho Conference Regulate the New Telegraph Discovery. to BERLIN, April 16.—Great Britain has ac- cepted Germany's proposition for an inter- national conference to regulate the use of wireless telegraphy. The other powers to which the proposition was made, viz.. the United States, France and Ru have not yet responded, but the officials here confi- dently expect favorable answers, esbecially from the United States, which has taken much interest in the matter. Germany’s suggestion embraces merely calling a conference, but without definitely formunlated propositions for discussion. Germany has also asked the powers to set forth in their answers if thev wish Germany to formulate propositions to lay before the conference or leave the matter entirely to the conference. WHEAT CONTINUES SKYWARD Advances Two Shillings Per Quarter in Yarmouth Grain Market and Shoves Flour LONDON, April 16.—All the grain flour markets of the United Kingdom ad- vanced prices today. The price of flour was ralsed another shilling per sack. In the Yarmouth market the price of red wheat advanced as much as 2 shillings per quarter. An important meeting of London and Liv- erpool importers of feeding stuffs, held here this afternoon, resolved to make strong representations to the chancellor of the nx- chequer, Sir Michael Hicks-Beach. in favor of the admission of wheat offals free of duty and favoring the admission of feeding meats and the offals of other eraius than wheat on payment of & duty of 3 pen‘e per hundredweight, Instead of the proposed 5 pence per hundredweight. GAMBLING RUPTURES CLUB Prosecutions at Vie C to Resign Their Mem- by i Many VIENNA, April 16.—Oount Celloredo Mannsfeld, the president of the Jockey club: Prince Aversperg, the vice president of that organization, and other members of the governing committee have resigned on account of the prosecution of Count { Potockl and others for gambling at the | elub, The trial arose from the great gambling at the Jockey club December 21. when Count | Joseph Potocki, a Russian nobleman. lost 14.500,000 florins. Potockl and (wo other | toreigners, in addition to being fined, were permanently banished from Austria. WILHELMINA GROWS ~WORSE Queen’s Fever General C Continues, Though ition Reportea stactory. LONDON, April 16.—A special from Amsterdam says Queen Wilhelmin: condition more serious. This afternoon bulletin from The Hague, however, de- clares that, though the fever continue: the general condition of the queen is satis- tactory. dispateh growing offctal Monument to Ceel CAPETOWN, April 16.—A meeting of citizens 1o establish & national memorial in honor of the late Cecll Rhodes was hell bere today. A committee composed of Sir Gordon 8pri the premler, the mayors of Cape Colony, and a number of other prominent persons will lssue appeal for tunds tbroughout the British empl for the purpose of erecting an lmmen: cairn on Devil's peak, overlooking the Cape peninsula. The cairn s to be surmounted by an herolc bronze figure of Cecll Rhodes looking to the morth. DEPEND 0N SECRETARY ROOT Department More Generous Than Congress to Forta Des Moines and Russell, | TWO PUBLIC BUILDINGS FOR NEBRASKA Omuibus Bill Carries Appropriations for Norfolk and Hastings and for & Site for One nt Platts- mouth, (From a Staff Correspondent.) WASHINGTON, April 16.—(Special Tele- | gram.)—The sundry civil bill, reported to sepate today by Senator Allison from nate committee on appropriations, l.n appropriation of $1,800,000 for d quarters for the army, an In- or ,000 over the house bill, all of wa of the /4 of war. An interesting | story lies ¢ As Increase of $300,000. It was intends. Henator Warren of Wyo- ming and Senale. Alllson of lowa to have ot apart from this lump sum a specific amount for Fort D. A. Russell, Wyo., and Fort Des Moines, la. Captain Hull of To however, chairman of the military affairs commiftee of the house, had a conference with Senators Allison and Warren wherein he stated that more money could be ob- tained from the secretary of war for the posts named than could in all probability be set aside by direct appropriation, and that $100,000 was the maximum congress would vote for these particular garrisons, and he asked that no reference be made elther to Fort Des Moines or Fort D. A. Russell. As Representative Hull comes in direct contact with the secretary of war by reason of his chairmanship of the military affatrs committee, it was thought by the senators that he spoke “with inside knowledge,™ and accordingly the posts were left out of specific mentlon, the committee deciding however, to Increase the house appropria- tion by $300,000 in order that the secretery of war would have no ground for pleading lack of funds for these two posts. Fort Meade Mentioned. priation of $100,000 for barracks and quar- ters for Fort Meade, 8. D., where the War department desires to commence early operations on permanent bulldings for the garrison, Fort Meade having been included among the posts recommended by the re- cent army board convened to recommend permanent posts. The blll also carries an appropriation of $2,800 for the completion of the survey, under direction of the secretary of the in- terior, of the eastern boundary of Yellow- stone Natlonal park, estimated at fifty miles, at the rate of $50 per mile, includ- Ing an examination of survey in the fleld. The e of Luctan Woodworth, Frank D. Brown and George N. Clayton, plaintiffs in error, against The Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company was argued in the supreme court today. The suit was orig- inally brought by the Northwestern Life Insurance company agalnst Woodworth, Brown and Clayton as sureties on a super- sedeas bond to recover damages and costs which the insurance company alleged had been sustained by reason of an appeal taken by Woadworth from a decree of fore- closure and sale 4f the State hotel on Douglas street, Omaha. The case was tried before the circuit court for the di trict of Nebraska, Judge Munger rendering judgment in favor of the Northwestern company. A writ of error was sued out and an appeal taken to the circult court ot appeals. These proceedings were adopted because of uncertainty as to the proper methods of procedure. After hearing the case the circult court of appeals was in doubt on one or two questions of law aris- ing and certified the case to the supreme court, which propositions were argued to- day. Money for Nebraska Bulldings. The public bullding bill, commonly known as the “omnibus building bill,” will be re- ported by Chairman Mercer on Saturday or early in the week following. Nebraska will tare well in the bill, although not to the extent some of the members of the Ne- braska delegation had expected. Hastings and Norfolk will receive the appropriations sked for and in all probabllity an appro- priation will be made for the purchase of a site at Plattsmouth. It was learned today that South Dakota would receive the following appropriation Deadwood, $200,000; Aberdeen, $175,000; Plerre, $5,000, for purchase of site. Small appropriations will be made for Oskaloosa and Ottumwa, while appropria- tions for public buildings will be made for Boone, Marshalltown, Waterloo and lowa City, Ia. Orders for the Army. Lieutenant Colonel Charles K. Winne, deputy surgeon general, is relieved from Auty as chief surgeon of the Department of the Missouri, to take effect April 30, ani will then proceed to his home to await re- tirement from actfve service. Major Henry 8. Turrlll, surgeon, will upon his arrival at San Francisco proceed to Omaha and report to the commanding general of the Department of the Missour! for assignment to duty as chief surgeon of that department. Lieutenant Nathan N. Shelton of Omaha, of the Seventy-first company coast artillery, 1s ordered to joln his company at Alcatraz Islend. Cal Mrs. E. 8. Dundy, wife of the late Judge Dundy of Omaha, is visiting friends in Washington. Rasmus Boysen of Graham. Audubon county, 1a., member of the last lezislature of that state, is in Washington on matters connected with the Interior department It was stated today by Senmator Allison that owing to the illness of Congressman Rumple there would be no meeting next Saturday of the lowa delegation. Postal Changes. The postoffice at Lilac, McPherson county. Neb., I8 to be moved four and ope-half miles porth and Nathan E. Trego appointed post- master. A rural free delivery route will tablished May 1 at Cinclunati, Appanocose county, Ia., with Isaac L. Morgan carrier: !area covered thirty-four square miles; pop- ulation, 516, A postoffice has been ordered established at Lablane, Knox county, Neb., and Gustav A. Lablanc commissioned postmaster. Superintendent of Indlan Schools Miss Estelle Reel is preparing for the holding of five summer schools for Indlans. One fis to be beld at Pine Ridge, S. D., one at Mor- ris, Minn., and others in Arizona, Oreg. and Washington, the exact locations yet undecided. | be es- Receipts in P in WASHINGTON, April 16.—The division of insular affairs of the War department gave out for publication today a statement of the receipts in the Philippines, as follows From customs, in March, 1902, $766,951, as compared with $732,267 for March, 1901 The receipts of the city of Manila during the same month were $66,655 for 1902, as compared with $37.27% for the same period of the previous year. expended under direction | The bill carried, however, specific appro- | CLWOSVE_ RECIPROCITY DEBATE Friends of Pay Bill Seore Victory in Shutting OF Dis- cusston, WASHINGTON, April 16—~The friends the Cuban reciprocity bill won a substan- tial victory in the house today by carrying « motlon to close general debate on Fri- day at 3 o'clock. The vote was 163 to 123. Thirty-three republicans voted against the motion, but this defection was oftset by | thirty-two democrats who voted with the great body of the republicans for it. The strength of the republican opposition to the bill, judged by this vote, hms de- creased six since the vote was taken on the motion to go into committee of the whole to consider the bill, when the vote stood 167 to 80. The thirty-three voed agalnst the debate were: Messr: gan; Bishop, Michigan: Brown, Wisconsin; Coombs, Califoraia Cushman, Washington; Darragh, Michigan: | Dick, Obfo; Esch, Wisconsin; Pletcher, Min- nesta; Fordney, Michigan: Gurdmer, Michi- gan; Hamilton, Michigan; Heatwole, Min- nesota; Hepburn, lowa; Jackson. Mary- land; Jones, Washington: Littlefield, Maine; Loud, California, McClear, Minne- sota; McLachlan, California; Minor, Wie- consin; Morris, Minnesota; Nwedham, Call- fornia; Prince, Illinols; Sheldon, Michiga Smith, Ilinols; H. C. Smith, 8. W. Smith, Michigan; Stevens, Minnesota; Sutherland, Utah; Warner and Weeks, Michigan. Thirty-two democrats voted for the mo- tion as follows: Mesers. Adamson, Georgla; Allen, Kentucky; Bankhead, Alabama; Bartlett, Georgia; Bowie, Alabama; Brant- ley, Georgla; Burnett, Alabama; Candler, Mississippi; Clayton, Alabama; Elliott, South Carolina; Fox, Mississippi; Griggs, Georgia; Henry, Mississippi; Howard, Georgla; Johnson, South Carolina; Kehoe, Kentucky; Kluttz, North Carolina; Lever, South Carolina; McLain, Mississippt; Mc- Clellan, New York; Mickey, Illinols; Pou, North Carolina; Publey, North Carolina; Scarborough, South Carolina; Spight, Mi sissippl; Taylor, Alabama; Thompson, Al bama; Underwood, Alabama: Wheeler, Kentucky; Wiley, Alabama; Williams, Mis- slesippl, and Wileon, New York, Mr. Bartlett of Georgia opposed the reci- procity bill and in the course of his re- marks criticised Mr. Richardson, the minority leader, for his fallure to file his views on the pending measures. He de- clared that If democrats were to support republican measures the ranking minority member of the ways and means committee should be able to furnish good reasons for such a course. Mr. Bartlett Insisted that there was no democracy in the bill. Mr. Corliss of Michigan In opposing the bill said it did not embrace the first prin- ciple of reciprocity. He contended fthat Cuba was not in a condition of distrees which warranted this extraordinary piece of legislation. Mr. Bell of Colorado also opposed the bill, arguing that it was utterly indefensi- ble from any standpoint, in that it pro- posed to take the tariff from raw material and leave untouched the tariff on the re- fined product. SOLDIERS ARE = MURDERED Cablegram from Chafer ‘Cells of Depredntions by the Filipin, republicans motlon to Alpin, Michi- Bromwell, Ohlo who close WASHINGTON, April 16.—Ths following cablegram from General Chaffee, dated at | Manila yesterday, was made public at the War department today: . With reference to my telegram of the 234 ultimo, reporting attack by Moros, re- connalssance under Forsyth, March 15, sol- dier Twenty-seventh regiment, United States Infantry, murdered by Moros, vicin- ity Parang-Parang. March 30 two soldiers Twenty-seventh regiment, United States infantry, having one gun, ‘were approached with semblance of friendship by slx Moros near Mala Malabang. Rifle selzed; one soldler killed, other severely wounded, but escaped. Murder without _provocation or Jjustification in any way. Mur- derers known, demand has been made for thefr surrender. Thus _far dattos refused to deliver them. Have been to Malabang; tried to confer with them Waited three days. Dattos failed to come or acknowledge receipt of my request for conference. Expecition of 120 men under Colonel Frank D. Baldwin, cavalry, ar- tillery, being formed, leaving for Lake Lanao about April 27, for the purpose of ar- resting murderers and punish dattos. Every care to be taken not to bring general war with Moros about lake. Absolutely im. portant our authority be respected by these cople; that sovere{gnty of United States beMeuily' acknowledged. Have addressed a letter to this effect to dattos, at the same time informing them of the friendly disposition of the government; that the purpose was to punish only those giving offense; that the government claims the right to explore the country between Illana, and Ilimar bays; that it s my purpose to do 80 now and at any other time. Accomplish- ment of this object, it is necessary to re- tain battalion of Seventeenth two months longer. My bellef at present time is that large majority of dattos will not support those implicated in the murders. Parang-Parang is an anchorage in Polloc harbor, on the west coast of the mainland | of Mindanao. Malabang lies about twenty miles north on the coast and is con- nected by a military cable. Lake Lanao is situated about twenty-five miles north- east of Malabang, in the interior. IRELAND AND O'GORMAN VIEW | tes to Settle we i Ace Plan of American ¥ Friar Land ¢ cepted. | April 16.—Archbishop Ireland of St. Paul had a conference with Secretary Root today, following a talk he has had with the president respecting the Philippine friars' land question. It was the idea of Archbishop Ireland and Bishop O'Gorman to have this complex question settled directly at Rome ipstead of through the archbishop of Manila, who they pointed out would have been obliged to delay pro- ceedings greatly by frequent reference of every important phase of the negotiations to his superiors in the vatican. The government here has gome to accept the Ireland and O'Gorman view as the most business-like proposition, and that is why Governor Taft will stop at Rome on his way back to Manila and endeavor to arrange a | basis for a transter of the lands to the | Philippine government in trust for the | Philippine people. Mgr. Sbarretti favored a settlement of the question in Manila, in which case he | would have been appointed archbishop ani would have undertaken the work himselt in behalf of the religious orders. The de- cislon in favor of Rome will involve a change of his plans. The dispute which has arisen at Havana between the civil and the church suthori- ties because of the probibition by the for- mer of the church tax on funerals has not been brought to the attention of the War department and nothing is known of the merits of the case by Archbishop Ireland. WASHINGTON, Woman and Children Hurned. FRANKFORT, Mich., April 16 —Mrs. Wal- lace E. King and her two children were burned to death at their home in Wallin, a village fifteen miles from here, ecarly today. The fire, which started from some unknown cause. de-uofid one store and two houses. The financlal loss is 35,000, ! SAVAGE DEMANDS THE CO0DS Railroads Must Rally to His Bupport or Buffer His Displeasure. NOMINATION OR NEW REVENUE LAW Extra Sesslon of the Legislntare fo Be Calle Choos Who Pardoned Bartley. Convention (From a Staff Correspondent.) LINCOLN, April 16.—(Special.)—In the News of this city this evening appears what Is evidently an Inepired article. out- lining the policy of Governor Savage in'his campaign for renomination. In so many words It is declared that the governor will elther’ be renominated or he will call an | extra session of the legislature to have the revenue law amended. The article savs: A special session of the present legisla- ture “before “the election of Its Successor is not without the range of possibilitie it is asserted by those who are In a posi- tion to know that the subject has been in the mind of Governor Savage for many days and that it is now simmered down to a mere question of expediency. It is sald that there are two contingencies, and two only, on which the special session can be avolded The first is that the leaders who are in a position to help Savage to a renomination and who promised it provided he should commute the sentence of Joseph Bartley keep their promise to assist him in reailzing his ambition and the second is that he change his mind. The revenue system of the state is the lever the governor is said to have con templated exercising in prylng up the sistance he was led to believe was his. total assessed valuation of the state last year amounted to only $174,000,00, while the raliroad assessment amounted to only a little over $26,000,000, about one-seventh of the entire aseessment. The striking fea- ture of a table Governor Savage has had prepared from the records shows & more striking feature, however, and that is that in 188 “the assessed valuation of rallroad property was $3,000,000 more -than in 1901, and yet there was an Increase of 675 miles in the trackage of the state. Wants Goods Delivered. When Governor Savage commuted the sentence of Joseh Bartley it was generally reported that he had the pledge of the corporation leaders of the state that they would assist_him In being renominated. But these same leaders did not reckon with ublic opinion, When criticisms began to e launched from every gquarter of the state these same leaders became fright- ened, abandoned the governor and threw thelr' support to other candidates who had not aroused such hostile criticism. The governor insisted, however, in_holding them (o their pledge, it s said. The lead- ers who had promised support, on the other hand, sent messengers to him and urged his withdrawal from the contest. Savage has never been known to back down from a square fight, however, and still insists that he is in the race, corporations or no cor- porations. If the support pledged falls to materialize and Savage falls of renomina- tion there Is llable to be some sensational developments. The corporations are in a desperate posi- tion, for the situation has gone beyond thelr control, if it ever was in their power to dictate candidates. Lines are too well made up now for readjustment. With some other candidate for governor next fall, it would be somewhat embarrassing to have a speclal on_of the leglslature called in the midst of the campaign for the ex- press purpose of adjusting the revenue laws, with particular attention being given to the corporation feature. The governor has said: “'I haye everything to gain and noth- ing to lose. e logic appears invincible. That the system is sadly defectlve none can deny. A demand for a change,’ even though re- inforced by a lal session of the legls- lature to effect It, would hardly meet with the. disapproval of the people, and what- ever would be the result, the magnitude and popularity of the proposition would so far outshine the discredit of the Bartley commutation as to permit the vernor to retire to his Custer county farm surrounded by a halo of glory, secure in the esteem of the public, Governor Stands Pat. Every effort to secure the withdrawal of the governor from the race has met with rebuff. He stands as courageous as though he had all the influences of the state aligned behind him. For weeks he has been collecting data and statistics, and grand assessment rolls, corporation assess- ments and state indébtedness for years back, together with the constitution and the statutes are at his tongue’s end. On May 15 the state board, consisting of Gov- ernor_Savage, Treasurer Stueter and Audi- tor Weston, will meet to assess raliroad, telephone and telegraph systems. Treas: urer Stuefer stands firmly by the governor, and there promiscs to be something doing within a month. Governor Savage declines to talk_for publication at this stage of the | game, but is loaded with information and mgy be induced to express himself later | on the political features. CATHOLIC PRIEST GOES ASTRAY Formerly Respected Pastor Ac of Wrong Doing at Tyndal! South Dakota. TYNDALL, 8. D., April 16.—(Special Tel- egram.)—The community has been thrown into a high state of excitement by the al- leged acts of Rev. Thomas A. Bily, who for 4 number of years has been the respected _pastor of the local Catholic church, Bily is accused of bringing ruin upon the 15;year-old daughter of Peter Schaffhausen, the having just revealed the name of the father of her 2-months-old child. The priest’s next act was to secure the loan of $1,600 from a banker by misrepresentation, which sum he gave to Schaffhausen. Bily then handed over the keys of the parish honse to the church authorities, drove to Tripp and boarded the traln for parts unknown. 8. J. Heltgen, the treasurer of the Cath- olle church, was seen in reference to the Father Bily affair and from him facts were gained in reference to the matter. Mr. Heltgen lives on a farm six miles southeast ! of this city. His home is one mile from Mr. Schaffhausen’s. They have beem neighbors for thirty years. Mr. Heitgen bears strong testimony to the uprightness of his neigh- bor's family The Schaffhausen family live in a large square brick house, around which are spa- clous barns and sheds and well cultivated flelds. Money is nothing to them compared to the afiction which has been brought upon them. It is not thought that the state will begin proceedings because no one will care, in all probability, to bring the necessary evidence. A letter has been sent to Bishop Thomas 0'Gorman at Sioux Falls and it Is expected that he will investigate the matter. The parents of the girl are much broken down by this sad event OPPOSED TO ASKING HELP overnor Stone Says Missouri Uni- versity Does Not Need Car- negle's Money. KANSAS CITY, April 16.—Ex-Governor william J. Stone sald today that he would oppose the plan of professors of the Uni- versity of Miseour| to ask Andrew Carnegie to bulld a new library at Columbla “Missourt is able to build university Ii- braries,” eald the former governor. “I am opposed Lo any attempt to get Mr. Carnegle, Mr. Rockefeller or any other person of that class to give money for our state uni- versity. Missoari is able to do whatever is needed for its schools. I hope the pro- fessors who suggesied that Andrew Car- negie be asked for funds for the university will be discharged at onmce.” CENTS. Forecast for Nebraska 5 " a“" 16 as 51 53 54 Fair and Warmer. [ 56 . B8 a7 B8 ». ». v v T o7 5 z MRS. STANLEY COMES CLEAR ed of the rge of Murder- ing James B. Booth, Amed Veteran. 16.—The jury in the case of Mrs. Marie Stanley, 18 years old, who has been on trial here for the past week, charged with having killed James B. Booth, an aged war veteran, re- turned a verdict at 4:40 this afternoon, finding her not guilty. The jury went out last night. Booth's body wag found in a well on Jan- uary 10 last near 'the home of Mrs. Mary McCoy, mother of the defendant, and blood stains were traced to the McCoy house. Mre. Stanley, her mother and sister, Bes- sle Browning, a young girl, were indicted on a charge of murder in the first degree, | the information alleging that the three women had first struck Booth with an ax and then thrown him into a well in such a manner that he was mortally wounded by | the fall. He had been robbed of $100 and his watch, which was found in the pos- session of Mrs. Stanley, who had left| Ottawa soon after the murder for Topeka The women, with two children, members of the family, were placed in jail and kept there until last week, when Mrs. Stanley alone was held for trial, Mrs. McCoy and Miss Browning being released. Mra. Stanley was indifferent throughout the trial until the pleadings of her attorney | yesterday, when she broke down and cried, her sister joining in. When the verdict was rendered there was a popular demon- stration in the courtroom. ALLIANCE OF THE CHURCHES Executive Committee Meets to Review the Work of the Past Year. OTTAWA, Kau, April PITTSBURG, Pa., April 16.—The annual | meeting of the executive committee of the | alllance of the Reformed and Presbyterlan | churches throughout the world is bcml" held here. The first session began at 10 o'clock this morning, Rev. Dr. R, P. Kerr‘ of Richmond, Va., presiding. Rev. Dr. W. J. Reid of this city welcomed the dele- gates and Rev. Dr. Kerr responded. The reports of Rev. Dr. W. H. Roberts of ! Philadelphia, secretary, and Hon. Frank H. Hipple of Philadelphia, treasurer, were then read. Both reports were very en- couraging. The report of the committee on the work of the Reformed churches on the Buropean continent and an addrees by Rev. Dr. James | 1. Good of Reading, Pa., occupled the rest of the session. The aims of the alllance, which includes in its memberehip churches that have 21,000,000 communicant; ex- piained by Rev. Dr. John H. Prugh of this city, 1s not to break down all denomina- tional lines and butld up one huge ecclesl- | astical machine, but simply to foster and develop_ between the numerous branches of the churches such feelings as existed 200 years ago; also to encourage and asslist the various denominations in the activities that are required by the present times. The committee will be in session two days. MISS STONE IN NEW TROUBLE | Court in Injunction Lecture Sammoned by Case Brought b Buren BOSTON, Mass., April 16.—Miss Ellen M. Stone, the missionary recently returned from Bulgaria, has been summoned to ap- pear in the superior court equity session tomorrow to show cause why she should not be enjoined from delivering a lecture | describing her captivity tomorrow even- ing and Monday eveniug as planned. The bill in equity is brought by a lecture bureau, the complainant alleging that it made a contract with the defendant through her brother, acting as agent, and that she | will violate the terms if she delivers the proposed léotures. BRYAN WILL INSPECT CAMP Nebraskan Chosen hy Congressmen to Fix Decision on Lathrop, Mo,, Mule Station. ST. JOSEPH, Mo., April 16—William Jennings Bryan and a party of pro-Boer sympathizers will tomorrow inepect the al- leged British remount station at Lathrop, Mo., m'rnrd‘n; to a dispatch received by one of Bryhn's friends Lere tonight. Mr. Bryan visits the camp at the solicitation of friends of his in congress, who will follow his advice in the matter of urging congres- sional action QUARREL ENDS IN A TRAGEDY Conductor and Wife Have Words and Latter Kills Herself as Result. ST. JOSEPH, Mo., April 16.—Mrs. Alice Adams, wife of J. O. Adams, a Burlington railway conductor, quarreled with her hus- band at the Unicn Passenger station to- night, just after he had come in on a run from Hapnibal, and a few minutes later committed suicide by swallowing poison. She was 38 years old and formerly resided with her husband {a Chicago. MINERS WILL GO BACK TO WORK Ten Thousand Men Agree to Ter and Bituminous Collieries Will Start Up. DUBOIS, Pa April 16.—~The etrike of 10,008 bituminous coal miners againat the Rochester & Pittsburg Coal and Iron com- pany is at an end and all the company's mines will resume operations tomorrow wmorning. A notice stating that a settle- ment had been effected was lssued by the miners' committee and was posted through- out the region this evening. KILLS HIMSELF ON A TRAIN ourl COLORADO SPRINGS, April 16.—J. W Lenox, aged 30, of Doniphan, Mo., severed his right jugular vein on a westbound Rock Island passenger train this mornlog near Clearmont, Kan., and died almost instantly, He had become mentally deranged during | the night . X Y T e [ succeeded Platt Substitute for the Mitchell-Kahn Ohinese Bill Passes the Senate. ORIGINAL ~ MEASURE MEETS DEFEAT Supplanted by a Non-Partisan Vote of Forty-Eight to Thirty-Three, HOAR ALONE OPPOSES AMENDED BILL Existing Laws Extended and Insular Posses- sions Inoluded in Application. SEAMAN CLAUSE IS" STRICKEN OUT Senate Fails to Substitute Enacting Claure of House BIll Necessita Return to Original Measure. Lower Body as WASHINGTON, April 16.—The drastic Chinese exclusion bill originally framed by the sanators and representatives from the Pacific coast states, met defeat in the sen- ate and in its place was substituted a measure offered by Mr. Platt of Connecti- cut, extending the provisions of the present exclusion law and also applying that ex- clusion to all insular territory of the United States The vote by which the substitute took the place of the original bill was 48 yeas to 33 pays. Once the substitute had been made all senators joined in Its support with the single exception of Mr. Hoar, the substi- tute being passed, 76 to 1. The friends of the substitute showed their strength throughout the voting on amend- ments that preceded the final action. and In preventing ang. material change in its features. Some minor con- ditions were made, admitting Chinese per- sons connected with natfonal expositions, and providing for certificates of identific tion of Chinese in the insular possessions. Otherwise, however, the substitute wae adopted substantlally in the form that Mr. Platt presented it. Bill Reverts to the House, The senate, after disposing of the Chipe: exclusion bill, made the Philippine civil bill the unfinished business The senate failed to substitute the en- acting clause of the house bill for the sen- ate measure, so that the bill will now eo to the house as an original measure and from a parllamentary standpoint will have to be acted upon and treated the same as though the house had not passed a Chinese exclusion bill already. Pursuant to yesterday's agreement the senate today was called to order at 10 o'clock, two hours in advance of the usual hour of meeting. This hour was fixed in order to permit more extend debate on the Chinese exclusion bill orior to the voting on that measure. The attendance was very slim. Only three senators— Messrs. Pettus, Kean and Kittredge—faced Mr. Frye when he called the senate to order. ¥ Mr. Morgan gave notice that tomorrow he would call up the Nicaragua canal bill for the purpose of addressing the senate upen it. The president pro tem lald before the senate a number of telegrams bearing upon the Chinese bill. These messages were all from the Pacific coi sixty-one of them being favorable to the Piatt substitute and twelve opposed to it. Lack of Quoru Mr. Turner then took the floor to reply to the speech made yesterday by Mr. Spooner, but before he could proceed Mr. Culberson suggested the absence of a quorum. This was at 10:15 and it took twenty-five minutes to get & quorum. Mr. Hanna, one of the principal speakers on the Chinese exclusion bill. ia that Dbe' had not. intended to address the senate on the subject, but in view of the fact that he had received numerous telegrams expressing an anxlety to know where he stood with reference to the bill, he had changed his mind, belleving, he sald, laughingly, that he would save the postage and telegraph tolls by making & public address. He read the text of one of the messages which he had recelved, which sald: ing cvery eusential teature of the Chbvess exclusion bill. This telegram, he sald, was so similay to all the others received by him that he had concluded all of them had & common origin. Whether this was true or not, he reserved, he sald, the right to determine for himself what were the essential features of the legislation mecessary for the exclu- sion of the Chinese, and he had reached the conclusion that all those features were em- bodled in the existing law which it was proposed to re-enact by the Platt amend- ment, and the additions which had been suggested. Fairbanks Closes Debate, Mr. Fairbanks closed the debate just be- fore 1 o'clock, the time met for voting to begin, and Mr, Lodge asked for a vote on his amendment striking out the provision prohibiting the employment of Chinese ailors on American ships known as the seaman’s claus Several senators desired to be heard on the bill and the amendme: served as a text for further discussioh. Mr. Steward of Nevada supported the Lodge amendment. Mr. Quay expressed his dissent from the general “howl” against the Chinese as such. He thought the bill should be con- siderably amended. He sald he could be in favor of excluding all immigrants as well as Chinese for a term of five years. Mr. Mallory of Florida opposed the amendment and explained the necessity for the seaman's clause as a measure of pro- tection to American sailor: Mr. Lodge's amendment to strike out the seamen clause prevailed, 47 to 26. Adopt Carmack’'s Amendment. Mr. Carmack of Tennessce proposed an amendment applylng the exclusion to Chi- nese “not citizens of the United States” and it was agreed to. The purpose of the amendment is to allow Chinese born in the United States or Chinese who had be- come citizens to return to the United States If at any time they should leave this country. Mr. Quay proposed an amendment that the exclusion shall not apply to Chinese Christians or Chinese who assisted in the dofense or relief of the foreign legations or the “Pe Tang catbedral in Pekin in 1900." Mr. Dolliver of lowa referred in glowing terms to the heroism of Minister and Mrs. Conger, residents of lows, during the slege of Pekin and be expressef the belief that some adequate recognition should be given by this government to those who alded the American legationers during those days of peril. That part of Mr, Quay's smendment ad-