Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, April 24, 1902, Page 1

ESTARLIRIED It OPEN THE CAMPAIGN Tadiana Ragrniioane Mast in Btata Gonven- tiom 16 Plan for Battle, BEVEMDGE 1S PERMANENT CHAIRMAN Awers Masting is Opening Wadge to Next National Campaign, ENIOINS PARTISANS TO ACT CAUTIOUSLY Elognantly Bets Forth Achievements of | Partyns an Incentive to Work, ‘ COMMENDS PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT Senntor Falrhanks W Addrens wnd te Greeted with Ouiburst of Appinnsetiatform Not Vet Adopted, NAPOLIE. April “Much oratory wustasm marked the opening of the wtate Tomlinson hail afternoon. Senator Albert J e telivered eloquent address, in which he outlined the principles upon which (he republicans of Indiana will enter upon (he rext eampalgn, and, although the [ ons has not yet re portad is sald that the planks of the piattorm will vot vary widely from the general atatem#uts made by Senator Bev- eridge this afternoon The speaker laid particular stress on the fact that this was the openiug convention of the next national campalgn and said it @ehooved the republicans of Indlana to Jook well to what they sald and did, a they were in a manner to blaze the way | for the conventions which are to follow i | other states, upon which the policles of | the republican party for the next national| campalgn will in a large measure depend. | republicun convention in an mmitien on resolu Republicans as Lead Henator Beveridge begi® his speech by | deciaring that the republican party had| been as conapleuous in its ability to rule | as the democratic party had been in Its fnability govern this country. The strongest oratois in proclaiming the vir-| tues of republican rule, he said, were | epeaking today on the farms throughout| the republic, from the mines, from the factories and from all the great avenue of human endeavor. Then, after giving fi- | ures showing the wonderful strides in the natlon’s forelgn commerce, he eald: In the national administration we are rogressing successfully today under the | endership of one who succeeded to the | presidency under tragic circumatances, a Joyni republican, a statesman of ability— Theodore Roosevelt. And oir state ad- ministration 18 80 good and mo successful to challenge democratic criticlsm ur achievements in commerce have been great and never mo great as they are to- day. All of the activities of the American people in commerce, in the ways of intalli- gence and In the ways of philanthropy % ere never more activa than they are to. day. Great as has been our commercini achievements, as much splendor us we have ecrned and won In the way of commerce, we have given to the country, and that is why we will continue an foree througholit the unndmbered years before us. Specch Approved at Washington. The eenator declined to say that he was the mouthplece of the administration of | President Roosevelt, but would not deny that what he had to say regarding national fssues had been in A large measure ap- proved at Washington. The couvention was called to order by J. P Goodrich, chairman of the etate com- mittee. He Immediately called upon John B Cockrum, the chairman of the committee on rules and permanent organization, for the report of the committee. It provided that there should be no nominating speeches and that the names of candidates | should be presented when the roll of coun- tles 18 called. It recommended that Senator Beveridge be made the permanment chair- wan of the convention. The report was unanimously adopted and Congressmen Hemingway and Watson wers | eppointed members of & committee to sum- mon Senator Beveridge. The senator was reeted with cheers when he appeared on the plaiform. There were frequent out- bursts of applause throughout the delivery of the speech. During the two hours re- | quired for the delivery of the speech not a delegate left his seat Falrbanks Greeted witl Thers was a great outburst of cheers as the speaker concluded and then came loud eails of “Pairbanks.” Senator Beveridge senjor eenator and as Mr. appeared on the platform be was | sted with loud and long continuea | cheers. : In closing his address Senator Fairbanks paid & warm tribute to the memory of Wil- Tam MeKinley { The committee on credentiale reported in Cheers. 1. wontests and the report was unanimously sdepiad Addresses were Jamws B Watson, Ji by Frederick Landis Brought forth i by Congressman | A. Hemenway and of Wabash. who loud cheers by his as- sortion that Be believed in the party of Mark W who had never lost a fight a0d never wouid lose one, The outburst of applause that met the Pame of Senator Hanna was fully as gen- erous as any that bad been given during the day. At the conclusion of Mr. Landis’ spoech the comvention adjourned unth 9 o clock Thureduy moroing QUEEN WILHELMINA BETTER e Taking Veurishment and Feoling ol iness Begine to Lossen. April 23 —The following | was lssued this moruing from THE HAGUE Dullet had i wes and the feeling * ¢ omnod The patien - Tho aficrmoun bulletn lssued from Castle Loo sonounced that her majesty's comds om urimg (Be ey continued satisfactery a quiet night emperature con Hiness has les- taking sufclent Vieamer Buatschimad Disabled FLYMOUTH. Sugland, Apeil 22 —The L uburg \mericas e steamer. Deutseh Mol which left New York April 17, for Flomeuth, Cherboury and Hamburg. bas whied sighicen miles south of ihe Soilly wlands, with its uddes broken Deutachingd & expected o reach Ply- Woush of Abeut 4 m todey A fresh wad s bowing from the westward. HONG RONG, Aged B @iad e tiver bank ek wiles below Nes Ning Hiake e vading e tiver. e . Wy Chew. or of the regular delegates in all of the | ‘THE OMAHA DAILY BEE. NE RUSSIA PROPOSES SUBSIDY Finanee Mintater Has a Pian to F mote “hip Nallding and Shipping. ot apondence PETERSAURG, April (Corre of the Assoclated Press.)— Finance Minister Witte has devieed a plan promote ship building and shipping In | Russin, which conteats the palm of origl nality with the sugar regulations. Grand ke Alexander Michaelovich, who is com petent authority in the matter, turned the project over to the St. Petersburg Vedo- mosti fn order that it migh g treely s uswed. He invites critlg tress bim { peraonally eneficiaries, under the j lows, are to Russtans ex companies whose stock Is held ont, slans 1. Owners of new ships made in Rum from Russian materials, will trom. the government a non-interest bearing loan 0 per cent of their value, payable in equal fwenty year inetalments. 2. Plans and specifications of such vea- wels, which must be Lloyd's first-class, must be approved by the finance minister, | and vessels exceeding 1000 tons must make ten knots; smaller vessels must exceed elght knots. 3. The government Y, % 5. be " ”‘ 4 recelve to assumes Insurance risk up to two-thirds of the current value of a ship, charging therefor a premium of 2 per cent annually. Owners must insure the remaining risk. The current value can never be taken as less than half the original value. 4. The state will pay for haif the fuel consumed, provided Russian fuel ia used, on voyages to and from Russia, and on condl- tion that the outgolng vessels are loaded to three-quarters of thelr capacity with Russian goods, and, on return ships have at least one-half their space occupied 5. The same favor will be enjoyed by ves- els plylng between Russian ports, pro- vided, one-half the cargo is of foreign- going goods or rhat the entire Initial cargo is salt, fuel, iron or cast iron from the Azores and Black seas to the Russian ports on the Baltic. 6. The subsidies are limited years from January 1, 1904 New Rellg to eight Sect. Considerable attention ia being given to a new sect which has gained many adher- ents In the province of Perm. Tt s known ae the sect of Jehovists, though its real name 1s “Brotherhood of the Right Hand." Its declared purpose is the reconclitation of all religions. Lately it has assumed a char- acter of pronounced enmity to ‘the govern- ment. This Is attributed to personal rea- sons, Colonel Ilin, the founder, Laving spent twenty yesrs in solitary confinement in a monastery for abjuring the orthodox faith. The Russian government and church as- sume that anyoce who obstinately persists | 1n leaving the orthodox church is insane or | posseased of devils and sometimes exercise the right of treating such persons precisely as they would dangerous madmen. Their property may be placed under a curatorship and their children under guardianship, while they themselves may be Immurred in | & monastery until there is evidence of re- stored sanity, that is, until they declare their willingness to return to orthodoxy. Fower Over the Pe An illustrati>u of the despotic power which the local representative of the min- ister of the interlor has over peasant com- munities is afforded by a report from Gooff, on Lake Pelpus, in the Baltic country. Two thousand peasants who took part in an election held in & volost, a wider peasant commune corresponding somewhat to a county, were fined 3 roubles because they refused to vote as this representative, called the zemsky nachalnik, or rural boss, demanded. Those who did not pay this fine were compelled to spend three days in jail. There is no appeal. The official in question may fine persons up to the sum of 3 roubles without the victim being able to obtain re- dress. VOTES IN FAVOR OF TREATY House of Danish Parilament Advises Sale of West Indies, *COPENHAGEN, April 23.—The Lands- thing, by 24 to 30 votes, today adopted the majority repor! on the treaty for the sale of the Danish West Indies to the United States. The treaty now goes back to the Folkething. The session of the Landsthing was one of the most sensational on record. lle was passed twice and charges and coun- tercharges were hurled back and forth, while the opponents of the sale of the Is- lands weat so far as to impugn the accu- racy of the United States department offi- clal records. The president of the house twice called a former minlster of Jjus- tice to order and he also left the chair and spoke impassionately against the rati- fication of the treaty M. Jenson, oue of the opposition leaders quoted & private conversation which he had with the forelgn minister, Dr. Deuntzer, declaring that the latter expressed himself as being personally opposed to the sale. | This the minister heatedly denied. It was at this stage of the proceedings that the | lle was passed Estrup Denies Former Minister Estrup, during the course of the debate, denled the foreign minister's assertion that M. Estrup, who is the leader of the opposition, offered to sell the lalands The foreign minister then quoted the for- elgn relations committee of the United States senate on the subject snd M Estrup excitedly reiterated his denial, de- claring that the State department publi- cation was wrong and that the American who was in Copenhagen at that time must have conveyed a false impression to Wash- ington. M. Estrup admitted there had been some talk of a sale, but declared he had never made an overture to the United States. The foreign minister finally read a tele- | gram from 400 citizens aud merchants ot the Danish West Indian islands, urging the immediate racification of the treaty setting forth that the condition of the is- lands was critical and asserting that the sentiment among the inhabitants was strongly in favor of the sale of the islands CONSIDERS WAR INEVITABLE China Editor Says Gemeral Opiuion i That Russia and Japas Wil Clash. VICTORIA, B. C.. April 23.—0. W. Lietk editor of the North China Dally News, U a8 interview given Bere, saye war between Jupas and Rusaia is comsidered imevitable, st only by the Japaness, but alse by the Russians. aad all residents on the Siberian cosnt. Enormeus preparations sre belug made ai Port Arthur aud in Siberia fortifi- catlons are Drogressing and troops massed. aad Japan e im0 ready. 7| - KA The | to the United States in 1892 | | whea be (Estrup) was premier. DAY OMAHA, THUR OLEO BILL BACK 1IN HOUSE Not Likely to Bs Ohanged in Many Partic- ulars from Senate Form, [POWER OF AMENDING IS LIMITED | “,"-"llflll'. Who '1;L- 1o ments Alter Amend- acked on by Upper House Lose on Every onition, April 23.—The house to- day began consideration of the senate amendments to the oleomargarine bill. A special rule for this purpose was adopted vote of 152 to By the ruling of the question of further amend- the semate propositions was con- ithin very narrow limits. Slow %8 was rade. The opponents of the who sought to modify the sen- amendments in various particulars, outvoted on every proposition sub- WASHINGTON, Prg measure, ate were miited At the opening of the session Mr. Crae- mer of New York rose to a question of privilege and had read at the clerk's desk an article in a New York paper charging the New York members with bejng “dum- mies and derelict in their duty,” in con- nection with the bill for a new postoffiice bullding in New York City. The speaker ruled that the article read did not constitute a question of privilege, but Mr. Creemer was given five minutes in which to make a statement. Thereupon he recounted what the New York delegation had done in the matter Budget Bills. Bills were passed to donate the spars of | Don Jusn de Aubtria and Almiranie | Oquendo to the state of Alabama; to appro- priate $20,000 of the funds of the Choctaw and Chickasaw Indians for the relief of destitute members of those tribes; to pro- | vide for trade statistics between the United | States and its outlying possessions; to grant certain lands to the cily of Colorado Springs, Colo. Mr. Dalzell of Pennsylvania from the committee on rules, then presented the special continuing order agreed to by the committee eome time ago to provide for the cousideration of the scnate amendments to the oleomargarine biil. Mr. Cowherd of Missouri vigorously op- posed the adoption of the rule. Last week, | he sald, the house considered a bill for! the relfef of the Cubans. The program was to be tears and sympathy for the poor of | Cuba and sneers and taxes for the poor of| America. ® Butter Went Up. As an indication of what would happen when this bill went into effect Mr. Cow. herd sald that immediately after the pass- age of the oleomargarine bill by the sen- ate the price of butter went up 4 cents in New York and 3 cents in Chicago Mr. Dalzell, replying to Mr, Cowherd,| said the merits of the bill were not now| under consideration. The order was sim- ply designed to give the house a chance to paes upon ts merits. The rule was adopted, | 162 to 79. When the consideration of the amend- ments was considered the chair ruled that the text of the bill agreed to by both-the | house and senate was mot open to amend- | ment. This ruling, made by Mr. Olmsted of Pennsylvamia, who was in the chair,| prevented the offering of many amendments | which the minority members of the agricul- | tural committee desired to offer. Mr.| Wadsworth of New York, chairman of the| agricultural committee, finally succeeded in oftering an amendment changing the sec- tion providing that oleomargarine free from artificial coloration, which is taxable at one-fourth of a cent per pound, 5o as to| provide that “colored butter shall not be construed s coloration.” The amendment was lost by a vote of 81 to 1. CONDEMNS THE WAR METHODS | ues His Are gnment of Administration’s Policy in Philippine; Senator Rawline Cont WASHINGTON, April 23.—Mr. Rawlins of Utah today continued his speech in the senate opposing the Philippine temporary government bill. He devoted the greater part of hie speech to a discussion of the testimony presented to the Philippine com- mission relating to the adminisiration of the “water cure” to natives and to other forms of torture ‘nflicted on the Filipinos. He had not concluded bis remarks when | the senate adjourned. During the early part of the session the bill providing for a union rallroad station iu Washington was under consideration, but no action was taken. During a discussion over an amendment offered by Mr. Patterson to allow all rail- roads the use of the proposed station, Mr. Hoar became Involved in a wordy discus- sion with Mr. Tillman, who charged that the Massachusetts semator had been dis- courteous to him, at which he was surprised because the senator was always a stickler for good order, senatorial dignity and de- corum, and should set a high example that senators might imitate. “But the senator | from Massachusetts,”” sald Mr. Tillman, | “habitually breaks certain rules of the sen- | ate, and he should make allowance for those of us who have their folbles and * At 2 o'clock the Dill was shortcomings. 2 | 1aia aside. Mr. Rawlios discussed great length (he testimony presented to the committee on the Philippines and the reports made by | officials to the War department. He pre- | sented many cases of torture of the Fill- pinos, of the burning of towns and of the incarceration of Filipinos. All this, he said. was done to carry to the Filipinos the beniga administration of the American government. War, he sald, was to be waged relentlessly and the articles of war were to be cast to the winds. The war to be waged was not to be a war of humanity but a wer without mercy. It was unciv- {lized warfare and without excuse. Mr. Rawlins discussed the campaign made by Major Waller in the island of Samar under command of General Smith. He sald | that Waller's men performed the most thaukless and unhonored task ever soldiers | were called upon to perform. He declared | that the troops were ordered to make the | sland a “howling wilderness,” and kill everybody over the age of 10 years. LAY KEEL OF NEBRASKA F I Be Invited to | I SEATTLE. April 23.—Plans are under way for the laying of the keel of the Battleship Nebraska, July 4, with elaborate cere- moules. A big civic celebration is planned and if present arrengements are perfected Governor E. P. Savage of Nebraska staff will be invited to attend. | { Hitt s Renominated. FREEPORT. Nl April 2 —Hon. Robert [ R was renouinated tur congress here { nent | ature MOR END OF STRIKE IS AT HAND Street Car San Francisco To Be Quickly Settled—Sympnathy In with the Men, April The end of in this city appears SAN FRANCIECO, the street car sirike to be at hand. It is generally expected that the conference of the officlals of the United Railroads with Mayor Schmitz and a committee representing the strikers, to be held today, will result in an amicable settlement of the questions at issue The three issucs involved are a flat pay- ment of 25 cents an hour for consecutive work, the reinstatement of men discharged because they belonged to unions and rec- ognition of organized labor in the adjust- ment of future grievances. The strikers have succeeded, without resort to violence, in tying up all the roads recently pur- chased by the capitalists known as the Baltimore syndicate, and the belief is gen eral that the meeting today of the oppos- ing interests will result in the granting of liberal concessione. A slgoificant feature of the controversy | was the adoption by the grand jury of reso- lutlons commending the action of the mayor in refusing to permit the police to help in the opening of the tieup and coudemning the United Railroad company for the atti-| tude it nad adopted toward Its men The board of supervisors had adopted a somewhat similar The labor council has endorsed and nearly every newspaper in the bas editorlally espoused the cause of the strikers. Pending a resumption of street car traffic, the people of the city are walk- ing or riding in jolting wagons along the resolution city prominent streets, with & complacency that | is eurprising. At noon it was said that the conference between the strikers' committee and the rallroad officals, which was arranged for by Mayor Schmitz to take place in his office, is off for the time being at least, the rallroad officials refusing to treat with the men in the mayor's office and demanding that the conference be held at the office of the company in the Wells-Fargo bu ing. The men refused to go to the railroad office. Mayor Schmitz is hopeful of getting one side or the other to make a conces- slon as regards the place of meeting CINCINNATI, April -t 1s sald today that (he attention of the court will not be called to the actlon of Secretary Frank Morrison #nd others until arguments are made tomorrow on the application for the temporary injunction ‘to be made perma- In the controversy between the en gineers and firemen on one side and the United States Browery Workers on tho other, the American Federation ordered the engineers to shut off steam where non- union brewery workers were employed after last Monday night. On Monday the brewery proprietors se- cured an injunction and the engineers and firemen yesterday obeyed the order of the court instead of the order of the executive council of the American Federation. Just before leaving for Washington last night Secretary Morrison ordered the charter of the local union of engineers revoked. The international officers of the engineers were then here and after executing Morrison's ordge they also left the city and it 1s today clalmed that ali of these general oficers are fn contempt of court. The engineers are working today as usual HAZLETON, Pa., April ton mines colliery of Coal company employing about 500 hands, is idle today because of a strike In- augurated by the breaker boys this morn- ng, following the refusal of the to reinstate twenty of their aumber who had been suspended, the company vficials assert, on rccount of slackness of work. GALE SWEEPS MILWAUKEE Rallroad Shops Are Part ~The Hazle- Lehigh Valley Wreeked by Wind of Cyclonie Force. MILWAUKEE, Wis., April 23.—Late last night the gale which swept this city struck the Milwaukee railroad shops at West Mil- waukee, which were partially wrecked. The destruction of the steaming building, the demolished roof of the pattern and cab- inet makers' shop, and flying planks were evidences that the storm was of cyclonic force. Thomas Rodeman was blown from a plat- form fn the Elmore coal yard and probably fatally injured. He sustained a fracture of the skull. At Seymour, Wis., the storm 'blew down the smokestacks of the electric light plant, which took fire. Lightning struck the barn of Charles Zembeke, who was prob- ably fatally burved. All his farm build- ings were burnped. A dispatch from Oconto, Wis., states. that the heavy wind storm last night wrecked twelve barns near that city. Numerous re- ports of damage also are received from the vicinity of La Crosse. Intense Heat in Philadelph PHILADELPHIA, April 23.—The temper- today was 10 degrees higher than yesterday, the thermometer in the United States weather bureau registering 69 de- grees. This is the hottest April day this city has experienced in over thirty years. DESOLATION IS WIDESPREAD All the Towns and Planta- tions In Western G Almost atemnln Are Destroyed. NEW YORK, April 23.—News of the widespread desolation and ruin caused by the recent earthquake is slowing coming fu, says a Guatemala City dispatch to the Herald Almost all the towns, villages and plan- tations in the rich western part of the republic have been destroyed. The volcano of Chingo, on the border of Guatemala and Salavador, has become active again. The volcano of Santa Marla, ‘n the western part of the republic, which is also in a state of eruption, has not been as active since the earliest Spanish settle- ment. It appears to have been the center of the earthguakes FATHER AND SON MURDERED Grocer Meets Pistol Duel Robbers. Chicage Death with CHICAGO, April 23.—Peter Fafinakl wa: instantly shot to death, and his 19-year-old son, Julius, probably mortally wounded while resisting two robbers who attempted to loot the cash drawer in Fafinski's gro- ery, 49 Bradley streei, early today. Several hours after the shooting Thom: Glynn, with a bulet wound in his arm gave himself up to the police. He said that be and a man named R. Smith had tried to bold up the proprietor of the store and his son. and that & revolver duel fol- lowed in which he was shot He sald he knew cbe man was killed in the affair. but he was in doubt as to whether be or Smith did tbe killing, already | the strike | foreman | Senators Kittredge and Gamble Oontinus Fight for Free Homes Provision. i r Clark Secures an € etary of the Interlor § sarvey in the of Lan Horn Basin, (From a Staff Corr SHINGTON, April (Special Tele- gram.)—-The senate today agreed to take up the Rosebud treaty bill pending in that body Immediately after the completion of the union station measure, which now has the call. Gamble and Kittredge of South who labored inde faflgably for the free homes feature, are hopeful tney will be able to retain that clause in the bill. Falling in that they will accept Senator Platt’s amendment, which provides for the sale of the lands in Greg- ory county, South Dakota, at the price stip- ulated to be pald by the government, namely, $2.50 per acre. A favorable report was authorized by | senate committee on public Senator Kittre bill allowing settlers on the great Sloux reservation who made entry subsequent to March 3, 1899, but who were compelled to pay two prices for lands and then had finally to abandon their claims, to makd new entry in order to com- pensate them for losses sustained Hesurvey of Blg Horn Land pondent.) Senators Dakota have the lands today on The secretary of the Interlor today m a favorable report upon Senator Warren's bill providing for a resarvey by the gov ernment of sixty-four townships of land in the Big Horn basin, Wyoming. Kesur- veys are declared necessary on account of the inaccuracy of the original survey. from the judiclary committee the bill in- troduced by Senator Warren providing that the circuit court of appeals of the Eighth circuit court shall hold at least one term annually in. Denver, Colo., or Cheyenne, Wyo., on the first Monday of September each year. Senator Clark also reported favorably a bill increasing the fces United States grand and petit jurors from $2 to $3 per day. Senator Clark of that the house public buildings commfttee in reporting the omnibus building bill will include an appropriation for a new public building for Evanston, Wyo. He has been secure this appropriation, a bill for the same having passed the senate several months ago. It is expgeted the house omnibus bill will carry an,appropriation of about §. 000,000 and all cities urgently needing gov- ernment buildings will be represente the bill. Postal Affairs. These rural free delivery routes have been ordered established in Delaware county. Towa, July 1 Delaware, one route, with William H. Harvey carrier; area covered, | soventeen square miles; population, 375 Delhi, two routes, with Robert M. Bondu- rant and Willlam R. Furman carriers. Earl- ville, three routes: area, fifty-nine square miles; population, 1375 no carriers named Greeley, two routes, with John G. Carroll and Edgar L. Farwell carriers; area, thir- ty-six quare miles; population, 795. Man- chester, seven routes, with J. Bishop, Nel- son Bishop, E. 8. Beal, G. F. Bloodworth J. W. Malvern, H. McGrew and W. S Begwick carriers; area, 114 square miles; {ynpulu!lnn_ 0. Masonville, two routes with Willlam McCool and Norman carriers; area, forty-four square miles; population, 905 Ryan, two additional routes, with Eliza A. Wright and Oliver M. Wright carriers; area, thirty square miles; population, 640, On the same date four routes will be established at Esther- ville, Emmet county, la., with two carriers; area, eighty-three square miles; population, 1,175; no carriers given. A postofice was established at Circle, Fremont county Wyo., and John Landis commissioned postmaster, Postmasters appointed: Nebraska—8yl- vanus Johnson, Kilgore, Cherry county, vice H. Schultz, resigned. lowa—P. D. Gray, Beaver, Boone county. Senator Dietrich has recommended the re- appointment of Albert Holmes as post- master at Lushton, York county. Abraham L. Bast of Jet, Okl., was today appolnted an industrial teacher at the Rapid City, 8. D., Indian school, and Edward A. Grove of Ovid, Mich., appointed gardener at the Rosebud, S. D., Indfan school. Emma Nicholson of DeSoto, Kan., has been reinstated as laundress in the Indian school at the Sar and Fox agency in lowa. | R. 8. Sinclair of Cedar Rapids, la., is in | the city. |‘REBELS QUIT BOCAS DEL TORO Insurgents Are Drivem from Town Wrested from Them by Gov- ernment Troops. WASHINGTON, April 23.—Secretary Long Las received the following cablegram from Commander McCrea of the gunboat Ma- chias, dated Colon, today Bocas Del Toro, Colombia, has been evacuated. The former government peace- fully re-established. Forces have been withdrawn. Their duty was very well done. Shall await usual condition before returning to Colon, COLON, Colombia, April 23.—The German steamer Hercinla, which left this port for Bocas del Toro several days ago, with reloforcements of government troops on board, returned here this morning and ennounced that Bocas del Toro, which was aptured by the insurgents April 13, was again in possession of the government The timely arrival of the reinforcements on Hercinla and the gunboat General Piozon compelled the insurgents to capitu- late to the government forces. It is reported that when the government forces entered Bocas yesterday they found that money had been taken from the treas ury bullding. It is further reported that property of Chinese merchants at Boc had been looted. Pinzon has left Boca: for Chiriqui Grande to effect the evacua- tion of the revolutionists in that quarter Machias is still at Bocas. It is expected to return to Colon shortly MINE LEADERS DENY DEAL Say Subject of Consolidation Not Even Approached and Report Result of Joking Suggest COLORADO SPRINGS, April 23.—W. M Consclidated Mines companies, and L. H Giddings, representing the Ajax, Arm- strong and Old King mines, today stated that they have not entered a deal and have not even been approached upon one in volving the consolidation of thelr prop- erties with the Portland holdings. These gentlemen sald the plan was not ieasibl because of the diversity of interests in- volved. | L | MAY BE FORCED TO ACCEPT SUBSTITUTE | Senator Clark of Wyoming today reported | of | Wyoming is sangpine | working energetically the entire session to | Kenyon | Woods, representing the Gold Coln and the | SINGLE TION OF THE WEATHER CONDI Fopecus or Nebraska erally Falr and Vesterdny Dew e nn Marries Wao o KANSAS elegram. ) [ frst P Mrs CITY, Mo., April (Special Less than two hours atter their M. M. Ormsby of Omana and Turner of 7 McGee street married this morning Luttrell of the county court, Ormsby and his bride is 45 They will tonight for Omaha, where they will their hom IPor several months Ormsby and Mrs | ner have corresponding with | Matrimonial to whicn both of them had their names, gave them their Arst fntroduction. Mrs. Ormsby { then living at Wilmington, N. ( Ormeby’'s in Omaha From the aumber of letters which reached Ormsby from different women selected the written by the woman whe is now his It wae the only oue he answered. Mrs. Ormshy, oo, recelved many replies to her application for a busband Strangely enough, ehe wrote (0 Ormsby, di carding the other letters. The two letters, Ormeby's and Mrs. Ormsby's, were written on the same day and mailed at almost the same time. Her's reached Omaba when his arrived at Wilmington. It was hardly sur- prising after this remarkable coincidence that the correspondence should have been Kept up meeting Jennie E eity, were by Judge is make Tur been bureau sen | whlle home was larg. one wife The city directory gives M a traveling man. WHITECAPS AGAIN AT WORK Men M. Ormety as | Twenty Maskea i Farmers, Cruelly e Heat Leaving Fatally Injured. Tud., April 23.—Another whitecapping has become known here. Early yesterday morning twenty masked men went to the home of | Finley Stretchberry, aged 40, six miles west of here and only a few miles from | NASHVILLE horrible tale of the home of William Caldwell, who was al- | most urdered by the whitecappers night before last, and broke their way into stretchborry’s hou Stretchberry met them with a double- barreled gun and emptied one charge into the shoulder of one of the gang The whitecappers wife and forced her Stretchberry was then beaten over the head with revolvers and clubs untll ha fell to the ground. He was dragged to the woods and tied and whipped until the blood flowed. The whitecanpers then untled thelr | vietim. carried him down the road and tied | him to a fencepost and again beat him. | “stretchberry’s wite, who was recently into the kitchen discharged from the insane hospltal, be came insane from excitement and ran to a | tarmer’s house. She was unable to make herself understood, but the farmer followed her to the place where Stretchberry lay. The victim was taken to his home and the doctors sent for | Both Stretchberry and Caldwell ! the point of death and Mrs. condition is most pitiable. The two white- cappings occurred within forty-elght hours. UNITARIANS TO CELEBRATE Wentern Conference to Observe Fif- tleth Anniversary of Found- ing of that Branch. are at CHICAGO, April 23.—Unitarians from the western conference, which includes the ter- ritory in the upper Mississippi valley, will gather in Chicago May 6, 7 and § to cele- brate the fiftieth anniversary of the found- ing of that branch of the church, which was orgunized In Cincinnatl, | Opening on the evening of May 6, with | an address by Rev. %igbert Collyer, sesstons will \be held continuously until the close of the jubilee, which will be marked by a banquet at the Auditorium. Unitarians of | the city will act as hoste, Among the prominent clerical delegates ito the conference will be Rev. Edward | Hale, S A. Elliott, president of the Amer- ican Unitarian association; E. A. Hawley of Louisville, Ky.; James Crocker of Ann Arbor, John Day of St. Louls and Jenkin Liloyd Jones of this city. A number of rail- roads have offered special rates and a large attendance is expected CEREMONY AT LONG RANGE Kentucky Couple Wedded by the Use of the Telephone. ng Distance | CINCINNATI, O., April 28.—A Dayton (Ky.) widow and a Hopkinsville man will meet today for the first time after having been married over the long distance tele- phone. The telephome charges for the service were $23 The contracting parties were Mrs. Ger- trude Gallagher, a young widow of Dayton, and Theodore Cohen, a merchant of Hop- kinsville, Ky The bride, accompanied by her father « sister and many guests, entered a store at Dayton, Ky., and requested the use of the telephone. The party took seats around the telephone booth, and Rev. R. D. Harding took the receiver and asked for Hopkinsville, Ky The bridegroom answered and the min- tster propounded the usual questions 1o the bride and bridegroom. The ceremony occupled fifteen minutes. STANDS TRIAL FOR ANOTHER Takes Chauvces on ce to Shie Kansas Farmer Penitentiary Sente; n Rel WELLINGTON, Kan,, lieved to be the mings, who has April 23.—~It is be- intentlon of John Cum- cknowledged the acci- dental Kkilling three years ago of Apna Dishman, his 13-year-old servant, to take the chances of going to the penitentlary in order (o shield some member of his fam- iy, today for his trial next mouth Cummin attorney made the statement that his client bad told him a story about the girl's death that would free b1 'cfore any jury, most remarkable in counection with a murder that he had ever heard, but that tale thia! be would stand trial | the prisoner, who bas deeded his farm to his wife Since his arrest cory each he | seized Stretchberry's | Stretchberry's | After he was placed under bond here the Cummings had aworn him te secrecy sud s & well-to-do farmer, FIVE VICTORY FOR PEOPLE Supreme Oourt Grants Mandamus Asked Against Oity Oounedl, CENT CORPORATION FRANCHISES ARE TAXABLE | | Plain Rule for Getting at the Value Laid Down by the Court. NO DEDUCTION OF DEBT PERMISSIBLE | . Statutory Provision on This Point is De- olared Unconstitutional, | NEW GUIDE FOREQUALIZING ASSESSMENTS { — | Values Found Teo Must Be Brought to the Ra Entire « the Hoard. At 5 o'clock yesterday ourt of Nebraska handed dc granting the writ of mandamus asked for by members of the Omaha Rea! Batate exchange to require the city coun- il to reconvene as a board of equaliza ton and the street rallway, the kas, water, clectric light and telephone afternoon t companics In this the referee opinion the % not comcurred In fon covers every polat and tory for the Real Ketat announces that the which permits the from the actual value of a property In order to obtain what is assessable {8 unconstitutional, nuli and void. It also laid that the Board of Equalization is prohibited from acting because the uctual cash value has not uscd as a basis for assess ment, but, the court eays, the hoard must take the percentage of the actual cash value used as 4 basis by the nssessor and see (0 It that property falling below that figure is brought up to It. A rule Is also lald down for determining the value of the intangible property the corporations. Syltn pinio recommendation of The opin- s & clean vic exchange. The section of the ubtraction of conrt statute indebted corporatt Vs 1] down Dot of x and Following is the syllabus and full text of the opinim Btate of Nebraska Morton againet Myre 1. Under fon” 6 porating metropol of the eity council ex_rel D. Karr et al: of the uct incor- 1 citles, 1t 1s the duly sitting as a board of jualization, u proper complaint, dul fiied, to hear evidence, consider questior of comparative values and equallze ussess- | ments 2. Bection 1, 1X, of the franchises or | tion requires wssesged for tnxa Bhriver & article istity- that rpora on without indebtedness from the chises. of_seetion requires the amount of the corporate ir btedness from the actual value of the rea of stock to determine what shall ssessed as capltal stock I8 unconstitus nd vold. 4. When capital has 1o market value, the “actual value In the sense In which the words “eapital stock™ are used in the statute, is found by adding the value of the franchises of the | carporation to the value of its tangible property: from this should be deducted the value of the real and personai property | which arc assessed as such and the re- mainder is the value of the capital stock for .“4 essment he statute requires that all property be assessed at its failr value, but |'||lp|:m‘l prevent the Board of Equalization from ializing assessments when property in eneral in the city hos been assessed at & ertain percentage of s falr value and upon complaint that the property or fran- chise of a person or corporation {8 assessed at a less proportion of its value than the percentage of value employed as a basis for assessing the property in_general in the elt the board may equalize ussessments by ralsing the assessment complained to the same proportion of value at whic property in general in the city is assessed. Opinion: The relators obtained an alternative writ of mandamus from this court directed to the respondents as members of the city council and Board of Equalization of the city of Omaha to compel them to reconvene as & board of equalization and consider and act upon the complaints of the relutors alleging Incqualities in the assessment of taxes for the year 1%2. The respondents made return and answer to the writ and a referee was appointed by this court to hear the evidence and report findings of fact and conclusfons of law Upon the filing of the referee’s report the respondents filed exceptions to his find- ing of fact and to his conclusion that the costs ought to be taxcd against the re. spondents, and the relators flled exceptions to certain’of his conclusions of law. tions shall be deducting corporate value of such fr 5. That part act which nue deduct the 32 of the reve- ussessor stock of a corporation Allegations of Relators. It is alleged In the alternative writ that ald tax commissioner duly completed said assessment roll for sald 192 city taxes and duly transmitted the same to the ety coun- cll ‘for equalization; that by sald asse ment roll #o submitied to sald city counell nal property of for equalization the pers eald Omdha Street Rallway company was assessed company at_$575,000, $650.000, of sald Omaha W of sald Omaha company at $400,000, of said Nebraska Tele- phone company at 310,310 and of sald New Omaha Thomson-Houston Klectric Light company at $117,500; that no valuation or assessment whatever was placed upon or made against the franchises in sald city of any one of sald corporations, but said several franchises were omitted from sald assessment except as to said electrio light company, as aforesald, aithough each snd all of sald franchises are and then were of eat value, that of sald street ratlway company having a falr cash salue of, to- wit, $4.000,000, sald water company $1,000,000, of sald gas company $1,060,000, of id telephone company $1.00000 and of said electric light company $140,000, at sald 192 assessment, was made UPON Property generally in safd city, except the property of sald public service corporations, on & basis of 40 per cent of ita fair cash' value; that sald assessment upon the property of sald five corporations was and is about 10 per cent of the fair cash value of thelr property and franchises as will herelnafier more fully appear.” That the relators duly filed written com- plaints with the Board of Equalization to procure un cqualization of the assessmen off the property and franchises of sak cdporations, and that the board adjourned without duly hearing and considering these chmplaints The referee In his report, after stating at some length the facts found by him from the evidence in regard to the action of the board upon the said complaints finds “that the action of the Board of Equall tion overruling the complaints, flled upon procurement of that Real Estate exchange, did not estop the relators with referenos to their five complaluts and was in ne sense a matter of adjudication which for- bade Inguiry into the merits of the com piaints of said relators. ('pon sald five complaints | find further that the actio of the board in fixing & time for the hear. ing of the complaints by relators was & sanction of the suficlency of sald com plaints in form and substance, and t the conduct of Harcall Mouni, Trost Whitehorn and Karr, who alone heve an: swered in this case. was capricious, wilfuil nd arbitrary with respect to the com plaints flled by the relators and that thereby suld relators were deprived of th, right to have reviewed the procesdings of the sald Board of Equalization with refer ence Lo thelr above comp'aints by proceedings for the want of a final 1 ment, and that therefore, {rrespective the final result of this uction, because of other considerations hereaftef to be set forth the costs of the case should be taxed gpuinet waid Izsac 8 Hascall” David T ount, Bimon Trostier, Willlami H. White orn and Myron D. iKarr and judgmen rendered accordingly This Anding is excepted to b ents as not belng supported by the evi- dence. We do not nd It nece ry o comment ut large upon the evidence. 1t i sufficlent to justify the fndings of the lv\mm and the exceptions to the findings the reapond