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

THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE. PAGES EPRT 12, ESTABLISHED JUNE 19, 1871. OMAHA, SUNDAY MORNING, AUGUST 17 1902—-TWENTY-FOUR PAGE h‘l:\'(:l,l*; C()l’\' FIVE CENTS MISHAPS OF MIGHTY Bome of the Ludioreus Things Oonnected with Coronation Ooming Out. EARL CADOGAN FALLS FLAT ON HIS BACK Bearer of Btaff of Sootland Drops it on Bald Head of Lord Chamberlain, DUCHESS OF DEVONSHIRE TAKES TUMBLE King Bteps in Retiring Resm Long Enough to Get » Braocer, QUEEN GRACIOUS TO MISS ROTHSCHILD Now that Glamour of Big Event fs Over the Little Incidents Are Attracting Atfention of Press and Publie. (Copyright, 1002, by Press Publishing Co.) LONDON, Aug. 16.—(New York World Cablegram—Special Telegram.)—The coun- tesa of Essex, she who before marriage was Miss Adele Grant of New York, carried off the palm for beauty and style among the peercsses at the coromation, many experts in such matters aesert. She looked ex- ceedingly charming and wore a Charles I ourl hanging in, frant of her shoulder, which the countess of Warwick alone has hereto- fore done successtuily. \ Some hitherto unpublished incidents of the coronation are worthy of being rescued from oblivion. When King Edward went to the steward's chapel for the final rites he caused considerable uneasiness, as was cabed to the World at the time, by staying there half an hour. The fact was that he withdrew to the retiring room, thoughttully provided ‘there by the physicians, found them walting for him, took oft his crown, flung his heavy cloth of gold cape from his shoulder and threw himself on a couch, ex- am nearly dead. For heaven's me some whisky and water." This tranaformation from his devotional demeanor before the congregation in the abbey to one of abandoned exhaustion was sudden. But he also thought of his anclent, feeble acolytes, the archbishop of Canterbury and Jean Bradley, who accom- panied him, and ieéisted that they each partake of his sandwiches. But the octegenarian archbishop, a . teetotaller, re- fused any liquor but water. Earl Takes a Tumble. " Earl Cadogan, one of the Knights of the Gaiter, who bors the king's cazopy, treating backward to a chair near the altar’ misjudged the distance and sat down In the 3 Tong place, with the result that he fell ungracefully on his back. His mishap was chivalrously covered by a fellow knight, the ‘earl 'of Rosebery,” who stood in front of him while Earl Cadogan picked himself up. “~The earl of Crawford, who bore the staff ‘Was overcome by drowsiness, '?m by an exclamation not included in the service. % But the Auchess of Devonshire had the ret mishap of all. She tumbled down ree steps In the gloom on leaving the abbey, got terribly ehaken jand bruised and, according to one of her noble neigh- , “the air was full of broken jewel and imprecations.” Some of the baronesses who were so ‘placed they could ®ee nothing relleved their feelings by such unreserved criti- clsms on the officials responsible for the rangements that a steward was specially sent to command them to keep quiet. The baronial tempers being thoroughly aroused, they received him with contumel- ous snorts of deflance and +he withdrew abashed. |, Miss Addle Rothschild—sister of the late ‘Baron Ferdinand, who was an intimate friend of the king—was the reciplent of especial favor at the hands of the quee: Miss Rothschild, being afraid of fatigue It she waited to see the queen crowned from the queen's box, her majesty gave her & special pass to enable b 0 join the procession in her oarriage at her house on Hyde park corner on the return from the abbey and to:drive to Buckingham palace to see the queen before she removed ‘her “robes. CROKER STII._I;_EXPER!MEN:I’S ‘Will Try a New Horse Trainer Another Steward for His Dairy Farm. - (Copyright, 1902, by Press Publishing Co.) WANTAGE, England, Aug. 16.—(New York Cablegram — Special Telegram.)— Richard Croker bas parted with Trainer Charles Reiff, and will probably bring an- other trajner from the United States after Als vhit there this fall. / Mr. Oroker is. in such good health, ap- purently, that he does not need to take the coutinental cure this season. His son Bertle, for whom the dairy farm was started, has gone to America for a ‘vacation. The dairy farm is engaging: a &00d deal of Mr. Croker’s attention. He is now convinced that the epterprise did not got & falr start and that accounts for the Tesults being so unsatisfactory. He in- tends to Insfall a pertectly competent man- ager, having for the first time since he came to Letcombe consulted some of his @xperienced nelghbors. . The other day his steward had his farm earts painfed with the name “Richard Croker, Esq." The boss was wild when Be saw it, and Instantly had the “esq™ ob- Uterated. GIBSON TURNS MATCHMAKER Shocesafully Interoedes in Behalt of One of His Former Models, (Copyright, 182, by Press Publishing Co.) PARIS, Aug. 16.—(New York World Ca- Blegram—Special Telegram.)—Charles Dana Gibson, who salled back Wednesday, found one of his former Fremch models here, a bright girl of 22, ou the verge of despair because her flance’ y strenuously ob- Jected to her ochoice, aud the fellow was inclined to break the engagement rather than antagonize his aged mother. Mr. Gibson interceded for .the young ‘woman, vouching for he’ good character, and his repeated eloguent pleas so im- pressed the young man's mother that she consented to the match. Mr. Gibson said to.s World correspondent befo ving: ‘This affair has upset all @y Paris plane. 1 amve bad ap iime fur eiiher busivess oF pleasure, but I feel that I have done & good work, saved the girl from suicide or worse and given' the fellow the best wife he could over gel™ . CHARGES FRAUD AT LOURDES Freneh Engfneer Asserts Only Small art of Water Sold Comes from Spring. (Copyright, 1902, by Press Publishing Co.) PARIS, Aug. 16.—(New York World Ca- blegram—8pecial Telegram.)—Louls Probst, & government englneer, asserts that ths most of the water used to give the pil- grims at Lourdes does not flow from the grotto, where the virgin is eald to have appeared, but is brought from a river in a nelghboring cave through subterranean pipes, sald to have been secretly laid by monks years ago. Engineer Probst occu- ples a high position here and is a firm bellever in the Roman Catholic religion. A year ago he took his wife, who was affictod with a malady the doctors had pronounced incurable, to Lourdes, expecting a cure by a miracle, but as soon as she plunged into-the tank she died, While the arrangements for her fumeral were being made the engineer spent several days in observation. He noticed that the water used in the bottling department did not taste llke that in the grotto, and it oc- curred to him that the enormous quanti- tles consumed could not be furnished by the scant grotto spring. Afterward he got authority from the government to investi- gate, and now he has made a report, in which he glves a chart of underground channels / and yses showing different chemical elements in the waters. Last year nearly 3,000,000 pligrims went to Lourdes, and the monks in charge con- tributed $250,000 to St. Peter's papal fund bealdes buying more lands and buildin Lourdes was a mere hamlet fifteen years ago. Today it is a beautiful, solidly built city of 8,000 inhabitants. NEW YORK, Aug. 16.—The recent im- portation into New York of seven cases of water from the famous spring at the Shrine of Lourdes, France, caused much trouble to the customs authorities of the port in deciding whether it was dutiable or not. The board of appraisers, of which ex-Judge Somerville 14 the head, examined witnesses and bave reported: \ “It (the Lourdes watey) is not used a a beverage, and it possesses no miner: qualities and s not medicinal. It is taken by certain religlous societies, only a few @rops at a time, in falth and confidence, belng supposed_to possess remarkable heal- ing qualities in cases of sickne “We find, accordingly, that the water is ordinary water, without mineral qualities, and s not, therefore, mineral water In the meaning of the law. The remarkable feature about this is that, while the water from Lourdes is declared to be nondutiable, the report upholds the collecting of & duty of 24 cents a gallon and 1 cent for each glass bottle containing it, on the ground that in making his protest the importer, who is belleved to be & nriest. based his objection /on section 6 of the tariff code, which deals with raw or unmanufactured articles, when he should have meferred to section 614, which gives the free list. DISLIKES AMERJAN CUSTOMS (Copyright, 1002, Press Publishing Co.) PARIS, Aug. 16.—(New York World Ca- egram—Speelal Telegram.)—Captain Put- nam Bradlee Strong has a notion that he wants to settle in the Azores and live there in seclusion, except for frequent trips to pleturesque places, devoting his time to writing a book entitled “What I Have Seen.” May Yohe opposes going to the Azores, preferring to return to Japan to live there permanently. After Miss Yohg joined Strong in Lisbon she wrote to a friend here: “Our un- derstanding is now complete. I beg you to have It stated that the assertions about Mr. Strong purloining jewels was made under a misapprehension of the facts.” The ex-captain and the ex-actress say they will get married next month and never return to :%nh:a. both ex- pressing utter disg: ith American cus- toms. It is reported that before consen! ing to marry Strong exacted from May a solemn oath that whatever trouble may ever arise between them she will never drag him into & divorce court nor return to the stage. CONFIDENCE IS MISPLACED Woman Helps Another Out of Trouble and is Robl by One She Befri . (Copyright, 1902, by Press Publishing Co.) PARIS, Aug. 16.—(New York World Cablegram — Special Telegram.) — Leonle Grandison, sald to be a New York girl, who eloped -three years ago and came to Paris with Richard Brandrethia, a horse trainer, is accused of having steadily ab- stracted money from her employer, who keeps a pastry shop frequented by fash- lonable Anglo-Americans, in Which she was a salesgirl, She ‘was caught plifering yesterday and tearfully explained that her lover was golng home next month and had refused to take ber unless she would pay for firet- class ocean pessage for both. So she sald she stole a little ry day in order uot to be abandoned. A wealthy American woman, on learning the facts, made good the amount said to have been stolen on the condition that prosecution would be dropped, that the falr culprit would take a position a child’s nurse and give up assoclation with Brandrethia. Leonie ac- cepted the proposition, but today ran off with some of her benefactress’ property and went to join her lov t Hamburg. DIG UP THE BONES OF GIANTS Two Thoussnd Five Hu Years Ago, According to a s Sclentist. Live (Copyright, 192, by Press Publishing Co.) BERLIN, Aug. 16.—(New York World blegram—Special Telegram.)—While ging a deep trench near kenhauser, Saxony, some laborers found human bones buried in the dry loam. ‘The fragments of @ skull were so unusually large that they sent all the bones to Prof. Glessberg, who says they show an antiquity of 2,500 years, and are the remains of three individuals each seven feet six ‘fnches. EDITOR PATTERSON IS ILL Compelled to Postpone His Departure from Europe on that Account. (Copyright, 132, by Press Publishing Co.) LONDON, Aug. 16.—(New York World Ca- blegram—Special | Telegram.)—Robert . Pattersop, the editor of the Chicago Tri- bune, is lying {1l with lumbago in the Hyde Park hotel. He had intended to sall Wednps- day on the steamship Oceanic, but 1s com- pelied to postpone bis departure. He ex- pects to be able to sall on Majestic next ‘week. DOINGS OF A DUCHESS Wife of Duke of Marlborough to 8pend Five Weeks in United States. HIS LORDSHIP NOT ACCOMPANYING HER Keeping His Vow that He Would Never Visit This Gountry Again. . Py SEVEN YEARS £ UF INTEREST T0 HER Leads a Quiet/ at Famous 01d Palaoce / & Blenheim. b/ CATERS OF &(0 MOST EXCLUSIVE SET Dake N/ ie Most Pleasant Person in t] World—Perpetnally Dis- conten’ea Has Great Tdea of His Own Importance. (Copyright, 1902, by Press Publishing Co.) LONDON, Aug. 16.—(New York World Cablegram — Special Telegram.) — The duchess of Mariborough’s visit has been changed to last five weeks. The fact that she is going unaccompanied by the duke shows that he is keeping his vow never to set foot in the United States again. This will be the duchess’ first return to her old home in New York since her marriage in 1895. The Intervening seven years have been full of strange.and Interesting ex- periences for her. In the year following her marriage she was presented at a queen's drawing room, when she was Iiterally mobbed by the great ladies present, causing her the greatest embarrassment and confusion. Her dress was dead white to match the flowers she.wore, and she had on her fa- mous collar of pear] One of the strands came undone and some of the pearls were lost and never recovered. Mrs. Vander- bilt gave her daughter pearls of great value. . Gossips estima them worth $500,000, and also had a great collec- tion of pink and black pearls which she seldom 1f ever wears. In the autumn of the same year she gave her first royal party at Blenheim for the then prince and princess of Wi (now King Edward and Queen Alexandra). A few days after the royal guests arrived the news came of the death of the duchess’ grandmother, but on receiving a cable dis- patch from her father making no objection, the party went on as had been arranged, the duchess, however, dressing In ‘simple black and white. The party on the whole not successful, everything was ar- ranged to go off ke clock work, the com- pelte plans of the visit being written out each day by the duke and hung up in one of the private sitting rooms. The duche: ‘was exceedingly shy in those days and the personification of stiffness, so that the then princess of Wales found it impossible to be in the least friendly with her u bending hostess. Leads a Simple Life. The duchess’ life at Blenhetm hag. been of the simpldst +Bhe seldom has a big party staylng there, except members of the Churchill family, Mrs. George Corn- wallls West and Lord Randolph Churchill being invariably asked. At Christmas theatricals and tableaux are generally the order of the evening, with music. Although the duchess never will be an expert rider to hounds she looks particu- larly well on horseback, principally on ac- count of her neat figure. She is genuinely fond of ‘all kinds of sport, which the duke is devoted too. He was noted as a rider at Cambridge, where he was master of university dra Some one once remarked that his boots and breeches are a dream. Contrary to expectations, the duchess has not taken a position in soclety among what 1s known as the “smart” young mar- ried women's her inclinations leading in the direction of the more exclusive set. Classed with the duchesses of Portland, ‘Westminster, Buccleuch and others, she is seldom s at anything which s not of the very best, although she never has been known to refuse an invitation savoring of politics. It s only at the very big royal parties that she wears her magnificent pearl and diamond crown, preferring fustead a small jeweled orpament. In the day time her costumes are of the simplest and neatest description, except when attending the races, then her dresees are more gor- geous than anybody's, and she will either wear gowns of the ripest old lace or with a knot of pitk or mauve flowers at the bodice and a mass of wonderful embroid- eries. One cloak which she wore all through the season was a wrap of sapphire blue velvet, with trimmings of Russian sable. Not in American Set. Like some other Americans in England, she does not care to be classed among the American: set, although she attends the United States ambassador’'s Independocnoe day reception. It 1s & kind of mild craze with her al- | wars to have some young girl staying in her house. One time it was Virginia Falr, who was continually with the duch- ess. Later Miss Deacon was her constant companion, both at Blenhelm palace and Farwick house, where the duchess is stay- ing this season. The duke of Marlborough s clever and ambitious, but habitually discontented and Dot the most agreeable of helpmates. He has an overweaning sense of his own im- portance and thinks he should take & high political position by mere virtue of his rank and ancestry. He is devold of per- sonal genlalty or charm, or too selfish to bother himself with political entertainin, while the duchess has little taste In that direction. His being passed over for the Irish viceroyalty was a great blow to him, but the duchess 1s sald to feel relieved. TROOPS DO NOT NEED BRIDGES Experiments in Cro ing Streams. (Copyright, 192, by Press Publishing Co.) PARIS, Aug. 16.—(New York World Ca- blegram—Speclal Telegram.)—A battalion of the One Hundred and Thirty-second regi- ment of the line, quartered at Rhe! has been making experiments to show that rivers can be crossed by troops without resorting to speclal appliances. In many of the country similar experiments of late been carried out, streams crossed on rafts or in rough and embarcations congtructed out of ma- terial ready to hand. = At Rheims knap- flled with hay and then in- aterproof tarpaulins, and in this way a raft was made capable of carry- ing & battallon over & stream 100 feet wide in an bour and a balt. EDUCATION CAUSES LUNACY Such is the' Theory Set Out by = _Learned French Physi- el (Copyright, 1902, by Press Publishing Co.) PARIS, Aug. 16.—(New York World Ca- blegram—Special Telggram.)—Dr. Solners bas just read before the Academy of Med- icine a remarkable paper on which he secks to establish a co-relation between the Increase of insanity and crime and the general diffusion of knowledge. According to his daring theory, which is plausibly bullt on numerously observed facts, edu- cation acts upon certain brains In such a way to produce cerebral disorders which may be likened to those produced by poisons, upon the stomach and intes- tine Even euperficlal knowledge, such s fmparted in primary schools or ab- sorbed from a newspaper, he declares, Is suficlent to cause minor crevices in the gray matter, which are responsible for many yet uncatalogued forms of lunacy. Dr. Solners concludes that this world is gotting too complicated and that its com- plication is made too comstantly present to every mind by convereations, books, newspapers and spectacles of the busy modern lite. He took a list of the abnormal hap- penings of last week to demonstrate his theory, discussing each case. Among the instances cited were the following: An American woman aged 40 suddenly became insane while looking at the engines of the ocean liner Lorral A farmer in the couree of a recent con- troversy mowed off both the legs of his opponent with a scythe. A school teacher, fascinated by revolv- ing knives, jumped inte a huge clay mixer in a porcelain factory and was chopped up like sausage meat. A miller, suddenly seized with an insane frenzy while watching the swift-moving flour rollers, precipitated nto the machine his own G-year-old child, whose legs were ground before the belt slipped owing to the choking resistance. Two Russians, man and wife, were rac- Ing In an automobile down a steep moun- tain al impulse obeyed some ineane suggestion provoked by the remark and whirled the machine abruptly into an abyss, where he was killed and his wife was severely in- Jured. Dr. Solners mentloned many other in- stances from which he argued that the hu- man race now Is composed mostly of la- tent lunatics, whose Individual lunacy may remain {noffensive until death or may break loose suddenly under a combination of conditions not yet sclentifically deter- mined. COURT THE AFRICAN SOLDIER General of Abyesinian Armies Re- turns After Being Feted and Dined in Burope. (Copyright, 1002, by Press Publishing Co.) LONDON, Aug. 16.—(New York World Cablegram—Special Telegram.)—Ras (fleld marshal) Makonnen, the envoy of the negus, king of kings, of Abyssinla to the coronation of King Edwi W _well on his way homhe, afy; ‘much courtéd during his stay itatn and France. He probably will eucceed to the throne of Abyssinia. He Is the chofce of the childless Negus Menelek, whose kins- man he is and whose niece is his wife. The ras is the commander of all the Abys- sifilan forces and has proved his superior llity as a warrlor on numerous occa- slons, notably when he inflicted a crushing defeat on the Itallan army a few years ago at Adowa. Augustus B. Wylde describes the ras as “by far the cleverest and most enlightened man Abyssinla now possesses.” When Ras Makonnen was entertained at luncheon in the Mansion House by the lord mayor of London two young Americans of the party attracted some attention. They were Tyler Morse, the son of the late Congressman Leopold Morse of Boston, and his brother, Isidore Moree, the latter of whom recently returned from a big game expedition in Abyseinia, where he made the acquaintance of Negus Menelek and was a favorite at the court. MAKES IT WARM FOR A MASHER American Wom (Copyright, 192, by Press Publishing Co.) PARIS, Aug. 16.—(New York World Ca- blegram—Speclal Telegram.)—Mrs. Mar- garet Sidney, a beautiful and athletfe young matron from Minneapolis, sat alone yes- terday at a table in the Armenonville pa- villon, stylish open-air restaurant in the Bols de Boulogne, awaiting her husbana, who evidently had been belated beyond ex- pectation. Seeing the woman alone, a man who was dining at the next table smirked, and, gradually growing bolder, finally raised his glass as if drinking her health. Mre. Sidney called a waiter and ordered him to tell the “‘masher” to cease his noyance. The man resented the waiter's intervention ratber loudly, went smiling in & superior way to the American woman's table, and said: “Now, dear girl, don't e Before he could say anything flew up like a steel spring, and, with a stalwart blow in the teeth, sent the fellow sprawling. An uproar filled the place immediately, . After a brief explanation the “‘masher” was given his hat and ordered to get out. He refused to give his name, but be ap- parently belonged to the English “‘smart” soclety. Mr. Sldney appeared soon after- ward, and, in order to avold notice, both drove away to dine elsewhere. RICH PRIZE GOES TO A WOMAN Reward for Courage and Sacrifices in Bebalf of Suffe Humanity, (Copyright, 192, by Press Publishing Co,) PARIS, Aug. 16.—(New York World Ca- blegram—Special Telegram.)—The ~French academy has awarded the Audiffred prize of 15,000 trancs (§3,000) to a woman, Mme. Meyrier, wife of the French consul & Diabkir. The consul and his wife were in that town at the time of the Armenian mas- sacres in 1895. Mme. Meyrier sheltered, fed and cared for more than 700 Armenlan refugees in the consulate building, which was beseiged for some time, M. Meyrier and his staff repulsing the Turkish assail- ants. This lasted ten days and when all tmmediate danger had disappeared the Ar- menians left showering blessing on the head of thelr saviors. Six months later Mme. Meyrier led a caravan of 600 Christians to the coast, a fortnight's journey. The va- liant woman led the "band on horseback with her French children following on a ltter and passed with her party through the midst of the hostile tribes. She reached the coast in safety with all refugees under ber care. ¥ CASTRO HAS PROTEST Bays German Olaim Should Be Adjusted by Venesuelan Oourts. ! -~ INTEGRITY OF THE HEMISPHERE AT STAKE Bolieves That All Western Republios Are Greatly Interested in Affair, THINKS MANY CLAIMS ARE EXAGGERATED Declares Germany Has Net Made Legal Argument, but Simple Demands. KAISER SUGGESTS COURT OF ARBITRATION Thinks Conference Should De Held Be- tween German Diplomatic Agent d Venesuelan Minister to Effect a Settiement. NEW YORK, Aug. 16.—The Herald's cor- respondent t Willemstad, Curacoa, cables that memorandum has been de- livered to the German minister in Cara- , Venezuela, and confidentially to the representatives of all the friendly powers. This memorandum was an answer to the note transmitted last December by Am- bagsador von Holleben to the United States government. The German note was known to President Castro until the present time. The kalser's government in the note informed the United States of its intention to occupy & Venezuelan port, in order to enforce the payment of Ger- man claims. President Castro’s abswer to that note is noted by members of his government as a strong document. He contends th Germany has not respected Venezuela right to legislate both for Venezuelan citl- zens and for foreigners residing in Vene- zuela. Castro Insists that the claims of the Germans and other forelgners for damages during the civil wars should be presented to and decided only by Vene- zuelan courts. Germany maintains that satistaction can- not be obtained In that way, owing to the well known and pecullar characteristics of Venezuelan courts, which are President Castro's instrument The kalser's government contends that the claims should be settled by conferences between ‘a German diplomatic agent and the Venezuelan minister of foreign affairs, and in case of a disagreement the matter should be referred to The Hague Interna- tional court of arbitration. President Castro's memorandum declares that the German ciaims hmve beeu ex gerated, and contains list of references to authorities on international law to sup- port the government’s arguments. It is declared that Germany h not made a legal argument, but simply a serie of demands, to the valldity of which Vene- zuela objects. In conclusion, the Venezuelan memoran- dum says the government presents to the German empire and to, the friendly powers not officlally protest Ideas, imputations and purposes of the German note of De- cember 11, and declares that this protest is necessary. /| It asserts that Venezuela, as an {nde- pendent nation, objects to the motive of Ambassador Holleben's communication to the United States government, and coneid- ers that the mote, In its political aspect and general character, affects the integrity of the rights of the American hemisphere— an integrity which all American republics must uphold, and for the strengthening of which two international congresses have met through the influence of the United States. WASHINGTON, Aug. 16.—American in- terests in Venezuela are being guarded carefully by the navy. A cablegram was received at the Navy department reporting the arrival of the Cincinnati at La Guayra. Another dispatch reported the arrival this morning of Topeka at Curacoa. COmstro Still Holds Porto Cabello, Definite information was recelved at the Navy department from Commander Nickels of Topeka, dated Porto Cabello, which cor- rected the misapprehension which arose out of the garbled dispatches received Thursday last, from which the department assumed and announced that Porto Cabello had fallen fnto the hands of the revolutionists Yesterday when it appeared from a moi careful study of the dispatches that a pos- sible miscoustruction had been placed upon it, Acting Secretary Darling oabled Com- mander Nickels, asking whether the d partment's construction was correct. A ply dated yesterday, received this morning, read as follows: “No. Everything s quiet at Porto Cabello. Will sail for Curacoa for coal and stores and start tonight. A Ger- man man-of-war will remain here during the absence.” It is apparent from the above dispatch that the forces of Castro' still hold Porto Cabello. Topeka salled last night in ac- cordance with advic nt by Commander Nickels and according to a dispatch re- celved today arrived at Curacos, which is only a few hours' run from Porto Cabello. After taking coal and supplies aboard he will return to Porto Cabello and in the meantime the German warship will look after American, German and other foreign interests at that port. The cruiser Cincinnati left Barcelons last night and arrived af La Guayra today. Commander McLean In reporting his arrival stated that he had left everything qulet at Barcelona. Both Cinclonat! and Marletta are now at La Guayra. No information b been received from Commander McLean as to his reasops for leaving Barcelona at this time. Under general instructions he {s permitted to go where his presence may seem necessary, but generally speaking his movements are practically under control of the American minister. Twoe Warghips on the Se. Beveral days ago Minister Bowen was tel- egraphing in all directions for & warship to come to La Guayra and on Thursday he re- ported to the State department that he had been unable to reach either Marietta or Cincinpatl. It is surmised that he finally secured communication with both of them about the same time and that both Com- mander McLean of Cincinnat! and Com- mander Rogers of Marietta hastened to re- spond to his urgent appeal. The result is he now has two ships at his service. The United States minister at Cara Venezuela, bas telegraphed the Department of State that he has rellable information to the effect that there is no blockade of the ports of Carupano, Cano Colorado and La Guayra. At Cludad Bolivar, howe the blockade is effective. The government troops bave shown great courtesy to non- combatants in the Orinoco region ports say that revolutionists have where food supplies are plenty. ‘The foregoing dispatch probably refers to S THE BEE BULLETIN. Forecast for Nebraska—Showers Sunday and Monday, Page. 1 Mishaps of the Coronation. Doings of Duchess of Mariborough. Castro Protests Against Action. Review of British Fleet. Thousands Greet Gompers. Democrats Name Hitchcook. Emperor Causes Commotion. Gift from Pope to President. News from Over Nebraskn. Fight for the Fair Estate. Elgin Creamery Fails. Forming o Mounted Marching Club Takes Several Shots at Polliceman. Omaha News. Plenie of the Scottish Clans. Social Cireles. Organizing. Men Leaving the Cheyenne Shops. Council Blufts owa News. Sporting Events of a D Weekly Sporting Review, A Told to the Police. Famous Gems that Have Been Lost. City May Bulld Market House. n of Woman, a4 Muste. Plans for the Naval Maneuvers, Wild Cat Insurance. Liguer Joints in Maine. Editortal, Healthful Joys of Walking. Monument to Coronadlo’s Memory. Favorites of Fortune, Pope of the Negro Race, Story, “Thoroughhred Markets d Finanelial. Plenitude of Nelghborhood Rows. Active Demand for Money. TO BUY THE GREAT WESTERN Community of Interests Seek Hold on Road, Which Causes Consterna- tion in Trafiic Cireles. CHICAGO, Aug. 16.—(Special Telegram.) ~Traffic officials of western lines have thrown up their hands to Presldent Stick- ney of the Great Western, and a combined move 1s on which may result in the sale of the Great Western to someone repre- senting the community-of-interests. Ali the trafic officials of western lines have united in an appeal to thelr presidents, and through them to the various boards of man- come to the question of buying the Great Western or suffering rate de- moralization continually, A mention is also current to the fact that the Gre Western is daily becoming more powerful as a rate disturber. President Stickney no Jonger has a weak road back of him and railroad officiale are beginning to realize that the Great Western is getting to be & strong line. When its: brenohés are completed to ‘Omaha and Sloux City, the Great Western will have the entire Missouri river terri- tory at its mercy. If, therefore, President Stickney cares to sell he will no doubt s00n be glven an opportunity te do so. GUARDS AND STRIKERS CLASH Attempt to Expel Idle Workmen from Cheyenne Yards Results in Open Fight. CHEYENNE, Wyo., Aug. 16.—(Speclal Tel- egram.)—Kels P. Nickell and Frank Tom- linson, two Unfon Pacific guards, who par- ticipated in the fight against a party of strikers yesterday and drove the latter out of the Burlington railroad yards, where they were enjoying a keg of beer, were ar- rested today, charged with aggravating as- sault and battery. The guards were leaders In the attack upon the strikers, and gave F. B. Perry, leader of the machinists, a terrible beat- ing with their clubs. The strikers declare they were not trespassing upon Union Pa- eific property, and threaten to prosecute the company, as well as the guards, for the assault. COTTON MILL AT HOLLIDAY Capitalists Secure Location for New Enterprise in Kansas Village. KANSAS CITY, Aug. 16.—A site for the proposed $10,000,000 cotton mill, projected by eastern and Missourl and Kansas cap- italists, has been selected at Holllday, Kan., fourteen miles west of Kansas City. An optionghas been secured on 1,700 acres of land, ob which, aside from the mill and bulldings directly pertaining to the indus- try, it is intended to construct a village for the 5,000 employes which it is estimated the mill will employ and their families. W. B. Smith Whaley of Columbla, 8. C., who 1s to be president of the concern, says $1,000,000 of the first $5,000,000 required to bulld the plant has been raised. MAY HAVE BEEN MURDERED Guthrie Authorities Think Man Sup- posedly Killed in Runaway Met Foul Play. GUTHRIE, Okla., Aug. 16.—The authori- ties are working on the theory that C. N. Morris of Emporia, Kan., who died near Orlando on Tuesday. supposedly as the re- sult of a runaway accident, was murdered, and his body will be exhumed. Morris was buried in a country cemetery here in a lot sald to have been bought by a loan agent named Cox on the day before Morris died. Since Morris' death Cox has disappeared, and a search is being made for him. Both men were strangers in Orlando. At Copenhagen—8ailed: New York. At Naples—8alled: Liguria, for New York. At Antwerp—falied: ™ Zecland, for New or! s At Cherbourg—Salled: Philadelphia, for New York. At New York—Salled: Campanla, for Liverpool; Anchoria, for Glasgow; Ryndam, for Rotterdam; Vaaderland, for Antwerp; Lancastrian, for Liverpool; Panama, for Bordeaux. Arrived: Canadian, from Liver- pool; 8t. Louls, from Southampton; Umbrla, from Liverpool; Rotterdam, from Rotter- dam. Southampton—8ailed: Philadelphia, for New York. At Lizard—Passed: Koenigen Loulse, N for Bremen. trom New York ed: Belgenland, for Liverpool. At London—Arrived: Minnehaha, from New York. At Hamburg—Arrived: Harmonthis, from Tacoma, Beattie, etc., via Monie Vidéo, etc. risbane—Arrived: Moana, from Honoluly, for Sydney, N. 8, W -Arrived: 8 stown—. vi Etruria, from Arkansas, from PAINT A XD GILDING Bulk of England's Fleet Merely Exhibition of Gold and Tinsel. ONLY A FEW EFFICIENT BATTLESHIPS Some Vessels in Grand Review AbseMtely Dangerous to Orews, ENGLAND QUEEN OF SEAS NO LONGER Majority of Navy Oonsidered More Dummies Too Fesble to Fight. THOUSANDS ATTEND REVIEW OF FLEET From Spectacular Point of View Ase semblage of Hyndred War Ve is Magnificent, but Strength of Fleet 1s Lacking. PORTSMOUTH, Aug. 16.—King Edward completed the program of the coronation festivities today hy reviewing the fleet for the first time since his accession. From a spectacular point of view the assemblage of a hundred odd war vessels In the road- stead off Spithead was a magnificent show, but to those looking beneath the brilltant veneer of paint and polish it was evident that the fighting strength of the flest waa by no means formidable. The lines of ships were thickly dotted Wwith ineffectives. Among these may be mentioned the third-class cruiser Calllope of Apia fame, while others included such relics as the Dattleships Devastation, Dreadnaught, Camperdown and Edinburgh, which are classed by some experts as ab- solutely dangerous to their crews, while some of the nominally effective fighters are still armed with muzzle loaders. It mist be polnted out, however, that the display represented the home fleet, not a single vessel having been withdrawn from a forelgn station to participate in the pageant. The day opened fine. mense influx of visitors. The waters of the Solent were covered with pleasure craft of every variety, from the tiny canoe to the bix excursion steamer, and every vantage point on shore was covered with spectators. At 8, In response to a s nal, the fleet broke out flags and in the space of a minute the lines of black hulls were transferred into parti-colored lanes of fluttering bunting. Simultaneously the pennant of Admiral #ir Charles Hotham, the commander-in- chief at Portsmoutn, was flung out from the peak of Royal Soverelgn, which today acted as flagship of the fleet. Five other admirals’ flags were also in view in dif- ferent sections of the parade. The five linds in which the fleet was moored wers located midway between the Isle of Wigh and the mainland. Special Service Vessels. Nearest to the Portsmouth shore were the special service vessels and yachts and a few distinguished visiting vessels and yachts headed by the conspleuous white hull of the Japanese torpedo boat destroyer As- aschio. The next line was made up of thirty-two British torpedo boat destroyers. Then there was a line of crulsers and gunbos then a double line of battleships, and finally another line of crulsers. Another parallel line, nearest to the Isle of Wight, was made. up of forelgn men-of-war, In- cluding two Japanese crulsers, the Asama and Taskasago; the Itallan armored cruiser Carlo Alberto and the Portuguese crulser Don Carlos 1. g The precaution had been taken to com~ pel all the vessels present to burn smoke- less coal, but as the day advanced a haze spread over the water, and the small craft frequently disappeared in banks of mist, At 12:30 p. m. the lines of the fleet closed, the guard boats drove all unauthor- ized craft out of the forbldden ares, and promptly at 2 o'clock the royal yacht Vie- toria and Albert, with King Edward, Queen Alexandra and other royal parsonages on board, slowly got under way. This move- ment was slgnaled by a gunshot from the toyal sovereign, and thousands of jackles swarmed over the decks, superstructures and fighting tops, and manned ship in honor of their approaching majesties. Then came the firing of the royal salute. Amid the crash of naval ordnance the king's yacht moved slowly, accompanied by the royal yachts Osborne and Alberta and three others and escorted by a flotilla of torpedo boat destroyers. Brilllant Staff is Therge. The king, who wore the uniform of an admiral of the fleet, was surrounded by a brilliant staff. As his majesty passed each ehip the officers and men cheered, and when the Victoria and Albert, after travers- ing the lines, took up fresh moorings abreast of the royal sovereign, the whole fleet jolned in a final roar of cheers for the king, who then personally signaled the invitation to all the flag officers, including those of the foreign ships, to joln him on the royal fleet. The king will in inspect the fleet Mon. day, when all the ships will steam past the Toyal yacht. Affer what one writer calls “This dieplay showing the progress of naval construction in the Victorian era, from the time of the early wooden ves- sels,” the fleet will disperse. The great naval parade oft Spithead s filling columns of the London papers indictments of the admiralty, as well as panegyrics of the magnificent pageant, Willlam Laird Clowes, the naval eritlo and historical writer, who is unquestions. bly an authority on comparative naval sta There was an im- tistics, and who canuot be classed as an alarmist, writes that, jwhile there are & dozen very efficlent battleships off Spit- head and & few crulsers, all comparing fa- vorably with those of the best forelgn con- struction, the bulk of the great fleet la merely an “exhibition of flags, paint and gllding, and the majority might as well be bullt of cardboard, as they are mere dum- mies too feeble to fight and too slow to run awa; Hlumination After Stérm. PORTEMOUTH, Aug. 16.—~Thousands of persons who were expectantly awaiting the illumination of the fieet oft Spithead tonight were drenched and bedraggled by a thun- derstorm and rainfall of almost phenomenal suddenness and violence. The storm broke just as the signal for the illumination was given and the crowd ashore and afloat stampeded for shelter. The storm continued for an hour, after that the night was fair and the illumination was earried out and was witnessed by thousends who appeared on the shore. A rocket was sent up from the royal yacht, and a moment later the dim outlines of the yacht burst out in thousands of incandescent lights. This the signal for the hundreds of other and as if by magic the entire fleet (Continued on Fourth Page.)