Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 27, 1902, Page 1

b ESTABLISHED "JUNE THE OMAHA DAILY BEE. 19, 1871. OMAHA, WEDNESDAY MORNING, AUGUST 27 1902—-TEN PAGES. SINGLE COPY FIVE CENTS T0 KILL THEIR KING|o® '™ Ponten is wawe Twenty-Three Italians Are Arrested at Geneva for Anarchistic Plotting. nal SCHEME WAS TO DERAIL THE ROYAL TRAIN ths They Planned fad Ending for Pleasan! | M. D., ¢t Topeka, Ka First Day's Only Incidents Are Ovations by the Loyal. SWISS GIVE THE MONARCH GREETING . He, in Reply, Tells How Plen s that Italy and Its He LONDON, Aug. 26.—In a dispatch from Geneva the correspondent of the Daily reports the arrest of twenty-thrae d to be anarchists, in con- nection with an alleged plot to derail the train bringing King Emmanuel to Berlin. ROME, Aug. 26.—King Victor Emmanuel left Racconigl this morning for Berlin. He was given a hearty farewell by the crowds. Signor Prinettf, the minister of foreign affairs, will join the king later on. GESCHENEN, Switzerland, Aug. 26.—The train bearing the king of Italy and his suite emerged from the St. Gothard tun- nel and arrived here at 5 o'clock this \evening. The rallroad station was deco- rated in honor of the king's arrival and he was greeted by the playing of the Itallan national hymn apd salutes fired from the helghts surrounding the town. His majesty welcomed to Switzerland by President Zemp of that country and the federal counsellors. Ip an address Presi- dent Zemp sald this visit of the king of Italy wi fresh proof of friendship and that he was convinced it would draw closer the anclent and good relations existing be- tween the nelghboring nations. Replying to the president, King Victor Emmanuel sald it was a pleasure to ex- ‘press the cordial friendship between Italy and Switzerland, and he hoped it would constantly become closer. After this ex- change of courtesles the king's train pro- coeded for Berlin. COMES TO STUDY STEEL TRUST rts Sail in September for A States on that rman Ex Un BERLIN, Aug. 26.—The object of the journey of Count von Thiele-Winckler, a mine owner and prominent German finan- cler, to the United States in September Is specifically to study the United States Steel borporation. The count takes with him two ‘or threa experts and he may be regarded bimself as an expert, since he is a practical fron man, though no “chimney baron,” as the Germany nobflity sneeringly character- ize the recently emnobled business men. Count Winckler has asked the manager of the United States Steel corporation for an !:mlly to really study its organization d detalls of administration at first hand, hnd the county has been informed, through the Deutsche bank, which made the In- quiry, that he would have every facility for %0 doing and suggestions have been made as to how he best could accomplish his mis- slon. Count von Thiele Winckler, who is one of the richest men in Germany, is sald to bave undertaken the trip as an unofficial tommissioner of his government. His earn- sstness and the fact that he takes technical perts with him gives color to the idea ibat he contemplates forming a combination bere like the United States Steel coropra- bon. SHIPPING AGENTS ARE READY Fhose in Londo# dnvite Patronage of People with Pare for Unfted States. LONDON, Aug. 26.—A letter appears in the London papers this morning signed by several London shipping agents announcing iheir readiness to transmit parcels to the United States at as advantageous rates as Ihe wostofice. Henry Norman, M. P, has written a letter to the Times, complaining that the proposed parcels post service between Great Britain and the United States is restricted to transmission by the Cunard and White Star lines. He polnts out that the use of steamers of the North German Lloyd line would in many cases ‘save three days in the delivery of parcels in America, and in 8o way discourage the bullding of fast Brit- ish ghips by extending preferential protec- ton to t low ones. SEVERE FIGI_"_LIIG IN HAYTI Government Troops Recapture a Town from the Firmin. ftes. —_— " * OAPE HAYTIEN, Aug. 26.—The village of Limbe, eighty-two miles north of Port Au Prince, has been attacked and repaptured by the troops of the provisional govern- nt. Limbe was in the lon of Fir- e soldlers from the Aftibonite dis- trict. The fighting was severe and lasted from midnight last night to midday oday. Many men on both sides were killed. The town was destroyed by fire. MONT PELEE _AGAIN MUTTERS Gives Ewvid ST. THOMAS, D. W. L, Aug. 26.—Advices fecelved from Dominjoa today says that between 10 in the morniug’ and 3 o'clock In the afternoon yesterday (Monday) clouds of dust were seen in the direction of Mont Pelee and that detonatioas at long Inter- vals were heard untl] the morning. Light showers of volcanie dust fell on Dominica. DOVER DECIDES NOT TO BEG English Town Will Reaist Temytation to Reach for the Capacious Carnegie Pooket. DOVER, England, Aug. 26.—The town wunclliors today engaged in & long and beated discussion, during which the ldea of begging was deprecated and s petition trom influential townspeaple requesting the founcil to ask Andrew Carnegle for money to establish & public library was rejected wavoteof§tof | I Omaha Physician Made Ch, ot Medical Section, N DENVER, Aug. 26.—The Natlonal Frater- congress, the central organization of fraternal and_Insurance orders of this country and Canada, met in annual con- vention here today, President W. A. Warer, n., presiding. There are over 300 accredited delegates in attendance. Fifty-seven fraternal socleties t officlals of more than fifty of these snding the convention. apening session welcomes were ! Binited States Senator Thomas %’ on behalf of the west, by Ran on behalf of the state, by Mayor Wright an behalf of the city and by F. A, Falkenburg on behalf of the Col- orado auxiliary congress. The annual report of President Ed L. Young of the National Fraternal Press as- | sociation was largely devoted to the action of Third Assistant Postmaster General Madden in excluding fraternal publications containing advertisements from the malls as second o made denouncing this construction of the law. The medical section of the congress was called to order by President M. R. Brown, M. D., of Chicago. Among the papers read was one by Dr. O. Millard of the Knights of the Loyal Guard, of Flt, Mich., on “Mortality and Its Costs.” He reported the natlonal fraternal congress experience table to show a death rate at 40 years of 13.9 per cent, starting with 100,000 lives at 20 years. As to this table, Dr. Millard sald: “I am constrained to call the attention of this body to the fact that our table show: at the age of 40 that the mortality has in. creased about 3 per cent over that of tables that have been standard anywhere In tha United States or Canada, except in tropical countries for a long time.' Dr. Millard suggested as & probable cause the “hustle” of the lodge system with the desire to Increase membership and at the same time the payment by the frator- nal socleties of about one-third the sum paid by old-line companies to thelr med- fcal examiners for a like amount of work. Officers were elected today as follows: dent, W. M. Haag, Philadelphia; secretary- treasurer, N. E. Stevenson, Chicago. Med- leal section, Dr. Ira W. Porter, Omah vice chairman, Dr. F. N. Smith, Zanesville, 0.; secretary, Dr. E. D. Cook, Detroit. TIMES DISCUSSES ROOSEVELT Paper Credits Him with Taking a Bold Stand Against Party Wire- pullers. LONDON, Aug. 27.—The Times this morning published an editorial article dis- cussing President Roosevelt's decision to appeal from party wire pullers to the people on the trust question. The paper says: “This is a bold decision if Presi- dent Roosevelt is ambitious, of a second term, but he is shrewd as well as courage- ous. We cannot, how venture to form & judgment of his ~of muccess agalnet m*-mml tor yed on the opposite side. The American people themselves have no very clear ideas on this subject and their political prophets are all at sea in their speculations. “It {s intercsting to observe that In America it is frankly assumed that Mr. Rooseve! object is to throw a protecting shield ‘over the capitalist and his attacks on the trusts are regarded with suspicion by American protectiont: “The result of the struggle between a eraving for protection and impatience of monopoly will soon be visible in the United States, and Mr. Roosevelt, appa: ently will have credit for having raised great issue with conspicuous fe ness. COLLEGES WIN ANOTHER ROUND ba e Lacombe Upholds Vi Will of Late Danie Fayerweather. NEW YORK, Aug. 26.—A declsion was handed down today by Judge Lacombe In the United States circuit court deciding, ®0 far as that tribunal is concerned, the noted Fayerweather will case. Judge La combe’s decision confirms the decision of the state court of appeals of July, 1897, which admitted the will of the late Dan- lel B. Fayerweather, the millionaire leather merchant, to probate. Under the terms of the will the greater portion of the estate, estimated at $6,200,000, was divided between various colleges and uni- versities mentioned in the will. Judge La- combe's decision dismissed an action brought by Emma Fayerweather and Mary Wachter, nleces of Lucy Fayerweath widow of the dead merchant, to conte the will and leaves the colleges and uni- versities In the undisputed possession and enjoyment of the money granted them. ‘The decieion, however, does not mean that the case will end, as an appeal will be taken at once to the United States su- preme court in Washington. ALLEGE THAT LEYDS IS SHORT Long Paper Acco: tion from s for His Deposi- svaal Le- Hon, LONDON, Aug. 27.—In s dispateh from The Hague the correspondent of the Daily Mall declares Dr. Leyds, who was the Euro- pean representative of the Transvaal re- publie, has been deposed because he re- fused to account for a large sum of money missing from the Boer exchequer. The Boer cause, continues t! will_be agitated through the length and breadth of South Africs on the model of the home rule campaign in Ireland, and this agitation will call for all the foresight and firmness of which British statesmanship is capable. The first move in the game will be the proposals the Boer generals will ask of the British government as the price of their assistance in the reconclliation and settlement of South Africa. WOMAN DIES OF “LUMPY JAW” Two Men in the Same Town Danger- y T with the Sam. Dise PRATT, Kan., Aug. 26.—Mrs. Kimball is dead from “lumpy jaw,” caught from cattle, and Mr. Cochrane of the Pratt Republican has been brought to a hospital in this city dangerously affiicted with the dise by chewlng straw. Mr. Cochrane caught the disease by Iying down In & pasture in which “lumpy Jaw' cattle grazed. The doctors here say there are only six cases on record where human belugs have caught “Jumpy Jaw"” Lrom cattle. matter. Many speeches were | UTILIZING ~ STUMP ~ LANDS Pine Barrens of the North Present Problem to Agrioultural Department. SECRETARY WILSON HOPEFUL OF RESULTS Belleves that with Proper Treatment They Will Valuable Dairy and Sugar Beet Lands. Become (From a Staft Correspondent.) WASHINGTON, Aug. 26.—(Special Tele- gram.)—Since his return from his tour of the west the secretary of agriculture has which has been presented to the depart- ment, namely, denudation of the pine for- ests of Michigan, Wisconsin and Minne- sota. The stump lands of these states, he |says, form a desolate wilderness, but he |bas faith that his experts will soon de- termine the varieties of grains, grasses and legumes best adapted to the conver- slon of these lands Into productive farms. | The problem is unlike any heretofore pre- | sented, for the reason that both the sofl and climate conditions are dissimilar to | those prevalling in other sections of the | country. The secretary belicves they more | nearly approximate the conditions govern- | ing Danish agriculture than any other por- | tion of this country. The annual raintall |18 twenty-five inches, while the dense fog which floats inland from the Great Lakes add to the humidity avaflable for plant growers. The soll Is strong in yegetable food and is largely permeated with iron, which renders the clays a deep red. The secretary will detall sclentists from the department to examine the soil and will probably send others to Denmark and Nor- way to make observations of agriculture under similar physical conditions. At the present time large numbers of Findlanders and Scandinavians are settling in the dis- trict referred to, which the secretary esti- mates to equal in area the state of New York. There is also a sufficlent number of American settlers to teach the principles of selt-government to their nelghbors, Necessity for Reformation. One of the peculfarities of the situation in this deforested country is the necessity of immediate attention being turned to refor- estation with a view to providing fuel, tenc- ing, lumber, etc., for the settlers. Mr. Wilson predicts that this section will be- come a great stock and dairy center, and that the land will yleld handsome returns when devoted to the culture of sugar beets, He says that In time the beet sugar pro- duced from this vicinity alone will equal the present output of the entire country and that the residue or beet pulp will be fed to large herds of dairy cattle. Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Tay- lor today decided to mccept the site of- fered by Alonzo J. Barklay for the new public buflding at Boone, Ia. This site is situated at the morthwest corner of Eighth and Arden streets, and the price is $11,600. Routine of Department. The comptroller of the currency has ex- tended the corporate existence of the First National bank of Seward, Neb., and the First National bank of Casseitom, 8. D.. until the close of business on August 26, 1922, The Continental National bank of New York has been approved as reserve agent for the First National bank of Burt, Ia. Kittie Herring of Waterloo, Ia., has been appointed a $800 clerk in the pension agency at Des Molnes. Rural free delivery service will be es- tablished October 1 as follows: Nebraska, South Auburn, Nemaha county, an addi- tional route; area covered, thirty-two square miles; population served, 625. Iowa, Latimer, Franklin county, two routes; area, forty-one square mile: population, 640; the postoffice at Coulter to be supplied by rural carrier. Strawberry Point, Clayton county, three routes; area, seventy-two square miles; population, 1,600; the postof- fice at St. Sebald to be supplied by rural carrier. PICK CONGRESSIONAL TIMBER Put Up Oandidates is and Ohio Dis- tricts, Democrats nu PARIS, IlIl., Aug. 26.—The the Elghteenth Illinols distri Inated H. C. Bell of Mashall, Clark county, for congres Hon Joseph G. Canmon s the republican nominee. SPRINGFIELD, Ill., Aug. 26.—Ben F. Caldwell of Chatham was nominated for congress by the democrats of the Twenty- first_congressional district. JONESBORO, Ill., Aug. cratic congressional convention for the Twenty-fifth Illinols district today nom- inated James Lingle of Union county. This was the second session of the convention, Reed Green of Calro, who was nominated several weeks ago, having declined the nomination. MANSFIELD, O., Aug. 26.—George D. Neal of Knox county was nominated for congress by the Fourteenth district demo- erats today. Before the convention as- sembled it was understood that Mayor F. J. King of Lorain would receive the nom- ination, but temporary chairman of the convention he made a speech, endorsing Mayor Tom Johnson of Cleveland and criti- cising ex-President Cleveland, D. B. Hill and W. J. Bryan, and his name was never presented to the convention. ILLINOIS POPULIST TICKET One Blank Space Left to Be Filled by Woman Candidate if Possible. 26.—The demo- SPRINGFIELD, Ill., Aug. 26.—The peo- ple's party of Illinols held a convention bere today and the following state ticket was named Clerk of the Supreme Court—W. W. Seott of Marion county. State Treasurer—Dietrick Balser of Mad- ison county. State Superintendent of Public Instrue- tion—W. C. Gullett of Fulton county. Trustees State Unlversity—Richard Stan- ley of Morgan county and Henry Johnson of Vermilion county. The selection of & third candidate for trustee was left to the chairman of the state committee, and if possible a woman will be selected. Joseph Hopp of Chicago was re-elected chairman of the state central committee, Resolutions were adopted favoring the initlative and referendum; a law to prevent blacklisting of employes by corporations; & law to prevent use of comvict labor in competition with free labor; helding it to be tne duty of the government to take po pledging support to the union label, and declaring that trial by jury should be set his experts to work to solve a problem | { | { | | | | | CALIFORNIA IS Republican State BALLOTING e Con ing to Choose SACRAMENTO, Cal, Aug. 26.—The re- publican state convention reassembled this morning and after the presentation of com- mittee reports adopted & platform. It deplores the death of President Willlam McKinley. The administration ot President Roosevelt is indorsed and he is especially thanked for his support of measures pe- cullarly beneficial to the coast, such irrigation of arld lands, the exclusion ot Chinese and the isthmian canal legislation. The convention indorses the “firm, but enlightened policy pursued in’ the Philip- pines, which has secured peace in the is- lands,” and urges that “colitention over our policy in the Philippines should now ces and the beneficial plans of the eivil go ment be given the united and cordial sup- {port of all the people.” The convention recommends that liberal pension provisions be made for the soldlers and widows of the late elvil war and of the war with Spain. | On the question of trusts the convention expresses itself as follows: We condemn all conspifacies bines to restrict business, olles, to limit nd com- create monop- production, or to control prices, and favor such legislation as will effectually restrain _and nt all such abuses, protect and promote competition and secure the rights of ucers, inborers and all who are engaged in industry and commerce, and _we approye and commend the efforts of President sevelt to en- force the laws against iilégal combinations in restraint of trade, and pledge him our hearty support in all his éfforts to protect the people from all oppressive combinations of capital. The platform recommends the construc- tion of government ships In government navy yards and urges the adoption of an eight-hour schedule for labor on all gov- ernment work, whether performed in public or private establishments.. The platform opposes “all reciprocity treaties inconsist- ent with the protection to' American labor and industry,” and any reciprpeal policy not laid down In the republican platform of 1900. . The platform aleo favors legislation which will 80 regulate the process of injunction as to prevent its exercige in abridgement of free speech or peaceful assemblages. The platform rejoices “in the fact that the mct providing for the cutting of a canal be- tween the North and South American con- tinents was passed by a republican con- gress and signed by a republican president.” It was quickly noticed by the followers of Governor Gage that the platform failed to Indorse the state administration, and a warm debate followed, it being declared that the omission was for the purpose of prejudicing the cause of Governor Gage, who is a candidate for remomination. The matter was finally compromised by the adoption of a resolution indorsing all the te ofclals, ¢ Five candidates wero placed In pomina- tion for governor, namely, Henry T. Gage, the present incumbent; B. B. Edson, the present railroad commi ; Dr. George O Pardee of Alameda, T} Flint, jr., of San Benito and J. O. Three ballots were tak the last one standing, Second Primary May He Necessary to Settle South Carolina Fight. COLUMBIA, 8. C., Aug. ‘26.—Democratic primaries for the nomination of governor and a state ticket, congressional repre- sentatives and state legislators were held throughout this state today. Ballots were also cast to determine a successor to United States Senator McLaurin. It s estimated that 90,000 voters were recorded, but on account of late returns only 30,000 votes had been reported up to midnight. Owing to the South Carolina primary law, which demands that successful candidates must recelve a majority of the votes cast In primaries, it is possible that a eecond pri- mary will be ordered, in which those two leading candidates for every office which failed to recelve a nominating vote will be entered. Every nomination, with the single exception of state treasurer, was bit- terly contested. From returns that have been recelved it is understood that D, C. Heywood of Colton is far ahead in the race for the guberna- torial nomination, with ex-Congressman Tolbert second, and Lieutenant Governor James H. Tillman third. Partial returns from forty-three counties show that in the contest for the United States senatorship to succeed Senator Mc- Laurin, Congressman Lattimer leads, and therefore will be in the second primary. His probable competitor will be elther D. G. Henderson of Alken or ex-Congressman J. J. Hemphill. U. X. Gunter is named for attorney gen, eral and Colonel McMahon s named for superintendent of education. A second primary will be called to de- termine the nominations for lleutenant gov. ernor, secretary of state, comptroller gen- eral, railroad commissioner and congres- slonal representatives. PROBABLE FUSION IN NEVADA Gold Democrat Sla: te Be the Nom- inee of Parties for Gov- I RENO, Nev.,, Aug. 26.—The democratic convention was called to order at 1 o'cloek and A. J. Denton of Lincoln was chosen temporary chairman. The committee on credentials was appolnted, after which the convention adjourned to attend a reception tendered the delegates by Francls G. New- lands. The silver convention was called to order at the same hour and Governor Sadler was elected temporary chalrman. A committee on credentials was appointed and reported, after which the convention adjourned for the same purpose as the democratic wing of the organization adjourned for. The indications are that there will bs fusion and that John Sparks, a gold dem- ocrat from Washoe, who voted for McK nley two years ago, will be the fusion nominee tor governor. Lem Allen of Churchill will be the nomi- mee for lleutenant governor. C. D. Van Duser, another democra be the fusion nominee for congress; J. F. Talbot of Elko, for supreme judge; Wil- liam Woodman of Ormsby for attorney gen- eral; P. C. Weber of White Pine, for comp- troller; E. D. Kelly, Washoe, for surveyor general; David Ryan, Story, for treasurer; Andrew Maupe of Nye, for superintendent of public Instruction. The conventions are now in session and the silver convention is discussing the ad- visability of increasing the delegation from Nye, Elko and White Pine. Committees on permanent organization, resolutions, platform and conference will be appointed tonight, after which the two con- will glven in contempt cases growing out of | ventions will adjourn until tomorrow. There violations eof court injunctions. 1s much speculdtion as to the oulcome. MERCER'S GAME IS BLOCKED Blackburn's Joint Oommittes Encounters Bome Stubborn Legal Propositions, INTEREST NOW IN SATURDAY'S MEETING Majority Proposes that County Com- mittee Shall Take Control of Pri- maries, as it is Required to Do by Law. The Mercer-Blackburn joint committee, which attemptea lllegally to absorb the rights and powers of the county committee last Saturday, hesltates to proceed with the game mapped out for it. While Mr. Blackburn, who appears to be the whole thing in the joint committee, just as he is In the congressional committee, professes to be In a position to carry out his original plans for controlling the county primaries, it 1s plain to be seen that he realizes that he has overreached himself, for he wants now to talk of compromise with the ma- fority of the county committee who have called another meeting for next Saturday. Mr. Blackburn's Jjoint committee, with several absentees, met twice yesterday, but transacted no business, indicating that the Mercer managers feel the lllegal ground that is under them. During the day they conferred with E. J. Cornish and W. J. Connell, and expressed their willingness to make concessions if some arrangement could be made to have a part of their pro- gram, as started fast Saturday, carried out. At the conferences yesterday Mr. Cor- nish and Mr. Connell discussed the legal phases of the situation with a clearness that left no room for doubt as to the county committee’s right to name the primary election officers, select the polling places and apportion the delegates from this county to the congressional convention among the political divisions of the county. It was also shown clearly that the county committee has no authority in law to sur- render the control of the primarfes to a sub-committee, even of its own creation. James H. Van Dusen, the author of the primary election law, was quoted as say- ing that “the intent of the law was to safeguard the rights of the individual voters by permitting them, through their direct representatives on the county com- mittee, to control their own primaries.” Furthermore, Mr. Van Dusen is authority for the statement that the law does not contemplate the delegation of the work of the county committee to any small frac- tion thereof, which would not be directly representative of each and every political division of the county. Blackburn is Anxious. While In interviews Mr. Blackburn con- tends that the meeting of the county com- mittas ralled Saturday would he ignored by his joint committee, he is dis- playing great anxiety as to the probable action of next Saturday's meeting, and was ready to discuss terms upon which his faction might enter the meeting. He was told that the majority of the county com- mittee bad come to understand-that their action of last Saturday was clearly {llegal and the purpose of mext Saturday's meet- ing was merely to correct the error that had been made. The coming meeting bhad been called for the purpose of selecting judges and clerks ana polling places and assuming general supervision of the pri- maries in Douglas county by the Douglas county committee as a whole, in compli- ance with the plain provisions of the law. While the right of the congressional com- mittee to make the apportionment of, dele- gates among the subdivisions of the county was denied, it was sald by Mr. Cornish and members of the county committee that there was no disposition to make an ap- portionment different from that already an- nounced by the Mercer congressional com- mittee. The assertion of Mr. Blackburn that the meeting of next Saturday had not been legally called, because ““Chairman Goss had not even been consulted,” was not given serious consideration. “It is absurd,” said a member of the county committee, “to assume that the created is greater than the creator. As a matter of fact, Mr. Goss was out of the city when the call was pre- pared, but even if he had been here, a ma- jority of the committee would have had the same right to call a meeting without his acquiescence. Do you suppose that It the president of a bank should die, or dis- appear, the board of directors would be powerless to meet and continug the busi- ness? Mr. Blackburn's claim that the necessary five days' notice of the meeting had not been given is met by the fact that the call w sued and malled to every member of the committee on the 25th, just six days before the 30th, the date of the meeting. ALGER TO FIGHT FOR PLACE t Intimation that He is Going B to Consult with President Roosevelt. DETROIT, Aug: 26.—General Russell A. Alger, former secretary of war, leaves for an eastern trip tomorrow. It is inti- mated here that the trip savors of a call on President Roosevelt for a conference regarding Alger's candidacy to succeed the late Senator McMillin as United States senator. It s sald the president would like to see the two senators from Michi- gan more in harmony with administration views than Senator Burrows has been and that he is inclined toward Congressman W. A. Smith as a successor to Burrows two years hence, and that Alger is likely to get the administration’s stamp of ap- proval in the present campaign. Smith and Alger had a conference in Detroit yes- terday. Senator Alger declared he was in the campaign and would be there with his friends to the end. The general had been previously characterized as & passive candidate. MORE AUTOMOBILE VICTIMS Two Persons Killed and Three Seri- ously Injured in Accident at Long Branch. LONG BRANCH, N. J, Aug. 26.—Two were killed and three injured in an auto- mobile accident at the Park Avenue bridge over the New York & Long Branch railroad tracks today. In trylng to avold running down a man, Frank J. Mathews, president of the Realty Trust company of Jersey City lost control of his machine and it plunged against the railing, broke through and dropped to the rails, thirty-five feet below. Mr. Mathews was instantly killed, the heavy machine falling upon him. Mrs. J. H. Cobb of Richmond, Va., one of his died later at the Monmouth Me- Louls Pizzinnt, ved to be dying. Rev. Father Grant of the Paulist church, New York, suffers from shock and brulses. The chauffeur, Rudolph Meyer, escaped with slight injurles, as he leaped to the bridge just as the machine plunged over the side, | that the prices were uniform. Since then CONDITION OF THE WEATHER Forecast for Nebraska—Fair Wednesday and Thursday; warmer Wednesday. Temperatare at Omahn Yesterday S%fiiiiii; BEEF TRUST PROBING BEGINS St. Joseph Butcher Declares Prices Uniform, but Secret Rebate Made to Buyer. 8T. JOSEPH, Mo., Aug. 26,—(Speclal Tel- egram.)—The first testimony in the alleged Beef trust inquiry commenced today be- fore Speclal Commissioner H. I. Kinley of Kansas City, John Wood, a local butcher, was the only witness examined, when court was ad- journed until tomorrow forenoon. Wood testified that he had, for twenty years, bought beef of the packers and about two years ago he was informed by the packers that the price of beef had been raised and he had been given a rebate by the Ham- mond and Cudahy companies, but was sworn to secrecy by the salesman of whom he purchased the meat, “I was told that if I squealed on a salesman, his house would have to pay a fine of $50," sald Wood. Witness further stated that he had trled to buy meat of the Ottumwa (Ia.) house, but the meat could not be dellvered. Most of his testimony was objected to | by Attorney Alexander New, who conducted the case for Swift and Company, on the ground that It was miost all on hearsay. RECEIVER FOR LUMBER FIRM Disagreement Among the Stockhold- ers Given as the Reason for Fallure. KANSAS CITY, Aug. 26.—The Culver Lumber company, successors to the Ka sas City Southern Lumber company, owning | extensive timber forests at Craighead, Okl., with lumber yards in Kansas City, Mo., and a sash and door and box factory at City, Kan, was placed in a re- hands today. Assets are esti- mated at $50,000, and labilities at $250,000. A recelver has also been appointed for the company’s Arkansas property, said to be valued at over $500,000. In Arkansas the company owns land in Green county, with two mills at Sedgwick, a store and twenty miles of railroad. Recelvers were appointed in Kansas City upon the application of Mary C. Culver and H. A. Culver, majority stockholders, trouble having arisen over the manage- ment of the firm, whose capital is $300,000. The chief creditor s the National Bank of Commerce of Kansas City, Mo., which holds a claim of about $30,000 against the company. ELK TREASURER MUST ANTE EA 8. Orris of Buffalo Sald to Be SALT LAKE, Utah, Aug. 26.—Official an- nouncement has been made before the Elks lodge in this city that a shortage of $16,000 has been discovered in the books of Ed 8. Orris of Buffalo, N. Y., grand treasurer of the grand lodge of Elks. Mr. Orris was re-elected at the recent reunion in Salt Lake. According to a mem- ber of the grand lodge the shortage was not discovered by the audifing committee until after the election. Mr. Orris, when con- fronted, stated that he could and would make the shortage good at once, but this, it is announced, has not been done. The officlal announcement does not what action will be taken in the matter. FREEPORT HAS A BARTHOLIN Officers of that City Detaln Stranger Resembling the Chicago Murderer. ate FREEPORT, Ill, Aug. 26.—A man who was arrested at Rock City today on suspi- clon of being Bartholin of Chicago, was brought to Freeport tonight by Sheriif Fox. To a representative of the Assoclated Press he sald his name was G. G. Holcomb, that he had recently been selling wines for a Weldon, N. C., firm and that his funds became exbausted at Madison, Wis., and be left there on foot last Saturday night. He says that he was auditor of the Lexington hotel at Chicago in 1901 and 1002. He bears usch a striking resemblance to the Chicago man that Sherlff Fox has decided to keep | him until his {dentity is established. RUSH FOR OKLAHOMA LANDS i of Land Seekers. Supreme Court De: Stampede en Latest EL RENO, Okl, Aug. 26.—The decision of the supreme court attaching a strip of land four miles wide to Oklahoma from the Chickasaw nation has brought thou- sands of people here to file at the land office, and today more than 400 filings were rejected. Special trains are bringing in additional crowds and the rush for these lands promises to be almost as rent the opening last fall. There are about 1,500 farms in the strip. JURY APPROVES THE LYNCHING Coroner's Reviwers Come Out Plainly in the Case of Tom Jones. CHARLOTTE, N. C., Aug. 26.—The coro- ner's jury in the case of Tom Jones, the negro who assaulted and fatally injured Mrs. Smith, and who was lynched yester- day, has approved the act of the lynchers. The names of the men are not known, or, if known, are not mentioned in the verdict. Movements of Ocean Vessels Aug. 26, At New York—Arrived: Frederick der Grosse, from Bremen. Salled: Consuelo, for Hull; Kron Prinz Wilhelm, for Bremen via Plymouth and Cherbourg; Patricia, for Hamburg via Plymouth and Cherbourg. At Ushanti—Passed: Neko, from San Francisco via Valparaiso, etc., for Ham- bur, At Rotterdam—Arrived: Ryndam, from New York via Boulogne Sur Mer. At Bremen—Arrived: Hohenzollern, trom New York. At Cherbour vived: Kalserin Marla Theresa, from New York via Plymouth, for Bremen, and proceeded At Queenstown—Arrived: Ivernia, Boston. for Liverpool, and proceeded At Liverpool—Arrived: Taurle, from New York. At Plymouth—Arrived: Theresa, from New York. and Bremen, and proceeded trom Kaserin Marla for Cherbourg | At At Genoa—Salled: Lombardia, for New York. ROOSEVELT ON CUBA President Disousses_the New Republic's Noeds in lp;nh at Lowell, ASKS RECIPROCAL TRADE RELATIONS Belioves the Isle to.Be Bound to Figure in Future Affairs, MUTUAL INTERESTS WILL BE SERVED Upited States Oan Go Farther Than Duty with Profit. . CROWDS ARE VOCIFEROUS AS EVER Punctuate His Plain Utterances with ontaneous Outbursts and Cheer Him Loudly Wherever They Cateh Sight of Him. AUGUSTA, Me., Aug. 26.—President Roosevelt today ed through three states, delivered eight speéches and re- ceived the plaudits of 250,000 people. The greeting which has marked his progress through New England is flattering in the extreme and today's experience demon- strated his popularity perhaps more than ever before. Everywhere at the regular stops and thé smaller stations along the rond the people were strenuous in thelr efforts to catch a glimpse of him, or hear bim speak, and at Haverhill, Mass., this desire assumed such a form that the crowds completely overrode the. police and sur- rounded the president's carriage, making it difficult for it to advance. The day's journey was not without its incldents. As the president was about to board his car at Lawrence, Mass., after delivering his address, the leader of the band stepped up and made himselt known to him. He said his name was Banan, & | former cowpuncher and barber at Medora, N. D, where the president’s ranche is lo- cated. The president immediately recog- nized and greeted ‘him as an old friend. The man, evidently desiring the president to know that he had profited by his ad- vice, given some years ago, sald to him: “You told me to get married ‘and settle down and I did. 1 have got six children myself,” which afforded the president no little amusement. Tonight he Is the guest of Governor Hill, who met him at the depot and escorted bim to his residence, where the president made a short address. The house has become historic because of the fact that it was the home of James G. Blaine and the president occuples tonight the identical bedroom used by that states- man, Talks of Porto Rico and Cu govern: m. and spoke to an immense crowd here, saying: When I got on the train this morning one of the first to greet me was ex-Govs ernor Allen of Porto Rico, your fellow townsman. - (Applause.) Now, you don’t hear much about our government of Porto Rico, because there s nothing sensational in a complete suc- cess. (Laughter and applause.) Under Governor Allen and since under his successor Porto Rico has been governed s0 well that it Is not entitled to any space in_the newspapers. ughter.) e have done our full duty by Porto Rico. We have dane our duty by Cuba. But I want to ask this peo- ple to act further than under a mense of bare duty. 'To act In a spirit of generosity such as befits a great republic dealing with @ new republic. And 1 want, furthermore, that our people should be awake to their cwn interest in the seas and lands south of our country. We drove out those who had been op- pressing Cuba and we cleaned house for them. Not an easy task, for many of those ciies had never "before been cleaned in their entire history. We introduced & echool system. We made justice in fact as well as In name. We stamped out the plague of yellow fever, a plague which was & menace not merely 'to Cuba, but to our own southern states, and then we left them independent. % Recliprocal Trade. But from the very necessities of the case Wwo are bound to have intimate relatio, them. Cuba has ot to be in & sense ation; icy system, and T ask most earnestly that in return wa make her part of our economic system b, establishing reciprocal trade relatlons wi h:lriht J)Appllulu, cheers and cries of 1 ask it in her interest, and I ask it in ours. There Is A great market (n Cuba, and 1 wish to see it controlled in the interest of our own people. 1 am speaking in one of the oldest industrial centers of this coun- try and one of the places in which modern industrialism in America took its rise. { am speaking In a place which, in addition fo belng an industrial center, illing to devote its its effort on behalf of any uestic that touched the consciences of its eitie zens. I think, men and women of Lowell, ou ure in those two polnts. typieal ot Hae beat American citizenship. You has bullded up this city through the develop. ment of your factories, through the bust ness skill and enterprise and . th iabor, both hard call. practical one and you have also call to do more than tha Lauds Governor Al Now I ask that you show both traits I dealing with the country's Islands aad tha islands south of us with w! we have been brought into such close relations as lhfv":!1:l‘ of Illhe’ SltlnkI’Ih vr. e well in Cuba. We' did well in Porto Rico. That was because we could count on the services of men like Governor Allen, services which should be both terested and intelligent. Mind you, both, You have got to have morality first, but if morality has not got common sense with it the result will be unhappy. with Cuba, in dealing h' we to ary be sponded to every work. And now in dealing with the isthmus across whic! bulld the great inter-oceanic canal, must remember, that we can do good ourselves permanently only if we do good to those with whom we are brought Into contact, that we must keep both facts well in mind. We must keep our own interests as well as the interests of the weaker peo- ples whose destiny is now inextricably’ in- erwoven with ours. 1 ask you, then, to see to it that we give Cuba reciprocity with this country, primarily in Cuba's in- terests, but also for our own great bene- 1 thank you. Youns Vets Participate. Acting Mayor Badger and a committee of the city government met the president at the station and were presented by Charles M. Allen, former governor of Porto Rico, After & few words of welcome the party took carriages and drove rapidly to the com- mon through etreets arched with bunting and lined with cheering people. Arriving at the speaker's stand, the pres- ident was presented to the people in a briet sentence by the acting mayor. A seutry, a Spanish war veteran, stood op either side of the president s he rose to speak. Cheers and applause greeted him. At the close of his speech the president passed to his carriage. At the rear of the platform he found the local camp of Span- ish war veterans drawn up gt & “presen The president smiled and, standing up in his carriage, spoke a few words to them, con- cluding, “sad I'm mighty glad to see you." we with