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

OMAHA OMAHA, SATURDAY MORNING, SEPT THE 1871. DAILY E KILLS FORMER WIFE [Poor 1902—-TWELVE PAGES. OIL FIRE NOW (UENCHED ESTABLISHED JUNE 19, GLE COPY THREE CENTS. CONDITION OF THE WEATHER Forecast for Nebraska—Warmer Saturday; Falr Sunday. MAY BE HOLOCAUST Forest Fires Are Devastating Pertions of Oregon and Washingten. CHANCE FOR SUCCESS| Annoc| DEVOTE DAY T0 SPEAKING|0EATH From N AutomosiLe Killed in Oali- fornia. ton for Advancement Sclence is Not Impressed with Ship Combine. Stewart, a Sen- ator, o Temperatare at Omaha Yesterday: Hou De; Ocngressman Stark Makes Primcipal Ad- St o 0. Voeradh, Comparitively Small Damage is Dene in Gottlieb Neigenfield Takes a Toerrible Re- the Texas Fields. venge for Being Rejected. FIRST MURDERS THE WOMAN'S FATHER BELFAST, Sept. 12.—At today's se of the annual meeting of the British Asso- ciation for the Advancement of Sclence R. P. Porter read a paper in the cconomic section of municipal trading. He pointed out that American experience showed there was no wistom iu this form of civic enterprise, which' Ji a0 rapidly in- creasing mumicipal aé %4 sgland. He advocated a wisely arru. ¢ jog ayn- tem, which would secure stea_ 'y for | the local treasuries and ineufe . cheap public servicel Some of the papers touched on the w Jects of mercantile trusts and shippiis combinations, and doubts were expressed in the subsequent debates as to the final euccess of the Atlantic shipping combine. The opinfon was volced that such trusts | and combinations held ititle chance of eventual success in such a free trade coun- try as Great Britain. It was held that the system of protection gave fuller scope to the evolution of trusts, but that the experience of America was tending to show that increases of monopoly had resulted in lower prices than the en- emies of trusts apprehend although trades unions under trust employ were not likely to be In such strong positions to enforce their demands. Sir Bosdin T. Leeth, director of the Man- chester Ship canal, predicted that free ships would eventually predominate be- tween England and America and said he believed the day was not far distant when | the United States, led by President Roose- velt, would do something to check com- mercial combines. In fact, Sir Bodsin sald, he feared that some day the United States would adopt free trade and that would be most disastrous to Great Britain. SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 13.—Mrs. Willlam M. Stewart, wife of the United States senior e | senator from Nevada, was killed today at | ONLY FOUR WELLS ARE NOW BURNING Alameda, Cal. | Mrs, Stewart was riding in an automobile | with Henry Foote and & young man named Taylor. Through an accident the machine ran Into a telegraph pole. Mrs. Stewart was thrown against the | pole with great force and was so seriously injured that death soon followed. Her home was at Washington, D. C. | Mrs. Stewart was enjoying a ride with her | nephew, Henry Foote, som of W. W. Foote, | an attorney, and H. B. Taylor. They were going along Santa Clara avenue in Alamoda county, Taylor guiding the machine and sending it along at high speed. A vehicle | approached and Taylor swerked the automo- bile in order to avold & cofiielon. At that | moment he lost control the steering | apparatus or made a miscalcuiation. The automobile ran into & telegraph pole and the occupants were thrown gut. Mrs, Stew- | art struck on her head and] was carried in | an unconscious condition to sanitarium in the vicinity, where she sopn died. Foote | and Taylor escaped with migfor bruises. | Taylor is a cousin of erick Benedict who recently was crushed tofieath under his | 1°7¢ automoblle in New York. Mks. Stewart was _ Preparations are going forward in the Visiting her sister, Mrs. Lols Aldrich, who | WOrk of extinguishing the burning wells fives 1o Saii Prassses ] and it is belleved that an effort will be WASHINGTON, Sept. 12.~Senator Stew. | Wade toward that end tomorrow, art is at present at The Hague in con- | Not Great. nection with the Plus fund arbitration, In | The loss caused by the fire is variously which he has taken a deep Interest. The | estimated. The lowest figures by those case Involved title to & large amount of ' sompetent to judge place the total loss at {money claimed by the Catholic church of gpout $85,000 to $250,000. So far Lower California held by the Mexican gov- | 4q Do ascertained thirty der- ernment. It was due largely to the sen- | pjcks were destroyed. The loss ator's effort that the clalm was submitted | on (heso was comparatively small. Fif- to the distinguished European tribunal now | COMMANDER THANKS HASTINGS PEOPLE 88| > o S| MANY Lives > MOTORMAN _ WORKED Testimony Taken in Regard Accident to President Roosevelt. ARE Men Shut OF from Oemmunioation with the Outside Werld. FIRE EXTENDS HUNDREDS OF MILES &h Appreciation of the Woman's Relief Corps and the Women Who Com- pose It. IN DIRE PERIL L ed by the Carelessness of a Workman H: & & Lighted Lantern—Crowds at the Scene. v B4 52 HARD to the Wother is Alse Wounded, but Manages te Give Alarm to Neighbers. SISTER OF WIFE ASSAULTED BY FIEND HASTINGS, Neb., Sept. 12.—(Special Tele- gram.)—The morning exercises opened with band concert, after which Commander _» requested all Grand Army of the Re- s comrades present to come upon the platform and join heartily in singing “The Battle Cry of Freedom.” Congressman Stark addressed the crowd and expressed himself as always pleased to attend a soldlers' reunion and hear of the sacrifices made and the battles won by the veterans of the clvil war. Abraham Lin- oln's Iife was mentioned, and he was called A great International lawyer.” When Great Britain fesued a proclamation acknowledg- ing the soverelgnty of the southern statcs, the government had a very serious question to face. Lincoln issued a proclamation that every regiment at the front should read on February 22, 1862, Washington's farewell ad- dress. Also that in the hall of the repre- sentatives, immediately after this farewell address was read, that the captured rebel flags be presented to congress to use as they saw fit. The burden of this farewell address being that this is a pation and not a con- federacy, It Is obvious that the action taken by Great Britain was answered by George | Washington's own words. When this and many other able arguments were presented by Lincoln every lawyer in Europe wi pelled to acknowledge their force. BEAUMONT, Tex., Sept. 12.—At daylight this morning the fire in the oll flelds burned itself out and tontght there are only four wells and two tanks burning. Oue of the wells is a big gusher and there will be much trouble experienced in extinguish- 1ng it The smaller wells can be e 9 as the fire is principally fed by gas. ofl 1s drewn from the tanks as rapldly as possible and they will probably burn them- seives out tonight. There is a breeze blow- ing, but it s sweeping across the fleld toward the fire. Even If it changes there will be little danger. There is a large force of workmen on the ground and a spread of the fire can now be checked in its incip- tency. | Afver Committing These Orimes Neigenfield Oompletely Disappears. POSSE WITH BLOODHOUNDS AFTER HIM Big Oities in Oemplete Darkness en Ao. oount of the Smoke, PITTSFIELD, Mass., Sept. 12.—Governor W. Murray Crane testified today at the in- quest into the death of Willlam C. Cralg, the secret service officer. His appearance was somewhat In the nature of a surprise In his evidence the governor said that ln company with President Roosevelt and George B. Cortelyon he was driving on South street.on the day of the accident and was approaching the foot of Howard hill when he heard the gong of the approaching car. At the time the leading horses were on the track and he immediately rose to his feet to sce how close the car was. He was dum- founded to see that the car was only a short distance away and was approaching at a rapid speed. The governor could mot tell just exactly how the mccident occurred. He remembered nothing as to how he was thrown, and only remembered assisting the president from the carriage. Among the other witnesses was Mrs. Helen H. Horton, a passenger on the car. Mrs. Horton sald the car was running at a fair specd when the colllsion occurred. She sat on the front seat directly behind the motor- man. As the car approached the president TOWNS IN DANGER OF DESTRUCTION Community Greatly Stirred Up and in Case He Caught There is a Poasibility of Speedy Justice. Flames Extend from British Columbin Way Down to the California Line— Lives Known to Have Been Lost. PORTLAND, Ore., Sept. 12.—Forest fires are burning over the Cascade and coast |ranges from Britieh Columbia to the Cali- fornia line, destroying millions of feet of timber, many farm houses, barns and much live stock. Two people are known to have lost their lives, others are missing and | scores are hurrying to places of satety. At Bridal Vell, Ore., today the Palmer sawmill and the Brewer mill were burned. Elsle Palmer, proprietor of the Palmer mill, was burned to death and a man named Trickey is missing. About forty mill hands are in danger <ERCE, Neb., Sept. 12.—(Special Tele- gram.)—After murderivg his former wife and her father, wounding her mother ani attempting criminal assault upon her sis- ter, Gottlieb Niegenfind is at large in Pierce county, with bloodhounds and a posse of men hot on his trail. Prominent farmers of the section comprise the band that ac- companies Sheriff Jones in the search, and the feeling is such that the criminal may meet summary punishment if captured. The tragedy occurred at the farm of Al- bert Briar, the man killed, Thursday even- ing. After an absence of a year from his can former wife, Mrs. Anna Peters, Niegenfind returned to Plerce from South Dakota early this week and went to the Briar home, RADICAL MEASURE IS VETOED Laymen at St. Joh; appeal being presented to the European powers to the effect that the negroes were as dangerous as the red men, Lincoln issued engaged in its settlement. of their old home on Dupent circle, known Senator and Mrs. Stewart since the sale teen tarks, some of them filled with oll, wera burned out and will have to be re- paired before they are again serviceable. of carrlage the greater portion of the passen- gers stood up to get a good view of the oc- cupants of the carriage. of being surrounded by fire. On Mill Plain, near Vancouver, eight farm houses were destroyed and Mrs. Hendrick- Several pumping plants were put out service and In these the greatest loss lles outside of the ofl destroyed. The fire was started by the carelessness | of a workman whose name has mot et | been ascertained. He went into the tank which was partly fiiled with oil with a lighted lantern ard there was an explosion of gas which ignited the ofl. The man es- caped, though he is said to have been badly burned. The Wood's gusher had been left open and it was ignited within a few minutes. Before an alarm could be glven to control the burning tank the flames leaped high in the air, the derrick caught fire and so where she was staying with her parents. He asked to see the child born since thelr sep- aration. Being refused, he called again on the same mission, and the third th he re- turned with a revolver and left a trail of blood behind him. Mr. Briar, the father, met Niegenfind at the barn, according to the story of Mrs. Briar, and on being refused admittance to the house the latter began to shoot. Hia first bullet struck Briar in the back and felled him. Then Niegenfind sent five more into the prostrate man. Meanwhile Mrs. Briar ran toward the two, screaming, and Niegenfind looked up, turned the weapon on her and shot her in the shoulder. Then e rushed behind the barn and mel his fors mer wife running around from the other side. He shot her down, and then fle a proclamation embodying Lincoln’s orders to his soldiers. Giving out to the world the knowledge that the American soldier was to contend for the rights of his country and for liberty. Knowing that the American army had so high a standard European forces could but treat them with respect and refuse to interfere in the troubles of our nation. The oath of office administered to every officeholder of high or low degree is a result of the civil war, as each one pledged | his allegtance to his country and promised to support the constitution hereof. Thanks Department Commander. Captain J. M. Lee of Oxford spoke freely of 'e he found in thi fon and the increased number of luxurles and greater facllities for making campers com- sen and her two children are missing. Tillamook, Ore., which was threatened with destruction yesterday, is no lcmger in danger. In Washington the town of Enumclaw, {on the Northern Pacific in King county, CHICAGO |57 (hs Northorn His Running for Safety. Forest fires of the most serious nature are pressing upon every side. Every team |1s being pressed into service to take people |to places of satety. Water cupply fs cut off by the burning of the mains, but every | effort is being made to protect mill prop- While his speclal car was being switched | €Tty. 7o e e [to the Northwestorn tracks Genoral Miles | WO cannat he racetved from Eima of well. The fgnition was comparatively |called on Major Genmeral MacArthur, com- |Aberdeen, the wires to those points being slow, but the fire once started spread |manding the Department of the Lakes. {down. It is known, however, that six large as Stewart's castle, to Senator Clark of | Montana and its subsequent destruction had | lived in the winter time in an old-fashioned residence on F street, near the State, Navy | and War department buflding. In the sum- | mer they spent more or less time at Ash- burn, a village In Virginia, where the sen- | ator had established & large dairy farm | which he ran on scientific and sanitary | principles. Of late years they had not taken | $0 much interest in soclal affairs as for- merly. Mrs. Stewart before her marriage was a Miss Foote, the daughter of Henry Stuart Foote, governor and United {States senator from Mississippl before the icivil war, and who during the '50s spent some years in California. Senator and Mrs. Stewart have Vote Amainst Prohibitin, vorced Persons Remarrying. Suddenly she heard Motorman Madden ex- claim: “Oh, my God!" He then jumped to | the brakes and worked, she sald, as she never saw a man work before. MILES ~STOPS IN the the pine 8T. JOHNS, N. B., Sept. 12.—Marriage and divorce regulations caused a lively discus- slon at the scesion of the genmeral synod of the Anglican church, which is sitting at Montreal. Several delegates from this section pro- posed mew legislation on the subject, but no decided changes were made. The synod, however, voted to prohibit a man from mar- rying his deceased wite's sister or deceased wite's sister’s daughter. This action will be binding upon all priests of the Anglican | church in Canada In the solemnizing of matrimony. General of Way Army on Philip- CHICAGO, Sept. 12.—Lieutenant General Nelson A. Miles and party passed. through Chicago tonight enroute for San Francisco. Mra. Briar was able to run to the neighbors and give the alarm. Attempts to Al 1t Sister. But the murderer's gamut was not yet run. In fleeing from the scene he met Lena the 19-year-old sister of Mrs. Peters. He promptly attempted to assault her, but she fought him off, and he continued hie flight. Sheriff Jones and posse started to work the same night, and this morning blood- hounds arpived from Lincoln. Most of the men of the codntryside are out joining in The house of bishops declared in favor of prohibiting the remarriage of divorced persons. The bishops sent the following message to the house of deputies, asking that it be adopted: o clergyman within the jurisdiction of the Church of England in Canada shall solemnize a marriage between persons, either of whom ehall have been divorced from one who is living at the time of such solemnization.” The clergy in the synod supported the ‘bishops, 81 to 7, but the laymen declared against it, 15 to 9. To confirm the message, fortable. He moved a vote of thanks for the department commander and his staff, as wel for any others who had contributed to This motion the success of this reunion. was carried unanimously. Department Chaplain Taylor then spoke to the old soldiers upon the tople, “The Last Battle,” earnestly exorting them to ‘keep the batmer floating,” the banner of the cross, so as to all meet together in the city of eternal peace. Department Gomma) Steele expressed earuestly hig'gratitude te the comrades for several daughters, one of wham lives in New York City. FATAL ACCIDENT 1 Several A TRACK Persons Badl| Baltimore Bie; Race. Hurt le BALTIMORE, Sept. 12.—Bennie Monroe received probable fatal infurfes othars were morg or lexs si™ously injured nd three rapidly over the Keith-Ward tract, which 18 on the outer edge of the field. Tmmense volumes of smoke were created and gave the impression that the sea of ‘fire was greater than It really was. The flaines shot up through the smoke, forked gnd Jagged like lightring In some instances and In great sheets In other portions Everything was soaked with oil and until this was burned off the smoke obscured everything, even creating a warlike condi- tion in the city, four miles away. “Po Look tonight by w spill at the Comsguu during a' at the Seeme. T shall not sail for the Philippines until the end of the month,” said General Miles, “as 1 intend to make a trip down the Pa: cific coast. There is no speclal sign ficance in my visit to the Philippines. It will be nothing more than an ordinary tour of in- spection of the different army posts, such as I might make bere in the United States and I will report on the conditions I find existing. My tour probably will extend over three or four months, as T hope to visit every post.” To all questions regarding the pollcy of lumber mills and ten houses have been burned about six miles south of Elma. Many similar reports are being received | from Washington points. Towns in Darkness. At Ducora, forty-five miles south of Ta coma, the town was in total darkness at {noon. Many people refused to belleve that | the phenomenon resulted from forest fi; and congregated oh treet corners, prediot- ing dire disaster. At Centralia darkness caused all business to stop. their attendance and attentiom during this meeting. Quartermaster Thompson of Fair- bury made a brief address. In the afternoon Commander Steele and Assistant Adjutant General Mart Howe ex- pressed their appreciation as follows: the administration in the Philippines Gen- eral Miles declined to make reply, further than to say he did not wish to be Inter- viewed. He sald he was acting under or- ders and that his mission was strictly military. the search. It is expected that Niegenfind will be caught. The murderer is a man 28 years of age. In April, 1901, he married Anna Peters, then @ widow with four children. Five motor-paced bicycle race. George Leander had won one of three heats of the three five-mile trials and was in the lead in the fourth mile of the second heat. The handle bar of his wheel loosened The last report from Shelton, at naon, was to the effect that mearly all of the mills In Mason county were on fire. The town of Mitlock, that county, was In im- minent danger when last heard from and Almost the whole population of Beiu- mont rushed to the fleld, although there was nothing to be dome but look at the| fire. Special tralns were sent early in the morning from Port Arthur and Nederland | an affiramtive vote was nécessary from both orders. SCANDAL IN ITALIAN MURDERS months later Mrs. Niegenfind secured a di- vorce on ground of cruelty. Niegenfind dis- appeared and has not been seen around here until this week, when he returned to the nelghborhood and stopped with a farmer living near Briar's place. Thursday morns ing he made his first visit and another in the afternoon. At dusk he came for the last time, KILLS HIS DIVORCED WIFE J. P. Harrington of Sioux Falls Fol- ows Up Crime by Taking His Own Life, SIOUX FALLS, 8. D, Sept. 12.—(Special Telegram.)—One of the worst tragedies in the history of Sioux Falls was enacted on one of the princtpal business streets tonight, ‘whea J. P. Harrington, a local sign painter, shot and almost Instantly killed Inez Borst, his divorced wife, and then fired a bullet into his own heart, dying instantly. The couple were married seven years ago. They lived together until about two years ago, when she left him and procured a di- wvorce on the grounds of drunkenness and cruelty. Since that time Harrington has persistently attempted to induce her to re- marry and agaln live with him. These ef- forts were unsuccessful and terminated in the tragedy of tonight. So annoying be- came his importunities that the woman evaded him, rendering it very difficult for him to see her. In order to meet her and commit the crime, which evidently had been carefully planned, he this evening sent her by messenger boy a purported telegram, ‘which read: Meet me at the corner by the Hat- Will Known Physician Assassin. ROME, Sept. 12.—A tremendous sensa tion has been caused in Italy by the latest development In the murder of Count Bon Martinl, who same days ago was found as- sassinated in his hous at Bologna. A large sum of money had been stolen from the house and robbery was thought to have been the motive. Prof. Murri, a university professor and one of the best known physiclans in Italy, was Count Bon Martinl's father-in-law. Today Prof. Murri denounced his own son Tulllo as the murderer. Tulllo Murri is a well known socialist and lawyer of Bo- logna. He admits having murdered bLis brother-in-law and says the crime was com- mitted after a brawl, provoked by a family quarrel. Other reports say that a love af- fair is at the bottom of the mystery. Count Bon Martini lived apart from his wife. Tullio Murri has written his father from Servia saying he committed the murder to avenge the {1l usage of his sister. The police are unable to touch the murderer, as he cannot be extradited from Servia. TO REBUILD THE CAMPANILE Corner of New Structure to Be Lald with Much Ceremony April 23, 1908, VENICE, Sept. 12.—The cornerstone of the new Campanile will be lald April 22, 1903, and the authorities are projecting much ceremony for the occasion. The commander takes this opportunity to thank the local reunion committee for its |about to pi interesting and successful labored in and out of season in ministering to the comforts and wants of the vetere and_their friends. promise made to the department; commander or his officers have hac complaint from any source. been no drunkenness nor gambling. clate the services and 1 hereby tender you work. To the veterans an your commander wishes to thank you in. dividually and collectively for ence and to you, the department of desire to extend our sincere thanks your encouraging words and kind treat. ment. A high compliment was then paid to the speakers, fans and others who sisted. mus| Compliments the Women. Department pald the following Woman's Rellef cor| Our recognized auxiliary, compliment work and of the Grand Army of the Republic order is composed of the loyal and women of our country, the fin women of the nation, ana merl tain and keep ganization as has the corps. Wherever & flourishing Grand Army of the Republic is also is found a bodly loyal women maintaint Woman's best auxiiiaries in the world, side tender hands and - lovin these women come T thelr needs. man may dare 'for one moment Iift voice agalnst these women. The depart ment commander has cause to feel proud | It has fulfilled every |and Hunter. your pres- | cers, |and legs. Leander was cut and bruised on nd legs. Mrs. Kirby was thrown against a post and received serious for Commander C. F. Steele to the the Woman's Rellef corps, is ever present in its good he members are firm supporters This live d best recogni- tion by any and all honorable bodies of men and women in this great republic. Possibly no body of women in the world has done so much to help bufld up, main- in good condition an or- | Rellef oot of the | found there | of noble, true and ng an_organization of the Women's Relief corps—one of the | Whenever the boys in blue faint or fall by the way- hearts of o mintster to all Ng true, loyal Grand Army s In the spill Monroe wi JOUr thrown Into the grandstand against M: There has May Kirby. Your | commander belleves the Velerans appre- | .oiveq other injurles which physicians at our sincere thanks for the loyal and honest |Johns Hopkins' hospital hope may not prove their friends fqtal. Monroe's skull was fractured and he r | Hunter was Injured about the head, fa the head, arms fractures of the head. Leander had won the first heat of the five. escaped through Pacemaker Bennett's clev: erness. Man Indicted In Chicago racy Does Not Talk Much as Expected CHICAGO, Sept. 12.—Luke Wheeler, in who has been wanted for some time by th Attorney Deneen. Wheeler was expected to tell that would implicate many prominent Chi cago legitimate taxes. Mr. Deneen as Jimmie Hunter, pacer for Monroe, was Leander and his pacemaker. It has | [eander's wheel swerved, resulting in the mashup of the wheels of Leander, Monroe mile race in 7:16, with Monroe second. Joe Nelson, the other participant in the race, WHEELER IMPLICATES NO ONE| for Con- dicted by the grand jury for conmspiracy in the Masonic Temple tax-fixing scandal, and | police to explain the matter of the forged tax receipt of $26,000, appeared in Chicago today and was in conference with State's a story interests in a conspiracy to dodge ald after with picked workmen to aseist in smotbe.- ing the flames, and these have been at work today chopping down derricks, cpv- ering wells and draining away the oil that had not been reached by the fire. These men are ut the fleld tonight keeping guard. Distinguished Southerner Fatal Dose of Actd. Takes olle NEW YORK, Sept. 12.—Colonel John G. Garnett, one of the most prominent south- erners in New York, a West Point graduate, | colonel of artillery under Robert BE. Lee | in the confederate army and a native of | Walkefield plantation, Westmoreland county, Virginia, was' found dead today in the Ross hotel. He had committed sulcide by taking carbolic acld. The body had been lying in the room two days before it was discovered. | Several days ago Mr. Garnett was visited | by bis brother, Dr. Garnett of Hot Springs. Ark., ‘and it is supposed they .quarreled A note which stated that the writer had been contemplating sulclde for five days was found beside the body. Mr. Garnett was head of the St. James Publishing company and was at the time of his death engaged in writing a history of the West Point military academy. Among the letters and papers found was one from President Roosevelt endorsing a plan to establish a benevolent order of Spanish war veterans. Colonel Garnett was an intimate friend of R. T. Wilson, Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt's father. He was a member of the confederate camp of vet- COLONEL GARNETT A SUICIDF | PLATT IS FOR ROOSEVELT New York Senator Says Deserves the Nomin tion. President NEW YORK, Sept. 12.—There will be a conference between Senator Platt and sev- eral républican leaders hege tomorrow. It is expected that Governor Odell will at- tend. The question as to whether the re- publican state convention will endorse Pres- ident Reosevelt as a presidential candidate in 1904 was asked Senator Platt today. After €ome hesitation he replied “The state convention will certainly en- doree his administration, but I cannot say that the convention will pledge the support | of the state to the president two years in advance of the nomination, as there is no precedent for #uch a course in this state. 1 do not know whether the president wants such an endorsement. I had a talk with him recently and he did not méntion the subject. I will say this, however, I think the president deserves ‘he nomination.’” — TWO SOUTHERN EXECUTIONS Murdered Man Dead Body of Murderer. Daughter of Cuts Down NASHVILLE, Gi was hanged here today for the murder of | Town Marshall Hynds at Adel, Ga. Mrs. Etta Hynds Parker, daughter of the murdered officer watched the proceedings of the execution from the scaffold and as soon dead, , Sept. 12.—Bolsy Bryant | timber 100 feet high was burning. Sixteen miles from Olympla the Bordeaux string of camps in the Black Hills dis- trict are in great danger. Forty men on horseback have gone to rescue women and children, Tacoma Dark Egypt. In Tacoma a heavy darkness settled down. Boats could not pass The Narrows on ac- count of darkness and at Olympia the elec- | tric light plant shut down and at noon It | was as black as the blackest night. TO BE MANNED BY AMERICANS Newspaper Man Will Be Executive OMcer of Jesale Bane ning. | SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 12.—There Is | every prospect that the steamer Jessie Ban- ning, v n it salls from this port under the Colombian flag, will have on board an out and out American crew, officers and all. | Seymour Dutton, a reporter on a Ban | Francisco morning paper, has shipped as executive officer of Bogota, the con- verted steamer will be called. Dutton, | who 1s a grandson of Admiral Seymour, | was educated at the Annapolls academy and | was an officer on Gloucester during the | naval operations in Cuban waters. Captain N. H. Marmaduke will be in command. Just when Jessle Banning will leave this {port is uncertain. It is supposed to be | refitted here, but the vessel can put to sea in & week If necessary. | At Acapulco the steamer Is to plck up & big bow gun. While here it will get its e e Tt P e manies bf°ud | the conference that Wheeler had not dis- | eran, Bryant was pronounced | small guns, including a Gatling and ammu- the court house, as 1 't Lake at 4:3 in morning. J. P. HARRINGTON. She met him as requested, and at just 9:16 o'clock their dead bodles were lylng on the sidewalk within 200 or 300 feet of the | county courthouse. Scores of people were on the street at the time. Deputy Sherift Crooks was only a short distance away when the first shot was fired, but before he could reach the scene the murder and sulcide had been accomplished. The woman was shot three times, in the shoulder, heart and head. After the first shot was fired she attempted to push the murderer off the sidewalk. AMERICA AT A DISCOUNT Sharretts Has Hard ese Tariff Fight. SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 12.—General T. N. Sharretts. commissioner of the United States in fixing the customs duties for China, retarned home today on the steamer China. Mr. Sharretts said: 1 found myself much in the minority and also soon found that the other nations scemed to be malnly desirous of giving the United States the warst of it 1 was alone from the United States and the other powers were each represented by three commissioners. My one vote looked small 1 had an arduous time In brin other commlissioners to recs rights of this country, even so been done. To show the attitude of the other com- missioners, let me speak of the duty on cotton Koods. One price was put on goods thirty-seven iuches wide and other higher duties on goods of leas width. Cotton #oods of the United States are of less width and cotton goods from England are forty inches wide. Probably, teo, Amer- ican cotton goods, being narrower, are worth leas monty,u::: Yot were fo be compel o r duty. is was in Dart remedied. 4 Mr. Sharretts will leave for Washington within & day or twe, Commissioner Time 1| ng the the far as has All the debris will have been cleared off a month hence. At present the court yard of the doge's palace is entirely oc- cupied by fragments of statues and bas- reliefs saved from the ruins. Some of them will be employed In rebuflding the Campanile, while the others are destined for a museum which is to be established in the Logsia Sanso Vino. The Venetians are much gratified at the contributions which have been recelved from the United States and which are promised from that country. The sub- scriptions from all sources ageregate $295,- 000. The rebuilding of the Campanile, it P- timated, will cost $500,000. PRINCESS STILL PERSISTING Lawyers Attempt to Prove There Was No Dispensation Firat Mar- riage of Miss Reld. ROME, Sept. 12.—The lawyers of Princes: Rospiglios!, who was Miss Marle Reld of Washington, D. C., and formerly the wife of Frederick Parkhurst of Bangor, M have requested the propaganda to have th original registers of St, Matthews church Washington, and the chancellory of Baiti- more brought to Rome In order to support her contention that no church dispensa- tion for her marriage to Mr. Parkhurst was granted. JURY FINDS NO EVIDENCE Prince and Oficer in Austrian Army s Thereupon Released from Custody, LONDON, Sept. 12.—At the Old Bailey to- day the jury announced that it found no evidence against Prince Francis Joseph of |in attendance at the reunion. army of men who are backed up by such host of loyal ladies, whose influence move: this entire nation, and would that might know their ‘deeds of kindness and mercy, caring for the sick, relleving the suffering, burying the dead and caring for the orphan: Membership of Corps. Mrs. Annie J. Kenny of Blalr, department president of the Women's Relief corps, is She reports 130 corps, with & membership of approx- imately 3,500. A number of applications for the organization of new corps have been re- ceived and great interest in the order Is manifested throughout the state. Chaplain Cole of the Iowa Soldiers’ home made a pleasant call at the Women's Re- lief corps headquarters and paid a high tribute to the services rendered by the Rellef corps among the Grand Army posts, having found that more than two-thirds of the Grand Army posts depend upon their auxiliary Rellef corps for their existence. OMcers Elected. Officers for the various state assocla- tions were elected as follows New York association: President, A. E. Reynolds of Juniata; vice president, A. F. Benjamin of Hastings; financial secretacy, A. L. Manchester of Lincoln; color bearer, W. H. Cross of York; executive committee, E. G. Hanchett and James McKelvey of Junlats, and A. P. Wells of McCook. Pennsylvania: W. W. Mannington of Mon- roe; adjutant, David F. Stover of Lincoln; quartermaster, John W. Munich of Lincoln. Indiana Hastings; Kearney; Thurman Hlinols Kearney; loney of vice president, w. secretary and treasurer, of Lincoln. first vice president, Frank Mal- Ord; second vice president, H V. Hoagland of Lincoln: color bearer, Stod- banner bearer, M. W. Miner of Cordova; adjutant, Josie E. More- Braganza, an officer of the Austrian army, | jnd of Juniata. charged with misconduct under the criminal law amendment. The prince was there- upon dlscharged from custody. l low: President, Ely (Continued on Second Page.) A. Bamis fore the grand jury. nent men as in the | cussed the merlts of the case with him and that probably Wheeler would not go be- Mr. Demeen, however, would not confirm or deny that Wheeler had named promi- implicated scandal County Treasurer Raymond, in whose office the big tax fraud wi before the grand jury today to give detalls of the forgery. Wheeler gave bond and | was released from custody. STOP WATCH USED BY POLICE How Automobil s Are C Speeding at Too Fast a ». discovered, will go President, M. L. Mawhinney of Dye of Oliver Commander, 1. B. Waubaugh of of MANCHESTER, Mass., Sept. secretly holding stop watches on auto stretch of road, the police today succeede: of twenty miles an hour. being Charles Frick, son of H. C. Frick ol Pittsburg: W. F. Harrington, jr., . | machine owned by Henry Clay Plerce o St. Plerce, chines. in another of Mr. Mr. morrow. Shows Marks of Beat ing, but as to Identity, NEW YORK, Sept. dered, was found on pler thirty, Bast river, today. Sbe had bee until her face was almost black. Was about 25 years old. 12.—By | mobiles speeding over an inviting half-mile | in catching three machines going at a rate Arrests followed immediately, the vietims n a Louls, and William R. Oars and Roy | Plerce's ma- Plerce, who was riding with Mr. Harrington, was not arrested. All gave ball and will appear in the Salem court to- BODY OF WOMAN IS FOUND 12.—~The body of a | young woman, who it is belleved was mur- The police have found no clue teo ber identity or any trace of her murderers. She MAY INCREASE THE POLICY nee Committee of Favors to Make It Dou Present Amount, CHATTANOOGA, Tenn., Sept. 12. day's session of the Brotherhood of Loco- motive Firemen several resolutions in re- gard to the constitution were referred to committees for report. W. B. Carter, editor of the Locomotiva Firemen's Magazine, completed the reading of his blennial report, which was begun yesterday afternoon At the session of the women's soclety Mrs. Emma Ford, chairman of the salaries committee, recommended that salaries of | - | grand president and grand secretary be in- creased to $500 a year. ~The society created | the office of editress of the Brotherhood of | | Locomotive Firemen's Magazine and board | of local and grand examiners for the so- clety Mrs. Maude Moore of Stratford, chalrman of the insurance committee 1 t| Ont., rec t policies be increased from $200 to $400. | DENIAL BY YOUNG ROOSEVELT President’'s Som Say Fopulist Treated Him Politely. Farm- e OYSTER BAY, Sept. 12.—Young Theo- dore Roosevelt returned home from his huoting trip in the west tonight. He sald | that he had a very pleasant trip, that he d shot a great many prairie chickens and ught some fish : He denies that the populist farmers were , | disagreeable to him. On the contrary, he beaten and choked | said, they treated him with the greatest | kindness and hospitality. that bad been no accident nor any- He added also ommended that the membership insurance | thing spproachl a accidental discharge of bis sun Mrs. Parker with her father's knife cut the body down. MARION, Ga., Sept. 12.—John Green San- ders, colored, was Nanged here today for the murder of Road Overseer Mullen in 1890. The execution took place on the same scaffold used in the execution of Sanders’ brother Luke, who was hanged for the ame crime in March. GIBBONS 1SSUFS A CIRCULAR Asked Commemorate Death of Me- Catholies the BALTIMORE, 12.—Cardindl Gib- bons dloces Next Sunday, September 14, will be the first anniversary of the sudden and un- timely death of President McKinley. We all remember how the nation was bowed down with grief by this sad and unlooked for tvent, Tt 'is eminently proper that we should in some ppropriate manner renew our affe¢tion for the chief executive of the nation and manifect our abhorrence of ssasination. . You are therefore invited on mext SBunday commemorate the day In the way In bhich your judgment is best calculated to Sept | testify our udmiration for the civil virtues which adorned the life of our late dent presi- Movements of O Vessels Sept. Hamburg—Arrived—Blucher, 12 from outhampton and Cherboury coma. At Queenstow: Boston At _Southampton—Sall New York, via Cherbou York NO¥ Moville—Batied—Anchoria, York. ‘At Copenhagen—Sallcd—THekla, Y New York—Arrived—La Torraine, from Havre. At Boulegne Sur Mer—Salled—Rotterdam, from Rotterdam, for New York At Cherbourg- Sailed—Columbla from Hamburg and Southampton, for New Yor At Kuchinotsu—Salled—Poplar for San Francisco. Salled—New England, for ~Columbla, for Kensington, for for New for New sued the following c'rcular to the | Arrived—Philadelphia, from | Branch, | | mition. NEW MEAT COMPANY STARTS Concern the CHICAGO, Sept. 12.—The Hately Packing company Was incorporated today with a capital stock of $1,500,000. The incorpor- ators are Willlam Hately, John 8. Level {of the banking firm of Level & Co., & | Daniel L. Lufkin Most of the stock of the new concern has been placed in Chicago, though some east ern capital is interested in the enterpr The firm will be independent of the Pack- ing tru “We shall do an independent business,” |sald Mr. Lufkin. “We shall not ssscelate | with the trust in any way. It is our pur | pose to keep clear of any such aMiiation. A large four-story brick and stone plant | will be erected by the company on a tract |of land at Thirty-ninth street and West | Forty-elghth avenue, just outside the eity |limits, on the drainage canal. | | TO DISCUSS STATE AFFAIRS Se; Wil Visl | velt and Griscom at B Date. ¥ ! CLEVELAND, Sept. 12.—Senator Hanna left here this afterncon via the Lake Shore | roud for New York, where he tomorrow will become the guest of President Griscom of | the International Navigation company, on the latter's private yacht. On Tuesday Senator Hanna on invitation of President Roosevelt will go to Oyster Bay to attend a conference ut which Senators Allison and | Platt will also be present | It is understood that legislation in con- nection with Cuba and the interocesunio capal will be among the subjects discussed t the conference.