Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 20, 1902, Page 1

THE OMAHA DALy BEE. — ESTABLISHED JUNE 19, VANDERBILT IS LOW Dootors Admit Povition is Grave, but Btill Hope for Recovery. GOOD NIGHT ENCOURAGES HIS FRIENDS | Official Bulletin Says He Holds His Own | and is No Worse, TWO PHYSICIANS STAY BY SICK BED| Presence of Medical Men Indicates Extreme Beverity of Illness. MIDDAY RUMOR OF DEATH IS DENIED Anmates of House Say Report in Abso- lutely Unfounded and Claim His Chances of Health Still Exist, NEW YORK, Dec. 19.—Cornelius Van- derbilt passed a fairly good night and at 7 o'clock hope had not been abandoned The presence of two doctors In the house indicated that Mr. anderbilt's dition ontinued most grave, although a servant in the household sald he had passed & good night. Dr. Austin Flint, jr following bulletin: at 9:15 issued the Mr. Vanderbilt had a fair night and has | held his own. The fact that he {8 no worse this morning is encouraging. Dra. Flint, Janeway, Brown and Dela fleld held a consultation previous to the i suance of the bulletin lasting about twenty-five minutes. Dr. Delafield said: Mr. Vanderbiit Is a very sick man, but there 1 A rumor that Mr. Vanderbilt was dead was circulated shortly after noon today. Inquiry at the sick man's home showed that the report was untrue. This afternoon Reginald Vanderbilt and Miss Cathleen Neilson arrived at the house. Mr. Vanderbllt made inquiries and left his card, while Miss Neilson remained in the earriage. A close friend of Mr. Vanderbilt today sald: “Mr. Vanderbilt Dr. Austin issued this bulletin at 11:30 tonight: ‘““The symptoms of peritonitia are subsid- ing. In other respects Mr. Vanderbilt is holdipg his own.” WOMAN ‘Witnesses in Conspiracy Trial Tentity Defen s low, but there is An Favor of nt, FREEHOLD, N. J., Dee. 19.—Dr. Hen- dricks, one of the defendants In the case against Laura Biggar and others for alleged conspiracy to get Henry M. Bennett's tate, was one of the witnesses at the trial today. He sald P. J. MoNulty and Attorney Wat- terson of Pittsburg called at the Bayonne sanitarium to see Mias Biggar regarding the estate. Witness said his only Interest in the will was to have it probated and that at the time of Mr. McNulty's call the ques- tion wi discussed whether Miss Biggar would be better off of Mr. Bennett than in her present condi- tion. Willis Biggar, #on of Miss Biggar, and her former husband, J. W. Connell, testified that bis father came from the west to see Mr. Bennett before the latter's death. P. J. McNulty testified a8 to his part in em- ploying & Pittsburg detective to unearth the alleged conspiracy. Laura Biggar took the witness stand this afternoon and swore that she was married to Bennett fourteen of fifteen years ago. On Thanksglving day, she said, Mr. Ben- nett proposed to her. Ho insisted there ‘were no obstacles In the way of their mar- riage. Letters passed between them nearly every day and she finally accepted him Bhe sald she consented to a quiet marri; because she did not want the public to talk about her, MAY INCLUDE INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Dee. 19.—The In- terstate agreement between the miners and operatdrs may be amended at the national convention here in January and February to include Iowa. The operators of lowa have been willing to join Indiana, Penn- sylvania, Oblo and Illinols at the last three conventions, but were debarred largely by cause of opposition from the operators of the Pittsburg district. The objection was that the Towa oper- ators did not have an assoclation like tho other states, but they recently organized and ha dent of the Iowa miners, as their commis sioner. JURY CONVICTS BRIBERS St. Louls Men Recelve Semtences of Five Years Each » tentiary. ST. LOUIS, Mo., Dec. 19.—The joint trial of five former members of the house of delegates on charges of bribery, which began on Tuesday, ended tonight in a sen- tence of five years for each ma The defendants, John A. Sheridan, Charl Gutke, Bdmund Bersch Albright, after hearing the ver- dict, filled motions for & new trial and were released on bo: JUDGE ROBINSON MAY DIE Nebraska Congressman L Serfon 11 at Madison with Appen- dicitia, . MADISON, Neb.,, Dec. 19.—Judge John 8. Robinson, representative In congress from the Third Nebraska district, is lying eeri- ously {1l at his home here, and it is feared he cannot recover. He is suffering from appendicitis. SICK CATTLE SLAUGHTERED Herds Are Killed OF in Massachusetts and Rhode Island to Stay Disease. BOSTON, Dec. 19.—Condemnation of cat- tle aficted with the foot and mouth di easo is progressing rapidly in Massachu- setts and Rhode Island and slaughter of herds 1s reported at many places. con- | hope and he is not going to die | MAKES A GOOD CASE, s a common law wite | 10WA MINERS | employed John P. Reese, presi- | 1871. ITS CASE Awards Damages Strikers Who |RAILROAD WINS English Amainst Conrt Inter- rupted Business of Company. Dec. 19.—After a long trial In the king's bench division of the high court of justice the case of the Tafsvale Rallroad company against the Amalga- mated Roclety of Rallway Servants, n- | volving many questions cf the utmost im- portance to trades unlonlsm, resulted to- | day in a verdict in favor of the plaintifts. The latter complained of malicious mo- | lestation, picketing, intimidation, ete., during the strike of 1900 The judge today reserved his decision on the question of damages until the next sitting of the court. LONDON. The rallroad company which seeks to recover damages contends that there was a conspiracy on the part of the soclety to injure it business and further that there was an unlawful combination to carry on the strike of 1900, STUDENTS PARDONED BY CZAR Young Men Exiled to eria for Riot« ing Are Allowed to Return to Russia. ST. PETERSBURG, Dec. 19.—The ezar has granted amnesty to the students ban- ished for rioting on his name day. He telegraphed to the minister of the in- terior as follows: Let the students who are banished for creating disturbances return from Siberfa, although they should not for the present be allowed to live In towns where there are high .schools Care must nevertheless be { taken that the young men op thelr return be entrusted to the keeping of thelr fam- ilies, as such surroundings will familiarize them with order The telegram. which {s equivalent to an imperial decree, pardons fifty-nine students exiled to Siberfa in addition to the sixty- two students previously pardoned. HIGH TREASON IS CHARGED Jury Finda True Bill Aga Arthur Lynch, Member of Parllament. LONDON, Dee. 19.—The grand jury sum- moned to consider the indictment ot Colonel Arthur Lynch, a member of Parliament for | Galway, who was arrested on June 11 on & charge of high treason, on account of the part he took in the South African war, where he s alleged to have commanded the Irish brigade, returned a true bill today against the defendant. The lord chief justice, Baron Alverstone, in charging the jury, remarked that it was slxty-two years since a grand jury had to deal with such a charge, which was the highest crime known in law. Lynch's trial at the bar is expected to begin January 20. FAMINE KILLS OFF FINNS reh Awks Suftering Anglo-American to Save Peo Ala ST. PRTERSBURG, Dee. 19.—Four hun- dred thousand persons are reported to be destitute and starving as a result of the crop fallure in Finland. The Anglo-American church here h: undertaken to feed and clothe the school children of four Finnish parishes and has fssued an appeal for assistance. ditions are sald to be worse than those of 1867, when 100,000 persons died. TEN THOUSAND ARE KILLED Frighttal Fatality Atte: auake in Russian Central A on December 18, LONDON, Dec. 19.—A special dispatch |from St. Petersburg says 10,000 persons were killed by the earthquake December |18 at Adjijan, Russian Central Asia. They were mostly native Turcoman: » Earth. LONDON, Dec. 19.—The British North Point, from Philadelph 3, for London, which passed the steamer Lizard today, signaled that it had in tow the German steamer Pure Ofl, from Ham- burg, for Philadelphia, which had previ- ously been abandoned, Further signals were obscured by the mist, but it is sup- posed that North Point meant to convey the information that the crew of Pure Ofl had been saved. steamer Com Lou BERLIN, Dec. 19.—8ecretary von Nostlz of the Saxon legation in Berlin has been | appointed Saxony's special commissioner to the St. Louls exposition. He will eo- | operate with Herr Lewald, the German imperial commissioner to the exposition, in inducing the manufacturers of Saxony to participate in the fair. Member of Parliament Sentemced. DUBLIN, Dec. 19.—John Roche, member | of Parliament for East Galway, was sen- tenced by the criminal court at Roscommon to & month's imprisonment in default of ball on the charge of unlawful assembly. Army Officers Offer Service. LIMA, Peru, Dec. 19.—A number of army officers here propose cabling their names to the president of Venezuela, offering their services in case of the situation becoming more complicated. Tower Presents Credent: BERLIN, Dec. 19.—Ambassador Tower preseated his credentials to Emperor Wil- liam at the palace today. All the members of the staff of the embassy were present. MADRID, Dec. 18.—The Heraldo today says Don Carlos purposes to renounce his claim to the throne in favor of his som, Dom Jaime. Bundesrath Approves Tariff, BERLIN, Dec. 18.—The Bundesrath today approved the tariff bill in the form in which it passed the Reichstag. OPERATIONS TO BE RESUMED Celorado Min, Down of Marder of Manas: Aecount TELLURIDE, Colo., Dec. 19.—It s an- nounced that operations will be resumed December 27 in the Smuggler-Unlon mine, which was closed down immediately after the murder of Arthur L. Collins, general manager of the company, on November 19. Over 500 miners will be employed. 0. B. Kemp, who was the head book- keeper of the company previous to the as- eassination of Manager Collins, has been made temporary manager, A regular man. ager will be appointed next month at meeting of the directors in Boston. l B Colonel | The con- | December | ATURDAY MOR G, DECEMBER 2( ) [FIGURES ME l AN BUT LITTLE Authracite Strite Oemmission is Badly Shaken. ANOT GOOD » PAY 4 EVIDENCE | 3 [Too Many & cluded in the Sum Pald (6. 4 Man and Re. celpted For by SCRANTON, Pa., Dec. strive commission resumed today Judge Gray referred to the alleged misleading wage returns made by the Pennsylvania company. 19.—~When the | auditor of the company notified one of the assistant recorders, when the figures were | banded in, that the company was unable to | Bi¥e in all cases the exact number of men { sharing In the earnings, and added that he the commission impugned the good faith of the company. The lawyers for the nonunion men then called James Ellas of Scranton, who told of an attempt to blow up his home. The build- ing was considerably damaged and his wife was beaten by the wives of strikere. Counsel for the nonunfon men submitted lists of boycotts against merchants in and about Wilkesbarre, which, they claimed, were ordered by the striking mine work- ers. | storles of alleged boycotts, intimidations, | dynamiting and violence during the late | strike. Each witness was a sufferer in one form or another at the hands, they alleged, of union men. One man was asked to re- sign from a Catholic temperance soclety and another expelled from a local lodge of the Aneclent Order of Hibernians after a membership of twenty-six or twenty-eight years. Judge Gray asked one of them if he re- mained at work to keep the pumps in good repalr and he sald he did. Mr, Darrow asked him how long he worked and proceeding him along this line, when the chalrman interposed again with the remark that men often work fifteen hours or more to help save a neighbor's house. The commission will meet at 9 tomorrow and adjourn at 11:46 for the holidays. SHOOTS ANARCHIST TEACHER Philadelphin Youth Kills Woman Agi- tator Who Broke His Heart. PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 19.—Voltairine Le Cleyre, a noted anarchist and teacher of | 1anguages, was shot and fatally wounded | by Herman Helscher, a former pupil, today. The woman is dying in a hospital and Helscher 18 In custody. Unrequited love is £aid to have promoted the deed. When arrested Helscher's only explana- tion was: ““We were sweethearts, she and I She broke my heart and deserved to be killea.” Miss Le Cleyre was standing at a street “corner awalting a car. Helscher, who Bad disgulsed himself by means of a false mous- tauche, approached her from the rear and accosted her. Almost at the same moment he drew a revolver from his pocket and pointed 1t at her. She turned and at- tempted to run away, but had gone only a few steps when Helscher began firing upon her. After discharging five shots, three of which took effect, he replaced the pistol in his pocket and started to walk away. He made no effort to escape and was immediately arrested. Miss Le Cleyre ran a short distance and then sank, exhausted, upon a doorstep. To a magistrate afterwards she denled acqualntance with Helscher, but when he was brought before her minus the falee | moustache she at’ once recognized him. She declined, however, to accuse him of having shot her, but asked the police it he bad admitted it. Neither would she state the nature of her relations with Helsche: Two bullets took effect in the woman's right side below the shoulder and another embedded {tself in the right side of the | chest. The physiclans held out no hope for | her recovery. Miss Le Cleyre has attained widespread ! notorfety through her anarchistic utter- | ances and intimacy with Emma Goldman and other anarchists. She s an accom- | plished linguist and musiclan, and has | written much anarchistic Mterature and many erotic poems. ROUND-UP OF THE LADRONES Fleld Ce- Operating with Police of Manila. Force of Comstabulary | MANILA, Dec. 19.—The roundup of la- | drones in Risil province is proceeding. A | large force of constabulary 1s In the fleld | and the Manila police are co-operating with |1t They are cordoning the north part of the city to prevent the ladrones entering. The United States fleet is assembled for the evolutions which are to commence to- morrow and continue for a fortnight. They will consist largely in landing tacties and | the setzure, fortifying and supplylng a !naval base on the west coast of Luzon, near Sublg. The battleship Kentucky s here and Oregon is expected daily, NOTES AMERICAN FARMING Germany Will T, fer Experts From New York to Chicage Next Year. CHICAGO, Dec. 19.—The agricultural | progress of the United States and the work | of the American farmer are being noted oy | the German government, which Is taking special interest in the subject for the com- | ing year. According to information received by Dr. Walther Weber, the German consul here, Chicago has been chosen as the center of operations of the experts' bureau during the coming year, an order having been made to transfer the bureau from New York to this eity. JURY ACQUITS PIANO PLAYER Italian Whe Kills Three Men in De- fense of His Own Life Goes READING, Pa., Dee. 19.—Antonio Taddal, an Italian aged 17, who on July 4 last shot John Trayer, Edward Hartman and Samuel Sitzel, young men who had assaulted him after having tried to pick & fight with him, while he was playlng a street plano, and all three of whom subsequently died, was scquitted in court here today. Taddal claimed self-defense and said that the three men to save his own lite d14 not wish to convey the impression that | Thirty witnesses were then called to tell | to examine | GIVES CUBA HIGH PRAISE Br ergy is Ra y nging New Republic Forward: WASHINGTON, Dec. 19.—A striking ple- ture of the development of Cuba since the Spanish war is presented in a report by Lionel Carden, the British minister to Havana, a copy of which has just reached Washington The minister says: It is highl: eatisfactory to note the re- markable progress the fsland has made in the Jast three years in Spite of the de- plorable condition in which it was left at | the end of the war. FAVORS LINCOLY PROPOSAL Secretary Shaw Sees No Objection to Selling Present Postoffice. | DISCUSSING THE LEASING MEASURE | Nebraska Congre Think BI Prepared by the Cattlemen Should Be Amended Before Pre- sented to House. men (From a Staft Correspondent.) Tho production of sugar has =isen from 385,000 tona in 1899 to over 800,000 tons in 1901, and_probably will reach 1.006,000 tons this | year. The cultivation and manufacture of | | tobacco, as well ae the minor industries. show considerable improvement. The stook He said he had been informed that the | of cattie on the island, thanks to the large | treasury In relation to hls bill permitting importations is now probably upward of | | 780,000, as compared with less than 200,000 at the beginning of 1899, and, finally, the value | of the exports has increased from £9,260,000 | [T '£12.88000, and would have reached n much higher' figure but for the fall in the | price of sugar. | In considering how little financial assist- | ance the Cubans have _received from | abroad. it speaks highly for thelr energy | | and Industry that should ~ have { achieved 80 much in se short a time and | with such limited resoucces at their com- mand. The report is ftull ot advice to English traders as to the best means of meeting Amerfcan competition and holding the | Cuban trade, which is being taken rapidly i from them by the United States. ICABINET GIVES APPROVAL | Seeretary Informs Memhers Venecsuelan Situation and Ac- tlon Taken by Him. as to| WASHINGTON, Dee. 19.~Secretary Hay 1ald before the cabinet the latest phases of | the Venezuelan situation as shown by the correspondence he had had with our am- bassadors and the foreign officers at London, | Berlin and Rome and also acquainted the members with the circumstances of the ex- changes which had taken place with the ambassadors in Washington. After a thorough discussion of the ques- | tior. the cabinet gave its unqualified ap- | proval to everything that has been done by Secre'ary Hay and also to his plans for the future so far as they were outlined. It 1s gathered that the attitude of the | United States {s a waiting one, in the hope | that the allles will soon be able to agree on the basis upon which they are willing to accept arbitration. It was stated that while the Venezuelan | situation was realized to be important, the | subject did not engross the entire atten- | tion of the cabinet. So far no motfee of the | projected blockade of Venezuela has been officially served on our goverament. COAL FREIGHTS TOO HIGH House Committee Considers Suspen- n of Constwise Naviga- Laws, | WASHINGTON, Dec. 19.- mittee on merchant 1 today considered the suspend the coastwise navigation laws, & to permit foreign ships to carry coal from one point to another on the coast. of freight {s being charged for the trans- portation of coal from shipping ports to market ports, and that in Boston the lack of facilities to unload coal as rapidly as it | arrives fs the greatest obstaclo to distri- | bution. At one time within a week fifteen schooners laden with coal were walting to | be discharged. The committee postponed further con- | sideration until after the holidays i 1t the resolution should be finally passed 1t would be in the Interest of a reduction of freight rather than because of any scar- | eity of tonnage. | WANT AN ELASTIC CURRENCY | Former Secretary Gage Calls Upon | President Roosevelt to Sug- west & Plan, WASHINGTON, Dec. 19.—Former Secre- | tary Gage and John H. Rhoads, chairman | of the finance committee of the New York | Chamber of Commerce, called upon the | president today to present to him resolu- tions recently adopted by the Chamber of | Commerce in advocacy of a more elastlc | currency system. President Roosevelt received them cordl- ally, but did not indicate what hie attitude toward the resolutions would be. Mr. Gage and Mr. Rhoads later had a talk with Chairman Fowler of the house | committee on tanking and currency, giving | their views on the currency question. | They submitted to Mr. Fowler a copy of | resolutions adopted by the New York Chamber of Commerce. PRESIDENT TO ATTEND FUNERAL Will Be Present with Veterans and Politiclans at Se. Mr ‘WASHINGTON, Dec. 19.—~President Roosevelt expects to attend the funmeral | services of Mrs. Grant, to be held fn the | Metropolitan Methodist church tomerrow morning. Members of the cabinet, of the diplomatic corps and of both houses of congress, and | representatives of the Grand Army of the | Republic, the Loyal Leglon, the Unfon | Veterans' Leglon, the Army of the Tennes- see, the Army of the Cumberland and the Army of the Obio also will be present. HOUSE ACTION UNNECESSARY | Cuban Reclprocity Treaty Wil Be | Sent Ouly to e by the President. has concluded that it will not be necessary to send the Cuban reciprocity treaty to the | house. It is sald that the house may itself by passing upon the preposition Incidental to the consideration | of some legislation which will be necessary | to give effect to the treaty, though that | document will be ratified solely by the | senate, it ratified at all in Washington. | | satisty | Te Reduce Colo: Tarifm, WASHINGTON, Dec. 19.—Minister Hart, at Bogota, has cabled the State department that & recent government decree provides for & progressive reduction of 10 per cemt monthly in the export duties of Colombia, beginning January 1, 1903. WASHINGTON, Dec. 19.—The house com- mittee on banking and currency today fa- vorably reperted the currency bill reported by Chalrman Fowler, | gram )—Represcntative Burkett left for Nebraska tonight. Before leaving he made ublic a report from the secretary of the | WASHINGTON, Dec. 19.—(Special Tele- | | | the government to sell the present post- office at Lincoln to the city of Lincoln and allowing the government to construct a new bullding on the vacant portion of the square now occupled by the present post- office. Secretary Shaw, who makes the re- rort on the bill, advises the chairman of | the public bulldings and grounds committen that there fs no objection to Mr. Burkett's bill. He states that the government owns the entire square upon which the present postoffice and the court house building is located, the square being approximately 300x300 feet in dimensions. To quote from the report the secretary sa; | “The northerly portion of the square 1s about 200x300 feet in dimensions and fs used as a public park. In the event of the sale of that portion of the site lylng south of the driveway above referred to, together | with the building, there would remain suffi- | clent lands, about 200x300 feet, upon which | to construct the new building provided h"l as indicated by the bill in question, the de- | partment sees no objection to the sale of | the present bullding, together with the | southerly portion of the block on "hlr‘)\" se'd bullding stands.” | The report also contains the information that the entire block referred to was orig- inally donated to the United States by the city of Lincoln. | Differences on Leasing Bi The bill formulated by cattle growers of Nebraska 1s now under consideration by members of the Nebraska delegation with | chloride of mercury and wae taken to the | & view of reaching an agreement upon the | measure and if possible present a united | front for its passage. There is considerable | doubt as to whether the classes of lands | as agreed upon exactly fits the condliions obtaining in western Nebraska. Represent- atlve Shallenberger, who Is interested in | the cattle business himself, believes that | a steer can be pastured on less than thirty | acres of land. He sald the fact that a number of cattlemen on tho western range | had been able to put up large quantities of hay showed that the land was much more productive in grass than was borne out by the statements of the delegafion of cat- tle growers who were fn Washington this week. Mr. Shallenberger said, howev that he was not opposed to the measure, but would endeavor to bring about such modifications as he knew his people would be interested in. Congressman Stark stated today that he believed something should be dome to pt 99-to Aé"Ererinating dwpute: betwoon | the government and the caltle ralsers. ‘He belleved, however, that the state of Ne- | braska should have some say In the ques- | set aside for leasehold purposes or not, and he suggests an amendment to the bill to the effect that the act shall not be put in operation until a proclamation shall have | been made by the president, and that no | proclamation shall issue until the legisla- | ture of Nebraska shall by resolution re- | quest such action. The reasons for thie, he | sald, were that as a part of the public domain in the state of Nebraska it paid no taxes and that lands could not be taxed until patents had been issued. In the event of the leasing proposition going | through, Judge Stark thought that the gov ernment would receive the benefits derlved from such leases and at the same time make it impossible for the state of Ne- braska to levy a tax on the same. Before this was done he belleved the legislature | of Nebraska should ha right to say whather or not the lands should be taken out of the homestead provision and be given over to the general government to realize on the proposition. | Measure Likely to Pass. There 1s, however, a growing feeling that | the bill as agreed upon by the Nebraska delegation will recelve almost unanimous support when the time comes to present | 1t to congres Representative Mondell of | Wyoming stated today that he was n fa. vor of the measure, as would be all the | representatives from the cattle-growing | states of the west. “I have always been | in favor of some such bill as a starter,” | sald Mr. Mondell. “There are vast areas | in the west that are not susceptible of ir- | rigation,” he said, “and will continue ml remain idle unless used for grasing pur- poses. It the Nebraska delegation can agree | on the measure proposed I believe it will | bave a very general support from western members." Representative Burkett today recom- mended the appointment of Henry Baker as postmaster at Cedar Creek Upon the earnest solicitation of Mr. Bur- | kett an order was today issued establish- | ing rural free delivery at Havelock and Rokeby. i Mrs. Charles McNade Willard of Hebron, | Neb., 1s in the city for the purpose of con- | sulting members of the Nebraska delega- | | tion in congress as to the advisability of going before the legislature of Nebraska and asking that body to purchase her a | home tn Hebron for a State normal school. | Conserving Water Supply. Benator Warren today had a conference | with the secretary of the interior and pre- | sented with his recommendation a reso- | lution adopted by the city eounell of Chey- | enne, petitioning the Interior department | to bave a topographical survey made of | the Crow Creek forest reserve and con- | tiguous districts, and that such distriets | be added to this reserve as will insure the WASHINGTON, Dec. 19.—The president | Préservation of the water supply of Mid- | UBIoB dle Crow creek, Laramle county, and pre- vent its pollution Ropresentative Mondell has asked the In- | dian office t take steps to have the lands reciprocity | 10 the Shoshome reservation in Wyoming MOVements of Ocean Vease allotted in severalty to the Shoshone and | Arapahoe Indlans now on the reservation, | and the unoccupled lands remaining after allotment opened to public settlement. | Congressman Shallenberger has accepted | an invitation of the Merchauts' and Manu- | | facturers’ club of Baltimore to deliver an | New Y address before the club oo January 29 next, being the anniversary of McKinley's birth- day. Captain Charles 8. Lincoln, Second in- fantry, now on leave of absence at Ames, Ia., has been ordered to Fort Wayne, Mich., for temporary duty, pending arrival in the United States of his regiment The postofice at loka, Keokuk county, Ia., has been discontinued. The comptroller of the currency has ap- (Continued on Becond Page.) l | return to this country, recast for Nebraska in West Portion Saturday w in East Sunday Falr Fair a9 FIRE BURNS SWIFT ST Chie Blaze Attacks Fulton Market fours of Morn. in Early e \ CHICAGO, Dec. 20.—Fire this morning partially destroyed the Fulton market, causing & loss of $100,000. The market Is of wholesale butchering estab and several composed lishments plants part of the third floor from 125 Fulton street were destroyed. The principal losses were Rothschild & Sulzberger, Wackenheim & Co., Swift and Company, Cook County Shoc company and the Acorn Brass worke turers of gasoline lamps Deo. 19.—Several persons had & narrow escape from death tonight in a fire that destroyed the Zollinger apart- ment building, located at Forty-ffth and Evans avenue. The flames spread so rapldiy that those who occupled the upper stories were cut off from the stairways and were rescued by firemen just a few minutes be- fore one of the outer walls collapsed. TRAGEDY OCCURS IN ST. LOUIS | abbed to | Young Civil Engineer in Death in the Granite Butlding. ST. LOUIS, Dec. 19.—John W. Barringer, Jr., resident engineer of the St. Louls, Memphis & Southeast Rallway company at Clairville, Mo., was stabbed to death by Thompson Morton, an unemployed elvil engineer. Morton, shortly after his ar- rest, was found to be suffering from bi- city dispensary for treatment. His recov- ery is doubtful. Morton thus far has refused to name any motive for the killing of Barringer. The victim, who lived but thirty minutes after | the stabbing, was unable to speak except | incoherently. Barringer, whose age was 27, was a son of a prominent army officer in the east, | and one of his brothers also s an officer | in the Philippines. ASKS ARREST OF PRESIDENT Massachusetts Man Claims Roosevelt Hired Thugs Assaalt Him on Street. CHELSEA, Mass., Dec. 19.—"1 want a warrant for President Rooeevelt,” sald Charles C. Sample, a well-to-do citizen, | today, at the Central police station. “He hired Tim McCarthy and Joan Far- ley to assault me,” continued the applicant, “and I was assaulted by them on Eastern avenue. Roosevelt was there In his carriage It was stated that an extortionate rate | tion whether the public domain should be |and encouraged the men while they were striking me.” Then he rambled on making a string of complaints against the president and the coal question. The man was laboring under excitement and resisted arrest. He was overpowered, and a loaded revolver and a razor found on him. He is held for an examination by physiclans. 3 INVITE LORENZ BACK York Surgeon and Praise ¥ Work. # ing. New Doctors Homor Vienna NEW YORK, Dec. 19.—Eloquent tribute to Prof. Adolf Lorenz were paid tonight at a reception given him by 200 members ot the New York Academy of Medicine. Dr. Virgil P. Gibney, in introducing the guest of the evening, declared his achievements to be a revelation in surgery, “We hail him,” said the speaker, “as one of the greatest benefactors who has ever come to our shores.” Dr. N. F. Shaffer sald that the profession had seen Prof. Lorenz do what had been thought to be impossible and urged him to where his knowl- edge had proved to be of inestimable value to humanity LOSE FIGHT FOR PRIZE MONEY agle's Crew Claims Seventeen Thou- sand for Burning Spanis Ship, NEW YORK, Dec. 19.—United States Judge Edward B. Thompson today declared invalid a claim of $17,000 against the United States entered by Lieutenant Commander | Willlam H. Sutherland as prize money for the crew of Eagle, a converted gun boat, which destroyed the Spanish steamer Santo Domingo during the Spanish-American war. The government maintained that only $1,100 could be recovered, as the Santo Do- mingo was burned on the sands of southern Cuba. The government claimed that only such sum as it had received an equivaleaj for should be paid out. MEN SHARE STEEL PROFITS Republic Company Makes Stockholders, Ar with Seats in Directorate. PITTSBURG, Dec. 19.—The Republic Iron and Steel company will submit & plan for making the workmen stockholders in the company to the next convention If the plan is adopted the men will be glven representation on the board of di- rectors Dee. 19, At New York—Arrived—Lombardio, from Genoa and Niples, _At Plymouth—Arrived—Moltke, from New York, for Cherbourg and Hamburg, and proceede At Liverpool—8alled—Taurlc, York At for New London—Arrived—Marquette, from i ork. Balled—-Abydos, for S8an Fran- clsco At Christiansand—Arrived—Oscar 11, from New York At Holyhead—Passed Tacoma, ‘etc., via Liverpool. At Naples—Arrived—North America, from New York At Rotterdam—Arrived—Ryndam, New York. At _Kineale Head—Passed—Norseman, trom Portland, for Liverpool. At Sellly—Passed—Moltke, Ping Suey, trom Hong Kong, ete., for trom from New Yerk, for Plymouth, Cherbourg and Ham- | burg. At Prawle Polnt—Passed- be| h tor Philadeiphia. nCumboian SINGLE CoOry ORE | manufacturing | All the second floor and the greater | AGAIN | of the \ALLIESPARTLY AGREE, | Britain Wants Safegnards, Germany Apolo- gles and Italy Waits on Others, '"HREE NTS. NEED OF GUARANTEE CAUSES DELAY England Sees No Value in Mere Arbi- | trators' Award, PRIVATE FINANCIERS MAY STEP IN NOW | Individual Firms May Offor Assurancss that Cash Will Be Found. | WEEKS MAY ELAPSE IN FIXING DETAILS |Kalser's Government in Ral | t Wounded & Ques- onor Makes ton Difoult a; Keeps Settlement Back, WASHINGTON, Dee. 19.—8ecretary Hay {has recelved partial responses from the | governments of Great Britaln, Germany and Italy respecting the proposal to arbl- | trate the Veneruelan difficulties | reat Britain is favorable to arbitration with proper safeguards; Germany accepts arbitration In principle, but finds a multi- | tude of small adjustments to be made be- | tore entering into the agreement: Italy, As the junior partner of the allies, declares | that it is favorable to arbitration, but would be bound by the action of the senior partners. As far as England {s concerned the safe- guards referred to are belleved to relate to the question of guarantee, which is full of | difculties In this connection some con- | sideration 1s again being given to the feasi- bility of responsible private parties assum- ing responsibility for any award assessed against Venezuela, Wil Help to Rednce Risk, If this can be arranged the United States government will do what it can to reduce their risks, The German position presents the great- est difficulties, for not, only does it involve a demand for apologies, which are ex- tremely repugnant to Venezuela, but also presents so many points requiring adjust- ment that it is evident that many days, or perhaps weeks, must elapse before the ad- justment can be affected and the case pre= pared for arbitration. The feeling is growing here that The Hague tribunal should undertake the case it arbitration is agreed to. Mr, Bowen, it is reported, wishes to come to Washington in order personally to effect an adjustment with the resident ambassadors of the al- lies, but, while the State department makes no statement o the point, it s belleved that it does not regard this plan with favor. It 18 also pointed out that in some phases the disputes will not admit of arbitration. Such, for Instance, as the attacks on Brite ish and German subjects and the German legations at Caraces, and the arrests of consular officers, The United States government inelines to the view that there is & dleposition to jn- slst needlessly on guarintees for paymént of any judgment that might be rendered by the arbitrators. It believes that the force | of public opinion would absolutely insure & settlement. | Germany Will Accept. BERLIN, Dec. 19.—The answe many to the arbitration proposal is fts acceptance. The delivery of this reply to the United States for transmission to Mr. | Bowen s delayed for a day or two for | tactical reasons, probably through the ex- | pectation that another solution may be | found, possibly by President Castro yield Four days ago the idea of the Ger- man government was in favor of re'ecting arbitration, and that is understood here to have been the temper of the British For- elgn office. While it 1s impossible to trace the steps which led to a reversal of this view, it appcars that the state of publio | opinion In the United States #o far as Ger- many is concerned has produced a revision of the first idea. Rebels Near Carace PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, Deo. 19.—It |18 reported here that the Venezuelan revo- lutionary Generals Penalosa, Renald, Riera and Solague, with a force sald to number 10,000 men, are marching on Caracas and are belfeved now to be near that city, of Ger- Answers German Deman CARACAS, Dec. 19.—The Venezuelan swer to Germany's ultimatum has just been made publie. In part it is as follows: The Venezuelan government {8 unable to discover in it correspondence & single sentence offensive in tone. With regard to the publication of the note of March § 1%, marked “confiden- tial his note lost its confidential chara ter through the publication of a_:nemora) dum by the German ambassador to the { United " States in which was Incorporatod ste In question arding the other points, each of which s within a certain law, it is only neces- to call your attention'to the abnormal circumstances which have paralyzed any course of action relating to these matters. The Venezuelan government is now con- sidering the appointment of a flscal agent, The imperial government desires that Venezuela immediately satisfy the claims arising from the civil war and that other matters be arbitrated. The Venezuelan governmsnt only awaits the time when the work of pacification, in which it 1s earnestly engaged. shall permit it, to issue an order tablishing publie credit. The claims arfsing out of the pres- ent war, which still devastates the repubiie, will be ‘treated with all justice under the laws to be passed to cover the requir ments. U'pon the special command of my govern- ment I refrain from replying to that part of your note which relates to joint action on “the part of Germany and the United Kingdom. A power like Venezuela, which is in need ‘of no stimulus to cause 1t to fulrll its legal obligations to fts utmost ability, can never expect any course nf action’ which shall not conform to the principles of mutual respect and the rules | of reciprocal cordiaiity. | R. LOPEZ BARALT, Minister of Forelgn Affairs, Ttallan Diplomat Stayed. | (Copyright, 1%2, by Press Publshing Co.) SAN JUAN, Porto Rico, Dec. 19.—(New | York World Cabl:gram—Special Telegram.) | —Baron Aliottl, the Itallan diplomatic at | tache, who arrived here from New York yesterday with orders to proceed to Ven- ezueld, was instructed today to go aboard the Itallan cruiser Baussn, upon arriving at La Guayra, instead of going to Caracas. |BUST OF CORNELL ACCEPTED University Auth Found ities Declde to Place ' Head in In tutlo DENVER, Colo.,, Dec. 19.—Edward A Wagner, a Denver graduate of Cornell uni- ersity, today received a letter saying the { directors of Cornell had decided to acoept the offer of Mrs. Vinnie Ream Hoxie of her lister bust of Bzra Cornell, to be repro- duced in brouze for the university,