Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 21, 1902, Page 1

PAGE THE OMAHA SUNDAY BE JU LATEST FAD IN CLUBS, NE 19, 1871. MAHA, SUNDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 21, 1902-TWENTY-EIGHT PAGES. PRINCE GOES 0N TOUR CATTLEDANGER OVER Future King of Bavaria to Make a Trip Becretary of Agrioulturs Believes Ravag Around the World, of Disease Are Stayed. | ALL FEAR OF EPIDEMIC SPREADING PASSED | [ Seoretnry SINGLE (V] MOTORS TO ENTER A NEW FIELD French Inventor Has a Scheme for Displacing Rallway Pas. .~ CROKER WILLING TO SELL OUT| Herkshire Property No the THE BEE BULLETIN Nebraskn ROOSEVELT IS ASKED AMERICAN EXECUTIVE LOATH TO ACCEPT Longer Pleases Forec Cle day W Su st for ring and C Monday Fair x-Politicnl Boss of r in East Portion One Being Or:anized in London for Amer- New York, joans with Fat Purces. ONLY A FEW ENGLISH TO BE ADMITTED Bcheme Does Not Appear to Meet with Favor from Any Quart senger Tra - Page 1 Newest Fads of English Women. Bavarian Prince Touring World. mer of Cattle DI ansed evelt Is Asked to Arbitrat Shaw Talks on Money. Maors xex Nlearngun Canal. Snow Plows Cannot Clear Tracks. Tratnmen Ask for n Raise. News from Nebraska Towns. Indian Kills Another in Fight. Santa Clnos Keeps People Busy. Affairs at South Omaha. Must Make War to Keep Trade. ndlers Arrested. (Copyright, 1002 2, by Press Publishing Co.) WANTAGE, England, Dec. 20.—(New York | World Cablegram—Special Telegram.)—A report comes from a yell authenticated source ihat Richard Croker would willingly sell all his Berkshire estates if he could | find a suitable purchaser. There is great dissatisfaction among his workmen, as he | has reduced their wages, although once he a most liberal employer. 1t would not be easy to find a buyer for so much land in such a place, a great part of it being hill land, for which Mr. Croker paid con- siderably more than it is generally thought to be worth. He {s much pleased with his new estate in Ireland. It is pretty certain that he never would have bought all this | land around Wantage If he could have had | | this Irish property at the time he first wanted it. He probably will find his cream- ery there much more satisfactory, as no (Copyright, 192, by Press Publishing Co.) | PARIS, Dec. 20.—(New York Werld Ca- | ITINERARY | blegram—Special Telegram.)—Sefpollet, the { automobile inventor, tells the World cor- | respondent that he is bullding the first | Is to Come Incognito and Official Recep- | motor car of n series intended to revolu- | tionize railway traveling in ¥France. The tion is Preoluded, {m-. originated with Frank Gardner, who | | first suggested replacing rallway Jocomo- | (o p e pecroot Ll Vereren Leone ] UNITED STATES ON HIS Connecticut, Although Quarantined, Has No Bingle Bick Animal, Feels That He Would Thus Become Judge, Oounsel and Constable. MEN ASKED TO JOIN ARE SUSPICIOUS | WIFE TO ACCOMPANY HIM ON THE TRlP}mlo.. by powertul nm;:mhlln. -:mu;u UNITED STATES ALSO HAS CLAIMS | believes that ft will possible to sub- stitute for the present sleeping ear trains | Has Been a Decidedly Gay Yomng Man | three or four n[,lncioux motor cars, each ac- in His Day commodating forty passengers, and reduc- g | ing the time taken for the journey, say e |trom Paris to Monte Carlo, by one-half. BETTER HALF WORKS A REFORM, HOWEVER | Such automobile trains would save the cost | | of locomotives, do away with smoke, steam, | ! cinders, noise, vibration and the necessity | for stopping to take up water and would | Women, Not to Be Outdone, Have One to Air Their Pet Fads Government Officials 8'aughter Beasts to Stamp Out Trouble. Modiator Might Thus Have to Adjudicate | | on Own Country's Oase. 2 Funeral of Mra. ADMIT CATS AND DOGS, BUT NOT MEN | Trolley Car in Crash. | Counell Blufts News. D News from Violence Darin CHICAGO STOCKMEN EXPRESS PLEASURE | BLOCKADE IS DEFINITELY ANNOUNCED | Delegation Calls ant Department and Over Town. Strike is Shown. London and Berlin Both I Proo- | Latter 1x Known One of the Most After Hearing Me Beautiful and Most Charitable b o ures Taken Say lamations Declaring Ports Closed conom! | All Sorts of Sports Are Under the Patronage of This Unique Or- ganization, Which is Ex- pected to Be “Che. ! (Copyright, 1902, by Press Publiehing Co.) | LONDON, Dee. 20.—(New York World Cablegram—Special Telegram.)—The Co fumbia club for American millionaires in London, which was planned early this year | with a great flourieh of trumpets, but | which mysteriously collapsed, is being re- | vived, apparently, under the title of the Calumet club. Precisely the same scheme : as of the dead Columbia project is out- lined and the misleading statement 1s made that the only reason the former venture was not carried through was because it was impossible to find suitable premises in Plecadilly. The syndicate which has the scheme in hand will allow “a few English members of high soclal position to be admitted to the oll, but otherwise the mew club will be Wall street in London." Furthermore, the syndicate claims to have secured a house on the cormer of Clarges street, facing the Turin club, which vacated by the imperial | There w:® be an American bar and it is asserted that it will be a reproduction in fac-simile of the cafe in the New York Yacht club and will have an American steward-in-chief and cocktail | mixer. It remains to be seen whether the not particularly credulous American mil- llonaires will ba drawn into this under- taking until they know something more | about it and jts originators than is ob- talnable at the present moment. One for the has just been Bervice club. Women. The growth of women's clubs is becoming an important soclal question in London, for elub women notoriously are careless in the management of their own homes. The latest feminine eccentricity in the club line is “the Ladies’ Sports club,” an institution where facilities will be given for women to cultivate all manner of sports and pastimes. Men will be admitted oc- casionally as onlookers at the displays. The committee includes women represent- ing different pastimes—Lady Helen Vin- eent, skating; Lady Bathurst, driving; Lady Scott Montague, motoring; Lady Edith Villlers, dogs: Miss Lottle Dodd, tennis, and Lady Decles, cats. All members can bring thelr canine, fellne or othe: xcept masculine, pets, which privilege is expected to make the club “very cheery,” as the current jargon has it. PRINCESS IN PITIABLE PLIGHT Daughter of Kin m in Com- n Madh 4 Given Soant Attentiol [ (Copyright, 192, by Press Publishing Co.) BRUSSELLS, Dec. 20.—(New York World Cablegram—Spectal ~ Telegram.)—Countess Donnersmark, who accompanied the count- of Beufort on the latter's visit to the Lindenshof asylum to Inform the unbappy Princess Louise of Coburg of the death ot her mother, the queen of the Belglans, [ T can remember the princess as a very attractive girl, not beautiful, but very comely, with plump, rosy cheeks, a good | figure and a wealth of golden hair. Now 1 saw her old, faded and heart-broken, her halr grown gray and thin, her face haggard and her eyes hollow with a frightened ex- | pression, her figure bent. She evidently i In a state of great physical exhaustion and takes no care of her personal appear- ance. When we saw her she was wearing & dirty, ragged, old, pink, dressing gown, and her hair looked as if it had not been dressed for days." It s considered disgraceful that King Leopold should allow his daughter to be de~ tained in an ordinary asylum and neglected in this fashion, but he is implacable in his hatred of her and of his second daughter, Countess Lonyay. BIG FUSS OVER SMALL MATTER House of Lords and OfMce of Works at Outs Over a House Mald, (Copyright, 1908, by Press Publishing Co.) LONDON, Dec. 20.—(New York World Cablegram—Special Telegram.)—Bridget Delaney, the principal housemald of the House of Lords, has been the cause of bad blood between two government de- partments. The office of works resolved, in order to minimize the danger of fire, to Hmit the number of officials residing in the houses of Parliament, and last January, without consulting the House of Lords or the lord great chamberlain, removed the principal housemaid's furniture from her rooms. The lords were offended and im mediately opened & long correspondence, | which culttmated fn an ultimatum to the chief commissioner of works, that if the furniture was not returned within a month | the lords would take measures to have the rooms sultably furnished. As the ofclals of work remained obdurate the furniture has been bought at a cost of $435. The wages of the principal housemald are §8 a week. EMPEROR IS IN POOR HEALTH| Francis Joseph Compelled to Forego (Copyright, 192, by Press Publishing Co.) VIENNA, Dec. 20.—(New York World Ca- blegram — Special Telegram.) — Emperor Francis Joseph's health is ot restored and the severe weather makes it imperative that he be exceedingly careful of himself. For the first time since his younger laughter. Archduchess Marle Valerle, marriod twelve rs ago, he will deny himself the pleasure of spending Christmas with his grandehil- dren. The emperor will have an absolutely solitary Christmas in the snowed-up castle of Bobe. | public charge instead of being provided by | But they must not try to take the place | | and has now disappeared, leaving Kovaley- one who has had charge of the onme in Wantage knows anything about managing such concerns. He has spent most of his time lately in Letcombe, keeping very | quiet and rarely being seen in the village. | He has had several visitors at Moat house. People are no longer allowed to explore his grounds. A signboard s up which | warns them against trespassing, Mr. | Croker having been much annoyed by curi- | ous crowds. TACTICAL VICTORY FOR IRISH Save Clause in Edueation Bill, Which 1= Important to Thelr Con- stituency. (Copyright 1902, by Press Publishing Co.) LONDON, Dec. 20.—(New York World Ca- blegram — Special Telegram.) — Parllament has been prorogued until February 1. The most striking ipcident of the session in the House of Commons was the dramatic, tacti- cal victory achieved Tuesday by the Irish party, under John Redmond, on the educa- tion bill. Chairman Redmond summoned the party by wire to support an amendment made to the education bill in the House of Lords by which the cost of internal re- pairs to voluntary schools should be at the the funds at the disposal of the school managers. Prime Minister Balfour favored this amendment, but owing to the large seces- sion of his regular supporters he was afraid to risk government defeat by making it a question of confidence in the ministry. So he left it an open question for the house to decide and it was carried by only 98/ votes. As nearly sixty Irish members voted for it this concession, vastly impor- tant to poor Catholic schools, was secured for them by the Irish party. It was the only time in the six-months' discussion of | this bill that the Irish members were in a position to determine the result and their unity, discipline and organization enabled them to utilize it to the full. RECORD OF WOMEN’S CONGRESS Marie Pegnrd Complles it in Four Volumes Containing 275 Separate Reports. (Copyright, 1902, by Press Publishing Co.) PARIS, Dec. 20.—(New York World Cs blegram—Special Telegram.)—Mrs. Marle Pegard, a chevaller of the Legion of Honor and one of the most remarkable women in France, has just finished a monumental record of the work done at the Historic Women's congress, held in Paris during the last exposition. Four bulky volumes con- tain 275 reports sent from all points of the world, the whole forming a unique testi- monial to the thoroughness with which the woman question was discussed by the dele- gates to the congress (of whom five were appointed by the United States government to represent America). Mrs. Pegard {s not treme measures. “Slowly but surely” fs her motto. When the World correspondent asked her which camp (there are two feminist camps in France) she belongs to, she replied: “The reasonable ome. We have already made it impossible for a man to take his wife’s money and spend it with | another woman, and gradually, I am confl- dent, women will obtain all their rights. | an advocate of ex- of men, for, after all, woman's place is in the home and family.” SCANDAL ENDS USEFULNESS| High Ofcer of the Russian Govern- ment ix Dismissed by the ©; (Copyright, 1902, by Press Publishing Co.) ST. PETERSBURG, Dec. 20.—(New York World Cablegram—Special Telegram.)—M. Kovalevsky, Finance Minister DeWitte's righthand man, has been obliged to resign his position in the Russian ministry of finance owing to a scandal, Elsie von Schabelsky, an actress of great beauty and talent, is the theatrical senea- tion of the season here. A short time ago she circulated notes signed by Kovalevsky | to the value of §100,000. Kovalevsky re- | fused to meet them, saying that his sig- | nature was forged by Miss von Schabelsky | The story got to the czar's ears and Privy Councillor Kovaleveky was told that he | had better quit the public servic Miss von Schabelsky, who has been the | pet of fashionable society here, is the di- vorced wife of a colonel of cavalry. After | the divorce she went on the stage, and | with the support of friends, of whom Kovalevsky was the most conspicuous, she | opened a small theater here. The under- taking Qid not succeed. She got into debt sky to meet the storm. | ADVANCE AGENT OF KING DIES Was Hired to Work Up Sentiment in Bulgaria Faverable to Prince ! (Copyright, 192, by Press Publishing Co.) VIENNA, Dec. 20.—(New York World blegram—Special Telegram.)—Philip Wald pfel, who acted as Prince Ferdinand's ad- vance agent when the prince was Intriguing | for the Bulgarian throne, has just died in | Buda-Pesth. Waldapfel brought suit against Prince Ferdinand in 1857 for $2,000, claimed | to be & balante due for trouble and ex- | in procuring him. the throne of Bul- | . The Hungarian agent was able to show letters from Count Eugene Zichy and | \Count Councillor Fleshmann instructing | him to go to Sofia and Tienova and do all in his power to increase Fordinand's popu- larity. He aftorward tried to play a politi- | cal part tn Bulgaria, but it was discovered that he had been bribed simultaneously by | the Bulgarian and the Russian governments | and he found it safer to return to Bud Pesth, where bought the fine house in | ‘which he has just died { throne, will visit the United States in 1903. | throne of Great Britain. | Wurtemburg. For this he wa | with no little distinction. | (Copyright, 192, by Press Publishing Co) | % the tenants and the laborers. Woman in Bavarian Kingdom. i (Copyright, 1902, by Press Publishing Co.) | MUNICH, Dec. 20.—(New York World Cablegram — Special Telegram.) — Prince Rupert, destined to sit on the throne of Bavaria and declared by the jacobins to be | the rightful (Stuart) heir to the English | The one time most gay of young royal prodigals, now a sedato married man, will be accompanied by his wite, the beautiful Princess Marie Gabrielle, grand daughter of the king of Portugal. Their infant son bor: in September last, will probably be left at home. Prince Rupert is here preparing to assume duty as the head of his people | upon the death of his cousin, King Otto, | who fs & hopeless imbecile and has long been confined in an asylum. When King Otto dies, which must be very soon, Prince Ludwig, the father of Prince Rupert, who 1s heir presumptive to the throne, will ab- dicate in favor of his son. The country is now ruled by Prince Leopold, grandfather of Prince Rupert and uncle of King Otto, as regent. It 1s the intention of Prince Rupert to make & tour of the world, golng first to India, China and Japan, thence to San Fran- clsco and through the United States. His object 18 to acquire at first hand a knowl- edge of the various countries, their people and thelr. industrial and administrative systems, with a view to his own future ruls of Bavaria. Wild Oats All Sown. The prince is 33 years old, a stout, demo- cratic young man, who has had his fill in the gayest capitals of Burope, despite royal commands, threats and restrictions. His mother was the Archduchess Marle Ther- esa of Austria-Este, of the branch of Mo- dena. His father, Prince Ludwig, is the actual legitimatist heir presumptive to the The prince is an officer In the Bavarian army, and it was while he was a lleutenant that he sowed his wild oats. It was his custom to disap- pear from Munich or some army post every now and then, proceed to Parls, or other equally gay city, ing time with other young bloods, the con- cert ball favorites of tha time. One the oc- casion of the maneuvers of the German army at Mets in 1893, the prince left Munich to joln his regiment at the rendezvous, there to meet the German emperor. He did not arrive at Metz, and a search disclosed him in the company of a young woman at sent to a lonely army post and ordered to be good. Prince Carl, Prince Rupert's younger brother, was as wild as his brother, and was one time set upon marrying a ballet girl, morganitically, thereby following the example of a rich kinsman. Duke Ludwig, who at 60 and a widower, married Antoine Barth, a ballet girl, daughter of a Munich mechanic, with whom he is very happy. Prince Leopold thwarted the plan, but aid not prevent the two from eloping. They | were caught In a secluded retreat in the ! Alps and were returned to this city. Wite Reforms Him. Prince Rupert married the Duchess Marie Gabrielle, daughter of Duke Charles Theo- dore of Bavaria, head of one branch of the Bavarian family, in July, 1900, the affair be- ing a notable state celebration at Munich. The princess, who is the daughter of the duchess of Braganza, daughter of the king of Portugal, is known as ono of the most beautiful women fn the realm. She is also very good and charitable and has suc- ceeded in reforming her husband. It Is understood that the prince and princess will travel through the United States incognito, which will, of course, preclude any officlal recognition of the visit on the part of the United States government. OCCUPIES UNIQUE POSITION 1 1 Carter of the Life from the | | | | (Copyright, 1902, by Press Publishing Co.) LONDON, Dec. 20.—(New York World Cablegram—Special Telegram.)—Lieutenant Colonel Gordon Carter of the First Life Guards, the “swellest” regiment in tho British army, has risen from the ranks to the position of second in command of the | corps. He has thus attalned a position no guardsman who foined as a troeper nvtr’ held before. Guards troopers often get | commissions, but mever heretofore in their own corps. Colonel Carter is the son of a farmer. He served in the ranks several | years. In 1880 he received a commission | as riding master; was made a lleutenant in 1881; from that time until 1894 he served | adjutant, being made a captain in 1887, He was appolnted major in 1895 and got a | brevet rank as lleutenant colonel in 1900, In the Boer war be served with a com- posite battalion of the Household cavalry He was often mentioned in the dispatches and has six clasps to his medal. BLENHEIM PALACE IS CLOSED Tenants of the Marlboroughs Disap- poluted Over Thelr Christmas. WOODSTOCK, Enpgland, Dec. 20.—(New York World Cablegram—Special Telegram.) —The duke and duchess of Marlboroug being on the way to the Delbl durbar, Blenheim palace is closed for Christmas for the first time since they were married This has caused unfeigned regret among all classes in its neighborbood, for the Blen- hiem Christmas ball has been an important social event of late years. The loss to the tradesmen, both here and in Oxford, would have been serions bad not the duke and the duchess ordered, before they left, all the usual Christmas supplies. This week their steward has been around giving the duch- ss' usual welcome and useful presents v ( | way plant and consequently emormous ex- | Most of the women patients at Upsala have { been educated in the high schools or the | in service, requiring only a driver. Each car, complete in itself, would run attached to others or separately. The Paris-Lyons and Paris-Marsellles rallway officials are skeptigal about a revo- lution being near, but the genfidence of Gardner and Serpollet in is shown by their going to gre to prove its feasibility. Serpol will be ready in Jun The Belglan govery' Gardner and Serpoll/ stituting for lh!ly' P s between Brusse 3 wagons which we = passengers and to twenty-five s approached "/ view to sub- tem of rallway Antwerp motor thirty to forty J the trip in twenty /instead of fitty min- utes. One a 4 of the invention Is that the old, n be utilized for the new carriages, . iereas electrie traction means a complete transformation of a rajl- pense. TRIAL DOES NOT WORRY ARABS Some Sleep Pencefully While Case Which May Mean Death to Them is Being Tried, (Copyright, 1902, by Press Publishing Co.) + PARIS, Dec. 20.—(New York World Ca. blegram—Special Telegram.)—One of the strangest and most picturesque cases ever betore a French court is now being heard at Montpellier, where 107 Arabs are being tried for revolting at Marqueritta, Algeria, in April of last year. Fear of the weight which local influences and prejudices might have upon a jury led the government to order the trial before Herault assizes away from Algeria. The charges agalost the prisoners include murder, pillage, rebellion, assault and battery. But mone of the ac- cused seems to care much what befall him. A large force of military keeps the Arabs under observation. The proceedings are conducted in French and Arable. Fifty Everything Practicable is Al- ready Being Done. WASHINGTON, Dec. 20.—Secretary Wil- | #on believes that all danger of the foot and | mouth disease spreading from New England o new cars | to other states has now passed, as careful | { Investigation by government experts failed to reveal a single case In Connecticut, though that state was included in the gen- eral quarantine order. Dr. Raymond, chief of the bureau of ani- mal industry, who is in New England, per- sonally directing the fight against the epi- confer with Secretary Wilson and it will quarantine against Connecticut. president of the atock yards company, has been in conference with Secretary Wilson regarding the extent of the infection and measures taken to combal it. Secretary Wilson told them what had been done and they expressed confidence that every prac- ticable step had been taken in safeguarding the stock of the country. “In a few weeks," sald Secretary Wilson today, “we will have destroyed every anl- mal infected with or exposed to the foot and mouth disease.” NEBRASKA MEN ARE NAMED President Nominates Onceola and West Point Postmasters in Senate Communication. WASHINGTON, Dec. 19.—The president today sent the following nomination to the senate: Livingston Bayard, Pennsylvania, to be a chaplain. Postmasters appointed: Nebraska—Henry H. Campbell, Osceola; James 8. Elllott, West Point. lawyers are engaged in defending the pris- oners. So oppressive is the odor in the court that the building is purified with car- bolic acld every time the hearing is sus- pended. The names of the unpronouncable, they are te numbers. Some are magnificent of the “child of the desert,” " better off In prison than at Home, in no hurry for the trial to end. Many can- not tell where or when they were born. Their examination is conducted through in- terpreters.: While the indictmen a were be- i ing read most of the Arabs (sory, .t whom probably will be condemned .\ death) slept peacefully. N 00 INSANITY ON THE INCREASE Noted Swedish Specialist Gives Over- Education as One of the Reasons. (Copfyright, 132, by Press Publishing Co.) STOCKHOLM, Sweden, Dec. 20.—(New York World Cablegram—Special Telegram.) | —Hermann Laudberg of the great Swedlsh | Junatic asylum at Upsala says that lunacy | {18 increasing among Swedish women, and | { more espectally among the educated classes. | | In the lower classes {nsanity is brought on | chiefly by the cares of life or Intemper- ance, but in the educated women the main cause, he contends, is their education. universities and a large proportion of them have been teachers or governesses. Dr. | Laudberg emphatically asserts that the forced training to which this class of women submit themselves is most hurtful. “It 1s monstrous,” he says, “to subject women to this competition and if the com- petition does mot cease the effects upon | fature generations will be disastrous.” Mr. Laudberg states that Swedish women who have been educated at academles have remarkably small families when they have | any and that in too many cases their family relations are unhappy, owing to thelr inability to discharge household duties, AMERICAN SINGER MAKES HIT Miss Parkinson Recelves Enthusiastic Reception at P Comique. s Opera (Copyright, 192, by Press Publishing Co.) PARIS, Dec. 20— New York World | Cabliegram—Specal Telegram.)—Elizabeth | Parkinson's debut at the Opera Comique this week In “Lakine” was a great success. The American colony turned out in force | and gave the young singer an enthuslastic | reception. i Miss Parkinson is engaged for three years at the Comique. She has a most melodious voice, alngs faultlessly and acts intelli- gently. Not one rehearsal with the or- chestra did the management give her, s Monday evening was the first time in he life she had sung with an orchestra. This shows how little interest is felt here in the debuts of foreln artists. Nothing more | unjust can be imagined than to make & | young girl go on the stage and sing before a critical audience without having allowed her one single orchestra rehearsal. Miss Parkinson was recalled three times after each act. TAKES CANADA FOR A MODEL | Would Put South Afriea | the Same mental Basis, Chamberl: on Govern. (Copyright, 1902, by Press Publishing Co.) | LONDON, Dec. 20.—(New York World Ca- | blegram—8pecial Telegram.)—The World | correspondent hears on the highest author- ' ity that Colonial Secretary Chamberlain's scheme for settling the South African prob- | the city with a liberal system of transfers. | lem 1s (o grant system of federal auton- | omy based strictly on the Canadian model. | Every beok of importance treating of the Canadian system of government was ob- taised for Mr. started and he has been diligently studying |them stnce. | pended wholly upon the milit iTR'ES Pittsbarg Man Held for Trial for Seek- | Chamberlain before he | Towa—Willlam Orchard, Gliddon; J. W. Foster, Humboldt; Willlam R. Boyd, Cedar Raplds; Alfred C. Harrls, Eldorado; Henry D. Overholt, Towa City; Willlam H. Need- m, Sigourney. Niinois—James P. Jack, Newton. Missouri—James Taylor, Fayette. " Bouth.Dakota—James A. Btewart, Edge. mont; John A. Bushfield, Miller. ‘The senate today confirmed the following nominations: Syrus Beebe, Iowa, to be an Indlan in- spector; A. M. Tinker, Massachusetts, In- dlan Inspector; Brigadier General Charles Heywood, marine corps, to be major gen- eral. Postmasters: Nebraska—D. M. McCleod, Schuyler. Illinois—James P. Jack, Newton; T. N. Crossman, Edwardsville; H. M. Martin Shelbyville. Oklahoma—C. F. Neerman, Stillwater; W. H. Campbell, Anadarko; William En- glish, Hobart; J. T. White, Lawton; M. A. Younkman, McLoud; W. C. Johnson, Gran- ite. Montana—S. Working, East Helena; W. E. Baggs, Stevensville. Colorado—D. A. Stone, Trinidad. South Dakota—W. H. Bonham, Deadwood. Californfa—G. W. Lovis, Redwood City; J. W. Short, Fresno; H. C. Thompson, Stanford university. Also several promotions in the navy and revenue cutter service. BLACKS LEAD LADRONES Negroes Discharged from Army Drill nd Organize Philippine Bandits. WASHINGTON, Dee. 20.—Advices from i Manila say the Ladrones which are har- | rassing the rural population are in many Instances led by negroes who have been discharged from the army and are employ- | ing thelr military knowledge in drilling and organizing the bandits. In the province of Bulacan it le under- stood that a band of 300 Ladrones led by an American negro are scheming to wi out the constabulary and that four miles out from the town of Caloocan four Amer- tcan blacks are engaged in drilling a large number of highwaymen in military tacties and training them in the use of firearms. Because of the increasing activity of the Ladrones the continued withdrawal and concentration of troops in the islands fs causing apprehension among the inhabi- tants of many provinces who have de- y for pro- tection. The Ladrones are said to be no- torlously bold and numerous in Rizal and the president of that province recently called on Adjutant General Helstand for reltet. T0 BRIBE CLERK ing Hidden Informa- tion, WASHINGTON, Dec. 20.—James Kifer of Pittsburg, Pa., has been indicted by the federal grand jury for attempting to bribe an employe of the office of the comptroller of the currency. He i alleged to have thus tried o secure a copy of certa’n records relating to the Pittsburg National bank after he had been refused the information by the comptroller. Ask Manila Franchise, WASHINGTON, Dec. 20.—Application has been made to the municipal board of Ma- nlla for the right to establish a frelght and passenger line into the city. It is proposed that the freight wagons shall carry from twe to six tons and passenger coaches s many as thirty-five passengers The line will penetrate every section of Teo Spend Sunday in Virginia. WASHINGTON, Dec. 20.—President Roosevelt, accompanied by Mrs. Roosevelt and four of their children left today for Rapidan, Va, . to snap4 Sinday with friecds. demic, will return here in a few days to | then be determined when to remove the | A commlittee from Chicago, headed by the | The Proving of Amnsements wmp Paddletord. nd Musie, rney to Bethlehem. & of Christmas Boxes. Hard Knocks at the Start of Life. Weekly Sporting Review. Mrs. Grant a Model Mother, For a Wet Hollda Ratlronds Wateh Ticket Seo Christmas Musteal Program; English Selects His Deputi In the Domain of Women. Story, “Seven Secrets.” Bachelor Girl in New York. Little Known Men of Genlus, Lore of Rare Colns. |27 Markets and Finane Temperature at Omahn Yesterday: Hour, Hour, m m m.. m.. m m m TRAIN SMASH California KILLS FIFTEEN Colllde, Many and Slaying Some., Flyers Injuring SAN FRANCISCO, Dec message from Byron Hot Springs says a rear-end collision occurred there tonight in which twenty-seven people were killed and Injured. About fifteen were killed. The Stockton Flyer ran into the “Owl" train which left this city at 4:30 this after- noon for Los Angeles. Most of the in- jured were passengers on the “Owl.' Twenty-seven Injured were taken to Byron Sprirgs. A report at midnight states that ten per- sons were killed. Of these one has been identified as Clar- ence Oluff of Fresno. The unidentified in- clude three women, one man, one Japanese boy, one Japanese man, two Chinese and one laborer. 20.—A telephone west of, Byron on account of the ‘engine breaking down. half a mile down the track to flag tha tockton local, which was following and which left Oakland Mole half an hour after | the dfeabled train. | The engineer of the following train an- swered the signals, but for some Teason not yet known he rushed his train along utterly disregarding the danger signals and crashed into the rear car of the dis- abled train. START: PENSION Oregon Railroand SYSTEM Provides for ployes Serving for Twenty Em- Years and Over, PORTLAND, Ore., Dec. 20.—Veterans in the service of the Oregon Railroad & Nav- igation company will receive the compli- ments of the Christmas season from | inaugurating the new pension January 1. The circular is and is dated December 25. It says: | On January 1, 193, the Oregon Rafiroad and Navigation company will establish a { pension system and provide the necessary funds for the same, the benefits of which | will accrie tc been twenty y pany's servl | age” neceasitating retirement | The amount of pension to be system on issued today those employes who hate rs continuously in the com- therefrom pald _any { continuous service with the company and ! his average monthly salary during the last ten years thereof. |WILL HONOR FOUNDERS’ DAY | Northwentern Declde Dedicate New Buildings on Anniver University to | | | y. CHICAGO, Dec. 20.—Northwestern uni- versity is making great preparations to celebrate the next anniversary of founders' day on January 28. The occasion will be of the new professional school buflding which has just been completed at & cost of over $900,000. The president of Yale will deliver the dedicatory address. ;BRYAN IS ON | Says He Has No Conference with Mex- fean Presidegt in OKLAHOMA, Dec. 20—~Willlam J. Bryan | was here tonight, on his way to Mexico. He stated in answer to an inquiry that a conference with President Diaz being the object of his mission was first brought to | his knowledge by newspapers, and that he 18 going on private business. Movements of Ocean Vessel At New York—Arrived: Cymrie, from Liverpool: Mongolian, from Glasgow; Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse, from Bremen, Bouthempton and Cherbourg; La Sav from Havre. Salled: Minnetonka, for Lo { don; Lucania, for Liverpool; Pairicia, for Hamburg via Plymouth and Cherbourg; Vaderlund, for Antwerp; Noordam, for Boulogne and Rotterdam; Ethiopla, Glasgow and Liverpool. At Yokohama—Arrived Maru, from San Francisco | for Hong Kong. At Hong Kong—Arrived: Tacoms via Yokohama At Queenstown-—Arrived New York, for Liverpool Merion, from Boston, for | proceeded At Bremen—8ailed: York At York Hallfa: Hong Kong Victoria, from Umbria, from and proceeded; Liverpool, and Neckar, for Lavery via M and St At_ Southampton—Satled: Philadely for New York via Cherbourg, and pas | Hurst Castie At Plymouth—Arrived: Kron Prinz Wil- | helm, from New York | At Crook Haven—Passed 4 New York, for Liverpool., saxonia, for New Salle Bavarian, for John ed Umbria, from Des. | The Owl traln was stopped about a mile | The brakeman was sent | the | company In the shape of a circular notice | > and who have reached an | { employe will depend on the length of his | { made memorable by the formal dedication | BUSINESS | for | v'a Honolulu, | New | to Navigation Pending Settle- ment of Present Troubles. WASHINGTON, Dee. 20.—Prosident Roosevelt has proposed to the allled powers that the Venezuelan dispute be submitted to the arbitration of The Hague tribunal, and they have replied with a counter pro- posal that President Roosevelt, himselt, arbitrate the issue. President Roosevelt does not wish to ac- cept the offer, however, feeling that he ’wnuld thus become at once judge, jury and | constable and would be under the moral | obligation to execute his own judgment; | and still, rather than see the dispute pro- ceed to extremes, it is probable he will reluctantly consent. It 1s believed that any decision he might | render would be sure to bring upon him the enmity of one or other of the parties [to the controversy, but to prevent blood- | shed, destruction of property and interfer- ence with great commercial interests, it is | belleved he will rest this providing his | suggestion anent The Hague court is re- tused Howen WIIl Sign Protocol. If an agreement is reached Mr. Bowen, representing Venezuela as a plenipoten- tiary, would sign, with the representatives of the allies, a protocol rtating that the case 18 to be submitted to arbitration; that Venezuela admits the right of diplomatic intervention on behalt of a claimant, a principal it has always resisted, and that the detalls of the arbitration shall be ar- ranged In a formal treaty which it pledges itself to sign. This treaty will provide in the greatest detalls for the security of for- elgn Interests against vexatious and ex- tortionate Interference on the part of the Venezuelan government hereafter and will insure the administration of exact justice in the settloment of claims and specifically relleve foreign residents of Venezuela from torced loans and persecution during revo- lutions. 1t is believed to bo a safe prediction that Mr. Roosevelt will renew his sugges- tion that the case be submitted to The Hague tribunal, adding to the urguments already cdduced that the United huving clalms of its own to the | amount of about §100,000 18 & party in futer- est, and 1t would be unfair to put him in the position of arbitrating his own claim. | The powers, on the other Land, claim [ that President Castro would feel lightly | bound by any decision rendered from The Hague, but would be certaln to heed a judgment delivered by President Roose- velt. It Is said at the State department | that no matter how these two proposi- tions are disposed of there will be no | backward step, and that an agreement ot | some kind which will bring about a peace- able settlement of the Venezuelan trouble will result from the present negotiations. | Ot course it President Roosevelt should accept the charge it s understood that | the ‘actual burden of arbitrating the { elaims would not be uadertaken by him | personally, but probably would, as is cus- tomary in such cases, confided to one of the trained secretaries of the department. Blockade is Proclaimed. LONDON, Dec. 20.-~The official proclama- tion of the blockade of Venezuela ports w | gazotted this morning and becomes effective today The text of the proclamation is as follows: FOREIGN OFFIC! Dee. 201t 18 hereby notificd that as the United States of Ven- ezuela have falled to comply with the de- {mands of his majesty’s government, a blockade by his majesty's naval forces of the ports of La Guayra, Carenero, Guanta, Cumana and Caripann ‘and the mouths of the Orinoco Is declared, and such blockade will_be effectively maintained from and after the 2th of December, subject to the allowance of following days of grace: For vessels sailing before the date of this notification from West Indian ports and ports or the east coast of the continent of America, ten days for steamers and twenty | dava for safling vessels From all other ports, twenty days for steamers and forty days for salling vesse For vessels lylng in the ports now de- clared to bhe ockaded, fifteen days. Vessels which attempt to run the biock- ade will render themselves liable to all measures authorized by the law of nations and by the respective treaties between his | matesty ana the different neutral powers. The Forelgn office says the blockade of the Venezuelan coast will not be relaxed until the powers enforcing their claims agree on a method for the arbitration of their respective cases and Venezuela shows a disposition to act sincerely. Stress fs 1a1d on the difficulty in view of the diversity of the claims in deciding on a method of presentation and on the nego- tiations which will be involved before a seltlement {s in sight. It is not definitely decided whether sep- arate cases can be embodied fn one docu- ment, should the projected arbitration take definite shape. It seems that the proposal to submit to President Roosevelt's arbitration ema- nated from the German government. The Forelgn office here says it has the strong est reasons for bellieving that he will de. cline to act as arbitrator. Allles Control Orinoco. (Copyright, 1902, by Press Publiehing Co.) CARACAS, Dec. 20.—(New York World Cablegram—Special Telegram.)—The .Ori- noco river continues in the possession of the combined European fleets. Two French gunboats reached La Guayra today, but one of these, Tronde, left later for Willem- stad, Curacao. A notification that the blockade of Ve- nezuelan ports by the allied powers would be made effective today was transmitted to the Venezuelan government this morning by the British consul at La Guayra, and | the rate of exchange !mmediately jumped | five points.* The people here are still {gnorant of tho J-nmn to the offer of arbitration, and the | government which is in possession of the reply, is puzzied by the wording, and, more- | over, cannot understand why, if Germany | and Great Britain bave accepted, the | blockade should be made effective the same day that thelr acceptance s announced Madame von Pilgrim-Baltazzi left for La Guayra today to rejoin her busband. She | Continued on Second Page.)