Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 25, 1902, Page 1

| ) ~ THE OMAHA DaAIlLY BEE. L ESTABLISHED JUNE 19, 1871. OMAHA, THURSDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 25, 1902—-TEN PAGES. OMAHA MAN IS HURT Tows Holiday Passengors Buffer in Oolli- Between Trains. COLORADO SPECIAL SMASHES FREIGHT Oatohes Rear Oars When Runaing Forty Miles an Hour. PASSENGERS GIVE WILLIAM BAY MEDAL ffravelers Apprecia: ROGERS, Neb., Dec. 24.—(Special.)—The Dolorado special, No. 11, on the Union Pa- eific, was wrecked here yesterday morning and soveral people seriously injured. The train was a little over an hour late, but the engineer, Willlam Bay, slowed down coming into town, and it was owing to- this 1 eastbound frelght was doing some switch- ing at the time and the engine and sev- eral cars had been taken onto the elevated track, leaving the remainder of the train on the sidetrack. The crew of the freight had caleulated on the passenger being later than it was and the engine was caught Just over the ewiich. The crew of the freight, including the emgine crew, seeing & collision was Inevitable, jumped and e caped injury. gineer Bay of tho passenger and he did not k Escaping steam obscured the view of En- see the danger or tho flagman sent back by the freight crew until it was too to stop the train, though its speed was mate- rially checked beforo the crash came by the Setting of the emergency brakes. The engine of the freiglit train was badly smashed by the force of the colllsion and that of the passenger was disabled so ) that another ome was pressed into service to take the train on. The injured: Willlam Bay, engineer of the Colorado special, Omaha, hips hurt, bruised and out. Charles Hodgsdls, fireman passenger, Jumped; spine hurt. A. W. Cole, Chicago, limbs brulsed, head cut. Miss E. M. Murray, Orchard, Cal., cut and bruised slightly. Mrs. M. J. Wilson, Lyons, Ia., right knoe Rnd head bruised. N. F. Reed, druggist, Ottumwa, Ia., back wreched. H. A bruised. The freight, eastbound, was about to take & slding when tho passenger, westbound, crashed Into it head-on. The Lwo engines were nearly demolished, the terder of the passenger telescoping the baggage car, and the dining oar was con- sidorably damaged. The passengers took up a subscription to buy a gold medal for Mr. Bay in recogni- tion of his bravery. Walton, traln porter, right hip Engineer's Story. Engineer Bay, who s at his home, 612 Bixteenth street, this ofity, was not very communicative on the subject of the ac- eldent which occurred near Rogers, but in Tesponse to questions sald: “No. 11, the Colorado speclal, was an hour and fifteen minutes late at Rogers Tuesday morning and as we reached that place a freight traln in charge of Engi- neer Tisher and Conductor 8 was tak- ing & siding to let us p Evidently some- thing was wrong with the alr, for the train 4ld not get in the olear when we came around the curve. We were running slowly with the air on and the traln was hardly moving when the collision occurred. My fireman, Charles Hodgson, jumped just be- fore the collision and my foot was on the step just as the ongines struck. I was thrown off and bruised up so that I could not continue the run. Hodgson was hurt in jumping, and it is believed that he in- Jured his spine and fs worse injured than I am. The traln was in charge of Con- ductor Arthur Blakely. He was standing in the atsles of one of the coaches when the trains met and was thrown against seat and his side brulsed. The crew of the frelght train had evidently seen the col- lsion was inevitable, for they had left the train before the orash. The wrecking crew was but fourteen miles from the scene of the nceldent working on the wreck which took place Monday at Ames crossing. Two englues were bel at light te Grand Island and o a short time these had been Attached to the two trains, the two dam- Aged engines removed from the track and the trains proceeded. Doctors were on the ground within twenty-five minutes of the Hme the accldent ocourred, but their ser- vices were little needed. POLICEMAN IS FOUND GUILTY Btands Guard in Full Uniform W Chicago Jewelry Store is Belng Looted. CHICAGO, Dec. 24.—Pollceman Patrick Mahoney was found “guilty” and Dan Cur- ran, a confederate, “not guilty" of bur- slary by a jury, which returned its verdiot in Judge McEwan's court today. . The burglary of Hagemann's jewelry store, with which the defendants were charged, netted the robbers $10,000, of which $7,000 waa recovered by the police. James Clark an accomplice were con- victed and served terms in the penitentiary. Upon his release Clark told a story to the state's attorney which resulted ia arrest of Curran, ;flm keeper, and Mahoney, & polices , well known and Tespected among his fellows. Clark testified that Mahoney in full unl form stood guard while the jewelry store was being looted. CHIEF ISAPRACHER IS DEAD ,"l-ou Oreek Indian Passes Away in Oklahoma, Aged Ninety Yenrs, GUTHRIBE, Okl, Dee. 24.—Chiet Isa- Pracher of the Creek Indians dled suddenly tonight at Okmulgee, I T, at the age of 90, © had been prominent fn Creek affaire xty yoars and was conneoted with treaty of @mportance between the lted States government and the Indians a that time. He was recently chosen to represent the tribe in Washington on matters of importance confected with the Creek nation. — t that the wreck was no worse. An| = TO King Geo s Officers to Ge te o ve the Actions of Lou BERLIN, Dec. 24.—The Lokal Anseiger today prints a dispatoh from Dresden say Ing that King George of Saxofiy has sent several of his high officials to Genoa to observe and report on the actions of the fugitive Crown Princess Loulse. The Protestant clergy hope that Berlin will bring pressure to bear for a divorce, The crown prince beat the crown prin- cess, according to an editorial statement in the Vossiche Zeitung, one of the most careful newspapers published in Berlin, which adds: “Thelr disagreements reached this crisis in June, after Prof. Gircn became the children's tutor. The princess at that time considered seeking a divorce and visited her best friend, Princess Theresa of Bavaria, who dissuaded her. The prin- , however, after returning to Dresden did not resumq martial relation: The sympathy of the people of Dresden seems wholly with the princess, who is of & cheerful, pleasure-seeking ' disposition. The crown princess loved to forment her, | forbldding her many books, among them | some by Tolstol, Zola and Nitszche. Prof. Andre Giron 1s deseribed as an {dealist of the extreme type. It is related that his family once considered confl’{n! his {n an asylum because he refused a lbg- | acy on the grounds of delicacy of teeling. DRESDEN, Saxony, Dec. 24.—It s re- | ported here that the crown princess of Sax- | ony left a written confession of her rel tions with M. Giron, together with a de laration of her unalterable intention of never returning to the Saxon court. The court has no official information to the present whereabouts of the princess, but it 16 known hero that she is going ta Men- tone, France, to reside. It is belleved that the pope will by ap- pealed to to grant an absolute diyerce. VIENNA, Dec. 24.—The princess, through M. Lachenell, a former presiaent of Swit: erland, has informed the Neuse Welnes Tageblatt that ehe intends to take immedi- ate steps to sequre a divoree, but will not return to Salzburg for fear of belag placed in an asylum. In two other letters to her intimate friend, Princess Therese of Bavaris, sho complains bitterly of her treatment at the Saxon court, where she always was sub- Jected to the strictest discipline, She says the official statements in her case are in- correct. HOMELESS PEOPLE FREEZING Condition of Survivors of Earth in Asiatic Russia it Pit- in ST. PETERSBURG, Dee. 24.—While full dotails of the recent earthquake disaster at Andijan, Russian Oentral Asia, are not obtainable, owing to lack of communica- tlon, the brief dispatohes received here de- scribe the situation as horrible. The temperature has fallen to the frees- ing point and thousands of persons are scotion; of the-sity . completoly destroyed.” Only one cotton gin and one church are standing. The first shock drove the Inhabitants gemerally in- doors, otherwise the loss of lite would have been much greal Notwithstanding the offers of free trans- portation, they are ramaining in the vicin- ity of the city, which will be rebullt. A substantial start has been made in the collection of a reltef fund. Andijan is a cotton centen and exports 40,000,000 pounds of cotton annually. The population, numbering 56,000 souls, was growing rapidi. The people were engaged in cotton raising and ginning. Of twenty gins nineteen have been destroyed. The people are not llke Ru They private owners of land, and town: The houses in Andijan are prineipally one story high and are bullt of unburned brick. The War department here informs your correspondent that everything is be- ing done to relleve the suffering and bar- racks in which the population will be housed are being built. A lotter s expeated here within a week. ‘The {l from Andijan ordinarily takes ten days to reach St. Petersburg. LEAVE LONDON FOR CHRISTMAS Exodus to the Country and Cont! Takes All of the Smart Set, (Copyright, 192, by Press Publishing Co.) LONDON, Dec. 24.—~(New York World Ca- blegram—8pecial Telegram.)—London has rarely been so thronged as during the last | ten days, when the crush of equipages and fashionable people in the West End equalled | that of the height of the season. Today | there was & general exodus to the country and abroad, the traffiic to Paris being quite unparalieled at any preceding Christmas. The king is keeping the testival in true country style at S8andringham, where he has @ large family party gathered together and is providing all manner of junketings for The ar- range: ta for the queen’'s dinner to the soldiers’ widows on Saturday are now com- plete, an act of kindness which it is an open secret the munificence of Sir Thomas Lipton enabled her to provide. The Anglo-American contingent has all left London. The duke and duchess of Manchester have gone to Paris. thur Pa, party at Chatsworth, which alse Includ Bir Charles Hartopp. Mrs. Chauncey and R er, Lady Newborough, are staying at Rufford Abbey with Lord and Lady Sa- vilo, where there is to be theatricals. Lord and Lady Essex are spending Christmas with their children at their villa in Cas. siobury Park, the mansion itself being MISSIONARIES NOT ALARMED Express No Fear Hecause of the War- lilke Movements of Gemeral Teng Fu Slang. LONDON, Dec. 24.—A dfspatch from Shanghat says the missionaries and others at the capital of the provi of Kaneu report that although General Tung Fu Slang is undoubtedly accumulating stores and men the local authorities attribute this action to his fear of arrest and do mot expect any agsression on his part. The Chinese officlals regard with sus- picion the circumstantial reports seriously organised rebellion morth of Mukdon, reference to which the Tar- tar gene in three Manchurian provinces recently memorialized the throme. Astor Alds Hospital, LONDON, Dec. 24.—William Waldort As- tor bas given $260,000 to bulld & new out- patient department for ¢ oepital . for sick chfldren in Great Strand street. It will be dedicated to the memory of his | ate daughter, Gwendoline, whe dled recently. WATCH CN Pmucess[uoun“ TRAINS w“)mnv Acnuns_ wss tameless. Cne bas been | the heads Other Defen s Im the Onse Are, > Men Die in Freight Bmash on Oolo- Ty, 1o & Beuthern, FREEHOLD, N. J., Dee, 34.—~Laura Biggar was acquitted and Dr, Charles C. Hendric! and Samuel Stanton, tormerly justice of the peace, were found gullty By the jury today in ths case against the defendants on the charge of having conspired to get contrel of the entire te of Heary M. Bennett, a caplitalist of Pittsburg, Pa, The Jury, which retired at 9:80 last night, remained out all night today asked thy court it the jury might conviet two of the defendants and acquit one. The oourt sald such & verdict would be legal and later In the day the verdiet, stated, wa turned. . MICHIGAN ENGINEER SNOW bu Kentucky Elevat, Alr, Pennaylva: Inte Fr. B Cars Wreoked in Limited Crashes TRINIDAD, Colo., Dec. 24.—Beven men were killed In a frelght wreck which oc- curred one and a half miles north of here on the Colorado & Southern about 6:15 this evening. The dead: ELMER PIERCE, Engineer. J. FOX, fireman on extra frelght. ~— M'DERMOTT, brakeman on extra. J. W. GOLDTRAP, engineer on regular treght. ~— KING, machinist on regular. ~—— DECKER, fireman on regular. L. F. RICHARDS, brakeman on regular. The injured: Fred Gilbert, | brutsed on head. | The cause of the accident, according to | & statement by the engineer of the extra train, was that the regular had been over- looked, the extra running without orders expecting to meet passenger No. 2 at Bowen, ten. miles north of here. At 6:37 extra No. 48, southbound freight, in charge of Conductor Bronson, pulled out of the yards here. Less than ten miles further |on, just as they wero rounding a sharp curve not more than a mile from the Col- orado & Southern yards, they saw regular freight No. 28 bearing down upon them not more than 100 yards distant. Before any of the seven trainmen could jump the two trains crashed together. Fourteen cars of the regular train were completely wrecked and seven of the extra demolished. Both | the engines are complete .wrecks. The & bodles of the dead are still under the wreckage. Crash in Blinding Storm. GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., Dec. 24.—During 8 heavy snow storm at 7:30 this morning, Detroit train No. 2 on the Pere Marquette rallroad, crashed into the rear end of Saginaw train No. 32, at McCord, a flag station fifteen miles east of here. Traln No. 82 left Grand Rapids at 7 o'clock, ten minutes ahead of No. 2. It was flagged at McCord and was just start- ing out again when No. 2 came along. The engineer of No. 2 did not see the rear lights of the Saginaw train until too tate of Bennett, who died recently, leaving & large fortune, as his wife and the heir of & child of Bennett, which she sald was born to her after his death and which soon died. Dr. Hendricks was her physician and the proprietor of a sanitarfum i which she id the child"was born. Stanton said he had united Miss Biggar and Bennett in mar- riage and a certificate signed by him played an important part in the ease. The cleim of Miss Biggar was contested by persons who lald claim to being the rightful heirs of Bennett and they made the charge of conspiracy. Under the will Miss ar was bequeathed a large part of the ate.” BUGGY TRUST FORMED NOW % Control of Ninety Per Cent of Pole and Shaft Factortes, riding on extra, badly AUBURN, N. Y., Dec. 24.—A combination of the shaft and pole companies of the country, to be known as the Ploneer Pole and Shaft company, has been incorporated in West Virginia with a capital of $3,000,000. The following companies have entered the combine: Kile-Ford company, Akron; the Bradley company, Ashtabula; the Troy Bending company, Trey; the Warner Pole and Shaft company, Clnclanati; the Wel- lington Bending company, Wellington; the Wellington Pole and Shaft company, Sid- ney; the Carroll Pole company, the Buck- -eye Manufacturing company, Anderson; the Anderson Pole and Shaft company, An- derson; J. H. Smith & Co., Muncie, . Ind the Memphis Bending company, Memphis, and the Campbell & Dean Manufacturing company, Tullahoma, Tenn. These factories turned out last year more ®16AR | POOL ROOM BLOWY T0 BITS Gasoline Tank Explodes at Hot Rprings, Arkansas, Wrecking Building, THIRTY-TWO PERSONS ARE BADLY INJURED Over Ome Hundred Watehing Ticker at Time of Disaster, Five of HOT 8PRINGS, Ark., Dec. 24.—By an ex- plosion of &As or gasoline this afternoon In the cellar of the Turf Exchange, a club house and poolroom operated by Cham- bers & Walker, the building was badly wrecked and thirty-two persons were in- Jured, twenty of whom are in a serious condition. The most serious were: R. C. Chambers, one of the proprietors; both legs and wrists broken. William Helwig, a blind bath house manager; both legs broken; will die. J. 8. Meeks, Hot Springs; badly brulsed and cut. Joseph broken. Kinnsy, Hot Springs; legs Finnegan, plumber, Hot Springs; both legs broken. James Cowen, Hot Springs; both legs broken, Willlam Metzger, a boy, Hot Springs; legs broken and skull fractured; will dfe. James Coughlin, plumber, Hot Springs; leg broken C. G. Parker, broken. Al F. Hotchkiff, Hot Springs, knee frac- tured. T. Kolpt, broken. H. George, legs broken. F. Cranfleld, Cineinnati; ribs crushed. Walter Powers, St. Louls Bugene Daly, broken. Thomas Phelan, telegraph operator, Hot Springs; badly cut. C. R. Donvelly, 890 State street, Chi- cago; forearm and knee broken; will die. J. C. Burch, Chicago; leg broken; not ex- Dpected to live. W. 8. McInterney, Louisville, Ky.; fn- ternal injurles; probably will dfe. Henry Lindsey, New York; injured about lower limbs. J. C. Crawford, Cincinnati; leg and wrist broken. Twelve others sustained slight brulses. Rooms Crowded at Time. When the explosion occurred about 4 Milwaukee; both legs Hot Springe; both legs legs broken, arm broken. Hot Springs; both legs late to stop his train. No cars were tele- scoped, although the force of the collision smashed platforms and threw passengers and train crew about serfously. The following were injured: Mrs. M. J. Kiley, Grand Raplds, than 90 per cent of the emtire product of the United States, The officers are: President, W. A. Sny- der; vice president, G, A. Lambert; secre- tary and treasurer, Frank N. Kiplin, about the head and chest. L. B. Cook, Noads, badly injured. YOUNG sTfl‘l‘_fl MARRIED ames Scoville, Clarksville, mail clerk, | son of Late Colorade Millionaire Weds BeSly, hipts Miss Josephine A. Larabee Grifth. badly hurt. Express Messenger y ) g E. A. Wood, baggageman, slightly cut on 4 i & OSHKOSH, Wis., Dee. 24.~Inasc Harrs Stratton and Miss Josephine A. Larabee were married this morning at the home. ot the bride’s mother. The groom 18 a son of the late Colorado millionaire. Considering the prominence of the couple, the wedding Was decidedly quiet In its character. out Traine Colllde in Afr. LOUISVILLE, Ky., Dec. 24.—8ix persons were Injured, several seriously, In a col- lislon between a street car and a Big Four freight train on a siding on the Water street trestle in this city today. The ele- vated¥bar was thrown from the trestle to the ground, eighteen feet below. There were no decorations in the parlor The injured: where the ceramony was performed and R New - ATeny, | e e TRl PR mediate relatives, Willlam N. Cooley, A col- lege chum of the groom, was_present. Fol- lowing the wedding, a dinner was served 'n the dining room, where mno decorations were to be found. Mr, Stratton gave his business as a. banker at Colorado Springs. The' couple left tor the west at X o'clock. —_— NATION BEGINS TO BUILD World's Falr Fe 1 Structure Wil Be Started in & Few * Days. August E. Rater, New Albany, bruised. W. T. Adams, chief of police, New Al- bany, back wrenched and bruised. Frank Trunk, New Albany, cut by glass. ‘Walter Deer, New Albany, bruised.. Brack Spice, Big Four switchman, hurt. Bad Wreck on Pennsylvania. PITTSBORG, Dec. 24.—The Pehnsylvania limited, running almost an hour late, crashed into the rear end of the Leetsdale accommodation train at Quaker Valley sta- tion tonight at 11.9'clock. The big engine of the limited plowed into the rear car, which was pushed through the ome ahead, making the two cars the length of one. supervising architect of the Treasury de- The crash’was heard for a mile, and the | partment, to superintend the erection of limited, running at the rate of Afty-five | the United S government bulldings at miles an hour, carried the train from |the Louisfana Purchase exposition. Mr. Quaker Valley to Edgeworth, almost half | Strickler reached the city today and had a mile, before it could be stopped. Many | a conference with the director of works. . were injured, some of them probably fa- | The site for the bulldings is now being tally. prepared and will probably be ready for the The fnjured: commencement of operations within fifteen Charles Hopkino of Leetsdale, left arm |days, If the weather conditions are fa- mangled and cut off, left leg broken and | vorable. left eye gouged out; badly bruised; will dle. | The government propos to erect a large | Johd D. Carson of Sewickley, nose broken, | main exhibit palace and a fish pavilion. badly cut and bruised; serious. For both of these bulldings the contract | John Stritzeyer of Newcastle, both legs | has already been closed. | ST. LOUIS, Dec, 24.—Gratz B. Strickl, igned by James Knox Taylor, [ BT Potter, restdence not ascertatnea, |WILL SURROUND NERO'S DEEP bruised and cut about the head and body. — | M. J. Joyce of Leetsdale, right leg broken | Pacific Cable Cannot Or Deepest | and badly bruised and cut by falling glass. e o apar g il ; Many other passengers were cut and Bed. brulsed. The limited was uninjured ex- cept that the engine was disabled. RONOLULY, e 17—(Vle B Pra ) : . 17.—(Via San n- Vw0 o S N eisco, Dec. 24.)—8. 8. Dickinson, special BLOOMINGTON, I, Dec. 24.—While |agent of the Commercial Paclfic Cable ! crossing the Big Four tracks near Irving- | company, ' returned today / from Mantin. {ton today Isaac MacCormick and Robert | atter choosing cable landing sites at Mid. Conmore, farmers of Champagne county, | way {sland, Guam and Manila. He also were struck by a passenger traln. Mac-|surveyed a route around Nero deep, a {Cormick was killed and Conmore probably | hole In the ocean bed between Guam and tatally injured Midway, where the survey ship Nero re- Hoth Tralus Dem: od. ported to be tre greatest ocean dev? in the world. NARSRTA. O, Do S0-The erth] Cob ™ Shioian’s tovet wont' Sows 6308 bound Olle River railroad passeager train, | dissoy™ar this polnt. and_ then e oo lsaving Willismstown at 9:80, collided with | 99002 Yerng o5 betos deomad oot a freight one mile south of Waverly, W. vrvn e sqg- Bop S e Brng | Va., this morning. The frelght was taking | * C" ™™ 4 rights allowed to the passenger train. Both REPORTER MAKES 8|G HAUL engines and trains are reported demol- Old Milwaukee New; per Man Of- ished and perhaps killed. fered Two Million Dollars for A. J. Queen of M; tta is among the se- riously injured. Physiclans from Marietta have been dispatched to the scene. el les from Marfett: MAY PREVENT AN ELECTION . BAULT STE. MARIE, Mich, Dec. 24— Chase 8. Osborn, state rallroad commis. sioner, who not many years ago was a re- | porter on the Milwaukee News, and his soclates have been offered $2,000,000 for | their iron ore properties in the Sudbury distriet, north of thé Canadian Soo. The offer to purchase is sald to come from the Clergue nterests, and is one rea- s0n the loan of $3,500,000 by & Lake Superior company has just been concluded. MISSOURIAN _ASKS RECOUNT DENVER, Dec. 24.—The state canvass- ing board today swarded the certificate of election as representative in the d puted San Juan distriet to C. A. Cooper, republican. The house will contain thirty-four repub- Mcans and thirty-one demBerats and the senate eleven republicans and twenty-four democrats. The republican leaders are planning to unseat fifteen democratic members-elect of the house on the ground of fraud and thus secure & majority on joint This step, if taken, will in & deadlock ST. LOUIS, Dec. 24.~George C. R. W ballet. oner, who is contesting Mr. Butler's elee mpuhilr result | tion, will on Friday make formai applica- Commissioners between the And sen- | tion to the Board of for a which may preveat the election of recount in the sixty-four precinets of the United States senator. A | TWeltth congressional district, A | this afternoon the room was crowded with tore than 100 persons. Just as a race at New O 8 was being called by the operator the floor rose and @ terrific explosion threw the building to the ground. The upper floor and the brick walls fell on the struggling mass of men. The entire house looked as though a tor- nado had plowed through its center. The front glass windows were broken and both sldes of the structure were shattered by the concussion, & - The nows of the disaster spread rapidly and soon Central avenue was jammed with Reports were current that sev- .eral persons had been killed. The police and firemen took charge of the building, and the work of rescue began. Men were pulled from under the debris in a terribly shattered state. One of the most pitiable sights was when Billy Helwig, the blind manager of the Lamar bath house, was taken from the ruins. Helwlg is widely known to thousands of visitors who visit the Springs annually. R. C. Chambers, one of the proprietors of the Turf exchange, is one of the lessees of the Fort Erle race track. His condition is serious. The woundedl were taken in charge by the local physiclans and every- thing is belug done to alleviate their suf- ferings. It is said that a driver of a gasoline wagon was filling a tank in the cellar when the explosion occurred. The police have made a full investiga- tlon, and arrested Ben Murray, who is al- leged to be responsible for the disaster in carelessly handling the high combustible. The bank roll of the pool room, consist- ing of $56,000, was blown away, but the greater part of It has been recovered. RICH MINE A OWNER MISSING Wander Into Camp and mterpreted that He has Been Murdered. SAN BERNARDINO, Cal., Dec. 24.—John Doyle, a wealthy miné owner, has been missing for two weeks and foul play iIs suspected. Doyle left Gray's Landing, on | the Colorado river, well provisioned for a ! trip to Salton, nine miles distant, to take the places of twenty Mexicans who had refused to work, A week later Doyle animals wandered everything intact. | pack and saddle | into Ehrenburg with Ebrenburg s in an op- posite direction from Salton and it is sur- mised that some of the Mexicans waylaid | and killed Doyle and led the animals to- ward the Mexican settlement to conceal lha‘ crime. | Doyle was the largest owner In the rich group of gold mines at Gray's Landing and was well known. His disappearance stops negotiations for the sale of the mines to a Pittsburg syndicate. AIM OF WOMAN IS DEADLY Fires Once at Ma. da KN Instantly is Acquitted by Coroner Jury. BRADFORD, Pa., Dec. 24.—At Olivedale, a small humlet near here, yesterday after- roon, Mrs. Edward Burdick Mot John Ryan dead In defense of her honmor. Ryan entered the woman's apartments during her husband's absence. She saw hlm! coming, and fearing trouble, got the pfstol | out of a drawer and held it under her apron. When he attacked she fired once at her as- ilant, killing him instantly. | A coromer's jury returned a verdiet of fustifiable homicide. Ryan, who was a la- | MOvem. s Dee. 24, | borer employed about. the place, had been | At New York—Arrived: Cevie, from drinking heavily for several days. Liverpool. Salled: 8$t. Louls, for’ South- ampton; Cymrie, for Liverpool. BOYS FOUND FROZEN TO DEATH Had Rusn Away from Chicagoe Indus- 1 Home and We Rockford. Golng WOODSTOCK, 11, Dee. 24.—Hiling Holm and Frank Smith, aged 8 and 10 years, re- epectively, were found frozen to death in & cornfield near here today, and t com.- panion, Arthur Carlson, aged 10, was found bedly frozen, but alive. The boys ran away from the Chicago Industrial Home here on Monday, having told their companions that they were going to spend Christmas at their former bome in Rockford. Small Fire Nearly ¢ ery’'s condition at 10 o'clock tonight shoyed slept from 6 o'clock until nearly 8. suring that her physicians were inclined to | entertain hopes NEBRASKA MAN IS KILLED One of Ten Wi SINGLE COPY THREE CENTS, CONDITION OF THE WEATHER Forecast for Nebraska—Fair in East, Snow In West Portlon Thursday; Continued Cold; Friday Warmer, With Fair in South and Sriow in North Portion. Temperature at Omaha Yesterday: Hour, D, ». » » ». ». ». ». weasmemd cavzzEa »|canasss GAIN IN COURT Fresh Bankr Instituted and Fraud is Alleged. ey Proceedings Are TRENTON, N. J., Dec. 24.—A new suit was instituted in the United States court today to have the National Salt company adjudged bankrupt. A former suit was dls- missed by Judge Kirkpatrick because of proccedings instituted in the New Jersey court of chancery for the appointmént of receivers. . The complainants in the present case are James P. Lee of Tuxedo Park, Willlam H. Berger of New York and Ophella T. Jones of Brooklyn, who allege that in August, | when the officers of the company were cognizant that it was insolvent, they trans- terred property to the value ot $1,202,000 to Milo M. Belding for $450,000, who was aft- erward permitted to obtain judgment for $238,000 for a balance claimed as a creditor, It is charged that this claim was purely | “‘colorable” and in the interest of the In- ternational Salt company, with which he was connected. PAPER CAPITAL NO GOOD 0il Company Promoter Arrested for Using Mafls with Intent to Defraud. CHICAGO, Dec. 24.—Willlam Baer Ewing, secretary of a concern known as the Standard Oil Promotion and Investment company, has been arrested here by post. office inspectors under an indictment re- cently returned against him in San Fran- clsco. He is charged with having used the mails with Intent to defraud, and many perso: are sald to have invested money in his company under representatifons that it had a subscribed capital of $2,600,000 and money on deposit in San Francisco banks and that men of large means had united in the venture to promote the ofl in- dustry of the Pacific coast. Ewing was taken before a United States commissiore. today, when the hearing wi continued until Frida CAB DRIVERS GO ON STRIKE Men Turn Their Rigs In the Barns Promptly at Midnight. ST.LOUIS, Dec. 25.—Promptly at mid- night 250 cab and carriage drivers all over the city turned in their rigs beause of the fallure of their employers to grant a demand for' higher wages. About eighty- five liverymen and undertakers are affected by the strike. There are 570 members of the local union of cab d carriage drivers. As a number of the largest ‘firms of liverymen and under- takers complied with the demands their drivers did not go out. HILL TRAVELS THROUGH SNOW | Broken Wires Lead to Fears that Mag- Would Pass Christmas in Drift. nate ST. PAUL, Dec. 24.—James J. Hill re- turned tonight from a trip to the Pacific coast. A blizzard has been raging through- out North Dakota and, as the telegraph lines were down, no word could be re- celved from Mr. Hill's special train, and it was fearsd that it might be enow- bound. It weathered the storm, however, and arrived at St. Paul only a few hours late. SMOKE SMOTHERS ORPHANS wes Tragedy in Louisville Presbyterian Asylum. LOUISVILLE, Dec. 24.—A small blaze in the storeroom of the Presbyterlan asy- lum in this city tonight caused a panic among the inmates. The Building filled with smoke, But the | matron managed to get all the children out sately with the exception of two little boys, who were rescued by a fireman after they had been almost suffocated. MRS. DOCKERY IS BETTER Governor's Wife Sleeps Two Hours and Doctors Are More Hopeful. ;wmle the president wi JEFFERSON CITY, Dec. 24.—Mrs. Dock- | improvement. No oplates have been given for the past seven hours and tonight she The appearances tonight ware so reas- | for her recovery, e Lives Are Blotted Out by Premature Explosion of Dynamite, | SAPULPA, I T. Dec. 24.—While working on the Arkansas Valley & Western grade twelve miles northwest of Sapulpa, two ! men were killed and ome wounded by g | premature” efplosion of dynamite. The | dead are Willlam Corry of Nemaha, Neb., and John Flyon of South MeAlester, I, 7T At Bcllly—Passed: New Mant New York, for London, stn. Son t lasgow—Arrived: Laurent| Ney Sase urentian, from YA‘k Bremen—Arrived: Cassel, from New or At Bouthampton—Arrived: St. Paul, from New Jork. | At Antwerp—Arrived: Finland, from New York. 8alledy Bwitzerland, for Philadel phia. At Ldverpool—8ailed: Havreford, for Phil- adelphia; Teutonie, for New York, o ™! At Sydney—Arrived: Ventura, from San Franclsco via Honoluiu and Auckland, Hamburg—8ailed: Anubls, for San At Hong Kong—Arrivéd: Athentan, Vancouver via Honolulu and Yokohama: Empress of ina, from Vancouver via Yokohama At London—Salled: Mesaba, for New York. At Naplca—Salled: Vancouver. for Boston. At from REQUESTIS RECEIVED Roosevelt Now Has Definite Preposal to Arbitrate Veneruelan Treuble, TOO EARLY FOR ANSWER TO BE MADE President Wants Time to Examine Docu- ments Before Replying. WILL NOT LONG DELAY HIS DECISION Blookade Oonstitutes Ever Present Dayger Which Executive Would Remove, REBELS ANNOY CASTRO GOVERNMENT Revolutlonary Leaders Plan to Take Caracas Now Armistice is Over and Country 1is Disrupted by Forelgn Complicat WASHINGTON, Dec. 24.—~The proposals of Great Britain and Germany that Presi- dent Roosovelt arbitrate the Venesuelan dispute have reached Washington. They are in such form that the president can accept or reject the proposition out- right. So far, the messages having been recetved absent from the WRite House, he has had no opportunity to consider them. and until he does 8o his de- cision cannot be known. For the same reason the information can- not be gathered here as to tho detalls of the proposals, and although great interest is felt here as to the extent of the limita- tlons which the allles will ask to bo placed on the arbitration, curlosity on that point must remain unsatisfied until the president has finally made up his mind what he will do. Declsion Will He Speedy. It 1s known that he is disposed to act with all speed In this matter, for he realizes that the conditions on the blockade line are uch that almost any moment an unpleas- ant incident may occur through the ob- stinacy of some skipper or from a genuine misunderstanding as to the terms of t| blockade which may diminish the chances of a peaceful settlement of the Venezuelan troubles. The Navy department up to noon had re- celved no word from Commander Dichl of the Marietta concerning his reported pro- test agalust tho action of the blockading squadron at Caracas in refusing to allow the Red Diamond liner, Caracas. to remain in the harbor yesterday lcng enough to dis- charge its cargo, No request for instruc- tions has come from him. The officials of the department have en- tire confidence in Commander Diehl's abil- ity to handle the situation, and unless they hear something from him in the shape of & protest against the action of the allies, they will make no move. As a rule, it is agreed that a blockading fleet can do pretty much as it Ik It is intimated, as a possible reason for the position taken by the allies in declining to allow Carucas to remain in the harbor at night, that at dark it would be Qifficult to exercise any surveillance of what was being taken out of its hold. For the same reason the allies may have aecided that it should not return to the harbor today, but should take on its pas- sengers outside, Rebels Growing Active, WILLEMSTAD, Ieland of Curacoa, Dee. | 28.—(By Boat from La Guayra.)—The revo- lutionists, etrengthened by the impossibil- ity of the government's s.ppressing the smuggling of arms and ammunition into the country, and by the fact that it has no longer any fleet at its disposal, have made answer to President Castro's proposition that they turn their arms:agalnst the for- elgners who have attacked Venesuela by referring him to General Matos, thelr only chief capable of dealing with the matter. The rebels have regained courage. The government, which signed with them am armistice of ten days, which ends tomor- row, has 3,600 men at Barquisimeto and 2,600 near Caracas, but all others who had enrolled themselves to fight against the foreigners have retired. The revolutionists have planned a march on Caracas by three roads. Ramos, Antonio G ra, Urbaneta and Penaloz, with 2,500 men, will march via Guatire. Antonio Fernandez, Osio and Crespo Torres, with 2,500 more, have left Camanagus, and General Rolando, with 2,600 troops, will go from Alta Gracia Awmmunition is expected to arrive every day near Tucacus. The situatioh for President Castro s considered to be again perflous. Attacked by foreigners and his own countrymen, he can with dificulty resist the shocks, as the government’s resources have vanished. The president’s departure for La Victoria is for the purpose of trying to check the near advance to the capital of the revolu- tionists. Geperal Matos will le Curacoa shortiy. Passengers Are in Quandery, LA GUAYRA, Dec. 24.—(New York World Cablegram—Special Telegram.)—The Duteh steamship Prins Willem II, which left New York on December § for Hait! and Venes- uela with a general cargo, largely pro- visions, was stopped by warships on reach- ing the line of blockade off this port to- day. The commander of the allied squad- ron refused to allow the vessel to land its cargo, but gave permission for passengers and mails to go ashore. The La Guayra port authoriti how- ever, wouid not let the passengers land or re-embark because the steamship's agents here declined to pay the port charg which would have to be paid if the cargo had been discharged at the whart. The Venezuelan officials ridicule blockade. They say the country sustaining and that thie greatest suf by the foreign blockade are the forelgn merchants. Complications are arising over merchant vessels as the allies are making new regulations every day. The allies have captured ten small Ve.' uezuelan vessels, worth all told perhaps $60,000, and now have them anchored bo- tween the warships. The Venezuelan soldiers who have been encamped in the mountains behind La Guayra since the allied warships ‘came have gone to La Victorla, forty miles southwest President Castro s watching the threatening movements of the revolutionist: the solf- ers CARACAS, Dec. 24.—The steamer Cara- cas was cruising today before La Guayra. The steamer Merida of the same Hne has left Willemstad, Curocao, for Maracaibo, where it will attempt to ascertaln whether the blockade is effective. There s much indignation among the people of La Guayra with Signor de Riva and Herr von Pilgrim-Baltassl, who are considered responsible for the bombard. ment of Puerto Cabello. The envoys proms