Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 12, 1903, Page 1

JUNE OMAHA, MONDAY JANUARY MORNING STABLISHED 2, HOLDUP MEN TRY SALOONS [CONDITION OF THE WEATHER| e Man ix Killea, . B and Engineer 19, (\TILH”\ I\l “[ ” (SULTAN REARRESTS BROTHER | Moroeenn Ruter, “Jentoun of Relative’ »| 1908, WATCH THE LEASING BILL Other States Interested in’ Effort Being Make Raids on Stors Place at Browery and | nd Warmer in East Portlon Made by Nebraska Members. Ostrander's on Fifteenth, MADRID, Jan. 11.—A "4 F] Lib CHEYENNE, Wyo.,, Jan. 11.—(Special ” el trom Teeme oy ia1 | VIRGINIAN REMEMBERS CORRESPONDENTS | elcgrars.) Two freight trains met nead: | GET AWAY WITHOUT ANY DIFFICULTY | Feporth frum Fer dsciess (e TN ,' > — on near Harper's Station shortly after 4 | arrested brother, Mulal Hafg Y o'clock this morning. Fireman Scalill of |y " 1 | Representatives from All Parts, with 8fx | Whose popularity he s jealous . et y Brakbman H. 8.|° e R Mt koo | ENGINEER OVERLOOKS SIGNALl Trains Collide and ¢ One Fa HOLD UP COAL CARS Ohicago Dealers and Railroad Men Faoce @rave Charge. t r Monday esday Falr yrecast Warmer 1 % T ansa) Oity Makey Elaborate Plans to Greet i Oonvention Delegates. SEVEN THOUSAND VISITORS EXPECTED More dy Popularity, ¢ ce Places Sertonsly Injured. Temperature at Omaha Yesterday: Hour. Dew. nom oo 8 a om.. o " | n o AGENTS TOLD TO DELAY FUEL IN TRANSIT [} @ ~ of Eating Which Are 0 Cheyenne was killed Btate Governors, Will Assemble. LIVE STOCK ASSOCIATION HAS BIG EVENT Will Hold Five Days’ Session Oommencing Tomorrow Moming, WOOL GROWERS AND RAILROAD MEN MEET Twenty Thousand Dollars Spend on » Rendy to Inborate Entertainment on All Attracted to Varlous Gatherings. NBAS ments have tirnal Live Stock assoclation, which, with its adjuncts, the National Wool association and the National Assoclation of Railroad Live Stock Agents, will conventfon In this city on Tuesday threo conventions will attract directly connected with them, beside a host of others Interested in the live stock business. A fund of $20,000 has been ralged for the entertainment of the visitors and every of their time here will crowded with incident The live stock convenilon will begin its scesions on Tuesday morning in the Cen- tury theater, and hold sessions there alse on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday wool growers will meet on Saturday at the Live Stock exchange, and the railroad men will meet at the Coates house on Wednes- day and Thursday. The nearly all members of the big organization, and will participate in its convention Concluding the week there will excursion to New Orleans in a special train, open to all The convention proper will be called to order by John W. Springer, president of the assoclation, who will then deliver his an- nual address. This will be followed by the annual report of the secretary, Charles F. Martin, and the annual report of the ex- ecutive committee. The program for tho convention contains some exceptionally able addresses, and is full of general inter- est. Besides these there will be some lively debates on notable subjocts of gen- eral concern. The visitors' ball, next Wednesday night, will be the finest function of that sort Kan- sas City has ever attempted. The grand march will be led by President Springer and the governors of states, half a dozen of whom will be present. The climax of tho festivities will be reached on Friday night, when there will be a huge minstrel sho'y in Convention hall and a theater party for the women at Gertrude Berkeley’s play house. Plans are practically completed for the annual convention of the Natlonal Asso- clation of Retall Grocers and General Mer- chandise, which is to be held hore on Tues- fay, Wednesday and Thursday of this week, About 500 delegates are expected and they will be the guests of the Kansas City Re- tail Merchants* assoclation ACQUIT HOUSTON OF MURDER Jury Requires Only a Few Minutes Its Ver- cITY, been Jan, 11A-All arrange- meet in The 7,000 persons minute be to Arrive at diet. \ GERING, Neb., Jan. 11.—(Special.)- fury In the case against young Walter Houston, who was charged with the murder of Clarence Fullerton on October 5 last, has returned a verdict of acquittal, affer being out only a few hours. No one ex- pectad the verdict to be cne of murder in the first degree, as thore were some miti- gating circumstances. The cattle stealfng case agalnst Bpot” Hurlburt was dismissed after evidence disclosed the fact that the brand of the complaining witness was not re- corded with the State Brand commission. Mrs. Haynes, a well known ranchwoman southwest of Alllance, was the complaining witness. W. P. Powell, a drayman at Scotts Bluft, as almost instantly killed in a runaway last night. His brother, Evan Powell, was also seriously, but not fatally hurt. Powell Ilved only an hour after the aceldent. He was a married man and had a family “Four- perfected for the Na- | " | 1t to return to Tan Growers' | | Benim-Hara tribe The | wool growers are | be an! | was Tho | set the | LONDON Daily Furopeans o Jan. 12.—-A dispatch to e Express from Tangler says all the ez have loft and that the forelgn consuls will follow immediately. A dispatch to the Morning Leader from Tangler says the sultan has left Fez with his army and Is awaiting the at the Zetu river. The sultan’s uncle, Mulhai Arafa, has arrived at Tangier and is seek ing to raise The imperfal troops are badly armed and unreliable, while the rebel soldiers are well organized and better armed The Times ent at Tangier says e sultan has appealed to the governors of all districts, including Tangler, for men and arms. The general situation fs cer- tainly not improving. A caravan of the customs here to the sultan at Fez was met by an imperial messenger, who ordered nd awalt a cavalry wese unsafe. The Hazan, has driven now rebel one orrespon mu escort, as the r away its governor. PARIS, Jan. 11.—A dispatch to the Jour- nal from Tangler says the sultan has made known his intention of abandoning Fez and refuge at Rabat, where he will es- h his capital r recelved from Fez says the consuls there have left Casa Blanea. A le eign tor for Rabat or Ministers of foreign powers have held & | who stands in most need of this ne meeting to concert measures common action, but it is not decision was reached. TANGIER, Morocco, Jan. 11.-~The depart- ure of the five women missionaries, four of whom English, from Fez for Tangier ad been long meditated and was mot an outcome of new developments. Many sensational reports are current hore of affairs in Fez, but there is little reliable information to be had satisfactory feature that the tribes to the south of Fez are remaining quiet Seven Jews have been murdered in Haina reglon, suspicious of the movements of his brother, Mulai Mohammed and keeps the loyal horsemen from the south around his per- son Instead of sending them against the rebels. Heavy rains now threaten to fn- in view of known what are the | terrupt communication with the interior of the country. ASSASSIN Man Who F IS MERELY MAD Anarchists, MADRID, Jan. 11.—Felto, the man who fired at the royal procession yesterday, was examined today. His bearing during the questioning confirmed the previous reports | that he Is suffering from monomania. A careful official inquiry has shown that he is not connected with anarchists. The king has received a host of royal or other congratulations on his escape. A dynamite bomb sent here by rail in a box from Barcelona has been found at the railway station, but all attempts to dis- cover its sender have been fruitless. The box reached here the day before the funeral | of Senor Sagasta and s supposed to have been intended for use during the passage of the funeral cortege. When Feito fired, the queen mother and the Infanta were much alarmed. The king very cool, however, and inquired if anyone had been hurt. After belng in- formed to {he contrary he chatted the civilian governor, who walked alongside the royal carriage, giving bis majesty tho detalls of the outrage. Upon arriving at the palace the king im- mediately repaired to a balcony to watch the excited populace. The queen was in the meantime so up- that physicians had to be called to attend her. Feito was confined for nearly a year in a lunatic asylum at Buenos Ayres and since he returned to Spain, last June, has | lived chiefly in Madrid, vainly seeking em- ployment, often changing his abode and al- ways atiracting notice by his reticence and gloomy aspect. He pestered people in high positions for protection and wrote to this end to King Alfonso and other sovoreigns. He was several times employed as a servant In aristocratic houses, even \v«us always dismissed as crazy. Feito alleges that the Argentine govern- taking money from | It is considered a | The sultan Is reported to be | with | but’ srvable in Capital Hestaurants ~Ple a Staple Article of Diet. (From a Staff Correspondent.) WASHINGTON, Jan. 10. — (Special.) — [Thnrn 18 no subject that is commanding greater attention from western delegations In congress than the grazing bill which the sbraska delegation is now interested in formulating It s tacitly agreed that no | keneral bill looking to the leasing of the unoccupled public domain can pass con- | gress, and consequently legislators have been racking their brains to hit upon some measure that will give the big cattle grow- ers grazing arew and at the same time safe- guard the fnterests of the government | While legislators differ as to the terms of | the measure, which is designed v smend existing public land laws insofar as leasing | 18 concerned, there is not one who does not recognize the need and the importance of | some such_bill, in view of the millions | which the growers of cattle have invested The homesteader has rights which the gov ernment is bound to protect, and it is this | protection that worrying legislators | Cheap beet is as essemtial as cheap coal {and in order to bring the price of beef | down to the pockets of the workingman it has been argucd that a conservative leasing bill would be of incalculable benefit, | not only to the government, but to the cattle growers as well, in that it would | insure them rights of entry on the public | lands of the nation which are now denied them. Nebraska has been one of the states most vitally affected by the laws relating to the | public lands. It has been the seat of a most pronounced war against cattle own- | ers, and it is now in the public to a | larger degree than any of the other west- | ern states by reason of the recent efforts put forth by the Interior department in en- forcing existing regulations. One of the | men who is most vitally interested in this gislation is Major John F. Lacey, chair- man of the house committee on public lands, who expresscs tke hope that son measure will be evolved that will have the support of congress .hich, while protect- ing homesteaders, will at the same time permit the leasing of Nebraska lands under proper regulations. Remembers the Press Gang. For the past eighteen years the men who are entitled to admission to the press gal- ry of the house have annually experi- | enced the joy which seizes the country | editor when the first basket of strawberries are placed upon his desk by an appreci- ative subscriber. Eighteen years ago Harry | Libbey of Virginia represented the Norfolk | district in congress. He was a popular man and an enthusfastic believer in the | supertority of the oysters grown in Lynn | Haven bay at the mouth of the Potcmac. Mr. Libbey sent to his home and secured a few gallons of these famous oysters, which were served in the press gellery to all who | cared for them. Since that time he has | annually repeated the process, but now in- stead of two or three gallons he sends a whole barrel. The oysters for 1903 were “shucked” on Wednesday last in Norfolk and they reached Washington on Thursday morning. For the hour between 1 and 2 | o'clock on the same atternoon not a news- | paper writer was to be found in any of the | corridors or the committes rooms which | they usually haunt at that time of day. More than 150 men were busily engaged in disposing of raw oysters in the press rooms in the rear of the gallery. Not one man in twenty among those who participated In the oyster orgle ever saw Harry Libbey, but each was willing | swear that he 18 a keen judge of the quali- ties of an oyster and that he had picked | out about as fine a lot as ever grew in the | shallow waters of the bays of the lower | Potomac. | There are other gatherings of this kind constantly occurring in the restaurants of the house and the semate. About once a year Senator Mitchell of Oregon sends to these restaurants & large box of Columbia | river salmon and on that day the propri- etors of the lunch rooms find very little business for thelr cooks other than the preparation of these superb fish. Then, too, some of the southern senators and members CLOTHES AND MONEY GONE | ment robbed him of hundreds of thousands have lately been engaged in educating the Officers Arrest Man at Fremont with | Stolen on His VALLEY. Neb, Jan. 11 —(Special Te gram.)—At au early hour this morning E A. Doherty, a boarder at the Valley house, discovered he had been robbed of his best suit, overcoat and $2 He, Leach and the Valley bloodhounds, a stranger, to where he boarded a wes und freight They were followed to Fremont with a te and with Sheriff Bauman they found man, with the stolen clothes on and $17 ance had been spent in a sporting house th Ethertun had been suspicioned by the Fre- mont officers for some tjme. He rested and put in the Fremont trial will be held at Valley JUSTIFIED was ar- Jall Monday While Megnl Arrest. wan He Discharg Stew Rexisting JACKSOD Jan oft was t having shot when the . Mich 1 yrge Smith latter was in company without & warrant Judge Peck, in charging the Sleloff had a right to use all force to protegt himself, to arrest him without a tuted assault and battery COLORADO ITALIANS Feud Breaks Out in jury as the warrant Amclent Camp and Leads to Free Shooting. TRINIDAD, Colo., Jan message recelved from camp, elghteen miles north of this veports & fight between two factions Italians. One was killed, having b six times, and several others were The fight was the oulcome of a 1n—A Hastings, & elty injured camp for several years with Marshal | tratled whose room was found vacant, who proved to be Charlos Etherton, | The bal- | guest His | peror of IN KILLING MAN/ ~Fredrick Sell- y acquitted of manslaughter in | September | with | officers who were attempting to arrest him | sald necessary | attempt consti- FIGHT telephone | coal ot n shot of pounds and imprisoned him when he instituted suit to recover the money. S!:EK TO HEAL ROYAL FEUD Trip to Italy Dificulties with Aust Kalser's May Smooth ve an Court, ROME, Jan. 11—The visit of Emperor Willlam to the Italian court next April may be the means of smoothing ‘over the long standing difficulty between Ausiria and Italy. The difference arose over the failure nperor Francis Joseph to return the visit of the late King Humbert in 1882 be- cause of the pope's threat to excommuni cate any Catholic soverelgn who became a at the quirinal before golug vatican. It is proposed that the Austrian emp come to Rome simultaneously with the em rmany. As there would then b 1o accommodation at the quirinal for both Emperor Francls Joseph top at the residence of the Austrian ambassador to the visit the pope g0 1o Naples and on his return to Rome be come the guest of King Victor Emmanuel DECLARE DUEL UNNECESSARY| Seconds Say Prinetti Need Not Meet | His Subordinate, Count to the ror royal visitors cou'd holy see, Bellcgrade, ROME, Jan. 11.—The seconds of the elgn minister, Signor Prinett! and Count Bellegarde, have decided that the foreig: winister is not obliged to fight the a subordinate The count declares he compel Signor Prinetti to fight him. EARTH QUAKES | Shoek for un Severe Dees Considershl Damage to Property at Jamillopee. | — OAXACA, Mexico, Jap. 11.—A severe teud | which has existed among tbe lialiaus of the ecarthquake shock was felt at Jamillopee | Considerable damage was done to property but there was no loss of life rumbling bas been heard there tme, for some will ind & way to IN MEXICO Subterranean thelr r'nllrngu:-n up to possum and sweet taters.”” A score or more of these | peculiar southern animals which delight the heart of the darkies “way down on the old plantation” have been served this win- r and as a result ‘' 'possum’ is found on | the bill fare whenever the restaurants | ean wecure a supply in the markets. Another peculiarity of congressional | luncheons is the wonderful popularity of | spare ribs this winter. It is a daily spec- tacle to find ten or a dozen senators and members gnawing the rib bones of & small porker, and while the southern men are most partial to all kinds of “pig meat,” the appetizing aroma of spare ribs has spread through the dining rooms to such an extent (hat members from north, east and w are almost as enthuslastic over the dish as those from Missouri, South Caro- lina and Texas. taste of Hateh a Mutton Man, The late vas probably tion of more Congressman Hateh of Missourt responsible mutton than any other man who ever in congress. Mr. Hatch was {a tarmer and he prided himself upon his flock of Southdown sh You fellows don't know what mutton is,” he would say |to a group of congressional friends. “Yuu o tlink that all sheep meat is mut- Now, the real thing is a 5-year-old killed properly and hung up two weeks before being eaten Mr. Hateh to his home ured two whole carcasses. He a mutton dinner. There wops, mutton broth, roast shoulder and roast saddle of mutton, served with currant jelly and boiled legs of mutton with caper sauce. In fact, there mutton din- ner complete ery member who sat at that feast adwitted that he had learned more about the f of sheep properly | butchered and served than he ever knew before. Since that day a few old timers mutton at least once has to he esp sat ep. sec | ton | wether, least then and se | Ana ta gave sent was a vor meat | them. But after all the staple dish of the Amer Ican congressman at noon seems to be ple | Apparently it makes little difference what the component parts of that ple may 60 long as it s just ple. “Bri of pumpkin ple,”” a membe say to a walter § sir the but the pumpki: clally obtained for be g me & plece will orry will come response. y (Continued on Fiftth Page.) | tive of the etate auditor, for the consump- | for | were mutton | !on an incoming Knox & a week and the | | killed 1 baps Welck of Laramie was fatally turt und En- gineer J. D. Rinder of Cheyenne lost a foot and sustained her serlous Injuriee. First No. 21, Engineer Rinder, who was making his first trip west of Laramlie, had orders td meet a special freight eastbound at Rock River The orders were No. 21 Harpers, The order to Né. the meeting point to him Engineer Rinder did not see the sig- nal and ran by Harpers, meeting the east- bound traju on a heavy grade one-quarter of a mile west of the station. The operator at Harpers, sceing that No. 21 was no stopping, put out a fusee, which attracted the the airbrakes and had almost stopped the train when the collision occurred. Fireman Scalill was pinned against the boiler head and was lterally roasted alive. Brakeman Weick was lying on top of the fireman, but away from the boiler head. He sustained internal injuries and will die. The track was torn up and traffic delayed for seven hours. Rinddr and Weick were taken to a Denver hospital and the remains of Scalill will be taken dast to his old home for burial. FORMER MAYOR Abram Hewitt, York City Nears End, IS DYING Once Head of New Government, NEW YORK, Jan. 11.—Abram Stevens Hewitt, formerly mayor of New York and distinguished as a philanthropist, politician and student, s dying. At 10 o'clock tonight It was announced that he was growing weaker and that there was only a barc possibility that he would survive the night. Mr. Hewitt, who is in his Slst year, has been confined tc his bed since Thursday at his residence in this city, suffering from ob- structive jaundice. A bulletin fesued at 10 tonight read: Mr. Hewlitt has continued to grow pro- gressively weak. He Sleeps most of the tme and suffers no pain. The immediate members of the family | were summoned to the house tonight. There were present: Mre. Hewitt, Jr., and Mrs. J. 0. Green, Mr. and Mrs. Peter Cooper Hewitt, Miss Hewitt, Miss Eleanor G. He itt, Mr. and Mrs. Edward R. Hewlitt, Ers- kine Hewltt, Edward Cooper, General and Mrs. Lloyd Brice, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Cooper. Mr. Hewitt was born in Haverstraw, N. Y., on July 31, 1822, and igraduted from Co- lumbia college at the head of his class in | 1842. With Edward Cooper, son of Peter Cooper, he founded the firm of Cooper & Hewitt, to which Poter Cooper, whose dnughter Mr. Hewitt married, turncd over his iron business. Mr. Hewltt organized the Cooper Union and. s been the secre- tary of the board of trustees continuously In 1874 he was elected to congress, serving, | Vith the exception of one term, until 1886, ‘when he was elected mayor of New York. |DOUBT ABOUT OHIO GOVERNOR | Defense in Legal Trial Will Dispute Personality of State’s Executive. ATI, Jan. 11.—Judge Howard of is In Newport as the representa- CINCT Paris, Ky. who is being sued by the state of Kentucky to recover $30,000 alleged to have been mis- spent during the recent gubernatorial squabble at Frankfort when Governor Goe- bel was assassinated. The point that the defense is trying to make is that Taylor and not Coebel was governor during the time that the illegal expenditures were made. Judge Howard later | changed, the special coming to Harpers for | terday evening, when two armed and masked | 21 was put out at | but owing to a | blinding etorm and the road being strange | | place, attention of Conduetor Cook, who set | John Sweeney, | secks here to prove by the records of the Campbell county court that Semator T. M. Hill, now deceased, who was i1l at the time, did not qualify until January 31, that prior to that time the legislature did not have a working quorum to declare Goe- bel governor. Consequently, he contends, the acts of Taylor and his cabinet wero | legal and binding until the time that Hill | had qualified, thus necessary. It is maintained by the defense that there was really no meeting of the legislature un- creating the quorum ) . 1 til the adjournment from London to Frank- ;. %5 WL A0 QRN e his city fort on February 19, 1900. SMOKE GIVES FLAMES CHANCE Suffocated While Fighting Way Window and Succumbs. Woman to W YORK, Jan. 11.—Mrs. Forine Henry, a daughter of the late Leonard Lewlisohn, was burned to death today in a fire that almost entirely destroyed hcr residence. Albert Erickson jumped from the story window and received Injuries from which he died soon afterward The fire had gained considerable head- way before it was discovered, for when the first alarm was sent out the house was in flames from cellar to roof. Mrs. Henry's two Infant children were saved by thelr | nurse, who ran with them to the street. Mr. Henry, who was slightly burned, was rescued by a policeman, vho entered the house before the arrival of the firemen. It was supposed that his wife had already | 1900, and.| | The doors are said sixth | made her escape. fter the Mrs. He flames had been charred body the second succumbed extinguished was found in her bedroom on floor. Appar- | ently she bad to the smoke while attempting to reach a window. DEAD MAN DRIVES TRAIN Stone Kills Engincer, Hand Whose % on Throttle for Eight. Mile Run. Remal KNOXVILLE Jan. 11 —Passengers Ohio railroad afternoon throttle Tenn., this at the tra les with of the The and tion who engin He found pped the There the left he engineer's head and the sipposition hat fell from the hrough the mountains instantly. The train ran pe miles after be was killed. the engine train left Buckeye, Tenn., on an torough Careyville, the next his aroused the fireman’s suspicions tepped to the engineer's side of the several m hand of a corp time sta- him q train was a nd side of is side of wound on t t a high eut him ght a plece of stone and | involving the immediately | Creighton r- | h |slon of the child. Sume Pair, Who Indieate They Are Ol1d Hands at the Busines: ““Hands up, fellows!" was the word in tha Storz brewery saloon and in Ostrander's yes men st0od up (he occupants of these places in good old highwayman manner and safely got away with about $125. In the former which at 182 avenue persons submitted robbers only two were in the Is at 3 South Fifteenth reported late in the evening had been about to enter Kd Quinn's place, Sixteenth and Nicholas streets, but were seen in the street and the doors locked, At 9:10 o'clock the two men entered the brewery saloon by a door near the rear, which opens into a rear room. Pase- ing through this tiey entered the saloon at the rear. Covering the six me there at the time they ordered hands up, and then told the five customers to line up the room from the bar. One man, with a blue handkerchief over his face, stood by the door and covered the men with his re volver, the bar. Charles Gillan, who was one of the men ordered to line up, did not throw up his hands, as he thought it was a joke which was being played out. The man at the door eaid: | ‘Here's one of those freeh guys. | have to show him something." H | saloon eight but which street. It was that two 1s to the latter men side The highwayman with the white mask, turning, raised his revolver, and repeated the order for Gillan to raise his hands. He dia | Go Through Cnstomers. | The robber then went through the cash | drawer and the pockets of Philip Geil cf 1803 North Twenty-fourth street, the as- sistant barkeeper. The white-masked rob- ber then took his station at the door and he | with the blue handkerchief started to go through the line of men. At this point Mrs. Donahue, mother of Tom Donahue, the engineer at the city jall, who lives across the street, entered the saloon by the rear door to get a can of beer. The rob- ber on guard pulled her through the door and made her stand there until the holdup was accomplished. Meanwhile the blue-faced man went through the line, turning each man in order with face to the wall and hands up after he had finished with him. When this operation was complete the two backed to the door with leveled weapons and walked out. They were seen to go south by a man who passed along. Those in the saloon at- tempted no pursuit, contenting themselves with telephoning to the police. During this scene Michael commonly called “Big Mike, keeper, who lives across the street from the saloon, quietly lylng low in a small closet In the room, which he had entered Just before the holdup men came in. Mich- elsen had $52 in his pockets. Raymond Nel- son contributed $1.10 to the robbers, Michael Smith gave $11, Charles Gillan Michelsen, the head bar- added $4.50, Thomas Meldrum made it $8 | more, Herman Nagle threw in a snuff box, Bartender Gell surrendered $8 of his own money and the house furnished $12 or $15 more and a Smith & Wesson revolver, which was in the cash drawer. Repeat Performance at Ostrander's. In Ostranders’s practically the same or- der of procedure prevalled. Colonel Floyd, the bartender, and an old man who disap peared without giving his name, were the only occupants. The two men this time wore soft hats, evidently with the idea of concealing their identity. There was $50 in the cash regieter and it is thought some additional money taken shortly before the | in his | | laws by the combination of ra‘lroad sys- holdup. Colonel Floyd had clothes, which was taken. This second rob- bery happened at 10:20 o'clock The reported attempt at Ed Quinn's is not well authenticated. It is said that shortly before 10 o'clock someone in the saloon eaw two men through the glass of the side door who were tying masks on thelr faces. to have been locked, which caused the robbers to draw off The police have no clew as to the identity | The frequent holdups | | of grocery stores in ‘the southern part of | the city, of the holdup men. were the work of a tall and a short man, but these of last night were both described as of about medium height The men who committed these robberies and experts in this line of work. The two similar tricks in South Omaha Saturday night are attributed to them as the de- scription then given tallles with that of the men who operated in this city last night. They were described as five feet | eight inches and five feet ten inches in height, respectively, and of medium welght Below Zero. iTO UTILIZE—CORN STALKS Sherman | across | | o paper while his companion stepped behind | {five armed They wore handkerchiefs over their faces, the shorter man having on a blue one with | white polka dots, and the other a white one. | They were well dressed, with overcoats and polished shoes. They each had revolvers, one a nickled weapon and the other of blued steel. In the Storz saloon they wore | caps pulled down over their ears and in Ostrander's they had soft hats. | FIGHT FOR CHILDS CHARGE‘ Chicago Teacher Quarrel Over Custody of Little Girl, CHICAGO, Jan. 11.—Under a writ of at- tachment for contempt of court issued by Judge Creighton of Springfield, Tll., James W. Brooks, principal of the Shields Gram- mar school, was arrested today as he was | leaving the Normal Park Presbyterian | church. The arrest is an outgrowth of th: bitter family quarrel b Mr. Brooks and his parents, Prof. and Mrs. Andrew B. | Brooks of Springfield, for the possession of his little daughter, Florence week the child was taken from the custody of her grandparents by the decision of a Chicag court and given into the keeping of her father SPRINGFI Creighton bases the inst Mr. Brooks ed fraudulent ween Last ELD, 11, Jan. 11 contempt charges he of al adopted by him to have his mother take Florence Brooks Chicago In order that he might get child cut of the furisdiction of the ¢ of Sangamon county. In this way he the decision given in the cas custody of the child by Judge wo years ago, when he gave her into her grandparents' custody. It leged that Brooks invited his par s to Chicago to spend the holidays with him, add that en arrival there 1l sheriffl of Cook county served a corpus them to secure Tudge | on ground means the urts hoped to overcome is al James their writ posses eas on | Chicago & Alton, | and tife Chicago, | York. es to Seli Omaha a Machine for (hat New Yorker ¢ Capitalis Purpose. E. B. Thaw of New York s in Omaha trying to interes: local capital in the man- ufacture of paper from the pith and fibor of cornstalks. The results are produced by a patented device which is being operated | llinois successfully, it 18 said, by the which secured the rights of tho 1t s averred by the the product of the corn stalks can be made in imitation of the higher grades of linen papers, as well as taking the place ot | the pulp papers which are now generally | in {used for mewspapers and cheaper publica- | tions. Samples of the paper which have | passed through the pulp mill only are company | Mine Product Piled Along Tracks to Keep it Off Market. GRAND JURY TO HEAR SENSATI.NAL TALE Combine Alleged to Have Endangered Lives of Destitute Poor, BURN MISSOURI AND KANSAS BUILDINGS Famine Leads Farmers to Tear Up Stdewalks, Break Up Fences and Chop Down Trees to Feed Furnaces. CHICAGO, Jan. 11.—The temperature | Chicago today dropped 24 degrees in less than two hours and tonight is hovering around the zero mark, thus greatly intensi- fying the serious suffering for lack of cual. The worst cases of destitution had been provided for by charitable institutions and shown in support of the claim of the com- | pany. By products from the manufacture | are cellulose and a stock food. | The patentee of the device insists the machine will separate the pith from the fiber, permitting the treatment of each by a different process, 8o that the pith ean be used as a filler while the fiber is used as a binder for the paper, but samples of paper made from the separate products are shown. It is said that one of the pith | papers will supersede parafin ‘paper as a | wrapper for butter and similar goods, as it | is impervious to both water and grease, while a pasteboard can be produced equal in all respects to the pulp poard mow in use. | HARD TO DETERMINE VENUE‘ Dificult Proble; Jurisdiet m Arises in Fizing on in Indian Murder Can James W. Davis and Howard McKee, charged with the mutder of “Little Jim" of the Winnebago agency, are now in Dakota county, where they were taken vesterday by the sheriff of that county, hav'ng been turned over by the federal authorities Sun day. The men were arrested and bound over (o awall the action of the federal grand jury tolfowing the death of “Little Jim,~ and were brought to the Douglas county jail. A number of witnesses were called before the jury, but few testified. The attorneys for the accused Indians alleged that the crime, 1f any, had not been committed upon tho reservation, but in Dakota county, which will give the state jurlsdiction to the ex- clusion of the federal government. This fact was brought to the attention of the distiict attorney, and after a time he con- sonted to drop the proceedings before the federal grand jury and leave the matter in the hands of the Dakota county authorities. It is said that the question of jurisdic- tion will be hard to settle, as the fight in which the victim was killed occurred so | close to the Dakota-Thurston county line | that it may be necessary to determine the venue by a survey. PROBE RAILROAD COMBINE Kentucky Commisxioners Will Exam- ine Morgan, Gates and Others Concerning. Merger. LOUISVILLE, Ky., Jon. 11.—The rallroad commissioners of Kentucky will leave Louisville tomorrow for New York to in- vestigate the alleged violation of K~ntucky tems In this state. J. Pierpont Morgan, August Belmont, John W. Gates and other prominent financiers and railroad men have been summoned to appear before the com- miesioners (o give testimony. The investigation will be into the “terms | and conditions by which the railroads in Kentucky have been combined or acquired” and under this heading evidence will be taken concerning the Louisville & Nash- ville-Atlantic Coast line deal. FIVE BANDITS ROB SEVEN Chicngo Raflronders Are Held Up and Relieved of Watches and Money. 11.—In the southwestern part of the city, near the drainage canal, bandits held up and robbed seven members of the crews of five differ- ent railroads today. The victims were an engineer and fire- man on the Chicago & Northwestern, an en- | gineer and fireman on the Chicago Jjune- tion Terminal and three switchmen on the | the Chicago & Burlington | Milwaukee & St. Paul. All e robberies occurred on what s known as Belt Line, between Twenty-sixth and Thirty-first Watches and money | streets were taken from most of the victims. The total a ount is said to be $250. BULL GORES BANDERILLO Amerienns Throng to Watch Fight Ends in Mattillerp. CHICAGO, Jan | Death of EL PASO, Tex., Jan. 11.—Five thulnnflq tators witnessed a bull fight in Juares, which resulted in the fatal injury of Fran- cisco Matillero, who is famous on the con- tinent as a banderillo An enormous bull pinned Matillero to the | ground. Many men were overcome and | fainted. Matillero was carried from the | grounds with both legs broken and in a dying condition Four-fit i * of the audience were Amer- % of Ocean Vessels Jan. York—Arrived: La Breta Movem Av New from Hav AL Queenstows New York, for cantu Arrived Liverpe from and pro Livery w from | York \t Genoa—8alled: Cambroman, for Bos t At Moville—8 from Glas- | gow, for New York At Kinsale He m New York. f AL Scllly—Passed afled: Ktk Philadelphia, | r Live Mi Y fr 3 from New Rotte m Rot York: Kroonland, for | Antwery | W Saxonlan Arrived: Civie, from N:w | a | Chicago to this alone is attributed the fact that ne deaths were reported during the day. Two thousand persons in Chicago are suf- fering from aliments directly due to cold and exposure resulting from the coal fa- mine, according to the weekly bulletin of the health department fssued today. Serlous results are already seen in the heavy in- crease of the death rato and the health department brands those reaponsible fof the fuel shortage gullty of constructive homicide. The death rate last week for children under years of age was 19.2 per cent. greater than in the corresponding week of last year and among persons over 60 years of age it was 36.7 per cent greater Search for E#dence, The actual searéh for evidence of a com- bine of dealery will be undertaken tomor- 1 row by the speclal grand jury empanelled yesterday. Twenty-five coal men, some of them thes heads of wholesale firms and others chiefs in the councils of corporations operating miues, have been summoned to appear and tell what they know of the “ring." It is the intention that no onme but coal men shall be examined, and under Mr. Deneen's direction a series of pointed questions have been arranged for each prospective witness. Tratnloads of coal cars, sidetracked and labelled with placards instructing railroad frelght crews to hold the consignments In- definitely, are sald to have been discov- ered by the parties who caused the investi- gation to be made. It is also asserted that beyond the city limits, on one and probebly two roads, countless tons of coal have been taken from the cars and heaped up on either side of the tracks for as much as three-quarters of a mile. The grand jury will {usist upon being in- formeds why this ceal has mot been browght: into the narket and put on sale. Burn Buildings for Fuel. KANSAS CITY, Mo, Jan. 11.—In many towns of Kansas and western Missour! no fuel of any kind can be had at any price and everything combustible 18 belng burned —fruit. and shade trees, old bulldings, side- walks and fences. In Kansas Clty itself there is suffering amonyg the poor, owing to the high price of coal, but there is no scarcity, the yards be- ing better stocked now than at this time last year. The lowest temperature of the present cold spell in this city was 4 above zero at 7 this mornfng. Zero weather was experl- enced last mbnth, but a sharp wind made today the moct uncomfortable of the winter thus far. At 7 this evering the tempera- ture had risen to 11 above. Yesterday's | snowfall was one and a half inches. READING, Pa., Jan. 11.—The Philadel- phia & Reading railroad officlale anuounce that for the week ending tonight more an- thracite coal was taken down the main line than for any previous week In years. The total was 10,200 of all classes of cars, or an average of 1,100 cars for each working day of the week, equal to nearly 225,000 tons. This was distributed in the company’s ter- ritory as far as New York and along its branches in this state and elsewhere. The coal famine throughout this section has reached such an acute stage that many industries in the smaller towns will soon have to close and in the country districts the distress is so widespread that teams have started from Schuylkill ccunty coal fields, thirty and forty miles distant, to supply pressing necessities. Coal Searce in St. Paul. ST. PAUL, Minn., Jan. 11.—Though fuel is both scarce and high there is no famine here yet and consequently but little suffer- g, although the thermometer ranged 2 below zoro today. A high uorthwest wind served to greatly intensify the cold and blew fine flurries of snow with cutting force in the faces of pedestrians. DETROIT, Jan. 11.—Mayor W. C. May- bury will tomorrow {ssue the call for the convention In Washington decided om in yesterday. While he would not tonlght give the exact date for which the convention will be called, he sald it would be within the next ten days. BLOOMINGTON, IIl, Jam. 11.—Bxtreme cold weather is delaying shipments of coal trom soutbern Illinols to the north. The tonnage will have to be reduced to enable trafic to move. It is sald that while low temperatures prevall the speed of coal trains will be reduced from 10 to 20 per cent INDIANAPOLIS, Jan. suffering here from lack of fuel. Mayor Bookwalter announced tonight that the finance committee of the council would meet tomorrow to take up the proposition to have the city buy coal and sell it'in small quantities at wholesale rates. The poor will be glven coal f 11.—There 18 much [WIND CUTS DOWN HOUSES Removes All Str dred Yards Wide Through Town. SAVANNAH Jan. 11.—A severe orm visited Berrier and Worth eoun ties in the southern part of the state today and did much damage. At Omega the hotel was blown dewn and of houses unroofed. The wind atch of 100 yards wide through Jamaging every house aud up- ry tree it encountered Ga win: a number wept A | oting AL Hearteease Mg plant were knocked over like At Tiflin a number of houses maged, It ie feared the worst bas ot yet been reported. he stacks aud pipes of a lumber tenpins were ¢