Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 13, 1903, Page 1

(| . } > I THE OMAHA DAILY BEE. WAR CLOUDS GATHER Balkan Outlook Grows More Berious with Passing of Each Day. -~ TURKEY CALLS (OURTEEN BATTALIONS Porte Increases Men in the Disturbed Dis triot by Many Thousands AUSTRIA PREPARES FOR INSTANT BATTLE ‘Warns Reserves, 8tops Boldiers’ Leave and Gets Transports Ready. NAVIES WILL MASS AGAINST SULTAN Powers Propose -lo Adjust Macedon; Complaints with Demonstration at Salonica. JONDON, Feb. 12.—A special trom Rome says: Italy was fully consulted in the course of the Lamesdorff-Goluchowski con- ferences on Macedonia and promised to support the proposed action. The scheme for reforms includes a demand for the as- sembling of an international congress to adjust the detalls. This will be supported by & demonstration of European war ships off Salonica, where they will remain while the congress s in session. Orders have been given to the Austrian Lioyds at Trieste to be prepared, at short potice, to furnish sufficient transports to convey a large army to Dalmatia. Leaves of absence have been canceled, the re- serves have been warned and the rall- roads notified to be ready to deal with large bodies of men and supplies. Sultad Takes Precautions. CONSTANTINOPLE, Feb. 12.—Fourteen battalions of redifs (emergeney militia) of the Third army corps, whose headquarters are at Salonica, b been ordered to join the colors. According to officlal statements these troops are intended to replace the reserve battalions calléd out to quell the Mace- donian outbreak last autumn. The latter are still under arms and it /s generally belleved that they will be kept with the colors. ROMB, Feb. 12.—General Ricclotti Gari- baldi, one of the sons of the great patriot, who raised a force of Itallan volunteers for Greece during the Graeco-Turkish war, | 1s organising a volunteer expedition to as- sist the Macedonians in the rising against Turkish rule, which is believed to be im- pending. Russia Looks for War. ST. PETERSBURG, Feb. 12.—M. Bakmet- Kkieff, the Russian diplomatic ageat at So- fia, Bulgaria, who came here to see the cszar and the foreign minister, Count Lams- to have described the situa- onfa as leaving little hope dorft, is tion In of a pacific solution. i scheme of reform. 2 g districta. VIENNA, Feb. 12—It 1s reported here that Austria-Hungary has warhed the Mac- edonians to abstain from any acts likely to | and that it is this action that | induced Bulgaria to semi-officlally deny | create wai today any mobilization of its army. 'SMALL STATES NEAR TO WAR Salvador Would Unite Cen fca by Alding Honduras and Costa Rica Fight Guatem: PANAMA, Fed. 12—~Advices which reached | here today from San Jose, Costa Rica, say @ diplomatic mission from Salvador arrived there on February 6. The emvoys proposed the formation of a | triple alliance beteween Ralvador, Honduras | and Costa Rica against Guatemala and fur: ther the plans for the proclamation of the wnion of Central Amertean republics. Aoceording to these advices the Central America may be luvolved in as the political conditions are most critics The civil war in Honduras continues and adhberents of Guatemala is aiding the Bonilla. Nicaragua and Salvador are understood | to be co-operating against Guatemala and | to be furnishing the enemies of the Guate. malan government with arms and ammuni tion. About 3,000 Salvadorean troops are re- | ported mear the frontier of Guatemala. WASHINGTON, Feb. 12.—The State de- | partment has been advised by United States | Minister Murray that the president of S« dor Bas informed him that complet tranquility prevails in Salvador and that | the rumored declaration of war is false. BOTH _MAY MARRY AGAIN Judge, at the Roquest of the Prince; Makes the Divorce Absolute. DRESDEN, Saxony, Feb. 12.—The decree of divorce granted to Crown Prince Fred- government, therefore, is more de- of jocalising the outbreak than of the success of the Austro-Hun- In pursuance | object Russia has advised Bulgaria to declare a state of siege in the agitated ral Amer- hole of S — ‘Sl Many Witne Rendy to Testify th Mrs. Fair Lived Longer Than Her B H and, PARIS, Feb various elai Mr. and Mr: 12.—Representatives of the ants to the estates of the late Charles L. Falr are prepar Ing for a severe legal contest at San Fran- cisco, New York and Paris It fs expected that the filing of suits in New York will be followed by the appoint- | ment of a commission to take the testimony of French witnesses whose evidence thus! far has been ex parte. | The interests of Mra. Fair's relatives are }l-e.nx directed by Frank L. Hyde and Don- ald N. Vandert Herman Oelrich’s ln- | terests are represented by Edmond Kelly. | The array of counsel is entirely American. | Mr. Hyde, who superintended the taking | {of the aMdavits, saye the work has been | proceeding ever since the Fairs' deaths and H case that Mr. Fair died first; but as the witnessea have not been. cross-examined by the other side it will be necessary later | either to send the witnesses to the United States or to examine and cross-examine them before a commiselon here. It is be- | wi lleved that most of the witnesses would | gladly avail themselves of the opportunity | of making a trip to San Francisco, but there | are no m America, 80 it may be necessary to examine at least part of the witnesses here. Mr. Hyde also sald: We have decided not to give the names of the witnesses, as It would furnish am- | & { munition to thé enemy and would also | subject the_witnesses to the annoyance of ublicity. ave secured afidavits' from everyone ir | any way connected with the Fairs at the | time of the accident. .We have not mads | a selection of special witnesses favorable to our views of the case, but have included everyone. This g testimony that Mrs the chief importance to their Fair lived the longest. nelther side The witnesses do not make their state- ments as mere deductions from the circum stances, but give the result of the observa. tions of thelr own eyes. In substance, they say Mrs. Fair was allve after they saw | Mr. Fair dead. . mony. Q PARIS, Feb. 12.—The trial of the libei suit brought by M. Cattani, & banker, against the Humbert family, which began | © yesterday, was resumed today. There was a large crowd inside and out- side of the court room. M. Ludovic Helevy, yp" (Countess de Martellsy) and other prominent literary figures were among the spectators. The prisoners maintained the same defi- band, Frederick, frequently Interrupting the witnesses with angry rontradictions. Most of the session was devoted to Senator Cremiux's explanation of the prisoner's legal connection with M. Cattani. With Senator Cremiux’s testimony, the evidence closed and counsel aadressed the M. Rodolph Rousseau spoke on bebalf ot the plalntiff, while Maitre Henri Roberts defended Mme. Therese Humbert, and Frederick Humbert in a brief and witty |! speech before the case was postponed until next week for judgment. It is a noteworthy fact that sympathy manifested yesterday In favor of the Hum- | ! berts, was more marked today. Several | times during the hearing the audience’ broke out into murmurs and ironical laugh- ter. M. Rosseau's argument on behalf of the plaintift today was also interrupted in the same way, while the close of Maitre | ! Roberts’ pleadings was greeted with two outbursts of applause which the judge did not attempt to check. MADRID, Feb. 12.—The French embassy { here has paid to a lawyer, Senor Emillo Cotarello, $5,000 reward for revealing the hiding places of the Humberts, who were arrested In this city December 19 last. Senor Cotarello handed over the money to the Society of St. Vincent de Paul, a chari- table organization. ARCHBISHOP IS ENTHRONED| Stately Ceremony Takes Place in Can- terbury Cathedral in Presence of Dignitaries r LONDON, Feb. 12—Dr. Randall David- son was enthroned today as archbishop of Canterbury, in Canterbury cathedral, with | much stately ceremonial. The cathedral was filled te its capacity with church dignitaries and civil, naval nd military officials in full robes or uni- forms. The procession which preceded the arch- bishop to the altar took twenty minutes to pass up the nave. Afier the presentation e|of the mandate for the archbishop's en- hronement, the archdeacon of Canterbury | placed the primate on the throne I The ceremony was concluded with the | archbishop taking the customary oath and | the usual promise of obedience on the part of all the clergy. . At luncheon afterwards, the archbishop, replylng to the toast to his health, com- mented on the incregsed world-wide inter- | est in the archbishopric. He said the first news of his appointment which resched him was In @& congratulators messsgy from | SHO! Former lowa the state. mission m, statement a ant attitude, Mme. Humbert and her hus- [ continued Mr. Campbell. clal depression of a few years ago the rail- roads insisted upon an increase in rates and In 1900 made an increase which has brought them millions of dollars. That fn- | crease was excused by reason of the higher wages and cost of everything. Now, with all the companies paying immense divi- dends and the mergers adding to the divi- dend-paying peesibilities of the lines. they | come with another demand of 25 to 30 per cent increase in rates. The people stood They some reason for But when they realize what is being done now they will have cause for right- | fecognized that there w: it. what is being done. | wages, | crease. | partaken more largely of the general pros- FIGT BEGINS FOR MILLIONS|RAILROAD RATES T00 HIGH|UNION PACIFIc_LOSES cASH o, Frank T. Oampbell Protests Agains £ %y Threatened Increases. er Polnts Out Imposition -‘,"‘%’-} Ca Are Practicim Sn the Shippe: ers (From a Staff Correspondent.) DES MOINES, Ia., Feb, 12.—(Special.)— ! on. Frank T. Campbell, whose protest against the contemplated increase in rail- road rates fled with the Interstate Com- merce comwmission a few daye ago has created a mild sensation in rallroad and I!hlpylng circles, n | that the afdavits establish a prima facle | Moines, and his standing can hardly be questioned. He was elected lieutenant gov- ernor of lowa by the republicans when the fight was on to establish the right of the | state to regulate raflroad rates in the ’ and later when the old railroad commission 1s a resident of Des hich was appointive had been legislated out of existence, he was one of the first commission elected by the republicans of | He was of the commission that | s of compelling them to g0 10| put into force the first maximum schedules ‘of freight | Since then he has been engaged as a man- ufacturer and shipper, but has kept bimselt in close touch with the railroad rate que and paseenger rates on in the state and nation. “I have filed a protest with the Inter- You can say, nowever, that we | gtate Commerce commission,” he sald to- day, “not that I anticipate the commission | will do anythirg, but I res one should take the lead and call the at- tention of the people of the country what 1 regard ized that some- great injustice. commission is in duty bound, if it repre. sents the people, to do this.” Commission is Powerless. “What can the commission do to pre- vent the increase of rates if satisfied it is HUMBERTS | unjust ligp or mortgage. | v \dent. The board of directors now UBLIC FAVOR ! s termination is not | vice president. The board of direc £ Nothing at all. The commission Is pow. | Lhe question, for our Fetermnaton LLRCE | stands as follows: H. W. Yates, E. M.|Mafl Carrier Tillotson Saves Two | Cheer Safe Suspects’ Lawyer and|c°rless and helpless. Congress has stead- | the donor saw BB cte ot the m_‘uonm-n, Guy C. Barton, C. E. Yost, C. W. | Weideh: Broni’ Pessible Death Laugh at Opposing Teatl- fastly refused to give that commission the | | By the fermp Cf (2 @0 cated for the | Lyman, all of Omaha; C. J. French of Bos- power to carry out its own decisions or enforce its own rulings. All that js re- is that they file their schedules with the commission days before they go into effect whei an in- But the com~ require a definite to the cause assigned for the Increase and thus _publicity may be se- cured and the shippers and consumers who pay this increased tariff.laid on the neces- sities of life will be well informed.” uired of the railroads rease in rates is praposed. at least “The situation in a nutshell is just this,” he former raise unco: lalningly. | of the general puolic, which was already | *0US indignation. Why don’t they do some- That is because they do not know It will come on them one at a time and the companies will deal | with shippers individually. are stopped. | they have no organization through which The result ia that the new rates will be fastened upon the country before the people are aware of it and nothing will be done. hing? They dare nov speal hey can or will act. Railroad Prosperity is Great. “The railroads of And in the face of these as “I believe firmly hey should be put back to where the; were in 1900 before tbe last previous in- The raflroads of the country have | perity than others, their met profits and | surplus are | and there are fewer lines in the hands of | receivers than a few years a be and is handled cheaper than ever before | on account.of improvements in methods of | WOULD POISON immense and unprecedente treight cai in lowa. | to | 1 have ten ‘After the finan- Their mouths And the country ralsed their rates less than. three years ago by advancing the classifications 21.2. per cent | over the charges in effect prior to January {1, 1900. The Interstate Commerce commis- | slon reported that the gross earnings of the railways for the year ending June 30, 1801, showed an Increase of $92,000,000 over 1900. The average gross earnings per mile were greater than for any previous year for which reports bad been received. The dividends declared were almost $13,000,000 | greater than the year before. the dividends from leased lines would make $32,000,000 more than in 1900, and besides | there is left a surplus of $77,544,785 as the first fruits of the raise in classification in 1900, aided by the general the country.’ tonishing financial results comes a demand | | tor another raise of from 25 to 30 per cent, | and this with no other than the old apology | of increase in cost of material, labor and adding a new burden of cost of | tuel, two-thirds the cdst of which is for raflway transportation. hat not omly should | there be mo increase in rates, but that This with prosperity of T0 NAKE BIC INPROVEMENTS |CONDITION OF THE WEATHER | Court Decides that $500,000 Held by Forecast for Nebraska—Falr Friday; Colder in_South Portion; Saturday Continued | Boston Trast O y Must Nebraska Te'ephone Oompany Increases| Cold %3510 a5 Btock 8ix Hundred Thousand. Temperatare at Omaha Yesterdayt i - Ho De, Manr, Deg. BOSTON, Mass, Feb. 12.—In the United .18 . 20 States circult court today Judge Colt de- | PLANS SOME NEW EXCHANGE BUILDINGS | " L | clded that the entire fund in dispute be- . ‘IZ :;‘ tween the federal government and the |y i nyion and Improvement of % — Smorgenioy Losn & THMKGHBNS SIS | arban Lines Alse Doetded U 19 T %0 to the United States The amount Is " 10 17 $600,000, now in the hands of the American c.w, Becomes Viee 20 . 1% Loan & Trust company of Bostonm. President of C . 3 The decision is believed to finally settle the long controversy between the United | States and the Union Pactfic rallroad, for | which the trust company acted as trustee. | ISHIRLEY WOODWORTH FALLS ' Lineman for Telephone Company is Vietim of Serious Accident While at Work, An increase of capital stock from $1,800,- 000 to $2,400,000 was authorized yesterday | afternoon by the stockholders of the Ne- | braska Telephone company in annual meet- ing. The $600,000 additional stock, fn | shares of $100 each, will be placed on the general market in the east and in Omaha. | Bach atockholder will be entitled to ome | share at par for every three he holds. It |18 planned to spend the entire amount dur- |ing the year 1903 on extensions, enlarge- | ments and improvements in Nebraska and Towa. g may prove fatal. Chief among the improvements authorized | Woodworth had been nt work some time | will be new exChange buildings and switch- ; on the cross arms of the pole putting a | boards in ‘Omaha, Lincoln and Council | clamp on the sustainer. To avold just such | Bluffs, placing the wires underground as |an accident as happened, he employed his In his decision Judge Colt safd: This bill is brought by the United States againet the Americsa Loan and Trust com- pany, trustees, and the Unlog Pacific Rail | way ‘company”to determine he rights of a | trust fune 1 On July 8, 1885, the Union Paelfie, as suc- | | | | While working on a forty-five-foot tele- phone pcle late Thursday afternoon on Dodge street, near Twonty-fourth, Shirley | Woodworth, a lineman In the employ of the Nebraska Telephone company, fell to the pavement and received injuries which cessor o the Kansas Pacific Railroad com- pany, executed a trust indenture to the American Loan and Trust company, and there now remains in the hands of the trust company 355,291, with accumulations from December 14, 190. The mants to the fund are the United States and the | Unlon Pacific Railrond company, and th only question is whether, under ‘the trus | Indenture, either has a prior claim to the whole fund, or whether it should be dis- tributed pro rata and without preference between both claimants. At ‘the time the Indenture was created | ordered by the council in the latter city | life belt to prevent hie falling. In some there existed certaln mortgages and Uehs |and a general extension of metallic | manner’the tongue of the safety belt clamp Ratirond “company fense® e firs | equipped long-distance toll lines and the | became bent, it is thought, allowing the ifen mortgage, the Upited States subsidy and the consolidat~d mortgage. The first & clamp to release itself and causing Woud- worth to take his plunge. When he fell he struck the pavement on his right side, | general improvement of local exchanges. The improvements at Council Bluffs and | Lincoln are announced for the first time. rior lien of fom Kansas the raliroad Faci creditors “of the Kansas | ['o 00 0r the improvements at Lincoln, | WOFth bled profusely from the mouth and company, tCity 5% miles United tes | Plans have not yet been drawn for the | Just missing the edge of the curbing ‘,n-bshudw a second r':fi"a"l'xd lhen o0 | work, nor the cost closely estimated. The [ He was carried to the home of Howard | soltc ort a third lien o 3 . | v v N ‘.:f‘lv'ultf‘";'\'")mrlr}‘au’;ha consolidated mort- | burylng of the wires in Council Blufts | Kennedy across the street, where he was | gagoe also covered other property belonging | makes a permanent bullding absolutely | \'nlrvd (c; um,}l1 the arrival of Dr. Christy, to_the rallroad company. 1 he conduits are put in to | Who made a hasty examination of Wood- | jurpose of the trust indentures was | Decessary, as tho con o s - " . !lh‘e'h(:rv‘::lx of a sinking fund for the pro- | etay and their terminal cannot be changed | WOrth's injuries -I‘M found that he had suf- | | tection and further securily of these mOrt- | without great expense. As to the character | fered a fracture of the right thigh. Wood- | H | e ed t} asked the commission to make a demand A e bald in tull under | little information is given out | nose and is belfeved to have suffered in- | _,,':;‘:,;’:"g,’;:“‘,,‘:';;:,,;"; died first and | on the raiiroad managers for the reason for | Seieiocnne proccciings the only remaining gy "‘D st | ternal injurier. His condition was such diea’ first. This one exception inclines to [ their proposed great increase in rates. The | beneficiaries under the frust being the ew Man 5 | that the physicién ordered him takes to| TUnited States and the Usnlon Pacific Rall- road compay, the owner of the consoli- dated mortgage bonds. TThe Tnion Pacific was under no legal or moral obligation to create this trust. At the meeting yesterday afternoon “h.mo.ooo of the $1,800,000 worth of stock B represented. The old board of dlrec- o tors was re-elected, with the exception of v tirely voluntary act. The , T oty "onveyed o the (rustees under | C. W. Lyman, who was chosen to succeed the indenture was not embraced In any |the late J. J. Dickey, both as director and Clarkson hospital. Woodworth is sald to have been a care- | ful workman. He s not married and re- | | sides at 1147 North Eighteenth street. {STOPS A FRIGHTENED TEAM ton and A. Burt of Kansas City. The offi- it iy iy | cers, who were re-elected, with the excep- | 2. : t, C. B priority over the subsldy bonds. {tion of Mr. Lyman, are: President, Petond—¥or the protection and further | Yost; vice president, C. W. Lyman; secre- eecurity of the United Staies In respect of | tary and tre rer, B, Moroman, ¢ bonds. nzl?m':-l:ih—.?d‘r n:’:d)\.mtocllon and further se- Concerning the Omaha improvements, it was anncunced that the new exchange curity of the consolidated mortgage bonds. building under construction alongside the | It will be observed that thie e the order | raflro - | 1 Fan Tatlows. the pro present quarters at Eighteenth and Douglas | streets will be complete June 1. Meanwhile | rosecution and further security. P RIrst—Gf the first mortgage bonds of the Kansas Pacific Rallway, company, having The pluck and the strength of Daniel W. Tillotson, a mail carrier resident at 2723 | Ohlo street, saved Mrs. L. A. Goldsmith | and a woman friend from probable injury and possible death Thursday afternoon. | The two women were driving a team from a livery stable and the horsss became trightened on Sixteenth street at the corner | of Capitol avenue and dashed northward ot | wild speed, swaying the vehicle with its | powerless occupants from side to side and | over the street car tracks. While other men were waving their hats, shouting and | doing other senseless things, Tillotson was | getting out into the street where he could | have a free path to run in. As.the horses | dashed past him he grasped a foose rein | and ren at their aides until his pulling | brought them to a stop. It was a hard run | and-a berd pull -awas: all over in less than a mibute and po one was injured. Modest Mr. Tillotson, as soon as the safety | of the women was aseured, slipped away, giving no opportunity for expression of | either their thanks or the praise of the | by-standers. * | FRANK CORCORAN MORE LUCKY | Gets Lighter Verdict Than John Perry for Robbery of Jeflerson Banks. erty. Then follows |he!gm\ls|ov| that the fund shall be applied to the |\ny'r|,0n: :])f ll{‘? foregoing according {8 he PTe Ron or | the new switchboard will be manufactured | | o rtaage creditors might be credited in Chicago.at a cost of $125,000. The new thereto In due order = .. of this | PU/lding will mean an expenditure of Ao e e s "to have been the In- | $60.000. By the middle of August the new tention of the domor that the status of the 'switchboard is planned to be in operation. benefictaries n the original security oyl | 1t will be operat™d by girls as ot present, e ey I ptm: in other words, that | but will enable the subscriber to call cen- this fund should be aubject to the same |(ral by simply lifting the receiver from the terms and contralied by the same princl | nook. New instruments will mot be re- | e O ieking scurity G0 ‘which 1t was | quired, a simple adjustment of the present plementa | mechanism being all that is necessary. e itian, e, A Staten te enc Tuie wystesh fs daed . prewent B [ fund, by ‘réason of the manner in which | Omaha. | they are named in the trust Indel‘(ure and | Switeh! rd of Short Life. by reason of the terms in whl ich 1t is boa: . directed the trust fund shall be appiled. |, | During the last twenty years the Ne- p-'\yr::fie:n'?fi: \‘nn‘h Ttates of the fund | braska Telephone company has placed four | Of $5%9,291 and the accumulations thereon | entirely new switchboards in/the Omaha | now 1o’ the hands ot e A educting | ©XCHaRge, neccssary on account o increased | herefro s proper expenses and dis- | business and Iimprovements in the ap- Ditsements. © | paratus. The last board was purchased in All questions as to the cost and expenses 1894, cost $65,000, and is still in use. In in these proceedings are reserved until the | 9% 000, | eettlement of the decree. }ne‘otlllin‘ for its sale the company is | - | oftered only $5.000 for it ITILLMAN ASKS FOR BAIL| By no means the least part of the ex- —_— | penditures to be made during the year will Tells ‘Story of Gonsales Death 1in | be for new toll lines. There is a great | AMdavit Before Applieation | deal of territory to be invaded throughout the state, some of which Is traversed at is Put Back. | | Frank Corcoran, tried on a charge of | participating in the robbery of Jefferson Banks a¢ South Omaha, was found guilty of assault and battery by a jury In Judge | Estelle’s court yesterday afternoon. The penalty under this can be only thirty days | in jafl. John Berry, receatly convicted of | participation in the same robbery, but under a different charge, was sentenced to elght years In the penitentiary. Corcoran expressed himself as being much pleased. A jury has been secured and 2 part of the testimony submitted in the trial of Willlam Spoorier for alleged stabbing with | intent to do great bodily harm, the victim being Walter Brandes. | PHELIX HEATH WANTS MONEY Notifies the City that If He He Wiil Expect Pay for Injuries. present by wires of independent noncerns and some of which is not. There will be | NEWBERRY, S. C., Feb. 12—James H.|unusual activity during the present year | Tiliman, charged with the murder of N. C.! on the long distance lines and in the es- Gonzales, today applied for writ. His at- tablishment of local exchanges at small | torneys had, however, failed to serve the cities and towns not reached at pres-nt prosecution with coples of the afdavits.|It means more or less of a struggle with | Chiet. Justice Y. J. Pope accordingly post- | the concerns that stand on their own | poned the application until Thursday. | footing. . | In his amdavit Tillman claimed that he | In Council Bluffs a site for the exchange | had been abused and mallgned by the editor | huilding has not been secured and the ofi- | | of the State. He heard rumors that Mr. ' cers of the company are unable to say any- tGonnlu had threatened him and had been | thing as to the size of the structure or advised to be on hie guard. He was In- ! gnat it will cost. formed that Mr. Gonzales inquired for| | him at the state house, saying he would [FOUR BULLETS FIND BILLETS make him show the white feather. That | ok o¥sd lon the day of the shooting he bappened | west Virg to be moving some of his effects, including | { two pistols, from the state house to his | - | rooms. | He saw Mr, Gonzales coming, glaring at| him, saw him run his hand deep in his| | overcoat pocket and turn toward him, and believing his life in danger, he hurriedly | said: “I received your message,” and | fired | An afdavit by Richard Holtzenbach of | Bagerfield said he heard Mr. Gonzales in- | { quire of Doorkeeper J. A. White where his y | “boss” was; that he “bad made Tillman | show the white feather several times and | | would do It again.” He subsequently saw | Slays Enemy Law Wounds Two Others, Father-{ Phelix Heath, by his attorneys, has filed notice upon the city that he will expect $5,000 damages from the municipality for a fracture of the left hip joint, caused, he asserts, by slipping on the ice on the sidewalk in front of the Boston store on Sixteenth street, the evening of February 7. He {mplies that water had been allowed to ROANOKE, Va., Feb. 12.—John Firth shot and killed Witten Helght and Frank Wil- ams and wounded two persons at Eckman, W. Va., last night On Tuesday night Height had Firth and Mrs. Height arrested on account of some domestic trouble. They were released later and last night when Height and his three | flow over the walk, making a plece of children arrived at Eckman, Firth walked [ smooth, clear fce; that it was difficult to up to him and shot him through the heart. | see’ that it is the city's business to have d Williams, who was an uncle of Firth, | lce kept off the walks and that it may be { the meeting between Tiliman and Gob- | caught him and took his revolver from him | helé responsible for not so doing. In the zales, and bie version and that of TIIman | 1o keep him from killing the children. |BOtice the statement is made that Mr | as to this meeting were identical. J. A. White substantiated what Holtzen- n | bach stated as to the conversation. UTAH TEACHERS 4 Heath may die as the result of the injury. PROSPECTS FOR TENTH WARD A Firth then ran to Height, who was lying dead, got a revolver out of his pocket and killed Williams. Another man tried to hold Firth and was shot through the jaw. Firth then shot at ce Comes from Lincoln that | ke N transportation, the avernge cost of earry- | e | cne of Height's children but missed, and Proposition for New Ward o ol O DT 0 D D o e Averioa hefore it ar. I8 8 ton a mile being reduced from 1.77| Reform School Girls Steal Distn- | shooting a bystander through the leg, es- Wi Coey, The crown prince applied merely for a|rived at the village where he was staying. | y='n "2 (‘:: ‘?:"1;0‘:’7 "f'y“:ff”b‘."rf':r:::" fectants with Intent to | caped separation of bed and board, but the | — s v y Done Coffee. | Advocates of a Tenth 2 by a 22 per cent Increase in classification | oth ward in Omaba former crown, princes wsked for so sveo- |FIFTY THOUSAND PER HOUR | .. “ioda’ recoupea. themseives tor the | 18AS FUMES ASBAYXIATE RIVE| Adrocsion of o Teath ware fa Owsha ute divorce, which the judge dec o | o . 3 3 .aut o the § £ th : lalmed increase in expense on account of | SALT LAKE CITY, Feb. 12.—A special ine Bae Tt A Carries | tlonal ward out o portions of the SRR Jefaniangse the BoN sist} oeds, | Remaviiable Spved of Now Tolow: | the increase in cost of material, wages, |to the Herald from Ogden says: As .t Rriter e ; e Carrle®| pitih and Sixth wards north of Pratt street which King George himself designated as Instrument on Trial in Berlin | cic The increased tonnage of the country | result of the general investigation into the Reath end Injnry te Chicage | will be incorporated in the series of amend- SIS (00 Reoontnge: . University. | promises still greater earnings, larger en- | recent attempt to burn the state reform Workm ments which the Douglas county delega- The princess, however, cannot marry | gines, air brakes, speedier trains, auto- | school at Ogden the officlals have un- | tion at Lincoln will try to secure for the Giron and get recognition of her marrlage under the German law ‘Would Tax Forelgn Com; BRUSSELS, Feb. deputies adjourned today after & stormy | discussion of a bill, introduced by panies having branches in Belgium amoun g to 2 per cent of their profits and re- balance A commission was appointed to quiring them to publish annual sheets. examine the bill. Corunna Workmen Delay Strike, LONDON, Feb. 13.—A dispatch fro| 12.—The chamber of |Ib the technical university the | premier, imposing & tax on forelgn com- BERLIN, Feb. 12—Emperor William spent part of the morning watching the | Pollack-Virag telegraphy system working | Thy apparatus | averaged 50,000 words an hour over a 300 mile efreuit The emperor sent for the empress, the | minister of posts, the chief of :he general | staft and other distinguishel persons and t- apparatus worked. The government experiment with it betwesn Rerlin Koenigsberg, a distance of 40 miles. BISHOP BURKE SEES POPE will | Corunna says & resolution was passed at a meeting of workmen there in favor of | % JO8°PR Frelate is Recelved at the & general strike in consequence of the Vatican and Presents Other actrol duties which have advanced the price Amertcans. of food. Detachments of military are | patrolling the streets and a gunboat has been brought from Ferrol. » Eleetl Called. SANTIAGO, DE CHILI, Peb. elections will be held on March 1. Congress bas closed its seasiona. 12.—The There will be three candidates for each seat. ROME, Feb. 12.—The pope today recetved in private audience Bishop Burke of St Joseph, Mo. The bishop subsequently pre- sented to the pontiff Miss Burke of Chi- cago, Miss Lindsay of St. Louls, Mrs Frank McLaughlin and her daughters of Philadeipbis, and Miss Holmes of Phila delphis. | ‘cent | matie couplers, and all these things must be considered Examples of the Advance. “The proposed increase In rates In the | g | west, as announced by Chairman Tucker of | \ o oo mor o P { the Central Trafic association a few days nd 30 | ago, 15 20 cents a hundred on grain cents on provisions from Chicago to Ne York since March t In addition, on over 80 per cent of explained to them techically the way the | \po commodity rates reduced below tariffs | re is to be an advance, and and | on gtone, cement and brick the advance is | | trem 10 to 25 per cent above former tariffs. | The advance on groceries and iron articles from Chicago to Colorado and Utab points is stated by the press to be over 100 per | There is also a large advance on live ock and many other articles. The full tmport of the new advance in rates will carthed & conspiracy among some of the | CHICAGO, Feb. 12—Five men met death | Present city charter. Assurances have been girl inmates to poison the teachers and ' and ten were overcome tonight by the | Feceived that the mr]mmm«m will be tacked others in authority at the school. | fumes of gas escaping from the purifying on and that : will dm- favorably recom- It is known that at least two girls are | pox in the plant of the Northwestern Gas ;ml'ndwl to and passed upon by the legis- ature son enough to kill 11,000 people was found in their possession. The girls, it is sald, =ot hold of a quan- tity of bichloride of mercury tablets re- cently purchased by tb Light and Coke> company at Blue Island The men, under the direction of Superin- tondent Martin C. Russell, had been chang- ing the purifying box and apparently failed school authorities | 1o close the covers of the box. When the Raises Child SALEM, Ore.. Feb. 12—The house passed the senite bill to prohibit th ployment of children under 16 years or Age. today em- f ag w | for disintecting purposes. The conspira- | gas was turned into the box for the purify- | during school hours or children under 14 tors, it is alleged, planned to put this | ing process it escaped in volumes and the | Jear® of age in shops or faetories or as polson in the coffee at breakfast. | men were overcome where they stood. Movements of Ocean Vessels Feb, 12, York, for Bouthampton. At London—8alled: Minnetonka, for New York. At Cherbourg—8alled: Kron Prinz Wil- helm, from Bremen and Southampton, for stitution Amended So a Wife Lying by His i Side. for Special I be tully appreciated later by actual ex- S New York. : perience, unless the Interstate Commerce| JEFFERSON CITY, Mo., Feb. 12.—Repre- | OTTAWA, K Feb. 12—Blale Jack- | At Moville—Arrived: Numidian, trom 8t commission, congress and an outraged pub- | SeDtative Duncan of Buchanan county, to- | son, aged 30, a farmer living nine miles [ JORR and Hallfax, for Idverpool, and pro- lic interfere to prevent these knock-out |43y introduced an amendmert to the .con- | northwest of bere, was killed by an un- | At Glasgow—Arrived: Buenos Ayres, from drops' belng administered by the railway | Stitution suthorizing s ax levy of T cents | identified person last night while asleep | Philedelhls via 8t Johns, N. ¥ Ethiopla | managers 10 an innorent and helpless pub- | 10 create a fund for the erection of a new | in bed. "At Hamburg—Arrived: Patricla, from lc whom they have in their grasp.” capitol bullding The murder was made known today by | New York Mr. Campbell, in his protest to the Inter- | The tax is to be for four years and it is | Mrs. Jackson, who said she was awakened | Al Algoa Bay—Arrived: Java, from Ta- — ———————— | estimated that & fund of §3,500,000 will be | by the report of a pistol and found her | % 5, L) o4 Pageed: Teutonie, fro (Coutinued on Fourth Puge) created. husband dead beside her. w v » New York, for Queenstown and Liverpool. NGLE C©OPrYy | together with PROPOSES TAX FOR CAPITOL | KANSAS FARMER SLAIN IN BED At New York-Salled: Algeria, for Mar- | THREE CENTS. HITS BIG COUNTIES Bill to Divert the Permanent School Fund from the Populous Distriots. CHANGES THE PLAN OF APPORTIONMENT Part to Be Dividled Among Distriots Irrespective of Population. BOILER MAKERS PROTEST AGAINST BILL Insist They Are as Competent Inspectors 83 Men Who Run Them. HITCH IN THE OMAHA CHARTER BILL mbers of the Delegation Not Exe actly Agreed on Its Provisions nd Differences to Ne Settled Before Introducing It. (I"rom a Staff Cofrespondent.) LINCOLN, Neb., Feb. 12.—(Special.)—The Douglas county members of the house have discovered a dangerous Ethiopian in the wood-pile in H. R, 135, by Tooley of Custer, which is a bill amending the present laws relating to the apportionment of school funds as defined in section 3, subdivision 11, of chapter Ixxix the compiled statutes. They belleve the measure contemplates serious injustice to Douglas county by depriving it of a large portion of school funds now al- lotted to it der the present law. The section in question as revised by the bill Is this Section 3. The state treasurer shall, semi- annua May make 1on r before the third Monday in first Monday be xhibit of a sol fund of the state, as »m the several counties, amount derived from ing 8¢ ned to him the other souries, and deliver the same duly certitied ntendent; and within tw fter the state | superintendent the apportions ment of said funds to such counties as fol- lows, t it (One fourth of the whole mount to be apportioned to the several ounties in prop the number of chool districts entitled to share in each), | the remaining three-fourths to be appors tioned according to the pro rata enumeras tion of scholars in each county as last re- turned from the county superintendent; und the state superintendgnt shall certify the apportionment o made to the county superintendent of the proper county, and to the state auditor, who shall theréupon draw a warrant on the state treasurer in favor of the several counties for the | amounts so certified by the state superin- | tendent The only new part of the section is that beginning with the words, “One-fourth of the whole amount,” and ending with the words, “The remaining three-fourths.”” This brings out the point against which the Douglas county men are protesting, namely, that the: bill provides for a heavy reduction in the apportionment to Douglas county by directing that one-fourth of the amount be apportioned to the several cow tles in proportion to the number of school districts, while it only leaves three-fourths 10 be apportioned as heretofore. The pres- ent law provides that the entire appor- tiopment of the several funds shall be divided “according o the pro rata eaus | meration of the scholars in each county* ete. Subtracting this one-fourth to be ap- portioned on the basis of the number of school districts instead of the number of school children, therefore, {s, the Dougles county men maintain, unjust to Douglas county and to the other thickly populated centers of the state, where, a8 a matter of fact, the school districts are fewer than in the sparsely settled sections. For this rea- son the Douglas men have avowed their de- termination to resist the bill to the last and they believe the Lancaster county delega- tion In both houses will aid them in their | fight. The same bill is pending in the senate also. Hits Douglas Hard, Just what amount this one-fourth sub- tracted from the Douglas county apportion- ment and thus divided wili be may be ap- proximated for each year from the amount of the full apportionment for last year. The December apportionment in 1902 was £26,239 and the May apportionment $45,289, making a total of $71,528. Of course Omaha and the rest of Douglas county would share in the distribution of this one-fourth as well as the other counties of the state, but not on | & fair or equal basis, it is held, since its | number of school districts is so much | smaller and fts number of school children { 50 vastly much larger than those of other countles. This measure has the {ndorsemgnt and support of the state superintendent of pub- lic instruction and the country district, and therefore will naturally be hard (o besf, but the Douglas county men have faith n their abilit to impress the justico of their arguments upon the legislature. The clatms of the Douglas delegation will be simply that the projected law would work injury to Douglgs county and other mors thickly populated centers to the unfair edvantage of the rural counties, by depiiving the | former of funds they are entitled to. The | arguments of the friends of the bill will { be that all school distrizis /n any part of the state having forty or more scholars | will share equelly in the apportionmeuts under the proposed Jaw; that a afstrict of this number in Douglas county would get the same amount of monev and no more that the district of forty puplls in Cherry or Custer county. And further, it will be | urged that as Douglas, Lancastsr and soma | other populous counties pay into rhe state | fund ¢ieproportionately small amounts of | money arising from the sale and lease of | school lands, they ougat not to get away | with the lion’s khare of the apportionments, For instance, it will be argued that the contributions one year {fom this source to the state fund from Douglas county amounted to $500, while from Cherry ' | county they reached 318,000 The bill was today recommended for pas- sage by the committee of the whole in the house. ! At Sea om Revenue BiIL Even the members of the revenus com- mittee have stopped guessing on when they will have their bill ready to submit to the legislature. It was confidently expected | that by tonight the subcommittee would have finished the compilation of the bill, ready to return it to the committee-at- | large, but at midoight the committeemen | announce that this fs out of the question {and simply throw up their hands when asked when the job will be completed. In | the meantime diverse guesses are being }n:.ap as to what the committeo is doing. {1f the bill 1s ready for introduction Mon- day the wmen who are forming it don't seem to know ft. Boller Makers Objeet, A loud protest has arisca from the eraft engaged in the manufacture of steam en- gines against H. R. 237. by Gilbert of Doug- las, providing for the establishmen: of a board of examining ngineers to Inspeet steam bollers and for the licensing of per- sops 10 operate steam engines, steam boil- ers and steam generators. The section objected 10 by the boller }