Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 15, 1903, Page 1

A B Ko o Kol B ’ PART L E L - — ESTABLISHED JUNE 19, THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE. 1871. OMAHA, SU NDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY . 15, 1903—-TWENTY PAGES N SINGLE CcOoPrY FIVE CENTS. SCANDAL OVER CARDS Members of the Smart Set Oaught Oheating ' at Game of Bridge Wh ONE INSTANCE AT SWELL HOUSE PARTY Duchess of Devonthire Makes an Effort to Hush Matter Up. OTHER ONE IS AT ARISTOGRATIC CLUB Result is a Movement to Put the Game Under the Ban. KING AND QUEEN HAVE A DISAGREEMENT Her Royal Highness Ref to At- tend a Party at Which Woman Objectionable to Her in Invited » Guest. (Copyright, 1903, by Press Publishing Co.) LONDON, Feb. 14.—(New York World Ca- blegram—Special Telegram.)—The craze for bridge whist, which shows no sign of abat- 1ng, has produced a heavy crop of scandals. The sensational facts in two recent cases the ultra “smarti’ set s trylng desper- ately hard to conceal The scene of one was the duke of Devon- shire's magnificent country seat in Derby- shire, Chatsworth. The time was Christ- mas, during the grand party the duke and duchess gave at the time. An Invitation to Chatsworth, it may be noted here! is harder to get than an invitatoin to Sand- ringham, the favorite country seat of the king himself. The eulprits in the particular game of bridge In question were a peeress who is especlally connected, and a man who, it need scarcely be sald, moves in the most select circles of British aristocracy. It has leaked out that the peeress signalled to her confederate, according to a care- tully prearranged code, by toying with her earrings and fingering her pearl necklace. | The duchess of Devonshire is as keen as a razor in games of chance. Her suspicions were aroused, and a watch was set. by three of the party. They became satisfled that cheating was going on and the game was stopped in euch a way that the peeress and her friend were made aware that they had been detected, but the secret was kept from the other members of the house party. The main anxiety was to avold a repeti- tion of the Tranbycroft scandal, but as the circumstances are leaking out it is doubkful if this can be done. Prince Is Warned, One immediate consequence of the scan- dal was that the prince of Wales, who had intended to join the Chatsworth party for the theatricals after Christmas, was warned, and suddenly cancelled his visit lest ho might be drawn, as his father wi into a “‘celebrated case. The theatrical party took place shortly after New Year's, as it does every year, These entertalnments have been for years thamost | n w0 m’h best hqz ama always appear, Lady Randolph Churchill among them. The part this year was particularly brilllant. The guests were the same, with few If any exceptions, as those who at- tended the Christmas house party. Among them were. Princesses Margaret and Particla of Connaught, Princess Henry of Pless, the duke and duchess of Teck, the earl and countess of Gostord, Earl and Countess de Gray, the earl and countess of Mar, and Kellle, Marquis de Soveral, the Portuguese minister, Count Montagu, Vic- tor Cavendish, Lady Evelyn Cavendish, Sir John Willoughby and Muriel Wilson. This year a one-act play, “Our Bitterest Foe," with Miss Murlel -Wilson, the fa- mous English beauty, as Blanche ds Vran, made up the first half of the program and it was followed by a musical monologue, “The Eternal fa which Princess Henry of Pless sang and danced with delightful grace. Miss Muriel Wilson also played a pretty fant “The Bhades of Night," In which the Princess Henry of Pless was one of the phantoms. The week preceding the. theatricals, which were given on the evening of Janu- ary 10, was & gay one at Chatsworth. Dally rehear were sandwiched between golt playing In the morning and bridge whist at night. In the evenings the entire party resorted to bridge. The other bridge scandal referred above 1s still more recent. to The game was in Whicte's club on St. James street, one | of the most exclusive clubs in London. The offender in this case was a man who 1s principally known as being the husband of his wife, who is & particularly conspicuous | figure '3 English socloet: lived a good deal abroad There was a sceno when he was detected Afterward a committee of inquiry investi- gated all the circumstances and he was given the option of resigning from the club of being expelled. He resigned. A regular movement against bridge has begun in socloty, the game is causing such demoralization. But the most ardent bridge players are soclely's rulers, so It Is not likely that much can be dome. while he has (Copyright, 193, by Press Publishing Co.) ST. PETERSBURG, Feb. 14.—(New York World Cablegram—Special Telegram.)—A | most interesting and harmless sect sprang | up within the last three years in Semyo- nonka and the eastern provinces of Si- beria on the Mongolian frontier, attracting thousands of membere. Semyononka was a desert some years ago. A few Buddhist nomads wandered there. Then came a few | liberated convicts, then some Kierghiz and Tartars, and they formed a settlement. The Russians plowed, built huts, sank weils, wove cloth and people began to gather. A Buddhist priest came along and started to make conve He preached about the | soul coming back to earth and entering the bodies of babies. The Russians got hold of a new testament and read about the birth at Bethlehem. They and the Budd- hists met regularly every evening and di cussed their matiers. One night in De- cember, 1901, a beautiful young gifl be- came the mather of a boy. A rumer got abroad that Christ was coming agaim, It spread like wildfire all along the fromtier. | The Russians said it was Christ; the Mon- | gols that It was Duddba. The girl could | glve no explanation. Crowds came in pllgrimages. The girl was placed on a throne and covered with rich Chinese brocades, with tha babe in | her arms. Buddhists and Russians knelt | before her. Mother and child were radi- ant The crops flourished, the cattle multi- | plied, sickness vaniehed from the settle. ment. The new faith spread rapidly. Offerings and pligrimages were of daily occurrence, and every day the girl and her child sat there fn shimmering brocade, with a crown on her hatr and background of gold and silver and gleaming lights. A year passed and the fame of the strange events travelel as far as St Petersburg to the czar's ears. No such sect must be permitted, he sald, and the police gathered from the adjacent towns and told the girl and her baby to depart. They did so, and nobody knows what has become of them. The “temple” has been closed and the disciples are sitting in mourning, but there are 20,000 of them and they believe that a day will soon come when mother and child will return to rule the earth. SHINING AT AN EARLY AGE Lady Dorothy Walpole a Social ¥ Though Fourteen, vorite, Only (Copyright, 13, by Press Publishing Co.) LONDON, Feb. 14—(New York World Cablegram — Special ~ Telegram.) — Lady Dorothy Walpole, the exquisitely pretty young Anglo-American, the pet girl friend of Miss Muriel White, daughter of Secre- tary White, of the United States embassy, and who stayed with her much last autumn at Wilton park, promises to be one of the prettiest young debutantes when she makes her bow at Buckingbam place. As yet she.is by no megns “out,” but she s in h’m“gmmnm that she has already a very important and en- viable position. Her mother, Countess Orford, who was Miss Louise Corbin of New York, dislikes to have her only child 80 much in eoclety at so early an age (she will be 14 next month), but the Whites are 80 fond of her and she enjoys Wilton -park 80 much that her mother is easily per- suaded. With ber halr parted in the middle and knotted at the nape of her neck in truly American fashion, Lady Dorothy is a truly American girl. She Is fair\of face and blue-eyed, and although she would still rank among the juveniles, at the big ball glven at Hall Barn last week she had her program filled up before any grown up &irl in the room. She is a perfect waltzer, | as was proved by the test that Lord Cricton, a most fastidious dancing man, danced with her nearly through the whole program. TOO MUCH OF MODERNIZING Marie Corelll Objects to Making Over the Birthplace Shakespeare. (Copyright, 1903, by Press Publishing Co.) LONDON, Feb. 14.—(New York World Cablegram—Special Telegram.)—Marfe Co- relil 1s out with a protest, “‘at the request of several literary people and lovers of Shakespeare,” against the further modern- izing of Stratford-on-Avon by the erection |of a brand new Carnegie free library next to Shakespeare's birthplace. She goes on | | to say: | | “While fully realizing the benevolent n- | tentions of the wealthy American manu- | | facturer, this seems to be a point at which even wealth should draw a line, and the | | Stratford townspeople are by no means overanxious to possess a free library at all, According to the present plans of the custodian the cottage In the garden of the birthplace is to be pulled down and also the cottages next it. Personally T have no | doubt to the excellent motives of all the persons concerned and exomerate them | from suspicion of self-advertisement But It is an open secret in court circles now that the report that the king was too ill to be one of a house party at Chatsworth in the fore part of this month was a pure myth. The real reason he suddenly can- ®elled his engagement whs because he had & serfous disagreement at luncheon with the queen. The kiug had been annoyed because Mrs. George Keppel was not to be among the gtests, although his wish that she should be there had been communicated to the duke of Devonshire. Queen Alexandria, who only that morning had seen the full Jist of guests in the newspapers, strongly | objected to the presence of a certaln young unmarried woman who is very prominent in the Devonshire house set and the cen- tral figure at its. entertalnments. The queen sald emphatically that she would Dot go to the party because the aforesaid young woman was to be ther A heated argument ensued and then the king cancelled the engagemect on the spur of the mument. Sir Francis Laking was summoned, but firmly declined to lssue fraudulent bulletin in order to disarm s plelon, having a lively recollection of the severe criticism he had to endure for agreeing to such a thing when the king had appendicitis. This accounts for the strange fact that no bulletin was issued until the next morning, whem, contrary to all precedent, It was signed by the king's private secretary, Kpollys, instead of by & physiclan. Indeed, Laking was not re- sponsible for any of the statements made. The king looks remarkably well and shows ;oolllllu‘ o8 Secand Page) there are so few old world towns remain- ing unspolled in England that the birth- place of Shakespeare should at best be | | guarded more sacredly for the mation than | | that a portlon of its most historic street | | should be left open to easy purchase of the | mere millionaire.” | | | |ICE ENCROACHING ON LAND| | North Siberin Said to Be Rapidly Be- coming an Uninhabitabl Resion | Copyright, 193, by Press Publishing Co.) | | ST. PETERSBURG, Feb. 14.—(New York | | Worla Cablegram—Special Telegram.)— | North Siberia is threatened with an ice | age. Winter has never before been any- | thing like 80 severe as this year. It be- gan last July, before the grain was ripe. The grain froze in the fields and before the | end of September, the usual harvest time, the earth was cracking with an intense | trost. S0 unusual an occurrence, extend- | | Ing 1,000 miles, attracted the attention of | the Russian authorities, and an expedition | | sent to inquire into the cause now reports | that huge masses of polar ice are rapidly | leaving the vicinity of the pole and wedg- | ing themselves against the coast, where ! they will never thaw, and that the impact | of the masses from the pole is driving the |lce far up on the land. About 1,000 vil- lages have been deserted. The Samoyeds, the aborigines of the country, accounted specially weather wise, say that the Si- berlan graziug grounds for reindeer are be- ing gradually driven southward and that the zone of tros and coarse grass, within the memory of their old men, was 200 miles north of the present limit. | ago, she is now a popular heroine. | thority on the Rough Riders. | blegram—Special | leased trom prison in time to APPEARS A HEROINE Mme, Humbert Displays Wonderful Magnet- ism in Libel Charge Hearing. PARIS AT ONE TIME READY TO MOB HER @ets Applause Instead While She is Oocu- pying Witness Stand. BANKER CATTAUI SADLY DISCOMFITED Acousel Displays Remarkable Memory of Transactio Years Ago. | GIVES ~ ACCURATELY MINUTE DETAILS Convinces Audience in Court She W Ruined by Usurers Instead of Herself Being a Gigan- tic Swindler. | (Copyright, 198, by Press Publishing Co.) PARIS, Feb. 14.—(New York World C blegram—Special Telegram.)—By her bril- llance and magnetism Mme, Therese Hum- | bert has turned the hostility of Paris into applause. In danger of the mob two mon;hn This magical change she has wrought by the spell of her personality. In the two days she has been in court she has dominated the whole proceeding. She even took the case out of her own s hands. From the moment she swept into the trial room, calm, dauntless, determined, followed by Frederick Humbert and the Daurignacs, trembling and dejected, she was in com- mand of everything. She completely turned the tables on the Paris banker whose suit it was that brought her into court. It is a mere side issue to the main trial, but it has served to gain for her popular sympathy to such an extent that it inevitably will have a tremendous effect on the bigger trial when it comes on. Mme. Humbert's domination of her audi- ence is described by Varennes in Figaro, who says: “Her magnetism is amazing. You listen to her, you belleve her. If you were the judge you would be on her side. It you were a millionaire you would lend her your fortune.” Applause rang out in court several times while she was on the witness stand. Calm, majestic, self composed, she never lost her polse, while several times putting to discomfiture Cattaul, the Paris banker who has sued her for libel in ecalling him s usurer. When the banker became en- tangled in his facts and dates, and was floundering helplessly with his memoranda, trylng to remember, she calmly supplied every detall, remarking coldly: “I forget nothing.” Her skill, adroitness and apparent sin- cerity won over the audience in court, which plainly showed sympathy with her. The audience showed its enjoyment of put him on the defensive, fore the case was fairly under way she | convinced ‘Mstonors ttat ahe Nad been the -viciim an wnderupulous usurer. Telling her story In tones that commanded the sym. pathy and bellef of her audience, she at- tributed her financial ruin to usurers. She sald the excessive interest charged her by Cattaul ran the sum she borrowed from him up to $600,000. The climax came when, pointing her finger at the shrinking banker, she cried: “I'd rather be in the four walls of @ prison cell than in your place.” The. detalls of Ber transactions she re- lated with striking accuracy. She forgot nothing. When Cattaul, even with the aid of\hle papers, had been foggy about the transactions of ten years ago, she glibly recalled everything. Intimations of exposures involving per- ons in hizh places were made in her story on the stand. Allusions containing scarcely veiled threats were scattered through it. “I want to see Minister Valle,” she cried, referring to the minister of justice. “His presence will 800th my feelings, and also benefit my creditors. I have photographs. You will see, yes, I will tell the whole truth.” These peculiar references to the French minister of justice caused a sensation, and finally, when M. Humbert was testifying, the presiding justice sharply forbade further mention of Minister Valle's name. WORKS THE PEOPLE OF BERLIN Bogus American Major Has a Good Time at the Expe: ot the Credul (Copyright, 138, by Press Publishing Co.) BERLIN, Feb. 14.—(New York World Ca- blegram—Special Telegram.)—A man giv- ing his name as Schiewaugk and calling himself an American major has been ar- rested here a swindler. \In soclety Schiewaugk wore the uniform of the United States army and talked of his bril- lant deeds in the American war with Spain. He had read up the geography of Cuba and knew all about its climate and people. He had studied also the printed deacription of the fighting and was an au- His position was strengthened by a letter he carried purporting to be signed by President Roosevelt. Schiewaugk's bearing was that of a cultivated man of the world. His vic- tims are many and ‘most of them are in the highest ranks, from whom %e raised money on various false pretenses. As a matter of cold fact he belongs to a poor Berlin family. The only military training he has was obtained as a private in a German infantry regiment. HOPE FOR MRS. MAYBRICK May Be Released Next Fall Pu to & Brittah Custom, but Not Sooner, (Copyright, 1903, by Press Publishing Co.) LONDON, Feb. 14.—(New York World Ca- Telegram.)—There is no probabllity that Mrs. Maybrick will be re- evidenco in the big 1and suit involving her mother's fortune. The World correspondent made personal inquiries at the Home office, to which & new appeal has been addressed fcr her liberation, but Home Secertary Ritchie does not intend to depart from decision of his predecessors that Mrs, May. brick shall serve her full term. Her sentence was penal servitude for Mfe, but there is a rule under which life prisoners may be released at the end (f twenty years. Counting time remission for good behavior, her case may come up under that rule for review mext fall, when it is possible she may get the benefit of the custom of lberation. There is Bo expectation at the American embassy that she has any chance of belng released before then. Banker Cattaui’s discomfiture. She quickly | | worla | Burope are to be more rigorously exam- | ined, | November and December, condemned as | (Copyright. |CHANCE FOR UNMARRIED ONES | (Copyright, 1908, by P | statistics published here | teresting and attractive figure at Clarldzes DOINGS OF THE SMART SET M, Langhorne Shaw, Fresh from is the Center of Attraction, Divorce Court, (Copyright, 1908, by Press Publishing Co.) LONDON, Feb. 14.—(New York World Ca- blegram—Special Telegram.)—The most in 18 Mrs. Langhorne Shaw, who, after her ai- vorce, 1s having & good time with her mother and a girl friend. Mms. Shaw i pointed out everywhere as the model of the “Gibson girl” s type now as famous in Europe as it is in the United States. Since they landed they have been everywhere in London, making the rounds of the “smart’ restaurants eud plays, while the morning sees the whele Party up for an early breakfast and cut shopping in Dover and Bond streets with | an early morning energy unknown to the average English girl. After the opening of Parliament next Tuesday Mrs. Langhorne Shaw will take her two girls and little grandson to Moute Carlo. It is likely that they will pass the next four months in Burope. Marked ap- preciation has already been shown for :he two fair Americans and they have mat many “smart” soclety people here Several distinguished Engiish bachslors are always hovering about the particular club, restaurant or hat shop where the girls happen to be, and merry parties are quickly | arranged for the cheerful, pretty visitoss. Mrs. Ritchie ga) ig dinner Sunday BLOCKADE IS OVER Allies Instruot Their Naval Bhips to Leave Venoruelan Waters FORCES TO WITHDRAW TODAY OR MONDAY Powers Act Immediately Protocols Are Bigned in Waskington. GERMANY MAKES MANY EXPLANATIONS Issues Offioial Memoranda Betting Forth Terms Agreed Upon. CLAIMS BOWEN GAVE WAY TO BERLIN Cond cepted and Says Republic Must Now Provide Nel ons Were Ac- 1y Two Milllon Bolivars, LONDON, Feb. 14.—Instructions were tel- egraphed to the commanders of the block- ading squadrons off Venezuela to withdraw their ships, in consequence of the arrange- ments completed at Washington. The blockade, therefore, will be immedi- ately raised. week for “Buffalo Jto meet Baron and Baroness de Meyl ®8rd and Lady New- bourough and .]‘ 'smart” soclety peo- ple. After dify @ ‘there was excollont music and som ‘sses who are received soclally were United StayigQeiibansy Secretary White | would have f Apanied Mrs. and Miss | White to vig'' Heroy Dudiey at the open- | ing of (hZ" R2 r.sfl:‘:-nnnn but for the absence * ambassddor. It was the first visit £ id Miss White have made to | Treland, K 3 the former has been living in this counfry, and they are enjoying | themselves immensely, making a tour of the country houses. They are staying this week with the duke and duchess of Aberdeen, at Baronscourt. Afterward they will visit the marquis and the marchioness of Londonderry at Mount Stewart, then | ear] and countess of Erene, at Crom castle. MARK TWAIN IS A FAVORITE Quaint Personality of Humo) Leaves Impression on Vienna. (Copyright, 1008, by Press Publishing Co.) VIENNA, Feb. 14.—(New York World Cablegram—8pecial Telegram.)—At the grand fancy dress ball glven by Princess Pauline of Metternich, at which the head only was disguised, the character most fi quently seen was that of “Mark Twain,” a signal proof of the lasting impression his wonderful personality left on Vienneese soclety. His bust and photograph were in great demand bef . His magnifi- cent head, with his mane of white hair, his bushy eyebrows and mustache, were faith- fully reproduced. The women all copiod Galnesborough's ':t’wu and the besuties -the Eurapean gallecier, '2’; from family pictures in {mf thelr grandmothers tion “of three and four times removed. KING OF ITALY IS CORDIAL Ambassador from United States Treated with Conatderation. (Copyright, 198, by Press Publishing Co.) Feb. 14.—(New York World Ca- blegram—Special Telegram.)—The unusual cordiality shown by the king and queen to United States Ambassador Meyer and Mrs. Meyer at the first court ball given in the Quirinal since 1899 is the subject of com- ment by the Rome press. Evidently the king is anxious to dispel any motlon that the Venezuelan question has lessened the cordiality in the relations between Italy and the United States. Ambassador and Mrs. Meyer are becoming quite popular with the American colony here and are making themselves quite at home in Rome, clearly having no intention of leaving to make way for Henry White, KEEP RUSSIAN CENSOR BUSY Fourteen Ton: of Books and Maga- urned Two Months, (Copyright, 1808, by Press Publishing Co.) ST. PETERSBURG, Feb. 14.—(New York Cablegram—8pecial ~ Telegram.)— The Russian censor has never been so busy as now. An order has gone forth from the minister of the interior that all books entering the country from America and especlally books and soclal and political questions. Young Rus- | sia reads this class of literature with eagerness, especially anything on the labor question. Fourteen tons of English and French books, magazines and newspapers were burped in St. Petersburg alone last magazines on | unfit for Russian eyes. CARNEGIE NOT IN HIGH FAVOR English Towns Not Offers bbing at His Donate to 193, by Press Publishing Co.) LONDON, Feb. 14.—(New York World Ca- | blegram—Special Telegram.)—Andrew Car- | negie’s lbrary donations still fail in some cases to be recelved with gratitude. His offer of $50,000 to Dover was discussed by | the town corporation this week, and after much opposition it was only by the mayor's | casting vote that it was decided to ‘“tak the offer into favorable consideration.” Mr. Carnegie offered a library to Jirgs- | heath, Birmingham, but no one would give a site for it, the committee was not in- clined to meet and the public meeting talled because scarcely anyone attended. German Papers Urge S of Fe- males to Emigrate to the United States, s Publishing Co.) | BERLIN, Feb. 14.—(New York World Ca- blegram — Special Telesram.) — German women, Who outnumber the men by 1,500,- 000, are being strongly urged to emigrate to the United States, where, according to in certain states the men largely outnumber the women. The matrimonial bait is being dangled be- fore their eyes by newspapers throughout the country. The Frankfurter Zeitung, for example, closes an editorial on the sub- |e8s. to the promised lend.” i Ject by saying, “Forward, then, ye maid- | medtately. | two exceptions. Germany Also Acts. BERLIN, Feb. 14 —The government 18 telegraphing instructions today for raising the blockade of the Veneguelan coast im- These instructions may not reach all the blockading vessels today, but it is expected that the blockade will be fully ralsed by to- morrow or Monday, since Commodore Scheddar has been expecting such instruc- tions and had arranged for their prompt THE BEE BULLETIN. Forecast for Nebraska—Falr iIn now in South Portion Sunday; Fair, Warmer fn West Portlon, North Monday Page. 1 Seandal Over Card Games. Mmne. Hombert Now a Hlockade R wka Legislnture. 2 Appropriates Money for the West. Turf Men Must Stand Trial. 8 News from the & Progress of the 3 Bryan is Not a Candidate, 4 Asphyxinted by Natural G Afftairs at South Omah: or Tillman Defe eek Hanna's Son. Dominican Treaty Arrives, 6 Past Week in Omaha Soclety. Echoes of the Ante-Room. 7 Judge Grosscup on Socia m. . Y. M. €. A. Gymnasium Honors, 8 Council Blufm, Town News, P Weekly Review of Sports. State Men Outshoot Om Harvard W from Y LN you May Geo Inte Cabinet, Debate over Beet Sagar in Senate. In the Domain Woman. Amuseme Editor! Chicago Labor Demand Excee 18 Story, “Sevemn Secret 19 Marke and Financia Lynching. 12 18 14 15 Temperat Hour, 5 aom, ¢ a m, 7 o m. a m. transmission | Two memoranda explaining the protocol | were signed by Mr. Bowen. The text!| of the first is as follows: | As the imperial German government | holds that the claims originating from the | Veneguelan clyil wars of 188 to 1900 are | not .to be submitted to arbitration, the government of Venzuela has to acknowl- edge at once these claims, amounting to 1,718,816 bollvars, approximately $325,000, and her to pay sala claims in cash without deiay or, should this be impossible, to fuerantee the specdy payment of them y guaranties which are deemed sufficlent | by the imperial government. 1 The second explanatory document reads Guaranty Must Be Explicit. | ! The conditions of the German govern- ment having besn acospted, Mr. Dawen, s | representative of the Venezuelan govern- ment, will now have to F ide for the | payment of tbe 1,718,815 bolivars mentioned, | under No. 1 of the conditions, or give ade: guate_guaranty for this amount. Should Mr. Bowen choose the latter way, the | guaranty is to be specified distinctly. | For Instance, in case of the guaranty belng based on the ‘custome revenues, it would be necessary to etate exactly' in which way the payment is to take Dl out of these revenues. The guaran will have to be given de facto and with- out delay. In the event of the seven drafts handed to Baron von Sternburg being defaulted, | it is stipulated that Belgian customs offi- clals collect the revenues at one of the Ven- special message to Ambassador Tower here at 8 o'clock yesterday infarming him that the protocols would be signed during the evening and expressing his pleasure at the happy result. Chancellor von Buelow and Baron Ric- thofen both express satistaction and ap- proval of the United States’ correct and BAUGHMAN'S FAMILY IN NEED Officers Report that He Has Been Too Economieal in Domes Allowanece, A report from nelghbors that the family of T. A. Baughman, 2625 Patrick avenue, was destitute and suffering, resulted Satur- day in Officers Woolridge and Baldwin belng detailed to investigate the case. Thelr re- port to Chief Donahue was that though Baughman gets $156 per week as foremdn for the Martin-Arderson company he has been allowing his wife but 10 cents per day for maintaining the household and keeping the children clothed; that as a result of this excessive economy a half loaf of bread had had to suffice as both breakfast and dinner for a family of four; the nursing babe was improperly clothed and the whole place and all persons therein suffering for want of soap. The officers visited Baughman at his place of employment and he gave them $6 for his family. He agreed, also, that hereaftor he will repeat the action every Saturday night under penalty of arrest, a policeman to recelve the money at his place of em- ployment and convey it to his family. The neighbors of the family say they have been complaining of the conditions at the Baugh- i, boma. for eome. Lime. Paste..... CONFER WITH LEGISLATORS Members of Committes of Ten Urge Passage of Ho Rell 171, triendly attitude throughout. | Baron von Sternburg, by direction of his | government, informed Secretary Hay in ad- | vance of the character of any important proposal made to Mr. Bowen. In at least two Instances written menjoranda of Ger- many’s position were supplied to the, United States. Interpretation of Protoco! WASHINGTON, Feb. 14,—In further ex- planation of the articles of the protocols | signed last night by Mr. Bowen and the representatives of the allies here the fol- lowing memorandum was prepared and duly signed by the negotiators this morning: “Our interpretation of the protocols was and 1s that the 80 per cent of the total in- come of the custom receipts of La Guayra and Puerto Cabello shall begin to be set apart on the first day of March, 1903, and continue to be set apart through the sald month, and that the first payment will be due not the 1st of March, but the 1st of April, 1908. In view of the restoration of peace be- tween Venezuela and the allied powers of Great Britain, Germany and Italy, Senor Augusto Pulido, the Venezuelan charge @'affaires, addressed an appropriate note to he British commander today and later called at the Italian and German embassies. Mr. Bowen, as soon as he had cleared up some details with the British ambassador, paid « farewell call upon Secretary Hay a the State department and reported the sign- ing of the peace protocols. The two were in conference for some time and the secre- | tary congratulated Mr. Bowen heartily upon the success of his mission. This afternoon at the British embassy Mr. Bowen will meet the representatives ot the allies to draw up and sign some addi- tional papers. Text in M e Publie, With the consent of the British ambassa- dor Mr. Bowen today made public the full | text of the British protocol, which was the first of the three conventions signed last | night. The British, German and Italian | protocols, while different in phraseology, | contaln the same provisions, with one or Where the British protocol stipulates that the $27,500 shall be pald in cash upon the signing of the agreement the German and Itallan protocols provide for the payment of this sum fn thirty and sixty days respectively from that day. The British ambassador sent a note this | afternoon to Mr. Bowen advising him that he had received & cablegram from London | to the effect that orders hed been issued to | ., at once raise the Venezuelan blockade. Official notice to this effect also reached | the Stato department today in a dispatch from the United States embassy as London. | Mr. Bowen has annouuced that Mr. Car- | negle offered to provide the money de- manded by Gei & day or two ago. The offer was without conditions. ! At a conference at the British embassy | this afternoon another important addendum | was signed to clear up article five in the | Itallan protocol. By & curious error this | article provided that the Venezuelan gov- ernment “obligate themselves to assign to the Italian government, commencing March 1, and to alienate to no other ‘purpose, 3 per cect of the customs revenues of La Guayra and Puerto Cabello. Had this provision stood unamended the Hallan government would have been en-| titled to the entire 30 per cent instead of sharing it with the other allies as wus | intended. Fortunately, the matter was dis- | covered 1n time to be corrected before the (i:o-uuu on. nr:n Page.) | Strickler | Copenhagen: A subcommittee of the committee of ten had a conference yesterday afternoon with & number of the members of the Douglas county delegation In the legislature to ascertaln what work had been done in ref- erence to the bill for the taxation of rail- road property in the city on an equality with other city property. All three of the senators were present, but only four of the nine members of the house put in an ap- pearance. These canvassed the situation with the public's rep-esentatives, Herman Kountze, Robert Smith and W. G. Ure. Nothing definite was accomplished beyond impressing on the minds of the legis! the importance of the bill under consid- eration and the public demand for its passage. {CAPTURE BURGLAR IN HOUSE South Omaha Police Nab the Ci While Committing the Crime rit Charles Jackson was captured by the South Omaha police in the house of Frank Scrupa, at Twenty-third and W streets, at 1:30 o'clock this morning and will an- swer to the charge of burglary. The burglar gained entrance by breaking a window and was at work inside rummag- ing about when the patrolman on the beat heard the noise. He fnvestigated and sent to the police station for assistance. Police Captain John C. Trouton and Patrolmen F. Kruger and James Emerick went into the house and captured Jackson before he could get outside. The Scrupas were away from home at a dance. The prisoner is a white man and lives in Council Bluffs. He ha not before been arrested in South Omaha. ABOUT MUNICIPAL OWNERSHIP ed to Omaha Man is Inv Present a Paper to National Conv in New York, ® In response to an invitation from the committee in charge of the program, Vietor Rosewater Is preparing a paper to be pre- sented to the National Convention on Mu- nicipal Ownership and Public Pranchises, 10 be held under the auspices of the New York Reform club in New York City Feb- ruary 25-27 mext. He will treat of that part of the subject bearing more directly on municipal electric lighting, of which he made a special study some years ago. Dr. Rosewater has also a short article on value In Taxation” coming out shortly in the March number of the Political Sclence Quarterly, embodying some of the results of his recent experience as a mem- ber of the Board of Review in this eity. Farnam Street Houses Sold, Through the Payne-Hostwick compan P. H. Updike has bought at u figure said to be a good, round one, the four V. O, Rouses at the southwest corner of ‘Thirty -¢lghth and Farnam streets, which houses were bullt by Mr. Btrickler as an investment three years ago and srapped up by tepants at ample rentals. The houses all have elght or nine rooms. are finished in hardwood and supplied with the modern convenlences. Movemen At New Liverpool of Ocean V York—Arrived: and Queenstown; Bulgaria, Arrived Is Feb, 14 Lucanta, from Island, fr from Hamburg, Teutonic, from At Liverpool New York: Philadelphia. from New York. | | Batlea Btruria, for New York At Antwerp—Safled: Kroonland, for New | York. At Havre—Salled: La Champagne, for New York. At Rotterdam—8alled: Rotterdam, for New York tors | | They ask that judgme SIX WEEKS ARE GONE Most of Work of Present Session of Leglala- ture is 8till to Be Done. REVENUE BILL EXPECTED BY TUESDAY Bub-Oommittee Now Has Work of Compiling it Near Completion. HAVE FIRST COPIES OF IT Prospects of Passage is Now the Question Which is Uppermost. DEPENDS ENTIRELY ON ITS CHARACTER Some Talk that Omaha Railvoad Tasz- ation Bill May Be Offered as an Amendment to Gemeral Measure, PRESS (From a Staft Correspondent.) LINCOLN. Feb. 14. — (Spectal.) — Six weeks of the twenty-elghth session of the Nebraska legislature have been spent, with the most important work unaccompiished. Contrary to all¥plans, promises and ex- pectations, the revenue bill has not been Introduced up to this time and revenue legislation, therefore, is still in the fu. ture. It begins to look, however, as it this much mooted measure would reach consummation and be ready for submission to the house about next Tuesday, when, to be precise, the seventh week of the session will * begin. The subcommittes Wwhich has been whipping the bill into shape gave out the statement today that its work would bo completed tonight or at least by Monday, in time to return the bl trimmed and ready for final review, to the committee at large. It also gave out as its opinion that the larger committe: would be able to send the bill to the houss the following day. But this cannot be accepted as final. Experience has shown that “there's many a slip ‘twixt cup and lp” {n the onerous task of formulating a revenue bill. The committee folt quite certain a week or two ago that by Monday last It could have & bill ready for introduction. First the joint committes from houss and senate went at the work of construoting this measure, then after reaching a oer- taln stage a subcommittee of foewer meme bers was selected from within the joint committee and to it was committed the duty of knocking off the rough edges of the embryotic bill and finally three from the committee, Semator Pemberton and Representatives Thompson and Loomi were chosen to put the finishing touches on the bill. These gentlemen worked until late today on the bill and have about completed it. | Press to Have Coples, From the first of week bofore last, when the committee began to devote its time exclusively to this bill, The Bee has from t . to time, as they decided or, published LACBd that an to thers: thors e hean’ little or no change. The bill only just now having reached completion, it has of course not been possible for dny complete publica- tion to be made, but the committee has promised to give full coples to the press as soon as the joint committee has passed upon the measure. It was agreed at the outset that every step taken in the form- ation of this Oill would be held subject to change until the measure was completed and in the hands of the larger committee. Owing to the tentative character, there- fore, of the various stages of progress, it was deemed best to withhold any compre hensive publication. The matter of the bill's formation hav- ing about been disposed of, the next ques- tidn that arises is, “Will this measure pass?" Of course, this question might be easler determined if the nature of the bill wi | befter known. | If the bill is such a one as will afford adequate relief, provide for future con- ting>ncies and fairly meet the general needs for which a revenue bill was de- manded and the legislature is such a one will respond to the urgent appeals of the vast majority of its constituents, it would be a safe guess to say that the bill will pass. Dut there are two mighty “ifs" to be reckoned with. Railroad Influence Unknown, Ot course, Nebraska, with its {llegal debt of over $2,000,000 needs salutary rev- | enue legislation. Of course the people of the state recognize this fact and of course they have placed themselves on record as demanding it. Of course Lhe republican | members of the present legislature were | elected on a platform last fall favorable | to revenue revision and therefore stand | today committed to this principle. Of course, the democratic press of the state has by formal resolutions urged the dem- ocrats In the legislature to support revenue revision. All these facts are perfectly well understood. And still there may be Do revenue legislation of the sort that the people need and want. To what extent the rallroads, with thelr powerful lobbles, have Influenced the draft- ing of a revenue bill is not positively known. That the agents of these corpora- tions have had some influence is not | questioned. It is hoped that that influence { will not prove disastrous. The Union Pa- | eifie, Burlington and Elkhorn have from oven before the legislature convened on | January 5, had here men of experience and | kil as professional lobbyists. They have | kept up systematic labor. There is no leg- islation this sesslon vitally affecting the | rallroads, but this mooted revenue leg- | islation. The corporation lobbyists, there- | fore, must be here in some | tion' to revenue revision. As & matter of fact, they are. John N. Baldwin, tie gen- |eral counsel of Nebraska for the Union ort of rela- | Pacific, his retinue of aides and his | neighbors, the Elkhorn and Burlington ! lobbylsts, pitchel and maintained thetr tents here in the Capital City to look after the railroads’ interests in connection with the proposed revenue revision. Some Significant Things. Significant things bave been done. Strong statements have been made. It has even | been said that the combined influence of | the rallroads has been such as to comtrol | the majority of members of the joint re: enue committes, This remains to be seen. The committeeruen spurn the lustnuation® snd insist that they have tried to do the best they could for the people of the stat@y be suspended untfl the curtain has been drawn aside and their | work disclosed. This scene is anxiously | awalted. During the 1ull over H. R. 171, the Omaha real estate exchange bill, which would make the railroads pay their just city taxes in Omaha, a theory has been advanced that the friends of this bill might try to tack it onto the general revenue hill when that . I