Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 28, 1903, Page 1

ESTABLISHED JU NE 19, 1871 ISTHMUS IN TURMOIL ] ! y N * » GALE BLOWS TRAIN OVER| S MU | SILE |URGE NGRES ( WEATHER i 1 \TRIES MURDER IN SLEEP STARTS FIGHT FOR MILLIONS|URGES CONGRESS TO ACT|CONDITION OF THE . () ) Hurricane Sweeps United Kingdom, Breiher Claims Widow Wrengly Tosk Forecast for Nebraska—Fair_and Colder Ras Buildings Desitle | ¢ | Sedd i " - g e Saturday; High Northwest Winds. Sun ot Bival Honduran Presidents Take Arms to ng Tra |Obio Blacbeard Deubts for Fifth Wifs's e ke s T nt in Mesage Pointa Out Need for| day Fair Majority of Committee Report Adversely on f " & Bafe! | ix's Lo i A Bill ( Ea Olaims to O ’ l ty Had He Stayed Free | . Philippine Tariff Bi 'r—-.er-n-r'-‘:-: n-u'::..:n-na-g:m Giving Oities Their Righta i LONDON, Feb. 27.—A gal¢ of .|mj\ H | NEW YORK. Fen . igina g ol - - 1pom e P \ICARAGUA AIDS RETIRING EXECUTIVE | Precedented velocity awept Grem WS HOW WOMEN WERE STRANGLED 'cuse. 1a which the brothlr of Theodore | SPECIAL SENATE SESSION SEEMS SURE | a8 upom ONE STANDS WITH DOUGLAS MEMBERS !;" might and did consierable \’0..‘ Hagaman, who died in 1908, is seeking an — | E =™ \ ,l;':'_"_::'.::‘”’;'"“'"“"“" ""d"r:"'“:'“ vy le of Crimes Knapp Works ACCOUDtNE of the estate ffom the widow. Cabam amd C | 8 b il ¢ e o rely interropted, the cof | came up ioday o . Troops Beat to Amist Blerm in BIIDG | ey Ly Lorich'was Jotertered with and Targe | “ridf 7 and Thinke Vietims |50 17 S0y betore ST VUsernld | poomed v in= b lForyecr g g g A Incipient Rebellion. Bumbers of ships were forced to seek ~. Yy M Fam Delabarre, somsetel HAE' thedotabt was | by E ! % SR Votea with the Malerity. g | ccurred, yod 'he Hesbtkss” wers by ai | Hirans. worth about £50000. The contestant de- | ! R " "SEssH SALVADORIAN FORCES HELP OTHER SIDE | JICUTE B0 e e were busy wlld v clared its value to be $1,500,000. The mat ! - {JOINT MEMORIAL SESSION FOR MORTON v ' ter ¢ e he TR (N A Uiverstonn, Lascasttre o pasmenser| T s o, v S S ron s—tne presstent | STATE WANTS OF OMAHA VIEW i train was blown over, a number of pas- | .. et 3 . Sounsel g the cont t s -1 i i e Bu'l!ukh‘ o Tan Bl o) o e 1N, ad tin cars Serailed L Sl At W SRR 8 e |n;";:$n]m:"rula;“:r :“mnfi;mq.(m':' sage (et following 68" | g tenston of Street Car Line and Governor l'”hg Makes Principal Address Beighboring Republic. T SIUDINNG. ovee it B dbosy | SUFSREEE, AERUE EREDS, the Betooms e i E T aiaiite | | T Bave sua Mustved ble trom Gove More Are Lights the Most o Bulogy of Dead RO to south. At Cork a three-story building [°*$¢d multi-murderer, had a long talk with client which asserted that Bis broihar's ave just received a ca OI.T“"‘""“‘" AT S Porerels 0 the | 1P Dprisoner in the presence of Sheriff Widow and Dr. Richard,C. Flower told him | ernor Taft, which runs as follows Pressing. OLD NEIGHBORS TE oF ¥ Y GUATEMALA ESCAPES FEARED REV W <O, Saititiol B0 sas Shisity th- | Bl;ldnrf' :n‘;lhhvn two sisters that deccased had “met | -Necessity for the pasage of the houss | TR, L WORTH Jured. | abost marrrim ey e e i the end of nis Mo which oiovemtcd him | of productive” indusiry and Dusiness are| The members of the Omsha View Im ! Revelationists Fail to Obtatn Support| Various coset points report vessels |y o' TATVINE Bie fourh wife, Anne B end of his nte vistor for them. and | G T Ly N B I e rowing | Provement club held an enthastastic meet- atare Adopts 2 Other Tiny Natfons and Are |Athore. The rivers in the Interior are | - 2 e g~ prv PO O A Xha | worse cach month. Some revival in sugur | 1€ Friday eveniug. and if the enthusiasm to the Origh o gyl . Yooding. month after the disappearance of Hannal | that he left little or o property.” The | Liq™t ball, "ilces have beer experienced, | displayed is prophetic of results, that part | Peace- e | Goddard Knapp. his third wife, and in:afdavit further alleges that Theodore did;cao to the uxpectation of a tariff law. Th: of the city will enjoy manifold benefits Arbor Day g~ g | oo v . y U y t | inte o ” and tobaces Preséat. |SOLDIERS ARE AMBUSHED | onversation, Mrs. Wenzell said: “Aliv. it 'not rece he care of any murse except | intereats of Fillpinos in sugar and Lobaccd | oyinyy the mext few montbs. The proposed | has been sald that I have Hannah's ear-|the widow and Mauriee Wilis, who is | {55, GX'"5i0w™in the face of those inter: | extension of the Thirty-third street car line —_— o ¢ daadeed mese lmpertal | FI2€° 40d ring. and [ want you, in the pres- married to the sister of Dr. ¥lower, and | eats. " A number of tobacco factories will | from Parker street to Maple was the chief | PANAMA, Feb. 27.—News has been re- Svosgs On TP $6sh of the shertf ta easherate me on'that | that while so surreuilEN) e & chock | BANS, t6 Sless ol Gy Segnr Scte toplc under consideration, while additional | (From a Staff Correspondent.) ceived bere that forces under the com- e K for $572,8%0 to his widow. 1 LAl should not pass lighting facilities did not escape the de-{ LINCOLN, Feb. 27.—(Special Telegram.) mand of General Nicasio Vasquez, sent by Se— Y T (s Hannah's ring will be found on her | The afidavit continues | e e e i ae of | MADdS of ihe members. New crosswalks, | —The committee on cities and towns hes President Zelaya of Nicaragua. to help | “_,';" = . | the day she received the check she | [ONCL OHCCh LT et of the islan grading and other improvements were given | finally decided on its report om house roll President Elerra of Honduras to cope with | PEKIN, Feb. 27.—Advices received bere | .o on ":"'d' o g o ORI Lrber T3 1%, " the day afver v brother's | €ral bus.uess s stugnant. All boosts and Omaha View stock rose several | 330, the bill giving to cvery municipality in the ml::m- begun by Semor Bonilla, -;:o today show that 500 imperial troops were ' y ® 0% M ¢ anresase vy ound | geath, ..;‘,. checks for schi08 and w1000 :’)’l:‘lit’iuf] Javor unions, most ]W;: :\m par. | the state the right to tax directly the rail- was elected president of Honduras, but|csught February 16 in an ambush in the | .. ) { were pald, each of which, it appears from | Petit » g . e Union Pacific raiiroad came in for a |road terminals for city purposes. Fivg whose election was atterward disputed by | Yang Ulng pass by the rebels of the prov- | pesrss o e T o0 Do Tl e o T | ] ettt | the e T s Grvarnos | few severe jolts during the meeting. while | members of the committee voted fo fu- President Sierra, have occupied Choluteca |ince of Kwang Si, North China. All the | St el s LA SR AT L Flower. { sure ‘;"':"":Id S iy ';" bas the sravest | B¢ Strike Lreakers :eceived meution in & |deSuilely postpone (he bill snd ihree te City, Sixty-eight miles south of the Hon-|soldiers were killsd and the rebels cap- | . p. e - 1 aliege the fact to be t the $572,580 - . | Tesolution. recommend it for passage. Those repre- - dufan capital, Teguicalpa. General An-|tured large supplies of arms which n,.‘;uner ;n the u‘m with & pain in my :-m. Ti’.llul{ h‘»vrx"v"r:‘n;nes::nbvnl’r:: ..m‘.‘;.l"‘.a‘ .d“rl; 'W"b""::,"l"\' ‘do i:w'hin:‘-lf'r“"“: :";’ Councilman Karr and City memles-ni-nuu the majority are McClay of the astasie, with feinforcements given by | troops were (aking to the bosleged EArTi- | oy gorng s o" P00 | BAFOIY know what I Ctiried "to thelr own dise By the aaid | com ity Tho 1SIeRGS AT (here B8 0L 8 e | Schurlg were present and xpoke during the | €lty of Lincoln, Roberts of Fremont, Ferrar Senor Regalade, the retiring president of | son of Chi Yuen. .lm oing. [-x{‘u‘. and the said Dr. Flawer and d‘h'tn "“1“1 Ph“"“ I:(\ nids: colin m}; ihe | eVeDing. of Grand Island, Cropsey of Fairbury and i Salvador, has fnvaded Honduras by way of | The official reports admit that (he rebels | Fresent Wife Narrowly Escapes. e i ATl N Doy :K'“:: s«.mw i boiny "m"”‘ ask that | The proposed extension of the stroet car { Cassel of Nebraska City, while the minority - Sasuntepec, to assist Semor Bonilla in his |jon in Kwang Si is Increasing and e { IR you not been arrested, would you |and his h o | er eceive The Immediaty attention | lin€ UPoR Thirty-third atreet was the firat | members re Ciltert and Nelson of Omaha revolution. .-prua over the border into the province of | have Killed the wite whom you now have in | (AoUt June 10, I was cemmunicated | 05 TS LTINS M i or Grayed for | Dusiness of impaortance which was bandied. | aBd Sweezey of Hastings. livery man on oontlls bimselt, atter lsnding arme at|Hunao. The viceroy of Hunan has sent | Indianapolis™ was asked of Alfred Knapp | Snd 1 did execuie hnd dellver en agrec: | be granted ¥ L Tty e B . e o PR S llaceituno, a small po on e gul of + I'onseca, between Amapala island and La | troops to the boundary to check the rebels® today. advance. “That is hard to tell,” was the remarka- ment of release, but the release was d livered without receipt of §i and was giv ““As congress knows, a series of calami- vorth of Blondo, which bas been a barrier | would be vitally adfected vy :his bill, and | to the extension, was reported ready to be { | pon th derstanding th Ues have befallen the Philippine people Rty Coasit o e R Union, Salvedor, has occupled the town of e NN bie anawer NOUE Bt Be et ST o e e v Tt . o - deeded to the city by the Reed estate|sistently demanding the passage of the bill. d o ntll we were satisfi tng from mearly Ocotopec, fi{ty mtles north of San !-lvlflvr-lconsUL SAWTER IS AFRAID| The question dia not disconcert Knapp, | with the amount that we shosld Teceive | sie s ture o devesiating aeiere with iny | (Bt the proposed extension might net be | The two Douglas county members and Mr. snd 1s Bow sdvancing toward San Antonio | Sut gosmint %o 4tOuse 16 him & specuiative | W Fedtvn therest | six years ating warfare, the | goteated Beoaiey ive” devodd I Tabt TR oF del Norte to attack the Honduran depart. wents of Comayagua La Paz, leaving He Decides to Not Accept Post Be-|sense that caused him to go into an ex- | “I thin% the whole guestion,” said the | accompanying destruction of property and When requested to speak upon the ques- |more to pleading with associates on the | the breaking up of the bonds of soctal order | oo BC8 TEHERReC o o plaalien of B Yewee. | surrogate, “narrows itseif down to whether on Councilman Karr said: *We have got | commiitee, irylng (o get (hem in line on Als rear guard protected by the forces of D i, “I'know that she woke wup several times | thiS court Bas the right to try the ques- |20 the hahits of peaceful industry, there ' ., paye that extension this year, and I|this fmportant measure, but Bo further Retiring President Regalado has placed on Fever. 4 [ tion of the delivery of the release. . |occurred an epidemic of rinderpest which the frontier of Swvados and Honduras. since we were married and found my hands {on her neck, when I was asleep, too. She | Counsel were asked to submit briefs on destroyed 90 per cent of the caribous, the shall work in conjunction with you to se- |hopes of this are now entertained. The cure it. You may count upen my assistance | only hope 1s 10 vote down the majority re- bl Philippine cattle, leaving the people with- | j'e. b sovapaghy 34 Vg B n 11 placed GUAYAQUIL, Ecuador, Feb. 27.—United | wouid wake when I grabbed her and wake | Wednesday, atter which the surrogate will REDOR DR e e 1Y ol b & vy o ot SMpan Qe Sorasprl. Dictie’ CR Gxad Buaret sot Toan | 1 A0 M’ e "WBot T Snenit by taling| So0in the out draught animals to tll the land or | He alao referred to the levy recently |on general file. It is thought that about T ey duny mer | Sawier, who arrived here February 2, | hold of her neck that way, and I could not | aid in the ordinery work of farm and vil- | nade and sald that while possibly the ! next Tuesday the reports of the committes palado to ald the revolutionary movement ugainst President Estrada Cabra of Guate- :oala, has been unsuccessful in his mission +nd has returned to Nicaragua with the/ Guatemalan would-be revolutionists under ‘Jemeral Leon Castillo, and also with the 2,000 rifies that President Zelaya Ddas sent for the use of Salvador against Guate- Lala. The president of the Honduran co Or. Alvarado Manzano, President minister of state, Alvarado Guerrezo, and n_-tm-\u-um ran con- cress, have agrived at Ama; to ‘seek via Payta, Peru, have started on their re- | tell her why, because I w turn to the United States on the steamer | not know I had done it. which brought them south. Mr, Sawter, it | “Just last week she woke up just in time, is alleged, became afraid of the yellow | or she might never have woke up at all fever when he saw the consulate where | I grabbed her so tight and was choking her Thomas Nast, the former consul general, | so that she was nearly gone when she came died December 7 of the fever. [to ard woke me up. I cabnot see what Strong winds have caused an overfow of | makes me do that.” { the Allausi river. Some damage has been!| The searchers for the body of Hannah | asleep and aid done to the rallroad line to Quito, but trafic will be resumed in a few da; ABSENCE EXCITES COMMENT Knapp, wife No. 3, reported no progress up to this afternoon and if they do not find the shoe box with the body on. reaching Lawrenceburg, Ind., the search will be abandoned. | tound dead in his reom today with his skull { crushed. The indications are that it was DEAD WITH SKULL CRUSHED E. P. Burdick of the Buffalo Envelope Works Probably Vietim of Burglars. BUFFALO, Feb. 27.—E. P. Burdick, pres- ident of the Buffalo Envelope works wi the work of burglare. - X An open front door and & rear window broken open indicated @ murder was com- | vatue. lage life. The extent of the disaster can be seen from tbe fact that the surviving caribous have increased over tem fold in At the same time a peculiar ori- ental Horse disease became epidemic, fur- ther crippling transportation. The rice | erop already reduced by various causes 1o | but a fourth of its ordinary size, has been | { damaged by locusts so that the price of | rice has nearly doubled. “Under these circumstances there is Im- misent danger of & famine in the islands. Congress is in course of gemerously ap- propriating $3.000,000 to meet the immedi mayor might veto it, he thought that such | will be submitted would not be the action. “If we win," he | said, “we will have plenty of momey to| spend out here. 1f we lose, why, there's a string tied to the levy, anyway, but it will | pudiated his former declarations xnd taken make us nearly $25,000 shy. !a stand against his own bill. bouse roll 200, | A committee consisting of Messre. Cal- { which he introduced some time ago and ahan, Hunter, Taylor, Robinson, Tuttls | which is In the essential provision & coun- nd Evans was appointed to confer with the | terpart of house roll 330. It will be re- MeClay Changes Front. In voting to kill this bill MeClay has re- treet Raflway company and again present the club's requests. City Electrician Schurig spoke upon the illumination of Omaba View. The expense incurred by the city in maintaining police membered, too, that at the first of the ses- sion Mr. McCiay unbosomed bimself in a speech on the floor ot the house as one of the most srdent champions of the proposi- tion to tax railroad terminals for local pur- ate needs, but the Indispensible end pre- cminent need is the resurrection of produc- tive industry from the prostration into which it has been thrown by the causes bove enumerated, “1 ask action ia the tariff matter not Hawailan Commimsioner of Agricul- tare Goes to California and Does Not Return. R HONOLULU, Feb. 27.—(By Pacific Cable. Mayor Bosche said today: “Unless we find the body of the wife (Hannah) Knapp will likely be turned ever to the Cincinnati police, where they have & case against him, In whicl were recovered and to which { saitted by robbers. An Examination by the police showed that nothing had been stolen. | Mr. Burdick was seen last =live at ¥ 1 o’'clock last night, when he went downstairs the bodies | to fix the furnace for the night. has con-1 The body was found 1efuge from Sierra's alleged persecutions. Preparations for War. protection for the Union Paeific strike | poses. In that speech he vigorously de- : breakers expressly was criticised In a nounced the railroads for not paying their scorching resolution offered by Simeon Rob- | just propartion of city taxes and commit- inson. The resolution was unanimously | ted himself une nivocally to the prometion adopted and will be presented to the Fire of legislation which would correct this and Police board at its next meeting. wrong. His speech attracted more ont upon Taylor tarial fessed. nticipation - <o N merely from the standpoint of wise govern- | City Prosecutor Thom: somewbat | tion than that has beew made ae M s tare » '-‘-flnl- vt ot o2 T 18 gomch and d with § rug and. $0la | mental policy, but ss & measure Of AU-| consured for Ot Appearing sgalnst + irike | iogislature (his g | agricuiture s 2 ‘being tried elsewhere, he: was today inter- | pillows. mmv—- ~with blood. aity, 15 response to an appeal 16 bresker-in ,he police oS whoas Bow- e change of front nat- e g ‘of absence, did not mu-':.. . :,,,,"', "‘"m hete ;o T s t people should net close its ears. was s#}d to have set for ome day, and |urally atiracts potice and invites gemeral g “ - Ay Y \ ’: - -t gl """l'" Wany bloodstaln® on | we have assumed responsibilities loward | tnen Afscharging the prisoner the day be- | comment. ; 2 8 He bas not been Beard from since his | revolting particulars. The aeighborhosd in which the murder | B¢ Philippines which we are 1n NOROF | fore the hearing. The club, later, wisely | In explanation of his changed attitude i bound to fuifil. We have the specific duty f taking every measure in our power to | see to their prosperity. The first and most mportant step in this direction has been ccomplished by the joim action of the military and civil autborities in securing | peace and civil government. The wisdom | of congress at the present session has pro- vided for them a stable currency, and its spirit of humane liberality and justice will be shown in the appropristion now sub- stantially agrecd upon, but there remains | a vital need that one thing further shall @eparture from ' Heénolulu, and his non-| “In the case of Mary Kikhart, whom he | was committed is ome of the finest and | artival is a matter of speculation. The | first met at Dayton, he implicated his third | wealthiest in Buffalo. announced purpose of his trip was a visit to | wife, Hannah Goddard, but his cross-ex-! The Burdick family included Mrs. Bur. Herticuitural Commissioner Craw of Call- | amination was such that the officers do not | dick, her mother and three danghters. Mrs. fornia. |think she held Mary’s bands while be | Burdick is away from home. Her where. - | choked the girl. The Cincinnati officers | abouts are unknown. She left home mbout | TO REPAIR WRONG TO BOERS | eay that be evidently kuows all about the | a month ago with the intention, it ts said | killing of Mary Elkbart, Emma Littlemann | of not returning. It ie known that Mr. and yard Kipling Dedicates Poem to and Jennie Connors, as he gives all the | Mrs. Burdick were not on good terms. descriptions, even to the kind of & towel | Chisf Cussock this afternoon gave out | feund around Mary's peck.” the following statement: Alfred Knapp has paid no attention to | From what investizations I have made, 1| the repeated orders of his attorneys and | would conclude that Mr. Burdick was | saw it might possibly be wrng in its in- formation and Geferred the grievance til! have changed my course because the a later date. peopie of Lincoln who were advocating this A new arc light wae promised the club | sort of a measure at the first of the ses- and voted to be placed at Thirty- | sion are not in favor of it now. A com- fourth and Corby streets. ! mittee from the commercial bodies of this | city waited on me to inform me to this ef- SIX MONTHS AMONG BRIGANDS""" 1 do not intend pusbing my dill for this reaso It is & fact that while no doubt the popular sentiment of Lincoln is still fave able to equitable rallroad taxation, some Representative McClay said: R. A. Weiss, & Seattle mining engineer, rays in Nicaragua he saw a detach sent of Nicaraguan soldiers at Leon on iheir way to assist Slerta. San Juan passed the American squadron om February 18 off Lizard point. The. Miss Ellen M. Stone Delivers Interest- | ing Lecture at First Congre- ] gational Chureh. South Africa. LONDON, Feb. The Times this morn- ‘n! the men who were most active In advo- ing publishes a poem by Rudyard Kipling | his sisters mot to talk about his crimes, | called downstairs by a ring or a knock | be dome. The calamities which have be- cating these measures at the outset have n:nm.":l'ly::l: SRS Wt 00 o | on eoebrutios, oF Mr: Chamberiais’s mis- 4t the door after he was ready for bed. |fallen them as above enumerated could | Miss Ellen M. Stome, for whom $65,000 | taken a different position. Their change { was- wrought after a certain meeting held in Lincoln and b s beer regarded as rather mysterious. J. H. Ager, the Bur- of her capture and captivity to a large | lington pass distributor, was secretary of | audience at the First Congregational church j that meeting and it has always been the last night. This was Miss Stune's first | €eDeral impression that such interests as appearance in Omaba and she made a hit, | Mr- Ager represented influenced the change both while on the platform and at the|Of beart which was brought about fn reception given by the Ladies’ Aid soclety | the men back of this tax commissioner | Prosecutor Gard notified the sheriff today | for he was clad only in his underclothes. | {10 probibit reporters, policemen and others | He evidently admitted someone he knew | ! well and took the visitor into his den for | a talk and to partake of the luncheon | | found there. | ‘There are some signs of a struggle. The fact that two of the fingers of Mr. Bur- dick's left hand were broken indlcates that | , regarding the cases there and especially | 252 ‘ne R coming. . "o On * VoW about the rirangling of Mary Ekbart.| The body. was covered with a and When asked why he killed her he coolly | several piilows, so that nothing could be | replied: I was afraid she would tell some- | 56¢8 but the biood which flowed from un- WASHINGTON, ¥eb. 37.—A cablegram |*ion to South Africa. It begins receited today at the Navy department WS Six S at Syrrows ran and irom Glass, dated yesterdsy aboard | 1 will repair the Wrong ¢ announced the arrival of his the living and the dead. Boston apd Marblehead at La — . yesterdsy. He said that | FIRE DESTROYS HAYTI TOWN by telegreph with Amapala — and reported further as Port de Paix is Completely Am ated, Only & Few Veassels in bave been averted by mo human wisdom. | They cannot be completely repaired, but the suffering can be greatly alleviated and & permanent basis of futu’e prosperity as- | sured if the ecomomi~ relations of fhe is- ands with the United States are put upon a satisfactory basis. “THEODORE ROOSEVELT.” | Little Hope for C ransom and many columns of newspaper space were required by the brigands of Macedonia two years ago, recited the story from seeing Knapp hereafter. Woman Alds One Crime. In anticipation of his probable trial at Cincinnati Knapp was interviewed today was done to | Treaty. | on the main land on February 22 place, resulting i the total de- who escaped with 30 or in t. Capital is in latter's adherents. ly over. t be American interests un- WOMAN LOSES_LIFE IN FIRE Destruction of Building at Lowell, Mass, Results fa at Least One Fatality. LOWELL, Mass., Feb. 27.—One lite was lost aBd six persons suffered severely from burns and smoke at & fire which partially destroyed the block today. The vietim was Mrs. Sarah F. Kittredge, | & newspaper correspondent about 60 years old, who, although ceroused with the other seventy-five lodgers, stopped to get ber bicyele and in doing so was overcome by smoke and perished. The injured, all of Whom were taken from the front window by firemen, were R T. Cabse, Miss Hattle Hill, Mr. and Mrs. Louts Labelle and their son and daughter, Michasl and Margaret Labelle. The block was used for business purposes on the street fioor and for apartments on four ofber foors. The loss on the Burbtank block by fire as comparatively small, sbout $30.000, but an additional loss, which mey be heavy, bas been doné by water to finished cotton | goods, the product of the husetts | mills, In & storehouse at the rear, the roof of which was burned Owing to the number of boarders in the Burbask block, it is dificult to account for «ll the inmates. ULTIMATUM FOR STRIKERS Colorade & Southern Mem Arve Gives THI Tomorrew to Resume Werk, | | | | DENVER, Feb 27.—Geberal Manager Herbert of the Colorado & Southern today announced that after noon next Sunday mone of the striking shopmen would be re- | instated. ‘Workmen today began the construction {ACADEMY OF DRAMATIC | at & dinper party beid at the Hotel Belle- | Harbor Escaping. CAPE HATIEN, Feb, 27.—A dispatch re- ceived here from Gros Morne today announ ces the complete destruction of Port de | Paix, Haytl, by fire, last night. Only the vessel's belonging to the Haytien compeny | were saved. Lace Workers to Make Exh! BERLIN, Feb. 27.—Dr. Lewald, the com- missioner of Germany at the St. Louis exposition, held a conference yesterday | with the lace curtaln manufacturers of | Plaven, Saxony, who declded to make a| special exhibit at St. Louis. The lace in- dustry is now enjoying an unusual run of | American orders and the manufacturers | therefore are more ready to incur expenses | than those engaged in the metal trades. The commissioner says that German in- dustrial art is taking a lively interest in | the exposition and will make an excellent showing. Explosion Causes Excitem VIENNA, Feb. 27.—An explosion in the | cellar of the imperial palace todsy caused | momentary excitement, but it was soon ascertained that it was due to the secl- | dental ignition of some sporting ammuni- tion. A couple of workmen were injured Te Pay the Soldiers. HAVANA, Feb. 2T—President Palma has signed the soldiers’ pay loan bill, which authorizes the issue of bonds to the amount of $35,000,000. ART Milllonaires of Philadelphie Fledge Large Sum for Use of George Clarke. PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 27.—The sum of | $300,000 has been subscribed for the es- | tablishment in this city of an American | academy of dramatic art. This was done | vue, and which was given by William | Donovan, president of the Eastern Steel | company, for Mr. George Clark, formerly | leading man of the late Augustin Daly's company. thing she knew. der the pillow. | The force with which the blows were | “What did she know? he was asked. gelivered seems to preclude the possibility | and answered “Well, it was this way: hen to Jennie Connors, into the canal, you know, and I was going 1 was married { with Haonah to this house on Walout stréet in Cincinnati, to Mary Ekbar.s room. That night Haonah and I went there and Mary Ekhart went out. When she came back Hannah and I were together and Mary got mad because we were there so long and said: ‘I am going to tell your wife on you,' and then she went out again to the bakery. Hannah was afraid she would tell and sald we ought to keep her from it, and that's how it happened. We made it up wnd, when Mary came back I hoked her from behind. “What did Hanbah do?" “She held Mary's hands. That's the rea- son she never sald anything.” “Yes” When asked to describe Mary Ekbart !Teached the height of a gale “She was as tall as me and | Places additional saow fell and added to Knapp said: had dark hair. Oh, I knew ber when she was in Dayton. She advertised for & cor- respondent in the personals and 1 an- swered it and used to go to see her.” Asked then to describe the flight of him- | self and the woman, Knapp sald he left first and met the milkman, him down mnst kno-king in the doorway. The woman | that a woman delivered them. Mr: | Posstbility of Another | Bur- ick, the murdered man's wife, left home the ome I threw |y, months ago with the intention, it fs said, of not returning. On December 5 proceedings for divorce were filed by Mr. | Burdiek. | |SNOW DRIFTS INTO THE CUTS | Ticup Con-| | fronts Uniom Pacific ‘ Omeinis, 1 | | CHEYENNE, Wyo., Feb. :77|smm; | | be some danger of a followed him after the milkman had. gone | { proven a blessing to the stock interests in and he them returned, locked the door to Mary Ekhart's room and later threw the key into the canal. He went into much further detalls about meeting little Emma Littlemann on the streets at Cincinatti add taking ber to the ' ! lumber yard where her body was found, and about choking Jemnle Connors, wife No. 2, and throwing ber body fnto the canal at Cincinnatl After talking some time he was asked “Are you sorry for the murders you done ™ “Yes, 1 am.” be replied slowly. “When T think of Hannah and the rest I feel bad. I don't know why I killed Hanoah. She | was a good wife to me. I don't know why 1did it. T always had a peculiar feeling of satisfaction when I killed 4 women or a child. No I cannot say that I ever had feeling of regret. Once or twice I worried over the fear of being arrested. Well, ] jand an eight-hour Telegram.)—The fears of raflroads that the | fall of snow during the last storm would | be blown into the cuts and impede trafic | are now being realized. All day e strong 1d you tie a towel around her neck?™ . Wind piled the snow across the prairies and into every depression and now it has In some the troubles of the railroads. The Union Pacific has all of its smow- bucking apparatus in service, but trains re running away late and there appears to tieup before morning in the event the wind eontibues. The weather is growing colder and this renders being in the open almost impossible. As In previous storms, the wind has that it bas uncovered the grass so that the half frozen and weakened animals can find sufficient food to sustain life at least. | PACKERS’ MEN MAY STRIKEi Demand New Wage Seale a Hours, with Threat Suspen; CHICAGO, Feb, 27.—Labor trouble at the | stock yards is brewing again. There is a | prospect of a general strike of packing house_engineers, supported by the steam fitters and machinists. Two hunired en. | gineers have asked for a Dew wage scale | day, but the packers refuse to yield. It was said by the wmen tonight that they would go 08 strike mext woek unless a settlement was reached. | The discussion at today's cabinet meet- ing revolved principally about legislation in congress. Little hope is felt that the Cuban and canal treaties will be ratified | at the present session, and each day's delay is increasing the probability of an extra- | ordinary session of the senate. { The president has reiterated his deter- | minatior to call a special session in th- event of the fallure of either one or both of ‘the treatles. So far as can be ascer- | tained, the president has not determined ! upon any dateefor the opening of the extra seasion, but it is regarded as likely that| it will be almost directly after the close | of the present session. Editors Adopt Rew The National Republican Editorial asso- | ciation today adopted the following resolu- tion: The unbroken prosperity which h the country an unparalieled gr advancement since the restoration publican rule in 1597 is the complete vindi- | cation of the value and success of repub- | lican ascendancy and the gry achieve- | ments of the strong. progressive and bril- Hant administrations of Presidents McKin- ley and Rooseveit and the faithful fuldll- ment of republican pledges continue the highest appeal for republican supremacy. Resolutions also were adopted defining the object of the organization, which is “to promote the co-operation of the republican editors in the United States, advancement of the principles and policies of the re- publican party and to secure united action for the education of public sentiment in the intelligent understanding and accept- ance of the spirit and aims which are illus- | trated in republican administration and | legislation.” i Also accepting and adopting the repub- lican national platforms of 159 and 1900 | as the authoritative declaration of the re- publican creed, and as the chart by which the government ghould be guided in dealing | with the living and vital questions which are presented to the American people for settiement. Prior to the adoption of these resolutions | Senators Hanna and Depew made short ad- dresses. | Senator Hanpa was enthusiastically re- | ceived. He said that the republican ed- itors of the country were dolng well in organizing the comprehensive association through which they could keep well in | considerable | night, with a prospect for more. | of the church in the parlors, ufter she had | finished speaking. Nearly 100 women and | some dozen men sought a personal inter- | view with the returned missionsry. Coffee and cakes were served. | Miss Stcne delivered her lecture with | dramatic force, using few tricks or artifices to hold the attention of | her listeners, who, nevertheless, were kept deeply interested in the narrative, which | was simply told. When Rev. Herring in- | troduced Miss Stome a round of applau greeted her. A medium-sized and ver- | plain-featured woman, Miss Stope's face | copstantly lishted with animation. Mos® | of her story is familiar to the public. “A fow hours after we were captured we knew what manper of men the brigands were,” sald Miss Stope. “We had heard a revolver shot and did not kzow what it | meant. Later we found out and the reve- lation was an awful ope. A traveler had | surprised the bacd as they were driving | us from the highway. He had shut at the | brigande and had been stricken down by | a musket butt. He was led into & thicket | a litle way from us and we heard him | slaughtered—heard his death cries ascend- ing ss the daggers were plunged into his | | quivering flesh.” Miss Stone described the pathetic birth | of the Tellka babe in a manner that al- most wrupg tears from the eyes of many | of the women present. PLOWS HOPE TO MOVE SNOW Kansas Railroads Are Still Battlin, with Drifts, W Threate le Wenther | TOPEKA, Kan., Feb. 27.—The rallroads have not yet fully overcome the snow blockade in western K. In Garden City, twenty-seven inches of snow represents the fall since Monday At Lakin Snow plows are it is fifteen inches deep being operated and the rallroal lines will soon be clear. from —Sailed—Norge, for New | speaker. scheme in Lincoin. This movement is a new one in Liacoln, s0 it is commonly said, and while the peo- | ple who bave given it their attention are for it, they are certainly mot as emphatic and aggressive in their advocacy as are the citizens of Omaha who are pushing it. Yet it is evident that from a popular standpoint Lincola is for just this thing. Pay Tribute to Morton. The house and semate convened in joint session@t 2 o'clock this afternoon to pay tribute to the late Hon. J. Sterling Mor- .on, as a special order, in compliance with & resolution introduced yesterday in the house by Cassel of Otce. The ceremonies which were deeply impressive, laeted for an hour and a balf. At the conclusion, at 3:25, the house and senate dissolved the joint session and adjourned in respect to ‘he memory of the deceased statesman. The floor lobbies and galleries were filled with spectators, many of whom were friends and nmeighbors of the late Mr. Morton from his home town, Nebraska City and vicinity, Governor Mickey was the principal He read his eulogy from manu- The governor paid an eloquent and effective tribute to Nebraska's dis- tinguished dead. He porirayed in strong and beautitul diction his sterling qualities as & citizen, statesman soldler and scholar. Nebraska has never known a resident more useful or honorable. His impress had been indefibly stamped upon the state and ba- tion and his fame and bonor ran even beyond the limits of bis nwn country. He was known and admired by the people of foreign nations” To the domestie life of Mr. Morton Governor Mickey paid the most beautiful tribute. He pletured it as ideal and pointed to the prominence and integrity of his childcen as indication of his splendid example. His faméus home, Arbor Lodge, at Nebraska City, the governor and otber speakers pointed to as the monumest 1o an ideal domestic felicity. Governor Mickey's address was listened to with rapt attention and manifestly was received with seript. | deepest teeling. Others who spoke were Representatives | Cassel and Jones of Otoe, MeClay of Lan- | caster Spurlok of Cass, Sears of Burt, Loomis of Dodge and Senator Wall of Buf- talo. Governor Mickey's Address, touch with the political events of the day | del Arrived—Oscar 11, | ©of & seven-foot solid wall, which is to com- Nearly all the diners were millionaires | they bave got me and I guess that they will I from Copenhsgen New York ! d the nd sentiments of the whaole | Governor Mickey sald plotely encircle the Colorado & Southern | and most of them multl-millionaires. P. A, [send me up for life. Now, don't try to| ESCAPES AS IF BY MIRACLE | filoiry. “We are not to deal sltogether, | aob ok oo s sy o, from | 0 xer. 1 am deeply with machine shops. The company has put pine | B. Widener and Jobn M. Mack subscribed | scare me by saying that I will go to the | be eaid, “with the ‘Oblo idea’ or the ‘Towa | trom New York. for Havre | with the sacred memories nrh:m. et ©ars in the shops and guards on duty equal | §100,000 each: William M. Bunp, former|chalr. They won't do that to me, will |Mimer Falls Hu \des,’ but the idea of the republican party | (AL Piracus—Arrived—Moitke. from New | apart as it is in reverent hanor of the life in number the force of pickets maintained | governor of Idabo, and Senator Charles A Shaft, Mer: {as & whole. The brosd republican ides, | SO, via Furchal and Malta. on Orient | and character of one who had a great . » | eruise. | share the evolution of Nebraska and by the strikers. £ Porter, put their names down for §25.000 | Sl | the 0ld policies and the old tenets of tke| At liverpool—Arrived—Germanic, from | wrose personality and genius have left an The Deaver Machine Manufacturers’ as- | each, and Clarence Wolf offered to raise| Knapp Dot only told how he killsd his | | republican party bave won notable victories | NS¥ York LT | impress upon the state which time caanot sociation today notified the American Labor | §50,000 as & contribution from the Srm of | victime but he acted the scens. His fo. | |1a the past. 806 they ave saie lentmartes | nats. for How Tovpe Cviabris, from Leg- | oace It s Bt 3% Bas TS usion that they conmsidered the baycott | Wolf Bros. gers crooked Mke & carrion crow's and his | TERRE HAUTE, Ind. Feb. 27.—Samuel | 1o guide the party in the future.” AU Genoi—Arrived—8icilian Prince, from | of the present and turn our thoughts fo- 7 Against the Vulcan Iron Works compsuy.| Mr. Donovan declared that Be would|gece knmotted into hard -lines, the eyes | HATTIS, & miner, fell 102 feet down & shaft| 1g concluding his remarks Semator Hanna | Ne¥ York via Naples ward those of other days, ae w now. which dees work for the Colorade & |raise $1.000.000 as s00m &8 the frst million —— | today and escaped with nothing more se- B — ~ | okt e atan, tpe | L eatesm it & pyiviiese 1o be bsrmitted 1 —_ — — ston; Messaba, from New York. Bailed | participate in this service and 10 a Boulbers (o be uatuls, | wes raised g (Coutinued on Second Page) | rious than & brokes log. (Continued on Second Page.) —Minnebaha, for New York. | few words 10 what may b sald in hemor L% — —