Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 29, 1903, Page 1

Anlln 2L} THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE. [E=Ee] ESTABLISHED JUNE 19, OMAHA, SUNDAY MORNING, MARCH 29, 1903—TWENTY-FOUR PAGES. DOCTOR CHAFFED 8Y THE P0PE) R ATITY HER UNDOING|C0URT PeoPLE Ave weR ouees 7)1y G NDER WATER fon for Alleged Spirit Med: k Placed on Trial Charged with Swindll 1871. Sl;N(lLE COPY FIVE CE GIRL MUSIC PRODIGY Former 8treet Waif Declared Foremost Woman Violin st of the World. THE BEE BULLETIN. Forecast for Nebraska—Falr_Sunday and Warmer in East Portion; Monday Rain and Colder In West Portion. [PULL PORSE STRINGS Benate is Expeoted to Out Down Some of the Appro riations Made by Houe. Ruin Follows in the Wake of a Handsome Russ'an Peasant Girl. Baging Torrents Tear Through Streets of Mins ssippi Oities. (Copyright, 193, by Press Publishing Co.) ROME, March 28.—(New York World | Cablegram—Special Telegram.)—“My dear doctor, kindly take some of these lozenges that you preseribed for me,” said the pope to Dr. Lappon!, handing out a box of lozenges, which had mot beem touched. “I see you need them more than 1 do." This was said in mocking tone at the re- ception of the English pilgrims, because the pope's physician, thinking his ven- orable patient was talking too much with the duke of Norfolk, had given a warning cough, and as that was disregarded, an- other and still another. Leo XIII has so much faith in his physical constitition that he often openly chafts his solicitous doctor. Dr. Lappon! was hardly able to conce: his vexation at the pope's systematic di regard of his orders when the World cor- respondent saw him afterward. “With. his splendid constitution,” the doctor sald, “Leo XIII could ltve to be 100 and more, but I am very much afrald that one of his habitual imprudences will carry him off suddenly. For the present, however, all immediate danger is o But T can tell you I had a great fright. The symptoms of gastric trouble which caused much anxlety have disappeared and the pope, being able to digest more food, 1s gradually recovering strength. Plo Cutra, his private valet, tells the World correspondent that the pope now eats his simple meals with more relish, enjoying a wing of roast fowl, besides hi usual broth and bolled eggs, and drink- Ing two or even three gla of fine old Bordeaux wine, having hitherto Ilimited himself to one. He sleeps quietly and de- rives great benefit from bis rest. Plo Cutra is enthusiastic about his venerable mas- ter's fine powers of resistance to disease, which he attributes to a dispensation of Providence. EXHIBITS FOR WORLD’S FAIR Englishmen to Send an Alrship and Irishmen Works of Handi- eraft. (Copyright, 1908, b;'—-Prn- Publishing Co.) BERL) A bl PUTS OUT THE EYES OF HER FIRST VICTIM | Cabiegram—Special — Telegramy-Bmperor | RESIDENTS HASTILY BUILD NEW LEVEES Willlam's recent severe demunelation of | spiritualism, prompted by the growth of the | o . WL 3 cult in Deriin court circles, has & sequel | Strive to Bestrain Floods by Dams in in the astounding disclosure of “Frau" Business Distriot. Rothe's tmpostures. T othe, allm, mediun-slsed, drtscd | MILES OF FIELDS RESEMBLE GREAT LAKES Girl & Musienl Prodixy. il CHILDHOOD YEARS FULL OF STRUGGLES Wins Musioal Scholarship Which Poverty Compels Her to Relinquish, CANON FELLOWES A FRIEND IN NEED ses Punds to Enable Her to Pureme Masioal Rtudies. FINALLY GOES TO KUBELIK'S PRECEPTOR MAY CUT SALARIES IN THE STATE HOUSE ties Do Not Worry Prestdent. tern Tour of the President. om Nebraska Towns. % At South Omaha n Treaty is Ratified. ‘olorndo Strike is Ended. erate Flght with Bandits, Week in Om Soclety. Former Om Wor Book. 7 Registers in the Wrong Camp. Lion Hunt in Massachusetts Streets | Sentenced to Siberia Bhe Captivates High Official a:d Makes Eacape This, However, Would Not Make Xuoh f a Reduotion in the Bills. DUPE GOES THE JOURNEY IN HER STEAD |in plain mourniag., would be insignificant GRAND TOTAL ALMOST FOUR MILLIONS | looking but for her great dark eyes, which | have an uncanny sparkle, such as {8 seen in the eyes of many night birds. Her chiet | Mlusion was in producing @t seances | bunches of flowers and frult from the — 8§ Council Blufts lowa News, “spirit world,” which she handed to her " RNifled. dupes at impressive moments. At one ollnlvERs FURY MAY NOW BE SPEN' | Negro Women Remain Away. her performances a police officer jed her | 10 Sporting Events of a Day. | by the wrists, and in spite of the e dntreatics | Stage Falls in 11 Weekly Review of Sports. of believers in the trance theory waited until the room was cleared, then bad her searched by a woman. Mrs. Rothe offered strenuous resistance, but it was found that Populace Escapes with Lives, but Lo Almost All E've. Renews Hor Oareer in Austria and is Imprisoned for ~ windling. More T an a Million in Exoss of Any Previous Session. TITLED MAN WAITS FOR HER RELEASE Declares He WT Take Her to atial Home, ‘Where She Can Live in Style. GOVERNOR SAID TO BE SHARPENING AXE 6rth and Stays Stae South, but Crest Will Prolonged by Broken Barthworks, tain and Appear- nee In London Proves a Great el h for Youns Girl. Indieations Are that U Makes & Materinl Reduction There Will Be Some Vetoes, nate Marry Her a Senat tionary Be 3 13 Telephones in the White House. Fure Water for Locomotives, Unique Design for a Church, 14 In the Dom |15 Amusemen 16 Story, (Copyright, 183, by Press Publishing Co.) LONDON, March 28.—(New York World Cablegram—8pecial Telegram.)—From an itinerant street musiclan, the daughter of & poor harpist, Miss Marie Hall come In one appearance the foremost woman violinist in all Europe because of her marvelous execution and thetic playing. “Kubelik in declared her audience, for i8 a pupil of the great master, Seveik. Yet with all her ability Miss Hall suf- fered many disappointments while a child. She was born In Newcastle-Upon-Tyne when a mere child played in the with her father. Bven under these ad- verse circumsatances her playing atiracted attention. By dint of scraping and saving, friende of her father managed to raise money enough to send her to London that she might enter the contest for the Wes- seley scholarship. She wom the scholar- #hip with such remarkable astonished the judges. But won the most coveted prize of musi- clans, she was compelled to relinquish it. Her father had no money with which she could live in London and pursue her studies. During her thirteenth year her family moved from Newcastle to Bristol and Miss Hall went back to street fd- dling. of flowers, oranges and lemon: Her manager, a man has since absconded { had become materia terference. Weather Bar Bullet! ‘The Mississippi river is falling above that these | Helena and Is about at a .l):lv\l\ bflonw The . | erevasses reported since Thursday have re IEce 1n- | (00" e Mbuation Somewhat below Oresn. ville, The effect will be « slight lowering | 18 Editorial, The people of B ' been astounded | of the crest of the flood. Stages Saturday | 1g Avhl S48 the appropriations passed and pending, the and amused at tj jequent revelations | M:ornin e a8 follows: Memphis 38.2 teet, | i full amount will aggregate approximately o v {a fall o 3 feet; Vicksburg, 51.5 and station- [ #8 Commerecial and Finan " PP mately of the frauds ¥ <?(ha BRpetEated on | 3r\: New Urioans. 21 2 Sall of 02. . $3,800,000, the largest by over $1,000,000 i such leaders | ourt as Countess von s : & the history of the state. Two years ago Moltke, who w8 (EXting “messages” from | GREENVILLE, Miss., March 25.—The sit- | mour. @ Deg — Hone erdar: |the legislature appropriated for all pur- the famous gl rs Zwingll &nd Melanc- | yation here tonight is quite as serious as Ay Vel | poses in round numbers $2,600,000. That thon and fromigsneral yon Zaktrow, once | last night, and increases as inch by inch #7 | Was up to that time the largest ever made a noted military expert; HBaromess Grun- | (he flood spreads to new sections of the . . s | bY 8 Nebraska leglslature. hoff, Countess Wachtmelster and Princess | city, But this is not the most alarming | v r 40| While the bouse proceeded on (he theory Karaszhke, all of whom belleved in the | reature of the situation, as a critieal point | . “eeers 4L (that it was holding the appropriations miraculous orlgin of the bunehes of fow-{ has developed in the levee hirty miles | . 40 | down to the minimum, the impression pre- ers, which Mrs, Rothe gave them during the | north of Greenville, at Catfish Point. An | Y 4 30| valls in the semate and in the mind of seances. They Insisted that the jlossoms | effort is being made to hold the levee, the governor that there is ample room for only 27, yet her adventures would fill threc | grew out of her hands. as the damage that would result would be material reduction and it need not sur- volumes. It is because ehe knows the| i 15 gaid that Mrs. Rothe And Mr.|s, enormous that fear for the levee's safety prise the house to find its work severely power of her fascinations that she is im-| jealsch got a great: amount of money from | must remain until the water subsides, even censored. If the senate does not apply patient to leave the prison while the charm | these dupes and transferred mearly $300,000 | in the face of hopeful reports. Should the the pruning knife as much as he thinks of youth lasts. in a few months through a Berlin bank for | preak occur at Catfish Point there is no cal- it should, Governor Mickey may exerciso Ryfka Oppenheim wag born in a log cabin | investment abroad. Dr. Henneberg, an ex- culating what would happen to Greenville. certain prerogatives of his ofMce with con- in Plotrokow province, Rut the daugh- | pert in anti-suggestion, says Mrs. Rothe It is estimated that fully 1,600 square siderable effect. The governor has not seen ter of a forest guard. She might trances were not necessarily simulated, but | mjjes of territory between Greenville and fit to discuss these matters to any great stayed at home if she had cared to make he is certain she had control of her trance Vicksburg are under water and this area extent, but he did say, when asked if he heraolf useful, but she wanted to see the | state, a condition of thought eencentration | s being made larger each hour. would offer any obstruction to the final pas- world. She began by going to Lodbz, where | found in hysterial personf. - In tearful | water continues to pour through the crev- e appropriation measures: she got a place as mald servant in the | voice she addressed the court before which | agse at LaGrange, five miles south of thls “I think we (meaning himself and the home of a merchant named Stamovics. Her | she was arraigned to explain how she be- | city, at a fearful rate and the surrounding senate) will take care of those matters master’s only son, Rubin, fell in love with | came a medium, how she was constrained | country for miles is covered by two to five at the proper time. her and eloped with her, after robbing his | by Invisible powers to journey -hither and |feet of water. The break has widened over her of a large sum of money. While | thither, never receiving & penny for her | night and is now about 400 yards from end this money lasted Ryfka learned to play the | exjenses although she lived in penury, and | to end. 5 fine lady. She took lessons in reading and | how Jealsch afterward arranged her affairs | The wildest excitement prevailed here | ScOt/and, his native land, in ninety-seven writing, In French and German, cultivated | in a businessiike way and paid her trav- | last night and reports of loss of life were | Tinutcs, Western Unlou time. The an- her natural taste for music and dressed In | eling expenses. recelved from the Tuxedo and race track | Douncement drew & large number of thoso fashion. wanted Rubln Stamovics to additions, but this morning no confirmation | rn'l“;r ':':"d "I‘"‘"M‘“ :’: ""h"" o h’fco':r marry her and return with ber to her of the rumors are at hand. and it is be- ested in him through paying family father's house. He refused and tried to PRESENTS FROLSP"IT WORLD lieved that every one had suficient warning | tuition They came early and found the Augusta Holmes Leaves Many Curl She Asserts Spirita Gave (From a Staft Correspondent.) LINCOLN, March 28.—(Special.)—Gov- ernor Mickey and the senate are prepar- ing to reduce some of the appropriations of the house. Taking into consideration (Copyright, 1808, by Press Publishing Co.) VIENNA, March 28.—(New York World Cablegram — Special Telegram ) — Colonel Schatrow, police commissioner of Kron- stadt, Russia, was found guilty February 21 of corruption and counterfeiting, de- prived of all rights of birth and rank, all orders and decorations of his position in the army, ordered to return $1,200 to those who had bribed him and sent to a military prison. In the women's prison in Steln, on the | Danube, the person who caused this down- fall, Ryfka Oppenbeim, is cating her heart out because she has been sentenced (o three years' imprisonment for fraud com- mitted in Vienna and Carisbad. She is and Musie, “Flower o' the Corn.” » Tired. AGAIN THE CHUHCH. JANITOR This Time He Defeats Prof. Nesbitt's Iatention to Give = The potentiality of the church janitor as a factor in the affairs of men, women and vested choirs was mado patent again last night to about 400 people who went to Kountze Memorial church to hear a lectire —and didn't, Prof. Nesbitt of get-Fremchy-quick re- nown was to have shown an audience over (Copyright, 18, by Press Publishing Co.) LONDON, March 28.—(New York World Cablegram—Special Telegram.) — Stanley Spencer, the aeronaut who salled over London last fall in a dirigible balloon, was asked by the World correspondent to- day: “Shall you enter for the St. Louls ex- position alrship race?" ‘‘We bave that possibility in view,” Mr. Spencer answered, “‘and are prelty certain to realize it. e begin Whitmonday at Crystal pal ace. It is quite probable that Londone: will see this summer our airship going overhead at sixty miles an hour. We ha Canon Fellowes a Good Frie Canon Fellowes and a friend in passing one night became Impressed with the playing of this frail child. They stopped and, listening, learned somethin; child. They took other friend in music to hear the child play. learning of the scholarship the child had won and relinquished because of a lack of money, they contributed enough to send her to Birmingham to be taught by Max cutting could judiciously be done.” Governor Mickey s a friend of thg new revenue law. He has expressed the opinion that the law will be the means of bringing the total assessed veluation of the state up from $180,000,000 to about $500,000,000. On this theory he concludes that Nebraska may at last galn relief from its (Hegal debt of $2,000,000. Yet he nevertheless depre- cates the idea of this legislature incurring such tremendous liabllities as a total appro- fashion. She wanted Rubin Stamovics to to escape. Thd loss to property, however, | Cburch dark. They waited long and the and when he was asleep she poured sul- church stayed just as dark as at the be- phuric acid in his eyes. Rubln managed to will be enormous, as hundreds of ho ginning. They said all they could in| mules, cows and hogs wero swept away. Mossel. For three years she studled under him, when again the question of support for the family at home arose and she had to qQuit and return. Again Canon Fellowes m her friends rallied ;“o;:l her, and she sent to learn with user. While studying with Kreuser, Kubellk's “advice was asked. He heard her play and became enthuslastic. “Take her at once to Prague and 'let her be with Sevelk,” he said. ‘To Prague she went. Before being ‘en- tered as a pupll at the Conservatorium had to play Wienlawski's Concerto. After playing five bars with much skill and feeling, the great Dvorak said: “I am with your playing. I accept you." according to Mise Hall, began the hardest work of her career. “I had to at- tend lectures on harmony,” she sald, “and the history —of music. 1 had to begin working very early in the morning to get through with it all. The lessons I most enjoyed, after 1 had fnished my course at the conservatory, were my private ones. For then I had & lesson whenever the pro- s early as 6 o'clock nd as lato as 10 o'clock at night, when he would insist on seeing me b He used to call my lessons his little concerts.” Great Triumph at Home, Sevclk pronounced' Miss Hall the most brilliant pupil he ever had. At her first publie appedrance »f Prague she was re- called twenty-five times. She was equally successful in Vienna, &t & concert given In ald of the Philharmonic orchestra. “'Now for the unfeeling English,” Sevetk told his pupll. To her Seveik confided his favorite violin, the same with which Kub- elik made his debut, and with this Mi: Hall played her into the wildest delight. Like mest of Sevclk's pupil has little or nothing more to learn from & purely technical point of view. The re- malnder—greater power and fulluess of tones—must come with maturity and ex- perience. Miss Hall is no and frall looking, 18 years old, slender with waving brown hair and blue eyes. Aside from her music her chiet interest s in her younger brother, a child of § years. You should bear him play,” she shid. can do nothing in comparison.” & new elongated design, a splendid al plercer, with a twenty-four horse-power motor, guaranteeing a speed of twenty- five miles an hour, and with the wind at thirty miles, how we dart alohg at ex- press train rate. The car holds two persons. One novelty is the water bal- last, which is used also ‘Wo begin Crystal palac Vice President Horace Plunkett of the Irish Agriculture and Industries board sald to the World correspondent today: . “Ireland will ‘have a spacial bullding and plendid extilbition at the St. Louls exposition. An Irisk committee is being organized in 8t. Louls and our board will co-operate with it “Ireland’s principal exhibits will be ar- tistic handicrafts and mineral 1 venture to predict that what we can show in that Jime will astonish and delight the Amer- fcans.” BOX OPENERS FORM A UNION One Day Off Each M (Copyright, 198 by Press Publishing Co.) PARIS, March 28.—(New York World Cablegram—Special Telegram.)—The box openers of the Paris theaters, wornout by uncertainties and humillations, have formed a union. Not only are they pald no salary, but they are expected to pay a percentage of their tips to the managers, and each 1é required to furnish a bond of trom $30 to $100. They never have a “day oft.” They now refuse to give a bond of more than $30 or pay a fine of more than 40 cents a night, while they demand wages of at least 20 cents & night, one “day off” « month and 25 per cent of the sales of programs. - The. fact that they depend on tips makes them sometimes very flerce, especially with forelgners, who do mot understand the system and do not wish to pay anything for what they think they should recelve gratis. DIVERTING THE HIRSCH FUND Not Being Used to Further Jewish Colomization of J Palestt for cleaning the “Whitmonday &t send a message to his father, who avenged the blinded son by getting Ryfka arrebied and exiled to Siberla. Conquest in Prison. She was sent as a prisoner to Kronstadt, to walt until a party of prisoners was made up to be transported to Siberia. was in Fort Alexander, shut off al ‘world except , whe fascinated a young officer of good family, who bribed the Kromstadt police commis- sloner and secured her escape; It was Colonel Sohafrow who got an order from the commander of Kronstadt for her removal from Fort Alexander to Fort Katherine, where there was better accom- modation for the lady of quality they be- lleved her to be. Colonel Sthafrow con- sented to have the young woman escorted by a sergeant to the Russian officer yacht, on which he pretended to believe she was being taken to Fort Katherine, but the yacht steamed at full epeed of twenty knots for the open sea. The given, guns fired and & cruiser them, which soon came up with them and demanded their surrender. The yacht stopped, made some pretense for the big ship to approach it, thep sud- denly went at full steam ahead. Ryfka Oppenheim's new lover had given orders In the heaiing of the crulser's commander, who instantly had the guns cleared for ac- tion. The brave young officer swept | from the yacht by the first shot. The engineer and crew, knowing their lives would be forfeited if the yacht was taken, | did their utmost and, alded by darkness, | succeeded in reaching the southern shore of Finland. Marries & Beggur. Ryfka Oppenheim left the yacht alone and escaped attention by dressing as a peas: She had helped herself to some of her Russian lover's gold, which she con- cealed about her person, and as soon as she was across the Russian fromtier she dressed fashionably again. e stopped in Crakow, Austrian Poland, some time, to marry a beggar she met in the street. She thus became an Austrian subject and the terrible danger of being delivered up to Russia was averte Then she went to Vi , where she re- sumed her role of fine lady, took & hou in a fashionable quarter and sent out in. vitations to persons of wealth and quality. In the summer she went to Carlsbad, — (Copyright, 198, by Press Publishing Co.) PARIS, March 28.—(New York World Ca- blegram — Special Holmes. the disti dled here a short ti; alone as - France, oné of the believers in #piritunlism, She pursued the and was convinced that she held dom- munieation with its many inhabitants. Dur- ing her seances objects were materialized, she insisted, by her unseen spirit friends, and among her effects is a cabinet full of the curlous articles which shq treasured as gifts of her supernatural visitors. It was a common occurrence for roses to be dropped on her corsage, and In the cabinet she preserved a down mantle which she sald was fabricated by the » 3 It 1s related thai among the visitors from the worid beyond one of the first to call was the spirit of Ambroise Thomas, which informed her and a friend medium that he had been destined to create & frivo- lous style of music, citing as a proof a composition called the “Hairdresser of the Regency,” that dated from his 20th’ year. Having never heard of his work, Miss Holmes made @ search and found it really had existed. From that time she began to have faith in spiritualism. Later she sald she had a visit from Cesar Franck, who had been her music teacher, She maintained that this spirit aided her in her musical compositions and once pointed out an error a copyist had made by foserting a fglse mote. Jules Bols has written of Miss Holmes' experiences in his latest book, in which he has collected the occult experiences of many noted people and their opinions of them. . STOCK BROKERS ENTER RACE Banguet and Medals for All Who Complete Fifty-Two-Mile Jour (Copyright, 194, by Press Publishing Co.) LONDON, March 28.—(New York World Cablegram—S8pecial Telegram.)—One hun- dred and seven London stock broke tout and lean, young and old, have entered for This morning the water submerged the entire southern part of the city. Protec- tion levees are being built in the middle of Washington strect and a large force of con- victs and volunteers bave the work in hand. The business portion of the town escaped the encroachment of the flood, but the water is rising rapidly and the worst (s feared. the two elsctrio lght io- cated in the southern part of the city, were submerged and before.daylight the city was 1étt in total darkness. One County Entirely erged. The water from the crevasse will flow Into Fish lake and Black bayou, the Sunflower river and Deer creek. It will overflow the greater part of Washington and Sharkey counties and will entirely submerge Insa- | quena county, with small portions of Ya200 and Warren. Many of the streams into which it finds its way are already swollen and full from backwater and rains. ‘The Yazoo river, which is the final outlet for this water, is already backing up stream and overflowing the lower portion of Issa- quena and Sharkey counties, and as the flood 1s thus cut off from its natural outlet it will Decessarily accumulate and back up in the upper country. The river is falling by reason of the crev- asse and the force of the current !s con. siderably lessened on the Arkansas side, where several weak places on the levee had been reported. Only six blocks were above water at noon. All night the police with resculng parties were at work bringing people from flooded district, many houses being under | water to a depth of several feet. From the great plantation about the crev- asse at LaGrange comes reports of heart- rending scenes. Hundreds of negroes have been brought to Greenville for safety and | the town is filled with stock taken from the plantations surrounding. This morning comes news of a threatened break in the great levee at Catfish Point, some thirty miles north of Greenville. NATCHEZ, Miss., March 28.—The steamer St. Joseph returned from the Atchafala river and brought in 134 head of stock and & large number of negroes. The gauge this morning was 50.4, a rise of two-tenths of a toot In the last twenty-four hours. The steamer Bt. Johu came up this morn- ing with three negroes who were found adrift 1o Black river. One of the men was on a lok and the other two in trees. They had been washed out by the crevasse at the | &re very much interested in the bill intro- French by way of entertaining each other, and then as their knees began to ache, they said things to themselves in smoth- ered English. It really doesn’t matter what it was they sald, After a while some grew bold and tried the doors. They shook and pulled and rat- tled, but they did not pound. That would bave been too suggestive of knocking and no gentleman will knock &t church—at least . nat. ot those.¥ho may | hot agree with hi BEventually an Investigation was started. It was thorough, conscientious and pursued with a desire to injure no one, but to ascer- tain the real cause of the disappointment. As is usually the case with investigations the persons it might satisty were gone be- fore it bore fruit. The fruit it finally did bear the finding that the janitor—ever the janitor!—had failed to find the golf stoc he had considered necessary for the occasion and as a result had not had the courage to come around with the keys and turn on the lights that would betray his innappropriate garb. WORKING FOR THE MONUMENT Sons and Daughters of the Revolu- tion Want Lewis-Clark Land- ing Marked. ot ‘The socleties of the Sons of the Revolu- tion and the Daughters of the Revolution duced in the house representatives of Ne- braska by Loomis of Fremont to cause the erection of a tablét or monument at the site of the landing of I wis snd Clark for the first time upon Nebraska soil. This spot is marked in a vlat of eld Fort Atkin- son, later Calhoun, which was found in the papers of the late O, F. Davis and placed salary given from about $65 to $85 a month. are opposed to reducing these salaries have expressed the fear that If it is done it will result in the resignation of many of the young women and the impessibility of fll- ing their places with as competent help. This plan contemplate the wages of statehouse janitors. 1t 1s the impression that the committee would be straining at a gnat and swallow- ing a camel to adopt this plan. Greater economy could be practiced, it is belleved, by lopping off other portions of the ap- propriations. The governor, who has al- ready placed himself on record higher salaries generall cers and members of the supreme bench, a means of elovating the standard of pub- lic offclale, is believed to be opposed to Propose C The senate finanes way declded to adopt, as one means of ting down ‘th¥ appropristiond, a fule’ the salaries of the young women clerks and stenographers in the state house shall be reduced to a common basls of $50 a In making this partial decision this committec has already incurred severe crit- In the first place it is argued that were this done it would not bring the ex- penses down to any appreciable degree and in the next place would work a gross in- justice upon the young women thus em- ‘While it may be a fact that some of these employes are not compelled to put in every minute of their time, the general opinion is that as a rule they earn all the These salaries run them. priation of nearly $4,000,000 represents. It is not at all improbable, if the senate. does not cut these bills to what in the judgment of the gove seemed necessary, he will take on himselt the responsibility of heading them off. in Salaries. committee has half therefore, that the reduction of in the erchives of the by T. L. Perine. At the present time the landing place Is about a mile from the river, has changed its course | plorers made thelr way up Lewls and Clark landed there 100 years ago August 1, 1903, and there held the | council and made the dlans occupylng the territory which is now the state of Nebraska, The hills then marked the bank of the river were the original council bluffs, which term by Omaha public library | this pro; arles. s that stream nce the first ex- its waters. firs: first treaty with In- which t of cutting subordinates’ sal- In conpection with the economical side of legislative affairs, it has been learned that & movement is on foot to secure for members full mileage and partial expenses incurred in their legislative junketing trips, despite the adoption by the house yester- duy of the Harrison resolution, providing that no claim should be allowed where it was found that a wmember had r'dden on tree transportation or obtained concessions in the matter of hotel expenses, ond indi- She hopes to do for her brother what others did for her. He will ba sent to her toacher, Sevelk, for she belleves this lit- tle brother has even greater talent than she has.. When she visits her birthplace, Newcastle-Upon-iyne, on Aprl 4, there will be a public reception in r honor. SCHURMAN TOUR A SUCCESS Decldes to Ervect a Theater and Play Four Months in Parts, cating that a greht deal of this had been done. There is no doubt that when rbe a tempt 18 made to force this movement to a guccessful issue some persivtent protes will be ralsed. Certain members are quietly waiting for this attempt. Among them are friends of the statehouse stenog- raphers and clerks, who, it is said, will be able to swing a good deal of influence. They have expressed the bellef that they will be able to show the incongruity of allowing such elatms these—claims that were never legitimately Incurred—and lopping oft salaries that are actually carned No Check on Appropr Some interesting comment has been fin- dulged in during the last day or two about the Sears resolution Introduced early in the session in the house, providing that no pew appropriation should be allowed a revenue bill pioviding means suffi- clent to efface the rtate debt of $2,000,0 had been passed. The question Is asked “How has it been determined that the rev enue bill passed will do this? assuming that it has been so determined, since no check has been placed on the passage of the other appropriation measures. As a matter of fact, it Is not belleved that this resolution could be made binding and therefore of any, legal effect on the actions of the house. win - B The committee that prosecuted the in vestigation of the Stuefer Burt county bond purchase case i* expected to make its re port to the house Monday. While the chair- man of the committee and the other mem bers have declined to glve out any definite statement dvance of their official find ings, it has been learned that the decision will be favorable to Stuefer. One who par rom | ticipated actively in this affairs sald: ork.| I know what the decision will be. It will be favorable to Stuefer.” The Investigation was mot all that was & mistake on the part of those who fol- lowed the explorers into the west & num- ber of years later became the name of the city which was bullt there. It is clalmed by members of the Sons of the Revolution that the bill 1s opposed by some of the members of the Douglas county delegation and they are attempting to show these members of the legislature that the people of the eity are in favor of marking the first historic spot im the state. The bill carries an appropriation of $3,000. DIPHTHERIA AMONG NAVY MEN Ravages Fifteen H Quartered in V. tolk Yard. & Afty-two-mile walking race from Londos to Brighton, May 1. They will start from the House of Commons at 6:30 a. m. All who reach Brighton by 7:30 p. m. will be entertained at a banquet to cost $1,600. Silver cups will be given to the first three, gold medals will be awarded for hill elimb- ing and everyons finishing within twenty. four hours will get a silver medal. Th betting is 2 to 1 against any starter doing the distance under nine hours and thre quarters. Many members of the Stock exchange formerly were athletes, but the ouly one who was a champion walker Is Mr. Nicho- las, who mow is past his prime. Excurelon tralns will be run trom Lon- don to stations along the route te enable the public to see this burlesque race. SPOILS SOME GOOD STORIES British torian Raleigh America. Bougere and had been without food for three days. Water Invades Luey. NEW ORLEANS, La, March 28—The river here has fallen another tenth of a foot, undoubtedly the result of a break at Hymelia. The news from Hymella con- | tinues to be tavorable, though the work of cribbing was somewhat retarded today by | the fallure of additional supplies of lumber. The crevasse is still widening, and is mearly 200 feet wide. Six to'eight plant: ready under wa Water invaded the town of Lucy, some distance away. Traffo on the Texas & Pacific has been interrupted, the tracks at some points belng submerged Those in charge of the work at the crevasse continue to be optimistic as to the chances of ciosing It. The heavy 1ain and hafl storm during the night was too brist to do any damage to the work. The rest of the Loulsiana line continues to hold. There is & hard fight going on at Hope levee, but it 13 hoped to hold it. Hope | is on the east bank of the river in the Pontchartrain district. where ehe found many admirers and always had groups of men of fashion around her. Her luxurious style of living ren her so into debt that her creditors accused her ot fraud and she was sent to prison for three years, although admirers offered to pay all she owed. A Hungarian nobleman 1s so much i love with her, it is said, that be is pre. paring his bouse for her, and will marry her the day she is released. CALIFORNIA FRUIT IN FRANCE (Copyright, 1908, by Press Publishing Co.) Cablegram—8pecial Telegram.)—"The mil- lous left by Baron Hirsch to found a Hebrew colony in Palestine are being di- verted,” Israel Zangw “Instead of colonizing with the money the trustees of the Jewish colonfzation have been applying It to miscellancous Jewish charitl troduced a bill in the House of Lords ask- ing for power omabling them to use it as they please. ‘The founding of & Jewish colony In such as Beron Hirech con- celved, would do much to solve the alien ! problem here. Palestine is the only land to which ke Jows Bas & & to go. “Think of it! 000,000) gone very Jew in the LONDON'S COSTER QUEEN DEAD Procession Mile and a Long Follows to Cemetery. tions. (Copyright, 198, by Press Publishing Co.) PARIS, March 28.—(New York World Cablegram.—Special Telegram )—The suc- cess of Mr. Schurman and his company ibroughout Europe with “Monna Vonna" has determined him to found a Matterlinek theater. A company chosen by Mr. Matter- lieek himself with special costumes an scenery, will play four months in the year in Parls, snd afterward will tour Europe. Mr. Schurman will begin these perform- snces by mounting Matterlinck's new play, Joyzelle." International Company Formed nol Take Charge of the Traf (Copyright, 1%8, by Press Publishing Co.) PARIS, March 25.—(New York World Ca- blegram—Special Telegram.)~Ralph Merri- man, once United States government arohi- tect in Washington, bas formed an interna- tional company to supply Buropean mar- kets with California products, and lately be has been In consultation with the United States embassy and consulate here concern- ing the scheme. They and the French gov- ernment have promised to do all in their | Cablegram — Special Telegram.) — “Walter power to facilitate relations between the | Raleigh never set foot in North Ameride. California producers and the French cop- | Yet so pertinacious is the legend connect- sumers. Contracts have been signed with | ing him with Virginia that I doudt if any- threo San Francisco concerns, and the first | one even in this learned assembly is not dve shipload of merchandise is expected. in | satisfied that he did. - Boston. 86 D a0 For Ehia: Paris 1n May: | 8o spoke Edmusd Gosse, the leading au-| CHICAGO, March 25.—The first practical | Gl “Uimbiria. for New York & © o Produce will be couveyed from California | thority on Elizabethan literature, before | test of Armour’s newly installed wirele Queenstown—Salled: Cymric. by rall to New York and there shipped to | the Royal Geographical society this week | telegraph plant was made today, messages | Lierpoo fov New ¥orke o oo 0 - Havre. The promoters on this side include |on the tercentemary of Queen Elizabeth's | being transmitted several miles between | o ¥ork for Rotteraa, and procesdod the marg: of Orevecoeur and Mm. Durand | death. Gosse added the stock yards and the general offices. | Kinsale Head - Passed Helgenland, and fautier, who are well kuown on the| ‘“But in spirit he was there, through good | The messages came clearly and without a o0, Jvaonanl Parls Produce exchasge. and evil estate. #is was the brain that | break. A v The American residents in Paris are|planned, the persistence that carried out,| Owing to objections “aised to the erection | At Cherbourg—Sailed. Deutschland pleased at the prospect of soon being able | the courage that would relinquish the | of a proper sending pole on the downtown | Hamburg and Southampion for New to eat California frult at reasonable prices, | design. although he only gased st It from | bullding, the messages were all sent one |\ Yoo ,." alirary York, vin_Southafipton which bas been impossible 1 France, the fringes of the cloud.™ wary. At Glasgow—8alled: Livonia, for Boston NORFOLK, Vs., March 28.—Twenty cases of diphtheria have broken out at the Nor- folk navy yard among the 1,500 landsmen stationed there on the receiving ships, | Pranklin and Richmond Ten million pounds ($50,- pound apiece for Says Sir Walter ver Saw York—Aruved: Campania, ; La Savole, from Havre: Celtic, Liverpool lled: Hesperia, for Philadelphia; Konig Albe r Naples Genoa, etc.: Massachusetts, for London; Etruria, for Liverpool At Antwerp—Sailed from (Copyright, 1903, by Press Publishing Co.) LONDON, March 25.—(New York World — AEROGRAMS PROVE SUCCESS r P tactory FEVER IN PARIS GARRISONS | ! Seld by Doctors to Be Over. exervcised and Alse Poorly Fed. from (Copyright, 193, by Press Publishing Co.) LONDON, March 28.—(New York World Cablegram—8pecial Telegram.)-The “Cos- ter Queen,” Mrs. Russell, had the most e novel funeral ever seen in London. The (Copyright, 1963, by Press Publishing Co.) | procession, consisting of carts, hand-driven PARIS, March 28.—(New York World Ca- | coster s, cabs and traps of all va- elogram -Special Telegram.)—Unsanitary | rieties, stretched out a mile and a half sonditions have caused & typhold fever | along the road to the cemetery. ¢pidemic in the Parls garrison. The death | Mrs. Russell was 39 years old, strikingly rate shows so alarming an increase that | handsome, shrewd in business, made a con- immediate action I8 demanded of the 'siderable fortune and was coted for un Chamber of Deputies. The doctors say the | failing charity te her poorer comrades. The men are pver-exercised, (0o, and shat their | wreatl nd crosses sen the costers of 400d is wot mourishiug epough, Londou for the funeral weie valued at $500. Ar Kroonland, for New sen on--Salled: Minneapolis, e Stuefer Cl from from from Pal d, 1 v ¥ i L