Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, October 18, 1903, Page 1

ESTABLISHED JUNE 1E OMAHA SUNDAY BEE. 19, 1871 OMAHA, SUNDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 18, 1903— THIRTY-SIX PAGE AGES 1 TO 10. SINGLE OOPY FIVE CENTS PIUS FACES PROBLEM Beparation of Ohurch and Btate in France is & Grave Question. SOME BISHOPS FAVOR PROPOSITION French Pre'stes Bee Inereased Glory to Obureh in Its Freedom. | POPE ADOPTS CONCILIATORY POLICY ©Oa'ls Bpecial Oommission to Oonsider | Church Afairs in Bpain STEPS TO CANOMIZE FRENCH HEROINE | Regular Hearings the Matter, Sus- pended by Former Pope, Will Be Resumed Upom Explicit Orders from Pomtifl. | fCopyright. 133, by Press Publishing Co.) | ROME, Oct ew York World Ca- | Blegram—Spocial Telegram.)—That Plus X | #8 determined to pursue a policy of con elliation during his pontificate is clearly #hown, not only by his benignant atti- tude toward the Italian government, mani- fested on several otcasions, but especially by recent dealings with forelgn govern- | ments. Spain has Jong threatened to follow the example of the French government regard- Sng the religious congregations, and it is @ue to the conciliatory spirit of Plus X | that laws affecting the welfare of the ©hurch have not been adopted. The church in Spain, In mccord wtih special treaties agreed upon with preceding popes, as com- pensation for past seizures of ecclesiastical property, is wholly supported by the gov- ernment, which pays the salaries of the clergy and the expenses of the main- tenances of the churches. Bince the war with America Spain has boen in a bad way financlally and it was proposed to reduce expenses in the budget in order to meet increasing obligations These economies included a large reduction of amount annually contributed for religious purposes, but. as such & reduo- tion could not be made without vielating | existing treaties, the Vatican suthorities were consulted before the framing o spe- elal laws. Plus X readily agreed to some modification of the existing treaties and to the appointment of & special commission 20 deal with the matter. This commission 8 to be presided over by Cardinal Sancha | ¥ Hervas, the primate of all Bpain, and will be composed of two members nomi- mated by the Vatican and two selected by the Epanish government Comciliatory Toward France. This same spirit of conciliation has ani- mated the present pope in all his dealings with the French government, whose ac-| tions aguinst the religious con tions | Bas been a matter of history. It was| ©n account of the anti-clerical measures | aflopted by the French Parliament that the late Leo XIII suspended all proceed- | ings for the canonization of Jeanme d'Arc, | ‘the national heroine of the French people. X, however, has determined to re- the usual progress of the cause and given personal assurance to Abbe procurator general of Bt Sulpice postulator of the cause of beatification, the first general meeting of the con- regation, which always takes place in the Vatican palace before the pope himself, ‘Would be entirely devoted to this cause. The Frensh government, however, has Mot yet given the Jeast sign of relenting in its attitude toward religion. In fact the Vatican suthorities are anxiously await- ing the meeting of the French Parliament en the Mth of this month, when a bill | proclatming the entire separation of church and state is 10 be considered. At the Vati- ©an everyone foresees that if such a bill to become law it would imply the abolition of the concordat of 1801 and the sbsolute withdrawal of support from the church by the French government. which more than & century has paid the salar- of bishops and priests and the whole | ©f maintenance of the churches. ;i | secure position, |blood of a horee WITH MENAGERIE | li-Natured by Sto; Assnil Keepers at Every Opportunity. LIVELY TRIP Astmale Made ¥ ] e | (Copyright. 18, by Press Publishing Co.) | PLYMOUTH, England, Oct York World Cablegram—Special Telegram ) —Frank Bostock. the n on arrival here on his waj to Hamburg, gave to respondent this thril exciting times his ass hurricane the Atlantic “The animals suffered terribiy sickness, being just as miserable and help- less ar buman beings under the ordew he sald. “As 1 was anxious to give some of them more room. we decided to take two of the guiet lions out of their cages and keep them behind strong barricades in & corner on the lower deck. No soomer had tamer Bonahita gone into the cage to £et them than Romeo flew at him, cutting off his retreat by getting between him and the door. It was a terribie moment. But Bonahita gallantly defended himself while we beat back the lions with fron bars. But we could not get him out until finally we turned the ships hose on the infuriated beasts, who, half smothered | and choking with water, at last were driven of. “Bonahita's left arm was ripped up by Romeo's claws, and he had several minor | brulses. It will be several weeks before can use his arm again “The next day, when we removed the polar bears from their traveling cage to & Aurora, another tratner, had & narrow escape. One of the hears jumped suddenly on her. and tore the lit finger off her right hand “The same afternoon the rabidly excited by the smell out tigers were of the fresh which was being killed before them, and when a lurch of the ship threw their keeper agninst the mesh of thelr cage, instantly a tiger thrust his claws out and caught his bloodstained hands. But quickly striking the beast fairly between the eyes with an fron bar the keeper got away. “Later s grizzly bear bit another keeper | on the calf of the leg. Another keeper was unexpectedly clawed on the head by | a jaguar and sustained a bad scalp wound. | Then there was a terrific fight between four Jeopards. Again only by bringing the hose to bear were these creatures | separated, one being badly injured. The whole vovage was a chapter of mccidents and it was marvellous luck that we had no tatality | will occupy MARK'SITALIAN HOME Innooent Abroad Will Dwell in Atmosphere of History and Bomanos. HOUSE OF FAMOUS SCULPTOR IS LEASED Twas Built by Rival of Michael Angelo as His Res:denoe. MEDIEVAL WORKS OF ART NUMEROUS Epecimens of Original Owner's Handicraft Are to Be Found BUILDING IS NOW OF MODERN STYLE Villa Papiniane One of Those Italian Palaces Where Past and Present Unite te Make Life a Fleasure. (Copyright, 1M8, by Press Publishing Ce.) FLORENCE, ltaly, Oct. 17.—(New York World Cablegram—Special Telegram.)— Qui bito Baccico Bandinelli” (here dwelt Baccico Bandinelll) is graven on a stone siab set in the wall of the residence that Mark Twain here for the winter at least | The American humorist and his wife are expecied early next month, O even sooner The residence which Mr. Clemens will occupy @uring the winter months is & large rambling piace, formerly known Vilia i, now s Villa Papiniano, which belonged originally to the sculplor, Baccico Bandinelli, & contemporary and rival of Michael Angelo, whose colossal groups in | marbie adorn the facade and the main hall in B he Palazzo Vecchio of Florence The vilia is most pleasantly located, about | haifway between Fiorence und Tiescle, and connected with the modern town and the old Etruscan stronghold by & line of elec- tric cars, which run from the cathedral of Florence directly 1o the cathedral of Tie- sole. Tiesole is now a popular summer re- sort for the natives of Florence as well as & favorite wli-round residence for the wealthy Anglo-Sazon colony. Villa Papiniano & the property of Miss Elizabeth Bariow of England and is leased | for the summer 1o the Greek consul general in Fiorence. It stands on & hillock in ex- | tensive grounds, vineyards and olive groves, | The menagerie procesded from here to | Kilchen garden, orchards, flower gardens and a terraced rampart beautified with nu- MOTOR FOR TITLED ACTOR/ arquis of Amgiesey Travels Over Country with Troops in Lux. mrious Auto: e, (Copyright. 198, by Press Publishing Co.) LONDON, Oct. 17.—(New York World Cabiegram—8pecial Telegram )—The more or less made marquis of Anglesey, who is now touring Great Britain with his private musical comedy company giving per- formances for jocal charities in certain favored places, has st any rate had sense | enough to plan for himself the most | luxurious motor car yet seen in this coun- |try. Expense has been no object and the {Mors company, to which the order was | |given, has excelled itself in three points essential 10 comfort—eteady running, rellability, and Juxurious fttings. The car, which has a forty horse-power machine, is supposed to have a maximum speed of twenty-five miles an hour, but it | Is reasonably suspected of being able to | do fifteen more on & favorable road If t police are otherwise engaged. The wheel- | | base is ten teet six inches, which gives it very smooth running. The interfor 1is fashioned from the model of a Pullman drawing room car, with four revolving arm- |chairs and tables between. When running |the car is almost absolutely noiseless. A it stands it is said to have cost the | marquis §15,000 MALAPROP AT A BANQUET Lands Memory Guests Try to Him Stop. ©f Crispl While Make (Copyright, 1908, by Press Publishing Co.) | PARIS, Oct. 17.—(New York World Cable- gram—Special Telegram.)—Paris continues 1o be “en grande toliette” in hobor of the {Italian king and queen, and the gayety and enthusiam are spontaneous. Even Thurs- |Gay's deluge about midday only succeeded | {in discouraging the decorations, though the Lion of 8t Marks and Romulus, Remus | |&nd the wolf in the Avenue de 1Opera |never turned a bair. | Queen Helen catches the crowds by her | |gractousness and beauty, while President | Loubet and King Victor Emmanuel make much better appearance than Qid M Loubet and King Bdward, both being rather undersized. The only unpleasant incident oocurred st the French-Italian banquet, where ome spesker insisted on {eulogizing Crispl, whe was known as France enemy and a man who dld much 1o keep the two nations apart. Attempts | to interrupt and sllence the speaker caused | making { from officia WAR CLOUDS LOWER Neither Ruseis Nor Japan Will Yield Any of the Essential Pointa {LATTER FEARS INFLUENCE OF FORMER It is Therefore Not Willing to Permit Matters to Drife WOULD HOLD CZAR TO CLOSE TREATY If Idea is Not Aocoepted Hostilities May Be Expected. BOTH COUNTRIES PREPARING FOR WAR Believed in Europe Now that Peaceful Solution to Questi: Must Come Before December or Fight Will Begin. 17.~The negotiations be- pan and Russia, according to the view of the situation taken here, are not progress. Each side, it appears information, will not yield on propositions. in requiring an agree- ment that shall not delimit their respective spheres of supremacy and Japan declines to consent to the general policy of “drift,” der which Russian influence will, the Japanese say the essential Jupan pers edge forward until the time is ripe for ac- quiring a part of or the whole country Japan, s previously cabied from here is determined, sccording to the German view, 10 have a settlement with Russia by treaty, whereby they both must abide, or €lse—and the threat is ever background—hostilities will begin. Danger in Plain View. Thus is the dunger in plain view. The Japanese government seemingly makes no partcular co corps at Tokie of this attitude, one im- | pression being that Japan is merely playing a diplomatic game and another is tuat the government is in deadly earnest. Russia’'s everincreasing military prepara- tons in the far east and Japan's nearly completed equipments are regarded as pointing either o a settiement before De- | steadily bear upon Corea and | in the near | cealment from the diplomatic | | THE BEE BULLETIN. Forecast for Nebraska—Falr Sunday and Monday; Warmer Sunday. AMERICA GETS LAND Boundary Oommission Decides Question Between United States and Oanads. LATTER PROVINCE HAS ROAD TO SEA Given Both Obamnels of Portlsod Osssl asd One Small Isksd 1 Problems for New Pope to Solve. Mark Twain Buys a Home in Italy. War Clond Hovers Over East. Award Favers Unmited States Messemgers Have Combimations. Fraud Jury Umable to Agree. Civie Federation Meeting Ends. Girl Commits Suicide in Church. Problem of Caring for Criminals. News from Nebraska Town: Racing Season Ends. Task of Maneuvers Solved. Walking Delegute Confesses, — k G e 1 g O S BN | Board Will Prepars Msp Showing Jine Between the Oountries CANADIANS DO NOT LIKE DECISION Wil Walt Until Fall Report is Made Before Objecting, but Intimate that Diplomatic Relations Infivenced Result. FORMAL DECISION RENDERED WMONDAY | Experience. NDON, Oct. ~The Alaskan boun- mmission today reached an agres- ment whereby ail the Amerioan contentions e are sustained, with the exoeption of those | FOOT BALL RESULTS. in relation to the Portland onal, vm: | Canada wins. All that now remains to | . done is for the commissioners to afix thelr | Siancsses 75, town @ tignatures to the instrument and cem- Harvard 5, West Point 0. plete map which will accompany 4t | On the map will be marked the boundary | w ) lines definitely fixing the division of Ameri- | can and British territory on such a basis that no American citizen will lose & foot ©f land he already believed he held, while the United States will retain all the water ways to the rich Alaskan territory, with the exception of the Portland canal, which gives Canada the one outlet she so much needed. | The long standing dispute was only set- |tled after a week of keen, trying, secret | @eliberation between the arbitrators. Even | up 10 noon today there was an acute possi- bility that a disagreement might result and Yesterday: ‘the ‘whole proceedings fall to the ground. Deg. | Lord Alverstone, though openly inclined 4% | to believe in the justice of the American « B0 | argument that the United States was @n- W0 | titled 1o the heads of inlets as contained'in B1 | question five, held out that Canada had es- 80| tablished her case in questions two amd { B! three, dealing with the Portland canal, 2 After Juncheon Senator Lodge, Secretary Commercial a: to 36 Illustrated Bee. Michigan 51. Indiana ©. Chicago 0, Northwestern O. Carlisle 0. | Cermell 6, Buckmell 0. Kansas 12, Colorado 11. Missouri O. Company C of Beatrice 5, Wymere 0. Morningside 71, Western Union 0. Tabor 11, Omaha Commercials 0. | | | | | cember or to hostilities. Japan's orders for | war materials were placed in Germany a | | for & time. | Hambure, where 1t was to be unshipped for transit to Paris | VERSATILE WIFF OF GREAT MAN | | Mrs. T. P. 0'Connor a Brilliant Play- | wright and a Most Capable { Actress, (Copyright. 192, by Press Publishing Co.) | LONDON, Oct. IT—(New York World | Cablegram—8pecial Telegram.)—One of the | most versatfle woman in London is the American wife (she was Elizabeth Pachal, | | daughter of a Texas judge) of the famous Irish writer (“Tay P he signs him. self). Not only is she a brilliant playwright and a charming actress, but she finds time to perform the manifold duties of the wife | of & leader in the Irish party. Mr. and Mrs. O'Connor have a charming home in | Chelsea and there entertain hosts of | friends, Irish, English and Americans. While at Edinburgh, playing the chief role | in her successtul play, “A Lady from Texas," she fell ill and had to give up work | But now she is writing another | play, of which her ciose friends speak very highly. Ehe has long been attracted by the dra- matic possibilities of what may be called the Parnell tragedy. She knew the principal actor in the sombre dramsa, and it is thought that some day ehe will reconstitute the complex personality of the man who was for so long the “Uncrowned King of | Ireland.” PLAN NEW PLACE OF MusIC Germany is Awalting Production of | Opera, “Der Kobold,” by Siegtried Wagner. (Copyright, 132, by Press Publishing Co.) | BERLIN, Oct. 17.—(New York World Ca- | blegram—Special Telegram.)—The most | magnificent music palace in the world is planned for Berlin. It is to be opposite | the new American church and the esti- mated cost is $900.000. Joachim, Richard Strauss and Prof. Ochs are at the head of the undertaking. An interesting feature merous and prosperous lemon and orange trees planted in red Tuscan earthen vas and jars, and well-kept flower beds Whos appearance reminds one orangerie in Versailles In the middle of this terrace is & fountain of exquisite work- manship attributed 1o Baccico Bandinelll himself. uilding Looks Modern. The appearance of Mark Twain's dweli- ing is mouern. It is panied a rich cream color, with gray biluds accurding 10 ladan customs, bul lhe VINLOr S0uD recugnizes that the structure is anclent. Having en- tered the heavy gale, he comes o & shady arcuway, then 1o & courtyard of small size but charming proportion faced by & stone poruco, unaer which are grouped big ferns “nd paims, and fealy to the grea hall, which opens on ihe lerrhces and gives ac- ©cess o the aparumenis turough a heavy @ark brown door. of a diminutive | |an uproar and adverse comments in the | press. | MAY REFORM CHURCH MUSIC | | Pope May Tssue Decree Barring Pro- fane Compositions from Re. lgious Services. | (Copyright, 130, by Press Publishinz Co.) | { ROME, Oct I7.—(New York World Cs- blegram—Special Telegram.)—From a letter | recently sent to the Gregorian Review by | | order of Plus X 1t seems that a decree is | s00n to be issued regarding reforms in |chureh music all over the worid. The | | triendship of the pope for the famous com- poser. Maestro Perosi. whom he has re- celved frequently in private audience since e election, hes resaled m 1 of meveral laws regarding the kind of | music which is to be used in churches. The simplicity of Gregortan chant receives great | | 4 year ago, and since then they have been delivered or are aficat. Four Japanese of- ficers, who have been buying war materials and supervising artillery construction at Essen, left Germany last Tuesday Prince Ad:lbert, third son of Emperor William, who has been ordered by the emperor to joln the second-class cruiser Bertha, attached to the German East Asiatic squadron, will embark at Genoa, Italy, on Koenig Wilbelm, which saded from Hamburg Thursday, with thirty-one Junfor officers assigned 1o the east Asia station. Situation is More Serious. PARIS, Oct. 17.—Although the officials do not take an wlarmist view of the Russo- | Japanese situarion, their latest advices in- dicate & renewal of its somewhat serious The Russian admiralty has prepared for | & concentration of warships on the Medi- | was done in seif. | terranean stution at other Buropean ports. The reason for 1his is understood to be the | Root and Secretary Turner agreed to cefle e | those points and to start the American FIND HANS GUILTY OF MURDER | boundary line from the head of the Port- | 1and canal, thus giving the Canadians that { S | channel and some small islands on which Brewn County Jury Says KHMag of|ieery sre culy o tow Gisasell sens SR Luse by Detective Was | This accomplished the majority of the tri- ! Felonion bunal agreed to fix, with this exception, the | entire boundary as outlined in the Amerd- can case AINEWORTH, Neb, Oct. 17.—Bpecial Telegram.)~The jury in the Hans murder | Canadinns May Object. case, for the shootng of Luse, after being | Whether Messrs. Aylesworth and Jette, out seven hours, brought in a verdict of the Canadian commissioners, will nefuse |®ullty of murder in the second degree. A | to sign the decision and make It unanimous, motion was made for 4 new triul and was 15 not yet known, but it will not affect | et for November ¢ for argument. the validity of the agreement if a minority Haus shot Luse, who was a cattleman in |report s submitted. By Monday after- the morthern part of Brown county, while |noon it is hoped that everything will by attempting to arrest him. It was charged ready for signature, though the {that Luse was implicated in » plot to marking of the line on the map wreck an Elkhorn train, and later it was shall forever determine the respective slieged thet he had been killlng siock ef |ritories will occupy wome time. other owners. sttempted to shoot him when he attempted | in order to catch t-ains for week-end |10 arrest him. The friends of Luse always 1o the country. In the middie of the ball hangs an irom | praise by the pope, while the less solemn lamp of quaint design, & marble Lion's head | but more melodious compositions of Pal is set in the wall, and the Goor itself is | estrina are allowed where they can properly surmounted by the &lab, teiling that Ban- be executed. Al dinelli lived here. | compositions are to be barred from the The apartments are marble, well aired |churches during religioas ceremonies, es- and well provided with every modern com- | pecially in Italy, where the custom of fort, including & telephone. The sltuation | Saudy and absolutely profene performances of the vila aliows every side of it 0 com- |4t great religious celebrations has gained mand & maguificent view of the Florentine | brevaience. valley, the river Arno and the mountains. | To describe the istorto and artistic in- | IS MAKING REBELS OF POLES terest attached to the surroundings of Mr. | Clemens' residence would be hard. Within | Alleged Result & few steps of the iron gates of the villa Papiniano lics the Mitle village of San | Dominico, with it convent, from which | Baint Antontus, Fra Giovanni Angelioo | and Fra Dominico Buomiscini, the unfor- | tunate companion of SBavomarols, came to | the sorrows of the world and to the light | of history. The church of 8an Dominico u“ { | of Effert to Force German Language Upom (Copyright, 1903, b BERLIN, Oct Press Publishing Co.) New York ‘World Cablegram—Special Telegram.)—The Ger- man government has decided to adopt still harsher measures against the Poles and to ‘wound them in their tenderest sensi In the priests’ seminary in Posen, hitherto instruction In literature has been given to young clerics in Polish, an order has been issue that in the future the Ger- man language shall be used Archhishop Stablewski is enraged, bdut can do nothing, as the government threat- rich in works of art and historical remi- niscences dating from the fifteenth century. From the church a lite narrow lane takes the visitor o the Badia Fisolana built near the tomb of the martyr and bishop, St Romulus, where Pico Della Mirandols | worked at his exposition of Genesis, and | Cardinal Medici, afterwards Pope Leo X, 100k the purple garment. Ntles ‘where operatic and profane | presence of Jupanese warships in Euro- (maintained that the kiling was & cold- pean ports, incloding two ships which are |blooded.” premeditated murder. There was | about completed at British ship yards, The |Wuch excitement in that section over the Jupanese crew of ome of the latter shipe |&ffair, the people taking sides in the con- has aiready arrived, preparatory to taking |iTOversy. The coromer's jury exoncrated over the vessel | Hans and nothing was done in & legal way | The exchange of diplomatic nofes com- |fOr some time. Just before the offense was tinues at Tokio, without definite resu'ts. |outlawed, howgver, a special grand jury The Japanese press, which for a time was | Wwas called and Hans was indicted on the restrained by the government, hus again |~harge of murder. The only witness to the | adopted & belligerant attitude. | killing was a little child of the dead man | Oailaes "t Strie: | Duguette, another raflroad detective and a | o » i | brother-in-law of Hans, “was standing out- { JONDOJK, Oct. T4 Gpaich 0 Beutar's | gy, the house, but €18 Dot actuslly oo the | Telegram company from Toklo says: The | gnooting % Japanese workmen at the Port Arthur docks have been dlscharged. The exodus from other parts of Manchuria continues WILL FORTIFY SAN JUAN There is no excitement at Toklo. The people | Goverament Will Replace Spants | have confidence in the government's policy. S o s S aS : Porte Rican Forta. ' MURDER PART OF THE PROGRAM | | | | Macedonian Commitice to Foment Ex- by Isclated Assas- sinations. BAN JUAN, P. R. Oct. 17.—It was Jearned today that the fortification board had decided to make San Juan one of the American fortified stronghol All the o Spanish guns which were in the fortifica- SALONICA, Oct. 17.—Recent advices re- | tiens at the time the Americans took pos- | celved here say that the Macedonia commit- | session have been rejected and surveyors | teemen have decided for the present to con- | today began planning for the placing of | citem | | {to suspect that the dispute had its practical end. The commissioners selves are still bound to secrecy um decision s actually rendered, and tically few ethers were really aware great a Gegree of success had attended meetings of the American members of tribunal. When the tribunal adjourned at 335 3. |m. it was understood that no decision had been reached. Infleed, so general was the impression that no decision would be. reached until next week that several of counsel and others employed in the chse {left London soon after the sdjournment. | However, the Assoclated Fress that & vote hiad been taken and that the @ecision to grant all the American conten- | tions except that for the Portland canal, | which goes 1o Canada, had been arrived at. No hiteh occurred during the entire @8 Hans usserted ihe killing| The majority of the commimvioners Jeft | -defense and that Luse had the Foreign office hurriedly this |liberations, and as these progressed @ | confidence of the American |that a decision substantially uphol American claims would be given but it was admitted that it would be neoes-, sary to agree to a compromise om the Portland canal The only really disquieting featurs of the situation for the Americans during the N ens to close the seminary if he declines to D'bue fomenting excitement by isolated as- | mddern rifies in the Morro, San Cristoby) | last few days had been a vague 3dea will be the office, where advice will be | Notable Surroundings. » ! ©f church and state has been & great ad- wantage to Roman Catholics and the prog- Tess of religion. These sume prelates clatm that the neces- sary support for the churches and for the maintenance of the clergy will be forth- coming from the zeal and devotion of the ¥rench Catholice, once it s known that no | support whatever is to be expected from | the government, as has been the case all | “slong in the United States. However, It i3 feared at the Vatican that the laws to be proposed for the considerstion of Parlia- ment may go too far and restrict that Mberty of worship which ought to be a Mecessary consequence of an absolute and bona fide separation between the church and the state 1In fact & bill proposed to the special par- Mamentury commission by M. Briand which Bas recetved the approval of M. Buisson, President of the same commission, consid- ers that all church bufldings in France which have been constructed through help received from the state departments or mu- micipalities are to be declared the absolute property of the communes, Gepartments or State, as the case may be. Within five ears all the properties are to revert to the #tate or the municipalities, which may rent them for & consideration to the several civil societies to be organized for the purpose of religious worship. All contributions frem state or com- munes toward the support of the clergy are %0 be stopped, and these same civil socie- ties are alone to provide for their hishops and pastors. The internal regime of churches regarding hours of worship, ete., 5 10 be arranged Ly these same societies, the state reserving the right to regulate the ©ost of funerals only. Restrictions About Priests. While, sccording to. this bill, the clergy 8 10 be entirely free from the state, as re- gards the cxercise of clerical duties, mev- @ral restrictions are made about priests who may not attend strictly to spiritus! Business, cspecially If they be public and should sttempt to take part #a politics or in any kind of opposition to | the existing government. M. Briand makes Shese laws applicable to all religlous de- pations, witheut distinction, and i the several municipalities to use 4 #Coutiuued on Becand Pagey | | |be sung the first time st Hamburg early given students about teachers. On stated | days of the week students will have their | volces tested gratis. It is the ambition of the founders to make the new palace & “nerve center” for the musical world. Siegtried Wagner's new opera, “Der Ko- bold"” (“The Gnome"), i finished. It will | in January. The mcenery is to be superb Siegfried has employed the best artists and consulted the best authorities on fatryland landscape. The same lavish method will | be employed on the dresses. ‘Der Ko- bold” i by far the most ambitious of Siegfried’s efforts and is & vast improve- ment on its forerunners. KING ATTENDS THE PLAY Author Leaves Theater, Being Angry Because of Compliance wit Royal Reqw ! {Copyright, 132, by Press Publishing Co.) LONDON, Oct 17—(New York World Ca- | blegram—8pecial Telegram.)—King Edward saw Pinero's new play, “Letty.” last Mon duy night He sent word beforehand that | he wished the performance to be delayed | half an hour. Pinero strongly objected and insisted that the audience should not be kept walting. Being overruled by the man- agement, heleft the theater The king was ignorant of all enjoyed the play bugely. Mr. Frohman's | two pew productions, “Little Mary” and “Letty,” are the biggest successes of the season. They are drawing crowded houses and having immense advance bookings. this and | | REJANE SEEKING A DIVORCE Likes Porel as a Manager, Not so Desirable as a Husband. i (Copyright, 18, by Press Publishing Co.) PARIS, Oct 1.—(New York World Ca- blegram—Special Telegram )—Mme. Rejave is again trying to obtain = divorce from Porel on the ground of his alieged unfaith- fulness. She tried once before to get om=. but the judge reconciled the couple Porel 15 wise her manager. He says she | keeps the contract, as Porel, alihough im possible as & husband, i all right ss Near the Villa Papiniano is the “Riposo de Vescovi” where the bishops of Tiesole, eturning from Florence, used to stop and accept refreshments from the monks, leav- ing their carriages and making the steep ascent 1o Tiesole with oxen chariots which the monks offered them. Below the road is the Villa Landor, where Walter Bavage Laudor lived and dled. A MNttle further away is the Villa Spence, bullt in 1454, to be & favorite meeting place of the Platonie Academicians and friends of Lorenzo de Medici, while opposite the Villa Papiniano are the grounds of “The Three Maids” (le tre puiselle), where Leo X stopped on his way to Tiesole, in 156 A ltte colony of English and American people Tent or own three villas, Two of | them are George Gregory Smith, the elec- | triclan and inventor, and Prof. Fiske, who has studied Dante with such loving in- dustry and who presented to Cornell uversity & very valusble collection of Dente. Goes for Wife's Health. NEW YORK, Oct votion to his wife leads him to rent the Ttalian villa that is described here. Mrs Clemens thinks the climate of Florence wes with her delicate health. Lately Mr. emens leased his Tarrytown estate to jes A. Gardiner, counsel for the Man- hattan Elevated road. This is one of the famous places on the Hudson. Mr. Clem- ens bought the estate three years ago, but owing to his wife's fllness has never oocu- pled it As he and his family safl this month for Italy to be abroad for a year, he has Jessed the estate, giving Mr. Gardiner an option to purchase it until December, 194 Mr. Clemens has lived In & fine old house st Riverdale recently. FRENCH BICYCLE TAX LARGE Almost & Million and » Dellars Collected Last Year. Halr (Copyright, 1902, by Press Publishing ) PARIS, Oct. IT—(New York World Cable- gram—8pecial Telegram )—The French goy- ernment collected 1.000 000 francs (51 400,000) 17.—Mark Twain's de- | submit. Hitherto marriage licenses have | been filled out in Polish. In future it must | be in German. The same holds good with { birth and death certificates. It is this os- | sault agamst their langusge, especially ‘where religion and religious usages are con- | cerned, that the Poles feel most painfully and resuits are filling the Polish provinces with rebels | FORGETS “BUSINESS” OF PARTj Oversight of an Actor Responsible tor 1 T | | i (Copyright, 18, by Press Publishing Co.) PARIS, Oct. 11—(New York World Ca- | blegram—Special Telegram.)—The younger Coguelin's name came out first from the ballot box for jury duty this week, carry- ing with it the responsibility of serving &s foreman When delivering the verdict in the first case Coquelln pronounced the | stereotyped formula, “On my hover and my conscience before God and man 1 hereby announce that our verdict fs — | | But the young mctor forgot that the French law required the foreman while lmkl‘hg the announcement to keep his | hand on his heart Noticing that he failed ‘ to do 8o the prisoner's counsel applied for | ‘ud secured & mew trial ’ARTIST EXHIBI_T_S_IN NEW YORK American Metropolis te See Paiu ings Before London is Given Privilege. (Copyright, 138, by Press Publishing Co. LONDON, Oct. 17.—(New York World Ca- | blegram — Special Teiegram) — Wilhelm | Funk, who has been painting since June in | Engiand, France and Spain, sailed for New | York Wednesday on Kaiser Wilhelm He bas made arrangements for an exhibition of his foreign portraits and landscapes in the Grafion gallery in London next spring, | bot the pictures will be first exhibited in New York in January. Funk lest exhibited at Knoedier's in New York and Macleas's gallery in London. Among Funk's por- | traits are Princess Christian of Schieswig- Helstein, Arthur Balfour, lady Elcho, | Ledy Astland, Mrs Brown Potter, Lad Colin Campbell and Lady Muriel Paget | sassinations Reports arriving from Sofia say the mur. @er of Prince Ferdinand of Bulgaria has decided upon and the Russian consul general is seid 1o be in great danger. YROOT, Syria, Wednesday, The apparent indifference of the Eurcpean powers to the recent outbresk of Moham- been | medan funaticism here bas deeply im-| CALLS the Christians. The Moslems, on the other hand, are elated and scoff at the idea of Buropean interventon. The attack on the Christians was planned weeks before the arrival of the American warships at Beyroot. The then governor, Rechid Bey telegraphed the details to stantinople and ssked for imstructions. None, how- ever, reached him. his policy presse of moninterference was from & telegram, signed by the chamber- lain, which was handed to him on the eve of his departure, after his dismisss! from the governorship on the demand of the United States. The telegram follows Your excellency being well established the eyes of his most sacred majesty, the Kaliph, you should not allow yourself 1o he in the Jeast affected by the fact of your dismissal. It is his majesty’s imperial wish that you Teturn at once to Constantinog in order to be the reciplent of impe favors. CHICAGO MEN ARE ARRESTED Obtatn Credit te Al nt of Fifty Thousand Dollars, Sell Goods and Leave, MONTREAL, Oct. 11.-J. H. Edelsen, Rob- ert Edelsen and F. J. Edelsen of Ox.lm‘o( have been arrested here on ‘h).cm““ of obtaining money under false prétenses. F. J. Edelsen, it is alleged. obtained credit 10 the amount of $50,000 in the cigar and to- bacco business, sold his stock for what it would bring and then disappeared His store was located in Chicago. Four- teen thousand doliars were recovered Passenger Train in Russiz Robbed. ST. PETERSBURG, Oct 17—Ten men | successfully held up a passenger train be- | tween Dunsbourg and Plaskov, 16 miles from this city, during Priday night The men jumped on the conductor's car, over- | powered and bound both conductors, robbed the safe and baggage and escaped with the booty 1o an sdioining ferest. and Escambron forts, in esch of which will be mounted four i(-inch and two 12-4nch guns having a range of ten miles Chief Justice Alverstone, even if he o cluded to take the American view, might be unwilllng 1o g0 on record with & de- | The range of ihe present guns is omly | cision to that effoct, and that & dlsagres- {600 yards. The fortification board is to |ment was likely arrive in New York on the steamer Cona First News at Washington, tomorrow | WASHINGTON. Oct. 17.—The Associated MILITIA | Fress buietin trom London announcing the | decision of the Alask | was inUmation received by the | . 5 ¢ Poatest | siate dep nt that the mw-:: had “ Mok Beat on | reac eement | Lynching. | Althor Lulletin from London is ex~ | ceed Lrief, State department officiale PARIS, Ky. Oct 17.—Luther McCoy, & | 58¥ that it shows a @istinct victory ferthe negro farm hend pled to asssult Mrs. | URited States. 1t is their opinion that 4N Jumes Mermaugh and Miss Nellie Herrick, | dcision regurding the Portiand “cmet two prominent wo: of this city merely gives to Canada the PeasERSN N McCoy was arrested, and it is not Pearse island, a small island in the Pori~ Shot B il bo Tymchad Sastintet lund and of no special Importance. Wollinih bun Mo T This f the controversy is admitted the . St y State department oficials to have besn sty ' ment on all sides. iand 1 at the mouth of the - f the isla and Canads form- ad i able use of the eastepn g Sow . Fooks Under the present decision Came Than at Any Time Sinece Pres- have the use of the western chan- fdential Year — FOR THE | Kentueky Town W Jartme Prison fro an & a today ikely wern order o r frof Ay anal a detat) ses the 1c v Pearse canal | channels The Larger erly nel | The main issuve of the Canadian contention !involved the outlet from the Klondike gold fields st the hesd of the Lynn canal, in- |cluding the ports of Skagway and Dyes, through which the Kiondike business is |transacted. These ports remain Ameriean |territory. The decision is taken to concede —_— |the American claim. The Americans Iadd | Movements of Ocean Vessels Oct. 17. | especia] stress ;xdm-;.wm c«:::nu- that " @ i from, | this strip shou measured from the B T - u‘xi’:;,—:;‘.i“ I heads cf Yays, while the Canadians argued Salled: La Gascoyne, for Hawvre, Vaader- |that (he measurement should be from the |land, for Antwerp: Minnetonka, for Lon- | miio wiier'of the ooean | don; Phoericia. for "nm'mr& Campania, | | fu;‘llx\ rr[mnl_ ‘C;'l“::\luh.‘ lo{. |lg‘h' ‘ Disappeintment in Canada. antucke s € tagne, from Havre, for Rew Tork = P | 1ORONTO, Ont, Oct. 17~Great veenstown—Arrived. Etruria, from | proval and dissppointment is feit bere over ». ~ .| P Dok, for New Yory, Arable. from “Liver- | 11y gecision in the Aluskan boundary sese I At Liverpool_Sailed: Carthagenian, from | “1 would not like 10 criticise Lord Alver- |Gy, Su 8 Jehas ¥ i Lucania. | gtone's decision untll I have resd its text, |” At" The Lizard—Passed: Frederick der|but the result is & very grest disappolmt- i(}rr‘u for Hamburg via Plymouth and |ment to mc” This was the view of Bremer. Hodgins, K. C., the master-in-or- At Cherbourg—Bailed: Frederick _der | THOmAS | Grosme, from New York. for Bremer: New | dinary, whe has made s spesial sody of the boundary dispute, and it conveys the | York_from Southampton, for New York At Boulogne—Arrived: 'Rotterdam, from |, 0. 00 LGy LS, La Lorratne, for New | VICTORIA, B | NEW YORK. Oct. 17.—The registration |on the last day in Greater New York was { 138009 making & total for the four days |of 6% The total registration for the | precediug three years was: In 2800, 640, 1901, G404 192, GE2Om. New York At Havre—Bailed York. At Hamburg—Arrived: Furst Blsmarck, from New York boundary decision