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‘eqvipment at Port of Spain, Island of Trinidad, she will be utilized in| operations against Venezuela. dont Roosevelt, who Is anxiously watching the situation in Venezuela. ‘in confultation to-day with Secretaries Hay and Root, Senator Cullom, Chair- | of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, and Representative Hitt, of yeame-committce in the House. This was followed by a second consultation sey m Hay and. Root. lone of those interested would disouss the nature of the conference, but It fs mally belleved that the President may send a special znessage to Congress on } aubject. While tt is not believed that this country will be involved great satisfaction 1s warships is within twenty-four hours’ sailing distance of the Venezue- h coast. NGLAND MAY GET OUT, LEAVING GERMANY ALONE. LONDON, Dec. 15.—It is stated here that there is reason to believe that ders will or have been sent to the British commander in Venezuelan paters to take no further aggressive action at present, pending a decision Arrived at on the proposal of arbitration. | ‘This came in the form of a proposal through the United States Govern-| hent to submit the claim of British and German subjects to arbitration, | Swhich Lord Lansdowne announced later in the day in the House of Lords : “now under consideraton by the British Goyernment.” Lord Lansdowne added: “We are greatly indebted to the good offices the United States Minister at Caracas.” BERLIN NOT WILLING NOW TO ACCEPT ARBITRATION, BERLIN, Dee. 1 he proposal of President Castro, of Venezuela, to submit the | | $8 | | | 5.—It is intimated in official cireles here that | aims against that country to arbitration iiave been reecived too ite. As a result there will be no hesitation in carrving out the ere No indication has been Hiven as to the exact course to be prrsued, but it is believed that | other ports will be shelled by the warships and marines landed if| absolute surrender of their position is not made by the Ven-| muelans. © Wor? has been received here to-day tha: in an official tatement ir the English House of Commons, has denied that Great Britain in anv woy reeponeible for the sinking of the captured gunboats, | Tn reply to thir the statement Is nade on authority that the Venezuelan ssels sunk off Ia Guayra were old and worthless revenue cutters and unfit! Po wo to sea, and that the other ships captured have been sent to a certain | Vest Indian port to be refitted for use during the blockade. The destruc- Yon of the Venezuela craft, it is added, was necessary in order to prevent : em from falling into the hunds of the Venezue!.ns, as the German ves- | pels nd to leave La Gia ra. | ive policy which has been begun. Lord Cranborne, wy °4o——____—_ VENEZUELA IN DESPAIR i APPEALS TO U. S. FOR AID. © GARACAS, Venezuela, Dec. 15.—OMiclals here are depending entirely on | the Wuited & ett st them, | A move on foot, headed by prominent doctors and lawyers, to vesident Gastro to resign und to ask Vice-President Ramon Ayala ume the Presideucy and form a Cabinet without party tendencies, | 4 ts eles proposed to summon Congress to appoint a temporary President oaa arrange the questions In dispute in a manner satisfactory to all con- hed who has Just been rele; . Uernandez, “El Mocho,’ Ps igo 4g exnecced at Caracas to-morrow. id further trouble is apprehended, » Phe Venezuelan Government announces that Great Britain has reopened | Ahp wivigation of the Oriaceo River, Two warships will patrol the mouths | of the river and the river {iself. This measure applies only to foreign ships. Je flying the Venezuelan fla: excluded. P ‘The pautictic parade her terday passed off without any extraor- 8 dinary incllents. O). Preeltent Custro during the dav visited the tomb of Bollvar = Phe Government reports that the German cruiser Panther ts going to SgotttRtseal's0 to destroy the forts there 4 aged from prison a His partisans are very active ! ! “gibterranexn prison cells of Castle Libertado with dynamite, They also red alt the wooden bulldings surrounding the castle and carried away Werything that could be transported After the bombardment of the forts at Porto Cabello and the landing of Ww leetroyed the ret ease. marines mmbarked. ‘The Venevuelan Government warshty Mirandi has esc Shot the German cruisers Falke and Panther, which were si and arrived at Maracaibc ya. ped the vigtlance a oo “CASTRO TELLS ENGLAND THAT HE WANTS PEACE, LONDON, Dec. 15.—An expression of a desire for a peaceful settlement ‘ot the difficulties has been received in London from the Venezuelan Govern-| ent. An the House of Commons to-day lord Cranborne. Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs, denied that Great Hritain was responsible for the sinking the Venezuelan ships. | The Under Secretary sai¢ His Majesty's Government had been informed ‘that the German commodore found it necessary to sink two ships, but reat Britain was not responsible for this. | Mr. Schwann, Advanced Liberal, then moved an adjournment of the| fouse to discuss Venezuelan matters ‘élock this evening, _————_—+-+o— S, Venezuela, Dec. 15.—The bombardment of Puerto Cabello t about a feeling tha: Venezuela's diMiculty with Great Britain any has gone past the diplomatic stage. The people are anxious and hopeful that Argentina and Chili will come to the assistance sister republic. 'GENTINA AND CHILI MAY TAKE PART, \ Jomatic correspondence with that end in view has been going on. | p that Argentina has sought to learn whether the Government of | | d States will remain passive in the face of the drastic measures im for the collection of trifling debt. Venezuela has asked Its aid. Os STILE INTENT PLAINLY SHOWN. : of the bombardment at Puerto Cabello emphasize the haste with allied fleet carrid out their hostile intent. When the British com- oF nent his demands for redress for the insult to the British flag, when mobbed the tramp cullier Topaze, he allowed only two hours funder threat pf bombardment. President Castro was immedi-! and he replied instructing the authorities to make ample “Message was not received until 4.45 o'clock, fifteen minutes get for the bombardment. 1 } Was hurried to the Italian consul for transmission to pas tiaking signals when the bombardment commenced. «aga the Fort Libertador, the chief harbor defenses, were reduced to ndex arrested, Ou investigution it was found that British marines had blown up the | —— WHAT THE MONROE es The motion will be discussed at 7| gino: Not $300.00, as was at first supposed TT | vist $2,000,000 is the stake at issue in the the wil of the late Morris ITALY HOPES FOR mond merehant, which was A SETTLEMENT. | Posun to-day. Fifteen relatives contest the will, which, after providing for many amall legactes, bequeaths the balance of ROME, De Ne statement pub-|the estate to “Jack” Pra a nephew. lished in th day that} When Mr led it was sald his bi Minister of Italy [estate was at $200,000, ‘The 4 ty Car on board the|torneys for the contestants say they Italian cruiser Glovannt Bausan, at La, have discovered that Instead of $300,000] funy here, Mr, Prager left not less than $2,000,000. K mmanuel, who is keenly] David N. Carvalho, the handwriting Venezuelan troubles Jexpert, spent a whole afternoon study- sof the United States, ing the original will and the signature} PAR ADMIRAL DEWEY'S. POWEAFUL WARSHIPS, WHICH ARE NOW WITHIN TWENTY-FOUR HOURS OF THE VENEZUELAN COAST, Tre s19ASSAChU setES- ANGLO-GERMAN FLEET HAS FIFTEEN WAR VESSELS, The allfad squadron of the British and German navies in Vene- zuelan waters consists of 16 vessels, carrying over four ihousand men and mounting 312 guns. VETERAN MERCHANT BEGINS LIFE AGAIN, Meyer Jonasson at Seventy Will BRITISH. Men, Guns, Ariadne, first-class crulser...--------..--..---.- eecnsa= 677 41 Charybdi cond-class cruiser_ - $12 24 Phaeton, second-class cruiser- . 309 24 Retribution, second-class crusier_ - 275 22 Indefatigable, second-class cruiser. - 273 22 Tribune, second-class cruiser-.- - 273 22 Pallas, third-class cruiser-- 27 21 Alert, sloop of war.------ 2 10112 Fantome, sloop of war. a 160 10 Quail, torpedo-boat destroyer. 58 6 GERMAN. | Vineta, second-class cruiser- 440 34 Gazelle, third-class crulser.- 210 30 Falks, third-class cruiser. 150 15 Panther, gunboat..-.- 16 Stosch, training ship_ 18 | 312 DOCTRINE REALLY IS. FIGHT OVER WILL FOR $2,000,000. Fifteen Relatives Who Attempt) to Overturn Bequest to ‘Jack’) Bat with the governments who thelr ind 1 it, and we have, have | | ‘ wrent Just fy princetpt ie on edged, we eo in erpontite POSE OF Oe tee SAO Prager Say Morris Prager’s| TINY, Wy any B | Estate Was Underestimated. | Inn other Hght than as the sat | mm tlon of an onfriendly §) Aiaposttion toward the Unttea [}/EXPERT EXAMINES WRITING. | States.—Extract tr the ) roe Doctrin dlence ng to-night Itallan cruiser . of Morris Prager at the end of tt, using powerful magnifying glasses and taking | copious notes In record of the results of his examination of the document. ‘he specific bequests in Morris Prager's will aggregated only $75, in. is hope that a the questions J he was sure y solution of tory xind, but said satlsti wo theo Ttallan sailors would do honor to thelr country In all eventuallttes. not much of a slice out of $2,000 and —_—-— the fact that every one of his relations was mentioned in the will, {ncluding | ECUADOR OFFERS TO the’ nfteen, contestants. tor, fegacien ‘OF from up to several thousand dole HELP VENEZUELA, | (iin fMpointed out ua s “pecuilar eir= eumstance.” Se GUAYQUIL, Ecuador, Dee, 15.—-A pa- ae eekstration took place nere| MERGER AGAIN ATTACKED. last night. A uy iy number of Beopis i, Ned ‘attended. a meeting. wen 2 7 Wo yuntuuelan aud to gil tho other|Peltey-Holder Tries {o Prevent South American idee tra Hee it a Prudential-Fidelity Deal, “Long live ot on ive Vene- 0 The Eve: Sea ye eae live (he Bout Amer: (Apeclal to The Evening. World.) NBWARK, Nv J., Dec. 15.—Chaneellor Magi to-day granted a rule to show cause why the Prudential and Fideltty Trust Company merger should not be prevented. This 1s the second action to be instituted #lnce the directors of the two great compantes decided to combine. The latest sult 1s entered by John Nubawer, of Hoboken, who holds a poll- °y in the Prudential for $1,000. His wite an obit) reese He holds that can Countries The participants In the demonstration before dispersing adopted @ resolution asking President Plaga to protest officl- ally against the action of the aii powers. ENGLAND ASKS ABOUT CUBA. LONDON, Dec, 15.—When questioned in the House of Commons to-day regarding } ered itors the love who -|to come to trial, Now Start in to Regain His Lost Fortune. At the age of three score and ten Meyer Jonasson will attempt to bulld up the fortune which was shattered when his firm, Meyer Jonasson & Co. went under three months ago, To-lay he succeeded in adjusting all the clalms against his concern, and his who are distributed all over United States and some parts of ope, have forwarded him receipted on the basis of 871-2 cents on the lar. Hmanvel W. Bloomingdale, of Bloom- | Inadale Brothers, who was appointed re-} cely for the Jo on house, turned | the property, money, assets and fects of the firm by an order of Jus- @ Adams hen all the papers were signed to- Hays & Hensehfield, 1d Mr, Jonasson. the head of the firm for upward thirty years, qeclared he would how start all over again and bulld up an entirely new business. a am not too old yet," declared Mr, day No. tlcally, The establish- ment at Twelfth street and Broadway will be vacated by the firm, The place was res ed as a “hoodoo. A rental if $70,000) was paid for the property by tie firm, the ground floor alone being used as a salesroom, while the five lofts above were used only for the stor- ane of ge HAD HYSTERICS IN COURT. Daughter Painted, Another Wept ax Man Was Convicted. After waiting three years for his case Michael Kehoe, sixty years old, entered a plea of gutlty to a charge of assault In the second degree, In the Brooklyn County Court to-day, lle was remanded for sentence for one week. When Kehoe was arraigned his aged wife went into hysterics, one of his daughters fainted and another daughter and son wept and moaned. It if thought that Kehoe will be given an extremely light sentence, The crime for which he was called to justice to-day was committed three years ago, when, with James Conlan, a man of his own age, he was engaged in building a fence in the rear of the Boys’ One -| High School in Marcy avenue, A dispute arose and Kehoe hit Conlan on the head with an axe. Conlan lingered between life and death in a hospital for weeks. When he ré- covered he brought a civil auit against Kehoe and got judgement for $6,000. The judgement has not been satisfied. Trial of the criminal case was post 60 HOTEL GUESTS IN PERIL. One Unconscious from Escaping Gas and Others Made Til, NEW BRUNSWICK, N. J., Dec, 15.— Many guests of the Mansion House, the leading hotel of this city, wero made sick by escaping gas to-day, One of them was found in an unconscious poned until the clvil case shoul through the courts. ceived medical attention and cover. the! Hotel § Ser Otay a ea aia iat ele wie oon zu rea ena mae a ii Sty p fied with Sie Tames: condition, but revived after having ie will There was much exeltement ot ow phat CARLEY SAYS — WENT 10 SMOKE HE IS ) A VICTIN. AND LOST HIS LIFE Swan Stepped Out on a Fire- Escape on Cliff Street and|y Fell Five Stories to His Death. Broker Who Failed f Failed for a Million Dollars Accuses Financiers in Court and Talks of Extor- tion. | Charles Swan, twenty-five years of age, residing at No. 205 Eldert street, Brooklyn, was almost instantly killed 'TO SCARE VANDERBILT. the fifth story of the bullding occupied by the J. L. Mott Iron Works at No. 61 Clift street, Swan was employed as a packer of wrought iron. During the noon hour he walked to the rear of the bullding and stepped out upon ‘the fire-escape to emoke his pipe before returning to work. The iron bars which formed the landings In the fire-escape were coated with ice and snow and in placing his foot upon the slippery surface Swan slipped and fell to the open courtyard, fifty feet below, In his descent he struck against the steel shutters which protect the win- ‘dows at the back of the bullding and was thrown ten feet beyond the foot of the basement. His neck was en. Tis body was. removed to the. home of nis father. Henry Swan, of No, 142 North Portland avenue, Brooklyn. He had been married but a few months, TRENTON, J, Dec. 15.—Francis D. Carley, a New York broker, who failed recently for over a million dol- lurs, made gome sensational statements in the United States District Court here to-day, He alleged, among other things, that the Kentucky National Bank was being duped into opposing his discharge by persons who were seeking to extort money from William KK. Vanderbilt and other financters. He declared that Camille Weldenfield, who figured in the Northern Securities case in New York; Treadweil Cleveland, formerly of Evarts, Choate & Beeman, and Charles Cleveland were Imoplisated In the movement against him, by which, he alleged, they hoped to make Mr. Vanderbilt belleve that he wiil have to come to ‘New Jersey and testify. According to Carley, the persons he accuses want to get money by frighten- ing Mr. Vanderbilt Into thinking taat he will have to come here and prove that Carley has no Interest in a lot of PanaHandle stock now held by Mr, Van- derbilt and in litigation In New York in the case of Rathbone against Vander- pilt. Ir is alleged that they also want Car- ley to get his wife to make over to his creditors $40,000 worth of notes due her in consideration of the withdrawal of opposition to his being declared Insol- vent. ( STRENUOUS TEST FOR LAWN MOWER, Harris Lifted 60-Pound Dumb- bell for Civil-Service Board and Now He’s in a Hospital. | PAID ALIMONY GLADLY. Aged Mr. Bower Remarked He Was Glad to Be Rid of Wite at Any Cost, JEFFERSONVILLE, Ind,, Dec. 15.—It cost J. E. Bower $10 to get Mrs. Alice Vest to become his wife. Her divorce cost him $200 and the court costs. Bower ts seventy-four years old, and the wife who was Saturday granted a divorce and $200 alimony is forty years @ man named Colvin $10 to vi and propose marriage Re chlion Vest was reported to have one child and to all that the fondest heart could desire. They, sAaa) married, and then It developed that Mi Bower had four children. The son Was Brrekted for steal in Jun 1900, ‘Th! tal matrimonial difici tes and "Bower applied for a di- yore Bower, when notified that he e to pay alimony, handed "i verone to the clerk, with the remark at freedom was cheap at any price, STEAMER CRIPPLED AT SEA. Arrives at St. dohn Battered Condition. ST. JOHN'S, N. F., Dec, 15.—The steamship Peruvian, Capt, Harrison, ft- teen days from Liverpool, arrived here thig morning with two blades of her Ladys ne. She encountered terrifi the) was driven huncreds of jon from her court eateraay the P Pan schonnen Nokomien 320 oft this coast. ‘he crew were on. the leak- {ng schooner. for ya and were short of water as prov! CARNEGIE GOES SLEIGHING. ‘Wis Health Restored and Family , Installed in New Ma: Andrew Carnegie 4s: Anding heen en- joyment in long, exhilarating sletgh rides these daye, He was out fora drive of several hours to-day and enjoyed it immensely. Mr, Carnegie’s health, his. secretary states, is entirely restored, Peravia in i. In the course of a physical mina tion held in the rooms of the Civil’ Ser- vice Commissioners, Harry Harris, fifty- four years old, living at No, $85 Third avenue, dislocated his right shoulder In an effort to lift a sixty-pound dumb- bell from the floor. ‘Harris was an applicant for the posi- tion of a driver of a lawn mower in the parks, When he raised the heavy dumb- yell his etrength was exhausted and the weight descended, stfiking his right shoulier and dislocating It, He fell to r the floor unfnors were tunable to deters atied him, and he layin a ee ith 0 ambulance street gain in none a oh pine ta run gla tae the ‘eidest| FORCE CIRLS TD WORK IN MINES. |JudgeGray’s IndignationAroused by Stories of Children Who Toil at Night on Twelve-Hour Shifts. d DENOUNCES THEIR FATHERS. (Special to The Evening World.) SCRANTON, Pa, D Little girls hetween ten and twelve years old, who works in the mines all night on twelve hotir shifts. were witnesses to-day be- fore the Strike Commission. ec i These childr:n went to confession bee | fore appearing to testify, and were thea aiven breakfast in the Hotel Jermyn , They were much impressed. Overcome with indignation at the story, of one Ittle snill girl, Judge Gray eald: “I'd Mke to seo her father. I'd Uke to 4. find what sort of a man {t is who will 4 make hie children do work like thia, Un- douhtedly there is necessity in geome cases, but there are many who coin the flesh and blood of thelr children Into money, where there 1s no necessity for it’ “You ought to sec mpioyer,” sug » chiefly,” said setet Attorney Darr "3 the fat eleven-year-old girl told how her father had sworn she was thirteen years. he excla pom= bination of the mine owners and rents is required to bring about condition.’ These children, ranging to fourteen years said they Sorked fem from 6.0 o'clock in the evening to 6.80 o’clocle in the morning, Avie half an hour for fens Say standing alll get fro: 5 cents an hour, Od work nights all the time, and some have not spent a night eta Feeaye ame from work for a work in the mines and athe Rather of ‘one owns his own ‘hou! tdisnant "Judge . when an Later, Tt wes the fact that th that made Judge plat in rl’ sald. her. father mat concluded to Foake. “Hi he, Jude cy oked up wi ‘ isonet ac ages ghd. sixteen an nine ‘months @ year, is Subject “ty fine. “The ied laws do not amount to much up here,” he sa Zi "a0 not execute themmsaives,' rejoine “The Attorney ed. Simon Wolverton, negara: for thre” operators, then ‘then made his opening etate- ment. ooks Up the Law. Judge Gras it evident that the Commiseion "would hs have “the hid evgpund and asked Hf thoy they were he laws roi ae eas wets ‘ohildren between t sixteen years to work more tea houre a day. these hall ‘That children te ogre ‘work more than yemhat no children under thirteen years of polis ite Tact we man {0 re ort violations Inspector a; ieee to-day by falling from a fire-escape on | net CANERLD A FELON, SAYS JEROME. “ (Continued from First Page.) Brann he decided it would be best to ask for a summons. “We have evidence enough to apply for a warrant on,” said Mr, Hennessy, “put the courtesy due to a phdilc of- ffolal guided us in asking simply for « summons." Subpoenas for Rich M To prove that Canfield’ house is just a high-class gambling joint Jer- ome has subpoenaed Jesse Lewisohn and A, A. Housman, two of the best known men in Wall street. They are said to be among the score of financiers and men of wealth and social promi- nence who have been served with such subpoenas. Reginald C. Vanderbilt is not among the number, but Jt is said that the other guests at a now ocele- brated “birthday party," which wound up in a gambling-house one evening last winter, have been caught by the #ub- poena-servers. Jesse Lewisohn 1s the junior member of the firm of Lewisohn Bros., He 1s a son of the late multi-millionaire ” copper magnate. A. A. Housman is the senior member of the Stock Exchange brokerage firm of A. A. Housman & Co, with branches in London and Berlin, ‘An attorney for one of the men sub- poenaed said to-day thi t he had learned that young Vanderbilt escaped being served as the result of a talk between him, his lawyer and Mr, Jerome. This gentleman a ted, however, that the District-Attorney had secured service om others who Tien: phe party the night jer! wi Me Vena hike $0000 gambling an Game Mg tnd Some £ the \ i nee fe mas shi OLD THEATRICAL MAN DEAD." — Gavriel Harrison Eatabliohed First Brooklyn Playhouse. i Gabriel Harrison, who is sald tovhave established the first permanent theatre in Brooklyn, died at his home, No, 06 Sterling place, Brooklyn, to-day at the age of eighty-four years, He wag: author, actor and artist. Six he rate with a pony rrignae biished in “two sone | Otto Tobin, thirty-nine thir years of 5