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1 HEr
. STORM IS GENERAL
It Extands frB Sockiei to New Yark ted
Winnipeg to tha Gilt
CEWTER NEAR MISSISSIPPI AT MIDNIGHT
Heart Enow at Many Painta Aooompanied
by Cold ligh Winds,
i -r.
TRAINS ARE LAT..1 VJW1RES ARE D0WN
t. '
Traffio of 111 CI clayed aad Lira
Stock Em mf ffericj.
STREET CARS ST -t-V DES MOINES
Ueeola Re parts D WU aad
f Ires Dowa, While Stork la
Traaslt la Delayed
and gaffer-las:.
CHICAUO. lec. ii. un oi me wverrsi j
atormi or recent yesrs naa ragea inrougn
cut the territory lying between the Rocky
mountain! and the Great Lakea since early
tnis morning ana naa cbaiiwu luiii wuuimc j
IO street car rnmpnuii, i Ainuoug nu i,r-
graph companies.
The latter were the greater sufferers, for
the billiard which swept through the west
and northweat during the last twenty-four
houra was preceded by a heavy fog and
drizzling rain, which made he wires al
most unworkable. The Intense cold and
terrific gale that followed cloae upon the
fog coated the wlrea with Ice. and later In
the day the poles went to the ground. Rail
road traJna were badly delayed all through
the west, aome of them being twenty-four
houra lata. Street car traffic In all the
cities of the weat and northweat waa prac
tically at a standstill during the day.
Twe Fatalities at Chleasro.
In Its extent the atorm waa the moat
widespread of any during the last fifteen
yeara. Counting the fog aa a component
part of the atorm. It atretched from the
Rocky mountains to New Tork and from
Winnipeg to New Orleans. The only fatali
ties due to the atorm In tale city were:
Alexander Stelner, a teamater, killed
while unloading coal. . A coal chute waa
blowa from ita fastenings and atriklng
Btelner on the head killed him Inatantly.
Thomas Walsh, a laborer, struck by a
heavy board while entering a new building
at Green street and Washington boulevard.
The board almoat cut his head off.
At 10 o'clock tonight the atorm waa re
ported aa subsiding at Kanaaa City and
other points, and a north and south line
from that city, but It will be several days
before normal conditlona are restored
throughout tbe section.
At Chicago and. aaat of here tbe atorm
waa still raging with great violence jSnd
was expected to continue throughout the
night, the canter of the atorm being, ap
parently, between Chicago and Cleveland.
Reports from Kans.ts City early In the diy
were that the atorm extended from the
middle of Missouri as far south as Indian
-Territory. .and-waa. -accompanied through
ita extent by high wlnda and snow, about
one foot deep. It was drifted so badly
by the gale, however, that in nearly all
the cities of Nebraska, Kanaaa and west
ern Missouri street car (traffic waa at a
standstill by noon. The telegraph wires
were down, in-ail directions and it was
with extreme difficulty that communication
with the dest and northwest was kept "up.
All trains through that part of the coun
try were hopelessly behind schedule time
early In the afternoon, and the railroads
gave up all Idea of attempting to get them
through on time, and devoted their energy
to moving them in tbe beat manner possi
ble. gtene Reaches St. Loals.
TVs atorm by noon had reached eastern
Missouri, and the temperature in St. Louis
went down twenty degrees in two houra,
while the wind, blowing forty miles an
hour, piled the anow up in the street a in
great drifts. It was found possible to
keep the street cars running, although
greet havoc was wrought with telegraph
and telephone wires.
At Omaha and lea Moines conditlona
similar to those in Kanaaa City were re
ported, and both places were in bad con
dition early in the morning. ' All over the
western states the storm Increased in vio
lence throughout the morning. All tralna
In this section were one to six houra late
and constantly losing time. In Des Moines
street car trafOo waa suspended early in
the day.
Hick Wlai la Nort k west.
In the northwest the storm waa more
violent than throughout Miasouri and Iowa.
At fit. Paul the anow commenced failing
last night and grew heavier all through
the night, while the wind Increased until
It waa blowing at fifty mllea an hour.
The heavy anow and the gale worked
havoc with the railroads, and aome of the
passenger trains from the Pacific coast
wire reported tonight- as twenty-four hours
overdue and making alow progress. The
storm reached westward from BL Paul
until It covered almost the entire north
west, and from the Dukotaa. eastern Mon-
, tana, Wyoming, northern Michigan and
Wisconsin the story was the same from
all points, The wires In all directions were
down, the snow was falling In denee vol
ume and, driven by a high northweat gale,
waa filling the streets and railroad cuts
so l ghtly that street cars were for the moat
part compelled to atop running and all
tralna were behind time.
In the eoutb conditions -were somewhat
better, snow and rainstorms, preceded by
thunder and lightning.
loulavUle, Montgomery and Memphis re
ported heavy rains, a rapidly falling ther
mometer and terrific winds.
In the Ohio river valley the first heavy
rain in five months commenced falling dur
ing the day ar.d continued through the
night. The storm waa welcome to the boat
men alocg the valley, for the water stage
has been very low.
Wlad Seventy-Twa Miles aa Hear.
At s the' wind tore through the down
town streets st a velocity of seventy-two
miles aa hour. It fell after thai and by
T o'clock had dropped to fifty miles au
hour, where It remained throughout . the
night, with occasional gusts that would
bowl through the streets with the force of
a cyclone, leering down a.gns, smashing In
plate glass windows and in many sections
of tbe down town dlslrtrta hurling pedestri
ans from their feet and overturning light
delivery wagons. Early in the afternoon
the puiioe department found it Mceesary to
station extra officers at the corner of State
and Randolph streets; whre the Maaonlo
Temple, twenty-two stortee In height, aV
waya creates a ten-. fie Increase la the
natural rapidity of the wind, and the cor
ner of Monroe and Dearborn streets, where
ths new building of the First National
hank acts In a similar manner, from
'stock until after the evening rush was
tCwotlnued ea Booond Page.)
CRITICISES RUSSIAN NAVY
St. Pe
Task
of Rejestveasky aad Cemrades
la Alaaeat Ssserksaiaa.
FT. FETERFBCRG. Dec 27-In an out
spoken artlcln in reply to a re
cent letter of Admiral Bierileff.
wnlch appealed to the Russians not
to openly ciltlcise the condition of the
navy, the Russ today declares the time la
passed for silence, in view of the fact that
the "old sjstem of concealing facts is re
sponsible for the loan of 15,tW.) roubles
worth of warships and has been covered
up with shame and grief. It would be
absurd to hide the defects that can still
be repaired in the ships which remain at
Cronstadt and Llbau. We have already
criminally waated enough time."
The Russ enumerates tbe defects in the
ships still in Russian waters, averring that
the peculiarities of structure of aeveral of
the vessels destined for the far eait make
the voyage dangerous, and the torpedo
boats are in such shocking condition that
It is a matter of surprise that the authori
ties accepted their delivery. Torpedo boats
Intended to reinforce Vice Admiral Rojest
vensky must clearly not be dispatched with
the numerous defects which have been
proved to exist In them.
In conclusion the Russ says:
Even If Admiral Rojestvensky Is a clever
leader and his 12.0f comrades are heroic
Bailors, everyone knows thst we have Im
posed upon them an almost superhuman
task In consequence of our not being fur
nished with an account of the gravity of
events which have occurred since the fatal
night of February a.
LIFE SENTENCE FOR SAM
Former President of liaytl Convicted
of Fraud He la Net la
raatedy.
PORT AU PRINCE, Haytl, Deo. 17. The
court has rendered a Judgment in default,
condemning former President Sam to im
prisonment fir life at hard lalor for the
alleged Isaue of fraudulent bonds. Madame
Bam is sentenced to fifteen years' '.mi ris n
ment and several members of 8am's minis
try and other nigh functionaries have been
condemned to terms of imprisonment rang
ing from five to fifteen years.
The judgment In default la the form
usual under the legal proceedings in
Prance and some other countries where
the person convicted Is out of the Juris
diction of the court. President Bam, mem
bers of his ministry, officers of the Bank
of Haytl and relatives of the former I resi
dent of- the republic were accused by th
government of President Nord, which suc
ceeded the Sam administration, for hav
ing conspired for the fraudulent Issue of
from 1700,000 to ISTiO.tKO of bonds. These
bonds, it was claimed by the accused, w -re
Issued by authority of the Haytien c n
gress. In pursuance of a plan to consoli
date the public debt of $6,(100.000, an addi
tional 1213.282 being authorised to be pre
sented to the bank for financing the issue.
Thirty-three persons were accused, but of
these only thirteen were arrested, the oth
ers having left tbe country.
At latest advices, President Bam was
living In the island of St. Thomas, D. W. I.
RtSSIASS WAT(JLX-K AMMISITIOJi
Msk Demand of Cklaeae Geverameat
Gooda Seised la Traaalt.
PEKING, Dec. 27. The Rusilin officials
here demanded of the Chinese Foreign
office yesterday, the restitution of the
2,000,000 rounds of ammunition apparently
destined for Port Arthur seised by the
Chinese authorities at Fengtal, near hera.
four days ago. The Russians assert that
the ammunition was Intended only for the
legation guard.
It is learned at the Foreign office that the
Chinese Intend taking a strong stand In
view of the frequent attempts to smuggle
arms and ammunition. The bales of wool
containing the cartridges seised at FergtaJ
were consigned to a European resident-of
Peking, who Is now at Tien Tsin taking
part In the Investigation into the affair.
CHRISTMAS PROVISIONS I !t LOADED
Meat sad Pooltry Delayed by Fob;
Reach Lssisa Deeka.
LONDON, Dec. 27. The conditions pre
vailing among the shipping In the Thames
for nearly a week were considerably Im
proved today. Much of the produce in
tended for the London Christmas market
was unloaded. The loss, however, through
Its late arrival aggregates several hun
dred thousand pounds sterling. The
American meat, Russian poultry, etc., de
creased in value about $1,600,000. Shippers
offered extravagant sums to have boats
brought to docks here from Gravesend In
time for the Christmas markets, but tbe
pilots refused to take the risk In such a
tog. Eeveral collisions of a more or less
serious nature have occurred.
ekeoarr Begonia Mlsslaa-.
BT. JOHNS. N. F., Dec. J7.-The schooner
Begonia, with a crew of eight men, overdue
three weeka, has been posted as miaslng.
It la feared it foundered. Tbe Begonia Is
the only vessel unreported of all those
driven seaward in the gale of December J.
Another fierce billiard swept the coast Sat
urday, Sunday and Monday, blocking traffic.
Little damage to shipping is feared, as few
vessels are now moving in these waters.
Viceroy Carmoa Reeetves Prlaee.
CALCUTTA, Dec 27 Lord Curson, vice
roy of India, received Prince Inayat Ullah,
son of the smer of Afghanistan with great
ceremony today In the throne rooms at
the Government bouse. Both the viceroy
and tbe prince were attended by brilliant
staffs. The scene was moat effective. Ths
prince was evidently delighted with his re
ception. Hellaad net Help Resale.
THE HAGUE. Dec. 27. The report that
Holland will place 8a bang, in ths Straits
Settlements, twenty miles north of Ma
lacca, at the disposal of the Russian sec
ond Pacific sqadron. as reported from
Toklo in a dispatch to the London Times,
Is devoid of foundation.
May Stedy British Methods.
PEKIN, Dec 27. A proposal Is now be
fore the emperor of China to send the stu
dents of the naval colleeg to the British
admiral at Shanghai fur a course of In
struction, i
Se news at the Fee.
CHS FOO, Dec 17 No further news has
reached Che Foo today from the defenders
or besiegers of Port Arthur.
Ceavlets Ce te Prlaaa.
ST. LOUIS. Dec 27. Thomas E. Barrett,
former marshal of the St. Louis court of
appeals: John P. DoUn, former chairman
of the democratic central committee, uni
Policeman Frank Garrett, convicted of
natui a ligation frauds, whose lea days of
grace i.lr-d today, surrendered to Inltei
Slates Marshal iswy and hive been
taken to the slate pe.iltentlvry at Jefferson
City to begin their sentences.
Dew-tar aa Trial tor Harder.
NKW ULM. Minn.. Dec. ZJ.-Dr. George
R. Koch was placed on trial today on the
charge of having murdered Dr. Louis a.
Oeuhiu-dt on ths night of November L Both
the defendnnt and his victim were profo
Uiat socially.
FIRE AT COUNCIL BLUFFS
Fuller & Jobntan-Shagait Company Leaei
Heavily TtTrneh Flama.
IMPLEMENT WAREhoiiit AND STICK BURN
Alarm Glvea Early, hat Elemeat
Makea Short Work af C" sa b s
tlblea. Dole Dnr at
Aboil fion.ooo.
The large four-story agricultural Imple
ment warehouse of the Fuller 4 Johnson
Shugart company, on South Main street.
Council B'uffs. was destroyed by fire Inst
evening. The value of the stock destroyed
was rouph'y estimated last night to be ne
t's, een ITiO.OuO and $75 000. and is said to be
amply insured. The building cost 42.00
and was Insured for $30.ono. The building
was erected and owned by the Warehouse
Construction company No. 2 of Council
Bluffs, which la composed of local business
men.
The fire was first discovered about 6:45
o'clock and by S o'clock the building was a
mass of mlns. The origin of the fire Is un
known, but Is supposed to have started
from electric wires becoming crossed In
tome manner.
The burned building stood on the site of
the Deere-Wells warehouse, which was
burned to the ground In the big fire on
Implement row the night of December 13,
li-Ho, when within the short space of two
hours fire consumed the Deere-Wei's ware
house, the Shugart-Kmpkle Implement com
pany's warehouse and the plant of the
Consolidated fence work a.
Boy Gives the Alarm.
The fire last night was. first noticed by a
small boy, who turned In the alarm. It
was then :45. The fire Is thought to have
started In the northeast corner of the build
ing, near the chimney stack on the third
..oor. By the time the firemen reached the
scene the entire Interior of the building was
a seething furnace. Shortly after 7 o'clock
the roof fell In and at 7:30 the east wall of
the two upper stories fell. This wss fol
lowed In a few minutes by the falling of
the west wall, the firemen working on this
side and a number of spectators having a
narrow escape from being crushed beneath
the mass of brick which fell nearly across
to the sidewalk. The north and south walls
followed In a few minutes and by 8 o'clock
the bulidlng was In ruins.
On the tracks of the Burlington, on the
east side of the biasing building, were
hundreds of freight cars. String after
string of cars were pulled away, but a num
ber of empty cars and five loaded with coal
were burned to the trucks.
Shortly before the west wall collapsed
there was a terrific explosion, which hurled
bricks and burning debris of all kinds high
Into the air and out on the street, many of
the bystanders having narrow escapes from
being struck by pieces of the blazing debris.
A ninety-gallon tank of gasoline was what
exploded.
The firemen were hampered by the In
tense cold and the wind, which was al
most a hurricane. The wind fortunately
was from the west. Had It been from ths
east the blase would probably have not
stopped at the warehouse, but would have
swept up Main street.
Ceaac-U UlanTa tamaaay.
The Fuller ei Johuson-Suugart company
was organised in Council iiluns about two
years ago. Samuel His ham, president of
the Fuller & Johnson Manufacturing com
pany of Madison, Wis., is also presiuent
of Uie Council Bluffs cumany. K. L.
Shugart Is vice president and Lucius Wells
Is treasurer and manager. Mr. Wells was
formerly a member of the Deere-Wella
company. The company took possession
of the new warehouse in June of last year.
It carried a general line of buggies,
wagons, farm implements and machinery
and gasoline engines. During the summer
it carried a large stock of automobiles, but
all of theae machines bad been sold. The
company also did a small tranafenlng
business and a small quantity of stock of
the While Lily Washer company of Daven
port, la., and tbe American Radiator com
pany of Chicago was also In the building.
The Peru Plow and Implement company
bad about a llu.ouo stock of buggies stored
on the third floor of the burned building.
T. J. Foley, president of the company,
stated that the loss of his company was
fully covered by Insurance.
The building was erected by E. A. Wlck
ham fur the Warehouse Construction com
pany No. 2 of Council Bluffs, of which E.
H. Merriam is president and H. W. Binder
is secretary. The building cost 4J,0u0 and
Mr. Binder stated last night that the com
pany carried tSO.OuO Insurance on it. Mr.
Binder was of the opinion last night that
his company would at once rebuild.
Meaaaer la Away.
Lucius Wells, manager of the Fuller &
Johnsun-Shugart company. Is In tht east.
He was at once notified by telegram and
It is expected that he will at ones return
to the city.
In the absence of Mr. Wells, little could
be learned last night of the stock and In
suranee carried by the company.
A. W. Casady. son-in-law of Mr. Wells,
and a member of the company, said: "Un
til we can get our books out of the vault,
unless they are destroyed. It is Impossible
to make any estimate on the value of the
stock we had In the building. I am cer
tain that Mr. Wells carried ample Insur
ance. This would naturally be the case
after his experience in 1896, when the
Deere-Wella warehouse was destroyed with
Its contents. Being practically a new firm
our stock was all clean and new. We have
been stocking up. as we begin shipping
next month, but until the books are re
covered I can not place any estimate on
the stock. I do not think that it exceeded
76. OWL"
Mr. Casady was unable to Tven offer a
conjecture as to the orhjln of the fire He
aid that he and all the othtr employes
left the building as usual at o'clock.
The company does not maintain a night
watchman, so before leaving the building
owing to the heavy wind, Mr. Casady Im
pressed upon Foreman Fitch the neoeasity
of seeing to it thst everything was ship
shape about the building before he locked
up for the night.
It Is hoped to save the books In ths vsult.
which is on the second floor, but built up
solid from the basement. Chief NichoUon
, i.iree streams playing on ft all night.
PANIC AMONG YOUNcTwOMEN
Cylinder Head Blows Oat la Breeklya
raetery Empleylaa- Twelve .
Haadred Girls.
NEW TORK. Dec 27. Engineer Charles
Heebe was instantly killed, hi assistant.
Darnel Ferrier, probably fatally injured and
the lives of hundreds of young women were
endangered today when the cylinder head
of the great power engine In the Chelsea
Juu mills In Brooklyn blew eul The noise
of the explosion threw Into a panic the
1.1D0 young women at work In tbe building.
Many of them were badly bruised and hurt
In their efforts to escape.
WOMAN JUMPS FROM WINDOW
la Iastaatly Klllrd aad t'eroaer
Thlaka Ske Trfd ta Ehss
Detealloa.
NEW TORK. Dec ?7. A woman of 21
years, known as Cisel Hall, was killed In
stantly by Jumping from the third-stary
window of a house near Broadway In West
Forty-sixth street. Her act created a com
motion in the neighborhood, where It was
declared that the girl was screaming for
help, when she wss seen to fling herself
in a nude condition, head foremost, from
the window.
The coroner gave It as his opinion that
the girl had been detained against her will
and was attempting to'escape.
Two suit cases found In the room occu
pied by the girl contained men's and
women's clothing that Indicated the own
ers had come from Washington recently.
The marks on the men's clothing show
thst it was bought in Warsaw, Poland. A
man's overcoat bore the name of Mr.
Hoar. Other articles of men's clothing
bore the mark "J. It-" The Initials found
on the clothing and on sliver backed hair
brushes found 'n the snlt cases correspond
with those of a prominent Jockey who re
cently returned to this country after a
successful season on the Russian tracks.
It Is known that the Jockey was in Wash
ington a few days.
A pawn ticket found- among the articles
in the suit cases waa for a valuabla gold
watch, which had bern pledged with a
pawn broker near One Hundred and
Twenty-fifth street.. The watch, valued at
about SJ50, had a diamond crescent on or e
side and on the otherithe Initials "C. 8.
M." It was pawned by a stylishly dressed
young woman, who g ye tbe name Miss
Hall, the pawnbroker &ld.
It has been learned that the suicide had
lived 'some time at a. hotel at Eighth
avenue and One Hundred and Twenty-sixth
street. She went there? with a young man
and the couple registered under the name
of Mr. and Mrs. HalL
LANCASTER, Pa., Dec. 27 The young
woman calling herself Cecil Hall, who was
killed by plunging from the fhird-story
window of a lodging house in West Forty
sixth street, New York, last night, has
been Identified as Cecilia Moa., aged 23
years, of this city. Late this afternoon,
her mother, Mrs. Thomas Moss, residing
at 119 - West Marlon street, received the
following telegram: "
"Sorry to .tell you your daughter has
committed suicide. . What shall I do with
body."
The telegram was signed Mrs. M. Webb,
202 West Forty-sixth street, New York.
Mrs. Moss telegraphed back that the body
should be sent to this city.
Her mother is unable to gtve much In
formation as to her recent career. About
a year ago the girl went to Washington,
D. C. Later she wrote to her mothir that
on September ( she had married CUftcn
Fraser of that city, whom she said was a
clerk In the government emjjoy. Borne
weeks ago she wrote that she and her hus
band would spend Christmas here with
Mrs. Moss, but a letter received a few
days since said that the would go to New
York. The girl also stated that she and
her husband had adopted the name of Mrs.
and Mr. I. J. Hall. She directed that let
ters should be addresses yi her under the
name of Hall, la, car iJ. Mrs. Webb at
tbe Forty-sixth street ' address. A photo
graph of Fraser, which she sent to her
mother, shows him to be a rather hand
some man about SO years of age, smooth
faced. J. Hoar,- a Jockey from Russia,
mentioned In the case, is not known at any
of the local hotels or by horsemen here.
TRAMP STEAMER STRANDED
Dramelsler Still Agrroaad Near Fire
Island aad May Be Impos- ,
slble to Rescue Crew.
NEW YORK, D.c. Efforts to learn
whether Captain Nicholson and the crew
of the British tramp steamer Drumelxler
are still aboard the vessel, which Is
aground on the bar at Fire island, have
been usucceseful and tonight the life sav
ers are still watching from the beach In
the hope of communicating with the ship.
Hidden In p. black fog and pounded by
tierce seas rolling from the southeast, the
steamer tonight was in imminent danger
of going to pieces. If its captain Wnd crew
of thirty-two men are stilli on the ship
they face an almost certain death in the
heavy surf breaking over the sandy
beach.
The captain would not let the life sav
ers take off his crew yesterday, when the
seas were not running so high, and to
day it was too late to save them. No
boat In the world could be launched In
the teeth of the southwest gale that was
blowing up great waves and crashing them
down on the shore.
The fog was so thick that the stranded
vessel could not be seen from the shore,
8uO yards away. Two rescuing tugs were
by the vessel last night, but no report
was received from them today and it Is
thought they may have left it to escape
the storm.
PITTSBURG PEACE SOCIETY
Orgaalsatlea Formed far the Amica
ble Bettlemeat af Laker
Dlspates,
PITTSBURG, Dec. 27. With the adop
tion of a constitution, the Pittsburg Peace
society was formed today. Another meet
ing will be held on January 10 for tbe
election of officers and providing for the
incorporation of the society.
Andrew Carnegie has consented to ac
cept the office of honorary president and
Senators Penrose and Knux will be hon
orary vice presidents. The constitution
adopted today, among other things, pro
vides for a special committee to whom all
parties connected with future labor dis
putes will be Invited to bring their griev
ances. The society will be called the Pittsburg
Peace society, and for the present at
least will have no affiliation with societies
In other cities.
AIDS BOGUS REGISTRATION
Jeba l Cillllsale af St. Leals Charged
with aidiaar aad Akettlag
Celoalsatlon af Vetera.
BT. LOUIS, Dec 27. An Information
equivalent to art Indictment was returned
by Assistant Circuit Attorney Hancock into
the office of the clerk of the court of crim
inal correction today, charging John L. Gil
lespie, former partner of "Lord" Barring
ton, under sentence of death for the mur
der of Horseman James P. McCann. and
later partner of John L. Sullivan in the
saloon business, with aiding and abetting
In the fraudulent registration of lol names.
Gillespie has saloons and lodging h mass
oa Market street and It Is charged that
these were the headquarters for many ansa
who fraudulently registered as qualified
voters before the November elecr
SUIT AGAINST PAPER TRUST
Attorney Gaaeral Ifaoey Aki for an Ih
JuEctisn Against General Oompaay.
ALLEGES THAT ITS METHODS ARE ILLEGAL
As the Selllag Aareat at tke Mills It
Caafrela tke Market Absolutely
aad Has Advaaeed Prices
Fifty Per Ceat.
ST. PAUL, Minn., Dec. 27 Attorney Gen
eral Moody, for the United States, through
District Attorney Haupt and Frank B. Kel
logg and James M. Heck, special assistant
attorney general of the United Ptates. late
this afternoon filed a petition In the United
States district court In which he makes the
General Paper company, as principal de
fendant, and the Itasca Psper company of
Grand Rapids, Minn.; Hennepin Paper com
pany of Little Falls. Minn.; Wolf Itivet
Paper and Fiber company of New Rich
mond. Wis.; Atlas Paper company of Ap
pleton. Wis.; Klmberly A Clark company of
Neenah, Wis.; Riverside Fiber snd Paper
company of Appleton, Wis.; Wausau Paper
Mills company of Brokaw, Wis.; Centralis
Pulp and Water Power company of Cen
tralla. Wis.; Combined Locks Paper com
pany of Combined Locks. Wis.; Dells Pu'.p
company of Eau Claire. Wis.: Grand Rapid
Paper and Pulp company of Grand Rapids,
Wis.; Menasha Paper company of Menasha.
Wis.; Nckoosa Paper company of Nekoosa,
Wis.; the Falls Manufacturing company ot
Oconto Falls, Wis.; Flambeau Paper com
pany of Tark Falls. Wis.; John Edwards
Manufscturing company of Port Edwards.
Wis.; C. W. Howard company of Menasha,
Wis.; Wisconsin River and Paper company
of Plover, Wis.; Tomahawk Pulp and Paper
company of Park Falls. Wis. ; Northwestern
Paper company of Cloquet, Minn.; Consoli
dated Water Power and Paper company or
Grand Rapids. Wis.: Manufacturers' Paper
company and the Petoskey Fiber Paper
company of Petoskey, Mich., and the
Rhlnelander Paper company of Rhine
lander, "Wis., party defendants In a suit to
enjoin them and restrain them from doing
business through the General Psper com
pany as tbe sales agent. In violation of the
provisions of sections 1 and 2 of the act of
congress, approved wuly 2, entitled "An act
to protect trade and commerce against un
lawful restraints and monopolies."
Methods of tke Comhlae.
The petition alleges that the defendants
entered Into an agreement to combine snd
control the sale of ths product of the
different companies through the general
Paper company In that the General Paper
company regulated prices, sales and ship
ment and territory for the sale of the same
and after deducting operating expenses of
the General Paper company, divided the
surplus among the members of the cor
poration. The petition recites that the
General Paper company was organized un
der the laws of Wisconsin May 26. 1900,
with a capital stock of 2100,000. divided
Into 1,(00 shares, which were distributed
among and are now held by certain of
tbe defendants named, and that later the
others were taken. Into the combine, nam
ing them In the order In which they en
tered the trust, and goes to Mate that the
General Paper company became the ex
clusive selling sgent for ths defendants,
with absolute power to control the output
of the various mills, fix the price of all
paper sold and to whom and upon what
terms and conditions the paper should be
sold, and Into what states and places It
shall be shipped, what publishers and
other customers each mill shall supply.
Prices Advaaeed Fifty Per Ceat.
The petition alleges that in consequence
of tbe combination all competition In the
manufacture, sale and distribution of paper
had been restricted and price of all paper
products greatly Increased, particularly of
news print paper, which has been increased
about 60 per cent It further states that
no dealers or newspapers or other con
sumers in the territory west of the Mis
sissippi, with the exception of certain
newspaper publishers In St. Louis snd Chi
cago, can purchase sny paper except di
rectly through the General Paper com
pany, and then only upon terms dictated
by the latter.
The court is asked to declare the alleged
combination unlawful and that the de
fendants be perpetually enjoined from doing
any act In pursuance of the same.
The complaint also asks that the General
Paper company be enjoined from acting as
sales agent for the other defendants and
that the latter be enjoined from continu
ing their arrangement with the General
Paper company. The court Is also asked to
direct the deffendants to come Into court
and answer all questions relating to al
legations of tbe petition as msy be neces
sary. MOODY EXPLAINS THE PET1TIOS
Special Attorneys Are Appelated to
Collect Evldeare.
WASHINGTON. Dec. 27. Attorney Gen
eral Moody tonight gave out the following
statement regarding the suit Instituted at
St. Paul today by the federal govemimnt
against tbe paper manufacturing companies:
On the complaint of many newspaper pub
lishers last spring that a combination in
restrain of commerce existed among manu
facturers of paper to control the distribu
tion and sale of their products among the
states of the union, the Department of
Justice began an investigation of that sub
ject, and to further ald the department in
that respect, the attorney general appointed
Frank B. Kellogg of Sl Paul (Minn.) bar
and James M. Beck of the New York bar
as apeclaj attorneys to collect the evidence
and make a report thereon. These gentle
men, after an exhaustive examination of
the matter, simultaneously with that con
ducted by the Department of Justice, have
reported to the attorney general that. In
tlieir opinion, tbe facts ascertained support
tbe complaint and Justify In the public In
terests, the filing of a petition to enjoin
the operations of the General Paper com
pany, a corporation of Wisconsin, which is
the Instrumentality through which the al
leged oomblnatjon to control the prices and
distribution, of those products in the west
ern states Is conducted. In this opinion
the Department of Justice concurs. The
attorney general today directed thai the
petition be filed against tbe General Pauer
company and the twenty-four paper manu
facturing companies located In Wisconsin,
Michigan and Minnesota which it repre
sents, to have such a combination declared
to be an unlawful restraint upon Interstate
commerce and a monopoly. The petition
will be filed In United States circuit court,
the district of Minnesota, as soon as the
necessary papers can be prepared.
Dlee la Balk Ream.
LIMA. O.. Dee. i7. J. W. Griffin, cne
of the wealthiest oil oi-erators in the cuy
and vice president of tbe Line Trust
company, aas killed by electricity In h.s
bath room here today. He received s
heavy voltage of electricity, the contact
being made by an iron registtr and an
electric light chandelier. Ills fingers were
burned badly and part of the gas features
broken.
NEBRASKA WEATHER FORECAST
Fair WedaeaJar aad Tkarsday, wltk
Rlalaa; Tempers tare.
Temprratare at Umaka Vestrrdart
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ladlrates kelew sera.
SUBWAY DIRECTORS ARE NAMED
Mra Who Will Ceatrol Sew release
Eaterprlse Are Praialeeat la
Flaanrlal Circles.
CHICAGO, Dec 27. The Chicago Subwsy
company, owned and controlled by the
largest railroad and financial InteresU of
the country, made announcement today
that among the prominent men in the di
rectory of the Illinois Tunnel company, the
operating company will be the following:
A. J. Esrllng. president of the Chicago,
Milwaukee A St. Paul railway; E. P. hip
ley, president of the Atchison. Topeka
Santa Fe railroad; George B. Harris, presi
dent of the Chicago. Burllngtrm & Qulncy
railway; 8. M Felton. president of the
Chicago & Alton railway; J. Kruttschnitt,
director of maintenance and ways of the
Southern Pacific and Union Pacific rail
ways; B. L. Winchell, president of the Rock
Island railway; C. A. Bird, vice president
of foe Gould lines; F. D. Underwood, presi
dent of the Erie railway; Benjamin Thomas,
president of the Chicago A Western In
diana railway; P. A. Valentine, vice presi
dent of Armour A Co.; Albert O. Wheeler,
president of the Illinois Tunnel company.
Among additional directors to be an
nounced later will be representatives of
the Vsnderbllt lines, the Pennsylvania rail
way and the Chicago A Northwestern rail
way. The Chicago Subway company owns the
stock of the Illinois Tunnel company, the
Illinois Telephone Construction company
and the Chicago Warehouse and Terminal
comrany The Tunnel company will oper
ate the tunnel constructed In Chicago for
the transfer of all freight, merchandise,
mall newspaper packages between business
houses and the railway stations. The con
struction company not only does the con
struction work of the tunnel company, but
will also enUr Into contracts for the hand
ling of excavations and deliver bulidlng
material for new buildings through the
tunnels and also do In Chicago work similar
to that of the Realty company in New
York. The Warehouse and Terminal com
pany will handle all the warehouse and
terminal business In connection with the
tunnel business.
NEW CANON LAW IN USE
Case af Dr. Irvine Aa-alaat Bishop
. Dadley of tke Episcopal Ckarck
Reopened.
BOSTON, Dec. 27. The reopening of tho
long-etandlng controversy between Right
Rev. Ethelbert Talbot and Rev. Dr. I. N.
W. Irvine, announced from Philadelphia,
was made possible by the action of the
Episcopal general convention, which met
here In October, In adopting a new act of
canon laws bearing on the subject of the
trials to remedy a defect in the old laws
which made no provision for courts of re
view or appeal.
The Talbot-Irvine case was one of sev
eral which led to the enactment of the new
legislation. The fact that when at attempt
as made two years ago to reopen the cas
against Bishop Talbot, who twice had then
acquitted on charges of wrongly deposing
Rev. Dr. Irvine, and of other alleged of
fenses, the presiding bishop of the church,
the late Right Rev. Thomas N. Dudley of
Kentucky, overruled the request of the ac
cusers on the ground that he had no can
onical warrant to proceed further, influ
enced the delegates in passing the revised
canon.
NELSON AND MURPHY MAKE UP
Pagillst and Maaasrer Agree Upoa
Dlvlsloa of Big Check and All
Complaints Are Dismissed.
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 27 -Battllng Nel
son snd his manager, Theodore Murphy,
who was arrested at Stockton a few days
ago on a charge of embexzllng the bulk of
the pugilist's two latest contests, arm In
arm, today appeared before Police Judge
Cobannlss. Eddie Santry, also under ar
rest on a similar charge, was with them.
Nelson took the stand and declared that
the arrest was made while he was labor
ing under a delusion and said he did not
desire to prosecute anybody. The money
In the property clerk's hands was then
produced. Nelson being given lti.801 and
Murphy $2,200 and the division being ac
cording to the manager's account, the
cases were then dismissed and the trio left
the court room.
AFTER SUPPORTING EVIDENCE
District Attoraey Jerome Wssld Have
Story Told by Prisoaer Dodge
Coa Armed.
NEW YORK. Dec. CT.-Dlstrlct Attorney
Jerome Is working hard to obtain corrobo
rative evidence in connection with the
confession of Charles F. Dodge, who was
brought here from Texas on a charge of
perjury, which grew out of the Morse
Dodge divorce entanglement.
This confession Is said to Involve con
spiracy on the part of men well known
here to defeat the ends of Justice, but ths
district attorney Is understood to take the
position thst corroboration of the state
merits Is a necessity to secure a convic
tion. WESTERN MATTERS AT CAPITAL
Postmasters aad Raral Letter Car.
rlers Appolated Daring
Tuesday.
(From a Staff Correspondent.)
WASHINGTON. Dec. 27.-fSpeclal Tele
gram .-Postmasters appointed: Iowa,
Hawleyville, Page county; David E.
Bhowen. vice John R. Hunter, resigned.
South Dakota, Rousseau. Stanley county;
O. W. Rousseau, vice Miss J. M. Rousseau,
resigned.
Rural carriers appointed for Nebraska:
Amherst, route 1. G. E. Hlgglns, carrier;
J. W. Hlgglns, substitute. Tecumseh, route
8, F. C. Halstead, carrier; Harry Oore,
substitute.
Collision at Baltimore.
BALTIMORE. Iiec. 27. The North Cen
tril Harrlsiiu: g express, carrying a large
Lumber of Mystic i-lmr.ris and other pa
sengers. including Admiral Schley, collided
toiay in the ysrtis of the Pennsylvania
railroad with an empty express train. None
of the paheiigers was Injured, but all were
badly shaken up. several trainmen were
auure or leas seriously hurt,.
COLD WAVE IN STATE
gerarait Storm of Winter -Swtepa Throngn
at Ertry Portion of Babraika.
WIND BLOWS AT FORTY MILES AN HOUR
Temper&tnra Gtei Far Balow Zara aad tha
snowdrift Are Sad.
OMAHA HELD TIGHT IN THE GRASP
Icy Btraata, with Other ElameoU, 8aricualy
Interrupt Traffio f Ail Kiada.
STREET CARS AND TRAINS ARE SUFFERERS
Weather Dims Offers So Advice) at
Aerapt Chaage, bat Some Hep
of Moderation After
Today.
Last nlghl about 10 o'clock tha weather
man sat In his office up In the big federal
building, and after looking over the reports
that came In from the 7 o'clock observa
tions, and taking due note of the places he ,
didn't hear from, decided that a moderation
in the severity of the cold wave may be
looked for this afternoon.
In the meantime Omaha wasn't the worst
place on the map, not by a good deal. Vp
at Williston yeeterday morning the little
thread of mercury was stationary at ta
below sero. That for cold. Chicago put up
a fight for its reputation as the Windy City
snd shows a record of seventy-two miles
per hour on a spurt snd an average for the
day of fifty-two miles, and that's going
some, even for Chicago. St. Louis Jogged
in with a forty-two mile wind; Detroit hag
a thlrty-elght-mlle breese. and so all
through that section. The difference 1
that while Omaha's sephyr was almost
northwest, the winds of the other side ot
the Mississippi were from the opposite
point of the compass, or southeast. The
storm center wss about at Davenport, la.
Incidentally, here Is a little lemon In
weather making for you. The storm la a
true cyclone. Please note Us peculiarities
and the area It covers, and you will grasp
the fundamental difference between a .
cyclone and the tornado that blows In the
sweet summer time.
Nebraska Hard Hit.
Nebraska got a .most generous share of
the disturbance. Por months the Antelope
state has been out of the path of the gen
eral cyclonic disturbances, but this one
landed Just fair with the perimeter of the
storm at one end of the state and the peri
phery at the other, so that no section was
overlooked, and nobody can accuse the .
weather bureau of playing favorites. It la
Just a generous, all-around bllsxard, and
nothing else. Not much snow has fallen
any place, but the little thst did come has
drifted badly and did more to .obstruct
traffic than several times the amount might
have accomplished had It not been for the
gale. , '
The signs of cheer ars shown In the -re-
ports that did get through from the weat
and northwest. Last night the stars shone
brightly over Omaha, and all tbe reports
received at the weather bureau from the
northwest were of clear skies. Rising tem
perature, too. Is noted st all places, so that
It Is only reasonable to expect warmer
weather here during tbe day. It will not
be much before late in the afternoon Is ths
prediction. The storm center Is moving to
the northeast, and is expected to be over
the lake region today.
At 1 o'clock this morning the wind be
gan dying down and soon was barely per
eeptible. At that hour unofficial ther
mometers stood st 9 degrees below sero.
Everything Is Affected.
It waa Omaha's first severe weather this
winter and It was felt, too. But nobody
out for business cared, for It waa admitted
to be a stimulus to traffic In nearly air
lines. And while not grieving over this bit
of frigidity. Omahans moreover were con
soling themselves In the fact that they still
occupied at least a corner of the Orange
belt, comparatively speaking, for look what
they got up around tbe North Pole. Thlrty
slx below at, Williston, N. D., and still go
ing down.
Everything was affected by the storm
business of various kinds, street cars, rail
roads, telegraph and telephone lines, pedes
trians snd vehicles. The streets were prac
tically' abandoned by pedestrians and the
street cars were having all sorts of
trouble. The Dodge street line was having
the worst lurk, especially on the hill from
Sixteenth to Twentieth street on Dodge, and
then northward from Dodge to California,
on Twentieth. The Twtnlleih street stretch
of the Harney line also waa causing lots of
trouble, and the people on Walnut Hill were
lucky to rile at all.
Streets were excessively slippery from tha
sleet and snow and were occasioning man'
severe falls to unwary pedestrians.
If tbe Saltan of Sola Was Here..
If the sultan of Sulu had been in Omaha
Tuesday and held up his finger and said.
"Do you feel a draft?" there - would
have been a tragedy. Forty-three people
and a dog would be injured In the mad
crush over the sultan's remains. It would
have been the only warm spot In the city.
The world must be as large as Columbus
or any other of ths great man ever said It
was weather of this sort must have blown
In from a tremendous distance off. Prob
ably It Is lost or strayed, but it is a cinch
It hss not been stolen. It msy have been
driven away from a comfortable home
somewhere near the North pole station. If
it has been so turned loos;. It has fallen
very low In ths world since then.
Tbe city of Omaha yesterday looked
like a plate of potato salad that soma old
rounder with a Jaded tongue Is throwing
tbe salt Into. The few pedestrians who
had to be out shut their mouths and eyes
tight and blew against tbe nearest Immov
able object. Then they took soundings,
tightened up tbelr collarbone shields and
blew by. The milk wagons delivered cakes
of ice and the mall men banded In dead '
letters. Coasting is strictly forbidden on
Dodge street hill, but tbe rootormen were
bound to have the time of their lives, and
nearly every car came down like the Lim
ited, clanging its gong. Ons car struck a
mall wagon at the poa to tries and killed
the horse. The wagon and car were dam
aged, but no person was hurt A ear
sweeper ran off the track on ths Walnut
Hill line at Thirteenth and Dodge streets
and in another part of ths city abueklng
car took some of the paint off ons of the
track cleaners.
What tha Cempaay Said.
The general offices and car barns of ths
transportation companies reported ths lines
open and working to Dundia and else
where, but the action a little sua and
painful. Fifty thou-m.d people In Omaha
will swear to this. They each and every
one could count sets of six or seven oars
every little bit going In the direction which
they tncmsel.es did not wish to go.
The street rail a a a weepers were ana
t