Nebraska Newspapers

    RUSSIAN PRISONS
ARE OVERFLOWING
Now That Revolutionists Art
Cowed, the Military Arm Is
Bolder Than Ever.
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'STRIKE RIGHT AND LEFT
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Detectives Watch All Agitators and
Attend Meetings of Strikers to
Arrest Ringleaders—Revolu
tion at an End.
St. Petersburg, Jan. 3.—The policy of
depressing revolutionists continues
f.vith a vengeance. Their announcement
that they proposed to carry on a guer
illa warfare until a general armed re
volt is prepared has stimulated the
government to redouble its energy. A
band of terrorists is at work here and^
last night there were wholesale
searches for suspects. City prisons
tvere so crowded that hundreds of pris
oners have been removed to neighbor
ing fortresses.
Government spies are at work among
Workmen and revolutionary societies,
with instructions J.o give warnings of
meetings, which are immediately sur
rounded, the members searched for |
lirms and ringleaders arrested.
Nevertheless, the workmen’s council
and the executive committee of the
social revolutionists are managing to
evade arrest and are meeting each day
at a different place in the outskirts of
the city. Patrols are understood to
have orders not to spare bullets if they
are attacked by persons using bombs
or revolvers.
Tells How He Did It.
An interview with Governor General
Doubassoff Is printed today in which
he explains the duration of the revolt
is owing to the extent of the region in
which military forces are operating and’
to lack of troops, which compels Dou
bassoff to await reinforcements from
Warsaw and St. Petersburg before giv
ing the revolutionists their death blow.
“The most difficult task,’’ the gov
ernor continued, "was to drive them
from their base on Kazan railroad be
tween Moscow and Perovo, three miles
past of Moscow, and surround them in
the Presna district so as to prevent
their escape. Both these tasks were
successfully accomplished.
"Strikers of Prokharoff mills, which
held the proprietor as a hostage, were
ready to surrender Friday, but Colonel
Minn, who conducted the negotiations,
declined to accept.’’
He would not accept their surrender
unless they also delivered up the
“Drujinlsts" who had sought refuge
there.
Doubassaff further declared emphat
ically the artillery bombarded only
houses from which revolutionists fired.
The Revolution Elsewhere.
Keinrorcements entered couriana
from four sides, but leaders of the Let
tish revolution are imperturable.
Papers publish terrible pictures of
conditions prevailing along the Si
berian railway, 'Jhere are no railway
officials on duty aud on sections as far
as Cheliabinsk, government of Oren
burg, all stations have been pillaged.
Complete anarchy prevails at Irkutsk.
Military trains are running without
orders of proper engineers.
Subduing Baltic Provinces.
Riga Jan. 1.—Three policemen were
killed during night. Railroad men are
again threatening to strike in order to
obtain release of arrested delegates.
The new governor general of the Bal
tic province, who is marching on this
city with a large force of troops, is ex
pected here Wednesday. It is reported
he will exile the entire population of
communities who decline to obey mar
tial law.
Mitau, Jan. 1.—Four columns of
troops, cavalry and artillery are con
verging toward Mitau and Riga. Insur
gents in towns are instituting a social
democratic administration as if they
were in permanent possession.
In the Lettish portion of the Baltic
provinces (he situation is quieter. No
serious outbreak occurred recently.
.Troops are pursuing revolutionary
bands from Dvalk and Dvins.
Tb ■ revolutionary movement is
•spreading in northern Livonia, where
estates are being attacked.
. Witte May Have to Go,
St. Petersburg, Jan. 1.—The rej>ort
that Count Witte is booked for retire
ment in a few days is again being per
sistently circulated.
The Nasha Shisn, which declares it
pan guarantee the accuracy of its state
• ment, says that M. Durnovo, minister
of the interior, who Is worshiped as
an ideal by the court camarilla, which
believes that his stern policy alone can
put an end to the existing anarchy,
has accomplished the downfall of the
count and will be elevated in the pre
miership.
Investigation by the Associated Press,
however, Indicaes that the report is
baseless, certainly for the moment.
Nevertheless, it is true that M. Dur
novo has a powerful cabal of reaction
aries behind him and temporarily
seems to dominate the situation,
r M. Mankkin, whose sudden retire
ment from the ministry of justice (in
whicli he is succeeded by M. Akynoff, a
Vnember of the senate), created a stir,
resigned, according to the Molva (Russ)
rather than submit to M. Durnovo's
dictation in matters which he regarded
,.s ncing strictly within the sphere of
his ministry.
Liberals Also Assail Him.
Cn the other hand Count Witte is
\ ing attacked more fiercely than ever'
■n the,side of the liberals, who charge
"Cat he is showing the cloven hoof,
and say that he might happen to fall
between the two stools.
M. Brianchianenoff is out with a
strong article in the Slovo. entitled
Witte Must Go," in which he asserts
that the victory at Portsmouth has
been followed by defeat at St. Peters
burg. His line of argument is that an
archy has been able to make headway
because true liberals doubt whether
Russia is to have a constitution, or
whether the manifesto is only a tactical
move to lull them to sleep. It was
Witte’s first duty, according to the
writer, to remove this doubt, hut it is
charged that he still maintains an
equivocal roie.
Twenty Soldiers Killed.
Elizabeth Grad, Russia., Jan. ].—A
Collision involving two military trains
"occurred today and twenty soldiers
■were killed.
; Odessa, Jan. 1.—The governor general
has ordered inhabitants of this city to
ikeep inside their houses and to lock
■the doors, holding householders respon
sible for any firing from their prem
ises.
EX-BALL PLAYER DIES. *
Kansas City, Jan. 1.—Frank Bonner
Jthe famous ball player, is dead of blood
{poisoning, aged 41.
M'CALL QUITS N. Y. LIFE
areat Leader Who Has Withstood Fire
of Insurance Investigation,
Resigns His Fosition.
New York. Jan. 3.—The Times say.
today: It was made known last night
upon excellent authority that John A.
McCall resigned on Saturday the presi
dency of the New York Life Insur
ance company. The resignation was re-,
luctantly acepted by the trustees.
Official announcement of the resigna
tion has been planned by the trustees
to be made next Tuesday when the an
nual statement is to be made public.
McCall last night would not reply to
a request that he confirm the report of
his resignation.
In his letter of resignation. President
McCall said that after long and careful
consideration he had felt it best to
take such step. In the months dur
ing which the insurance controversy
has affected the New York life, he said,
his peace of mind had suffered from
continuous misunderstanding and mis
representation of his actions and distor
tion of facts and misquotation of his
utterances by newspapers. He was
not in good health now and felt it
would be best for himself and company
if he resigned the presidency.
Protests were made by several trus
tees against receiving tlie resignation
and there was evidently a desire on the
part of these trustees that McCall
should still retain the presidency, de
spite demands from outside the com
pany for his deposition.
It was made plain to these trustees,
however, that McCall would abide by
his resignation and it was then ac
cepted, with appropriate expressions of
regret.
All trustees were pledged to secrecy
until Tuesday next. John Claflin, the
dry goods merchant, who is trustee of
the New York Life, has frequently
been spoken of as McCall's successor,
but It Is by no means certain that
Clafln will accept the office. McCall,
It is understood, intends to leave town
after Tuesday next to take a long rest.
It is not improbable he will go to Eu
"one for a while.
DEMANDS CITY YIELD.
Morales, Fugitive President of San
Domingo, Appears Off Puerto
Plata with a Gun Boat.
Puerto Plata, San Domingo, Jan. 3.—‘
The Dominican gunboat Independencia
has anchored off Puerto Plata. Her
commander has demanded that the,
town surrender to the legitimate gov
ernment of President Morales within
twenty-four hours, otherwise he will
bombard the town. The gunboat has
landed troops safely.
Washington, Jan. 1.—Advices received
by cable from San Domingo state there
is little probability of bombardment of
Puerto Plata by the gunboat Inde
pendencia.
The United States warships Nashville
and Scorpion are in the harbor and ne
gotiations are in progress which makes
it probable that both factions of the
Dominicans will be warned to make
their fight outside of the town if they
desire to fight at all.
Seems Very Serious.
Washington, D. C.. Jan. 1.-—The la'.esv
advices received at the state and ravy
departments from San Domingo are
mainly corroborative of the press dis
patches from the island and show that
while conditions are unsettled, all is
quiet.
As viewed in official circles here, the
situation is serious and me ueue. w.
pressed that a clash of the contending
interests is probable.
From the tone of the dispatches it is
evident that both sides are anxious
there shall be no interference with
American interests and that their prop
erty and other rights shall not be
Jeopardized as a result of internal trou
bles.
They also show that telegrams from
various portions of the island are being
subjected to censorship.
Turks' Island, Bahamas, West In
dies, Jan. 1.—Mail advices from Monte
Cristi, San Domingo, say that General
Perez, governor of Puerto Plata, has
surrendered to the revolutionists in
Monte Cristi. They also say that the
Dominican cruiser Independencia, load
ed with ammunition, has been given
up to General Deschamps, who, with
Generals Demetrio and Rodriguez, has
left for Puerto Plata with 250 men on
board. General Barba, with 200 men, is
in Altimora, a village fifteen miles from
Puerto Plata.
MURDERERS CONFESS ALL
Prominent Business Man of Denver
Was Victim of Boys.
Colorado Springs, Colo., Jan. 3—Leslie
Francisco, 20 years of age, and Charles
Essick, IS years of age, made sworn
confessions to Chief of Police Adams
yesterday, in which they admit the
shooting of Frank L. Scott, a promi
nent business man on December 20.
They are now confined in the county
jail and in view of the frequent threats
to lynch the prisoners Sherfff Grimes
has placed a large force of armed dep
uties in the jail and announced his de
termination to protect the prisoners at
ail hazards.
Essick said the intended to hold up
the first man they saw going to the
station and rob him. When they saw
Scott with a valise in each hand they
told him to halt. Esick held the revol
ver, and in so doing gripped the gun so
hard that it went ofT, the bullet strik
ing Scott in the back. Scott died sev
eral days afterward.
GUIDE GETS AN OFFICE.
Roosevelt Names Guide as Custom.
Collector.
Island Falls, Me., Jan. 3.—William
Wingate Sewall of this viilage, who has
been nominated for collector of cus
toms in the district of Aroostook, was
a guide for President Roosevelt when
lie made hunting trips in the Maine
woods twenty years ago.
Mr. Sewall also acted as superin
tendent of the Roosevelt ranch in the
Bad Lands of South Dakota, where,
Mr. Roosevelt spent several years. He
is well known outside of this state.
The old time guide has been postmas
ter of this village and has held sev
eral other offices in the district.
Mr. Sewall made a long contest for
tile office of collector against Thomas
H. Phair of Presque Isle, the present
incumbent, and Ransford W. Shaw of
Houlton. He made a personal canvass
of the entire county, a majority of
whose voters are said to have indorsed
his candidacy.
MILLIONAIRE TAKES LIFE.
San Francisco, Jan. 1.—Frank Phis
cator, a millionaire Alaskan miner,
suicided yesterday at a hotel, cutting
his throat with a razor. He built the
first house in Dawson. He came origin
ally from Michigan.
CARS KILL PROMINENT MAN.
Waterloo. Ia., Jan. 1.—Hamuei
Husted, aged 50, brother of Judge J. L.
Husted, of Dubuque, was run over and
killed by an Illinois Central train to
day.
REVOLUTION CRUSHED
PAST ALL HOPE NOW
iron Hand Is Used in Moscow
and St. Petersburg With
Unfailing Results.
GIVE THEM NO MERCY
Workmen Who Offer to Surrender It
Granted Immunity, Are Ruthless
ly Attacked and Forced to
Yield Anyway.
Moscow, Jan. 2.—White flags flying
from a dozen factories in the tenement
houses in the Presna district, where
the revolutionaries made their stand,
j now bear mute witness to the end of
! the "December uprising in Moscow."
tThe entire district is now occupied by
troops.
During the night the vast majority of
members of the "lighting legions’’
| either surrendered, or, after throwing
] away their arms, endeavored to escape
In the guise of peaceful citizens. Only
the members who acted as a guard
to the revolutionary committee stuck toi
their colors and the surrender of this
; handful this morning furnished the last
act of the sanguinary drama.
The staging of this last act was ad
mirable—a snow covered landscape, the
small black residence with a tiny red
flag fluttering from its gable, the end
of Gorbatoff bridge, black with the guns
of the artillery, and the thin en
circling line of the Seminovsky regi
ment of guard broken only directly in
the line of fire.
Suddenly there was a flash of red
fire from the mouth of one of the guns
Lnd a solid shot plowed through the
walls of the house. A few spluttering
phots replied from a window. The can
jion spoke again and again until a
dozen shots had been fired. It looked
like murder to the spectators on a hill
| Lnd so evidently thought the officers in
command of the battery, which ceased
fire.
A reserve company of the Semi
novsky regiment then advanced and
fired volleys at the upper windows.
At the third volley a white handker
chief attached to a bayonet was pushed
through a, shattered pane. It waved
frantically and all was over. The little
garrison of thirty marched out and laid
down their arms, a strange collection
of rifles and rejjeating shotguns. All
had revolvers.
Strange to say not one of the men
! had even been wounded, and when they
found that they would not be imme
diately executed they appeared to be
rather relieved that the end of the
struggle had come. They gathered
around the soldiers’ bivouack, stretched
their hands eagerly over the cheerful
fires and begged cig”arets from the
(guards.
| The number of prisoners is being
' constantly augmented, most of the new
; arrivals being arrested at the bridges
1 or at other points of egress in the
! Presna district, which is crowded with
J Refugees.
The Associated Press learns that aft
er {he fall of the Prokarhoff cotton
! mills and other factories a council was
hastily held at which it was decided
that the revolution had failed, and an
order was given to every man to save
himself as best he could. A hundred
agreed to hold together so as to keep
up a show of fight under cover of which
the others could escape.
St. Petersburg, Dec. 30.—In an en
counter between workmen and Cos
sacks yesterday, at the Nevskl ship
building yards, eight Cossacks and
twenty-seven workmen were killed and
manv injured.
Railroad trains from St. Petersburg
to Moscow are not running to that
city but are stopping at a station near
i Tver. The permanent way of the
i Nicholas railway has been damaged be
tween Tver and Kulitacia stations.
, Moscow, Dec. 30.—Three armed bands
I of restitutionlsts, whose offer yesterday
to surrender, if guaranteed a free par
don, was refused by the authorities,
barricaded themselves today In their
houses. According to the latest reports,
the houses were stormed and captured
by the troops.
St. Petersburg, Dec. 30.—M. Akymoff,
a member of tne. senate, has been ap
pointed minister of justice in succes
sion to M. Mannkhin.
, Traffic has been resumed on the Mi
tau-Windau and Mltau-Riga railroads
at Baranovitchl, government of Minsk.
Troops subsequently restored order
without bloodshed.
[ At Kieff passenger service has been
restored on the Southwestern railroad
and freight traffic is gradually being
j fresumed.
CATCH “Q” IN DRAG NET
Burlington Officials Aroused by Chi
cago Federal Grand Jury on
Rebating Charge.
Chicago, Jan. 2.—The federal grand
Jury late yesterday returned an Indict
ment against the Chicago, Burlington
and Quincy railroad, Darius Miller,’
first vice president, and C. G. Burnham,
foreign freight agent, on the charge of
granting railroad rebates.
The indictment charges that the re
bates were granted to the United States
Steel Products company, of New York,
a subsidiary company to the United)
States Steel corporation. All of the
shipments on which the indictment al
leges rebates were paid were made
from six cities—Elwood, Ind.; Martin’s
Ferry, O.; Pittsburg. Pa.; New Castle,
Pa.; Cleveland. O., and Joliet, III.—to
Vancouver. It. C. Twenty-six separate
offenses are charged.
The indictment further alleges that
by an agreement between the defend
ants and a number of connecting rail
roads a joint tariff was made and filed
with the Interstate Commerce commis
sion. The rates were paid, it was de
clared in the indictment, according to
the tariff, but afterwards a rebate of
about 30 per cent, was allowed to the
shipner. In all cases the United States
Steel Products company was the re
cipient of the money, according to the
indictment.
INSURANCE INQUIRY ENDS
Remarkable Investigation, Which Has
Upset the Whole Financial
World, Is Over.
New York, Dec. 30.—After pursuing a
line of inquiry into methods of life In
surance companies in this state which
has covered a period of nearly four
months, the legislative insurance in
vestigating committee ended its ses
sions ♦'vtav.
tRUST SPIES BALK LAW
Standard Oil Secret Service Systom
Threatens Government Agents—
Fake "Independents,”
Chicago. Jan. 2.—Raymond, In a
Philadelphia special to the Chicago
(Tribune says:
"We are bigger than the govern
ment. Standard Oil is stronger than
the United States. We own the sen
ate and the house. If you pursue your
investigations beyond the point neces
sary to fool tlie public we will have you
removed. We can secure tilt' instant
deposition of the secretary of com
merce and labor, Mr. Metcalf and the
commissioner of corporations, Mr. Gar
field. If you persecute us in the slight
est degree you will he out of your job
and if you keep at the business you
will find out that what we say is ab
solutely true.”
This is the kind of talk which has
been handed out to the agents of the
'government at every slage In the game.
The first tiling they learned was that
tlie Standard Oil company, as lias been
truly sail of it, was a great "System.”
They discovered, as I have said before,
that the investigation of the beef
trust was merely child’s play as com
li.ired with an Inquiry into the opera
tions of the Standard Oil company.
Standard’s Secret Service.
■' Agents of the government were con
fronted at the outset by evidence of
■tlie existence of extraordinary secret
f (machinery of the Standard oil com
I 'pany. They discovered that it covers
I the United States and probably extends
(nto foreign countries. It was organ
ized and operated in the first place for
ithe express purpose of preventing job
bers and retailers from cutting prices.
Contracts exist between the Standard
fill company and various subsidiary
Companies and private firms for the
[disposal of the product of tlie united
'corporation.
Government agents have shown and
have so reported to the secretary of
commerce and labor that whoever sells
'a shade oft tlte market price is invaria
,bly caught and punished according to
the code of the "system.”
Government Thwarted.
This secret service is said to be
more far-reaching than anything which
has ever been known before in this
country. For a while they were stu
Ipefled and frightened by its threats.
At tlie outset it was discoveerd that
(this extraordinary secret service of the
| 'Standard Oil, which permeated every
| city and state, was in the beginning or
| Iganized for the sole purpose of pre
| venting dangerous competition. Later
on it was diverted to other directions
and the agents of the government real
ized that they were up against a sys
tem, which, although organized to pre
vent the cutting of rates, could be used
I jto stifle evidence, to pack juries, to cor
1 J-upt minor officials, to divert public sen
timent and ultimately to prevent crim
inal prosecution.
1 ' Rockefeller Is King.
"Rockefeller is a bigger man than
Roosevelt,” was the constant cry of the
(Standard Oil people, not only in New
•fork, but in Illinois, Missouri and Kap
pas.
; There was a reason for this cry, and
'the secret reports of the United States
agents, which I have had the pleasure
of perusing, establish this fact. In tlie
first place it has been shown that the
Standard Oil company is the parent of
i a secret service which is far and away
I better and bigger than the secret ma
chinery of the United States govern
ment.
In the second place, I have discov
ered, and I believe agents of the United
States government have found out the
same thing, that the Standard Oil com
pany has promoted the organization
and existence of independent oil eom
. panles which are fraudulent on their
face and which are owned absolutely by
the ’’system.”'
I That is to say the government is now
jn possession of evidence to show that
"independent” oil companies have been
organized in almost every big shipping
center of the United States. These sup
posed “independent” companies are in
each ease creatures of the Standard
Oil company.
TRAINS COLLIDE HEADON
Engineer and Fireman Are Killed and
Brakeman Fatally Injured in a
North Dakota Wreck.
St. Paul. Minn., Jan. 2.—A specia,
from Minot. N- D., says four persons
were killed and several injured as the
result of a collision between a passen
ger and freight train on the Granville.
N. D., branch of the Great Northern
late yesterday.
The killed:
FRED JARLOW, engineer, Minot,
N. D.
JOSEPH H. GOSSLINE. brakeman,
Minot, N. D.
BRAKEMAN. name and residence
;unknown.
W. H. GREEN, engineer of passenger
train.
Seriously injured:
Frank Didler, a farmer of Granville,
and one fireman, name unknown.
, A wrecking train with medical aid.
was sent from Minot and the dead and
■injured were extricated and brought
(back, where the former were laid out
In Nash’s billiard room. Both engines
were completely demolished, as well as
the baggage and express cars on the
ipassenger train.
NORDICA IS A HEROINE
Famous Singer Arouses Enthusiasm of
an Audience in New York.
New York, Jan. 2.—Mine. Lillian
Nordica won the enthusiastic plaudits
>>f a large audience at the Metropoli
tan opera house yesterday when she
nuite coolly stamped out a blaze on the
.tage near the footlights caused by
fire dropping from a torch carried by
(i chorus woman in Gotterdammerung.
■ The incident occurred during the
(ire scene in the last act of the opera.
[Burning oil spilled from one of the
chorus torches set fire to the stage
carpeting. Immediately there was an
•uneasiness apparent in the audience,
and several persons started to leave
their seats. Mme. Nordics, who was
singing, walked over to the blaze, and.
Without interrupting her song, stamped
out the last spark of the fire. When
•the act ended the audience cheered,
waved handkerchiefs and applaud «d
or many minutes.
IMPOSE UPON THE POPE.
Rome. Dec. 30.—The Vatican authori
ties have received remonstrations from
several American bishops against the
audiences grunted by the pope to
i (Americans who, in the opinion of these
| bishops, are not wot thy of the honor,
j.vhich it is added, created dissatisfac
tion among the faithful.
, The pope has also been informed that
among the persons presented to him
a few days ago was an American wom
an who had been divorced. This Ir
ritated the pontiff, who declared that
cuch a prt sentutlon must not occuf
ST «G ROMANCE ~
D DIVORCE SUIT
Wealthy California Widow Weds
Ex-Convict Who Has An
other Wife in Omaha.
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LATTER SUES FOR DIVORCE
_
Mrs Anna Jamison Says She Will
Prosecute Husband for Bigamy
—Tells Sensational
Story.
Omaha, Neb., Jan. 2.—A romance of
the kind which would be declared pre
posterous if presented on the stage, in
volving the love of a wealthy widow for
an ex-convlct, a romance which may
yet be blighted by a suit for bigamy,
lies behind the innocent looking divorce
suit brought In the district court in this
city by Mrs. Anna Jamison.
The papers in (he case merely set
forth desertion as the cause why Mrs.,
Jamison should be divorced from
George H. Jamison.
In addition to his Omaha wife there
is also another woman who bears
Jamison's name and therein lies a re
markable story of a woman's love
which scoffed at social conventions and
dared all things for the sake of a mam
upon whom lay the shadow of a prison.
Mrs. Jamison No. 2 was the wealthy
and dashing widow of the late Judge
J. A. Campbell, of San Francisco. A
standard-bearer of the law who had
sent many men to prison—that his
widow should marry an ex-convict gave
added piquancy to the romance.
In the little town of Winfield, la..
iMrs. Jamison No. 1, nee Miss Anna
Thompson, was engaged to Jamison
and they were married at Mt. Pleasant,
fa.. November 1, 1893. The couple lo
cated at Wapello, la.
Need of Money Starte It.
"Here,” said Mrs. Jamison, “the
weeks, months and several years rolled
by, during which time two boys came
to add sunshine to the household.
“Ail went well until my husband be
came Involved in questionable financial
difficulties, owing to the fact that his
father, like many other cattlemen, suf
fered financial reverses and became
generally bankrupt.
"Financial entanglements resulted,
and my husband’s inability to meet
these obligations forced him to obtain
money under false pretenses, eventually
placing him behind the bars in Bur
lington, la.
"After his release on bond my hus
band became implicated in other finan
cial deals in Omaha, Chicago, Kansas
City. St. Joseph, Wichita and other
places.
In the meantime Mrs. Jamison came
to £)maha to obtain a position. She
i 'and her two boys secured two small
I rooms where they still live. She se
| cured employment.
Heard of Him in '98.
The young woman received no word
! from her husband until 1898, when lie
wrote from San Francisco, announc
ing that lie had enlisted in the army
and would go (a the Philippines.
Shortly thereafter Jamison wrote from
Manila professing ids love for his de
serted wife, but his missives received
nq response.
After the war with Spain was over
Jamison returned to the United States
and was arrested in California, charged
with the theft of $100 from F. M.
Black, a Pullman car conductor.
Jamfson protested his innocence, but
on trial was convicted and sentenced
to San Quentin prison for eighteen
months. Owing to good behavior dur
ing his Incarceration he was dis
charged in August of this year.
How He Met New Love.
After the prison doors were opened
for Jamison he went to Berkeley, Cal.,
where he attracted the attention of
Judge Campbell's widow. She knew of
the ex-convict's San Quentin career,
but believed him to be innocent of the
crime for which he had been sen
tenced, and that he was no doubt the
victim of circumstances and man’s
enmity.
On November 27 the former convict
was wedded to the judge's widow,
startling the society on the Pacific
coast in which she was a prominent
figure.
Jamison and his new wife are at
present owners and are managing a
large mission furniture establishment
in Berkeley, Cal., the business being
financed by the money of the woman.
Divorco Revealed Scandal.
Affairs on the Pacific coast, so far
as Jamison was concerned, were pro
gressing without an obstacle until his
wife began divorce proceedings. In
some manner Jamison was apprised of
this action and he hurried to Omaha,
telling his California wife, it Is said,
that he had business of importance to
look after in Chicago.
Upon his arrival in Omaha Jamison
visited his first wife and pretended
that he desired her to return to Cali
fornia.
SHROUD GIFT ENDS LIFE
Recipient of Grewsome Chrietmas
Present Expires from Shock
in Short Time.
Louisville, Jan. 2.—A black box
containing a shroud, left in the vesti
bule ol' his home Christmas eve caused
^he death ot Benjamin Moellmun, aged
[16, and tne police are looking for the
I lerpetrators of the deed, who are be
[iievtd to have attempted to play a joke
'on the youth.
Mot I'man long had been a sufferer
•from h»art disease, and was near death
'many times. When the doorbell rang
Christmas eve lie answered the sum
nuns and found the box. [abided "Mer
rv Christinas."
Th ■ grewsome reminder of his own 1
nearness to the grave when he opened
the package proved such a shock that '
he fell insensible to the floor before bis
parents could reach his side. He died
three hours later.
GETS A $2,000,000 PLANT.
- Mason City, la.. Dec. 30—The $2,000,000
•ortlaiid cement factory is now an as
lured tiling tor this city. Agreements
were r. ached today.
ROBBERS ARE VERY BOLD1
New York Jewelry Firm Loses $4,000 '
in Seventh Raid.
Now York. Jan. 2.—For the second ,
• ime within three months and the sev- 1
’nth time within three years the jew
elry store of Schwarz Bros., at 1368
•Broadway, in the heart of the Tender
Join district, was robbed early yester
day, and about $4,000 worth of dia
monds, rings and watches were stolen. ;
The loss on the seven robberies, ac
cording to a member of the firm, ag
gregates $20,000.
KILLED BY BOMB.
Ex-Governor Steuncberg, of Idaho
Formerly an Iowa Resident, Was
Assassinated at Caldwell.
Rol3e„ Idaho, Jan. 2.—A man ha»
been arrested at Caldwell whom, the
(officers think, may be the assassin ol
[former Governor Frank Steunenberg,
His name has not been reported. Five
,ruen in all have been detained on trivial
(charges in order that their whereabouts
(may be looked up.
i When daylight dawned on the scene
[of the tragedy It was found that the
(dynamite had been exploded by pulling
,a wire. Pieces of wire and waxed fish
.line were found in the trees on th«
lawn.
< Further it Is believed that two bombs
rwere used to make certain of carrying
(out the purpose of the assassination, '
They seem to have been together, both
poing pulled at once.
Boise, Idaho, Jan. 1.—Frank Steunen- j
berg, former governor of this state, wad i
killed at 6:40 o'clock Saturday night aX i
his home in the suburb of Caldwell. A
jlynamite bomb had been placed at his
front gate with some contrivance by
which it was exploded as he entered,
(noth legs were blown off and he lived,
ibut twenty minutes,
f There Is no known reason for the out-,
jrage, but It is charged to some mem-.
j>er of the famous inner circle of the:
flouer d'Alene dynamiters whom he;
prosecuted so relentlessly in 1S99 whila
tie was governor.
Governor Gooding Is In communica
tion with the authorities of that county
(and is prepared to put the full support
nf the state behind the officials there in
tunning down the perpetrators of thq
.trlme.
It is thought probable that the lead
ing detective agencies of the country
jvlll be asked to send some of their best
fnen to the scene and the state will
offer as great a reward as the- gov
ernor may find he has power to pro
pose. Steunenberg was governor from
[1897 to 1901, having been twice elected,’
; He was born in Keokuk, la., forty
four years ago and had been In Idaho
jilnce 1887. He leaves a wife and three
children.
' Governor Gooding has Informed th$
Canyon county officials that the state
[will offer a reward of $6,000 for the ap
Prehension of the murderer.
A special train Is leaving here foi
Caldwell at 10 o'clock carrying the gov
ernor and others, who go to assist U
organizing the work of running down
the criminal.
i The shock of the explosion was fell
jail over the town and broke all the
glass in that side of the ex-governor’s
home. Every road out of the town is
hieing guarded and it Is hoped to Inter
cept every suspect.
Two men are under suspicion who
had been lying about Nampa for sev
eral days and left for Caldwell today;
They lived in the Couer d’Alenes.at the
'time of the riots in 1899. Descriptions
of them are being wired in every dlrec.
*lon.
MEN HUG ELSEWHERE.
So Limit Your Hugs If You WouH
Keep Your Best Beau, Says
Mrs. S. M. Cory.
New York, Jttn, 2.—“If tt man 1
obliged to stop In the midst of at
ecstasy he Is likely to come back again
[Whereas if he Is sated he is likely tl
[hug another girl the next night
[Therefore I say if you would keep you
[best beau limit your lings.’’
[ This is unqualified commendattoi
given by Mrs. S. M. Cory, of the So
•ctely of Political Study, of Dr. T. S
Hanrahan's rules for courtship. Th
doctor, rector of the Sacred Hear
'church of West Fitchburg, Mass., out
lined his ideas of the curtailment o
tendernesses in a Christmas sermon t
young women. 1
"Lights In the parlor,” he sale
"should not be turned down too low
Don’t be stingy with the gas. The fins
hug should be at 10 o’clock shar]
Young men should not stay later tha
ithls hour."
’ ”1 thoroughly agree,” declared Mn
Cofy, "with the 10 o’clock theory o
jstay-at-home nights. I am a Arm b«
Clever In no chaperones, and I thin
the young man should take his girl ot
find entertain her during the period
courtship if anything in that line
■to be expected of him as a husbam
If he Is content to sit about the hout
all the time it is a bad sign. ’
WIFE FORGIVES YERKE
Estranged Wife Relents at Last Mif
ute—Capitalist Dies in
Hotel.
Now York, Jan. 1.—Charles T. Yerki
the noted railway financier of Chicago ai
London, who died yesterday, had been I
in his apartments at the Waldorf-AStOt*
j'or more than six weeks. Mr. Yerkes su
Xered from a complication of dlsean
growing out of a severe cold which he cfif
tracted In London early In the fall,
f Despite statements said to have cog
harller in the day from Mrs. Char)
Yerkes. wife of the capitalist, that a]
would not go to the Waldorf-Astoria, 9
following official statement was made 1
'Dr. Loomis, who had attended Mr, York
throughout his illness: §
“At the deathbed were Mrs. .Charles
,Yerkes, his wife: Charles Edward Yerk<
a son, and his wife: Mrs. Charles Rond
miller, a daughter, and myself. j
r “At 10 o'clock Mrs. Yerkes was tel
phoned to that her husband was dyft
and she relented and went to the ha
^nd was present when he died. This W
the first time Mrs. Yerkes had been at I
Jiotel during ner husband’s illness. 1
death was peaceful, but unexpected at I
(time.” \
Mrs. Yerkes' residence Is at Sixty-elgl
Street and Fifth avenue.
. Yerkes had an interesting career. |
was born in Philadelphia July 25. 1837, a
f.vas educated in the schools of that cj
y'n 1858 lie became a clerk in the comaR
islun grain trnde and soon became a br<
i'»r. In 18(11 he engaged in the banking b|
ness, making a specialty of dealing^
(bonds. He failed in 1871, and as he wai
Mebt to the city of Philadelphia for baj
.*old on his account, and refused to g
tin* city preference over other credit!
in* was convicted and imprisoned for n
•appropriation of public 'funds, but 1
afu rwards pardoned. The conviction 1
afterwards decided to be illegal.
Yerkes recuperated his fortune at
time of the Jay Cooke failure in 1872-3.'
was prominent in the Philadelphia stl
railway operations from I860, and, si
188(1. in Chicago, where he was for a l
time head of the north and west side i
several suburban and elevated raill
corporations. |
URGES MORGANATIC HE
King Leopold Wants Son of an Am
ican Woman to Succeed Him,
Brussels, Dec. 30.—The report Is
j-ent in official circles that King Lgo,
^as contracted a morganatic mSW
with Mme. Vaughan, who is said t(
tf American origin. A son recently
om to Mme. Vaughan, and Leopol
credited with the desire to try to ini
Ibiij recognition as heir to the thron