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TRUCE IN CHINA MAYBEGA!NED Yuan Arraign Ten Weeks' Ar m:s Ice With Rebel Leadsr. CHAOS REIGNS IN ?iW GiTY No Real Head of Government to Be Found Third Division of Army it Ordered to Lanchau War Fund Cannot Be Found. London, Nov. 6. The Daily Tele graph's Peking correspondent says he Is reliably informed that Yuan Sal Kai has practically arranged a ten weeks' armistice with the rebel generalissimo. This will permit Yuan to go immedi ately to Peking and lorm a cabinet. In the meantime affairs In Peking are in a state of chaos. No tangible head of the government Is visible. The international group refuses to supply war funds. The third division of the army stationed at Slianghungfu Is under orders to proceed to Lanchau. Perfect order is being maintained at Shanghai by the revolutionists. Hankow, China (Via Wuhu), Nov. 6. Members of the Wesleyan mission, the patients in the women's hospital and the blind boys who are under the care of the mission escaped death by a narrow margin in the fire which de stroyed a large part of the native city of Hankow. The residents of the mis ition, numbering M0, spent the night en the lawn, tarr'ffed by the whizzing uhella and the rTc of rifles. They are all now housed In the Lon ?ou mis slon. Dr. Booth, the head of the mission, asked the Imperialists to grant an armlstLe of two hours to permit of re moval ffim the mission, Mil the firing ceased fcr only a half hour. A Rel Cross stctmcr which attempt ed to recMio the Inmates of the mis Blon irsa driven back by the fire from the rnbel fort. One shell riddled the Eteamer's deck house. The flames In the town were started by the imperialists, who threw In flammable shells into the place. A Strong wind carried the flames ncros the river to Hanyang and a strip of that city on the water front a mile long was destroyed. COLD WAVE IS COM'NG Pronounced Weather Changes to Come This Week. Washington, Nov. 6. Pronounced leather changes throughout the Unit ed States are predicted by the weath er bureau In Its forecast for the week, which also announced that western Europe Is In the grip of a severe storm. "In the United States this week will ne one of the pronounced weathei changes. Disturbances that now cover the Rocky mountains and British Co lumbia will advance slowly eastward and be preceded by unsettled weather, local rain3 and mild temperatures the first half of the week In the middle west and the southern and eastern states. Following this disturbance the pressure will rise rapidly and decided ly colder weather will" overspread the northwestern states tomorrow and Wednesday and advance eastward over the middle west Wednesday and Thursday Rnd the eastern states the latter part of the week. It Is probable that this cold change will be attended by snows in the northern states. WEATHER MAN ALL R'GHT Secretary Wilson O. K.'s Work of Climatic Forecasters. Washington, Nov. 6. Persons who are Inclined to doubt the infallibility of the government's weather forecast ers were answered by Secretary Wil eon of the department of agriculture under the jurisdiction of which the weather bureau operates. "Secretary Wilson stated," says an official bulletin, "that every important meteoriolog'.eol change that occurred In the United States during the year was forecasted by the weather bureau long in advance. Storm warnings to lake, seacoast aM West Indian sta tlona and frost warnings for the sugar, trucking, tobacco, fruit and cranberry regions were issued whenever condl tions Justified. "The warnings of the approach of cold waves resell" I !n tin savin; o growing crops pud prevnited lnj try ti many shipments of perishable goods and to farm stock." Son of General Sherman Insane. Boston. Nov. R Suffering from mental ailment, due to overwork in Ms miss'oniry labors, the Rev. Thorn as Ewing Sherman, S. J son of the famous civil war general, WPllam T. Sherman, hns entered a sanitarium at Brookllr.e. Right weeks ago Father Fhermnn was taken 111 while conduct ing a mission In Missouri. He was taken to New York, but at the request of relatives was sent to the Brookllne sanitarium. Must Refund $18C0 Lost In Wreck. New York. Nov. 6. Eighteen hun dred dollurs is not an unreasonable mount of pocket money to carry on a short railroad trip. The New York fate aupreme court has so decided In wording Joseph Knlerlch that amount In an action here against the New York Central railroad. A train on which Knlerlch was riding was wreck ed at Pawling and his $1,800 was lost DR. WILFRED T. 6REEFELL Labrador Missionary, Who Reports Wreck of His Yacht In Big Storm. Photo by American Press Association. GRENFtLL LOSEo YAC.-.T Princeton's Costly Gift Wrecked In Labrador Storm. Boston, Nov. 6. Dr. Wilfred T. Gren- fell, the missionary physician, has written to this city from Red Bay, Labrador, that his costly auxiliary yacht, the Andrew McCosh, has been wrecked. The vessel was a gift from Pinceton university. She was caught, in a se vere storm that wrecked four fishing vessels. TELLS OF MABRAY GANG'S WORK Mambcr of Organization Talks of Extenslva Operation. Council Bluffs, la., Nov. 6. Eddie K. Morris, the prizefighter who was re leased from the county jail, where he has been held since his arrest at the doors, of the federal prison at 'Leaven worth, talked freely of the workings of the Mabray organization, of which he was a member during its existence. Morris and Mabray, the man from whom the swindle syndicate got Its name and who was released from pris on at the same time that Morris gained his temporary liberty, have been doing some figuring and Morris says that the syndicates which have been operating throughout America during recent years on plans similar to that of the Mabray organization, have cleaned up more than $30,000,000. Morris de clares this Is a conservative estimate based upon Information that he and Mabray possessed of the workings of the syndicates. Asked about the Mabray syndicate, Morris said that In the three and one half years that It operated In Council Bulffs. Denver, St. Louis and New Or leans the members realized $5,780,000. CAIN SET ON FIRE J. L. Adam of Solon Is Victim of Black Hand Gang. Cedar Rapids, la., Nov. 6. Because he refused to leave $1,000 In a se questered spot, as Instructed in a "Black Hand" letter, J. L. Adams, liv ing two miles south of Solon, lost by fire a large ham filled with hay, grain and farm machinery. It was clearly the work of a firebug, as the house on the premises Is not occupied. The loss will be about $3,000, partly covered with insurance. Adams' neighbors are greatly wrought up and uevernl of them declared If the "Black Hander" is caught he will be strung up without much eremony. One year ago Adams was threat ened three times by unknown persons ron his refusal to hand over several thousand dollurs. Once he was Bhot at from ambush and his would be as sailants were chased by a posse for miles, hut the hunt ended without cap ture. I0WANS ApfrRI7E WINNERS Several Are Awarded Premiums for Cattle at Dairy Exhibition. Chicago, Nov. 6. At the National Dairy show, which closed here, Iowa breeders have taken numerous prizes. Notable among them are Wilcox & Stuhbs of Dts Moines and W. W. Marsh of Waterloo. The Iowa state college at Ames also took numerous prizes for Guernseys. C. A. Nelson of Waverly Won a first prize for Hol stein and Frclslan heifers. Aged Woman Robbed of Diamonds. Grand Rapids, Mich., Nov. 6. Aiojacd by a masked man who stood by her bedside before daylight, Mrs. R. Foster was choked by th burglar and then forced to arise and give him dia monds valued at $2,000. Mrs. Foster . is seventy two years old and lives alone. I f ft fix Vo PLANS READY FORMERS Ttirea Thousand Are Expects i Id Arrive at Omaha. HEADQUARTERS AT TWO PLACES Teachera Will Rtglster at the Rome and Also at tha Auditorium Splen did Programs Are Arranged For State Association. Omaha, Nov. (. The teachers who will attend the forty sixth annual ses slon of the Nebraska Teachers' associ ation, which begins a three days' con vention Wednesday, will begin to ar rive tomorrow and registration will continue Wednesday at the Auditorium and Hotel Rome. Arrangements for the reception of the 2.500 or 3,000 teachers who are ex- i petted have been completed. Rooms j have been reserved for hundreds and: the Omaha high school cadets will be at all stations to welcome the Incom Ing pedagogues and escort them to whatever hotel they may prefer. During the three days of the con vention a more varied program and one with finer talent than has ever been gathered for a state teachers' meeting in Nebraska will be given. The first session begins Wednesday at 9 o'clock at the Auditorium and after noon and evening sessions will con tinue throughout the meeting. The general sessions will be held at the Auditorium, but twenty-five or thirty other places of meeting have been secured for sectional sessions. The teachers will be enabled to find any place of meeting through bulletins which will be placed everywhere In the business section of the city. Guides will also be on duty to escort the schoolma'anis and schoolmasters to any part of the city where meetings aro to be held. CONNECTING TRCK ORDERED Railway Commission Orders Switch Put in at Albion. Lincoln, Nov. S. The state railway commission has Issued an order direct Ing the Northwestern and the Union Pacific Railroad companies to connect their tracks at Albion. The opinion In this matter was written by Commis sloner Winnett, who heard testimony in the matter of the complaint from several large stock feeders and farm ers living at St. Edwards, several miles distant. The commission's find ings set out that a switch at this time Is necessary, whereas It was not at the time of the settlement of the coun try and when the two roads were built. Apples Frozen on Trees. Nebraska City, Neb., Nov. 6. Be cause of thj recent cold spell some of the owners and others that pur chased the fruit on the trees have lost heavily, ns all of the apples In many of the orchards which they purchased and others owned, were frozen. The mercury went down to 10 degrees phove zero and thousands of bushels of apples were frozen and ruined on the trees In the orchards because the parties were unable to gather them. Hrnry J. Lee Seriously Burned. Fremont, Neb., Nov. 6. Henry J. I ee, a pioneer Fremont merchant, head of the Omaha house of Lee Glass ndieesen Co., was so badly burned hero that his condition causes grave concern. Mr. l.o was in his garage nnd lighted a match to locate a lan A quantity of gasoline! which! tern. '.:rd escaped from the fi"tnni"t;l,e. Ig nited. Ono ear 'ind his 1-: 1 1- were burned off and hew'as otherwise badly Injured. Peport on Circle Ready. Lincoln, Nov. (5. State Auditor Bar ton has returned from Des Moines, where for several days past he has been contln i nz a review of the com pla'nt r.ralir.t the management of the Woodmen Circle. A report on the charpes In the matter and the recom merdi't'ons to be made by Insurance olficlnls of both Iowa and Nebraska wi'I be forthcoming this week, accord ing to intimations by Auditor Barton. Death of Mrs. Bangs Due to Accident. Broken Bow, Neb,, Nov. 6. The In quest called by Coroner Pennington to Investigate the death of Mrs. Mug lie Ban"?s, who was shot at her home while talking with Dr. Willis Talbot, was concluded. The Jury brought In a verdict to th effect that the deceased ame to her death from a bullet accl "etital'y discharged from a gun in "ossesslon of Dr. Talbot. Attorney Injured In Auto Accident. Beaver City, Neb.. Nov. 6. E. J. Lambe, a member of a local law firm, met with a serious accident while run ning his automobile. The car turned ever on a rough piece of ground five miles east of town. Mr. Lambe was 'oudly rut about the head and when fo md some time after was unable to give any account of the accident. Tha car Is a wreck. Dr. Lumsden Starts Investigation. Lincoln. Nov. 6.- Dr. L. I Lumsden, typhoid fever expert connected with '.he United States marine hospital ser vice, arrived In the city from Wash Ington for the purpose of starting an Investigation Into the causes of the ip ent typhoid fever epidemic, which hat rngd here for somp time and which Is now practically at an end. HER EN3A3EMENT. It Started Conflicting Emotions at Work In Her Mother. Mrs. PetJrofl drew a deep sigh wheu her daughter told her that she hud be come engaged to Mr. Cobles. "I suppose it's foolish of nie to feel o bad about it," she said, wiping her eyes, but I can't heip It. I know It's a woninu'B destiny to be married, dear, and I have always hoped that you would mnrry and be happy. But a mother can never lose a daughter without feeling deeply on the subject. he can never help regarding It as an awful loss-n tragedy. Pbe cannot give up her little girl, even to the best rmin that ever lived, without the deep st reluctance." "Put. mother, dear, I shall coma and see you ofteu. And you mustn't cry as if it were going to happen right away. You will have time tc get used to it." "Will I? How som are you to be married?" "Not for nearly a year. Bob thinks tbat"- "Xot for a year? "What on earth does he mean by puttliur it off that long? I don't believe he Intends to J marry you at all, the smirking young snip! If he did he'd Insist on having the wedding right away And I shall tell him so. Yon bring him to time, Clara. You tell that he'll either marry you next niuuili or never. Huh! I'll show b!m!" A MENACE TO OIL SHIPS. The Deadly Vapor That Stays After the Petroleum Is Gone. The explosion of vessels carrying pe troleum frequently occurs, nnd this is generally caused not by the cargoes of oil which they contain, but by the In flammable vapor which is left behind after the huge lauks of the ships have been emptied. It is difficult to remove all the oil that adheres to the sides of the tank, and the evaporation of the oil film left In them after they have been pumped out takes place with great rapidity. Moreover, the vapor thus formed mingles readily with the air and Is capable of rendering more than 2,0(K) times its own volume of the for mer inflammable. A spark may thus cause a fearful explosion in the hold of a ship that is apparently empty. A film of petroleum spreading over the surface of the water has been known to produce enough of this vola tile and dangerous vapor to cause a conflagration, by which a number of ships lying In a harbor have been sud denly enwrapped In roaring flames as if by a stroke of magic. In some parts of the world, as at Baku, the center of the Russian petro leum trade, a film of oil continually covers the wnter for n considerable distance from shore, and warnings of the danger there bare more than ouce been given. Exchange. Ixo-i i ' TTrrr. 1 ' A Puzzling Aoptloant. When needy Mrs. Cndereite required t letter of Introduction to the benevo lent association Jules Duport, proud of bis ability to express himself in English, obliglnftly helped her outr Imagine the bewilderment of the sec retary when a large, robust lady in search of work presented what well meaning Jules had written: "This is Miss Caderette that I In duce wherewith to everybody. This lady has been sick for a long time and Is still In bed. She has five children, all little and partly dead, and is In very poor condition, as she have no money. Her husband went away two years ago and has not never been heard of since. This man has rheu matism, is a cripple and cannot help herself. This lady Is his brother's girl. Help her and she will be very i comfortable." As the sick abed Indy rould speak 00 English, she was unable to explain why she looked so well, but the secre tary mnde her "very comfortable" with steady employment In a laundry. Youth's Companion. An Architect's Rues. A story Is told of Sir Christopher Wren, the great English architect who built the town ball of Windsor. Ens- llflnd ,t -.,., thBt . nnypr. meI11. blr of tne corporation insisted that the roof required further support and wished more pillars to be added. Vain ly did Sir Christopher assure him that the supposed danger was imaginary. The alarm became Infections, and the prent architect was finally worried Into adding the desired columns. Years rolled on, and in later times, wben architect and patrons bad passed way, cleaning operations on the roof revealed the fact that the supposed additional supports did not touch the roof by couple of Inches, though this was Imperceptible to the gazers be low. By this cnrlouB expedient did Blr Christopher pacify his critics whllo vindicating his own architectural skill to future generations. 8wift Was a Ounce at Sohool. Not only philosophers and divines, but some of the most trenchant sati rists and brilliant humorists, were dull enough as boys. It has been said of Bwirt Id bis best days that "be dts played either the blasting lightning of satire or the lambent and meteor like caricatures of frolicsome humor." Aod yet this vigorous disputant was coo sidered a fit subject for a fool's cap at school. Afterward at the Dublin mil terslty "he wns by scholars esteemed blockhead" who was denied his de gree on bis first application and ob tained It with great difficulty on the second. London Standard. ' It Is not the Insurrection of Igno rance that are dangerous, but the I volts of Intelligence. LowelL RODOERS LANDS AT PASADENA Aviator Reaches There 49 Days After Leaving Atlan'.ic. OCEAN TO OCEAN FLIGHT ENDED Birdman Was Literally Mobbed by Enthusiastic Crowd on Making Land ing at Tournament Park Intends Flying Over Pacific Waters. Pasadena, Cul., Nov. 6. Aviator Jtodgers, approaching a successful rompletlon of his ocean to ocean Jaunt icross the American continent, soared into Pasadena at a mile a minute clip nn the spurt of thirty miles from Po Diona and dropped from an altitude of several thousand feet to a graceful landing at Tournament park. Today he will fly out over the Pa cific and thus make the epoch marking feat of aviation really an ocean to ocean flight. Rodgers was first sighted by tele scopes from the Solar observatory on Mount Wilson, and word flashed down the mountain by telephone brought 20,000 persons to Tournament park. Flying at a height of about 5.000 feet Rodgvrs hovered over the city for a few minutes, then circled In a wide spiral and then volplaned down to the green sward. HIb landing was a sig nal for a rush and Rodgers was literal ly mobbed. Afterward the aviator de clured his ribc would surely manifest black and blue marks. HAS 1,000 CANDIDATES New Mexico Will Vote for First Tlma for State Officers. Santa Fe, N. M., Nov. 6. Fully 1,000 candidates have been nominated for the various offices to be filled tomor row, when New Mexico votes the first time for state officers, for members of congress, for a supreme court Justice, eight district Judges nnd eight district attorneys. In addition, twenty four state senators and forty-nine repre sntativs are to be elected. Hereto fore New Mexico was represented In congress by a voteless delegate, but henceforth It Is to have two members in the lower house' and two members of the United States senate. Its gov ernor, secretary, Judges and other ter ritorlal officers were formerly appoint ed by the president, hut now the peo ple will elect them. However, even under the territorial form of govern nient, New Mexico elected a legisla ture and its own county officers. In addition to state officers, Judlcl nry, legislature nnd county officers, New Mexico will tomorrow vote on nn amendment to Its constitution un der an act of congress, known as the Flood or "blue ballot" provision. It elves the people another opportunity to pass on the amending clause of the stato constitution whether It shall make the constitution more easily nmendable than Its present provision for thut purpose. ASKS $10,000 HEART BALM Farmer Bases Alienation Suit on In ability to Read or Write. Kansas City, Nov. 6. Alleging thnt his former employer took advantage of his Inability to read or wrlto and (nrried on a correspondence with his wife, Peter l)e Ford, forty one years old, Is suing Isaiah Johnson, fifty flvu cars old, a wealthy fanner oi Sib ley, Mo., for $10,000 for the alienation of Mrs. Mary Ho Ford s affections. He Ford says he worked for Johnson and lived on one of his farms near Sibley, Mo., prior to lf'G. In that year the Do Fords moved to Idaho, and Mrs. D-i Ford, who did all the let- er writing for her husband, who could neither read nor write, wrote to John son and Invited him to tome to Ida ho and look over some timber land. After the vls't Johnson continued to write, addressing the letters to Mr. !k Ford, but, It Is alleged by him, there were parts of the letters meant only for Mrs. He Ford. Iato In 190(i Do Ford came back to Missouri and brought an alienation milt Rgnlnst Johnson. The case was remanded by the court of appeals; and later Mrs. Do Ford sued and obtained a divorce. De Ford's second wife died recently.- Gale on Lake Superior. Winnipeg, Mnn., Nov. 8. There have been no steamboat arrivals In 'oit Arthur or Fort William for three lays, owing to a heavy gale on Ijike Superior. The Canadian Pacific rall loal stonmer Alberto, the Manitoba and a North rn Navigation company steamer arc among the flfteea over Inc. Anxiety Is felt In shipping clr - Ics. although all vessels may be in shelter. Kills Daughters and Self. Boston, Nov. 6. Ludwl? F. Jaeger, i book agent, formerly of Chicago snot nnd killed his daughters, aged Ivo and lour years, and fatally wound !d himself. Ho died two hours latei. ;ie wns divorced last year nnd his wlfo remnrrled. Wife Sues Ba'l Fan Husband. I.OH An.-e'e", Nov. C Because hei husband, who l.i a b-iselmU "fan." wagered on the gam"R and. If ho lost made hlmse:f disagrccnb'o about tlx .'oitse, Mrs. Florence Kngel wants a divorce fr'. Bert L. Engol. r rom the W atdl Tower of Assured Business and Established Trade the Successful Merchant Looks down upon the mob ot men who failed to suc ceed in business be cause they did not ADVERTISE HINDU WOMEN. Whatever Their Station They Ar Gracious and Picturetqu. There are. of course, all kinds ot Hindus. They range from the lowest levels of superstition nnd Ignorance to high attainments of intelligence and culture. Hut In one respect they aro all alike. "Never once," Bays Mr, Begjde, "have I detected the rery smallest smirch of vulgarity either la manners or in dress." The Hindu may believe lu 30,K),IMX) gods, be may hold that the world is flat and that bis soul's salvatluu is endangered by the shndow of a European, "but he will have charm of maimer and make a picture either In the un hand seled Jungle or on the platform of e railway tennhus." Measuring Moonlight. The full moon is xaiil to give a great deai mure than I wire ilie liulit of the) half moon. The railo Is approximately as nine lo one. Taking advantage of the extreme sensitiveness lo light of u selenium cell, experimenters hav measured the amount of light eonilug from the moon at different phases, Willi (lie result above mciiiloticd. The reason for the remarkable difference shown Is to be found In the varying angles of rcllcctlnii presented by the roughened surface of our satellite to th sun. The moon Is brighter be tween first quarter and full than be tween full and last quarter. The cause of this Is evident in the more highly reflective character of thai part of the moon that lies west ot it meridian. Thoughtful of Mother. Little Albert Is a bright boy. In play Ing the other day he upset a benntlful Imported flower holder, a gift to his mother from a friend who traveled abroad. "There, see what you've done," his mother snld. pointing to the fragments on the floor. "Yes, mother, but don't take off you Kllppers. You might cut your feet.' warned the lad. -Philadelphia Times. Ways of the Oyster. Oysters nrter they have been brought away from Hip sen know by lustlnct the exact hour when the tide Is ris ing and approaching their beds and so of their own accord open thelf shells to receive the food from tb sea os if they were still at uoum. London Telegraph. Cushion Sole Shoes! The Man with Foot Trou bles, who is obliged to be on his feet constantly, should wear our Cushion Sole Shoes, They give elasticity to th step keep the feet dry an make the foot comfortably m every way. Physicians and Chiropo dists indorse them highly. The successive layers of cork, hair felt and Calfskin are the special features of these won-der-workinJ shoes. We pay special attention to the fitting of these Shoes and there's an end of Foot trouble for the Man that wears them. SHOE store; FETZEn S i