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FIRST WORK H SENATE Shortly After Convening Senate Will Listen to McKinley Memorial. THE MESSAGE DELAYED ONE DAY Senator Foraker or Banna Will Iut-ouace Resolution In Honor of Late Chief Magistrate in t'puer House Mtscella Ituul Washinctou Matter. WASHINGTON, Dec. 2. One of the first measures of natural interest which will be introduced in the senate at the session which begins today will be a resolution looking to public action concerning the death of Presi dent McKinley. This will be present ed on Tuesday either by Senator For aker or by Senator Hanna, probably the former, and after its introduction the senate will adjourn as a mark of respect to the memory of the dead president. The annual message of President Roosevelt will not be received until Tuesday and on this account the ses sion today will be exceedingly brief. 'It is. not now expected that anything 1 will be. done beyond the announce ment of the death of Senator Kyle, following which the senate, in accord ance with custom, will adjourn for the day. Ga Tuesday the .president's message will be read and, after its readlnUfcAU-' announcement of the death of President McKinley "will fol low at" once, whereupon under the precedent established hen President Lincolnand Garfield, died, resolutions providing. fdr 11 the appointment of a committee UjLact with a similar com mittee Of the hyutee of representatives to take- appropriate action relative to the matter and then calling for im mediate adjournment for the day will be " adopted. Heretofore committees have-.ibeen appointed to arrange the details of public exercises and it is understood that plan will be pursued in this instance and that later in the session some public man of distinction will be invited to deliver a eulogy in the capital. - - Wednesday and Thursday will be devoted to the Introduction .of new bills and, as usual, there will be a flood of them. Among the first , bills of importance to be presented will be the ship subsidy bill, which will be introduced by Senator Frye, and the Nicafaguan canal bill, which Senator Morgan will present. Senator Frye has not entirely completed his bill, but he said it would be different in many details from the old bill of. last session. That measure was framed by former '. Senator . Edmunds. Senator Frye himself is the author of. the new bill. Senator Morgan's canal bill will be a duplicate of Representative Hep burn's bill on the canal question. , Other early bills' of importance will be one looking to the construction of a sub-marine cable from the western coast to Hawaii and another provid ing for the establishment of a new executive department to be known as the department of commerce. On Tuesday the senate will adjourn until the following Monday. The general opinion among senators is that very little real work will be done before the Christmas holidays. The first subject demanding atten tion is reciprocity. Various treaties ere now pending in the senate look ing to commercial agreements between the United States and other countries. Senator Aldrich will renew his efforts to have these treaties, which have al ready been reported from the commit tee on foreign affairs, committed to the committee on finance, on the ground that they deal with tariff questions. NO OPINION ON ANNEXATION Gen. Wood Denies Ravine Expressed View on the Question. NEW YORK, Dec. 2. Among the passengers who arrived from Havana were General Leonard Wood, governor of Cuba; Mrs. Wood, Michael J. Dady, the contractor; Sir William Van Home, Lieutenant W. Barden and Lieutenant Frank McCoy. General Wood said that he would proceed directly to report to Presi dent Roosevelt and expressed an in tention to return by December 7. fie said he had expressed no opinion on the question of annexation of Cuba and that to do so would be impolitic. The story, he added, was probably put out to effect the election in Cuba, but nothing would come of It. Matters were quiet In Cuba and prep arations were being made for the com ing election in February. China Becoming Good. PEKIN, Dec. 2. Chinese officials have saTer)? punished all - offenses against foreigners. This bas bad a salutary effect upon tbe demeanor of the) people. Tbe higher Chinese offi cial now manifest an increased de sire to cultivate personal relations With thte diplomatic- corps. The' set tlement of claims between the local oflHeials tad the missionaries, not In tfluded In the general Indemnity, baa ktea arranged. " PROGRAM IN THE NOISE Work of First Day Will Ri(idl Folio Precedent. WASHINGTON, Dec, 2. The pro gram for the opening day in the house, although It will rigidly follow prece dents, will be Interesting and to a cer tain extent picturesque. Admission to the galleries will be by card, of which two have been issued to each member, and they will be crowded to their full capacity. The desks of the popular members will be laden with flowers. The clerk of the house will call the members to order at noon and after prayer by the chaplain the roll will be called by states. The speaker will be formally elected and escorted to the chair by a committee. General Henderson, whose re-election as speaker is assured, will then address the house, after which Mr. Bingham of Pennsylvania, "The Father of the House," a titular honor besjtowed upon the oldest member in point of continuous service, will ad minister the oath, to him. The speaker in turn will administer the oath to the members-elect. The old officers of the house who were re-chosen by the republican caucus then will be re elected and sworn in. Following this resolutions will be adopted to inform the president and the senate that the house has elected General Henderson speaker and Mr. McDowell clerk. By resolution Speaker Henderson then will appoint a committee of three to join a similar committee from tVi senate to inform the president that a quorum of the two houses has as sembled and that congress is ready to receive any communication he may have to make. Resolutions to adopt temporarily the rules of the last house and to fix the daily,, hour of meeting also will precede the event of the opening day, the annual seat-drawing. PROVES NO GENUINE COMET Director Campbell of Lick Observatory Kiplalne Phenomenon. - . SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 2. Director . Campbell of the Lick observatory has made a thorough search' of the heav ens for the phenomenon witnessed at Chicago a few nights since. Prof. Campbell' failed to find the slightest trace of a cornet. He explains the phenomenon witnessed in Chicago in two ways, 'saying': " "What the people saw may have j been the bright trail, left by a me teor, I myself have watched such trails for as much as twenty minutes before they wholly disappeared. "It is more probable, though, that what they saw was the constellation known as the Pleiades. It so happens that the Pleiades are now in exactly the loca tion in the heavens described in the dispatches, and when obscured by a thin mist the constellation looks so much like a comet that it has been mistaken for it before." DEPARTMENTS MERGED General Wade Now Commands Northern and Southern Luzon. MANILA, Dec. 2. The military de partments of northern and southern Luzon have ceased to exist. Major General James F." Wade, formerly in command of the southern depart ment, will leave Manilla tomorrow to assume command of the American forces on Cebu island and Major Gen eral Lloyd Wheaton, formerly com mander of the northern department, will take command of the North Phil ippines. Several small engagements have oc curred in Batangas province in the last few days. The forces of the in surgent leader Caballos have become badly demoralized. His followers are broken into several small bands. Ca ballos holds two American prisoners. German Tleas for Boers. INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Dec. 2. Jacob W. Loeper secretary of the United German societies, announced that the societies, forty in number, and with' a membership of over 2,000, will interest themselves in the cause of the Boers. ' American Library. ROME, Dec. 2. The establishment In Rome of an Arterlcan library has been ordered by royal decree. The library will contain all publications relating to the new world since Its discovery. Illaaaa tt Wllbelmlna. AMSTERDAM, Dec. 2.-r-The state ment that Queen Wilhelmina's aide-de-camp, Major Van Tot, Is suffering from peritonitis and not from the ef fects of a duel fought with the con sort, Prince Henry, is confirmed. ' Stab Wife and BIsaMlf. 8T. LOUIS, Dec. 2 While In a drunked frenzy tonight Joseph Flory, a clerk In the employ of the. Oraubner Ice company stabbed his wife, Lena, three times In the breast with a huge hunting knife and then cut his own throat, both dying Instantly. Flory and his wife had a quarrel 'earlier 1b the day about money matters and this led to the tragedy," Willie, a 10-year-old son of tbe couple, was a horrified witness of tbe affair. OAS A WM1 LOOK The Colombian Government Terminates' Relations With Veneiuela. ACTION JS VIEWED WITH GRAVITY Withdrawal of Minister Rico Last August I Canse of the 11 reach foreign Debt Embarrasses Venezuela What Ger many's Demands Indicate. . - WASHINGTON, Nov. 30. The State department has received confirmation of the notification of the Colombian government to Venezuela that it has terminated diplomatic relations. This came in the shape of a cablegram from Minister Hart. This action-is the result of the hasty withdrawal last August from the Venezuelan cap ital of Dr. Rico, the Colombian mln-. ister there. Such a breach does not necessarily mean War, though undoubtedly it Is a step in that direction.' Venezuela has had several affairs of this kind, some of the European nations with drawing their representatives from Caracas for long terms, and only a year and a half ago our own gov ernment was obliged to give Minister Loomis an indefinite leave of absence from Caracas as a warning to Vene zuela of our dissatisfaction with its attitude in the controversy growing out of the asphalt dispute. It is said that manifestations of foreign disapproval have had very lit tle -Influence upon the Venezuelan government. It is. a significant fact that the breach with Colombia has been created at the moment when Ger many Is considering the adoption of compulsory measures to secure the payment by the Venezuelan govern ment of a very high financial liability to German citizens. It is supposed here that President Castro is proceeding under the ther ory that the application of -the Mon roe doctrine would protect him from unitive action by Germany, but the impression among officials here is that this belief is not well founded. Some of the reports reaching here show there is apprehension on the part of some of the Colombians on the Isthmus, including men of consider able .influence, as to the duration of the stay of American marines. It has come to the knowledge of officials here that many wild rumors have been circulated on the isthmus as to the extent of tbe trouble that the United States forces, having once landed, would not be withdrawn. ' ,; These reports have , led to Inquiries between Washington and Panama, bringing out responses that the Amer ican occupation was wholly imagina tive and that the most definite and positive assurances bad been given that immediately on the fulfillment of this government's obligation to keep open the traffic, our forces would be debarked, and all authority would be terminated. " This purpose of the authorities has been made known on the isthmus and bas served to allay tbe fears caused by reports of Amer ican occupation. With the resoration of order and open traffic on the isthmus of Pan ama it is expected that the War de partment will be enabled to withdraw some of the United States warships now on duty in that vicinity, and it is probable that one ship will be withdrawn on either side. Tribute from the Italians NEW YORK, Nov. 30. A Roman bronze tablet will be sent to Washing ton in a few days as a tribute to the Jate president from the Italians of America. President Roosevelt is re quested to give the tablet a place in Washington. On the tablet in ban relief is a figure of President McKinley, aa If walking toward a tomb. In the right hand corner la a sharply drawn facade of the capltol In Washington. In the lower, left hand corner four infant figures represent the four sections of the United States, east, west, north and south. Operation on Taft Succeeds. , MAN I LA, Nov. 30. The operation performed on Governor Taft was suc cessful. He expects to start for Wash ington December 10 to recuperate and confer with Secretary Root. Death Cornea to Centenarian. NEW ALBANY, Ind., Nov. 30. Barney Conway, who claimed, to be 106 years of age, is dead at his home near here. He cast hla first vote for General Jackson for president. Oen. Castro Killed. . NEW YORK, Nov. 30. A dispatch to the Herald from Colon, Colombia, says: . General Francisco Castro, who led the government troops In the capture of tbe Barbacoas bridge on Tuesday, was killed early Thursday morning during an engagement with the In surgent force at Bohla, Sol dado. Dep. Castro had been acting as second In command of the government force on the Isthmus. DAYI.NATI0N GETS DIV0SCC Wine His Protested Salt for Separation From Bis Wife. KANSAS CITY, Nov. 29. A special to the Star from Medicine Lodge, Kan., says: David Nation was granted a divorce from bis wife, Mrs. Carrie Na tion, "the Joint smasher." The court exonerated Mrs. Nation from the charge of cruelty to her husband and divided the property. Tn Medicine Lodge home will go to Mr. Nation and outlying property to his wife. In reply to questions of the court, Mrs. Nation said that one reason she fought the proceedings was that she wished, to continue to share the pen slon money drawn by. her husband Mr.. Nation-, in support of his petition for , divorce, cited a letter from hfs wife in which she denounced him as a ."hellhound hypocrite." He charged that she did not attend to his wants. CRAZY SNAKE IS UNRULY s Leader of Recent Creek Rebellion Canses More Trouble. ' GUTHRIE, Okl., Nov. 29 A special to the Capital from Tulsa, I. T.,' says: Crazy Snake, who led the rebellion last spring against the government, is causing the Creek council much 1 trouble. The Snake band will send a strong delegation . to Washington to protest against the deeding of Creek lands. A joint resolution was passed unani mously by both houses of "the Creek council, demanding that deeds be issued immediately and at Okmulgee, Instead of Muskogee. Chief Porter will probably sign the resolution to Secre tary, Hitchcock. . The delay has caused widespread discontent. The treaty of last May promised deeds Immediately and the Indians only as"k Justice, Bold Caucus on Saturday. WASHINGTON, Nov. 29. The re publican members of the house of represenattjves will, meet in caucus Saturday, at 2 o'clock for the purpose of nominating house officers. There Is no contest and Speaker Henderson and the other elective officers will be re-elected. It iB expected that there will be quite a sharp contest over re adopting the , Reed rules. All the afternoon and evening, If necessary, will be given to discuring the sub ject. . nnrglars Wotind a Constable. ST. JOSEPH, Nov.29. For several nights Constable Wesley Gan and sev eral deputies have V:en endeavoring, to capture burglars that have robbed numerous stores and residents in the suburbs, but never came upon the robbers until this morning. Constable Gan was separated from his deputies, but did not hesitate to attack three of the burglars and endeavored to cap ture them. He was fatally shot and pounded into insensibility, v. 1 ' Attitude Pleases Them. WASHINGTON, Nov. 2D. Thomas F. Walsh, president, and General F. W. Max we!, secretary of the executive committee of the National Irrigation association, saw the president. They told him that the expansion of inter national trade and commerce of the United States by the creation of more homes in the west was the object of their association and that they fully indorsed the report of Secretary Hitchcock cn the subject of irrigation. In the CiTij Service. WASHINGTON, Nov. 29. The pres ident signed an order bringing the rural free delivery service into the classified civil service. The order be comes effective immediately bo far as the 250 clerks, special agents and route Inspectors of that service are con cerned, but provides that until regula tions are formulated for appointment of rural carriers, they shall not be treated as within the classified service. These nnmber 6,000, Captured by Flliuluos. MANILA, Nov. . 2D. Privates Dun and Frennlng of the English infan try, together with .their horses, rifles and 300 rounds of ammunition, have been captured by insurgents, who at tacked a commissary w2on between Magadalena and Gajayjaza. ' A ser geant and a private were also wound ed. Andrew D. White, the United States ambassador to Germany, went to Pots dam for the usual ceremonious visit to the court after an ambassador's absence from the country. Mrs. White accompanied her husband upon tbe special invitation of Emperor William. Both Mr. and Mrs, White remained at the palace for dinner. Shift Responsibility. SOFIA, Nov. 29. The government has forwarded to C. W, Dickinson, the United States diplomatic agent there who recently left thla city for Constantinople, a reply to his note of November 12 concerning Miss Stone, tbe American missionary. It Is mere ly a repetition of the official views al ready cabled, repudiating the responsi bility of Bulgaria and alleging that the officials had given every assistance possible In the matter. MANY KILLED ON RAIL I One Hundred ot More Persons Meet Death in a Wreck. MANY Of THE W01NDED WILL DIE Maimed by Collision, Then Perish Flames Charred Kemaina crumble luto rowder When Dragged Forth Hany (,'uidrntlfled. DETROIT. Nov. 28. From 100 to 150 persons were killed last night in the most disastrous wreck in the history of Michigan railroads. Two heavily loaded passenger trains on the Wabash railroad collided head-on one mile east of Scnaca, the second sta tion wtt ot Adrian. The west bound train, composed of two cars loaded with Immigrants and five other coaches, was smashed and burned, with the result of awful loss of life and fearful injuries to a majority of its passengers. The eastbound train, the Continental limited,' suffered in scarcely less degree. The track in the vicinity of the wreck is strewn with dead and dying. Many physicians from Detroit have gone to the scene. DETROIT, Nov. 23. When night fell over the scene of last night's ca lamity on the Wabash railroad, near Seneca, Mich., those who had been in vestigating the disaster bad found nothing to alter the estimate of about eighty lives lost as a result of the collision. Superintendent "George M. Burns of the division on which the wreck occurred Insists that the esti mates are too high. "I do not con sider," said he, "that the total death list will exceed twenty." However, in supoprt of the larger estimate it is pointed, out that there are now fourteen passengers known to be dead. The boules of eight of these have been recovered and it Is considered that the fragments of oth er bodies now in the morgue will ac count for may more than the twelve dead necessary to make up Superin tendent Burns' estimate of twenty. In addition to the comparatively few fragments recovered and sent to the morgue, those who were early on the scene say that many more pieces were discovered which crumbled to powder while they were being remov ed. Superintendent Burns said to the Associated Press tonight that he was unable to toll the exact number' of Italian immigrants aboard train No. 13, but thought that there were not more than fifty. , Passengers on the train and a number of those who were early on the scene dispute this and say the number was nearer eigh ty. Superintendent Burns has receiv ed no report as yet from Ticket Col-' lector Ornes of train No. IS, who prob ably knows nearer than any one else the number of Italians in the cars. The official list of the dead given to the lo'al papers showB the names of but ten dead and forty-.eigh't injur ed, but Detroit newspaper men, who were at the scene of the wreck and talked with survivors of both trains',"' say that the official list does not bear out the statements of the passengers nor evidence of loss of life which they witnessed at the spot where the accident occurred. The Free Press tomorrow will say that the loss 'of life was, in round numbers, 100, and that the statements made by the Italian immigrants on train No. 13 bear out this claim. The Kugar Tariffy WASHINGTON, D. C; Nov. 29. President Roosevelt has stated to a number of visitors that he will rec ommend In his message that the duty on sugar from Cuba be reduced in consideration of certain traded privi leges when the independent govern ment is set up, and that the duty on sugar from the Philippines also be re duced as a stimulus to promoting the Industry in those islands. Wedding- Party Dronws. HONOLULU, Nov. 20. (Via Victo ria, Nov, 29.) News comes from Tonga that a schooner carrying a wed ding party of forty people, men, wo men and children, was wrecked and all were drowned. The schooner had taken the party to Nelafu and had started bark to Manual. Western Packing Statistics. CINCINNATI, Nov. 29. The Price' Current says the marketing of hogs has been further Increased. The total western parking Is 735,000, compared with 685,000 the preceding week apd 625,000 last year. ' . " CHnit Honors McKinley, ( WASHINGTON, Nov. 29. The state department has received a report from the consul general at Shanghai saying the guilds of silk, tea and cotton piece goods dealers have contributed of their own Inltlntlve to a fund to erect a monument In Shanghai to tbe late president McKinley and announce that they are doing this to show their ap preciation of the man and of his atti tude towards China. The empire never before took such action. STIRS IP NATIONAL GIAXD - asses ssss ''.adjutant General authorise AasHltonaJ Cons pan lea. LINCOLN, Neb., Dec. 2. Adjutant General Colby turned loose his ordei machine and ground out some orders tor the Nebraska National guard. He authorized the organization of two new independent companies, one at West Point and the other at Stanton. James C. Elliott was given authority to organize a company at West Point and G. A. Eberly of Stanton was giv en peririsaion t& recruit another at his home town. Both companies will be equipped by the state, and after organization may be admitted to the guard. , -, Orders were also issued for the for mation of a signal corps and en gineers' corps at Fremont and two ad ditional sections of artillery, the latter probably at Pluttsmouth and Grand Island, though the location is still un determined. t This activity in the Nebraska Na. tional guard has caused .many to be lieve that a third regiment Is' to be organized, but General Colby says there Is no ground forthat belief, aa the independent companies,; do'not in dicate a new regiment. He says the matter of organizing a third regiment js undetermined. , The formation of two .additional sec tions of artillery will necessitate more guns, as each section is supposed to have two guns,- General Colby has taken steps to secure four new model breech-loading cannon, together with. harness and equipment. MANY WANT BOOKS TO READ Applications Are Received Daily by Stater Library Commission. . " LINCOLN, Neb., Dec. 2. Applica tions for sets of . books are being re--celved by the State Library commis sion at the state house. Secretary Bullock, who will - have immediate ' charge of the distribution, is making! the preliminary arrangements for the circulation and expects to have the' system in full operation within the next few weeks. The applications so far received are from lllair, German town, Harvard, Talmage, Syracuse, Loup City, Alexandria, Douglas,-Par-dum, Kenesaw, Fairmont, Oak pre- cinct and Osceola.- The commission has aprpoximately $1,200 available for the purchase oC books. This money, it is estimated,, will buy over 1,400 books. About one third of the books in each set will' be of the juvenile class and a ma jority of the balance will come under the general classification of fiction. It is the desire of the commission to have each large town or city which.' is' a .beneficiary of the traveling 11-' brary system make a smali donation for the purchase of new books. It is believed that in , this, way the pur chase fund will be greatly Increased. GlILTY Of MANSLAUGHTER rhe Jury at Fremont Convicts Joseph Dnssrldorf. FREMONT, Neb., Dec. 2. Joseph T Dusseldorf was convicted of the kill ing of Arthur C. Payne at North Bend on June 20. 1301. The jury went out at 2:50 and returned at 4:05 with a verdict of manslaughter. This will Jet Dusseldorf off with a penitentiary sentence of anywhere from one to ten years.' It Is understood thut the de fendant's attorneys may move for a new trial. The general oplulon here is that Dusseldorf was fortunate in' escaping conviction on the charge of, murder, though it cannot be denied' that the evidence showed some cxtenJ uating circumstance!. Sentence has not yet been pronounced. Hew Road Toward Omaha. FORT DODGE, la., Dec. 2. Mc Ar thur Bros.,' contractors on the Great Western, road, have started a largw force of men and teams on the Omaha main line of their new road from thia city to Omaha, Work on the Clarion Hampton branch of the Great West ern line will not bo tompleted as ex pected this yenf. Work on the Cinsha! main line will be pushed with all speed, as there is much heavy work, to bo done. Paper Mill to lie Operated. LINCOLN, Neb., Dec. 2. A new company has been organized In Lin coln, capitalized at $50,000, which pro poses to operate the old paper mill plant south of town. The president of the company Is 8. If. Ilurnham. The proposition of the new enterprise Is to undertake the manufacture of the heavier grades of wrapping paper from straw and corn busk. Woman Adjudged Insane. FALLS CITY, Neb., Dec. t.-On complaint of C. F. Reavls, Mrs. Geo. E. Dorrlngton bas been adjudged In sane and will be taken to Lincoln for treatment soon. Strychnine Kills Landlord, ; GRETNA, Neb., Dec. 2. Alexander Imon, who conducts a hotel at this ;place, took an overdose of strychnine and died a few minutes later. De spondency was the cause.
