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EVROPEAN NATIONS COERCE VENEZUELA Great Britain and Germany at War With South American Republic. WARSHIPS SEIZED AND SVNK IN LA GVAYRA HARBOR BY ALLIED EVRCPEAN FLEETS President Cn.stro Issues Letter of Defiance and Calls All Citizens to Arms British and German Residents Arrested and Imprisoned—Washington Authorities Are on the Alert. Affairs in the controversy between Great Britain, Germany and Venezu ela reached a crisis Dec. 8, when Great Britain and Germany present ed ultimatums to the Venezuelan gov ernment. Immediately afterward the British minister. W. H. D. Haggard, and the German charge d’affaires, Von Pilgrim-Baltazzi, closed their em bassies and proceeded to La Guayra, where they went aboard the British cruiser Retribution and the German cruiser Vineta, respectively. The British and German diplomats TVfZTUe, WLAH, A P 0 Wla $UAY2A a ttxa&A ojejdseye pjsaw/a/g or HO&rt/EJ&v coast or \'E7vu2Ti'jrL* svovrr/G prts/ctpa^ sea coast tow/vs Scene of Operation* on the Venezuelan Coast. quitted Venezuela almost secretly. They did not notify the Venezuelan government of their intended depart ure, fearing a hostile demonstration. They did not even deliver the ulti matums according to diplomatic forms. The demands of the two govern ments were simply left at the private residence of the Venezuelan ministr pf foreign affairs, Lopez Barralt. The British demand- is for the set tlement of claims and other matters ■Hsing out of the last revolutions. e German demand is for the pay nt of the interest on the German n and other claims. The demands _f without any specifications as to the time given for an answer, but they are in the form of an ultimatum. President Castro, in an open letter to the people of Venezuela, defends his own course, and practically defies the British and German governments. He says: “Honorably, I cannot do more. 1 put honor first, and will not seek ex cuse to disarm foolhardy enmities by accepting humiliations which would offend the dignity of the Venezuelan people, and which wouid not be in 0g*MAN i GERMAN FLEET—(A) Cruiser Falke, 1,731 tom, 15 guns; (B) cruiser Gazelle, 2,650 tons, 30 guns; (C) gun boat Panther, 900 tons. 22 guns; (D) cruiser iobe, 2,650 tons, 28 guns; (E) cruiser Ariadne, 2,650 tons, 28 gun; / (F) cruiser Amazon, 2,650 tons, 28 guns. accord with my public life. The cause of our national dignity is based on our rights and our possession of jus tice, and on our relations of friend ship and mutual respect with foreign nations.” December 10 the combined British and German fleet seized the Venezue lan fleet, composed of four warships, jta the harbor of La Guayra. The Ven suelans made no resistance, not a shot being fired. ■ On the same day all German and British subjects in Caracas were ar rested. The coming of the arrests lao soon after the hurried departure lot the representatives of Germany and England is taken to be more than !a coincidence. The belief is that both [envoys bad advance information re garding President Castro's intent and ^decided to get out of the way. All the stores and banks at I.a •Guayra are dosed. Great excitement [prevails, as the i>opulation fears that the town may be shelled or other action taken by the Anglo-German tvessels. > All the Venezuelan warships cap tured were taken outside the harbor the next day and scuttled. President Castro has called the peo ple of Venezuela to arms to resist the demands of Great Britain and Ger many. He has cabled messages to Venezuelan envoys to foreign coun tries. denouncing as unjust the men ace of the British and German fleets and intimating that Venezuela will meet force with force. Two hundred and five British and German citizens have been arrested his political enemies from prison and 1 pite the efforts of United States Min ister Bowen to secure their release. Mobs have partly wrecked the Ger man embassy and consulate. British and German flags have been burned in the streets. The British and Gorman railroads to La Guayra and Valencia have been seized. President Castro has released all his political nemies from prison and restored all estates confiscated during the recent rebellion. There was a great patriotic demon stration at Caracas when the news arrived that the British and German warships had seized the Venezuelan war vessels at La Guayra. Crowds quickly gathered and paraded the streets and squares of the capital, dis playing banners and singing patriotic songs. Violent speeches were deliv ered at various points. The populace marched to the palace of President Castro, who addressed it. The mob then moved on to the German legation, shouting "Death to the Germans!” The windows were shattered with stones, and attempts were made to force the doors, but the latter resisted these efforts, and Mae. von Pllgrim-Baltazzl, the wife of the German charge d'affaires, who has been ill In bed for the last two months and therefore could not leave Caracaa with her husband, was thus saved* from violence. The crowd then marched to the German consulate and then to the residence of Dr. Koehler, again ston ing the windows and attempting to force an entrance. The police made no effort to disperse the demonstra tion. All the British residents were ar rested except Albert Cherry of the Venezuela British owned Central rail way and Mr. Wallace, manager of the telephone company, who escaped to a place cf safety. Ninety-seven German residents were arrested, among them the German consul, Valentine Blohm, and Herr Knoop, the manager of the German Central railway. Herr Simmross, chancellor of the German legation, was met by the police, near Bolivar square, and also arrested. On learning these incidents United States Minister Bowen and Secretary W. W. Russell went at once to set President Castro, and after a long con ference succeeded In obtaining th^ release of Dr. Koehler, Mme. von Pi!*1 grim-Baltazzi's physician, and Consul Valentine Blohm. Minister Bowen also obtained the official authoriza tion of the Venezuelan government to represent British and German inter ests during the imbroglip. WHAT THE CLAIMS ARE. The principal British creditors HMU .. ' i HI whose claims are to be enforced by the ultimatum against Venezuela are, according to the New York Tribune's correspondent in London, railway and Larbor improvement companies. Some of these companies complain of de faults of interest guaranteed by the Venezuelan government, and another corporation, which took up an issue ot bonds, claims that a considerable amount of unpaid interest is due it. The German claims are larger In amount and more varied in their na ture and the responsibility of the Ven ezuelan government for the redemp tion of the obligations is less obvious in certain sections of the account. The precautions taken by the Unit ed States in ordering a strong fleet to the Venezuelan coast do not escape attention. It is considered a sign that the Washington authorities are on their guard against the taking of too drastic measures on the part either of Germany or England for the collection of a debt from a weak power distracted with revolution. As Viewed in Washington. President Roosevelt's recent utter ances on the Monroe doctrine in his message to congress were written with the Venezuelan matter in view and probably for the purpose of lndicat ing to Germany and Great Britain how far this government was willing they should proceed in the collection of the moneys which they are claiming from Venezuela. It is presumed, therefore, that President Roosevelt is ready to meet any emergency which may arise in the future. It is regarded as significant that the great naval maneuvers under Admiral Dewey which are now going forward around the island of Porto Rico were conceived after Great Britain and Germany had formally announced their purpose to send hostile fleets to the Venezuelan coast. This government Is well prepared for contingencies. The Navy Depart ment could on short notice send into those waters a fleet far stronger than the combined naval forces of Ger many and Great Britain, but no war ship will he sent if it can be avoided The country's policy has been to hoi* distinctly aloof from both sides. BRITISH A riJEET. BRITISH FLEET—(1) Cruiser Indefatigable, 3,600 tons, 44 guns; (2) cruiser Retribution, 3,600 tons, 22 guns; (3) cruiser Charybdis, 4,360 tons, 30 guns; (4) sloop of war Albert, 350 tone, 6 guns; (5) torpedo boat . destroyer Quail, 300 tons, 6 guns; (6) cruiser Tribune, 3,400 tons, 22 guns; (7) cruiser Ariadne, 44 guns. NEBRASKA IN GENERAL >»»»♦ VALUE OF SCHOOL LANDS. What Commiaaioner Follmer'a Report Will Show. The report of lAnd Commissioner Follmer will show that the schools of the state will ultimately have more than $11,000,000 of interest bearing values contributing to their support. At present the total Interest bearing values belonging to the fund is $9, 746,451.25. More than half of this amount, $5,459,228.25, is In securities of the state, counties and the recently purchased bonds of Massachusetts. The remainder Is made up of the sale contracts and lease contracts, bearing interest. Besides this Income the fund will have the rental of school lands, which under the present law cannot be alienated. The table giv ing these statistics is the first of the kind ever compiled. It is as follows: Permanent common school se curities .$5 ,<772,223. TP Cash on hand ... 131.30 Total ...*.'>.<<72,353.09 Permanent university securities* 191,060.97 Cash on hand.. 643.05 Total .* 101,894.02 Agricultural college securities.* 224.692.14 Cash balance . 674.51 Total .t 225.366.05 Normal endowment securities.* 69,000.00 Cash balance . 812.49 Total .* 59.812.49 Total educational securities in permanent school fund.*5.459.228.25 Value of sale contracts. 2.257.2(5.11 Value of lease contracts. 2.029.948.39 Total Interest bearing values.*9,746.451.V5 THE SOLDIERS’ HOME. Commandant Cole of Grand Island Makes Report. Commandant Cole of the soldiers' home in Grand Island has completed his biennial report and recommends quite a number of necessary improve^ ments owing largely to the increased number of members cared for at the institution. The report shows an increase in membership in the biennium of twen ty-one per cent over that of two years previous. On November 30, 1900, there were, according to the records of the institution, 342 members. There were on November 30, 1902. 415 mem bers, of whom 313 were men and 102 women. Among the recommendations are $4,000 for a new brick building for the quartermaster and commis sary's supplies. This would give room In the basement of the main building for another ward for members. An appropriation of $7,500 Is also recom mended for better fire protection in and about the home grounds, includ ing a better piping of the building and a pipe leading to the cottages and lams, resetting the boilers, the erection of a small building for laun dry purposes and enlarging the en gine rooms and improvements on the sewerage system. Finds Foods Adulterated. Deputy Food Commissioner Bassett has filed with the governor his bien nial report. The commissioner speaks of the need of guarding the public against foods which have been preserved by the admixture of danger ous chemicals, such as hydrofloric acid, a dangerous corrosive, and oth ers. Out of 228 samples of food pro ducts analyzed by the chemist of the food commission, 163 were adulterated or not sold in compliance with law. the report stated. The commissioner desires the legislature to make an ap propriation to fit up a laboratory so that he will not be under the neces sity of using the university, labor atory, which he has been doing for the last two years. He recommends a direct appropriation for the main tenance of the commission rather than the present plan of allowing the com mission to depend upon fees. Recommends Normal 8choole. W. F. Fowler, superintendent of in struction, in the advance sheets of his report, which will be concluded by the first of the year, makes the fol lowing recommendations: 1. Exchange the industrial school for boys at Kearney with the state normal school at Peru. 2. Establish a new normal school at Lincoln. 3. Provide for junior normal schools at Alliance and McCook. 4. Recognize more liberally the first class private normal schools and de nominational colleges of high stand ard. In support of the first recommenda tion, that is, an exchange of the Kear ney and Peru institutions, he calls at tention to the dlstanace, lack of rail road facilities and the expense in reaching Peru as obstacles to a large attendance of students there. Paper Changes Hands. M’COOK—After editing and publish ing the Hayes Center Republican for eighteen years. Judge M. J. Abbott ha3 bewa compelled to relinquish the paper to the mortgagee, R. May of Hayes Center, who will run the pa per until he can realize on his mort gage BRIEFLY TOLD Two new delivery routes nre soon to be established at North Bend. Mr. and Mrs. Jobman of Gage coun ty last week celebrated their golden wedding. Nebraska City has of late been shy on waier and private wells hive been resorted to. Train Dispatcher f* El Cairn ®f Mc Cook died suddenly In Salt l^ake, whither he had gone for his health. Ruftu Hook, a farmer living near Glencoe, had his arm caught in the cogs of a corn sheller and sustained serious injuries. The Republican valley district poul try association will hold its sixth an nual exhibition in McCook December 31, 1902, January 1. 2, 3, 1903. The Fremont and Blair high schools will debate the question. "Resolved, That labor unions are an Injury to the public." Fremont will have the choice of sides. Miss Gertrude Enlow, a teacher in the public schools of Beatrice, had her face and hands badly burned durirj school hours by the explosion of a coal tsove. John Thompson, who lived two miles southwest of Blair, was re-* ove. by a train and killed. He was on his way home from Blair. Thomp son was al)OUt 45 years old and single. Orders were received in Nebraska City to get things ready in the starch works so as to start that monster plant as soon as possible. This fac tory belongs to the trust and has been closed since early last spring. Nebraska turkeys are evidently in great demand in Chicago, a promi nent newspaper of that city having instructed its representatives in Om aha to get bids to supply 1,000 of the birds for that paper’s Christmas work. The Jury in the district court at Grand ’sland in the case of Jamieson against the Burlington railroad re turned a verdict in favor of the plain tiff of $1,220. Jamieson was a brake man and received injuries on the road. The Greeley County Sunday school convention was held at Greeley De cember 6 and 7. All sessions of the conventions were very well attended. Prof. H. M. Stiedley, field secretary of the State Sunday School association, took a very active part in all ses sions. The sugar beet season just closed has been very satisfactory In that part of Nebraska about McCook. Over 600 carloads have been shipped to Grand Island from McCook alone The yield per acre under fair circum stances has been from fifteen to twen ty tons, and as high as $5.25 per ton has been received by farmers. A. M. Hargis, proprietor of the Grand Island Business college, has purchased the Security bank building for $14,000 and will In the future oc cupy the greater part of the building for the college. It is a stone front, erected in 1899, at a cost of about $50,000. It was recently owned by the Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance company. .Willard Williams of Ashland, who was at the Mead hotel for a few days, was surprised the other evening, while seated at the desk, by his sons, Her bert and Albert, whom he had not seen or heard from for fifteen and twenty years respectively. The boys, or rather men, are located in Cuba, N. Y., and are prosperous and well to-do residents of that town. Edwaid Fry, agent for the Standard Oil company at Beatrice, was found lying near his wagon on the public road five miles east of that city in a dying condition. Examination devel oped the fact that the large freight wagon had passed over his stomach, inflicting fatal injuries. Medical as sistance was immediately summoned, but Mr. Fry expired before anything could be done to relieve him of his suffering. Orders have been issued by the Union Pacific for the immediate building at Sidney of an additional ten Htalls to the roundhouse, a new boiler house with a battery of three boilers of 250 horse power, a large new well near the ice house and elec tric lighting plant, a large sandhouse, an addition to the machine shops and a complete remodeling of the Union Pacific hotel to be modern in every particular. Deputy Food Commissioner Bassett has made public his biennial report to the governor. He urges a larger ap propriation on the part of the legis lature, as the present one, which is almost entirely contingent on the fees of the office, will not suffice to employ a clerk and chemist or to maintain a laboratory. He also asks that the present law which provides against the adulteration of foods, but which names penalties for the adul teration of vinegar and dairy products only, shall be changed in order to provide penalties for all adulterations or the use of preservatives which are harmful. THE- UVE «TOCK MARKET. Latest' Huotation* from South Omaha and Kansas City. SOt’TH OMAHA. CATTLE—There wens 24 op 30 ears of cornfed step's* Included In the receipts and St noon the greater part of them weiw In first hands. The market was very uneven, but as a general thing the decline amounted. te» fully 50r as compared with the close of the week. In some cases sales looked furiy 76c lower, but those were rare instances. The oow market was In fully as bad shape as the steer market, and tip to a late hour very little business had been tsansactedJ The general market may solely be quoted 50c lower for the week, but the same as noted for steers, the prices were very uneven. It now takes a good bunch of cornfed cows to sell much over 13 00, so that prices are at the low point of the year. Bulls eased off a little again and so did stags. Veal calves were scarce and dirt not show1 much change. The stocker and feeder market was also very slow and lower. The demand from tils country has been very light all the week, and prices may safely be quoted 26c lower, with common stuff almost un salable at any price. HOGS—There was a liberal run of hogs at all points so that prices continued their downward course. The market here opened right close to a dime lower, with the bulk of the sales going from *5.93 to *6.05. and as high as *6.07% and *6.tG was paid for choice hogs. Packers, how ever, were not bidding those prices freely, and In fact there was only one buyer on the opening market, so that sellers did not have much opportunity to cut loose. After about 30 loads had changed hands, trading came to a stand still. as packers dropped their bids to *5.90®#.*, or fully 13c lower than yester day's average. SHEEP—Quotations for fed stock: Choice lambs. *6.004*5.50; fair to good lambs. *4.25444.75: choice yearlings, *4.10® 4 25; fair to good yearlings, *3.75®4.I0; choice wethers, *3.634*3.90; fair to good, *2 0 'u3.05; choice ewes, *3.354(3.85/ fair to good, *3.00®3.35; feeder lambs, *3.00443.75; feeder yearlings. **.no®3.25; feeder weth ers, *2.754(3.00; feeder ewes, *1.50442.26 Clrass fed stock 254435c lower than corn feds. KANSAS CITY. CATTLE—Corn cattle 104415c lower; cows and heifers, 40®75c lower than last Friday; calves. 50c4»Jl "0 lower than Mon day; choice export and dressed beef steers. *5.204(6.10; fair to good, *2.66445.15; stoekers and feeders. *2.50443.85; western fed steers, *3.004j5.25; Texag and Indian steers. *2.35®S.«0; Texas cows. *2.004(2.65; native cows, *1.25444.00; native heifers, *i.75443.75; canners. *1.Q04»2.20; bulls, *2.25® 3.75; calves. *3.00®6 00. HOGS-Market 7%®10c lower; top, 6.10; bulk of sales. *5.90446.10; Heavy, *6.02%4» 6.10; mixed packers, *5.97%4*6.10; light, 5. S64i>6.02%; yorkers, *5.95®6.oe%; pigs, *5.3005.90. SHEEP AND LAMBS —Market strong tc higher; native lambs, *4.004*5.40; west ern lambs, *3.854*6.15; fed ewes, *3.00® 3.96; native wethers, *3.004(4.20; stoekers and feeders, *2.00443.35. MAY HASTEN CANAL ACTION Trouble in Venezuela an Excuse for Taking Matter Up Again. WASHINGTON—At the instance of Secretary Hay, Dr. Herran, Colombian charge <1 affaires, called at the state department Friday to discuss the can al treaty negotiations, that the secre tary might be able to report the exact Btatus of the canal to the cabinet Dr. Herran was unable to give the secretary any reply from the Bogota government as to the price which Co lombia will accept for the lease. It was explained to Dr. Herran that la view of the many other weighty dip lomatic matters pressing for attention at this time and the growinb Lmpa ttence at the capital at the delay in the conclusion of a canal convention, immediate action by the Bogota gov ernment was imperative. Dr Herran cabled the foreign office at Bogota the wishes of the state de partment and called attention to the serious complications that may arise out of the Venezuelan situation. Elect Haytian President. PORT AU PRINCE, Hayti—The chamber of communes finished the election of senators Friday and the national assembly will elect a new president within a few days. The ma jority favor Seneeque Pierre, whose election Is assured in case General lsord, the war minister, who will en ter the capital with his army on Sun day, does not oppose him. Bank Bandit* Make Haul. SANTA FE, N. M.—A report baa reached Santa Fe that the private bank of Hillsboro was held up in broad daylight on Wednesday by robbers, who escaped with something over |30, 000. Soon after midnight three men were heard galloping at a furious rate through Falrview, a mining camp, heading for the Black range. A sher iff's posse is in pursuit. Texas Line is Not Bought TOPEKA, Kan.—E. P. Ripley, presi dent of the Santa Fe, denies that bk road has purchased the Texas Centra' Reports to the effect that the pik chase is about to be made are erro neons,-as the Santa Fe does not wan' the Texas road. The short line frorc Albuquerque to Galveston will not b» built yet, and for this reason no Tex as acquisitions can be used, but th* contract for constructing the Sants Fe short line will soon be let. The protocol of the commereia treaty between the United States ant Cuba has been signed.