I IS SEVERE ON SCHLEI Maolaya History Not to Be Used at Annapolis Academy AUTHOR WILL REVISE SOME PARTS XXo Admits that His Language Ss Too Abusive and Buy Proof Hbeeta Were Not All Shown Xou United State Offlc Inls as They Should Have Deon WASHINGTON July 20 The sec retary of the navy has decided that the third volume of Maclays history of the Spanish American war shall not be used as a textbook at the naval academy unless the obnoxious lan guage It contains in characterizing the action of Rear Admiral Schley is eliminated The secretary says that it would be manifestly improper to ihave a history containing such intem perate language as a textbook for the cadets He will inform both Com mander Wainwright who is in com mand of the naval academy and Mr Maclay the author of the history of his decision In this connection tho secretary says the proofs of the en tire volume were not submitted to him by the historian He received only the proofs of the third chapter that relating to the mobilization of the fleets which contained a summary of the orders which he as secretary of the navy had issued in making the naval preparations for war That chapter was satisfactory and he re turned it to Mr Maclay with his ap proval He says lip never saw the accounts of the battle of Santiago and the criticism of Rear Admiral Schley until after the book was published Mr Maclay was appointed lo his pres ent position in the New York navy yard August 23 1900 having been transferred from the lighthouse ser vice Acciihph Naval Clique BALTIMORE July 2j General Felix Agnus publisher of the Balti more American has telegraphed the following to President McKinley William McKinley President Can ton Ohio Maclays Histcry of the Navy is the standard in use at the naval academy In the third volume just issued the historian charges Rear Admiral Schley with being a coward a liar a caitiff an incompetent and insubordinate In an interiew in the American this morning Maclay the historian who is a navy department clerk classed as a laborer and at tached to the Brooklyn navy yard says that proofs of this third volume which should have told the most glori ous story in all our naval annals were submitted to Secretary Long and Admiral Sampson and approved by them in advance of publication also that Long put him in his present po sition after he had read and approved this scurrilous attack upon Admiral Schley These proofs weie also sub mitted to Admiral Dewey who refused to read them If aught were needed to convince any fair minded man that a clique in the navy department has conspired to traduce the hero of Santiago and that the conspiracy was carried into execution while this brave and gallant officer was suffering expatriation on the fever infested coasts of South America this should furnish it Will you Mr President in view of all this sit quietly by and permit these con spirators to continue their diabolical work Every justice loving American appeals to you to intervene in the name and for the sake of fair play Next to being right all the time which no man ever was the best thing is to find out as soon as possible that you are wrong and right yourself im mediately FELIX AGNUS Publisher Baltimore American f i i Graders in liloody Rattle DENVER Colo July 20 A special to the News from Sidney Neb says Greek and Austrian graders met here in deadly combat Six Greeks were wounded and one Austrian was killed After a drunken row the Austrians at tacked the Geeks with knives re volvers and clubs and completely rout ed them after severely wounding six of their number Rade Lubovic an Austrian was killed j Robbed and Drops Dead WICHITA Kan July 20 After be ing robbed on a Choctaw train return ing from El Reno F R Smith an aged man from Bonham Texas dropped dead in a crowded coach The body was placed in a seat and taken to Oklahoma City His wife and daughter were with him Mrs nnnna is Safely Over QUEENSTOWN July 20 Mrs D Hanna who is a passenger on the Cunard liner Campania from New lYork to Liverpool when interviewed on the steamer in Queenstown harboi by a representative of the Associated Press said her trip to Europe was entirely one of pleasure and that its duration would depend on circum stances She asserted that she was not aware of having left New York city under sensational conditions WHEAT IN RUSSIA AND INDIA United States Consul Generals Report the Yield WASHNGTON July 19 The state department is in receipt of interest ing reports concerning the wheat crops of Russia and India According to a report from Consul General Hol loway at St Petersburg there are good reasons to hope that the wheat harvest of 1901 will exceed that of 1900 The spring wheat is more promising than the winter crop the latter having suffered heavily from various causes However it is stated that the loss in the winter crop will be balanced by the amount of spring wheat sown Consul General Patterson of Calcut ta states that the wheat yield of India as a whole is estimated at 5580000 tone 84 per cent more than the de cennial average and this under ad verse conditions such as cold weath er hail insects and rust The ex port of wheat from India this year the consul general says probably will be greatly increased Consul Fee at Bombay estimates Indias harvest for this year at 6G90 000 tons or 170000 tons more than last year The estimated area of growing wheat for the year is 22 COOOOO acres being about 5000010 more than the previous year PROHIBITION OP LIVE STOCK Arccntlno Active Agnlnst Introduction of Throat and Mouth Disease WASHNGTON D C July 19 The United States minister at Buenos Ayres has forwarded to the state de partment a degree issued by the Ar gentine government prohibiting the importation of live stock coming from foreign countries of the ovine bo vine or any other species that in the opinion of technical authorities might carry infection of foot and mouth disease There is a provision in the decree however that such stock coming from foreign countries whose official representations certify that such disease does not exist in their country and that the necessary precautions have been taken to avoid infection are excepted from the application of the decree The de cree says that all animals which are shipped before the decree was issued will be submitted to forty days quar antine after their arrival SCRAMBLE FOR BROOM CORN Drouth Causes Shortage Estimated at Fifteen Thousand Tons JMATTOON 111 July 18 The scramble between the Union Supply company or trust and the agent of the big eastern manufacturers not in the combination for possession of the broom corn yet in growers hands reached a climax today when 125 a ton was offered The Kansas crop is a failure and it is estimated that there will be a shortage of 15000 tons Fifteen thousand dollars worth of brush was bought in this vicinity Sun day at almost any price demanded Broom corn men of experience say the brusLi will rise to a ton To Avenge Killing DENVER Colo July 19 Confirm ation was received of the report that the Radcliffe hotel cabins and other buildings belonging to the proprietor of the Grand Mesa lakes were burned yesterday A mob of seventy five men all residents of Delta county set fire to the property The incendiar ism was intended to avenge the kill ing of W A Womack by Game Ward en McHaney last Monday Electrical Workers Strike WASHNGTON D C July 19 To enforce a demand for an increase of pay to 350 per day all the men em ployed by the electrical contractors in the city failed to report for work today They number about 125 Two contractors not members of the Con tractors union signed tin agreement today the Contractors union last night Ceciding to refuse the demand Tlubonlc Plague Abroad GIBRALTAR July 19 The orient liner Ormuz Captain Coad from Sid ney N S W for London which left Colombo June 28 arrived off Gibral tar with two cases of the bubonic plague on board She was efused ad mittance to the harbor and proceeded toward Plymouth hoot Their Own Wounded JOHANNESBURG July 20 In the course of an inquiry conducted under oath here various non commissioned officers and men of the British army confirmed the statement that the Boers shot the Boer wounded at Vlakfontein 1 Root Starts for Omaha LEAVENWORTH Kan July 19 Elihu Root secretary of war com pleted his inspection of the Fort Leavenworth reservation and passed the afternoon with his staff examin ing maps and plans The only de termination yet arrived at is to push the work of improvements at the post until it will have a capacity of caring for about 3000 men The details for the contemplated improvements will ha worked out at Waskingcn CORN BELT IS SOAKED Generous Bains Pall Over Major Portion of the Southwest LATE CROPS AND PASTURES REVIVE Good Cannot Be Estimated but TC1I1 Prove Immense Insures at Least Half a Harvest Pour Begins In Western Kansas and Swoops to Missouri KANSAS CITY July 18 Generous rains fell this afternoon over the big ger part of the corn belt of the south west They came just in the nick of time The good that will result to late corn and to pastures cannot be estimated but it will undoubtedly prove immense Scattering shower3 fell over the southwest last night and this morning but in most places up to noon continued accounts of intense heat were reported The rains began In westernKansas about 1 oclock this afternoon and traveling east had reached the Misoursi line by 4 oclock Reports from many counties assert that todays rains following what lit tle had fallen within the past forty eight hours will insure at least half a crop of corn and make pasturage sure The storm began in Kansas City shortly before 5 oclock this evening The fall continued for over half an hour and caused a decided drop in the temperature the weather bureau re cording 83 at 5 oclock against 100 at 3 oclock TOPEKA Kan July 18 The rains that have fallen in Kansas last night and today have practically assured a corn yield of at least 50000000 bush els and the yield may be even better The state is under the influence of a lew barometric condition and more rain is expected tonight Correspond ents from numerous Kansas towns in reporting rain say the sky is overcast with clouds tonight and more rain within a few hours is certain The drouth in Kansas has been broken and with it has gone the excessive hot spell It is the opinion among those who have been watching the weather conditions that the season will be more favorable to crops from now on Good rains are reported tonight over portions of eastern and central Kan sas and in each case is mentioned the fact that the rain is not through Emporia Hiawatha Clay Center Ells worth Salina Atchison Sylvan Grove Great Bend Concordia Quenemo Ot tawa Fredonia and Osage City are among the places favored with- rains which ranged from one half to two inches Secretary Coburn of the Kansas Board of Agriculture is enthusiastic over the result of the rain He is sure that the corn yield will reach at least half a crop if the present very favor able weather conditions continue The manner in which corn has held its own during the drouth was some thing remarkable and is a source of wonder to the farmers In some places it has had no moisture for over two months It has made almost no growth but the leaves have been kept green and the tassel kept off Weeds could not flourish in the dry spell any more than the corn and they were sasily eradicated The fields are there tore clean and have a new lease of life- since the rain TRIUMPH Of SOCIALISM rhat la What John Burns Expects In America NEW YORK July IS The steel strike in America is attracting much attention in England generally and while long articles are being printed in the newspapers on the subject no comment is made in the editorial col umns according to the London corre spondent of the Tribune John Burns has been less reticent for he fore casts an American Armagedon with the revival of the old anti slavery feel ing and the transformation of trusts into state organizations by the politi cal power of the hordes of workmen Financiers watch the quotations from Wall street and are unmoved by socialistic trades Combinations are felt to be on trial in America and if they survive the great conflict with organized labor concentration of capi tal will be promoted in England Iiast Furnaco Closed PITTSBURG July 18 The last mr nace in Linsay McCutcheons mill was closed down at noon As soon as all the men had let the mill sev en deputy sheriffs were stationed about the plant The open hearth and billet mills of the Clark plant were running today Secretary Cridler Recovering WASHINGTON July IS Third As sistant Secretary of State Cridler who has been ill or several weeks was sufficiently recovered today to be re moved to Seabright N J He was ac companied by Mrs Cridler Thresher Injury Is Fatal WEEPING WATER Neb July 18 Daniel Drum who was injured by a threshing machine yesterday died just before the doctors arrived to am putate the limb KANSAS GETS SOME SHOWERS Freshens Vegetation Even Where Hot Enough to Do Permanent Good KANSAS CITY July 17 Rain fell over an area of eighty miles around Kansas City early yesterday morning and reports from different parts of the southwest indicate thunder storms and lower temperatures during the day At Lawrence Kan enough rain fell to effectively lay the dust clear the atmosphere and freshen vegeta tion but not enough to do any per manent good It is the first fall in that vicinity for twenty six days At Ottawa and Wellsville in the next county west from Lawren e about half an inch of rain fell At Wells ville there has been no rain for more than three months and coming now it will do lato corn great good if fol lowed by more otherwise the corn crop in that county will prove an ut ter failure Some fields are now too far gone to be revived by any amount of rain Over one inch of rain is re ported at Toronto Kan two counties further west There was a fairly good shower in Kansas City in the morn ing but at 11 oclock the sky was cloudless and the weather bureau re ported a temperature of 93 A good rain fell at Camden Point Mo three counties east of Kansas City and it will result in much good to corn which in that vicinity is still a dark green Miami county Kansas two counties south from Kansas City on the Mis souri line experienced a good rain the first since April 1 It came too late and early crops in that county are reported a total failure CONDITION OF NEBRASKA CORN Weather CnfaTurable and Early Com Damaged to Some Extent United States Department of Agri culture Nebraska Section Climata and Crop Service of the Weather Bu reau University of Nebraska Lin coln July 17 The past week has been hot and dry The daily mean temperature has aver aged 11 degrees above the normal The rainfall of the past week has been very light no amount sufficient to aid crops having been reported The hot dry weather has been very unfavorable for all growing crops Threshing of winter wheat has made good progress and the yield is good and the quality fine Spring wheat and oats have ripened too rapidly in northern counties and the yield will be somewhat reduced Early planted corn is beginning to tassol in south ern counties and has been considerably damaged by the drouth later planted corn is standing the drouth well but corn generally has deteriorated in condition during the past week Corn is small and late and most of it has not tasseled and with rain soon would recover largely from the effects of the dry weather However with the rain the crop would generally be decidedly below the average Apples and fruit generally have been injured and the hay crop will be less than expected earlier in the season Potatoes are a very poor crop G A LOVELAND Station Director Lincoln Neb HAVE FAITH IN SETTLEMENT Nothing Definite But the General Talk is All Along the Lino PITTSBURG July 17 There were no new developments in the strike dur ing the early hours of the second day All the plants closed yesterday were shut down tight and matters about the Painter mill Lindsay McCutcheon Clarks Solar Iron works the Monon gahela and Starling plants were quiet It was stated that Painters mill was in partial operation but the only men at work were a few Hungarians who were cleaning up about the yards Re plying to the report that the company had brought a strike breaker from Alabama Assistant General Manager Parker said We can break our own strikes Superintendent Albrecht encounter ed a few moments later said the plant would be running in full within a few days Speculation as to the probable settlement of the strike is general and among business managers the consensus of opinion is that the com bine officials and Amalagamated offi cials will get together before long and adjust the differences Legislature Every Four Years MONTGOMERY Ala July 17 The constitutional convention today pro vided for quadrennial instead of bien nial sessions of the legislature and fix ed November instead of August for holding state elections Fitnl to Stock and Crops MUSKOGEE I T July 17 A se vere hailstorm three miles north of Muskogee last night killed some stock and completely destroyed crops for a long distance The path of the storm was over a mile wide Heavy rains fell all over the Creek and Cherokee nations generally saving crops Gen Wood Ulnch Better HAVANA July 17 Governor Gen eral Wood continues to improve aeajl Uy THE EBR NEBRASKA WYK o Total Valuation for Assessment is Nearlj Thieo Million Mors HOMES fOR 1900 AND 1901 Starting a New Industry In Holt County Platte County a Pioneer In Itoad Sprinkling Other Nebraska Matters Here and There LINCOLN Neb July 17 The to tal valuation upon which state taxes will be assessed this year against tax able property in Nebraska will be ap proximately 174432000 or 2685000 greater than the assessed valution last year These figures have been com puted from the official reports received from eighty nine of the ninety coun ties Wheeler whose report has not been received had a total assessed valuation of 29823740 last year and it is believed there will be no material change in the figures this year Following is a comparison of the as sessed valuation of property for the two years Adams Antclopo Banner Blaine Boone Box Butte Boyd Brown Buffalo Burt Butler ViliJS -- Cedar Chase Cherry Cheyenne Clay Colfax Cuinlng Custer Dakota Dawes Dawson Deuel Dixon Dodge - Douglas Dundy Fillmore Franklin Frontier Furnas Gage - Garfield Gosper Grant Greeley Hall Hamilton Harlan Hayes Hitchcock Hooker Howard Jefferson Johnson Kearney Keith Keya Paha Kimball Knox Lancaster Lincoln Logan Loup Madison McPherson Merrick Nance Nemaha Nuckolls Otoe Pawnee Perkins Phelps Pierce Platte Polk Red Willow Richardson Rock Saline Sarpy Saunders Scotts Bluff Seward Sheridan Sherman Sioux Stanton Thayer Thomas Thurston Valley Washington Wayne Webster Wheeler York 190 271G593C6 155277050 29S51000 1S9S4G731 171320320 S4lSOO20 40129100 KW43147 270193237 254540031 223106210 411115805 240731400 G3S43820 13091SL32 139159814 241210299 l9t041120 223458557 334228390 158920215 103944791 17G833992 C1G2G8 160520601 313GU7881 21745972 64 64493235 32G715G87 L1S9430OO 117436920 184005063 531278357 217592801 64123820 39523026 930178S0 267794977 186554100 130195566 4SS9S460j 89078729 23S49G195 124000501 133018660 251331882 2099S935G 133018060 79339360 41103000 62341560 1S0150120 9270S5S47 200477484 22958200 16095900 225184653 12109200 183114931 126736000 27G737036 225757000 467003020 25117S01 62369800 130711833 1518915301 239763077 129269330 1219246991 33276337 57042750 246S2143C1 223023377 3443713251 451991001 2594576921 132838025 8S007S91 1 418602781 14S 1245161 223863479 15092S97 549993471 97547980 2369846241 1S6530200 16G63SSG6 29323740 231954114 1901 i 271715300 157278100 2665S900 21838220 16915050J 78073400 C909j10J 70612300 270772381 278420107 222326480 467550332 279221706 63334600 193064800 150314200 241917S23 200490700 224757600 24 1139118 16082390 102850300 167460321 6S4U4CS 172949216 315270400 223S17920S 63826531 228517311 115654909 108743900 18758500 535809422 25438400 75313950 47427031 96043100 25600370J 186391800 128Sin03 44834000 90130311 232752091 11498979 136549311 255408100 216311033 132091942 80497832 45847700 62765361 185421700 881537561 196719S8S 23098027 18514060 230221SO0 13174993 184449600 12S146100 276747783 223774556 4S41O350O 2G44022d0 55163811 128329443 152647341 244000910 131923970 126371073 3333466W 33129SS1 2496714S6 227973950 341827809 46813151 2608881S5 11777600 S7974SS9 51231700 147342691 23731C000 18194354 55618300 99955340 235S62317 160173000 172386320 29821740 229962100 Totals 1517174759341 3174432S7030 Tops the Onialin Market GRAND ISLAND Neb July 17- The topping of the Omaha market by Paul Frauen a local stock breeder feeder and shipper recalls that the Chicago market for the year has been topped twice in the past twenty five years by Nebraska a Tekamah man receiving the honor accompanied by the cash once and Mr Frauen re ceiving it in 1892 Mr Frauen has just put in the nucleus for a herd of thoroughbred Shorthorns and Here fords Porters Cane Submitted LINCOLN Neb July 17 The suit of the state against William Porter ex secretary of state and his bonds men was argued before District Judge Frost and submitted The state asks for 1500 claimed to be due as a re sult of funds collected and retained by Sorter without constitutional author ity it is alleged C J Smyth of Om aha appeared for the defendants and Deputy Attorney General Norris Brown and his assistant W B Rose for the state Fatal Sun Stroke SCRIBNER Neb July 17 August Steuhaner a young German employ ed on the farm of John Haum south of Scribner was overcome by heat and died from the effects thereof Two Nebraskans Released SIOUX FALLS S D July 17 Two prisoners have just been released from the Sioux Falls penitentiary their terms of imprisonment having expir ed They are Frank Kelley and Fred K Moore each of whom served three years less good time for robbing a postoffice in Nebraska Upvn being released they departed for Oregon where they have relatives living and where they claim they have positions awaiting them THE LIVE STOCK MARKET Latent Quotation From South Omaha and Kkuius City SOUTH OMAHA Cattle There was an extromely light run of cattle and aB packers all scomel to have liberal orders there wero not enonugh to go the rounds and prlcea ad vanced sharply The few cam of beef steers on sale were picked up at an early hour at prices that looked fully a dlmo hlghor and In somo caseH more As com pared with the cloac of last week prices are now fully as good as they wero then and sales were made that looked higher than the same kind of cattle sold for on last Friday There wero very few cows and holfers on sale and practically noth ing that could be called choice The way buyers acted good stuff was evidently In good demand and would probably have sold a little higher Even the common stuff that was offered1 sold a little higher In somo cases Butls calves and stagi wero all In very light supply and the few on sale sold as they did yesterday Stoek ers and feeders were also scarce today and prices improved Tn extreme case they sold as much a 20c higher though 10113c would cover the- advance In most casts Cattle that were carried over from yesterday In some cases sold as much as 20c higher than the ftest bids received yesterday Hogs There was anorlier liberal supply of hogs though not quite as innny ar rived as yesterday or the day before Packers started In fairly early and the opening market was about 2c higher than yesterdays general markut The bulk of the first hogs sold largely at 357fc and 360 but It was noticeable that In most cases buyers were picking out the better loads It took a choice load of hogs to bring over 5G2 and very few sold above that figure The light stuff sold mostly from 337 down The market was fairly active until about half the hogs had changed hands and then- for a time not much was done Sheep There was a very light run of sheep and no lambs at all arrived The sheep sold at just about steady prices with yesterday or 10ft 15e lower than last week Western wethers sold from 323 tu 340 The Iamb market Is still In very bad shape at all points The demand Is ex tremely light and prices have broken 50Tt 75c at this point as compared with th high time last week KANSAS CITV Cattle Beef steers cows and Texans 10 Tt20c higher stockers and feeders strong choice exports and dressed beef steer 330fi595 fair to good 4753540 stockers and feeders 250425 western fed steers 315fl535 Texans and Indians 385440 Texas grass steers 325Q390 Texas cows 2607325 native cows 275125 heifers 250f475 canners 175fi270 bulls 250 400 calves 250Ti523 Hogs Market 5 10c higher top 597 bulk of sales 5300580 heavy 3857ii597Vi mixed packers 35511580 light 535 5570 pigs 473f330 Sheep and Lambs Sheep steady lambs were 10c lower lambs 430fj500 wethers 325f375 yearlings 350fi423 ewes 300W 323 stock sheep 130ii375 REPLIES TO HIS CRITICS Declared He Has No Animus Against the Admiral NEW YORK July 20 Edgar S Maclay replied to the criticism which has been made on his historical works dealing with Admiral Schley and the navy during the Spanish war He said in part I did not appreciate at the time I wrote the book that the terms were immoderate and intemperate It is only recently that it has met with ad verse criticism It is now my intention to revise that portion of the work that deals with the battle of San tiago But I shall not alter the facts for they are correct and I must fiTt be assured that they are in error The proofs were submitted to the officers who took part in the battle of San tiago as well as to Secretary Long and received their approval r should explain that only those portions of the book were submitted to eaoi of ficer that related to him personaPy or to the part he took in the battle I have no animus against Admiral Schley TO RESTORE EMPIRE Plot 1 Said to lie Ripening to Overthrow the French Republic LONDON July 20 The Pall Mal Gazette publishes a communication from its Paris correspondent giving circumstantial details of an alleged conspiracy to overthrow the French republic and install Prince Louis Na poleon as emperor The correspond ent is issured that September 14 upon which date the czar intends to pro mote Prince Louis to a full general ship in the Russian army has been selected as the occasion for a demon stration to support the claims of this prince who is such a close friend or their Russian ally by all the elements opposed to the present regime The names of M de Roulede the marquis de Lur Saluces and M Marcel Habert are mentioned as the leading spirits of the movement and several high functionaries of the present govern ment are aleged to be assisting the movement with funds Rreit linnks Capital NEW YORK July 20 At a meeting of the stockholders of the First Na tional bank it was voted to increase the capital of the bank to 10000000 Relctinr tiwedlHh Cabin COPENHAGEN July 20 King Christian has entrusted Dr Deuntser with the task of organizing a liberal ministry to succeed the De Schested cabinet which resigned Wednesday The following selections have already been made President of the council Dr Deuntser minister of justice Al berti minister of interior Count Hol stein minister of foreign affairs Al fred Hage minister of finance Christ tnsen of agriculture Hansen - r