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i News in Brief
Baron von Mannllcher inventor of
tho Mannllcher rifle is dead
Osma Mothato and his four-year-old
son Juan were burned to death at
San Bernardino Cal
Fire while the thermometer was
35 degrees below zero caused a loss
of 105000 at Dawson
John Alexander Dowie with his
party from the east sailed from San
Francisco for Australia on the steam
er Sonoma
Mrs H Crocker of San Francisco
has given 25000 to tho University
of Califs nia for archaeological work
in old Mexico
The main dining room dormitory
and laundry of the State Normal col
lege at Greensboro N C was de
stroyed by fire
Empress Augusta Victoria of Ger
many has varicose veins in one of her
legs and is obliged to keep it extended
on a cushion
Secretary Hay left for Thomasville
Ga where he expects to remain two
weeks as the guest of Colonel Payne
The secretary leaves for his health
Simon S Goldman said to have
been the inventor of the tucker and
needle thread in general use on sew
ing machines is dead at New York
Albert von Maybach former Prus
sian minister of public works who
successfully nationalized the Prussian
railroads died aged eighty three
years
Five hundred students of the South
division and Lake View High schools
Chicago engaged in a fight on the
streets and the police made several
arrests
The presence of smallpox among
the troops at Jefferson barracks has
resulted in the vaccination of all the
men in the Fourth and Eighth regi
ments of cavalry
The festivities in honor of the seventy-fifth
birthday of King Oscar were
inaugurated with special services in
all tho churches of Stockholm The
city was profusely decorated
Nebraska grain dealers to the num
ber of nearly 200 will be entertained
in New Orleans during carnival week
They are members and officers of the
Nebraska Grain Dealers association
A serious native disturbance has oc
curred in the interior near Pyeng
Yang cables the Seoul correspondent
of the New York Herald The au
thorities are apprehensive that it may
spread
According to a cable report from
United States Minister Finch at Mon
teviedo the revolutionary disturb
ances in that country are much more
serious and extensive than has been
supposed
The house committee on naval af
fairs authorized a favorable report on
the Hitchcock resolution calling on
Secretary Moody for details as to car
riages used at government expense
by heads of departments
All the St Louis theaters except
the Odeon will get new licenses from
License Collector Clifford to replace
those revoked two weeks ago Build
ing Commissioner Hillburger having
found they are complying with the
law
President Plantz of Lawrence
Wis university said that there
would be no more Thanksgiving foot
ball for that institution The decis
ion was reached because of the agita
tion in religious papers against the
game on that day
Much excitement prevails at Dodge
City Kansas over the strike of a
one inch vein of oil at a depth of 2S0
feet in the Bunyan farm fifteen miles
south of that place The owner of the
farm was boring for artesian water
when the oil was struck
Cyrus W McCartney a newspaper
man who disappeared from La Pcrte
Ind several years ago and was sup
posed to have been murdered has
been heard from in a telegram from
him at Dawson Alaska McCartney
says he is well and rich
George Hall defaulting county clerk
of Buchanan county Missouri who
left nine years ago with a deficit of
over 20000 in his accounts sent
word to his bondsmen that he is now
in Monterey Mex and will soon
to reimburse them for losses
Senator Gamble from the commit
tee on Indian affairs made a favorable
report on the bill ratifying the agree
ment with the Indians on the Lower
Brule agency in South Dakota for the
cession of a portion of the reserva
tion at the price of 125 per acre
The third anniversary of the death
of Queen Victoria was observed in
London There was the usual me
morial -service at Frogmore which
was attended by the king and queen
and the royal family The anniver
sary of the queens accession was
marked by salutes at the naval sta
tions and dressing of the warships
Hon Augustus Anderson of Strat
ford one of the oldest and most high
ly respected citizens or Central Iowa
died last week aged GG He had
served two terms in the state legisla
ture and had been a resident of Strat
ford since 18G3 He was a political
leader in his section of the state
The supreme court of California by
a majority decision decided that a
railroad ticket is not a contract It
also decided that transportation com
panies may make rules and regula
tions beyond what appears on the face
of a ticket and that passengers must
comply with them all
IN THE FAR EAST
OUTLOOK THERE SAID
LESS HOPEFUL
TO BE
JAPANESE LANDING AN ARMY
Russian Docs Not Regard Situation
Serious Enough for Hostile Action
Talk of China Going to War Re
garded as Absured
ST PETERSBURG Reports of an
aarming nature of the situation there
continue to pour out of the far east
These include the statesments that the
Japanese are landing an army at
Corea and that 3000 Rus
sian troops are crossing the Yalue
river The reported dispatch of Chi
nese army of soldiers trained by Eur
opqean ofllcers beyond the great wall
to preserve order in Manchuria cannot
be confirmed here and the reports of
the Japanese at and the
Russians at the Yalue are discredited
at the foreign offices here and by M
Kurino the Japanese minister to Rus
sia
M Hartwig a departmental chief of
of the Russian foreign office spoke
feelingly to M Kurino regarding the
harm being done by often utterly base
less reports While the Russian gov
ernment understands the situation in
Corea to be disturbed and possibly
threatening it has not information of
a situation grave enough to warrant
the landing of a large Japanese army
there
Russia freely admits Japans right
under existing conditions to land in
Corea a reasonable number of soldiers
to preserve order but the landing of
an army at this stage of the negotia
tions could not be viewed with
equanimity M Kurino is in no way
l anxious because of the delay in Rus
sias response to the latest Japanese
note and says that Japan is not press
ing for an immediate reply
Russia will be given all the time
she needs the minister is auoted as
saying The statement published by
the Novoe Vremya that because Rus
sia desired peace she cannot surrender
all coincides with the distinct impres
sion gathered by the correspondent of
the Associated Press at the foreign of
fice that Russia will continue to main
tain that the question of sovereignty
of Manchuria is solely a matter be
tween Russia and China
The Svjet and the St Petersburg
Listoe have raised an outcry over thp
reported sending of Chinese troops to
Manchuria and the latter newspaper
declares that if it is true that these
troops go with the purpose of threat
ening the railroads between Port Ar
thur and Vladivostock it means war
with China and not with Japan In
an interview Soo Wei Teh the Chi
nese minister to Russia is quoted as
saying
The talk of China going to war
with anyone is absurd We have no
intention of fighting If Chinese troops
are being sent north it is solely for the
purpose of inspiring confidence in our
people who are alarmed and who
would become panic stricken in the
event of hostilities between Russia and
Japan Personally I have no knowl
edge of this reported movement but
the fact of it would not necessarily
be communicated to me
FIRE CHIEF MUSHAM REPORTS
Blames Management and Builders for
Iroquois Fire
CHICAGO 111 Upon the manage
ment and builders of the Iroquois
theater has been placed the responsi
bility for the fire horror in a report
rendered to Mayor Harrison by Fire
Chief Musham The report is prepar
ed by Fulkerson after examination of
nearly 100 witnesses in the days im
mediately following the fire
No criticism is made of the build
ing department although seven viola
tions of the building ordinances are
noted Attorney Fulkerson concludes
that the theater building was not com
pleted at the time it was opened
that the theater employes did what
they could to put the fire out and
that the doors were generally locked
throughout the building
Pope Sends His Blessing
ROME Monsignor Serafino the
new apostolic delegate in Mexico has
been received in farewell audience by
the pope and was entrusted by his
holiness to express to President Diaz
and the Mexican government his satis
faction with the measure of liberty
granted under President Diax to Cath
olicism in Mexico which resulted in
-he prosperity of the church there
Crushed by an Elephant
LONDON George Lockhart the
well known elephant trainer and cir
cus proprietor was accidentally crush
ed to death Sunday by an elephant
while he was attending the unload
ing of the circus animals at the Hoe
street railway station at Walthams
town
Hurricans in Fili Islands
MELBOURNE A disastrous hurri
cane has blown over the Fiji islands
resulting in great loss of life and prop
erty
Rosebud Reservation Lands
WASHINGTON The house commit
tee on Indian affairs ordered a favor
able report on the bill to open for
settlement 400000 acres of the Rose
bud Indian reservation in South Da
kota
Term of Service Increased
WASHINGTON The war depart
ment has ordered that hereafter all
details of staff officers for Philippines
duty shall be for three year3 instead
of two years as at present
THE PANAMA TREATY
Discussion Will Be Continued in Sen
ate This Week
WASHINGTON The senate has
no program for the week beyond a
continuation of the dehate on the Pan
ama question The fact tnat the Gor
mon resolution of inquiry was dis
posed of last week does not change
the situation except that it makes
necessary a new basis for speeches
This will be supplied in the resolu
tion of inquiry to be introduced Mon
day as the result of Saturdays confer
ence of democratic senators A num
ber of addresses are still to be made
on both sides of the controversy and
it is quite certain that the debate will
continue for many days It is well
understood on both sides of the cham
ber that in reality the treaty and not
any particular resolution is being dis
cussed the reason being that the
treaty itself could not be discussed
in open session whereas the resolu
tion can be- The democrats prefer
an open discussion of the question and
the republicans as a matter of policy
and in the interest of the expedition
to the vote on the treaty have not
objected When it becomes apparent
that the discussion in open session
is exhausted executive sessions will
be ordered and the debate wdill pro
ceed behind closed doors
It is quite well understood that the
amendments to the treaty reported by
the committee on foreign relations
will be withdrawn before final action
is taken
COLD MADDENS AN ELEPHANT
Almost Kills Keeper and Does Much
Damage
ST PAUL Minn Maddened by the
intense cold which had frozen irs
ears and trunk an elephant belong
ing to an animal show which had
been oxhiblting at a local theater Sun
day almost killed us keeper Conrad
Castens and partially wrecked the
Milwaukee freight house Many of the
attendants had narrow escapes from
serious injury Castens then went to
the animals head and attempted to
pacify it but the beast threw him
to the ground and planted his foot
upon him crushing in his ribs and it
is believed fatally injuring him The
brute then seized heavy articles of
freight in the sheds and began toss
ing them about promiscuously doing
considerable damage After laboring
for nine hours attendants quieted the
animal
COTTON REACHES WAR PRICES
Dr Brown Sorings a Little Surprise
on tin New Orleans Ring
NEW ORLEANS Dr Brown sur
prised the ring at the Cotton exchange
Friday by telling traders to go to his
brokers and give them everything
they had for sale for May delivery at
the market price He said he was
wlling to buy everything offered up
to half a million bales Before he
made this offer he bid 1518c for 25000
bales of May His purchases were
heavy
The market remained in a health
condition in spite of the levels that
have been attained The present
prices are the highest since war times
and the future market has been
established Ihcre appears to be no
weak long interest in the market and
brokers are exacting heavy margins
on all purchases
IRRIGATION COMPANY LOSES
County Has Right to Fx Rate for
Water -WASHINGTON
D C The decis
ion of the circuit court of the United
States for the northern district of Cali
fornia in the case of the county of
Stanislaus against the San Joaquin
Kings River Canal and Irrigation com
pany was reserved in the supreme
court Monday
The case involved the validity of
the laws of California permitting the
county authorities to fix the rate to
be charged by the irrigation company
for water The company claimed the
rate the county fixed was too low and
that the laws prior to 18S5 under
which the company was organized
were equivalent to a contract permit
ting the company to fix its own rate
The circuit court accepted this view
and decided that the act of 1SS5 could
not be invoked to impair the contract
BLAIR OWED HALF A MILLION
He Carried Life Insurance in the Sum
of 1000000
ST LOUIS Mo The policies held
by the late James L Blair former
general counsel for the worlds fair
who died at Eustis Fla last Satur
day are rapidly being paid by the in
surance companies
It is stated that the total amount of
Mr Blairs indebtedness including the
money advanced for him by friends
and relatives during the last year of
his life has been officially determin
ed at 663000 It is further stated
that every dollar of this amount will
be paid from the insurance now com
ing in leaving 543000 for Mrs Blair
and her two son providing that a pol
icy for 200000 which one company
began to congest before Mr Blairs
death is paid
Engage in Pitched Battle
KANSAS CITY Mo Fifty non
union bridge workers employed on
the Union Pacific Railroad companys
bridge across the Kansas river and
about a hundred members of the
Structural Iron Workers unicn engag
ed in a pitched battle at the new
Union Pacific bridge in Kansas City
Kan Tuesday during which thirty
revoiver shots were fired hundreds
of bricks were thrown and several
men injured two seriously It was
thought for a time that more serious
trouble would result
TORNADO SOUTH
AT LEAST THIRTY PEOPLE ARE
KNOWN TO BE KILLED
AN INCREASE LIST LIKELY
Entire Northern Portion of Alabama
Swept by High Winds In Addition
to Loss of Life Great Damage Re
sults to Property
TUSCALOOSSA Ala A disastrous
tornado swept over Moundville Ala
a town of 300 inhabitants fifteen
miles south of Tuscaloosa early Fri
day and as a result thirty seven per
sons were killed and more than 100
injured Every business house with
the exception of a small durg store
was completely destroyed
Surgeons were rushed to Mound
ville from Greensboro and Tuscaloosa
and all possible was done to alleviate
the sufferings of the injured By the
force of the storm persons were blown
hundreds of feet trom their beds in
the blacknes of the night Through
terror a father mother and three
children iled from their home to seek
refuge and in their excitement left
a 5-year-old boy in bed Later he was
pulled from beneath some timber and
thus far it is impossible to find any
other member of the family Bedding
carpets and wearing apparel are scat
tered for a distance of ten miles
through what was a forest but which
is now as clear as if cut by the
woodmans axe
Freight cars were blown to splin
ters the trucks from them being
hurled hundreds of feet from the
track The depot the hotel ware
house gins thirty homes five store
houses together wtih the stocks were
completely destroyed Where they
stood it is impossible to find even
the pillars upon which these struc
tures rested
Bales of cotton which were stowed
in warehouses were torn to atoms
the fragments of lint lodging in tres
making it appear as though that sec
tion had been visited by a snowstorm
Heavy iron safes the doors of which
in some instances were torn from
their hinges were carried away by
the force of the wind
A young cleric employed by W P
Phifer hearing the terrible roaring of
the storm let himself into a well in
the center of the store He had no
sooner found this place of safety than
the store was completely demolished
He was uninjured
The town of Hull four miles north
of Moundville suffered from the tor
nado The Bates Lumber companys
planing department was completely
wrecked and the negro fireman crush
ed Four residences and one church
were demolished
BIRMINGHAM Ala Tornadoes
played havoc at several places in
North Alabama resulting as far as
known in the death of over thirty
people and injury to many more The
storm center was at and around
Moundville a small town in the
northern portion of Hale county
where heavy loss of life and great de
struction of property are reported
Because of the fact that the wires
were prostrated cetails of the disaster
re meager Reports received at
Tuscaloosa indicate that no less than
thirty peopie were killed at Mound
ville and many more injured
The storm swept all of the northern
portion of Hale county and destroyed
many farms It is feared that fuller
reports will show an increased loss
of life
Driven from Home in Blizzard
NEW CUMBERLAND W Va
Fully one half of this town is under
twelve feet of water and a blizzard is
raging Dozens of factories are sub
merged and the big Chelsea China
company plant is greatly damaged
At Empire two miles above on the
Ohio river the town is under fifteen
feet of water and practically the en
tire population are camped out in box
cars Six miles above Empire a heavy
landslide has covered the Cleveland
Pittsburg railroad tracks
Islmd Trade Is Increasing
WASHINGTON D C The Philip
pine trade statistics of the insular bu
reau of the War department show that
the imports of those islands during the
eight months ended August 1903 ag
gregate 222665S1 and exports 20
S67313 These figures are exclusive
of coin and government supplies The
aggregate of exports and imports is
an increase of almost 6000000 over
four fifths of which may be credited to
shipments from the archipelago the
hemp and copras output being espe
cially large
Philippine Trade Statistics
WASHINGTON The Philippine
trade statistics of the insular bureau
of the war department show that the
imports of those islands during the
eight months ended August 1903 ag
gregate 20S67313 These figures are
exclusive of coin and government sup
plies The aggregate of exports and
imports is an increase of almost 6
000000 over four fifths of which may
be credited to shipments from the
archipelago the hemp and corpa out
put being large
Socialists to Meet
OMAHA Neb The executive com
mittee of the national socialist party
in session in Omaha issued a call for
a national convention to meet in Chi
cago May 1 The call after stating
the result of the referendum vote on
place of meeting says the basis of
representation shall be one delegate
for each hundred members in good
standing and one delegate at large
from each state The building in
which the convention is to be held
will be announced later by the local
committee
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sons Timothy Sullivan the messeng
er was in another car and when he
returned he found the side door of tho
express car open and the safe missing
Tho robber gained entrance to the
car through the end door the lock of
Tunnel No 2 It had been broken
open and its contents taken with the
exception of a valuable diamond some
checks and other papers The amount
of treasure that was being carried in
the safe has not been determined The
express officials state that it was only
a few hundred dollars but that there
were some valuable papers
Estimates from the scene of the
robbery place the amount as high as
SO000 but it is thought that this
estimate is greatly exaggerated The
express car carried two safes one a
through safe which is locked at New
Orleans and the other a local safe
It was the local safe that was taken
One man is under arrest at San Luis
Obispo on suspicion but the evidence
against him is only circumstantial The
slow progress of the train would have
permitted the robbers entering the ex
press car throwing out the safe and
jumping off after it without danger
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When Somebody Said That Ons of the PoWefs WouM Keln Jnnan to Oefea Russia
From the St Paul uioue
EXPRESS HELD OP
TRAIN
ROBBERS LOOT THE SUN
SET LIMITED
DISPLAY RED DANGER SIGNAL
Trainmen are Overpowered and Ex
press Car is Forced Open Officials
Assert that Amount Taken by the
Robbers is Small
SAN FRANCISCO While tho
Southern Pacific companys Sunset
Limited was climbing the mountains
between San Luis Obispo and San Ar
do Thursday night a Wells Fargo
treasure box was mysteriously stolen
PURC FOOD BILL
Measure Pasccd in House by Rising
Vote
WASHINGTON Tho House passed
the Hepburn pure food bill Wednesday
on a rising vote 201 to IS Its oppon
ents being unable to secure a roll call
The amendment inserting the word
wilful with reference to persons
who sell adulterated or misbranded
goods and which would have compell
ed the government to prove intent to
violate the law by the venders was
stricken out on a yea and nay vote in
the house Several attempts were
made to amend the bill but no mater
ial changes were made
Tiie bill fixes the standard of foods
and drugs as to their purity strength
and character and defines who shall
out of the car by some person or per be considered adulterations or m
His helper was in a compartment of RESOLUTIONS
one of the cars The express was tem
very slowly on an up grade
SIOUX C1TY ASHLAND LINE
Slender Prcspect of Euildirg It This
Year
LINCOLN Neb The Journal says
It may be said on the authority of a
Burlington man well known in Ne
braska and now enjoying a position
where he should know when the com
pany intends building that the Sioux
City line projected to run from Ash
land to a connection with the Great
Northern in lewa may not be built
this coming season
is-
branding of foods and drugs It also
prohibits interstate commerce impor
tation and exportation of such mis
branded or adulterated scone of th
bureau of chemistry to Include tho
bureau of foods and impose upon it
which had been forced Sullivan at the duty of performing all chemical
once notified the railway officials of work for the other executive depart
the robbery and a search for the miss- ments This bureau wil be charged
ing safe resulted in finding it near with tho duty of inspecting food and
drug products which belong to inter
state or foreign commerce The secre
tary of commerce is given authority to
employ such chemists inspectors
clerks and laborers as may be neces
sary for the enforcement of the act
One section of the bill provides pen
alties for tho introduction of adulter
ated or misbranded foods or drinks
and another section requires the sec
retary of agriculture to prescribe
rules and regulations to govern the
bureau of chemistry and foods in ex
aminations of articles recuired to be
inspected under the law - Violations
of the law shall be reported by the
secretary of agriculture to the proper
district attorney of the United States
who is to direct and cause proceedings
without delay
As soon as the bill was reported to
the house Mr Hepburn moved an
amendment eliminating the amend
ment offered yesterday on motion of
R W Christianson of the Pacific i Mr Stephens dem Tex which
department of Wells Fargo Co says made it necessary to show wilful in
that there was very little in the box I tent on the part of persons prosecuted
but there is a report that one package Mr Hepburn said that with the Stepk
sent from Santa Barbara was worth ens amendment in the bill it would
about 1700 He said that Timothy j bo entirely inefficacious as a law The
Sullivan the messenger in charge of j Hepburn amendment was agreed to
the car was an old
thoroughly reliable
employe and j by a vote of 145 to 12G The bill then
I was passed by a rising vote of 201 to
On the arrival of the train in this
city Messenger Sullivan told the story
of the robbery to Yardmaster Percival
He said that shortly after the train left
San Luis Obispo on its way north he
left the express car and went into the
baggage car immediately behind it
G8 the yeas and nays being refused
Mr Hull of Iowa chairman of the
committee on military affairs report
ed the army appropriation bill and
gave notice that he would call it up
Thursday
AGAINST SMOOT
porarily vacant and the thieves possi l Lincoln Ministers Take Action in Case
bly hoboes who had been stealing aj of Utah Senator
ride cut a hole in the front door and LINCOLN Neb At the meeting of
entered They then forced open the the Lincoln Ministerial association the
side door threw out the safe and pre- ministers passed resolutions and will
sumably jumped after it This was an send the following instructions to the
easy matter as tne train was moving Xebrasa senators to present to Sen
ator Burrows chairman of the com
mittee en privileges and elections
Resolved That as the Ministerial
Association of Lincoln ve protest
against Senator Smoot retaining his
seat in the United States senate pro
vided if it be found by the senate com
mittee that the cath of loyalty to the
Morman church on the part of- tho
apostle Smoot subordinates his alleg
ance to the government of the United
States and interferes with a loyal sup
port of the institutions of the sovem
ment The resolution was adopted
ananimouuy
The tightness of the money market j Explorer Hubbard is Dead
in the cast may prevent tne building j QUEBEC Word was received here
of many lines in the west j from Chateau Bay Labrador thaVa
standing the business of the west courier had arrived there Fridayv from
warrants extensions connecting liues i Northwest river with the information
and improvements Notwithstanding that Leonidas Hubbard jr of the
the present outlook Sioux City if exploring party sent out by the ma
moving in the matter to induce Jim azine Outing of New York had dieTl
Hill to ouild the line at once and it rrom starvation in the wilds of Lab
reports from her business mens com- radcr en October IS The remains are
mutee are not too niguiy coioreu j on uieir way to Quebec so the re-
vicie beems to oe some prospect oi
success
Mischief Makers in Korea
WASHING VN The only advices
received over night at the state de
port says by deg train with ihn
other members of the expedition
Thompson Will Return
LINCOLN Neb D E Thompson
United States minister rn Trn ii
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partment irora me east arc irom vim on a leave oi absence is expected
ister Alien at Seoul Minister Aller to arrive in Lincoin about Februarv
reports that Seoul is in a panicky j 3 The steamer Tennyson en which
condition and that there is Mr Thompson sailed Ircm Rio Janeiro
Xov of a riotous outbreak at any mo- j January 2 is due to arrive at
menr i ne inuraauon is conveyed in
the dispatch that interested foreigr
amissaries are at the bottom of Lhese
iisturbances the result of which ma
be to afford an excuse tor interven
tion and the placing of large forces
in Korea
lyn on Vetinosday Januarv 20 r
mediately after landing Mr Thomp
son will go to Washington to report
to the state department From Wash
ington he expects to go to Michigan
to visit lelatives and
sou after to
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