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Lives While Skating
DISASTER AT FOSTER IOWA
Ice Gives XVny With Flfty ono and Onlr
Two Itacnpe to Tell tho
to Oliluln lnrtlculnrii or tlio llcportml
Catastrophe
Dcs MoIiich Dec 28 A telentiouo
message from Washington la suys
thnt 51 nohool children were BknthiR on
tlie river neitr Foster la when the
ice gave way and -10 were drowned
A telephone message from the What
Cheer telephone operator nt midnight
to the operator In Den Moines said
that 40 school children had been
drowned Immediately thereafter it
became impossible to reach What
Cheer by telephone the operator evi
dently having gone homo
Telephone messaged by wny of Oska
loosa and Ottmmvn say the report of
the drowning of 49 school children at
What Cheer Is time The children
wore skating on a pond near the fair
grounds and the accident occurred
about 0 p m
Burlington In Doc 28 A tele
phone message to the Hawlteye from
Washington Ia says that 51 school j
children were skating on tho river
near Foster la on the Chicago Mil
waukee and St Iaul near What
Cheer when the Ice gave way and 40
were drowned only two ehlldlren es
caping to tell the tale
PICKED UP AT SEA
Thirteen Shipwrecked Suitor Readied by
the TruDHpurt Garonne
Seattle Wash Dec 28 Particulars
cf the rescue by the United States
transport Garonne of li shipwrecked
seamen of the ill fated schooner
Theresa Maria in Philippine waters
were received in this city While en
route from Vigau with 12 sick men
from the Third cavalry and Thirty
third infantry and 515 insurgent pris
oners the1 Garonne sighted wreckage
with men t clinging to it on her star
board bow Captain Conrndi brought
Ills ship around and dispatched life
bouts to those clinging to the
nge and all were rescued and taken
nboard the Garonne
The Theresa Marin was bound from
Santa Cruz to Manila with rice and
sugar and encountered u squall which
Bwnmped her The members of tjic
crew were three days and nights in
the water without food or anything
to drink Meanwhile several vessels
passed thorn all falling to observe the
Marias distress
RAID ON BRITISH BORDERS
Injfcrl Tribo or Dutch New Guinea 1
I Qulclcly FunUhud
Victoria U C Dec 28 The steamer
Miowcra brings advices of a raid on
the British possessions by the Tugerl
tribe from Dutch New Guinea A
squad of police met the pirates from
JTuguri near the mouth of Morehead
river A light on the water ensued
Ithe police capturing and sinking live
junks No prisoners were taken but
it is estimated that 40 were shot or
drowned There were no casualties
among the government forces
The Mlowera also brings advices
from Queensland thnt a prospector
named P Killnnc has been killed and
eaten by the natives
i A report is brought of the discovery
of gold in S bioh near Apia and that
Matanfa Is becoming restless and on
Dec G called a meeting of native
chiefs
SPEAKERSHIP CONTEST
Candidate Are Active In Their Cuuvuss
ut Lincoln
Lincoln Dec 28 Three of tho
Speakership candidates William G
Sears of Burt John J McCarthy of
Dixon and J A Andrews of Frontier
were here but neither of them did
very much work in their own behalf
for the reason thnt there were only a
few of the Republican legislators In
the city Tho announcement of the
withdrawal of Dr Lallln of Gage
county from the race for the speaker
chip caused some consternation In tho
ranks of partisans but all sides
claimed to be benefited by tho action
Dr Laflln and Mr Sears were to
gether in the lobby of the Llndell most
of tho day and the latter expressed
grcnt confidence that he would bo
elected
Ram on Baltimore Bank
Baltimore Dec 28 A scare among
tho timid depositors of tho several
savings banks of the city was the only
noticeable result of thohrtture Wednes
day of tlie Old Town bank Buns oc
curred on nearly all the savings insti
tutions but tho most notnblo were
opon the Savings Bank of Baltimore
the City Savings bank and the Hop
kins Place Savings bank In every
enso tlie claims were promptly satis
fied
Et Joe Murder Myatery
St Joseph Mo Dec 28 Tlie prose
cuting attorney believes he will be
oble to develop all the Important feat
ures of the sensatlonnl murder of the
millionaire merchant Frank Richard
son of Savnnnnh at the Inquest to be
resumed today Mrs ltlcharduon will
ttako the stand nnd It is understood
ehe will give testimony that will clear
ly show the murderer to be a very
prominent resident of Savannah
RIOT IN BROOKLYN JAIL
Matron nnd Warden lleaten by Maddened
Female Prisoners
New York Dec 28 Twenty mad
dened female prisoners In the Ray
mond street Jail llrooklyn rioted yes
terday and tiercely assaulted Matron
Pantile Handy and Warden McGrnth
There was no attempt to escape The
riot was the coiiHcuuence of nothing
but ill feeling Miss Handy wns trans
ferring prisoners from one corridor to
another In the woman section when
Khe was attacked by Nolllc Jones a
powerfully built woman who had
been bent up for ten days for Intoxi
cation Miss Hnndy wns felled
Nineteen other prisoners then as
saulted her While the blows rained
thick on her head and body she ninn
aged to push a button that rang a bell
In the wardens office Warden Mc
Grnth ruthed to the womans depart
ment without waiting to call for as
sistance and they Jumped on him
The blows were fast and furious and
McGrnth went to the floor Hnt pins
were brought Into play and his face
head and nock were gouged
Miss Handy made her way through
the crowd and again rang the alarm
The sheriff and live deputies replied
They had much troublo In subduing
the women but succeeded and two
of them were put In straight Jackets
EMPEROR OBJECTS
Chinese Court Taken Kxoeptlon to Two of
Notos Stipulations Wants Forts
Left and 1 nurds Muted
Peking Dec 28 LI Hung Chang
and Prince Thing tho Chinese peace
commissioners have heard from the
emperor Kwang Su Prince Chlng
culled on the former for consultation
remaining over nn hour The court
objects strenuously to reducing tho
forts uud also to allowing porhiunout
legation guards which It seems to
think could be made sufficiently large
at any time it was desired to menuco
tho court Itself
After the conference it was decided
to hold further communication with
tho court before seeing the ministers
Shanghai Dec 28 The Chinese
newspapers here object to the proposed
pence terms The Universal Gnzette
considers that tho princes and olliclals
who are to be punished should be
named It is questionable whother
General Tung Fu Hslang is Included
among those punishable and so far as
Prince Tumi Is concerned it is well
known that the Chinese peace com
missioners have been Instructed not
to consent to any punishment of a per
son of royal blood exceeding imprls
onmcut
NEBRASKA TEACHERS
Reoord llrealilnir Atteudnnce at the An
nual iHeetliiK nt Lincoln
Lincoln Dec 2S One of the feat
ures of tho State Teachers association
meeting was the address last evening
of Chancellor Andrews of the Unive
sity of Nebraska He defended tho
so called fads of the modem teacher
declaring it to be better to be criticised
for originality and enterprise than to
be a drone and escape criticism Yes
terdays attendance was a record
brenker 1370 the largest in the his
tory of tho association Instruction tn
kindergarten work was one of the in
teresting features of the sectional
meetings A IL Wnterhouse of Omu
ha and O A Thomas of Mlndeu are
leading candidates for president of the
association
All Gambles Way Now
Sioux Falls S D line 28 Tho dlf
ferences existing between the South
Dakota Republicans over the election
of a successor of Senator Pettigrow
have been adjusted and as a result
of a compromise now being effected
Congressman Robert J Gamble will
be tho choice of the Republican mem
bors of the legislature for United
States senator
TELEGRAMS TERSELY TOLD
Six hundred miners of the Berton
Coal companys mines near Mlnesboro
Pa are on a strike
Honolulu Is nbout to have a temper
ance crusade lod by tlie W C T U
and the Ministers union
Captain Hunk Ilnff lias been selected
master of the Boston boat to be built
to defend tho Americas cup
Announcement was mado Thursday
of the acquisition by the Atchison
Topeka and Santa Fe of tho Pecos
Valley and Northeastern railroad
The suffering and wunt of the Rus
sian settlers In McHenry county
North Dakota Is great A number of
them arc said to be actually starving
J A R Elliott defeated William R
Crosby at Kansas City Thursday in
a contest for the cast iron shooting
championship medal by a score of DC
to 01
The Berliner Post summarizing Ger
manys naval progress this year says
that seven vessels have been launched
Including two battleships one large
crulcr and four smnll cruisers
At a meeting of the prosecuting offi
cers of Missouri held in St Louis
Thurhduy u resolution was adopted
to recommend to the state lcglsluturt
the passage of u law making kidnap
ing a capital crime
W I Dean ullas W II Carr who
It is alleged is wanted at Illnton la
on tho charge of defaulting while
agent of the Great Northern Express
company la under arrest at Slier
brooke Que A representative of the
company will go there to push extra
dition proceeding
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Kitchener Trying to Head Off
Boer Commander
LANOERS ARE TURNED J3A0K
Are Dmibtn to Kflrrt Heinle of HrltUh
Abandons llll
Blnxlitm IarKo Iorro of lloem Trekking
to Diiuntruliiuil
Loudon Dec 28 Tho following din
patch has been received from Lord
Kitchener
1iottirln Doc UT Knoz with Ilnrker
rilcliiT nml White In ciikiikciI with lt
wrlH force liolilluu n position tn kit iicIrIi
Uui liimil of ticmvknp
liuwrt liopiH to lireuk through unit ro
toiitb URIllll
The iIolmn riistiTii column In Cpo Col
our I nppnielitlv licuilml by ollr tlOOpn
uliout Heliport npiult The lloom wtmturn
column Ih reported to luivc ciitin north tu
two poltlunv oiiu towiiul llluxkn nml the
oilier tlmiUkh Strydeiiburg Turr nro be
ing followed up
Yesterday 00 llnri H sttitekrrt small po
lice poMt lieur Hnli tlnnR The pollre jtnl
lniilly drove them off before reinforcements
from Johiitincflimg tirilveil Tlie IIiilth
dumiiKcd the mining machinery In the
nelRhliorhnoil
Thu Hoeis nttiicltcil Utrecht at 2 oclock
thin moniliiK mid weir- driven off
The lloei H held up n tiuln tluec miles
west of 1iiu nml weiu dllven off
London Dec 28 Tho latest dis
patches ii nni South Africa show that
Lord Kitchener has succeeded In hold
ing tlie Invading Boers In check But
he has not yet been successful In ex
pelling them from Cape Colony while
small coinmandues continue to display
astonishing dating and activity over
an Immensely wldo Held
It Is questionable whether his proc
lamation will hare much effect until
General Dewet Is captured The Boors
are likely to regard It as a sign of
weakness and to have a wholesome
dread of Dewets vengeance If they
surrender
The proclamation Is approved by the
party nt home that favors conciliatory
terms to the Boers as a step in tlie
right direction
A dispatch from Vryburg tinted Dec
20 says the Boers in considerable num
bers were then making an unexpected
movement westward They had lf
wagons The dispatch suggests that
they were trekking to Dntniirulmid al
though the Boers themselves denied
any Mich Intention
IrexHluj llorr Commando
Burgliersdorp Cape Colony Dec 28
GrsMifeH continue In touch
with Kruitzlngers commniido of 700
men who are carrying off the British
prisoners Krultzlnger has abandoned
his Maxims and carts An attempt
of the Ninth Lancers to turn Kruit
zlngers lank at Plalsterheuvcl re
sulted in eight casualties among the
Lnncers Including Lord Frederick
Blackwood who was wounded
MILLER RECOVERS HIS BOY
Mother unil Child Found III a Small Touu
Not 1nrlroiu liidlinupnllj
Indianapolis Dec 28 Yesterday the
hackinan who drove Mrs Miller and
her son Sydney was located and in
formed the detectives that ho had con
veyed the Wfuiuu and boy to Blight
wood live miles east of this city
where she intended to take the first
train on the Big Four for Now York
Samuel Miller the husband unrl
father with u corps of newspaper men
und detectives immediately secured
carriages und the party was driven
rapidly to Brigbtwood
On arriving ther they were In
formed thnt Mrs MUler and her boy
had been taken to Lawrence Ind tlie
next station north The party pro
ceeded to this place found the woman
and child nsleep in n bonrdlug house
and tlie father with his son started
on his way back to Indianapolis
Mrs Miller was loft at Lawrence
Decided In lavor of Brewery
Sioux City Dec 28 A decision In
tho district court wns announced yes
terday which Involves tho right of
the Sioux City Browing company and
nil saloons In Iowa to continue in op
eration under the Martin liquor law
It was claimed by Eugene Lutz
plaintiff that the brewery had vio
lated tho law In several cases and con
sequently tho petition of consent un
der which all saloons as well as the
brewery operated waa nullified The
decision was in favor of tho brewery
Drunken Han KJ1U Two Men
Toplar Bluff Mo Dec 28 Foster
Baker and Robert Jones residents of
Cottonwood Point Pemiscot county
while Intoxicated quarreled nnd Baker
stabbed Jones to death Later Baker
met an inoffensive German named
Johnson and shot him dead Baker Is
now In Jail at Caruthersvllle Lynch
Ing is feared
Frye Jenle thu Story
Washington Dec 28 A E Frye
the superintendent of education of
Cuba has telegraphed tho war depart
ment a sweeping denial of the pub
lished story to tho effect that he Is
sued n circular or proclamation In Ha
vana advising the Cubans to proceed
to drive tho Americans out of the Isl
and
Colonel Bryant Stricken
Wichita Dec 28 olonel Montgom
ery Bryunt U S A retired formerly
of the Thirteenth Infantry had two
separate strokes of paralysis this
week and his condition is serious He
was the first white man born In Kan
sas ut Leuveuworth lu 1832
FAVOR CHANGES IN THELAW
I own TsMimer llmi Legislation a Well
ha Technical Topic
Des Moines Dec 28 The leading
topic before the second days ncsbIoii
of tlie lown Stale Teachers associa
tion which Is assembled here was tho
paper rend by Superintendent D M
Kelly of Cedar Falls upon Homo
Moral Questions for tho School llo
wns followed by Superintendent H It
Shonkley or Des Moines upon Tho
School of the Twentieth Century
While Professor W W Spcer of Chi
cago had for his text Arithmetic
How to Teach It
Tlie report of tho legislative commit
tee contained a number of minor rec
ommendations with regard to the
change of the school law of the state
The following officers were elected
PrcHldeiil A W Stuart Ottumwa
vice presidents 1 P Hugged or Cedar
napltls 10 II Graff of lied Oak and
13 C Lilly of Independence secretary
W V Parr Des Molues Members of
the executive committee II H Krntz
Slonx City members of educational
council President Hi O MacLean
Iown City and A L Huklll Waterloo
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lollce Are NerhiK llhn All Ilia War Irom
CIiIciiko to HoHtoUKorliiiir Ounur
of 1ouy round
Omaha Dec 28 The police chanced
upon a clue yesterday which they
hope will mark the beginning of the
end of tlie kidnaping mystery It Ih
by nil odds the most important devel
opment In the case thus far as It
clears up the Identity of the pony at
Pacific Junction tracen It directly Info
the hands of the bandits and furnishes
more accurate description of the out
laws than the police had previously
hccurcd It was learned that the pony
was sold Dec 14 by Daniel Burrls
who lives at Will Grand avenue to
two men one of whom answers the
description of Pat Crowe
Crowo Is the most ubiquitous man
In the United States In the space or
IS hours he lias been simultaneously
seen by police of three cities and
sleuths all tho way from Denver to
Liverpool are looking for him
Crowe Alio Seen In OliUnco
Chicago Dec 28 Disguised as o
woman Pat Crowe who Is being
sought all over the United States on
the charge that he was the kidnaper
of Kdille Cudahy ut Omaha lias been
seen In Chicago within the lust few
days and may still be hiding here ac
coiing j Klntoniciit mdo v
Sergeant James Storen who
lias arrested Crowe n uumber of times
In the past
Think Crowe Sailed Tor Uterpnol
Boston Doc 28 The Boston police
have evidence to Indicate they think
that Pat Crowe and the man who Ih
wanted on a charge of kidnaping young
Cudahy are on the Warren liner
Michigan bound for Liverpool and a
cable containing thnt Information has
been sent to the Scotland Yard de
tectives who will be on the Liverpool
docks when the steamer arrives
Too Knylor Kidnaper
Topeka Dec 28 It Is likely that
the Kansas law against kldnnpliig
will he abridged this winter attorneys
and others lelng of the opinion that
the punishment provided by tlie pres
ent statute Is not sufficient for the
crime Before Governor Stanley
went home last week he talked the
matter over with Attornoy General
Goddard and they ngreed that the
law should be amended
Iovwi Boy Kidnaped
Jnfld la Dec 28 Tho
son of Louis Tenshose has been miss
lug since Tuesday last and the father
is of the opinion that it Is the work of
kldnaperR lie has offered a reward
of r00 for the return of the child and
1000 for the arrest of the culpiiLs
TELEGRAPHIC BRIEFS
The Prussian diet has been sum
moned to meet Jan 8
S V Derrah has been appointed
general freight agent of the Rio
Grande Western railroad
Thoinns B Williams ex member of
the board of governors of the New
York Stock exchange is dead
Tlie First National bunk of White
Pigeon Mich wus closed Thursday
by order of tho comptroller of the cur
rency
Charles H Beach Is in Jail at
port charged with trying to kidnap
Ills son over whom tho boys mother
has control
The Industrial commission nt Wash
ington Is nrruuglng for a list of wit
nesses who will testify from Jan 4 to
19 on the subject of transportation
The president has ordered that the
military reservation nt Nome Alaska
be made a public reservation under
tho control of the war department
The failure of the well known bunk
ing firm of Francisco Martinez Negrete
Sons of Guadalajtna lias created
a sensation In Mexico The liabilities
are 200000
Tho steamer reported ashoro south
of Mlumi Fin Is tho Homerlck of
Baltimore laden with coal for Mex
ico The wreckers now have her In
charge and tho entire cargo is being
dumped Into the sea
W R Neff and Mrs Myrtlo Wright
charged with the murder of G A Bar
ber of Iowa for the purpose of secur
ing Insurance on his life wero Thurs
day discharged at the preliminary
hearing ut Pugosa Spring Colo
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