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J The. Omaha 3 PART !. i:staulisiiei) joi: 10, 1S71. OMAHA, SUNDAY HORNING, FEBRUARY 15, 1903-TWENTY PAGES. SINGLE COPY FIVE CENTS. SCANDAL OVER CARDS Members of the Smurt Set Oanght Cheating at Game of Bridge Whist ONE INSTANCE AT SWELL HOUSE PARTY Duchess of DeTCD'hire Makei an Effort to Hash Matter Up. OTHER ONE IS AT ARISTOCRATIC CLUB Result it a Morement to Fat the Game Under the Ban. KING AND QUEEN HAVE A DISAGREEMENT Hop Royal Hlsthaesa Refueea to At tend a Party at Which Woman 4 Objectionable to Her la Invited aa Garat. (Copyright. by Press Publishing Co.) LONDON, Feb. 14 (New York World Ca blegram Special Telegram.) The craze for bridge wbist. which ihowa no sign of abat ing, haa produced a heavy crop of acandala. The eensatlonal facta In two recent cases the ultra "smart;' act la trying desper ately hard to coDccal. The scene of one was the duke of Devon shire's magnificent country seat in Derby shire, Chatjworth. The time was Christ mas, during the grand party the duke and duchess gave at the time. An Invitation to Chats worth, It may be noted herot la harder to get than an Invltatoln to Sand rlngham, the favorite country seat of the king himself. The culprits in the particular game of bridge In question were a peeress who la especially connected, and a man who, It need acarcely be aald, moves In the most aelect circles of British aristocracy. It haa leaked out that the peeress signalled to her confederate, according to a care fully prearranged code, by toying with her earrings and Angering her pearl necklace. The ducheaa of Devonshire Is aa keen as a rasor In gamea of chance. Her suspicions were aroused, and a watch waa set . by three of the party. They became satisfied that cheating waa going on and the game waa stopped In such a way that the peeress and her friend were made aware that the? had been detected, but the aecret waa kept from the other members of the house party. The main anxiety was to avoid a repeti tion of the Tranbycroft scandal, but aa the clrcumstancea are leaking out it la doubtful if thla can be done. Prlnre Is Warned. One Immediate consequence of the scan dal was that the prince of Wales, who had Intended to Join the Chatsworth party for the theatricals after Christmas, waa warned, and auddenly cancelled his visit lest he might be drawn, aa his father waa, Into a "celebrated case." The theatrical party took place shortly after New Year's, aa it does every year. These entertainments have been for years amnnj Inq-jnoat brilliant-la Ensiitth so ciety. The beat society amateurs always appear, Lady Randolph Churchill among them. The part thla year waa particularly brilliant. The guests were the aame, with few If any exceptions, aa thoae who at tended the Christmas house party. Among them were. Prtncessca Margaret and Partlcla of Connaught, Prlnceaa Henry of Pleaa, the duke and duchess of Teck, the earl and countess of Gosford, Earl and1 Counteaa de Gray, the earl and countess of Mar, and Kellle, Marquis do Soveral, the Portugueae minister. Count Montagu, Vic tor Cavendish. Lady Evelyn Cavendish, Sir John Willoughby and Muriel Wilson. Thla year a one-act play, "Our Bitterest Foe," with Miss Muriel Wilson, the fa mous English beauty, as Blanche de Vran, made up the first half of the program and it was followed by a musical monologue, "The Eternal Feminine," In which Princess Henry of Plesa aang and danced with delightful grace. Mies Muriel Wilaon also played a pretty fantasy, "The Shades of Night," in which the Princess Henry of Plesa waa one of the phantoma. The week preceding the. theatricals, which were given on the evening of Janu ary 10. was a gay one at Chataworth. Dally rehearaals were sandwiched between golf playing In the morning and bridge whiat at night. In the evenlnga the entire party reaorted to bridge. Reclamation ia Forced. The other bridge scandal referred to above la still more recent. The game was in Whlcte's club on St. Jamea street, one . . V. ..... ...... 1 a .. i The offender In thla case was a man who is his wife, who la a particularly conaptcuoua figure 'n English society, while he haa lived a good deal abroad. . There was a scene when he waa detected. Afterward a committee of Inquiry Investi gated all the circumstances and he waa given the option of resigning from the club or being expelled. He resigned. A regular movement against bridge haa begun in society, the game is caualng such demoralisation. But the moat ardent bridge pUyera are society's rulers, so It is not likely that much can be done. It la an open aecret In court clrclea now that the report that the king waa too 111 to be one of a house parly at Chataworth In the fore part of thla month was a pure Snyth. The real reason he auddenly can tiled his engagement was because he had a serious disagreement at luncheon wllh the queen. The kiug had been annoyed becauae Mrs. Oeorge Keppel was not to be among the gQeets. although hla wish that ahe should be there had been communicated to the duke of Devonshire. Queen Alexandria, who only that morning had aeen the full .list of guests In the newspapers, strongly objected to the presence of a certain young unmarried woman who la very prominent In the Devonshire house set and the cen tral figure at ita . rntertalnmenta. Tho quean aald emphatically that ahe would not go to tha party because the aforeaaid young woman waa to be there. Doctor Weald Sot I.le. A heated argument ensued and then the king cancelled the engagement on the spur of the moment. Sir Francis Laklng waa summoned, but firmly declined to laaue a fraudulent bulletin In order to disarm sus picionhaving a lively recollection of the severe criticism he had to endure for agreeing to such a thing when the king bad appendlcltta. This accouola for the atrange fact that no bulletin waa Issued until the next morning, when, contrary to all precedent. It waa signed by the king'a private secretary, Knollys, instead of by a physician. Indeed, Laklng waa not re sponsible for any of the statements made. The king looks remarkably well and shows (Continued oo Second rage.) STRANGE SECT IN SIBERIA "l)llar" One spirited Away by Ri alan f.nt erninent, bat Follow ers Are Faithful. (Copyright, va. by Presa Publishing Co.) 8T. PETERSBURG, Feb. 14 (New York World Cablegram Special Telegram.) A most Interesting and harmless sect sprang up within th last three years In Semyo nonka and the eastern provinces of Si beria on tho Mongolian frontier, attracting thousands of members. Semyononka was a desert some years ago. A few Buddhist nomada wandered there. Then came a few liberated convicts, then some Kierghls and Tartars, and they formed a settlement. The Russians plowed, built huts, sank wells, wove cloth and people began to gather. A Buddhist priest came along and started to make convert. He preached about the emit coming bark to earth and entering (he bodies of babies. The Russians got bold of a new testament and read about the birth at Bethlehem. Tbey and the Budd hists met regularly every evening and dis cussed their matters. One night in De cember, 1901, beautiful young girl be came the mother of a boy. A rumor got abroad that Christ was coming again. It spread like wildftre all along the frontier. The Russians said it was Christ; the Mon gols that it was Duddba. The girl could give no explanation. Crowds came in pilgrimages. The girl waa placed on a throne and covered with rich Chinese brocades, with tha babe in her arms. Buddhists and Russians knelt before her. Mother and child were radi ant. The crops flourished, the cattle multi plied, sickness vanished from the settle, ment. The new faith spread rapidly- Offerings and pilgrimages were of daily occurrence, and every day the girl and her child eat there In shimmering brocado, with a crown on her hair and background of gold and silver and gleaming lights. A year passed and the fame of tha strange events traveled aa far aa St. Petersburg to the czar's eara. No such sect must be permitted, he said, and the police gathered from the adjacent towna and told the girl and her baby to depart. They did so, and nobody knowa what haa become of them. The "temple" haa been closed and the disciples are Bitting In mourning, but there are 20,000 of them and they btlleve that a day will soon come when mother and child will return to rule the earth. SHINING AT AN EARLY AGE I.ady Dorothy Walpole a Social Fa vorlte, Tboafh Only Foortees. (Copyright, 1903, by Press Publishing Co.) LONDON, Feb. 14. (New York World Cablegram Special Telegram.) Lady Dorothy Walpole, the exquisitely pretty young Anglo-American, the pet girl friend of Miss Muriel White, daughter of Secre tary White, of the United States embassy, and who atayed with her much last autumn at Wilton park, promises to be one of the prettiest young debutantes when ahe makes her bow at Buckingham place. As yet she. is by no means "out," but she is ia such groat request where jrauflg; people are and she Is so graceful as a dancer that she has already a very important and en viable position. Her mother, Counteaa Orford, who was Miss Louise Corbin of New York, dislikes to have her only child ao much in society at so early an age (she will be 14 next month), but the Whites are so fond of her and she enjoys Wilton park ao much that her mother is easily per suaded. With her hair parted In the middle and knotted at the nape of her neck in truly American fashion. Lady Dorothy la a truly American girl. She la falrVof face and blue-eyed, and although ahe would still rank among the Juveniles, at the big ball given at Hall Barn last week she had her program filled up before any grown up girl In the room. She la a perfect waltxer, as waa proved by the test that Lord Crlcton, a most fastidious dancing man, danced with her nearly through the whole program. TOO MUCH OF MODERNIZING Marl Corelll Objects to Making; Over the Birthplace of Shakespeare. (Copyright, 1903, by Press Publishing Co.) LONDON, Feb. 14. (New York World Cablegram Special Telegram.) Marie Co rel. 1 Is out with a protest, "at the request of several literary people and lovers of Shakespeare," agalnat the further modern ising of Stratford-on-Avon by the erection of a brand new Carnegie free library next to enakeapeare s birthplace. She goes on , .. " " "While fully realizing the benevolent In tentiona of the wealthy American manu facturer, thla seems to be a point at which even wealth should draw a line, and the Stratford townspeople are by no meana overanxloua to possess a free library at all According to the preaent plana of the custodian the cottage In the garden of the birthplace is to be pulled down and also the oottagea next It. Personally I have no doubt aa to the excellent motlvea of all the persons concerned and exonerate them from suspicion of self-advertisement. But there are so few old world towns remain Ing unspoiled in England that the birth place of Shakespeare should at best be guarded more aacredly for the nation than that a portion of ita most historic street should be left open to easy purchase of the mere millionaire." ICE ENCROACHING ON LAND Worth Siberia Said to Be Rapidly Be. com Ibst an I'nlnhabltable Region, (Copyright, 1903, by Press Publishing Co.) ST. PETERSBURG. Feb. 14. (New York World Cablegram Special Telegram.) North Siberia ia threatened with an ice age. Winter has never before been any thing like ao aevere aa thia year. It be gan laat July, before the grain waa ripe. The grain froze In the fields and before the end of September, the usual harveat time, the earth waa cracking with an Intense frost. So unusual an occurrence, extend ing 1.000 miles, attracted the attention of the Russian authorities, and an expedition tent to inquire into the cause now reports that huge masses of polar ice are rapidly leaving the vicinity of the pole and wedg ing themselves agalnat the coast, where they will never thaw, and that the Impact of tha masses from the pole la driving the lea far up on the land. About 1.000 vil lages have been deserted. The Samoyeda. the aborigines of the country, accounted specially weather wlae, aay that the Si berian graxing grounds for reindeer are be ing gradually driven aoutbward and that tha zone of troa and coarse grass, within the memory of their old men, waa 204 miles north of the preaent limit. APPEARS A UER01KE Mme. Humbert Displays Wonderful Magnet ism in Libel Charge Hearing. PARIS AT ONE TIME READY TO MOB HER Gets Applause Instead While She ii Occu pying Witness Stand. BANKER CATTAUI SADLY DISCOMFITED Accuse! Displays Remarkable Memory of Transactions Year Ago. GIVES ACCURATELY MINUTE DETAILS Convinces Aadleace In Coart She Was Rained by Usurers Instead of Herself Reins; Olsran tle Swindler. (Copyright, 190J, by Press Publishing Co.) PARIS, Feb. 14 (New York World Ca blegram Special Telegram.) By her bril liance and magnetism Mme. Tberese Hum bert has turned the hostility of Paris Into applause. In danger of the mob two months ago, she la now a popular heroine. This magical change she has wrought by the spell of her personality. In the two daya she has been in court she haa dominated the whole proceeding. She even took the case out of her own lawyer's hands. From the moment she awept into the trial room, calm, dauntless, determined, followed by Frederick Humbert and the Daurlgnaca, trembling and dejected, ahe waa In com mand of everything. She completely turned the tables on the Paris banker whose suit it was that brought her into court. It la a mere aide Issue to the main trial, but it haa served to gain for her popular sympathy to such an extent that It inevitably will have a tremendous effect on the bigger trial when It comes on. Mme. Humbert's domination of her audi ence Is described by Varennea In Figaro, who says: 'Her magnetism is amazing. You listen to her, you believe her. If you were the Judge you would be on her aide. If you were a millionaire you would lend her. your fortune." Applause rang out In court several ttmea while ahe waa on the witness atand. Calm, majestic, self composed, she never loat her poise, while several tlmea putting to discomfiture Cattaul, the Parla banker who has sued her for libel in calling him a usurer. When the banker became en tangled in hla facts and dates, and waa floundering helplessly with bis memoranda, trying to remember, she calmly supplied every detail, remarking coldly: "I forget nothing." Her skill, adroitness and apparent sin cerity won over the audience in court, which plainly showed sympathy with her. The audience showed ita enjoyment of Banker Cattaul'a discomfiture. She quickly put him on the defenalve. Before the case waa fairly, under way she ' had . convinced the llstancca Ut aha had bees be -victim of an nnacrupulous usurer. Telling her story in tones that commanded the sym pathy and belief of her audience, she at tributed her financial ruin to usurers. She said the excessive Interest charged her by Cattaul ran the sum she borrowed from him up to $600,000. s- The climax came when, pointing her finger at the shrinking banker, ahe cried i "I'd rather be In the four walls of a prison cell than In your place." The. details of her transactions she re lated with atrlking accuracy. She forgot nothing.- When Cattaul, even with the aid of bis papers, had been foggy about the transactions of ten years ago, ahe glibly recalled everything. Intimations of exposures Involving per sona in hljh places were made in her atory on the atand. Allusions containing scarcely veiled threats were scattered through it. "I want to see Minister Valle," she cried, referring to the minister of Justice. "Hla presence will aootn my feelings, and also benefit my creditors. I have photographs. You will see, yes, I will tell the whole truth." These peculiar referencea to the French minister of Justice caused a sensation, and finally, when M. Humbert was testifying, the presiding Justice sharply forbade further mention of Minister Valle's name. WORKS THeTeOPLE OF BERLIN Bosh American Major Has a Good Time at tha Expense of the Credaloaa. (Copyright, 1903, by Preas Publishing Co.) BERLIN, Feb. 14. (New York World Ca blegramSpecial Telegram.) A man giv ing his name as Schlewaugk and calling hlmaelf an American major haa been ar rested here aa a swindler. Un society Schlewaugk wore the uniform of the United States armjr and talked of his bril liant deeds in the American war with Spain. He had read up the geography of Cuba and knew all about its climate and people. He had atudled alao the printed description of the fighting and was an au thority on the Rough Riders. His position waa strengthened by a letter he carried purporting to be algned by President Roosevelt. Schlewaugk'a bearing was that of a cultivated man of the world. Hla vic tims are many and'most of them are in the highest ranks, from whom fie rmA mr.. ! on vartoua false pretenses. Aa a matter of cold fact he belonga to a poor Berlin family. The only military training he haa waa obtained aa a private in a German Infantry regiment. HOPE FOR MRS. MAYBRICK May Be Released Kest Fall Paraaant to a British Custom, hat Wot Sooaer. (Copyright. 1903, by Press Publishing Co.) LONDON. Feb. 14. (New York World Ca blegramSpecial Telegram.) There la no probability that Mra. Maybrlck will be re leaaed from prison In time to give evidence in the big land ault Involving her mother's fortune. The World correspondent made personal inquiries at the Home office, to which a new appeal has been addressed frr her liberation, but Home Secertary Ritchie doea not intend to depart from the decision of his predecessors that Mra. May. brick shall aerve ber full term. Her sentence waa penal servitude for life, but there is a rule under which life prisoners may be released at the end if twenty years. Counting time remission for good behavior, her eaae may come up under that rule tor review next fall. ahoa It la possible she may get the benefit of the custom of liberation. There is ao expectation at 'the Americas embassy that ahe baa any chance of fcoLng reWaaed before thsa. DOINGS OF THE SMART SET Mrs. l.anahorne Shaw, Fresh from Divorce Coart, Is the Ceater of Attraction. (Copyright. 1903, by Press Publishing Co.) LONDON. Feb. 14 (New York World Ca blegram Bpeclal Telegram.) The most In teresting and attractive figure at. Clarldjtee Is Mrs. Langhorne Shaw, who, after her ol vorce, ia having a good time with her mother and a girl friend. Mrs. Shaw Is pointed out everywhere aa the model of the "Gibson girl." a type now ss famous in Europe aa it is in the United States. Since they landed they have been everywhere in London, making the rounda of the "smart" restaurants rt,d plays, while the morning sees the whr.le party up for an early breakfast and ti.t shopping in Dover and Bond streeta with an early morning energy unknown to the average English girl. After the opening of Parliament next Tuesday Mrs. Langhorne Shaw will take her two girls and little grandson to Monte Carlo. It la likely that they will pass the next four months In Europe. Marked ap preciation haa already been shown for ;lie two fair Americana and they have met many "smart" society people here. Several distinguished English bachelors are always hovering about the particular club, restaurant or hat ahop where the girls happen to be, and merry parties are quickly arranged for the cheerful, pretty visitors. Mrs. Ritchie gay" "". Jlg dinner Sunday week for "Buffalo ii , to meet Baron and Baroness de Mey'A trd and Lady New- bourough and a f A ."smart" society peo. 1 A., , I . . I pie. After dl', j , there waa excellent music and Boms' ,'sses who are received socially were if 3 i. United Stay' tbasay Secretary White would have w ipaniod Mra. and Miss White to vie eroy Dudley at. the open- Ing of the r i castle season but for the amnassador. It waa the d Mine White have made to a the former has been living absence of first visit ,' Ireland, I,-,. in this country, and they are enjoying themselves immensely, making a tour of the country houses. They are staying thla week with the duke and ducheaa of Aberdeen, at BaronscoUrt. Afterward they will visit the marquis and the marchioness of Londonderry at Mount Stewart, then earl and countess of Erene, at Crom castle. MARK TWAINIS A FAVORITE Quaint Personality of Humorist Leaves Impression on Vienna. (Copyright. 1908. by Press Publishing Co.) VIENNA, Feb. 14. (New York World Cablegram Special Telegram.) At the grand fancy dress ball given by Prlnceaa Pauline of Metternlch, at which the head only was disguised, the character most fre quently seen wag that of "Mark Twain," a algnal proof of the lasting impreaslon his wonderful personality left on Vlenneese society. His bust and photograph were in great demand beforehand. His magnifi cent head, with bis mane of white hair, his bushy eyebrows and mustache, were faith fully reproduced. The women all coplod Oalneaborough's pictures and the beauties of . the European galle;i,aever;l. making up from family pictures In Imitation 'of their grandmothers three and four times removed. KING OF ITALY IS CORDIAL Ambassador from United States Treated with Unasual Consideration. (Copyright, 1903, by Press Publishing Co.) ROME. Feb. 14. (New York World Ca blegramSpecial Telegram.) The unuaual cordiality shown by the king and queen to United Statea Ambassador Meyer and Mrs. Meyer at the first court ball given in the Quirlnal since 1899 la the subject of com ment by the Rome press. Evidently tha king is anxloua to dispel any notion that the Venezuelan question has lessened the cordiality in the relations between Italy and the United Statea. Ambassador and Mra. Meyer are becoming quite popular with the American colony here and are making themselves quite at boms In Rome, clearly having no intention of leaving to make way for Henry White. KEEP RUSSIAN CENSOR BUSY Fourteen Tons of Books and Maara. slnea Bnrned la Two Months. (Copyright, 1908, by Press Publishing Co.) ST. PETERSBURG, Feb. 14. (New York World Cablegram Special Telegram.) The Russian censor haa never been so busy aa now. An order has gone forth from the minister of the Interior that all books entering the country from America and Europe are to be more rigorously exam ined, especially books and magazinea on aoclai and political questions. Young Rus sia reada thla clasa of literature with eagerness, especially anything on the labor queatlon. Fourteen tona of English and French books, magazinea and newapapers were burned In St. Petersburg alone last November and December, condemned as unfit for Russian eyes. CARNEGIE NOT IN HIGH FAVOR English Towns Not Grabbles; at His Offers to Donate Libraries. (Copyright, 1903, by Press Publishing Co.) LONDON. Feb. 14. (New York World Ca blegram Special Telegram.) Andrew Car negie's library donations still fall In some cases to be received with gratitude. His offer of 150,000 to Dover waa dlacussed by the town corporation this week, and after much opposition it was only by the mayor's casting vote that it was decided to "take the offer into favorable consideration." Mr. Carnegie offered a library to Jlrga heath, Birmingham, but no one would give a atte for it, the committee waa not in clined to meet and the public meeting failed because scarcely anyons attended. CHANCE FOR UNMARRIED ONES German Papers l're Sarplas of Ft. males to Emigrate to the Valted States. (Copyright, 1903. by Press Publishing Co.) BERLIN, Feb. 14. (New York World Ca blegram Special Telegram.) German women, who outnumber the men by 1.&00, 000, are being atrongly urged to emigrate to the United Statea, where, according to statistics published here, in certain atatea the men largely outnumber the women. The matrimonial bait la being dangled be fore their eye by newspapers throughout ths country. The Frankfurter Zeltung, for example, closea an editorial oa tha sub ject by saying, "Forward, then, ye xuaJd eaa, te Us promised land." BLOCKADE IS OVER Allies Instruct Their Naval Ships to Leave Venezuelan Waters. FORCES TO WITHDRAW TODAY OR MONDAY Powers Act Immediately Protocols Are Signed in Washington. GERMANY MAKES MANY EXPLANATIONS Issues Official Memoranda Setting forth Terms Agreed Upon. CLAIMS BOWEN GAVE WAY TO BERLIN laslsta Kaiser's Conditions Were Ac cepted and Says Repnbllo Mnat Now Provide Nearly Two Million Bolivars. LONDON, Feb. 14. Instructions were tel egraphed to the commanders of the block ading squadrons off Venezuela to withdraw their ships, In consequence of the arrange ments completed at Washington. The blockade, therefore, will be Immedi ately raised. (ermany Also Acta. BERLIN, Feb. 14 The government s telegraphing Instructions today for ralalng the blockade of the Venezuelan coast Im mediately. These Instructions may not reach all the blockading vessels today, but tt la expected that the blockade will be fully ralaed by to morrow or Monday, alnce Commodore Scheddar has been expecting such Instruc tions and bad arranged for their prompt transmission Two memoranda explaining the protocol were signed by Mr. Bowen. The text of the first is aa follows: As the Imnerlal flnrrr . t .nv.rn m ,n t holds that the claims originating from the Venesuelan civil wars of IK to 19rt0 are not .to be submitted to arbitration, the government of Vensuela haa to acknowl edge at once these claims, amounting to 1.718,816 bolivars, approximately 3325.000, and either to pay sala claims In cah without deiay or. should this be Impossible, to guarantee the speedy payment of them by guaranties which are deemed sufficient by the Imperial government. The second explanatory document reads: Gnnranty Mnat Be Explicit. The conditions of the German govern ment having been accepted, Mr. Itowen. ss repreaeutatlve of the Venezuelan govern ment, will now have to provide for the payment of tbe 1.718.815 bolivars mentioned. under No. 1 or the conditions, or give ade quate guaranty for this amount. Should Mr. Bowen choose the latter way. the guaranty Is to be specified distinctly. J or instance, In case or tne guaranty being based on the customs revenues. It would be necessary to state exactly In which way the payment is to take place out of these revenues. The guaranty will have to be given de facto and with out delay. In the event of the seven drafts handed to Barou von Sternburg being defaulted, i it ia stipulated that Belgian customs offl- clala collect the revenues at one of tbe Ven ezuelan ports In behalf of Germany. Foreign Secretary' von Rlcthofen senrTl special message to Ambassador Tower here at 8 o'clock yesterday informing him that the protocols would be signed during the evening and expressing bis pleasure at the happy result. Chancellor von Buelow and Baron Rlc thofen both express satisfaction and ap proval of tbe United States' correct and friendly attitude throughout. Baron von Sternburg, by direction of his government. Informed Secretary Hay in ad vance of the character of any Important proposal made to Mr. Bowen. In at least two Instances written memoranda of Ger many's position were supplied to the. United States. Interpretation of Protocols. WASHINGTON, Feb. 14, In further ex planation of the articles of the protocols signed last night by Mr. Bowen and the representatives of the allies here the fol lowing memorandum waa prepared and duly signed by the negotiators this morning: "Our interpretation of the protocols waa and Is that the SO per cent of the total in come of tha custom receipts of La Guayra and Puerto Cabello shall begin to be set apart oa the first day of March, 1903, and continue to be set apart through the said month, and that the first payment will be due not tha 1st of March, but tbe 1st of April, 1903." In view of the restoration of pesce be tween Venezuela and tbe allied powers of Great Britain, Germany and Italy, Senor Auguato Pulldo, the Venezuelan charge d'affaires, addressed an appropriate note to the British commander today and later called at the Italian and German embassies. Mr. Bowen. as soon as he had cleared up some details with the British ambaaaador, paid a farewell call upon Secretary Hay at the State department and reported the sign ing of the peace protocols. The two were In conference for some time and the secre tary congratulated Mr. Bowen heartily upon the success of hla mission. This afternoon at the British embassy Mr. Bowen will meet the representatives of the allies to draw up and sign some addi tional papers. Teat la Made Pablic. With the consent of the British ambaaaa dor Mr. Bowen today made public tbe full text of the British protocol, which was the first of the three conventions signed laat night. The British, German and Italian protocols, while different in phraseology, contain the same provisions, with one or two exceptions. Where the British protocol stipulatea that the $27,500 ahall be paid In cash upon the signing of the agreement the German and Italian protocols provide for the payment of this sum In thirty and alxty days respectively from that day. The British ambassador sent a note this afternoon to Mr. Bowen advising him that he had received a cablegram from London to the effect that orders had been issued to at once raise the Venezuelan blockade. Official notice to this effect also reached the State department today in a dispatch from the United States embassy as London. Mr. Bowen haa announced that Mr. Car negie offered to provide' the money de manded by Germany a day or two ago. Tbe offer waa without condllloca. At a conference at tbe British embassy this afternoon another important addendum was signed to clear up article five In the Italian protocol. By a curious error this article provided that tha Venezuelan gov ernment "obligate thamaelvea to assign to ths Italian government, commencing March 1. and to alienate to no other 'purpose, 13 per rent of the customs revenues of La Guayra and Puerto Cabello. Had this provision stood unamended tha Italian government would have been en titled to tbe entire 30 per cent Instead of sharing It with the other allies aa was Intended. Fortunately, the matter waa dis covered In time to be corrected before the (Continued oa Fifth Page.) THE BEE BULLETIN. Forecast for Nebraska Fnlr In North. Snow In South Portion Sunday; Monday Fair. Warmer In West Portion. Page. 1 Scandal Over Card Games. Mme. Hambert How a Heroine. Arnrtnrlsa Illorkade Ralaed. Dolnars of Xenraaka l-earlslatare. it Appropriates Money for the West. Tnrf Men Mnat Stand Trial. S Kewa from the State Capital. Proarreaa of the Mllle t'aae. Bryan la at a Candidate. 4 Aaphyzlnted lr Natural Gaa. Affaire at Sooth Omaha. 5 Senator Tillman Defends I.ynrhlne;. roller Seek Henna's Son. Dominican Treaty Arrives. 6 Past Week In Omaha Society. Krhoea of the Ante-Room. T Jndae firoaaenp on Socialism. , Y, M. C. A. CJymnnetnm Honors. S Conarll Bluffs aad Iowa Sews. 9 Weekly Review of Sports. lO State Men Ontahoot Omaha. Harvard Wlna from Vale. Ill t'ortrlrou May Go Into Cabinet, Debate over Beet Soanr In Senate. Ill In the Domain of Womnn. 13 Amnarmenta and Mualc. 14 auditorial. 1ft blcaao Tarf Men Are Raided. Labor Demand Exceeds Supply. IN Story, "Seven Secrete." lt Marketa and Financial. Temperatare it Omaha Teaterdayl r. Hoar. Dear. Hour. Des; B a. in ii 41 a. m 1:1 T a. m 14 H a. m 11 0 a. m ill 10 n. m. . . . . . 17 11 a. in 18 lit n 19 1 p. m 'Mt II p. in . . a p. m . . 4 p. m . . B p. m . . Kit 21 Sit xo i p. T p. BAUGHMAN'S FAMILY IN NEED Officers Report thnt He Haa Been Too Kconomlcal In Domestic Allowance. A report from neighbors that the family of T. A. Baughraan, 26?5 Patilck avenue, was destitute and suffering, resulted Satur day In Officers Woolrldge and Baldwin being detailed to Investigate the case. Their re port to Chief Donahue was that though Baughraan gets 315 per week as foreman for the Martln-Ar.derson compsny he has been allowing his wife but 10 cents per day for maintaining tbe houaehold and keeping the children clothed; that as a result of this excessive economy a half loaf of bread had had to suffice as both breakfast and dinner for a family of four; the nursing babe was Improperly clothed and the whole place and all persons therein suffering for want of soap, Tbe officers visited Baughman at his place of employment and he gave them tt for his family. He agreed, also, that hereafter he will repeat the action every Saturday night under penalty of arrest, a policeman to receive the money at his place of em ployment and convey it to his family. The neighbors of tbe family say they have been complaining of the condltlona at tha Baugh mao, jbQna. for aomaUina. paa U- CONFER WITH LEGISLATORS Members of Committee of Tea I'nt the Passaare of House Roll 1T1. A subcommittee of the committee of ten had a conference yesterday afternoon with a number of the members of the Douglas county delegation in the legislature to ascertain what work had been done in ret erence to the bill for the taxation of rail road property In the city on an equality with other city property. All three of the senators were present, but only four of tbe nine members of the house put In an ap pearance. These canvaased the situation with tbe public'a representatives, Herman Kountze, Robert Smith and W. G. Ure. Nothing definite was accomplished beyond impressing on the minds of the legislators the importance of the bill under consld t ration and the publio demand for ita passage. CAPTURE BURGLAR IN HOUSE Soath Omaha Police Nab the Culprit While Committing; the Crime. Charles Jackson was captured by the South Omaha police in the house of Frank Scrupa, at Twenty-third and W streets, at 1:30 o'clock this morning and. will an swer to the charge of burglary. Tbe burglar gained entrance by breaking a window and was at work inside rummag ing about when the patrolman on the beat heard tbe noise. He Investigated and sent to the police atatlon for assistance. Police Captain John C. Trouton and Patrolmen F. Kruger and James Emerlck went Into tho house and captured Jackson before he could get outalde. The Scrupaa were away from home at a dance. The prisoner la a white man and lives in Council Bluffs. He hat not' before been arrested in South Omaha. ABOUT MUNICIPAL OWNERSHIP Omnha Maa Is Iavlted to Present a Paper to national Con In New York. S) In response to an Invitation from the committee In charge of the program, Victor Rosewater la preparing a paper to be pre sented to the National Convention on Mu nicipal Ownership and Public Franchises, to be held under the auspices of the New York Reform club in New York City Feb ruary 25-27 next. He will treat of that part of tbe subject bearing more directly on municipal electric lighting, of which he made a special study some years ago. Dr. Rosewater has alao a abort article on "Value In Taxation" coming out shortly in the March number of the Political Science Quarterly, embodying some of the resulta of hla recent experience aa a mem ber of the Board of Review in this city. Furnam Street Housea Sold. Through the Payne-Hoatwlck company, P. Ii. t'pdlke has bought at a figure said to be a good, round one, the four V. O. fitrti kler housea at the eouthweet corner of Thirty -eighth and Kurnam streets, which housea were built by Mr. Btrlckler as an Investment three years ago and arapped up by tetianta at ample rentals. The houees all have eight or nine rooms, are tlnltihed In hardwood and supplied with the modorn convenience. Movements of Ureas I easels Feb. 14. At New York Arrived: Lucanla, from Liverpool and Uueenatown; Inland, from Copenhagen; BulgarU, from Hamburg. At l.lverpo"! Arrived: Teutonic, from New York: i'hlludelphtit. from New York balled: Ktrurla, for New York. At Antwerp Sailed: Kroonlund, for New York. At Havre Sailed: La Champagne, for New York. At Hot terdam Sailed: Rotterdam, for New lurk. SIX WEEKS ARE GONE Most of Work of Preaent Saurian of Legisla ture is Still to Be Done. REVENUE BILL EXPECTED BY TUESDAY Snb-Oommittee Now Hag Work of Compiling- it A ear Uompletion. PRESS HAVE FIRST COPIES OF rT Prospects of Passage ia How the Question which is Uppermost DEPENDS ENTIRELY ON ITS CHARACTER Some Talk that Omaha Hail road Tat. atlon Bill May Be Offered aa aa Amendment to Genera) Measura. (From a Staff Correspondent.) LINCOLN. Feb. la a weeks of the twenty-eighth session of tha Nebrsska legislature have been spent, with the most important work unaccomplished. Contrary to alV pinna, promises and aa- r lno revenue bill has not been ntroduced up to this time and revenue eclslatlon. therefore. Is still in the fu ture, it begins to look", however, aa if this much mooted measure would reach consummation and be ready for submission o the house about next Tuesday, when, to be precise, the seventh week of the b"- The subcommittee whlrh has been whipping the bill Into shapa gave out the statement today that Ita work would be completed tonight or at least by Monday, in time to return the bill, trimmed and ready for final review, to tha committee at large. It alao gave out as its opinion that the larger committee would be able to send the bill to the house tbe following day. But this cannot be accepted as final. Experience haa ahown that "there's many a slip twlxt cup and lip" In the onerous task of formulating a revenue bill. The committee felt quite certain a week or two ago that by Monday last It could have a bill ready for Introduction. Flrat tbe Joint committee from house and senate wept at the work of construotlnf this measure, then after reaching cer tain stage a subcommittee of fewer mam. bers was selected from within the Joint committee and to It waa committed the duty of knocking off the rough edges of the embryotlo bill and finally three from the committee. Senator Pemberton and Repreaentatlves Thompson and Loomls, were chosen to put the finishing touchee on the bill. These gentlemen worked until late today on ths bill and have about completed It. i Press to Have Copies. From the first of week before last, when the committee began' to devote Ita time exclualvely to this bill. The Bee has from time to time, as they decided on, published the ssentlal feature. pf. t,h bill, and 1I..U. stated that aa to theae there has bean little or no change. The bill only Just now having reached completion, It has of course not been possible for any complete publica tion to be made, but the committee has promised to give full copies to tho press as soon as the Joint committee has passed upon the measure. It waa agreed at the outset that every step taken in the form ation of thla Mil woul be held subject to change until the measure was completed and in the hands of the larger committee. Owing to the tentative character, there fore, of the various stages of progress, it waa deemed best to withhold any compre hensive publication.' The matter of the bill's formation hav ing about been disposed of, the next ques tldn that arlsea la, "Will this measure paas?" Of course, this question might be easier determined It the nature of the bill was better known. If the bill la such a one as will afford adequate relief, provide for future con tlngsncies and fairly meet the general needs for which a revenue bill waa de manded and the legislature is such a one as will respond to tbe urgent appeala of the vast majority of its constituents, It would be a safe guesa to say that tha bill will pass. But there ara two mighty "Its'' to be reckoned with. Railroad Influence Tnknerwav. Of course, Nebraska, with ita Illegal debt of over $2,000,000 needa salutary rev enue legislation. Of course the people of the state recognise this fact aad of course they have placed themselves on record as demanding it. Of course tie republican members of the present legislature were elected on a platform last fall favorable to revenue revision and therefore stand today committed to thla principle. Of courae, the democratic preas of the state haa by formal resolutions urged the dem ocrats In the legislature to support revenus revision. All theae facts are perfectly well understood. And still there may be bo revenue legislation of the sort that tha people need and want. To what extent the railroads, with their powerful lobbies, have Influenced the draft, ing of a revenue bill la not positively known. That tbe agenta of these corpora tions have had some Influence is not queatloned. It la hoped that that Influence will not prove disastrous. The Uolou Pa cific, Burlington and Elkhorn have from even before the legislature convened on January 5, had hers men of experience and skill aa professional lobbyists. Tbey have kept up systematic labor. There is bo leg islation thla aession vitally affecting tha railroads, but thla mooted revenue leg islation. The corporation lobbylata, there fore, must be here In some sort of rela tion to revenue revision. As a matter of fact, they are, John N. Baldwin, C gen eral counsel of Nebraska for the Union Pacific, his retinue of aldea and his neighbors, the Elkhorn and Burlington lobbyists, pltchsl and maintained their tents here In tha Capital City to look after the railroads' Interests in connection with the proposed revenue revision. Some latalaraat Things. Significant things have been don. Strong statements have been made. It has even been said that the combined influence of the railroads has been such as to control the majority of members of the Joint rev. enua commutes. This remains to be scan. The committeemen spura ths Insinuations snd Insist that they have tried to do the) beat they could for ths people of the state They ask that Judgment be suspended until tha curtain haa been drawn aside and their work disclosed. Thla acene la anxiously awaited. During the lull over H. R. 171, tha Omaha real estate exchange bill, which would make the railroads pay their Just city taxea in Omaha, a theory haa been advanced that ths friends of this bill might try to tack it oato the general reraaue bill when that. 1
