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TTIE OMAHA DAILY BEE: MONDAY, MARCH' 2, 1003. CURRENT NEWS ' OF IOWA. COUNCIL BLUFFS- COMMERCIAL CLUB ANNUAL Temporary Officer ipcted to Be. Chosen for a Full Tear Term. SOME IMPORTANT MATTERS TO COME U Committers Which Will flare Active Char of the Club's Work to Be Kamed by the PreaU dent. The first annual meeting of the recently organized Commercial club wIV. be held Wednesday evening In the city council chamber. In addition to the election of officers and an executive committee, a num ber of Important matters will come before the meeting. President Bender Is expected to name at this meeting the twelve stand ing committees. The officers who were elected January 30 to hold office until the regular annual meet ing were: President, Victor E. Bender; vice presidents. Chris Jensen. W. H. Kim ball; secretary, M. F. Rohrer; treasurer. Ernest E. Hart. These comprise the ex ecutive committee: H. W. Binder, H. A. Qnlnn, F. R. Davis, H. H. VanBrunt and C. V. McDonald. As the members of thl eommlttee have a number of matters al ready In hand upon which tbey have been working since the organization of the club, no change In the personnel of the executive committee ! looked for. It Is also be lieved that the present officers will all be re-elected. The committees to be named by Presi dent Bender are: Transportation, manu factures, trade extension, railroad exten sion, retail trade, municipal legislation, county and state legislation, roads and streets, public parks, entertainment, griev ances and finance. It la the opinion of many of the members that a committee on advertising should also be named and this will probably be done. One of the more Important matters to be brought up at this meeting Is that of trade excursions and the formation of a manufacturers' and jobbers' association. The executive committee has received as surance from the Western Passenger as sociation that reduced rates will be given for such excursions within a certain radius of Council Bluffs. The committee. Is plan ning on bringing about one of these excur sions within a few weeks. Louis Kurmueblen, jr., who was employe! by the club to solicit members and collect the entrance fees and first quarter's dues. Vlll mske bis report through Secretary Roh rer. It is estimated that the club will have about 300 members in good standing. The clubrooms in the Woodbury building are ready for occupancy and are nicely furnished. Owing to Oie expected large at. tendance at the annual meeting Wednes day night It was' thought best to hold it In the city council chamber. number of taxpayers and will be filed with the board, today. It will asX that the au thorities of the tro counties appoint a Joint commission to prepare the details of the proposed drainage system and to supervise? the work. The Harrtaon county supervisors and others from that county Interested In the proposed drainage scheme are expected to be present at today's meeting. FIGHT IN THE GRAND ARMY Seriout Objection to Admitting Other Than Civil War Veterans, SOME IOWA JUDGES ARE UNFORTUNATE State rreparlaK to Make (aa Exhibit of Its Maaafaetnree at the St. Loals Eaposltloa Inaaraaco Reports la. Gravel roofing. A. H. Head, 12t Main St. Activity la Real Estate. The month of February showed remark able activity in the real estate market, this being especially true a. to farm lands. The month witnessed an unusual number of large Bales and closed with a record nearly equalling that of the same month for the year previous, which was the great est in many years. During the four weeks of February 217 conveyances of real estate were filed In the office of the county recorder, with a total consideration of 1612.698. CI. The last week of the month was responsible for more than half of thla amount, there being seventy six conveyances filed, with a total con sideration of $329,424.51. The biggest day was Thursday laat, when twenty-seven transfers were recorded, with an aggregate consideration of $89,957.60. In February, 1902, there were 2S7 con veyances filed, with a total consideration of $689,832.52. being an excess of seventy conveyances and $66,633.91 money consider ation, compared with February of this year. The total transactions In 1902 represented an aggregate consideration of $4,888,501, and real estate men look for nearly as good a year In 1903. Y. Plumbing Co.. Tel. 250, Nlght.'F667. Supposed Car Thieves Caaarht. John Fahey, August Smith, James Spencer and John Woodman aro the names given bv four men under arrest at the city Jail, charged with breaking into a freight car In the local yards of the Rock Island rail road on the night of February 24 and stealing a ease of rubbers, a case of yarn socks and other merchandise. The men were arrested in Omaha Saturday evening while attempting to dispose of part of the plunder and were brought back across the river yesterday by Detective Murphy and Constatle Albertl Only part of the goods stolen from the car has been recovered. A bundle of furs 1 and other goods Is still missing. The four men are strangers to the local police, but Spencer Is alleged to be a well known crook from Dea Moines. Giving Awrf stoves. The third heating atove given by Will iam Welch to his coal customers was awarded to Mr. William Pool, Twenty-ninth avenue and Garfield street. Another has been put up on the same plan, aud during the next thlry days will be given away free to one of his customers. Before ordering your coal call at 16 North Main afreet or 'phone 128. Ilrrrlutt visits the Bluffs. Lieutenant Governor John .Merrlott was In the city yesterday for a short time ob bis way home to Stuart, Guthrie county, from a trip to Nebraska. While at the Grand hotel he was visited by a .umber of the leading republicans oi (be city. Mr. Harriott said his visit had no political inference. When asked if he would be a candidate for lieutenant governor in 1904 Mr. Herrlatt said he had nothing to say for publication at this time. Plumbing and heating. Blxby ft Boa. Take l Uralaajc Ditches. The Board of County Supervisors will meet in adjourned session today to take Up the matter of the proposed drainage ditches In Harrison and Pottawattamie counties. The petition for the formation of a joint d.-alnage district out of the two ountles has been signed by the requisite ELLEN M. STONE the Missionary ransomed from the Hrlaaads at Maeedoala, will let-tare a4 Broadway M. E. Church londy Evening, March 2. V LEWIS CUTLER MORTICIAN, a Psart S Council Bluffs. Toons St. MINOR MKSTIO. Davis sells drugs. Expert watch repairing, Leffort, 4'19 B'y. Elegant new photographs at Schmidt's. Six photos 10 cents. Carveth. B'way. For rent, modern house. "19 Sixth avenue, ryrngraphy supplies. C. E. Alexander & Co., 3.13 Uroadway. Mrs. Hamilton will entertain the member! of the Atlas club Tuesday af u rnoon. The New Century club will rifet Wednes day afternoon at the home of Mrs. Mullen. Mrs. Dalley will entertain the members Of the Woman's club Wednesday afternoon. The Onklaml Avenue Mending club will meet Friday afternoon at the home of Krs. Dell G. Morgan. The regular monthly meeting of the Board of Park Commissioners will be held tomorrow evening. We are headquarters for glass ' of all kinds. See u before you buy. C B. Paint, Oil and Glass company. Mrs. E C. Shepard of Sycamore. 111., is vloltlug her parent. Mr. and Mrs. F. O. Uleason of Glen avenue. Mrs. I. K. Albrook of Si'. City hue ar rived to rrmkij her home with her soli, Rob ert Albrook at the Kenard. Miss l.ydla Trimble, a missionary to China, will speak Sunday morning at the UruaJway Methodist church. i The regular meeting of Shnduklam tem ple, Dramatic Order Knights of Khorassan, has been postponed to the last Thursday in March. Mrs. E. E. Hurt will entertain the women of the Congregational church at a kenflng ton at her home on Park avenue Thursday afternoon. A special program In the way of enter tainment will be provided for the members nt tne meeting tonight of Fidelity council. Royal Arcanum. The teamsters' union ha elected these officers: President, F. Smltti; recording secretary John Ragan;' secretary-treasurer, William Jacoby. Jens Hendrlcksen, an aged Dane, whose actions seemed to Indicate tnat he was somewhat deranged, was taken In charge by the police lest evening. Miss Ella Wirt, a member of the faculty of the Plattsmouth High school, spnt yes terday with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. O. Wirt of Willow avenue. Mrs. Frank W. Hollls, who has bren a patient at the Woman's Christian Associa tion hospital for several weeks, was re ported yesterday to be convalescing. Mrs. Mary E. Nichols, wife of James Nichols, 1 South Tenth street, died yes terday morning, aged 49 years. Her hus band and two daughters survive her. Mrs. Baker and Mrs. Shadle will enter tain the members of the Woman's Foreign Missionary and Ladles' Aid societies Tues duy afternoon at the home of Mrs. Baker. County Treasurer Arnd will hold an ad journed delinquent tax sale, tnis morning, when the few pieces of delinquent property remaining on the tax list will be offered for sale. William Coppock left last evening for lienver to meet Mrs. Coppoc.:, who with a party of Chicago friends has been enjoying a trip In a private car througn Old Mexico and California. The city council- will hotd its regular monthly session this evening. Now that the conduit ordinance Is out of the way for thirty days, there are no Important matters to come before it tonight. The art department of the Council Bluffs Woman's club will meet this evening. The modern language department will meet Tuesday afternoon and iurday after noon. The literature department will also meet Thursday afternoon. Henry Jennings, Fred Chapman and Ed Keller, three small boys, were arres'ed last evening for. Jumping on and off freight trains In the Milwaukee yards. They were allowed to go home on promitdng to appear in police court this morning. Mrs. W. 8. Rlgdon, Mrs. Stockdale, Dr. Claude Lewis and Clyde B. Altchlson will assist on the program at the quarterly meeting and reception of the Woman's Christian association to be neld this after noon at the home of Mrs, H. A. Qulun on Oakland avenue. The reception of the Ciuncll Bluffs Woman's club will be held Friday after noon at the home of Mrs. J. P. Davis. The members of the modern language depart ment will act as ho testes. A musical and literary program In the Spanish. French and German languages will be given. M. A. Stempel and Miss Emma R. Perk, both of Macedonia. Ia., were married yes terday morning in the parlota of the Kiel hotel, Rev. W. J, Calfee of Broadway MethodlHt church officiating. The groom Is a son of Dr. Stempel of Macedonia and the bride is the daughter of Frank Perk, a well known stockman and farmer living near Macedonia. I Mrs. Margarette R. Barrttt died at an early hour yesterday morning at the home of her sister, Mrs. C. W. Atwood, lt liaughn street, aged 50 years. She was born In Aldrle. Scotland, February 12, lKj3. She leaves one son, lmaac Rennle Barrttt; three sinters, Mrs. Agnes Caldwell and Mrs. C. W. Atwood of this city and Mrs. Mary Allstrand of Missouri Valley; two brothers, Adam E. I'renttce of Crescent City, la., and Robert L. Prentice of Excel sior 8pringa, Mo. The funeral cortege will leave the residence, 128 Baughn street, Tuesday morning at 10:30 o'clock for Hasel Dell township, where the services will be held in the church at 2 p. m. Interment will be in Hazel Dell cemetery. 'VARSITY RECTOR IS DINED Cardinal and other Ecclesiastics Bid Farewell to Head of Wash ington Valversltr. ROME, March 1. Cardinal Seraflno Van nutelll, subdeacon of the sacred college, gave a dinner today In honor of the Rev. Dennis R. O'Connell, the new rector of the Catholic university at Wsshlngton. The guests included Cardinal Satolli, the prefect of the propaganda of studies, from which the university depends; Cardinal Vincent Vannutelll, the Very Rev. J. A. Zahm, Notre Dame, Ind., and a number of mon slgnors. ' Mgr. O'Connell within the last week has received from personal friends two purses of $5,000 each to found two scholarships and promises of much larger sums from others. He will leave Rome next Wednesday and experts to assume his duties at Washing ton In the middle of March. WHERE AIRSHIPS ARE SAFE Sloe Has Place Where Men Can Fly Without Danger of Iajary. (Copyright.- IJfij, by Press Publishing Co.) NICE. March 1. (New York World Ca blegramSpecial Telegram.) Nice has the only , "Aerodrome" in the world a place where flying machines can maneuver. It consists of a steel truss sixty feet high, across the top of which Is laid another truss, more than ninety feet long, exactly balanced and moving on pivots. A flying machine can be suspended to one arm and counterbalanced by a weight in the other, and then can maneuver freely and without danger. Captain Ferber has erected this aerodrome not merely for his own experi ments with flying machines, but to allow the use of it to any Inventor who may want to test an airship. Very Hear at Crlsae. To allow constipation to poison ' your body. Dr. King's New Life Pills cures It and Will is up your heal t a or at pay. tic. Far sale by Kuiia ft Co. (From a Staff Correspondent) DES MOINES, la.. March 1. (Special.) In Grand Army circles it Is learned that a spirited contest has alresdy been started in Iowa over the question of opening the doors of the organization for admission of persons other than those who actually served in the war of the rebellion. This was started by a statement credited to De partment Commander John Lindt of Coun cil Bluffs, In which he was quoted as In timating that it would be well to enlarge the membership. This suggestion promptly aroused the resentment of many of the members and the first post to give it recog nition was Post No. 1 in Davenport. This post, of which Past Department Commander Metzgar Is a member, adopted a resolution reciting the preamble to the constitution of the Grand Army of (he Republic and in structing the delegates of the post to the department encampment to stand firmly for no change In that preamble. The en campment meets in Cedar Rapids In May. It is known that a considerable element In the organization favors admitting the Sons of Veterans on a qualified membership, while others favor admitting those who have been connected with other military organizations and those who have fought in the Philippines. But the matter cannot be put through the encampment without a fight and the post at Davenport calls upon all the members to oppose any change in the organization. If those who favor open ing the door insist upon their stand they will have a warm fight in the encampment. Judgei Don't All Get Increase. Not all of the district judges of Iowa have as yet been benefited by the increase of salary provided for by the late legisla ture. It was provided merely that the pay of ' all district Judges should be $3,500 a year. Instead of $2,500, but the constitution forbids any Increase in pay during the term for which a judge is elected. Four of the Judges were serving by appointment and they were elected for short terms In No vember and Immediately began to get ths increase of wages. Four others hold over until the close of this year. They are Judges Clyde, Macy, Bailie and Wltbrow, and this four cannot get the increased pay until after the expiration of their present terms and their re-election. This will be at the close of this year. All others ore now get ting tire increase. Shrlners to Go to Stoax City. Arrangements are being made for a big pilgrimage of Za-Ga-Zlx, Temple of Shrln ers, to Sioux City May 12, when Governor Cummins will accompany the -Shrlners, and there will bo a meeting of several hundred in northwestern Iowa. Ex-Senator Allen la towa. . William V. Allen of Madison. Neb., . !s spending a few days In Des Moines, While here he had. an Informal, confererce with members of the Iowa regiment of which he was a member. He met with Colonel Eber hart, who was colonel of the regiment, and Adjutant W. L. Carpenter, formerly mayor of Des Moines; also with Colonel Scott, who' was lieutenant colonel of the regiment. Senator Allen Is here with W. S. Collins of Basin, Wyo., and they are interested in the oil wells there, having samples of the oil with them. Iowa Mannfactarea. The Iowa commission on the Louisiana Purchase exposition will meet this week to dispose of many matters Which should be started thus early. Among other things it will be determined how much will be given to the different departments for the special exhibits. A, determined effort will be made to provide that a liberal appro priation shall be made for securing an exhibit of Iowa manufacturing industries at the exposition. It Is regarded as certain that the agricultural, horticultural and similar Interests will be represented with out much trouble, but a special effort will be necessary to secure an exhibit of manu factures. To the end that the commis sion may have before It some evidence of the extent to which Iowa Industry has been developed Secretary Conaway has secured from State Labor Commissioner Brlgham an informal list of the things made in Iowa, novelties largely, that should be represented. In the list are the following: Harps, powder, felt shoes, cutlery, gun stocks, band cutters, altars, feather dus ters, locks, pearl buttons, cream separators, refrigerators, well machines, condensed milk, pipe organs, sleigh bells, engines, desks, woolen goods, flax tow, wall paper, spice, gloves, macaroni, rubber tires, wooden shoes, garden and farm tools, wheels, paints, boxcar loaders, thresher teeth, stump pullers, paper caskets, feather dusters, typewriters, ranges and stoves, perfumes and stucco goods. laforiuatloa on Vat rsary, Secretary John Hay has written a "etter to Governor Cummins transmitting a pe culiar request from Mexico. The secretary of state says be has received a letter from the Mexican ambassador asking for infor mation as to the laws In the several states of the union regarding vagrancy and es pecially with regard to the "rules govern ing contracts with persons or corporations that desire to utilize the labor of vagrants." Secretary Hay asks the governor of Iowa If he has any printed matter touching on this subject to forward to Washington for the benefit of the Mexican ambassador. Inasmuch as the state of Iowa has very little legislation on the subject of vagrants and Just now the state is not troubled with vagrancy, the information obtained here will be meager. Deep Well at Hospital. A new deep well tot the State yisane hospital at Mount Pleasant has Just been completed and the State Board of Control has received a report thereon. The report shows that the well is down 1,203 feet and that the drill went through the stratum of St. Peter sandstone 100 feet thick, water being found In the stratum. This water is much better than in the old well of the hospital. A test of the well shows that it gave up 100.000 gallons of water a day without diminishing appreciably the water in the old well only 100 feet away. Judge Robinson states that the new well will make it certain the hospital will always have abundant water. Two years ago the city wster supply failed and the one well at the hospital came near going dry. The new well will be used as soon as a pump can be secured. Insaraace Reports Received. The state Insurance reports are now nearly all in the hands of the state auditor. The leading fire Insurance companies, both of the state and domestic- and foreign, have Bled their reports and only a few of the Biutuala art bow out. The accident, slate glass, fidelity and other miser llsneous com panies hsve reported. Not all of the life companies have reported. The insurance yesr commences today and State Auditor Car roll Is prepared to send out on Monday morning the Insurance certificates for pub llcstion and otherwise to start the year right. The Insurance report will be pre pared at once. A quarrel took place In a small house on Market street this afternoon occupied by colored and white people. Andy. Johnson, colored, was shot and killed by B. F. Cun ningham. ' Tbey live In the same bouse and bad a quarrel over various matters. Including cer tain repairs of the house. Johnson became enraged and threatened to kill Cunning ham. The latter got a revolver and pre pared to defend himself. Both men have wives of color opposite to themselves. Cun ningham's colored wife threw her arms around his neck and Implored him not to shoot, but he reached over tier shoulder and shot Johnson dead. Cunningham says be was afraid Johnson would kill him. The trial of James Wajker, colored, came to an end In district court this afternoon when the Jury, which was given the case Saturday afternoon, returned a verdict of manslaughter. Walker was tried for killing Isaac Finkelsteln. The theory of the state wai that Walker was employed by Levtch to give Finkelsteln a sound drubbing and be accidentally killed him. POPE DISREGARDS DOCTOR Meets aad Chats with Cardinals la Room Where Predecessor . Died. . - ROME, March 1. Dr. Lapponl, the pope's physician, made this morning a last effort to induce his holiness to renounce his re ception of the cardinals. He remonstrated with the pope, saying: "Tour holiness, my duty Is to point out that- your health would greatly benefit by your resting today." The pope replied: "My dear doctor, be fore your valuable advice comes my tiuty, which I shall perform until the end." The audience was held In the pope's pri vate library and Leo XIII. spoke continu ously for half an hour with the forty-two cardinals present. No address was deliv ered and the most Important words were when the pontiff referred with emphasis to bis advanced age and approacHlng end. He was led jo speak thereof In reminding the cardinals that the room In which he was receiving them was the same In which Plus IX. beld his last consistory, he being present, but In bed. The cardinals greeted this reference to the possible approach of death with a chorus of noes and with exclamations o( "We have all come to wish you a long life." By this time the excitement of the re ception had improved Pope Leo's appear ance. When he entered the library his form was bowed and trembling, but he now seemed to have acquired strength and animation. He showed the cardinals a magnificent antique clock which bad just been presented to him by the Count of Caserta, the head of the Naples branch of the Bourbon family. Before his retirement he presented to each cardinal present a richly illuminated pamphlet, reviewing the chief events in his pontificate, including a Latin poem of his own composition and five of his most important encyclicals. His holiness said: "I will order that the few cardinals absent, like Cardinal Gib bons, also have It. SEVENTEEN DAYS ; IN DRIFTS Kewfoaadland , Kxpres.. Returns to Starting Point AtteV Passen gers Soffer Hanger. ST. JOHNS, N. F., March 1. One of the two snowbound expresses returned here to day. The train left this city seventeen days ago and only succeeded in getting half way across the Island. The passengers tell thrilling stories of tbelr experience amid the snowdrift. , . The other express is still stuck fast, but the passengers left It and walked across thirty miles of snowflelds to an open sec tion of the line ind will reach here In the middle of the week. The Best Treatment (or Colds and Grip No treatment for colds and grip leaves the system In as good and healthy a con dition as . Chamberlain's Cough Remedy. The greatest danger from these diseases is of their resulting in pneumonia. Dur ing the many years this remedy has been in use, no case of a cold or attack of the grip having resulted in pneumonia has ever been reported to the manufacturers, which shows conclusively that it is a cer tain preventive of that dangerous disease, FORECAST OF THE WEATHER Fair Today la Nebraska aad Iowa aad Warmer la Extreme West. WASHINGTON, March 1. Forecast : For Nebraska Fair Monday and Tues day; warmer Monday and In west portion Tuesday. For Iowa Fair Monday and Tuesday. For Illinois and Missouri Fair and warmer Monday; Tuesday, fair; fresh southwest winds. For North and South Dakota Fair Mon day and 'Tuesday. For Kansas Fair and warmer Monday; Tuesday, fair. For Colorado Fair Monday and warmer in south portion; Tuesday fair. Local Record. OFFfCE OF THE WEATHER BUREAU, OMAHA. March 1 Official record of tem perature and u-eclpltaUon compared with the corresponding day of the last three years: 1903. 1902. 1901. 1900. Maximum temperature ... 40 24 78 61 Minimum temperature ... 14 19 35 18 Mean temerature 27 22 64 34 precipitation 00 .07 .00 .tw Record of temperature and precipitation at Omaha for this day and alnce March L i9ue. Normal temperature 32 l)eticlency for the day Z Total deficiency slnre March 1, 19u8 5 Normal precipitation 04 Ir.ch iK'tlclency for the day 04 Inch 'total rainfall since March 1, 1903 00 Inch Deficiency since March 1, 10 4 Incn Excess for cor. period, 192 03 Inch Excess for cor. period, 11 04 Inch Reports irons Stations at T P. M. CONDITION OF TUB WEATHER .SLR a 3J Omaha, clear Valentine, clear North Platte, clear Cheyenne, clear Bait 1-ake City, partly cloudy. Rapid City, clear Huron, partly cloudy v Illusion, clear Chicago, clear St. Iiuls, clear St. Paul, clear Davenport, clear Kansas City, clear Havre, partly cloudy Helena, cloudy Bismarck, partly cloudy Galveatun, cloudy 341 4' .if) !l Siij .U0 34 .00 H .) 34 1 . 4 .00 l .irt 4' .00 3i an 3-: Mi .00 34! .01 341 .0 4..I 34 341 0) o) 3i .O) ! 34 .00 62 62! .00 V' V - mf Cffifil 103 iM't WmUt A CHALLENGE " Collier's Household Number for March marks the top notch in American magazine making. We challenge you to disprove this statement for 10c. at the nearest news stand. rHIS number is American through and through. It has strength, timeliness and a generous dash of humor. The men who wrote for it and drew its pictures command the highest prices known to modern journalism. That is because they are the men for whose latest word the whole reading public waits. A contribution from any one. of them would make any number notable;- for one number to include them all is to set a new standard of magazine achievement. James Whitcomb Riley Tells in a poem how to make the right kind of man out of the right kind of boy. Richard Harding Davis Relates, in an amusing "inside story, ".how he captured the town of Coamo. . " Mr. Dooley" Writes (exclusively for Collier's) a letter about "The White House Expenses." Thomas Nelson Page Discusses very clearly and suggestively a new aspect of the . Negro Question. Charles Dana Gibson -Depicts, in his best drawing for years, "The Greatest Game in the World." FEAR WAR' WITH TURKEY Buuiani Expeot (Serious Clash Over Mace donia in the Spring. GERMAN MONEY COMPLICATES MATTERS Kaiser's Subjects Having Drilled Saltan's Troops May Sow Finance Sick Man for Impending Battle with Csar. T tnalcatea trace of precipitation. I.. A. WEI.8H, "--. Local ITorwcaal Official. ST. PETERSBURG, Feb. 28. (via Eydt kubneo, German Frontier, March 1.) Some publicists are of opinion that only the sternest language toward Turkey can pre. vent war with RusbIs In the spring. They believe the porte will pursue bands of Macedonian revolutionists across the Bul garian frontier and that public opinion will compel Russia to Interfere. The czar thoroughly understands that a war with Turkey will be more serious than that of 1878. Officers are quoted as saying that the Turkish army is the best in the world owing to Its German organisation and armament. There Is an Inclination here to anticipate German financial support of Turkey and. In view of the situation, fore bodings of a clash are freely expressed In private, although they are carefully sup pressed in the papers. Flchtlaa; Begins In Galkans. LONDON, March 2. The Geneva cores pondent of the Daily Chronicle telegraphs that news has been received there of an engagement between Turkish troops and bodies of Macedonians and Bulgarians near Monastir. The Turks suffered 'a repulse. Thirty-two were killed and many wounded. CONSTANTINOPLE, March 1. Advices from Bulgaria, Servla and Macedonia re flect the disappointment felt there regard ing the Illusory nature of the Austro-Russian scheme of Macedonian reforms which the sultan has agreed to. FRANCIS VISITS EUROPE Hopes to See French and German Rulers at St. IOnls Exposition. LONDON, March 1. President Francis of the St. Louis exposition left tonight fur Paris In consequence of a letter from M. Le Grave, the French commissioner to the exposition, urging htm to visit Paris, and saying President Loubet would like to receive him at the Elysee palace. After seeing President Loubet, Mr. Fran cis Intends to proceed to Madrid, and thence to Berlin, where, If possible, he will have an audience with the German em peror on March 9. He hopes to sail from Bremen on March 10, on Kron Prlns Wit helm for New York. Mr. Francis's last day In London was marked by a luncheon given In his honor by the lord chief Jus tice, Lord Alverstone, who will be a mem ber of the British royal commission to the St. Louis fair. Prior to leaving Mr. Francis said he could not have asked for or expected more hos pitality than had been shown him during his flying visit to England. "All classes," he said, "have exhibited much Interest in the Bt. Louis exposition and have treated me in the kindest pos sible way, for which I am very grateful." ft. iuouc it well perpetual good health, if assured when you drink nVfJ Gimtrs Pqcrlcss Dollied Deer THE BEER OF GOOD CHEER. It has an international reputation for blandnesa of flavor and tor absolute purity. None to compare wttn it tor tne taDie. aoia everywnere. JOHN GUND BREWING CO., UCrosw, Wis. t Omaha Branch, 207 So. 13th St.. Tela. 2344 A2945. axatlve firomo Oam CoM la Om Day, fuinina an 2 Day 0 MIS 2S TEAM TICKETS Mwim If you are going abroad this summer you should make your transportation arrangements now. I am agent of all Atlantic steamship lines and handle all classes of tickets outward and prepaid. Call and see me or write for full information. First class train for Chicago 1 a. m., 4 p. m. and 8:06 p. m.; for St, Louis 6:10 p, to. J. D. REYNOLDS, Ticket Agent 1502 Farnam St. Don? use Clean Efficient Reliable ctsJ BSPiE