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i Bee Omaha Daily THE BEf S THE PREFERRED ADVER TISING MEDIUM IN ITS TERRITORY FOR A CHARACTERISTICALLY WEST ERN NEWSPAPER READ THE BEE SINGLE COl'V TIIIJEE CENTS. ESTABLISHED JUKE 19, 1871. OMAHA, WEDNESDAY MOKNIXO, DECEMIlEIi 28, 1004 TEN PAGES. 1 HEr . STORM IS GENERAL It Extands frB Sockiei to New Yark ted Winnipeg to tha Gilt CEWTER NEAR MISSISSIPPI AT MIDNIGHT Heart Enow at Many Painta Aooompanied by Cold ligh Winds, i -r. TRAINS ARE LAT..1 VJW1RES ARE D0WN t. ' Traffio of 111 CI clayed aad Lira Stock Em mf ffericj. STREET CARS ST -t-V DES MOINES Ueeola Re parts D WU aad f Ires Dowa, While Stork la Traaslt la Delayed and gaffer-las:. CHICAUO. lec. ii. un oi me wverrsi j atormi or recent yesrs naa ragea inrougn cut the territory lying between the Rocky mountain! and the Great Lakea since early tnis morning ana naa cbaiiwu luiii wuuimc j IO street car rnmpnuii, i Ainuoug nu i,r- graph companies. The latter were the greater sufferers, for the billiard which swept through the west and northweat during the last twenty-four houra was preceded by a heavy fog and drizzling rain, which made he wires al most unworkable. The Intense cold and terrific gale that followed cloae upon the fog coated the wlrea with Ice. and later In the day the poles went to the ground. Rail road traJna were badly delayed all through the west, aome of them being twenty-four houra lata. Street car traffic In all the cities of the weat and northweat waa prac tically at a standstill during the day. Twe Fatalities at Chleasro. In Its extent the atorm waa the moat widespread of any during the last fifteen yeara. Counting the fog aa a component part of the atorm. It atretched from the Rocky mountains to New Tork and from Winnipeg to New Orleans. The only fatali ties due to the atorm In tale city were: Alexander Stelner, a teamater, killed while unloading coal. . A coal chute waa blowa from ita fastenings and atriklng Btelner on the head killed him Inatantly. Thomas Walsh, a laborer, struck by a heavy board while entering a new building at Green street and Washington boulevard. The board almoat cut his head off. At 10 o'clock tonight the atorm waa re ported aa subsiding at Kanaaa City and other points, and a north and south line from that city, but It will be several days before normal conditlona are restored throughout tbe section. At Chicago and. aaat of here tbe atorm waa still raging with great violence jSnd was expected to continue throughout the night, the canter of the atorm being, ap parently, between Chicago and Cleveland. Reports from Kans.ts City early In the diy were that the atorm extended from the middle of Missouri as far south as Indian -Territory. .and-waa. -accompanied through ita extent by high wlnda and snow, about one foot deep. It was drifted so badly by the gale, however, that in nearly all the cities of Nebraska, Kanaaa and west ern Missouri street car (traffic waa at a standstill by noon. The telegraph wires were down, in-ail directions and it was with extreme difficulty that communication with the dest and northwest was kept "up. All trains through that part of the coun try were hopelessly behind schedule time early In the afternoon, and the railroads gave up all Idea of attempting to get them through on time, and devoted their energy to moving them in tbe beat manner possi ble. gtene Reaches St. Loals. TVs atorm by noon had reached eastern Missouri, and the temperature in St. Louis went down twenty degrees in two houra, while the wind, blowing forty miles an hour, piled the anow up in the street a in great drifts. It was found possible to keep the street cars running, although greet havoc was wrought with telegraph and telephone wires. At Omaha and lea Moines conditlona similar to those in Kanaaa City were re ported, and both places were in bad con dition early in the morning. ' All over the western states the storm Increased in vio lence throughout the morning. All tralna In this section were one to six houra late and constantly losing time. In Des Moines street car trafOo waa suspended early in the day. Hick Wlai la Nort k west. In the northwest the storm waa more violent than throughout Miasouri and Iowa. At fit. Paul the anow commenced failing last night and grew heavier all through the night, while the wind Increased until It waa blowing at fifty mllea an hour. The heavy anow and the gale worked havoc with the railroads, and aome of the passenger trains from the Pacific coast wire reported tonight- as twenty-four hours overdue and making alow progress. The storm reached westward from BL Paul until It covered almost the entire north west, and from the Dukotaa. eastern Mon- , tana, Wyoming, northern Michigan and Wisconsin the story was the same from all points, The wires In all directions were down, the snow was falling In denee vol ume and, driven by a high northweat gale, waa filling the streets and railroad cuts so l ghtly that street cars were for the moat part compelled to atop running and all tralna were behind time. In the eoutb conditions -were somewhat better, snow and rainstorms, preceded by thunder and lightning. loulavUle, Montgomery and Memphis re ported heavy rains, a rapidly falling ther mometer and terrific winds. In the Ohio river valley the first heavy rain in five months commenced falling dur ing the day ar.d continued through the night. The storm waa welcome to the boat men alocg the valley, for the water stage has been very low. Wlad Seventy-Twa Miles aa Hear. At s the' wind tore through the down town streets st a velocity of seventy-two miles aa hour. It fell after thai and by T o'clock had dropped to fifty miles au hour, where It remained throughout . the night, with occasional gusts that would bowl through the streets with the force of a cyclone, leering down a.gns, smashing In plate glass windows and in many sections of tbe down town dlslrtrta hurling pedestri ans from their feet and overturning light delivery wagons. Early in the afternoon the puiioe department found it Mceesary to station extra officers at the corner of State and Randolph streets; whre the Maaonlo Temple, twenty-two stortee In height, aV waya creates a ten-. fie Increase la the natural rapidity of the wind, and the cor ner of Monroe and Dearborn streets, where ths new building of the First National hank acts In a similar manner, from 'stock until after the evening rush was tCwotlnued ea Booond Page.) CRITICISES RUSSIAN NAVY St. Pe Task of Rejestveasky aad Cemrades la Alaaeat Ssserksaiaa. FT. FETERFBCRG. Dec 27-In an out spoken artlcln in reply to a re cent letter of Admiral Bierileff. wnlch appealed to the Russians not to openly ciltlcise the condition of the navy, the Russ today declares the time la passed for silence, in view of the fact that the "old sjstem of concealing facts is re sponsible for the loan of 15,tW.) roubles worth of warships and has been covered up with shame and grief. It would be absurd to hide the defects that can still be repaired in the ships which remain at Cronstadt and Llbau. We have already criminally waated enough time." The Russ enumerates tbe defects in the ships still in Russian waters, averring that the peculiarities of structure of aeveral of the vessels destined for the far eait make the voyage dangerous, and the torpedo boats are in such shocking condition that It is a matter of surprise that the authori ties accepted their delivery. Torpedo boats Intended to reinforce Vice Admiral Rojest vensky must clearly not be dispatched with the numerous defects which have been proved to exist In them. In conclusion the Russ says: Even If Admiral Rojestvensky Is a clever leader and his 12.0f comrades are heroic Bailors, everyone knows thst we have Im posed upon them an almost superhuman task In consequence of our not being fur nished with an account of the gravity of events which have occurred since the fatal night of February a. LIFE SENTENCE FOR SAM Former President of liaytl Convicted of Fraud He la Net la raatedy. PORT AU PRINCE, Haytl, Deo. 17. The court has rendered a Judgment in default, condemning former President Sam to im prisonment fir life at hard lalor for the alleged Isaue of fraudulent bonds. Madame Bam is sentenced to fifteen years' '.mi ris n ment and several members of 8am's minis try and other nigh functionaries have been condemned to terms of imprisonment rang ing from five to fifteen years. The judgment In default la the form usual under the legal proceedings in Prance and some other countries where the person convicted Is out of the Juris diction of the court. President Bam, mem bers of his ministry, officers of the Bank of Haytl and relatives of the former I resi dent of- the republic were accused by th government of President Nord, which suc ceeded the Sam administration, for hav ing conspired for the fraudulent Issue of from 1700,000 to ISTiO.tKO of bonds. These bonds, it was claimed by the accused, w -re Issued by authority of the Haytien c n gress. In pursuance of a plan to consoli date the public debt of $6,(100.000, an addi tional 1213.282 being authorised to be pre sented to the bank for financing the issue. Thirty-three persons were accused, but of these only thirteen were arrested, the oth ers having left tbe country. At latest advices, President Bam was living In the island of St. Thomas, D. W. I. RtSSIASS WAT(JLX-K AMMISITIOJi Msk Demand of Cklaeae Geverameat Gooda Seised la Traaalt. PEKING, Dec. 27. The Rusilin officials here demanded of the Chinese Foreign office yesterday, the restitution of the 2,000,000 rounds of ammunition apparently destined for Port Arthur seised by the Chinese authorities at Fengtal, near hera. four days ago. The Russians assert that the ammunition was Intended only for the legation guard. It is learned at the Foreign office that the Chinese Intend taking a strong stand In view of the frequent attempts to smuggle arms and ammunition. The bales of wool containing the cartridges seised at FergtaJ were consigned to a European resident-of Peking, who Is now at Tien Tsin taking part In the Investigation into the affair. CHRISTMAS PROVISIONS I !t LOADED Meat sad Pooltry Delayed by Fob; Reach Lssisa Deeka. LONDON, Dec. 27. The conditions pre vailing among the shipping In the Thames for nearly a week were considerably Im proved today. Much of the produce in tended for the London Christmas market was unloaded. The loss, however, through Its late arrival aggregates several hun dred thousand pounds sterling. The American meat, Russian poultry, etc., de creased in value about $1,600,000. Shippers offered extravagant sums to have boats brought to docks here from Gravesend In time for the Christmas markets, but tbe pilots refused to take the risk In such a tog. Eeveral collisions of a more or less serious nature have occurred. ekeoarr Begonia Mlsslaa-. BT. JOHNS. N. F., Dec. J7.-The schooner Begonia, with a crew of eight men, overdue three weeka, has been posted as miaslng. It la feared it foundered. Tbe Begonia Is the only vessel unreported of all those driven seaward in the gale of December J. Another fierce billiard swept the coast Sat urday, Sunday and Monday, blocking traffic. Little damage to shipping is feared, as few vessels are now moving in these waters. Viceroy Carmoa Reeetves Prlaee. CALCUTTA, Dec 27 Lord Curson, vice roy of India, received Prince Inayat Ullah, son of the smer of Afghanistan with great ceremony today In the throne rooms at the Government bouse. Both the viceroy and tbe prince were attended by brilliant staffs. The scene was moat effective. Ths prince was evidently delighted with his re ception. Hellaad net Help Resale. THE HAGUE. Dec. 27. The report that Holland will place 8a bang, in ths Straits Settlements, twenty miles north of Ma lacca, at the disposal of the Russian sec ond Pacific sqadron. as reported from Toklo in a dispatch to the London Times, Is devoid of foundation. May Stedy British Methods. PEKIN, Dec 27. A proposal Is now be fore the emperor of China to send the stu dents of the naval colleeg to the British admiral at Shanghai fur a course of In struction, i Se news at the Fee. CHS FOO, Dec 17 No further news has reached Che Foo today from the defenders or besiegers of Port Arthur. Ceavlets Ce te Prlaaa. ST. LOUIS. Dec 27. Thomas E. Barrett, former marshal of the St. Louis court of appeals: John P. DoUn, former chairman of the democratic central committee, uni Policeman Frank Garrett, convicted of natui a ligation frauds, whose lea days of grace i.lr-d today, surrendered to Inltei Slates Marshal iswy and hive been taken to the slate pe.iltentlvry at Jefferson City to begin their sentences. Dew-tar aa Trial tor Harder. NKW ULM. Minn.. Dec. ZJ.-Dr. George R. Koch was placed on trial today on the charge of having murdered Dr. Louis a. Oeuhiu-dt on ths night of November L Both the defendnnt and his victim were profo Uiat socially. FIRE AT COUNCIL BLUFFS Fuller & Jobntan-Shagait Company Leaei Heavily TtTrneh Flama. IMPLEMENT WAREhoiiit AND STICK BURN Alarm Glvea Early, hat Elemeat Makea Short Work af C" sa b s tlblea. Dole Dnr at Aboil fion.ooo. The large four-story agricultural Imple ment warehouse of the Fuller 4 Johnson Shugart company, on South Main street. Council B'uffs. was destroyed by fire Inst evening. The value of the stock destroyed was rouph'y estimated last night to be ne t's, een ITiO.OuO and $75 000. and is said to be amply insured. The building cost 42.00 and was Insured for $30.ono. The building was erected and owned by the Warehouse Construction company No. 2 of Council Bluffs, which la composed of local business men. The fire was first discovered about 6:45 o'clock and by S o'clock the building was a mass of mlns. The origin of the fire Is un known, but Is supposed to have started from electric wires becoming crossed In tome manner. The burned building stood on the site of the Deere-Wells warehouse, which was burned to the ground In the big fire on Implement row the night of December 13, li-Ho, when within the short space of two hours fire consumed the Deere-Wei's ware house, the Shugart-Kmpkle Implement com pany's warehouse and the plant of the Consolidated fence work a. Boy Gives the Alarm. The fire last night was. first noticed by a small boy, who turned In the alarm. It was then :45. The fire Is thought to have started In the northeast corner of the build ing, near the chimney stack on the third ..oor. By the time the firemen reached the scene the entire Interior of the building was a seething furnace. Shortly after 7 o'clock the roof fell In and at 7:30 the east wall of the two upper stories fell. This wss fol lowed In a few minutes by the falling of the west wall, the firemen working on this side and a number of spectators having a narrow escape from being crushed beneath the mass of brick which fell nearly across to the sidewalk. The north and south walls followed In a few minutes and by 8 o'clock the bulidlng was In ruins. On the tracks of the Burlington, on the east side of the biasing building, were hundreds of freight cars. String after string of cars were pulled away, but a num ber of empty cars and five loaded with coal were burned to the trucks. Shortly before the west wall collapsed there was a terrific explosion, which hurled bricks and burning debris of all kinds high Into the air and out on the street, many of the bystanders having narrow escapes from being struck by pieces of the blazing debris. A ninety-gallon tank of gasoline was what exploded. The firemen were hampered by the In tense cold and the wind, which was al most a hurricane. The wind fortunately was from the west. Had It been from ths east the blase would probably have not stopped at the warehouse, but would have swept up Main street. Ceaac-U UlanTa tamaaay. The Fuller ei Johuson-Suugart company was organised in Council iiluns about two years ago. Samuel His ham, president of the Fuller & Johnson Manufacturing com pany of Madison, Wis., is also presiuent of Uie Council Bluffs cumany. K. L. Shugart Is vice president and Lucius Wells Is treasurer and manager. Mr. Wells was formerly a member of the Deere-Wella company. The company took possession of the new warehouse in June of last year. It carried a general line of buggies, wagons, farm implements and machinery and gasoline engines. During the summer it carried a large stock of automobiles, but all of theae machines bad been sold. The company also did a small tranafenlng business and a small quantity of stock of the While Lily Washer company of Daven port, la., and tbe American Radiator com pany of Chicago was also In the building. The Peru Plow and Implement company bad about a llu.ouo stock of buggies stored on the third floor of the burned building. T. J. Foley, president of the company, stated that the loss of his company was fully covered by Insurance. The building was erected by E. A. Wlck ham fur the Warehouse Construction com pany No. 2 of Council Bluffs, of which E. H. Merriam is president and H. W. Binder is secretary. The building cost 4J,0u0 and Mr. Binder stated last night that the com pany carried tSO.OuO Insurance on it. Mr. Binder was of the opinion last night that his company would at once rebuild. Meaaaer la Away. Lucius Wells, manager of the Fuller & Johnsun-Shugart company. Is In tht east. He was at once notified by telegram and It is expected that he will at ones return to the city. In the absence of Mr. Wells, little could be learned last night of the stock and In suranee carried by the company. A. W. Casady. son-in-law of Mr. Wells, and a member of the company, said: "Un til we can get our books out of the vault, unless they are destroyed. It is Impossible to make any estimate on the value of the stock we had In the building. I am cer tain that Mr. Wells carried ample Insur ance. This would naturally be the case after his experience in 1896, when the Deere-Wella warehouse was destroyed with Its contents. Being practically a new firm our stock was all clean and new. We have been stocking up. as we begin shipping next month, but until the books are re covered I can not place any estimate on the stock. I do not think that it exceeded 76. OWL" Mr. Casady was unable to Tven offer a conjecture as to the orhjln of the fire He aid that he and all the othtr employes left the building as usual at o'clock. The company does not maintain a night watchman, so before leaving the building owing to the heavy wind, Mr. Casady Im pressed upon Foreman Fitch the neoeasity of seeing to it thst everything was ship shape about the building before he locked up for the night. It Is hoped to save the books In ths vsult. which is on the second floor, but built up solid from the basement. Chief NichoUon , i.iree streams playing on ft all night. PANIC AMONG YOUNcTwOMEN Cylinder Head Blows Oat la Breeklya raetery Empleylaa- Twelve . Haadred Girls. NEW TORK. Dec 27. Engineer Charles Heebe was instantly killed, hi assistant. Darnel Ferrier, probably fatally injured and the lives of hundreds of young women were endangered today when the cylinder head of the great power engine In the Chelsea Juu mills In Brooklyn blew eul The noise of the explosion threw Into a panic the 1.1D0 young women at work In tbe building. Many of them were badly bruised and hurt In their efforts to escape. WOMAN JUMPS FROM WINDOW la Iastaatly Klllrd aad t'eroaer Thlaka Ske Trfd ta Ehss Detealloa. NEW TORK. Dec ?7. A woman of 21 years, known as Cisel Hall, was killed In stantly by Jumping from the third-stary window of a house near Broadway In West Forty-sixth street. Her act created a com motion in the neighborhood, where It was declared that the girl was screaming for help, when she wss seen to fling herself in a nude condition, head foremost, from the window. The coroner gave It as his opinion that the girl had been detained against her will and was attempting to'escape. Two suit cases found In the room occu pied by the girl contained men's and women's clothing that Indicated the own ers had come from Washington recently. The marks on the men's clothing show thst it was bought in Warsaw, Poland. A man's overcoat bore the name of Mr. Hoar. Other articles of men's clothing bore the mark "J. It-" The Initials found on the clothing and on sliver backed hair brushes found 'n the snlt cases correspond with those of a prominent Jockey who re cently returned to this country after a successful season on the Russian tracks. It Is known that the Jockey was in Wash ington a few days. A pawn ticket found- among the articles in the suit cases waa for a valuabla gold watch, which had bern pledged with a pawn broker near One Hundred and Twenty-fifth street.. The watch, valued at about SJ50, had a diamond crescent on or e side and on the otherithe Initials "C. 8. M." It was pawned by a stylishly dressed young woman, who g ye tbe name Miss Hall, the pawnbroker &ld. It has been learned that the suicide had lived 'some time at a. hotel at Eighth avenue and One Hundred and Twenty-sixth street. She went there? with a young man and the couple registered under the name of Mr. and Mrs. HalL LANCASTER, Pa., Dec. 27 The young woman calling herself Cecil Hall, who was killed by plunging from the fhird-story window of a lodging house in West Forty sixth street, New York, last night, has been Identified as Cecilia Moa., aged 23 years, of this city. Late this afternoon, her mother, Mrs. Thomas Moss, residing at 119 - West Marlon street, received the following telegram: " "Sorry to .tell you your daughter has committed suicide. . What shall I do with body." The telegram was signed Mrs. M. Webb, 202 West Forty-sixth street, New York. Mrs. Moss telegraphed back that the body should be sent to this city. Her mother is unable to gtve much In formation as to her recent career. About a year ago the girl went to Washington, D. C. Later she wrote to her mothir that on September ( she had married CUftcn Fraser of that city, whom she said was a clerk In the government emjjoy. Borne weeks ago she wrote that she and her hus band would spend Christmas here with Mrs. Moss, but a letter received a few days since said that the would go to New York. The girl also stated that she and her husband had adopted the name of Mrs. and Mr. I. J. Hall. She directed that let ters should be addresses yi her under the name of Hall, la, car iJ. Mrs. Webb at tbe Forty-sixth street ' address. A photo graph of Fraser, which she sent to her mother, shows him to be a rather hand some man about SO years of age, smooth faced. J. Hoar,- a Jockey from Russia, mentioned In the case, is not known at any of the local hotels or by horsemen here. TRAMP STEAMER STRANDED Dramelsler Still Agrroaad Near Fire Island aad May Be Impos- , slble to Rescue Crew. NEW YORK, D.c. Efforts to learn whether Captain Nicholson and the crew of the British tramp steamer Drumelxler are still aboard the vessel, which Is aground on the bar at Fire island, have been usucceseful and tonight the life sav ers are still watching from the beach In the hope of communicating with the ship. Hidden In p. black fog and pounded by tierce seas rolling from the southeast, the steamer tonight was in imminent danger of going to pieces. If its captain Wnd crew of thirty-two men are stilli on the ship they face an almost certain death in the heavy surf breaking over the sandy beach. The captain would not let the life sav ers take off his crew yesterday, when the seas were not running so high, and to day it was too late to save them. No boat In the world could be launched In the teeth of the southwest gale that was blowing up great waves and crashing them down on the shore. The fog was so thick that the stranded vessel could not be seen from the shore, 8uO yards away. Two rescuing tugs were by the vessel last night, but no report was received from them today and it Is thought they may have left it to escape the storm. PITTSBURG PEACE SOCIETY Orgaalsatlea Formed far the Amica ble Bettlemeat af Laker Dlspates, PITTSBURG, Dec. 27. With the adop tion of a constitution, the Pittsburg Peace society was formed today. Another meet ing will be held on January 10 for tbe election of officers and providing for the incorporation of the society. Andrew Carnegie has consented to ac cept the office of honorary president and Senators Penrose and Knux will be hon orary vice presidents. The constitution adopted today, among other things, pro vides for a special committee to whom all parties connected with future labor dis putes will be Invited to bring their griev ances. The society will be called the Pittsburg Peace society, and for the present at least will have no affiliation with societies In other cities. AIDS BOGUS REGISTRATION Jeba l Cillllsale af St. Leals Charged with aidiaar aad Akettlag Celoalsatlon af Vetera. BT. LOUIS, Dec 27. An Information equivalent to art Indictment was returned by Assistant Circuit Attorney Hancock into the office of the clerk of the court of crim inal correction today, charging John L. Gil lespie, former partner of "Lord" Barring ton, under sentence of death for the mur der of Horseman James P. McCann. and later partner of John L. Sullivan in the saloon business, with aiding and abetting In the fraudulent registration of lol names. Gillespie has saloons and lodging h mass oa Market street and It Is charged that these were the headquarters for many ansa who fraudulently registered as qualified voters before the November elecr SUIT AGAINST PAPER TRUST Attorney Gaaeral Ifaoey Aki for an Ih JuEctisn Against General Oompaay. ALLEGES THAT ITS METHODS ARE ILLEGAL As the Selllag Aareat at tke Mills It Caafrela tke Market Absolutely aad Has Advaaeed Prices Fifty Per Ceat. ST. PAUL, Minn., Dec. 27 Attorney Gen eral Moody, for the United States, through District Attorney Haupt and Frank B. Kel logg and James M. Heck, special assistant attorney general of the United Ptates. late this afternoon filed a petition In the United States district court In which he makes the General Paper company, as principal de fendant, and the Itasca Psper company of Grand Rapids, Minn.; Hennepin Paper com pany of Little Falls. Minn.; Wolf Itivet Paper and Fiber company of New Rich mond. Wis.; Atlas Paper company of Ap pleton. Wis.; Klmberly A Clark company of Neenah, Wis.; Riverside Fiber snd Paper company of Appleton, Wis.; Wausau Paper Mills company of Brokaw, Wis.; Centralis Pulp and Water Power company of Cen tralla. Wis.; Combined Locks Paper com pany of Combined Locks. Wis.; Dells Pu'.p company of Eau Claire. Wis.: Grand Rapid Paper and Pulp company of Grand Rapids, Wis.; Menasha Paper company of Menasha. Wis.; Nckoosa Paper company of Nekoosa, Wis.; the Falls Manufacturing company ot Oconto Falls, Wis.; Flambeau Paper com pany of Tark Falls. Wis.; John Edwards Manufscturing company of Port Edwards. Wis.; C. W. Howard company of Menasha, Wis.; Wisconsin River and Paper company of Plover, Wis.; Tomahawk Pulp and Paper company of Park Falls. Wis. ; Northwestern Paper company of Cloquet, Minn.; Consoli dated Water Power and Paper company or Grand Rapids. Wis.: Manufacturers' Paper company and the Petoskey Fiber Paper company of Petoskey, Mich., and the Rhlnelander Paper company of Rhine lander, "Wis., party defendants In a suit to enjoin them and restrain them from doing business through the General Psper com pany as tbe sales agent. In violation of the provisions of sections 1 and 2 of the act of congress, approved wuly 2, entitled "An act to protect trade and commerce against un lawful restraints and monopolies." Methods of tke Comhlae. The petition alleges that the defendants entered Into an agreement to combine snd control the sale of ths product of the different companies through the general Paper company In that the General Paper company regulated prices, sales and ship ment and territory for the sale of the same and after deducting operating expenses of the General Paper company, divided the surplus among the members of the cor poration. The petition recites that the General Paper company was organized un der the laws of Wisconsin May 26. 1900, with a capital stock of 2100,000. divided Into 1,(00 shares, which were distributed among and are now held by certain of tbe defendants named, and that later the others were taken. Into the combine, nam ing them In the order In which they en tered the trust, and goes to Mate that the General Paper company became the ex clusive selling sgent for ths defendants, with absolute power to control the output of the various mills, fix the price of all paper sold and to whom and upon what terms and conditions the paper should be sold, and Into what states and places It shall be shipped, what publishers and other customers each mill shall supply. Prices Advaaeed Fifty Per Ceat. The petition alleges that in consequence of tbe combination all competition In the manufacture, sale and distribution of paper had been restricted and price of all paper products greatly Increased, particularly of news print paper, which has been increased about 60 per cent It further states that no dealers or newspapers or other con sumers in the territory west of the Mis sissippi, with the exception of certain newspaper publishers In St. Louis snd Chi cago, can purchase sny paper except di rectly through the General Paper com pany, and then only upon terms dictated by the latter. The court is asked to declare the alleged combination unlawful and that the de fendants be perpetually enjoined from doing any act In pursuance of the same. The complaint also asks that the General Paper company be enjoined from acting as sales agent for the other defendants and that the latter be enjoined from continu ing their arrangement with the General Paper company. The court Is also asked to direct the deffendants to come Into court and answer all questions relating to al legations of tbe petition as msy be neces sary. MOODY EXPLAINS THE PET1TIOS Special Attorneys Are Appelated to Collect Evldeare. WASHINGTON. Dec. 27. Attorney Gen eral Moody tonight gave out the following statement regarding the suit Instituted at St. Paul today by the federal govemimnt against tbe paper manufacturing companies: On the complaint of many newspaper pub lishers last spring that a combination in restrain of commerce existed among manu facturers of paper to control the distribu tion and sale of their products among the states of the union, the Department of Justice began an investigation of that sub ject, and to further ald the department in that respect, the attorney general appointed Frank B. Kellogg of Sl Paul (Minn.) bar and James M. Beck of the New York bar as apeclaj attorneys to collect the evidence and make a report thereon. These gentle men, after an exhaustive examination of the matter, simultaneously with that con ducted by the Department of Justice, have reported to the attorney general that. In tlieir opinion, tbe facts ascertained support tbe complaint and Justify In the public In terests, the filing of a petition to enjoin the operations of the General Paper com pany, a corporation of Wisconsin, which is the Instrumentality through which the al leged oomblnatjon to control the prices and distribution, of those products in the west ern states Is conducted. In this opinion the Department of Justice concurs. The attorney general today directed thai the petition be filed against tbe General Pauer company and the twenty-four paper manu facturing companies located In Wisconsin, Michigan and Minnesota which it repre sents, to have such a combination declared to be an unlawful restraint upon Interstate commerce and a monopoly. The petition will be filed In United States circuit court, the district of Minnesota, as soon as the necessary papers can be prepared. Dlee la Balk Ream. LIMA. O.. Dee. i7. J. W. Griffin, cne of the wealthiest oil oi-erators in the cuy and vice president of tbe Line Trust company, aas killed by electricity In h.s bath room here today. He received s heavy voltage of electricity, the contact being made by an iron registtr and an electric light chandelier. Ills fingers were burned badly and part of the gas features broken. NEBRASKA WEATHER FORECAST Fair WedaeaJar aad Tkarsday, wltk Rlalaa; Tempers tare. Temprratare at Umaka Vestrrdart Hoot. Pet. Hir. Dea. 5 a. wi t 1 p. m 1 a. m p. m.... 1 T a. at .... .. I II p. m a. ta I 4 p. m .... - a. m . . . . fl O P. m....- 1 0 a. m . . . . - 4 Op. It a. m..... 4 T p. "- I 12 m. 4 p. m.... 2 p. .-. 3 ladlrates kelew sera. SUBWAY DIRECTORS ARE NAMED Mra Who Will Ceatrol Sew release Eaterprlse Are Praialeeat la Flaanrlal Circles. CHICAGO, Dec 27. The Chicago Subwsy company, owned and controlled by the largest railroad and financial InteresU of the country, made announcement today that among the prominent men in the di rectory of the Illinois Tunnel company, the operating company will be the following: A. J. Esrllng. president of the Chicago, Milwaukee A St. Paul railway; E. P. hip ley, president of the Atchison. Topeka Santa Fe railroad; George B. Harris, presi dent of the Chicago. Burllngtrm & Qulncy railway; 8. M Felton. president of the Chicago & Alton railway; J. Kruttschnitt, director of maintenance and ways of the Southern Pacific and Union Pacific rail ways; B. L. Winchell, president of the Rock Island railway; C. A. Bird, vice president of foe Gould lines; F. D. Underwood, presi dent of the Erie railway; Benjamin Thomas, president of the Chicago A Western In diana railway; P. A. Valentine, vice presi dent of Armour A Co.; Albert O. Wheeler, president of the Illinois Tunnel company. Among additional directors to be an nounced later will be representatives of the Vsnderbllt lines, the Pennsylvania rail way and the Chicago A Northwestern rail way. The Chicago Subway company owns the stock of the Illinois Tunnel company, the Illinois Telephone Construction company and the Chicago Warehouse and Terminal comrany The Tunnel company will oper ate the tunnel constructed In Chicago for the transfer of all freight, merchandise, mall newspaper packages between business houses and the railway stations. The con struction company not only does the con struction work of the tunnel company, but will also enUr Into contracts for the hand ling of excavations and deliver bulidlng material for new buildings through the tunnels and also do In Chicago work similar to that of the Realty company in New York. The Warehouse and Terminal com pany will handle all the warehouse and terminal business In connection with the tunnel business. NEW CANON LAW IN USE Case af Dr. Irvine Aa-alaat Bishop . Dadley of tke Episcopal Ckarck Reopened. BOSTON, Dec. 27. The reopening of tho long-etandlng controversy between Right Rev. Ethelbert Talbot and Rev. Dr. I. N. W. Irvine, announced from Philadelphia, was made possible by the action of the Episcopal general convention, which met here In October, In adopting a new act of canon laws bearing on the subject of the trials to remedy a defect in the old laws which made no provision for courts of re view or appeal. The Talbot-Irvine case was one of sev eral which led to the enactment of the new legislation. The fact that when at attempt as made two years ago to reopen the cas against Bishop Talbot, who twice had then acquitted on charges of wrongly deposing Rev. Dr. Irvine, and of other alleged of fenses, the presiding bishop of the church, the late Right Rev. Thomas N. Dudley of Kentucky, overruled the request of the ac cusers on the ground that he had no can onical warrant to proceed further, influ enced the delegates in passing the revised canon. NELSON AND MURPHY MAKE UP Pagillst and Maaasrer Agree Upoa Dlvlsloa of Big Check and All Complaints Are Dismissed. SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 27 -Battllng Nel son snd his manager, Theodore Murphy, who was arrested at Stockton a few days ago on a charge of embexzllng the bulk of the pugilist's two latest contests, arm In arm, today appeared before Police Judge Cobannlss. Eddie Santry, also under ar rest on a similar charge, was with them. Nelson took the stand and declared that the arrest was made while he was labor ing under a delusion and said he did not desire to prosecute anybody. The money In the property clerk's hands was then produced. Nelson being given lti.801 and Murphy $2,200 and the division being ac cording to the manager's account, the cases were then dismissed and the trio left the court room. AFTER SUPPORTING EVIDENCE District Attoraey Jerome Wssld Have Story Told by Prisoaer Dodge Coa Armed. NEW YORK. Dec. CT.-Dlstrlct Attorney Jerome Is working hard to obtain corrobo rative evidence in connection with the confession of Charles F. Dodge, who was brought here from Texas on a charge of perjury, which grew out of the Morse Dodge divorce entanglement. This confession Is said to Involve con spiracy on the part of men well known here to defeat the ends of Justice, but ths district attorney Is understood to take the position thst corroboration of the state merits Is a necessity to secure a convic tion. WESTERN MATTERS AT CAPITAL Postmasters aad Raral Letter Car. rlers Appolated Daring Tuesday. (From a Staff Correspondent.) WASHINGTON. Dec. 27.-fSpeclal Tele gram .-Postmasters appointed: Iowa, Hawleyville, Page county; David E. Bhowen. vice John R. Hunter, resigned. South Dakota, Rousseau. Stanley county; O. W. Rousseau, vice Miss J. M. Rousseau, resigned. Rural carriers appointed for Nebraska: Amherst, route 1. G. E. Hlgglns, carrier; J. W. Hlgglns, substitute. Tecumseh, route 8, F. C. Halstead, carrier; Harry Oore, substitute. Collision at Baltimore. BALTIMORE. Iiec. 27. The North Cen tril Harrlsiiu: g express, carrying a large Lumber of Mystic i-lmr.ris and other pa sengers. including Admiral Schley, collided toiay in the ysrtis of the Pennsylvania railroad with an empty express train. None of the paheiigers was Injured, but all were badly shaken up. several trainmen were auure or leas seriously hurt,. COLD WAVE IN STATE gerarait Storm of Winter -Swtepa Throngn at Ertry Portion of Babraika. WIND BLOWS AT FORTY MILES AN HOUR Temper&tnra Gtei Far Balow Zara aad tha snowdrift Are Sad. OMAHA HELD TIGHT IN THE GRASP Icy Btraata, with Other ElameoU, 8aricualy Interrupt Traffio f Ail Kiada. STREET CARS AND TRAINS ARE SUFFERERS Weather Dims Offers So Advice) at Aerapt Chaage, bat Some Hep of Moderation After Today. Last nlghl about 10 o'clock tha weather man sat In his office up In the big federal building, and after looking over the reports that came In from the 7 o'clock observa tions, and taking due note of the places he , didn't hear from, decided that a moderation in the severity of the cold wave may be looked for this afternoon. In the meantime Omaha wasn't the worst place on the map, not by a good deal. Vp at Williston yeeterday morning the little thread of mercury was stationary at ta below sero. That for cold. Chicago put up a fight for its reputation as the Windy City snd shows a record of seventy-two miles per hour on a spurt snd an average for the day of fifty-two miles, and that's going some, even for Chicago. St. Louis Jogged in with a forty-two mile wind; Detroit hag a thlrty-elght-mlle breese. and so all through that section. The difference 1 that while Omaha's sephyr was almost northwest, the winds of the other side ot the Mississippi were from the opposite point of the compass, or southeast. The storm center wss about at Davenport, la. Incidentally, here Is a little lemon In weather making for you. The storm la a true cyclone. Please note Us peculiarities and the area It covers, and you will grasp the fundamental difference between a . cyclone and the tornado that blows In the sweet summer time. Nebraska Hard Hit. Nebraska got a .most generous share of the disturbance. Por months the Antelope state has been out of the path of the gen eral cyclonic disturbances, but this one landed Just fair with the perimeter of the storm at one end of the state and the peri phery at the other, so that no section was overlooked, and nobody can accuse the . weather bureau of playing favorites. It la Just a generous, all-around bllsxard, and nothing else. Not much snow has fallen any place, but the little thst did come has drifted badly and did more to .obstruct traffic than several times the amount might have accomplished had It not been for the gale. , ' The signs of cheer ars shown In the -re- ports that did get through from the weat and northwest. Last night the stars shone brightly over Omaha, and all tbe reports received at the weather bureau from the northwest were of clear skies. Rising tem perature, too. Is noted st all places, so that It Is only reasonable to expect warmer weather here during tbe day. It will not be much before late in the afternoon Is ths prediction. The storm center Is moving to the northeast, and is expected to be over the lake region today. At 1 o'clock this morning the wind be gan dying down and soon was barely per eeptible. At that hour unofficial ther mometers stood st 9 degrees below sero. Everything Is Affected. It waa Omaha's first severe weather this winter and It was felt, too. But nobody out for business cared, for It waa admitted to be a stimulus to traffic In nearly air lines. And while not grieving over this bit of frigidity. Omahans moreover were con soling themselves In the fact that they still occupied at least a corner of the Orange belt, comparatively speaking, for look what they got up around tbe North Pole. Thlrty slx below at, Williston, N. D., and still go ing down. Everything was affected by the storm business of various kinds, street cars, rail roads, telegraph and telephone lines, pedes trians snd vehicles. The streets were prac tically' abandoned by pedestrians and the street cars were having all sorts of trouble. The Dodge street line was having the worst lurk, especially on the hill from Sixteenth to Twentieth street on Dodge, and then northward from Dodge to California, on Twentieth. The Twtnlleih street stretch of the Harney line also waa causing lots of trouble, and the people on Walnut Hill were lucky to rile at all. Streets were excessively slippery from tha sleet and snow and were occasioning man' severe falls to unwary pedestrians. If tbe Saltan of Sola Was Here.. If the sultan of Sulu had been in Omaha Tuesday and held up his finger and said. "Do you feel a draft?" there - would have been a tragedy. Forty-three people and a dog would be injured In the mad crush over the sultan's remains. It would have been the only warm spot In the city. The world must be as large as Columbus or any other of ths great man ever said It was weather of this sort must have blown In from a tremendous distance off. Prob ably It Is lost or strayed, but it is a cinch It hss not been stolen. It msy have been driven away from a comfortable home somewhere near the North pole station. If it has been so turned loos;. It has fallen very low In ths world since then. Tbe city of Omaha yesterday looked like a plate of potato salad that soma old rounder with a Jaded tongue Is throwing tbe salt Into. The few pedestrians who had to be out shut their mouths and eyes tight and blew against tbe nearest Immov able object. Then they took soundings, tightened up tbelr collarbone shields and blew by. The milk wagons delivered cakes of ice and the mall men banded In dead ' letters. Coasting is strictly forbidden on Dodge street hill, but tbe rootormen were bound to have the time of their lives, and nearly every car came down like the Lim ited, clanging its gong. Ons car struck a mall wagon at the poa to tries and killed the horse. The wagon and car were dam aged, but no person was hurt A ear sweeper ran off the track on ths Walnut Hill line at Thirteenth and Dodge streets and in another part of ths city abueklng car took some of the paint off ons of the track cleaners. What tha Cempaay Said. The general offices and car barns of ths transportation companies reported ths lines open and working to Dundia and else where, but the action a little sua and painful. Fifty thou-m.d people In Omaha will swear to this. They each and every one could count sets of six or seven oars every little bit going In the direction which they tncmsel.es did not wish to go. The street rail a a a weepers were ana t