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The Omaha Daily Bee. FOR A CHARACTERISTICALLY WEST ERN NEWSPAPER READ THE BEE THE BEE IS THE PREFERRED ADVER. TISING MEDIUM IN ITS TERRITORY ESTABLISHED JUNE 19, 1871. OMAIIA, WEDNESDAY MORNING, k JANUARY 23. 1905 TWELVE PAGES. SINGLE COPY THREE CENTS. TALK ON PRIMARIES House Committee Has the Dodge and McMulIen Bills Up. ONE vital difference in the measures Dodge Proposes to Apply Principle to All Classes of Elections. M MULLEN EXCEPTS STATE OFFICERS Argument Advanced Direct Primaries Tend to Better Class of Officers. SAME RULE APPLIES LL DOWN. THE LINE Dome nppo.f Applying It to ' lenr It Would Ci've he Ponolous (.enter Advantage In dominations. (From a Btalt Correspondent.) LINCOLN. Jan. :4.-(Speclal Telegram ) The Dodge and McMulIen primary election hills received a free-for-all hearing In room aoO of the Llndell hotel tonight before the house committee on privileges and elec tion. Representative Dodge of Douglas and Representative McMulIen of Oagu, mithors of the respective measures, opined the discussion, the former acting as chair man of the meeting. Victor Rosewater, at the request of the,author. of both bills; had come down from Omaha to participate In the debate. Other speakers were Repre sentative Perry of Furnas, Windham of Cass, Barnes of Douglas and Senator Sheldon of Cass, Jones of Otoe and Harsh of Harlan. The Dolgo bill provides for direct pri mary elections In city, county, district and state elections, while the McMulIen bill takes In all but the state and substi tutes United State senatorial elections. Representative Dodge, who was the first speaker, claimed the same direct benefits insured to the people by primary elections In city, county and district were Insured in state elections aa well and therefore his bill offered more benefit since it applied the law to the state elections. He e.rgued that the operation of his bill would tend to prevent slates, made possible In con ventions, avoid factlonallHm and obtain the nomination of the best men for the several offices. To the argument that primary elec tion for state officers would result in giving the populous centers an unfair ma jority of candidates on the ticket he re plied that it tended no more in this direc tion than does the present system and that a good man from Cheyenne county would be far more likely to get the nomination than a bad man from Omaha. Mr. Dodge maintained that the best party organiza tion was possible under his bill, that It did not provide for platforms, as they were not necessary until afterward. Perry Has dnestlon. Representative Perry asked if a political machine would not have an advantage under thlg system and be able to get ob jectionable men on the ticket. Mr. Dodge's t answer was that o. such ""control was possible, but that on-tan- con trary, If the community was composed of good citizens, a majority of them voting naturally would select good men, while If the community was bad the nominees would, consequently, be bad. Representative McMulIen made the point that primary elections were Impracticable and bad for the selection of state officers for the principal reason that they would enable the larger cities to get their men on the ballot to the exclusion of the places of less population, and In many cases crowd the ticket with men not as popular outside of the populous centers,' nor as well quali fied for the respective offices 89 many can didates from sparsely settled communities. He also argued In favor of his provision or the state platforms made by the conven tions as one essential element toward per fect party organization. He said the chief question In political affairs -was, "How can the party organization be best maintained T" In his Judgment the answer was to retain the present system in state elections. He pointed out that the objection of unfair distribution of candidates in the minor elec tion, district, county and municipal, wos not apparent. He asserted that his bill em bodied the best features of the most suc cessful primary election laws now In opera tion and that they excluded the state elec tion feature as he had done. ' should Cover the state. Victor Rosewater was then Invited by Chairman Dodge to address the assem blage. Ho commended at the outset that feature of tho McMulIen bill applying the primary election to United States senators, but deprecated the fact that this bill omit ted state officers from Its operations. That, he thought, diminished its potency. He favored the Dodge bill Insofar as it related to the fundamental principle of primary elections in city, county, district and state and regretted that it did not extend to senators. Mr. Rosewater as a. preface to his remarks said the question which natu rally suggested Itself was, Why is such legislation necessary? Answering this, he said the present system of political affairs contained certain evils and' the present prims motive of primary elections wan to remedy these evils, which, he said, ought to be obvious. . Retracing the history of election rules In the republican party coun cils of Omaha, Pouglu county and the Second congressional district, he came to a direct discussion of the subject. The main evil of the present convention sys tem h declared to be the possibility of foisting undesirable men ui the ticket. He said too often candidates are nominated who are opposed by the great majority of their party- DUt ore, the beneficiaries of gangs and Influences in control. Very often conventlon-mado nominees are men unheard of before their nomination. But, under the primary election system every man had to come out in the open, and this, he said, would do away with the railroad, rule. Dark horse candidates would be cut out also Under the primary system. He cited the cxamplo of Burkett winning out fo senator as showing that coming out with a bold announcement was a good thing, and discouraged dark horses. "I believe Mr. Burkett got the nomina tion for senator simply because he had come out so long in advance," said Mr. Rosewater, "and when the legislature came to elect a senator there was not a man with nerve enough to oppose Burkett." Mr. Rosewater said It the direct primary was good tor a city. It was good for a state election, and vice versa, and he said if applied to state elections, it would Insure against corporation rule, and if applied to senatorial elections it would pi event the election of a railroad-nominated senator, for which remark he was manifestly commended by the majority of bis hearers. He took no stock in the-Idea a advocated in the McMulIen bill that (Continued, on Third Page.) LOOKING UPH0CH'S RECORD People with Missing Friends Are Re porting to the Police at Chicago. CHICAGO. Jan. 24. Information of more d victims of the supposed Bluebeard, V n Hoch, has been given' the police s hn Frlck, an employe of the Nickel 1 railroad. Frlck has reported to the 1 1 c I n. al CO un lltl w a charge that his sister, Mrs. Wll- 3thu!tz. married Hoch, who then ilmself Albert Muschburg. at Argos, 5 l 1900. Mrs. Pchultz had a child Nettie, then 5 years old. "Shortly ?y arrived In Chicago letters ceased to me," said Frlck, "and I am le belief that my sister and her ' were done away with. My sister hat t.iut $1,600 at the time of the mar riage." Mrs. J. H. Schwartzman of Milwaukee telegraphed the police that she would ar rive here today for the purpose of trying to identify a photograph of Hoch as the mar. who married her sister In 18&9. The woman died shortly after, leaving 11,800 to her husband. Relatives of six of the thirteen wives credited to Hoch have expressed a belief to Police Inspector Shlppy that the six women died of poison. The list of dead and missing is as follows: Mrs. Marie Welker Iloeu, died January 11, IWlu; Mrs. Mary Stelnbccker, died 1MM; Mrs. Mary Becker. St. Louis, died 1'2; Mrs. Mary Schultz, Argus, Ind., died 19"0 (child also disappeared); Mrs. Lena Hoch, Milwaukee; Mrs. Sophia Hoch, Milwaukee. Acting on the theory that Hoch is the missing Janitor of the notorious H. H. Holmes "castle," the police are using the same methods to trace Hoch as were used In seeking Holmes. The officers believe Hoch to be a pupil of Holmes and that he will use the same ruses that were employed by Holmes to escape arrest. A furniture dealer on Milwaukee avenue Informed the police tonight that he had furnished five different flats for Hoch, each time under a different name, and that he had a new wife for every flat. The first flat furnished was in May, 18!t2, under the name of C. T. Meyer; the sec ond, June, 1Ss92, under the namo of H. Irlck; the third In 1894; the dealer does not recall the name used, but It was different from thut used on another occasion: the fourth was In 1854, under the name of Jacob Iiocli. The wife this time was Mrs. Mary Steinbrecher. The fifth flat was furnished In 1S9S, under the name of Adolph Hoch. This time Hoch gave a mortgage on the goods and then sold them. For this he was sentenced to a year in the county Jail. The dealer told the police that he knew that the women who were installed In the first three flats died In a short time after marriage. He asked Hoch why he changed his namo every time he married, and Hoch replied that he did not believe he could get married under the same name every time, as many women would object to marrying a man who had been so many times a widower. BRYAN BEFORE THE COURT Talks A boot Intent of Testator In the Dennett Will Case. "'NfcW ' J-tAVEN", ' Co nn v Jam4.-"rgu-ments were heard In the Connecticut su preme court of errors today on the appeal of William J. Bryan from the decision of the superior court denying him authority to receive 150,000 mentioned In the famous sealed letter left by the late Phllo S. Ben nett, of whose estato Mr. Bryan Is execu tor. ' Mr. Bryan spoke eloquently for three quarters of an hour. He said it was due him in this case to say a few words as to the Intent of the testator. This Intent, he thought, was very plain, and he honed the court would be explicit as to whether the sealed letter could be received as a declara tion of trust, even if not a part of the will. He said thnt mest will contests turned on two or three questions, usually on the ca pacity of a testator to make a will, on the question of undue Influence or on the In tent of the testator In making bequests. In this case he thought Mr. Bennett Ideally competent to make a will. As to the que lon of undue Influence he cited the fact that Mr. Bennett travelled 1,500 miles to Nebraska, carrying with him a will to be used as a model, and afterward traveled 1 B00 miles back to New York, where he duly executed he will. The question therefore turns on the Intent of the testa tor. Mr. Bryan referring to his personal In terest In the case, said: "I trust that the decision of this court will be so explicit that It will be Instructive to those who hereafter draw wills. No matter what this court may think of the purposes of this bequest, the right of a man to make his property go to the person or the per sons he wishes Is sacred to us all." With Mr. Bryan's remarks the case was closed. SOUTH DAKOTA MAN MURDERED Shot by Ilia Brother in Quarrel Over Settlement of an Estate. CLEVELAND. Jan. 24. In the village of Lakewood, a suburb of Cleveland.. at mid night tonight, George Wagar shot and fatally Injured: his brother John. A patrol man who bad been called to the Wagar home was shot through the stomach by George Wagar. A number of village of ficers have surrounded the house for the purpose of nrroatlng Wagar. John Klay mar la the wounded policeman. Charles Cofflnbury and Mayor Rowe of lakewood head the posse which now sur rounds the Wagar house. The cause of the shooting is supposed to have been over the settlement of the Wagar estato, for which John Wagar was ad ministrator. The other members of the Wagar family are thought to be Inside the barricaded house. John Wagar died at 2 o'clock this morn ing. He came here two weeks ago from South Dakota, presumably for the purpose ofnetftlng his father's estate. George Wagar, who did the shooting, has lived1 In various parts of the west for the lust twenty years. FATAL WRECKJON THE ALTON Firemen Killed and Passengers In. Jnred Wlieu Coach Turns Ovrr In Illinois. ST. LOUIS. Jan. 24.-A. G. Chaplin, a fireman, of Alton, 111., was killed and several passengers were Injured, but none fatally, today in the wreck of an Illinois Central Terminal train near Alton. Thirty passengers in the one coach of the train Wc re ' badly tightened and narrowly esaied death when the coach turned over, but with two exceptions their Injuries consisted principally of cuts and bruises. John Hardy of Upper Alton broke two rlbs and Attorney John J. Kreuholt of Alton has a badly wrenched leg. THAYER IS ENJOYING LIFE Eightj-Pifth Birthday Pifids Nebraska's Pint Beiator Mentally Active. KEEPS UP WITH THE TREND OF EVENTS Recalls Vividly acenes of rioneer Days of the state and His Mlrrlng C areer as Pioneer. Soldier aad Statesman. (From a Staff Correspondent.) LINCOLN, Jan. 24.-(Special Telegram.) Wrapt In the solitude of his own peaceful thoughts. General John M. Thayer, Ne braska's "grand old raun," pioneer, soldier, statesman, sits today In his quiet, cozy room at the home of Mr. and Mrs. L. Lara1), j lero waa recorded ,t 7 a m and at 9:30 1915 Prospect avenue, gazing back through , the ,emperature had falkn to Aogn,es the long, deep corridors of eighty-five years j b(.,ow u waa nQ cqW (n fuct nat thj "No, it did not occur tome until 9 or 9:o0man wnQ u Qf tpm this morning that I was So years old today, , had tQ ca New QrI y remarked the general to a correspondent i Ar(,nn. ,, T. -wm. k., for The Bee who had called, on him. thought of it yesterday, but did not when I first awoke this morning One of the first settlers of the state and Its metropolis, a leading factor In repress ing Indian ravages, a distinguished officer 1 In the war of the rebellion, the first United ; States senator from Nebraska, twice Its governor and the honored occupant of various official positions leading up to those which crowned his eventful career, John M. inayer occupies a place in me nisiory or cnraK ana in me nrrections or lis people which no other man ever did or ever can claim. One would almost forget, though. In the benign presence of this old man that he had done so much of enduring benefit for posterity forget only because of the bene factor's Innate and unaffected modesty. "Why," he laughingly said In that sweet sincerity of the soul which comes to one of Ms kind In the evening of life, "I am pro foundly honored to know that any one of my fellow citizens has thought of me on my birthday." And in childish Innocence he added, "How came you to think of It?" Memory Is Good. Like most men who have rounded out and retired from the activities of a busy, eventful career and come, with the burden of great deeds resting upon them, triumph antly to face the golden sunset of life. General Thayer is reminiscent In mood. i But he also Is progressive still. He will talK or the dear old past, but he loves to converse of the present and future. As vividly as though It was yesterday, he re called what people cherish as the greatest deed of his great life the organizing and leading to the front of the First Nebraska ; volunteers at the outbreak of the civil war. ) He will tell Interesting things which oc curred during his term as United States senator, or governor, or even as territorial governor of Wyoming, member of the Ne braska legislature, pioneer or Indian fighter, all this he recalls minutely, mentioning dates and speaking names as though the events had just transpired and he was In the ful vigor and bloom of young man hood. Just standing upon the threshold of his life, Instead of Just completing it "When President Lincoln Issued his first caU for ,mjW Jrnoiia Aa.darfenA h natloii agalfisrtrlavefy; then a young man already trained In Indian warfare, I wrote to Sec retary of War Simon Cameron and n.Und that one of the first regiments be assigned ! to Nebraska, that as Nebraska had 28,600 t . . . . i - . i i . v ,, . . . yuuiHLiuu ii ue auoweu uj iorm a reut- ment to send to the front. My request was granted," said the general, his face flushed with the proud thought, "and we went to the front." ' It would be useless to recall the dis tinguished services General Thayer ren- j dered his country during those four years, j But he loves to recall at least one event of tne war. "It Is brought back to my mind Just at this time," he said, with pathos in his voice, "because of the pres.? reports I have read of the approaching death of my dear I old friend and comrade, General Lew Wl- j Z.r T, . ,' w,e ""P"1 or e" en lace. He and I were together at Shiloh ! l ' tlflV11"6 Were m-'u re- under Genera. Grant. History records that , General Wallace made a mistake In giving I jia certain order there. I never thought so But Wallace was suspended for a while jand it was a crushing biow to his friends j and admirers, who thought he was right." thought he was right. One Regret for Past. Then, moving on over the chasm of years Intervening, General Thayer, with moist ened eyes and unsteady voice, recalled this incident: "When I was In the United States senate General Wallace made a request of me that I secure for him tho honors of congress and one day he led me over to the desk of Senator Morton of Indiana and we talked over the matter. I wanted to do it. I loved Wallace, I honored his distin guished services as a soldier and officer and I believed It was nothing but Just U.. T HIH nt nffnr tha rn!,.H r v : : : : " . u,u noi, cnieii um ul uuuaiuerauon ior my j 1 . i.inJ nn.m.xlA T .... J 1 . . UJU liitriiu tum vuiuiauo. j. icoicu IL WOlliri . : .7' 1,::: z.. ' v-." " o"cu I naa aone 11. now many, many times have I wished I might be a senator Jin ...... - - , ana l wouia ao mis ior my oia friend. Ij tell you I would. In the last few days, I since reading that General Wallace Is near death's door, this thing has been con-. stantly on my mind and I have thought ' how glad I'd be if. before he goes and before I am called hence, I might go to htm and tell him how sorry I am that I i did not do this and how gladly I would do , it if I were a senator today." General Thayer lives a quiet, simple life. aa he says. He has made his home for years with Mr. and Mrs. Lamb and they ' are devoted In their attention to him. He arise, at 7:30 and generally retires at 9 30 or 10 at night. Ills time Is spent reading chiefly. He reads two dally paper, and ' some other matter. He keeps Informed on ' current event., but object, to the glare and glamor with which the yellow presj pre sent. Its news to the people , the people. He want. J densed and almply writ- everything a. con ten as possible. Watching Russian Situation. "I have been Interested in keeping up with the situation In Russia," said the general. "I cannot help but believe that the present crisis in Russia at St. Peters burg may lead to the overthrow 'of the ruling powers and what will follow that, whether a reign of anarchy and lawless ness, 1 cannot tell. At any rate It seems to me It will mean the termination of the war In the far east, leaving Japan the master of the orient. I am convinced . i ....... r; t th. Wt. n V. i .. mu " v ! cuivibers has been unwise. They could and should huve averted tho crisis. I regret to see Russia ' in such a dilemma, for ever since Russia aided our nation in the time of its grat trouLle I have felt a debt of gratitude for the czar's kingdom and even In its present (.Coutluued a steoond Ptgs.) F COLD WAVE HS GENERAL Iowa Reports BItfaard Raging In Northern Portion of State. Some difference of opinion exists among people who had to get out Into th? weather between 6 and t yesterday morning and make a pilgrimage down town or wait at some windy corner for a belated street car as to whether the morning was the coldest of the winter. There is, however, an unanimity of sentiment that it was the meanest morning of the season. Suburban thermometers registered a temperature all the way from S to IS degrees below zero. The fact that the early part of Monday night was in a measure comfortable, though cold, made the midnight cold wave all the meaner. At weather headquarters in the federal j bu,dlnB. . ,pmn.r,,.lrB , s hMn. looks to get a higher temperature to keep j rcZlx WeTsh the benign prophet of the weather bureau. I sitting comfortably In his office In a regis- tered temperature of ,0, but an actual tem perature of about 35, agreed with the prop osition that It was col. "Up at Winnipeg," ald Colonel Welsh, "they ore perspiring ni 28 below zero and the same thing isiapuf nlng over at Prince I Albert and at Devil's l.ake. At Wililston, j p only 26 below recorded. A zero rhnM.i. nt wh.r vt.,nH. Hr,-, . as the south line of Iowu and across north- eastern ieurasaa, uui at aicnune ju oe- , talked with Ilerr Ooetze. secretary of the low zero is the figure, while at North Platte giaj.s manufacturers, over the effect of the it is 14 above zero. At Cheyenne, Denver j strike on the German Industry and ex and Santa Fe 24 above zero Is the rule this pressed much concern. morning, rne e-oia wave is connned to northeast Nebiaska and along the river. The forecast for tonight is continued cold, with slowly rising temperature Wednes day." At 9 o'clock last night the thermometer registered 10 below and waa still going down. COLD WAVE OVER MANY STATES In Many Sections Accompanied High Winds nnd Snow in Others. by CHICAGO, Jan. 24. Reports from many cities and towns in the west and northwest show that the most severe cold of the winter Is prevailing and In the majority of places the low temperature Is intensified by a high wind. In this city the mercury fell from 23 above zero to 6 below in twenty-four hours. All of today and throughout the greater part of the night A. gale of forty miles an hour was blowing. There was but little snow and traffic was ot Interfered with, al though there was mii-h suffering In the poorer districts ot theLlty. Northern Minnesota Sand Wisconsin re ported tho most severestorm of the winter as raging today and tofilght. The snowfall was heavy, blockading1 railroads and crip pling communication generally. The tem perature In this section, however, was not aa low as in places ff.rfher o the south. r. - -SXom -BwUngtog. i 'rjrS..- ra-raa reported, with & high- ..,,. ' ,v-- nntoiittiHuwni Tl rennrterf h i , T ... . ... . . severe gale. In this part of the state snow ' was "rirted badly in the railroad cuts, . lllterft'ring seriously with traffic. Around ! Mnrmhfllltnwn husln... rr VA r , v ' 1 1- vciurni miu me ureat w esiern railroads was prac- tically at a standstill. From Kansas City came the report of the coldest wvather of the winter throughout western Kansas and Missouri. Zero was reached at 7 o'clock tonight and 10 below was expected before morning. A bitter north wind accompanied the cold wave. The body of a young man, probably frozen to death, was found in a straw stack near Wichita, Kan. The same general conditions nrevnilert i i -r .. , , r i miuuKuuut inaiana. At several points In Via ,, ,-nl ,..1. . . ah ( ----- nuim wiej. sulpende TtoZa eraf velrt' i ? ?, J J Cld Sev" aria aTdVent'X L nnr..H t r . . De'. w ler. was reported from Louisville as the prediction for tomorrow morning. Ten below n.-ith a fierce wind from the north, was reported from Springfield, III., with the probabilities of a further drop of five degrees befora morning. It is aaid that the cold wave will continue over the greater part of the west until to morrow night. WEST POINT. Neb., Jan. 24.-(Speclal.)- iV strong northwest wind, following the i wiowiau. is arming the loose snow and .niium iravei tiimcult. The weather is intensely cold, the thermometer marking 17 below this morning at daybreak. During , .c illu ,, gamea strength anil " "1,n tty colder hl-mboldt, Neb Jan. 24. (Snerl.il a light fall of snow, accomrjanieri v, a n u .l j c uiwp nc merino merer in fl anA m .1 . jnn -pen i quite severe stock ei,i,,ii,, v, " mv! Z1? a reat y of "...v.. aiv ijcihk iea in thin m.,..,,. PES MOINES la J . iT celved a h. 1 I', J"n' .,;r"eporu ,e" " . : of a flerrA l,llv, , northern , ,.. 77' " over tho the .tree cars are .t .tad:,, C''y railroads entering the town 1 ii. "? rarllv aban .. . . 6 temP- town, In that ML r 8f du,3' th" wlTh the mercirv " H,rm '"n', ' mark' " Today ,,llS p3lnt ST PAUI J,i, 9j ti . St. Paul todav i i7 tempriit ' This was the IZ , "T".' M Iero' well u WiX , '" th" nor,h- X CZn Z l?0'' to 3 below, with s S .twlr and Qu' Appelle 20 be ow at M It ? Minn., and 18 brio, , J.LLT .'"!a9' i ---- ... iiiui i n i. i i PLATTSBURO, N. V.. Jan. I4.-The ther- n.ometer registered 20 degrees below zero at Saranao Lake today. 24 bedow it Upper I'hn a t-i , ... . na ac raul Smith s and 18 below at Addison Junction. Lake Cham plain is completely frozen over, tie lee being from five to twenty Indies thick. MORNING IS UNDER ARREST Routt County Commissioner In Col. orado f'hurged with Collect, ing Illegal Fees. DENVER, Jan. 1-Judge Moses Hallett. In the United 3tat s district court, Issued a warrant today for the arrest of C. A. Morning, United Etatts commissioner of Routt county, tYluradu, on a charge of tic- ceptlng lllegnl fin in connt-ctlon with lani filings. Tho i nuance ot the warrant fol lowed un investigation which has been niude by a special agent of the Interior de- ; jartment. STRIKE CLOSES FACTORIES German Coal Miners Refuse to Aocsds to Demands of Men. EMPEROR MUCH CONCERNED AT TROUBLES Chairman ot Coal Syndicate Says Owners Will Suffer Loss Rather Than Make Rotten Peace Negotiations. BERLIN, Jan. 4 The calm attitude of the strikers Is regarded as being most re markable by the police authorities through out the coal mining districts. Although detachments of police from other parts of Germany continue to arrive, they have thus far been unnecessary. This Is payday at part of the mines. Privy Councillor Rixdorf, chairman of tho Rhenish Westphallan coal syndicate, was Interviewed today by a correspondent of the Frankfort Zcltung and was quoted as saying that the mine owners had not only their material Interests to defend, but their convictions. If the government and public opinion endeavored to press the j minf, owners to negotiate with the strikers, It would be seen that the mine owners would rather suffer a loss "than arrange a rotten peace which would be followed by fresh strikes." Herr Rixdorf added that the coal syndi cate had received many offers from abroad to deliver coal without the sellers com- I mission. . . ... , lne empero,- Rl a mrge recepuon ai mo I palace Sunday of persons newly decorated, The ministry of the Interior has Issued a memorandum of tho German coal pro duction for 1904, showing that the coal strike region produced 6T,49,557 tons out of a total of 120,6y4,0'JS tons, and 10,776,619 tons of coke, or five-sixths of the total. Germany Imported 7,2$,042 tons of coal in 1D04 and exported 17,9,00O tons. Factories Close Down. C:ADI;AC1I, Prussia, Jan. 24. Three large factories here have notified most of their workmen that they intend: to close down on account of the scarcity of coal. GLASGOW, Jan. 24. A meeting of the Scotch Miners' federation today adopted a resolution of sympathy with the Westphal ian strikers and Instructed the delegates to the British Miners' federation to urge that all possible financial support be given the German miners. HANOVER, Prlissla, Jan. 21. The Mu burg cement works here have closed for want of coal. ESSEN, Prussia, Jan. 24. The electric railroads still have coal enough for a few days. The mayor has Issued an order for bidding the collection of money to assist the striking coal miners. Authorities of Bochum have taken similar action. Cardinal Kopp of Brealau has contributed $750 to the aid of the strikers as an expression of his sym pathy. GRISCOMB GREETED BY MIKADO Representative and Staff Given AodU I ...... . .... ...-. .... i i 1 1 i . . . r . .w - . ' "cuin uu mo turn ui the American legation In special audience ., ,,. ,,?, ' . . and later entertained them at luncheon While the streets of Toklo were ringing of the news of the riots at St. Petersburg and of the Russian emperor taking refuge at Tsarskoe Selo, the Japanese emperor at the reception and through Minister Griscom expressed to President Roosevelt his satis faction at the cordial relations existing be tween the two countries. He paid a high compliment to the Vnlted States for the courtesy shown to Prince Saduaru Fushlml during his recent American tour. In reply Mr. Griscom thanked the em peror for the Interest Japan had shown in the St' Lo.u:s "P.08"'0" the friendship m ji n1 ffHtffl nv I'rl nr h nshlmt nn the. na. I manlfested by Prince Fushimi on the occa elon of his visit. The emperor at noon lunched with Minis ter Griscom, the legation staff, Prince Fushlml and a number of Japanese of high rank. The emperor, who was In high spirits, toasted President Roosevelt and those present, Including the legation Btaff. Al STRIA REICHSRATII IS SESSION Premier Gaatsch Makes Muny Allur ing Promises in Ills Speech. VIENNA, Jan. 24. The lower house of the Reichcrath met today. In the course of his speech, Premier Gautsch said he had reason to believe that the house, in accord ance with the desires of the people, would exPectat,onB or tne state and citizens. Tha rnoHl funiculi, inuuirui until e inem, lie said. would be reaching an understanding be- tween tho German and Czech race. Tho government would endeavor to secure the good will and co-operation of representa tives of both, but It was determined to maintain its authority and public order. Premier Gautsch promised that the gov- ernment would do its utmost to promote ' afternoon in the Security bank block, which commerce with the other nations. He con- ' was destroyed, loss 112,001). Other bulld cluded with an appeal to the house to In- ' lugs already destroyed make a total loss augurate the session by orderly and peace- of 130,000. Citizens have made heroic ef ful activity. FKiIITIfi BATTLE OF III HKIA Japanese Watch Events at St. Prters. burg and Comment on Situation. TOKIO, Jan. 24. The Japanese are keenly watching developments at St. Petersburg. The newspaper, publishing ' extras witn uccoums ot ens riots are I eagerly read. The people were shocked at the death roll and there is a wide- spread feeling that the bureaucracy will be powerless to stem the tide of reform and that the downfall of the bureaucratic system must end the war. A member of the foreign legation said: The war is over unless the Russian peo ple are crushed with an iron heel. It has I brought about a crisis. The JananesH army Is now fighting the battlo of the Russian people. RISSIAXS iilE It O I TED Bl, JAPS Five Olllcrrs and Men Captured with Arms When Position la Taken. TOKIO, Jan. 24. The Japanese headquar ters at Slenchang, Manchuria, reports that a Japanese force dislodged about one com pany of Russian cavalry northwest of Welstzuku on Monday, occupying the posi tion and capturing some horses and arms. Another Japanese detachment routed a force of Russians in the neighborhood of j Chancheng, inflic ting over twenty casual- ' ties. The Japanese captured five officers i and men, with their horses and arms. SPOII.ISCi SAX IMtMIXUO'S FIX Revenue t utter Intercepts Expedition j Carrylug Arms. BAN JUAN, P. R-. Jan. 24.- The revenue 'cutter Dexter ha. been dispatched to May:.- guez for the purpose of Intercepting un ex peditlon carrying arms and ammunition to San Domingo for the leader, of a con templated revolution. NEBRASKA WEATHER FORECAST Fair Wednesday nnd Not So Cold In Northwest Portion. Thursday Fair and Warmer. Temperatnre at Oi Itonr. Peg. 1 a. ni ,1 (I a. m t T a. m , n st a. m ft u. m ..... . l 1 a. m --4I 11 a. ra A 13 m ft mint Yesterdnyt Hour. Peg. 1 p. m ..... . 1 l. m 3 p. m 4 p. m ft ft p. in 41 M p. ni 7 T p. m ..... . M H ii. m ! II p. ni below sero. 10 Indicates LINCOLN HAS A SERIOUS FIRE Sevrral Big Illncka Destroyed, hut Flames tndrr Control at 3 O'clock. (From a Staff Crrrcpondent.) LINCOLN, Neb.. Jan. 25.-!;ipe'clal Tele gram.) Fire dlsiovered shortly after mid night, which Is still raging, has completely destroyed an entire block of five-story buildings at Thirteenth and P streets, known as the Halter block snd the Fur niture block. The Iocs will be near 0,'i0. The Individual losers are: I'nlverslty of Pennsylvania, owner of the Halter block 75,0O0 Furniture block, owneel by an Omaha rurty and managed by J. W. Mc efald 5o.O.0 Lincoln Overall A Shirt company, I . Jones, formerly of Omaha, man ager GO.Onu "esiern Mercantile company n.ou i Pound Plumbing company 6i Hickman Grocery company 6,(.i0 The Westover Art gallery, Columbia Thonograph company and a cigar store, owned by Mudra & Hammll. were In the destroyed bulldlrgs anel were lost com pletely. Fire Chief Clements, while drag ging a hose, fell on the Ice and broke one leg anel an arm. He was taken to tho sani tarium and is In bad shape. The fire was first discovered In the West over Art gallery, which Is In the building occupied by the shirt company. Before the department had a stream playing on the blaze the fiami'S were rushing out of the upper stories of tho building and soon com municated to the shirt factory. This com pany occupied the four upper stories of the building and had an Immense lot of ma terial and finished garments stored in Its rooms. These were soon nblnze. In an Incredible Bhort space of time the smoke and flames were belching from every opening In the large building, and the Art was communicated to the Halter block across the alley to the north and to the buildings occupied by the Lincoln Hardware company and Hall Bros." Hardware com pany, the rear of which were across the alley south from the burning buildings. These buildings face on O street. It wnt soon apparent (nat tne naiier diock ano the Furniture block were doomed, and the efforts of the firemen were redoubled In an effort to save the two hardware stores. Mil ler & Palnes, a block to the south, and the Oliver theater, across the atreet to tho west. Owing to the cold, ico formed as soon aa water was poured on the buildings and i owing to the number of electric wires, strung near the buildings, the firemen are having the fight of their lives. At 2:30 o'clock the walls of tho Halter j .. . . .. . The 'flremjn are concc. tratlng their efforts to save the hardwnre stores. The upper stories of the Halter block were occupied by roomers, all of whom escaped. I At S o'clock the fire was under control. ! Hall Brothers nnd the Lincoln Hardware ; company have been badly damaged in the I rear portion of the buildings, but the r'e ' malnder of the stock will be saved. Several small tires were started In other buildings, bue were quickly extinguished. ROCKWELL CITY IN FLAMES told Renders (be Water Works Insnfllc lent to Meet the Occasion. ROCKWELL CITY, la., Jan. 24.-Fire to night threatens to destroy the business I section of this city, because of the de 1 morallzatlon of the city water supply by 1 the extreme cold. The fire started this forts In the bitter cold to fight the flames with bucket brigades. The fire was gotten under control before midnight. The loss Is estimated at JIE.,000, with 45,000 Insurance. MORE FRAUD IS DISCOVERED Gubernatorial Contest iu Colorado Continues to Furnish Iluklnes for Handwriting Experts. DENVER, Colo., Jan. 24. The Joint legis lative committee hearing the Peahody- 1 Adams gubernatorial contest spent the aft ernoon ngaln today listening to the re ports of handwriting experts on ballots ex amined. Tho reports showed that of 2,521 ballots found In ten boxes 625, most of them democratic, were fraudulent, having been written by one or two persons. GRAND JURY LOSES SECRETARY Carl Phelps Creates Sensation at Portland While Land Fraad Case. Are Being Ia vestlgaled. PORTLAND, Ore., Jan. 24 A sensation has been created by the mysterious disap pearance of Carl Phelps-, secretary of the federal grand Jury, which Is investigating the land fraud cases. Phelps esked to be excused from the Jury room for a few min ute, on Friday afternoon. He ha. not been een since by the members of the Jury or by the agents of the government. Movement ot Ocean Vnti In Jui !l. At New York Arrived Vad-rlnnd, from Ant ; I p. At tilasgow Arrived: New York. Furuessia, from At Naples Railed: Cltta Dl Nupoll, for Ni w York; lieutschlan.l, for New York; Neckar, from Genoa, for New York. At London Arris ed: Mnnielialiii. from ; New York, via Southampton. LAY SIEGE TO CITY Troopi Patrol the Streets of Radem mi Tire Into People. RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT SHOWS ITS TEETH Imperial Deoree Tollewe the Appoiatment of OoTernor General GENERAL TREP0FF GETS FULL COMMAND Former Chief ef Police of Moscow AatamM Charge of Iffaira, RECENT EVENTS MAnES POST NECESSARY Xevr Officer In Command at St. Peteroa burg Will Have Almost Ilespotlo Power In Enforcing Regulations. Ill I.LKTIX. BRESLAU, Prussia, Jan. 24 -Speclal Tel egrams from Radom, European Russia, de scribe thut city as being In a slate of siege, with military patrols In every street. TUa soldiers occasionally fire on gatherings of! the people who have returned the fire, kill ing three officers. The people are also said to have blown up scvemt buildings vita dynamite1. ST. PETERSBURG, Jan. 14. The ap pointment of General Trrpoff, the former chief of police of Moscow, to the governor generalship of St. Petersburg was aocom-p-enled by an Imperial decree announcing the creation of the post of governor gen eral. The lncumlent of this office, the de cree states, will be In control of all the de partments of administration of the city government of St. Petersburg, with power to demand the assistance of the military and possessing all the rights of the minis ter of the Interior In appointments to tha municipal council and the zemstvo, and the power to command individual to remain In the city. The decree, which Is addressed to the senate, says: Recent events havo shown the necessity for tho adoption of measures for the preser vation of state institutions' and public se curity adapted to the extraordinary circum stances of the times. On this account we hnvh conpldered It necessary to create the oftlce of governor general of St. Petersburg on the basis of the provisions of the law prescribing the duties of chiefs and gov ernors general and of the.followtng regula tions: First The city and government of St. Petersburg are placed under the authority of the governor general. Second In elocutions where the mainten ance of state Institutions nnd public se curity are nt stake sll the local civil au thorities and all tho educational Institutions are made subject to the governor general. Third The governor general has the rlpht, with the assent of the minister of the inetrlor. to enforce rn-asures sanctioned by article 140 of the censorship statute. Fourth A ps rt from the right of making obligatory the regulations In aV'nrdance wlth lnw prpvldlng for stricter maintenance of order the governor renernt will he em loweml -to mlte obligatory the regulations pffectlng ohlects of property of any kind In the Interests of nubile tranquillity and order In his Jurisdiction. In cases Of violation the nenaltles and mode of nrocedure pre scribed In articles xv snd xvl of the law foe the stricter maintenance of order sre to he aciopteei, wnereny tne governor general ran commission the governor nno prefect of St. Petersburg who are subject to him, to deal with said casea. Declare State of Siege. ST. PETERSBURG. Jan. 24. St. Peters burg will be declared In a state of siege to morrow. General Trepoff, until recently chief of police of Moscow, hae been ap pointed governor general of St. Petersburg1 and has taken up quarters In the Winter palace. Strangely enough the only prece dent Is the case of General Trepoft's father, durlngthereign of nihilistic terrorism undei Alexander II, a strange coincidence thnt unsuccessful attempts were made on the lives of both. General Tfepoft Is a man ot great energy, but the measures he adopted at Moscow for suppressing the student demonstration In December last provoked much resentment and the revolutionist. f cently condemned him to death. The aspect of the Rustdnn capital Is de cidedly more calm. Business, which had been at a complete standstill, has been re sumed upon a limited scale. The employee In a few of the smaller factories went bacK to work todny and the crowds of strikers In tho streets were diminished. The troops In evidence were not so numerous as on Mon day, and a more confident feeling exists In official circles that the energetic measure which have been Inaugurated will ensurv the safety and quiet of the city. Reneath the surface, however, the fep meeit continues and the public nervousness and apprehension as to future develop, ments is still unallayed. Secret meetings of different classes in opposition to the existing order of things wore held In vari ous places during the afternoon and even ing, but the divergent element, which were suddenly brought together by tag) tragic events of last Sunday are advancing on divergent plans and no common ground of action has yet been found. Waiting an Moscow. In the meantime the police are actively searching out the leaders. Three well known Russian authors and a prominent editor were arrested today and the prison are filled with agitators, revolutionists and student orators. Such measures may re sult In bomb throwing and terrorism to morrow, but the consensus of opinion la that the Immediate future action of th agitators depends on what occurs In Mos cow and other large cities of Russia, 'where the' workmen are beginning to strike. Over 100,000 men are out in the old capital of the empire tonight. A telephone message! irom Moscow to the Associated Press at midnight reported Hint there had been ne) dlseirder there as yet. There will be a bit demonstration In Moscow tomorrow and N it feared It will be accompanied by blood shed. Tho situation confronting the military authorities at Moscow Is much more serious than that at St. Petersburg. Out of over 1,000,000 Inhabitants of Moscow, over two thirds are workmen, Including an exceed ingly rough and turbulent element. The troops are fewer and the city does not lend Itself, like St. Petersburg, to natural bar riers to prevent tho congregation of men. The center of the town has no bridges and no canals and hills and narrow street, make It difficult for troops to act. Only the featcs piercing the walls of the old town, which surrounds the Kremlin, would afford the .military natural places to bar demonstrators. At Kovo and Plevna, where strikes have been lufun, the strikers are following the St. Petersburg plan of marching about the city and Inducing or forcing other work men to h uve their employment. Only Troops on streets. The windows and doors of practically every shop and1 residence la St. Petersburg
