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The Omaha Daily B EE. THE BEE IS THE PREFERRED ADVER. TISING MEDIUM IN ITS TERRITORY FOR A CHARACTERISTICALLY WEST ERN NEWSPAPER READ THE BEE OMAHA, THURSDAY MOKNINO, JANUARY 2G, 1005 TEX PACES. SINGLE COPY THREE CENTS. ESTABLISHED JUNE 19, 1871. TARE UP WATER BILL Dodge Measure Narrowly Escapes Strangu latien in Committee, FINALLY REPORTED TO GENERAL FILE Carries with it Ho EecommenoV1- from the Committee. v CHANCES OF ITS PASSAGE GROWi - Members of Legislature Unwilling gftll Chestnuts Out of Tire. DODGE SHOWS MOTIVES BEHIND . tlaeks t'n His Own Plen by 0. of Members of Fresent Board Wko Desires to Rtnali la Office. (From a Staff Correspondent.) LINCOLN, Neb.. Jan. 25. (Special Tele gram.) As the time for final netlon on the Dodge water board bill approaches the un willingness of the house to be used as a catspaw to pull chestnuts out of the fire for certain Omaha polltlclHns becomes more and more apparent. Unable to see the Jus tice or wisdom of ths measure introduced In anticipation of the probable abolition by the supreme court of the water board, leg islators outside of Omaha unreservedly condemn the untenable course of the pro moters of the bill. After discussion of the bill this after noon the housa committee on cities and towns decided to report It back to the housa without recommendation and let It take- Its course on the general file, where the sinister motives underlying It could ba fully exposed In committee of the whole. Dodge, author of the bill, ad dressed the. committee, .pleading that he did not care to enter minutely Into a dis cussion of the bill before the committee, evidently fearing to trust the committee to report favorably upon It. He asked ' that It be allowed to live until It got back to the house, and Anderson of Douglas, a ' member of the committee, moved that the bill be reported back without recommends tlon. Lee of Douglas, chairman of the committee, first offered a substitute that the committee report the bill back for In definite postponement, but later withdrew this motion, saying that If the members of the committee preferred, he certainly would be glad to turn the bill out Into th open, where its true character might be revealed. The bill, therefore, will come up In com mittee of the whole today. Dodge Explains Bill. ' Representative Dodge, in his talk to the committee, said the object of the bill was to place entire control ..of Omaha's water system in the water board. Dodge and other members of the Douglas delegation had received a petition durlna- tha dav from the, members of the present Water board, naturally anxious to retain office, begging the legislature to pass this hill. Much to the surprise and amusement of Representatives Lea and Barne of Douglas an other' meinour of the committee op , posed to th bill. Doda-e offered thl. . plication of the water commissioners as one or nis arguments why the bill should db passed. lee and Barnes had contem plated using the sama argument ini eating that tha prime movers of this bill n. Jieocner Howell, his aaso elates on the Water board, mil th. ..l.i - , . AFW.lll- cal fuotlon which makes It huir.-. . boost Howell's machinations, but Dodge Bjmreu mem in trouble. But ' Mr. Dodse will have ninn.. . tomorrow, for beading the lobby which came aown irom Omaha, tonight to er . deavor to railroad this bill through is R Deecher Howell himself. the whole plot, and member of the present waier ooara. it Is understood he is pulling every wire to Its highest tension in order to keep himself In office and Incidentally """ legislature into passing thl bill. Leo Bhovra it I'n Representative Lee drove tha nail In and cuncnea it ty nis Impressive exposition of me wnoie water board scheme. Two mem. bers of tha committee from m.i.M. ties Wlndhara and Ferrar acknowledge In remarks to the commute that they were very mucn impceased by Lee's address. Mr. Lee said: "I desire to go Jnto thl water works proposition. A rra ., Omaha people were surprised at the action of their delegation In the last session. The bill was Introduced Into the legislature without any petition from the people of Omaha, that the city should buy the water worxs; mat the city council should be com pMled to buy the water works h.th , wanted them or not. The people, I say were surprised, and there wan nn ... i the delegation to protest against Jt. The pretense was made that the water works company was opposed to the bill. h.i truth was that all tha stockholder of th water works company were In favor of the bill, and I believe thev Instlantmi ih.t kiii and I believe they instigated this htir These gentlemen pretend that they are ninng a long-reit want In tha city Omaha Three years before this the ritv Omaha voted t3.000.000 to buy water works. I'nder their contract with tha ntur nri. company they could buy the water works in twenty years. No action was taken They could acquire these water works b) the law of eminent domain, a right which 11 would now have If the supreme court should knock out this bill, which Is before that court. As I understand it, this bill is to tax tns place of the expected action of the supreme court. It Is intimites re install the water board In place of th on that may ba ousted. This bill not only pro vide that It shall hive the same powers as It had before, but a great deal mora power than It aver had. It provide that it snau not oniy have the right to accept th appraisement that Is being made, no mat ter what that appraisement may be. The city of Omaha does not know at present whethsr It will have to pay $3,000,000, $7,0u0.. 0i0 or IS .000,000 for theao water works. City Has Ko Safeguards. "Thesa gentlemen by this bill propose to giv absolute power to ths Water board to accept this proposition, regard less of tha price. These people pretend they want to sav th cltlxena of Omaha from this waterworks company, and now they ore coming in her and asking you to glv this Water board th privilege of tiulng J lint what, they protested against two years ago. This bill Is for the pur pose of unloading the waterworks on th city of Omaha, and if they cannot un load them th board Is empowered to niak u new contract, in which th mayor and council have no voice. 'The present charter provides that (he mayor aud council shall have soma le. urve of responsibility; that all roll calls fur the exptnditure of money shall be by a e.i und uapr vote, and if auy council- iConlsutl on Tl.trd Page.) NORTH SEA JJOARD IS BUSY Evidence Is Reins; Take Regard ing the Dogsrer Bank. Incident. PARIS, Jan. V. The International com mission to Inquire Into the North sea in cident began hearing witnesses today. The meeting of the commission was attended y a score of seamen and fishermen from Hull, giving the session a somewhat nauti cal aspect. The first witness was Captain Wood of the steamer Zero, plying between Mull and Copenhagen. He said that on the afternoon preceding the occurrences of October 22, he saw two Russian squadrons proceeding westward. The locality was unusual for warships. Question Were the warshlrs following the course habitually taken? Answer No. They were to th west and not In the normal course. The witness added that the squadrons were proceeding at about twelve knots. He did not see any other warships during the voyage. Vice Admiral Douba&soff (Russia) cross- examined the witness and asked what dis tance the squadrons were oujslde the usual course. Captain Wood answered that the ships were ten to twelve miles from the ordinary route. Captain Wood further testified that he saw a strsnge steamer during the after noon. It appeared to belong to a trans atlantic line and had two mast and one funnel. It was a type of ship not frequently seen In those waters. Rear Admiral Beau mont (Great Britain), appeared to be spe cially Interested In this statement, requir ing the- witness to repeat It. PRESIDENT PALMA 19 ASSAILED Cuban Congress the Been of nn Exciting Debate. HAVANA, Jan. 26.-President Palma was bitterly attacked In the lower house of congress today because of his refusal to allow a house committee appointed three weeks ago to investigate the accounts of the secretaryship of public instruction. President Palma sent a message to the house this afternoon saying he waa willing to furnish any data desired, but that the house Is not empowered by the constitu tion to Investigate th acts of the executive ana mat ne is responsible for the acts of his cabinet. This caused Representative Morquottl of Havana province to make a speech, hint ing that President Palma was not acting honestly. Representatives Betancourt and Manduley of Pinor del Rio protested against Marauotti's statements and as serted that President Palma Is honesL Ren. resentative Manduley of Santiago province endorsed the other Manduley's protest, but was hissed. Representative Vilendaua. who lormerly always defended President Palma. said the secretary of public instruction must be dishonest, as a man directly under him was known to be a thief. Representa tive Borges of Havana stated that Presi dent Palma was not acting honestly, but after the speaker Insisted that he retract his statements he agreed to do so, where upon Representative Mansferrer arose and excitedly denounced President Palma as a thief, saying: "Tell Palma and everyone else I said It" EKGLAKD Hal ABUNDANT COAL Estlaanto that Mine WU1 Last Over 4BO Years. LONDON, Jan. 25. The report of the royal commission on the eo&l supplies of the United Kingdom, issued today, calcu lates the available resources, of the proved coal fields at 100,000,000,000 tons, which, at the present Increasing rate of output, will last about 460 years. Tha commissioners anticipate that owing to physical considera tions the rata of the Increase of the out put will soon be slower and will be fol lowed by a period of stationary output and then by a gradual declining, which will prolong the duration of th resources. The report says It Is Interesting to note that while the output of th United King dom has little more than doubled since 1870, the output of Germany has Increased four-fold and that of the United States ten fold. The competition of American coal thus far has only affected Great Britain's distant market, but fears are expressed that the American production will even tually outstrip the local demands and fore America to establish a coal port trade therein in order to dispose of its surplus. SCENES OF BLOODSHED EXPECTED Troops Being Hashed to th Scene of Hungarian Election. VIENNA, Jan. 26. The parliamentary elections which will begin In Hungary to morrow are expected to take place amid scenes of rioting and bloodshed unequalled In any previous campaign. A state of ter rorism Is sure to prevail throughout the country. Premier Tlsza is determined to make an end of parliamentary obstruction and the opposition parties are equally re solved to defeat ths premier's purpose. The question of revising the rules of parlia mentary procedure Is the only one put before th electorate. Th campaign al ready has cost several Uvea, th latest vic tim being Prince Ferdinand of Bulgaria's private huntsman, Michael Krapusnak, who was shot during a fight between rival parties at Jolsva. Preparatory to tomor row's polling special trnlnloads of troops have been sent to Hungary from all parts of Austria. Infantry and artillery hav been sent from Vienna and cavalry from Lemberg. Altogether 10,0oo extra soldiers hav been distributed In the various elec toral districts. SCOIT9 FIGHT WITH LADROSES Hnntber of Outlaws Killed and Others Captured. MANILA, Jan. 26. In a battle this morn ing In a river bed near Sllung, between a detachment of scouts and constabulary and 100 armed ladrones, who, under the leader ship of the outlaw Kellsardo, attacked the town of San Francisco de Malabou, in the province of Cavlte, last Tuesday night, ten ladrones have been killed and seven taken ririaonura. Thw Kuv. tiMn ....... ! allies among the scouts and constabulary. I Severe fighting continues. In their attack on th town Tuesday night the ladrones captured the wife and two children of Governor Trias. These, to gether with several native women prisoners, were seen with the ladronea thl. tnu-nin' ! but an attempt to rescue them waa un- , succeatrui. ROSS GOVERNMENT DEFEATED Returns Show that Oppositionist and Liberals Hav Won. OTTAWA. Ont., Jan. 23. It looks at 7:30 tonight as though tha Ross government was defeated In ths provincial elections today. Th returns show twenty-nin oppositions and thirteen liberals. Ottawa elected two liberals. Both seats were formerly con servative. Admiral Folger at Manila. MANILA. Jan. 26. Rear Admiral Folger, commanding th cruiser division of th Asiatic Meet, arrived her today from CU Fuo on hi Augshlp, th Baltimore. SCHNEIDER SEES BUREETT Twe Nebraskani Hate a Conference in House Committee looms. SOIL SURVEY FOR SRPY IS ARRANGED Insnrance Committee of American Bar Association Has n Conference with the President Correct, lag Old Surveys. (From a Staff Correspondent.) WASHINGTON, Jan. 25. (Special Tele gram.) 8enator-elect Burkett and R. B. Schneider had a conference today In the house committee room on appropriations. It was the first time that Mr. Schneider had seen Mr. Burkett since his election and naturally they had considerable to talk over. The conference continued for some time, after which Mr. Schneider and his brother-in-law, United States Marshal T. L. Matthews of Fremont, paid their respects to the members of the Nebraska delegation. Soil Surrey of Sarpy. A soil survey of Sarpy county Is under consideration by the Department of Agri culture. Senator Millard for several months past has been urging upon Secre tary Wilson the Importance of making a survey of the soil of this county and has finally convinced Mr. Wilson that such a survey Is essential. In a letter to the senator today Secretary Wilson states that the survey will be put In with the spring assignments If It Is possible to do so. He states, however, that the appro priations are limited and, as there are many applicants for similar surveys cov ering the entire country, it may be that the survey will not be reached this year, 'but the chances, however, are In its favor. ' Nebraskan for Indian Farmer. John 8. Lee of Bethany, Neb., who was recommended to th Indian office for addi tional farmer at Rosebud agency by Sen ator Millard, has chosen to accept a sim ilar position at Devil's Lake, N. D., at 115 per month increase. Homestead Bill Henring. The bill Increasing the homestead to 640 acres on th Great Sioux reservation in South Dakota, modeled after the Klnkaid bill, had Its Innings on both sides of the capital today. The senate committee on public lands had the bill under considera tion and, 'not being able to finish It, de cided to call a special meeting of the committee on Monday, when It will be disposed of, a favorable report being con fidently predicted. In the house committee on public lands the' bill was also under consideration, but In view of the number of amendments sug gested to the bill It was referred to a special committee with power to report to the full committee Friday morning. ' Indians nt Department. A delegation of Yankton Bloux Indians has been In consultation with the Indian office for several days regarding certain claims they .have against the government. Another delegation of red men la expected from th Rosebud agency the last of the week. Chief Lapolht being in charge of this delegation. Harry Chamberlain, agent of the Crow Creek Indians, Is In Washington on his an nual visit to the department. Social Events nt CapltaL The swil social event of tomorrow Is the marriage of Miss Warren, daughter of Senator Warren of Wyoming, to Major John J. Pershing, who has recently been detailed as military attache at Toklo, Japan. The wedding, which will be held at high noon, la to be followed by a wed ding breakfast at the New Wlilard, to which some 400 Invitations have been is sued. The senate today, out of courtesy to Sen ator Warren, postponed the meeting of that body tomorrow until after Miss Warren's wedding. R. S. Persheon, auditor for the Interior de partment, gave a dinner tonight in honor of Commissioner of Indian Affairs Francis B. Leupp, at which were present Senators Gamble and Kittredge and Representatives Burke and Martin of South Dakota, Mr. Dodge and Mr. Snyder. Lawreri See President. R, W. Breckenrldge of Nebraska, R. A. Mercur of Pennsylvania, Burton Smith of Georgia and W. R. Vance of Washington, D. C, committee of the American Bar as sociation appointed to go Into the whole subject of Insurance, were presented to the president today by Commissioner Garfleld. Tlc president gave half an hour to the committee and In th course of the Inter view said that it waa no perfunctory recep tion accorded the committee because he looked to the American Bar association to help him solve many of the legal problems he will have constantly before him during the next four years. He stated that he Invited a conference with the association and bespoke kind treatment from the bu reau of corporations. Mr, Breckenrldge, who Is chairman of the committee, stated after the conference that the paramount question relative to insurance waa whether it Is or Is not Interstate commerce. Com missioner Garfleld, it will be recalled, In his guarded reference to Insurance In his report, stated that ths supreme court had said that It was not Interstate commerce, but that the questions there presented were not upon the broad proposition. The ques tion of ftderal supervision Is also a matter of serious consideration and for the purpose of ascertaining the views of officials In Washington th committee Is canvaaslng the situation for the purpose of making a report to the association at Its next meet ing In Boston. Thurston Appears for Svrayne, Judgs Swayne. whose trial will begin be fore the high court of Impeachment on Friday next, will be represented by ex Senttlor Anthony Hlgglns of Delaware, ex-Senator John M. Thurston of Nebraska and Hunnis Taylor of North Carolina, who waa minister to Spain from 18S4 to Correction Of Surveys, Surveys within the boundaries of the for mer Ponca Indian reservation were Incor rectly made, causing confusion, litigation, etc. Work looking to the correction thereof has made some progress, and at Senator Millurd's request It is highly probable that It will b continued In the spring by th assignment by the general land office of n examiner of th surveys to that duty, tha work having bean suspended for th want of funds to carry it cn. Relief for Akers. The senate today passed a bill to pay W. R. Akers of ths Alliance, Neb., land office. 179 50, being th amount paid out by him to W. G. Buehner fur salary ss con test clerk during the year of 1'joZ. Akers ui authorised to employ Buehner and lie uaid lilm, but neglected tus secure a re ceipt and the 'accounting officers cannot, In tbe abaence of a vouhecr. reimburse Akers. This bill has now passed both bouses and gw to th president for ap pro vaL DUKE MAKES AN EXPLANATION Tells How He Managed the Deal on Which the Indictment for Mrs. Duke Is Based. CHICAGO, Jan. la. Charles F. Taylor, business partner of Mrs. BroJle- L Duke, who was arrested In New York yesterday. Issued a statement tonight concerning the facts on which the Indictment found in Texas against Mrs. Duke Is alleged to be based, lie says:' On reaching Nacogdoches. Tex., In the latter part in March. 1!M, Miss Webb and I were met by Mr. J. V. Saunders, then cashier of the Stone Firrt National bank, ami at present ruaMer of the Klrst Na tional bank o Center. Tex. Mr. Baumlers did not hesitate to solicit our business and day after dav followed us up until we finally entered' Into an uareemeiit with him. The first agreement was between Taylor, Webb A Co., J. W. Saunders, U II. Shel ter, a former tobacco expert for the gov ernment and a real estate hrm at Nacog doches. The deal related to the sale tif ; tobacco lands. Following tnis eaunarrs came to u and stated tnat he waa dis pleased with the board of directors in con trol at his bank, and desired to effect a change In some manner. He said he had canvassed the member obnoxious to him and they agreed to sell their stock at par. Later he sold he had seeurel a ten-day option on the stock and asked us to buy It. We advised him that we had no time to mn nnrfh nml RiTuime for necessary money and he then Mated that If we would buy I stock he would make the Arrangements for ; the monev and for what additional funds I we required at the plantation. While thu negotiations were penning mr. naunoers had Investigated our Ilnnnces In the north and declared both to Mrs. Duke and my self that he was perfectly satlKlled with them. He goes on to tell of loans secured j through Mr. Saunders' representations, loans of flo.OOO each from the First Na tional bank of Shrevepirt, La.,' anil the Texas National of Dallas, Tex. At a meeting of the directors of the Stone Fort National bank, called by Mr. Saunders, the statement declares, the directors repudiated Mr. Saunders' claim that they had given him authority to dispose of stock. CUT DOWN ACREAGE OF COTTON Growers in Convention Decide that in Only Salvation of Present Difficulty. NEW ORLEANS, Jan. 25. Firmly believ ing It to be the most Important step In the solution of the cotton crop question, the Southern Interstate Cotton convention, without a dissenting vote, today declared In favor of a 25 per cent reduction In acreage and an equal reduction In commercial fer tiliser, and backed that action up with the adoption of a comprehensive plan to secure the report of every farmer, big and little. In the cotton belt. An overwhelming ma jority of the delegates were present when the report was received and so Important was It considered that decisive and har monious action should be taken at once, that the convention decided to take up, con sider and act on the committee's report without further delay. A finance committee was ordered created to raise $2,000 to cover the cost of distribu tion of th reports of the proceedings. The merchants of New Orleans offered $1,000, and the convention promptly rained Its pro rata. BAD FIRE. STARTS IN STORE Many Dwellings HnWtwl la the Bronx Section of firrater New -York. NEW YORK, Jan. 2.-Three blocks square of houses numbering perhaps fifty, In the blocks bounded by One Hundred i and Fifty-eighth and One Hundred and; Sixtieth and Jackson and Trinity avenues, j In the Bronx, are either on Are or threat- ened. Hundreds of men, women and 1 children are getting out in their night clothing. The fire started about 12:50 i o ciuea. job lirr engines were uiree-nuar- j ters oi an nour in getting to tna nre on account of the snow. Ambulances have been called from sev eral hospitals. The fire Is now believed to be under ! control. Nine frame dwelling houses have j been destroyed and two more are now burning. Two women have been taken away In ambulances. It is believed no lives have been lost. BAD WRECKIN CALIFORNIA Pnssenger Trains on Santa Fe Road Meet Head-On Near Stockton. STOCKTON, Cal., J.-m.. 25. Santa Fe pas senger train No. 6, leaving San Francisco early today, collided head-on with No. 41, from Stockton, at Blum, a small station forty-five miles west of here. It is re ported that ten or twelve persona were Kerlously Injured. The injured are: J. C. Hurle, Stockton, superintendent of the Pacific Glass works; scalp wound. Johannes Relmers, Stockton, landscape gardener for the Santa Fe; cut about face. F. Dohnenken, sr., and wife and F. Dohn enken, Jr., and wife, Antioch, conducting the Arlington hotel, were badly shaken up, and Conductor Bnnkhead of Kansas City, on a visit to San Francisco, suffered severe Injury of the back. i DENVER ELECTION FRAUDS Witnesses nt Evening Session Testify that Voters Ild Not Reside at Addresses They Gnve. DENVER. Jan. 25. The Joint legislative committee hearing the Peabody-Adams gub ernatorial contest today continued hearing reports of expert witnesses who have been examining ballots. The experts reported on eight boxes this afternoon. They reported that they found 721 ballots were written by two or three persons. The total number of ballots examined waa 2,645. At the evening session of the committee the men who had cunvaesed the vote in two prtincts after election were the principal witnesses. They testified that out of C46 votes cast In these precincts a careful can vass showed that 193 of the voters did not reside at the addresses they gave. No tes timony on ballot boxes was given tonight. ALLEGED ROBBERS ON TRIAL Men Accused of Taking Money from Bnnk Fnco Court at Peoria. PEORIA. 111., Jan 25.-John Orms. alias John Lane, and Theodora I'rorkway, allts Percy Warner, charged with robbing the Second National bank on December 12, were placed on trial In the criminal court this morning. Judge Green overruled a motion to proe ute a writ of habeas corpus for Frank Gegen, now confined in the Cook county Jail as a poor, person, and the men were forced to trial forthwith. Attorney Mlhluun made a desperate effort to get a continuance or to have Gegen brought to Peoria at public expense, but fulled. The court room was crowded to the doors when the cans was called. FURIOUS STORM IN I HE EAST Blizsard Iweepi Coast Line and Traffic and Business is Paralysed. NEW YORK TIED HARD SY ICY GALE Even During Day Honrs In Street of Metropolis People Frees to Death or Die of Ex haustion. NEW YORK, Jan. ii. Not since the bits xard of IKS, by which all storms are esti mated as great or small, has New York been so completely snowbound as It Is to night. The city itself Is lying under a foot of snow that in many places has been b-inked by the wind to a height of several feet. Surface travel early in the day was abandoned, overhead transit was Irregular and slow, aud It remained for the under ground roads to carry home, so far as they could reach within the city limits, the hun dreds of thousands of workers from the downtown districts. The entire coast line from the Delawar capes north has been In the grasp of a storm which, because of the heavy fall oi snow, Intensity of cold and the force of the gale, has exceeded In severity anything ex perienced In years. Inland from Maine throughout the New Engiund states and th middle Atlantic states, all reports Indicate almost complete winter tie-up. Far Into the west there lb snow and n remarkably low temperature. Everywhere railroad traffic is delayed, r ports of disasters to shipping nre romlna In and with the rapidly failing thermometei much suffering must ensue. So severe was the storm In this city thnt even during th day hours several persons were frozen to death or died from exhaustion. Hospitals Fill nlth Victims. Tonight the hospitals, the police stations and the House of Refuge are crowded to their capacity. More than once police reserves were called out to take care of. the crowds that were struggling around the entrance to some belated ferryboat which was soon to attempt another trip. Long before sun down the homewardbound workers learnea that trolleys everywhere throughout Man hattan had been abandoned; that cable cars were stalled In many places, and that foi those who lived In the suburbs nothing re mained but yi take up quarters somewherts near at hand If they hoped to return to work the following day. Soon after 7 o'clock tonight a bulletin was posted In the Grand Central station that no more trains were expected to ar rive over the New York Central road dur ing the night. The notice referred to local and through trains. On the New Haven road very few trains were dispatched and those that arrlvea were from "four to eight hours late. The P.oston Express, due to arrive at 4:15 p. m was reported stalled In a snowdrift at Rye. This was the condition that prevailed on all roads entering New York. Not a vessel of any kind has sailed from or arrived In this port In more than twenty four hours, and In the port of Boston only one vessel was reported arriving, that a coaster. . Uven . Shlpptatg- Tied f'p. The Rhyndam, a transatlantic Unci, carrying the malls, and the Nord America have been unable to leave their piers. Sev eral other steamers, all scheduled to leave durlna; the day, nre still In port. At Snndy Hook and Quarantine the gale blew at sixty miles an hour and a number of vessels are reported nt anchor there. The Atlantic Transport line steamer Meno minee, from London; the Holland-American line steamer Rotterdam and the Fabre line steamer Germanla, all of which have been reported by wireless, nre In Sandy Hook bay. A dozen or more other steamers, now overdue, have not been heard from. Not a sound steamer left tonight. Not Only was there some fear of the storm, but little freight had been delivered to thes boats and passengers cancelled their tickets. This city, always susceptible to abnormal weather conditions. Is facing a condition unequalled since that March seventeen years ago when It was cut off from the rest of the world by a record snowfall. Th present storm began yesterday afternoon In a gentle way. As night came the wlnrt Increased and by midnight It was blowlns; half a gale and driving hard. At noon It was forty miles an hour, and with It came a heavier fall of snow and a temperature falling rapidly. Then the thermometer registered about 15 degrees. Tonight th mercury went to about 10 degrees at mid night, and the wind at that hour was blow ing fortv-elght miles an hour. Less snow was falling than during the day, but It was still piling hlfih. Along the coast of Maine and Massachu setts several schooners were reported ashore, but the gale gave warning of Its coming, harbors were hastily found and there were many stormbound fleets to night, but lying at anchor In safety. Icicles Fight Fire. ' Outside of Brooklyn and Long Island City all traffic on Long Island was sus pended. While the worst storm of many winters howled around them, a dozen fire com panies, under the personal direction of Chief Croker, for eight hours today fought the stubborn fire In Kips Bay brewery, at First avenue and Thirty-eighth street. All the men suffered intensely from long ex posure to the chilling blasts and Ave of them were more or less seriously hurt by being caught beneath a falling wall. The firemen worked under most dis couraging and trying conditions. Flying spray froze the moment It touched their garments, and long before the fire was controlled many of them rcsunblcd huge Icicles. Chief Croker was obliged to dis card his helmet becuuse of the accumula tion of Ice; It weighed fifteen pounds when he exchanged It for a fur cap. The finan cial loss is placed at about $150,000. Working Girls in Distress. Probably the most distressing tieup re sulting from the stalling of these trains un the Long Island railroad was that wit nessed on the Manhattan side of the Thirty fourth street ferry. Hundreds of girls and women who live In Long Island end work In Manhattan were unable to get across the Kast river, and a vast majority of them were without the necessary funds to secure food or get lodging. A notice Mas posted there early In the afternoon that trains had stopped. The police and other kindly disposed persons had plenty to do In caring for these unfortunate Long Islanders. The subway station at the city hall was the scens tonight of on of th most re markable "mob rushes" the police hav any record of. It began shortly before I o'clock and did not abate to any great ex tent until after T o'clock. The crowds could hardly be controlled by the reserves. At the Brooklyn bridge the scenes en acted under normal condltlotirt during the afternoon rush for Brooklyn were made worse many fold by the condition which tli storm produced. For two hours such a (Continued on Second Page.) NEBRASKA WEATHER FORECAST Fair and Wanner Thursday, F.srent noir In Extreme orth Portion. Friday Fair. Tmprttttir- at Omaha Yeerdyi Den. Hour. Dg. Ift I p. m. . . Id 2 p. m ft 17 3 p. m 1 in 4p.ni n IT If p. m 1 IK II p. m lit Tp. nt 3 It M p. m I 0 p. m 3 K a. m. H n. m . lOa. m. Ila.n, 12 m,,. brio vr sero. LOSS OF LIFE REPORTED Norfolk Hears that Thre Vessels Are Ashore at Sevrall's Points. NORFOLK, Va., Jan. 25. -Three schoon ers were blown ashore In Hampton Roads today by the flenc northwest storm which swept over the region last night, accom panied by a fall of snow. The John A. Russell of Rappahannock, Pa., coal laden, was a total loss, while the Lula and the other (name unknown) were pulled Into deep water by tugs. A yawl from the Lula Is on the beach and It Is thought some of Its crew trlej to make shore in the gale. If they did they were drowned. Those on board the John A. Russell were saved. PROVINCETON. Mass., Jan. 25. An un known two-masted schooner was blown on the bars st the upper end of the harbor today. The seas are breaking over It. It Is feared It may sink. PORTLAND. Me.. Jan. 25. During a hard snowstorm today the three-masted schooner Rodney Parker was blown onto the rocks Just outside of the harbor. The crew Is still on board. BALTIMORE. Jan. 25. Two steamers are ashore below Bodkin's Point. They are supposed to be the British steamer Lord Erne, from Baltimore for Belfast, and the British steamer LlKwIck Lodge, from Bal timore for Rotterdam. HARGIS BROTHERS INDICTED Breathitt County Men to Stnnd Trial for Murder In Lex ington. LEXINGTON, Ky Jan. 25.-A special grand Jury late today brought In Indict ments against James Hargis, county judge of Breathitt county; Alex Hargis, forme stale senator; Elbert Hargis of Jackson, brother of the other two; Ed Callahan, Bherlff of Breathitt county, and Jesse Splcer, a former deputy sheriff under Cal lahan, all on uncharge with conspiracy to bring about the death of James Cockrlll, city marshal of Jackson. Cockrlll was shot from a window of the court house at Jackson In July, 1902. He was brought to this city and died in a local hospital. The Breathitt grand Jury failed to Indict. I'n der the old English law, which has recently been sustained by the court of appeals. Indictments may be found In another county for a crime which Is begun else where and completed In that county. GENEV GETS LIGHT SENTENCE American 'Sailor ' Fined One Dollar for Killing Negro Prise Fighter. TIOVnT.TU.tT T Or T. .1 t ii.iv i..., wan. l.u V. tl 1 v. urncv, j master-at-arms of the United States gun bout Wheeling, who was charged with mur der In the first degree for shooting a negro prise fighter, "Useless" Harris, In June last, after the latter had assaulted him In a saloon, and who on Monday was found guilty of manslaughter In the third degree, with a recommendation for leniency, was today fined $1 by Judge Debolt of the au preme court. The decision was received with enthusiastic cheers by the spectators. The extreme penalty under the verdict was imprisonment for five years. BOILER EXPLOSION FATAL Engine Room of Wlieel Company Plant la Wreck nnd Ttiree Men Killed. TERRE HAUTE. Ind., Jan. 25.-Thre men were killed and one fatally injured in a boiler explosion that wrecked the engine rooms of the Standard Wheel company's plant at 4:30 this afternoon. The dead: LEVI WHITTAKKR. THOMAS PATTERSON. HORACE O. COLV1N. Fatally Injured: George Davis. Tho victims were all firemen employed In the holler room. The caum of the explosion Is unknown. TWO SUITS ARE DISMISSED Cashier of Mint Will .Not Have to Pay for Stolen Money. SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 25.-The two suits of the government against Cashier W. K. Cole of the United State mint in this city for sums aggregating $5,000 have been dis missed lu the United States circuit court on motion of the district attorney. The money, which represents a portion of the sum stolen by Former Chief Clerk Dlmmlck, has been paid by Superintendent Frank Leach, and it was under instruction from the solicitor of tho treasury thut th motion for dismissal was made. CHICAGO FOR RATE REGULATION Business Interest Pass Resolutions Endorsing President Posi tion. CHICAGO, Jan. 25. A lurgo portion of Chicago's business Interests declared today In favor of Immediate rate legislation In line with the recommendations In President Rf.r.sevelt's message. The resolution containing the recommen dations was passed by a Joint committee representing the Board of Trade, Chicago Shippers' association and the Illinois Manu facturers' association. A copy of the reso lution will be sent to ths president and tu congress. Movements of Ocean raacla Jan. Wi. At New York Arrived: Mencmlnee, from London; Rotterdam, from Rotterdam. At Dover Arrived: Graf Walderee, for New York from Hamburg, and proceeded. At Qiieenstown Arrlvea: Majettlc, from New York for Liverpool; Suxoula, from Boston for Liverpool. At Movllle Arrived: Cnrlnthla, from Ct. Johns, N. U., and Hullfax for Liverpool. At Leghorn Arrived: Perugia, from New York, via Naples and Genoa. At Bremen Arrived: Kron Prlnz Wllhelm, from New York. At Hung Kong Arrived: Numantla, from Portland, Ore., via Yokohama. At Yokohama Arrived: Ellerle, from Portland, Ore., and San Francisco for Tlogo, etc. At Sues Arrived : Call has, from Seattle, via Vladivostok, Nagasaki, for Liverpool. At Llveritfiol Sailed: Merlon, for l'hlla delphla, via Queenstown; Teutonic, for New York, via Queenstown. ALL EVES OX MOSCOW Regarded at the Storm Center of Eaasia'i Revolutionary Political Drama. REIGN OF TERROR PERVADES THE CITY Strike is Spreading and General Alarm is Expressed at ths Oatloek. SEVERE FIGHTING REPORTED IN FINLAND Thirty Persona Wotnded by Ooesaok Tirs at Esliingfors. ST. PETERSBURG IN A STATE OF SIEGE Hundreds of Russians Thrown Int Prison hy th Pollco nnd Exclto ment Run Riot Through out Empire. MOSCOW. Jan. .- p. m. Thr Is com pleto tranquillity within the boundaries ot this city, but the people are keeping la doors owing to the official warning. Th strike Is spreading gradually, but thus far Is confined to the smaller mills. Th larger Industrial concerns ar being guarded In order to prevent the men employed thr from being intimidated; but It Is the belief that the strike will become general. Ther are no troops In sight In th city propr. Probably there will b no papers tomor row. The citizens are alarmed at th proa rect of an crupon of conditions of thou sands of workmen and demand the procla mation of a state of siege. The Moscow garrison Is no more than 20,000, but . th authorities consider that this Is sufficient for present needs aud evidently are Inclined to avoid bloodshed if possible. They de clare they have the situation well In hand. Captain Grove, the British consul, haa called upon M. Roudneff, the assistant po lice master, who Is acting In th absenc of Chief Volkoff, and requested an ex planation of the posted telegram from Lon don, alleging that th disturbances at th Russian dockyards and arsenals wer du to Anglo-Japanese Instigation, that both Great Britain and Japan ar spending vast sums of money to prevent the Russian second squadron from reaching the far east, und adding that "all Russians who strike are therefore In connivance with th enemy." M. Roudneff produced the original tele gram In evidence of good faith. Captain Grove suited that he would report th mat ter to the embajsy at St. Petersburg, a h considered that the posting of the alleged telegrams Imperiled the lives of subject of Great Britain who are employed In fao tori&s here. M. Roudneff assured him that there wtl absolutely no cause for apprehension, but assumed the responsibility for the publica tion. M. Roudneff also offered Captain Grov personal satisfaction In a resort to arms. General Trepoft's appointment to th gov ernor generalship of St, Petersburg waa surprise here It I rumored. that Minister. Svtatormth-MJisky snay - b appotutad gov ernor general of Mocow. . , . Three Thousand Workmen Dispersed. 7 p. m.A squadron of Cossacks thl evening dispersed about 8,000 workmen who were growing obstreperous across th Moskva. No fatalities are reported. This was the only event of th kind during thu day. Reports that the mob was plunder ing and wrecking shops In the Tverskal are untrue. The merchants have sent an appeal to the emperor to avoid bloodshed. A correspondent of the Associated Press, who arrived here today from St. Peters burg, found no signs of troop at the depot or In the surrounding streets. The street cars are moving, but many ot the store are closed nnd there Is scarcely any of th freight trnfflo which ordinarily fills th streets. At all corners wer pasted bulle tins, signed by Police Chief Volkoff, warn ing the people against the possibility of disturbances and forbidding them to as semble In groups. lilanies Britain nnd Franc. Alongside these notices were posted say ing that the disturbances at the Russian, dock yards and arsenals were du to Anglo Japanese instigation, both Great Britain nnd Japan sending vast sums to prevent the Russian second Pacific squadron frorn reaching the far east, and adding that all "Russluns who strike are therefore In con nivance with the enemy." There were no troops In the canter of th city, but It Is reported they ar forming a cordon on the outskirts to prevent th strikers who are holding a meeting in th factory districts cuUldo from coming In. The correspondent, who haa Just driven up the Tverskal thoroughfare, found It al most empty and the blinds down at th governor general's palace. Grand Duk Serglus, tho former governor general, la said to havo taken refuge In the palac of the Kremlin. An air of suppressed excitement prevail everywhere. The town Is full of rumors, among which la one to the effect that th strikers intend marching to th Nes kouthny palace, outside of Moscow, whra Grand Duke Serglus formerly resided. Treuolf in Commaud. ST. PETERSBURG, Jan. 25. (1:30 p. m.) Governor General Trepoff wa In au preme command of the city today. Al though a state of siege has not been actually proclaimed it practically exists, the emperor having conferred upon him as governor general almost absolute power, authorizing him to use th military, gendarmerie and every other agency of th government to preserve order, placing under his control the government Work and schools and even empowering him to exilo person who are inimical to peat. During the night hundreds of arrests wr mad. Th only decision of the government thu far is to preserve order at all costs. "The government Is living over a volcano and can do nothing else," seld a high offi cial this morning. "Every other consldtra tlon must give way to the question of pub lic order." Private advices from all th big cities and towns of Russia lndlcat that ther I excitement everywhere. Th red flag dem onstrations at Helslngfora, Finland, last night were disquieting, but ther 1 no evi dence yet of a general movement. Th ap pointment of Senator Llndtr as secretary of state for Finland Just at this time I considered to be an unfortunate bl'.'ndtr and Is likely to prove exceedingly distaste ful to the Finns. Although a Finn himself Senator Llndcr is exceedingly unpopular owing to his support of th policy of th russlfication of th towns of th Ba!tc provinces. Troop ar marching through the streets of Riga and Reval, but th eyes of all Rus sia today are fixed on Moscow. Th funeral of many of th victims of Sunday's tragedy wore held thl morning. Pitiful sights wer witnessed. In several case a man and wif carried lttna thsia
