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The Omaha Daily Bee. THE SUNDAY BEE-BEST NEWS BEST PICTURES BEST STORIES. WE SUNDAY BEE A NEWSPAPER AND A MAGAZINE IN ONE. ESTABLISHED JUNE 19, 1871. OMAHA, FRIDAY MORNING, FEHRUAKY 3, 1005 TEN PAGES. SINGLE COPY THREE CENTS. IN STATE OF SIEGE Troops Guard Factor Districts sf Old Polish Capital. .FUNERALS OF VICTIMS OF THE P10TS .' - Twsntj Unidentified Bodies Buried j the City Official COMPLIMENTS FOR PRINCE MIRSKY St Petersburg Papers All Friendly to Former Minister of Interior. SAY HL SHOULD HAVE QUIT SOONER friend EiprtH Regret lie Did Sot Resign Wbti lie Found Ills 1'oller Was Xot Attainable. WARSAW, Feb. 2.-Owlng to elaborate precautions the disturbances that wore an ticipate here to 'iy did not occur. The authorities declare at the strike is prac tically ended. The smaller factories will reopen tomor row and the larger ones on Monday. The bakers and printers have definitely decided to resume work tomorrow. The streets are till in the hands of tho mint. try. The shop have not yet reopened and the city is quiet and almost deserted. There are rumors of disturbances In the suburbs which it Is impossible to verify be cause the military authorities have seized the telephone service. The pupils of many public and private schools met today and decided to demand the Introduction of the Polish language or otherwise they will not return to school. This Js significant as Indicating the intro duction cf the nationalist movement into the economic agitation. All the bodies of those killed In the riots have been removed from their homej to police station-. The relatives are not per mitted to bury them. From tr.o police sta tion In the Novl 61st district the corpsei of fitly men and two women were taken Mondry night in toJ: hospital vans to tho Jewish, Lutheran and CathOils ccmeteileg and remained there for identlf.cution until Tuesday, when thoy wero burled. Twenty one bodies aro still unidentified. During the riots of Sunday and Monday the workmens' residence district was un protected by police and the "hulligaiis" seized the opportunity to plunder many dwellings. A Inrgj body of workmen yesterday went to the suburbs where criminals abound and Instituted a vigorous search of their houses. Wherever they were able to iden tify stolen property the workmen promully killed the persons who had it In their pos session. About 100 other criminals wet a in jured In fighting with the workmen. The latter was not only actuated by the re venge for their losses, but were engaged because the "hulllgan'' element brought discredit upon the strike movement. The local newspapers resume publication to morrow, The editors met this morning; and u.nattbtfotitrjy "agtalerl" h'at as the ovnsor would tint nfrmlt them In All (Iia truth ' regarding the disturbances, they would ab solutely refrain from mentioning the sub ject except In the official reports which they are compelled to publish. N Assemblage Permitted. In pursuance of the governor general's proclamation of a state of siege, orders have been issued prohibiting assemblages In the streets or meetings in private houses, and directing the police and milltaiy to disperse all street gatherings. Anyone ' found in possession of weapons or selling arms without permission la liable to pun ishment. In the event of disturbances baloonles and windows adjacent to the scene of the disorders must be vacated and elosed. The occupants of houses will be held responsible should stones or leaflets be thrown thereftom, as well as thoso actually guilty of throwing tl.em All contraventions of these orders will be pun ished according to administrative process by Impiisonment for terms not exceeding three months or by fines of not less than $250. These orders will be enforced In tho cities of Warsaw and Lods and throughout the governments of Warsaw and Petrokow. A telegram from Csestochowa, Kusslan Poland, says all the factories there are closed and serious disturbances are re ported to have ocurred. The socialists aio very strong there. The Warsaw-Vienna railroad shops are closed. At Prusskow this morning 1,300 men truck. ' All the factories are closed at Kallss. The strike at Lods continues without dis order. A deputation of strikers requested the authorities to close all the liquor tores, us otherwise the workmen would not be responsible If disturbances occurred. The workmen themselves are watching the liquor stores to prevent the sale of liquor. Csmpllnrali for Prince Mlrsky, 8T. PETERSBURG. Feb. .Emperor Nicholas has signed the appointment of M. Muravleff, minister of Justice, to be am bassador of Hussla at Rome. M. Manukhln, hllhorto therfuwlstant of Mlnlste.- Mura vieff. has beet promoted to minister of Justice. M. Swereff, chief Russian pre censor, hus been removed from his post. The papers today discuss the retirement of Interior Minister Prince Svlatopolk Mlrsky. The Novoa.Vremya says: The circumstances of Svlatopolk-Mlrsky leaving the ministry of the Interior culls forth sympathy toward this sincere, good man ana ins unreanseu no pes. Continuing, the Novoe Vremya remarks that Svlstopolk-Mlrsky did not possess the self-confidence necessury to Insist upon the program which had the sympathy of the Kusslan people. The Russ refers to the administration of vlitopolk-Mlrsky as a "ministry of good intention." and adds that "in view of its hort duration it would be unjust to de mand any results." ' M. Boullgaa's appointment as minister of the interior wag signed yesterday, al though It has nut been promulgated. It la believed his appointment will be only tem porary. The friends of Prince Svlatopolk-Mlrsky express regret for the sake of his future fame that he did not resign the moment It became apparent that the policy on which he assumed office was not attain able. The Novoe Vremya sys the emperor's reception of the workaien delegates at Tsarsko Beloe yesterday was an event of exceptional Importance, "awakening the hope of the .re-vstabllshmant of internal peace, which constitutes the best guar antee and Is an Indispensable condition of peace abroad and fruitful labor at home." The paper adda that It trasta the event will greatly facilitate the restoration of Internal order, of which not only the workmen, but nil Russia haa such great need. Oaly TfcsiMsi Stole Fired. totalled reports (lied at the headquar ters of the St. Petersburg military dls. ... . . (Continued on Becand Pas.); SUMMARY OF THE SITUATION All Russia Is Comparatively Qolet with the Kicrptloa of Poland. Order appears to have been quite gen erally restored In Russia, the exception be ing In Poland. klvrn in Warsaw, however, there has been a return to conditions ap proximating the normal. The cominl'tee of ministers sitting at St. Petersburg has furn.ul.it d. anil the em peror has sanctioned, a number of proposals looking toward the establishment of the senate upon a basis of eloper connection with the throne, doing away with the ad ministrative orders suspending certain laws and In other ways checking the evils that have arisen through the arbitrary acts of ministers or officials. The report that Maxim Gorky has been rele.-used Is difficult of verification. If tho rumor Is true, the author has probably been required to leave St. Peteisburg Immediately. ARK MAKIXJ I'I.A FOR REFORM Committee of Rnnslan Ministers Wonld Knlarge Powers of Senate. IONDON, Feb. 2. A dispatch to a news agency from St. Petersburg says the re- I port of the committee of ministers ap pointed to devise the best means of giving effect to the emperor's reform ukase of De cember 25 makes many important recom mendations, especially in regard to In creasing the powers of the senate over the ministers and safeguarding Its Independ ence. It urges that the rlKht already be longing to the senate of IcgUdatlve Initia tive should be enlarged and favors the es tablishment of lower administrative tri bunals connected with tho senate. The committee of ministers distinguished three fundamental points as basis for de fense laws: First Pievention of violation of laws. Second Investigation of the powers and methods of action of those responsible lr the administration of the laws. Third Responsibility of officials. As regards the first point the committee decided that it was necessary to prevent ministers exceeding their legal powera by means of imperial ordinances ami that con sequently all exceptions to the ordinary course of laws must be forbidden and that In exceptional cases, where the emperor has ordered ministers to deliberate con cern ng changes, the decisions of the com mittee must first be submitted to the sen ate. The committee decided to ask the con sent of the emperor for the Issue of an interpretation of existing laws and other points affecting the methodical carrying out of existing laws. The committee also agreed upon, the necessity of independence of the senate as opposed to nil ministers and the internal reorganization of the sen ate. In order to BCcelerate the course of Justice In administration of affairs it was decided to be. advisable to facilitate access to the senate by persons who have suffered from the arbitrary acts of administrative ' bodies and also to a fiord the right of direct relations between tho senate und the em peror and the extension of the senate's ex isting right of legislative Initiative. The committee decided that it was ex pedient to establish local courts of Justice connected with the senate and hn Institu tion in the senate of the post of first pres ident. with the right .of personal relations with the emperor. number of other changes clarifying the rights of plaintiffs under the civil coda and In the general way of securing a broader Interpretation and construction of the laws were decided by the ommlttee and all the proposals were sanctioned by the emperor on January 29. CI' BAN CAB1VKT OFFERS TO Ql IT Resliinatlons Tendered, but President Refuses to Accept Them, HAVANA, Feb. 2. All members of the Cabinet Visited Prpsirlont Pfllniu , .. 1 - ..- - i. i v n n y niiu I presi ntod their resignations. They stated ! inai tney desired, since President Palma had announced his allegiance to the mod erate purty, to open the way for him to make whatever selections for cabinet of ficers he choso under the new conditions. President Palma courteously, but emphat ically, declined to consider the resignations, and added that his Joining the moderate party was purely a personal act and did nbt necessarily effect tho cabinet. The cabinet members, however, are well aware that there will be changes after consulta tions between President Palma and the moderate leaders. The Associated Press is authoritatively informed that ' the resignations of Mr. Monies, secretary of the treasury, and Mr. Caiiclo, secretary of public Instruction, will shortly be accepted, and also that of Mr. Yero, secretary of the Interior, who Is In poor health and a nationalist in sym pathy. Mr. Diax, secretary of public works and agriculture. Is likely to con tinue in office and probably also Mr. Ortls, secretary of state and Justice. Neither of the latter' has professed any political al legiance. COMBES ISIsTS Oil PROGRAM Aa Head of Republican Groups Ha W ill Support Former Policy. PARIS, Feb. 2. Senator and former premier Combes, In accepting the presi dency of the republican groups In the sen ate, said the cabinet change must rot per mit delay or abandonment of the tusk of separating church and state; the opposition against which he had long struggled was now flattering itself that it had indefinitely postponed the project, therefore It waa necessary to ask the new cabinet without further delay to make a precise declara tion, removing all equivocation and doubt upon this essential question. Only upon condition that such a definite declaration is mude would the groups of which he was president give adherence to the new min istry. The new (Rouvler) ministry held an In formal meeting today to go over the ques tion of the separation of church and stare 1 and agreed on the general form of a new I measure, which will be presented to the Chamber of Deputies next week. Rl'SSIAW SISPEXSIOX BRIOGE3 FALLS Detachment of Dragoons Precipitated I'pon lee, Which Gives Way. ST. PETERSBURG, Feb. 2. -Tho suspen sion bridge spsnnlng the Fontanka river collapsed tocluy while a detachment of dragoons was crossing. Thirty men and horses were precipitated into the frozen river, together with a number of cabs, wagons, etc. The Ice at that point being weak, the greatest excitement prevailed, but speedily help was forthcoming and the victims of the accident were rescued with the exception of one dragoon. The chains on both banks broke and the bridge fell bodily with the whole trafflo thereon at the time. The terrified cavalry horses Jumped over the railings of the bridge onto the lee, which gave way. The river Is narrow at that point and the men managed, to scramble ashore with the as sistance of witnesses of the accident. The collapse of the bridge, which waa known as the Egyptian bridge, wus purely accidental and was due to thu chains snap ping on account of the extreme front and the regular tread of the cavalry, EASTERN GRAIN RATE CUT Burlington does Cent and a Half Btlew the Equalising Basis. ALSO MEETS THE RATE TO THE SOUTH Kvldent Intention to Mnke the Fight So W arm that it Will Speedily Be Brought to a Close. CHICAGO. Feb. 2. (Special Telegram.) Charges for carrying corn from Omaha to the Atlantic seaboard reached the lowest figure today In the history of the rate war. Late In the afternoon the Burlington an nounced the following tariff for export: Cents. Omaha to New York, per I'D pounds.. 144 Omaha to Philadelphia 14 Omaha to Baltimore 13 Omaha to New Orleans 11 Omaha to Chicago 8 Omaha to St. Louis 6 The Rock Island announced through rates 14 cents higher than these. When the warfare between the lines leading to the Gulf of Mexico and those leading to the Atlantic seaboard by way of Chicago started the Burlington tariff was 11 cents to Chicago. The through rate was 2SV4 cents to New York. After the eastern trunk lines had given authority to their western connections to make figures to get the business, the Milwaukee & St. Paul, Great Western, Burlington and Rock Is land Issued tariffs of 18V4 cents to New York from Omaha and 17 Cnt to Balti more. The last slash Is a full 4 cents and shows the desperate character of the strug gle In progress for the traffic of the corn belt. The cut Is Just twice as deep as had been expected. On Wednesday the Missouri Pacific re duced Its rates from Omaha to New Orleans from 13V4 to 11 cents. It was ex pected that the Chicago lines would cut their figures to the Atlantic seaboard to correspond, but the Burlington not only meets the figure but goes 1H cents bet ter. At the offices of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul It was said that the cut of the Missouri Pacific had not been met. Con siderable surprise was expressed when tho freight officials were Informed of the ac tion of th Burlington. From the outset the freight officials of the Burlington have been opposed to demoralizing rates on ac count of the attitude of the Missouri Pa cific. They believed the trouble would blow over after a few days, but when the other lines made a rate of 18H cents In connection with the seaboard roads, the Burlington followed. The last cut of the Missouri Pacific caused numerous confer ences and the reductions announoed late In the day showed that the Burlington people were bent on bringing the contest to a close by making it so extremely hot that every one would be willing to drop It. REPRIEVE FOR MRS. ROGERS Governor Suspends Sentence for Four Mouths to Allow Supreme Court to Pass on Case. WINDSOR, Vt., Feb. 2. A few hours after receiving the last rites of the .Catholic church and hearing her father confessor read the prayers for tho dying, Mrs. Mary Mnbol Rogers, who was sentenced to die upon the gallows tomorrow afternoon, lis tened with amazement to the announcement of High Sheriff Henry N. Peck that Gov ernor Charles J. Bell had granted her a re- 1 prleve of four months. The news from Montpeller that the gov ernor had consented to defer the execution of Mrs. Rogers, carried to the prison by a representative of the Associated Press, came as a surprise not only to the con demned woman, but also to the sheriff, his deputies and the prison officials, aa It had j peen generally accepiea inai mo governor would refuse to Interfere. Preparations for the execution had been perfected. The gal lows had been erected In the west wing of the prison, a heavy black curtain hanging from the guard room windows shutting the gruesome, machinery of death from public view. When the news of Governor Bell's action was carried to the prison the offi cials refused to believe the announcement until Governor Bell called up E. W. Oakes, the prison superintendent, by long-distance telephone and formally notified him that Mrs. Rogers had been granted a reprieve that her claim of not having had a fair trial might be passed upon by the supreme court. Five hundred dollars waa offered to Harold Hnrpln. a guard In the state prison, If he would carry a package of poison to Mrs. Mary M. Rogers, convicted of the murder of her husband, who Is under death sentence. The offer wa made In an anony mous letter from Boston containing $260 In bills, which Harpin received recently. The writer offered to send the other $250 as soon as the poison was delivered to Mrs. Rogers. The guard turned the letter over to Super intendent Oakes, who showed It to Gov ernor Bell. Postal authorities have been asked to Investigate the letter. BILL TO PROTECT THE PUBLIC Proposed Law la Connecticut to Pre vent Interruption of Publle Service by Strikes, HARTFORD, Conn., Feb. 2. A bill pre pared by Prof. G. D. Watrous of the Yale Law school, and designed to prevent Inter ruption of public service by labor troubles, waa presented In the state senate today. The bill provides that the employes of no corporation of a public nature shall strike for higher wages or a reduction In hours of labor without giving three days' notice, and compels corporations, before reducing wages or Increasing hours of labor, to give three days' notice to employes, Jq rase of remieat hv either aide, I ril,M,t. .. v. "-r". J "t .......... . V .-U.I. ...,,.. .J WUBIBIlJlg- OI I WO employes, two directors of such corpora tions and the attorney general of the state. The committee la called upon to report its findings within one week to the governor. Until the report hall have been made no j -ii i"d ui wages op nours snail take place. The bill provide a penalty of not less than $o0 nor more than $100, or Im prisonment of from ten to thirty days, for violation. The bill waa referred to the labor committee. C0MERF0RD MAKES A THREAT Saya Ha Will Send Oae Maa the Penitentiary la Illinois. to CHICAGO. Feb t Representative Frank D. Comerford, who made charges of whole sale corruption In the Illinois legislature, arrived lu Chicago today from Springfield and added to his sensational statements. "One man at least Is going to, the peni tentiary as a result of the Inquiry," he said. "I will make good my charge. I have the name of the man who waa of fered the bribe u well, as to briber.' CHARGES HOCH WITH MURDER Coroner lloflrasaa Will Ask Indict ment ejf Maa Arrested la Hew York. 1 CHICAGO. F. 2. Indictment for mur der will be asked by Coroner Hoffman against Johann Boch, the alleged poisoner of many wives. "I am now In position to say positively the embalming field Injected Into the body of Mrs. Marie Welker-Hoch did not con tain arsenic," said the coroner today. "Arsenic was not a constituent of any of the drugs administered by the physician who attended the woman before her death. The fact that more than two and a half ounces of poison were found In the organs means Hoch murdered his wife. The cor oner's Jury will doubtless hold Hoch to the grand Jury, but If it falls to do so I will myself hold him under my official preroga tive." Dr. Lewke, the coroner's physician. Is examining the undertaker's instruments used in the embalming process to discover whether they bear any traces of fie poison. "I expect that I shall have completed my analysis by Sunday and will have a state ment to make then," said Dr. Lewke today. "As I understand It, there was no arsenic used In the emblamlng fluid and there now remains only the Investigation of the In struments used by the undertaker." The inquest will not be held until Hock reaches Chicago, some time next week. Two of the wives of Hoch. have quarreled over money alleged to have been found on Hoch when arrested. The money Is claimed by Mrs. Fischer-Hoch, because she was the last one he deserted. Mrs. Hendrlch-Scmltt-IIoch also lays claim to $500 of the t00 now sold to be in the possession of the New York police, as she gave up that amount when Hoch bade her adieu. Both women threatened to at tach the money as soon as Hoch arrived in Chicago, but Mrs. Hendricks is said to have quietly slipped away to New York to attach the money there. SUBWAY TROUBLE SETTLED Company Makes Temporary Conces sions and Net Seal Will Be Kestrtlated. si NEW YORK, Fet 2.-There will be no strike on the Interborough Rapid Transit company's subway and elevated lines. This decision waa reached at a conference to day between General Manager Hedley of the Interborough company and representa tives of the employe. At the conclusion of the conference it was announced that all the demands of the men had been granted and that on next Monday the old trip schedule would be restored, providing for six local and seven express trains In a day's work In the subway. This schedule will continue In force until February 28, when a new schedule, to be decided upon in the meantime, will go into effect. This new schedule, according to an agreement reached at today's conference, must con tain a provision for a satisfactory Interval of rest for the motormen between trips. This rest probably will be a period of fifteen minutes' duration. After the long meeting of workmen laat night, when It waa announced that the employes would Insist upon every one of their demands being -vntd, elaborate ar rangements were made by tho police to meet any emergency and during the day 6,000 patrolmen were held in reserve at tho various stations In Manhattan and the Bronx. Just before going Into conference with General Manager Hedley, President Jencks of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engi neers, announced that unless the company receded from its position a strike on all the subway and elevated lines would be Inevitable. At the end of two hours and a half, General Manager Hedley came from the conference room with the announce ment that all the differences between the management and the men had been satis factorily adjusted and that the possibility of any serious trouble for the time at least was obviated. SENATOR MITCHELL TALKS Oregon Man Denies AH Charges Made Against Him In Recent Indictments. WASHINGTON, Feb. 2.-Senator John H. Mitchell of Oregon, who was Indicted by the United States grand Jury at Portland yesterday for bribery in connection with the land frauds investigation, has made a statement In which he says he welcomes the most searching Investigation of the charges against him and asserts that only "misconstrued Innocent acts" and "unwar ranted Inferences" can connect him with the land frauds. Senator Mitchell In his statement says: Of the final outcome I have not the slight est fear, but In the meantime I assert In the most positive manner I never in my life had any conversation with Frederick R. Krlbs. whatever In reference to any lands or any other business matter. I am equally posi tive in the statement that I never at anv time or place rerelved from him, Frederick R. Krlbs. or from any other person for him, directly or Indirectly, any check or checks for any amount whatever, either on a Rose burg bank or any other hank. In considera tion for any services rendered or to be ren dered by me ss senntor or otherwise, or for any purpose whatever. I further assert that Frederick R. Krlbs never In his life contracted with me for the services of A. IT. Tanner and myself, or ngreed with me to pay for services alleged to have been rendered in part by me In ap pearing before and persuading Blnger Her mann, commissioner of the general land otfice, to make special or recommend the Issue of any patents; nor do I believe he ever made any such contract with A. H. Tanner, for the reason that bv the articles of our copartnership It wrs expressly atlnu lated that I could not he In any manner In terested In any department business But as to what business matters Judire Tanner ms.v have had If any, with Krlbs, Judge Tanner can hlmsvlf speak, as I have no knowledge of them whatever, nor do I know that there were any. WINTYRE GOES TO JAIL Alleged Forger Remanded at New York to Await Extradition Papers front Virginia. NEW YORK, Feb. 2-Phlllp Mclntyre, who was arretted here a week ago when he disembarked from a steamship from Mexico, was committed to the Tombs for thirty days today by Magistrate Poole In the Tombs court to await extradition papers from Virginia. Mclntyre was arrested at the request of the Mexican authorities, but since then rep resentatives of the American Bankers' aaso. elation have Interested themselves In the case, and when he was arraigned on the Mexican charges. Involving the theft of $), ho was srrested on a, warrant from Norfolk, Vs.. alleging the passage of a worthless draft for $2on on the First National bank of that city, Dr W. J. Lynch of Norfolk, who said he Introduced Mclntyre to the bank officials, Identified the prisoner. Aa Mclntyre wss being taken to the Tombs a process server attempted to serve t1- papers on complaint of ten banks which he Is alleged to have swindled out of sums of from $150 to t2G0, but he threw the papers away, saying the service was not legal- COLD WAVE IS NOSPREAD Low Temperatures Beperted from the Caiadian Line to the Oulf. WEATHER MODERATES BUT SLIGHTLY Heavy Snowstorm at Beatrice low est Polat Reached la Omaha Is 25 Below Yesterday Mora lag. Yesterday was the coldest day of the win ter, the thermometer ranging from 25 be low zero at 7:30 a. m. to 11 below at ? o'clock. At 9 p. m. It was 12 below, three degrees warmer than at the same hour Wednesday. Reports from the western part of the state said that it Is moderating there slightly, and the Indications promise rising temperature for today. At Beatrice and points In the southeastern part of the state a heavy snowstorm was raging at 8 o'clock last night and a high wind was blowing The official reading of the thermometers at the weather observatory In Omaha was M degrees below zero at 7 o'clock yesterday morning and half an hour later the mini mum temperature of 25 below was recorded. Only twice In the meterologlcal his tory of Omaha has this record been sur passed. The first and coldest ever recqrdod here was January 5, 1884, when 32 degrees below zero waa reached. The next lowest was on February 11, 1S99, when 26 below wns the figure. Cold Weather Will Contlnae. CHICAGO, Feb. 2. -The entire northwest and the middle states will continue in the arasD of the nresent cold wave for at least twenty-four hours longer, according! to information given out by the United States weather bureau tonight. The cold est spot In the United States today waa at Glendlve, Mont., where flfty-three de grees below zero waa reported. Other low temperatures reported during the day were Havre, Mont., 34 below; Winnipeg, 24 be low; Battleford, 20 below; Medicine Hat, 2G below; Bismarck, 20 below, and Devil s Lake, 24 below. The center of the cold wave Is still In North Dakota, but Is mov ing slowly southward, and it Is not ex pected that its full force will be spent in the middle weat for several days. This was the coldest day of the year In Chicago. Early in the morning the of ficial report showed 14 degrees below and a mean temperature of 8 degrees below for the day waa announced. This is 32 de grees below the normal temperature. At 9 o'clock tonight the weather bureau ther mometer registered 8 degrees below and steadily going lower, with the Indications that 15 below will be reached before morn ing. Owing to the absence of wind the cold tias not been felt as much as is usual in Chicago. Among the poorer class of people there Is a great deal of suffering, but no deaths directly due to the frigid weather have so far been reported. Snow In South Nebraska. LINCOLN, Neb., Feb. 2. Snow began falling In Lincoln this evening, and while It was light It seemed to be general In southern Nebraska. There waa no appre-elable-.rircn. la temperature wl5t the snow fall, and the past twenty-four hours will stand as the coldest in Lincoln for many years. The official figure of the weather station showed 22 degrees below zero at S o'clock this, morning, and the highest dur ing the day was 11 degrees below. In cen tral Nebraska It waa colder, the minimum at Columbus being 2" degrees below. Mail trains were four to seven hours late and schools were dismissed. Indications this evening are that tonight will be a repeti tion of last night. Some Western Temperatnres. HARVARD, Nob., Feb. 2.-(Speclal)-Wilh fully two Inches of snowfall during the last night of January, mercury vari ously given from IS to 15 degrees below zero, a bright, clear day with keen cutting north wind and mercury t degrees below at 2 o'clock in the afternoon, is the manner in which February waa ushered In at this place. COLUMBUS, Neb., Feb. 2. (Special Tele gram.) The government thermometer here registered 27 below this morning, which Is the coldest weather in seven years. All classes were dismissed from the high school this morning because of something in the heating apparatus falling to work. Mall trains are from four to seven hours late. GRANT, Neb., Feb. 2. (Special Tele gram.) A blanket of snow covers the prairie of Perkins county, with the ther mometer ranging from 6- to 10 below zero and high winds. Trains are delayed and business Is practically at a standstill. BEATRICE, Neb., Feb. 2. (Special Tele gram.) A blizzard is raging here this even ing and snow, driven by a strong north wind, has been falling most of the after noon. PLATTSMOUTH, Neb., Feb. 2.-(Speclal.) Thin morning was a record-breaker, the mercury being 28 degrees below zero. LINWOOD. Neb., Feb.' 2. (Special.) Laat night waa the coldest of the year. Tb thermometer registered 30 below at 6:30 this morning. There Is some suffering among the stock, as the snow has drifted badly In places. There is sixteen Inches of snow on the ground. HEEMER, Neb., Feb. 2. (Special.) Lost night was the coldest In fifteen years, the thermometer registering 30 below, and It 1 still 20 below at 1:45 p. m. Coldest la Years. NORFOLK. Neb., Feb. ..-(Special.) Groundhog day proved to be the coldeat of the century th' s far In northern Ne braska. Thirty-five degrees below zero broke all records for the laat half dozen years. The government records showed that the January Just closed was the cold est for nine years. LEIGH, Neb.. Feb. 1 (Special.) Thte was the coldest day of the winter, ther mometers registering a low aa SO degrees below zero. There Is a large quantity of loose snow on the ground, and should the wind rise before a thaw all roads would be blockaded. FREMONT, Neb., Feb. I (Speclal.)-This Is the coldest day of the season. The mercury this morning stood at 28 below by the government thermometer. At noon It had only gone up to 14 below. There has been a light wind from the north and very few people have ventured out. Train were nearly on time, but had hard work to keep up the schedule. DES MOINES. Feb. 2. Twenty-flve de gree below zero was recorded In this city this morning, last night being the coldest in ten years. The fact that there was no wind aided In materially softening the severity of the cold spell. BURLINGTON. Ia.. Feb. f.-The ther mometer registered 24 degrees below zero here today. The weather Is the coldest ever known In Burlington. SIOUX CITY. Ia.. Feb. t For mor than an hour this morning the mercury marked 30 degreec below zero, the lowest tempera lure experienced in Sioux City since Feb ruary, l&tt. Since $ a. m. the temperature has been gradually rising, and at ( p. m. It (Continued oa Second Page.) NEBRASKA WEATHER FORECAST nnw and Warmer Friday and atnr-Uny. Temperatare at Omaha Yesterda y t lloui ft a. a. T a. K a. t a. l a. 11 a. 12 m Dear. li.t 2.1 2.1 24 2.1 21 1 IT Hoar. I p. m ip.n Ip.m 4 p. m 5 p. m II p. m ..... T p. m Hp, m Op. m Dev. IK 12 Indicates below aero. ERUPTION IN NICARAGUA Voles, no of Momotombo Becomes Active After Long Rest and People Are Kleelna. SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 2. The steam ship City of Sydney, from central Ameri can ports, brings news of a violent erup tion of Momotombo volcano, which Is S.0"1 feet high and whose base forms a promon tory in Lnke Nicaragua- Leon, a Nlcara guan city of 50,000 Inhabitants, la only eight miles from the volcano. Village people near the erupting mountain lied and fears were entertained for the safety of leno. Three years ago Moinotombo's summit began to steam and for a whllo those living In the vicinity of the mountain watched the vaixir with alarm. There was no eruption, however, and until the morning of January 16 of this year the volcano ap peared to be sleeping serenely. Early that morning thick vapors were seen nrlsing from the cone-shaped top of tho mountain. As the dny wore on the vapor increased In density and by noon the volcano was vomiting thick clouds of black and yellow smoke. Suddenly flames burst forth, and that night Momotombo's summit was a blazing torch, lighting the land as far as the coast and casting tho glare of Its fire far out to sea. Momotombo was In active eruption about fifteen years ago. It U surrounded by very valuable coffee planta tions. FRAUDULENT LAND SCHEME Worthless Swamps and Boas la Lon Islana I'sed as Basis of Lot tery Deal. CHICAGO, Feb. 2.-Land which the Louisiana State Iyoan and Trust company claimed to own, and which the federal offi cials assert was the basis of the alleged lot tery scheme promoted by John H. Dalton, now on trial before United States Judge Sanborn, was today valued at about 12H cents an acre by expert witnesses. Thou sands of acres of land In Louisiana which has never been surveyed and which I of a boggy nature, dangerous even to walk upon, wss purchased by Louis A. Gourdaln and Dnlton, Is was declared, for $16 when the property was sold for taxes In Louisi ana. It was on this sort of land, according to the testimony In the trial, that options were sent to persons throughout the United States to be sold for from 25 cents to $2 a ticket. The purchasers were given to tinder stand that the lands were rich In oil wells. The nearest oil wells to the property are over 100 miles away, according to the wit nesses who testified today. AMERICAN : BREEDERS MEET Second Session of the Assoclatloa la Held nt the I'nlverslty of Illinois. CHAMPAIGN. 111., Feb. 2. The second session of the second annual meeting of the American Breeders' association waa held at the University of Illinois today. The session was presided over by Prof. Oscar Erf of Manhattan, Kan., treasurer of the association. Among the papers read were the following. "Breeding Range Cattle," Frank Hast ings, Stamford, Tex. "The Breeding of Disease-Resistant Plants," W. A. Orton, United States De partment of Agriculture. "The Brtedlng of Wilt Resistant Flax," Prof. H. L. Bolley, experiment station, Fargo, N. D. "Breeding Mildew Resistant Sand Cher ries," Prof. N. E. Hansen, experiment sta tion, Brookings, 8. D. "The Breeding of a Hardy Alfalfa." Wil liam Hays, assistant secretary of Agricul ture. "Breeding New Cotton Varieties for Boll Weevil Infested Regions," A. W. Edson, Department of Agriculture. "Cotton Breeding for Earllness and Pro ductiveness," Prof. R. L. Bennett, Texas Agricultural department. EDUCATION IS THE THEME Third Annual Convention of Religious Educational Association Now la Session at Boston. BOSTON, Feb. 2,-The program for the third annual convention of the Religious Educational association, which haa Just been arranged, Indicates that many promi nent educators and clergymen will speak upon a wide variety of religious topics dur ing the several day of the convention, which will be opened on Sunday, February IX The general theme to be discussed at the convention la, "The Alma of Religious Education." Among those scheduled to contribute papers during the meeting are: President W. R. Harper of the University of Chicago, President Henry Churchill King of Oberlin college, Ohio; Bishop Wil liam F. McDowell of Chicago and Presi dent Frank Gunsaulus of the Armour In stitute of Technology, Chicago. BISHOP HARE ON SCHOOLS Protestant Episcopal Prelate of Sonth Dakota Makes' a fftate. meat. NEW YORK, Feb. 2. The Evening Post today prints a statement from the Rt. Rev. William H. Hare, Protestant Episcopal missionary bishop of South Dakota, In which he charges that the law prohibiting government aid to sectarian Indian schools has been evaded and that money hns been paid out to the Catholic mission schools. Bishop Hare' statement la dated Sioux Falls, S. D., January 6. He describes the pecuniary embarrassment and anxiety on the part of the schools following the abolition of the contract system of govern ment aid and reiterates his efforts to se cure some measure of relief from Its rigid application. Movements of Ocean Vessels Feb. S. New York Arrived: Patricia, from Hamburg; Teutonia, from Liverpool. Sailed: Arabic, fur Mediterranean ports; Victorian, for Liverpool; Ia Chumpalgne, for Havre; Mongolian, for Ulasgow; i'rln essln Victoria Louise, for Si. Thomas. At Liverpool Sailed: Englishman, for Portland; Siberian, for Philadelphia: Cor inthian, for iiillfsx. Arrived: Ottoman, from Portland. At Naples Bulled: Canople, for Boston. Arrived: Konlg Albert, from Gibraltar. At Shields galled: Oscar 11., for New York. At Havre Arrived: La Savoln, from New York. At London Balled: Mltinetonka, for New York. At Queenstown Sailed: Oceanic, for New York. At (Jlasgow Arrived Hibernian, from Portland. WATER BILL PASSES Vete in House oa Final Boll Call Sixty. Beren to Twenty-Feur. NINE MEMBERS NOT VOTING ON MEASURE Lively Debate Precedes the Tioal Test en the Bill DODGE INDULGES IN PERSONAL ABUSE Lee Replies with Pertinent Remarks on Motives Behind Heasire. WATER COMPANY IS NOT FIGHTING IT Don alas Delegation Stands Foar Aa) Favor and Five Opposed When, the Final Showdown Comes. (From a Staff Correspondent. ) LINCOLN, Feb. 2. (Special Telegram.) R. B. Howell's Omaha water board bill, H. R. . introduced by Dodge of Douglas, passed the house this afternoon by a vota of 6" to 24, sixty-seven being precisely tha necessary vote to carry It through with tho emergency clause. Dodge. Andersen, Clarke and Muxen voted for the bill, and Lee, Barnes, Tucker, Foster and Fltla against It. Lee of Douglas made a hard fight to have the bill recommitted for specific amend ments. The amendments he proposed wera to prevent the members of the water board from drawing salaries or expending any money until they acquired the water work, and to prevent them from making any new cmtracts until the city actually owned the plant. Throughout the discussion on thla bill Dodge has posed na the soul of honor and Imputed bad motives to those who dared differ from htm. All the time, while hurl ing abuse and venom at Lee and other who were opposed to this bill, Dodge would keep reminding the house that he wanted to eschew personalities and argue tha ! sue on Its merit. Howell was on the floor of the house when the bill passed, having been there during the last week lobbying for the measure. The detail vote on the water bill waa: Yeas: Anderson. Tintig. Kngstrom. Luce. Andvraon, It'l'n, Brnrt. M'Elhlnaey. Baron. Fenlon. Milin. Bartoo. Flfhback, Mi-Milllea. BriUord. Oerdei. Marker. Ilendir. Claim. Mark!. Br.len. Hand. Mfradlth. Pnwman. Harmon. Mun. BursM. Hrrmauaon. Harkar. Burna. Hnara. Pirklna. Caldwell. Hosrafe. Poi.pl.il. Caaaet. Hnlliet. Pat. (hriatemen. Hows. Itlchardsee, Clarke. Hunker. Rnherts. ( C-oate. Jarkaon. Kohrer. Ctipeey. Johneon. Saddler. Cravens. Jnnea. Smeteer. Crnnaar. KaleT. Smith. Cunnlnshara. Kyd. Stetson. Darts. Ijihnera. lelea-Dernir. Uvengooo. Drtrlck. , Lord. Podge. Noeei. . Atwood. ' Horton. Barnes. Juhnal. ' rarbeer, Junktn. Thompson. Voter. whithans 1. , Peakedy. " 1 '. ferry. . , Tuoker. ' , 1 Ward. ' Doran. f ' Kdox. Perrar. ' Lee. Warner. . rule. - Line. Windham. Fouler. Mo-lay. Suelow. Hill. Mllllfan. Mr. Speaker Si, Absent or not voting: Burroughs, Cur He, Douglas, Jouvenat, McAllister, McLeod, Robbins, Scllley and Wilson. When the speaker announced that tha house was about to vote on the flpj pas sago of H. R. 8. Lee of Dougloa promptly sprung a surprise on Howell und his -sociates on the floor of the house by aub mining certain amendments and a, motion that the bill bo recommitted for specific amendment. Thl at once precipitated an other set-to between member of the Doug Ins delegation, with Lee pitted against Dodge and Clarke. Dodge arose to enlighten Speaker Bouse upon parliamentary law by Informing him that Lee's motion to recommit was out of order, but the speaker, who I serng hi fifth term a a Vaglslator, told Dv-ge that f two-thirds of the member wanted to recommit they could do so and hone Lee' motion was not out of order. Dodge then asked to be allowed to apeak on tha mo tion. He Immediately launched out into one of his characte;1stlc tirades of personal abuse, throwing rnud on Lee without limit or reason. When Dodge' supply of venom ran low Clarke came to his rescue, but did not quite measure up to the former In his personal onslaught, although he did pro duce considerable argument. "There could be no better evidence that there Is something bad and sinister In thia bill than the very fact that these promoters of the bill seek by every possible mean at their command to misrepresent tha facts," said Lee in hi reply to Dodge. "I do dis like to engage In personalities even to de fend myself, but the young man ha gon so far In his course of personal abtls and so wholly without reason that I feel It my duty to say a word or two." Dodge had repeated that old ;-arn that the Omaha water works had fought tha Howell bill two year ago and thl one. This Lea conclusively denied and asserted that when the Howell bill was pending two years ago the Omaha superintendent of the water works was about to fight It because he feared It might cut him out of his job, when he wa advised ly a tale gram from the main offices in New York to let the bill alone and not put an ob stacle In the way of it passage. Lee chal lenged Dodge or Clarke or any other mem ber to refute this statement, but the beat he got for hia challenge wa another fusil lade of mud. 'If the Omaha water works Is fighting this bill," exclaimed Lee, "I want to ask, ha any member of thl house been ap proached by an agent for the water works? If so, let him make It known now, The fact that no member ha been approAohed by the water works' agents Is proof In It self that the water works is not lighting this bill, but Is for the bill, for anyone here knows that the Omaha water work is not the kind to sit Idly by and let any measure detrimental to Its Interest pas without at least trying to prevent It." Then Lee cut loos on Howell, who waa In the rear of the hall, and asked Why Howell comes down here and lobbies for a week or two If all he gets out of thl I hi $0u0 a year a water commissioner. Lea showed that though the water board had been in existence two year It ha dona nothing but suggest an appraisement of the works. He also asserted that this and kindred bills were a stroke at local self government. . When i Le motion came up In the afternoon Dodge again spoke against ft. lye's motion to recommit wa then de feated by a vote on roll call of 7S to 24. PHOCKKDUGS OF T1IH SEKATB Considerable Debate Over Pharmacy Hill. (From a Staff Correspondent.) LINCOLN, Feb. 2.-(Speclal.) The aen ata committee got busy yesterday and