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NEW DOTCEREPOBUC
idrieei from Tie Netherlands Indicate
Chc( Whe Queen Wilkelminn Diet.
NO HOPE FOR DESCENDANT OF RULER
FroVgble Siocessors to Throne Under Con
trol of the Qeraaa Jlaiser.
SUBDUED TALK OF DIVORCE IS HEARD
Law Permit! Queen to Pnt Awtj Contort
Uider Circumstances.
PEOPLE TAKE LITTLE INTEREST IN AFFAIR
Talk of Rater with Disappointment
and Sorroir, bat People Prefer
to Await Her Death to
Name Successor.
THE HAGUE. Dec. "-(Special Cable
gram to The Bee.) The belief, everywhere
Browing, that the German kaiser has cast
longing eyes towards the sea ports of
Holland and that he has Inaugurated a
commercial and economic. If not the poli
tical conquest of the nation has given rise
to all sorts of speculation regarding the
future of the country.
It ts only a few years Ago that the
hopes of the people of Holland were pinned
on their queen. Much was expectnd from
genuine love match, and while not popular
with those In high authority at the court
the mere fact that the "Wllhulmtnije ' had
married the man of her choice If myhlng
only served to draw the hearts of the
people more closely to her.
To those who have followed the yourK
queen from her childhood to the present
day the chango In the "child of the
Dutch people" Is painful in the extreme.
The bright winsome charm has faded end
there lingers about her mouth and over
her brow n unmistakable expression of
a disappointed woman. The enthusiasm
with which the Hollanders once spoke of
her has died away and she is -iow Seldom
referred to except with a sigh. It seems
but a few years ago that the walls of the
gloomy palace rang with the laughter of
little - children, who came to play with
"Wllhelmlntje." Now all Is changed and
the queen hides the sorrow of her unhappy
marriage, as many months of the year as
Hlie can at Loo.
Meanwhile a strange story is being cir
culated to the effect that there l.i a clause
in the Dutch constitution providing that If
the queen has no Issues within rive ears
of her marriage that is before February
7 of next year the Dutch Parliament has
the power to dissolve the union. A
further rumor has gained ground that there
is a clause in the marirage contract per
mitting this to be done,
Had Her Owi War. ,
- So little does the Dutch constitution In
terfere with a choice of a prince or queen
to have married quite contra:-' . to the
opinions of her government, and slio also
hud her own way in all of the dotulls
connected with this' momentous affair for
Holhuul. Holland Is a profoundly christian
country and the mere sugestlon of such
a possibility as a change In a prince
oonsort ' or a queen consort Is revolting
to Its principles and sentiments. At 'he
tame time the marriage relation Is suid
to be considered by Queen Wllhelmlnu her
self as far too binding to allow of any
Much a solution of the question of suc
cession. It ts this very question of suc
cession that Is understood to be absorbing
the attention of her government which
Is now busying itself with a revision of
the constluttlon. Under present conditions
the matter is by no means clear, but as
the monarchy is a constitutional aid
herldltary one it is to be presumed that
apart from any special enactment on the
nart of the Dutch people the succession
would follow the same law of inheritance
as that of Great Brltlan.
In this case the merest agnate line of
the House of Orange is now rvprsaented
by the Grand Duke of Saxe-Welmur, grand
son of the prlnoesa Sophie of the Nether
lands, sister of the late King William III
and second cousin to the present queen
The grand duke might choose between the
crowns of Saxe-Weimar and Holland, but
by the constitution of the German rrnpiie
lie could not carry both. It Is therefore
to be assumed that he would remain con
tent with his present sovereign position.
People Apathetic
ills rights of succession would next
devolve. on his sister or on the children
iif his aunt who became a princess of
Reus. Of this family there are several
princes, Who might legitimately be called
to the Orange throne.
More remote still from them is another
line of agnates descended from an uncle of
the late King William III Prince Fred
nick of Orange, who married a Princess
Louise of Prussia and whose daughter
married the Prince of Weld.
Throughout Holland there exists today an
antipathy of all discussion of a possible suc-
rb."ion to Wtlhelmlna. Of course the
nu'Rtlon of a succession must come up
when Queen Wilhelinlna dies, but Just ' at
pr.scnl the proposition If discussed would
laobably bo iliscussod with disappointment
And bitterness. It will be remembeied that
at thn lime the queen's wedding the worn
' l; public" was echoed on every hand
wlun the question "'who shall reign if
i In-re h- no heir" was raised. Dr. Kuy-l-r.
the ex-prime minister finer said that
llolluinl would result to arms rather than
sink tn derma it rule.
rite succession 'he throne Is regu
lated by Arilclis 10 to JO of the consti
tution, hut Inasmuch as the constitution
if now Irf'lnw revised it pears to be more
than H'it"y that the present slates-general
villi entirely revise these clauses, and
mum may yet no in arn in lavor of a re
public fur the loyalist!) of the Dutch
people nppe.trs to he entirely limited to
i bell- "Wilhelmlntje" beyond whom they
care for no one, and in fact openly and
universally express opposition to any
possible German prince ociupylng the
torot.e.
Italy Has Surplus.
r.OMK. Dec. S Hisnor Paolo Carano.
minster of the treasury, made his budget
titatemrnl before the Chamber of Deputies
today, showing the condition of Italian
finances. Notwithstanding the heavy ex
prnwi sustained, the budget shows a sur-
pin, and there Is no need of an Increase
I-; iHXutifin.
Merr at St. Petersburg.
ST. PETERSBURG. Friday. Dec. S.-Mght
via. Helsltigfor. Finland. Dec. 9 Tbs
American ambassador. Mr. Meyer, arrived
Mrs from Berlin by rail.
SHAW ON THE UNEMPLOYED
are Present Condition In Oreot
Rrltala dhows Inefficiency of
Present System.
LONDON. Dec. . (Special Cablegram to
The Bee.) Tho question of aiding the un
employed in London is a very serious one
and Queen Alexandra has stepped bravely
Into the breach, says Bernard Shaw. She
has waited for Parliament to deal with the
question and Parliament has done nothing
has Indeed with great difficulty been pre
vented from doing less. She has waited
for the prime minister to advise, and the
prime minister avows his utter helpless
ness. The resources of the constittulon
being thus exhausted, she has boldly
thrown the constitution to the winds and
taken the matter In hand h"rself. She ha,
said in effect to our wise men: "Well, If
you cannot get my people work. I will
give them bread Who will come and help
me?"
In doing this the queen has precipitated
a crisis that was bound to come sooner or
later. The situation Is not new. In cities
like ancient Rome or modern London com
petitive commerce always Anally creates a
proletariat too numerous to be effectually
coerced and too clever to be duped by
spurious political economy and pious plati
tudes about the sacredncss of law and or
der. In 1S6, when the windows of the
clubs In Fall Mali were broken, tho classes
represented by those rlubs immediately
paid nearly $50.0fn) ransom to the Mansion
House fund, most of which went Into the
hands of anything but hard working peo
ple. Trade revived and staved off the
emergency for a time, but it is upon us
again and now the question is, arc wo to
accept panem et clrccnses as a regular
part of our metropolitan organization? We
must, if the alternative Is to leave the un
employed, to choose between starvation and
plunder. The queen will not allow her
people to be starved. She has forced our
hand and is going to organize panem (the
circuses will come later) with her own
hands, unless we find work and wages for
the unemployed, who, by the way, will
very soon acquire a taste, like their social
superiors, for Incomes without work.
It Is a critical situation and one that may
become dangerous If those who understand
it are too courtly or too cowardly to speak
out. Tho queen's charity Is the last re
source of a bankrupt civilization. If we
can do nothing better we must adopt it,
and she is right to force the alternative on
us. But can we do nothing better?
For my part I can see no difficulty In
finding work for the unemployed. Take the
places they live In, for instance. There Is
the urgently necessary work of knocking
those places down, burning their putrid
debris and replacing them with decent
dwellings In airy and handsome streets.
The spots, to begin with, are already
marked by Mr. Charles Booth on the map
of London In black. If, instead of directing
the attention of the unemployed, as In 18.S6,
to the possibility of extorting a demoral
ising ransom by destroying the houses of
other people, we could set them to the
eminently desirable and honorable work of
destroying their own and building better
onea to replace them, the queen would not
need to empty her private purse with tho
heart-breaking knowledge that her money
would Mye jjexjonle jjyg.t.. the.,,.,. I
pense of their chi
pense of their characters.
It is true that there Is no commercial de
mand for a new and decent city; but, pray,
for what great social work Is there any
commercial demand? How long will it take
us to see that great nations work for na
tional profits and keep the little souls who
can understand nothing but commercial
profits out of the national councils?
There Is no luck of money, no lack of
work, no lack of charity. It Is character
and statesmanship tliut we want, and
these, alas, cannot be created by checks
and subscription books. .
IN INTEREST OFJRISH TONGUE
Father Dlaueen says Merchants Moat
I'ae Language in Business
It It survives.
DUBLIN, Dec. 8.-(Speclul Cablegram to
The Bee.) Americans who are interested
in the campaign now being conducted in
that country for a revival of interest in the
Irish language will also be interested in
the movements made by Rev. Father Dln
neen, M. A., of this city, on this side of the
water, while those having charge of the
Celtic propaganda are visiting the various
American cities and towns.
Father Dlnneen. In an addresM or li
irarvan this week oiti.n..i i . ...
I. ":- '"7. . " "''
i.. L , L . . l"e dl8t"ct ln
wnicn Irish still survives, and
investigations bases the conclusion tlat
the living Irish speech is now in a desperate
position. In his uddress he nien,i,i o
vigorous agitation to
bc conducted through-
breadth of the Irish-
out the length and
speaking area or the country as the only
effectual means of preserving the living
language and enabling it to be extended
to the other parts of the country. Such
an agitation would hava a powerful influ
ence in determining the fate of the lan
guage ln the country districts, nut the
language question ln the towns was even
a more difficult problem. There could rot
be an Irish-speaking country district in
Which the Irish languuge might be -x-pectcd
to hold a permanent sway without
an Irlsh-speaklng town. Unless t ;l move
ment produced genuine Irish-speaking
towns the language was lost. He relied
.j I,., v,i imiiiiiuii sense anu pa
triotism of tho townspeople In virions iilsli
cities and towns to bring ubout the jetieral
use of the Irish Ungual In the., places.
ESPERANTO CRAZE IS GROWING
eiv
Language Fluda Converts
Many Places iu the I alted
Kingdom.
In
LONDON. Dec. .-iSim clal Cablegram l0
The Hoc-) Esperanto contines to spread
at a rapid rate through the United King
dom. It is the boast ot' the advocates
of the new universal language that it io
already possible for a stranger, uu mattei
what his nationality, to travel in almost
any part of Great U.itain and find students
of Esperanto and make himself understood
Just by way of illustration of the hold
n..,v i iiiiiig on me cm-
lure, iwo nu-iuents nnicn Have lianoeneo
in v cam.', ,nj iiiciiijonea. flue ill
these incidents concerns tho university, the
oilier tho town.
Mr. Oscar Browning had Just deliveicd
a lecture upou Esperanto at the university.
It was listened to by a large audience, and
although Mr. Browning declared that it
was his twenty-eighth lecture, each time
upon a different language, he constdercu
that It was more useful than any of the
lectures which had preceded it.
Dr O. Cunningham, an Em-era mo enthu
siast, anouuncva that he haa eucceeded In
making arangemrnts for the Instruction
in Esperanto of tha local police iu th town
of
JAPAN FACES FAMINE
Distress Throughout the Empire "',
uit Come from Other P- .
GOVERNMENT WILL NO1
REQUEST
In the Faee of St'
Not k
in North it Will
.' Appeal.
LEPERS TO BE CONTROLLED BY THE N ATIOH
uau-n-anu-se
Heretofore They Hate All Been Permitted
to Roam at Will.
ANCESTOR WORSHIP STRENGTH OF EMFIRE
Despite Diversity of Religions. All
Japanese Venerate- Their Ances
tors. More Especially Those
of Royal House.
TOKIO, December 9.-(Sneclal Cablegram
to The Bee.)-There Is distress and famine
throughout Japan, but the situation Is not
so serious as has been painted in the re
ports sent broadcast throughout the world.
The resources of the country were drained
by the war with Russia and considerable
help will have to come from ouulde the
empire If actual starvation is to be pre
vented In the northern districts. Help has
already been received from Great Britain
and America and more has been promised.
No general request for help has been made
and none will be permitted by the Japa
nese government.
In Japan the number of lepers is second
only to India, and hitherto no regulations
for the control of them have existed. They
are allowed to wander in the streets and
solicit alms. With the exception of the
missionary effort which dealt with many
hundreds, they are unheeded and uncared
for. In the coming session of the Diet
special laws will be introduced. The lepers
will be Isolated and supported by the local
governments.
The Japanese have lost no time lf coming
to such an agreement with the government
of Corea as has been rendered necessary
by the issue of the war. It was the per
sistent intrigues of Russia In Corea which
forced Japan to draw the sword. The
weakness, the corruption and the treachery
of the government of Seoul offered a con
stant arid favorable field for the exercise
of the arts in which Russian diplomatists
of a certain school excel, and the hardi
hood and ability with which they pursued
their ends constituted a perpetual menace,
not only to the future development of
Japan, but to Its security, so long as their
proceedings were unchecked.
As to Ancestor Worship
The recent v'.Ai of the emperor of Japan
to the Temple of Ise to report to the
first Imperial ancestor the successful ter-
mlmaion of the war with , Russia brings
ln, nromtnence what must always be re-
prdtl as the strongest, and by other na
tlons probably the strangest, national force
Bype ttr Vn nun . ?eTf Offer, IprrTrtOTe4
correctly, the veneration of ancestors, is
little talked of in connection with Japan
and lias recently been quite overshadowed
by the discussion of bushldo and Its effects.
Bushldo, wonderful as its teachings and In
fluenoes have been. Is at best only a class
religion, or, more . properly speaking, an
ethical code. Ancestor worship is univer
sal. It may be said without any exaggera
tion that every Japanese man, woman and
child is an ancestor worshiper. This ap
plies to the Christian convert as well us tho
Buddhist devotee. Ancestor worship, or
more properly speaking, the veneration of
ancestors, is something Independent of re
ligion. It does not Interfere with religion
and it cannot be affected by iu It is worth
noting that here in the Orient the greatest
strides were made by the Jesuit fathers
in gaining converts and power after they
had declared that ancestor worship was
not a religion and therefore need not be
abandoned by the convert to Christianity.
It should be thoroughly understood that
ancestor worship does not stop with the
veneration of the family ancestors. That is
but the first step, and there follows the
veneration of the clun deities and, the
highest of all, the veneration of the im
perial ancestors. In this way there is a
perfect form of religion for tho develop
ment of the Datriotism and lovaltv nt th
people as well as the morals of the home.
I The rites mav differ sliihtlv m ,h-
! ent nlana but the Ideia are .h. I,
in every Japanese house there arc shrines
or places devotod to ancestor worship.
An-
set-
c"slr worsnip aia not even suffer a
I bttCk dUrtn th" da-ya 0f the fudlil tem.
i An etnlcal code mlht 06 Impossible of
i-uiopi cuviisiui vy in.: iguoiam ciasties un
der such a system, but every family pos
sessed ancestors and could venerate them.
Witt) the Japanese each day contains some
minutes set apart for. active veneration of
the imperial ancestors. This daily act of
loyalty has been continuously practiced for
hundreds of years. . It is to this great
forca that the emperor appealed in his vials
to the temple of the first Imperial ancestor
at Isa.
ROJESTVENSKY ON WARSHIPS
Russian Admiral Says Heavy
Must Be I'sed In. Naval
Warfare.
Gun
KOBE, Dec. 9. (Special Cablegram t.
The Bee.) A representative of the Kob
Herald succeeded In interviewing Admiral I
Rojestvensky Just before he sailed rrom '
Vladivostok on the transport Voroni, ac
companled by nearly 2,uO0 liberated prison
era of war. The wound which tne admlra I
received In the battle of the sea of Japar I
iias not as yet neaicd and he still wear
a surgical dressing around his forehead.
The admiral In his interview asserts thai
Japan won the victory entirely by its gun.' '
and tne calm, mathematical precision o
the men behind the guns. The conciusio.
the admiral haa come to as a result of h.;
studies and observatlona relative to th
battle of the aea of Japan is that thn war
jlitp or tne ruiure will carry nothing
i smaller man tnree-inen guns and
not
I .nanv of theee- for use onlv a.in.. ..
1 - I'M -
. . . . ... . . . .
pcao mniF. ney iiteive-incii guns a no
ilne-incn guna win no the main arma
ment. Served by cool, skilful, well-dis
ciiillned men, he believes they will rontro
the seas for many years to come.
Rasa Comment on Message.
8T. PETERSBl'Rd, Friday, Dec. .
Night Via Helsingfors. Finland. Deo. -The
belated press comment on President
Roosevelt's message to 'congress Is ex
tremely friendly. The Slovo described the
mcesege s -the vole of the leador of a
great and united country, conscious of its
right to a position in the first rank ut the
council of nations."
ROB THREE TROLLEY CREWS
Two Highwaymen Do Rushing Haul-
na on West "Ide of llansrnm
Park.
Last night between and 10:15 three
Wet side Hanscom park cars were h"ld
up In succession at the end of that linn
near Thirty-second and Murtha streets.
Paul Ray and H. W. Fitch. In charge of
motor car No. 101, were the first victims.
They were both snoted In the car getting
warm while waijlng for time at the end
of the run. Two men suddenly appeared
and 'ordered them to put up their hands.
Tho smaller of the two then relieved Ray
and Fitch of their money, all pf which be
longed to the company. The amount was
small, about tl.
The highwaymen wailed until the next
csr had backed into the switch when
they forced Ray and Fitch to walk over to
the ear last arrived. This car was under
the control of P. L. Peterson and E. R.
Forbes. These men were forced to put
up their hands as the others had been.
This time the robbers got about $2T and
also relieved Forbes of his watch.
The third car, which was under tho con
trol of M. A. Flsk and J. S. Rose, finally
arrived and the sanio maneuver was re
peated. The robbers got about ns much
from the last crew as from the second, so
that the entire loss was about S(0. and
the one watch.
After getting the money from the third
crew one of the robbers held covered the
six train men with his gun while the other
went from car to car and pulled the trol
lies off the wire and afterward cut the
ropes. Then ordering the looted crews to
stay in the car that pulled In last, the two
men backed away. They took the Central
boulevard in the direction leading to Vin
ton street and after reaching the top of
the hill started away on a run.
As soon as possible: a warning was sent
to the police station and a hurry call was
made to the scene. At Twenty-fifth and
Leavenworth part of the officers left the
patrol and took the east side park car.
This they employed to take them up the
west side track, driving It to the limit of
Its speed. The patrol met the first of the
crews as It was coming In and the train
men stopped and gave a description of the
men who hod robbed them. They said
the robbers were both men of medium
height, one slightly larger than the other,
and perhaps an Inch the taller. Both wore
short, dark overcoats and each had two
revolvers. The faces of tne men could not
be seen for they had them covered with
white pocket handkerchiefs. After getting
this description the patrol hurried to the
place of the robbery and there picked up
some of the officers. They then made a
run on the boulevard to Twenty-fourth
and Vinton, where a warning was sent to
South Omaha and instructions sent to the
police operator for the use of the patrol
men and detectives. The saloons In the
vicinity of Vinton street were visited, but
no sign of the men was found.
BALFOUR OPENS CAMPAIGN
Leader of British Opposition Party
Slake stirring gpeech at
Manchester.
MANCHESTER. Dec. . Arthur J. BaiJ
four, now the leader of the opposition party
In the United Kingdom, opened the cam
paign In a stirring speech before his Man
chester constituents today. vWith the utmost
frankness the former premier explained
that the resignation of government was on
the ground of expediency, showing that the
Ftep had been carefully considered for some
time and that It was evidently contem
plated by Mr. Balfour during the greater
part of the year.
Mr. Balfour defended the action of tliu
unionist government in Its retention of
office on the ground that It was essential
to wait until J.he Anglo-Japanese treaty
wus finally concluded and other necessary
features of the government program, had
been carried out, with the exception of
the redistribution bill, an outline of which
had been given to Parliament. Divisions
within the unionist party led the govern
ment to conclude that It would be Impos
sible at present to carry a measure which
demanded absolute unity.
Without going at any length In the prob
able platform of the liberals, the former
premier poked fun at the liberal protest
against being forced to accept office and
ridiculed the efficacy of a party composed
of so many factions. He laid the lash of
bitter sarcasm on what he declared to be
w ..,ni,,,8 ooniij ruie
me teaaing issue, ana saia wnetner tney
m ashamed of it or not, home rulers they
I were '"J home rulers they will rernain.
Mr. Balfour plainly Intimated that the
unionist attack would be centered on the
home rule record of the liberals, while the
unionists would use their own record on
home, foreign and colonial policies as their
bulwark of defence.
He challenged the liberals on the Issue
of Chinese labor ln South Africa. Here
the former premier became severely de
nunciatory. He said the liberals had won
bye elections by unscruplous disregard of
the truth.
Mr. Balfour made a strong plea for unity
during the elections. He hoped that the
new administration, when it handed back
the reins to the unionists, would be able to
point to a record creditable to the country.
He declared he intended to lead the op
position through the campaign.
"The party elected me its leader and I
propose to carry out the great mission en
trusted to my hands." he said. "I am per
fectly confident that from all sections of
the party., be the minor differences what
they may, I shall receive that support
which I have never wanted for In the past
n the past."
Mr. Balfour made no reference to Joseph
Ciiamberlain or his fiscal policy.
SUIT AGAINST STOCKHOLDERS
Bondholder of Ohio Railroad Asks
Security Holders to Pay
Debts of Concern.
CINCINNATI. Dec. .-George W. Harris.
bondholder of the Cincinnati. Hamilton
Layton. brought suit in the superior
otirt today to assess the stockholders of
hat corporation. The petition waa placed
mi the flies and action was taken to obtain
iorvice on the defendants. This action
a-ms entirely unexpected to the interests
t present controlling the property.
. J. Plerpont Morgan was immediately
.otlfled of the action for. as holding the
najorlty of stock, he is responsible to that
extent for the debta of the concern.
The piweedlng was had under the Ohio
Matute, which provides for a double as
essnient of stock to pay corporation
debts. The defendants named are the
original holders nf the Cincinnati. Hamil
ton V Dayton Railroad roi.iiutny and others
ho have suceeoited theni. In the list
i sppears the names of Eugene Zimmerman
M. D. Woodford, who was president of the
Cincinnati. Hamilton ft Dayton: Thomas
Walsh, George T. Brownell and otusrs.
11
French Disorders Are Eepor'.ed Amoig the
Garrison at roastadt
RIOTING AMONG MAKCHURIAN TROOPS
Bumor that Railway Station at Siiran Has
Been Sacked.
RUN ON RUSSIAN STATE SAVINGS BANK
GoTernment Savings Bank at Warsaw
Asked to Pay JM"7 Depositors.
MILITARY ENGINEERS ST-RT A MUTINY
Army Telegraphers at KletT Refuse
to Take Place of Strikers and
F.nglneers Destroy Quarters
at f.nru Kulirsrji.
BfM-ETIS.
ST. PETERSBURG, Dec. .-(Via Kdy
tkuhnmi. East Prussia. Dec. 9.) Fresh dis
orders are reported from Cronstadt. It Is
said that the loyal troops there were obliged
to fire on mutineers.
Riots are also reported to have taken
place among the troops returning from
Manchuria. At Slzrnn rioters are reported
to have sacked the railway station.
Rnn on Savings Hank.
WARSAW, Russian Poland, Dec. .
There is a heavy run today on the gov
ernment savings banks as a result of the
campaign against them Inaugurated by the
radical papers. The depositors demand
their money in gold,
A battalion of military engineers has mu
tinied at Oora Kalwarya, government of
Warsaw, complaining of bad food and up
suitable quarters. The mutineers have de
stroyed the barrack kitchens and have
otherwise damaged the buildings. The mill
tary authorities have refrained from mak
lng arrests, fearing that It would provoke
greater disturbances.
The military telegraphers at Kieff have
refused to take the places of striking
civilians.
The German government has asked the
government of Russia to protect the War
saw gas works, which are the property
of a German company.
Teleorraphers Are Encouraged
ST. PETERSBURG. Friday, Dec. .-
Morning The local leaders of the post and
telegraph strike, having received more en
couraging news from Moscow, are making
a desperate effort to rally their followers
to continue the strike to the bitter end.
They promise that those without food will
be provided for and threaten deserters
with violence. The leaders have succeeded
In destroying telegraphic communication
with Kleff, Warsaw and Moscow, which
was opened for a time last night. The
executive committee issued another appeal
to the strikers to stand firm until all their
demands are satisfied. It concludes: "Be
firm and victory is ours."
-Tr strikers claim" "That the-elfirine-whtr
have returned here from Finland report
that the Finns will stand out to the end.
From Vladikavkaz, North Caucasia, it is
reported that the telegraphers' have se
lected a man to come to St. Petersburg and
kill Interior Minister Durnovo and M.
Sovaslianoff, superintendent of poats and
telegraphs.
Address to Csar.
A delegation from the Tula zemstvo yes
terday presented an address to the em
peror as follows:
We ndjure your majesty to relv on the
peaceful millions of Russia who desire free
dom without license. Your majesty has
removed a burden of SO.OOO.uiO of rubles
from tho peasants and you have promised
relief In the matter of iand. The Tula
peasants expect help, but not from the
senseless promises of the wicked. Tour
majesty will hear the truth, not from the
revolutionists, but from the Douma, which
we pray your majesty not to tarry in call
ing. The emperor, after thanking the delega
tion, said In reply:
For a full realization of the liberties ac
corded It is necessarv primarily to restore
order. This is only possible with the
hearty co-operation of ull the sons of Rus
sia. I knqw that the needs of the peasants
i stant care. What coma be done ut present
i nas bee" lne, but there is still much to be
mo srcai, aim iu ipneve mem is my con
accomplished, and therefore it is necessary
to return to peaceful pursuits and to direct
all your efforts , to the furtherance of the
objects in view. If others follow your good
example the work of Improving the peas
ants' condition and the realization of the
reforms will be greatly simplified.
Several officers of the Semlonovsky regi
ment, stationed at Tsarskoe Selo, which on
Monday was addressed by the emperor,
who commented on Its tried loyalty and
expressed the hope that It would always
show itself as firmly united as it was at
present, have called on the editor of the
Russ and declared that they will hold him
personally accountable hereafter for arti
cles printed against the regiment.
Sw Grip on Strike.
8T PETERSBURG. Friday, Dec. 8,
Night. Via Helislngfors Finland, Dec. i
The leaders of the striking telegraphers
have taken a new grip of the situation and
the tit tip continues practically complete.
Cases of attacks on strike breakers are
reported and at Smolensk, middle Russia,
the strikers fired into a passing mail car!
The sailors of the Fourteenth and Elah
teenth division In which a chronic condition
of mutiny has prevailed for aome time
! flnal,y surrounded by troops here at S
o'c10'"' thlB morning and were marched to
! P1- embarked on barges and dispatched to
Cronstadt. The men had
presented peti
tions similar to those of tho sailors of
Dlbau. Odessa and Sebastopol for nn Im
provement In the service conditions and
the reply being that they would be trans-
ferred to Cronstadt. they held a meeting
under the noses of the officers and refused
to go until martial law waa raised at
Cronstadt. Accordingly the admiralty de
cided to use force. The task of embark
ing the men was successfully executed
under Captain Beron Ferzen. the former
naval attache at Washington. A oourt
martial under the presidency of Admiral
Tomashevlch has been appointed to try the
Cronstadt mutineers on the charge of
armed Insurrection.
War Minister Rudlger haa issued orders
prohibiting the granting of leave to soldiers
to stay out of bnrrlcks at night.
It la reported that the garrl.ion of
Bchleuaselburg fortress has practically
mutinied and is Joining In the demand for
the liberation of political prisoners who
have not yet been amnested. It Is also
reported that the l.adoga regiment at
Iximzha, Poland, recently mutinied and
that after a struggle with a loyal regiment
the mutineers were finally disarmed.
Conditions at Harhla.
CHE FOO, Dec. . p. m A merchant
who arrived today from Harbin, via
Vladivostok, reports that when he left
THE BEE BULLETIN.
Forecast for Nebraska Fair and
Mlahtly Warmer nnday.
Fair.
KW Kf TIO Klaht Paaes.
1 Holland I.lkely to Re Repahllc.
Japanese Are Farina a Famine.
Ron on Rnantan ntc Rnnk.
Mathema Will Ask for a Hrnrlnst.
S cnate lanorcs Mitchell Knnernl.
Kuan tattle Rarona Indicted.
.1 News from All Porta of Nebraska.
4 tireat Artist Paints Omaha Plctorc.
Affairs at oath Omaha.
fathers Atlacka Oninhn t harter.
.1 nompcra Talks on fhlld I.ahor.
Kportlna Kvenls of the Pay.
A Pant Week In Omaha Society.
Woman In tlob and Charity.
T Council Blnff fi,
r.nrronii, suction eium pnaes.
2 Editorial.
Hroirn Hints at More Prosecutions.
Fundi for Wise Hospital Raised.
Frhoes of the Ante Room.
4 Want Ada.
X Want Ads.
Want Ada.
R Differences Over the torn Rate.
HAI.r-TONK KKCTIO Kla-ht Pages.
1 Hov Omaha People Keep Warm.
Folk on Rluhta of the Insured.
2 In the Field of Electricity.
Tersely Tolfl Talcs.
Hints on latest Fashions,
it Plays nod Players.
Mnslc and Musical ote.
4 What Heroines of I seless Locomo
tives.
Quaint Fen I tires of Mfr.
tiosslp About Soteil People,
t'urlona t'npera of t npld.
5 Des Molnca Fine ew Army Post.
Nickel Ore Deposits on Lake Huron
A For and Abont Women Folks.
T f.rlst of Sport I UK Gossip.
1 Itt'e Stories for Little People.
COLOR SKCTION-Fonr Paaes.
1 Muster Brown's Mice,
a Courtship in nn Office Building.
From Near and Far.
a The Mackintosh Masque.
4 Samples of Stage Beauty.
XMAS HUTS' SECTION Twelve Pages,
t Frontispiece.
2 For the Baby.
For the Wee Tots.
.'I For the Youngsters.
Plea for Buhy Talk.
4 For the Boys.
Vncle By'a Xmaa Tree.
6 For Young Misses.
Xmaa Taught In School.
8 For Sweet Sixteen.
For the Big Brother.
O For Father and t'neles.
10 What to Buy for Mother.
11 Fight of Farmers Against Indians.
ew Fnda in Card names.
12 For Graadfnther.
Ideas on What Men Wear.
Young Officers at White House.
Temperature at Omaha Yesterday!
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ft a. m ro i p. m 2T
8 a. ni SO 2 p. m 28
a. ni ,tf J p. m 28
8 a. ni 3 4 p. ni 27
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HOTEL PLANSIWADE FINAL
Cosmopolitan Company Incorporates
and Building Will Be Eight
Stories in Height.
Omaha's new hotel project took definite
shape Saturday afternoon at the Her Grand
hotel, where tho Cosmopolitan Hotel com
pany was Incorporated with a stock of
$255,000, 1130,000 being preferred and $125,000
common.
The board of directors are Arthur C.
Smith. C. H. Pickens, C. V. McGrew, J.
C. Wharton. Emil Bruudels. Rome Miller
and Edwurd Rosewatcr.
Articles of incorporation were adopted
and will be tiled in a few days. The arti
cles provide for a thoroughly modern fire
proof hotel, to cost, exclusive of ground,
not less than $J0,00o, and to be of not less
than eight stories in height and not less
than SKi rooms.
The directors will meet again next week.
Rome Miller has the $12j,0o0 common stock,
while the preferred stock is in the hands
of Omaha business men.
Subscribers to the stock In the Cosmo
politan Hotel company are:
J. L. Bramleis, Omaha National
I'Bxton & Oanagher Hank,
Co., First National Bank,
M. E. Smith & Co., Nebraska National
Huyden Hros., Bank,
Lee-Glass-Andreesen. Omthu Council
t uipeiiier i-aper Co., Bluffs St. Ry. Co..
Thomas Kilpatrick & Nebraska Telephone
Co., Co.,
F. I'. Klrkcndall & Rome Miller.
Co., . li. w. Wattles,
Sherman & McCon- K. A. Cudahy,
nell Drug Co.. E. Hosewaler.
Mawliiniiey Ryun Horace o. Hurt
Co., John C. Wharton.
Wright A Wllhelmy w. Fa rnam Hmltli.
Co.. A. H. Gladstone.
Myers-Dillon Drug R. 8. Hall,
Co., Randall K. Brown,
A. Hospe Co.. A. H. Henulngs,
People s Store, A. J. Love,
H. E. Palmer & Son Fred H. McConnelL
Co.. A. li. Mills.
I', B. National Bank,
Y. M. C. A. CONTRACT IS LET
Faraona A Kleuo to Erect the Sew
Building of the Alio
ctntloa. Parsons & Kleno were yesterday awarded
the general contract for the new Young
Mens Christian association building. The
contract let yesterday was for the brick,
carpenter work, etc., but does not Include
the Ironwork, trimmings, heating, electrical
work, etc. The figures of the general con
tract Indicate, however, that the building
will be erected according to the original
plans insM of the estimated figures, which
were $215.0"0 for the completed structure,
The letting of this contract makes certain
there will be no delay In the prosecution of
tne work and that so far us weather will
permit it will be pushed forward to comple
tion without a hitch.
Movements of Ocean Yeaarla De
li.
At New York Arrived: Ln Pa vole, from
Havre. Sailed: 8t. Louis, for Southhamp-
ion; jxorfi jtmeriKa, tor isapies; I'mbria
for Liverpool; Minnehaha, for London
Amerika, for Hamburg.
At Naples Sailed: Hamburg, for New
York.
At Plymouth Arrived: New York, from
New York.
At Cherbourg Sailed: St. Paul, for New
York.
At Bremen- Sailed: Bremen, for New
York.
At Ifti mburg Arrived: Batavia, from
New York.
At Rotterdam Arrived : Noordam, from
New York.
At Antwerp Sailed: Finland, for New
York.
At Havre Sailed : 1m Bretngne. for Neu
Yorh.
At Liverpool Railed: Etrurla. for New
York; Celtic, for New York. Arrived: Lu
canla, from New York.
At Gibraltar Arrired: Republic, from
New York.
At Glasgow Balled; Astoria, tot Ntw
York.
VIEWS OniATHEWS
United States Varsbal Will 6eek to Efte
Stigma of Dism'ssal Effaced.
GOES TO CONSULT R. B. SCHNEIDER
After Return Says Bo Has Asked Ei(
Friends to Stsnd by Him.
LAYS REMOVAL TO FALSE REPORTS
Insists that Extravagant Humors Were
Seat to. Uanhington.
WILL NOT MAKE PLANS PUBLIC NOW
Mathews' Son Says Loss of Office la
Nothing aa Compared with
Odium ot . the Re
moval, ,
T. L. Mathews, the retiring United States
marshal, returned Saturday evening from
Fremont, where he had gone earlier in the
day to consult with' Republican National
Committeeman R. li. 8ciincldcr relative to
his summary dismissal from office. H waa
then willing for the first time to discuss
the matter publicly and declared:
"It would le imprudent for ine to say
anything at this ilme as to what steps I
shall take to secure a vindication. How
ever, I may say that I have, asked my
friends In Washington, Including the entire
Nebraska congressional delegation, to as
sist In my vindication. My letter to Bec
retary Moody is in Itself self-explanatory
and there is very little that I can add to It.
"The question seems to arise over the
false and' extravagant report that after
Richards and Comstock had been sentenced
by the court I not only turned them over
to their attorney, R. S. Hall, without war
rant, but that I was with them In a Jaunt
about the saloons and restaurants and ac
companied them to the theater, glvlnff
them a good time generally. This report,
which has been made much of. Is an abso
lute and unqualified lie and without the
slightest semblance of truth. The simple
facts of the case are that when Richards
and Comstock were sentenced I was not ln
the court room and did not hear the sen
tence Imposed at the time. I did learn ot
Its purport a few moments later and took
the two men into cuatody.
Hall an Officer of Court.
"R. 8. Hall, their attorney, is a practi
tioner before tho United States courts and
a gentleman of unimpeachable Integrity.
By virtue of his position as a lawyer and
practitioner before the federal courts he Is
end was an officer of the court. He asked
that he be designated as the custodian ot
his two clients, who were also men of the
highest character and integrity, during the
six hours of their (technical Imprisonment.
Mr. Hall stated that he Would take them
to the Omaha club and remain with them
there during the six hours and did so as a
special officer under my direction. The
party did not leave the Omaha club during-
-the' vnMre m'r 1 ri ami L was lii -
tant touc'h with thsrrt and knew whore '
they were every moment of that time.
"Tho order of the court did not state
that Mess.-s. Richards and Comstoc't
should be Imprisone'd In the Douglas county
Jail, but simply that they should be Ini
Vrlsoned In the custody of tho United
States marshal. You will recolloct that
ln passing sentence upon these uen, .'udg-.i
Mtuiger suid that thoy were not guilty ot
anv moral turpitude, and that their of
fense was merely a statutory -n. ' The
natural presumption followed that Judte
Munger did not expect me to exercise l.arsli
measures toward these men, nor did 1 feel
disposed to do so under thoti sentence and
under the rlreumstances. I may have been
guilty of a technical fault In not holding
these men in my office under ,fcuard with
a pistol pointed in their .face. tellltir them
to sit there for the six hour. Sentence
was parsed about 4:30 or 6 o'clock und it
was near dinner time, and I did not .so
construe my duties as to handcuff these
men and put l"g irons on them and takj
them to a hotel or restaurant and feed
them.
Feels Guiltless of M'rong.
I ahull certainly ask for a vindication.
and I feel confident that when all the real
facts are. known I "hall not "e deem"
guilty of moral turpitude In extending to
these men a courtesy that was perfectly
wlthln my province as an officer of thn
government.
"I feel deeply graterul for tne many ex
pressions of kindness that have greeted me
from my friends In all quarters of the
state In this unioriuuaie iiiaiiel4 . hm,c
no Idea a this time who will be named
I . T t . n .-a h..n
as my irew" 1 "" -
pretty busy for the last day or so and
have not yet outlined my plans. I shall
act entirely upon the advice of my friends
ln the matter and cannot say whether 1
shall go to Washington and lay my case
before tho president personally or not.
"In reference to the article ln the New
York Sun which retails the story of my
accompanylng these men to the theater,
saloons and restaurants while they were
my prisoners. I have not yet fully deter
mined what I shall do, but in all likeli
hood I may proceed against that publica
tion for criminal libel."
Chief Deputy Marshal Earl Mathews, Sim
of the deposed official, said:
"The loss of the office Is nothing, hut
my father does not like to rest undr tli
stigma that the removal Implies."
Court Proceeding Rlocked.
As soon as the notice of removal was
received Friday evening, thu proceedings
of the ofilee were at mice suspended ami
witnesses who were summoned for Immedi
ate appearance were notified to disregard
the summons until further orders. Noth
ing can be done until a temporary appoint
ment Is made and neither can any wit
nesses or Juror fes be paid until some one
Is authorized to sign the necessary chocks.
The summary remoal of Marshal Math
ews from office has the effect of tem
porarily blocking all court proceedings of
the federal building, particularly as re.
gards tho criminal proceedings In- the
t'nlted States district court. This estoppel
of work lies in tlie legal Inability to serve
subpoenas and summonses for wit. lenses.
The case of II. Marowltx, a pawnbroker
indicted for receiving government property
In pawn which was to hava 'Ken irled
Saturday morning, has b-en passod for tills
icason. No criminal cases ran be trlfil
until a l ulled States marshal Is appointed
temporarily to succeed Mr. Mathews to
serve the necessary papers, 'the court
would be Incomplete without the presence
of that important official. This peculiar
case does not, however, apply to the civil
cases, and the hejring of these ca.tS Will
.! resumi'd Monday, with the case 6f
ilughes, against the Western Construction
company, which Involves a suit for
damage sruwUig out ef lit cvllspss of thn
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