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Omaha daily bee., 1902-10-03
GRAND DUKE SooTHES SULTAN
Ceremonies at shipka Pass Not In
tended as "a Hostile Demon
stFatiOn.

CoNsTANTINoPLE. Oct. Grand Duke
Nicholas of Russia has arrived here on
board a Russian warship. He has Wis
tied the sultan and the sultan has re-
turned the courtesy by a call at the Rus
sian embassy. The grand dukes mission
is reported to be for the purpose OF re-
moving the unpleasant impression made on
the sultan by the maneuvers made recently
in shipka pass. in connection with the cere-
monies over the battle fought there in 1857
between the Turks and the Russians and to
assure the sultan OF Russia's friendship.
The grand duke participated in the Shipka
pass ceremonies.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-10-03
FIVE KILLED IN THE TUNNEL
Baltimore & Ohio Freight Trains Col
Tide Near COrnwRIIis, West
Virginia.

PARKERsBURG, w. Va, Oct. 2.-Five
persons were killed and three injured in
head-end collision between two freight
trains in a tunnel near CORVALLIS on the
Baltimore & Ohio railroad today The train
carried several cars OF cattle which were
all killed or injured. Probably twenty cars
we're wrecked and the tunnel is filled with
debris.
Fred Pearce, engineer; William Miller,
brakeman, and tramp were killed. Bodies
Of two other men can not be seen in the
tunnel but are beyond reach at the present
time owing to the wreckage.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-10-03
FUNSTON HAS SORE THROAT
Says He IL Suffering from Attack
which Followed His Last
Denver Speech.

OTTAWA, Kan, Oct. 2-Brigadier Gen
eral Funston, commander Of the Department
OF the Colorado, was the guest at the old
soldiers reunion here today.
General Funston was introduced to a
large crowd in the Chautauqua tabernacle
and said:
II do not appear before you to make a
speech. / made a speech, you know, IN
Denver six months ago and have had q
sore throat ever since"
Omaha daily bee., 1902-10-03
RECEIPTS FOR DEFENSE FUND
Subscriptions for Anthracite Miners
Break Records of indianapolis
Money order Business.

INDIANAPOLIS, Oct 2.-The collection
Of the big defense fund for the anthracite
strikers created a record breaking business
for the money order department of the In
dianapolis postoffice for the quarter ending
yesterday. The receipts for the last three
months this year were 1855 451, an increase
over the corresponding period last year of
$685. AS high as $25, 900 a day has been
cashed for Mr.. w. b, Wilson, national sec
retary and treasurer Of the miners, since the
collection OF defense fund began.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-10-03
STAY FOR JESSIE MORRISON
Supreme Court of Kansas InterfereE
with Execution of Sentence
in Her Case.

TOPEKA Kan. Oct. 2.-The Kansas
supreme court today granted a stay of exc
cution in the case of Jessie Morrison, now
in the penitentiary for the murder of Clara
willy Castle. The case will be heard by the
supreme court in January. Miss Morrisons
appeal bond was fixed at $4,000. AS soon
as this is given she will be released until
the time OF her trial. She was sentenced
to fifteen years in the penitentiary.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-10-03
ATTENDS TO PUBLIC BUSINESS
President Roosevelt spends Comfort
able Day Doing Much ROu-
tine Work.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 2.-President Roose-
welt had a comfortable day, and tonight
the report from the temporary White
House is that his condition is satisfactory.
He spends most Of the time In his wheel
chair and is able 10 devote considerable
attention TO public business.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-10-03
Movements of ocean Vessels Oct. 2

YOKOHAMA-sailed: Glenogle Tacoma
NEW YORK-Sailed: Lasavoie, Havre (;
Bremen, Bremen via CherboIrg; Mongolian,
Glasgow. Arrived: Germanic. from LIVER
pool
CHERBoURG Oct. 2.-Arrived: Moltke.
from New York.
QUEENSTOWN, Oct 2-sailed: Teu-
tonic New York; Belgenland, Philadelphia.
LIVELPOOL. oct ARRIVED: HaVeT-
ford, Philadelphia. Sailed: Merton, Boston
via Queenstown; Partisan. Montreal via
MOVille.
ROTTERDAM-sailed Potsdam, New
York via Boulogne. Sur Mer
HAVRE-ATrived: LaTouraine, from
New York.
PLYMoUTH-Arrived: Columbia from
New York.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-10-03
QUARREL ENDS IN A MURDER
Louisiana Cattle Dealer shoots a
Texas Cotton GInner and
Surrenders.

SHREVEPORT, La, Oct. At. r. Vick-
ers. prominent Louisiana cattle dealer,
and Edward Corlin, a public ginner Of
Texas, quarreled at Corlin's home today
and Vickers was shot dead. His body fell
in his wagon and the horses, becoming
frightened, ran twelve miles to his home
Corlin surrendered.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-10-03
THIRD MURDER IN A MONTH
Tragedy In Wyoming as Result of
Feud Between sheep and
Cattle Men.

BUTTE, Mont. Oct. 2.-Advices tell OF
another murder in the new Fork country,
In Wyoming. as a result Of the enmity ex-
isting between the cattle and sheep men
over grazing rights on the range.
This is the third murder in a month The
victims decomposed body was found in the
brush and Identity could not be estab-
lished.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-10-03
STUDENTS HUSTLE THE POLICE
COppers Get Gay ht Minnesota and
the Boys Put Them to
the bad.

MINNEAPOLIS, Mimi, Oct. 2.-Three
park policemen and a plain clothes man
had the worst Of an encounter with stu
dents Of the University of Minnesota today
The park police attempted to arrest stu
dents who ride bicycles on the walks
through the campus. The students hus-
tied three OF the policemen off the campus
and put them on passing street cars. The
plain clothes man was tied to a tree with
a garden hose.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-10-03
AUSTRIA AND HUNGARY AGREE
Act of Union Renewed Between
Ministries and Ready for the
Parliaments.

VIENNA, Oct. 2.-The opinion prevails
among we'll Informed persons that the con-
ference between Austrian and Hungarian
ministers has led to an agreement as 10
the renewal OF the ausgleich. or act OF
union, with regard TO the costs OF admins
tration. and that the documents will be
signed shortly at Buda Pest. II Is an
nounced that the details will be withheld
until the ausgleieh has been submitted TO
the parliaments for ratification
Omaha daily bee., 1902-10-03
MILLIONS FOR A HOSPITAL
John NJ. Burke Gives PrinceIy En-
dOwment TO Minnesota
InstItutiOn.

MARSHALL. Mimi, Oct "A deed was
filed for record here today whereby John
NJ. Burke conveys 10 the Winfield Master
son Burke relief fund four million dollars
worth Of real and personal property to De
used as an endowment for a hospital for
eonvalescents. The fund Was named for
Mr.. Burke's mother.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-10-03
BALDWIN TELLS HIS STORY
All the Trouble on His Arctic Trip DuS to
Racial Jealousy,
BAD COMBINATION IN HIGH PLACES
swede Sailing Master Did Not Want
90 Play second Fiddle to the
Norwegian Ice Pilot,
but Had To,

NEW YORK, Oct. 2.-Evelyn B. Baldwin,
the Arctic explorer, arrived today on the
steamship Germanic Of the White Star line.
Mr.. Baldwin at first refused to talk,
about the alleged controversities which had
taken place between him and Captain
Johannsen Of America but after hearing
that It had been reported that the expe-
dition had been short Of food and supplies
made the following statement:
There is not a word of truth in the re-
port Of our not having sufficient supplies.
1t is not easy to explain the trouble between
myself and Captain Johannsen. He wanted
to be the whole thing. That's all. The
trouble hrst started between the captain,
or to give him his proper title, sailing mas
ter. and the ice pilot, whose name is Arm
sen. The ice pilot took up his place in the
crows nest on the ship when we were in
the ice fields and should have had and
eventually did have complete charge Of
directing the ship.
sides with the Pilot.
The sailing master objected to the ice
pilot holding absolute sway over the move
ments at any time, and that is how the
row began. /, of course, took the side of
the pilot and saw that he was kept in
pilot had had twenty y-nine years experience
on the ice fields, while the sailing master
had had practically none
"The expedition went away with forty
two persons on board and we brought back
the same number. Fran drifted around
in the ice for four years, while in one year
we did almost as much and established an
outpost. Why, we ought to be congratu-
lated instead Of, as you say in America,
jumped upon. l have learned one good
lesson though-never take a Swede and a
Norwegian together along with you II you
want to avoid trouble. The ice pilot was
a Norwegian and the sailing master
swede. There's the whole thing in a nut
skel
Treated All Fairly.
Every one was treated fairly and no
one can say truthfully that he was not.
II go again next year, no matter who
take with me, whether they be Zulus, Hot
tentots or white men, there are sure TO
be some kickers in the crowd. The mem
bers of this exposition were mostly young
men and very few of them had ever under
taken such a trip before. This might ex-
plain some Of the things said about me-
but am being done a great injustice.
1--WE were sending balloons and buoys
adrift, containing messages, continually
Altogether we sent over 300 messages
Fifteen balloons were sent up, but they
never reached their destinations. The me-
teorlogical observations and the dredging
win Be o. great interast-to. science. We
manufactured our our own hydrogen gas for
the balloons without accident, which is an
other thing l think we deserve credit for
The knowledge gained of air and currents
will also be of great value to science. !
still believe that when the pole is reached
It will be found to be surrounded by ice.
As to the fate of Andre, 1 think he went
down into the sea-"
Omaha daily bee., 1902-10-03
CONDITION OF THE WEATHER


Forecast for Nebraska - Fair Friday.
Warmer In Southwest Portion; Saturday
Fair.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-10-03

Continued on Second Passl
Omaha daily bee., 1902-10-03
No Room for Despair.
Routine of the Day.

Before the convention opened 1t was COM
moaly admitted that the nomination OF
President Roosevelt In 1904 would be en-
dorsed. In fact It was onlv zboat :his mat
teri that certain predictions were made.
Whether the Iowa delegation would seek
to have its ideas on tariff revision endorsed,
whether the league has the constitutional
right to concern itself with state platforms
and the matter Of a successor TO the retir-
ing president, Isaac Miller Hamilton. were
questions over which the delegates ex-
pected debate when Mr.. Hamilton raped
for order.
Among the candidates for the league
presidency we're mentioned J. II. Moore OF
Pennsylvania. Sid b. Redding OF Little
Rock. Ark. Richard Woods OF Sioux Falls,
S. D., and Shirley E. Johnson OF Kentucky.
The feature Of the mornings session.
after the address OF welcome by Roy o.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-10-03
Operators Change Expressions.

hCRANION, IA, Oct. 2.-Sentiment
among the representatives Of the coal oper-
ators here has undergone a change since
yesterday regarding the action OF President
Roosevelt In assuming the role OF an In
termediary to settle the strike. Yesterday
they said the only effect OF the president s
action would be 10 put on the surrender of
the miners as many days there we're in
the interim between the hrst announcement
Of his intention TO intermediate and the an
nOuncement OF the result-or rather lack
OF result OF the conference. Today these
same men say the White House conference
The evening times., 1902-07-09
STUBBORN BATTLE or
CAPITAL And LABOR
Two thousand Workmen
on Strike in New Haven.
Huugarians Have Agreed TO Take the
Places Of the Strikers and TToub-
le Is Expected.

NEW HAVEN. Conn, July g.-The
strike at the hardware factory Of
Sargent & Co. has settled down to what
promises to be the most stub5ornIy. con
tested battle OF capital and labor on
record in Connecticut.
The strikers have presented their de-
mands. they have been rejected. and all
the labor unions represented at the fac
tory have ordered out their members
Two thousand have left the factory and
they are doing their best TO induce the
remaining thousand workmen to 90 out.
Pickets have been posted by the strik-
ers and fully a hundred workrnen who
started to take the places OF the stTik-
ers were induced TO turn around and go
home
A hundred Hungorfans have agreed to
come here from Stamford to take the
places OF some of the strikers. They
are expected 10 arrive some time todaT.
4 committee Cf the strikers viii meet
them and try to induce them to return
70 Stamford.
The demaT ds include advance N wages
for various kinds Of piecework and
recognition Of the union.
The evening times., 1902-07-09
EASTERN PRICES NOT
AFFECTED BY CORN DEAL
Chicago Struggle a Battle Royal Be
tween Bull Clique and EIe-
vator Interests.

NEW YORK. July 9.-Prices on the
Eastern grain markets. and. in fact.
prices Of other grain deliveries in Chi
cago, were practically unaffected by the
July corn fireworks
The Chicago struggle is looked upon
as a battle royal between the bull
clique. made up of Harris, Gates. & Co..
and their friends. and the big Western
grain elevator interests. which sold
short, expecting to have plenty Of corn
10 deliver on their contracts The
HaTrfs-Gates party made it their work
to secure control Of the visible corn
supply and leave elevator mon unable to
get corn 70 deliver
So far as actual capital Is concerned,
the elevator men have mad the advan-
tage- IN their ranks are Armour &
Co.. Bartlett, Frazier q Co. the Wear
Commission Company, CounsclEan &
Co., the Payy Elevator Company, and
others. and it is likely that their COM
bined capital exceeds $50, GOO 600. Op-
posed 10 this about SI00OO,O0p probably
represents the capital which Is avail
able by the HarTts-Gat firms.
Or course. what was essential to the
elevator people to win out with vas not
cash, but corn, but cash properly used
often brings out from bins and odd cor
ners all over the grain country the corn
needed for delivery in Chicago.
In financial circles here today the sit
uation was Iikened to the situation at the
time Joe Letter attempted his famous
wheat corner The late Pailfp D. Armour
then He'd the elevator forces that Letter
was trying 10 squeeze. and he admins
tered defeat to the bold young wheat
specuIatoT.
II p. D. Armour was alive now" re-
marked q Wall Street man today, 81
have no doubt in my mind Mr.. Gates
and his corner would be made in the
end TO look like thirty cents. Ogden
Armour, the son OF Philip D., is now at
the head OF the elevator interests, and
in a crisis of this sort he is still an
untried man.
II have noticed that the Harris Gates
people have been doing a lot of talking,
while | have not heard Of the elevator
people saying anything much. May be
agents hustling II gather from ali over
the corn belt the odds and ends of last
years 1,500. .000,0G0 bushels crop OF corn
to supply the Chicago shortage of TO-
coo, ,000 or 5000. coo. -
The evening times., 1902-07-09
CONDITION OF MRS.
DiMHICK IMPROVED
Attempted Suicide With Car
bOlic Acid.
CTazed Over Arrest of Her Brother Johz
a Taft, for Violating the Medi-
cal License Law.

The condition Of Mrs. Clara Dimmick,
wife OF Frank J. DiTnuick, a painter, re-
siding at 521 o Street southwest, who
late yesterday evening swallowed a dose
of carboIic acid with suicidal intent, and
Who was removed to the Emergency
Hospital for medical treatment. was re-
ported much improved this morning.
Mrs. Dimnick left the hospital within
three hours after her arrival and was
removed to her home by her husband in
a carriage late last night.
Grief because Of the arrest of her only
brother, John A Taft, for an alleged
violation of the medical license law, It
Is said, was the cause Of Mrs. Dimmick's 3
action. Il was charged that young Taft
prescribed medicine for Joseph Patten,
who was employed as a co-laborer Of
his at the Government Printing Office,
which later caused his death at the
Emergency Hospital.
The unfortunate woman was devoted
to her brother and the news OF his ar
rest almost crazed her. Shortly after
she and her husband had their dinner
last evening Mrs. Dimmick retired to
her room where she secured the vial
containing the poison. and swallowed a
portion of il. The acid burned her pain
fully about the face and mouth and she
vas il pitiabIe condition when found
by her husband few minutes later. She
vas removed at once to the Emergency
Hospital where everything possible was
done for her
Upon being revived Mrs. Dfmmick,
who is woman Of fine appearance,
seemed sorry for her rash act. and anx-
iCusly inquired as to whether or not hel
brother had been released.
The affair created considerable ex-
CiteEent IN the vicinity OF the Dimmick
home. The unfortunate woman is very
popular with her ueighbors.
The evening times., 1902-07-09
CASTRO PREPARING
TO GIVE UP FIGHT
PRESIDENT MITCHELL
GROWS INDIGNANT
Conditions Of Offer of FeieIation's Aid
Misunderstood.

WILKESBARRE Pa. July o.-PTesf-
dent Mitchell this morning is indignant
over the statement OF Henry White, who
yesterday, as a representative of the
American Federation Of Labor. offered
him. for the strikers. the aid Of the
Federation in collecting a strike fund.
Mr.. White stated that the offer Of aid
was contingent upon the miners not
ordering a national strike at the IN
dialapcis convention as, II Il was or
dercd. the Federation could not attempt
u assist all the men who would then
be on strike
That" said Mr. Mitchell with some
heat is MT. Whites personal opinion.
He is speaking for himself and is not
authorized by the American Federation
to make the statement In his confer
eEce with me he neither stated nor i'm
piled such a condition
MT. Mitchell has agreed to accept the
offer whenever aid IS needed. but he
says that the strikers do not need as
sistance now and he cannot state when
they will
The evening times., 1902-07-09
OLD P0SToFFICE GONE.
Historical Spots Are Abolished By
Rural Free Delivery.

The establishment Of 300 free rural de-
livery routes in Tennessee and the conse-
qUent abolition Of from coo 10 100 post
Offices, has wiped from the postal map the
majority of the historical to77ns in the
state. New ard prosperous towns have
sprung I'D near the villages which were
notable in the early days OF the Repub-
lie. and they have been selected as dis
tributipg points for the mail
\ striking instance Of this process is
Bean Station, Granger county. where
William Bean in 1863 built the first cabin
put up by white man In Kentucky.
Tennessee, OF western North Carolina.
This Office will hereafter be suppl. .ea f-0m
Tate Springs.
Another noted Office that becomes .ex-
tinct is No.HchucEy. where Jacob Brown
opened the first store IN Tennessee or
Kentucky, or, In fact, anywhere south of
the Ohio River, IN 1872, and where Il Is
thought that Russell Bean, the first child
born IN Tennessee first saw tic l;gi,t. II
was for bravery in 4 battle with Indians
at this point that John Sewer won the
cognomen. Nollichucky Jack
4 few hundred yards from this Office
Is the gigantic beech tree which bears
the famous inscription. ID Boon cIlIel
bar in the year 1880" But II is
thought that the pioneer had been In
what are nov Tennessee and Kentucky
before he carved his name on he tree.
In North Carolina IS the battlefield
of Kings Mountain, where John Sewer
turned the tide Of the Revolution by
General Ferguson and his Brit
ish hosts Sycamore Shoals postoTce.
where Sewer, Of Tennessee, Colonel
Campbell, OF Virginia. and the South
Carolina forces met TO drill for the fight.
cannot be found now as g postofice.
A free rural delivery route Is now sun
plying the town.
Harrington, Marshal county, which
lacked only one vote of being made
the capital Of the State, instead of
Nashville, has been abolished on ac-
count Of rural delivery.
A route ieading from Jefferson CITY.
Jefferson county, passes and supplies
what was formerly Loyton. the place
where Davy Crockett met and won Polly
Finley Here the first SUNDAY school in
Tennessee was organized. In Dioneer
days the Louisville (Ky.) and Charleston
IS. CO stage coach line had its main sta
tiOD al this point
A route from Loudon. Tenn. takes
ii the small Office at Old Fort Joudcn
where was the first white fort in t6a
State. Campbells Station. Knox coun,v.
the birthplace Of Admiral Farragut. ex-
lists no longer as a mail point.-Detroit
Free Press.
The evening times., 1902-07-09
FROM BATHROOM I3
TO 4 KAqBRY GRAVE
Mrs. SWitzer Said She Knew
Something Would Happen

CLEVELAND, Ohio. July 9 - Mrs.
Charles W. Switze-. ? prominent woman
Of Lakewood was drowned last evening
in the lake of Edgewater Park II COM
pany with her husband she was bathing
NJ. switzeF left his wife and came
ashore 20 dress. Half an hour later her
dead body was recovered from the water
by divers. The cause Of death is not
known. It is supposed that she was at
tackled by a cramp and succuEsed- When
she applied Tor a room at the bathhouse
she was given No. 13, and IaugningIy
said something would happen If she took
that room.
The evening times., 1902-07-09
4 Feast of PHlf

AT a dinner at the Pacific Union
Club" sc runs a dispatch from san
Francisco, lore than S2G0. eco .00G was
represent j." No other words are need
ed 10 describe the feast of reason and
the flow Of soul Time was when people
were silly enough 20 suppose that intel
Hgence. wit and good manners were the
desirable things in a table COMPANION:
but, thank Heaven, We have discovered
q simpler and suTeT method OF deciding
as to agrecablcness. We know now that
If a man possesses $4,000, GOO. his in
formation is exactly twice as wide, his
jokes are twice as bright. and his man
Ders twice as polished as those Of the
hapiess possessoT OF q patty s.. .0O0. COO;
and If rascal is SO impecunIous as to
have scrapcd together only 81 .00G. COO. we
must not disgrace ourselves by dragging
such shiftless wretch from the gut
ter, where he belongs, to the sacred and
p!ush-padded precincts of our dining
room.
The question that now comes I'd is
What is the smallest amount of money
that must be "representadr~- Use the
admirable San Francisco term-lf a din
rer IS 10 be worth attending? For our
selves, We set our faces as flint against
any suggestion II feeble compromise
with representa- .IVes-' of education and
breeding Set the total at 81 1.000, 600 for
the present, and punish the host who
tole-ates smaller sum by compelling
him 10 consort with intelligent people
for the rest OF his life. OF course. din
ncrs, Ike Industrial combinations. must
Invariably grow. and IN a decade or two
a billion-dalla- dinner may &c the only
correct thing; but let it not be the re-
suit Of "watering''-or champagnine-
but let It be the simple and natural out
growth OF the hundred ed-miliion-dolIar
dinner-New York Evening Post.
The evening times., 1902-07-09

OFFICE or THE COMMISSIONERS OF THE
biIRiCT OF COLUMBIA, Washington. July 1,
I9C2--SEALED PROPOSALS Will be received at
Ibis ciiice until Z O'CLOCK NJ. Of the TE.NIi Z
INSTANT, TO furnish 10 the District OF Co.um-
aia, fo- use st the Bathing Beach, on TIE inae-
basin n Potomac Pars, 800 cubic yards. more
oT less, Of clean river sand. 10 be delivered
~ such points on said basin IL such quaatl-
lies, E5t less than the customary barge iosd
and at such times the advisory committee
on the Bathing Beach may direct. The right
70 reject any and ali bids is reserved. HENRY
B. :. MCFARLAND, JOHN W. ROSS, Il. c
NEWCOMER (Acting) Commissioners OF the
District OF Columbia. DS.4,5,I,s,S
OFFICE OF TIE COMMISSIONERS OF TIE
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA Washington. July
!, 1o02--SEALED PROPOSALS viii be received
at this Office until Il O'CLOCK M. on THURS
DAY, the TENTH INSTANT, to furnish and
erect additional metallic fie cases and book
racks in the Office Of the Register Of Wills OF
the District Of Columbia similar 10 those
now in use IL that office. Further information
may ee obtained upon application to the Reg
ister OF Wills in The east wing OF the coaTt
house. The right TO reject any and all bids
is reserved HENRY B. F. MCFARLAND
JOHN W ROSS L. T. NEWCOMER, (Acting)
Commissioners Of the District OF Columbia
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