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The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-12-21
DEATHS KEPT SECRET.
Bereavsd Chicago Families Fear vio- Ience If Pnbflc Funerals Are Held.

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 Chicago, Dec. Shrinking from the espionage of union pickets and fearful that funeral parties would be attacked by the striking livery drivers, many Chicago families have refrained from publicly announcing their bereavement. In the vaults of several undertakers lie the bodies of persons about whose death the utmost secrecy is maintained, and whose funerals will be postponed until after the settlement of the strike. Tn other cases the stricken relatives have arranged for evening funerals and private burials of which no announce ment is made.
 The disgraceful scenes that attended several funerals held on Saturday, when union pickets attempted to inter- fere with the removal of bodies, have led the health department officials to sanction the secrecy that is being pre- served. The undertakers have been in- formed that, unless public safety de- mands it, burials will not be insisted on until such time as funeral parties shall be safe from nolestation.
 A. B. Perrigo, president of the Liv- erymen's and Undertakers association, said tonight: "The reason more deaths are not being announced is because we have learned that the strikers have been reading the list of deaths in the papers and sending pickets to watch the houses"
 Practically no attempt was made by funeral parties to-day to reach the cemeteries, and the day was free from disturbances.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-12-21
AFTER CHASE OF 3,00O MILES
Deserter from Navy and Murderer
 Caught in Norfolk, Va.

Norfolk, Va., Dec. 20.-After a chase of 5000 miles extending from San Diego, Cal, to Norfolk, and lasting from June 15 until yesterday, Thomas J. Blake, alias Edward Hall, was arrested here, accused of being deserter from the navy and a murderer. Detective Ulys- ses Grant Bonner, of St. Louis, has been shadowing Blake since last June He followed him from California to Missouri and made the arrest there.
 While being brought east Blake man aged to escape. He was followed by Bonner to Norfolk and 8 second arrest was made here last night, but Blake again escaped. He caught train to Suffolk and was picked up by a con- stable there as a suspicious character. Shortly afterward a telegraph warning was received from Bonner. The man was brought back to Norfolk and lodg- ed in jail. Bonner refuses to tell of the murder he is charged with having cona- nlitted.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-12-21
FREDERICK R. COUDERT DEAD
NOTED LAWYER EXPIRES IN
 WASHINGTON

stricken With Heart Disease from
 Which He Had suffered Several Years
 Was spending Winter In the Ma
 tlonai Capital with Ills wife-was
 seventy.one Yearssoid.
 Washington, Dec. 20.-Frederick R. Coudert, the well known lawyer of New York city, died here to-day from an affection of the heart, with which he had suffered for several years. He was seventy-one years old. MT. Coudert with his wife and an unmarried daughter, was spending the winter in Washing ton, where he hoped to escape the sever ity of the climate of the more northern city. In addition to the members of his immediately household there were with him when the end came. Mrs. Fred Benedict os New York. a widowed daughter, and Mrs. Colonel J. B. Bellin- ger, married daughter. Frederic R. Coudert, jr., a son, is expected here to- night from the south. Funeral services will be held at St. Patrick's s cathedral, New York city, Tuesday morning next, and interment will be made at Calvary cemetery in Brooklyn. .ss
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-12-21
3sO MARINES AT EMPIRE.
United states Taking Preoautions on -a ~S Land and Sea.


 Panama, Dec. 20.-Three hundred and eighty marines are now at Empire sta- ton on the Panama railroad under command of Major John A. Lejeune. The marines are comfortably settled and are we'll supplied with good water. The auxiliary cruiser Dixie before leav- ing Colon left stores sufficient for two weeks and the marines are getting beef and bread from local sources The health of the men is good.
 News was brought tonight by the steamer Martinique from savanilla that two battalions of Colombian troops have left Savanilla for Quidedo.
 A passenger on the Martinique de- clares that everything is quiet at Saw anilla and that there is growing feel ing on the part of the people of the department of Bolivar to accept the sit- uation on the isthmus.
 It is reported that President Marro- quin recently sent this cablegram to General Reyes at Washington: Any negotiations which do not look to the re-establishment of the integrity of Co., lombia will not be acceptable
 General Reyes is said to have replied in part as follows: "All aggression against Panama will be disastrous for Columbia. will undertake further ne- gotiations."
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-12-21
roo MUCH BUSINESS.
Drives New London cigar aIanufnetursr
 Co suicide.

New London, Conn.,, Dec. 20.-John F. Wiley, aged fifty years, a cigar manu- facturer. committed suicide by shooting this afternoon. He sent a bullet from a 32-calibre revolver into his temple and death was instantaneous. MT. Willey's act was due to the worry over business affairs, not the lack of business but the heavier demand tor cigars than his force oE employees could turn out. The holiday business has been beyond the capacity of the plant and the foreman of the shop had, heard his employer fretting about conditions and wondering how he was to fill his Christmas orders on time. Wiley went into the shop this afternoon and after arranging some of the stock for shipment he apparently prepared to end his troubles. He went into the rear room of his place and plac- ing the revolver close to his head fired. MT. Wiley was native of Haddam, Conn.,, and leaves wife. He had been in business in this place for more than ten years.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-12-21
CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION.
LouisIana Transfer Festivities End In
 Burst of Glory.

New Orleans, Dec. 2O.-Under the sun niest of skies to-day the Stars and Stripes rose gracefully to the top of the tall staff in the historic Place d'Armes. amid the ringing of cathedral bells, the roar of cannon and the shouts of the populace, and the centennial celebra- tion of the Louisiana transfer ended in burst of patriotism. The days exer- cises were impressive and Inspiring. They opened with the pontifical mass in the old St. Louis cathedral, built while the Spaniards were still in pos session of Louisiana, the shrine to which Andrew Jackson went immedi- ately after the battle of New Orleans to hear the high mass of thanksgiving sung for the victory of the American arms. The scene in the cathedral was a striking one.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-12-21
TURKEYS NEW OR USER.
Warship Built by cramps Has suocsss-
 fui speed Trial.


 Philadelphia, Dec. 2o-The cruiser Medjidia, built for the Turkish govern ment by the Cramp shipbuilding conn pany. returned here tonight from her trial trip, which proved to be a success in every way to her. builders. Over the one mile traversed, the cruiser sus- tained a speed of 22.2S knots an hour. Her contract calls for 22 knots. The new warship made a speed of PA knots in a one-hour trial, and in a run of six hours maintained a speed Of 20 knots flat. The trial too kplace in Chesapeake bay. Prior to her trials, while her en- zines were being worked for adjust- ment, a steam gauge blew out, sca1ding five men who were taken to a Baltimore hospital.
 Edwin s. Cramp. member of the firm of builders. said tonight that the showing of the cruiser fully came up to his expectations.
 The cruiser will have her armament placed on her at the shipyard, and 1t is expected she will leave for Turkey soon-
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-12-21
TO CLAIM NEW WORLD.
Archbtshop oaigtey Expresses Hope
 That Catholics wnI Control It.

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 Chicago, Dec. 2O.-"The New World was discovered by Catholics and the cross was planted in the name of the church. We cannot get it out of of our heads that Catholics will yet claim the new world again."
 This hope was expressed by Arch bishop James E. Quigley in an address before the Roman Catholic Woman's league. The archbishop declared that the security of the national constitution increases proportionately with the in- crease in the number of Roman Catho- lies. He urged the establishment of a subsidiary system of the public schools for the benefit of the Roman Catholics. This system "sor the benefit of the minority" said the speaker, should be paid for by the state, but controlled by the church. ...
 "The supreme and fundamental error of the age is liberalism urged the archbishop. Liberalism delegates to the state all rights and this is when the state and church conflict.
 "Protestants and non-Catholics," the archbishop said. 'are undertaking through the public school system to prevent the Catholic children from be- coming firmly cemeted to their church and to keep the Catholic church from getting stronger foothold. The pur- pose of the non-Catholies is to prevent the growth Of the church. They will scruple at no violation of the justice to gain their ends.
 'The rule which prevents candidates for teachers positions from entering the schools without normal school training is tyranny and oppression. There is no reason why a board of ex- aminers cannot be appointed to exam inc into the fitness of all candidates to become teachers without regard to the source of their preparation.
 "The state," urged he, must provide schools for the minority as well as for the majority. The state should divide the public school system and maintain separate system for the minority separate in the sense of religious teach ings. The two systems could be under one control, but in the Catholic division Catholic principles should be taught. This would be just and equitable, but not satisfactory to the Protestants."
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-12-21
senator nanna,s condition.

3 New York. Dec. 2o--Senator Marcus A. Hanna, who was too i'll to attend the banquet of the nationale executive con1- mittee of the Civic Federation last evening. was confined to his room at the Waldorf Astoria all to-day. He is being attended by Dr. Calvin Adams, who said tonight that the senator has a sereve cold. wwhich was in no way serious. but that he had advised his patient to remain within doors for the. present.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-12-21
TURKEY ORDERS APOLOGY
DEMANDS OF UNITED STATES TO
 BE SATISFIED.
Full Preparation for tho Insult to con- suI Davis at AIexandrettR-POIics
 Officials Who Assaulted Him to be PunIshed-The Apology to be Made by

the Governor.
 Constantinople, Dec. 2O.-The Porte has agreed to the demands of the United States government and has or dered the governor of Alexandretta to make ample apology to Consul Davis for the insults offered him and the as- sault committed upon him by the local police of Alexandretta while the con- sul was accompanying on board de- parting steamer naturalized Ameri- can citizen named Attarin, who had been liberated from prison through the intervention of MT. Davis.
 United States Minister Leishman ar- rived at a friendly understanding in the premises with Tewfik Pasha, the Turkish foreign minister.
 The Porte notified the United States legation orally and in writing of the in- structions telegraphed to the Vali of Aleppo to order the governor of Alexan- dretta to call on Consul Davis imme- diately upon his arrival at Alexandretta and offer to him complete apology. The Porte has also promised to punish the police officials who assaulted Con- sul Davis and will allow Attarin to de- part unhindered.
 The United States cruiser San Fran cisco, with Rear Admiral Cotton, which left Beirut Friday evening for the pur- pose of taking Consul Davis to Alex andretta, is expected to arrive there to- day and if the Turkish government car ries out the programme 1t has formu- lated the Alexandretta incident may be considered closed. It is felt here that delay or complications are not likely, but Rear Admiral Cotton has received instructions to meet all eventualities
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-12-21
BRYAN IN ST. PETERSBURG.
Dimes With Ambassador Mecormiek-
 His Visit wEth Toistot

St. Petersburg, Dec. 2O.-William Jen- nings Bryan arrived here to-day. MT. Bryan said he spent fourteen hours with TOlstoi Friday last, arriving before breakfast. He rode hals an hour with Tolstoi. who then insisted that MT. Bryan should take a siesta while the author wrote. TolstOi's physician laugh ingly said that he was sorry that the author had curtailed his daily exercise through fear of tiring MT. Bryan. The conversation between Tolstoi and Mir. Bryan took the widest range.
 While MT. Bryan was dining with Am bassador Mccormick at restaurant tonight the servants rushed in with the news that Mir. McCormick's house was on are. It turned out, however, that only a chimney was ablaze and the fire was soon extinguished.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-12-21
RED STAR LINER ASHORE
STEAMER FINLAND IN DANGER OFF DUTCH COAST.

Has Thousand Passengers Aboard
 Travelling nt Rate of sixteen Miles an
 Hour When she Grounds- Futile Al.
 tempt to Float Her. Lighters Now
 Alongside Her.
 Flushing. Holland. Dec. 20.-The Red Star line steamer Finland which left Antwerp at noon Saturday for New York and which later went ashore near Nieuwensluis. lies in dangerous posi- tion. The weather is foggy.
 The Finland has a thousand passen- gers on board. #
 The vessel WAS going at the rate of sixteen knots an hour when she ground ed. An attempt was made at o'clock this afternoon to float her, but it was unsuccessful.
 Lighters are now alongside the Fin land and are taking out her cargo. The sea is calm with light winds.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-12-21
BURGLARS SURPRISED.
Put Up Running Tight witn New York
 Police.

 New York. Dec. 2o--A gang of five burglars, surprised while leaving the of- flee of Isaac A Sheppard & Co.,, in Pearl street. after having blown open the sase, had drumming fight tonight with the police. during which one pos liceman and night watchman were shot, but not seriously hurt, and one of the burglars captured. The noise occa- stoned by the blowing open of the safe reused the whole neighborhood and the police reached the scene just as the burglars were making their exit. One Of the burglars was knocked down and captured, but the rest got away. The prisoner, who gave the name of Walter Davis, and who is believed to be a west- ern crook, was found to have on his person a quantity of burglars tools and a bottle of nitro-glycerine. The, only booty which the burglars secured was a strong box taken from the safe, tho contents of which are unknown.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-12-21
English Papers Protest.

London, Dec 21.-Considerable resent ment is shown in the English press over the reference to Waterloo made by Em- peror William on Saturday at banquet in Hanover in honor of the anniversary of the Hanoverian regiments, when the emperor said he raised his glass to "the health of the German legions in memory os their incomparable deeds which in conjunction with Butcher and the Prus- sians rescued the English army from destruction at Waterloo" The Chroni- cle, the Standard and other papers pro- test this morning against what the Chronicle calls the emperor's 'prepos- terous claims.''
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-12-21
ACCUSED OF IsoESD1ARIsm.
A Fireman of Kesne, N. H., Placed
 Under Arrest.

Keene, N. H, Dec. 2o.-Frederick F. Amadon. fireman. was arrested to- night, charged with incendiarism. The arrest follows an investigation into the origin of three small fires that broke out during last night and which, the police say, were set. The city has been terrorized by an incendiary who has for some time escaped detection.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-12-21
.S226,0IO In Purses.

New York, Dec. 20.-The Coney Isl- and Jockey clubs programme of stake events for the June meeting, 1904, in- cludes the following: For two years old: The Lawrence Realization, $2S, 900, estimated; the Tidal, $2O,O0O, estimated. For three years old and upwards: The Suburban, $20,000; the Commonwealth, $1S,000, estimated; the Advance, S15, ,0oO; the June handicap, s15,o0O, estimated. The total amount offered in stake events is $226.000.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-12-21
Harvard sh ho,vs Good Gain.

Cambridge, Mass, Dec. 2O.-The Har- yard catalogue for 1903, which will be published tomorrow, shows a gain in the total enrolment in the university of 466 students, 332 of whom were in the summer school. A gift of S1,000 for the library connected with the university chemical laboratory from Edward Malintrodt, of St. Louis, Mo-, is an- nounced. F'
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-12-21
DAMAGING THE MoCCASIN.
sixty-MiIe Gaie Sweeping Part of soutia-
 ern Coast.

Norfolk, Va, Dec. 20.-A sixty-mile gale is sweeping the Virginia and Car olina coast tonight, but no reports of shipping disasters have been received at the weather bureau in Norfolk. It is feared that the heavy sea may serious ly jeopardize the safety of the subma- rine boat Mocassin, ashore at Curri- tuck The Mocassin has been buried six feet by the wash of the sand, and it is reported that the action of the waves had badly affected her sides.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-12-21
More Denths a, Butler, Pa.

Butler, Pa, Dec. 20.-The typhoid fever death list was increased to a total of sixty-nine by three additional deaths to-day. Three new cases were reported to the committee this evening. The physicians of the city report a steady improvement in the general situation, except that as the epidemic subsidies deaths become more frequent among those who have had relapses and recur- rences of the disease.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-12-21
NO ULTIMATUM YET.
Russian Reply Officially Stated to be
 Unsatisf sfactory to Japan.

Russtan Reply Officially Stated to be
 Unsatisfactory to Japan.
 Pekin, Dec. 2o.-The report cabled from Tien Tsin to London Saturday to the effect that Japan had sent an ulti- nlatum to Russia is discredited here and no information of corroborative nature is in the possession of the for eign legations. ~
 While the knowledge of the legations on the situation leads them to believe that the sending of an ultimatum is i'm probable, the prospects of war are how ever, evidently increasing. The British legation some days ago received a tele- gram indicating that war was possi- ble and the Japanese legation is official ly informed that Russia's recent reply to the Japanese proposal was nusatis- factory.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-12-21
THE WOODS DID NOT SAIL.
Had Passage for Manila on Transport bnt Did Not Go.

i. 3ya4s.NJ ' i < ? EiG% & '
 New York, Dec. 20.--With the Second United States cavalry, six troops of which came here from Fort Ethan AL len, Vt, and the remainder from Fort Myer, Va, the United States army transport Fitzpatrick, bound to Manila by way of suez, left port to-day, pass ing out by Sandy Hook at 1:26 p. m. It is expected that the voyage will oc- cupy about fifty days. The Second cav airy, upon it's arrival in the Philippines, will relieve the Fifteenth cavalry which has completed it's two years tour of for eign service. e.,
 Mrs. Leonard Wood and her three children, for whom special permission to take the transport was issued, did not sail.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-12-21
CORONER TO INVESTIGATE
DEATH OF PATIENT OF CHRIS
 THAN SCIENTISTS REPORTED.

Treated by Divine Heaiers-First Case
 in New aaven-Readsr of Church says
 Both Deceased Were Devout Members.
 While under treatment by Christian Science healers, Mrs. Ann. T. Steele. aged sixty-six years. died at her home, 347 Winchester avenue, last night. after an illness of three days. Dr. Bartlett was summoned and has placed the case in the hands of Coroner Mix for inyes- tigation. Mrs. Steele's husband, Thomas Steele, was also Christian Scientist and received treatment when i'll from headers of the church. He died a few weeks ago.
 Mrs. Steele since the death of her husband resided with her daughter and her son-in-law, Thomas D. Norton. MT. and Mrs. Norton are also Christian Scientists.
 Dr. Bartlett when interviewed last night said that this is the first case of an investigation of a death while un- der treatment by this cult that has yet been held in New Haven. There was case in West Haven some months ago. The death of Thomas Steele, hus- band of the present deceased, was not reported to Dr. Bartlett. The medical examiner said when asked that he knows of no statute in Connecticut that provides for prosecution in a case of death due to lack of medical treatment when Christian Science treatment is used.
 Coroner Mix said last night that he will commence his investigation to-day. Rev. s. E. Simonsen, former reader of the Church of Christ Scientist of New Haven, said last night that Mrs Steele and her family had been members of the church for several years. He did not know what practitioner of the church treated her. The present read- | CT of the church is Gorden M. Tyrrell, foreman at the Winchester Repeating Arms company's shop.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-12-21
Airendy E ny

Chicago, Dec. 2o.-The Leeds Republi- can club of Philadelphia, through it's representatives. MT. Vance and MT. Cunningham, to-day closed a contract with :lae Great Northern hotel of this city for seventy rooms during the ses- sion of the republican national conven- ton.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-12-21
Team struck at Meriden Crossing.

Meriden, Dec. 20.--F. x. Gervais, of 35h Park street, a driver for Thomas Lyons, bottler, while driving across the railroad track at Cross street was struck by the 1O:40 north-bound train Saturday night. The horse was so bad ly injured that 1t was shot. Gervais was seriously though not fatally in- jured. #1
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-12-21
FAVORS DREYFUS.

Report That Revision of the Case is
 Recomm m ended.
 Paris, Dec. 2O.-Positive announce ments are made this morning by the Soleil and La Lanterno that Victor Mereier, one of the directors of the min istry of justice and reporter of the Dreyfus commission, has concluded his report, and that it recommends revis- ion of the case. ,.s <
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-12-21
Colonel John meEntr.e t,sad.

Kingston, N. r., Dec. 2o.-Colonel John McEntee is dead, aged sixty-eight years. He served as a provost judge of Richmond, by order of the secretary of yar from June, 1865, to April, 1886. Later he was in the New York custom house.