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Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-06
Shaw WIN Go to Europe.

Secretary Shaw, accompanied by Mrs.
Shaw. his two daughters and son, will sail
for Europe July 4. The secretary's trip will
be brief, but his family will remain abroad
until autumn.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-06

T indicates trace Of precipitation
L a. WELSH,
Local Forecast OfnciaL
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-06
FORECAST OF THE WEATHER
Fair Al Nebraska, but showers In
Iowa During Next Two
=
Days.

WASHINGTON, May 5.-Forecast:
For Nebraska-Fair Wednesday; Thurs
day fair, warmer. d..
For Iowa-Fair in north. hover in
south portion Wednesday; Thursday, show
ers and cooler.
For Missourl-Showers Wednesday and
probably Thursday; cooler Thursday.
South D~akota-Fair Wednesday and
Thursday.
Kansas-Showers and cooler Wednesday;
Thursday fair except showers in east por-
tion.
Local Record.
OFFICE OF THE WEATHER BUREAU,
OMAHA, May 5.-Oficial record of tenn
p~erature and precipitation compared with
the corresponding day of the last three
years:
Maximum temperature q. . IS 90 81 "a
Minimum temperature e. 81 81 81 81
FMean temperature ........ 81 69 So
precipitation .....'''.s'.'s L 'h5 l.UJ T.
Record OF temperature and precipitation
at Omaha for this day and since March l,
1908:
Normal temperature ................... IS
Excess for the day 3
Total excess since March ,.....,.-.......146
Normal precipitation .......,......., ,l3 inch
Precipitation since March l,.....3,16 inches
Deficiency since March l......,...2.12 inches
Deficiency for cor. period, 19R....2.Ss inches
Deficiency for cor. period. 1901 %. 10 inch
Reports from stations Al 2 p. NJ
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-06

SEVENTH WARD.
EIGHTH WARD.
NINTH WAhI

District. Moores. HOYsh Benson. Moore.
First .......... 81 - o q
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-06
Mayor Extends Thanks.

From his office on. the third floor the
mayor saw them and came to a WINDOW
He tried TO thank the noisy multitude but
they babe him come down." True TO MS
democratic nature he came down" with
alacrity, but for FIVE minutes, as ne STOOD
in the city hall ~entranceway, he was not
permitted to say a word. with mis- FAMOUS
can In one hand, a half-smoked cigar IN
the other, looking undisturbed, he spoke
at last in a loud, clear voice:
Boys. II there was ever a happy moment
in the life of Frank z. Moores, II ever my
heart beat fast from the delights OF hard-
won victory, this is the time ana owe AZ
all to YOU, and l thank you for It,. l DO
not take this demonstration so much as a
compliment TO myself as / do for the great
party ina WAS sSb s'a iTndissnSSyins to make a
square, honest fight. and that determina-
tion continued throughout, and 4 hold tne
Course 1 have fought. as you know, against
the most bitter odds and against the Dit
terest enemies any mar. has ever had; DO.
let me thank you for this compliment, and;
boys, let me pledge you that az the eng
OF my next term I will have your respeet
will bring any discredit upon me or my
party. and 1 assure you hat you never
win have cause to be ashamed OF the "orA
you have done at the polls today
The crowd exerted its lungs again for a
period. and then, responding to the cry
ITO the Benson headquarters" part OF 1t
marched, to The Bee building, the Mer-
chants hotel and other points and eheered
repeatedly for Mayor Moores, waving hats
and, canes and umbrellas.
The voting during the day was on the
whole quiet and orderly. notwithstanding
the. favorable weather, the total vote Is
far short OF, the total registration. In
many precincts d~ificplty was encountered
In securing qualified men to serve as cleo
tion judges; and clerks, the regularly APP
pointed omeers failing TO appear
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-06

tinued until 10 o'clock. when the hope
l~essness OF the Benson cause became too
manifest for further cheer.
Don't II beat" remarked one vet
Gran benson boomer. Another observed
ut LOOKS to me as IL it beat Benson" 81
wish now that / had voted for Howell"
said another. And so the recriminations
continued.
Scenes on Streets.
A city election In Omaha has seldom
before called forth the Joyous street scenes
enacted by thousands as the returns were
made known by bulletin and newspaper
extras. From s o'clock until after IL Far
nam street from The. Bee building to Four
teenth was crowded with men and women,
dressed both f~ashionably and un~fashionably
with money in their pockets and without 1t.
the majority smiling and happy and noisy
the minority glum and anxious to go home
when the result on the head Of the ticket
became a. certainty,
All the way through the returns showed
Moores comparatively in the lead. When
the people had heard from about one-half
the voting districts they cut loose their
pent-u up enthusiasm for Moores and the re-
publican ticket. The men somewhere found
thousands Of cards bearing the photograph
OF Frank e. Moores, and these they placed
in their hatbands to the front, SO that all
might know for whom and how they stood,
1t was. 1880, however, before the crowd
felt justified in msssing and moving In a
solid body down the sidewalks and pave
mont to the city hall, where the mayor
his ohice open to all Corners, was eooliy
receiving the returns ana listening to con
gratulatiohs.f Up the briliiantiy-tighteo
thoroughfare moved a. solid column more
than 1000 strong. with the gusto OF victory
pulsihgi ana throbbing In a long, wild roar.
Forming compactly clear across tine stree,
up onto, the lawns and steps OF the cour'
house. they cheered. using just one word
Neutrality-suspicious."
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-06
BRAVE FIREMAN LOSES. LIFE

Section Director, Lincoln, Neb.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-01-01
The New York Police.

New York, Jan. l.-General Francis
V. Greene, the new Police Commits
sioner, took active command of the
police department today. The new
Commissioner appeared at headquarters
about 10 o. clock where he was met and
welcomed by retiring Commissioner
Partridge and deputy commissioners
Ebstein and Piper. Commissioner
Greene started his regime in office by
snmmoning the inspectors instead OF
the police captains as has been done
heretofore. To them, Commissioner
Greene, in a speech, placed the response
bility for the successful administration
of the uniformed force. 81 shall hold
you personally to the most rigid
responsibility" said Commissioner
Green, "for what takes place in your
district and for the performance of duty
by yourselves and those under you"
Commissioner Green had hardly con-
cluded his little speech when he began
to do things with a suddenness that
shook the department to the core. He
appointed Inspector Brooks, who has
recently Unidentified himself with the
Jerome raids on gamblers, senior in
spector to succeed Inspector Cartwright.
Captain Walsh was made acting In
spector to take the place made by Brooks's
promotion, and transferred Captain
Miles Reilly from the Oak street
station to the Tenderloin station.
Mclaughlin, of Brooklyn, was made
chief inspector of Brooklyn and
Queens, and five captains, Herlihy,
Cannon, Halpin and Stephenson were
suspended pending the disposition of
charges against them. Inspector Donald
was also suspended pending investigation
of charges made against him. Captain
O'Brion was appointed to take Inspector
Grants place while the inspector is
under suspension. Inspector Mosh Cart
wright was made chief of the entire
uniformed police force. Inspector Brooks
takes his place as senior inspector.
Cartwright is one of the Oldest police
men in service.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-01-01
CAUTION.

This is not gentle word-but when
you think how liable you are not to pur-
chase the only remedy universally known
and remedy that has had the largest
sale of any medicine in the world since
1868 for the cure and treatment of Con-
sumption and Throat and Lung troubles
without losing its great popularity all
these years, you will be thankful we call
ed your attention to Boschee's German
Syrup. There are so many ordinary
cough remedies made by druggists and
Others that are cheap and good for light
colds perhaps, but for severe Coughs
Bronchitis, Croup-and especially for
Consumption, where there is difficult
expectoration and coughing during the
nights and mornings, there is nothing
like German Syrup. The 25 cents size
has Just been introduced this year.
Regular size IS cents. For sale by Els.
/ ,eadheater a. Sons.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-01-01

EDMUND BURKE. one OF England
greatest luminaries, was born one hun
dred and seventy-three years ago today.
Two hundred and seventy-three years
ago today another Englishman, who has
attained considerable cheap nOtoriety,
first saw the light of day. We allude
to Thomas (or Tobias Hobson, the
Cambridge carrier, whose history gave
rise to the immortal saying, "Hobson's
choice" He attained his notoriety by
refusing to hire any horse but the
animal found in the first stall of his
stable. His object was to give each
horse an equal share of service. 1t
may be safe to say that more of the
human race have heard the expression,
"Hobson's choice" than have read the
history of Burke. The latter was truly
great and entitled to fame; but Hob
son. born one hundred years before the
great Englishman, enjoys a more uni
versal reputation on an exceedingly
small capital.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-01-01
NEWS OF THE DAY.

Dora Meeks, who Sent into trance
like sleep on September %, as the re-
suit of love quarrel, and has never
since awakened, is believed to be dying
siys special from Centralia, Iii.
The United States Steel Corporation
announces its intention to inaugurate a
system by which the humblest workman
on its rolls may, if he desires, become a
stakeholder and share in the profits OF
the corporation.
Formal announcement of the compile
ton of the 500, 900, 900 fund, known as
the Twentieth Century Methodist Thank
Offering" was made at Trinity Church,
Springfield, Mass, at the watch-nighi
service last night.
De Buraux and De Saint Victor, ex-
plorers, will test the ability of the win
ter winds to carry airships across the
Sahara desert, and if the experiment is
satisfactory they will endeavor to travel
in balloons across the UNEMPLOYED por-
ton of the desert.
West Point Cadet Reusswig, of New
York; Lecompte, of Utah; Bartlett, OF
New York; Opp, of Pennsylvania; Lam
dry, of louisiana; Mitchell, of Illinois;
Treenendall, of Wyoming, and Griffith,
of Mississippi, were discharged today
from the Military Academy on account
of deficiency in their studies.
The biggest gusher yet drilled in the
Wayne, KY, oil field was struck yester-
day by the Penn Lubricating Company
on the Jerry Sandusky farm six miles
east of Monticello. The fluid is pouring
from the well in great quantities and the
estimated output is from 500 to 200
barrels daily. The oil men are greatly
excited over the discovery. This is the
second big gusher on the Sandusky farm.
Prices for beef and other meats have
gone down fully 40 per cent. at Chicago
since July last, according to Agricul-
tural Department figures, and yet con-
sumers in this city and vicinity are re-
quired to pay the same high level prices
that prevailed last summer, when meats
were advanced to such abnormal figures
that many persons curtailed their con-
sumption and raised vigorous protest
against the increased cost.
China having refused to pay the in
ternational indemnity in gold notes, it is
proposed by the ministers of the Euro
pean powers at Pekin to inform the
Chinese government that failure TO fulfil
the obligations provided in the protocol
will entail grave consequences. 1t is de-
clared, however, that the policy of the
United States prevents the delivering of
a Joint note to China on the matter.
The United States will accept payment
on the silver basis proposed.
Canton Elevator No. 3, of the North
ern Central Railway Company, near Bal
timore, controlled by the Pennsylvania
Railroad Company. was destroyed by fire
shortly before midnight. The structure
had a capacity of ], 900, 900 bushels, and
at the time of the fire nearly 300, 900
bushels of grain were stored within. The
damage will probably reach 81, 900, 600;
covered by insurance. The Hamburg
American liner Alexandria was tied up
at the elevator at the time of the fire and
was saved from destruction by having
her lines cut and being allowed to drift
out into the river.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-01-01
FROM WASHINGTON.
of the Alexandria Gazette.

CORRESPONDENCE of the Alexandra Gazette
Washington, d. c., January l.
Two or three minutes before eleven
O'Clock, bugle blast rang out in the
new marble corridor of the White
House. 1t was ''The Presidents call, +"
and scarcely had the last notes died up
on the ear before President and Mrs.
Roosevelt, followed by the members of
the Cabinet and their ladies, came down
the broad staircase from the second story
of the building to the Blue Room where
they took up their stations in the bay
window to shake hands with official
and civil Washington in honor OF the
Young year. Today's reception was in
many respects the most brilliant that the
national capital has ever seen. In the
first place, it was the christening OF the
reiuvenated White House. The marble
columns and FURNISHED metal work shone
like silver and gold, and the rugs of fur
and wool received their first imprints
from the shoes of the passing throng.
Today's reception marked change in
the arrangement of the receiving party.
The President, Mrs. Roosevelt and the
assisting Cabinet ladies were stationed
on the southern side of the apartment in
semi circle following the contour OF
the big bay window. The 'invited
guestsS who on former receptions were
crowded in behind the Presidential line,
we're today grouped on the opposite side
of the room, being able to greet and be
greeted by the stream of visitors that
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-01-01

passed from west to east between the two
groups. Col. Theodore Bingham stood
at the Presidents left hand and intro
duced each one of the hundreds Of per-
sons who came to pay his or her re-
spects to the Chief Magistrate. Imme-
diately after the President had taken his
station at the door, the Marine Band,
stationed in the front vestibule, struck up
the "Star Spangled Banner" and played
patriotic airs as long as the affair lasted.
The President gripped the hand Of each
new visitor as heartily as though he had
just met a long-lost friend. He had a
word for nearly everyone, too.
The genial figure of the British Ambas-
sador, Lord Pauncefote, which Tor so
many new years led the procession OF
diplomatic, was sadly missing today.
His seccessor Sir Michael Herbert, has
dropped from the front rank of the Am
bas .adorial coterie. Baron Won Holleben
tne German Ambassador, heads the corps
now and occupied the front of the diplo-
matte line today. Immediately after the
members of the diplomatic corps had
passed in review before the President,
they fastened to the home of the Secre-
tary of State on the opposite side OF La
fayette Square from the White House to
attend the annual diplomatic break
fast" This function is one of the most
elgerly anticipated of all seasons festive
t.ts and is attended by not only the rep
resentatives of foreign countries them
selves, but by their ladies as well. In
order to preside at the breakfast, Mrs.
Hay, wife of the Secretary of State, left
the receiving line at the White House
very early and did not return.
One of the Postal Telegraph Com
pany's messenger boys was recently
transferred to lonesome suburban sta
ton of the company and rather than be
so far separated from his companions
and busy Pennsylvania Avenue, he left
the service. The other boys demanded
his reinstatement and upon the COM
PAWS refusal to grant it inaugurated a
strike. Now the Postal Company is
doing the best it can with number of
Italian boys who know little of the Eng
lish language and less of the streets Of
the capital
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-01-01
Interesting statistics.

Chicago, Jan. According TO the
years statistical review, as compiled by
the Tribune, the donations and requests
of educational, charitable, and religious
institutions in 1902 foot up ST. 1877, 167,
as compared with $l23, SSS, 1872 for 1901,
the record breaking year, and $62, 46l, :
3O4 in 1900. Suicides steadily in
creased. The total number reported for
1902, is 1921. The steadiness of this
increase is shown by the following COM
parison: In 1899 there were 2,S4O
cases; in 1900, $3.50; in 1901, 7,245.
The lynchings reported in 1902 show a
gratifying decrease, being but ninety
six, as compared with 1876 in 1901.
Eighty-seyen occurred in the south and
nine in the north. OF the total number
eighty-six were negroes, nine whites,
and one Indian. One woman was lynched
in South Carolina. The alleged crimes
were as follows: Murder, 81; criminal
assault, 10; attempted criminal,assault,
IL; attempted murder, A; unknown of
lenses, 6; assaulting whites, 3; accessory
to murder, 3; disreputable character, 2
race prejudice, 2; horse stealing, alleged
conjuring, suspicion of murder, larceny
accessory to larceny, sheltering muir
derer, making threats, planning elope
ment, mistaken identity, one each. Thu
number of legal executions in 1902, wa
IA, as compared with 11S in 1901, ane
119 in 1900. There we're l0l hanged
in the south and 43 in the north, o
whom IS were negroes, 56 whites, two
Indians, and one Chinaman. Tht
crimes for which they were executed
we're Murder, 1872; criminal assault
s; attempted criminal assault, l; con
spiracy, to murder, 10. The following
table gives the loss of life resulting from
disasters of various kinds in this countr.
during 1902: Fires, 1,540; drowning
zoos; explosions, 526; falling build
ings, etc., 419; cyclones and storms
4Sl; lighting, 206; electricity, 2l3
The loss of life by railroad accid ents
for 1902, was 1852; as compared witt
1869 in 1901; and 1,409 in 1900
The number of seriously injured wa
8, 4S7 as compared with 1926 in 1901
and 1870 in 1900. The total fir
losses of 1902 will be about 1854, 600
900; which is an improvement as com
pared with 1901.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-01-01
THURSDAY EVENING, JAN. l. 100
NEW YEARS GREETING.

THE GAZETTE today begins its l04ti
volume. and extends its hearty con-
eratulations to its many readers. May
each and every one have many re-
cnrrences OF happy new years. The de-
sign at the head of this column has stood
over the productions of many who have
in by-gone years extended similar con-
gratulations but who have long since
finished their course. 1t has been gazed
on by thousands in their pilgrimages
from the cradle to the grave. The first
to give expression in the Gazette to new
years salutations we're veterans OF the
revolution, who literally welded the
quill instead of steel and gold pens
which were then unknown. One by one
they have rested from their labors and
been succeeded by others. The people
of this good old city, with all its history,
traditions and pleasant associations,
naturally regard the Gazette as an in
dispensable adjunct if not the sine qua
non of the community. Its files are the
expressions of the hopes, joys and sor-
rows of the inhabitants ever since the
birth of the nation when Alexandria was
also in its infancy. We hope during the
coming year to cement closer the pleas
ant relations which have ever existed be-
tween the Gazette and the people in
whose midst it is published. And now
at the close of the holiday season and at
the outset of the new year, may all who
read these lines be blest in basket and
in store and their ways be those Of
pleasantness and all their paths peace.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-01-01
VIRGINIA NEWS.

Mr.. Marshall Mccormick, jr and Mr..
w. III. Baker were painfully hurt al
Berryville on Tuesday night by the ex.
plosion Of fireworks.
Miss Mary Nelson Pendleton, daughter
of the late General William n. Pendle-
ton. chief of the artillery of the Army
of Northern Virginia, died in Lexington
on Tuesday.
The Petersburg Iron Works Company
has lust received an order from the War
Department for large number of heavy
proiecties for sea coast delenses, amount
ing to 5000 pounds,
James A. Dore, who on Christmas
Eve had his right arm shot off by the ac-
cidental discharge of shotgun in the
hands of nine-year-old Willie Bryan,
died of blood poisoning in Staunton yes
terday.
Miss Maria Garnet Mcclure and Mr..
William Travers Lewis were married at
the Episcopal Church at Berryville, yes
terday. Mr.. Blackburn Smith was best
man. and Miss Caroline Elizabeth Camp
bell, of Philadelphia, was maid OF
honor.
T. II. Vandeyanter. who has for many
years been treasurer of Loudoun county,
assumed his duties in the Loudoun
National Bank Of Leesburg today
William Gaines, Of Leesburg, has been
appointed deputy treasurer in charge OF
the office during Mr.. Vandevanter'
absence.
Senator Martin and committee from
Virginia, including ex-Representative
Bowden of the Norfolk district, waited
on Secretary Root at the War Depart
ment Yesterday and urged the appoint
ment of Rev. II. c. Balm OF Virginia Of
the Methodist Episcopal Church South
to chaplaincy in the army.
The proposed meeting of the creditors
of the William r Trigg Shipbuilding
Company, which was TO have taken
place in New York city yesterday, was
postponed because some of the creditors
could not be present. The meeting will
be held next week in New York, when the
proposed reorganization scheme will be
discussed.
J. f. West, deputy United States mar
shall, is serving the notices of the Wise
Hayes suit on the members of the consti-
tutional convention in the Norfolk vicin-
ity and on the Eastern Shore. There
are twenty-nine, and he is required TO
make personal service on each one.
For this the charge is 80 and expenses
in each case. The travelling will make
a considerable sum, all of which the ne
groes will have to pay
A protest is coming from the demo-
crts of the southwest against the prop
osition to cut into the Ninth district
through the proposed Congressional
reapportionment bill, which will be
offered by Hon. S. Gordon Cumming, of
Hampton, shortly after the legislature
reconvenes. The proposition is to take
Smyth and Pulaski counties from the
Ninth and give them 10 the Fifth and
Sixth in exchange for Floyd. The latter
is irreyocably republican, while occas-
ionally Smyth and Pulaski give slight
democratic majorities.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-01-01


PROF. w. H. LYNCH, principal of the
Mountain Grove, Mo-, school, says that
he has discovered that no text book is
equal to the newspapers as means OF
disseminating actual and up-to-date
knowledge in the school room. Text
books teach only theory of the world
and its facts, the newspapers tell the
real drama of life in its varied forms.
In any society the man or woman, young
or old, who reads the newspapers, has a
decided advantage over those who do not,
and their knowledge of current events
gives them an ease of manner and a
ready conversational power not possessed
by those who neglect this part of an
education.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-01-01

REPRESENTATIVE RICHARDSON, the
democratic leader of the House, in the
course OF conversation yesterday said ;
81 think the contest in the next ma
tional democratic convention for the
presidential nomination will be between
Mr.. German, Judge Parker, of New
York, and Mr.. Olney, of Massachusetts.
Mr. German we all know.
He has been with us, worked with us
and for us, and his record is plain to all
democratic beholders. His friend will
not let the nomination go to another
without contest. Mr.. German will be
in that convention, and no man can say
that he will not be the candidate"
And should he be he would make the
strongest candidate the democrats could
nominate and his election would almost
certainly follow. He is growing in
strength in all sections of the country
and it is already openly stated that the
New York democracy is gradually turn
ing from Hill to German and to the
adoption of the Marylander as the favcr-
tie of New York for the democratic presi-
dental nomination.