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LAST EDITION
TUESDAY EVENING.
TOPEKA, KANSAS, NOVEMBER 27, 1900.-
TtJESDAY EVENING.
TWO CENTS.
RUSH OFUATERS.
Unprecedented Flood Sweeps
Down on Pittshurg
After Incessant Kain of Three
Day's Duration.
THREE LIVES LOST
And
Hnndreds of Families
Rendered Homeless.
Tast Amount of Property Ruin
ed and Work Stopped.
Pittsburg-, Nov. 27. After three days
of Incessant rain, a flood unprecedented
for this season of the year and quite un
expected in its fury swept down the
Monongahela and Allegheny rivers last
night. In their mad rush the waters
ruined hundreds of thousands of dollars'
worth of property, caused the loss of at
least three lives, temporarily threw out
of employment thousands of workmen,
by the forced suspension of the many
Industrial establishments lining the
banks of both streams, and rendered
hundreds o families homeless. The fa
talities are:
Frederick Koppman, aged 66 years;
tripped and fell, breaking his neck, while
i removing goods from his home.
Joseph Xavis and Joseph Flocker,
mill workers, drowned by the capsizing
of a skiff in the Allegheny.
A November flood is quite common,
but it rarely reaches the danger line,
and for this reason the steady rains of
the past few days caused no alarm. The
precipitation had been heavier than
!ual in the mountains at the head
waters of both rivers, however, and it
was not until late yesterday that the
warning was sent out that both streams
were getting beyond their banks and
that there was a dangerous flood threat
ened. The result was the fast-rising
waters caught many wholly unprepared
and much valuable property that was
tied up for only a moderate stage was
carried away. The danger line is 24
feet, and thi3 was passed about 3 o'clock
this morning, and seven hours later, at
11 a. m., the marks at Davis island dam
registered 25 feet and 7 inches. Both
rivers were stationary and It was
thought that the wTorst was over, and
before nightfall the waters would be re
ceding. The lowlands in Pittsburg,
Allegheny, South Sharpsburg and Me
Keesport are Inundated, and nearly
every plant fronting the two rivers has
been forced to shut down. Hundreds of
families in this district have either been,
driven from their homes or are living
in the upper floor and using skiffs.
There were many narrow escapes from
drowning during the night, and several
men are reported to the police as miss
ing, but only three fatalities are known.
Davis and Flocker, with, three com
panions, attempted to row across the
Allegheny in a skiff, which became un
manageable and collided with a coal
boat. The men were thrown into the
river and Davis and Flocker were
drowned. The others were rescued after
being carried two miles down the river.
At Neville island, the four-span
railroad bridge in course of construction
was swept away during the night. It
was being erected for the American
Eteel and Iron company, and was also
to be used for passenger traffic by the
Pittsburg & Lake Erie railroad com
pany. STORM WIDELT EXTENDED.
Chicago, Nov. l. A storm of unusual
severity swept the states east of Illinois
during the past thirty hours, causing
numerous disasters on land and water
and entailing heavy property loss. Wind,
rain and snow combined to make the
Btorm one of the worst of the year.
Wires throughout New York, West
Virginia, Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee
and other states are still in a crippled
condition and it is impossible to tell
how great the loss of life will prove.
Many alarming rumors have gained
credence, but confirmation of several
reputed disasters can not be obtained.
New York City was all but isolated
from the rest of the world a great part
of yesterday.
On Lake Erie the gale was severe, a
number of vessels being wrecked or
driven ahsore. Twenty-foot waves
swept in from the lake, causing serious
damage to wharves and buildings along
the water front. At Lorain, Ohio, the
heaviest sea in many years destroyed
the government pier, threatening to
ruin the harbor.
A section of the wall of the Erie canal
near Rome, N. Y., was broken, letting
the water out of the sixty mile level. All
vessels in this section of the canal will
be left on the bottom where they are
until the damage is repaired and the
canal refilled.
The waterworks reservoir near
Chauneey, Ohio, bi-ike and the flood
swept dow n on the town, one mile away,
destroying a number of buildings and
flooding the city.
Throughout Ohio and West Virginia
all streams were flooded and overflowed
their banks, carrying away bridges and
trestles, severely interfering with, rail
road traffics
L! SERIOUSLY ILL
Has Telegraphed For His Son
Li Chins: Fang.
London, Nov. 27. Li Hung Chang, ac
cording to the Shanghai correspondent
cf the Morning Post, is seriously ill, and
has telegraphed for his adopted son, Li
Chins' Fang.
MUCH FIGHTING
In a Small Way Reported by
Lord Roberts.
London, Nov. 27. Lord Roberts,
cabling from Johannesburg, under date
of November 26. reports a number of
encounters with the Boers at widely sep
arated points, in which the British cap
tured some cattle and a few prisoners
and suffered slight casualties. The most
eTious affair was an engagement with
the forces cf General Delarey, numbering
about 1.C00 men, with three guns, who
opposed General Clement's march
towards Reitfor.tein. The Boers, the dis
patch says, - were completely dispersed.
BERNHARDT APPEARS.
French Actress Receives an Ovation
in "L'Aiglon" in New York.
New York, Nov. 27. Madame Sarah
Bernhardt, after working until 2:45 in the
morning In perfecting the details of her
farewell American tour and then remain
ing in bed ail day with a high fever, made
her appearance last night in "L'Aisrlon"
at the Garden theater before one of the
most representative audiences ever seen
in America. Aside from the fact that
Bernhardt has just returned to this coun
try after an absence of five years, the
occasion was made notable by her appear
ance with Constant Coquelin.
This was the first time that these two
great artists have appeared together since
ljl, when they left the Coniedie Fran
caise and made their first appearance in
the United States. In addition to this
"L'Aiglon" was played in this country in
its entirety for the first time. So large
was the attendance that it was absolutely
necessary to stop selling evening admis
sion tickets at the highest prices.
Bernhardt's engagement In this city un
der the direction of Maurice Grau, will
last five weeks. Af ter that she will make
a tour of the country.
FITZ TO FIGHT.
Lanky Boxer to Enter the Ring
Just Once More.
Toronto, Ont., Nov. 27. Robert Fitz
simmons toas announced that at the
close of his season he will once more en
ter the ring and then retire for good.
Fitzsimmons also states that another
pugilistic star manager tried to fix up
a false fight but he would not consent
to any such an arrangement. .
The declaration that Fitzsimmons will
re-enter the ring is understood to mean
that there will be a championship bat
tle, probably next June. Jeffries, when
he agreed to meet Ruhlin and after
ward Sharkey, reserved the right to ar
range a match with Fitzsimmons should
the latter respond in due time. Now
that Fitzsimmons has announced his
intention to battle for the championship
Ruhlin and Sharkey may be obliged to
wait- according to agreement.
WAS FOOTBALL CRAZY.
Ex-Tale Player Trarels From
Honolulu to See Game.
New York, Nov. 27. George Carter,
Yale '87, who played tackle on the team
captained by Harry Beecher, came all
the way from Honolulu to see the re
cent Yale-Harvard game at New Haven,
and he brought his wife with him. He
was on the road 17 days, and before he
gets home he will have traveled 11,400
miles, and the trip will have cost him
more than $1,000. He stopped over in
this city last night on his way back to
Honolulu from New Haven.'
Since going to Honolulu to live some
years ago he has seen some football
games in San Francisco, but not a col
lege championship game.
"It was worth every cent it cost us,"
said Mr Carter last night "When I
get back I will have covered about half
the distance around the world. I would
go clear around the world to see another
game like it, and my wife would not
have missed the trip for all we have
spent."
DEATH OF G. W. WILSON
Commissioner of Internal Rev
enue Expired This Morning.
Washington, Nov. 27. Commissioner
of Internal Revenue Wilson died this
morning at 9:30 o'clock.
George Washington Wilson .was 57
years of age and a native of Ohio. He
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GEORGE W. WILSON.
entered the union army when 18 years
old as a private in the Fifty-fourth Ohio
volunteer infantry and served through
out the war. coming out a first lieuten
ant. In 1S68 he took up the practice of
law and in 1869 entered the internal rev
enue service, in which be served in
various capacities, rising from one im
portant position to another until be be
came the head of the bureau. Commis
sioner Wilson was regarded as the most
thoroughly informed man on internal'
revenue subjects who ever entered the
government servtce and was consulted
on all measurs affecting the revenues
that have been before congress for many
years.
Goes After a Fortune.
New York, Nov. 27. Accompanied by
her sister-in-law. Miss Elsie Tyson of
Humboldt county, California, and J. L.
Wilson, a lawyer, Mrs. John T. Martin
of Morristown, N. J., has started for
Scotland to claim a vast fortune left by
James Tyson, the millionaire bushman
of Australia. Another resident of Mor
ristown who is a claimant is George Ty
son, who conducts a blacksmith shop in
Ridgedale avenue." James Tyson, who
recently died in Australia, left a fortune
estimated at $13,000,000. For more than
three score years he had no communica
tion with hia family.
Indiana, Official.
Indianapolis, Ind., Nov. 27. The offi
cial vote cast at the recent election was:
Bryan, 309. 5S4; McKinley, 336.063; Wool
ley, 13.718; Debs, 2,374; Barker, 1,438;
Malloney, 6C3. Union Reform, 254; Dur
bin. Republican candidate for governor,
falls behind the Republican elector 1,316
votes.
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MS. LEASE TO SUE
Will Ask For a Divorce From
Her Husband.
Mr. Charles H. Lease Confirms
the Rumor Today.
AN OLD-TIME QUARREL
Commenced Over an Umbrella
Long Ago.
Lired in the Same House But
Seldom Spoke.
WASIITUB TO FAME.
Populism Brought ThisWonder
ful Woman Into Prominence.
This Tear She Espoused Cause
of McKinley.
Mrs. Mary E. Lease will thia week
commence a. divorce suit against ber
husband.
A rainy day and., an old umbrella
formed the basis for a family quarrel,
years ago, which has culminated in the
proceedings on the part of Mrs. Mary
Elizabeth Lease, now a resident of New
Mrs. Mary E. Lease, Who Will Ask
York city, to obtain a divorce from her
husband, Charles H. Lease, a Wichita
druggist.
Mra Lease alleges cruelty and non
support, and Mr. Lease will not con
test In a telegram from Wichita today
Mr. Lease says that the report of the
divorce proceedings is true, and. confirms
the statement that he will make no con
test. To those who are familiar with the
movements of this family the announce
ment of a divorce proceeding is no sur
prise, because it has ' long been under
stood that the relations between Mrs.
Lease and her husband were strained,
and that, although for years they lived
in the same house, they seldom spoke
to each other.
From, poverty and the washtub,
where she toiled at 50 cents per day
over her neighbor's clothes, to the lec
ture platform and a competence is the
brief record of the career of Mrs. Lease.
From a grocery store clerkship to the
proprietorship of a drug store is the busi
ness record of the husband
Twelve years ago Mrs. Lease was un
known to fame. Now she is celebrated
throughout the United States as a re
form lecturer. For years she spent much
of her time and talent bewailing the con
ditions surrounding the poorer classes,
of which she claimed to be a faithful
representative, but in later years as for
tune smiled on her and the price for lec
tures which she delivered continually ad
vanced, Mrs. Lease surprised her old
admirers in the reform elements by de
claring for McKinley and Republican
ism. The Kansas Populist managers abused
Mrs. Lease for party faithlessness in
Kansas, but she, went into Nebraska and
helped save the state for the Republi
cans, just the same.
Mrsi Lease, had she been in Kansas
during the last campaign, would have
been catalogued by the party pollers as
a "flopper." but this would not disturb
her. In fact this was one of the priv
ileges which she as an American citizen
refused to yield under any circum
stances. Mrs. Lease once said to a
State Journal reporter in Topeka, in the
office of Dr. Eva Harding, who is one
of her closest friends:
"I reserve the right at all times to
change my mind from what I said yes
terday to meet the conditions of to
day, so long asj I am convinced that
some good for myself may be accomp
lished by so doing."
The actual meaning of this language
on the part of Mrs. Lease was some
what vagu, but she reiterated it upon
being asked for a more lucid explana
tion, adding to her reply:
"Most people can understand what I
mean. If they can't understand what I
mean by those words, if they are inter
ested and will keep tab on my doings
they will, later, understand, because the
old adage says that 'actions speak louder
than words." "
These statements were made by Mrs.
Lease on the occasion of what was prob
ably her last visit to Topeka, as a Kan
sas resident. She was then on her way
to New York, and was later joined there
by her four children. This marked the
separation of the family, sance which
time Mr. Lease has attended quietly to
his business at Wichita, while Mrs.
'
till I I l! I M fi'L
Lease has been striving to meet the
heavy demand made upon, her for
speeches and lectures, at so much per
lecture, throughout thte east. She has
also been very successful financially In
magazine work.
Before Mrs, Lease regarded herself as
capable of espousing the cause of reform
upon the lecture platform, from a men
tal standpoint, she persevered through
great trials to educate herself and her
children.
Mrs. Lease was " married when quite
young and gave birth to six children,
two of whom died, four now living with
their mother in New York city. At that
time the wages received, by Mr. Lease,
as a clerk in a grocery store, so Mrs.
Lease has said, were! not sufficient to
meet the family's needs and provide an
education for the children. Whatever
criticism Mrs. Lease 1 may have been
the subject of during her erratic political
career, no one has evrr questioned her
love and interest in heir children.
This prompted hertof take In washing"
and with her arms barjed, except for the
immersions of soap-sida in the wash
tub, she studied and imparted what she
learned to her children who sat around
her. Mrs Lease borrowed books and
would, in order to return them promptly,
copy the things which she desired to
learn and with these extracts tacked up
on the walls of the wash house she
would rub the clothes and talk to the
children.
As Mra. Lease rose from the wash
tub to an Alliance lecturer, the differ-,
ences with her husband grew. He did
not take kindly to the publicity and no
toriety into which his'wife had plunged
and became, so Mrs. jLease says, more
and more "grumpy."
The children followed their mother and
the family w-as'soon klivided, with Mr.
Lease alone on his side of the contro
versy. Mrs. Lease spent much time
away from her home. She was making
political speeches or dabbling in politics,,
but until she was appointed a member'
of the state board of charities by Gov
ernor Lewelling, received no public re-
For a Divorce From Her Husband.
ward for her services rendered to the
Fusion political managers in Kansas.
This was the first and last recognition
she received. A quarrel with John
Breidenthal, and the charge by some of
her friends that Mrs. Lease marketed at
$2,500 each four members of the Populist
legislature in the interests of the Mis
souri Pacific candidate for United States
senator when Judge John Martin of To
peka was elected by the Fusionists,
placed her in bad grace with the reform
ers who at this period had advanced to
fusion.
This incident caused a break which
Mrs. Lease took advantage of and quit
the reform crowd. Soon thereafter she
had a public quarrel with Mrs. Annie L.
Diggs and thus Mrs. Lease was left
without a friend at court in the man
agement of the reform campaigns in
Kansas. She then sought wider fields,
and took with her, the four children.
This was the separation which is now
to be made a matter of law. Mr. and
Mrs. Lease were married at Osage Mis
sion, not St. Pauls, Neosho county, in
1873.
Going to New York, under the man
agement of her son, Charles Lease, she
soon attained prominence as a lecturer,
at good prices. Soon the money waa
forthcoming to provide well for the
children. Louise, the elder, who re
sembles her mother, is studying for the
stage and also making considerable pro
gress in literature. A son, Ben Hur, and
a daughter Mary, are in school. The
oldest boy, Charley, now a, young man
and a voter, manages bis mother's busi
ness. (
Mrs. Lease is no more haunted by the
gaunt spectre of poverty and she de
clines to share her prosperity with her
husband.
The first quarrel to which Mrs, Lease
attaches importance and which she once
said in Topeka made her dislike her
husband, was over an umbrella. As told
in Topeka the Incident follows:
"Soon after one of my babies was
born," said Mrs. Lease, "I went to the
grocery store where my husband was
clerking and secured some things which
I needed at home. There was a very
heavy rain falling. Going out I noticed
an old umbrella standing by the door.
I picked it up and told my husband I
would send it back to the store in a few
moments by one of the children. I was
greatly surprised and pained when he
growled at me and in a surly tone said:
'Put it down; it don't belong to you and
you haven't any business with it.' 1
put the umbrella down and left the
store in a pouring rain. As I was pass
ing the store of one of my friends who
knew of the struggle for bread which I
had experienced, the door was opened
by the proprietor who called me in and
gave me from the rack near the door
the first umbrella I ever owned. I was
not able to do the work at home, much
less run out in the rain for supplies,
and this evidence of cruelty on the part
of my husband turned me against him.
We did not speak to each other for
months after that and in later years
lived in the same house without ex
changing a word with each other."
Mrs. Lease became an orator by
chance. Rains," however, seem to have
had an important influence on her life.
In 18SS in Wichita she went into a hall
where a union labor meeting was in
Ail A
y , till i in
MESSAGE READY.
President's Address to Congress
Sketched Out.
To Hold the Islands at Any and
All Hazards. -
HIS FOREIGN POLICYi
Suggests Liberal Home liule in
the Philippines.
In Doubt Oyer Niearaguan Ca
nal Measure.
Washington, Nov. 27. In the prepara
tion of his annual message to congress.
President McKinley has worked with hia
usual facility of treatment, so that now
the message is completely sketched out
and, in fact, practically completed.
The central thought of the whole mes
sage will be a delineation of the strong
foreign policy of the administration.
Those who. desire to know what the pres
ident will say in his message will have
only to read his admirable speech made
in Philadelphia. It fully forecasts the
message itself. The declaration to con
gress will make clear, if such a thing is
necessary.the determination of the pres-.
ident to take no backward- steps in re
gard to the government in the Philip
pines. '
Attention will be called to the fact
that the islands are now actually under
the control of a civil commission, with
Judge Taft at its head, which is rapid! y
superseding the military authority at
every point, thus enabling the natives of
the islands to create their own local
government without delay. It will be
shown-that what was a formidable in
surrection a year ago has now degenera
ted into mere guerrilla warfare.
The firm policy will be announced of
holding -the islands at all hazards as a
part of the territory of the United States
to be governed on substantially the
same general lines as were laid down in
Porto Rico. The need of troops to main
tain order for some time to come will be
referred toy' with freedom. The opinion
will be expressed that while the time
may not have arrived for the creation of
a stable form of government for the
Philippines, nevertheless steps should be
taken in that direction.
The president, it will be suggested Irn
the message, should not be expected to
govern the archipelago exclusively under
the war power. The suggestion will be
made, therefore, that he be given full
civil authority on the general lines of
the Spooner bill, so that he could him
self provide an emergency government,
and thus reduce the army to the posi
tion of a mere-police force. This course,
it is urged, ' would be beneficial to the
Filipinos themselves, and would inspire
them with respect for the civil govern
ment of the United States.
There will be an expression of confi
dence that all the more educated na
tives, when their loyalty once is secured,
will adapt themselves readily to ordinary
forms of municipal government, and
thus receive a training which will enable
the civil authorities to pick out a con
stantly growing percentage of native
help in. the general territorial govern
ment. Congress will be told that the condi
tions at present in the islands are not
sufficiently stable to justify a fully
equipped, civil government, but the pre
diction will be made that if the neces
sary authority is given the foundations
could be laid during the coming session,
so that during the next long session of
con.gress it would be quite possible to
adapt the present territorial system of
government to the islands.
The caution displayed in the treatment
of this subject, it is understood, will be
somewhat suggestive of the ultimate
adoption of a broad colonial policy, and
those who read between the lines of the
message will be quite apt to find some
thing of that sort.
THE CHINESE POLICY.
Necessarily the newest portion of the
message will be that devoted to the sit
uation in China. The position of the
president on the whole Chinese question
as disclosed in the message will be found
to be a close repetition of the important
passages of the now celebrated note of
Julv 3.
The president again will pledge this
country to oppose all schemes of terri
torial conquest in China and he will ap
peal to congress for ample support in his
demand that whatever is the result in
the Chinese Empire an open door to
American commerce shall always be
maintained. There will be necessarily a
description of the terrible trial to which
Minister Conger and his associates were
subjected and a sketchy report of the
brilliant service of the American troops
on Chinese soiL
Those in the confidence of the presi
dent declare he will write enough about
China to make the position of this coun
try clear, not only in the United States,
but abroad. Yet at the same time It is
declared that the United States will not
put itself on record as refusing to main
tain a sphere of influence in China if
such a situation is forced upon us by the
European powers.
TO INCREASE THE ARMY.
There will be no dodging the issue, so
far as the message is concerned, on the
army reorganization.
The message will show the pressing
necessity for the continued use of a
comparatively large army for some time
to come. It will be asserted that with
Porto Rico. Hawaii, the Philippines.and
even the Nicaraguan canal to be guard
ed the necessity for a larger contingent
of regular soldiers becomes apparent. In
addition to that, it will be argued that
the United States has taken a position
in .the Orient which it can only main
tain by a proper show of force,
The president will call attention di
rectly to the fact that the volunteers
now in the Philippines must be with
drawn within the next six months and
that their places must necessarily ba
progress, being compelled to do so to
escape the torrent of rain which was
coming down on the streets. "I had
worn out my umbrella," she said. While
waiting for the rain to cease some one
called on her for a speech. .
"1 surprised myself as well as those
present. It was pronounced a good ef
fort," said Mrs. Lease afterward des
cribing her advent into the lecture
field.
From that time on she was In demand
for public speeches and her utterances
were of such a character as to attract
wide attention, being the basis for the
national reputation which she has since
achieved. Mrs. Lease has no idea of
leaving New York and says the smiles
of fortune which she has received have
been earned by a life of strenuous effort,
privation and hard work.
filled before that time. Following out
hia expressed policy to take no back
ward step in the Philippines, the presi
dent will directly ask congress for an
army large enough to carry out that
policy to its legitimate conclusion.
LIBERTY PROMISED CUBA.
Pending the result of the constttu
tinal convention in the island, the mes
sage will avoid a distinct declaration
as to the exact form of government in
Cuba, but it will nevertheless be some
what of a surprise to those people who
have been accustomed to think the Cu
bans were incapable of self-government.
The president will quote reports,
it is said, from different military and
cilvil officials, including the secretary of
war, highly commandatory of the peace
ful disposition of the Cubans and the re
ceptive manner in which they are al
ready learning the lesson of self-government.
There will be a distinct promise in the
message, unless all signs fail, that it is
the purpose of the president to turn
over the island to the Cubans them
selves soon, and the hope will be ex
pressed that before another message is
Written a new and independent nation
wfU have been created in the western
hemisphere.
In connction with the Cuban para
graph there will probably be significant
praise for the work of sanitation and
education in the island, which has been
carried on so vigorously since the evacu
ation by the Spanish.
CANAL QUESTION IN DOUBT.
Regarding the treatment of the Nic
araguan canal project, there is consid
erable difference of opinion as to the
extent to which the president will feel
justified in recommending the canal
scheme. As to his approval of the gen
eral project of building a canal, there is
no doubt, and he will make his position
entirely clear in that regard. There are,
however, many complications to be
avoided, and even the president's ad
vSsers do not seem to be fully aware of
how the canal paragraph of the message
Anally will be written.
The president is in favor of the Hay
Fauncefote treaty and will nothestitateto
eay as much in an indirect manner, al
tliough as the treaty remains unacted
upon by the senate he can not go into
te subject to any-great extent
The president will have before him the
preliminary report of the canal com
mission. This will be favorable to the
Nicaraguan route as against all others,
tacluding the Panama canal itself.
So far as can be learned the president
is not enamored of the Hepburn bill,
which passed the house last spring, and
which will come up in the senate a week
after congress meets. Owing to his ad
herence to the Kay treaty it is believed
tt.e president will so word this pat of
hife message when it is finally recast as
to indicate that he will not favor the
building of a canal unless the Clayton
Bulwer treaty is specifically repealed,
or the Hay-Fauncefote treaty enacted
into law.
On this account there are those who
thank that the canal paragraph of the
message will not be entirely satisfactory
to those ardent champions of the canal
sctieme, who want to go to work on the
big ditch at once.
The message certainly will intimate
that the disposition of Nicaragua and
Casta Rica is especially favorable, the
only objection to building the canal be
ins r that the United States should not
violate a treaty made with anothei'
corantry years ago and never yet prop
erly abrogated or amended.
QROWINOCUTE.
Relations Between U. S. and
Turkey Greatly Strained.
Mr. Griscom Makes Another
Fruitless Call.
Constantinople, Nov. 27. The relations
bietween the United States government
ahd the porte are becoming acute. Mr.
Griscom.the American charge d'affaires,
went to the Yildiz palace Sunday and
had an interview with Tewfik Pasha,
minister of foreign affairs and Tahain
Bey, first secretary at the palace. The
interview, however, was barren of re
sult. While the porte outwardly persists In
the attitude it has assumed regarding
tihe question of granting an exequatur
to the United States consul at Harpoot,
there is reason to believe that the dis
patch of the battleship Kentucky to
Smtyrna has made a marked impression
in official circles.
UOYT'S WILL.
Nothing la Left to Relatives, All of
Whom Are Distant.
New York, Nov. 27. The will of Chaa.
H.! Hoyt, the playwright, was filed to
day in the surrogate's office. It was ex
ecrated October 15, 1898. After making
bequests to personal friends and em
ployes, the testator says:
"It is my wish that the theatrical bus
iness of Hoyt & McKee be continued
and conducted by Frank McKee as it is
now managed, the, said Frank McKee to
receive all of my share of the profits as
a trecompense for his services, excepting
such portion as is herein before be
queathed to Eldoow M. Dasher. On the
death of said Frank McKee the said
business shall cease."
Residuary legatees are the Lambs club
of this city and the actors fund.
"In making this, my will, at the pres
ent time," the will concludes, "I have no
relatives nearer than cousins to be con
sidered by me and my cousins and dis
tant relatives have never shown by any
act any desire for my friendship or good
will; hence I have deemed it more con
sistent with fair dealing and justice to
dispose of my property to those who
during my life have been my constant
companions and well wishers, and to
such charities aa in my judgment are
most fitting."
Gen. (Smith Bead.
San Jose, Cab, Nov. 27. Gen. F. S.
Smith who was surveyor geieral of
Nebraska under President Hayes and
later city attorney of Omaha, died here
last night of heart trouble. He came to
San Jose for hia health about six
months ago.
Okla homa's Vote.
Guthrie, O. T., Nov. 27. The total
vote of Oklahoma was 73,367, of which
Flynn fRepubiiican) for congress re
ceived SS.253. Neff fFusionist) 35.259,
Tucker (Socialkit) 798,Allan (anti-Fusion
Populist) 7S9.
Kam'bler Mine Sold.
Cheyenne, Wyo., Nov. 27. The Ven
ture corporation of London has pur
chased the Rambler copper mine, one of
the best coppur properties in thia sec
tion, for the sum of J250,000.
Weather Indications.
Chicago, Nov. 27. Forecast for Kan
sas: Partly cloudy and cooler tonight
with rain or snow in south portion;
Wednesday (probably fair; northerly
winds.
BEGINS JJSINESS.
President Kruger Calls on the
French Premier.
Has a Secret InterTiew Lasting
Ten Minutes.
VISIT IS RETURNED.
An 0 Ulcer of the Transtaal Says
His Chief
May Make His Home Here Till
War is Over.
Paris, Nov. 27. Mr. Kruger began a
busy day this morning by making an
official call. Before 0 o'clock he depart
ed from the' Hotel Scribe, driving in a
landau surrounded by republican guards
and bicycle policemen, to visit tha
premier, M. Waldeck-Rousseau. He w aa
accompanied by Dr. Leyds, Dr. Van,
Hammel and Delegate Fischer. Thu
party was met at the entrance t tha
premier's saloun by M. Ulrlch, director
of the cabinet, who Introduced the vis
itors to the prime minister. The inter
view took place in M. Waldfck-KmiH-seau's
private study and lasu it ten min
utes. At half-past 9 o'clock the premier
accompanied by M. Ulrlch returned tlia
call.
The officers of the municipal council
of Paris and of the general council 't
the Seine, were received at IK a. m.
by Mr. Kruger, in the Hotel Scribe. Tha
interview was private and llef. Im
mediately after the visitors had deput
ed Mr. Kruger drove to the Hotel 1
Ville. He received an ovation from a
large crowd massed In the square i
front of the edifice. Mr. Kruer wan
conducted to the debating hull, wher
he waa given the arm chair reservett
for representatives of governments. Thu
municipal councillors and the peoplu ii
the public naileries loudly cheered the
distinguished visitor. Vice l'retsldent
Escudier delivered an eloquent add rota,
saying Paris had given Mr. Knmer a.
welcome worthy of his noble character
and the grandeur of his caune. He m t
(said: "You have heard the heart of
Paris beat. It is the heart of Franc.
Let the people speak and tpeak loudly,
and arbitration will impose itself,
necessary satisfaction to Justice anil
civilization."
The president of the general council
spoke in a similar strain.
Mr. Kruger replied In energetic tones,
thanking the speakers for the ointi
ments expressed. He nald he wa-s deep
ly grateful for the welcome which wan a
continuation arid a crowning of that
France had already given him. Smce
landing, the former president added, h
had been on a rising wave of acclama
tion. He was very thankful for wliut
had been done and for what they nich
ed to do for him and his people, w ho
were dtill struggling and were ri"t yet
defeated. Their resistance continue
and will still continue. They ever will
struggle for indeix-ndence, lllwrty and
Justice. Continuing, Mr. Kruger said:
"Ah! Why can not they hear your ac
clamations? It would redouble their
courage." 1
Mr. Kruger also paid he hoped they
would yet know them one day in tlm
future when they had recovered their
independence. He regretted arbitration
had been refused and he would never
cease to demand it.
The Boer leader was then shown
through the superbly decorated halls of
the Hotel. De Ville. Once he appeared t
a window and was enthusiastically
cheered. As he drove back to his hotel,
he was accorded a warm greeting on the
road.
The president of the municipal coun
cil tomorrow will propose in the council
a vote in favor of arbitrating theTranjt
vaal disputes.
Henri Kochefort, accompanied by a,
deputation including Deputies Mille
voye and Paulin-Alery, Senor Pruvost
DeLuna and Mm. Coppe and 1a matre,
today presented Mr. Kruger- with a
sword of honor destined for fleneral
Cronje, now a prisoner on the island ut
St. Helena.
COMING TO AMERICA.
New York, Nov. 27. Samuel I'eamon,
formerly commissary general of th
Transvaal army, who has Just arrive,!
in this country with a number of other
Boer refug-es, Is responsible for thu
statement that President Kruger will
probably soon seek reluge and a per
manent home here.
"President Kruger will leave PrH
very soon, I believe," said General Pear
son, "and come to America. htrf wltH
his wife he w ill make a home unt il u-,
time as our arms have triumphed ami
he can return to the South African re
public to take up again his olllce aa
chief executive of the Boera."
HOKH KKKUGEER
New York, Nov. 27. Among the pas
sengers who arrived on board the itum
er from Rotterdam were five of the ref
ugees from the Bouth African republic.
They are S. Pearson, commissary gen
eral of the Transvaal army: Commnnd
ant W. Snyman, of the Orange Free
State and H. Snyman, Jr., A. Leihen
berg and Hercules 1). Viljix-n of Kny
man'a commando. Pearson nays that hin
party was chased over tne border Into
Portuguese territory. They made their
way to the coast and thence by Bteajner
to Kurope. Pearson nays he bos never
been out of South Africa before and
does not know a single person in the
World outide of South Africa. ,
HEW ARfslY BILL
Minimum Strength to Be fixed
at 50,000 Men.
Washington, Nov. 27. The house com
mittee on military affairs today met for
the purpose of considering the new
army bill. The business was mostly
of a preliminary character, the discus
sion being quite general on army afl alrn.
The Republican members of the com
mittee apparently are in favor of t i in
the president such an anny a he may
require. The committtee will consult
with Secretary of VVr Root this after
noon, if he reaches Washington,
The draft of a bill already prepared
by Chairman Hull will tin the t.si of
the measure which th committee will
consider. The bill provides for an army
of the maximum strength of liK.0i0 men,
with a minimum of Wi.otiO and general
ofticrs at the rat of one bncudier gen
eral for each 4,000 men with major gen
erals in proportion. Chairman 1 1 u 1 1
states that there will be but one Wit
prepared and If any staff changes ar
contemplated they wiii be incor,potatfci4
la that measure.