OLD MADRID
IN TURMOIL
SERIOUS TROUBLE LIKELY TO
OCCUR.
ARMY WITH THE PEOPLE
Shares Feeling Against Jesuits and
Count of Caserta, Former
Carlist Leader.
Madrid, Feb. 12-Whispered rum
ors, which are not supported by
tangible facts, say that Madrid is on
the verge of a tumult. The govern
-,ent, however, is calmly proceeding
to carry out the details for the wed
ding of the princess of the Austrias to
Prince Charles of Bourbon, but the
street coiners, the clubs and the hotel
corridors teem with disturbing stories.
The new shout, "Long live the
army, " is the most serious sign.
Should it take a real hold on the
;people and should the fever reach the
army itself the outcome would be
threatening.
The current talk represents the
army as being dissatisfied and that it
does" not intend -to take up arms
against the ppople so long as their
position is directed against the Jesuits
and Count of Caserta. The feeling
against the former is largely political,
but a real and deep seated antagonism
exists against the former Carlist
leader.
The decision of the high court to
day favoring the contention of the
another in the Ubao case, giving the
daughter into her charge and releasing
her from the convent, is likely to have
a soothing effect.
Another step in the marriage cere
mony occurs at the palace tonight at
9 o'clock when the formal contract
will be signed. The duke of Soto
mayer, the grand chamberlain, has ex
tended an invitation to the ministry
to be among the witnesses. Besides
the royal party, the ministry and the
palace officials and the witnesses, no
others will be present.
All the parties to the wedding are
domiciled in the royal palace. They,
therefore, are not obliged to expose
themselves to the public, the wed
ding occurring within the chapel of
the palace itself at 11 o'clock Thurs
day morning.
Up to the present the city is per
feotly calm.
This afternoon about 800 students
led by a woman and bearing French
and Spanish flags assembled in the
Puerta del Sol and started cries for the
army and against the Jesuits and the
count of Caserta. They were quickly
dispersed, but continued reassembling
in-various parts of the city.
This afternoon was one of continual
manifestations, though without serious
incident, owing to the vigilance of the
police. In fact, throughout the entire
day civil guards, mounted and on foot,
were everywhere visible, dispersing
crowds wherever found. These as
semblages were largely composed of
youths and street idlers, but behind
them were agitators and the sentiment
of the people.
This evening 200 mounted civil
guards are parading Puerta del Sol
with drawn swords, preventing any
collection of people. All avenues
centering on the square are closely
guarded.
There can be no doubt that the feel
ing of the populace is deep rooted,
needing only a successful leader to en
oonrage the people to menacing deeds.
Owing to their attitude the torchlight
procession scheduled for this evening
was abandoned, the authorities fearing
that the slightest opportunity for a
clash might lead to serious results.
The night illumination might cause a
hail of stones, which might excite the
guards to some act of revenge.
The populace is being given looser
rein than in ordinary circumstances
because of the desire of the queen re
gent to avoid any meeting between the
people and the authorities which could
lead to bloodshed on the day of the
wedding.
Hitherto there has been no serious
attempts on the part of the crowd to
resist the police. On the contrary, the
people scatter the moment the police
start in their directiion. Some curious
sights ensune in such cases. For in
stance, shopkeepers and proprietors of
restaurants an4 cafes, the moment the
demonstrators appear, pull down their
iron shutters. By the time the police
have arrived the crowd vanishes.
Then up go the shutters again and
bnsiness is resumed.
CASE AAINSTI NEELY
Cuban Government Rapidly Accum
ulating Testimony for Use
at Coming Trial.
Havana, Feb. 12-ThA testimony
submitted on the side of the govern.
ment in the case of C. F. Neely, the
alleged defaulting postal clerk, covers
2,000 typewritten pages. This covern
only a portion of the whole evidence
to be presented and witnesses are be
ing examiried daily.
Architects' are drawing up plans of
the postoffice vaults, fire room and
electric plant, which are expected to
have .an iflportant bearing on the
stamp burning incident.
Neely was asked to accompany some
witnesses to the postofice, but on the
advice of his attorney .he declined to
do so.
The government will submit all its
evidence to the judge of the lower
court and it will be open tor inspec
tion by counsel for defense. Neely
will be given opportunity to combat
the charges and to file testimony.
The case will then go to the audiencia
for public trial, where the decision will
be final so far as the facts of the case
are concerned. An appeal may be
taken to the supreme court on the
question of sentence.
The fiscal, who is preparing the
testimony, says that the examination
of witnesses and translating of their
testimony will take considerable time
and that he is unable to predict when
the work will be completed.
PERNICIOUSLY ACTIVE.
Boers Co~tinue Making Prisoners and
Looting Stores.
Capetown, Feb. 12-Twenty-seven
Australians, Cape police and dragoons
were captured by Kruettsinger's com
mando eight miles from Balaspruit
February 6, after a fight in which
three British and five Boers were kill
ed. The British were afterwards re
leased.
Two hundred Boers are raiding the
Prince Albert district, looting stores
and destroying orchards and gardens.
Several were killed and wounded.
Seven British yeomanry, while
skirmishing, were captured by a cam
mando near Veryburg, which was
forced to retire.
Piet DeWet has arrived in Capetown
to engage the Afrikanders in the
peace movement.
CAPE COLONY ACTIVE.
Capetown, Feb. 12-Large bodies of
republicans have been seen near Dol
erpoort station, north of Norvalspont.
Shots were exchanged. The* British
occupied Ficksburg with little opposi
tion and released prisoners who were
in jail. The Boers were moving in
the direction of Fouriesburg, where
they have most of their supplies.
BOER SUPPLIES TAKEN.
London, Feb. 12-General Kitchen
er. in a dispatch from Pretoria, dated
February 12, says: French has cap
tured a convoy of 50 wagons and 15
carts and has made 48 prisoners. He
had one man wounded.
EDWARD WILL VISIT.
. London, Feb. 12-King Edward and
Queen Alexandra, according to Truth,
will leave England during March to
visit Dowager Empress Frederick.
As already cabled they will also visit
the grand duke and duchess of Hesse
and will spend the Easter holiday at
Copenhagen. Truth asserts that a
member of the cabinet, probably Lord
James of Hereford, will accompany
the king.
RAVAGED BY FEVER.
Lorenzo Marques, Feb. 12-The
fever season here is exceptionally dis
astrous. Many deaths of prominent
British subjects have occurred. The
majority belonged to the imperial
railroad administrative staff and had
to be removed to a hospital ship in
batches. A dispatch from Komati
port says the hospital is now filled to
its capacity.
ARE OIL URAZY
People of Indiana Town Go
Wild Over Recent
Discovery.
Indianapolis, Feb. 12-A special to
the Sentinel from Hartford City, Ind.,
says:
Excitement among the oil speculat
ors continues here. Everybody is oil
mad. Never in the history of the In
diana oil field has there been such ex
citement as today.
Already prices of everything in the
little village of Dundee, nine miles
northwest of this city, have advanced
to a stage that startles prospectors.
Yesterday it was only a speck on the
map, today it is the center of the most
wonderful oil field in the United
States. Indeed, it is the opinion of
the oil men that it will prove the most
valuable in the world's history of oil
operations.
The Dundee well, owned by the
Standard Oil company, which has
wrought all this unexpected chnage,
came in yesterday at a depth of over
1,000 feet. It was unexpected, and
like a shot from a 10-inch gun blew
away the oil saver and casing head
and sent a solid stream of foamy, yel
low oil six and a half inches in diam
eter over the 72 foot derrick.
The road scenes out of Hartford City
were reminders of an army wagon
train, except for the varied character
of the vehicles. Last night and all
day today there has been seemingly a
never-ending line of wagons, buggies,
sleighs, and buckboards. Speculators,
sightseers, leasers, pips line men, ac
countants, civil engineers, field fore
men and others interested jog along.
The remarkable gusher on the little
acre farm of Joseph Bird still spurts
thousands of barrels of oil daily.
This county has witnessed many ex
citing oil times, but the rush that has
followed the news of the rich find yes
terday is unprecedented. Dams have
been built and the oil is now being.
saved and it is-pumped into pipes from
the dams as fast as they can be laid.
CRACIOUS OF
HIS MAJESTY
KWANG SU'S. KINDNESS TO
CONDEMNED BOXERS.
GRANTS RARE PRIVILEGE
May Commit Suicide in Any Man
ner They Choose-Pos
sible Recalcitrant.
Pekin, Feb. 12-Prince Ching and
Li Hung Chang have received a long
lispatch from the court, which they
have not disclosed to the foreign en
voys. It is alleged to contain in addi
tion to the recent celebrated reform
decree an account of how Emperor
Ewang Su has sent a choice of the
method of suicide to all those named
for punishment by the envoys, closing
with the inquiry whether Prince
Thing and Li Hung Chang think the
envoys will be satisfied.
It is understood the Chinese pleni
potentiaries in their reply to the court
Laid the foreign envoys could not object
strongly to the accomplished fact.
but that they would probably insist
upon the sentence of execution being
published throughout the epmire and
)ossibly upon the heads of those con
lemned being exhibited at various
oints.
It is very seriously doubted in Chi
iese circles here that General Tung
"u Hsiang will agree to commit sui
'ide. The army will support him.
Ele has absolute control of the Mo
iamedans and is believed to be one
iimself. He refused to allow the dis
anding of 5,000 men and the emperor
)rdered him far from the court. To
ittempt his execution, it is thought
n Chinese circles, might mean civil
war.
MANY ARE COMING
Large Number of Prospective
Settlers Leave Chicago
for the West.
Chicago, Feb. 12-Between 1,500
and 1,800 land hunters left Chicago
today for open sections of the far west.
Some had tickets to points in the
northwest, many to points in the mid
die west and others to points in the
southwest, and they all took advant
age of the first of the long series of
weekly reduced rate applications re
cently authorized as a result of James
J. Hill's determination to boom the
country tributary to the Great North
ern line as it never before has been
boomed.
It is estimated that at least two
thirds of the prospective settlers came
from the crowded parts of the east,
the other third being composed of per
sons from Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin
and adjacent states. A hundred or
more were Chicagoans.
Low rates of $30 to Portland, Seat
tile, Vancouver, Tacoma, San Fran
cisco, Los Angelles, San Diego, Santa
Fe and points in parts of Idaho and
Nevada, and $25 to points in Colo
rado and eastern parts of Wyoming
and Montana, were granted by all in
dividual lines. The business to the far
northwest was carried out of St. Paul
today largely by the Great Northern,
Northern Pacific and Canadian Pacific
lines The Santa Fe is handling much
of the California and southwest busi
ness. It is said that James J. Hill con
fdently expects to carry at least 50,
000 persons from the east and central
west to settle in the far west.
A SICKENING TALE
Infant Found Drowning in the
Blood of Its Murdered
Mother.
Milwaukee, Feb. 12-Charles Voss
killed his wife with a butcher knife
this morning, following up the deed
by suicide. Cause unknown.
A later report reveals a most heart.
rending incident in connection with
the murder. Instead of bathing the
infant at the time of the butchery, it
develops that the little one was nurs
ing at its mother's breast. The sight
that was revealed to neighbors was
enough to unnerve the strongest. On
the floor beneath the hearth of the
kitchen stove lay the body of the dead
woman. A slowly widening pool of
blood oozed from beneath her.
There was a stir and a gasping cry,
and one woman, whose nerves were
stronger than the others, hastened
across the floor and .raised the bleed
ing form, barely in time to save the
life of the 10 weeks' old babe that was
choking, literally drowning in its
mother's blood.
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BOYS LOADED WITH GOLD.
Youths Arrested at Lansas 'City Tell
Strange Story.
Kansas City, Feb. 12-Clarence
Gordon and Roy Riley, aged 16 and
17, respectively, were arrested in
this city tonight and $870 in gold was
found in a bag around Gordon's waist.
The boys say that they saw two men
bury the money on the night of Feb
ruary 3 at Terre Haute, Ind., at the
point where the Vapdalia line crosses
the Wabash "river. After the men de
parted they dug up the money, which
was in gold and in a bag.
Gordon says his home is in Indiana,
and Riley says he lives in New York.
They will (be held pending an inves
tigation.
PREFER LEAVENWORTH WAY.
Topeka, Kans., Feb. 12-The capital
punishment bill, which was introduced
by Senator Smith of Edwards county,
was defeated in the senate today by a
vote of 18 to 11. Sentiment in favor
of restoring capital punishment in
Kansas was aroused by the recent
burning of the negro Alexander at
Leavenworth, and that the bill should
be defeated by such a decisive vote oc
casions some surprise.
TURF MEN WARRING
Recently Organized Western Jock
ey Club Has Fight
on Hand.
Cincinnati. Feb. 12-A declaration
of war was made here today by the
ownerh of six tracks against the new
Western Jockey club.
The six members of the Western
Jockey club who were not allotted
dates when the new jockey club was
recently organized in Chicago, held a
meeting here today and reorganized
the old American Turf congress, per
fecting their plans for the circuit dur
ing the coming season and allotting
the dates. The contest now will be
for recognition by the Eastern Jocky
club.
The reorganized American Turf
congress feels confident that Belmont
and others in New York will recognize
them as against the Western Jockey
club.
As there are eight members in the
latter, as compared with six members
in the former, there was some ques
tion as to the power of the minority,
but legal advisers held the action of
the eight members in Chicago to be
illegal and the proceedings here today
to be in accordance with law.
All of the jockey clubs participat
ing today in the reorganization of the
American Turf congress were repre
sented in person by officefs who sign
ed the resolutions that had been pre
pared by counsels.
ARE ALSO BETTER
American Soldiers Cost More Than
Those of European
Nations.
Washington, Feb. 12-The house
today passed the .army appropriation
bill and entered upon the considera
tion of the sundry civil bill, the last
but one of the big money bills.,
The debate.on the army bill was
confined largely to a discussion of
the question of the passage of the
bill to remove the charge of deser
tion against soldiers and was made
notable by a statement by McClellan
of New York comparing the cost of
the soldier in European armies with
the cost in the United States. Ac
cording to his figures, includin the
cost of pensions, etc., each United
States soldier involved an expense of
$2, 828, while a German -soldier costs
$227 and a French soldier $28329.
Previous to consideration of the ap
propriation billk the letter reflecting
upon Perry S. Heath, which Sulzer in
troduced into the proceedings yester
day, was expunged from the record.
During the debate upon the motion
to expunge Sulzer renewed his attack
upon Heath, reiterating his statement
of yesterday, that he was willing to
father the statements in the letter,
and declaring that if action was
brought against him he would not
plead his constitutional immunity.
GLASS WORKS BURN.
Pittsburg, Feb. 12-Nearly the en
tire plant of the Rochester Tumbler
Works of the National Glass com
pany, the largest and finest in the
world, located at Rochester, Pa.,
burned early this morning. Loss
$600,000. Supposed to be covered by
insurance. The company will care
for employes thrown out of work.
PRAISED BY ALL.
Washington, Feb. 12-During the
entire session of the senate today the
agricultural appropriation bill was
under consideration. After six hours
of consideration the bill was little
more than half completed. The de
bate upon the measure' dealt almost
entirely with administrative details of
the department of agriculture, many
commendations of the department be
ing mpade by senators on both sides of
the chamber.
"I have always used Foley's Honey and
Tar cough medicine, and think it the
best in the world,'" says Chas. Bender, a
newsdealer of Erie, Pa. Nothing else as
good. Holmes & Calhoun.
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FRIDAY NICHT
LEGAL PROCEEDINGS CAUSE
POSTPONEMENT.
WAITING FOR HOLLISTER
Future Action of Promotors and
Managers Depends Upon
Court's Decision.
Cincinnati, O., Feb. 13-There is
every indication that the proposed
boxinig contest will not take place at
Saengerfest ball next Friday night.
Sporting editors from all over the
country arrived today and besi"ged the
office and quarters of Managers Brady
and Madden, Cook and others, who
told them that they could not advise
them as to anything until tomorrow
afternoon. As soon'as Judge Hollister
renders his decision tomorrow at
noon, these managers will have a con
ference with the directors of the Saen
gerfest Athletic association and decide
upon theii plans. They promise to
make a statement for publication as
soon as possible, tomorrow afternoon.
The question today with the sports
and sporting editors a and all others has
been as to the time of the postpone
ment. It is conceded if Judge Hollis
ter grants the application for a per
manent injunction, that the postpone
ment will be for some weeks, so as to
give time to carry the case through the
circuit court and thence to the su
preme court for final settlement. If
Judge Hollister refuses the injunction
the postponement is not likely to be
for more than one week and it may
be only to the first of nest week.
There may be a third course which
the court might take, and that is what
is known as a modified injunction,
which would be a restraining order
against holding prizefights at Saenger
fest hall, but not against a boxing
contest such as that which is named
in the permit of Mayor Fleischmann.
In this event radical action is expect
ed from the governor, as the promot
ers would then, no doubt, order a
postponement for a few days only, the
same as if an injunction is denied and
continue under the permit of the
mayor, and under the advice of coun
sel, holding that they were proceeding
without any intention of a violation
of the law, and that it would be up to
the mayor to see that the event did
not violate his permit or law.
It is learned on good authority to
night that the decision of Judge Hol
lister, on which he has been working
since Monday, will be elaborate and
Lengthy.
While there are reports about Gover
nor Nash having three or four regi
ments under marching orders, it is not
believed here that any troops. will
reach the city this week at least.
STAFF REPORTS FOR DUTY
Regiments Selected Will Go into
Camp at Cincinnati-Lack
of Quarters.
Columbus, Ohio, Feb. 12-It is un
derstood that General McMakin has
been ordered by Governor Nash to
report here with Colonel Molton Monk
and other members of his staff for
service. This makes it look as
though General McMakin will be in
command of the troops when, called
into service to stop the Cincinnati
fight.
Col. Geo. D. Freeman was at the
office of the adjutant general this
morning, giving information as to the
equipment of regiments with shelter
tents. There might be some
trouble in finding quarters in build
ings for troops in Cincinnati.
Word has been passed out to the
officers of the troops that are to be
used in the expedition 'and they are
keeping in touch with their men and
with the situation.
RICH COPPER STRIKE.
Old Prospector's Great Find Near
Bozeman.
Word was received in the metropolis
of Gallatin county a few days ago of a
rich copper strike in the Springhill
district, 15 miles from Bozeman.
W. H. Cruse, a miner who has
worked long and hard for a fortune,
while driving a tunnel in his mine
Friday night, run into a well defined
rich vein of copper.
From the reports which reached that
city there is very little reason to doubt
that Cruse has made the gicatest dis
covery of copper ever made in that
section of the country. Some men
state that it is the greatest strike ever
made in Montana and that it will not
be long before Springhill rivals Butte
as a mineral producer.
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