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EXILED FROM KOREA.
Ex-Minister Pak Yongho
Headed for San
Francisco.
REMOVAL IS PERMANENT
Japan's Representative in Pe
king Insulted by Chinese
Officials.
APOLOGIES aUICKLY FOLLOWED.
Missionary Sheffield Escaped Death
by Feigning After Being Seri
ously Wounded.
; r.'orrespcmileuce of The Vnlted Press. 1
TOKIO, jAr.vx, July 30.— Much anxiety
is felt in Japan about the rice crop. The
prosperity of the country depends in a
great part upon the quantity of the rice
harvested. An average year's yield repre
sents about 300,000.000 yen.
Anything short of that outcome affects
the purchasing power of the provincials,
and the result is felt in every branch of
i business. The weather this season has
been so unfavorable up to th-j present that
.already a deficiency of 20 per cunt is an
ticipated in. the crop, wiiich means a loss
of 00,000.000 yen.
Pak Y.ongho, ex-Minister of Home Af
fairs in Korea, left Yokohama on the 30th
of July for the United States. It hai^been
his intention to proceed to America when
he lied from Seoul, but the state of his
health on arriving in Japan prevented the
immediate carrying out of his design.
1)t. Kitazato, the great Japanese bacterio
loeical specialist, having, however, de
clared that Pak might make the voyage
without danger the refugee determined to
cross to San Francisco at once. This sec
ond exile -seems to remove him perma
nently from the field of active Korean
politics.
The Korean students— lso in number
that recently proceeded to japan and took
up their abode at the school presided over
by Mr. Fukuzawa, have left the school en I
masse, and located themselves at the
Korean legation. It was at first alleged
that they objected to the severe discipline
of the school, but the truth seems to be that
Mr. Fnkuzawa having harbored the re
fugee Pak Yongrho, the students feared to
incur the displeasure of their own Govern
ment by remaining in the same compound
v.i th a proscribed rebel. Pak having now
left Japan, these youths will doubtless re
turn to the arms of their alma mater.
The agitation fomented in Japan by
certain sections of the opposition, who
seek to convert the surrender of the Liao
tung Peninsula into a weapon for attacking
the Cabinet, is subsiding. The politicians
are evidently hot in touch with the spirit
of the time, which prompts constructive
rather than destructive measures, and aims
chiefly at building up such a powertul
naval and military organization as shall
secure the country against having to yield
to foreign dilation hereafter.
The new Japanese representative in
Peking had not been long at his post when
he wa3 required to protest against a fresh
display of the insolent conservatism for
which the Chinese are notorious. A cer
tain official named Kwan Ting-kien ad
dressed to the throne a memorial urging
the advisability of curtailing administra
tive expenditures so that the war indem
nity to Japan might be paid without re
course to foreign aid. In the course of the
memorial he called the Japanese ''insular
barbarians/ and the document was pub
lished verbatim in the Government Ga
zette. Of course the Japanese Minister
protested, and of course the Tsung-li
Yamen apologized. But the incident
shows how little China has learned from
the war. '•/.■
Another foreigner has been the victim of
a murderous assault in China. On the
morning of Sunday, July 7, as the Rev.
Mr. Snefneld of the American Board Mis
sion, was returning to his house outside
Tungchow, after having performed re
ligioy^ service at his churcn within the
town, he was set upon by two men, one
armed with a rile sharpened at both ends,
the other with a hatchet. The missionary
received thirty-four wounds, several of
them very severe, ana only escaped death
by feigning it.
Several persons witnessed the brutal as
sault, but no one responded to Mr. Shef
field's appeals for aid. Afterward, as he
lay bleeding but still conscious on the
road, the same indifference was shown by
the passers-by. Ultimately a master
workman, wlio had been warned too late
of what was projected and had hastened
with five others to prevent it. arrived upon
the scene and carried the wounded man to
his residence, where he now lies appar
ently progressing favorably.
The moving spirit in the outrage was a
carpenter,. a man evidently half crazy,
who, having been prevented by Mr. Shef
field, some time previously from doing bod
ily harm to a mason, had resolved to be
avenged on the foreigner. He persuaded
one of his brothers to join him in the at
tack, but another brother refused to take
part in it and gave information to the
master-workman by whom the reverend
'gentleman' was carried home. The two
ruffians are in custody.
Tungchow is a town on the Peiho, some
sixteen miles from Peking. It is the place
where travelers by river from Tientsin to
Peking leave their boats to perform the
rest of the journey overland.
. The Japanese are advancing southward
in Formosa steadily, but slowly. The
difficulties to be dvercome are immense.
Tfce mountain streams, generally easy to
■navigaje, are now converted into Violent
torrents"; the plains, through which much
of the route lies, abound with rivers and
irrigation canals, which have been so
swollen by the summer rains that the dis
trict is converted into a muddy morass;
the heat and damp are terribly trying, and
altogether it is probable that before the
Japanese .cover the 200 miles separating
Taipeh fro.m Tainan they will have suf
fered severely.
Departure of Xoied Catholics.
QUEENSTOWN, Eng., Aug. 17.— Among
the .passengers on the Cunard line steamer
Aurania, which sailed for New York to
day are Cardinal Gibbons of Baltimore,
Archbishop Riordan of San Francisco,
Bishop Foiey of Detroit and Bishop Hoean
of Kansas/City,
Kesponsiblc for Emiaranta.
BERLIN, Germany, Aug. 16.— The Gov
ernment has issued a rescript which has
an important bearing on the business of
. the North ." German Lloyd and Hamburg-
American Steamship companies. The re
script orders that the companies shall be
jointly liable to refund to the Government
all expenses entailed upon it through the
rejection by the United States of emi
grants carried by these lines or by emi
grants to whom the companies have sold
tickets who are left destitute while en
route to the ports of embarkation.
ATTORNEY BECKETT'S CONTEMPT.
Ordered by the Court to Vay a Fine and
Apologize.
OMAHA, Nebr., Aug. 17. —Attorney
William D. Beckett, who tried to assault
Judge Scott a few days ago, was to-day
fined $100 and costs of prosecution and to
stand committed to the County Jail until
the same is paid, and it is further ordered
that if he does not make a public apology
to the court on or before the opening clay
of the September term, disbarment pro
ceedings will be entered against him.
Execution of sentence was suspended
until the opening aay of the September
term, and Mr. Beckett was permitted hio
liberty upon his promise to appear at that
date for the execution of sentence. Such
was the sentence pronounced by Judge
Scott upon Mr. Beckett in the courtroom
to-day. The Judge would not permit Mr.
Beckett to enter any testimony. Mr.
Beckett is a young man of high character
and ability and his friends think the court
too severe on him for losing his temper
when no court was in session.
FORCE THE FIGHTING
Continued from First Page.
performances have passed off with far less
display of hostility than was foreboded,
but everybody will be easier in mind when
they are tinished altogether. By present
arrangement they stretch on till January
IS. the date of the proclamation of the Ger
man Empire at Versailles, ana this implies
a prolonged strain on the French patience.
The news that Archduke Francis Ferdi
nand, who has been treated as the heir to
the Austrian throne since his cousin Ru
dolphs suicide, has been seized with a
dangerous pulmonary affection has created
much agitation in political circles, both
inside and beyond the dual monarchy. He
is not by any means an ideal heir presump
tive, but his brother Otto is so unspeakably
worse that Deople have grown reconciled
to his shortcomings. If he dies, however,
it will be impossible to keep the unhappy
state of the Hapsburg succession from pub
lic discussion much longer.
Veiled allusions to certain complications
surrounding another heir apparent, are
being succeeded in the London papers by
open hints. It seems that the. Shahzada,
who had such an imposing reception as
the Ameer's con several months ago, has
got loose and stoutly declines to quit Lon
don at any price. It is said that the Ameer
has sent repeated messages ordering him
home, and everybody here from the Prince
of Wales down has been telling him plainly
to po, but he refuses to budge. There is
an official story that he is delaying his de
parture on account of a misunderstanding
as to who shall pay the expenses of his
projected Continental tour, but the real
reason is understood to be that he is hav
ing more fun in London than any Asiatic
second son ever dreamed of before, and in
sists on settling down to it as a life job.
It now seems settled that Sir Garnet
Wolseley is to succeed the Duke of Cam
bridge in October as commander-in-chief,
though with functions of the post con
siderably limited. This result, if it be now
really secure, has been won only after a
stubborn resistance of the court party and
the old fashioned military magnates who
owe their promotion to that party. All
the officers who are keen about introducing
reforms and bringing the British system
up to something like a recognizable rela
tionship to the continental military
standards are enthusiastic over the
promised change. The only drawback is
that the advocates of a greatly increased
navy, who just now enjoy the popular ear,
suspect Wolseley of underrating the value
of a preponderant naval force.
The late Canadian Viceroy, the Earl of
Derby, has engaged iv a combat with the
inhabitants of one of his Flintshire manors
which to-night, it is reported, has devel
oped into a small civii war. They have
enjoyed a short cut for a path over the hill
on his castle domain for three generations.
He has now inclosed it with a high fence
and ordered that admission to the hill and
castle ruins shall be only by ticket. Mobs
of indignant villagers tear the fence down
as fast as it is built and burn the noiice
boards : and a Welsh nsember who passed
through the district to-day tells me that
the expectation is that a force of Chester
police will be brought out to coerce the
crowd, which is quite resolved to resist.
Kier Hardie, who sails to-day for a lec
ture tour in America, deserves no atten
tion from any labor leaders or anybody
else, and will probably get what he de
serves. John Burns really has something
IB him, but Hardie is a mere empty fraud,
who won notice in the Commons only by
wearing dirty old clothes and a coster's
cap instead of a hat of Parliamentary tra
dition. This would have been forgiven as
a part of his general scheme of securing
an audience if there had been anything
genuine behind his affectations, and peo
ple tolerantly waited to pee if there was,
but in vain. He is a blatherskite pure and
simple.
Gladstone^ now issues a post-card judg
ment on some book or ethical problem
submitted to him nearly every day, and,
sad to say, the papers have taken to print
ing them in very small type in obscure
corners. One to-day contains the state
ment that while he is personally grateful
to science for all that it has done and is
doing, Christianity stands in no need of it
and is now as able as ever to hold its own
grounds.
A curious report is afloat that Swinburne
is about to be made poet Laureate, and a
friend, who ought to be well informed,
says that it has always been a mistake to
suppose that the Queen opposed him so
strongly. The real opposition, according
to this account, came from Gladstone and
was based chiefly on personal grounds.
The appointment is, however, strictly a
royal prerogative, and the Queen is so
tenacious in these things that the story
seems to have a weak point somewhere,
and I am inclined to doubt that Swin
burne will get it after all.
Mr. Marston of a weiUknown publishing
firm writes of the Canadian copyright
controversy. He ridicules the idea that
Americans have anything to fear from
Canadian reprints of British books if only
for the reason that their importation could
be stopped by our customs and declares
that the present American outcry against
the proposed Dominion law is raised purely
to screen our own improper claims from
Canada. He advises the Canadians to
abandon their present position and pass
instead a strong law to exclude American
reprints of copyright books from Canada.
This seems rather muddle-headed, for the
Canadian book market is so small as not
to be in dispute, but Mr. Marston sets it
forth with great vigor. Incidentally he
says that he understands the projected
Dominion law is not in the least likely to
.be passed here and that accords with what
others say of Mr. Chamberlain's attitude
in the matter. Hakold Fbedebic.
THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, AUGUST 18, 1895.
SPALDING'S BIG PLAN
Anxious to Place a Cable
Under the Pacific
Ocean.
THE CONCESSIONS ASKED.
Would Like Hawaii to Give a
Fat Subsidy for Twenty
Long Years.
SOME OPPOSITION MANIFEST.
The Island Regime Not Likely to Be
Bound to One Monopoly for
Such a Period.
[Special Correspondence of the United Press.]
HONOLULU, Hawaii, Aug. 10.-An in
tense interest has just been created in
Honolulu in Government and business
circles by a new proposition on the2d inst.
to this Government to lay a telegraphic
cable connecting Honolulu with San Fran
cisco. It conies with reliable backing, the
proposer being Colonel Z. S. Spalding, one
of Hawaii's wealthiest sugar-planters. He
has latterly spent much time in Europe,
where he has matured plans with a syn
dicate of capitalists. His proposals are
regarded as the first yet presented which
afford a tangible prospect of early tele
graphic communication. His plans are as
follows:
Colonel Spalding states that he has al
ready provided himself "with all of the
necessary preliminary information, both
technical and financial, necessary to pro
ceed immediately with the work, except
the knowledge of what subsidy can be de
pended upon from the two Governments
interested." He has "also made condi
tional arrangements for securing all money
necessary to construct, lay and equip such
lines and ship."
Rile proposes a cable connecting San
Francisco" and Honolulu, also an inter
island cable system with land connections,
all of which will cost over $4,000,000. He
"will undertake to complete all prelimi
nary arrangements and begin the manu
facture of the cable within eighteen months
from, say, October 31, 1895. and have both
systems in complete working order within
eighteen months thereafter — say, October
31, 1898." He "will undertake, without ex
pense to the Government, to maintain
both such cable systems in good working
order and operate them continuously for a
terra of twenty years."
In return the Government is asked to
agree as follows:
First — To pay a subsidy of $50,000 per an
num for a term of twenty year?, in return
for which all Government messages will be
transmitted free of charge.
Second — To grant exclusive privilege of
landing cables on the Hawaiian Islands
from the western coast of North America
for a term of twenty years; such exclusive
privilege, however, not to be construed as
conflicting with any rights the Govern
ment of the United States may possess by
virtue of any existing treaty.
Third — The Government to allow the
free use of land for stations, buildings, etc..
with right of way and exemption from
duties.
It is added that "the United States Gov
ernment will be asked to lend its aid and
assistance by means of a subsidy or guar
antee, and any arrangement made will be
with the full approval and sanction of
such Government. It will be time enough
to look to other Governments for aid when
the United States shall have refused or
failed to take the matter up, and this Gov
ernment shall consent with such othpr
Government."
The proposals of Colonel Spaldinghave
so far met with a very hospitable recep
tion and consideration from this Govern-
ment. They seem to have been hailed as
being the probable solution of the ques
tion how to obtain cable communication,
which has for some time been deeply
exercising the executive mind. Colonel
Spalding, on his arrival, immediately se
cured the services of L. A. Thurston to
advocate his scheme. Mr. Thurston had al
ready made a very able report on the cable
question, which had been made the basis
of an act empowering the Government to
proceed actively in investigations and ne
gotiations to the end of securing the organ
ization of a company to lay a cable.
A majority of the Senate has appeared
to iavor granting the concessions asked for
by Spalding.
A bill is about ready for introduction
into the Senate by the Cabinet accepting
his proposals. A strong opposition, how
ever, is growing against tnem in the busi
ness community, which is voiced by all
the daily papers with more or less posi
tiveness. It is felt that twenty years is too
long a time for subsidy to be paid, since
the probable early extension of the cable
to either Japan or Australia would at once
produce a large income. A subsidy would
be needed only while Honolulu was the
terminus.
It is even more seriousiy felt that it
would be an error to grant the proposed
company an exclusive right to land a cable
on Hawaiian territory from North Amer
ica, although that same concession has
been made to other proposed cable com
panies. It is becoming evident that the
time is very near at hand when cables will
be Jaid across the Pacific to both Australia
and Japan. Hawaii, being practically the
only landing-place for a cable on either
route near the American coast, has abso
lute control of the situation. This geo
graphical position gives Hawaii an enor
mous advantage, which should not be hast
ily given away to a corporation as a mo
nopoly, even with a prospect of hastening
cable communication by a year or two.
It seems probable that Colonel Spald
ing's proposal will meet at least with de
lay in its acceptance. Appearances are
this afternoon that the Legislature will
not approve it when brought before that
body next week.
The Council of State met to-day and
authorized pardons to be given on condi
tion of leaving the country, to two young
rebel officers serving long sentences, W.
H. C. Greig and Louis Marshall. These
prisoners are lying sick in the Queen's
Hospital, with recovery retarded by men
tal depression.
No reply has yet been made by the Gov
ernment to Minister Willis in the Dureel
case, the Marshal's report not being yet
ready for adoption.
A rumor that the British Commissioner
has made demands like that in Dureel's
case is not substantiated.
Hon. W. Nevins Armstrong, the chair
man of the Labor Commission, returned
last evening ou the Belgic from Japan,
where he has just spent six weeks in
special inquiries into the contract labor
question. He went on his own account,
and was not commissioned by this Govern
ment. Armstrong states that the Govern
ment of Japan is quite willing to have
regulations made by Hawaii requiring
Japanese laborers to return home on the
expiration of their contracts, provided that
such regulations apply equally to all na
tionalities. They will submit to no dis
crimination against Japanese laborers in
particular.
.Armstrong reports that Japan contem
plates an early establishment of steadier
lines via Honolulu, perhaps to San Diego,
to carry American cotton to Japan, and
Japan coals in return. Large numbers of
steamers employed in v/ar transit are now
lying idle awaiting the full settlement of
peace arrangements, and will probably
soon be employed in various Japanese
commercial lines.
Armstrong was in close communication
with various diplomatic persons and with
some Japanese officials. He believes that
Japan will have no more war. She will
probably yield to an occupation of Korea
by Russia, glad to have that power as a
buffer between herself and China, and
being quite unable to control and regulate
Korea. Skilled manufactures ?.re making
rapid progress in Japan, to the disad
vantage of other manufacturing countries.
As an example, small steel safes with al
phabetic combination locks, n 'My sold
for $40, are turned out in Ja an <>r $25.
There is every reason to expivi .eat de
velopment of Russian power on the coast
of China, which Japan will not seek to
prevent.
DEATH ON J. MOTT SMITH
Close of the Career of the
Noted Statesman of
Hawaii.
Distinguished as a Minister of Fi
nance and a Member of Three
Royal Cabinets.
HONOLULU, Hawaii, Aug. 10.— J. Mott
Smith, whose last public service was with
the annexation commission to Washing
ton, died suddenly to-day.
J. Mott Smith had been identified with
the Government of the islands since 1867.
Three times he was in the Cabinet. Liliuo
kalani made him Minister of Finance and
then the successor of H. A. P. Carter as
Minister Resident at Washington. He
was described as a wise counselor and a
shrewd diplomat. Admired for strength
of character, sound judgment and keen
discernment. In jirivate life he was very
generally esteemed for his social qualities.
He was born in New York, and after his
education was completed became a dentist.
He went to California in 1849 and came to
Honolulu in 1851. He was successful in
his profession here, and on account of his
ability soon drifted into political life. He
was first director of Government publish
ing. This was in 1867. During the follow
ing years he was sent to Washington as
charge d'affaires to advocate the reciproc
ity treaty, and his success in the American
capital, as a representative of the Hawaiian
Kingdom, is a matter of nistory.
The year following his return from
Washington — 1869 — he was appointed to
his first cabinet position by King
Kamehameha V, and as Minister of
Finance he controlled the pecuniary
affairs of the Government until the King's
decease. 1n*1873 he was appointed Presi
dent of the Board of Education by
Lunalilo I. In 1874 he was also appointed
a member of the Board of Education by
Kalakaua I. In addition to that position
he was also created a member of the
House of Nobles by the late King, nnd
served for several years in both these
capacities, besides being meanwhile a
member of the Privy Council of State.
In 1878 Dr. Mott Smith was appointed to
the Cabinet for the second time by King
Kalakaua, and officiated as Minister of the
Interior for three years. In 18S2, being se
lected by the Cabinet as an eligible man to
represent the Government, he was again
sent to Washington as resident commis
sioner to advocate the continuance of the re
ciprocity treaty then and yet in force, and to
assist in promoting Hawaiian interests gen
erally in the American capital. He resided
in Washington as Hawaiian Commissioner
for the ensuing four yoars, during which
time he also had charge of the Hawaiian
exhibit at the New Orleans Exposition
in 1885, and subsequently at the exposi
tion at Louisville.
In 1859 Dr. Mott Smith married Miss
Ellen Dominis Paty, a lady of American
birth, and daughter of Collector-General
Paty. Their union has been blessed with
seven children, three sons and four
daughters, all of whom were born in Hon
olulu. One daughter was but lately mar
ried. Two sons are now here, one having
arrived yesterday.
ROBBERS RAIDED A TOWN.
Two Bold Bandits Proceeded
to Hold Up the Entire
Population.
While Plundering a Store They
Were Shot At by a Detective,
Whom They Killed.
SAN ANTONIO, Tex., Aug. 17.— Two
robbers rode into the little town of Val
entine, in Presidio County, lust night and
proceeded to hold up the entire commu
nity. They cleared the streets by firing
at every one they could see. Then when
they thought that they had sufficiently
terrorized the population they proceeded
to the store of Kelsey & Co., which they
proceeded deliberately to plunder.
It was at this point that they met with
their first setback. Captain J. R. Ellsbury,
Southern Pacilic Railroad detective, ap
peared on the scene and began firing at
them. The robbers stopped their work in
the store and at once returned the tire. A
desperate fight occurred and bullets flew
thick. Finally a bullet struck Captain
Ellsbury. passing through his body and
killing him instantly.
The bravery displayed by Ellsbury had
aroused the other men of the town, and
the robbers, seeing danger ahead, mounted
their horses and struck out for the Mexi
can border at as rapid a rate as they
could go.
As Boon es possible word was sent to
Captain Hughes' company of rangers.
They arrived at the scene ot the shooting
early this morning and at once started
after the robbers. It is thought that there
is little chance of the men being caught,
as they were mounted on good horses and
were apparently familiar with the country.
Struck a JTrtP Church.
DETROIT, Mich., Aug. 17.— During a
thunderstorm here about noon to-day
lightning struck the United Presbyterian
Church, in process of erection, killing one
workman and injuring half a dozen others
more or less seriously.
LOYALTY OF GERMANS
Veterans Showed Their
Love of the Great
Fatherland.
UNITY OF THE EMPIRE.
Never Before Have There Been
Such Services on Noted
Battlefields.
HONOR FOR THE AMERICANS.
Those Who Went to Participate In
Memorial Exercises Shown
Special Favor.
fCable Letter to The United Press.]
BERLIN, Germany, Aug. 17.— Never
since the founding of the German empire
have there been such observances of the
anniversaries of the battles which led to
the establishment of German unity under
old Emperor William I as are now in
progress. Through the week veterans of
the wars have been streaming into Metz
from all parts of Germany to take part in
the services that are held annually at the
graves of those who fell in the Franco-
Prussian war. The train service which on
ordinary occasions is suflicient to carry all
those who attend the services was this
year found to be inadequate for the great
crowds attending, and many special trains
had to be run to accommodate the throngs
whose patriotism has been revived by
storios of deeds of the German army and
the more potent influence of the knowl
edge that the demonstrations are approved
of in certain high circles close to the
Emperor as being an offset to the be
havior of the French naval officers at the
recent celebrations in Kiel.
Germans, unlike certain of the French
people, are not continuously calling the
attention of the world to their love of
country, but the present celebration will
go far to prove that deep in the hearts of
the German people is a love for the
"Fatherland" that is fully, to say the
least, as intense as the love of "La Patrie"
which Frenchmen are so given to parad
ing before the nations. The week's dem
onstrations have not been intended to im
press upon France that she is a conquered
country, but are merely the outcome of
German love for and faith in the empire.
The graves of the German dead have
every year wreaths placed upon them by
the Society for the Decoration of Fallen
Warriors' Graves. August 14, the anni
versary of the battles of Colombey and
Corcelles, and August 16, the anniversary
of Ryonville and Mars la Tour, always
see members of the society and veterans
at the graves of the dead soldiers and
simple services are held. August 18, the
anniversary for St. Privat, Gravellotte and
Rezonville is also a day always observed
by the society. In passing, it may be said
that the French dead are also honored by
their oldtime admirers, their graves being
decorated equally with those of the Ger
mans. This year the influx of wreaths,
palm branches and oak and laurel leaf
crowns has been enormous. Conspicuous
among the gifr's to be placed on the graves
were a number of French penrl wreaths
and artificial flowers from French relatives
of some of the dead.
Twelve special trains, bearing Ger
man visitors to the battlefields around
Metz, arrived on Wednesday last, and
special trains have been pulling into the
city almost hourly since then. So great
was the influx of visitors and so great the
enthusiasm displayed that it was found
necessary to daily extend the official pro
grumme, and new ceremonies were agreed
upon by those having the celebration in
charge. Although August 18 is the real
anniversary of the battle of Gravellctle
the day was celebrated beforehand. The
Grand Puke of Baden dedicated to the
memory of Emperor William I a huge
granite block on the spot where the King
of Prussia looked on the fight which
shook the confidence of the great Yon
Moltke in the success of the German army.
The stone is erected under the historic
lime tree where the King sat on a ladder,
one end of which rested on a broken gun
carriage and the other on a dead horse,
when Yon Moltke at evening announced
that the victory was with his Majesty.
General Count yon. Hae.-eler, commander
of the Twelfth Army Corps, dedicated on
Friday morning at Bezonville with great
pomp a granite block to the memory of
Prince Frederick Charles. There are a
large number of German-American citi
zens, members of German warrior soci
eties, now here taking part in the celebra
tions of the battles in which they fought,
and many more are expected to arrive
shortly.
Those already here received special hon
ors from the cities of Bremen, Hamburg,
Dresden and L,eipsic. On September 1 the
German-Americans will parade before the
Emperor at Berlin on occasion of the dedi
cation of the Emperor Wilhelm Memorial
Church. These veterans will form in line
just outside the church along Kurfuersten
dammontheeve of Sedan day, and will
be given points of vantage in front of the
royai castle to witness the great '•tattoo"
of the guards that will be given there.
They wiil have a favored place on the
Teniplehoff field on September 2, and will
be sent with the German troops to attend
on September 9 the patrioric celebrations
at Lcipsic, where festival plays dealing
with patriotic subjects will be given in the
open air. Five hundred persons, inciud-*
ing noted artists and ladies and gentle
men and members of veteran societies,
will take part in the play?.
During the week there have been seven
huge mass-meetings of Socialists helfi in
Berlin to discuss the new agrarian ques
tion. Deputy Aver made a smart speech,
in the course of which he said it was in
teresting to see how Herr Bebel, who mer
cilessly assailed Deputy Vollmars last
autumn for his agrarian policy, was now
compelled to write a defense of this same
policy. He bewailed the tragic fate that
had overtaken Herr Bebel.
Louis Stern, the New York merchant
who was recently convicted of insulting
Baron yon Thuengen, Deputy Commis
sioner of the Kissengen Spa, and sentenced
to fifteen days' imprisonment with the al
ternative of paying a fine of 200 marks,
was in Berlin during the week and had an
interview with Hon. Theodore Runyon,
the American Embassador.. Aftenvaid
Mr. Stern went to Ostend. in Belgium. Mr.
Runyon told him he could not inter
fere in his case, but that he would pri
vately assist him by appealing for clem
ency to the repent of Bavaria.
The Berlin Board of Aldermen have de
cided that after this year there will be no
civic official celebration of Sedan day.
After sixty German engine-drivers, who
were on duty in the conquered province
during the war, gathered at Wurzburg, Ba
varia, and celebrated the anniversaries of
the battles, they sent a telegram of congrat
ulations and good wishes to Bismarck.
Emperor William will arrive at his castle
in the Metz district on October 15. On the
18th he will personally unveil the Woerth
monument. Empress Frederick, his
mother, and the South German veterans
will attend the ceremony.
A sugar bank will be founded in this city
for the purpose of assisting distressed re
finers and beet-root growers.
Chapman Colernan, ex-secretary of the
American Embassy, has arrived here. He
will remain for some time. Mrs. Brown,
widow of Senator Brown of Georgia, wici
ten young American ladies who have all
been visiting Russia, are now in Berlin on
the way back to the United States. Miss
Lita Herbert, daughter of the Hon. Hilary
Herbert, alter a visit to the Hon. Clifton
R. Breckinridge, the American Minister to
Russia, has arrived here, where she will
make a short stay.
Among the other Americans here are
Colonel Abbott of Georgia, Mrs. Richard
son of New York and G. G. Baldwin of
Cnicago. Mr. Ingersoll, manager of the
New York Life Insurance Company, and
Mr. McCliutock of the Mutual Insurance
Company, accompanied by their lawyer,
Charleton Lewis, are here in connection
with the action of the Prussian Govern
ment forbidding their companies to do
business in Prussia. S. W. Gilder of New
York and his son and Mr. Dekay, the
American Consul-General, will shortly
proceed to Herinsdorf to joiu their fami
lies.
MISS SHERWOOD'S CHARGE
Peculiar Controversy With
Relatives Over Her Father's
Estate.
Denied Admission to the Residence
of Her Accused Aunt and
Uncle.
OMAHA, Nebr., Aug. 17.— Miss Jessie
Sherwood of 32]4 North Fifteenth street
makes serious charges against her uncle
and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Kelly of
1104 Fifty-first street. Jessie Sherwood
was the only daughter of J. D. Sherwood,
who died at the residence of his sister, Mrs.
Kelly, on August 9. He left considerable
property. The young woman says:
"My father died and I was never noii
fied of his critical illness, and probably
would never have been informed had not
I been located by a detective who looked
me up at the solicitation of the Odd Fel
lows. I was grieved and shocked. Rumors
reached me that he had not died a natural
death and I was about to make arrange
ments to have the body exhumed. Father
had been suffering from cancer for a long
time and during the past live years had
made his home with my aunt.
"We never were friends. Most of my
life has been spent in convents, and a year
ago last June I was graduated from St.
Michael's Convent in New York. I re
mained in that city with friends until last
March, when I returned to Omaha to see
my father. I was given to understand that
my aunt had a contract with father to lake
care of him for some years at $20 a week.
If this contract is valid 1 will receive
nothing from the $5000 or $6000 that was
left by him. Father had two good farms
besides personal property.
'•Yesterday the Chief of Police detailed
detectives to go with me to the Kelly resi
dence to get the private papers of my
deceased father. We were refused admis
sion. I have not had the care of a mother
since I was a little girl. Years ago my
mother eloped with father's foreman and
took me with her. Father was granted a
divorce and I was given into his custody.
I have been with him but little during the
past tive years."
SHOT WELL IN THE DARK.
An Alarmed Druggist Killed a
Burglar by Firing Through
a Window.
After Sitting: Up AM Nigrht the Fam
ily Discovered the Nocturnal
Prowler's Body.
MURDOCK, Nebb., August 17.— At 3
o'clock this morning Harry V. McDonald,
a druggist, was awakened by a burglar
trying to get in his house.
Investigation proved the fact that a man
was trying to secure an entrance through
a north window to their bedroom.
Mr. McDonald asked who was there, but
received no answer and fired through the
window.
Mo further disturbance was heard and
the family remained up till daylight and
then retired for a few hours' sleep.
At 7 o'clock they awoke and looked out
and discovered the body of a man lying in
the yard, supposed to have received the
bullet fired by McDonald. The Coroner
has been notified and will hold an inquest.
SHOT DOW N BY TRAMPS.
An Officer Mortally Wounded During art
£ncounter at Toledo.
TOLEDO, Ohio, Aug. 17.— A fight took
place this morning in the Stockyard dis
trict in East Toledo in which a police offi
cer was fatally wounded. Officer Shaffer,
while patrolling hre beat, saw three tramps
who were acting in a suspicious manner.
He ordered them to move on, when one of
them suddenly drew a pistol and fired at
Shaffer. The bullet struck him, inflicting
a fatal wound.
The tramps fled, but the noise of the
shot attracted other officers to the spot,
and they started in pursuit. One of the
tramps was soon overpowered and taken
into custody. A search of the surround
ing premises resulted in the discovery of
the two others hiding in a barn. The offi
cers bringing them into the city had hard
work to control the great crowds of people
who followed and wno tried to assault the
prisoners.
Officer Shaffer was promptly removed to
a hospital. The doctor in charge, after an
examination, said that there was no chance
of his recovery.
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