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REPRESENTATIVES OF VENEZUELA AND THE ALLIED POWERS, WHO
V- HAVE ARRIVED AT AN AGREEMENT FOR A PEACEFUL SETTLE
:'• --MENT OF DISPUTED QUESTIONS BT THE HAGUE TRIBUNAL.
LIVERPOOL, Feb. 13.— Premier Balfour,
In a speech , at a luncheon given by the
Conservative Club here to-day, declared
the British - Government had no choice
but to take action against Venezuela. The
Ministers had shbwn y no undue haste, no
greed for, money and no Inhumanity. The
United - States, h$ said, . had been taken
BALFOUR PROFFERS ADVICE.
New Honors for Cardinal Martinelli.
ROME, Feb. 13.— The Pope has appoint
ed Cardinal j Martinelli to be a member
of "the Congregation of Kites.
Continued on Page 2, Column 2.
that after a heated political discussion
General Cribe-Urib« shot and killed Gen
eral Juan Valderrama, the commander
in-chief of the Colombian forces.
Newspaper Publishes Story That H*
Killed Commander in Chief of
Colombian Forces.
PANAMA. Feb. 13.-The Porvenir. a
newspaper published In Cartagena, says
OENEEAX UBIBE-TXRIBE
IS REPORTED STTLI, ALIVB
The foresolng dispatch U In conflict
with the report brought to Kingston. Ja
maica, February 8 by the steamer Para
from Colon, according to which General
"Uribe-TJritoe committed suicide on Janu-
PARIS, Feb. 13.— Gaulols pays Miss
Gladys Deacon, daughter of the late
Edward Parker Deacon, the American
who shot and killed a Frenchman named
Abellle at Cannes In 1K)2, recently under
went an operation to improve the contour
of her nose, the operation consisting of
subcutaneous injection of parafflne. This
resulted in necrosis of the nasal bones,
from which Miss Deacon is now recov
ering elowly at Biarritz.
Hiss Gladys Deacon Submits to an
Operation in Paris and Disas
trous Results Follow.
BEAUTIFIES HER, NOSE
AT COST OF HER HEALTH
BUDAPEST, Feb. 13.— A terrific hur
ricane visited this town to-day and did
enormous damage. The roof was blown
off St. Elizabeth's Church, five statues
of eaints around the church were thrown
to the ground and other works of art were
shattered. All the bridges are impassable.'
Sixty persons were Injured.
Hurricane Injures Sixty^Persons.
Despondent Artist Commits Suicide.
N'EW 1OHK. 1 ob. J. Teg-
KiT i:,£ n . artist wh '^e pictures have been
exhibited at tho Academy of De«!im
took chloroform to-day and died soon
afterward at the New York Hospital He
Buffered from Bright'* disease and be
lieved that recovery was impossible.
Governor L"ai!oy and th* State Board of
Clarities are making an investigation to
night, and the two guards are being
v.atchfd by offlcen pending further devel
opments.
TOPEKA, Kans.. Feb. 13.— Amos A.
llaiwi>.;;, aged 50 years, an inmate of the
Kansas A±ylum for the Insane, suddenly
died this afternoon as a result of a se
\rre beating alleged to have been given
liim by Earl New and M. W. Peterson,
two guards. An examination of the man's
body ir.a<i«j soon after his death disclosed
r.othlng unusual. Then the gardener of
ih*> Institution made the statement that
be had seen the two cuards throw J the
oid man down on the floor and kick him
until he was unconscious. Another ex
amination made then disclosed the fact
that several ribs were broken and that the
body •wfip discolored.
IKSANX ASYLUM GUARDS
ARE ACCUSED OF MURDER
Stolen Jewelry Is Found Under Barn
ALBUQUERQUE. N. M.. Feb. 13 -The
prcater part of the $10,000 worth of watches
«nd jewelry stolen from the safe of S
Vann # &, Co., jewelers, of Albuquerque
November 20. 1IW2. was found to-day under
an old barn by two boys who were hunt
...c for ergs.
LITTLE ROCK. Ark.. Feb. 13.— The bit
ter controversy between Governor Jeff
Davis on one side and Attorney General
George W. Murphy, Secretary of State J.
W. Crockett, Auditor T. C. Monroe and
Agricultural Commissioner H. T. Brad
ford on the other culminated to-day in
the adoption by. the House of Represen
tatives of a resolution instructing the
Ways and Means Committee to make a
thorough investigation of Governor Da
vis' social conduct since he became Gov
ernor two years ago. The direct cause
of the action of to-day was the charges
preferred by Attorney General Murphy In
a speech heard by 1S00 persons last night.
Among other things the Attorney Gen
eral said:
"I arraign him before you. Senators and
Representatives, as I shall arraign him
publicly before all the people of Arkansas.
I arraign him as a man not worthy of
your confidence and unfit for longer oc
cupancy of the gubernatorial chair of
your State. I arraign him as destitute
alike of honor and of pride. !
"Everywhere In his official course you
will find he has dealt with the money
placed at his disposal for the conduct of
the State's affairs as though it was his
own. Will you say to your sister States
that .the people of your commonwealth
arraign him who paraded himself as your
Governor, violating at every • step alike
the laws of honor, of decency and of pro
priety?" ' - ;-•-•,;, .•-
Arkansas Legislature to
Investigate His
Conduct.
RUBBER TIRED RIG USED
BY ROBBERS LOCATED
Police Are Now Searching for th.2
Men Who Hired the Team in
Butte.
BUTTE. Mont., Feb. 13.— The officers
believe they have located the rubber-tired
rig used by the robbers of the Burling
ton train. They are searching for the
man who hired a carriage at Sloan &
McGovern's livery stable the night of
the robbery and returned it within an
hour and a half after the robbery. The
stable boy said that the horses were-cov
ered with foam and appeared to have
been driven at breakneck speed.
Two more arrests of suspects were
made by the police to-day.
Hague tribunal shall have decided
whether it shall be distributed without
preference among the claimant nations,
or whether, the allied powers of Great
Britain. Germany and Italy shall receive
preferential payments. • N »
SETTLEMENT WITH ITALY.
Italy by her protocol . gains Immediate
payment of her ttrst-rdass- claims without
further adjudication as soon as the joint
commission in Caracas shall have passed
on the remainder of her claims.. In round
numbers the adjudicated ¦ Italian claims
amount to jr)60,C00, from which will be
subtracted /the $27,500 to be paid sixty
days from the signing of the first pro
tocol. The Italian EmbassadQr also has
obtained for his Government the insertion
in the . protocol of an agreement that
Venezuela will Insert- in her treaty with
Italy the. "favored nation" clause pos
sessed by the other nations. Great Brit
ain has left her protocol unchanged since
it was approved by the London Foreign
Office some days ago.
It is stipulated by the protocols that the
claims of the creditor nations shall be
adjudicated by Joint commissions, to con
sist in each instance of a -Venezuelan. . a
representative of the claimant power
and. in case of disagreement, an umpire,
to be named by the President of the
United States.
The protocols in providing for reference
of the question of preferential treatment
to The" Hague do not state In detail the
methods of procedure by which the case
is to bo laid before tnat" tribunal. This
will be done in a second set of protocols,
the preparation of which will begin at
once. It is provided, however, that not
Venezuela alone, but all- the other na
tions, shall be permitted to appear before
the tribunal in opposition to the allies*
claim for preferential treatment.
On the signing of the protocols to-night
congratulations were exchanged by the
four negotiators. Bowen then dispatched
a brief cablegram to President Castro in
forming him of tho signature of the pro
tocols providing for the immediate raising
of the blockade. C '."*.>
Tf W Q ASHINGTON. Feb. 13.— Her-
B a jfbtrt W. Bowen, Venezuela's
B B 1 representative in the peace
•' negotiations in Washington.
last nig-ht signed with each
of the allies' representatives " a protocol
providing for the immediate raising of
the Venezuelan blockade and for the
reference of the question of preferential
treatment of the claims of the allies
against Venezuela to The Hague arbitra
tion tribunal. The final formalities oc
curred at the British Embassy.
At 11:30 o'clock last night Herbert Deer
ing, first secretary of the British Em
bassy, announced that the British pro
tocol had Just been signed and.that-the
signature of the Italian and German
protocols would follow in . the order
named. The Italian protocol was signed
at 11:50 and the German protocol at 12:10
o'clock, the presence of Baron Sternberg
at the White House musicale delaying a
final close to the negotiations until after
midnight. The British protocol was in
English, the Italian in -Italian and the
German In German and English. ] Bowan
signed In duplicate for Venezuela, Sir
Michael Herbert for Great Britain, Signor
Mayor des Planches for Italy and Baron
Speck von Sternberg for Germany.
BLOCKADE ENDS TO-DAY.
Immediately on the signing of the last
protocol cables were . dispatched ' to Lon
don, Berlin and Rome announcing the
fact. It is expected that the commanders
of the blockading fleet within the next
twenty-four hours will receive their or
ders to withdraw their vessels at once.
By the provision of these preliminary
protocols, which have required more than
three weeks of constant negotiations,
Venezuela makes two distinct gains— the
immediate raising of a blockade, from
which she has been suffering for some
weeks, and the" return of all her vessels,
war and merchant, which have been cap
tured by the allied fleet.
Great Britain. Germany and Italy re
ceived advance payments of £5300 each.
Great Britain receiving- her payment on
the signature of the protocol and Ger
many and Italy within- thirty and sixty
days from date. Germany, in addition,
will receive five monthly payments until
the full amount paid her in advance ag
gregates $340,000. As a guaranty for the
satisfaction of their claims Bowen 'pledges
the. allies a share with the other creditor
nations in 30 per cent of the customs re
ceipts of; the two ports of La, Guaira and
Puerto Cabello. . This percentage will be
set aside beginning March 1 and retained
in the Venezuelan treasury until \ The
THENS. Feb. 13. -The Greek
MiJfc Government possesses proof
~W M that emissaries of Bulgarian
committees are. endeavoring to
enlist the services of Greeks and Mace
donians living In Greece and to Induce
them to cross into Macedonia from the
Greek frontier in large bodies. Great ef
forts are being made to capture these
emissaries, all traces of whom have dis
appeared.
COLOGNE, Feb. 13.-The Cologne Ga
zette to-day, in an article under head of
"The Art of Provoking a "War," asserts
that reports of Impending warlike prepa
rations owing to the Macedonian troubles
are wholly false. Th© paper maintain*
that European diplomacy Is responsib.a
for the present scare. It says Turkey
can easily put down any little war that
may arise in certain regions and needs
no assistance to do this. The article con
cludes:
"In Macedonia there is much room for
improvement, but any one who shrinks
from the possible sacrifice of thousands
of human, lives should enter strong pro
test against such provocations to war, as
these may develop entanglements, th*
end of which no one can foresee."; ¦*,*.. "'^'
The article, evidently inspired, is re
garded as being directed at Russia and
Austria.
LONDON, Feb. 11— The Times' Berlin
correspondent says that tha Macedonian
question Is viewed by the Berlin Foreign
Office with an anxiety born of a desire
to prevent at all costs anything like a
crisis In the relations of Turkey with tha
other powers. Everything is denied that
would seem to indicate unusual military
activity in European Turkey or in neigh
boring states. Reproaches are even ad
dressed to European diplomacy for cre
ating a general nervousness by employ
ing needlessly alarming languaje.
7 HE Pacific Mail Company's liner
' Acapulco, which arrived yester
" day from Panama and way
ports, was at Amapola, Hondu
ras, January 29, but had little
communication with the shore. The offi
cers of the Acapulco learned at Amapola
and other. Central American ports enough
to make them believe in the imminence of
a general mixup of Central American re
publics.
When the Acapulco was at Amapala.
Bonilln, who claims to have been elected
President of Honduras on January 15, In
place of Sierra, had fortified the town and
the day after the Acapulco left, January
20, was expecting GCO Salvadoreans from
La Union. These fighting men of Sal
vador Bonilla had enlisted to help him
hold the Presidential chair. The Somo
tombo. an apology for a war vessel,
but the navy of the republic of Honduras,
T7 & s at Acajutla wfien the Acapulco was
there. She was on her way. It was said,
from Corinto to Amapala with arms and
ammunition for the aid of Bonilla.
The ' Acapulco's officers heard rumor*
of a coming dark time for Guatemala.
President Cabrera of Guatemala, the ru
mor was, recently notified President Rega
lado of . Salvador that part of the lat
ter's people were In revolt and were ex
tending their field of operations to Guate
malan territory., Cabrera advised Rega
lado to put down the revolt before It be
came more serious. Regalado responded
curtly that if Cabrera would look after
Guatemala he would be. doing all that
was expected of him and that if at any
time he found. that task beyond his pow
er he (Regalado) -would visit Guatemala
with some troops and teach him a les
son.
There is a strong feeling, it is said,
against Guatemala and all along the coast
there Is momentary expectation of a dem
onstration by the combined forces of Nic
aragua, Salvador anil Honduras agaist
Guatemala.! ''-:\.','
Fernando Sanchez, Minister of War of
Nicaragua, was a passenger on the Aca
pulco from Corinto to Acajutla. His des
tination, he said, was Amapala and the
object I of his visit merely to represent
liis government at the inauguration of
President Bonilla.
The Acapulco met the American squad
ron on the morning of j February 12 off
Hueneme. They were in company, head
ing south and sailing abreast of each
other, with the New York In the middle.
MAIL CARRIERS LOST
IN THUNDER MOUNTAIN
Snow Is Thirty Feet Deep in Places
and There Is No Hope of
Finding Them.
BUTTE. Mont., Feb. IX— Advices have
reached here from Placerville, Idaho, that
two Thunder Mountain mall-carriers have
been lost in the mountains and all hope
of their being alive has been abandoned.
Charles Hagena was the regular carrier
and was accompanied by another carrier
on this trip whose name is unknov/n.
Three carriers have arrived and they re
port snow an average of eighteen feet
deep and in some places thirty-five feet
deep. They report the death of two un
known prospectors, who were caught in
a enowslide. The cold Is intense. No
news has been had of Hagena and his
companion for three weeks.
Central Ameri
cans to Begin
Strife.
Bulgarians Are
Enlisting Serv
ices of Greeks.
DEPUTY DENOUNCES
THE FRENCH CABINET
Uproar Caused by Charge That Min
istry Is Implicated in Hum
bert Affair.
PARIS. Feb. 13.— An exciting incident
occurred in the Chamber of Deputies to
day, v.-hen Maurice Binder. Nationalist,
roujrht to interpellate Minister of Justice
Yallr on the Humbert affair. The Dep
uty declared that suspicion had long been
directed against the Cabinet, over which
presided that "weathercock Combes."
A scene of great disorder followed this
Statement, the members of the Left de
manding the removal of Binder. Premier
Comtios sought to pain recognition, but
as Binder continued to shout at the top
of hia voice Combes, Valle and the other
Ministers retired from the house, the Left
party applauding and the Right party
liipsir.g.
The President, Eourgeois, then consult
ed with the Chamber, which censured
Kinder. When he attempted to resume
his fipecch the President suspended the
fitting. The Deputy continued his defiant
speech after the session was resumed, but
he was finally silenced by the President's
threat to cause his removal from the
Chamber.
Va!!e made a brief rejoinder to the ef
fect that his accusers were defenders cf
the Humbert's, and an interpellation on the
tubject was then postponed until after
the bufisret was passed.
WAR PHEPARATIOMS
GO FORWARD APACE
PAT CROWE IS REPORTED
TO BE LIVING IN ENGLAND
Writes That He Will Return to
Omaha if Guaranteed Immu
nity From Arrest.
OMAHA, Neb., Keb. 13.— J. J. Crowe of
Council Bluffs, la., has received a letter
from England, stating that Pat Crowe, his
brother, alleged to have Jbeen connected
¦with the kidnaping- of Eddie Cudahy, is
now in Liverpool. The letter states that
Pat is employed as a solicitor for a whole
sale house and is receiving $200 per month
salary.
In writing the relative eays that when
Pat left this country he went direct to
England, where under an assumed name
he enlisted in the English army and was
Bent to South Africa. Upon the close of
the war he returned to England and se
cured his present employment. The infor
mation is also conveyed that Pat Crowe
is ready to return to Omaha if he is guar
anteed immunity from prosecution.
Special Dii-rateh to The Call
LONDON, Feb. 14— According to the
Express a warrant has been issued for
the strrest of Count Maurice de Bos
dari on a charge of forging and uttering
bills purportins to have been signed by
J. Pierpont Morgan. The Count had
dealings with Morgan in connection with
the sale of valuable pictures. It is not
a fact, as supposed, that the forgeries
were detected in time to prevent the ne
gotiation of bills. Certain well-known
business men of London lost nearly 00,000
pounds in the transactions.
The Count lived in an expensive flat in
the west of London and was regarded
as delightful socially. He left suddenly
about two weeks ago and detectives who
went to his flat failed to find him. The
furniture was subsequently removed by
a Sheriff"? officer. The Count's wife and
throe children went to the country after
the furniture was taken.
Count de Bosdari is a member of a dis
tinguished Italian family. He lived for
a while in Constantinople, where he made
the acquaintance of the British Embas
sador and other prominent men. Through
them', wlier, li<f VkTiie^la' EngTalid/''- he "en
tered the highest society. H« has genu
ine and excellent taste In art, and he
started to purvey to millionaires and par
venues, many of whom were apparently
ignorant of art. The. Count accumulated
wealth. He had been in business some
time before he met Morgan. The latter,
the Express says, pays for his art pur
chases only at .stated periods, the dealers
having to await these dates. Bosdari, it
is alleged, forged Morgan's indorsements
to bills which the Count save in payment
for certain alleged purchases on behalf of
Morgan, and the latter's system being
known to the receiver of the bills, no
suspicion was aroused.
It is further alleged that a letter was
forged stating that Morgan was indebted
to the Count in large sums on account
of art purchases. It being necessary to
secure at least two additional names to
each bill, the Count procured these among
his friends: hence the heavy implication
of others in the loss.
Morgan's supposed Flsnature made it
easy for the Count to obtain the help of
friends. Some of them are so rich that
their losses will hardly affect them. One,
however, will be completely ruined.
GOVERNOR
JEFF DAVIS
UNDER FIRE
Special Dispatch to The Call
BERLIN, Feb. 13.— Dr. Mazzoni, one of
the Popes physicians, in an interview
with the correspondent of the Tageblatt
ridiculed the reports that the Pone is in
declining health. He said the Pope was
truly a phenomenon.
"He grows older in years," said Dr.
Mazzoni, "but paradoxically seems to
gain in vigor every year. He will live to
be 103 years old or more. Even then he
will enjoy life as to-day. He has the con
stitution of a young man. All of his or
gans are in perfect working order.
"His Holiness leads a regular life, takes
very little alcohol, reads without specta
cles, walks without a cane and dresses
and undresses without assistance. He
works about fourteen hours daily, and
one can hardly believe he will ever die."
Special D:?p2teh to The Call
ST. PAUL. Feb. IS.— The will of Sin.
Cornelia Day Wilder Appleby, only daugh
ter of the late Amherst Wilder, a well
kiown millionaire railroad contractor,
r.as made public to-day. Under the terms
of her father's will she had received the
Income from two-thirds of his estate, the
¦whole being valued at more than $3,000,000,
»nd one-third of the entire estate came to
her on her marriage six years ago, so
that the amount covered by her will prob
fcbly exceeds $1,000,000.
Alter providing an income of $10,000 per
ernum during the lifetime of her hus
band, Dr. T. W. V. Appleby, and making
» number of minor bequests, it is pro
vided that the bulk of the large estate be
Invested for the benefit of the worthy
r»or of the city of St. Paul, without re
pjrd to color or religious belief and inde
pendently of any organized charities, hos
] itals or other institutions, with a central
Bdmini5tration, from which the "Amherst
Ji. Wilder Charity'' shall be carried on.
Trained nurses are to be regularly cm
ployed to minister to the needs of the
*-orthy poor. It is provided that no poll
r-oian or politic official who roay~T>e El
T'-'Utieian shall have anything to do with
the administration of the charity.
Mrs. Applcby devoted much of her time
to the care of the poor of this city, and
*'ime such charity was In furtherance of
a clause in her father's will. If Mrs.
Wilder, widow of Amherst H. Wilder,
rOds her portion to the proposed charity,
as is understood to be her Intention, the
endowment will be dose to $3,000,000.
Detectives Seeking Scion
of a Distinguished
House.
Fund Will Ultimately Ap
proximate Five Mil
lion Dollars.
Reports of His Patron's
Failing Vitality Are
Ridiculed.
London Business Men
Lose Thirty Thou
sand Pounds.
Declares the Aged Pon
tiff Is a Physical
Phenomenon.
Provides Endowment
for the Relief of
Distress.
Vatican Physician
Tells of Leo's
Health.
Noble Italian Uses
the Signature of
Morgan.
Mrs. Appleby's Will
Cheers St. Paul's
Indigent.
BOLD FORGER
IS FOUND TO
BE A COUNT
SAYS POPE
WILL LIVE
A CENTURY
LEAVES HER
FORTUNE TO
CITY'S POOR
Bo wen Gains Con*
cessions for the
Coerced J^a*
Hon.
VENEZUELAN PEACE PROTOCOLS ARE SIGNED IN WASHINGTON
AND TO-DAY THE BLOCKADE OF REPUBLICS COAST WILL END
PRICE FIVE CE^TS.
SAN FBAISTCISCO, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1903.
r OLUME XCIII— NO. 76.
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