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TO QUELL THE BOER RAIDERS IN
VADING THE CAPE
COLONY
CAPI DUTCH AIE MSAFFECIEf)
AND MAY RISE IX ARMS AGAINST
THE ITRITISH AT ANY
MOMENT
KITCHENER THERE HIMSELF
Arduous Work in Store for Eng
l:i>:d'N Conintaiidcr-fn-Chief to
Hrinji the War to Suc
cessful Issue.
LONDON, Dec. 26.—The posifon of
Cape Colony is hanging in the be-lance
according to the Morning L'osf.s Cape
Town correspondent, and everything de
pends upon the quantity of ammunition
in ■ possession of the disloyal
Dutch residents, 100 of whom have join
ed the Boers in the Phlllipstown district
alone. Energetic measures have been
taken to stem the invasion, but there
is questionably danger that parties of
Boers will get through into parts of th-3
colony and gradually raise the wholo
Cape in rebellion. Reinforcements can
arrive none too soon. Most of the dis
patches from Cape Town describe the
raiders are doing little harm and being
happily enclosed by Lord Kitcheners
command.
KITCHENER ON THE GROUND.
Lord Kitchener is in the heart of the
disaffected district. He has the advan
tage of beirg personally acquainted with
local conditions. Last March he super
vised the suppression of the ri.-ing which
occurred then. He is bringing down
thousands of troops from the north.
The Standard's Cape Town correspond
ent says the loyalists demand that mar
tial law shall be proclaimed through
out Cape Colony, but adds:
"Such a step is now impossible owin,?
to the lack of sufficient troops to en
force it."
The correspondent of the Daily Mall
at Cape Town says: "The pro-13oer
press is singularly quiet. They have
been made uneasy by the promptness
and thoroughness of the military actions,
but reports from various parts of the
western provinces foreshadow perilous
possibilities.
ONLY WAITING A LEADETI.
"A responsible- authority vrho recently
made a tour of the colony declares thit
90 per cent of the Dutch are simply
waiting the appearance of a resourceful
leader to rebel.' .
Civil railway traffic has been suspend
ed largely in all parts of the colony and
the movements of both the Boers and
the British are almcfet unknown in Cape
Town.
It appears that one Boer column at
tacked Steynsburg but was repulsed and
lied, entrenching- itself in the mountains.
Another Boer commando captured' a
party of police at Venterstad. Mounted
colonial troops surprised 300 Boers 15
miles from Burghersdorp, Dec. I'M, and
after a brisk interchange of volleys re-:
tired with a loss of two men.
The Cape Town correspondent of the
Times telegraphs that scarcely any Cape
Colony colonists have joined the In
vaders.
BCESLS NOT YET WHIPPED.
Doininuut in <lie Transvaal On tattle
of tlio Chief Cities.
BERLIN, Dec. 25.— German volunteers
just back from the Transvaal confirm
the report that the South African situa
tion is most serious for the English.
They say with the exception of Pretoria
and Johannesburg, the whole of the
Transvaal and the largest part of the
Orange Free. State are in the hands
of the Boers. The Boer army is stronger
than the English desire to have known
and it is spread over the whole theater
of the v.ar.
Germans are unable to understand how
the English government is able to
withhold the entire truth of the situa
tion. It is believed here that England
will never be able to conquer the Boers,
even if Mr. Kruger should make peace
on his private responsibility, for the
Boer commanders in the field are the
only persons that have any ultimate au
thority.
Through going to Europe, Mr. Krujjer
has lost all the respect and sympathy of
the Boers, and his taking of J2S,(KK>,OCfI
wiih him bar, not increased his popu
larity. His wife and his ether relatives
in South Africa, however, are well treat
ed by the English.
It is stated on first-class authority
here that the Boers have plenty of am
munition, arms an,l provisions, but that
they need men and horses, and that they
have received offers of aid from the
Afrikanders in Cape Colony, who have
iffended by Lord Kitchener's brut
al course.
The news is confirmed that the British
soldiers are tired out and ha!f starving,
while their officers take the best of the
provisions and ether supplies. The Ger
mans do not believe that England can
overcome the Boers, and the son of a
West Pruss'an land owner, who took sicie;
■with the Boers, reports that the British
ran no longer afford even to keep prison
ers.
COXFIIJEXCE IX KITCHEXER.
Believed He Will Crash the Doers
in Cape Colony.
NEW TORK, Dec. 25.—A dispatch to
the Tribune from London, say.?: The
English Christmas comes this year with
holly and mistletoe, but with no rue. Thi
work In South Africa is unfinished, but
there is no sense of humiliation in the
unexpected reverses, and no bewilder
ment over the holding up o f the British
flrmy at the three points of attack and
the failure to accomplish the relief of the
starving garrisons. The news that th#
theater of war is meager and what there
is points to a gradual breaking down of
resources in the Boc-r resistance. It is
mainly a problem of re-mount and relays
of horses. The infantry cannot bring the
war to a close by sitting tight on the
railways and in the chief towns. Th«
FOlJj^ J3APLY WOLINpEp -
at VEI{GE^ES r 111
CARBONDALE, 111., Dec. 25.—At Ver
frennes, a small station on the Illinois
Central railroad in this county, today,
Joe and Jake Davidson, brothers, became
Involved in a quarrel with Henry Fox.
a prosperous farmer, during which Joe
Davidson shot Fox in the abdomen.
Other shots were fired which probably
fatally wounded a man named Poepyatt,
n bystander. The brothers at once fled
end a small posse was sent after them.
THE ST.PAUL GLOBE
Boer guerillas must be hunted down and
this can be done only by supplying the
mounted force with droves pf horses for
riding- hard ami last oveFihe ve:idt. The
war office has never been able to compre
hend the necessity for purchasing horses
on an unprecedented scale for operation
in South Africa.
Private advices indicate that railway
and telegraph communication between
Cape Town and the North has baen sus
pended, partly by the operations of the
Boer raiders, and partly by the heavy
rains and this fact may account for the
silence of the wires. Considerable anxie
ty as to the situation in Cape Colony is
ytill said to,prevaij in military circles in
Cape Town, but here there is the fullest
confidence in the ability of L,ord Kitch
ener who is now on the spot, to crush
the marauding commandoes. The Boers
are not in sufficient strength to seriously
interfere with the British lines
of communication, and any damage
that they may nave done to railway and
telegraph lines will no doubt be quickly
repaired.
TRAIX SERVICE RESTORED.
Damage to Railway by tlu* Boers
Wr.s Overstated.
CAPE TOWN, Dec. 25.—Regular rail
way service between Cape Town ami
De Aar has been restored. The report
of the destruction of a bridge south of
De Aar turns out to be incorrect; cnly
a culvert was damaged. Trains are run
ning from De Aar to Kimber'.ey irregular
ly. There are considerable delays cite
where as the result of heavy rains.
,MES FROM NEW ZEALAND.
Colony Will Reinforce Its South
African Contingent.
WELLINGTON, N". Z., Dec* 25.—The
government has asked the governor, of
earl of Ranfurly, to inform Mr. Joseph
Chamberlain, the secretary of state for
the colonies, that it does not wish ths
New Zealand- contingent in .South Africa
to be diminished, that drafts will be for
warded to fill the ranks and that addi
tional mounted men will be sent.
BRITISH IN BRITTSTOWN.
Kitchener Reports the Boers Are on
the Run..
LONDON, Dec. 25.—Lord Kitchener,
telegraphing to the war office under date
of Naauwpoort, Dec..24, 9 a. m., reports:
"Thornycroffs mounted infantry have
occupied Brittstown without opposi'.i n.
The Boers retirtd to the north in tha
direction of-Prieska. They will b^fol
lowed up." j
"CAPE TO CAIRO."
Cecil Rhodes' Telegraph Line Is Be-
ing Extended.
LONDON, Dec. 26.—A dispatch from
Durban to a news agency here announces
that the Cape to Cairo telegraph line is
now in operation to a point fifty milss
north of Kasangi arid 100 miles beyond
the southern end of Lake Tangankani.
BATTLE IN PROGRESS.
Boers and British Are Fighting Near
De Aar. ■
CAPE TOWN, Dec. 25.—Fighting is go
ing on near De Aar. Particulars are un
cbtainable. Two hundred Boers have left
Prittstown after commandeering all sup
plies available.
MARQUETTE'S REMAINS
MILWAUKEE -CLAIMS TO HAVE THE
ONLY SIMON-PURE ARTICLE.
MILWAUKEE, Wis., Dec. 26.—Surprise
was occasioned in this city by, the report
ed discovery of the supposed bones of
Father Marquette at Franktort, Mich.
It has been generally supposed for the
past twenty years that the remains of
Father Marquette are in possession of
Marquette college, this city. They were
located by Father Jacker, a n Indian mis
sionary, in 1878, at St. Ignaee, which
Father Marquette founded in lb"7l. Fatne r
Jacker found the ruins of the chapel, and
digging beneath the altar's site discovered
the relics. They were sent to Marquette
college, which was then being built. A
celeb:ation was held at St. Ignace in Aug.
ust, ISTS, on account of Father Jacker'a
discovery. ' ■ -<■
President A. F. Burrowes, of Mar
quette college, said today:
"I saw the .dispatches, and I shall be
interested in the disclosure of the proofs
said to be in the ha.nds of the Michi
gan State Historical society. All priests
are buried in their vestment**. Still the
skull, may be all that is claimed for it.
It is not absolutely certain that the Mar
quette relics in poss.es.sjon of the college
are authentic. Father Jacker, who dis
covered them at 'St. 'Ignaee; gave his
reasons for believing them to be so, and
they have been accepted as probably
true."
SHOT DOWN A? HIS DOOR
HEAVY STOCKHOLDER IX BISCUIT
TRUST MVHDBHED.
ST. JOSEPH, Mo., Dec. 25.—Frank
Richardson, a wealthy business man oi
this city and Savannah, Mo., was mur
dered at his home in Savannah last
night. Tonight it was discovered that a
stranger followed him from town ar.d
shot him in the back of the head. They
had quarreled and Mrs. Richardson
heard the stranger say: "Well has it
come to this?'" She heard a pistol shot
and her husband entered the house and
fell dead. Richardson was the brother
oi' John D. Richardson, the general man
ager of the biscuit trust. The dead man
was a stockholder in the business.
BOUTELLE TO RESIGN.
WILL, GIVE UP HIS SEAT IX CON-
GRESS MARCH 4.
"WASHINGTON, Dec. 25.—The resigna
tion of Capt. Charles A. Boutelle, of
Bangor, Me., as a member of the house
for the Fifty-seventh congress, will be
tendered about March 4, according to an
understanding with President McKinley.
The resolution passed by congress a few
days ago through the efforts of Senators
Hale and others of the Maine delegation,
authorizing the appointment .of Capt.
Boutelle to the retired list of the navy
with the rank of captai^ will be effect
ive before that time. The president, how
ever, will not make the appointment un
til after the resignation from the house.
A few miles from town three men named
Tippey, C~ane and Holt, overtook the
brothers and demanded their immediate
surrender. A running fight took place
and both the brothers were wounded,
one being shot through the eye and prob
ably fatally injured, while the other wa?
badly wounded in the shonlder. Th'jf
were captured and tonight were place<"« in
the county jail.'*" It is* thought at least
three »f the wouncted men will die.
WEDNESDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 26, 1900.
111 WIN
POLICE WORKING HARD TO ROUND
UP CUDAHY KID
NAPERS
ire wm n or Mr Mm
IS THE OPINION OF THE OF
FICIALS OF THE LOCAL
FORCE
HAVE FOUND THE BAY PONY
Was Used by the Criminal* the Night
Of the 'Kidnaping — Animal
Wa» at Pacific Junc
tion, 10.
OMAHA, Neb., Dec. 25.—Clews that
may develop a solution of the Cudahy
kidnaping mystery were discovered yes
terday. The little bay pony used by the
kidnapers was found, together with a
pair of trousers worn by one of the kid
napers, as well as the be-ribboned lan
tern by whose light Edward A. Cudahy
was guided to the spot where he left
the $25,000 in gold that ransomed his
stolen son. Information gathered by the
police seemed to center upon Pat Crowe
as one of the kidnapers. Another sus
psct is Frank, alias "Reddy," Devine,
while still a third is D. Allie, arrested
at Fort Dodge, 10., because of his pos
session of $4,000 in gold. Allie escaped,
however, from the lowa authorities be
fore detectives from Omaha could arrive
to attempt his identification. Seeming
evidence that he is one of the men is
LORD SALISBURY—"As a Piece of American Humor
This Treaty Isn't So Bad.- _e hlcago Record .
found in the fact that the kidnapers'
pony was found in lowa.
PONY FOUND AT PACIFIC JUNC-
The little bay pony which the kidnap
ers used in running to and fro from the
Schneiderwind cottage where young 1
Cudahy was imprisoned was found at
Pacific Junction, 10. As soon as the
find was reported Chief of Police Dona
hue put himself in communication with
the marshal at Pacific Junction. He
learned that th? description of the ani
mal tallied exactly with that of the ani
mal ridden to McGlynn's livery barn by
the man who telephoned to the Cudahy
residence regarding the letter left in the
Cudahy yard. The ferryman who took
the pony and its rider across the Mis
souri river on his boat Thursday after
noon sent word to Chief Donahue that
he was able to give a first-rate descrip
tion of the man who rode the pony. An
omcer was immediately dispatched to
Pacific Junction, with instructions to
bring the pony back and to gather all
information possible.
TROUSERS MADE FOR LARGE MAN.
About 6 o'clock last evening an officer
arrived at the office of the chief of police
with a pair of old trousers found in the
barn at Pacific Junction in which the
pony had been fed and in which barn
the Mexican saddle and briddle u-?ed had
been found. The trousers were in the
haymow, and there was evidence that the
man had slept there one night, probibly
Thursday night. The trousers were made
of blue-black worsted goods, thirty-three
inches in length and thirty-eight-inch
waistband. They were old and ragged.
The buttons bore the name of Meyer
Hellman, a man who quit the clothing
business here ten years ago or more.
In discussing this find Chief Donahue
said he regarded it as importmt, but fc^
was stiU of the opinion the kidnapers
were either in or near Omaha.
QUESTION AS TO DEVINE AND
Frank Devine is a suspect, but as ins
the case of Pat Crowe, the suspicion
is based entirely upon the fact that Dc
vine's appearance is somewhat like the
description of one of the kidnapers.
Devine has been guilty of a number o?
crimes, and is what is known as an "all
around crook." Devine's description,
as well as that of Pat Crowe, has b^en
wired to the police of different cities.
If Pat Crowe is connected with the ab
duction of young Eddie Cudahy it is es
tablshed beyond a doubt that lie did not
wear a mustache. He was seen in Soufh
Omaha only three days prior to the ab
duction and at that time he wa3
smooth-shaven. He is therefore not the
"light eomplexioned man" with a mus
tache who has figured in the case.
Mrs. Belle Pearl, 'wife of Fred E. Pearl,
has known Crowe for more than fifteen
years. She had a conversation with him
a week agx> last Saturday ;n her cigar
store at €42 North 24th street, when
Crowe entered to buy a cigar.
HOW THE BAY HOR3E WAS FOUND.
PACIFIC JUNCTION, lowa, Dec. 25.—
it is thought here that the abductors ot
yorng Edward Cuctnhy spent last Friday
night in this vicinity. There is now in
the possession of Mrs. Bud Mack, a
widow of this pla.ee, a bay horse with a
white star in its forehead. It was left
in her barn by some stranger who slept
there Friday night.
This stranger, who is described as a
tall, light man, was seen coming from
the barn Saturday morning. Tne ac
tions of the stranger attracted the atten
tion of one of Mrs. Mack's neighbors,
who decided to investigate. As soon a.s
Mrs. Mack was told about the man she
went to the barn and found a bay por.y
in the stall. The pony still had saddle
and bridle on and looked as though it
had been pushed hard on a long ride.
A further search of the barn revealed
a pair of trousers .which had been dis
carded by the stranger.
It flashed ir-to the minds of Mrs. Mack
and her neighbors that probably the man
Wl>o spent the night in the bain was
one of the Omaha kidnapers. A search
was then made for the stranger, but he
h^d disappeared. It is thought he tcok
the Burlington train out of town. The
bay pony exactly suits the description of
the pony used by the Omaha abductors.
HOW ALLIE ESCAPED IN IOWA.
FORT DODGE. Town. Tree. 25.—D. AU'e
departed during the night, presumably
for St. Paul. The impression now is
that he knows all about the Cudahy kid
naping case and is the man with the
black mustache so fully described. De
tectives from Omaha are here now and
highly wrought up to think that the
man has been permitted to escape. Says
one of the officials: "We are confident
that this man Allie is one of the men
that we are looking for, based on identi
fication of Crowe and the description
furnished us by the local police."
PAT CROWE'S RECORD.
CHICAGO, Dec. 25.—Pat Crowe, who is
wanted in Omaha for kidnaping, came
into notoriety in July, ISSO, when he
robbed a woman of $6,000 worth of dia
monds in a downtown resort. He shot
her in the arm wjhen. she attacked him,
and from that time on he was a marked
man with the police. The diamonds were
pawned and the police kept watch of the
shop, thinking to catch him when he
came back for the gems. The proprietor
was notified, and one day he sent for
the oificers.
Officer Linville, who was at tho cross
ing at Monroe and Clark streets, was the
first to respond, and when Liinville at
tempted to arrest Crowe he shot the of
ficer through the chest and escaped.
At Dearborn and Adams streets Officer
Eriseoe tried to arrest Crowe, and Crowe
fired a shot through his lungs.
Crowe was captured in an alley be
tween Wabash and Michigan avenues,
where he fell into a box of mortar. He
was sentenced to six years in the peni
tentiary, but Governor Fifer pardoned
him after he had been there eighteen
months.
Tr. 1592 Crowe stole a tray of diamonds
from Chapin's jewelry store in Denver,
and was captured by Detective Reno,
after the officer had wounded him in a
running fight. He jumped his bail bond
on the Denver robbery, and this mattei
was compromised after several years.
He served a short sentence for a train
robbery in Missouri, and has spent con
siderable time in county jails for minor
offenses. He is 29 years old and was
born in Cleveland.
SAID TO BE IN ST. JOE.
ST. JOSEPH. Mo., Dec. 25.—At police
headquarters here it was stated tonight
that Pat Crowe, whose name haa been
mentioned in connection with the Cudahy
kidnaping case, was believed to be in
St. Joseph. The police are said to be
searching.
IS IT A THIED BATTLE?
William J. Bryiin Says the Kansas
Tity Platform Must Prevail.
LEAVEN3WORTH, Kas., Dec. 25.—
William J. Bryan toflay wiring from Lin
coln, Neb., to the Evening Standard,
states the following:
"Please present greetings to .n? polit
ical friends of Leavensworth and of Kan
sas. The principle^ of Democracy still
live and the policies for which the fusion
forces fought will yet be vindicated. We
can enter the 20th" century with the con
fident belief that the people will soon
return to the teachings of the fathers
and-to the traditions of the republic."
AII ■II
PRESIDENT AND MRS. M'KINLEY
GAVE A SMALL DINNER
PARTY
GIFTS HAVE CINE BI THE TO!
CLERKS HAVE BEEN BUSY RECEIV
ING THE CHRISTMAS
PRESENTS
CIGARS FROM MANY LANDS
Will Supply the Chief Executive
With Smoking Material for
the Next Twelve
Months.
"WASHINGTON, Dec. 25.—President
McKinley and his household celebrated
the last Christmas of the century in an
exceedingly quiet manner, but the pies
ident is such a busy man that a quiut
evening is a good deal in the nature of
riotous dissipation. The family dined at
7 o'clock, as usual.
The president and Mrs. McKinley had
with them as guests at dinner Surgeon
General and Mrs. Sternberg, Dr. and Mrs.
Rixey, Mrs. O. S. Hiest and Gen. Corbin
and Secretary and Mrs. Cortelyou.
The president did not go to church, but
he and Mrs. McKinley took two drives
into the country during the day. Sec
retary and Mrs. Hay, Postmaster Gen
eral and Mrs. Smith and Representative
Payne, of New York, called on them.
For the last week presents have been
pouring into the White House, and yes-
terday the express messengers and letter
carriers dumped parcels, packages, and
boxes of all shapes and sizes at the cel
lar door of the executive mansion.
The old attaches of the house say that
at no time within their remembrance
was there such an avalanche of Christ
mas gifts, and yet several of the old
timers date back to the days of Lincoln
and Grant.
One of the peculiarities of the Christ
mas at the White House has bean the
unusual supply of presents from far
away lands. The mails have brought
curious remembrances from soldier boys
and civilians with postmarks in China, t'ne
Philippnes, Guam, Tutuila, Honolulu,
Porto Rico, the Klondike, and Cuba,
while the packages from this country
represents almost every state in the union
and seem- to come impartially from Ihe
lakes to the gulf and from ocean to
ocean.
A squad of employes has been bu-y
in the basement taking off the out-ids
coverings, unpacking boxes, and other
wise preparing for Christmas day. The
presents were stored in the cni
room, which Mrs. Cleveland used as har
boudoir, until the morning. Immediately
after breakfast the president and Mrs.
McKinley devoted their attention to their
presents, almost all of whfch were in
the nature of surprises.
MRS. M'KTNLEY WAS BUSY.
Mrs. McKinley was given an opportun
ity to open all the little boxes and
packages herself, and this labor was suf
ficient to tax her strength. There v/ere
special presents from all the cabinet fam
wbat mere ceremony.
The clerk have had a busy time of
it keeping track of the cards and note.?,
and a record has been kept of the don
ors, but will net be made public, as the
president is scruplous about keeping hi*
domestic affairs to himself.
For the Christmas dinner there were
turkeys upon turkeys to select from.
One of these is a ,pure white bird from
Virginia, but there is no means of know
ing just what particular turkey was set
before the president. There were so
many of them and he is so anxious to
avoid offense that the chef Md particular
orders to mix up the birds, and no one
knows what became of each turkey.
Among the Christmas presents were
several articles of food, including 'pos
sums and coons, which generally find
their way to the humbler tables of Jerry
and Arthur, the colored attaches of the
house, who have been there for a genera,
tion. The president gave each of his
married employes a turkey, while tiie
bachelors had a little memento from Mr.
McKinJey himself.
Mrs. McKinley made neckties and
slippers for her friencs, and they are
PRICE TWO CENTS-lgfvS'aK^ i
BULLETIN OF
IMPORTANT NEWS OF THE DAY
Weather Forecast for St. Paul:
Fair; Warmer. ; ' , ; .
I—Boers Not Whipped Yet. {■
On Trail of Kidnapers. '"y
---Christmas at .White "House. ;
Race War in Indiana. . "'.■>
Put in Stamping Machine. .
Sheriff's Cliristmas Turkey.
Santa at Soldiers' Home.
Rev. John Wright Out Again.
Normal School Needs.'
Going Home to Thaw Out. „'
3—Newis of Northwest.
ig: &alvntion Army Feeds 'Hungry.
Work for Congress. -
Tiger Wanted Blood.
4—Editorial- Page. -- •
s—Sporting News. '
Baseball Magnates Scheming:.
Minnesota Senatorial Fight.
.. Chinese Note Bears Fruit.■'■".'
—Buffalo Exposition Plan's. /.
Popular WantK. V
7—News of Railroads.
Eiiglishnuan. on" Journalism.
Growing Sumatra. Leaf.
S—Dunn's Report Out. , /;
Christmas Bay Sermon.
Minneapolis Matters.
prized beyond anything else, because
they are the work of her own hands.
She has been at work on them for many
a long evening, and frequently has been
busily engaged on some little gift while
the president sat beside her hard at work
on some state paper or looking over in
terminable applications for office.
CIGARS FROM MANY LANDS.
Mr. McKinley does not smoke at any
time when it would annoy his wife, but
he will h%ve smoking material enough
to keep him going every minute of the
next year. Boxes of cigars have been
piling up at the White house for a
week, and there have been new and
str.-mge brands from Porzo Rico and Ma
nila, in addition to the Key West an.l
Cuban cigars he hnrs been accustomed
to receive. Army officers in the Philip
pines have sent many choice biainls of
cigars from there and several of them
have received the emphatic presidenfal
approval. Fond as he is of smoking,
the president shows more genuine appre
ciation of rare articles from across the
seas and from the West Indies, as be has
a feeling of pride in the fact that it
was during his administration and during
the closing years of the nineteenth cen
tury that the stars and stripes were car
ried across the sea to remain there per
manently.
TO PAY THREE FOR ONE
OFFER BY THE RUBBER TRI ST TO
A\ INDEPENDENT CONCERN.
INDIANAPOLTS, Ind., Dec. 25.—A spec
ial to the Sentinel from Mishawaka, Ind.,
says: The United States Rubber com
pany, the great Eastern trust, which con
trols nearly all the rubber shoe- industries
in this country, has submitted In writing
a proposition to the Mishawaka Rubber
Boot and Shoo company providing for
the sale of the local concern. The offer,
it is believed, includes a monetary stipu
lation of $3,000,000. President Berg^r
stated to the Sentinel reporter that the
trust practically agreed to pay the Mis
hawaka company $3 for each one of
actual value. The local establishment
is the most formidable rival of tha trust
and thrte offers have been made in that
many yeais by the combine to gain con
trol of the Mishawaka plant, the ons re
ceived last week, however, being the
most tempting of any by about $iOO,OOO.
The correspondent secured an int- rvi rvv
with President M. P. Biger, and the lat
ter declared that the proposition would
be again rejected.
SUICIDE OF A CONSUL.
SERVICE AT BARRANQI'ILLA HAD
I'VDERMIXED HIS HEALTH.
PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 25.— W. Irvine
Shaw, who had been tilling the position
of United S-tates consul at Barranqui.li,
Colombia, and who was recently ap
pointed consul general to Singapore, com
mittee] suicide in a hotel here today. He
opened a femoral artery and slashed hl«
throat and wrists with a knife. 11l health
is supposed to have affected his mind
For three years he had attendt?d to his
duty as consul at Barranquilla while
revolutions shook the Southern Republic.
11l health, fevers and the arduous duties
undermined his he"alth and he asked for
and obtained leave of absence last Au
gust. His dislike for the old post in
creased and he sought another appoint
ment and was successful in his applica
tion for a new position and was ap
pointed consul general at Singapore. Af
ter receiving the appointment he decided
to return to Barranquilla to settle h s
affairs. He left the home of big sister
of Germantown, near hear, where he had
been staying two weeks ago and saled
on the steamer Alta. That was Jie last
heard of him until he was found dad
today. Mr. Shaw was 38 years of ng3
and a native of Clcarfield county, Pa.
He is survived by a widow and two sons.
BRITISH ALARMED.
AT RAPID GROWTH OF AMERICAN
MANUFACTURING.
LONDON, Dec. 25.—The Times this
morning has another long article upou
the progress of American steel ami iron
competition, concluding as follows:
"How much of the world's expanding
trade will America take from us? How
much will she leave for us to struggle
over with other manufacturing nations?
Apparently the problem will be solved
far sooner than has been generally ex
pected. The abnormal demand of the
United States for its own engineering
products is fast slackening thus brin^irg
the marvelous increase in American man
ufacturing capacity for the last few years
and especially for the last three to bear
upon foreign markets. It is a question
paramount to all others even to the ef
ficiency of the navy subsidy."
dfA^LES -I^ELSO^ LIVES
WfTli JIIJIJLET IN tflS rtEASfT.
CHICAGO, Dec. 25.—The Chronicle to- !
morrow will say: Proof that a man may
live with a bullet in his heart was af
forded yesterday by the use of the X- j
ray upon Chas. B. Nelson of Cadlliac, !
Mich., formerly a Chicagoan, -who w.ia j
in 1596 the central figure in a sensational
shooting that nearly resulte«l in his
death. Under the fluoroscope the ball
in Nelson's heart could be plainly seen
rising and falling with each pulsation
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DRUNKEN NEGROES .; START A. ■.
CHRISTMAS EVE RIOT AT
CEMENTVILI.R . \'
tSE 0? TIIEK mm SHOT
BLACKS CAPTURE A SALOON AUD
PROCEED TO MAKE
MERRY
SPARK WELL START A FLAME
Whites' Have Kept Within Doors,
but the Slightest Quiirrvl Would- ;
Provoke a Bloody Oat
break.
JEFFERSONVILLE, Ind.. Deo. 2. r,.-A!
race war is or. at Cementville, a small
station on the Panhandle road, fiv« miles
north of this city, and serious trouble ia»
expected nt any minute. The negroes
are all armed and the whites are keep
ing within doors to avoid them.
The outbreak began yesterday after
noon when Lee Ranger and John Red
mond, neg:oes, bcth very drunk, started
in to intimidate whites. When their in
sults were resented otfcer negroes joined
the liquor crazed men and captured Sam
Kendall's saloon. Nearly twenty shots
were fired, but no one was hurt.
An appeal by telephone was made by
Sheriff Rave for hf.lp and he drove out
to Cementville and to some extent
quieted the negroes. After his depart
ure another outbreak took place and mes
sage after message came to the local
police to send men to the town. Sheriff
Rave was again asked to go to the scene,
but declined to do so last night.
ONE NEGRO SHOT.
Kendall, in addition to his saloon, con
ducts a dry goods store, which was being- '
attended by his wife, and into this the
negroes flocked, after the filing at the
saloon. Mrs. Kendall was badly fright
ened and her husband ran into the place
and began shooting into the mob. Ran
ger was shot, but how badly is not
known as he was car: led away and se
creted by his comrades. Kendall's life
was threatened, and about midnight he
managed to escape from his ,= tore nnd
came direct to this city, awakening
Prosecutor Montgomery and begging him
to issue warrants and have deputy sher
iffs sworn in to serve them.
It was almost daylight when the com
munity became qatet, the negroes hav
ing everything their own way. So far
today no outbreak lias taken place. It is
believed the slightest quarrel will bring
about a bloody riot.
There is no direct telephone communi
cation with the place, but a private line
owned by the, railroad is being used to
keep the officers posted.
SHORT IN BIS ACCOUNTS
ONM OK PRICK'S HIRED MB* IS Vf
JAIL.
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Dec. 2J.-Thc«J.
Webb Jay, local manager for tho l<iick
Manufacturing company of Waynesboro,
111., and champion bowler of the state,
was arrested today on the charge of em”
bezzlesncnt. His shortage is variously
estimated at from ?8,000 to $12,000 but can
not be definitely determined until a thor
ough examination of his book 3 has been
made. The arrest was made at the in
stance of F. B. Rinehart, president of
the company, who came here last Satur
day night to make an investigation of
the branch. Mr. Rinehart was not In
clined to give out any information con
cerning the discrepancy in Jay's accounts
but said he thinks the shortage will not
reach more than $S,OOO.
COKE MEN AT WAR
AND BLAST FIR* ACES ARE GET-
TI!*G IT CHBAF.
iPI TTSJU7RG, Dec. '-■• 25.-Producers of
colce have become involved in a price
war over the contracts for furnacs coke,
which are now being closed for delivery
the first half of the new year. Tho
result is that some of the independent
non-Connellsville producers ■ are selling
furnace coke as low as $1.40 per ton. -
Involved in the conflict over the cnk»
prices are chiefly, the H. C. Fri.k Coke
corrpany, the J. W. Bainey Coke com
pany, the Kasing Coal and Coke compmy
and the Bessemer Coke company. .. Tho
Frick company is said to be heading
to a minimum price of $1.75 per ton on
furnace coke at the ovens, while inde
pendent competitors are quoting 'as
low as the figures named, and one of the
larger of the interests is holding, to
$1.55.
SOLDIER RUNS AMUCK.
STABS THREE' COMRADES WITH A
BAYONET.
WASHINGTON, Dec. Frenzied by
drink, James L. McDonouh, '• a privata
soldier at Fort Washington, today at
tacked a sergeant and four privates at '
the post, who were about to „ place him -
un-der arrest, and. stabbed three of the
party with a bayonet, which he had con
cealed under his coat. Sergeant J. P.
Staab is dangerously wounded in the
left breast. Two other soldiers were also
victims of the infuriated man, one sus
tainlng a painful wound in the arm and
another being stabbed in the shoulder.
McDonouh then escaped and., a picked'
squard of fifty men are on the look for
him. He is a foreigner by birth. -■• ■ -'-
Quality of Champagne.
Without quality no article can maintain
its prestige, but G. H. Mumm's Extra
Dry did more. Importing several years
back double the quantity of any other
brand, it this year, to Dec. 1, surpassed
all records, importing 109,321 cases, or
12 WJ more than any other brand. Spe
cial attention is called to the remarkable
quality now imported.
of the vital organ. The bullet has been
there since the night of July 1, lb&6. The
mysterious circumstances surrounding
the shooting of Nelson made it one. of
the sensational episodes in the history of
Chicago. On the night of the shooting
Mr. Nelson was in company with Mls3
Margaret Staples, in Washington Park.
A negro did the shooting afterwird es
caping, and the mystery surrounding tho
affair was never cleared.