Dubuque Sunday Herald (Newspaper) - December 3, 1899, Dubuque, Iowa PART ONE 1830 if J Pages 1 to 8 Ho Is Nominated by the licau Caucus of the House BY ACCLAMATION WITHOUT ROLL CALL Don Chairman of tho Houso uro Also of tli republican of tin house u and of u for by the party In Is ly u wry animated but other who floV the of Speaker oi Iowa un- and WUM by acclamation The of- of last Col without opposition as doorkeeper W 1 dlenn New J C chaplain Kcv Henry gan Col was not a candidate for and Col Henry A was nominated In his The caucus was held In the of hall being by of Ohio who chairman New Jersey WUM ro- Henderson's name presented by of New York seconded by of both of whom hint boon The roll was not called the nomination by acclamation After tho election of officers was escorted to the by Hopkins Illinois und Now York He greeted with and In response the caucus expressing thanks for the honor shown him and asking the port of each Individual member Iti work to undertaken of New York called tion to the narrow majority In the house ami the of having all present throughout the session offered a resolution which was adopted that no leaves of absence be except for reasons member of committee on rules In last congress offered a resolution that the rules of the and congresses Heed rules should bo adopted by the In- house He made a speech of considerable length In support of his resolution Hepburn Iowa who the rules in last coiiKr'.'Ss got the floor and the resolution vigorously He Insisted that the rules should bo Illinois who again chairman of the committee on warmly supported resolution Reeves Illinois a modification of the rules Pennsylvania favored the Reed rules Hepburn then withdrew his ment resolution was without u dissenting vote The then adjourned Y DEMOCRATIC CAUCUS Washington The democrats house of representatives at their caucus held In the hall of tives this afternoon selected of as a candidate for a spirited contest which lasted through six This carries with It the democratic leadership on the Mr has served fourteen years In th house and Is the oldest cratic member In point of service ex- cept of Arkansas Tho dates Richardson were of of Slither of Now York Hay of was chairman of tho cus by n vote of 77 to 02 cast for llae of Arkansas The first ballot son -1.1 Bankhead i Silver The four following ballots showed little change At tho cnU of the firth ballot of bama withdrew namo and the first roll cull of the sixth ballot two-thirds of Bankhead's porters went to Richardson At tho iid of the first roll call tho vote Dearmond the second roll call began withdrew and asked his friends to vote for Richardson There was a eral stampede to the and he WMM nominated on the sixth ballot votes 47 for und 2 for The tion made unanimous The following candidates for house then Clerk of Pennsylvania of doorkeeper Henry Moler of postmaster of Virginia DCK Dec five dred traveling men attended the annual of the Iowa State Traveling Association The old were Vice dent w II Secretary and Treasurer Felix K Haley entrusted to the charge of Matron J I Houlman who has been In the city treating with Dr Wm Bray for he received In Chicago Is ly recovered and will return In a few days to his homo In SAMPSON HELD London Dec J son who was arrested near Limerick on Nov 28 at the request of the chief of detectives of Chicago was at the Bow street here today The United Stales em- bassy presented tho with a cable dispatch from the secretary of stale at Washington asking him to hold Sampson on the charge of forgery pending the arrival of a Chicago de- The magistral declined son H request to be repatriated and the prisoner was remanded for a week no ball asked for Mrs Sampson wan In court Sampson declared lhat can explain everything ily Ho Is practically penniless DILLON DECLINES TO SERVE London Dec M P to serve on the committee pointed by the recent Dublin meeting to carry on the unity of the tary party fn i letter to Timothy Healy he says he believes the has lost all faith In the possibility of reconstruction of the United Irish party by negotiations of the the parliaments and adds that the members believe country will accept the solution ed Hence while wishing well for the efforts of unity he declines to serve on the committee Two sons of John Ward re- ten and twelve years were arrested last evening by Officer for breaking the lamps tho Milwaukee depot The youths wore Papers were filed Saturday In what promises to be the biggest libel suit county ever had The plaintiffs are Christian and P J Lee and the defendant othy Dillon The amount of their aggregate The plaintiffs HUO In separate Ions Mr asks Mr P J Lee The have engaged two law firms and Henderson ehan These suits are the finale of tion growing out of the Machine works They are ed on a series oJ articles published In the Telegraph In 1897 when the gation over the Dubuque Specialty Machine works was In progress The Specialty Machine works was n stock company of which Messrs Loetscher Lee Dillon and other gentlemen were- members The company was and had a capital stock of There was it falling out among the stockholders ami which resulted In very bitter litigation In which much Ing was manifested The hearing of tho matter was referred to J R say as ti commissioner and It was while the hearing was In progress lhat the articles alleged to be and also Immediately after the hearing hearing The article appeared In mer of and gave an account of the proceedings before Commissioner say Among other things it stated Mr Loetscher had testified that he was scut to Chicago to examine the ery and that Smith the promoter agreed to give him to Influence the company to the machine The article charge's that tho machinery was defective and scher accepted the as a bribe to recommend It It also charges that made Improvements on the machine and received the patents therefor In his own namo and after- wards held up the company and made H pay him for them Tho next article appeared May 17 and was a communication signed One of the Committee It recites an Incident told of Gen Grant's son and was designed to ridicule Mr Bcher The next article appeared May 31 In which reference Is made to the bribe the writer alleges Mr Loetscher re- The next article appeared In August and the writer who signs himself characterizes Mr as Elder Loetscher and accuses him of It also accuses Mr Lee and Mr of conspiring together to freeze out other ers and accuses them of robbing the company by allowing themselves ex- salaries Both Mr Lee as well as Mr charge Mr Dillon with being the author of the alleged articles and say they did not make the discovery until last month For the first three counts above Mr asks damages each and for tho fourth Mr Leo came In for o worse Ing even articles appeared In that paper during the months from May to August signed respectively One of tho One of the Di- One of tho More More Anon and These articles bitterly arraigned Mr Lee The writer accused him of Ing the company of making fraudulent and Illegal transfers of stock The first article gives the ers us 1 J 200 shares Timothy Dillon 199 lon shares Abo Lovons shares Fred 28 and Dr Will liray Dr Brayl Fred O'Donnell Byrne Bros L M Mrs Hobl and John Hoernor 14 shares each Tho articles Lee of appropriating company's fund and conspiring with others to wreck the company and steal the proceeds For each one of the seven articles Mr Lee damages of ooo Galena Dec Bell a and the Inventor Of many milling machines died today aged seventy years Fuller Details of the Modder Eiver Fight Bear Out Gen THE BRITISH WERE TERRIBLY CUT DOWN Methuen Will Be IB to Recuperate Before Advancing to the Belief of Kimberley London Doc surmised the British dead and wounded fit the fought battle of Modder number hundreds Up to 2 o'clock this after- noon only the bare total of which number 73 were killed hart been given out So It Is impossible to deduct from the butcher's such information regarding the nature oC tho fight as details as to losses of different units generally Indicate From Gen dis- patch It Is proved that ill reports Gen advance after the tle of river worn premature though with the working ho should not be long In a temporary bridge His huU doubtless will be of considerable vice In giving Ills column needful rest and In allowing the ar- rival of reinforcements of which lie must bo sorely In the three lights placing liors do combat wards of a thousand men out of loss than Gun ment that tho Canadian and other reinforcements havo boon pushed forward to the neighborhood of tho Orange river to protect line of communications hns relieved much anxiety where It was fully expected that the Boers would attempt to attack the vulnerable points of the line of communication The of The latest news from Natal indicates that tho bulk of the relief force lias arrived at Frere though there Is considerable conjecture as to the whereabouts of Gen whose movements have not been chronicled recently It Is surmised in some quarters that he may reappear in a totally unexpected and flank or rear tho army of Gen Joubert which Is supposed to be concentrated at Kloof north of the river As Gen ad- vance guard was In touch with the Boers as long as Tuesday last ment should not be long delayed mounted force Nov 28 slight He Is remaining at Modder river for tho reconstruction of the bridge I am with landers and a cavalry corps The horse artillery the Canadian regiment contingent and three ions of Infantry moved up to the and Belmont line FILIPINOS ARE FOR BRYAN Aguinaldo's Followers Look Upon Him us Their Great American San Francisco Dec advices from Manila give the following ex- tract of the Filipino proclamation able for its reference to W J Bryan and tho substance of which was cabled and published some weeks ago The proclamation was at Tarlac in La Independencia the organ of Oct As translated from Spanish the pre- face A message of gratitude to the illustrious democrat of the United States the true tives of the Institutions founded on liberty proclaimed by the great men of the North American republic In Ing will be celebrated tomorrow In the capital of tho nation Initiated by sons of that grand liberal association that dominated the country which inter- pretes very well the sentiments of ple and desires of the governments this meeting in the presidential palace for tomorrow was organized After announcing the official program of the assembly the proclamation con- All preparations that have been going on for the past few days are certainly worthy of the Illustrious head of the anti-imperialist party An American by birth he has been In and practiced the teachings of the greatest presidents of the United States and for that reason cannot con- sent that ambition for send to a useless and shameful sacrifice sons of Americans that reason has sympathized with President whom he recently acclaimed the hero of this The follower of the teachings which have Monroe and son of the Philippines ought to write In pages of gold the name of this great American crusader for justice for that Ideal justice of which Zola spoke in an address to the French youth In struggle which wo with the old sovereignty the the of freedom was founded by and the which put the idea Into execution was replaces thf great martyr with the sons for the which they moot with among their own brothers who are lighting they are coming to commit So what grade of there bo grades cause The Foot Ball Elevens of Our like Academies Meet on the Gridiron WEST POINT HAS THE BETTER OF IT Both Corps of Cadets Also the Secretaries of War and Navy and Hundreds of Other Officials AT OUTSKIRTS OV accompanied by four guns went in pursuit of a body of Boers returning to Colenso when tho Boers replied to tho British shells with long range guns There were no casualties The bridge it Is added was after- wards blown up Another detachment of British troops sailed for South Africa today Owing to tho phenomenal sale of newspapers consequent upon the war a paper famine is threatened It is reported that American supplies have temporarily failed Tim tomt of The revised list of tho Modder river casualties officers and men Is divided as Ninth wounded two wounded artillery three killed and twenty-five wounded Second Cold killed and fifty-six wounded Third killed and thirty-eight wounded four missing Scott killed en wounded one missing Second Northumberland Eleven killed and thirty-one wounded First ed Second killed and forty-four wounded First North killed and four wounded Argyll and Sutherland Nine killed and fifteen wounded First Cold ed African wounded Medical wounded London Dec war office has received the following from Gen For- Capo Doc reports no change In the situation Gen has made from to Rosemead The troops returned today Gen flesh wound Is when R finds not among foreigners but among the very of the great There should be pictured in Filipino history with glory Rizal Bryan and the trinity of our political redemption and for tho foreigner who has anglo- Saxon blood In his veins to defend our cause we ought to look upon him with the same veneration with which we regard our arid heroes Bryan an American by blood and by ideas is an illustrious son of Filipinos Bryan is the clasp that links and unifies two friendly peoples torn by tho same and deserving of the applause and admiration of the world The arc not hostile to the Filipino's The people have all time been the victims of the lust of the men In power This war the president of the republic has Is not one of a people against a ple but of a party against a nation If are weak In force we arc a giant In heroic courage arid sublime fice A thousand times there has been shown this friendship of tho United American people for the Filipinos In clubs assemblies associations Ings consequently these tions which the people are to make in honor of Bryan and the party dedicated by him as the of the good sons of the union should be looked upon as a debt sof gratitude and a duty oi friendship that distant time we may see fulfilled the aspirations of the two friendly 1 Meanwhile let the organizing com- our message of faithfully expresses the the Filipino people on whose coat of arms appears gratitude to who yesterday or today have Inter- ested themselves fn our cause Evening Herald Telephone 212 v Philadelphia Dec of the most notable football games ever played In this city took place this afternoon on Franklin field tho home and ground of the University of vania gridiron warriors the ants being elevens representing West Point Military and Annapolis Naval academies It was the first time that elevens representing the two branches of the military arm of have met since 1893 when by mutual agreement of the secretary of war and the secretary of the navy they stopped the annual contests because the inter- est in them had grown so interesting that they interfered with the progress of the cadets in both academies Among those present were Secretary Root Secretary of the Navy Long Secretary of War Assistant Secretary of the Navy Allen and a long list of active and retired of the navy and the army Tho attendance was by invitation no fee being charged More than 22.000 were issued the two each sending out several thousand and the University of Pennsylvania or more The demand for tickets was unusually brisk and as high as was for a Both arrived and were quartered in hotels as guests cf sylvania Point players were charge of Col -i L of West Point and naval cadets were under of Lieut Uu U S N The entire corps of West Point dets 300 strong in uniforms arrived here this morning by special train and were escorted to Houston hall on the university campus where the luncheon was served followed by a reception by the University of Pennsylvania The naval numbering about SOO arrived shortly after the West Pointers and was also entertained at Houston HalU all night but the morning broke clear and colder producing ideal football weather although the field was a little soft The for the game Referee R D Wronn umpire gar Wrightington Bert all Harvard graduates The following is the West Point Position Annapolis Smith Long capt Adams Barrien Gannon Wade Go to the Washington Dec stale war and navy departments were almost de- today as a result of the West football game in adelphia A special train left ington at 10 o'clock carrying Secretary Long Secretary Root Postmaster General Smith Gen Miles Gen Corbin Assistant Secretary Allen and a largo number of and ladies Almost every chief of bureau both In army and navy side have taken a day in order to see the game In the departments there is considerable ting in a way the odds being on the navy in many cases as much as 2 to 1 being given on the Annapolis team of the Game West Point won the toss and chose west goal The wind is slightly In West Point's favor Belknap kicked off for tho navy at o'clock The score at the end of the first half West Point 6 Annapolis Belknap kicked off for the navy and the ball was run back five yards Clark went around the navy's right end for twenty-three yard and line plunges brought the ball to the middles yard line where the sailors got it on downs They made fifteen yards when lost It to the soldiers on the latters forty-three yard line Line plunges and two spins around the ends brought the ball to the middies mark Then the West Point half backs were sent against the Annapolis line first touch down tlson the goal In the second an exchange of punts found on the army's yard line Without losing the ball once the soldiers pushed the sailors over Annapolis goal line for a down and kicked a goal The navy kicked off to the army's line Hone of the army's backs ran the ball to midfield around the navy's left wing Then the army started her line bucking work again and repeated her former achievement for a down but failed to kick a difficult goal Annapolis kicked off to the army's line The army was Ivied for fifteen yards for interference on a fair catch Annapolis was given a fine kick which resulted in a back Then the sailors by hard scrimmages took to the army's mark and on line-up Wade over the middies FIRST Henderson and Richardson ated Bloodiest Battle War Filipinos Are For Bryan West Annapolis Football SECOND British News of the Week United States Gains Island of Tutuila Amusements THIRD Description of St Clara's Academy FOURTH Editorial Contemporary Opinion Recollections of Wilbur F Storey by M M Ham FIFTH Local News Society of the Week SIXTH The Herald's Night school at Home Gen Wheeler on Situation In Luzon SEVENTH Berlin Letter Markets EIGHTH Iowa's Football Eleven Special Masonic Event Child's Narrow Escape NINTH PAGE Hard Work by Trainers of Football Teams Experiments in Astronomical graphy The Hardships of Being a Hero TENTH PAGE The Premier of Corea The Luzon Campaign Defenses of Washington PAGE Favors Extermination of Criminals Honor Among Thieves An Historic Landmark TWELFTH PAGE Political Unrest in Cuba Music and the Drama Death of the Gypsy King Sketches of Life in Gotham THIRTEENTH PAGE Herald's FOURTEENTH PAGE Slavery Birds as Mall Carriers FIFTEENTH PAGE Guns are Cheap Nowadays Sir Buller Science and Industry SIXTEENTH PAGE Paris Fashion Notes Military Forces of Russia and Japan Reforms In Guam The Maine Dead a touch down The goal was a difficult one and Wortman failed to make it The game ended shortly after with the ball in Annapolis possession on its yard line WOMAN IS BADLY BURNED Mrs Hitchcock the Victim or a Very gainful Accident Mrs D Hitchcock was the victim of a painful accident yesterday afternoon at the rooms of the Sherman Circle in the City hall The St Elizabeth branch of this organization gave an informal card party to Its members and after the card party was over refreshments were to be served To Mrs Hitchcock was assigned the duty of preparing the coffee For this purpose a small line stove had been provided and was set on a box Mrs Hitchcock lighted the stove and after doing so ored to lift it from the box to the floor for more security In doing so she jolted the vessel containing the line causing tho same spilled The oil became ignited and the unfortunate woman In flames She grabbed up a cloth and began to fight the llames at the same time calling for help The other ladles hurried to her assistance and put out the fire but not before her arms and face were painfully burned and her hair scorched Mrs Hitchcock was conveyed to mer's drug store where she was at- tended until the arrival of a surgeon Before the latter came Mrs Hitchcock fainted and was In unconscious con- dition when he arrived While her in- juries are very painful they are not considered serious NEW CHURCH AT MONTI Dedication of the House For ther People Day One of the finest edifices of Us kind in this state was dedicated giving day The Catholic church at Monti was thronged with people from the surrounding country who came to witness the impressive ceremony emn high mass was celebrated by Rev Dr Harlan of WIs ed by Rev Father Doherty of ly and Rev Father of A sermon appropriate to the occasion was delivered by Rev Father Lean of Walker After tho services the large congregation repaired to the Young Men's hall and partook of a banquet that had been prepared by the ladles of the parish Father Hanloy is to be highly com- on the work he has achieved Tho hearty co-operation In tho under- taking of those over whom he has been placed goes to tho perfect mony that priest and people IS ADMITTED Chicago Dec the western In- athletic conference the universities of Iowa and Indiana were admitted to membership in the ence to be represented next year and a rule was adopted limiting the ship to nine G Smith and M W of Indiana were admitted visitors Subscribers for the Evening Herald to report promptly If they miss France Bitterly Resents Secretary Chamberlain's Remarkable Utterances ALL EUROPE THROWN INTO A TURMOIL The States is Unpleasantly Mixed up in the A Hornet's Nest is Copyright by Associated Press London Dec for straight-flung words has not only thrown the capitals of Europe Into turmoil but his declarations have by no means acceptable to those la England who are responsible for lions with the United States It pears that when Choate made his Thanksgiving speech he was quite Ig- that Chamberlain was speaking so definitely regarding tangible ances and the ambassador did not In- tend his regarding Great Germany and the United States to be taken as a confirmation of the colonial secretary's outspoken remarks It would appear that berlain only told half the truth for It has been previously pointed out that negotiations were afoot for an alliance looking for a settlement of the far eastern question The Outlook particularly well in- formed on Chinese matters says this The keynote of the new un- is to be found In the words Open door In view of Secretary Kay's denial to the Chinese minister It is presumed that the United States at any rate aa yet has not decided to claim any sphere in China According to opinion here Secretary Hays denial was only to be expected at this stage and whether or not It correctly forecasts the attitude of the United States it Is now regarded as dissipating the belief that the Open door is now a basis negotiations between the powers far more comprehensive than to the United States requests for ances In addition to being the center of at- traction vin Europe's excitement over mooted alliances pies the center of the stage in the dispute His official recognition of press dia- tribes and his threat retaliation made in the Leicester speech have In- curred censure from many of his supporters while his utterances irritated France almost to an alarming extent The Speaker declares that Chamberlain's head has been turned by his Interview with Emperor William and expresses the hope that the French nation will not forget he is not yet foreign secretary The fact that the French naval at- tache speaking at the Temple yacht club dinner simultaneously with Chamberlain emphatically disowned before Admiral other at- laches and 700 prominent the attacks on the has rendered notice of them more striking The Associated Press learns that the French naval speech was revised by the French ambassador ad was made at his personal request Conservative French papers contrast Chamberlain's remarkable utterances with those of Admiral Beresford who following the French naval attache declared that a few card caricaturists could not be taken to represent the nation The Autorite today We are confronted by a positive threat of war Possibly it does not correspond with the British national sentiment but It is Chamberlain who commands We would assuredly have desired to pre- serve peace but the minister who leads Groat Britain wants war which Is consequently Inevitable This extract from the Autorite voices the extreme tone Petit be- Chamberlain tried to throw dust in the eyes of the British public In order to avoid attention beng ed to the defeats in South Thus the colonial secretary has stirred up a hornet's nest in marked contrast to his line of action Is that M Delcasse whose moderate speeches and statesmanlike references to the Transvaal receive warmest dation from all sections of the British press though about forty firms have announced they have withdrawn ex- hibits from the Paris exposition count of French enmity The South African war progresses slowly The work of rectifying the false military situation Is evidently none Gen campaign instead of being aggressive as planned is now wholly subservient to the sity of relieving and smith It seems both objects will soon be gained though not without another engagement between Gen White's un- forces and the reinforced Boers Gen Methuen is described In a ly as being the bright spot in the Boer campaign He has won great popular favor by his victories on the march to An uptown dealer In ments yesterday became the happy father of a boy baby He closed his shop tion in his window Shop closed for two days on account of family ters The foundation for the Second tional bank has been completed and work will be begun immediately on tha supers
