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m i KING ED’S ILLNESS WAS ONLY FEIGNED WALLER NOW N IT. A Rumor That Assassins Were After Him. LONDON HAS BIG SENSATION Greed of Hotel Keepers and Seat Speculators Threaten to Cur* tail Coronation Attendance. A sensational story was current In London Tuesday nlgbt of the discovery ot a plot to assassinate King Edward. This story bas created considerable discussion in newspaper and other cir cles, but it is lacking in anything like official confirmation. According to tho current report King Edward’s sudden Illness at Al dershot was not ,due to a cold, but was merely an excuse tor withdrawing his majesty from public functions ow ing to the discovery by Scotland Yard detectives of a plot against bis life. The principals In this plot have not yet been arrested. It is cited In confirmation of this story that King Edward's recovery when ho was ensconced at Windsor castle was as complete and speedy as his attack had been sudden. On the other hand it must be point ed out that If his majesty’s Illness was merely diplomatic, the officials certain ly took a great deal of trouble In keep ing up the fiction. Threatens to Be Fiasco. The coronation as a public spectacle threatens to be a fiasco. So serious and so imminent has this possibility become that The London Times and other papers are printing alarmist let ters urging the authorities to take steps to prevent its failure before It Is too late. The rapacity of the hotel keepers and greed of the seat specu lators are the reasons. With scarcely more than a week be fore the coronation not 50 per cent of the seats on the huge stands have been sold. Frightened by the exorbitant de mands thousands of people residing In the suburbs and country who had plan ned to attend and see the king crowned have now decided to stay away, while a large proportion of Londoners will avail themselves of the opportunity to enjoy a holiday at the seaside or else where in preference to submitting to the Inconveniences of the extraordi nary police regulations which will bo enforced on coronation days. 1 Police Precautions. But What chiefly contributes to the present serious state of affairs are the police precautions to make the proces sion to Westminster Abbey one which ticket holders only can witness, except In the case of St. James park, where but a few thousand will be able to see the royal party. .The published regula tions, whereby all traffic within about a mile of the first day’s route Is to be stopped at S o'clock In the morning and pedestrians are to be stopped at 8 a. m., convey a faint inkling of what remarkable Indignities London will be submitted to. From the appearance of Westmin ster the capital might well be prepar ing to resist an invasion or be content-' plating a communistic rising. Solid timber barricades ISO to 30 feet high rise at the entrance of ail streets and alleys leading anywhere near the route. Tho number, ugliness and sol idity ot these barricades cause bitter reflections regarding the opinion which the authorities must have of the un ruliness ot the loyal British crowds. Irish Not in It. At a meeting of the Irish members o.' the house ot commons Tuesday res olutions to the effect that the Irish na tionalists, as a protest against the “mlsgovernment of their country," re solved to take no part in the present coronation celebrations, and that the Irish party be summoned to meet in Dublin on the day of King Edward’s coronations to take Into consideration tho condition of Ireland, were unanl- .-jamagly adopted... Major Gets Prompt Call Down For Gay Remarks Made In San Francisco. A Washington dispatch says:. Ma jor L. W. T. Waller, ot the Marine corps, who was’courtmartlaled for ex ecuting the orders ot Brigadier Gener al Jacob S. Smith in the Island of Sa mar, was . been called to account by Secretary of the Navy Moody for the interview ho, gave on Friday last upon his arrival at San Francisco. Unless Major Wallace explicitly denies the in terview, be is In danger of being se verely reprimanded or even courtmar- tlaled. The action taken by Secretary Moody is Involved In some mystery, officials of the navy department being disin clined to discuss the matter in any way. Nevertheless, it is known that Secretary Moody’s attention was called to the interview and he sharply con- demhed.lt. The president also object ed to the Interview, the more so be cause In bis reprimand of Lieutenant General Miles some months ago, he gave both services to understand that he did' not propose to permit officers to make statements criticising their superiors in either service. In the Interview credited to Major Waller, he is regarded as having re flected upon the authorities In Wash ington and as having made statements which were highly objectionable not so much on account of the words them- selves as because ot the insinuations they convey. The statement to which the president and Secretary Moody took particular exception was this: "I know who caused that courtmar- ttal, I know who brought it forward. I know who was at the back of It all, and Washington knows as much.” HOUSE SETTLES MATTER. I hero Will Be No Investigation Anent Dhcharge of Miss Taylor. A Washington special says: The fact that the laws governing the em ployes in the classified civil service of the United States may be set aside whenever It suits the pleasure of the officials, was demonstrated Monday morning when the house, by a strict party vote, laid on the table Represen tative Shallenberger’s resolution call ing on the secretary ot war for the cause and reasons ot the dismissal ot Miss Rebecca Y. J. Taylor, the war de partment clerk, whom Secretary Root ordered removed because she wrote and published In a local newspaper an article criticising- the administra tion policy In the Philippines. Chairman Gillette, of the house com mittee on reform in the civil service, reported the resolution recommending that It be laid on the table. Tho dem ocrats demanded the yeas and nays, and all the republicans present voted to adopt the report. Miss Taylor was never formally charged with any offense so that she could make answer thereto, as Is pro vided tor In the civil service regula tions; so that her dismissal was dear ly a violation ot both the letter and the spirit ot the. law, and showed that persons employed by the government may not expect to exercise the right ot free speech. With this report, Gillette submitted a letter from Secretary Root written Saturday, In the which he following statement Is made: "No head ot a department can main tain effective administration If he Is obliged to depend on the service of clerks who are so violently opposed to the success ot the work in which they are engaged that they are unable to refrain from public denunciation of the purpose of the work and public insult to the president’’ As a matter of fact “there was ho "insult to the president’’ In Miss Tay lor’s article. Even some of the repub licans who voted to adopt the commit tee report admit that Root's action in dismissing the clerk was wrong, and one tor which no satisfactory excuse can be made. FOB A^EXATlON OF CUBA A Joint Resolution Is Introduced It henaAfiby Elkina Senator Elkin*. Wurday, Introduced a joint resolution\{n thO' senate pro viding for the annexation of Cuba and for lta admission m, a atate of the union. The reaolutlon'pwnta the con sent of congress to the erection of the republic of Cuba as a atatq of the un ion. “to be called the state of Cuba, wltt a republican torn of government, to be adopted by the pcoplp ot said re public by deputies In conevntion as sembled with the consent m the exist lug government” V WAS GOMEZ PAID ' TO BOOST PALMA? Former Associated Pres* Man Says He Was. STORY A SENSATIONAL ONE Palma Denies all Knowledge of the Matter. But Gottez Is Silent. Washington Knows Nothing. ON SPOONER BIEL , Spain “Recognise*” Cuba. It is announced at Madrid that the government haa decided to appoint a minister to the Cuban republic. OX INSANITY PLEA Dillard Lee, Slayer of Mitt Suttles, * Goes to Trial In Atlanta. The trial of Millard Lee, who shot and killed Mlta Lula May Suttlea three weeks ago In a church at Ben HUI, Ga., just as the congregation was leav ing, was begun before Judge John S. Candler, of the superior court. In At lanta Monday morning. The trial Is on the special plea ot the present Insanity of the accused, the trial on the charge of murder to follow In case Lee Is adjudged to be not Insane as pleaded. “Within a week there will* be re vealed at Washington the most sensa tional transaction that has yet come to light in connection with the Inves tigation now going on of the expendi tures ot''money made by Governor Leonard Wood during his regime in Cuba,” said Charles M. Dobson, the former staff correspondent for the As sociated Press at Havana, Cuba, who was in New Orleans Saturday on his way to New York. “It will be disclosed that Governor Wood paid the sum of $25,000 to Maxi mo Gomes, the so-called Cuban pa triot, and this sum was a bribe paid with' the sanction of the republican administration at Washington to pre vent any outbreaks of the populace at the time of the last national election in tho United States. I know just where the check for this sum of mon ey can be found. I know right where to lay my haneft on it. No Secret About It. "There is no secret about the pay ment of this bribe among the friends of General Wood, or those on the in side of the secrets of the administra tion of affairs under the Wood re gime. President McKinley knew about It. General Wood did not make the payment of his own volition. He was advised to do so by the officials at Washington, who were in higher au thority than he. The payment of the bribe wa sconsidered to be a matter of diplomacy, one of those diplomatic expedients that the officials of every nation in high authority have to resort to at times fortte reason that unscru pulous men work themselves up into high places and have to be dealt with occasionally on practically their own terms. “Gomel had posed as a patriot be fore the Cuban people, but It was known to General Wood that he had a price. It was purposely made clear to General Wood by representatives ot Gomez, and to make the matter ot financial recompense tor any amelio ration Gomez might bring about more emphatic, Gomez began to advise his followers, the negroes tor the most part, from eastern provinces, to ’take to the woods’ In case they were una ble to obtain the freedom at the handt ot the United States tor which the) had so long fought. Finally Gomez made know the tact that he would con sent to withdraw his name from be fore the people as a candidate tor the presidency and advise his followers to abandon their hostile Intentions If be should be allowed to use the sum ot $25,000 In his work ’of pacification,’ claiming that that amount was neces sary tor the purpose If it were to be carried through without any chance of failure.” la News to Roosevelt. A Washington special says: Re garding the New Orleans story that General Gomez received a $25,0000 bribe from the administration to with draw from the Cuban campaign, there by permitting the election of Estrada Palma, it was stated Saturday nlgbt by an official close to President Roose velt that he had never before heard of U. Secretary Hay said that not until his attention was called to the story had he received the slightest intima tion ot it from any source. Secretary Root thought the story was only an exaggeration of General Wood’s action in granting a pension to General Gomes. The statement that General Wood had paid General Gomes money to withdraw from the Cuban campaign, Secretary Root said, was absurd on Its face, as Gomez was one of President Estrada Palma’s warmest friends. -s Palma Denies; Gomez is 8llent. :» A special from Havana says; Presi dent Palma and General Gomes were questioned Sunday with regard to the alleged “bribery” story. . President Palma Indignantly denied that he had been a party to any scheme to have General Ccme* with draw from the campaign In his favor. He also spoke for General Gomes, who was present when Palma was questioned on this matter. The presi dent of Cuba said that to insinuate Senor Games had been bought off by a bribe ot $25,000 was to question the honesty and Integrity of Gomes and himself and that such attacks would pass unanswered. Republicans May Get. Together and Give Cuba ferns Degree of Relief. A Washington spec' -.1 saya: The re publican members of the senate com mittee on Cuban relations Tuesday finally agreed to the acceptance of. the Spooner blllj providing tor reciprocity with Cuba and decided to ask that a conference of republican senators be called to consider its terms. v The. conclusion was reached at a meeting of the republican members of the committee Tuesday morning. After the meeting adjourned the text of the bill was made public. It is a substitute tor the house bill and Is as follows: "When the republic of Cuba shall enact a law or laws establishing pref erential rates of customs duties on any or all articles, growth, production or manufacture of the United States im ported - into Cuba, which preferential rates shall be In the opinion of the president of the United States consti tute a factor equivalent for the reduc tion hereinafter provided In the rate of customs duties upon articles the growth, production or manufacture of, ( Cuba, imported into the United States, and he shall so declare by proclama tion, thereupon and thereafter so long as such preferential duties shall be continued by the government of Cuba, not longer, however, than five years, the duties levied, collected and paid upon such articles so exported from Cuba to the United States shall be 80 per centum of the duties specified in the act entitled— "An act to provide revenue for the government and to encourage the in dustries of the United States apprbved July 24, 1897, and any amendment thereof, provided, however, that it shall be the duty of the president to thoroughly investigate through the diplomatic and consular representa tives of the United States and Cuba and by such other means as he may deem it necessary to employ tor such purpose whether tte tariff concession herein before provided upon articles the growth, production or manufac ture of Cuba substantially Insures, so far as the articles of sugar and tobacco are concerned to the benefit of the pro ducers of said articles in Cuba, and If the president shall be satisfied from such investigalon that the substantial benefit of said concession upon either of said articles Is Inuring to the pur chasers thereof. Individual or corporate in the United States, It shall, be his duty to so declare by proclamation to that effect and thereupon and thereaf ter so long as said conditions shall continue there shall be levied and col lected upon such articles or that one of them as to which said condition exists, the rate of duty levied and col lected by law upon such article or ar ticles coming Into the United States from other foreign countries.” ADVISED TO USE GUNS. Colored Bishop Uiges Race Members . to Protect Their Homes. “The time has come when the black man must depend upon himself for pro tection. I do not stand tor mobs, but every negro should be prepared to pro tect his home, his wife, and children, even to the death.” This advice was given at a meeting of negroes in Chicago Monday night by Bishop Alexander Walters, of the colored church of Ohio, after he had warned his hearers that all signs pointed to a time of great trouble tor them. Bishop Walters Is president of tho Afro-American council. The meeting was held in the Olivet Baptist church, and was called tor the purpose of taking action on the perse cution of the negro residents of Eldo rado and Harrisburg, Ills., and the lynching ot Louis Wright, in Missouri. A resolution was adopted and tele phoned to Governor Yates calling on him to take immediate steps to protect the lives and property of the colored people at Eldorado and Harrisburg, -Ills. Governor Yates, who is in Chicago, said in regard to the matter: “The autrorities have been ordered to proceed against any persons who may bare been guilty ot assaults against the colored, people of that lo cality, and law will be maintained ” MOTHER DEMENTED SLAYS CHILDREN Sends Bullets Into Brains of Six Little Ones. HORRIBLE, BE After Committing Crinu Woman Burns House Down, Etcapes and is Found in Grave Yard. Details were received at Haxlehurst, Miss., Monday of one of the most hor rible tragedies that ever occurred In that section of Mississippi. • Louis Westrope, a well-to-do and well-known farmer living near the lit tle village of Brandywine, 30 miles southwest of Hazlehurst in the edge of Claiborne county, was attending ser vices at a neighboring church Sunday with his grown daughter. While there. In the middle of the service, a messenger hastened into the church and told him thaA all of his lit tle children, six In number, had been murdered, his home In smoke and ashes, and his wife gone, or also mur dered, and her body probably consum ed by the fife which bad destroyed big home. J Arming themselves with shotguns and repeating rifles and procuring dogs,, the male congregation hurried to the scene of the awful catastrophe. , Six Dead Bodies Found. Upon arrlvel at the burned home five dead children were found scattered around tte premises with bullet holes In tte headTof each child. Among the ashes of the ruins were found the char red bones of the Infant. Diligent search failed to locate the body of the mother. Outside of the yardjyas found a bloody apron and tracks leading to ward a swamp. The evidence soon convinced the spectators that Mrs. Westrope had committed tho terrible deed. Search was immediately^ instituted for her, and she was finally located Monday af ternoon in a country grave yard, where she had spent tte night When she saw tte searching party she placed the tame rifle with which she had the day before wrought the do- 41 struction of her own children to her heart and pulled the trigger, the bul let passing one fnch below the heart, seriously, but not necessarily fatally, wounding her. The woman conversed intelligently and said she did not know how she came to be in tte grave yard or what she had done tte day before. Those who knew her and her fam ily believe, that she committed the crime while mentally deranged. AS PRECAUTIONARY MEASURE. Department Orders Wa ships Cincin nati and Topeka to Venezuela. The cabinet Tuesday discussed tte situation In Venezuela. It was decided that one or fwO.warihipt should' be tent at once to La Guayra. This action was taken not npon definite advices, bat In pursuance of tte general policy of looking after American interests In case of disturbance. ■ Later orders were sent to tte Cin cinnati and Topeka, now at San Joan, to proceed at once to La Guayra. mafia nipped in bud. Murder IaTestigntlou In New Orleans Puts Police “Next.” In the coroner's inquest at New Or leans Monday on the body of Bartolo Ferraro, Antonio Luciano, a Sicilian, gave all tte facte of tte killing as well as the vendetta which led up to it. So did his cousin, Lnlgi Luciano. * After-this and otter Sicilian assas sinations of last week, all the wit nesses to it, refused to talk. Each de clared that he had not been present and bad not seen any of the shooting. They let it be understood that they settled their differences outside of tho courts, by the use ot the vendetta. This sudden change is welcomed by the police. It puts a very different light on tte recent ambush and assas sination, brings out tte truth in regard to them and enables tte police to sup press the attempt to revive the mnH^ and vendeta In New Orleans. In the several shooting affrays of last week, three Sicilians were killed, three others were fatally wounded and will die and several slightly wounded. Clark to Be Bear Admiral. . The president Monday sent to the- senate tte name ot Captain C. E. Clark, to be advanced seven numbers in rank and to be a rear admiral In the navy. “NOT GUILTY.” SAYS WOOD, General Comments on Charges of Al. leged Wrong-Doing In tab*. During bis visit to Boston, m.., General Leonard Wood, former gover nor general of Cuba, expressed himself In no uncertain terms regarding the alleged irregularity In the expenses of Cuban, government f UD d, , Q tte , nter est of reciprocity. Ho detlared that, acting as trusted Jtor tte island- bn had spent the mohey to good puroose and had done simply what any good administrator would have done in Uka llrcumstances. ' i , I