Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 27, 1903, Page 1

THE OMAHA DaAIlLy BEE. ESTABLISHED JUNE 19, 1871, OMAHA, THURSDAY MORNING, AUGUST 27, 1903—TE PAGES. SINGLE THREE CE cory NTS8. TURKS GO THE LIMIT)| Evidently Intend to Exterminate the Bul- garians in Distnrbed Distriot. INSURGENTS TAKE FEARFUL REVENGE Oarry on Confliot on Basis of an Eye for an Eye and a Tooth for a Tooth. TWELVE CHRISTIAN VILLAGES DEVASTATED Aged Women and Ohildren Mastaored Indisoriminately. OUTLOOK IN THE BALKANS IS GLOOMY ent Calls Additional erves to the Colors, but Many of Them Fall to Re- svond. Turkish Gover: R LONDON, Aug. %.—According to a Sofla telegram to the Times the Turkish repress- fve measures In Macedonis have reached the utmost limits of barbarism, and it is | evident that it is the intention to accom- | plish by degrees the total extirpation of | the Bulgarian population, Within the last few days, says the Times correspondent, twelve more Christian vil- lages have been handed over to fire and sword, and the women, children and the aged have been massacred indiscriminately. Convoys of prisoners dispatched to Mon- astir have been murdered by thelr escorts on the way. A private letter from a forelgn resident in Monastir says even the local Turks are dis- gusted and meditate assassinating the con- #ul in order to provoke European interven- tion, Taking a Terrible Revenwe. The Insurgents are doubtless taking a ter- rible revenge and are executing the revolu- tlonary program to the letter. The reported concentration of large Turkish forces in the Adrianople district at Mustafa-Pasha, Kisylagach and other points on the Bu garlan frontier fs regarded with much ap- prehension in Sofia. A special dispatch published this morning gives a gloomy view of the crisis in the Ba kans. According to reports from Constanti- | nople a rumor was current that war had already been declared against Bulgaria. It was proved to be unfounded, but the state of popular feeling is said to be such that no other issuo is regarded as possible. It {8 further stated that although the Rus- slan squadron was withdrawn from India it continues to cruise near the Bosphorus. It is reported that several Italians have béen murdered by Turks at Ismid, a sea- port in Asla Minor, fifty-three miles south- east of Constantinople. From Belgrade it is announced that a big mass meeting of Macedonians intended to be held August I3 was postponed to August 30 by order of the government on account of the Turkish protests. It is also stated from Monastir that the revolutionary committees are appealing to the Christian bt 8 e SR much success. The insurgents in the Debr district are said to be destroying the villages and mur- dering their inbabitants. 'According to a dispateh from Belgrade, Bervia, many of the boldiers belonging to the reserves called out by Turkey are re- fusing to join the colors as the troops In the fleld have not received any pay for months. London Hears of New P The Sofia correspondent of the Times, discussing the situation in the Balkans, says a war between Turkey and Bulgaria 18 no longer regarded as the only remedy. It seems probable that in order to save appearances Russia and Austria will sup-| port an amplified reform scheme. It Is| quite clear that a new departure must be | made. The visit of the czar to Vienna is | expected to mark a new stage in the policy of the two powers. 1 It is reported from Adrianople that th troops are using petroleum to burn the forests sheltering the insurgents. It is also stated that the Turkish officials have recelved orders to pursue the rebels into Bulgaria. Telegrams from Burgas, Turkey, se enty-six miles northeast of, Adrianopl state that & Russian crulser has entered that port. Excitement 18 increasing In Servia, con- tinues the correspondent of the Times, on | account of the Macedonian rebellion. The | radical leaders are inclined to advocate the establishment of an autonomous gov- ernment In Macedonia, provided due al-| lowance is made for Servian claims in the distriot north of Shar. Two large insurgent | Successes are hailed with enthuslasm. Tho | Sixth regiment, notorious for its share in the conspiracy’ against the late King Alex- ander, Is especially eager for war, and it seems not improbable that King Peter, Flelding to military dictation, may eventu- dlly place himselt at the head of the wai ke movement. The Vienna correspondent of the Times says the Balkan outiook is dally darken- | ing and Turkey is taking precautions for the safety of Constantinople. Reserve Troops Call CONSTANTINOPLE, Aug. 2.—The gov- ernment has decided to call to the colors all the remaining European reserves belonging | to the Second and Third Army corpe and @ number of other reserves, which will bring the total of the Turkikh soldlers in | Macedonia up to 30 battalions, or almost double the force utilized in the Turko-Greek I war. The enrollment of such large bodies of | troops indicates the serlousness with which Turkey views the situation and its de mination to use all the means at Its di posal to repress the rebellion. Ibraham Pusha, the new commander of the troops, 18 a young and capable officer. Seven bat- talions have been dispatched to Florina from Monastir. The valls of Monastir and Saloniea tele- graphs that they are now able to guaran- tee the maintenance of order in thelr re- spective towns. Seventy Villages Destroyed. BOFIA, Aug. 3¥.—~The Macedonian com- mittee has lssued & black-bordered list of seventy villages which have been pillaged and destroyed in the villayet of Monastir, to which are added instances of revolt- ing outrages perpetrated on women. The publication of this sheet has created a nsation. No news has been recelved in offictal cireles today from the iInterior of Mace- donia, The revolutionists at Kischevo are roported to have six quick-fring guns. In & fight which has just ocourred in that district, the insurgents defeated and slaughtered an entire detachment of elghty soldiers. A Turkish courier carrying 4,000 francs intended for the pay of the troops ‘Conunu on BSeventh Page) | try to such an extent as to hasten materi- | VESUVIUS THROWS STONES Inhabitants of Naples Given Display of Power Entrancing but Alarming. NAPLES, Aug. The people of Naples and the environs witnessed a remarkable spectacle at noon today. One thousand teet below the central cone of Vesuvius, the volcano opened like a huge mouth, out of which belched a ferce stream of lava, which ran down the side of the mountain. and at first scemed to menace the ob- servatory. This building, however, is pro- tected In the direction of the stream by a mound of lava 20 feet high which was thrown out during the eruptions of 195 and 1900, The eruption occurred without any warning whatever. There was no earthquake, detonation or rain of ashes, nothing but a clear stream of lava and red-hot stones, which were thrown to a height of 70 feet producing an extremely beautiful effect as seen from Naples. The stream of lava, which is fifteen feet broad, at 11 o'clock tonight had covered a distance of 1,100 feet. It had deviated from the direction of the observatory which s no longer menaced. The only danger i for the new electric tramway up the volcano, which, howeyer, has thus far not been touched. The fear in the villages was somewhat quletel by the mayor afxing notices declaring that there was no danger, and exhorting the peopls to remain calm. The chief of poilce of Naples has gone personally to make a tour of the villages around Vesuvius in order to reassure the peasants and superintend any measures of protection which may be deemed necessary. The superstitious lower classes are agitating for the expulsion of Prof. Knull of Munich, who predicted the eruption, declaring that he has the “evil eye.” MAY AFFECT CANAL TREATY lombian Politicians Discu of Parties Which May Pas Meanure. Union BOGOTA, Aug. 22.—(Via Buena Ventura, Aug, 2)—Congress will fix the strength of the standing army at 10,00 men. The new senate officials are nationalists. The election of the heads of the senate from the opposition is probably due to the gov- ernment's (conservative) desire to reunite with the natlonalists, #0 as to face the Iiberals next year on the presidential elec- tion. The division between the conserv tives and nationallsts united on Vice Pres- ident Marroquin assuming power fllegally from the late President San Clemente, who was & nationalist. A prominent isthmian liberal, who has been Interviewed on the subject, is quoted as saying that ho belleves that if the re- unfon shall take place the next official candidate for the presidency will be Gen- eral Reyes, who Is favored by both par- tles. Reyes will be supported by the ma- Jority of the liberals. He having expressed @ desire to govern for all parties, his elec- tion will likely secure peace in Colombla. The natlonalists In the senate are opposed to the Hay-Herran canal treaty on account of local politics, but an agreement with the conservatives would render their cppo sition unnecessary, and would facllitate the treaty’s discugsion by the representatives When the measure I pass the house. 1t Ceneral Reyes' candidacy is confirmed his many friends in congress will change thelr attitude, which Is now against the ratificadon of the treaty. SENATORS BACK FROM NOME committee Reaches Seattle After Hav! Investigated Affairs in Alaska. VICTORIA, B. C., Aug. 2.—The revenue cutter McCulloch dropped anchor in Vie- torla harbor at 7 o'clock this morning from Nome, having on board the subcommittee of the senate committee on territories. | The members of the party are well and re- port @ pleasant and profitable trip. The members of the committee are evidently persuaded that Alaska should have a del- egate In congress, but probably are not| prepared to make him elective. The con- struction of a national highway from Val- dez to Eagle by the ald of the government seems to be recognized with favor. It s belleved that the bullding of a wagon road | through the Interior from the south coast will stimulate the development of the coun- | ally the time when private capital will construct a rallroad over practically the same route. The committee also seems in- clined to favor taking practical steps to perpetuate salmon and other fisheries by | having the government establish hatcheries to be supported by taxes levied on the can- nerfes and other fisheries according to output. The committee spent the day her: going to Seattle this evening, where they will separate for home. MANY LIVES LOST IN FLOOD ret at Chefoo, Chinm, ries Everything Befo: Water. © wall VICTORIA, B. C., Aug. B.—According to mail advices from Shangha! several hun- dred lives were lost in the great floods at Chefoo, briefly reported by cable. After o thunderstorm, with heavy rain, a cloudburst occurred and torrents of water poured down on the town, rushing seaward and carrying houses, bulldings, trees and people before it. Stores and warehouses were flooded by the sudden flood and the property loss will reach millions. The water came with such force as to sweep 40 tons of coal into the sea. The | beach was strewn with wreckage and dead and presented an awful sight. More than 300 Chinese were known to be dead at Chefoo alone. No foreigners are known to have been drowned, but a sallor from the United States Steamship Orleans had a narrow escap RUSSIAN JEWS ENTER PROTEST Leave Zionist C ress Objection to East Colonizatio: to s Aftrican Plan, BASEL, Switzerland, Aug. 26.—The debate in the Zionist congress on the British pro- posal to set apart a portion of British East Africa for colonization for z«r Jews closed today. The congress by votes to 177 adopted & resolution to appoint a commit- tea of nine who should be sent on an ex- pedition to East Africa to investigate the situation. The Russian delegates opposed the project and left the hall as a protest. Willlam to Euntertain Ofcers. BERLIN, Aug. %.—Emperor William has invited to dinner at Cassel Friday 10,00 civil oficlals and prominent inhablitants of the province of Hesse-Nassau. The emperor tomorrow will entertain at dinner all the officers of the Eleventh corps of the rauk of major upwerd [ still re {Journ on the Massachusetts REVISE WAREHOUSE PLANS Bteel Girders SBubstituted for Wood in the Omaha Struoture. ROSEBUD INDIANS ~ SIGNING TREATY One Hundred More Needed to Approve Cesslon of La County, 8. I is Anticipated. (From a Staff Correspondent.) WASHINGTON, Aug. %.—(Special Tele- gram.)—Revised plans for the army storage warehouse at Umaha have been submitted to Quartermaster General Humphrey for his approval. The plans and specificas s first prepared by a local archit Omaha, employed by the chief g master of the Department of the ! contemplated wooden girders deviations from the accepted wy' the government constructs it ings, and the plans were senf quartermaster general's off’ After a close examinatic Ruhlin, deputy quartery’ cided to substitute st the wooden girders provided by the < ‘iha architeot. Minor modification and changes were also made as to the construction and these plans are now in General Humphrey's hands for final approval. The building is to be a basement and” two-story brick structure with stone trimmings, 340 feet long and sixty feet wide. General Humphrey, speaking of plans to- day, sald it was the intention of the quar- termaster's department to rush work as rapidly as possible but there was con- siderable of a hitch over the title to the additional ground needed for the bullding. He sald the matter of title rested with the Department of Justice and until the department had recelved assurances at the hands of the law officer of the govern- ment that the people had perfect title to the property it would be impossible to go ahead and advertise for bids. “‘We want to get this bullding under way,” said Gon- eral Humphrey, “but of course can do nothing until we feel sure we own the property. We can’t pick into the ground until we have positive assurances that the property is wholly owned by the govern- ment, Everything is at a standstill pend- ing a thorough examination of the title by the law officers of our legal depart- ment."” This would seem to be a case ‘where the present district attorney for Nebraska, W. 8. Bummers, might materially hasten the breaking of ground for the new army storehouse in Omaha by certifying up to his superior officer the fact that the gov- ernment held clear title to the property. McLaughlin Expects to Succeed. From unofficlal sources it is learned at the Interfor department that Major Me- Laughlin now reports that he has secured the signatures of 500 Indlans to an agree- ment for the cession of a portion of their reservation in Gregory county, 8. D. Un- der the act of congress before the agree- ment can become legal it will be necessary to obtain the signatures of three-fourths of the male adult members of the u‘lbl"l‘mw nearly 900 adult le In ant ore tures to r McLaughlin has a record of being most euccessful in persunding the Indlans to come to terms with the government in such matters that upon which he is now engaged, and it is predicted at the Interior department that he will succeed in this Instance. Major Mc- Laughlin is now making a house to house canvas to secure the necessary signatures, Every adult male Indian interested is to be seen and given an opportunity to per- sonally express his views as to the cession of the lands in question. &S S ter ¥ alch ¥ sutla- deputy revision. x George general de- Armatrong Coming West. Robert B. Armstrong, assistant secretary of the treasury, will start tomorrow on his vacation. He goes upon _an extended trip aboard the private car of Stuyvesant Fish, president of the Illinols Central. Assistant Becretary Armstrong will be accompanied |on his trip by Mr. Fish, collector of the port of New York, and Mr. Btranahan, col- lector of customs. The party will cross the continent, stopping at the pringipal citles enroute, going to San Francisco, then to Beattle and return over the Northern Pacific. Hender: Visits Capital. Ex-Speaker D. B. Henderson, shortly to become a resident of New York, was in .Washington yesterday. He departed on an afternoon train for New York, where he is getting ready to enter upon the practice of law. Having returned from a quiet so- coast near Gloucester, the former speaker came to ‘Washington, he said, only.on a little pri- vate business. “I have been living on the sea for several weeks,” he added, “fishing and salling and having & splendid time.” His complexion fully bore out his state- ments about residence near the water. Con- tinuing, he sald he knew little about politics oxcept what he read in the newspapers. General and Mrs. Henderson will make their home in New York for the present at the Chelsea hotel. Routine of Depart; ta. Theodla O. Brown has been appointed regular and Joseph C. Brown substitute rural carrier at Blue Springs, Neb. Reserve agents approved: Union National of Omaha and Hanover National of New York for First National of Clarks, Neb. National bank of St. Louls for First N tional of Chariton, Ia. Postmasters appointed: Iowa, James P. Egan, California, Harrison county. Wyo- ming, George B. Fedrick, Lookout, Albany county. A rural fres delivery route will be estab- lished October 1 at Carbon, Adams county, Ia. Route embraces an area of eighteen square miles, contalning a population -of 490 —_— PICKETS ASK AN INJUNCTION NEW YORK, Aug. 26.—The strikers who have been out of the W. and A. Fletcher machine shops in Hoboken for fourteen weeks have taken an unusual step in re- taliation against the consern in fillng an application in the court of chancery for an injunction against the Fletchers, re- straining them from interfering with what the strikers call thelr legal rights in the stationing of pickets and from Infringing on the privileges of these pickets while on duty. On July 31 last the Fletchers ob- tained from the court of chancery an order restraining the strikers from interfering with their work and the people who call at their shops. The preliminary argument on the part of the strikers was heard in New- ark today by Vice Chancellor Stevens, who issued an order to show cause on Monday next why & writ should not be issued, This is the first time in the history of New Jer- sey that such & movement has been made by the strikers POPULAR DIVINE Takes Away Team on Which There is Mortgage and May Get into Trouble. MISSING HURON, 8. D, Aug. %.—(Special)—A warrant of arrest hha been placed in the hands of Sherift Kerr of this city for Bert Dawson of Wessington. The accused is a Christian minister and has been in the west part of this (Beadle) county for several months supplylng a number of pulpits. He is a pleasing sort of fellow, jolly and cwmpanionable, and won numerous friends. He was married August 16 to Miss Dena M.'Johnson, a very esti- mable woman and dalighter of a well-to-do farmer near Wessington. The ceremony was performed at the hume of the bride's parents by Rev. Menszo B. Alnsworth of Bloux Falls. Dawson 'was to have preached in Wessington last Synday, but failed to put In an appearance, and later it was dis- covered that he and his wife had departed for new flelds, taking with them a span of driving horses and other property upon which a friend held a chattel mortgage. Up to this time nothing has been learned of the fugitives, and all manner of rumors are afloat, including, one to the effect that Dawson has a wite gnd famlily in a nelgh boring state. Dawsbn is about 40 years of age. His companion and bride is 21 yvears old, slender butld, blonde in appearance and good looking. It is quite probable that the arrest of Dawson will be accom- plished in a few days, as a liberal reward is offered for him. STANDARD OIL WILL FIGHT Objects to South Dakota Law Provid- ing Gravity Test for Kero- sene O1L. PIERRE. 8. D., JAug. 2.—(Special Tele- gram.)—The Standaiig Ofl company several days ago shipped seVeral barrels of oil to this city which wasiBupposed to be under the required gravity test under the new law, the purpose of the shipment being to test the law. One barrel of the ofl was found by Ofl Inspector Moulton to test at 4.8 gravity, when 48 is the lowest allow- able. It tested all right in flash. This has been condemned and the company will of- fer it for sale for the purpose of a test case. The sult will be brought at an early date. MOODY TALKS OF WAR GAME Secretary Says in No Other Way Can ome and M Be Trained, HAVERHILL, Mass, Aug. 2.—Secretary of the Navy Moody was the chief guest of the boards of trade of the cities of the Merrimac valley at Groveland today und spoke briefly on the navy and the present policy of the administration. Referring to the present war maneuvers the secretary mal Thz are not for show or a k tacle. ct that they are a spectacle is the cilar Objection to” them, but they are to train cers and men, because there I :: n".her way in which they can be trained ‘There is an uM i these BT B harl lf\'x? as come 6 Nl ber and depth of harbors increase until between Provinceton and Eastport there are more deep harbors than on any other part of our coast line. This is the most vulnerable part of our coast line and be- cause of the fact that upon each harbor stands a populous (:ty, representing in bopulation and in praperty, vast intetests of the nation, comes 'a part of the nation's duty to" detend that part and so these maneuvers are being held off this coast in order that the officers and men in our fleet may be trained to the defense of these cities and may have the oppor- tunity by actual experience to learn the Jesson which can be taught in no other way, SOLDIERS’ HOME GERMAN nd. Plans Asylum for Sick Kreiger! and DI d Veterans of German Army, TERRE HAUTE, Ind, Aug. 26.—The North American Kreigerbund adjourned today to meet in St. Louis In 19M. As a result of the session here the united so- clety of men who served in the Germany army has been formed. The committes appointed yesterday to perfect the or- ganization of a central soclety met today and formed the United Kreigerbund of America. The following officers were eloc- ted: President, Richard Mueller of New York City; secretary, Carl Schoendus of Akron, O.; treasurer, Joseph Schlierker of Chicago. One of the things drafted after the ore ganization of the Natlonal Kreigerbund was & plan to build and maintain a home for naturalfzed German soldiers who be- come sick or disabled. The New York goclety has already raised $5,000 towards such an fnstitution and this will form the nucleus of the national fund. The constitution provides for & natiopal encampment every two years. The date for the first one was left with the presi- dent. EMPLOYES READY TO WORK Striking Chicago Waiters Ask Former Arbitrators to Help Secure Peace. CHICAGO, Aug. 26.—Peace negotlations looking to a settiement of a strike which began last Monday are being sought by the restaurant employes. Stephen Bumner of the teamsters union and Cornelius O'Nell of the engineers, who served as arbitrators in the settlement of the restaurant strike last June, have been appointed by the local joint board of the Hotel and Restaurant employes union to act as mediators in be- half of the strikers and to sue for peace with the Restaurant Keepers' association. This action was accompanied by a retrac- tion of hints which have been issued from the joint board that “influence” was used to secure the arbitration award which was unsatistactory to the union and was re- sponsible for the present strike. LOSS IS HALF A MILLION Great Damage Marshal Cou FRANKFORT, Kan., Aug. 26—The dam- age to farms in Nemaha and Marshall counties by yesterday's cloudburst 1is greater than at first estimated and now is placed at $500,00. Great quantities of hay, wheat and oats in stack, besides wheat and corn in bins, were swept away, while many tarmers lost all their cattle and hogs, ac- cording to reports brought in today from the flooded district. Business at Frankfort is at a standstill Dozens of bridges are out and wire com- munication with most of the flooded points is still interrupted The Vermillion river hus fallen ten feet in the past twenty-four hours WHAT AILS POPLLIST PARTY Leaders Enhn‘c Views on Subject at Grand Island. STILL TRUE TO BRYAN AND FUSION Harrington Volces Hope that the Ne- braska Champion of the Sacred Ratio Will Be Able to Nomi- nate Charley Towne. (From a Staft Correspondent.) GRAND ISLAND, Neb, Aug. 26.—(Spe- clal)—~During the preliminaries and pro- ceedings of the populist convention here yesterday the talk generally centered on the prospects for the future. “Is there anything ahead of the people party? is the question nearly every del gate asked himself and his neighbor. “Has it not sounded its death knell through fu- foni? What does the constantly decreasing attendance year after year at populist conventions mean if not the ultimate ex- tinction of the party?’ In answer to these inquiries it developed that the Denver conference had been called to see it something could not be done to revivify the expiring party by artficial respiration. * The confession of Vice Chair- man Edmisten was refreshing. “The Denver conference,” he said, “was called because the people’s party organiza- tion had been practically wiped out of existence. In Nebraska alone of all the states in the union was there anything Ifke an organisation maintained. A new or- nization was absolutely r.ecessary if the wurk was to go on, and it was the pur- pose to perfect this by the employment of one or more national organizers. The only way the two wings of the populist party and the other reformers whose co- operation was needed could be united on a program was on a distinct pledge of in- dependent national action. The course of the party in each state and locality was to be left to the members there, o they might be free to support any ticket that held out promise of success, but in ‘the natfonal fleld no aflfation with any other party was to be tolerated.” Towne the Bryan Candidate. It was also brought out incidentally in the speech of M. F. Harrington that the two populist national committees had al- ready agreed among themselves to call the next national nomlnating convention of the popullsts ahead of the conventions of the other two parties, so that the populist ticket should be first in the fleld next year. The candidates, too, are to be populist candidates—that is, they are not to be members of any other party, as had been the case the last two presidential cam- palgne. It was in protest against the Denver pro- gram that Mr. Harrington suggested other possibilities. Whether his talk was in- spired by Mr. Bryan or not, he intimated that there was no good reason why Bryan should not hold the whip hand in the next democratic convention and that if he did not again become the nominee himselt he would give the nomination to some good friend of his “like Charles A. Towne." He dwelt repeatedly on the possibility of Towne heading democratic ticket and inslated that 1r wad the GemOerGtie standard-bearer he would receive the bulk of all the populist votes no matter who was put up as the independent non-affliat- ing candidate. He gave the fmpression most decidedly that Towne was Bryan' personal preference and that {f the Bryan following found itself outnumbered in the democratic convention they would join with the populists in nominating Towne as the third candidate. Populistic Debt to Brya “If the moneybags of the east control the democratic convention and nominate a man ltke Gormai exclaimed Mr. Harrington with emphasis, “and Mr. Bryan does not walk out, I'll regrot every vote I ever cast for Bryan. The objection the eastern democrats have to Bryan,” he | continued, “is that he is too much of & 'populist. I for one regret that he has never come cut explicitly on many of our distinctive populist ideas, as the govern- ment ownership of raliroads and of public utllities, for eXample, but he has never gald he was opposed to them. It is sald that he is going to Europe to study soclal conditions over ‘there, and it would not surprise me to find that on his return, after investigating the state of efficiency and management of the government-owned | railroads in the continental states, he will be ready to take a position on this question and I have no doubt that he will join with us In our demand for government owner- ship.” He asserted that Bryan had done more for the popullsts in assisting to elect populist congressmen, senators and state officers than the popullsts had ever done for Bryan, and that they were not yet through drawing on him and his friend ‘'We may charge up our defeats to fusion, declaved Harrington, “but I'll tell you what is the trouble with our party. The trouble has been that the men we have elected to office, when they got out would neither work for our candidates nor put up money to help them.” Plea that Wom Out. This was the sort of plea that procured the repudiation of the Denver manifesto potwithstanding the presence there of Poynter, Edmisten, Tibbles, De France and others who had participated in the con- ference and subscribed to it. The senti- ment of the anti-fusion crowd was best expressed by a wild-eyed delegate from | Valley who said his name was Clem Myers when he shouted at the top of his volee, “With fusion we have been a dog’s tall and we will always be behind. JUDGE INSTRUCTS THE JURY Ignores tions of Lawyers o s in Powers Ca 2 GEORGETOWN, Ky., Aug. 26.—Attorney Morton of Lexington began the opening argument for the defense in the Powers case this morning after Special Judge Rob- bins had given eleven written instructions to the jury. The instructions were not accepted by couhsel for either side, but were prepared whojly by the presiding judge. OMAHA MAN IS ELECTED Rev. H. C..Herring is Vice President of Congregational Summer Assembly. NEW BUFFALO, Mich, Aug. 26—The Congregational summer assembly, holding a two weeks' session here, has expanded into & national organization and elected the following officers: President, Rev. A. M. Brodle, D. D., of Hinsdale, IlL.; vice president, Rev. M. C. Herring, D. D, Omaha, Neb.; secretary and treasurer, Rev. H 8 Wannamaker, Elyria, O [CONDITION OF THE WEATHER Forecast for Nebraska Thursday, Friday and and Showers Fair Omaha Yesterdny: Des. 70 Hou s (3 10 11 12 m - m m ™ - - m m. LITTLE HERO VISITS OMAHA’ Lad Who Saved Himselt and Baby Brot from a Terrible Death. A gallant young hero in the person of the S-year-old son of Ed 8. Miller of Beatrice, was in Omaha last evening with his father, It was this boy who about a year ago eaved the Iife of his 5-year-old brother on the Burlington railroad bridge across In dian creek at Beatrice. The two bo had beer. at the cereal mills ncross the creek then being bullt by thelr father, and were on thelr way home and had reached the center of the bridge when the Lincoln passenger train came around a bend toward them within less than thres hundred yards of the two boys. The elder boy with mar- velous courage and presence of mind grasped his brother around the waist with one arm and swung off the bridge, held to the end of the tles with his free arm, and, bracing himself against a stay rod on the bridge, held on until the train passed a second or two later, going at the rate of thirty-five miles an hour. The engineer saw the children on the bridge and sup- posed that the train had crushed the lives out of them, as the train was too olose to them to be stopped. The train was stopped as quickly as possible after cross- ing the bridge, and the tralnmen went back to pick up the remains of the chil- dren. They reached the spot just in time to assist the herofc boy back up on the bridge with his brother, to whom he was still firmly clinging. When asked if the train had struck them, the boy replied: “No sir, nor I wasn't going to let it, efther. Do you think I wanted to have my little brother killed?" Nelther of the children suffered a scratch. The herolc act was telegraphed all over the country at the time and numerous appeals were made for a picture of the young hero. LEADS POLICE MERRY CHASE ‘Woman Arrested as In Through Streets with Off- cers After Her, Mollle Share, who was taken in charge Tuesday night as an insane person, after making a nearly successful attempt to shoot Sergeant Sigwart when that officer arrested her, yesterday contributed more excitement by breaking away from the police matron and doing a_creditable three blocks, with the police department deployed along the street behind her and the patrol wagon on the flank. The woman came to the boarding house of Mrs. Wilson yesterday, armed with a gun, and filled with the idea that a mob on her trall. 1t Sergoant Sigwart wlons iooked Ifke the mob when he arrested her, she must have been more than satisfied this morning with a large part of the force in her wake. She Lroke from the matron half way down the stairs of the jail, and immediately afterward was two blocks north, leaving behind her volumes of emancipated nolse. Anton Vanous, doing a good thirty-six revblutions, was first on the trail, with the others of the jail crew ining. Driver Wilson and Surgeon Bchleler took to the good old wagon for a run, but in making a sharp turn the doc- tor was allowed to sail overboard to purt and to bring up violently with his left agalnst the pavement. ieaving the pleces, they drove on and rounded up the woman at Tenth and Capltol avenue. | iFOR ABUSING THEIR WIVES Two Husbands Who Get D and Mistreat Spouses Locked Up. K | 3. A Frawley of 1610 Chicago street is locked up at the police station charged with abusing his wife. His wife alleges | that he has been in the habit of coming | home intoxicated almost nightly, and she {says that Thursday night while he was | abusing her he drew a knife and threat- ! ened to take her life. Last night he came home in the same condition, according to her story, and began to abuse her. BShe escaped from the house and hunted up a policeman. Detectives Drummy and Mad- sen went to the house and arrested him. Twenty-first street, was arrested at the instigation of his wife last night, who charges that he is In the habit of abusing her. She telephoned to the police station and said that she was afraid to spend the night In the house with her husband unless an officer was sent to protect her. She claimed that she feared he would injure her or the children. An officer was sent out and brought Weise to the station, where he was charged with being drunk. FELL FROM A TROLLEY CAR Mrs. Gordo Mrs. Gordon, living at 837 South Twenty- second street, was severely injured about 8 o'clock last night by falling from a Twenty-fourth street car near the corner of Twenty-second and Leavenworth streets. stop was made at the corner and the con- ductor, John Dille, thought they had all alighted. He gave the signal to start just as Mrs, Gordon was stepping from the footboard to the ground. She was thrown down and alighted on the back of her head and shoulders. Dr. Mack who was called sald that she had suffered quite a severe concussion of the brain and also had & bad cut In the back of her head at the base of the skull unconsefous two hours after the accident, but sald he thought she would live. A telephone message was sent to the police station and Detective Davis re- sponded with the emergency rig and hauled the injured woman to her home. ovements of Oe At Queenstown—Arrived: New York, for Liverpool, and Maiestie, from New York: Have Philadelphia, for Liverpool, and proceeded Balleds Rvernia, from ‘Liverpool. for Bos- ton. At Southampton—Sailed: Kron Prinz W helm. from Bremen for New York, via Cherbourg. Arrived: 8t. Lovis. from New York, passed Hurst Castle 4% p. m A New York—Arrived: Teutonic. from Liverpool and Queenstown: Mongolian, from Glasgow At erpool—Sailed: Relgenland, for Philadelohia via Queenstown: Kensington, for Portiand. Me.; Germanic, for New York via Queenstown. els Aug. 20. Aurania, from ceeded | H. G. Weise, who resides at 81 South | Several people got off the car when the | He reported her | ord, trom | LIKE DAYS OF NOAH Omaba Has a1 Bxperienos Similar to tha: Told of in Gen { FLOOD OF A DAY DOES MUCH DAMAGE Many Rervorts of Minor Losses, buf Nome Really Seriova HEAVY RAIN INVADES ALL LOW SPOTS Ipnndation General and Resulting Disoom- fort is Great. HOW CITIZENS WITHSTOOD THE DELUGE Unpleasant Personal Experiences Are Many and Several Serious Encugh to Require Prompt and | Vigorous Assistance. “RAIN.—Water falling tn drops from the | clouds; ‘the descent of water from the clouds in drops. Rain is distinguished from mist by the size of the drups, which are distinotly visible."—Page 1,18, Web- ster's International Dictiona ‘11, In the six hundredth year of Noah's life in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the sime day were all the fountalns of the great deep brol up, and the windows of heaven were opened. And the rain was upon the eart forty days and forty nights.’ —Genesis - The low places wero flooded and upon the high places the water stood about last night waiting its turn to run down; the rallroads were groggy and about ready to throw up the sponge If that had nmot be- come too heavy with water; the street cars waded about In a haze of blue flame, the conductors trying not to shock the lady passengers, while the electrio ohaut- feur strained his eye ahead for pleces of water and macadam and cedar block on the right of way. All day yesterday and far into the night at every crossing where the gutter torrents spread out l\"d met at the car ralls, defenseloss woman stood despairingly gazing at the further shore— then at last teetering in on French heel, while the wet-footed populace happily spread the rubber eye. A nautical small | boy spent a large part of the afternoon in an attempt to swim down the torrent coming past the postoffice, and with fair success. In the Low Spots. All the lower portions of the city we more or less flooded. The vicinity of Twen- tleth and Poppleton avenue was from une to three feet wet. Thirty-third and Cass was damp in places for two feet up from the ground. In one pluce the police rescued with much difficulty & paralytio who had grown tired of watching the ships pass through the bedroom door and out the window. All afternoon and oven- ing frantic appeals were rung in at the police station from househoiders who wanted someone to arrest the backflow of sewage into their homes. At the Union station a querulous publie demanded to be sent on its way east, but was not sent. The Milwaukes, the North- western and the Rock Island were, as near #s they. could tell, simply Jocal eystems with tracks ruaning into ten or -iwelve feet of water somewhere east of Council Blufts, Northwestern No, 6 which 18 echeduled east at 7:3, had not left the Unloh station at 10:30 o'clock and no one expected any movement. Milwaukee No. 6 crossed the river to Council Bluffs and after pulling out to the east of that place soon backed In and remained a!l night. At 10 o'clock Rock Island No. 21, which should have been in at 6:% o'clock, was still out in the cold and the Milwaukes train due at 11:16 was reported five hours late. There was water, it was sald, all over the bottoms east of the Bluffs, with washouts at Neola and other points. The lilinols Central, Union Pacific and Bur- lington were all on time at a late hour. The Uniou Pacific shops were all evening on the shortest line between o large body of upland water and the river and the running stream was up to the rallings in the bofler shop and men going to the shops waded knee deep in the flood. The electric Hght company reported that it had suffered very little and the only real trouble caused was by the burning out of |a number of fuses. The Nebraske Tele- | phone company was almost as fortuna and as far as Superintendent Btorrs knew they had not been damaged out in the ate. In the city a large number of fuses were burned out and in the new ground near Forty-third and Farnam streets sev- eral poles settled out of line. Trouble on the Trolleys, The lightning several times struck cars, threo of these being on the South Omaha line, and in addition it was hard for inno- | cent passengers to tell when they were on a car which was not struck. Through wet coats, the iron rods of umbrellas and |in other ways there seemed to be many more good conductors on the cars than the company usually furnishes, and numerous | passengers closed their hands on warm electricity. The only serious case was that of Patrolman Cunningham on the Park | This same line furnished a con- { ductor with a stony stare from a heavy lady, because when he took a mickel from her fingers there was an electrical display which she resented as something personal On a train crossing the bridge shortly after 9 o'clock C. Edward Dawson, a rep- resentative of eastern papers, was thrown from a stool In & baggage car by a stroke of lightning and rendered unconscious for some little time. The Dodge Mn ficulties, as alwa was In special daif- and a car ran off the track at Twenty-seventh and Lake streets, where about six inches of silt had been deposited over the rafls. On the northern slope of the Dodge-street hill a man was kiept, busy sweeping the concrete stone and cedar remnants from the rails. Another car was deralled on South Tenth street. For about an hour during the afternoon the current was shut off on ull lines because of the lightning Saved from Mis Home, The patrol wagon was sent to Thirty-first and Davenport streets to answer a call sent in by Mrs. Michael Dorsey. The water had ran into the Dorsey home until it had got- ten as high as the bed rail. Mr. Dorsey, who Is paralyzed, could not get out of the house and the neighbors who were standing about the place seemed to be afraid to go to his assistance. The wagon was driven as close to the door as possible. One of | the horses got down in the mud and water and the vehicle hud to be pulled out by | hana. Mr. Dorsey was carried out of the | house and placed in the wagon. He was removed to the police station, where he was made comfortable in the matron's depart- ment. Mrs. Dorsey stopped at the house of & nelghbor until the water subsided. She hed to be carried out on the back of a policeman. Patrolman W. N. Cunningham, one of the officers pent to the assistance of the Dorsey tamily, was returning, and when he reached