Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, April 6, 1909, Page 6

Council Bluffs THE BEE: OMAHA, TUESDAY, APRIL 6, 1909 Council Bluffs CHURCH CONFERENCE ENDs Young People’s Rally in Evening the Closing Exercises. BISHOP HORN PREACHES SERMON of P Vear Made, in Pastorate of Local for Enw ng Change Assignment Incle Churches. The forty-ninth annual meeting of the lowa conference of the German Evangel- fcal assoclation came to a close Sunday evening wWith a yaung people’s rally at the German Evangelical church on Glen avenue and Plerce street, where (he sessions of the conference ‘were [ield. The closing services included the ordination of Rev. F. J. Haas of Corning In the afternoon and the an nual missionary meeting held at the close of the ordination. Bishop Willlam Horn of Cleveland, who presided over the con terence, preachied at the morning service Among the assignments of ministers of the conference to pastorates for the en suing year 18 that of Tev. J. H. Engle to the church in Council Bluffs. In addition to filling the local pastorate, Rev. Mr. En gle will serve the congregation at Dum- tries. The new pastor, who succeeds Rev G. P. Caweltl, comes to Councll Bluffs from Abbotl, Ia. Rev. Mr. Caweltl, who retires from the local pastorate, has been vompelled also, on account of 1ll health, to ¥ give up active work in the ministry, at least for a time. He is planning on enter ing Into mercantile business The following assignment ,of ministers was announced by the conference DES MOINES DISTRICT | L. W Bock, presiding elder. | Des Moines"M. Gruener i Laore) Mingo«J. J. Braun Dysart C. Lang. | Van Horr 0. Mehnert | Hubbuyd e | Radeliff inluter | * Striecher | J. Haas ! . «— K. Granner | Bilver Creek—-\V. Flsier Noble-J. V. Knoll Corning—J. D. Schaible, i DUBUQUE DISTRICT. Nolte, presiding clder. Dubuque~A. Bogen. Clinton—E. J, Long. Wilton—L. Schuerer Cedar Raplds—F. J. Sehultz. Otter Creek—Jesse Nolte. Garrlson—A. Buntp. t LaPorte City—1,. ¥, Smith, Butler—Dayid Land. Waterloo—J. H. Bauernfeind Black Hawk--A. F. Herzbers. Waverley—H. sman. Sumner—E. Schroeder. Alta Vista~W. F. Muether. Cresco—E. C. Schwab. Lansing—A. Raecker. FORT DODGE DISTRICT. A, L. Hauser, presiding elder. Fort Dodge—A. Goetz. Cedar Falls—H. O. Lorenz. Ackley -G, Bergeman. Abbott—C. 8. Lang Dumont—C, F. Hellman. Hampton—F. Lantow. Sheffleld—J. M. Kraft Mesarvey—H. Raccker. Britt—J. P, Pflaum. Luyerne—J. W. Wiemands. Cromwell Center—A. Beckman, Hartley—P, Schott. Magnolla—W. Grobe Stanton—F. W. Koenig. Good Chance for Pension Bill “l see 10 reason why the police pen- sion bill should not be passed at tnis sion.” sald Senator C. G. Naunders, who_spent Sunday at his home In this city, returning fo Des Moines last even- ing. ‘Tt has passed the senate and been favorably reportcd from the house, The provisions of the bill are similar to those In the firemen's pension bill which wus recently passed Any member of the police force on attalning the ags of 65 years after twenty-two years of serv- ice, can retlre on a pension equal to half pay. Disability while on active duty also entitles a member of the department to a pension. To provide a pension fund citles can levy a tax annually not to exceed 4 mill Th members of the force will be required to pay 1 per cent | of thelr salaries monthly into the fund.” Colonel Saunders expressed the opinion also that the bill providing for the cor demnation by municipalities of yubllc utllities, the franchises of which have expired, would be pussed before the leg- islature adjourns, which it will do on Friday of this week. Matters in District Court. The petit jury Is summoned to appear to- day. and the trial of law cuses will be taken up In the district court by Judge Wheeler. The docket includes a long list of personal injury and other damage suils against raliroad and other corporations. eriminal case, that against Harry Hall charged with larceny from the person. T first case on the assignment is the suit of A. Slgman against the Burlington Rallroad company 1o recover $1.06.57 for alleged injury to a shipment of horses while in transit BLOGDY RIOT AT COAL MINES 1 Man Fatally and Several Iy Injured During Its Progress. One Seri- DE8 MOINBS, Ia, April 6-During a riot at Scandia coal mines here late to- night, Joseph Brady, 48 years old w struck in the head with a beer bottle, suf- fering a fractured skull and Frank Bow- lich received a load of buckshot In the abdomen. Bowlich cannot live. Felix Me- lich was stabbed, but not fatally. Both Brady and Melich are hiding in the hills nea and defy officers. All the in- jured men Austrians. Officers from Woodward the scene the are are on Towa News Notes. ‘RESTON—A petition calling ial election is being circulated at Greenfield - to_ vote .on (ssuing $25,000 water works bonds. The election is to be caMed about May 10, MUSCATINE—Alderman Willlam Gloss- Klaus was last night elected mayor to serve out the unexpired term of Barney Schmidt, who dled last Saturday. Schmidt's term does not expire for almost a year. CORNTNG—The entire system of wires of the Corning Telephone company is to be put under ground. An order for the ma terlal with which to place under ground 1 feet of cable has been given. The improvement will cost $10,000. MUSCATINE—At a meeting of the Musca: tine lodge of Red Men, held last night, it was declded to erect a new $40,00 bullding for the lodge during the coming year. The money will be raised by the sale of stock The building s to be furnished by March 1, 1910, U'NION—The contract for the machinery, equipment and engines for the Union Elec- tric Light company was awarded yesterday to the Munzen company of Minneapolis The work of Installing the plant Is (o be gl at once and It is to be completed by July 1. BELMOND—While returning from Clar- fon, where he had been on business, James MeGuire of this place lost his balance while he was standing on the steps of one of the coaches of the traln which him home and fell to the ground, recelving serlous and perhaps fatal injuries. WEBSTER CITY-D. M. Kelly, one of the well-known educators of northern lowa, who has been at the head of the Cedar Falls schools, has been chosen superintend- ent of the Webster City schools at a salary of $1,50 a year. Mr. Kelly was chosen from a list of sixty-one applicants. BELMOND—The Belmond Co-dperative Elevator company was organized here y terday at a meeting of farmers of Belmond and its vicinity. The following officers were clocted: President, Arthur Hinman: vice president, P. Luleck; secretary, John Sullivan; treasurbr, Mathew Sullivan. RBINBECK—Reinbeck's basket ball team returned from Fort Dodge this morning bringing with it the Van Patten trophy, won In the decisive game of the season by the score of 34 to 2. This trophy is for the championship of northern Towa, which Dodge has held, but which it was forced to relinquish to the local team. MARSHALLTOWN—L. D. Griffith, a barbe nd Dave Clark, & butcher of this city, were arrested early this morning by Deputy_United States Marshal and Sheriff A. A. Nicholson for selling whisky to In- dians from the Tama reservation. Binley" Morgan, who is in jail serving a thirty days' sentence, will be arrested as soon as his term expires. Griffith and Clark were taken to Des Moines with the Indians as witnesses to be arraigned in the federal court. MOUNT VERNON-—Because not allowed to vote at the recent election, Olin_Stone and Elmer Lane, two students of Cornell college, have begun suit in the district court for damages of $00 each against the election judges, J. C. Smythe Arthur Neff and T. 1. Mitchell. 1t is said that Stone has lived In Mount Vernon for almost six years, and it s claimed that both have long since established a residence In the county and city They were denled & vote on the claim that they were not residents. Their cases are backed by the Students’ Voting league. MARSHALLTOWN — Journeying thou- sands of miles sver land and sea from her home In County Tyrone, Ireland, to this city at the age of 64 to marry, Is the long trip made by Mrs, they were widow, who came lere to marry Willlam J. H. frvine, aged 77 years. Irvine lives at St. Antony. Mrs. Johnston has been living here for three weeks, since she arrived trom Ireland. A marriage license for the aged couple was issued here today. The wedding Is to take place tomorrow. PRINCETON STUDENTS REVOLT Theological Undergraduates Demand an More Modern Cur- riculum,. NEW YORK, April 5.—The differences whicn have existed between Dr, Francls L. Patton, president of the Princeton Theo- logical seminary. and the undergraduates. culminated today. Resolutions were adopted by the students in which the ulti- matum is set forth that Dr. Patton is to be made to provide a more modern curri- The present assignment contains only one Sold culum or else the student body will re only in Moisture Proof Packages bringing | Anna Jane Johnston, a | " Towa Towa LAST WEEK FOR 10WA SOLONS Senate Docket Cleared, but House js Snowed Under. expenditure, and in fact there Is no report showing the employment of experts or any as that which was con- uch investigation templated. No Salary Chan changing has not taken up much n. The senate wrestied Salary time this se with & proposal to increase the saliry MANY REFORM BILLS ARE UP|or the state superintendent to 43.000 | a year. Some of the men who the day Measnres Changing Organisation of |Defore had complained because of the | increase of expense, especiall in Hl" Departments and Afectia® |00 tment of the attorney general, ad- ! vocated the increase, but the blll was lost. The legislature has already in- creased the pay of the adjutant gen- eral to the same figure as that of a staie (From a Staff Correspondent.) officlal, Bills to increase the puy of DES MOINES, April b.—(Special)~With | rajlroad commissioners have been pre- the opening of the last week of the 1owa |sented, but not considered very much. | legislature the situation 1s that the sen- [ A bill is pending to Increase the pay of ate has practically cleared the calendar | legislators to $1,000 for the session, but and the house is hopelessly swamped with | this will not likely reach a vote. business. A great deal of small stuff h.-[ Looking for Se als. been handled by both houses the last few | mpo committee of the house appointed days, but the house, especially, is far be- | {4 gearch for scandals at the state hos- hind with its work. An effort was made | pitals will report early this week. The to have the senate create a sifting com- | committee will justify the time it has A mittee for the purpose of shutting out some | taken in this purely perfunctory investi m,mmn matters, but the effort has falled. In fact, [ gation by a report which will recom- there ia not the slightest reason why any | mend some ‘reforms” and leave the in- such committee should be named in the | ference that if the committes had had now have better things to eat BL‘(‘;I use MEDAL of prejudiced or incompetent witnesses, and that in fact the whole investigation was ill-timed and without reason. The committee appointed to find out whether there is any reason for an investigati>n of the prison at Fort Madison will report [ received word to the contrary and & reso- lution giving this endorsement was rushed through the house. It i& now in the hands of the proper committee of the senate and | probably will be reported quickly and Starts Big Fire One Killed, Six People Injured and mother’s shapelines: All of | passed recommending that the matter be taken Two Million Dollars Loss { Mother’s Friend berore baby | During the week a strong effort will be |up in some other way | made to force through the legisiature the Parole Board Reform. Fort Worth Record. Mof bills having for their object a reorganiza- The bill to give the Board of Parole o iy tlon of various departments of the state. |guthority fo investigate the applications | FORT WORTH, Tex. April 5-To & Some of these bills contemplate consollda- | for clemency on the part of lifers, instead party of small boys and a carelessly thrown tlon of departments, but the more import- |of burdening the legislature with this ant merely give authority somewhere for | duty, passed the senate, but, as usual, :‘:"“:':1 “’| f”‘;“l‘l':’fl:‘“ ‘_’v‘"“;’f BELraey the removal of appointive officers and the |there bobbed up the somewhat amusing ER T IR o ds ity . : Boid by raggists appolntment of others. The governor sent | argument that it was better to keep it| DeStroved property in South Fort Worth of this remedy. g3 od ser battle. valued at $2,000,000; caused the death of J Book mailed free o all expectani mothera, a speclal message to the legislature to ask |in the hands of the legislators, so as | "0 ? THE BRADFIELD REGULA)OR CO. that a bill be passed giving authority for [to make sure that no man ever sent|J: Newton. a bank employe; caused the Atlanta, Ga. romoval. This BT has come out i the |to prison for life has any chance of get- | $eFlous injury of aix others; rendered 3 Ty o e o e | ting out. This, of course, presupposes |families homeless; caused temporary ldle ness of several hundred workmen. . & the hands of the executive council to de- |that all courts are immaculate and that 3 ~ [ P 3 termine whether an officer should be re- | €Very person in prison ought to remain| Today and tonight the burned district| fIr€ Starts Fanic moved when charges are filed. In the case | there as long as he lives. But the scn- | Was under guaid of state troops to pre- | .| vent looting. Although worn out by con- 1 of this DREM ALY b8 e ®|ate aia not hearken to this argument ¥ 4 Asvy Abetion m";"’“:vmm':"d c'n“wf:;l:m):‘; ‘:: The committees have just found that |tinuous labor, the entire fire-fighting force 1N 1nsane sylum In the case of a Decatur county cou- |of the city was still engaged in extinguish SOGIREATCON the bounet vict the courts erred to the extent of |ing burning embers. .“\Rmml! ns(-l‘-:':.l.:i ot : g Attack on Two-Cent Fare. glving a life sentence to a man very [citizens was held and a rellef committes | MAIN Building Saved by Hard Work | lowa railroads are going to make a test | probably innocent of the crime. formed. of liremen and No Lives of the 2-cent fare law. They have been The fire originated In a barn near the waiting for the adjournment of the legisia . ] h corner of May and Tucker streets. Driven Are Lost. ture so as not to stir up any antagonisms TWO Glr S S ot iby a gale blowing from the southwest the there. But it has come to the attention of flames quickly spread to adjoining build- | WOODWARD, Cal, April 5-8Ix hun- | some of the leaders of the legislature that dred helpless insane persons were in danger | the railroads are already at work prepar- of death this afternoon when a blage, start- Ings, auick to ignite because of the ex- treme dryness of the wood following a pro- in Fight Over |ing a case to show that in lowa as in Ch h 'I‘ bl tracted drouth. Within a few moments the ,IN& from « prairie fire, destroyed several Missourl, the 2-cent fare I8 not remunera- urc POUDIC | 17 was teyona all’ contror. The. flames |Dulldings ot the state. tnsane asylum- at tve. The Missouri case was tried before leaped from bullding to bullding, across | Fort Sully, near here. The fire broke out udge McPherson, who decided that in ¢ : jon | broad avenues. T 1di in the laundry building shortly after the 1 ve for Possession 1es. he rapldity of the fire s y r th Missour! the. raliroads were.abls to show | TWO Fot ons Stri rendered impossiblé the removal of house- | noon meal, and the inmates had been re- that the law was not justified. The attor- and Little Ones Are the hold effects. After eating its way through | turned to their quarters. Tnhe asylum fire neys believe tha: it will be easler to make such a showing in Towa, and if any sort of a showing 18 made that justifies the claim, Victims. the residence district, after reducing to ashes the 30 dwellings, the Broadway Presbyterian and Baptist cnurches and the department was ordered out and every ef- fort made to conceal from the patients the fact that the building was burning. One DENV! April 5—Two little girls were MEN senate, but there fs much reason Tor one | the time it could have found something i the house. The evidence secured was largely from One of the matters which may cause some | Sources such as would hardly bs ac- interest the coming week is a resolution | cépted in court. On one occaslon a; looking to approval by Towa of the plan | 8roup of u~:l\ll0\nt- :-u r:rm- bme - for popular election of United States sen- ;‘:""‘"",",‘]’d'; Lt Bt R At b et Wi ators. The senators had consdered this | (e bullding Accompapied by an - at- Careless BOV Every woman covelsa shape matter some time ago, but had felt that | 4 Teyos nothing has been discovered . ly figure, and many of them e o e Ertuonar® 6o [ more than the rumors and wild stories an ]garette Beptore U 10xs oF BilP girl would hold for some time. urday they s " 3 ish forms after marriage The bearing of children ic often destructive to the this can be avoided by the use of comes, as this liniment prepares the body for the strain upon it, and preserves the symmetry of her form. {lar'a Friend makes the danger of child-birth less, and carries her safely through this critical eriod. Thousands grate- : ully tell of the ben.fit and relief derived from ihe use | order when the danger was the greatest. Tt | took hard work to save the ward building. ! A high ment that doomed. | stables, | auarters. wind made it seem for the mo- the whole Institution was The bulldings destroyed were the aundry, pharmacy and employes’ The loss is stated at $75,000. PLAN TO FIGHT PROHIBITION Bartenders’ Union Advocates o System of Permanent fcennes. BOSTON, April 5.~The growing prohibi- tion sentiment throughout the country was discussed today by the executive board of the New England branch pf the Hotel and Restaurant Employes association and of the Bartenders’ International alliance, which met here to form plans for the convention In Minneapolis In May. A resolution, which was framed o be presented to the mational the tribunals most likely to favor the rail- roads. NEW YORK, April 5,~The recent whole- | EX-SECRETARY HITCHCOCK ILL Use of Special ¥ % e A B SRR A st e & | sale maiming and kifling of pedestrians WELLSVILLE, 0., April §—Jour, parsons { A & ure have just|, . . Lless chauffeurs running their cars |Fears Are Entertained that He Will [ were injured In a fight between members | commenced to look into the matter of the Not Recover fj D e at excessive speed through the city streets, Ne goyer fro omplica of the Good Citizdns' league and men use that has been made of a fund which tion of 8 3 o culminated today in the organization of a ol s B antivg Sl g il oo S o 5 2 A who had been drinking on a house-boat | commissioners two years ago, being 35,000 | "PeCIa1 squad of “auto chasers,” by Police e | i : | somueeisns 3 80, & 8000 | O ssloner Blogham. WASHINGTON, April 6.—Ethan Allen | #0chored in the Ohio river, sixty feet from ‘n ap. :'ml "'; "XI"’P-:' ‘n:tm'ulle ;" employ-| 4 " a result of their first day's etforts | Hitchcock, former secretary of the interior, | Wellsville, but in West Virginia jurisdie y;.‘flxr;r:‘ ! ,r:! N; m”:‘- u-‘ Owa rates| ... .auto chasers” all mounied on fast|!s critically ill at the home of his son-in. | tlon, this afternoon. While the Whst Vir. al h.‘ b“-: : :n T matters and to . iorovoles rounded up and arrested six- | 1aw, Commander W. 8. Sims, U. 8. N., and | §Inia line comes to the Ohio side of the | secure the Dbes alent possible In the| . ¢ e chauffeurs who were caught ex. |grave fears for his recovery are enter- | river, the Ohio authoritics have been claim- thorough investigation of all matters re-| ., qing the speed limit. tained. Mr. Hitchcock has been confined | Ing Jjurisdiction over the sale of liquor lating to Towa rate questions. Thus far to his bed for the last two weeks, suffe close to the shore until a decision, last the leglslature has not recelved any in-| Bigger, Better, Busier—Tnat's what ad- [ing from heart and kidney trouble and | week, gave undisputed right to sell liquor formation as to the good results from this | yertising In The Bee does for your has had several sinking spells in boats sixty feet from the Ohlo shore | that the court will hold the Iowa law Swedish chapel and Walke woman, looking out of a window, however, | convs g a fat ibseolipumil ARG e TR et Chy oty Ih e etwat | 3 alker sanitarium, the i iedklad ehtictye ever, | convention as embodying the ideas and ¢ ames, spreading to the south, attacked | %W the flve and excitedly gave the alarm. | plans of the New England branch for the weeks of scrapping over legislation has | 0PPosing sides made up of members of the |, o “We'll be burned to death,” she sci h German Evangelioals at Giobeville, & sub- he manufacturing plant of the Sawyer e be burned to death,”” she screamed. better protection of the liquor interests, ‘h”" Lo ahE et 410 TRlircads .Ere alast i o3 el 1 | Electrical company. This building was | The attendants rushed among their charges [ calls for a law granting a permanent and watchful, that they belleve there has|Uurb. A dozen shots were fired. The girls | 10 gegerove 3 N . to pacify them, but a panl row 4 oir, | QUIckly destroyed and flve large ware- pacify i panic was narrowly | license system to all cities of 5,000 popula- already come In Towa u reversal of policies | 12zie Wetzel, aged 8 and Mary Woll, |\ % f o averted. - » " e 11 were strick by chare fired | "0USes and keveral smaller business houses i tion or over, a bill limiting local. option and that (he' state Is ready to begin un-| SBed 1L were SKrck Dy 8 CAATES CE0) autrered a'tike tafe The flre spread from the taundry to the | to municfpalities and towns with a popula dolng the leglslation of tne last seven | from & ShOUEAR T Bobloe may, Y AdA| The yards of the Texas & Pacific rail. | Pharmacy supply bullding and threatencd | tion of leas than 60000 each municipality years. The fight to prevent the creation ‘;"‘ l"" st ReV Ad.m"l‘rnnl the viator road were next in the path. The round- |the asylum itself. When the blaze was | to have complete control of the license of the office of commerce counsel has a| (HAPY 10 OUR FERE: SOAT TERR (A8 PASIOT: | house, repair shops, coal chutes and box- |near them the inmates had yiclded to the | commission and two-thirds of the fees to bearing on the case, for such an officer m' °.h : i m\nx A '.’ 3 cars were destroyed. entreaties of the attendants and kept good ' go to the town, one third to the state. would give the state one who would be | hind “"“:’:;“I_‘.MP‘ ""';’:I. r‘:]:\“”" 9] To the east the stone and steel depot — ———— prepared to take up and try just such | Prevent th he factlon oppos- | puilding proved a barrier to the encroach- cases as the one contemplated. The fight | & him. ment toward the wholesale district 00 i iZ ’ to prevent enlargement of the duties of the The burned area s approximately a mile i a e B Baiross cormiedes 14 song. sno| BUSY. DAY FOR AUTO CHASERS | o e ¢ arorosimates & i ens L.eaguers same lines. Everything 1s being done to The largest individual loss was suffered by hd . maintain the status until such time as the |Round Up Sixty Speeders In New |iho rexas & Pacitic raflroad, officials of El‘l age I1n a Hot F suits can be got into the courts and before ey » the road placing the damage at $16),000, lg without interference by Ohio authoritfes. A boat, siid to have been well stocked with llquors, arrived here late today and anchored sixty feet from shore. During the day skiffs and small boats were busy plying between the shore and the boat, while the shore was lined with men, Members of the Citizens' league appeared and the liquor sellers, expecting Interfer- ence, started a fight. 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