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THE OMAHA BEE & elean, reflable newspaper that is admitted to each and every home. THE OMAHA DAIL D —— WEATHER FORECAST. For Nebraska—8now. For lowa—Rain or snow. For weather report see page 9. BOAT FOUNDERS: SHARKS GET "2 ‘D %t . " 7 Ninety-Five Passengers of La 2 @ Drown in Tropical Wates After Collision. SIXTY-ONE SAFELY fhoals of Sharks Surround Vessel a8 | 1 Victims Sink in Water. FIGHT WITH SAILORS FOR BODIES Steamer Almost Cut in Half by Blow of the Onda. SESVEN EUROPEANS LOSE LIVES Daron and Baroness Benlezky and Capta La Seyme Pussengers Caught in Berthn, SINGAPORB, Nov. 14.—The mail steamer | o, poge aimost daily La Seyne of the Messageries ‘“fl“““’“}uvn of British offic \ervice, running between Java and Singa- yore, and on its way to this port, was in wllision early this morning with the steamer Onda of the British India line and wank within two minutes. Seven European swengers, including Baron and Baroness 3enfezky, the captain of La Seyne, five Suropean officers and eighty-elght others somprising native passengers and members ) the crew, were drowned. The rescue )t sixty-one persons, practically from the Jaws of shoals of sharks, formed a thrill- ng incident of the wreck. The aceldent occurred about 4 o'clock in he morning In & thick haze. The vessels vero steaming at good speed and the Le| BU jeyne was cut almost in half, There w Attempt to Kill India’s Viceroy with Bomb Fails lice Exercised at Activity Natives Hostile to British Rule, of JABAD, British East India, Nov a4 Mifito, the viceroy of India, and Lady Minto, had what is belleved to be a narrow escape from death or Injury terday, and following previcus outrages and attempts at outrage the incldent cavsed g anxiety. The viceroy Lady Minto spent the day in driving the city and as they of the streets a by b exploded only a little distance from thelr carriage. Police and others attracted by the explosion ran up and found a man on the ground with his hand blown off. Lying beside him was a second bomb, but this was still intact Attempts have been made in India against Lord Minto, Lord Kitchener nnd Sir An- drew Fraser, lieutenant governor of Bengal and many other officlals, for a year or more there been fear of an up rising against British rule in (ndia, attempts or yes. o and passed ‘through one and has hased on the Is. Assassin Kills Chief of Police and Secretary Supposed Anarchist at Buenos Ayres Succeeds in Design, but Fails in Suicide. NOS AYRIES, Nov. 14.—The chief of police of Buenos Ayres, Senor Falcon and 10 time for panic nor for any attempt «n |tho police secretary were assassinated to- he part of the officers of the foundering day while driving in Callao street. | supposea were [not yet identified, sprang from a secluded aught in thelr berths and carried down |spot, where he had been in waiting, teamer to get out the boats. The majority of those on board ¥ith the vessel. The foree of the collision A man, to be a Russian anarchist, but and threw a bomb directly under the carriage. srought the Onda to almost a dead stop |The vehicle was blown to pieces and both ind its engines were at once slowed and roats lowered. The rescue work proved hriliing, for not only were the rescuing sarties impeded by the darkness, but shoals | »f sharks were already attacking those Jlinging to pleces ow wreckage in the water. Sixty-one persons from the il ‘ated steamer were finally dragged into he boats and brought by the Onda to this | »ort. Many of them had bee nbitten by iharks and several are severely injured. ROBBER THROWS MAN ! FROM FREIGHT CAR L. Pureell, Dakota Homesteader, Stabbed = Robbed, but Escapes with Life. | 3. STURGIHS, 8. D, Nov. 14.—(Speclal Tele- gram.)—A daring boldup took place here last MBS WHEAY T L Paroell, 4 claim- holder near Brushle, was badly slashed and | Mtabbed with a knife and robbed of $37. Purcell was in a car enroute from Huron with his horses and household effects at- tached to a special freight train. When | within @ few miles from town a masked | man opened the door of the car while the train was moving rapidly and immediately attacked Purcell. After he had cut Purcell several times and secured his money, he threw him out of the car door of the mov ing train, probably thinking him dead. It Is thought that the robber rode in the | car untfl the train began to slack up for | the station, when he jumped off. Purcell, recelving #o Injuries from hig fall, walked to town and notified the authorities. Pur- cell thinks the man got on the train while pulling out of Tilford. He will recover. No clue was found up to tonight, though a | sang of bandits is thought to be working | fu wie Back Hills, | TGO MYCH WIND FOR | AEROPLANES AT LATONIA Curtins d Willar Make Plights to Please Crowd, Aceomplish e. Short but CINCINNATI, Nov. 14.—The closing day of the aviation meet at Latonia race track was. & dirappointment. The summeriike weather brought out an immense crowd, but & ng wind which prevalled during the afternoon deterred the aviators from | attempting any flights until almost dark. | Finally, when the thousands were about | to leave, Knab: | the Chinese and Japanese collection whue and Beachey brousht | xamen >ut thelr dirigibles and made a couplé of | :xcellent flights. Their frall machines | seat thelr way Into the wind in a manner hat brought the spectators to thelr feet sheering, but the gathering dusk compelled | them to descend after a brief period. Wil- | ard and Curtls slanes, but only treteh. Two of the three balloons which were to | covered the race track iave started In @ race to the coast met| iy 'y Chapin, resigned to | alth accldents which compelled them abandon the attempt. The third was not nflated until dark and It was decided to jefer its start until tomorrow. FROHMA.'S FORMER WIFE | wiLLI0 After Nevad Bride of Wealthy Tacoma Man. ¥ 1.—~Miss Margaret ress, divorced Wednesday from Dantel Frohman, New York theatrical manager, married Edward J. Bowes, a millionaire real estate operator of Tacoma, last night. The wedding took place heie. The couple luit at once for FOREIGNERS DEAD Unldentified Men Burn and Five Others Severely lajured »n Pittsburg Blase. PITTSBURG, Nov. W.—Three unidentified mon, all forelgners, are dead; five others ire seriously injured and twelve men and women are suffering from bruises and shock, the result of an early morning fire in & lodging house on the river front to- day, When the fire broke out at 4 o'clock ihree #bout (hirty Fersons were asieep in the | bullding. Firemen agoused them and car- tled the women and children to safety The bodies of the unidentified forejgners known to be street laborers, were not dis- covered until this afternoon, when persons clearing away, the debris found thelr charred bodies under a stairw: The damage to the lodging house is In excess of $1000. On account of the mysterfous mam-mnmmu—mm» rigid investigation. here | ulso rose In thelr aero- | pygyoott Ul Ty Divoree, | F€r: Edwin P. Buckley, substitute. | | ‘lho Japanese,” sald the baroness. Senor Falcon and the secretary were te ribly injured. They were carried to the sidewalk and later were transferred to a hospital, but both died shortly afterward. Immediately on throwing the bomb th assassin drew a re and shot ‘him self. His wound, however, is not expeete to prove fatal. olver Boston’s New Museum Ready Beautiful Structure with Fifteen Millions of Treasure Will Be Opea to Public Today. BOSTON, Nov. 14.—Boston's magnificent new Museum of Fine Arts in the Fenway will be thrown open to the public tomor- row with its $15,600,000 woith of treasures. Massive in its proportions, built of cut tone in' Greek and Roman style, the new museum buiiding, which was erected through private subscription, covers twelve res. The east wing of the malw bullding con- tain a collection of Greek and Roman reifes, wirlle the west wing is filled with | Other Egyptian collec- tapestries and paintin , take up a considerable ar WASHINGION MEMORIAL FOR NATION’S CAPITAL | Fund of Two a t Millions Being | Ratsed for Home of Societies Devoted to Culture, W YORK, Nov. li—Announcement as made today that distinguished men and women are behind a movement to raise $2,500,000 before February 22, next, for a George Washington memorial bullding at Washington, D. C., which. shall serve as | headquarters for scientific, patriotie, edu- cational and art organizations of the coun- try. Among those who have given the move- ment their endorsement are Scnator Elihu Root, Dr Mitchell, eGneral Horace Porter, Prof. H. Fairfleld and Dr. Rem- son, . POSTMASTERS AND CARRIERS | sections are given up to tions, while and moder of Secure Men Who nces In Towa and South Dakota. (From a Staff Correspondent.) WASHINGTON, Nov. 4.—(Special Tele- gram.)—Postmasters appointed today were: | Towa—Bernard, Dubuque county, Dominic | C. Maloy, remov: Granite, Lyon county, Mary E. Hilton, vice A. M. Parker, resigned. South Dakota— MelIntosh, Coroon county, Eldon J. Cook, win Rural carriers appointed for Towa routes Aredale, route 1, Willlam D. Ufford, rier; Clint Utford, substitute. Elliott 1. 0. R. Kirby, carrler; substitute. Fort Atkinson, route 3, J. J Sindelar, carrier; no substitute. Leon, route car- route NAIRE’S WIFE & Carl M. Reynolds, carrler; no substitute Rowley, route 3, Richard I Buckley, car Shells Melville E. Montgomery, Montgomery, substitute. burg, route carrier; John W bout | about | | beneh | | coffin from this eity. "OMAHA, MONDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 15, 1909, ' PASTORS EMPLOY BITTER CENSURE Clergymen at Cairo, TIl, Use Lash | Upon City Officials, Urging Neglect. | LYNCHINGS NEEDED T0 AWAKEN While Not Sanctioning Method, They Say Result Will Be Good. | | |LEGAL MACHINERY IN ACTION Judge Butler of Cirouit Court Will Call Grand Jury. FULL INVESTIGATION PLEDGED | Bad Weather Keeps Crowds Away from City Which Has Long Been Mecen for Sunday Reve elers—City Quiet. THE BLECTRIC LIGHT 1LLumi NATING €0 Iil., Nov. 4.—Cairo was in the ke sp of a firm authority today and ex- perienced the quietest Sunday that has been its lot in years. No saloons were open and the few attempts to evade the orders of Governor Deneen in this regard met with quick detectlon, several arrests Lelng made by the military patrols. A l Anp From the Cleveland Plain Dealer. ROOSEVELT A BARON SNISUSAW, CHAIRMAN OF THE COMMISSION, AND Now HE SILNS WIS NAME, oF THe SULPRURIC ACID €O, | With' the Japanese commissioners. heavy rain kept away the excited crowds | from surrounding towns and the element | | that usually mukes this city a Mecca for | | the “dry” communities on the first day | of the week, turned back when they found that liquid refreshments were as difficult to obtain here as in their home towns. Definite indication that the legal ma- chinery of the state would be started in an effort to bring the lynch leaders into court came with the arrival at his home here of Judge W. N. Butler of the circuit | court. He indicated that he would call a| grand jury to take up the work as soon | as the adjourned session of this tribunal is assembled, December 8 and sald the matter wguld be called fo the attention of the county commissioners within a few days, WHY VOTE COMES IN SL()WL& Several County Officials Do Comply with the Law. NINE YET ARE EPORTED Not Raflway Commisston Will Consider Giving Pass to City Engineer Adna Dobson ot Lincoln by Burlington. Pastors Criticise Offick Despite Butler 3 (From a Staff Correspondent.) LINCOLN, Nov. h—(Special.)—The State Canvassing board may take a notion to make an example of some of the counties In this state which continually and per- sistently refuse to send in thelr eclection returns aecording tc law. The law specities ynchings were likely to prove a blessing Just when these returns must be made to n disguise in the long run. the state board and there Is a penalty at- ““Calro stands dlsgraced before the world, tached unless that law Is complied with out the disgust Is not In the iynching,”| The counties which have not yet sent sald Rev. George M. Babcock of the Church |in retuins are the following: Boyd, Doug- )t the Redeemer, Episcapalian, |las, Fillmore, Furnas, Holt, Hooker, Mc- “The real disgust lies in the fact that|Pher:on, Nance and Scott's Bluff. It was the city has allowed lawless elements to TcPorted unofficlally that Doug is had control civic affairs. In the same alley in 8ent down its returns Saturday, but the which Miss Pelley was murdered there PAckage failed to get to the secretary of have been four assaults on young women State that day. Of the others, six have within a year. Thig deflance of law and ent in the orlginal returns, but failed to order made the lynchings necessary for Send in duplicates, so ‘they cannmot be the Infliction of justice. |opened until the State Canyassing board “The lynchings were the hurvest of the' £.5 together next Tuesday,.,. 3 seeds of lawlessness that have been sown| This wlill cause a delay, because the to- in Cairo for years,” sald Rev. A. S. Bu- tals cannot be made until all the counties chanan, minister of the Presbyterian 8M¢ in and these counties which have not church. sent In duplicates cannot be tabulated un- “In this case it seems that the lynch- Ul Tuesday. The state has notified the Ings were necessary to arouse the people. Other counties to get in thelr returns, but 1 do not mean to say that the crime of |0 one knows whether they will be here Iynehing Is ever justifiable, but Calro's |Tuesday. So the state may do some prose- cltizenshlp had to be aroused to a sense |CUtIng or scnd a messenger after the re- of its own responsibility by some great |turns at the expense of the derelict county. horror like this.” e R e AT People Side with Clergy. When the State Rallway commission gets The declarations of the clergymen were |OVer its present rush of work it may find endor-ed by many of the townspeople. |tims to investigate the acceptance of a, ‘Carc's disgrace is not the mdb, but P8Ss by City Engineer Adna Dobson of the condition which made the mob neces- |Lincoln from the Burlington to make a eary,” sald E. W, Thiclcke, editor of the !rip to the west end of the state. The Cairo Bulletin. “For these conditions the |TAllway commiesion has Interpreted the auzhorities, from the judge on the court|l8W to mecan that persons eligible to re- down to the deputy sheritts ana Celve a pass mast devote a major portion balliffs and the police departmen: of the Of thelr time to working for a railroad cty, aze responsible.” company or members of thelr immediate Henry Salzner, the second victim of the |{8milles dependent upon them. As Mr. mob, was buried at Anna today. Only DObson s ity engineer of Lincoln, the members of his Immediate family, Includ- |COmmission has not yet been able to fig- Ing the two boys orphaned by the violent | Urge just how he could be devoting a ma- deaths of thelr parenis, accompanied the |JOr Portion of his time to the business At Anna no clergy- |Of the Burlington rallroad. The fact that HaR was &t the grdve to commit the body |the pass was given to Mr. Dobson was 10 caith nor was there any indication from |ShoWn In tho report of the raliroad to the the townspeople that the fate of thelr |COMMIselon. former neighbor had aroused any lasting Normal Hoard Case. Interdat. | Probably no case pending before the su- preme court has had as many predicuons | CAMPA! made abou: it as has the normal board | whereln the legality of a law cresi- this announcement from Judge | there was no change in the atti- ude of the city regarding court proceed- 15 In this district. Half a dozen pastors hed the constituted authorities without tint, telling thelr congregations that the, ] | | | — NINI TO DIRECT Charles Hipwell, | CHICAGO GRAND OPERA Former Musical Director of Metropol- ftan Opera House of New York Goes to Chicago. NEW YORK, Nov. 14.—M. Cleofonte Cam- | panini of Milan has accepted the position of general musincal director of the Chicago Grand Opera company, according to an an- nouncement made heré today by Audreas Dippel, administrative manager of the Met- ropolitan company and honorary manager of the Chicago company. Campaninl was musical director of the Manhattan Opera | House company of New York during the season of 1%7 and 1%08. | John G. Carlisle Improving. | W YORK, Nov. W.—John G. Carlisle, who was secretary of the treasury under ! President Cleveland, was reported today as | resting more comfortably at St. Vincent's hospital, where he lies seriously ill with acute Intestinal troubles. Japanese Baroness Shocked at American Woman’s Dress IN FIRE| The dress of the American woman Is)Japanese woman does not depend on the little less than barbarous, in the opinion of Baroness Shibusa wife of the baron who dictates to the Wall street of Toklo. | In her compartments on the train which | brought the honorary commission to Omaha the baroness spent the day in quiet retirement, while her husband and the business men in the party were busy with Omaha's Industries. The other women of the party were occupled with soclal fune- tions, but the baroness preferred a day of rest after the strenuous days that have past Clad which scribe in a strikingly beautiful kimona no mere man dare attempt to de- Baroness Shibusawa sat watching the rain beat on the car window. The years have been kind to the baroness and like heér husband, her features are those of but a person of middle age. “How much more comfortabl and 1 think beautiful, 0o, is the native garb of “The questionable alds of artificiality for what harm she may clalm In her flowlng | Eowns she may, unhampered by stays and strings, display her inborn grace. Hers ls | a natural beauty. She need not look as though ‘made up' for the cccasion. “Oh, these American girls that I have seen! Their waist line seems to be jour- neying always. Now it is up and then again it is down. “Why must the mode always be chang- rg? Surcly the rose blooms just the same every season and no one would say that the sweet blossom should have petals with & new curve or pattern.” The baroness was in a pleasant good bumor dospite bher arralgnment of the American woman's garb. She talked in a low, soft volce, which rendered the strange accents of her language pecullarly pleas- ing. Her nlece and companion, Miss Tak- anashi, acts as Interpreter for the baron- ess | was the law would be upheld and the next | |or trom those Interested regarding the de- | elsion, cusc, ing & new normal board enacted by the| late lcglslature is at stake, As early as last September it was pre- dicted by many that the case would be | decided by Octpber 11, and that date was | fixed by (he new board to luspect the claims of several towns which aspired to be the home of the new normal school, for which an appropriation was made by the late legislature. But the decision did not come down and neither has it been filed with the clerk of the court at this | tme. | At first the tips which several parties claimed to have were only regarding the time the opinion would be filed, but a few weeks ago parties clgimed to have tips on the decision litself. One day the tip report which started was to the effect that the law would be declared tional. In the meantime every there have been anxious either members of the unconstitu- day this week inquiries from | two normal boards and now the hunch is that it come down Monday The decision more important than merely saying which board is legal. It will permit the auditor to Issue warrants for many outstanding bills and for salarles to teachers and employes, which have been held up since the new board came into existence. | Auditor Barton refused to honor vouchers | from either board because there was a doubt of the constitutionality of them both, Tho Wayne Normal cannot be bought until the case !s decided and nelther | can the new normal school be located or | the buildings at Peru and Kearney be con- structed. Consequently & lot of people | have been very much interested, not so much In the outcome of the legality of the | law, as to the time the case would be de- cided. wil school Lincoln Charter Again. The clty of Lincoin intends o be pre- | pared with a new charter for the considera- tion of the next legislature and to that end | the mayor has already appointed s com- mittee to draft the instrument. The com- mittee I8 to get busy at once. When it has completed its work, then the people will have ample time to discuss the measure and refect or aceept it before the legisla- | tignt against (Continued on Becond Paxe) | Burglar Secures Load of Silver in Drug Store Bell Pharmacy Coin Disappears to the Amount of $126—Fur Thieves Still at Large. The Bell drug store, 1216 Farnam street, was broken into some time early Sund: morning and silver to the amount of 3! stolen. Entrance was effected by break- ing a cellar window. There were seventy silver doliars and the balance In quarters and dimes when the store was closed at about midnight Saturday and it was all gone when the place opened for business Sunday morning. There s no clue, unless someone happened to be seen Sunday with an unusual amount of silver cotn In his possession. The police have been unable to find any trace of the thieves who stble the furs from two establishments Saturday. At tie La Book & Yost establishment, Sixtéenth and Howard streets, a Russian sable set, valued at $400, was taken, whilo furs valued jat $100 were stolen from the Western Fur company's store at 512 South Sixteenth seret. DEATH OF -EDWIN- DAVIS, SR. Hsd Been a Hesident of Omaha for Over Two Score Years and Served im Council. Edwin Davis, sr., for forty-one years a resident of Omaha, once member of the city councll, identificd for many years with varlous business interests of the city and many fraternal orders, died Sunday morning at the home of his son, Edwin Davis, ., 744 North Sixteenth street, in South Omaha. The deceased was 78 years of age and had been in falling heaith for a long period. Edwin Davis came to Omaha in 1868, For fourteen years he was connected with The Bee as lessee of its city circulation. Later he devoted his attention to the real estate business, among other Investments erecting the Windsor stables on Daven- Port street, between Fourteenth and Fif- teenth streets and the apartments at Sev- enteenth and Burt streets. In the fraternal world he was perhaps most extensively known. He was a promi nent member and afficer in the Scottish Rite Masons, was a Shriner, & member of the Knights of Pythias, a phominent 0dd Fellow and a charter member of the local chapter, Order of the Eastern Star Mr. Davis was born at Oneida, N. Y He went to Lyle, TIL, in 1845, removing to Omaha twenty-three years later. In 1ST4 he was united in marriage to Miss Ellza- beth Clifton, who died in 1589, He is sur- vived by an only son, The deceased was the last of a family of eleven children. Funeral services will be in charge of the Masonic order. Midnight ceremonies will be held Monday night and the inter- ment will take place Wednesday afternoon at Forest Lawn cemetery. NO RED CAP FOR AMERICAN Plans Are Abandoned at Rome for Appointment of Cardl; from United Stetes, Edwin Davis, Jr. ROME, Nov. 4.—It Is that the next consistory will not be held before Baster, and It Is also stated that the plan to create a new American cardinal has been abandoned, partly on account of the clalms announced by Latin America and Canada and partly becouse of the nowt announced difficulty In selecting an American prelate | who would be agreeable to the majority. FOUR HUNDRED BURIED IN MINE Mine Officials Find Number of Miss. ing Men Within Few of This Number, SIGNALS COME FROM BELOW Farmers Over Half Mile from Main Shaft Hear Concussions. DICUSSING A VERY MPORT- RAY OF HOPE SOME MAY BE ALIVE Third Effort to Explore Workings Shows Fire Probably Out, MEN IN OXYGEN CAPS GO DOWN M 2UMOTO PropRIETOR “ JAPAN TIMES, ¥ , | Much Doubt that Life O Exist Under the Conditions—Engineer Causes Death of Rescus ing Party, CHERRY, Til, Nov. W4.—Nearly 400 hue man beings, men and boys, it is now be- lMeved, are dead or perishing in the St. | Paul mine here, though experts, who suc- | ceeded In penetrating the smoke-filled air shaft to a depth of 300 feet late today, re- turned with a ray of hope for the grief- stricken relatives of the entombed men. That the fire has been extinguished was iimebenin the conclusion of mining experts and In- N _ | spectors sent here by Governor Deneen to SCAVNELL HITS THE \ELLOWS | Investigate the calamity and its couse. ¢ For more than thirty hours the pris- oners have been cut off from fresh air, l‘fll\d undoubtedly have been subjected to | smoke-filled veins. That life could exist | under such conditions is doubted by many, | but because no trace of high temperature " | was found in the depths of the mine to- DOESN'T LIKE WOMEN IN POLITICS | [0 010 i of the minors and even of those of the company here, hope that the Lack of the Virtues of Faith, Hope yictims may have found safety in remote and Charity and Extravagant | recesses of the mine. Rich Held to Be Responsible A. J. Barling, president of the Chicago Milwaukee & St. Poul raliroad, who hat g g I not slept since arriving on the scene of the catastrophe, recelved an encouraging Rt. Rev. Richard Scannell, bishop of the | report after herofc efforts had been made Catholle dlocese of Omaha, scored the | today to open the mine for the release of yellow journals in the morning sermon at | the entombed men, or the discovery of the St. Cecella church Sunday, saving they |much feared mass of dead. should mot be permitted to circulate and | that the state should exercise supervision | oo ope o " oe” (e of the missing over the press. | miners, a young man named John Reid, The bishop also sald that women Were|,., yajjroad president heard that a con- inconsistent In their position, in that they | q,qjon of the ¢arth had been felt by farm- would meet In convention fn the forenoon | uiy naif a mile south of the main shatt, and quibble over little things.and then A0 | o roport was sent to Henry Burke, an Just as bad things in the evening, when | onoin™ e (v mining company. Burke they attended the theaters. eH s2ld thoy | pygp0q to President Earling ih the office would strain at a grat in the conventlon | oe (pe company. hall | nthe morning and swellow a eamel | * ., TERT L tom the men,” he at the theater In the evening. il Ay “Instead of these women Striving fr | ' snypit do youymean?” asked the railroad total abstinence they srhould be wm'klnn:p""dcm “What signal?” in the cause of temperarce." sald BIShob | " .jonn Reid's boy said that he and farm- Scannell. “Men have a practical Judgment| oy whoge land is over the .southern end in' this matter and G0 rot look for the| ot FUEE N L ELL | nauglons. of tho \deqlly ‘perfect. Therefore, T sce mo ad- vantage to be derlved from the women | | earth this afternoon, There were seversl | shocks, being admitted into the political arena. Lo Nk S and the men who felt them are were shots fired by the “Faith, hope and charity—these are the | ;o iiconeq miners and that they were virtues which constitute sanctity. The n.4n¢ for an assurance that at least some word saint s a term often misunderstood | o qpe OF B0 and in the minds of some s assoctated | LG\ N L g masling, with miracles, prophecles and herole vir- | . eve 000 FRL P tues. Thin ls wrong, for when God was "' Coiner of light to the darkened asked by the sinner as to what he should |, 0 & CE e tollowed other do to be saved the answer was simply | (00T L L 0l cut theories af “keep the commandments.” We all know | SERHEERE © O T B0 e entombed we can keep the commandments by God's |y, q.c0s may not have been suffocated grace and our own will. Most of the trou- |y 0,50 of fallure of the flames yesterday bles of today Wre traceable to the Want| ., . (he hay in the stables, and that of faith, hope and charity. Large masses | . .. eough remains in their veins to of the peoplé are destitute of these three | p<YECH SRCUER TORERY LG T virtues. It 1s worse In Turope than in|, ., ... the draft fans put in operatios thig country, and it will be ““"’: """h“um rescuing parties sent into the dark time than it Is now. Athelsts and anarch. | W0 AHEET B0 (Tl of thie eatth. ists and anti-church movements are more aggressive In the old world than in this. $. TAMURA (MPORTER, xo Catholic Bishop of Omaha Excoriate Sensational Newspapers. Concussions Mile Away, ‘that Is Third Attempt to Explore Mine. 2 After the third attempt to explore the Unlimited FPreedom Dangeroms. |, 4,5 (oday, R. Y. Willlams of Ur- “These people demand unlimited freedom | pana, Ill,, of the United States geological of the press, teaching and specch. but this | gurvey, who superintended the work of connot be granted because of the things | yolunteer explorers protected with oxygen they lead to. No government could Erant | caps and apparatus, telegraphed to Urbana these things and live. It §s apt to Lring | for more of the apparatus. about such an upheaval in Europe that| This is expec ta AESE” dllal Bash they will have mlilitary government. |train tomorrow and a score of men have “The first cause of this state of affairs volurteerd to accompany the experts and Is the perversity of the human mind which |mining insp ctors into the alr shaft, which says there is no God. There is a deplorable |was opened late today. Three times Mr. dceay of faith. It would be far better it |Wil'ams and Henry Smith, one of the all thought they would have to account | voluntcers, were lowered into the mine for thelr actions in the hereafter. Faith|In a buck:t. Bach time they succeeded in is decaying because of bad example. Caesar Derctrating decper into the shaft. Each does not want any power but himself. |time they were assured that the tempera- Those who will not obey God will not ohey ture was bearable. mef. Though to cpen the sealed main shaft “Tlie second cause is the social and com. and exit of the mine was impossible to- mereial condition of our day which enables 48y and furiher progress to (nvestigate a few skiliful ones to amass fortunes \MIENt have fanned into a flame a few Those who do not succeed are jealous ana Mmolde:ing embers yet remaining, the state there 18 but one step between jealousy and |inFpectors here, among them James Tay- hatred. Those who hate men hate the law, |\97 °f "”‘:"‘ “‘;""? ]“_""‘ ‘;’ ”&”"'"’“’- both elvil and divine. The rich flaunt their {Henry l““‘ % Badlly oot d:n""s""“" isregard for' both the civil and the morai [F0UPC 4 10 Ane = Bubetintent v TRt Lot WY Nwed 4 Tk el :m they ()r. t assured ma.‘me ruull\l cl?uo who Eives a ball costing from $10,000 (o |oo ®CCured tomoriow Y. AR AN b e e » ho {were abandoned tonight it was announced . S Tere ‘of . provotar of snprehy that the men fitted with the oxygen armor than one who preaches it. Would resume operations as early as possi- “The third cause is modern education ble. which provides man with a faculty V\hlch‘ he uses to a wrong purpose. A man reads | exciting things, such as the repuleive de- List of Missing Grows. The list of the missing was complled to- @ay In the offices of the mining company (Continued on Second Page.) |ana it reached tha astounding total of Labor Federation Favors Suffrage for Women TORONTO, Ont., tion of the Nov. 14.—The conven- American Federation of Labor | went an record Saturday as favoring woman suffrage, an eight-hour day for postof- fice clerks, legislation for better protec- tion of actors and actresses from the “extortion and corrupt business methods’ of so-called theatrical employment agen- cles; a postal savings bank system, deep waterways projects, a continuation of the tuberculo the granting of American citizenship to the people of Porto Rico and the construction of & twenty-six-foot channel through the Great Lakes from Buffalo to Duluth and Buffalo to Chicago. Resolutions looking to the establishing of the national defense fund by the federation to ald unions in distress were voted down. On the ground that employment agen- cles are used strike breaking organi- sations, the federation will attempt lodmlntll"l who thus observe labor's day. |85, including the dead whose charred bodies wera taken from the burning cages |Baturday afternoon. It was declared to be {Probabl> that this list might be increased. Onc Lundred and seventy men Who en- tered the mine Saturday morning have been zccounted for. The company had |scores of tracers at work rounding up the |employes, and at nighifall the company offi_fals admitted that the number. of men in the mine was greater than they had at {first belleved possible, Among the missing are many Americans cil to do all in its power “to stop the |who have lived for years and reared thelr mad expenditures of public money for 'familles In the mining section of Illinols War purposes,” stirred up & lively divis- [so often the scene of terrific traged ion of sentiment and It was referred back |Though the maority of those who ne to committee. The executive counell was muy be found allve are forelgn-born, yet authorized to make recommendations to all had their homes here or in the sur- the president of the United States re- rounding towns and villages and the grief specting appointments to judicial posi- ‘over thelr probable fate has cast a pafl tions. | over the community. “Labor Sunday” Is a suggestion Cherry today held thousands of persons. before the American Federation hey eam: with sad faces. Many, espe- Labor in a resolution !mntroduced at eclally the women whose husbands are be- day's session by Becretary Frank Morri- lievid to have been buried alive, and the son. The resolution would designete children who will be fatherless were weep the first Sunday in Beptember of|ing and moaning In the agony of their each v as the occasion when the surperse Before noon the St. Paul mine ehurches of America devote some part of was rurrounded by an almost uncon- the day to a presentation of the labor | trollable mob question. It also recommends that various | Officlals early in the day swore in & central and local labor bodies be requested |force of deputies (0 handle the crowds. to co-operate in every legitimate way with Scores of trains from Streator, Mendota, | Ladd, Bpring Valley, La Salle, Ottawa and havel enacted national legisiation for their regulation. A resolution urging the executive coun- r laia of to-

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