Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 1, 1910, Page 1

L3 > -‘a - ) ‘ \ ’ AHA BEE omes—is read by th goods for advertiser ks XXXIN-NO. 1 he .J/ WEA.nER FORECAST. For Nebraska—Partly eloudy. For lowa—Partly eloudy. For weather report see page 34 48, THREE KILLED, FORTY-FIVE HURT California Special on the Rock Island is Wrecked Near Trenton, Missouri. ACARS BURNED LIKE TINDER ' Only Ofe Sleeper and an Observation 'Car Remain on Track. BODIES ARE BADLY BURNED Number of Injured Rescued After Fire Scorches Clothin~, \ SUFTER VICTIMS INTENSELY Wreek Occurs Two Miles from Station and Groung is Covered w Snow-—Alnrm th Deep Sent by Teles ! phone from Farmhouse. TON, Mo., om are women at least forty-five injured Island passenger train No nia special,” was w of here at 8:30 o'clock this morning. The cause of the wreck is unknown, though 1t s . by spreading rafls. While the running at a high spoed the ler suddenly left the trac and plunged J'i v five-foot embankment. They wer quiekizy ollowed by two baggage cars, a mall ¢ v\n tourist ear and a Pullman i Dec. Three kille peoryle. were 8, the al train engine and sleeper, the entire train, but a and an obServation car remained on track. Cars Burn While passengers Like Tinder, ' the wrecked cars were struggling to esgpe from the debris fire started. The cars burned like tinder The three people who lost their lives were badly burned. Scores were rescued after the Tlames had scorched their clothing or burned their figsh. Many were pinioned under the wreeKage and begged piteously to be released before the fire reachd them. David Siegel of Cleveland, O., was held or an hour while the flames burned within few feet of him. . He Instructed the scuers to carry water from the tank of the engine and put out the fire nearecst bis body. This was done and event he wus rescued, although he will lose erm, Herole rescues were numerous. Men and women who efcaped from the cars hy kick- ing out windwws or breaking down doors quickly rushed back Into the burning wreckage to rescue (heir less fortunate fellow passengers. At the rigk of thelr own Iives they carried the burned, maimed and biceding to places of safety. Wreek in Desolate Spot. Happening as It did far . s a station aud mgre than half a ml: from a fi Mot JUr - wreek: el s + bullaing of dny kind was the Vireek T ar open atr clothi an o0 neat wh's covired with snow and ng. Thrown into the nall portion of their o escaped injury in =cd tereibly. But the strong d eversthing for the weak Ir coats to the women injyred. Women tore str dlothilng to make band ages for the ted. As many injured as room coutd be made I re placed In the two cars that mained on the track. Others stood about bonfires made of portions of the wreek until f train arrived. Farmer Gives Alarm. A gave the alarm. He called the renton effice, which 1s a division point, and a reliof train was quickly made The most seriously Inju were taken to a hotel in Trenton. Another rellef train took twenty of the intured and the uninjured passengers to kansas Ciy, Mo, All pagsengers were provided with tickots to their destinations at that point At first It was believed that at least a dogen people had been kiliad. But tonight practically all of the wreckage h ¢ d away and but three bodivs have been found. A rigld investigation of (ne cause of the wreck i8 to be made. A coroner's Inquest will be started here tomorrow. Rock Jsland officials have already startsd an fujuiry to determine the of the sk Thirty-Four Are Injured. HICAGO, Dec. 81.—One of the women sd in the Rock Island wreck at Tren- 1O, 4h10, Was Mrs. Gertrude Barnes of rmourdale. The other woma: so far as not bagn identified, All told {irty-four persons were In- red, accordWg to the Rock Isiand offi- vlals here. The following list of Injurea was g'ven out by the officla F. H. Bargh, Ishpeming, Mich R. Al Farley, Lansing, Mic J. W. Campbell; Hutchinson Ghila of Mrs, ¥. P. Lyon, Pho P8 Bw ¥, San Diego, Cal R. A, Wietake, Los Angeles, Cal @ W. Gooding, Tola, Kan Mrs, Drusilla Knapp, Adrian George . Bernard, I B ofon Ledford, mail clerks, all City, M Willlam 8. Vinston, Ottumwa Parkersburg, Ia d, Cherokee, Okl , 'Wis. Davenport, Rock he wr.cl rendity Men & and et and i wou cause Kan, nix, Ariz. Mich. nard and of Kan- la. ¥ McMeans, la., Island, 111, postal 5 pdewind Brigks, Chica vis 'Hartsburg Carlson, Chicago [ clor. €. 3. Foreman, st Anna Schallent Fanny Schaffer, Centiry 1a. Medelzohn, Boston is_Medelsohn, Boston Blankenship, Dallas ¢ lerigh Harver. waiter J. Mills, walter avis, waiter L M G car W oo Willlams, Chicago, dining Joseph, Mo, rger, Nichols, Ta. Tex. on diner, cook. n, Marysville, Kan, conductor, budly bruised. Y KILLED WHILE HUNTING cidentally Shot by Discharge of SBOtKEE tn the Hands of Brother. CEOLA; Neb., Dee. 81— (Speclal Tele- .)~Frapéls, the 10-ycar-old son of Mr, Mrs. W, B. Bteever, was k'lled Thurs- afternoon by the aceident:! discharge wt’: the hands of 1is brother, e, aged 1 years, while iut hunting ts on his father's farth noar Stroms- There were three boys i the crowd ho accident med wien the boy ae killed bad leaned foryvard to pick animal that he had jusk ghot, The and mother were away from home ¢ accident happened, e Descendo Clemen sh Califor- cked two miles :‘(nllll ought to have been caused was the Iy | N most. @nk ats | up. | s boon | postal Cal. dining | 8 SINGLE NO PEACE WITH MADRIZ | General Estrada Firm in Stand i Against Zelayan Partisans. | | | HOLDS CONGRESS WITHOUT POWER urgent Leader Says He Will Never Recognize President Chosen by lllegal Nody—Truce Only Covernmeiit Fehome, @ { vec. 3l.—General Es- {trada remains firm in his determination {not to recognize the presidency of Madriz. | He holds that the election of the latter by {congress was illegal and that the people jof Nicaragua have not spoken. He has |refused the offers of peace, through -com- promise, from Managua and is continu- |ing preparations for a campaign against the capital. Today the proposed attack on Greytown urder discusslon. | neral Mena has arrived at Ghile after ‘uxplullm»' a number of the government | soldiers and a supply of ammunition. The | prisoners with their supplies were on their |way to reinforce General Gonzelas, when | the battle at Becreo was fougtt. | The recent representations by Madriz are viewed here as intended to delay the east- ward march of the insurgents. If Madriz had this purpose it has been frustrated On December 22, Madriz apprised Estrada of the former's assumption of the presi- dency under an act of congress, He re- quired that the insurgent commander sus- pend hostilities pending the arrival of com- missioners appoined at Managua to seek a way to a permanent peace. The message was received with skepti- cism, as every move by Madriz is garded here with suipicion. It s remem- |bered that his truces preceding the battie |of Rama were merely time-killers, while {the government troops were awalling the | hoped-for arrival of f00d and ammunition. His latest proposal was viewed similarly. On Christmas day General Estrada re- plied, refusing to stop fighting, but prom- ising to receive Madriz’s commissioners, should they come here and have anything to say. They will be Informed that peace in Nicaragua is impossible while Madriz or any other person holds or seeks officé un- der the authority of a congress lllegally constituted. Estrada’s letter or reply to Madriz was shown to & representative of the press. Its contents adwit of but one construction— rada Is determined that no vestige of the Zelayan regime shall remain In the government of Nicaragua and peace s pos- sible under no other terms. Madriz and the congress, which elected him are regarded as Zelayan in sentiment and intent. BLUEFIELDS, | DEADLOCK STILL EXISTS ~ AT THE HOMESTAKE MINE Men Sign on lon List Posted as i Traltors—No Sign of Resump- tion of Work. S. D, Dee. 3L—(Special)~The unions made another move In the Home stake lockout trouble by posting notices containing the names of forty-nine men whom it alleged had tlolated their obliga tons by signing the Homestake non-union list. The lists are headed “Traitors to the Working Class, Bulletin Né. 1" and were widely placarded about the city. They at- tracted - considerable attention, but are not expected to lead to any other result. The otices set forth that he men mentioned had “lost the respect and confidence af all honorable men.” For several weeks a persistent rumor has been in cireulation that the company in- tended resuming operations about January 1, but as the year is over and no prepara | tlosn have been made, it Is evident that [the company has no intention of re-open. ing in the near future. In fact, the best posted business men and those in closest touch with the situation here declare that 11t will be easlly six months before the Homestake turns & hand toward resump- | tion of work. The management has made it plain that no compromise 1s to be made and that it s content to bide its time until conditions become more seitied and it Is gencrally understood that It wil manage Its own affairs and employ such men as It sees fit. LEAD, Elopement, Not Suicide, Back of De Janon Case Sixteen-Year-0ld New York Heiress Believed to Have Run Away with Waiter. NEW YORK, Dee. 31.<While private fle- tectives and city police have not.yet found Roberta B. DeJanon, the 16-year-old heiress who strangely disappeared from Philadel- phia on Wednesday, they have discovered facts which lead them to believe she came’ directly to this city, instead of committing suicide, as she had intimated in letters to her grandfather and to her father, Ferdi- nand DeJanon of New York. Robert Buist, grandfather of the missing girl, and with whom she lived at the Belle- vue-Stratford in Philadelphia, asked the New York police to look for her and also tor Frederick Cohen, a follevue-Stratford waiter, nearly fifty years old. Mr. Bdist, who on last Tuesday had signed papers of formal adoption, making Roberta DeJanor the sole heir to his wealth, which is sald to be considerable,d Informed the New York police that Cohen and the girl disappeared at the same time, and that they had boarded a train together for New York. Cohen’s wife Is now here with the police. She says Cohen recently asked her if,she would consent tu a divorce for a money consideration and showed her a gold match safe which he said Miss DeJanon had given him, Employment Fraud Hits Railroads Half Million Lost Annnally by North- western Lines is Fsti- mate. ST. PAUL, Dec. 31.—That nearly every rallvoad running through the northwest has suffered from frauds perpetrated by em- ployment agents to the same extent as against the Great Northern, is the beliat of those iInterested in the investigations being conducted under the personal direc- tion of President L. W. Hill of the Great Northern. Special Agent Ray of the Great Northern has discovered that office collusion on the part of a Great Northern employe made plots of the labor agents easy to carry out. Estimates of the amount of money sald to have been lost to the northwestern rall- roads through the manipulations of certain employment agents in all parts of the country run as high as $500,000 annually. Christmas has come and gone and the dressmakerscan give you better at- tention now than when they are rushed. It you are wise this s the time to have your work done. You ecan get better work for less money than any time of the year. Under the head of ‘‘Dress- makers’’ on the first want ad page you will find some spe- cial inducements which they are offering. It will pay you to turn to them now. Have you read the want ads yet today? WARM WEATHER IS PROMISE Prediction Cheers FA:Itel’!' Cities Blocked by Snow and Ice. {OHIO RIVER TOWI# IBOLATED Many Have Not Had Mail fer Three Days and Food and Cosl Are Short—Flood New Mendee, WASHINGTON, Dee. 81.—The sxtreme cold spell which has prevailed -in -many states is on the verge of being broken, according to today's government forecast, and by tonight the temperature will have greatly moderated. “Warmer tonight and Saturday” is the general prediction for two sections. An exception was noted along the great lakes, where stormy weather is the usual occur- rence at this season of the year. Continued absence of extremely cold weather for the west and middle west is predicted. EVANSVILLE, “Ind, Dsc. J8l.—Many Ohlo . river towns have not mall for three days and some of t are suffer- ing from short food and’ coal suppHes. Though wagons #fe being driven over the ice-bound ell; City, Conneliton ind other P far up as Madison, the govei fals will not permit the mall to Be carrled over the dangerous floods. z Old river men say that not since the civil war has the river been so heavily blocked with lce. The whart boats at Cannellton and Tell City and other towns are frozen in and ice Is gorged high against the Loulsville & Nashyille rafiroad bridge at Hender- son, Ky. CAIRO, 1ll, Dec. 81.—Two lce gorges formed In the Mississippi river at Hick- man, Ky., last night and for a time there | were grave fears of a flood. The water was forced as far up as Cairo. The situa- tion here caused great uneasiness today. The gorges broke and the river held to its channel. Both the Ohlo and Missis- sippl rivers are running full of ice. Good-Bye to the Toy Pistol Nebraska Law in Effect Today Pro- hibiting Sale—Giant Firecrack- ers Under Ban, Also. LINCOLN, The toy Neb., Dec. 3l.—(Speclal.)—~ pistol, blank cartridge and fire- cracker law goes Into effect at midnight tonight, This law provides that from Jan- uary 1 it shall be unlawfu) for any person to sell, use, offer or keep for sale within this state any toy revoh\* shooting blank cartridges, blank cartridges for toy re- volvers, toy or firecrackers more than five | irches In length ors three-quarters of an Inch In diameter. It provides, however, | that caps coatalnfng dynamite may be| used, kept for sale, or sold when needed for mining purposes or for danger signaly or for other necessary uses. A violdtion of the law is punishable by a fine of not exceeding $100 or imprisonment not exceeding thirty days in the county Jail Under other statutes it is provided that |by February 1 the dlstrict clerk of each | county shall return to the secretary of the ate oBard of Health a report of the mar- | |riagés and the divorces of the calander year | preceding. These reports are to be made [upon blanks furnished by the state. Federal Plan in Ohio, CINC ATL, Q. Dec. 3L—Touay is the last day on which the cities in Ohio will conduct business under what has been known for several years as the ‘‘board’’ plan of governmert. Tomorrow the federal plan will begin, under which responsibility in the conduct of city affairs i centered in the mayor and his two lie: the directors of public service w vile | safety. A Bell Con neremses Cupiial, TRENTON., N. J. Dec. 3L—The Dela- ware & Atlantic Telegraph and Telephone company, & branch of the BHell system, filed an amended certificate here today in. Sreasing Its capital stock from H,00 to Murdered Man is Neil McCoig Family at Grand Island Positive in Identification—Woman in the Case. GRAND ISLAND, Neb, Dee. 81.—(Spe- oial Telegram,)—1t was, detiuitely ascer- tained here this morniug that the bady of the man found murdered at Kansas City Sunday was that of Nefl McColg, & horse buyer and farmer, who lived. three miles from this city until August last, when b went to Falls City and purchased a res- taurant. Mrs. McColg only after being quite con- vinced that her Husband was dead ad- mitted having heard of his relations with dther women. A letter she found among other effects from a Miss Alice Barber, warned him to say nothing to one “Peet" who' had returned to her hotel to get him mad. The daughter positively declared the pleture of the dead man, to be that of her father and the mother stated that the plece of cloth cut from the suit ana shown to her was that worn by him. Mrs, Me. Colg ‘Al not know how much money he had, but he had carried a watch and 0dd Fellow's pin. KANSAS CITY, Dec. 3L.—The jealousy of two men infatuated with the same woman may, the police said today, explain the murder in Kansas City, Kan., of Neal Mc- Colg of Grand Island, Neb. A man who had demanded that McColg keep away an | trom Mrs. Alice Barber was In (h: woman's home at 1224 Oak street the night tne Ne-| braska man made his last visit to her | home. McColg knew had told Mrs. other. Mrs. Barber two should meet and sent Willlam Nelson, & roomer at her house, to intercept McCoig and prevent his appearance while the sec- ond man was present. “The man you refer to was jealous of McColg,” Mrs. Barber said today. ‘'Me- Colg -had hard feelings agalnst the ‘man and was always knocking him to me. It was a case of jealousy all around, you might say. I don't think they ever quar- reled openly, but there were hard feelings.” the Liquor Factories Last Day of Grace Tennessee Law Forbidding Manufac- ture of Intoxicants is Effective tive at Midnight. NASHVILLE, Tenn., and brewers must close their plants at midnight when the new Tennessee law forbidding the manufacture of intoxicating Dec. Gi—Distillers | beverages In this state becomes effective. Prominent whisky manufacturers say law will be tested In the courts. Nashville, Knoxville und Chattanooga have one brewery each and there in. Memphis. There are forty-one distilleries in the state, most of them small plants with a capacity of one to six barrels dally. the are iwo man and frequently | Barber of his dislike of the | teared trouble if the | SIXTY MEN FALL INTO RIVER Ay Ice Jam Sweeps False Work from Under Bridge at St. Louis. FORTY ARE RESCUED BY TUG Most of Others Ave Supposed to Have Excaped on lee Floes—Damage New Strueture Quart - ° sintiven. .l. ST. LOUTS, Dec. 31.—Three hundred feet of the false structure of the McKinley bridge, now under construction across the Mississippi river, was knocked out by an fee jam at § o'clock tonight. Sixty men were thrown into the river and some of them may have been drowneyl One hundred and thirty men were at work on the structure when the jam ‘be- gan to move, Seventy of them heard the warning snap! of the. timbers in time to pe to the Steel work, but ‘sixty oth went down In the twisted mass of timbe Three holsting engines and a traveler also went down, Imperiliing the struggling men below. Captain John Short, In charge of a tug and two barges, frozen in, picked up forty of the men and got them ashore after a two-hour battle with the ice, whigh Is Jammed six feet high.in many places. Several” times the barges threatened to crush the tug and several times the ves- sel nearly turned turtle when forced upon | the ice by the pressure behind it. The twenty men who were unable to reach the tug are believed to have reached shore across the floating lce flocs, but company officlals sald tonight they would | not know whether any lives were_lost until tomorrow when the men will be paid off. The property loss 18 estimated at $250,00 and the completion of the bridge will be delayed several months, The bridge is being bullt by the Ilinots Traction systdm. CARRIERS AND POSTMASTERS Congressman Kinkaid New Appointments fo and Sybrant. (From a Staff Correspondent.) WASHINGTON, Dee. 81.—(Speclal Tele- gram.)—Congressman Kinkald today rec- ommended the appointment of Dal Carney as postmaster at Seneca, vice Ethel Cal ney, resigned. He also recommended the appointment of Albert M. Clark postmaster at Sybrant, Rock county, vice George Wick, resigned. The postmaster at Huron, 8. D, been allowed one additional carrier gin service January 15, Rural carriers appointed for are: Kearney, route 4, Willlam R. baugh, carrier; no substitute, Litchfield, route Robert C. Brown, car r; Chester R. Heapy, substitute. lowa, Bedford, route 6, George W. Brown, carrler; no substitute. Colfax, route 2, Lisle Harper, carrier; no substitute. Mystic, route 1, Charles ark, carrler substitute; route | Marion 8. Taylor, carrier; substitut Thayer, route 1, Claude eley, carrler; Ralph ey, substitute. Postmasters appointed for Nebraska are Spring Ranch, Clay eounty, Otto Mutz, vice D. M. Roush, resigned. lowa postmasters: Hayward, county, Julla H. Alexander, vice ward, resigned esc Recommends Seneea ) has to be- Nebraska traaus- | | | | | | S Dickinsc W. Hay- More Money for Diamonds This Year Than Ever Before, WASHINGTON, Deo. 31.—Prosperity has returned, according to the figures of the fmports and exports for the calendar year of 1909, just published by the bureau of statistics of the Department of Commerce and Labor. The surest\indication of ready money, officlals declare, is the diamond market and during the first eleven months of 1909 this has boomed, the importation of cut diamonds amounting to §25,214,541, three | the same period | times more than dur last year and almost $6,600,00 more than during that time in 1907, In fact, the imports of cut diamonds for . ) this year, with De: to more than $1,000000 more twelve months of 1907, the such importation, More than $40,000,00 worth and other preclous stones |into the United States for the first eleven | months of 1300. This represents ase of §28,000,000 over 1905 The only matter for serious reflection in the report is the statement that the expor- tation of food stuffs, both raw and manu- tactured, has' failpn lower than has been noted In a decady / : than er tor the ba year in of dlamonds were imported ember omitted amounted | COPY TWO CENTS. YEAR OF GOOD TIMES IN OMAHA | Twelve-Month Just Passed Brought Rich Material and Ethical Blessing to This City. " ) BUSINESS MAKES NEW RECORDS Manufacturers Turn Out $191,000,000 in Wares, Jobbers $115,100,000, BANK CLEARINGS ARE $735,000,000 Unprecedented in History of City and Depoeits About $55,000,000. PERMITS Year of 1009 Marigs Epoch of the Skywera BUILDING $7,000,000 r in Omaba and troduces More Than Oue of Them. RECORDS OF TWO YRAN 9735308608 360883,007 0718078 © 4085007 Factory output.. 191,878,000 188,173,165 Jobbing trade. ... 115,183, 92,327,000 Roalty transfers. .12.a6l, 9,262,587 Bldg. permits 4,590,680 Bmelter outpu 34,963,236 Public works 1,020,338 Live stock re. ocoipts (head): Oattle ......... \Hogs Sheep oo 0 Grain (bushels): Receipts .. Shipments Dank fllllrln{' Bank deposits .. 1,036,628 9,424,85. 8,105,9: 44,056,100 84,781,500 2,167,014 43,198,200 34,161 The year 1900 was 3 mere It m a in the business life of the clty—It Is ro- corded as the epoch of the skysoraper. It saw not only the beginning of the first reully tall bullding in Omaha, but wit- nessed the erection of several flights of the City Natlonal bank’s sixteen-story struc- ture at Sixteenth and Harney streets and Just about saw the close of the long-pend- ing negotiations of the Woodmen ot N World for a site on which to shoot up a bu ing of sixteen storl ie year was boundless fh {t4 blessings to the city. And these bleseings are not confined to material prosperity; the man ‘\\)m Is looking on the ethical side of ths ledger may find a £nug balince on the right |slde. Churches, educational fnstitutions and | moral forces generally have moved onward | and upward, sharing in the swirtly tlow- Ing current of gond things, With the es- | tablishment, in an embryonic state still, of the University of Omaha the city galns | one new school whose founiders bélleve wili some duy be a substantial erodit to Omaha, And with a better and more prosperous | clty has come also a more beautiful elty. { More than $100,000 has been expended on parks and boulevards alone, while more than 850,000 was devoted to the Improves ment of streets and other offy’ prnni&y. Commorce and’ Indstrs, Coming down to the comniertlal and (h- dustrial side of Omaba's life 1000 was In | the concrete a distinet triumph., The | wholesale jobbers of the cfty surpassed | their splendid record of 1808 by $22,705,00), | domg a business in the aggregate of 8115, | 133000 These figures reprosént goods sold | by the wholesale merchants and have no relation to goods made here. The manu- factured articles for the year which the | Industrial plants of Omaha turned out mount up to the lofty helght of 191,872,000, | which is another healthy gain over the figures for 1908, | The packing houres of South Omaha come | in for the lion's share of these gigantic pro- | ceeds. Their output for the year brought the enormous sum of $121,000,000, Which rep- rescits an increase In revenue over 1908 of $6,300,000, than passing Reach New Territory, These enlarged revenues of the jobbers |and manufacturers of Omaha spedk very |loudly on the subject of commerelal con- | auest; they point unmistakably to the fact that Omaha goods are finding thelr way Into new territery, that each year the fleld of operation is being extended. This fact has & solemn significance {When compared in conpection With that | other fact of trade evangelism. There can | be no galnsaying that Omaha factoris ana | Omaha jobberies are reaping the harvest { of Judiclous advertising. This advertising | has Dbeen done in o many substantial |forms that it would be allke unfalt and |unsafe to try to ascribe Its success to any one thing. The trade excursiohs, of, course, have a large pirt; _AK-Sar-Be claims its important place and the Nationd) | Corn exposition, now an annusl function, must be given a prominent position, whild | the general publicity work inaugurated by' | enterprising and far-secing eltizenk and | ed on under the auspices of the Com- mercial club, militating to the advantage of the city in spreading its good hame and | bringing here people and conventiond, must | not be overlooked in the sumimary of the | causes making for the uitimate and splen- did success and prosperity of Omaha. Biggest Bullding Year, In bullding, 1900 must stand out in bold relief against a background of excellent building years. There I8 the Clty National bank building In course of construction, the immense Brandels theater and busic ness block at Seventeenth and Dougl streets, under progress; the $1,000 moving steadily toward, form of modern elvie structure; and | of smaller, yeot notable bulidings oy work has been nearly complete And in this connection, be sald that 1969 made for much it did for the g fore 1910 1s ended the Ig proudly heralded new | Pacitic rai wil ward completion if d occupled. Th) Fifteenth and D twelve stories a And another p of a large by inde 15 the V which 18, more sad to At the v the old year Northweste) 1910 it woy another f] ¥i In thy | suprem | new i ing th some emplo) men mean, tor O The also | court house en begun as ture