Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 8, 1910, Page 1

b THE OMAHA BEE & clean, reliable newspaper that is admitted to each and every home. ‘THE OMAHA VOL. XXXIX-NO. 295, OMAHA, TUESDAY ‘M()R.\'ING, MARCH 8 DAILY BEE. WEATHER FORECAST. For Nebraska—Partly cloudy For lowa—Fair. For weather report see page 2 STRIKE FIGURES " ARE CONFLICTING Carvass Made by Philadelphia Police | Say Less Than Twenty Thousand Men Walk Out. ‘THIS ESTIMATE 1S DISPUTED Union Leaders Say Over Hundred Thousand Obeyed Order. LIQUOR DEALERS TAKE A(,’l‘loll‘ i Saloons Wil Be Closed When Riots Develop Near Them. AT MAS® MEETING LYCEUM | Crowd of 4,000 Addressed by Pratt, | Murphy, Mahos and Others— Riot in Fromt of Hall Marks Tts Close. PHILADELPHIA, March 7.—The police made a careful canvass today of the city's | industries to ascertain the number of men | on strike, The returns tabulated and made public by Director Clay showed that 18,407 | persons had responded to the strike call. The police did not attempt to explain the discrepancy between these figures and those of labor leaders, who say 100,000 or 125,000 men are on strike. They declared that thelr total was the result of an actual computation based on the returns of a complete canvass and spoke for itself. The labor leaders scoffed at the police figures and declared they were something like | 100000 too low. According to the police, establishments affected by the sympathetic strike employ 064,94 hands. There are 121,239 employes In other estab- lishments not affected by the strike and this gives, by the police figures, a total of 176,193 employes, of which number only 18407 are out. Many have quit work, It ts declared, not from sympathy with the striking carmen, but because they have been forced out by the action of certain branches of their trades. For Instance, it 1s sald, at & carpet mill, 500 dyers quit work and this compelled the shutting down of the plant and the enforced idleness of 2,800 other employes. Director Clay says that nfs list has bee ncompiled with the greatest care and that he has no reason to question its accuracy. No Leaves for Jackies. The commandant of the FPhiladelphia Navy yard today promulgated an order forbldding the granting of leaves of ab- gerce to men in the yards and on the ves- #els during the strike troubles in this city. The eftect of the order will be to keep the Supreme Court Upholds Graft Decision Given Capitol Looters Lose Case in High Body and State at Once Files Suit to Recover. PHILADELPHIA, March 7.—~The convic tion of Willlam P. Snyder and James M. | | Shumaker, charged with conspiracy to de- | fraud the state in cohifection with the | furnishing of the state capitol, was af-| firmed by the state supreme court here | today. Snydgiilis a former state treas- | urer and YEG 81 a former superintendent | of public' 5 and grounds. | Snyder al " Sker were convicted in | the Dluphl\ -“‘\.Zycourl at Harrisburg on Decemb{ S, and sentenced to serve two yat pay n fine of $500 | each and the® Jusr(‘uflon. John H. Sad Philadelphia, who had the furnity ‘4 gt for the capitol, and Willam L.S#80 " ot Media, former state treasurer, v %o alleged fraud- ulent furniture E . Were convicted and recelved similar sentences at the same time. Banderson and Mathues have since died. HARRISBURG, March T.—Actions fn equity for recovery by the state of at least $5,000,000 alleged to have been illegally paid to contractors for the furnishing of the new state capitol, were entered in the Dauphin county court today by the at- torney general's department. The actions are against the contractors, John H. Sanderson, deceased, and the Pennsylvania Construction company, the state officers having to do with the awards of the contracts and the approval of bills in payment of Architect Joseph M. Huston and the sureties of the contractors ana state officials. The suits are the outgrowth of the cap- itol investigation conducted In 197 and are entirely separate from the criminal aec- tions brought over two years ago. The commonwealth charges that Sander- son, the principal contractor, recelved over $6,000,000 for furniture and equipment which was not.worth more than $1,600,00, and that the Pennsylvania Construction com- pany recelved over §2,000000 for metallic flilng cases, wardrobes, etc., which were not worth more than $750,000. Court Holds Grain Firm Under Law Judge Kelly Orders Nye-Scheider- Company to Stand Trial for Discrimination, Jackles from getting mixed up in any way with strike aisturbances. Another peace-making measure was an- nounced today by Secretary Neil Bonner of the Retall Liquor Dealers' assoclation in the action of the assoclation, requesting its members ay welt as other cafe proprietorz, to close thelr bars should dlsorder oceur in the vielnity, and keep them closed until the trouble subsides. A general willingness on_the part of the proprietors to comply with the request was indicated. One of the Incidents of the day was n perade of a small band of men, which was broken up by the police, without just cause, the men claim. As the marchers passed a hoslery mill they attempted,to persuade the factory employes to join the sympa- thetio strike. Their offort was unsuccess ful an dthe police claim that the marchers became disorderly, Clubs were used freely and the marchers wore dispersed. Two ar- rests were ma The master bullders met late today at the Bullders Exchange, adopted resolutions | condemning the sympathetic strike and dis- | cussed tentatively actlon against some of the bodles of men who joined the general strike movement. It is asserted that agree- ments made by the emplors with more than one of the bodies In the buflding trades, have been deliberately violated by the men walking out in the sympathetic strike, The resolution call upon the leaders of the labor organization, which ordered the general atrike to reconsider thelr strike, to constder at once Riot Follows Mass Meeting. Four thousand men and women today attended a mass meeting of the strikers in Lal tx(eum. Prat, Mahon, Murphy, f Tracéy ahd other leaders addresed the croy The 6ity administration was bitterly de- nounced for its attitude in the present crisis | ond the speaker's were especially vehe- | ment In critictding the employment of | negro policemen.. One of them declared: “Our rulers have put a club into the| black man's hands with which to club| ut the white man's brains.” | i’xno sertion by several speakers that o present fight was one for organized labor's very existence in Philadelphia evoked & nolsy demonstration, Lyalla M. Twiulhg, a woman organizer of the Westorn Federation of Miners, was ohe of the speakers. Her pralse of | Pugene V. Debs and the soclalist move- | ment aroused enthusiasm. John M. Wall, an official of the Massa- | chusetta Central Labor union, assured the Philadelphia strikers that they would fecefve financlal support from his state. Resolutions calling upon every man, Wwoman and child in Philadelph'a to quit| work were adopted with cheers, B As the crowds were leaving the hall | there was a grave outburst of disorder. Beveral cars were ktoned in front of the place. The police, of which there were at least fifty within the radlus of a square, chatged the crowd, which was, . 50 dense that It dispersed slowly, The bluecoats swung thelr clubs, felling several persons to the ground, three of whom were so serlously beaten that they were taken (o a hospital. When the police fired thelr revolvers soveral times in the alf, the people scattered in all directions, Six arrests were made. After gonsidering the strike situation for more than three hours this afternoon the board of directors of the United Business Men's assoclation mppointed a committee of seven to call a convention of the bank- ing, commercial and trade bodies, business associations, religlous and fraternal or- ganisations to take means to effect a set- tlement of the strik German Uni &o Out, Among those who weut on strike today vre elf'feen Organizations in the group German trades unlons, affecting nearly 7,000 man, These unlons included musiclans, Job printers, textile Workers, coppersmiths, coopers, carpenters, butchers, machinists, barbers, bartenders, slate roofers, cigar makers, boot and shoe workers, carrlage and -’unn painters and metal polisher: Thd ! brewery workers dld not join the (Continued on Second Page.) ¢ however, | PIERCE, March 7.—(special)—The di crimination case brought agalnst the Nye- Schnelder-Fowler Grain company at Hadra, Neb., was decided yesterday by Judge Kelly, before whom the case was tried last week. -and the defendant company was ordered to appear and answer at the first day of the next term of district court on the discrimination charge. Courtwright and Sidner of Fremont, ap- pearing for the Nye-Schnelder-Fowler com- pany defended on the theory that their company could mot be held llable on the complaint. unless it could be shown that their acts complained of were done with the criminal intent to injure or destroy the business of their competitor, and clalmed that they raised prices at Hadra, higher than at any other point in the state, purely for the purpose of getting a part of the business at a point where they were getting practically none. The state was represented by C. H. Stewart, county at- torney, who presented evidence to show that the defendant had lost money on every bushel of grain that had been bought at Hadra and that they had discriminated be- tween the towns of Foster and Hadra, and argued from this that the only reasonable inference was that the defendant pall these high prices at Hadra, not for the purpose of getting & business that was losing them money, but for the purpose of making thetr competitor take a business at such prices, it they took it at all, that would eventually put (hem into bankruptey. KING EDWARD IN PARIS Traveling Incognito as Duke of Lan- caster, but Will Visit Falllerles, PARIS, March 7.—King Edward arrived in Paris today. Although traveling incog- nito as the duke of Lancaster, he will pay a visit to President Fallieres tomorrow, later leaving for Blarrits, where it is be- lieved the engagement of {Kng Manuel of Portugal and the Princess Victoria Patri- cla, daughter of the duke of Connaught, may be formally announced, as the queen mother Amelia and Marquis de Soveral, the Portugese minister to Great Britain, await his majesty there, ARM PRICKED IN FRENCH DUEL Over |Seconds Then Stop Combat Alleged Insult to ‘Woman. NICE, France, March T.—Dr. Doyen, the | French scientist, and Captain Van Langen- donck of the Belglan army fought a dued ill the Hippodrome at noon today. At the second attack Dr. Doyen pricked the cap- taln's right forearm, whereupon the seconds stopped the combat. The duelists were reconclled. The affair followed a seéfié in the Casino yesterday when the sclentist accused the captain of having Insulted Mme. Doyen. PORTLAND GATE STAYS CLOSED Supreme Court Amends Order of Interstate Commerce Commission for Through Rate. VICTORY FOR HILL INTERESTS Tribunal Holds that Sound Cities Have Through Route East. ANOTHER IS NOT NEEDED Desire of Tourists to Go Via Portland Not Important Factor. ANOTHER CASE IS DECIDED Court Holds that Commission Has No Authority to Order Connmections Made -on Complaint of Branch Roi WASHINGTON, March 7.—Twice today the supreme court of the United States an- nulled important orders of the Interstate Commerce commission because the com- mission had exceeded its authority. One of the orders required the Northern Pacitic Rallway company to join with com- peting roads’ In establishing & through route and joint rates from' the east to Puget Sound points via Portland, Ore. The other order required the Delaware, Lack- awanna & Western Rallroad company to grant a physical connection w¥ith the Rah- way Valley Rallroad company at Sumumlt, N. J. In the Northern Pacific raliway ease the court held that this rallroad already main- atisfactory or reasonable route, from the east to Puget sound points and as long as such a route was in existence, the 1 could not require the road to Join in another route. The court took the position that climate, scencry and a desire to visit along the routes south of the Northern Pacific did not make the latter’s route ‘‘unsatistactory or unreasonable,” and to hold otherwise would be glving an artificial meaning to the words of the statute, “The condition In the statute is not to be trifled with, sald Justice Holmes, in announcing the opinion o fthe court. In the other dectsion it was held that the commission did not have power to re- quire a raliroad subject to the Intersta Commerce commission’s order to grant a connectlon with a branch raliroad upon complaint of the branch railroad itself. The court refrained from deciding what was a branch raliroad, one of the points in the case. In the Hill-Harriman litigation the Union Paclfio rallroad sought to route its trains from the Missourl river to Seattle by way of Portland, and to give Missourl river pas- sengers the same- fulu. a8 was charged from St. Paul and Minneapolis to Seattle. The lower court Jecided in favor of the Harriman system. Then began the fight of the Northern Pacific to compel payment of regular fare by Unfon Pucific passengers from Portland to Seattle over the former's line in lieu of the through ticket system. This probably will mean that the Union Pacific will have to meet the rate of the Burlington Route on its tickets to Seattle by way of Port- land. HYDE WILL PLEAD TODAY Accused Doctor WIlIl Not Be Ar- rested Until He Appears in Court. KANSAS CITY, Mo, March 7.—Dr. B Clarke Hyde, against whom eleven indict- ments were returned by the grand jury last Saturday, charging him with killing three members of the Swope family and attempting to kill eight other persons in the Swope home, will be arralgned to plead to the charges in the criminal court here this afternoon. Dr. Hyde will not be placed under arrest before he appears in the court room. He is already under a $50000 bond on the charge of murdering Colonel Swope, preferred by John G. Paxton on February 10, and the county prosecutor did not deem it necessary to order his arrest on the grand Jury charges before he was arraigned. PEARY WILL NOT SHOW PROOFS Discoverer of North Pole Says tract with Publisher For- bids It. Con- WASHINGTON, March 7.—Robert E. Peary today declined to submit his proofs that he discovered the North pole to the subcommittee of the house naval com- mittee. Through Representative Alexander of New York he Informed the committep that the existence of a contract made months ago with a publishing company would make it impossible for him to do so, MRS. HOLMES WANTS DIVORCE Wife of B Ball Manager Alleges Desertion and Nonsup- port. SIOUX CITY, Ta, March 7.—Mrs. Bdna Holmes has filed sult for divorce Willlam “Ducky” Holmes, the new man- ager of the Toledo American assoclation team, on the grounds of nonsupport and desertion. Mrs. Holmes filed her suit with the county clery at Rapid City, 8, D., near where she resides on a claim. The question of whether & marriage of slaves during the slave-holding days is & legal marriage is one that is interesting the | pension department In two or three cases | now pending in the Omaha district. | In one case, Eben Jackson, a former | slaves, was married to a slave wife, accord- ing to the custom of those days. A family | of four or five children born to them. | Subsequently the slave wife and children | were sold elsewhere Into slavery and the | family permanently separated. After the cmancipation, Eben Jackson entered the United States army and served until the close of the war. He came north and marrjed and reared another famuly. Later he died and now his widow is an ap- plicant for & pension. During the invest- | Can Slave Wife Displace Later V_Vl_fc as Pensiomer? | ation of the case It has appeared that his slave wife is still living, old and decrepit; and she, too, Is clalming a pension as his widow, This case is similar to two others In the Omaha pension district and the .question up to the department Is, which are the lawful widows of the dead soldler? The second marriages in each Instance were per- formed In conformity with law. The crux of the question touches the pe- cullar status of slaves, as chattels, during the n{-vcry days. Wero thelr marriages even tegarded as common law marriages, where the man and wife were afterwards s0ld apart as such chattels? It is up to the pension department to de- cide the questior Thomas H. | trom | | | | { | | | | | I 1910—TWELVE PAGES From the New York Herald. There to Stay. FEAR OF TAFT'S NEW BILL Union Pacific Bought Southern Pa- cific Stook to Get Around It. REASONS' FOR BUYING ROAD Otto Kuhm Says Harriman Feared Interests Hostile to Him Were About to Acquire It——FPur- pose of Big Bond Issue. NEW YORK, March 7.~Otto Kuhn, mem- ber of the benking firm of Kuhn, Loeb & Co., testified this afternoon in (he govern- ment's suit to dissolve the Southern and Unfon Pacific merger that 74,000 shares of Southern Pacific stock were: purchased by Union Pacitic last January. The purchase was made, says Mr. Kuhn, | because of the bill before congress regard- ing the holding of 0 per cent of the stock of subsidiary companies. The bill, modeled along the line of Presfdent Taft's recom- mendation was, that & holding company would have to relinquish stock: in a snb- sldiary company unless a majority of the shares werc held. - P’? Some of the phases of the western rail- road situation which led the late Edward H. Harriman to take control of the South- ern Pacific were developed today by Mr. Kuhn, Mr. Kuhn was a member of the Southern Pacific directorate and took an active part in the purchase of the Southern Pacific by the Union Pacifie. Mr. Kuhn described the ecircumstances of the purchase of Southern Pacific, which began with the authorization of $100,000,000 of convertible bonds In 1911. He said that previous to the death of Collis P. Hunt- ington the Union Pacific had knowledge there was an effort on the part of the in- | terests hostile to the company to acquire the Southern Pacific, through which the Union Pacific was able to get into San Francisco. Reason for Buying Southern Pacific. “During Mr. Huntington's lifetime, Mr Harrlman sought to make arrangements for the continuance of the relations be- tween the Union Pacific and the Southern Pacific,” sald Mr. Kuhn. “The Union Pa- cific was anxious to secure the Central Pacific division. An offer was made to buy the Central Pacific and other efforts made to make the status quo between the Southern Pacific and Union Pacific per- manent and unalterable: “When Mr. Huntington dled the situation became more grave. We knew that inter- ests hostile to the Union Pacific were seeking to resume control of the Southern Pacific. So when the opportunity came to buy the Southern Pacific stock we were glad to avail ourselves." Mr. Kuhn said a reason for the large issue of bonds was due to the rumor that Hill interests were golng to purchase the Burlington rallroad. The Union Pacific wanted to get a participation in any pur- chase of the Burlington to protect Itself and It would need money if this participa- tion was granted. Mr, Kuhn sald it was learned later that the HIll interests had secured control of Burlington, “Mr, Hill and Mr. Harriman at that time were anything but friendly. Mr. Harriman was & newcomer and aggressive. After they got to know each other better they came to respect and admire each other,” sald Mr. Kuhn. Unable to secure a participation in Bur- lington, the Union Pacifie interests bought into Northern Pacific, sald Mr. Kuhn, but with no intent to create a monopoly of commerce. s Killed. Two bombs Two Clerl LISBON, March 7 hurled into a room where a party of clerical candidates were dining today and the explosions kilicd two of the diners and wounded seven others, including the pr.est who was presiding. were Easter 1s in sight. It is not too early to begin to prepare for it. ‘There will be hundreds of things necessary. Hundreds of dealers have received Easter finery and are ready to display it. In the ‘‘For Easter Column’’ in the Want Ad Page, will be found their announcements. About everything required is listed there. Have you looked them over? IPass.engcr T'rain Has Thrilling Race With Snowslide Canadian Pacific Track Near Field Covered Twenty Feet Deep Few Seconds After Train Passed. VANCOUVER, B. C., March 7.—A Cana- dlan Pacific passenger train had a thrilling race with a gigantic snowslide Saturday atternoon just east of Field, on the western slope of the Rockles. The engineer opened the throttle and the train dashed down grade, escaping by only a few feet. The train was westbound express No. 97 The engineer heard plainly the thunder of the avalanche booming down the mountain side. He opened the throttle and the race between the tra n and the cnowsl.de was on. The last car had just got by a steep point when the slide struck the ralls not ten feet behind. An enormous mass of packed snow and ice, carrying big tree trunks, covered the rails to a depth of twenty feet. The train was stalled at Rield and news of the lide was not received until today. This evening only twenty bodies had been recovered from the debris of Saturday morning’s accident on the Canadian Pacific near Rogers pass at the summit of the Selkirks. Elght hundred men are clearing the track. On account of the danger of siides, they work only during daylight. The rails in many places are burled to a depth of eighty feet under a mass of trees, ice and snow. It has been established definitely that no one directly in the path of the avalanche escaped alive. The official list of victims is placed at sixty-one, despite a report from Winnipeg that it was ninety-two. BROTHER OF NEGRO WANTED IS SHOT TG DEATH BY MOB Two White Men Are Shot in Parsuit ot Slayer of Superintendent Stribbling, TAMPA, Fla, March 7.—A brother of the negro, Ellis, who killed Superintendent Stribbling at Palmetto yesterday, was cap- tured at the Willow Springs on the Little Manatee river and shot to pleces by a mob of citizens today Before the capture of the negro two more white men were wounded today near Pal- metto by the negroes who were being sought by the posse. One of the men shot, J. B. Morgan, & section foreman, will die, and Max Burnett, a farmer, is seriously hurt . Both were members of the posse. |M(JN[\CO ASKS CONSTITUTION Monte Carlons Tell Prince They Are in Only Absolute Monarchy in World, MONTE CARLO, Monaco, March7.—Half of the subjects of the principality marched to the palace, and walting upon the prince of Monaco, yesterday, demanded a constitu- |tion, Qeclaring that Monaco was the only | absolute monarchy remaining on the face of the globe. The prince received a deputa- Ition from the crowd ‘and promised to con- sider its wishes. OHIO STEAMER IN CORNFIELD Hoat St in nded in High Water Now Perilous Condi- tion. March 7.—The steamer, an into a cornfield at forty miles north of here, and was stranded, was In a perll- position today owing to the water falling. Strenuous efforts are being made to draw the steamer Into deeper water. The boat belongs to the Pittsburg & Clnelnnati Packet line and is valued at $45,000, CALLIPOLIS, O., Virginia, which Willow Grove, yeste! ous W. L. PARK GETS BIGGER JOB| Union Pacific Superintendent Vice President Illinois Central. : | WILL TAKE PLACE OF R. G. RAWN | Came to Omaha in 1866 and Haws Risen from Brakeman on the Union Pacific at the Age of Eilghteen. W. L. Park, general superintendent of | the Union Pacifie, has been elected to the vice presidency of the Illinols Central, to succéed R. G, Rawn. Mr. Rawn was some monthe ago elected president of the Monon Route, Mr. Park is now In the east. Mr. Park spent his childhood days near Elmira, N. Y., as his ancestors obtained from the government a large tract of land in Chemung county, through the construc- tlon of military roads during the latter part of the seventeenth century. In the | Jate ‘0's’, Colonel Josiah B. Park, father of W. L., moved with his family to Ovid, Mich., where he engaged in engineering and construetion of raliroads until the breaking out of the civil war wlen he was elected and commissioned captain of Com- pany D, First Michigan cavalry, At the close of the civil war, Colonel Park moved his family to Omaha, arriving on a steamboat at the foot of Douglas street in August 1866, there belng no rail- roads across lowa at that time. He en- gaged in the task of surveying government lands untfl his death In June 18i3. Product of the West. W. L. Park can be consldered a product of the west, as he gained his early educa- tion In such schools as the west at that time provided. He first attended Mrs. McCullum’s private school and later went to Seagrave's academy at Thirteenth and Farnam streets, where he had as playmates children of the leading families of Omaha, who are now leading citizens of this city. Colonel Park moved his family to North Platte, where young Park attended the public schools, Colonel Park at one time ran a newspaper and learned how to ex- press his thoughts with printers' ink by asslsting around the office. W. L. Park entered the service of the Unicn Pacific as a brakeman and at the age of 18 was a freight conductor and at 22 was & passenger conductor. During his | Ume In the service Mr. Park employed his time reading law and In other studies, es- pecfally pertaining to rallroad work. leupaRY W | wood, COPY TWO CENTS. ILL NOT BE PROSECUTED Lillis is Recovering from Wounds and Will Go to His Home in Day or Two. GENERAL COWIN IN KANSAS CITY Father of Mrs. Cudahy Says She is Innocent of Any Wrong. TELLS STORY OF THE ATTACK Mrs, Cudahy Says She and Lillis Had Been Riding. ASSAULT FOLLOWS RETURN HOME dahy Fad Previously An- nounced He Was Golng Out of Town and Hix Appearance Was Unexpected. KANSAS CITY, March 7.—Jere 8. Lillls, president of the Western Exchange bank, | who was assaultéd by John P. Cudahy, the millionaire packer, when the latter found the banker in his home Sunday morning, will not prosecute his assallant. Charges of disturbing the peace, pre- ferred against Cudahy by Bryan Under- a policeman who interrupted the punishment of the nocturnal visitor, will probably be dismissed with a nominal fine when the case comes to trial March 16 This will end the affair insofar as punish= ment for Cudahy is concerned, Judge W. T. Johnson, legal representative of Lillis, made known tonight that there would be no prosecution of Cudahy. “We have no desire to take any legal steps against Cudahy,” he sald. ‘“‘There will be no prosecution.” Lillls' condition (s Improving rapidly. Nurses at St. Mary's hospital sald tonight he would be able to be removed to his home tomorrow morning. His wounds will be slow In healing, 1t is believed, but they will not prove serious. Mr. Cudahy has taken apartments at the Coates house, a downtown hotel. He | refuses to say whether he will return to his home. Efforts'to locate John Moss, the chaffeur who is belleyed by Mrs. Cudahy to have disclosed the presence of Mr. Lil- lls at tho house, has proven unsuccessful. General Cowlnm Talks, Into the arms of her father, General John C. Cowin of Omaha, an attorney of national reputation, Mrs. Cudahy rushed at her home tonight. The general arrived here on an eyening traln and wen at once to the Cudahy home, where his daughter had been waiting for him since Sunday morning, when she telephoned him to come at once. Not realizing what had happened, General Cowin delayed his departure. An- other message from his daughter caused nim to hasten. : Briefly, Mrs, Clnfeby (old “her story to her father. It was practically the same she gave out In a statement today. According to her story she and Lillis had been auto- mobile riaing, returned home and were scated in the library resting, when Cudahy entered. General Cowin was much affected by his daughter’'s story. “My daughter is {nnocent’’ he salr, firmly. “I am as certaln of that as I am of the virtue of Jesus Christ.” “I regret exceedingly that Cudahy was #0 cowardly as to say ‘he has ruined my home. He did this for his own protec- tion. Why did he not think of thess dear children who must suffer from this un- true statement.' The general was unable to say whether a divorce would resut from the trouble in the Cudahy household, Statement of Mrs. Cudahy. This afterncon Mrs. J. P. Cudahy was induced to meke & statemént regarding her husband's attack upon Jere S. Lillis last night, declarlng it was the culmina- tion of a long line of bruthl treatment. This last act, she sald, would result in the sdparation of herselt and husbanl. Mrs! Cudahy was lying on a davenport in her room as she made hér statement. One of her eyes was badly swollen, “This was done Satufday night,” she sald, “and I have no esiré to recelve At % he was made assistant superintend- ent of the Nebraska division of the Unlon Pacific, and in 1500 he was transferred to | the Wyoming division as superintendent. | In June, 1904, Mr. Park was made gencral | superintendent of the Union Pacifle, which position he has held until the present time Thus Mr. Park has risen from the ranks and understands the needs of the men, anl it is said that all under him have the ut- most confidence In him at all times. He it was, as chairman of the general com- mittee representing the conductors and brakemen, who arranged with §. T. Smith, then general superintendent, the first mile- age basis of pay for tralnmen. NEW YORK, April 7.—At & meeting of the board of directors of the Illinols Cen- tral today W. L. Park, general superintend- ent of the Unlon Pacific railroad, with offices at Omaha, was elected vice presi- dent to wucceed I. G. Rawn. He will be in charge of the operating force, with offices in Chicago. Watkins’ Charges Unfounded. FRANKFORT, Ky. March 7.~The re- port of the speclal committee appointed a month ago to investigate the statement of Senator Watkins to the effect that four senators had sold out to the liquor Inter- ests for $20000 was made today. The re-| port says there was no foundation or such | a statement. A crawl hand over hand along a tele- phone cable wire yesterday served to rescue four men Imprisoned on an island where the bridge at Valley. Scobey, an Omaha lnemun, risked his life to save Oscar Talcott, George Johnson of offiee of County Surveyor McBride and |two other men who had been marooned on | the island from Saturday night, when the fee went out, cartying the bridge with it bey carried a rope attached his waist and this served to ket a rowboat across to the Island. When Scobey had landed in safety another rope was attached to the boat by County Surveyor Mecliride and the other men In the reseuing party on the matnland The skiff was then pulled over by the crosses the river Oscar Climbs on Cable Over Ragin River, Carrying Rescue Line ¢ | marooned men, who then rowed back. The | secona rope attached to the skiff had s | other end on mainland and served to help | guide the boat across the river, which was | full of floating ice, mot unlikely to wreck | the skiff at any minute. | Talcot and his party were nearly tamishea | when rescued, for they had been without food since Sunday night. Otherwise they | were none the worse for the aceldent | They had been on the island blasting at |en ice gorge, not wisely, but well. TI gurge went out, but it earried both ends | of the bridge, which meets the island on elther wide and ends where the island makes connection. The bridge went out at 10:3 Saturday night and the rescue was effected at 2 p. | m. yesterday, visitors today. It was térrible thing that occurred. And it was all chused by an automobile, a new runabout that Mr. Lillls had just ordered.” Mrs, Cudahy then told the story of the attack. Her husband, she sald, attended by his chauffeur, Johann Moss, had found Mr. Lillls ahd Mrs. Cudahy &t the Cudahy home. “It was last Friday,” sald Mrs. Cudahy, “that Mr. Lillis recelved hi§ new run- about. I had the first ride 1§ the other one, and I told Mr. Lillls T Wanted the fir= ride in this one. He I should have it. I told Fenn, our chafitfeur, that day that Mr. Lillls had gotten Mis new car and that 1 was to have a ride In it. In- cldentally, I remarked that Mr. Cudahy was golng out of town, down to Grain- fleld, Kan., T believe, to look al some cat- tle. J “Well, Fenh must have been bribed by Mr. Cudahy. I have always been good to that boy and Mr. Cudahy wis always fussing at him. That Mr. Cudahy's going out of town would have had anything to do with my riding with Mr, Lillls would be ridiculous. “Mr. Cudahy oftef says he Is golng out of town and then never goes. H4 probably does that nine out of ten tim Auteo Ride with Lillis. “Friday the car was unloaded and in the afternoon we 00k a ride. The weather was fine and we sped over the Rdok roads. Suturday Mr. Lillls sald I should see the car. We went out Baturday afternoon and then drove out to the country club for dinner. Then we declded to go down to the Baltimore lnstead, which we did. We stayed there only long enough to eat and then went out. As we went out I said to Mac, the head walter, that he should see Mr. Lillis' new car. “We went riding in the evening again. When we came home Mr. Lillls was going to drive away, when I asked him to come into the house. We went into the library downstairs and had been talking only a faw minutes when Mr. Cudshy (Mrs Cudahy always called him Mr. Oudahy) rushed into the room. He must have come into the house through the billlard room. He was accompanied by ¥ehn (Johann Moss), the chauffeur. They we! Mr. Lillis and began beating him. Mr. Cudahy hed a thing that he usés in the ear and he beat Mr. Lillis over the head with it." Mere Mrs. Cudshy looked over at the table near her couch and sald: ‘“There it 1s, there, wee the blood on the end.” “The thing" to which she had alludcd