Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 24, 1910, Page 7

] (N ‘was #oon: caught nea¥-Sarpy Mls: ! BRIEF CITY NEWS Wave Poot Print Iu Lighting Fixbu ~-—3urgess-Granden Co. Neot Dty Cleandng of garments. Twin | City Dye Works, 407 South Fifteenth. 1860-—Watic sal Life Insurance Co—1910 Gharles B Ady, General Agent, Omaha. Rent Money is.a landiord's profit. Put into 4 home It makes for family happl- ness and independence. See Nebraska Sav- ing and Loan Ass'n, 1605 Farnam, Omahs The Ladies of the Emanuel Baptist chureli will hold & rummage sale next Thurgday anC Friday at 1918 Vinton street, Pallman Loses—Maurice Meyer recov- eréd a verdict of $30 against the Pullman eompany i county court Monday. Meyer “4ed for the loss of an overcoat. He swore that the porter admitted having given the coat to another passenger, who kept It, Perk Boarl Meota Friday—A regular meeling of the Omaha Park board will be held Friday afternoon at 3 o'clock. Noth- ing out of the ordinary. routine is on the | sehedule 10 be acted on. On June 8 the | baard will open bids before the grading to be done this sedson ‘on the boulevards First Phone Installed—The South Omaha station of tho Independent Telephone com- Jany fas been completed and telephones ure fusst being installed in homes and busi- ness houses In the city. The first tele- phiolve put In was In the homo of F. A. Broadwell, former clerk of the district cwart. . Woman Naturalized—Miss Anna Jac- obson, nurse in the family of Dr. A, P. Condon, was about to go back to Scan- dinavia for a visit and to show that she has become & good American applied In district eourt for the first papers of naturs wlization. Miss Hannah Bwenson fs &n- other girl who asked for first papers. Most wumen who apply,” sald Deputy District Clerk Awel Stiere, “seck to be naturalized @0 (hat they can take up homcstead claims.” Enights of Columbus to Lincoln—Fifty members of Omaba council, Knights of Columbus, went Lincoln Sunday to wit- mess the initiatlon of a class of fifty-six candidates Into Fitzgerald council. The exemplitication of (he third degree was In charge of State Deputy Arthur F, Mullen and staff, assisted by C. G. Keefe of Sloux City. Following the degree work there was a banquet at the Lincoln hotel, at which W0 were seated. Soarcity of Flowers—From present Indi- catjons there s going to be a very signifi cant scarelty of flowers for Decoration day purposes. ‘Floral gardens which are usually in the height of bloom at this season are practically destiiute of flowers just now. There may be a few of the snowball and bridal wreath flowers and a few peonles, but the prospect for any abundance of flowers is ‘very remote. Infuriated Negro Shoots Engineer Laborer Discharged from Work Tries to. Kill Engineer on Cudahy Plant Construction, | Arthur -Stendish, an engineer "employed on construction at the Cudaby packing ant in South Omaha, was shot three Imes and dangerously wounded In the breast at 1 o'clock Monday afternoon by William Balley, negro, a discharged laborer. | Standish probably will recover. Balley es- caped from the scene of the shooting, but Bailey, & laborer, was discharged by his employer, Frank Burness, contractor erect- | ing the new hog house at the Cudahy plant, | at nodn Monday. The negro held Standish responsible. for the dismissal and an hour later at the time of resuming work on the Job waiked up to him and fired Two shots took effect in the bréast, while & third struck Standish In the hand. The wounded man was taken to he office of Dr. O'Riley, 8 Cudahy company physi- clan, where his wounds were given emerg- ency treatment. Apparently the bullets had only caused deep flesh wounds, but Dr. O'Riley had Standish taken to the South Qmaha hoepita ALONG THE RAILROAD RUN wiafioh ar' Theradbolis 5. faea’ for Freight Business—Vice President. Burnam to Vialt Omah George W. Holdrege, general manager of the Burlington. announces that he has opened the Thermopolls station In the Blg Horn basin for frelght business and that on June 13 the station will be opened for passenger service. The’ sidetrack at Lu- cerne, five miles south of Kirby, will be a prepaid station for freight business only, Bffective May 2 the Burlington will win @ standard sleeper on the Colorado Jlmited which leaves Omaha for Denver at 11:2%5 p. m. The car will be opened for passengers at 9:30 o'clock. The Great Western has ordered fifty new Jocomotives to be soon put In service over the company’s lines. The Rock lsland and | the Burlington have placed big orders for | new steel 1o be used for bridges. | C. G. Burnham. vice president of the Burlington, in charge of trafflc, Is expected to visit the local headquarters this week. He will be joined by Conrad E. Spens, gen. I frelght agent, on a trip to Denver. Western Unlon private. car Chicago passed through Omaha Sunday while en route for San Fri isco. The car was oc- cupled by General Superintendent Cook An Omaha wholesale and retall establish- nent of years' standing, doing a business o 320,000 annually, snd the largest and itrongest concern of fts kind between Chi- | '4g0 and the coast, is willing to sell ten | housand dollars’ worth of Its treasury | yock, which pays blgger dividends than | ind is every bit as safe as any bank. This| s done In order to handle a greater volume 't business, which may easily be had. Only \ few representative investors are desired. Vddress 'J 713, care Bee. DYNAMITE FORTOM DENNISON Infernal Machine Placed on His Porch is Discovered. FRANK ERDMAN UNDER ARREST Man Who Thre tended Vietim the A Life of the In- Deviee iteld by Police—Explosive is Found by GI An infernal machine, charged with twen- ty-four sticks of dynamite, was found on the porch of Tom Dennisoti's home, 1507 North Eighteenth street, Sunday evening. Frank Erdman, 423 North Eighteenth street, who claims to be an agent of Elmer Thomas, attorney for the Antl-Saloon league, was arrested later in the evening when Dennison made a statement to the police that Erdman had threatened his tite. Erdman has been identified by & man giving his name as Gus Nordine, a work- man in the Union Pacific shops, but whose name the police say is Ole Olson, as being an escaped comvict from the Colorado state prison at Canon City. Nordine visited Erd- man in jall and, shaking hands, held a conversation with him. “He was at Canon City under the name of Brinkmann. He was No. 5060, said Nordine. Erdman makes a stout denlal of having served n the Colorado prison and Insists that he had no connection with the placing of the machine on Dennison’s porch. Chief Donahue has received the following telegram In reply to a message \sent to Canon City Monday morning: CANON CIT Colo., May 23, John J. Donahue, Chief of Police: Brinkman, 5950, Am sending photo description today. THOMAS J. TIENEN, Warden Colorado State Prison. Erdman has made an unenviable name for himself by his operations in Omaha dur- Ing the last year. He has several times pulled one or two revolvers In saloons, and once he ‘“stuck up’ a saloon in East Owaha, single handed, while he pretended to search for gamblirg devices. He has 1910, Hold and prociaimed himself as the man who Is to' break up “crooked gembling,” and a few days ago was the chlef witness in a polica court case, alleging a charge of keeping a gambling house against the owners of the Budweiser saloon. The case was dlsmissed by Judge Crawford. Chief of Police Dona- hue has tried on several occasions to get Erdman to desist from his pecullar opera- tions, but without avail. Brdman has also tigured in the anti-saloon crusade through- out the state, and was concerned in the recent upheaval at Crawford. Found by Dennison. The machine was found by Dennison when he arrived home for supper at 0:30. It had been noticed on the porch threa hours previously by his little daughter, Frances, who was playing around with a school companion, Margaret Fordyce. The instrument of destruction was concealed in a new brown leather sult case. When the children came upon it they tried to lift It, but failed, Had they been successtul neither would have been lving to tell the tale. In trying to raise the grip the chil- dren had tilted It over and it was this fact that enabled Dennison to see that the suit- case was attached by a string to the porch. This aroused his suplcions and he notified the police station. Detectives Mitchell and Heil hurried to the place. Contents of the Case. The first thing Detective Mitchell did was to cut the string attached to the bag, which was connected with a screw. eyd driven 'Intd thé porch. The bag was then carried to & vacant lot. Up to this thera was & feeling that some one might ba perpetrating & joke, but when the straps were unclasped and the bag opened a 35- caliber revolver was Seen with hammer raised prepared for action. In one com partment of the suitcase was a newly con- structed box. This occupled two-thirds of the compartment, the remaining space be- ing reserved for the revolver, which was tightly wedged in position by pieces of wood. When the lid ¢f the box was un- scrowed by Officer Hell it was found to contain dynamite packed in sawdust Through the division board appeared the barrel of the revolver. The method arranged for the discharge of the revolver would seem to be through the lifting of the grip, and when this fact be- came apparent it was seen what & narrow escape the children hal when they tried to remove the bag from the porch. To the trigger of the revolver was attached a string which ran over three pulleys, sus- ceptible to the slightest touch, and then through & hale cut in the side of the grip and thence to the screw eye on “he porch. By this arrangement any grown person lifting the grip would glve sufficlent pur- chase to pull the trigger, erack the cap and set the machine in operation. There was only one cartridge in the weapon and in this the bullet was Jeft ready to explode the dynamite by concussion. The other five chambers had also been fllled with dyna- mite. When Officers Mitchell and Hefl had finished thelr examination of the suit- case and its contents they refurned to the station, accompanied by Dennison, and it was in consequence of his statement and other suspicious circumstances that Erd- man was arrested. Erdman Under Arrest. Erdman, against whom the charge of suspicious character was entered on the book, had been taken to the station Bun- Qay morning for carrying concealed wea- pons. He was picked up at Sixteentn an. Webster streets when & comparauvely new weapon was found in his pocket. He claimed to have permission to carry a revolver and was ullowed to g0 on a per- sonal bond to appear in the court this morning. When Mitchell and Hell went for him Synday night, b wi told that the captain wanted to see him In connection with the Sunday morning charge. The workmanship on the Infernal ma- chine was crude and did not show that the chisel cutting work had been done by a skilled carpenter. Mr. Dennison thinks that the machine was placed on the porch while the family was absent. He says that about 3:30 Sun- day afternoon a man’ was seen by a girl employed ut Mr. Whalen's, 2919 Sherman avenue, to get off a street car carrying a sult case and walk In the direction of his house. After dinner Mr. . Dennison went to the race track and his wife paid a visit to some friends, NO PROOF AGAINST ERDMAN PoMce Have Not Co with Attemp! Through a searching examination of thelr prisoner, the police Monday morning failed to get any definite evidence that Frank Erdman had placed the Infernal machine on the porch of Thomas Deanison's home Sunday, & crime for which the man was arrested a few minutes after the dlscovery of the dynamite plant. Erdman freely ad- mitted he had many times advocated the assassination of gamblers, including Den- nison. However, the suspect was earnest in his denial that he had figured ia the plot to destroy Dennison Sunday. A statement was gained from P. R. Allen, conductor of & Sherman avenue street cary that he had seen a man carfying a sult- case get off his car at the Yates' street ted Suspeet corner of his line about noon Sunday. When Allen was permitted to inspect the suitcase In which the explosive contrivance was found, and to look at Erdman, he declared he thought the sultcase was the one taken from his car near the Dennison home, but that he was not sure Erdman had been the man who carried it. He sald, however, that he had seen Erdman fre- quently as & passenger on the line previously. All morning Captain Dunn and several detectives” were engaged In conference with men interested in the case. H. B. Mills, secret service agent, took a part in the investigation, but later declared he had no evidence to implicate Erdman in any crimes he was working upon. In his own statements of the case, Erd- man preserved the demeanor of amazed In- nocence. had been made the object of suspicion through a design of the real bomb placers. “You can find a hundred who heard me say the gamblers ought to be blown to pleces,” he said. “I think [t was one of these people who had political troubles with Dennison that lald the dynamite and got me mixed up In the crime.” Dennison's statement that two persons had warned him a week ago Erdman was planning his destruction, brought from the prisoner a further denial. “I haven't any personal grudge against Dennison,” de- clared the prisoner. “I don't even know where he lives. I never told anybody 1 was going to kil him,"” In conclusion, Erdman said he had been robbed of over $1,600 in various gambling places, and the experience caused undying bitterness against gamblers. Lilly M. Strong New Secretary of the Y. W. C. A. Well Known Association Worker is Secured to Head the Omaha Institution, Miss Lilly M. Strong of Michigan has accepted the call of the directors of the Young Women's Christian assogiation to succeed Mrs. Emma Byers as general sec- retary and will arrive in Omaha to assume her new dutles the first of September. Miss Strong at the time the Omaba as- soclation offer reached her was considering a call from the city assoclation of Detroit to be its general secretary, and also one from the national board asking her to be oity worker in the new territorial departe- ment of which Mri. Byers is to be the exe- cutive. Miss Strong chose the position of general_secretary of the second :largest city association in the country, Omaha. Speaking of Miss Strong's acceptance, | Mrs. Byers was most emphatic In saying that Miss Strong was her cholce for the position. “'Her acceptance makes me very happy and also gives me a secure feeling as to the association. She is a very able worker, well poised, conservative and a woman of wide experience.” Stone Cutter is Crushed to Death John Rhine Meets with Fatal Acci- dent in Stone Yards Mon- day Morning. John Rhine, a Ntonecutter, llving at Sixth and Poppleton streets, was crushed to death this morning by being caught under a 3,000 pound stone he was lifting with a derrick at the yards of A. Schall company at Sixth and Jones sreets. The huge stone was being holsted at the stone- cutting plant of the firm, but in some | way it slipped from its carrier and Rhine | was crushed beneath its weight. The accl- dent happened at 7:40 this morning. SWIFT TYPEWRITER ARTIST | IN OMAHA FOR CONVENTION | Comes from New York and Has Trick of Writiag 100 Words Minute While Talking gt Same Time. By way of advance guard of the Com- mercial Teachers' convention which assem- bles in Omaha at the Boyles building ‘Thursday of this week, Raymond P. Kel- ley, manager of the school department of the Remington Typewriter company, ar- rived in Omaha this morning, accompanied by Ernest G. Welse of New York. Miss Rose Fritz, world's champlon typlst, also of New York, Is expected to arrive tomor- row, and Leslie Coombes, the Canadlan champlon, will probably reach Omaha Tuesday night. While Mr. Weise is not the champlon typlst of the world, he is neverethless able to “go some,” and at a private demonstra- tlon before pupils in the Boyles school this morning he clicked off all the way from 108 to 110 words per minute, writing from a book. The most astonishing feat, how- ever, was the writing of 101 words per minute, while at the same time he con- ducted an animated conversation with one of the Boyles teachets. All the while he had one eye on the book from which he copied, for it was new matter to him. Weise, & modest young man, had the dis- tinetion last March of giving & typewriter speed demonstration before the clerical force In the White House at Washington, He will remain here through the conven. tion, and will divide honors with Miss Frits and Mr, Coombes, —— COUNTY TAX T0 BE INCREASED Indications Are that Assessors Have Missed So Many Others Must Make Up the Difference. The county tax levy is likely to be in.| creased by the Board of Equalization when | that body meets. It is now almost certain that hundreds and even thousands of per- sonal taxpayers of last year will escape this time through having been missed by the precinct assesfors. But one week re- mains for them to work, and the total js still many thousands of schedules less than in 1906, This means that if the same amount of revenue is to be returned, the levy l“llil‘ Last year the levy % mills ar it 1s likely to g0 to 21 or 22, if as much revenue Is to be rafsed, There will be some loud groans from tax- payers If the board does raise the levy, for the same men and women havé to pay an increase in the city levy of 15.3 mills above the rate in 1909, It is the opinion that business men and others will demand fn loudl tones a change | In the law regarding election of precinet assessors, because as matters now stand| some are sure to escape paying taxes at all, and those who do will pay more, prob. ably. —— A Serious Breakdown results from chronic constipation, Dr. Klng's New Lite Pills cure headache, stomach, liver and bowel trouble. 2c. For He declared it his belief that he | sale by Beaton Drug Co. TUESDAY STRIKE STOPS BRICK PAVING |S Not a Paving Brick is Being Shipped Into Omaha. ASPHALT IS NOW BEING LAID Contractors Placing Improve the Time Concrete Base, to Be Ready for the Brick When It Comen. Not & paving brick is boing brought Int Omaha these days, because of the strike of | ociology Class from Y. W. C. A. fore Judge Sutton Monday— Several Cases Heard. If. Mrs. Theo Wilson's woclological class from the Young Women's Christian association was in search of thrills it se- © | cured them in juvenile court Monday when brick loaders at the Purington brick yards | the cast of Rose Liberattl was called. The in Galesburg, 111, While Hugh Murphy has some briek o hand, the awount Is very small. Colonel | Charles E. Fanning and, other. contractors have absolutely nome of the n Puringtor brick and cannot gét any now. “While we are laying concrete on ‘some of the streets we have under contract,” it simply to be prepared when the brick does | The lack of paving brick sald Colonel Fanning, “we are doing begin to arrive. Is costing me a large amount of mone: every week, but apparently there is nothin, to be done. A man from the Galesbur, plant was to have arrived in Omaha today, but I am unable to see that his coming will do us any good."” City Engineer Craig and the local con- tractors understand tite Gatesburg plant s choked with brick ready for shipment, but the company hesitates to bring in strike- breakers to load the made-up article. Th loeal men concerned also say the questio that has tied up the Galesburg y. not one affecting wages, but relates solel to the open shop. out and the company is contending for a open shop so far as brick loaders ar concerned. The strike has now been for about three months. ol Pending a settlement of the trouble at Galesburg, Contractor Murphy and th Bryant, Ford & McLaughlin firm are golng ahead with whatever asphalt paving they Fanning have under contract. Colonel takes contracts for brick paving only. Three Thousand for Two Ear Drums Fred Niece is Given a Verdiot for Injuries Received by an Explosion, Fred Niece was given a verdict of $3,000 against the Farmers Co-operative Creamer company by a jury in the district cour Monday morning. which were destroyed by an explosion in trap at the plant of the company. CHANGES AT THE POSTOFFICE General Delivery Depart to North Corridor, with Four Instead of Two Windows. The general delivery department of the | Omaha postoffice has been|changed from the location it has occupled since the build- ing was completed at the northeast corner | of the main corridor on the Sixteenth street fropt to the morth corridor facing the Capitol ‘a¥éntie entrance. change went into'efféct' Monday morning. “Theré are how: fould dows, from A to i 10 Z, thus greatly fi immediatel; but two windows, and in rush hours the. wirdows were always more or less crowde and congested. s 18 ‘The brick loaders insist that the yards shall be unionized through- The- verdict was sealed Niece sued for the loss of his ear drums, | mt Moved The ral delivery win- K, L to Q and R| ilitating handling the general delivery mail. Formerly there were | uttle girl, 10 years of age, had been | brought in because her screams aroused nelghbors who told probation officers her father was beating her most cruelly, A glance at the black and blue marks ex- tending onto her wrists from the ends of her sleeves showed beyond any doubt that the child had suffered. The father, Ed- ward Liberattl, who had been brought in by an officer, admitted that he punished the girl with a strap. marks were not confined to the arms, n n Y =3 g | knees. Judge Sutton at first sald he would send the man to jail and then concluded that to take the child away from him forever would be more drastio punishment for the man and better for the girl. A new home will be found for her. The soclologizing visitors saw two boys o [sent to the Detention school as punishment n | for use of bricks as weapons. One of these was John Cronicon of Thirty-second and § street, South Omaha. His offense was throwing at a peddler, a practice, Judge Sutton announces, he will break up it every offender has to go to Kearney. e | The other brick, which figured in the n | morning's proceedings, was declared to have been in the hand of Sam Wiseman, a newsboy. Wiseman smote “Tubby" Lor- man, rival paper vender in the mouth and dislodged two incisors. James Hall, prisoner awaiting trial the death of his wife, was brought into court in regard to the disposition of his son, Albert, a boy of 4 years. Hall asked to have the child placed in a charge of a colored woman whose circumstances will be investigated. The grandmother of the little colored boy, on his father's side, lives in Texas. She sent a ticket here for his travel south, but the railroads will not carry a child of his years unaccompanied. The mother of the slain woman lives in Washington, and Is said to be poor, DOLLY VARDEN DOLLS DANCE Little Girls to Furnish One of the Pretty Features of the “Toy Shop.” y n e for A| Mrs. Willlam A. Redick and Mrs, W. B, Millard are in charge of the Dolly Varden dolls, & group of little girls who furnish one of the especially pretty features of “The Toy Shop,” the children's opera, which 15 to be given at the Brandels thea- | ter ¥riday evening and Saturday afternoon and evening for the benefit of the Child Saving Institute. This dance, which was evolved by Miss Margaret Martin from a children's dance given at a large bazaar in London, 18 mak- ing its western debut. The little girls wear the quaint Dolly Varden, costume, pointed basques, flowered polonaise over the short, plain skirts, large poke bonnets tied With large coquettish streamers. The danee 18 an animated Watteau, composed’of pirouettes, glides and poses. The leaders in the dance are Misses Mildred House, Addie Fogg, and the other dancers are Misses Mildred Ganett, Lucy Garven, Mil- dred Stafford, Gretchen Swaboda and Dorothy Cavanaugh. y a at Juvenile Court| | Present at an Interesting Session Be- | The black and \vlln\; but | extended across the body and over the | 7~ ‘‘The House of High Merit. L Little Chaps’ Summer Clothes should by all means consist of one, two or three of those hand- some, dressy, sanitary and ser- viceable Wash Suits, of which we show nuvll’ a splendid assortment. We've every desirable FAST COLOR washable material —both domestic and imported weaves— in color combinations of unusual beauty They're carefully and strongly made Blouse styles for boys of 3 to 10 years., Come and see them now and we will prove ours The Best Wash Suits Ever Sold at 95c and $1.45 in Russian and Sailor 3 Mayor Dahlman Goes to Red Cloud Will Open Base Ball Game and Also Talk Politics on the Same Day. Mayor Dahiman left last evening for Red Cloud, Neb., where he will throw the first ball over the plate, or somewhere in the vicinity, Tuesday afternoon, at the opening game of the season In that town. The base ball opening is to be made an affair of some pretensions in Red Cloud, and the surrounding country is expected to turn out a large crowd. With this fact in view Red Cloud friends of the Omaha mayor have arranged for a meeting at the opera house in the evening, when Dahlman will deliver an address that is expected to be an amplification of his platform pronouncement. He will also very likely give some attention to the recent speech delivered in Omaha by W. J. Bryan. Mayor Dahlman takes the position, as he intimated today, that Nebraska, in town and country, is growing better all. the time; that there is less drunkenness and less drinking today than ever before, and that therefore the need for a county local option law s less pressing than ever be- fore. At the same time he will stick to his platform declaration that the proposed county option law is against all the tradi- tions of his party, and so must be opposed n ‘principle. “It is not a political question in any sense,” asserts the mayof, “and everybody should oppose the effort to make it such.” Bee Want Ads Are Business Boosters. Try the World’s Best Beer, At the International Hygi Food Exposition at West and American London—in nearly every e Pabst Blue Ribbon has Exposition, Antwerp—at captured the Highest Awards for Purity and High Food Value. Pabst BlueRibbon The Beer of Quality will delight you with its deli cate flavor and smooth- ness whenever or yvhcr- ever you order it Serve it to your family and enic and Pure The Golden Industries Exhibition American Made and Bottled only by Pabst at Milwaunkee. The case you order today is the same quality and flavor as that which has taken the Prizes of the World. 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