Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, April 30, 1915, Page 2

BIG VANCODVER | BRIDGE IS BURNED Great Connaught Viaduct at' Cam- bie Street Destroyed by Blaze of Incendary Origin ANOTHER STRUCTURE DAMAGED VANCOUVER, B. C Fires believed to be of origin started nearly simultaneously today in the Cambie and Gran wille connecting the business and portions of Car service was demoral- April ncendiary early streat bridges, residence this city zed Some ‘police officials admiitted that the fires were part of a a theory plot of incendiaries to burn the city. Aside from the bridges, however, no attempts at arson were discovered, o far as could be learned Thousands of persons blocked on thelr wa to work watched the flames soar from the wood and tar pavement of the great Connaught bridge at Cambie street The damage here ls wstimated at $300,000 ihe frame of the bridze is stesl. T'e flames gradually burned themselves out The fire at the Granville Street bridge, & mile from the Connaught bridge ,also wan in the pavement. It was extinguished in & few minutes. ITALY AND ALLIES GOME TO TERMS (Continued from Page One.) coufitry Italy's determination to insist upon realizing its territorial asvirationa. He''s sald to have resisted obstinately the, aplomatic efforts of Prince von Bublow, the German ambassador while insfsting that Trent and Trieste are Itallan by race and history and must be retirned to Italy. Prince Von Muclow is Busy. Prince von Buelow still is striving (o induce Austria to make concessions and prevent Italy from becomtng one of the belligerents. A member of the government, on the other hand, when asked whether any agreement had been reached by the cen- tral empires, made the wigniticant reply, “Nothing has been done and nothing will be done.” Deputy Bazilal, a native of Trieste, who has oted to the. Chrmher been - from Reme for the last twenty-five years, speaking of the patriotic event at Quarto Bant 'Elena on May §, when a monument will be unvelled in memory of Caribaldl volunteers, In the presence of the king and veterans of the war of independence, said: “This event will be an officlal declaration of war sgainst Austria; it will be a challenge of the Latin to the German world." Berlin Sure of Agreement. HRLIN, Avril %.-+8y Wireless to ¥ ville,)—"‘According to reliable inform- ation, the Austro-Itallan negotiations are L H. (Pop) inent clrous NOT HAVE TO GO TO JAIL April : WAS| 3 2.—Bdward B Alnsmith, ocatcher for the Washington American league base ball club, escaped a fine, for assaulting a street car mo- when Judge Pugh in police court reconsidered his original sentence placed him on probation and fined i E Frost.Daberkow, ust . announced. which took place at Grand Island, February 15 They will | il make their home in Frement. 3 Katt-BohMng. FREMONT, Neb.. Apil %.(Bpecial)— | The wedding of Miss Emma, daughter of Mr. and Mre, Henry Bohling, to John Katt, was ‘solemnised ut St John's Tutheran chireh, aL Winslow, yosterday, Rey. J, H. Gerdes offjiclating About | fifty relatives and frionds of the couple | attended the ceremony. Mr. and Mre, | Katt will make their home on n farm | near Herman, PINPLES ON FACE [TCHED AND BURNED Also on Neck. Painful, ' Largeand Very Red. Lost Many Nights' | Sleep.. Used Cuticura, Face and | Neck Free From AllPimples. "1t was directed particularly at the Kilia NEWLY ELECTED PRESIDENT OF OMAHA AD CLUB R. B. WALLACH, BRITISH DENY REPORTED LOSS AT DARDANELLES (Continued from Page One.) Claim of substantial gaina by either side. At the same time the British show no disposition to abandon their attempts to force the Germans to yield the ground gained by them up to the present time There is no confirmation of the rumor gurrent that they have recaptured St Julien. In the expectation that the Germans will continue to usé poisonous gases, the wonion of Brigland are working vallantly to mupply simple respirators for the men in the fleld 4nd thousands spon will be sent to the front. 4 Flerce Fighting Wednesday, LONDON, April #.—In a dispatch from Athens the correapondent of the Exchange Telekraph company says that flerce fight- ing throughout Wednesday on the shores of Buvia bay on the wostern side of the Gallipoll peninsula, elghteen miles north of the southern evtremity, resulted In the | Wuocess of the ailles. The loases of the Turky was serious. One entire battalion was captured by the aliles. The following dispatch has been re- celved by the Exchange Telegraph com- panv “The British force landed on the Buro- pean coast of the Dardanelles has beén entrusted solely with the mission of oc- cupying the Gallipoll peninsula, which is defended by 80,000 Tirks. “The French force has been landed en- tirely on the Asiatic ocast, with the ob- Ject of advancing along the littoral to keep pace with the progress made by the Britlsh on the opposite coast. “The bombardment of the stralts was resumed T and lasted twelve hours. Babr forts, Turkish Official Announcement. /CONSTANTINQPLE, Tyesday, T-«Via Amsterdam, Aprll 20 and via London, 106 & m.)-There has . been kiven out here an officlal announcement on the fighting st the Darda- nelles, which reads: s “Sigh-Dere, to the west of Seddul Bahr, has been cleared of the enemy. “The enemy, who landed near Kaba Tepeh, endeavored to maintain thelr po- eition uridler cover of their ships, but early in the morning our troops stormed three positions and forced the enemy back along the whole front, inflicting severe losses on them. Part of the enemy fled in the direction of the sea and taking to their boats disappeared. Those unable to rendered “in masses. oy “A transport of the enemy was sunk off Aviburn, “Later reports declared that hostile forces estimated at four brigades, have been driven into the sea on the coast at Kaba Tepeh." © Allles Number Elghty Thousa BERLIN (Via Wireless to Sayville), April 2.—Advices from Constantinople, a8 glven out here today. by the Overseas News agency, are that the forces whioh the French and British attempted to land at the Dardanelles numbered about 80,00 men. Landing operations were undertaken at three points on the European and one Of the Asiatic side of the stralts. MENACE PUBLISHERS LOSE ROUND 'IN COURT KANBAS CITY, Mo, April 20.-A de- murrer to the indictments returned sev- ersl months ago against the publishers of the Menace, an anti-Catholic weekly newspaper published at Aurera, Mo, was overruled here today by Judge Ar- bas Van Valkenburgh. The ocase was then set for trial at Joplin during the June term of court The individual defendants named the indictments are: Wilbur F. Phelps, Bruce M. Phelps, Theodore C. Walker and Marvin Brown. The indictments charge that obscene matter was sent through the mails and the articlés ‘complained of by the gov- ernment attack the Catholic priesthood. | MAC MURTRY APPEALS CASE TO PRESBYTERIAN SYNOD | Rev. A J, MacMurtry, who was de- posed and ‘excommunicated by the pres- bytery of Omaha at 'ty recent meeting at Tekamah, has decided to appeal his |ator. The state synod will met in Oc- S00S- | ¢ober [ loss | ‘Counibel for MacMurtry are: Rev. E - The [y Janks and Attorney D. W. Merrow of 1o 2 |5 ahe, would | would | Everytody Reads Heo Want Ads. |case to the synod, the record and request |having been transmitted to the moder- — Department Orders. WASHINGTON, . April 2. —A rural free delivery route will be established on June Marshall county, South thirty miles; families {served, 111 be ecstablished on June 16 st Morrill, Scott's Bluffs braska: route §; length, th! femilies sorved. ninety-fivi rolier of the currency has ipplication of the foll he Farmers N Lowis, ks recelved of Florence, ¥ D, into the First N, bank of Flogence: capital, 5000 The Merchan Exchange bank of Lake Pres- to the First THE B OMAHA, THURSDAY, APRIL 29, 1915. BURN AND CRUCIFY NATIVE CHRISTIANS | Missionaries Persia Tell of Terrible Massacres of People by the Moslems. in |AMERICAN CITIZEN MENACED WASHINGTON, April 29.—Am- | bassador Morgenthau at Constanti- |nople cabled the State department {today that there was considerable i over the Ar- menian situation and that he al- |ready had made representations to | the Turkish government for the pro- |tection of Armenians. He referred |to one naturalized American citizen {who had been threatened Detalln of | uneasiness In Turkey Massncre NEW YORK, April 29,—De- talls of the massacre of native Christians at Urumiah, Persia, by | Kurds received today by the Presby- |terian board of forelgn missions, state that not less than 2,000 have perished. The attacks, it would ap- pear, have not been confined to Kurds, but have been made, in at least one justance, by Turkish sol- diers Crueifixion and burning Christians allve have been revived, missionaries reported to the board. The attack in which Turkish soldiers were the assailants, according to re- ports received by the board, was made upon the American mission and the French Roman Cathollc mission, Five native Russian priests, the reports as- sert, were taken from the American misslon by the Turkish troops. The missionaries stated that these men were “treated badly” and added that it was not known to them if the priests were hanged. Made to Pay Ransom. A report had reached the Presbyterian missionaries at Tabriz that Americany at Urumish had been forced to pay $40,000 as & ransom for refugees who had fled to the mission ftor protection. This report, It was stated, had not been con- tirmed These and other matters pertaining to Urumiah were related in two letters re- ceived today from Dr. W. 8. Vanneman of Balem, N. J,, head of the Presbyterian | mission hospital at Tabriz and chair- man of the relief committes appointed by the American consul there Writing from Tabriz under March 14, Dr. Vanneman sald: bout ten days ago the Kurds in Sal- mas, with the permission of the Turkish troops, gathered all the Nestorian and Armenian men remaining there, it is re- ported, about %0. Four hundred were #ént to Khosrova and b to Haft Dewan under the pretense of giving them bread. They were held a few days and then all of them tortured and massacred. Many of the women and children were taken away and ill treated. This happened a day or two before the advancing Rus- slan grmy took Salmas, Anxious About Urumiah. “We are/very anxious about Urumiah. | A letter dated March 1, from Dr. Bhedd (the Rev. Dr. W. A. Shedd of Mariotta, 0.) came through by messenger two daya date of “Guipashan, which hitherto had not been disturbed by the Kurds, as it had not fought against them, had been plundered @nd ruined. I think this was the only village which remained, Fifty-one of the men of this village were ght to the cemetery and The women and girls whe could not escape were violated.. This was done by the Turkish soldlers. “Forty men had been taken from the Roman Catholic mission in Urumiah city, kept prisoners & fow davs, then were taken at night two miles from the oity and shot. There were sixty cases of typhold among refugees at the college. “‘Dr. Shedd asked the American consul at Tabriz to come to Urumiah, but after conmulting with thrée other consuls here it was decided it would be impossible to get through. Mr. Paddock has tele- graphed every possible place for assist- ance. We can do nothing more. , but do not know If it s true, that the mission in Urumiah has been forced to pay $40,000 as a ransom for the refugees and we fear it is true. Dr. Shedd writes that not less than 800 had been murdered in Urumiah and not less than 2,000 had dled of disease. This applies to Christians only. This is a very {l1arge per cent, as more than half of the Christlans fled to Russta.” Under date of March 21, wrote as follows. “We &re more anxions than ever about Urumish On Aprfl 17, Turkish troops attacked our mission and the Roman Cathollc mission and took five native Russian_priests from our componnd and |treated them badly. We do not know yet if they were killed Dr. Vanell also treated badly, because he had sent out three messengers. | ““The gates of the Catholic mission were Two More Days Order Now We Will Deliver Later The beautiful A. B, New Idea Gas Range demonstrated and on special sale this week only. Note $30.00 Gas Range for $25.00 $42.00 Gas Range for $34.00 $3.00 Down, Thea $1.00 Weekly. MILTON ROGERS 1515 Harney w Ago. "He aald things were getting worse. | Mr Allen was | [burned and they were afl in great dan- | ger. We received word from Ambassa dor Morgénthau that orders had been {sent to Urumiah tp protect Christians {but the order was just too late. We a |working to get all the remaining Chri tians away from Urumiah | Some Crmeifi Some of the native Christian prea ers have been crucified and some burne {but these were of other denominations If the Russian troops shouwld be wit drawn again, every Christian would ha to leave Tabriz |is practically the extermination of the! Syrians (Nestorian), and very bad for the | Armenians also. The only hope is occu- | Ipation by Russta.' | s 2 e o | | Purchases Made Friday Will Appear on the Statement Reaching You June 1 M |Over 25,000 People | Suffer from Typhus || | | 2 ' i | Scourge in Serbia | NEW YORK, April 20.—The Rockefel ler Foundation War Relief commission | made public tonight a report on desti- | tution and disease in Serbla, In which 1t | was stated that on March 10 probably | |trom 25,000 to 90,000 persons were suf- The Store for enveloping the entire nation.” The re- | 3 port was transmitted from Berlin, offers the Oorliss Waists Cholera was at that time expected with | in plain tailored effects the arrival of warm weather and no in which the now“" shirtings have been very preparations had been made to combat ffectivel, wd, - - $1.95 it, the report said Probably 300,000 per- Bungalow Aprons wons were destitute. Neither the Serblan Kovernment, absorbed In the war, nor the people themselves were able to con- trol the situation, which the commmission dascribed as not only a “menace to the Extra lony, well made of substantial materials. Displayed in Howard St. window. For sale in Base- health of the Berblan people, but of the ment. will carry an important | announcement. It will pay | you to read it and heed it. whole world."” The report states that the country has now, as the result of three successive wars, reached “a state of exhaustion in which it has practically nothing to give away to its own unfortunates.’ DEATH RECORD. Mrs. Flora McPhers FATRBURY, Neb., April 20.—(8pecial.)— Mrs. Flora A. McPherson died at the home of her brother, T. A. Johnson in this city after an extended fllness. The surviving children comprise Ernest 8. Mc- Pherson, Bower. Neb.; Mrs. Ralph Graves, Falrbury; Mrs. Mary Ethel Smith, Rich- dale, C i Miss Edna, Fairbury. Mrs. MoPherson and her husband moved to Jefferson county in 1897, but removed to the Sacramento valley in California in 1913, They returned to Fairbury a few weeks ago Mrs, Henry B. Allan. Mra. Henry B. Allan, 1302 South Thirty- first street, aged 68 years, died at a local hospital here. Mrs. Allan has lived in Omaha for thirty years and is survived by her husband and three sons, James T Allan, & local architect; Tho Allan, also of Omaha, and D. Y. Allan, with the Burlington at Chicago. The funeral will be held Saturday or Sunday, with interment at West Lawn cemetery. 50c to 75¢ Qualities for Your Choice Honesty built our business to ome of the largest practices in Nebraska. We tell you on first consultation just what you need and exactly what cost of same will be. PAINLESS EXTRACTION BY VITALIEED AIB. Taft’s Dental Rooms 1517 DOUGLAS STRERT, N ONE HUNDRED | 6T Eg Il FIRST I MORTGAGES f there may be one that is un- desirable. ‘Who loves pretty things— If you Invest hm mor(;;fiu and what woman does you might get this one unde- sirable mortgage not?—will be interested in an event of unusual im. portance at 403 South 16th Street. Watch for big announcement in The Home Bullders 7% s:mmu shares are safer than any one of its own mortgages because they are secured by many mortgages. You can invest a large or small sum, weekly or monthly, convert it into cash on short notice or leave it as long as you wish. Our booklet, the “New Way," tells all about it American Security Company HOME BUILDERS (INC.) Cor. 17th and Douglas, Omaha, s Ground Floor, AMUSEMENTS. T OLTEE EDWARD Tiwox THE DEEP PURPLE R direction t, under of Prof. bers. Today’s Paper Great Clearing of Cotton Dress Goods Remnants Remnants of plain or figured crepes, with shining little silk dots of the same color; ratines, voiles, nov- elties; also REMNANTS OF SILK will be in‘ cluded on this counter. : ! BASE BALL Friday inthe DressSection We Offer a Complete Selec- tion of Dainty Linen Dresses These are unusually attractive linen dresses, which will be particularly pleasing to Omaha women because of their distinctive styles, delightful coolness and moderate price p 1 Choi f f Tl'(::re Ne(:::el):el::uy fgr $ 7-5 O Others for Summer Wear: $10.50, $14.50, $16.75 More of Those Pleasing $1.00 House Dresses We announce the arrival of a new shipment quite frequently, they go out so rapidly, because once seen their value is appreciated. $1.00 is a Special Price. Light and dark colors; high or low neck. 8old in the Basement, Apparel. Section. | | | Special Sale Friday of the Very Latest Modes $6.75, $8.75, $9.50 Made of finest real hair braids, Milans, hemps, laces. The daintiest of trimmings have heen used—flowers, ribbon and laces. Hats Ideal for the Summer Wear Hats of Real Beauty That Will Satisfy Every Woman $0.75, $8.75, $9.50 Special $2.00 Pompadour 36- inch Chiffon Taffetas ‘Pdd;y—u.ss a Yard 1 z%c ayard Navy, black, brown, Bel- gian blue, in pretty fig- ured effects; Friday 12Y% ¢ a Yard $1.39 a Yard AMUSEMENTS, NEXT 1 OMAHA =7 MAY 3 ~ AT 20th and BURDETTE STREETS — PR :ir,: PEOPLE <X P EHORSES - (WEYENNE CHAMPIONS BARBAROUS MEXICO BULL RING SENSATION FOOT BALLON HORSE BACK STAMPEDE RODUND-up 101INDIANS TWICE DAILY 21581'5pPM Big New PABAD!AI 30A. M Drug Co. RUTH STONEROUSE DON'T MISS Seeing Your Favorite Essanay Movie Star RUTH STONEHOUSE + In Person at the Columbia Theater 10th and Nickory SATURDAY AND SUNDAY Cor. “eWM. H. CRANE, *THOMAS W. ROSS, *MACLYN ARBUCKLE, *AMELIA BINGHAM, gation. | *MABEL TALIAFERRO, nte NEW HENRIETTA 9150; Mat. at 290, T May 4-5 3 OMARLES FROKMAN Presents Maude Adams Tiactasly® “Quality Street™ Great Five- Star Aggre- | | | Omaha vs. Sioux City | | April 27-28.20-30. i Rourke Park Friday April 30. Ladies' Day Game called 8 P, M. Other acts. Elsa Rusgges, Bigd =4 Haviland & Thoratea. = “The Girl From Milwes Brea WrSt | yee’ Terads Bros. W. riees- Mat oy Wiy Y pme— eioriay Sad Busda). W Niehis: ia-dee “OMANA'S YUN CENTER> Daily Mat. 15-86-50¢ Evags., 15-35.50.T8¢ IPP THEATER Yaydly the Nome of Parameust Piotures LEW KELLY = BEWMAN SHOW In “WOBO HOME. " BLANOHE SWEET mm‘ol{“ (Bh:fl:qun; l'reumq- h:.fl Columbia Theater, N. ¥, for All Bum« mer Run w-nmlv-z'ulu Sua. Osst wk), Sam Howe sad Sustacn, “THE CAPTIVE” Wotable Cust, Including House Peters. I !