Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 29, 1915, Page 1

@ Bl PP o PR 2. 3 x The unrivalled special feat- ure pages of The Suanday Bee are in a class by them- selves. Best of them all. W R T R ——— . ity SR VOL. XLIV- 206, OMAHA, FIVE MURDERERS DOOED 70 DEATH GIVEN A REPRI&VE Arigona Board of Pardons Grants| CGondemned Mexicans Respite Not to Exceed Nine Weeks. SEPARATE HANGINGS URGED Commission Recommends Men Be, Executed at Different Dates Fixed by Governor. | | | i VICTIMS APPEAR UNCONCERNED ro | FLORENCE, Ariz., May 28.-—The| Board ' of Pardons and Paroles| granted at the last moment today reepite to all five Mexicans who were | condemned to die on the gallows at| Florence penitentiary today. The; respite is not to exceed nine weeks and the recommendation is made that the men be hanged separately on dates to be fixed by Governor Hunt. Advocates of the abolishment of capital punishment hafled the decision with de- light. The least concerned were the | Mexican prisoners for whose lives the struggle had been waged. They had gmiled at the prospect of death and they | did not change the smilo when toid they., need not mount the gallows. i FLORENCE, Arfz, May 28.—The five| men condemned to dle and the crimes | for which they were convicted are as! tollow: Crimes of Convieted Men. The five men condemned to dle and the crimes for which they were convicted are as follows: el N. B. Chaves, shot and killed Charlea | King, deputy sheriff, at Jerome, August l~— 20, 1910, Eduardo Perez, killed Felicla Chacon LOFGREEN READY at Congress Junction, November 18, mn Miguel Peralta, killed hia formor wif | and her admirer at Jerome, June 29, mu Francesco Rodriguez killed his wife l’[ Phoenix, April 2, 194 ; Ramona Vilalobas, killed Phineas | Brokn, a constable, at Ray, last August. | Suspect Arrested in Swanson Murs All of the condemned men are Mexican citizens, except Rodirgues, who was born &t Tucson. Mrs. Abby P. Aldrich |rouce maxe mvestieation is Critic&lly m Upon the accuracy of Ernest | Oberg, cement worker living at 3010 NEW YORK. May 28.-With the an-|North Sixteenth street, and a woman nouncement tat the will «of Nelson ‘:' and her S-year-old daghtuer, whose der Case Has Friends Who Will Tell of Whereabouts. m"“é‘;‘u’“ bl B 1dentity: —widow, ~Abby - Py Muu vo j tect at | Anl Lot ; lon In'.ctul dnrdar. Rofgrean’s for the last whe was working with of the murder, asserts [thunt Lofgreen was mever out of his sight from 10 o'clock in the marning until'late Lucy T. Aldrieh of -Warwick Neck and the afternoon. Richard 8. 'Aldpieh;of Providénce, R, L, " i { Two Storles Differ. became trustees of the | ' poidins SRy Prane ¥ The woman whose story caused Lof- It is said the entire estate is lett to | §Téew's : arrest,’ as yehemently ' asserts bers of the family ‘and is ‘Wworth ap-|that he is “the man ‘in blue end that roximately £,000000. The will was' pro- (e Tan away from the Sykés home about the fime the crime was committed. S b A o < has known Lotgreen for four years, she Danish Steamship woman tell the truth insofar they can, but they belleve also that one of them is of Stockholm yesterday and sank. IW|y,q (o whreds Ly dotectives and gone crew was saved. The Ely. was bound| oot M LG T sttt beipg an | “I cannot say that ‘we have anything CNMGED wlTH TREASW that - would point to Lofgreen's wgullt, LONDON, May %.—A dispatch to the !we could find a bad-spot in Lofgreen's Neverthe- arrest at Altona of the German millfonaire, | jees this woman's statement 1§ 50 strong Senator Possehl, who, it is asserted. 181454’ apparently given in such good faith, — |Lofgreen as the “‘man in biue" suspect, {Mrs. 1da M. Dennis, 2017 sSpencer street, The Weather | characteristics, clothing and -actions. Forecaat till 7 p. ‘'m, Saturday will be required to go tarough the vari- Temperature at Omah Jor the imbedes. Two Women Saw Suspect. 4ithe stories of Mrs. Dennis and Mrs. i | Nystrom regarding persons they saw last scriously lll At luer bnn- m she | has n . Mrs. wlw Obt band was stricken several ‘”hi:l.: ‘ud " her condition et percept! me fin proved. Under e The. snd e i on children, Eward B, Aldrich of New York, says, and 8o has her little daughter, who . . Sunk by a M from England for Sundsvall, Bweden,|g;noe perfect alibl. The woman's story except the woman's statément and his Exchange Telegraph company from Cop- charged with high treason for selling!inat we shall hold the young man until substantiates the identification. The po- COPENHAGEN (via London), May 3.~ "o ey giory of his own movement, as A, b chh M conl and her daughter's remains unshaken. denial of being in - the - nelghborhood,” enhagen says: metal and pyrites to Great Britain {rom | further developments.” and Mrs, J. O. Nystrom, 2102 Wirt street, For Omaha, Council ‘Bluffs and Vicin- [ous movements of the suspect who was The arrest of Lofgreen was accom- - 9 | riday, Mrs. Dennis, an invalid living in lice believe _that both Oberg and the The Danish steamer Ely struck a mine | o S POl 5 T en's, has been — GERMAN MILLIONAIRE sy Rerd s e bd sald Chief ot Detectives Maloney. “If The German newspapers announce “"‘;-tory. jt_would be different. his Swedish and Norwegian works. 1 Wer- the” purpase: af STylis ‘1o identity !will be asked to examine his fty—-Falr, with rleing temperature, seen near the Sykes Louse at the time #iplished by the detectives after hearing 1 A 1"‘ i » W:m house next door.cast from the Sykes 2 19 | residence, said she say a man wearing & H | blue serge sult, black sicuch hat and tan H | shoes enter the Sykes' rear yard and 6 nrln. the back door bell, shortly before | 3 % I noon on the day of the murder. 8 Sav- v About 2 o'clock of the same day Mrs. Pimparijve - Yan Navord, Nystrom, who lives across the street Highest yesterday. " R v.cst and half a block south of the Sykes Lowest yestorday 46 ® 0 S| peuse, facing In the opposite direction, Mean temperature...... 48 W 8 8,5, t0ld the police, saw a man of the Precipitation 5 %N .o T same description running wildly tarcugh | her yard as if excited and carrying some- ”l tnir.g under his coat 15! Lofgreen was arrested at 1 o'clock. | Efforts will be made to identify him im- { mediately. Temperature and precipitation deper- tures from the normal: Normal temperature Deficiency for the day.... Total excess since March 1. Normal precipitation Excess for the day inch 120 fnch Total rainfall since March 1 '5~lna.a Deficlency siice March 1 € inch Was Interviewed Before. Deficlency for cor. period, i#14.2.80 inch e B abrtien ey for o Lotgteen was lield by the police earlier | {in the week, without being arrested, and | |n that time Mrs. cam at 7 P M. Dennis saw hiin pass Station Temp. High- Rain- of Weather 1p.m. est lin review from her window, while the| Cheyenne, cler 62 “ police had Lofgreen and several other et Sondy. v 871 9 {suspects simulate the actions of the Des Moines, clovdy. 8 “man in blue," as observed about the me e R ] s time of the murder by Mrs. Dennis. The or, partly cloudy.. 72 \atter falled to identify Lofgreen posi- F Piatis, clondy 848 tively last Monday, but said he might Pueblo, clear w om easily be the man. Mrs. Nystrom hus id City, clear 8 = not yet tried (o identify him. Santa Fe, tlear J R St cloudy. ® ¢ 1 The arrestod man stoutly protests his Sloux City, rain s « 44 | innocence and asserts that he was work- “ 12|ing at at his trade near Sixteenth and Lo- Valentine, cloudy < nd! trace of precipitation L. A. WELSH. Local Forecaster. (Continued on Page Two, Column Two. T0 PROVE AN ALIBI| shysical ¢ iy {racks at Garardner (eighteen miles south | |TEUTONS CHECKED ONG. RIVER SAN ¥t Issued by German War Of- ce Admits Partial Defeat in B Central Galicia. ACTIVITY ON LINE NEAR BALTIC | BERLIN, May 28.—(Via London.) ——A reverse at the hands of the Rus- slans in the fighting along the river San, in central Gdlicia, is |nnnuncod o P R ans !n and lost six ¢annon, ‘l'hnnorm ns’ position, according to this announce- ment, Wwas- not do(lndsa by strong forées. The text.of tné gtatement follows: “In the western theater: “Fourteen of- ficers and 1,450 Frenchmen were taken prisoners and slx machine guns were cap- tured since May 9. These belonged to thé French army. corph-operating at a vital point ‘where attempts were made by the enemy to break through our lines north- cast of the Lorette ridge. South of Loretta ridge the French renewed at- tacks_on parts of our line last night, but were repulsed. “At Ablain a battle is ragjng, “The enemy also attacked in the forest of Le Petre last night. After prolonged artillery preparation and bitter hand-to- hand fighting the engagement ended in a severe defeat for the French. “In the Vosges mountains the enemy succeeded in establishing himselt in & small trench forming part. of our posi- tion to the southeast of Metzral. “A French attack at Reichs-Ackerkopf, inorth of Muelbach, was easily repulsed. - French Aviator Captured. Eighteen French aviators yesterday at- tacked the open town of Ludwigshaven, Bavaria. Several civillans were killed or wounded by. bombs. Tie material dam- age done by the raiders was slight. The leading armored aeroplane was forced to land at a point east'of Neustadt and aft- | neighborhood of Naney, Our aeroplanes caused ‘a separate aeroplane to fall at Epinal and they set fire to the bars east:of St. Die), “Enstern theater: On the Dubysa troops again commenced the offens An attack conducted on both sides of the | highroad between Rossjeny and Erigola | (Continued on Page Two, Column Four.) Germany’s Answer . Will Be Question ur LONDON, May 2%.—The Evening News | {publishes a dispatch from The Hague | {Kiving : reports from Berlin that Ger- | many’s reply to the American note will be presented tomorrow. It will be of a temporizing character,” | the dispatch continued, “and will ask | the United States either to affirm or deny that the Lusitania carried ammuni- tion destined for the aliies ‘Flag of Gulflight Reaches Washmgton | WASHINGTON, {American flag its {faded from exposure [the ensign flown by the American steamer Guifiight when attacked by s German submarine—tas arrived at the lm.u department. It came by mall, to- "tlh!r with other evidence and testi { mony gathered in the Investigation made by Ambassador Page and American con- sulates In Fngland at the time the Guilf- lgnt was towned into port. The flag has been spread on the wall in the division of western Europesn affairs of the State department. 'S May 28.-A colors Iwg- somewhat to seu weather— SATURDAY { jerward the commander of the squadron ;nf aircraft fell into our hands in.the | i About Ammunition | ETIS—_" e— MORNING, TERRITORIALS IN THE EASTERN WAR ZONE—New Zealand cavalry leaving Oairo for the scene of operations against the forts of the Dardanelles, in which campaign they are now participating. N\ THE WEATHER Fair 1915 -SIXTEEN PAGES SINGLE COPY/ TWO CENTS. Romnn Legions Continue Their Ad- vance Into Carinthia, Taking Fourteen Villages. THEIR OBIECT TO FLANK FOE] May 28— (Via Paris) | talians are continuing their They have | mountain | GENEVA, The advance into Carinthia three of the lower passes and fourteen villages talian forces boats, on Lake Garda have captured several hills to the north of Mount Baldo. Their object is to flank the ! Austrian fortifications at the mouth of Adige river and also to advance taken suported by gun-| on Mori. Two Avstrian aeroplanes attempted (o bombard the Itallan gunboats on the lake, but they were driven off. | Gune Succesatal, The new seventy-five millimeter Itallan guns, sald to be an improvoment on the French model, are reported here tc have been used with conspicuous success At A point in Carinthia they are said to| have silenced an Austrian battery scrved | by Bavariana. i Another fncldent of the fighting in the high mountains is the case of an Itallan leutenant, who with eighty-five men in a WASHINGTON, May 25.—President Wil- son will lseue a statement concerning the Mexican question within the next few days, according to an announcement to- day at the White House. It was not | #ald what the nature of the statement | woula be. | "Deapite the refusal of White Hypuse offi- | clals to discuss the president’s contem- ylated statemont, it was understood that it will be in the nature of a notico that conditions in Mexico are fast becoming intolerable. While it will not give notice that the United States intends to inter- Dm'tedv States Will Send Wa;;fng Ravarians To Warring Mexican Leaders passage of the one hour Agno valley, hald at bay a company and a half of armed with Maxims. Italian artillery finally arrived and scattered the Bavarians The lleutenant, however, had been killed. Other dispatches reach Ing Geneva set fofgh that the Itallans are [TALIANS CAPTURE TEUTONS TRYING MOUNTAIN PASSES T0 DRIVE WEDGE PAST PRZEMYSL Long Beleaguered Fortress, Now Garrisoned by Russia Threatened with An- other Siege. is |SITUATION BECOMES CRITICAL {City is Described as the Key to the Whole Russian Position in Galicia, |LITTLE DOING ON WEST FRONT The Day’s War News CAPTURE OF fourteen Austrian vil. Inges nlong the Carinthian frontler by the Invading Itallan forees is reported In an officlal Coaseteh from Gemeva, IMENT FROM German war of. fice concedes the vietory to the Russluns in o battle nlong the i nnnounced by the office, which represents the tion the ennt an favorah Germany, with the exception of the retrent from the San ri Stent TROOPS ¥ iate Hne running are Austrin alol pushing a3 3+ bringing up heavier guns and are at Trleate, Ap vene immediately, it s expocted to serve | o LS A PO L B Hs along the Inne 0 yet have oftered no seri- ar a warning to the Mexican leaders that [y S el & " reslstunce, although farther conditions must improve. Conttaus Adéanse: west there has heen mevere fight. The statement probably will irsued | Tha Ttadans have cantured Col Tonale | ns. Tuesday afternoon. It 18 exy d that|pnoar Monfalcone, which is being bom- RMAN SUBMARINE sank the the preaident will discuss It with the cab|harded. They continue their advance In | Steamer Cadeby yesterdny off the inet before it in issued. the Izonzo valley, Most of the flehting Sellly fales by when .. The It became known late today that the|is now on Austrian territory. The Aus- | ©rew of elghteen men and the four prosident has been strongly adbisod rey|trians are described as mounting more | PAssenmers were anved. cently to recognize the Carranza gov-|guns In the Alpine passes facing Valte- | —_— ornment in Mexico, particularly in view |line. | LONE v 2 of the possibility of ita early retirn to| Another dispatch reaching here wavs |0 p,.",:g: May 28.—The fortress Fewer In Mexico City. Officials declined [ that forces of Auatrians and Germans | o garrisoned this time by to say whether this point will bo taken |are assembling in the vicin of Bozen, | Russians instead of Austrians, is up In the ,,,.‘,.d,mr, statemont about thirty miles north of nt, where |ONce more threatened with invest- AUSTRIAN SUBSEA Two British Ships Sent to Bottom by laerm.n hbm six Lives Lot o OFF ORKNEYS RONE, (Via Pari), May 28.—It 18 officlally announced that an Aus- trian submarine boat was sunk by Itallan torpedo boats in an engage- ment yesterday. Spennymoor Sunk. FALMOUTH, May 2.—~The new Brit- ish steamer Spennymoor has been sunk by & Gefman submarine off Start Point, Orkney islands. The captain and five men of the orew were drowned by the capsizing of a boat while it was being launched and the en- gineer was badly injured by the bursting of a shell in the engine room. Twenty-three survivors of the disaster have landed here. Cadehy is Sunk. | PENZANCE, England, May 25.-The | British stewmer Cadeby has been sunk ofs Ecilly islands by gunfire from a Ger- | mar submarine. All on board the vessel, Including four passengers, were saved. The Cadeby was sent to the bottom yesterday. Its crew of eighteen men, to- gether with the four passengers on board, took to the boal by a fishing smack and brought Newlyn, a fishing village near here. The steamer Cadeby was of 617 net tons register and 22 feet long. It was owned in Glasgow. Russians Deny Loss of Panteleimor WASHINGTON, May 28.-~The Ruesian | embassy has received a cablegram from | the chief of the naval staff at Petrogras | categorically denying the report of the | sinking by, Turkish mines or submarines { of the Russian battleship Panteleicn In | th@ Black Sea | The cablegram declares that the Pan- — | teletmon "has not been in action or ex- posed to Turkish fire, and ‘in’ fact has into ! harbor where it is now anchored: A de- nial is also entered of the reports that | other damages have been inflicted on the | Russian Black Sea fleet as reported f:om Constantinople. || THE-GATE:CITY-OF-THEWES The country clubs are open- ing and Omaha has plenty of them ready to offer hos- pitality to the visitor. That helps to make a summer stop here always pleasant i, and enjoyable. | YOUNG man of executive perienced in bookk: H whe' invest about § | established business, for keeper and office manager. erences exchanged: inv Cuped. State age experience, shlary, ete. | .{u uu- about w the Waut t e Boe today. SUNK IN BATILE nd were later rescued | . |under detention, he said, and as soon as not for some time been out of a Russian | RUSSIAN TROOPS 0CCUPY URUMIAH Thousands of Assyrian Christians Threatened by Kurds and Fisherman See Subsea Near Where CROOKHAVEN Ireland, May 28.—(Via London)—Cantaing of Crookhaven achoon- ; T‘:,.h Are Saved. ) o w fabink bota who ware. in km: vieln of the mtriun steamer MANY n!gm MURD] W when 1t wag T A b8 Tuesday evening, M PETROGRAD, May the torpedoing ) «— Urumiah, Persi been occupled by the Russians after an engagement with the Turks in the direction of Duman and near Bachkaln, according to a statement issued by the general staff of the army of the Caucasus. Urumiah, in Azerbal)an province, with & population of about 50,00, is a center of missionary activity. It is the seat of Fiske Beminary for Girls and of Uru- miah college. For weeks the mission- arles stationed there, as well as many thousands of Assyrian Christia; have (Continued on Page Two, Ex-Senator Young | Reaches New York| wasuixaron, say s—the unitea l ‘!ll(fll crulser North Carolina is aground within the outer harbor of Alexandria, Egypt, according to a report to the Navy department today by its commander, Captain Joseph W. Oman, who says the ship is undamaged and that dredging operations will be undertaken to re- lease it. Btforts made yesterday to release the North Carolina, Captain Oman reported, Lad falled. The crulser Des Moines has arrived off Alexandria as relief to the North Carolina in Mediterranean water.. The Iatter as soon as floated will be re turned to the United States to act as flugship at Pensacola, Fla. boats wb‘i!n they m #hooting n afterward‘they say they saw | p v flylng the American flag, go- lu ‘west Then they heard a loud report, followed quickly by a wecond, after which the steamer began blowing its Whistie to summon help. The tishermen say two phtrol boats #00n appeared and they then lost sight of the steamer. Captain McCoy of a schooner which ar- rived here last night, reports that he tilce sithted a submarine. North Carolina is Aground in Harbor Column One.) | NBw YORK, May 8.—Former Senator Lafayette Young of,Des Moines, who was arrested and kept In his hotel at Innsbruck, Austria, for twenty-four kours, early in May, on suspicion of esplonage, arrived here today aboard the steamer Rotterdam from Rotterdam. Mr. Young sald his troubles at Innsbruck arose because he could not speak Ger- man. He was courteously treated while his identity was clearly established he was released. |Kidnaper of Boy | Applies for Pardon PITTSBURGH, Pa, May 2.—Helen| Boyle, now serving a twenty-five-year term In the western penitentiary of Penn- sylvania in connection with the kid- | {naping of Billy Whitla in Sharon, Pa., !1n 199, has forwarded an application for | s pardon fo the state board at Harris- | | burgh, She will be given a hearing on | June 6, | \Italians Occupy Island of Rhodes| AMSTEBRDAM, May 2.-~(Via London) The Berlin Lokal Italian troops in considerable force have landed on the Turkish Island of Rhodes in the Aegean sea Dardanelles. No officlal report has been recelved of a declaration of war between Turkey and Italy, Chief Engineer of Nebrackan Thinks | | He Saw the Wake of a Torpedo' none of | than normal, ; LIVERPOOL, May 28.—While ‘ hold |the crew of the American steamer Ne- | braskan, dissbled Tuesday night by an explosion off the coast of Ireland, saw & submarine, the chief engineer belleves he raw the wake of & torpedo on the st | boara side. according to \Captain Green | {of the steamer, ture is #0 severe it s evident the shock | the ship sutfered must have been terrific Great derricks were torn up and flung ucross the deck, smashing the rail on one side. Strong steel girders forming part | of & hatch were blown out and some went |, The captain stated that was & | overboard !hnlu about twenty-feet square in the fore- | hatch two large holes were made, reveal- stle below the water line. | Ing the naked steel girders, two of which | “We were in the boats about an hour, ‘u. re cut through cleanly. there {he sard. “The ship seemed to be settling | The bunks occupled by the boatswain {1y the head and we decided to stay clow [ana two' quartermasters, all of whom by unless help which we had summoned | were injured, are & mass of wreckage by wireless arrived. While none of us |and the men are wondering how they Iun @ submarine the chief engineer be- [escaped more serious hurts. All the fur lleves he saw the wake of a torpedo on Ilhe starboard side. The effect of the ; shock of the torpedo striking the ship niture and woodwork in the room were broken Into fragments. The boatswain suffered injuries on the head, arms and { was to stop it suddenly. There was a per- | legs, Both quartermasters were badly ceptible interval between the shock and | brulsed. the explosion The American consul and representa- Wo started to return Liverpool | tives of the American embassy boarded about 10:3 o'clock the same nigl trav- | the ship from a tender yesterday after. eling eight knots an hour. The vessel | noon, weeting the steamer off the bar | Was twelve feet lower down by the head |and coming with it to the docks, 1 of Alexandria| | stage. Anzelger states that | Rhodes 15 about 300 miles south of “"’i | owing to the water in the The damage to the vessel's upper struc- | they will bo formed into the twelfth army | ment. corps. | | \ In the deck flooring near the | Just as the Russians, after |surrounding Przemysl and starving !mn its Austrlan garrison, forced the surrender of the fortress on Mareh 22, so Austro-German troops, who have driven a wedge through central Nebraskan Was Hit |osticia. are now attempting a double flanking movement, and with wrow- ing intensity of attack, are to encirele Praemysl from t.lo wm A«mmm advance I8 not checked hd-mm: elther be isolated from the reat of the Russian army or Russian troops, which foll back to the San, will be forcod fito further retreat. This situation in Galtein is believed to be unquestionable of great strategic im- portance at the present time and even the British press concedes that the position of Przemysl is serlous. It {s described @s the key to the whole Russian postion in Galicla and its fall will mean that the road running eastward to Lemberg, the main artery of the Russian supplies in this region will fall into Austrian hands, Reports that this rallroad line already {bas been severed are still without con- firmation today, Fighting along the AustrosItalinn frontier still is In the development There is virtually no change on the western battle front and the Brit- fsh and French admit that the Turks are so strongly entrenched on the Gallipoll peninsula that unly siege war- fare can be waged there. French Official Report. PARIS, May 28.—~The French war of fice this afternon Issued the following statement on the progress of hostilities: “The counter attacks of the 'enemy against the positions talten by us near Angres continued last night, but were repulsed by us . N “At Ablain-8t. Nazaire our troops yes- terday followed up their offensive move- ment with distinct success. Masters of the cemetery, they took possession early in the night of all the group of houses | nearby, but especially of the parsonage. wlnrh had been strongly protected by the enemy. Subsequently they {sault the German trenches along the | road which runs from Ablain St, Naveire {to Moulin Malon, to the southeast “"Here they were subjected to a violent counter attack during the night, but they JC\mnnued on Page Two, Column Two,) Remember To Send Your WANT AD To The OMAHA BEE Early { SATURDAY For Our BIG S8UNDAY PAPER If You Cannot Bring It to the Office, Telephone It to Us. BEE WANT ADS Get the Big Results Telephone Tyler 1000 THE OMAHA BEE Everybody Reads Bee Want Adsy N - took by ass