Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, July 4, 1915, Page 1

- PART OKE. NEWS SECTION PAGES ONE TO TEN VOL. ATTEMPT MADE T0 ASSASSINATE BANKER MORGAN @ Head of Big New York Banking 4 House is Shot Twice at His Home at Glen Cove, Long Island NEITHER WOUND I8 SERIOUS Assailant Gives Name of Frank Holt and Says He Teaches German at Cornell. SAYS MORGAN CAN END THE WAR XLV-—NO. 3 BULLETIN. NE WYORK, July 8.—Police Cep- tain Tunney of the detective bureau at police headquarters announced tonight that Holt had confessed to having set the bomb that exploded last night in the capitol at Wash- ington. NEW YORK, July 3.—An attempt | to assassinate J. P. Morgan was made at Mr. Morgan’'s country estate near Glen Cove, L. I, today. Mr. Morgan was shot, but not seriously wounded. His assailant was a man who said he was F'. Holt, an instructor in German at Cornell university, and also of Dallas, Tex. The Cornell university records contain the name of Frank Holt. He was an in- structor of German there during the last year. He was to g0 to the University of Texas as & professor in German for the coming year, Henry Fiske, Mr. Morgan's butler, doubtlesy saved his employer from more serlous injury by felling the aseailant | with & blow from a coal hod aad over- powering him. Holt was locked up in| the Glen Cove jafl and from his cell is- sued a statement asserting tRat he was | impelled to go to Mr. Morgan to per-! suade him to-stop the shipment of muni- tions of war from this country abroad The man who shot Mr. Morgan came to Glen Cove this morning on the .8:8 train, bired an automobile and went to the Morgan hgme on Matinicock Point. Hc’ rang the Pell, and when the butler an- swered, ocalled for Mr. Morgan. He sald that he was an old friend of Mr Morgan, but was refussd admission to the house. The man then pressed a pistol against the stomach of the butler, who screamed, and pushed his way past the servant into the ball. Mr. Morgan was ap- proachink. the..Stept door throush ghe hall at the time. He asked what the trouble was. The answer was a shot, which tock effect in the hip. Butler Disarms Him. 2 R s (RANK SETS BOMB . INU. 5. CAPITOL coal hod from the fire-place and brought it down on the assailant’s head, but too Reception Room in’Senate Wing is Damaged by Explosion Just late to prevent a second shot, Before Midnight. The butier fell on the man, wrested the weapon away and overpowered him. SENDS LETTER TO NEWSPAPER Servants came running in answer to his call and the sheriff's office and a phy- slclan were telephoned. The man was arrested ana taken to Glen Cove. There he refused to say anything and would not give his name. A satchel which the man brought to Glen Cove was found near a hedge on the Morgan property. The satchel was | filled with dynamite, It was sald that the assallant was peen | yesterday in the neighborhood of M. | Morgan's home. I Another version of the entrance of the intruder Into the Mdorgan house is to the | eftect that he bad no trouble in ganing | admission. He went to the door and asked to see Mr. Morgan, saying that he was an old friend. Word was taken to Mr. Morgan that some one wanted to see him. The financier came out of his breakfast room into the main hall Immediately | upon his appearance the intruder shot | at him. He had two revolvers and used them both. ‘There 1s still some discrepancy in the statements as to just where the bullets | struck Mr. Morgan. While the report | hes it that the first shot wounded him | in the leg and the second near the pit | of the stomach. The wound inflicted here is the most serious of the two. Several Shots Fired. It is related that several shots were fired by the assaflant, but that all but two went wild. Dr. W. H. Beabriskie of Glen Cove was immediately summoned and Dr. Markoe of this city was sent for. Mr. Morgan's wounds were examined and word given { WASHINGTON, July 3.—~The pub- lic reception room in the senate wing of the United States capitol was wrecked just before last midnight by an explosion, probably caused by a bomb or an infernal machine. No one was injured and today there was only one clue, a letter received by the Washington Times, an evening newspaper, announcing that it would take place. The letter was malled nearly two hours before the explosion. It was signed “R. Pearce” and indicated that the writer had been waiting for an opportunity té carry out his plan, which, he said, would be “the exclamation point of his career.” Only one man of that mame is in the ‘Washington city directory. A search was begun for ‘him. . Officlals at first belleved the explo- sion was caused by spontaneous combus- tion or escaping gas. They abandoned that line of investigation and proceeded on the theory that tho explosive was placed by a crank seeking to create a sen- sation or by some forelgn sympathizer, seeking to register his disapproval of the policies of the United St government. Damage is ‘Slight. Part of the celling and side walls of the room were shaken down. A huge mirror Qut that it was not believed that they |and a crystal chandelier shattered, and ‘were necessarily serious. the doors blown open. One of the doors Mr. Morgan and his wife and daugh- [led Into the office of the vice president ters went to thelr summer home in Gien Cove after the marriage recently of hh‘ son, Junjus Spencer Morgan, 4n Boston. Matinjoock Point, where Morgan home is located, is almost surrpunded by water and is about two to three miles | from the central part of the village of Gilen Cove. Carried Nitroglycerin. ‘When Mr. Morgan's sssallant arrived in Glen Cove from New York on & train | this morning he hired an automoble from | & garage near the station and was driven | and is sald not to have been opened for forty years. The bullding had been closed since dark and there wes no one in it but the watch- man and the telephone switchboard operators. Watchman Jones, on the floor below at the east entrance, sald he Was blown from, his chair by the explosion. Superintendent Woods sald he had ex- amined the structural features of the bullding and found that there was no damage other than in the immediate vi- cinity of the reception room. b_r_- » chautfeur, _“fi; Cramer, to the | (Continued on Page umn One.) The Weather Forecast till 1 p. m. Sunday: For Omaha, Councll Bluffs and Vieinity wFartly cloudy, mot much change In temperature. Temperature " .. . 6 .8 . .. .8 Three Armed Men Rob Paymaster SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, July 3.—Three armed men held up today an automobile carrying 38,300 for the week's pay roll of the Pacific Coast Glass company in the heart of the factory district, forced the cashier and an assistant, who' were armed, to dlamount and drove off in the automoblle with the money In bags at thely feet. FIRE DESTROYS MILLION NIIARTS GERMAN SPIRITS AMSTERDAM (via London), July 3. Tho Berlin Tageblatt states that a fire in a distillery at Koenlgsberg, Prussia, destroyed more than a million quarts of spirits, THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE p OMAHA, SUNDAY MORNING, JULY 4, 1915—FIVE SECTIONS-THIRTY-FOUR PAGES. SINGLE ———— et THE WEATHER Cloudy CoPY FIVE CENTS. HURRAH FOR THE FOURTH OF JULY! [t typifies the spirit of Old Glory! the torch of liberty shine brighter! It recalls brave deeds of the founders of the republic! A A I 570 W T A 8 The Bee's Fund for Free Milk and Ice It’s just luck that the weather h: been cool till now.. .When it heats up the call for fresh milk and ice for the little ones will be all the louder This fund is being gathered to be ready to answer that call. Contributions from 10 cents to $5 are solicited and will be acknowl- edeed in this column. (Government Loses- Suit to Dissolve Reading Combine PHILADELPHIA, Pa., July 3-Thé United States district court today ren- dered & decision in favor of the de- {fendant in the government suit to dis- {solve the Reading ' company and to 'weparate the New Jersey Central railroad trom the Reading Army Aviator Loops the Loop Byron D. Jones, the young army aviitor who recently established a record for | sustained filght while carrying s pag- senger, looped the loop four consecutive times here yesterday at an altitude 4,000 feet. He used a standard biplane the first time, it is sald, such machines have been employed In that |kind of & performance. The motors stopped while the aviator was on his back in the fourth loop, but he managed to complete the cirelé and then volplaned down. TTwo Turkish Steam and One Sail It makes HUERTA IS AGAIN | ARRESTED; CAN'T GIVE BAIL; JALED | | Former Mexican Presidence Once More Taken in Custody and { Placed in Cell When Bond i Not Furnished. | | ANOTHER CONSPIRACY CHARGE |Five Others Are Also Taken in | Charge by the Authorities of | United States. [ f | CARRANZA ASKS FOR ENEMIES EL PASO, Tex., July 3.—General Viotoriano Huerta was re-arrested here today on a federal warrant fs-| sued at San Antonlo charging con- Tl[llrnc)' to violate the neutrality { laws of the United States by attempt- |ing to launch a revolutionary move- | | ment in Mexico. | Arrested with him were General Ignacilo | Bravo and Jose Del Guado | They were taken before George B. | Oliver, Uvited States commission for ar- | | ralgnment and fixing of bond | | Arrested Earller in Day. | General Eduardo Caus and J, B. Ratner, | {ana Enriguie Gorostita, amsociated ,of | { General ‘Huertg, were arrested earlier in | |the day. Altfiough federal authorities | | were silent as to the signifiance of the ! ‘l(‘lIN‘ it was understood that the San | Antonlo charges probably will supersede | | those filed here. 1 was believed that the | { new bonds would be materially increased | and that after’'a speedy hearing the de- | | foendants would be taken to San Antonlo. | | Commissioner Oliver fixed the bond of | { ench defendant at $15,000 despite the fact | {that R. E. Crawford, aesistant United | | States district attorney ask: that | Huerta's bonds be set at $100,000, and the | bond of each of the others at $15,000. . | General Huerta and the five arrested | | with him this afternoon failed to secure | bond and shortly after § o'clock wm-‘ [taken to the county jail. A military | guard probably will be stationed around the bulldig. Ordered to El Paso. WASHINGTON, July 8.—United States “ | Attorney Camp at San Antonio kas been |ordered to Bl Paso by Attorney General | (jregory to take personal charge of the overnment's ‘Case against General fuerta. The administration has decided to prosecute Huerta for conspiracy to incite m revolution against a friendly na- tion. For the present no effort will be mado to deport him as an undesirable jalien. Tf a conviction Is not returned, recourse may be had to the Immiitation {laws. Officlals here foel the case againat Huerta is wtrovs. ) Oneransn Asks Fuerta. SAN ANTONIO, Tex. July 3.—An ap- plication to the United Stages for formal Diaz, Manuel Mondragon and Aureliano Blanquet ‘was filed with Secretary of SINKS THRER SHIPS |aiiesiozs, fes iy, S o ' Elizo Arrendondo, confidential agent for T Carranza. The text of the application was received here this morning by wire, It calls the attention of the American government to alleged crimes committed during Febru- ary, 1913, uprising in Mexico City and lays the blame for Madero's death to the alleged combination. It then asserts that they are planning another revolution and Craft Are Sent to Bottom of . Black Sea. LADEN ‘WITH FOOD AND FUEL | Mr. Morgan over night and was at SPRING-RICE SEES ATTACK ON HORGAN| fi—nor SERIOUS CONDITION GLEN COVE, July 3.—It | learned authoritatively late here to- day that the British ambassador, 8ir | Cecll Spring-Rice, was the guest of | was | the breakfast table today and wit- nessed the shooting of the financier. A statement {ssiied by the Morgan flrm’ shortly befire 4 p. m. reads: | “An examination of Mr. Morgan dis- closes that there are two dullet wounds | in the reglon of his right hip. There | are no unfavorable symptomse and he is | resting easily. (Signed) “H. M. LYLBD, | “J, W. MARKOE. “Timed, 3:90 p. m., Glen Cove, N. Y." The above statement was slgned by | Mr. Morgan's attending ph: Holt made the following the Assoolated Preas: | “My home is in Dallas, Tex. 1 left| 8 wife and children and am 40 years old. | I was born in this country and so were | my father and mother. My ancestors | were French and German; it was all nilxed up. 1 received a degree of doctor of philosophy from Cornell in 1914, but before that I was instructor in French. I was formerly an instructor in Vander- bilt university, x Own Name, “I came to New York two weeks ago from Ithaca and put up at (he Mills hotel at Thirty-sixth street and Seventh | avenue. I took no pains to conceal my | identity and registered under my own name. . “About a month ago I conceived the idea to mee J, P. Morgan and get him to use his Influence in stopping the exporta- tion of arms which make you and me re-| aponaible for the murder which 18 going | on over there. “I could not go from manufacturer to manufacturer myself, but thought that Mr. Morgan's banking conneotions would render It more easy for him to accom- plish thig. “1 e not been influenced to do this by anybody else. I think President Wil- son's notes were fine, but they did not seem to do anything to stop the war.' Condition Excellent. A statement lssved by the Morgan firm NAVAL BATTLES INRUSS WATERS EVENTS OF DAY Official Report from Petrograd Re- ports Defeat of German Squad- ron in Long Fight on the Baltio Sea. OTHER ACCOUNTS DIFFERENT Unofficial Advices Say the Ozar's Cruiser Squadron Retired After Battle of Several Hours. THREE TURKISH SHIPS SUNK BULLETIN. BERLIN (via London), July 3. A statement, {ssued by the German admiralty tonight, relative to ¥Fri- day's engagement in the Baltic sea, {confirms the report that the German layer Albatross was forced to run |aground en the coast of the Island of Gothland, and states that twenty of her crew were killed in the fight and twenty-seven were wounded. The Albatross ran aground in: a sinking condition after two hours of heavy fighting with four Russian crulsers. LONDON, July 3.—Detalls of the naval battle between Russian and German cruisers In the Baltic yes- terday apparently were lost in the |fog which enshrouded the scene. The officlal account from Petro- grad claims that a Russian cruiser squadron drove a German cruiser ashore, but all unofficlal reports agree that the vessel which met dis- aster was the mine layer Albatross. Petrograd claims that the German ves- sels retired before the Russian attaek, while unofficlal accounts of the engage- ment declare that Russia's warships had to retire before superior numbers after a battle lasting half a day. The submarines of the English allles had their innings yesterday. Athens re- ported that a Turkish troop ship nk in the Sea of Marmota by a British submarine, while Petrograd claime that & Russian submarine obtained a heavy - bag of merchant shipy in the Black Sea. shortly before 7 p. m. reads: “A further examination of Mr. Mor- gan’s wounds shows that the bullets did not involve any vital organs. The condi- tion of the patient contirues excellent. (Slgned)y 4 W. MARKOR." According to the legal papers one the tie other remained in his z was afterwards removed by & ‘surgloal operation, Holt was arraigned late today on a ohargo of assault with inteut at mallo< fous killlng. He demurred to fhe word maliclous and finally pleaded not gulity, Justice Lu: r held him without bali for further examination next Wednesds afternoon. o Russia Issues Popular Loans for Half Billion German Crulser Beached. » PETROGRAD (Via London), July 3.— When the Rusasian naval squadron in the Baltio gave battle to five German cruls- east coast of Gothland on German crulser was other . to an the Russian adsf July 2. The damage ers, the “This morning (July ) lel of the Oestegarn lighthouss on #ast const of the island of Gothland, our crulsers encountered in a fox two of the oenemy’s light cruisers and some torpedo boats and engaged them in battle. “At 9 o'clock In the morning a German mm.mtmflmmuv?a 'S d_snd_the !|cruiser, badly asmaged, lowered its flag #nd ran ashore. The other cruiser and the torpedo boats fled. . At 10 o'clock our squadron encountered the armored cruiser ' Roon, one Ught oruiser and one torpedo boat and renewed SAN DIEGO, Cal, July 2~Lieutenant |/ Hticlal statement issued today at the Tur- | [Only One Killed PETROGRAD, July 3.—(Via Lon- don, 11:26 a. m.)—The activity of & Russian submarine in the Black sea is recounted in an-official statement| issued by the admiralty today. The undersea boat. sank two Turkish steamers and one sailing ship, with cargoes of coal and provisions, and then exchanged shots with three nr-: mored schooners off the mouth of the Bosphorus, driving them ashore. The text of the statement follows: i “A Russian submarine in the Black Sea today torpedoed and sank & steamer of | 2500 tons. It then ‘set fire to and sank ' & salling ship of 1,600 tons. Subsequently a small steamer was sent to the bottom. The three vessels were in the nelghbor- hook of Kesken and were laden with | coal and provisions. { “The submarine also shelled another | steamer enchored in the river and seve eral coal barges and a tug were driven ashore. “Near the mouth of the Bosphorus the submarine came into action with an ar- mored schooner. After an exchange of shots this vessel, with two others of & similar type, were run ashore.” Turks Report Defeat of Allies. CONSTANTINOPLE, July 3~(Via German Wireless to London, July 3)-— The repulse of British assaults on the | Gallipoll” peninsula is reported In an of- kish war office. The communication fol- lows: “Renewed attycks by the British dur- ing the last three days near Avi Burnu and Seddul Bahr were beaten off with heavy enemy lossés. The British were driven back into their old positions.” written that lfmerick yet? About Buf- falo Bil? For, you know, the time is growing short in which to win one of the forty- five prizes offered by' The Bee for the best limerick on the famous plainsman. “There is everything trom 315 in money | to & clrous ticket in that lst of prizes| and you'll want to—— Beg pardon? Why the circus ticket? Eimply because Buffalc Bill's Original Wild West, to be exact. The big show will be here Thursday, July 8, at Twen- ty-firet and Paul. And the clrous Limerick Time is Getting Short. But One Way to Take Part in Game Pardon the intrusion, but have you list of prizes will open the way for the | paqiy fnjured. sight of everything from Indlans and | aerialists to clowns and blood sweating Behemoths, not to mention the our-‘ phants and the two (count ‘em) two— calliopes. The contest ls open to everybody. The subject must be Buffalo Bill and: the writing may be bumorous or serious, just as you choose, just so it's a imerick that reaches us not later than midnight Monday night. Thureday, directly after the parade of the BSells-Floto circus, Buffalo Bill will appear before the office of The Bee to give forth prizes. So 1f you're & bit late, come in be-[12 The steamer was owned by the Ant- tickets that are included n The Bee's|fore it's foo late. |ing from Newport News. asks that they be detained and gent back to Mexico for trial, N\ Armenian Incident Closed-So Far as U. 8. Officially Concerned WASHINGTON, July 3-Officlal ad- vices to the State department today es- tablished that the British liner Armenian attempted to escape the German sub- marine, whic n it In conse nee of its efforts to o capture, Ambassador Page reported that the Ar- menian originally had been requisitioned by the British government, but that the requisition was cancelled Lefore its sall- Previously the British government had informed Am- bassador Page that the “ship waw en- gaged In admiralty business.” Its status is not regarded as essential by officials in view of the fact that the sinking of a ship making repeated at- tempts to escape is held to be justifiable under international law. 8o far as the United States is ocon- Gerned the Incident seems to be closed. The Btate department was advised to- day that four survivors of the Armenian had left for Newport News from Bristol on the Victoria and fifty-six others on the Winifredian by way of Carditf, This accounts for sixty of the members of man Rosenthal, make a public discosure |0t the names of the men with whom he the electrio chair, for the murder of Her-| | the crew. There were no passengers. |is alleged to have divided §100,000 tn graft money collected from gamblers and keep- ors of {llegal resorts during his career as head of the famous police strong-arm squad, Six men, some of them police de- partment officlals, are understood to be involved in the statement Becker has) in Takoma Wreck TACOMA, Wash, July 3.-One man prepared while awaiting the outcome of appeals to Governor Whitman and the United States supreme court, It was reported that Becker's attempt ' would explain the death of “Big Tim" Sullivan, who was belleved to have been | killed by a New Haven rallroad train, British Ship Gadsb Sunk b_y_S_ubm () LONDON, July 8~The British steam- ship Gadsby of 4,497 tons gross, was sunk today by & German submarine. The crew was landed at Moville, Ireland. The Gadsby salled from Sydney, O. B., June 18 for a European port. An empty lifeboat and another boat was killed and about fourteen persons Injured, when two coaches of a Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul passenger train fell through a trestle today onto frelght train passing underneath, near Rainier, twenty miles south of here, The dead and injured have been taken to Rainler. The man dead is Lewis Bradeen of Beattle, contracting frelght agent of the Milwaukee rallroad. Mra Bradeen was Belgian Steamship Sunk by Torpedo LONDON, July 8~The Belglan steam- ship Boduognat wds terpedoed and sunk today by w« German submarine. The|market “Craigard, Leith,” were towed crew was landed at Falmouth. into Penzance, England, today. It is sug- Tho Boduognat was 144l tons gross|gested that the steanibulp Craigard of apd was built at Sunderland in 1900. It|3286 tons gross, which salled from Gal- Was 20 feet long, thirty-elght feet beam | yeston on June 3 and Newport News June and seventeen feet deep. It was last re- |1l for Havre, may have been the viotim ported at Port Ralbot, England, on June |of & German submarine, though there is no proot of this and nothing has been werp Sbipping company. heard regarding its crew. PETROGRAD, July 8—(Via London)-|retire Mnm the south. During the retreat minister of finance to make two issues of | °Fuisers and fled. At 11:3 o'clock the pur- cent short term notes, fres of income|Uunsuccessfully attacked by submarines. from $0 upwards. This low denomina~ Frenoh Officia) Weport, well as Russlan {nvestors. The issue is|®%Y™: our positions and inflicted very heavy of Becker's Gruiltsuscks sesinst our ‘posiions st crets o o repulsed. ALBANY, N. Y. July 3.—~Governor|there has been a very active cannonade. vulge any names which Manton men-| “prench aviators su illy . bome Charles Becker. In the statoment the|e, German batteries at Vimy and st NEW YORK, July 8.-On the autherity falls in his appeal to the United States Steamships sunk today, the Larchmore of 4,35 tons gross, Tha British ~stsamship Richmond of was sunk today by & German submarine naval engagement off the Coth- o'clock the enemy began to The official journal today published an|the enemy was jotnel by another lght imperial edict authorising the Russian |Crulser. This vesssl was attacked by our treasury obligations of $260,000,000 each, | Sult ceased. The lssue is to ba in the shape of § per| '‘After the battle our squadron was tax. “The damage to our crulsers was q The (ssue will be in denominations of |instenificant.” ¥ tion is expected to give the loan a popus| PARIS, July 8—The French war de- lar aspect and to appeal to forelgn puartment’s officlal statement today o run for six months beginning today. “Stubborn fighting continued all last *¥ |nignt n the Argonne. We maintained . v { Whitman is Sure Tosses on the anamy. “In the region of Metweral two fresh have been “Along the remainder of the front Whitman, in a statement issued today, | gne) Arras started gave Martin T. Manton permission to di- “u,l: m“mht‘l:m b 260 tioned to him In his appeal for executive | perded the raflroad s at Challe- clemency for former Police Lieutenant|renge, Zarren and Langemarck, as well governor said he was “absolutely con-| Bequraing.” vinced” that Becker s guilty.” f of Charles Becker's counsel, Martin T. Manton, it was said today that it Becker Three More Bfltmh supreme court he will, before going to LONDON, July S~—German submarines elso accounted for two dritish steamships and the Renfrew of 2,48 tons being tor- pedoed ang sunk. 3,214 tons gross, bound from Queenstown for Boulogne and laden with rallway ties, off the Soflly Islands. ‘The crew was landed at Plymouth, England. The Day’s War N RUSSIAN ACCOUNTS of Friday's land cosst record the beaching of one German warship and perority of the German fleet . NAVAL ACTIVITIES merchantmen by a Russian sub- marine in the Black Sea and the torpedotng of the Belglan steamer Bodnognat by & German wnderses boat r !