Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, July 8, 1915, Page 2

* ARRAS CATHEDRAL | IS SE IN FLANES | l Ablaze. OFFICIAL REPORT FROM BERLIN BERLIN, July T=~(By Wireleas to Say ville.)=The German army heéadquarters today gave out the following official | statement “On the west bank 6f the upper Vistula we made good progress. To the eadt of the Vistulh there was no Important change. During pursuit of the Russians { to the Zlota Lipa river from July 3 to July 5, the Germans captured 3,850 men The number of prisoners made south of | Riale Bloto has been increased to seven officers and about 80 men “In Poland south of the Vistula the Germans stormed Helght % to the east of Dolowatka and south of Borzymow The Russian losses were very consider. | able. Ten machine guns, one revolver #un and a quantity of rifles were taken. | “Motre to the northward, near the Vis tuln, & Russian charge was repulsed “Western theater: North of Ypres (Bel- glum) British troops yesterday invaded one German trench, but were ejected In the evéning. “‘West of Souches two enémy night at- tacks were ropulsed “While we gere shelling enemy troops gathered Atras, th etown took fire and the cathedral ds burning. “Between the Meuse and the Moselle rivers there was lively fighting. There also was seme sctivity to the southwest | of Les Fpurges, where the enemy con- | tinued his efforts to win back the posi- tion recently lost. At the first attack the French got into a part of the German line of defense. A counter attack won back all the trenchies with the exception | of one plece of 100 yards, The enemy abandoned one machine gun. “Two more charges made by the enemy as well ap an attack on trenches failed completely. “Malf way between Allley and Apre- mont the Germans sttacked and stormed | the enemy’'s position along a front .f| 1500 yards and captured 30 French. “Near Croix-Des-Carnos, in the forest , of Le Pretre, the enemy made an ex-| ceptionally violent attack which was ve- | pulsed. } ‘On Sudel, in the Vosages, an enemy | trench was stormed and rendored vseless for defense purposos. | “In the Champagne southwoat of Sup- pes, & German aviater shelled success- fully an enemy training camp. Shelling of Edifice by German Guns | | | The cathedral at Arras, the capital of the French Department of Pas De Calais, was bullt in 17561830 When the war broke out the cathedral contained some good paintings, including a Descent From the Cross and an Bntombment. at- tributed ;esphotively to Rubens and Van Dyck, Tn the south transept: was a St. Bernard supplicating inspiration from lieaven by Van Thulden. A bas rellef in #1ldod bronze adorned the high altar. Call for Nebraska Dry Convention Qut Following 1» call for a *Nebraska dry' comvention sent out from Lincoln: The people of Nebraska are hereby requested to choose delegates from the commercial, clvic, social, moral and other organizations of the atate, inter- ested in and in favor of constitutional prohibition of the liquor traffic for bev- erage purposes regardiess of political affiliations, te assemble In convention in the eity of Lincoin on September 2 and 0, 1915, for the purpose of organising. and devising ways and means ) t GERMANS INVADING RUSSIA BY BALTIC SEA ATTACKS-Map of Russian coast line, where the Germans have renewed their attacks. Near the top of the map is Vindau, bombarded by German ships the other day. Lower down is Libau, one of the first points of German at- tack when the war started. BANKER Aib_lfl_\kflk MEET ’Oonlennn Held at Chicago to Talk Over the Conditions United States. in GOVERNMENT EXPERTS ATTEND CHICAGO, July 7.—Bankers, farmers. educators from various state agricultural schools and experts from the federal De- partment of Agricuiture meét here today for the ficst session of the two days' con- ference on the relations between bankers nd farmers. Consideration of economic and practical difficulties in the extension of the work of the agricultural commis- #lon on the American Bankers' associa- tion was taken up. F. B. Mumford, dean of the College of Agriculture of the University of Missour, #ald that the farmers’ problein was es- sentlally economie. ““The solution of the economics of agri- culture ps, related to the actual business of farming, will carry with it the solution of many of the other problems of the rugal community,” he sald. “But European chuntries produce a mgch Jari vield per acre than the Unit s, It does foi sarily follow at the American f r would find it protitable or possible to produce yields as large or to bring under cultivation land rela- tively so poor. The factors of labor, price of product and many other condi- tions must be recognized. But taking all factors into account it remalns true that the American farmer' can largely in- crease his profits, better maintain the fertility of the soll and incidentally materiaily increase crops. ““Recent investigations have clearly in- THOMAS TAGGART ASKS VENUE CHANGE Democratic Boss and Hundred Others Do Not Want to Be Tried in Indianapolis. SEVEN ENTER PLEAS OF GUILTY INDIANAPOLIS, July 7.—B8even fof the 132 men who are facing | charges of election frauds in the reg- | istration, primary and election of H 1914, pleaded gullty when arraigned | here today. One hundred and thir- teen others, including Thomas Tag- gart, democratic national committee- man; Joseph E. Bell, mayor of In- | dianapolis, and S8amuel Perrott, chief | of police, asked for a change of | venue, BOMB PLACED ON OCEAN STEAMSHIP BY PROFESSOR HOLT (Continued from Page One.) mitted the information to the United State Navy department and police head- anarters here | Warnings by wiréless weore sent brosd- | | cast over the Atlantic from stations on | the eastern seaboard advising the Sax- {onia and Philadelphia to steer toward | each other. Commissioner Woods an- | nounced that the Navy department hed | arranged to send a fast cruiser after the liners, Answer from Philadelphia. The Philadeiphia repiled that every-| thing aboard had been identified and that all was well. The Cunard line was noti- fied by Commissioner Woods and it also endeavored to reach the steamers by wireleas At police headquarters shortly before noon it was sald that the Saxonia had not replied to the wireless message sent it advising that Frank Holt had written his wife that the steamer would be de-| stroyed by an explosion today. The faflure of the Saxonia to reply was not regarded of especial significance, as it was thought it might have passed | out of the wireless zone of communica- tion. Tt is now four days out and it wi 1AHA, THURSDAY, JULY Mre. Molt and her father wanted the State department to know what it con- tained Becretary Daniels denied a report that the navy sent a fast crulser to overtake the Saxonia or the Philadelphta. The secretary sald that none had been or- lered and that there was plan send one no to | HOLT IDENTIFIED AS MUENTER | Chieago Professor Who Visited Cor- nell Last Fall Recognived Him. CHICAGO, July Y.~Positive identifica- tion of Frank Holt, the assallant of J. P. Morgan as Prof. Frich Muenter, the missing Haryard professor, who was alleged to have murdered his wife, Is made here by Prof, Chester N. Gould of the University of Chicago Prof. Gould, in a statement made pub- lie today, admitted that he had ldenti fied Muenter, who was a former pupll of the University of Cricago, while at Connell university last November. He #aid he decided for several reasons not to expose the man “as he seemed to be getting along so nic " Prof. Gould's statement lows “When T arrived at Ceornell university last November to engage In research work 1 was introduced to Frank Holt, but paid little attention to him at that tigre. He asked me how Cutting and Allen, two University of Chicago pro- fessors were getting atong. I told him and asked him If he «nsw them. He said he 4id not, but had heard of them.' “Holt's carriage and speech had stayed with me and reminded me of some one, but I could not rememter. Then my mental associations began to work and 1 said ‘I knew who it is. It is Muenter.' The next time I saw him he looked squarely at me and sald, ‘Hello, Gould. His words had the attitude of a man stepping back into an old familiarity He never avoided me, except on one oc- casion when I saw him with his wife and family. “1 had every opportinity to observe him and hear him speak German and English and there can be no doubt that Frank Holt was Frich Mventer.”" GLEN COVE, N. Y, July Frank Holt, who attempted to take the life of J. P. Morgan and who committed suicide last night in the Mineola jail, was today identified at Erich Muenter, the Harvard instructor who disappeared after being indicted as the murderer of his wife, Leona, in Cambridge, Mass., in 1906. The identification was made by 8. P, Smith, detective of the state's at- torney’'s office of Middlesex county, Maseachusetts, Theodore Hillier, an “au- tomobile man of Cambridge, and A T. in part fol- sald it might be difficult for it to have & wireleas message relayed to shore The Saxonia has 33 passengers aboari, of whom 115 are in the cabins. The Phil- adelphia has aboard 611. Of these 206 were in the first cabin, 206 in the second | cabin and 200 in the steerage, | At both offices it was said that it would | ba practically impossible for anyone to pass the many linéa of guards at the plers and to place explosives aboard the ships. The Cunard line stated that there were #ix lines of guards protecting its vessels from intruders, In Holt's letter to his wife he advised her to watch the newspapers of Wednes- day, July 7, today, and told her that ashe would see in those papers just what he had done. “Steamers leaving New Yowrk, July 3, will be destroyed In midocean by an ex- plosion,” Holt i1s quoted as having writ- ten. On the margin of the letter there was a pencilled admonition to his wife to say nothing about what he had writ- '! The fact that such a letter had been written by Mr. Morg: assailant, pre- sumably prior to his attempt on Mr. life, was known to the police at ¢ o'clock yesterday morning, but no public announcement was made of it un- tih today. The first word of this letter came from Glen Cove. Its contents were divuiged by a man who had talked with om-uom pro- for bever. | dicated that.agriculture in American 18 {01t 4n his eell for a ‘long time yester- on in the form under-capitalized. The very first step in farm betterment required a much larger amount of capital In our agricultural op- erations than has been utilized in the past haif century. “The bankers of America can promote day. This man refused to permit the use of his name, but because of m-l standing there was no doubt as (o the | authenticity of his assertions. { Hunt for Pymamite. | The dymamite with which Holt in- x \ I {on *““The Development of Journalism in| the cause of better agriculture by co- ¢ operating with the axricultural colieges, | (8 u': ':h:.:"m';m '::.";;‘:, By promoting the locating of county agri- |, " gpinment of 100 pounds recelved by i(ull\lul agents and by loaning money at low rates for the purchase of tertllimers, | il 7Tl B iR el UL pounds of bullding of ailos, seeding to alfalfa, pur- aynami beén 8cCO! chase of registered sires and for all other “:'nnn m;:,.h:'." taken uu;':,,::;"m enterprises which have been demoristrated bo s to be in the interests of a permanently ',,",.:h.,,,. um-b."uplod“od- :“::: “"““w:;‘::: Holt recently at Syosset, L. 1., under the | prosperous agriculture.” Somew! similar. points were ad- vanced by H. L. Russell, director of the College of Agriculture of the University of Wisconsin. He devoted his paper to last night in & trunk in this city. Police searching for the other thirty pounds of the shipment had uncovered no trace of it at noon today. Tt was pos- sible, the police say, . 5| ® discussion of the work of county agents| .., .44 was aboard the two steamers. ILE ASLEEP IN PARK l and urged increased agricultural exten- slon service by state schools. MONTENEGRINS HELD AT PORTLAND MAY PROCEED PORTLAND, Ore., July T.—After hav- ing been detained three hours here today by federal authorities, & party of M6 al- leged Montenegrin recruits, in charge of two agents, hurrying on & speclal train trom Globe, Ariz, to Vancouver, B. C., was aliowed to proceed at 1:% a. m, At the same tine Jove Maconivitch and P. M. Luburich, alleged Montenegrin re- crulting agents, who were arrested here yesterday on the charge of conspiring to violate the neutrality of the United States, were released on bonds of $10,00 each. They did not, however, accom- pany the party going to Canada. The party from Arisona, it was under- stood, was allowed to proceed on account of lack of Instructions from Washington. It was believed, however, that action to establish their status more definitely {would be taken at Seattle or Bellingham, It fi ‘Wash. Bosdon Jocavich and A, E. Gurasevich were in charge of the train load. Gurase- vich said ell the men were native Monte- negring and had not been enlisted in this country, but were merely being taken to their homes by way of Canada and England to visit their families. He sald he did not kmow who was paving the expenses of the trip. Other than to say that they had no warrants for the arrest of the slleged re- ‘The wireless warning in the éase of the Philadelphia resulted in a thorough search of the Philadelphia‘s cargo, it was inferred from the message received from the steamer's captain. The bemb, if any ‘was aboard, was not found. Detectives Search Plers, Detectives today examined all the left- over packages on the piers of the Ameri- cdn and Cunard lines, but none of them scemed to tally with the description of the dynamite bomb they were working on. The police do not think the bomb, if it was sent, was dlspatched by parcel post. The police learned today that Holt had bought 100 fulminating caps, 100 feet of fuse, 100 electrical explosive caps and 200 stioks of dynamite from a local powder company. This order was delivered to Holt at Central Park, L. 1, on June 3. It was ascertained today that Holt left Ithaca on June 3 with the sulphurie acid that he used in the bomb that he exploded at the capitol at Wasbhington, The acid was purchased in an Itallan pharmacy on State street. Text Holt's Letter, WASHINGTON, July 7.~The text of Holt'y letter telegraphed to the Navy de- partment was as follows: “A steamer leaving New York for Liverpool should sink—God willing—on the 7th. it is the Philadelphia or the Saxony (Saxonia), but I am not quite sure, as these left on the M or 3d." “On the margin of the letter was writ- ten: “Tear this off unti] after this happens.” ‘The substsrie of Holt's letter was sent Prown, a Boston newspaper man. Maupin and Ingham Address the Editors SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, July 7.—"The Press, Its Purpose and Its Policies,” was the general subject for discussion at to- day’'s session of the International Press congress. W. M. Maupin of Omaha, Neb., was on the program for an address on “The Lighter 8idé of Journalism,” Peter C. McFarlane of Now York was to tell of “The Work of Reéporters” and H. N. Fitzgerald of Fort Worth, Tex., “How May Accuracy Be Obtained?’ The. subject of “Rurar Journalism™ is to be distusted by H. C. Shotaling of Mapleton, Minn., A. R. Gardner of Kenne- wick, Wash., and A. L. Morseau of Free- hold, N. J. Other addresses were to be made by Percy Andrea of Chicago on “The For- elgn Language Newspapers of America;" Mirsa All Kull Khan of Teheran, Persia, Constitutional Persia of Des Moines, la., on ‘“Tendencies in the ‘World's Journalism, d E. W. Howe of Atchison, Kan., on “The Old and the New in Journalism. The National Editorial assoclation was scheduled to hold a session this after- noon. Held for Selling Morphine to Users Joe Brown, arrested last night for selling morphine to “dope fiends,” told detectives he was supplied with the drug by a Sloux City doctor. Brown is being held for the federal withorities. Detectives Rich and Pssanowski ar- rested Brown. He lad been observed Harvey Ingham 8, 1915 lbetective fian ljdvis After Long Illness PRANK HOLT KILLS HIMSEL IN CELL Assailant of John P. Morgan Frac- Detective Dan Davis, for hearly twenty » 4 years a member of the metropol - tures His Skull by Jumping |iice department, and one of m-p:n‘::a:: from Top of Door. {men on the force. died yesterday at s | Colorado Springs, Colo., from tuberculosis. He was taken there four weeks ago by his wife and daughter, Bessie, after he had been ill at home for several months The difference in climate failed to help him, and he declined rapidly The body will be brought to Omaha for burial, and the funeral will be under the auspices of the Metropolitan Police Reliet association Davis was 50 years old. He came to Omaha about 22 years ago and engaged in the furniture business, but soon after- wards joined the police. He won the rank HE LEAVES NOTE FOR HIS WIFE NEW YORK, July 7.—Frank| Holt, the man who shot J. P. Mor- gan, lay dead today in an undertak- ing establishment at Hemstead, L. 1., and the New York police had in their possession his trunk, containing 134 half-pound sticks of dynamite with which, it is believed, he planned to wreck public buildings in New York Answgfs Last Call of detective after a few years, and was reaponsible for bringing to justice numer ous criminals, and the solving of many puzzling mysteries. Later he was de tailed as police court sergeant, and ther | as field sergeant. Several years ago he | again worked iIn the detective bureau ,1 His latest work was on the pawnshop de. tall. His record for recovered stolen prop erty leads that of every officer on the department Until & year ago, he was a fine figure of manhood, but soon after he became | stricken, he decreased in weight until when he died yesterday he weighed les than ninety pounds | Complete arrangements for the fumera ihn\'e not yet been made. Movements of Ocean Steamers. Arrived YORK.... United States TIANTA. Bergenstjord GLASGOW ... Tuscania | AVONMOUTH . Buenaventura. | PALERMO | HONG KONG P Satled NEW San Guglielmo. | CHRI Santa Annh Tahchee and other cities. An autopsy early today established the fact that Holt committed suicide by leap- Ing from the top of his cell door in the Mineols, L. L, jail. Walter R. Jones, the Mineola coroner, imsued a statement after an autopsy had | been performed by the prison physician. He sald: *“Holt came to his death by a compound tracture of the skull and cerebral hem- orrhage caused by a fall” Although the autopsy performed on Holt's body early today by Dr. Guy Cleg- born established definitely that his dea'h was due to a fractured skull, Walter R. Jones, the coroner, sald that he would hold an inquest Into the manner in which Holt met his death. This, Mr. Jones said, was purely formal. Guard Tells His Story. Jeremiah O'Ryan, the keeper wno was on guard at Holt's cell when Holt com- mitted suicide today, gave a connected story of what happened. O'Ryan said that he had beea employed by Sheriff Pettit to guard the prisoner, with instruc- tions to watch him from 8§ o'clock '"1 night till § In the morning. Last night| when O'Ryan went to the entrance of| Holt's cell Holt seemed to ne cheerful. “I had some food today and managed to retain it O'Ryan sald Holt told him. “I feel much better now, but I must get some sleep. These detectives have heen coming in and asking me all kinds of avestions, and they have been bothering me day and night. I must get sleep. I have got an important statement to make tomorrow, and I must te able to cop- vince people that what I say is true.” O'Ryan sald he told Holt to go ahead and sleep and that Holt turned over on his side with his back to O'Rvan and remained there for about an hour. Then O'Ryan heard a nolse in the next corri- dor. He glanced at Holt and saw that he was facing the door, but apparently Holt was sleeping. O'Ryan then crept, he says, on his hands and knees down the corri- dor to check the disturbance so that Holt might sleep, He looked into the other corridors and found there was noth- ing there. As he was about to start back, O'Ryan said, he heard a nolse like a revolver shot. Trips Over His Body. “I ran back to the cell and said to myself, ‘He's done it. Somebody slipped him a gun' T looked into his cell and didn’'t see him. Then T thought that maybe hié had beén shot from outside. 1 said to myself, ‘He might shoot me,’ 4o I drew my revolver and went into the cell, expecting him to jump at me. It was dark and I couldn’'t see him. I tripped and fell. When I looked down I saw that I had fallen over his body." Martin W, Littleton, who had been re- tained as counsel for Holt, reached Mineola today and examined Holt's cell closely. Mr. Littleton climbed up the iron bars en the side of the cell as Holt ap- parently had done before committing sui- cide to see if it were possible for & man to kill himself in that manner. Mr. Lit- times. beauty of the fashions. cases, bags aud trunks. Sui and well made, only $3; excell i OMAHAS BEST Vacation Luggage We are offering wonderful values in vacation luggage, suit — Frelind & Steinle BAGGAGE BUILDERS 1803 FARNAM, ST Thompson-Belden &Co. Important Offerings of Summer Dresses The hot days of a Nebraska July and August are ahead of us. 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One of these boxes of matches was secured and was found to oon:::.'wpllll Brown had y corcealed the mor- phine beneath the matches in a sort of false bottom. When searched at the police station & large quantity of the drug was found on him. WEARY TRAVELER BEATS LAUNDRYMAN TO LINEN Stealing articles off front porches of houses while people are about them in the day time is a new departure just introGuced here in yetty larceny. A travel-weary person sat down on the front porch of & house, cear Davenport and Eighteenth streets yesterday, ssying be was tired. When he went away rested he carried under his coat a laun- dry bag full of clothes that was lying on the porch awaiting the coming of the laundryman. Nelghbors eaw him and recovered the booty. CHANGE IN GENERAL ” CONDITION OF PRELATE ROCHESTER, N. Y., July 7.=Dr. Jo- seph R. Culkin, one of the physicians at ‘me 5 qclfll t.i:: , said tonight at 10 o and that ALLEGED GERMAN NOBLE KILLS SELF ON WAY TO PEN MINNEAPOLIS, July 7.—"Count” Curt Knoblesdorf, Garden von , aupposed sclon an E | i il i " i H H ! I | 5 s - § i i i ; g { i 13 § Holt's cell: “My. Dears: I must write you more, The more T think about fit, under these circumatances. Bring up the dear bables in fear of God and man. Good bye, my sweet. Affectionately, (Bigned) “FRANK.” onee the more I ses the utter uselessness of Uving A. HOSPE CO. Tornado Damages Crops at Magnolia LOGAN, Ia, July orchards were badly damaged by a tor- nado along Willow Creek, near Magnolie, last night at midnight. 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